Speaking as a former employee of a large cellular phone company, I have one big question..
Why the hell is everyone looking at some whiz-bang cell phone features but settling for crappy reception/range?
Grr. I know why certain areas don't have cell towers. Not profitable, NIMBY folks, FCC regs, etc.. but what I don't get is the notion that your phone needs to be a second Game Boy. If I want to play games and crap, I'll get an actual Game Boy Advance. I use my Ericsson T68 for my address book & calendar stuff. Maybe some WAP browsing here & there. But, that's about it. I would much rather have more effort put into stability & call quality than "gee whiz!' features.
I guess that the higher numbers sound kind of cool, but when the thing has a glitch that flings the CD-R media out of the drive at 5000mph, nearly severing your head and wedging itself in your stereo, you've just gotta ask yourself "Is burning a CD 2 minutes faster worth the risk?"
Just like seemingly everything else on the internet, eBay feedback can be a sham too.
Just because someone has dozens of glowing ebay reviews doesn't mean they're not a scam artist.
Just because a product has glowing reviews doesn't mean that it's a piece of shit. Sometimes people just have no idea how to operate something, so they give it a *negative* review.
Reviews of any sort can be misleading, no matter where they're printed.
At a previous employer, we had no WWW access, so there was no way to enter our address (from work) into any forms. We sure as hell weren't putting our addresses onto any websites, posting to USENET, sending chain letters to friends. It was used for business and business alone. Personal emails? I SSH'd to my mail server.
Personal emails at work were *STRONGLY* discouraged, and it was made clear that the company would read our emails if they ever felt like it.
I never used my work email address for anything. I'd say that 90% of the email I *did* get was company related stuff anyway, which went right into the trash can.
Currently I'm hosting about 45 domains and about 15 machines at my home. I have a T1 through o1 and so far I've been very happy with them. I know most of the guys that work there, and they actually call *me* if they notice any issues with the T1 circuit. It's costing me about $500/mo for the full 1.54mbit circuit. No other limitations at all. I run my own DNS & everything.
Will Taco Bell have their big banner out in the ocean, and will they actually give everyone in the US a free taco if parts of the ISS hit it?:P
A more likely situation was the 02 World Series - they had that banner out in SF Bay. Free tacos for all if anybody hit a homer over the wall and hit it!
Hmm. On that note, I'd like to see $40 billion worth of tacos.:D
I've found a few of them to be the same way, but for the most part, that was before the iMac was released. That changed quite a bit. The iMac brought the Mac into the family living room once again.
I remember times back in the BBS days where I'd meet all kinds of women simply because I was "The Mac Guy" on the BBS and I could fix anything on their machines for them. Ahh... those were the days.;)
It's still like that, but I'm not single anymore.:)
They made a household phone a few years back that was supposed to sync with Outlook and have other nifty features...
I saw one at Fry's and laughed at it for a moment. I thought about buying one just for fun, but when I actually went back specifically looking for it several months later, the phone and any trace of it was gone.
I found this script on the SpamAssassin mailing list. It's been pretty interesting to use.
I ran the script a few minutes ago on a machine that I host for a friend (web counter service, her websites/etc - she's been on the net for many years with her own domain/etc)
57% of the email out of nearly 15,000 emails in/var/log/mail are fucking SPAM!!! That is *ridiculous*
This is with SpamAssassin, Razor, Pyzor, and several RBL lists in/etc/postfix/main.cf all running.
The spam still gets through. It sucks up bandwidth. It sucks up resources. It's really offensive sometimes. Spammers know there's no federal legislation in place to block them, so they go on their spammy ways. Spammers are scum. They *do not care* that you don't want their spam.
Then you have obviously never dealt much with PacWest Telecom.:-)
I worked at an ISP that used PacWest for many dialup lines, as well as the office phone lines (tech support included) and PacWest had some sort of "hardware failure" that left all of the phone lines down for well over 10 hours.;)
Artists get *screwed* by their contracts. Labels won't just let a band leave. Why do you think you see quite a few bands release a "Greatest Hits" CD after they've made only 3-4 CDs? It's to fulfull a contractual obligation, that's why. White Lion (80's band, but it's a good example - shows how long this has been going on) was basically broken up by their label, forced to put out a "Greatest Hits" CD, and was barred from ever performing under the name "White Lion" again.
See, you can't just up & walk. Do what rap artists do - create your own recording company and let someone like EMI handle distribution.
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Just tell him to RTFM like most of the people in IRC linux channels do. ;)
It's a multi BILLION dollar industry. Some of the porn companies have piles of cash that are too large to shake a stick at.
And they have lawyers.
Bye bye, Acacia.. heh. Smacked down like a little bitch in "Bob's Bondage Barn Volume 95"
They'll start with SmartCards.
Then they'll go for.. oh, wait.. they already have monthly fees.
I bet they'll start asking for DNA samples and failing that, we'll be handing over first born children.
Speaking of things you didn't ever expect to see on Google, I Googled for an ex-girlfriend one time, and I ran across her friggin obituary.
What a haunting experience that was.
Speaking as a former employee of a large cellular phone company, I have one big question..
Why the hell is everyone looking at some whiz-bang cell phone features but settling for crappy reception/range?
Grr. I know why certain areas don't have cell towers. Not profitable, NIMBY folks, FCC regs, etc.. but what I don't get is the notion that your phone needs to be a second Game Boy. If I want to play games and crap, I'll get an actual Game Boy Advance. I use my Ericsson T68 for my address book & calendar stuff. Maybe some WAP browsing here & there. But, that's about it. I would much rather have more effort put into stability & call quality than "gee whiz!' features.
