If you read the article, this is not about spam. It is about using an engineering methodology to identify and reduce variables that affect the successful outcome of a product. This approach is then being turned to advertising and marketing. If anything, it will produce a less annoying advertising message. Something I'm sure we all would not mind seeing.
It just gets annoying when people who you don't know can intrude by pushing their marketing message into your house.
And it seems VERY presumptions that people would annoy you, have the gall to annoy you, on a device you use to conduct your own personal business.
There should be a limit. Plus all those people pissed off at the telemarketer, does little to make the telemarketer feel like a worthwhile part of society.
Read Dave Barry: Saying Telemarketers might lose their jobs is like saying that laws against muggers put muggers' jobs at risk.
Don't be bitter but 50 million people have told you they don't want to hear from you. I'd take that as a hint for a carreer change.
We should organize representatives in many countries around the world to help track down these spammers that are out of the US. Then find a way to take them to court in their country by their violation of US law. If they are sending for someone in the US, they should be able to turn over theeir manes and an affadavit stating thay were spamming in proxy for a US company. Then go after the US company and run them up the flagpole. The representative who worked to resolve the problem would get a % of the judgement, say 25 - 50%.
Any lawyers out there want to shoot me down or refine the idea?
I'm not going to get into your first point about "any programmer that can't write a good(easy to use program)" there's just too much there.
re: MAc OS X - Ya. It feels like a layer of molassas between the GUI and the tasks underneath. I'm not exactly loving it for MANY reasons that you wil be glad I am not going in to. Basically look & feel + more.
RE: The crappy bookware. I DEFINATELY agree with you there. Pressure on the newbie programmers/scripters to pump out projects? I dunno.
Re: A REAL LIVE TRAINED PROGRMMER. - I tried that but loathed it. All the goofy syntax for no reason tha tI could fathom - it didn't make sense. Others have similar aversions to "formal" programming. those more creative than analytical. Now don't get me wrong. I just created a callback enabled async network lingo system with pseudo threading and 4 levels of ancestry so IF oy uknow what you are doing, you can create some meaty stuff - in a language that is closet to english.
sooo 1) It isn't stable and crashes often? What platforms? Stability is the PRIMARY requirement when releasing a new vers of Director. I dunno here since I can't see your examples.
2) Not Director's fault. You raised the point about a "REAL LIVE PROGRAMMER". If a hack is working in C++ then you just might expect crap to oright?
3) WOW. A hot chick just walked into the coffee shop. Mmmm. OH - Poor interfaces and non existant support files - Again, isn't this a prob with the developer using Director to create stuff?
4) No interface testing. AGAIN the developer - BUT IF Director came with modern and robust user interface classes, this would be less of an issue. Crappy coder AND lack of support files, foundation classes.
5) Then you have encountered an idiot. Sorry man, I feel your pain.
in summary, most of your points are related to a lame developer, not a lame tool. But I agree on the supportin code part. Software should suck less. Knowing how to do this is the tough part.
1) I used to work writing gambling software (ethically, I knew it was going to fold). There is a rather attractive woman who lives in Marin and is rather wealthy who owns/runs a set of gambling web sites. Her dev team is in India. She's young, beautiful and rich.
2) I use Macromedia Director extensively on a mac. I have since 1987. I even worked on Director for about 4 years at Macromedia. Director MX for the mac was ported by a company in India. IT SUCKS ASS. A vast majority of "details" that make software great are gone. It is now just "usable" and annoying. I will saddly admit that the windoes version of Director MX is much more usable than the mac version. Whomever ported it, just doesn't get it. What really sucks is that this crappy ass port is what I have to use every day. Yeah. Woo. shoot me.
3) I used to contract for McGraw Hill in Carlsbad. We took a major project that was about to fail, developed and released the 4 CD set on time and budget for McGraw-Hill. After I left, under financial pressure, one of my co workers told me that things were about to change. This biz guy from a software firm in India come in to talk to the biz guys at McGraw-Hill and states "my programmers can write 1000 lines of code in a hour and they are pennies on the dollar." WHAT MORON measures productivity in "lines of code per hour?" Obviously, the business guys who don't understand programming. Last I hard, a lot of Glencoe/McGraw-Hill's development moved offshore to India.
When you "feel" that there is an old woman in the house who wants to make the life of all men miserable, and then find out that one of the previous owner's ashes were buried at the end of the driveway, you MIGHT think that this article does not explain it all.
Ok, this article might have discovered some important properties about how humans respond to infrasound BUT. Oh geez, where do I start.
When you have lived in a house where "stuff" moves on its own, without you asking, like furniture, nails, etc, and your life has been rather unpleasant for a year, you may ask "does this article explain it all?"
