I was wondering the same thing. I have comcast for email and I expected blocked emails to show up in the "Screened Mail" folder of their web mail client. But I never see anything in there. I have to assume that a number of emails are being blocked before it even gets to their user level "Spam Filter". Even when I turn it off, I don't see any spam in my inbox, plus there are a couple domains that I can't get email from at all, but I don't know 100% that it is due to comcast's filter. Is the user level "Spam Filter" just a red herring?
So you have to be a lawyer to become a legislator? Last I checked, we are supposed to (ostensibly) be a REPRESENTATIVE government. Having my state legislature full of lawyers would not accurately represent my state, as I and most of my co-constituents are not lawyers.
Ah, but you forgot that the movie studios (and the record companies) claim "license" only as it benefits them, like with downloaded music. As soon as the concept of "license" allows the customer to do something that the studio/company charges for, then they call it "property" again.
I always end up recording animation on the "medium quality" setting with my ReplayTV, where I can usually get away with "low quality" for live tv. Animation just shows the artifacts more than video/film. (it uses MPEG-2 as well)
I think if they can handle a home telephone, they are well on the way to handling a mobile phone. Not like cost is an issue, my son's phone cost negative $50, after rebate. (If I had stayed with my current carrier, he would been able to choose from 3 previous phones I had lying around) When I was his age, mobile phones cost several thousand dollars and minutes cost a dollar or more...each.
Informercialls are bad enough, but these aren't even infomercials, they are short "news" segments aired DURING local news broadcasts. They are basically presented as news in the context of the stations regular news program, and resemble a location segment or a prerecorded public interest story.
I think another reason they left Suck.com off the list because all of the sites listed are still active. The authors are amazingly short sighted in this regard. Where are homr.com, hotwired.com, iuma.com?
And if you are going to include napster, you should include it's 'prototype', scournet, and similarly non-web technologies like bittorrent and hotline.
>>Fast food service is nothing but robotic work already, and that's the way the chains like it. >I hate to break it to you, but the reason that it's so robotic isn't because the chains like it that way, it's because customers prefer it that way.
No policy in the fast food industry is going to be driven more by the customer than profits. (unless the latter is hurt by the former) The reason he called it robotic work is because it is engineered down the entire production chain to be as simple as possible so that a minimum amount of training is necessary for the store workers. This has been a continuing trend for years, fast food workers have steadily been given less and less training every year. Literacy isn't even a requirement any more, as the machines have icons instead of words on the controls. This is all so that they can pay less, turnover easier, spend less time training -- all to serve the bottom line. I'm not doubting the consistency point, that is the reason that fast food became popular in the first place, but that was long, long before the stores were filled with illiterate, untrained teenagers given a sub-poverty wage to act as a small cog in a heavily mechanized business. It used to be a joke that "flipping burgers" was the crappiest job, now its actually the most skilled job in the place.
"What's ironic here is that it's the manager's job that's being computerized before the burger-boy's one."
That doesn't surprise me at all. So many places (and I don't mean just fast food) practice "management-by-binder" that having a manager that can actually think on their feet is considered a liability to them. Its a easy leap to replace the manager/binder with a computer terminal. The trouble with this method is that the people writing the binders usually haven't ever worked in the stores and have no experience at all with their own customers or the client-facing employees. It reminds me of the beginning of Snowcrash when a fire broke out in the pizza shop. The manager was frantically flipping through the binder to find the official corporate policy and procedures for "fire".
It was clearly a barb against TGIFriday's, which has since eliminated "flair" altogether from the uniforms. I couldn't tell you if it was a reaction to the movie, however, but I'd like to think it was.
Hmm, that could be a problem. Unfortunately, Honda hitherto has refused to follow the lead of car makers like Toyota and Hyundai, who use made-up words to name their cars, by naming their cars with actual words. I think a boycott is in order.
The Macromedia people I have talked to said that adobe made them feel as if the aquisition was more like a merger. Most of the development teams at macromedia have been kept intact and they still refer to coworkers as being from the "macromedia side" or the "adobe side". With so many "former" macromedia employees still working on flash, I don't think its inappropriate for adobe to celebrate flash's 10th anniversary. This isn't like a patent-hoarding company buying and dismantling another company for their patents and touting "we have been developing XYZ for over 10 years".
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Why does it matter what your server runs? How many servers are used for browsing the web?
I think this is just the beginning step to them aquiring a competitor to VPC. Chances are, the day after WWDC is over, Microsoft announces a new acquisition.
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I was wondering the same thing. I have comcast for email and I expected blocked emails to show up in the "Screened Mail" folder of their web mail client. But I never see anything in there. I have to assume that a number of emails are being blocked before it even gets to their user level "Spam Filter". Even when I turn it off, I don't see any spam in my inbox, plus there are a couple domains that I can't get email from at all, but I don't know 100% that it is due to comcast's filter. Is the user level "Spam Filter" just a red herring?
So you have to be a lawyer to become a legislator? Last I checked, we are supposed to (ostensibly) be a REPRESENTATIVE government. Having my state legislature full of lawyers would not accurately represent my state, as I and most of my co-constituents are not lawyers.
