I dunno much about the current state of netaccess on handhelds, so ignore this if its already been done. Web access on handhelds should be allowed by two methods. Ethernet, and wireless. Wireless being the easiest to impliment. Although why you'd actually want to view the twisted, mangled WWW on a handheld is beyond me. I'd just say get a laptop or use another computer, but I know some people have uses for internet capable handhelds.
They truly have the heart of explorers. But there are still unexplored parts of our world. Like, the oceans. Not all of the oceans have been fully explored, as in, their floors.
If you have good eyes, you can usually tell what someone is watching by the way the blue color flickers and is shaded if you're not moving too fast. So finding out exactly what they're watching shouldn't be a problem for a machine.
This whole thing was pretty obvious. If you've ever driven by houses with televisions near windows when the tv is on, you usually see a blue room. Get some really sensitive piece of equipment, and you could measure the blue content and get an image of their screen. Specially tinted windows could reduce or eliminate this threat, but you could tell from the outside that the windows were tinted such.
Go to www.dslreports.com and look down at the stories. There's one where it says, "Broadband outpaces dial-up." Read. Enjoy. Be jealous if you don't have broadband. I have broadband, but I don't have a job, so I'll probably end up whoring myself so I can keep it.
I'd be surprised if all this works out. Its an obvious attempt to capitalize on a good technology. I'm not saying its wrong, but it will be difficult. Since most people have broadband it seems, sites will likely stick with alternative types. I know I'm recapping what a lot of people are saying, but its another drop in the 'against' pool.
AOL is the kind of company to send their users over to other peoples' tech support. For instance, I used to work for Bellsouth's DSL tech support. For the FastAccess service. Not a day would go by that I didn't get at least one or two calls from people who had been cold transferred from AOL's tech support because AOL doesn't appear to support their own software if you're not dialing into them. Also, I've had AOL technicians try to dump their customers off on me, saying things like, "Well he has Bellsouth icon in his DUN folder, we don't support that". Not only that, but AOL likes to slam people from other DSL services. I've had many sweet old ladies who have said no and no again to AOL, calling in for a no sync problem. Guess what it ends up being? AOL slammed them because they said no. With companies adopting this 'sell them products they didn't request until people get pissed off' approach, its a surprise more people aren't getting sued.
The water on Mars COULD be different than the water on earth. It might be H2O, but what's floating around in it? Just because there is water on Mars doesn't mean there is life. There could be, but maybe not. Might not be a good idea to drink the water until we find out for sure.
Thanks for understanding, everyone. Truthfully, my supervisors told me I was doing a great job. Call metrics were great for my team, well within what they want you to be in. I'm not interested in lawsuits and all that, as I don't have the resources, and I don't want to be a bastard. Just tell your friends that Bellsouth fires people for their opinions. That's all.
I expressed my displeasure with Bellsouth on a message board (from home) that they were selling email addresses (first day I had like 4 or 5 spam messags on an almost-random username) and since I worked for them, they fired me. No trade-secrets or anything given away. I just explained my situation, and bam.
Its about time. I've about had it with Microsoft forcing PC vendors to install Windows on ALL machines. Not only that, but most of the new machines don't come with the Windows media, only shitty recovery disks. Maybe this will make Microsoft/vendors to think twice before pulling their BS.
A good solution for spammers is to track them down, post their addresses for everyone to see, and hold spam bashing parties, in which many, many people make a roadtrip to 'encourage' the spammer not to spam anymore. Such encouragements could be things like, VX, a sock with a cueball in it, small rabid animals, and herpes.
I can see where the Chinese government is coming from here. They don't want anyone to get any bright ideas or fall for other countries' propaganda. Perfectly logical. However, the evil of the plan comes out when you see that the Chinese are terribly oppressed, and that the censorship cloud covers everything that the government doesn't like. Which would be a lot of things. Maybe the U.S. is trying to see if it works well, so they could possibly instate a similar system in the future...
Dihydrogen Monoxide is one of the worst chemicals known to man. In recent times, humans carry a lot of it in our bodies, thanks to the industrial revolution.
This is just a slap on the wrist for spammers. What they need to do is impose a per-email fine per recorded spam from a particular company, and if the violations keep stacking up, blacklist them from ISPs or start posting names/addresses of the spammers involved. All of those would be good. Ruin their reputation even more, take away most of their earnings, and make it damn hard for them to get decent internet access again. And if they do get internet access, it should be monitored for large amounts of outgoing mail. Maybe a per-day quota could be set up for the spammer.
Any kind of light ultimately damages the eye. Some types do more damage than others. Lasers, notorious for being high power and having the ability to easily blind people have gotten a bad rep. Low-power lasers do very little harm, probably less harm than a few minutes outdoors on a bright Winter day. I believe they are doing this now, or will be starting to, paint images on the retina directly using a laser for flight and other types of training.
