I agree totally. I'm sick of freebie email addresses. I usually avoid people that use those on ebay.
However, UPS shipping IS kind of expensive. It's insured and trackable. I can't think of anything that you can ship via UPS for only $3. My typical UPS shipping charges (I eat the packaging fee) from Mail Boxes, Etc is like $15. But the product is very well packed, insured, and I can track it. At least I can try to avoid the *other* kind of fraud - where someone gets the item but claims they never got it and does a credit card chargeback or something.
I was sad to see 3dfx go under because they were offering fantastic Mac support - seperate Mac versions of the cards, online updates, full QuickTime acceleration, DVI output, the works. For Mac gamers, the cards were a wonderful (and welcome) addition to the Mac market.
I would have liked to see 3dfx continue. It would have been nice to have their cards as OEM choices at the Apple Store (they were pushing for that, too..)
Oh well. Guess I'll get a GeForce 4 Ti in my next Mac purchase... unless an All-In-Wonder comes out for the Mac (and works well)
1)Many offices already have the problems of idiot "admin assistants" sending out 2mb Powerpoint (or Word) documents filled with details about a baby shower, photos of their new niece/grandchild/whatever, or "motivational" crap. the LAST thing people like that need is *video messages* they can send out. Great! 2 gig.avi files showing the new baby puking. Lovely.
2)Surround sound? Wow, that'll be great for management. Many people chained to a cubicle don't have the luxury of having their own CDROM drive, much less a sound card and speakers. So is Microsoft trying to tell us that cubicle dwellers will soon have the same luxury as management? I highly doubt it. When Microsoft develops an "office of the the future" that removes the slave-like, locked down environments people have now, I'll be interested.
..but articles like this and this indicate otherwise. Apparantly hitting 100,000 users is certainly not an IRC record. Is it just an EFnet specific record? Should it be "EFnet bounces back from the dead, hits 100,000 concurrent users once again!" or some other headline entirely?
How many users were DDoS bots/fserve bots/warez bots too? Were 9,000 of the users flood bots of some sort?
Oh well, I guess this just indicates that EFnet isn't nearly as dead as we thought it was.
Right, except that you don't get charged long distance when it's a text message. Some carriers charge per text message. Verizon and ATTWS are the only two that I can recall that do not charge you for incoming text messages, and I might be wrong about Verizon...
I thought that girls that were 15 or 16yrs old in Holland or some other country. So technically, what we have here is something that's legal in another country, but illegal in the US, so a US law and a US company blocks access to it. That seems a bit fishy to me...
I don't recall ever hearing exactly what content these sites allegedly had. For all we know, the girls were all 17yrs old.
I was just about to mention them as well.. I know most of the people that work there. o1 has bent over backwards to help me out with the initial issues I had with my T1 (Pac Bell's fault, in the end) and I have nothing but good things to say about them.
The idiots at ELI never called me back, and UUnet & Sprint wanted WAY too much money for the circuit. o1 had the best price & service, and I get exactly what I was promised.
Your idea is a pretty good one. Another one is to set up MRTG, put up a Hotline server, and hit up all your friends that have cable modems (they *always* claim to be getting 4-5-6mbit, right??) and have them download stuff and average out what speeds they're getting.
Depending on where you are, finding 4 or 5 people with cable modems shouldn't be too hard.
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Netscape also stopped shipping their client customization kit for anything higher than Netscape 4.x - if it still exists, I sure as hell can't find it. Even when I worked there, I looked for it, and couldn't find it.
I've also heard that ISPs that ship IE on a CD have to agree to not ship other client software, or risk running afoul of a Microsoft licensing agreement.
Probably the same way your credit report can affect your auto insurance. I dunno, I've never understood how my bad credit 6yrs ago should affect my auto insurance rates, but it's legal.. =/
I like these because not everything is open 24 hours! Around here (Sacramento, CA), things have changed: * Several Taco Bells now close at 1am instead of being open 24/7 * Lyon's (restaurant) closes at midnight * Wal-Mart isn't open 24/7 anymore
The things that SHOULD be open 24/7, are not. * DMV and other gov't offices * Fry's Electronics * Java City
Trying to build up a machine at night and realizing you need a new CD-ROM drive at 2am really sucks. Personally, I like the idea of a big huge building that houses Fry's, Java City, Round Table Pizza, Wal-Mart, and Albertson's.
Oh well. At least Goldie's porn palace is open 24/7.