When you "feel" that there is an old woman in the house who wants to make the life of all men miserable, and then find out that one of the previous owners of the MIGHT think that this article does not explain it all.
Electricity cutting off, radio stations changing on you (the dial turning), nails thrown at you out of a nailless wall, doors opening and closing, waste basket flying actoss the room, pinging noises, one sighting and an eerie chill in many rooms of the house.
In case you're interested, this happened to me while I was a sophomore in high school in '82. The house was on Wing Lake Road in Birmingham, Michigan. Second on the right I think. Gravel driveway. Have at it.
You state that with sobig, someone would have to open the email - on a poorly designed system that automatically executes an enclosure when the email is opened. That feature in itself constitutes a security risk.
None of my mac email programs do this. There may be some but I don't know of them.
So, even if the exploit is created and emailed to everyone, you would still have to be gullible, an idiot - or appropriately socially engineered - to start up the exploit. You'd have to do it yourself by running the enclosure.
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If you read the article, this is not about spam. It is about using an engineering methodology to identify and reduce variables that affect the successful outcome of a product. This approach is then being turned to advertising and marketing. If anything, it will produce a less annoying advertising message. Something I'm sure we all would not mind seeing.
The title of the Slashdot article is misleading.
It just gets annoying when people who you don't know can intrude by pushing their marketing message into your house.
And it seems VERY presumptions that people would annoy you, have the gall to annoy you, on a device you use to conduct your own personal business.
There should be a limit. Plus all those people pissed off at the telemarketer, does little to make the telemarketer feel like a worthwhile part of society.
Read Dave Barry: Saying Telemarketers might lose their jobs is like saying that laws against muggers put muggers' jobs at risk.
Don't be bitter but 50 million people have told you they don't want to hear from you. I'd take that as a hint for a carreer change.
To paraphrase Dave Barry, this is like saying that laws inacted against muggers infringe on their ability to earn a living.
Your logic and your argument are tragically flawed.
Good idea.
We should organize representatives in many countries around the world to help track down these spammers that are out of the US. Then find a way to take them to court in their country by their violation of US law. If they are sending for someone in the US, they should be able to turn over theeir manes and an affadavit stating thay were spamming in proxy for a US company. Then go after the US company and run them up the flagpole. The representative who worked to resolve the problem would get a % of the judgement, say 25 - 50%.
Any lawyers out there want to shoot me down or refine the idea?
I suck. Maybe this time I'll get it right.
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Here:
This wombat will take that guinea pig any day.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/31139
This wombat will take that guinea pig any day.
Can I state that you rock?
Your experience indicates that you seem able to answer my other question.
This is freakin FUSION?! Why am I thinking this is one of the holy grails of physics?
Is it?
The Jan 15 inch Pb does boot to 9 (Mine does.) The 12's and 17's do not.
It's sad when you go back to 9. It's not pretty but SO much faster. Sigh.
EVEN funnier was when I was in Japan sometime last century and noticed lots of English words on cars that didn't really apply.
In America, we put stickers/emblems/phrases on cars to show how much this car is enhanced from a "regular" car.
This is why my mind boggled when I saw a factory emblem on a car that said "Single Cam".
That's like saying "Steering Wheel" or even "Tires".
Unless it's on a rotary engined car and then I'd be impressed as to how someone engineered a camshaft to run in a rotary engine.
Reminds me of a line from a movie "Plato, Socrates... Morons"
So we create a non profit for the purpose of protecting the "privacy of the individual against intrusive marketers" and call to our heart's content.
Don't forget to put a "type R" on the sticker.
I think you're taking my argument the wrong way.
I'm not going to get into your first point about "any programmer that can't write a good(easy to use program)" there's just too much there.
re: MAc OS X - Ya. It feels like a layer of molassas between the GUI and the tasks underneath. I'm not exactly loving it for MANY reasons that you wil be glad I am not going in to. Basically look & feel + more.
RE: The crappy bookware. I DEFINATELY agree with you there. Pressure on the newbie programmers/scripters to pump out projects? I dunno.
Re: A REAL LIVE TRAINED PROGRMMER. - I tried that but loathed it. All the goofy syntax for no reason tha tI could fathom - it didn't make sense. Others have similar aversions to "formal" programming. those more creative than analytical. Now don't get me wrong. I just created a callback enabled async network lingo system with pseudo threading and 4 levels of ancestry so IF oy uknow what you are doing, you can create some meaty stuff - in a language that is closet to english.
sooo 1) It isn't stable and crashes often? What platforms? Stability is the PRIMARY requirement when releasing a new vers of Director. I dunno here since I can't see your examples.
2) Not Director's fault. You raised the point about a "REAL LIVE PROGRAMMER". If a hack is working in C++ then you just might expect crap to oright?
