I remember reading (somewhere, once) that Kildall had embedded "signature bytes" in the CP/M binaries that inexplicably showed up in Tim Patterson's QDOS 1.0
Perhaps you mean one of Cringely's books...
In Accidental Empires, Gary Kildall still believes that QDOS code was stolen straight from CP/M. Gary Kildall is quoted as saying, "Ask Bill why function code 6 ends in a dollar sign. No one in the world knows that but me"
Would be interesting to see the early adopters of these screens physically recoil from web banner ads... the monkey punches you!! (er.. in Soviet Russia?) etc.
No, I'm not bitter... part of that was our fault. But when enteprising young men from Nigeria (much like British "entrepreneurs" in the late 1800s and early 1900s) decide to fleece Britain or America, fooling the locals from those countries, I must admit it makes me chuckle just a little bit:-)
Really, pal?
Well, I use my email filtering service to send all email originating from Nigeria to the bitbucket.
Assuming ISP's start doing the same en masse, let's see what your "enterprising young men" are doing for the future infrastructure of your country.
I know what you mean.... I think it is pretty sad as well. I've also blocked China, Nigeria, Argentina and Brazil.
Spam might seem like a good way to make kwicky dollar today, but I think that the fallout for innocent individuals/businesses there is going to be terrible in years to come, as more networks use such heavy filters to screen out junk.
Rather than paying for a webmail account like Hotmail, I think it's better to pay for a good filtering service like SpamCop.
Just one domain can receive quite a lot of spam... I now forward mail from some 14 domains that I maintain through the filter, and on to various mailboxes I use. Very effective at dealing with the problem, and I get a buzz from reporting the held junk to the respective ISP's...
I've been through all your vectors at some time or another, and can appreciate your difficulty...
I have a number of domains, all reserved for projects (that mostly never get started:)
I don't want to ignore any mail, really, so I forward all of them to a spamcop.net address that I have. My spamcop account then forwards "clean" mail on to a mail server I have, which creates copies of the messages in mailboxes for different uses (laptop mail, desktop mail, mail archive, webmail/WAP access).
So far, the arrangement works pretty well - so I can recommend putting a filter in the chain somewhere.
Spamcop is also nice because you can look at your held mail messages through the web interface, and queue them all for complaint before wiping them.
If your bandwidth is capped anyway and they can't run any more connections into your house, how are you "hurting" them?
Here in the UK at least, the competition is hotting up for broadband. I can't see the providers pissing off subscribers like this just for the sake of it.
I don't know where everyone gets this 250 spams a day crap. I have had the same email address for years, and only get 2 or 3 spam messages a day. And it isn't even that fancy of an address.
I thought all problems would end when I started using Li-Ion powered laptops, but that hasn't been the case...
On my last laptop, a Vaio, I only used the thing on batteries a couple of times. The rest of the time, it was plugged into the charger. I think that completely knackered the battery, as it only holds charge for about 20mins of use now.
I've since upgraded to a newer Vaio, and I only ever plug in the charger when the battery level is 0%. I think the battery should last much better that way... I was thinking about it, and I only charge my cellphone when I have to - and the standby time I get on that hasn't changed significantly since the day I bought it.
I was thinking of McDonalds too, when they said this...:-)
Todman shoved large quantities of lard and cardboard into the inlet without the pump suffering any ill effects. It could even mix materials used by the food industry.
Unfortunately, vaporized nicotine alone does not show this same taste gradient, so vaporizing pharmacuetical grade nicotine is not likely to satisfy the inveterate smoker, although it would save them their lungs, unlike these cigarettes.
I used to have quite a bad smoking habit... 40, 60, even (very) occasionally 100 cigs a day. I switched to cigars about a year ago, but for the last month have been using this pharmacuetical nicotine instead of tobacco...
It works surprisingly well, although you obviously must want to quit.