Apparantly a lot of the alcohol machines have changed content or vanished entirely. When I lived there, we would also see * Top 10 CDs * Socks/Gloves * big bags of rice...and we were able to find American whiskey in vending machines. Jack Daniels, of course!
We even got drunk (not hard to do over there, with vending machines selling a THREE LITER BOTTLE of Asahi beer) and tried to steal one late one night, but we learned the hard way that the plastic demo bottles in the vending machine weren't what they seemed. It was filled with iced tea.:(
What really annoyed me was trying to get that one last beer just before the vending machine stopped selling booze for the night. I'd end up (drunk) digging for change as fast as my sloshed self could but more often than not, the machine would shut off booze sales before I got enough yen out of my pocket.
Oh well, having a nice refreshing Coke at 2am isn't that bad, I suppose. Just mix it with the bottle of whiskey you bought down the street.:)
That's why I can let my network monitoring utilities go ahead and send me SMS messages.. I don't get charged for them.:-) Other carriers might charge $0.10, but at least one doesn't...
Being a current ATT Wireless employee myself, I know how this is. It's very easy to SPAM cell phones. That's why it's a good thing AWS doesn't charge people to get text messages. Cingular charges $0.10 for each message, sent or received. That can really add up if you're getting quite a lot of SPAM.
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Oh, come on. At least we have Rob, Arnie, and Dawn.. :-)
But you're right. I'm still pissed off that Power 105 became a stupid Christian station..105, The Fish.
Clear Channel has ruined the Sacramento market as well.. KXOA is *still* floundering around trying to find a workable format.. =/
I agree totally. I'm sick of freebie email addresses. I usually avoid people that use those on ebay.
However, UPS shipping IS kind of expensive. It's insured and trackable. I can't think of anything that you can ship via UPS for only $3. My typical UPS shipping charges (I eat the packaging fee) from Mail Boxes, Etc is like $15. But the product is very well packed, insured, and I can track it. At least I can try to avoid the *other* kind of fraud - where someone gets the item but claims they never got it and does a credit card chargeback or something.
http://www.postfix.org :P
*munch*munch*munch**munch*munch*munch**munch*munch *munch*
n ch *munch*
n ch *munch*
"Hey Agent 423.. got any more Pringles?"
*munch*munch*munch**munch*munch*munch**munch*mu
"No, but I could sure use another Coke.."
*munch*munch*munch**munch*munch*munch**munch*mu
"How many job descriptions include the phrase "Warfare"?"
If Donald Rumsfield is your boss, the answer would be "All of them."
How is scanning an ugly plant going to make things more secure?
Geez. What will they think of next?
Hrm.. wait.. maybe I shouldn't ask that. They might just go straight for the anal probe.
I left a machine turned on at one of my former jobs, and it's crunching rc5 blocks still.
I HAVE NO IDEA WHERE IT IS!
Is there any way to find out where the rogue machine is? heh..
It's submitting about 200 blocks a day. I just wish that I could FIND it...
I was sad to see 3dfx go under because they were offering fantastic Mac support - seperate Mac versions of the cards, online updates, full QuickTime acceleration, DVI output, the works.
For Mac gamers, the cards were a wonderful (and welcome) addition to the Mac market.
I would have liked to see 3dfx continue. It would have been nice to have their cards as OEM choices at the Apple Store (they were pushing for that, too..)
Oh well. Guess I'll get a GeForce 4 Ti in my next Mac purchase... unless an All-In-Wonder comes out for the Mac (and works well)
1)Many offices already have the problems of idiot "admin assistants" sending out 2mb Powerpoint (or Word) documents filled with details about a baby shower, photos of their new niece/grandchild/whatever, or "motivational" crap. the LAST thing people like that need is *video messages* they can send out. Great! 2 gig .avi files showing the new baby puking. Lovely.
2)Surround sound? Wow, that'll be great for management. Many people chained to a cubicle don't have the luxury of having their own CDROM drive, much less a sound card and speakers. So is Microsoft trying to tell us that cubicle dwellers will soon have the same luxury as management? I highly doubt it.
When Microsoft develops an "office of the the future" that removes the slave-like, locked down environments people have now, I'll be interested.
If you bet something like that, you'd probably lose.
Mac OS X 10.1.5 on my friend's G4/400 Powerbook ate my ThinkPad 600 (PII/266, 3gb HD, about 192mb RAM) alive.
Just because old hardware is running LINUX most certainly does not mean that it'll automatically work better than anything running Mac OS X.
If you were booted into nothing but a shell prompt, it might, but not really.
They took away the free sodas, espresso machines, and the foosball table.