3) WOW. A hot chick just walked into the coffee shop. Mmmm. OH - Poor interfaces and non existant support files - Again, isn't this a prob with the developer using Director to create stuff?
4) No interface testing. AGAIN the developer - BUT IF Director came with modern and robust user interface classes, this would be less of an issue. Crappy coder AND lack of support files, foundation classes.
5) Then you have encountered an idiot. Sorry man, I feel your pain.
in summary, most of your points are related to a lame developer, not a lame tool. But I agree on the supportin code part.
Software should suck less. Knowing how to do this is the tough part.
Ahhh, she's got a belly. Ack.
No, not at all, I am saying that you need to pay attention to the audience to make it GOOD. It is expected that it should work.
I'm picky like that.
RIGHT! Material has to be written not just to work but also For the target audience, to be USED by the target audience.
People think differently than you do when you are coding it.
As an example, many people here LOVE the command line. Imagine a CAR with a command line interface.
When creating a product it is imperative to create it with knowledge of how easily people will learn to use it.
And please be so bold to tell us why you think Director sucks?
For people who hate abstract languages with abbreviations and syntax that doesn't make sense, Director is well adopted.
Sooo, your reasons are... what?
1) I used to work writing gambling software (ethically, I knew it was going to fold). There is a rather attractive woman who lives in Marin and is rather wealthy who owns/runs a set of gambling web sites. Her dev team is in India. She's young, beautiful and rich.
2) I use Macromedia Director extensively on a mac. I have since 1987. I even worked on Director for about 4 years at Macromedia. Director MX for the mac was ported by a company in India. IT SUCKS ASS. A vast majority of "details" that make software great are gone. It is now just "usable" and annoying. I will saddly admit that the windoes version of Director MX is much more usable than the mac version. Whomever ported it, just doesn't get it. What really sucks is that this crappy ass port is what I have to use every day. Yeah. Woo. shoot me.
3) I used to contract for McGraw Hill in Carlsbad. We took a major project that was about to fail, developed and released the 4 CD set on time and budget for McGraw-Hill. After I left, under financial pressure, one of my co workers told me that things were about to change. This biz guy from a software firm in India come in to talk to the biz guys at McGraw-Hill and states "my programmers can write 1000 lines of code in a hour and they are pennies on the dollar." WHAT MORON measures productivity in "lines of code per hour?" Obviously, the business guys who don't understand programming. Last I hard, a lot of Glencoe/McGraw-Hill's development moved offshore to India.
Leaves alot to think about.
oops, that sentence was supposed to read:
When you "feel" that there is an old woman in the house who wants to make the life of all men miserable, and then find out that one of the previous owner's ashes were buried at the end of the driveway, you MIGHT think that this article does not explain it all.
Ok, this article might have discovered some important properties about how humans respond to infrasound BUT. Oh geez, where do I start.
When you have lived in a house where "stuff" moves on its own, without you asking, like furniture, nails, etc, and your life has been rather unpleasant for a year, you may ask "does this article explain it all?"
When you "feel" that there is an old woman in the house who wants to make the life of all men miserable, and then find out that one of the previous owners of the MIGHT think that this article does not explain it all.
Electricity cutting off, radio stations changing on you (the dial turning), nails thrown at you out of a nailless wall, doors opening and closing, waste basket flying actoss the room, pinging noises, one sighting and an eerie chill in many rooms of the house.
In case you're interested, this happened to me while I was a sophomore in high school in '82. The house was on Wing Lake Road in Birmingham, Michigan. Second on the right I think. Gravel driveway. Have at it.
I believe in ghosts NOW. No foolin.
I'd love something like this for those times when you leave your car in the sun.
Might go over big in Arizona or LA.
Also, if you can't see into the car, you cant' see any stuff to steal.
I want this for my car windows when I'm making out.
Think of the possibilities!
True, and I feel it is horrible design - but we are talking about OS X here right?
You state that with sobig, someone would have to open the email - on a poorly designed system that automatically executes an enclosure when the email is opened. That feature in itself constitutes a security risk.
None of my mac email programs do this. There may be some but I don't know of them.
So, even if the exploit is created and emailed to everyone, you would still have to be gullible, an idiot - or appropriately socially engineered - to start up the exploit. You'd have to do it yourself by running the enclosure.
FYI
The inquirer article incorrectly states 300 billion. The PDF states 200 billion.
Being off by 100 billion dollars is slightly significant.
Does anyone remember those water wave machines with blue and white fluid (water/oil?) in them?
I'd really like to find out how to make one of them.
Always thought is was colored water & oil but I was rather young in the 70's
That was the sound of the slashdotting of a shoutcast stream.