I guess that the higher numbers sound kind of cool, but when the thing has a glitch that flings the CD-R media out of the drive at 5000mph, nearly severing your head and wedging itself in your stereo, you've just gotta ask yourself "Is burning a CD 2 minutes faster worth the risk?"
Just like seemingly everything else on the internet, eBay feedback can be a sham too.
Just because someone has dozens of glowing ebay reviews doesn't mean they're not a scam artist.
Just because a product has glowing reviews doesn't mean that it's a piece of shit.
Sometimes people just have no idea how to operate something, so they give it a *negative* review.
Reviews of any sort can be misleading, no matter where they're printed.
Really. There is no stinky coffee plant.
It's just that the area has finally reached Starbucks Overload.
It can't be much worse than Episode II.
:P
Come on. Geeks love movies where stuff blows up. It'll have fire & explosions. Exploding stuff is cool.
And for those that don't pay $5 to see a matinee, there's always KazAa.
Hrm. Around here, we refer to someone that bites off animal heads as "Ozzy Osborne."
Worse.
;)
The previous employer has a stock symbol of AWE - take a look.
Just out of curiousity, what package cost $1500 and does all of that?
I'm wondering because that's all stuff that I'm doing currently, but it cost me $0 - all free software, obviously.
At a previous employer, we had no WWW access, so there was no way to enter our address (from work) into any forms. We sure as hell weren't putting our addresses onto any websites, posting to USENET, sending chain letters to friends. It was used for business and business alone. Personal emails? I SSH'd to my mail server.
Personal emails at work were *STRONGLY* discouraged, and it was made clear that the company would read our emails if they ever felt like it.
I never used my work email address for anything. I'd say that 90% of the email I *did* get was company related stuff anyway, which went right into the trash can.
That guy must have a hell of a time getting to work.
Maybe there's another reason he got strip searched.
And he was strip searched IN THE SUBWAY STATION? Dude, I hate to break the news, but those weren't cops that were doing the strip searching.
How long will it be before www.*.kids.us becomes nothing more than a big advertisement for Nickelodeon, Disney, and Fox Kids?
5,000,000 Slashdot geeks went out and bought them and immediately installed $LINUX_DISTRO on them when they got home.
Some even bought 2 or 3 and gave 'em to the kids.
Others turned extra boxes into home mp3 servers.
Currently I'm hosting about 45 domains and about 15 machines at my home.
:)
I have a T1 through o1 and so far I've been very happy with them. I know most of the guys that work there, and they actually call *me* if they notice any issues with the T1 circuit.
It's costing me about $500/mo for the full 1.54mbit circuit. No other limitations at all. I run my own DNS & everything.
I'm a happy customer.
Will Taco Bell have their big banner out in the ocean, and will they actually give everyone in the US a free taco if parts of the ISS hit it? :P
:D
A more likely situation was the 02 World Series - they had that banner out in SF Bay. Free tacos for all if anybody hit a homer over the wall and hit it!
Hmm. On that note, I'd like to see $40 billion worth of tacos.
Home -> BART station -> (trip on BART..) -> Embarcadero (SF) BART Station -> Java City -> Caltrain -> Work.
Reverse to get home.
Toss in Home -> Fry's -> Home on the weekend.
Some people just shouldn't map out their lives. heh.
I've found a few of them to be the same way, but for the most part, that was before the iMac was released. That changed quite a bit. The iMac brought the Mac into the family living room once again.
;)
:)
I remember times back in the BBS days where I'd meet all kinds of women simply because I was "The Mac Guy" on the BBS and I could fix anything on their machines for them. Ahh... those were the days.
It's still like that, but I'm not single anymore.
They made a household phone a few years back that was supposed to sync with Outlook and have other nifty features...
I saw one at Fry's and laughed at it for a moment. I thought about buying one just for fun, but when I actually went back specifically looking for it several months later, the phone and any trace of it was gone.
Oh well.
Microsoft's Redmond campus is almost the size of MA!!
If Microsoft wins, rumor has it they're just going to take over MA for their East Coast campus.
I found this script on the SpamAssassin mailing list. It's been pretty interesting to use.
/var/log/mail are fucking SPAM!!!
/etc/postfix/main.cf all running.
I ran the script a few minutes ago on a machine that I host for a friend (web counter service, her websites/etc - she's been on the net for many years with her own domain/etc)
Total Messages...: 14950
Clean Messages...: 6413
Spam Messages....: 8537
Spam Percentage..: 57 percent
57% of the email out of nearly 15,000 emails in
That is *ridiculous*
This is with SpamAssassin, Razor, Pyzor, and several RBL lists in
The spam still gets through. It sucks up bandwidth. It sucks up resources. It's really offensive sometimes. Spammers know there's no federal legislation in place to block them, so they go on their spammy ways.
Spammers are scum. They *do not care* that you don't want their spam.
Then you have obviously never dealt much with PacWest Telecom. :-)
;)
I worked at an ISP that used PacWest for many dialup lines, as well as the office phone lines (tech support included) and PacWest had some sort of "hardware failure" that left all of the phone lines down for well over 10 hours.
Artists get *screwed* by their contracts. Labels won't just let a band leave. Why do you think you see quite a few bands release a "Greatest Hits" CD after they've made only 3-4 CDs? It's to fulfull a contractual obligation, that's why. White Lion (80's band, but it's a good example - shows how long this has been going on) was basically broken up by their label, forced to put out a "Greatest Hits" CD, and was barred from ever performing under the name "White Lion" again.
See, you can't just up & walk. Do what rap artists do - create your own recording company and let someone like EMI handle distribution.