With what they're talking about, sounds like you'd only have one cable going from guitar to amp. Wouldn't need your effects pedals anymore, it'd either be in the guitar or amp digitally. If that's the case, your fudge factor is minimal.
Also... Given the popularity of analogue/tube effect plugins available for sequencers, I wouldn't be surprised if Gibson also release a "guitar lead simulator" plugin with the software, to keep everyone happy... :-)
It encourages free-form text databases. Nice for users, crap for programmers.
Not everything has to be relational and normalised to the nth degree... over time, you'll probably discover that it's horses for courses, and some applications need to be approached in a different way.
Why does this suck? Because users end up putting valuable company information in there, not realizing that they've locked up the info in a format that's useless to the rest of the company. ... Sucks for billing when the client has moved and the sales guy who knows about it can't be bothered to update the "real" client database.
So why not modify the app to also send the info when they're back in the office to the "real" client database? You realise it can use native drivers or ODBC to talk to practically any commercial relational database? You realise that you don't have to use the integrated Notes database engine at all if you don't want to?
Oh well. Excuse my irritability. It's just when most people offer their "opinion" in this area, it's usually 97% prejudice and 3% clue.
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I remember reading (somewhere, once) that Kildall had embedded "signature bytes" in the CP/M binaries that inexplicably showed up in Tim Patterson's QDOS 1.0
Perhaps you mean one of Cringely's books...
In Accidental Empires, Gary Kildall still believes that QDOS code was stolen straight from CP/M. Gary Kildall is quoted as saying, "Ask Bill why function code 6 ends in a dollar sign. No one in the world knows that but me"
Hmm... the radio has come up quiet a bit in this topic.
AFAIK, radio stations make a careful note of the songs they play, and a fee goes to the artists through bodies like the Performing Rights Society.
So airplay isn't entirely a free-for-all...
That's true.....
The problem with anaglyphs is that the red/blue filtration leads to pretty compromised colour fidelity....
Would be interesting to see the early adopters of these screens physically recoil from web banner ads... the monkey punches you!! (er.. in Soviet Russia?) etc.
:-)
... but the second part of your quote says "though not a company's claims on its own website".
The ASA popup was info about ASA business. At least, the one served up to me a moment ago.
The thing that is nice about 23 GB is that I would be able to fit my entire porn collection on one disc
Wow, I'm surprised that you're able to read Slashdot at all...
No, I'm not bitter... part of that was our fault. But when enteprising young men from Nigeria (much like British "entrepreneurs" in the late 1800s and early 1900s) decide to fleece Britain or America, fooling the locals from those countries, I must admit it makes me chuckle just a little bit :-)
Really, pal?
Well, I use my email filtering service to send all email originating from Nigeria to the bitbucket.
Assuming ISP's start doing the same en masse, let's see what your "enterprising young men" are doing for the future infrastructure of your country.
I know what you mean.... I think it is pretty sad as well. I've also blocked China, Nigeria, Argentina and Brazil.
Spam might seem like a good way to make kwicky dollar today, but I think that the fallout for innocent individuals/businesses there is going to be terrible in years to come, as more networks use such heavy filters to screen out junk.
Rather than paying for a webmail account like Hotmail, I think it's better to pay for a good filtering service like SpamCop.
Just one domain can receive quite a lot of spam... I now forward mail from some 14 domains that I maintain through the filter, and on to various mailboxes I use. Very effective at dealing with the problem, and I get a buzz from reporting the held junk to the respective ISP's...
What's your definition of "digital media"?
Want to see some punched cards from the 1700's ?
Perhaps it's time to create a digital version of the Rosetta stone!
You only win if you don't play: stop going to the movies, watching TV, listening to the radio, going to the theater, reading books, posting on /.
There are Slashdot awards?
Who's up for a nomination this year?
You couldn't have written a better advertisment for SpamCop if you'd tried... :-)
I've been through all your vectors at some time or another, and can appreciate your difficulty...