From TFA: ...Blu Ray and HD-DVD were storage media and "you could put an MPEG-4 movie on them and play them on a 32bit Vista PC just fine."
I don't know if this means someone could make a set-top-box-compliant HDDVD or BluRay movie that has no DRM, however.
Ah, but you forgot that the movie studios (and the record companies) claim "license" only as it benefits them, like with downloaded music. As soon as the concept of "license" allows the customer to do something that the studio/company charges for, then they call it "property" again.
Now you can use it for both!
I always end up recording animation on the "medium quality" setting with my ReplayTV, where I can usually get away with "low quality" for live tv. Animation just shows the artifacts more than video/film. (it uses MPEG-2 as well)
I think if they can handle a home telephone, they are well on the way to handling a mobile phone. Not like cost is an issue, my son's phone cost negative $50, after rebate. (If I had stayed with my current carrier, he would been able to choose from 3 previous phones I had lying around) When I was his age, mobile phones cost several thousand dollars and minutes cost a dollar or more...each.
My in-laws used that same rationale when our son (at 4yo) told us that he sits on grandma's lap when grampa is driving.
Informercialls are bad enough, but these aren't even infomercials, they are short "news" segments aired DURING local news broadcasts. They are basically presented as news in the context of the stations regular news program, and resemble a location segment or a prerecorded public interest story.
I think another reason they left Suck.com off the list because all of the sites listed are still active. The authors are amazingly short sighted in this regard. Where are homr.com, hotwired.com, iuma.com?
And if you are going to include napster, you should include it's 'prototype', scournet, and similarly non-web technologies like bittorrent and hotline.
You should try constructing haikus from search terms.
Yeah, I think it was recorded with a 20 year old walkman, and the band had no monitors.
Anyway, here are some probably accurate lyrics
Here's a song that 2 Skinny J's did (live, kind of a rough recording) where they support the definition of planethood for pluto.
"So lend me all ears and let me state my case,
about all the types of satellites we must embrace "
If you don't apply the patch, then you hate America.
>>Fast food service is nothing but robotic work already, and that's the way the chains like it.
>I hate to break it to you, but the reason that it's so robotic isn't because the chains like it that way, it's because customers prefer it that way.
No policy in the fast food industry is going to be driven more by the customer than profits. (unless the latter is hurt by the former) The reason he called it robotic work is because it is engineered down the entire production chain to be as simple as possible so that a minimum amount of training is necessary for the store workers. This has been a continuing trend for years, fast food workers have steadily been given less and less training every year. Literacy isn't even a requirement any more, as the machines have icons instead of words on the controls. This is all so that they can pay less, turnover easier, spend less time training -- all to serve the bottom line. I'm not doubting the consistency point, that is the reason that fast food became popular in the first place, but that was long, long before the stores were filled with illiterate, untrained teenagers given a sub-poverty wage to act as a small cog in a heavily mechanized business. It used to be a joke that "flipping burgers" was the crappiest job, now its actually the most skilled job in the place.
"What's ironic here is that it's the manager's job that's being computerized before the burger-boy's one."
That doesn't surprise me at all. So many places (and I don't mean just fast food) practice "management-by-binder" that having a manager that can actually think on their feet is considered a liability to them. Its a easy leap to replace the manager/binder with a computer terminal. The trouble with this method is that the people writing the binders usually haven't ever worked in the stores and have no experience at all with their own customers or the client-facing employees. It reminds me of the beginning of Snowcrash when a fire broke out in the pizza shop. The manager was frantically flipping through the binder to find the official corporate policy and procedures for "fire".
It was clearly a barb against TGIFriday's, which has since eliminated "flair" altogether from the uniforms. I couldn't tell you if it was a reaction to the movie, however, but I'd like to think it was.
Hmm, that could be a problem. Unfortunately, Honda hitherto has refused to follow the lead of car makers like Toyota and Hyundai, who use made-up words to name their cars, by naming their cars with actual words. I think a boycott is in order.
This shouldn't be hard, nobody would use the word "appentency" in an email.
You could probably filter on "hitherto" also, since that only seems to appear in legal texts these days.
The Macromedia people I have talked to said that adobe made them feel as if the aquisition was more like a merger. Most of the development teams at macromedia have been kept intact and they still refer to coworkers as being from the "macromedia side" or the "adobe side". With so many "former" macromedia employees still working on flash, I don't think its inappropriate for adobe to celebrate flash's 10th anniversary. This isn't like a patent-hoarding company buying and dismantling another company for their patents and touting "we have been developing XYZ for over 10 years".
Why does it matter what your server runs? How many servers are used for browsing the web?
I think this is just the beginning step to them aquiring a competitor to VPC. Chances are, the day after WWDC is over, Microsoft announces a new acquisition.
What about the first "first post" post?
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"I'm an atheist and I don't go running around pillaging, raping and sacrificing virgins or anything."
My point exactly.
(Although if you were religious, you could just do this stuff and ask for forgiveness.)
But I think we are wandering off topic.
That don't work to well for athiests.