Personally, I didn't mind spam until it became the same spam over and over.
And that's the biggest problem with it. It's the same 'get rich quick' scheme every time. The words and products change, but the business is basically the same.
My company has a hard enough time collecting accurate information from people who buy things from us. I'm amazed when I see someone ordering from our store enter an obviously fake phone number (111-1111) and email (nomail@4u.com) address. Strangely, these are the same people who complain that we don't contact them when something is wrong with their order.
Three months ago I changed my email address. I told all my friends and created a new email address for them. Then, for every site I registered with, I used a slightly different address. I created a few generic addresses as well, for online shopping or one-time stuff.
So far, only places I actually visited have sent me spam, but now it's easy enough to cut them off.
And the mail is not annoying, I don't mind getting a buy.com sale email, because I buy from them.
"Because per what M$ themselves said at the Win2K event (mentioned in my other post) -- the number of licenses for *applications* is now determined NOT by how many are using the app at any one time, but by how many people use it at ANY time."
Couldn't you just have a logon notice that automatically transfers the license to the current user? It's as binding as the EULA you clicked on in the first place. And you are allowed to transfer your license.
Was designed to transfer hypertext, not be the end-all-be-all RPC transport of the Internet.
Microsoft and MANY others made a big mistake of using it as their protocol of choice for everything Internet related.
Using HTTP as a catch-all protocol defeats the whole purpose of having different ports if everything is on 80. It makes administration a headache, and it lulls people into a false sense of security.
(Oh, it's only HTTP, we can leave that open...what did you say about a SQL Server HTTP interface? And the SA password is blank on your local development system?)
HTTP, The HyperText Transfer Protocol; use it for what it was designed for.
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Personally, I didn't mind spam until it became the same spam over and over.
And that's the biggest problem with it. It's the same 'get rich quick' scheme every time. The words and products change, but the business is basically the same.
My company has a hard enough time collecting accurate information from people who buy things from us. I'm amazed when I see someone ordering from our store enter an obviously fake phone number (111-1111) and email (nomail@4u.com) address. Strangely, these are the same people who complain that we don't contact them when something is wrong with their order.
Import characters from the Sims into EverQuest!
No wait, that was a few threads ago...
Ok, better, How about I import trains from Railroad Tycoon into Everquest!
With 16, 18, and 20in viewable screen space.
Thanks to Maxtor, Seagate and the rest, who lobbed off the 24's in the 1024 bytes.
It helps if you run your own mail server, I do.
Three months ago I changed my email address. I told all my friends and created a new email address for them. Then, for every site I registered with, I used a slightly different address. I created a few generic addresses as well, for online shopping or one-time stuff.
So far, only places I actually visited have sent me spam, but now it's easy enough to cut them off.
And the mail is not annoying, I don't mind getting a buy.com sale email, because I buy from them.
It's a simple solution, and it works well.
"Because per what M$ themselves said at the Win2K event (mentioned in my other post) -- the number of licenses for *applications* is now determined NOT by how many are using the app at any one time, but by how many people use it at ANY time."
Couldn't you just have a logon notice that automatically transfers the license to the current user? It's as binding as the EULA you clicked on in the first place. And you are allowed to transfer your license.
My question is, why didn't they merge this with their ReplayTV line?
How much more could it have cost to combine the TV and music?
But it's pronounced "sexy"!
Sorry, bad Apple joke.
And after this is fixed, New York can finally repair Flood Control Dam #3.
What is the mono threat?
(Serious, I'm at a loss on this one)
Hate to say this, but I think it's your system.
I just ran a test using IE 6.0.2600 Q313675; Q316059; on XP Pro 2600 against an IIS5 server.
It's requesting compression.
Hijacking the office suite?
Back during the Windows 2 and 3 days, I remember WordPerfect and Lotus saying that the Windows platform was not important.
Then, after Word and Excel took off, it's important.
Frozen? MacOS 9
Now, If they said crashed, then it was Windows 9x
"As much I would not like to see or support sites that use Windows Media shite"
As opposed to the usual Linux shite, or the usual RealPlayer shite?
I thought there were editors here, apparently there aren't any. Welcome to the 'Weekly World News' version of Slashdot.
Editors: The write-up here is pathetic, you should be ashamed to let something like this thru in that form.
If I want to see a "HOLY FUCKING SHIT" headline, I go to The Onion.
Session management would be up to the server, wouldn't it?
And I was being very generic, I don't mean Telnet as Telnet, I mean a protocol similar to what Telnet has to offer.
Essentially, what you're suggesting is HTTP over Telnet.
The last thing we need is more UDP traffic.
Ask anyone involved in running the backbones about UDP traffic, most are not happy.
HTTP,
Was designed to transfer hypertext, not be the end-all-be-all RPC transport of the Internet.
Microsoft and MANY others made a big mistake of using it as their protocol of choice for everything Internet related.
Using HTTP as a catch-all protocol defeats the whole purpose of having different ports if everything is on 80. It makes administration a headache, and it lulls people into a false sense of security.
(Oh, it's only HTTP, we can leave that open...what did you say about a SQL Server HTTP interface? And the SA password is blank on your local development system?)
HTTP, The HyperText Transfer Protocol; use it for what it was designed for.
Last time I checked the majority of students paid to go to college.
Why cant they use the resources that they paid for?
And no, I'm not talking about abusing the service, like running an mp3 site that sucks up all the bandwidth.
Microsoft isn't the one to worry about, they're the obvious target.
Look at Intel.
Murphy's Law is:
"If anything can go wrong, it will"
I don't think it applies here.
(No, wait a sec, I think it does...)
Now add this to some online games and suddenly Everquest becomes even more addictive.
(Of course, knowing EQ, the requirements will go up to a Quad Xeon 2Ghz with 4GB RAM and dual GeForce 4's. And it will still be slow)
I thought the EULA said CPU's not virtual CPU's. I don't see a violation.
"but if you do connect to the net then it *could* be sort of activating itself by checking the key with microsoft. "
And how would they do this?
Do you know anything at all about the activation system, or are you just randomly guessing?