:P
Come on, that's one of the few reasons people leave places anymore, isn't it?
They have embedded web servers?
/.'ed first? Which one bursts into flames first?
Which one will get
The Axis one was $299.. they've really come down in price over the past couple of years.
..but articles like this and this indicate otherwise.
Apparantly hitting 100,000 users is certainly not an IRC record. Is it just an EFnet specific record? Should it be "EFnet bounces back from the dead, hits 100,000 concurrent users once again!" or some other headline entirely?
How many users were DDoS bots/fserve bots/warez bots too? Were 9,000 of the users flood bots of some sort?
Oh well, I guess this just indicates that EFnet isn't nearly as dead as we thought it was.
Right, except that you don't get charged long distance when it's a text message.
Some carriers charge per text message. Verizon and ATTWS are the only two that I can recall that do not charge you for incoming text messages, and I might be wrong about Verizon...
I thought that girls that were 15 or 16yrs old in Holland or some other country. So technically, what we have here is something that's legal in another country, but illegal in the US, so a US law and a US company blocks access to it. That seems a bit fishy to me...
I don't recall ever hearing exactly what content these sites allegedly had. For all we know, the girls were all 17yrs old.
I was just about to mention them as well.. I know most of the people that work there. o1 has bent over backwards to help me out with the initial issues I had with my T1 (Pac Bell's fault, in the end) and I have nothing but good things to say about them.
The idiots at ELI never called me back, and UUnet & Sprint wanted WAY too much money for the circuit. o1 had the best price & service, and I get exactly what I was promised.
Your idea is a pretty good one. Another one is to set up MRTG, put up a Hotline server, and hit up all your friends that have cable modems (they *always* claim to be getting 4-5-6mbit, right??) and have them download stuff and average out what speeds they're getting.
Depending on where you are, finding 4 or 5 people with cable modems shouldn't be too hard.
Netscape also stopped shipping their client customization kit for anything higher than Netscape 4.x - if it still exists, I sure as hell can't find it. Even when I worked there, I looked for it, and couldn't find it.
I've also heard that ISPs that ship IE on a CD have to agree to not ship other client software, or risk running afoul of a Microsoft licensing agreement.
Probably the same way your credit report can affect your auto insurance. I dunno, I've never understood how my bad credit 6yrs ago should affect my auto insurance rates, but it's legal.. =/
I like these because not everything is open 24 hours! Around here (Sacramento, CA), things have changed:
* Several Taco Bells now close at 1am instead of being open 24/7
* Lyon's (restaurant) closes at midnight
* Wal-Mart isn't open 24/7 anymore
The things that SHOULD be open 24/7, are not.
* DMV and other gov't offices
* Fry's Electronics
* Java City
Trying to build up a machine at night and realizing you need a new CD-ROM drive at 2am really sucks. Personally, I like the idea of a big huge building that houses Fry's, Java City, Round Table Pizza, Wal-Mart, and Albertson's.
Oh well. At least Goldie's porn palace is open 24/7.
Apparantly a lot of the alcohol machines have changed content or vanished entirely. When I lived there, we would also see ...and we were able to find American whiskey in vending machines. Jack Daniels, of course!
:(
:)
* Top 10 CDs
* Socks/Gloves
* big bags of rice
We even got drunk (not hard to do over there, with vending machines selling a THREE LITER BOTTLE of Asahi beer) and tried to steal one late one night, but we learned the hard way that the plastic demo bottles in the vending machine weren't what they seemed. It was filled with iced tea.
What really annoyed me was trying to get that one last beer just before the vending machine stopped selling booze for the night. I'd end up (drunk) digging for change as fast as my sloshed self could but more often than not, the machine would shut off booze sales before I got enough yen out of my pocket.
Oh well, having a nice refreshing Coke at 2am isn't that bad, I suppose. Just mix it with the bottle of whiskey you bought down the street.
....and it has for as long as I can remember.
Stupid patents...geez.
That's why I can let my network monitoring utilities go ahead and send me SMS messages.. I don't get charged for them. :-) Other carriers might charge $0.10, but at least one doesn't...
Being a current ATT Wireless employee myself, I know how this is. It's very easy to SPAM cell phones. That's why it's a good thing AWS doesn't charge people to get text messages. Cingular charges $0.10 for each message, sent or received. That can really add up if you're getting quite a lot of SPAM.
AT & T Wireless doesn't charge you to receive text messages. What are you going to bill for?
http://news.com.com/2100-1040-954566.html
VisionTek denies everything. Says they're still in business and doing just fine.
Nothing to see here, move along.