:)
I have a number of domains, all reserved for projects (that mostly never get started
I don't want to ignore any mail, really, so I forward all of them to a spamcop.net address that I have. My spamcop account then forwards "clean" mail on to a mail server I have, which creates copies of the messages in mailboxes for different uses (laptop mail, desktop mail, mail archive, webmail/WAP access).
So far, the arrangement works pretty well - so I can recommend putting a filter in the chain somewhere.
Spamcop is also nice because you can look at your held mail messages through the web interface, and queue them all for complaint before wiping them.
You currently cannot boot from them.
Can't you? Mine can, as could most that I looked at before buying it.
I can understand the "how", but not the "why".
If your bandwidth is capped anyway and they can't run any more connections into your house, how are you "hurting" them?
Here in the UK at least, the competition is hotting up for broadband. I can't see the providers pissing off subscribers like this just for the sake of it.
I don't know where everyone gets this 250 spams a day crap. I have had the same email address for years, and only get 2 or 3 spam messages a day. And it isn't even that fancy of an address.
How many domains do you have?
Dear sales/postmaster/abuse etc..
Ah..
To clarify, I didn't really mean 0%. I get an alarm at 10%, and it hibernates at 5%.
I thought all problems would end when I started using Li-Ion powered laptops, but that hasn't been the case...
On my last laptop, a Vaio, I only used the thing on batteries a couple of times. The rest of the time, it was plugged into the charger. I think that completely knackered the battery, as it only holds charge for about 20mins of use now.
I've since upgraded to a newer Vaio, and I only ever plug in the charger when the battery level is 0%. I think the battery should last much better that way... I was thinking about it, and I only charge my cellphone when I have to - and the standby time I get on that hasn't changed significantly since the day I bought it.
I was thinking of McDonalds too, when they said this... :-)
Todman shoved large quantities of lard and cardboard into the inlet without the pump suffering any ill effects. It could even mix materials used by the food industry.
Unfortunately, vaporized nicotine alone does not show this same taste gradient, so vaporizing pharmacuetical grade nicotine is not likely to satisfy the inveterate smoker, although it would save them their lungs, unlike these cigarettes.
I used to have quite a bad smoking habit... 40, 60, even (very) occasionally 100 cigs a day. I switched to cigars about a year ago, but for the last month have been using this pharmacuetical nicotine instead of tobacco...
It works surprisingly well, although you obviously must want to quit.
I take it you're a musician?
I take it you're not...
Clapton playing a $99 guitar would sound like... Clapton.
If you played one of his Strats, you'd sound like...you.
It's something of a truism in guitar circles, but It's All In The Fingers.
With what they're talking about, sounds like you'd only have one cable going from guitar to amp. Wouldn't need your effects pedals anymore, it'd either be in the guitar or amp digitally. If that's the case, your fudge factor is minimal.
:-)
Also...
Given the popularity of analogue/tube effect plugins available for sequencers, I wouldn't be surprised if Gibson also release a "guitar lead simulator" plugin with the software, to keep everyone happy...
Uh, 3-5ms latency is generally considered to be "not noticable"... :-)
That's what you might get with modern cards and, say, ASIO drivers/Cubase VST.
Hi!
:-)
As a system integrator
Ah, that explains it...
It encourages free-form text databases. Nice for users, crap for programmers.
Not everything has to be relational and normalised to the nth degree... over time, you'll probably discover that it's horses for courses, and some applications need to be approached in a different way.
Why does this suck? Because users end up putting valuable company information in there, not realizing that they've locked up the info in a format that's useless to the rest of the company.
...
Sucks for billing when the client has moved and the sales guy who knows about it can't be bothered to update the "real" client database.
So why not modify the app to also send the info when they're back in the office to the "real" client database? You realise it can use native drivers or ODBC to talk to practically any commercial relational database?
You realise that you don't have to use the integrated Notes database engine at all if you don't want to?
Oh well. Excuse my irritability. It's just when most people offer their "opinion" in this area, it's usually 97% prejudice and 3% clue.