Not sure if other parts of DirectX work under Linux/MacOS, but this is certainly a big step for them. If they can get some DirectSound wrapper up and running, Linux/MacOS users would almost be home free to play Windows games. Only a few more things would have to be done.
Microsoft should be FORCED to sell you a complete version of Windows, manual, S/N, licence, AND the standard media if they want to make money from a bundle sale like that. My laptop came with WindowsME on it, but I got no WindowsME CD, only a recovery CD which will format my HDD if I use it. That's unacceptable to me.
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I dunno much about the current state of netaccess on handhelds, so ignore this if its already been done. Web access on handhelds should be allowed by two methods. Ethernet, and wireless. Wireless being the easiest to impliment. Although why you'd actually want to view the twisted, mangled WWW on a handheld is beyond me. I'd just say get a laptop or use another computer, but I know some people have uses for internet capable handhelds.
They truly have the heart of explorers. But there are still unexplored parts of our world. Like, the oceans. Not all of the oceans have been fully explored, as in, their floors.
If you have good eyes, you can usually tell what someone is watching by the way the blue color flickers and is shaded if you're not moving too fast. So finding out exactly what they're watching shouldn't be a problem for a machine.
This whole thing was pretty obvious. If you've ever driven by houses with televisions near windows when the tv is on, you usually see a blue room. Get some really sensitive piece of equipment, and you could measure the blue content and get an image of their screen. Specially tinted windows could reduce or eliminate this threat, but you could tell from the outside that the windows were tinted such.
Go to www.dslreports.com and look down at the stories. There's one where it says, "Broadband outpaces dial-up." Read. Enjoy. Be jealous if you don't have broadband. I have broadband, but I don't have a job, so I'll probably end up whoring myself so I can keep it.
I'd be surprised if all this works out. Its an obvious attempt to capitalize on a good technology. I'm not saying its wrong, but it will be difficult. Since most people have broadband it seems, sites will likely stick with alternative types. I know I'm recapping what a lot of people are saying, but its another drop in the 'against' pool.
Knowing rioters, they'd just push each other down into the slippery substance and proceed to then beat the stuffing out of their fallen comrades.
Did anyone read that as Internet Spamming OS? I did the first time I saw it..and..it'll probably be true!
AOL is the kind of company to send their users over to other peoples' tech support. For instance, I used to work for Bellsouth's DSL tech support. For the FastAccess service. Not a day would go by that I didn't get at least one or two calls from people who had been cold transferred from AOL's tech support because AOL doesn't appear to support their own software if you're not dialing into them. Also, I've had AOL technicians try to dump their customers off on me, saying things like, "Well he has Bellsouth icon in his DUN folder, we don't support that". Not only that, but AOL likes to slam people from other DSL services. I've had many sweet old ladies who have said no and no again to AOL, calling in for a no sync problem. Guess what it ends up being? AOL slammed them because they said no. With companies adopting this 'sell them products they didn't request until people get pissed off' approach, its a surprise more people aren't getting sued.
The water on Mars COULD be different than the water on earth. It might be H2O, but what's floating around in it? Just because there is water on Mars doesn't mean there is life. There could be, but maybe not. Might not be a good idea to drink the water until we find out for sure.
Teamkillers should be banned.
Get some Dance Dance Revolution music. There are tunes on there that I will not get out of my head for another century or so.
Thanks for understanding, everyone. Truthfully, my supervisors told me I was doing a great job. Call metrics were great for my team, well within what they want you to be in. I'm not interested in lawsuits and all that, as I don't have the resources, and I don't want to be a bastard. Just tell your friends that Bellsouth fires people for their opinions. That's all.
I expressed my displeasure with Bellsouth on a message board (from home) that they were selling email addresses (first day I had like 4 or 5 spam messags on an almost-random username) and since I worked for them, they fired me. No trade-secrets or anything given away. I just explained my situation, and bam.
Google is probably going to end up being a 'yellow pages' type search directory instead of a full-fledged search engine.
Its about time. I've about had it with Microsoft forcing PC vendors to install Windows on ALL machines. Not only that, but most of the new machines don't come with the Windows media, only shitty recovery disks. Maybe this will make Microsoft/vendors to think twice before pulling their BS.
What good is a BSOD if the screen is unable to display the color blue?
Wow. Some competition. Guess we'll soon start seeing Microsoft TI-89 calculators coming out.
A good solution for spammers is to track them down, post their addresses for everyone to see, and hold spam bashing parties, in which many, many people make a roadtrip to 'encourage' the spammer not to spam anymore. Such encouragements could be things like, VX, a sock with a cueball in it, small rabid animals, and herpes.
I can see where the Chinese government is coming from here. They don't want anyone to get any bright ideas or fall for other countries' propaganda. Perfectly logical. However, the evil of the plan comes out when you see that the Chinese are terribly oppressed, and that the censorship cloud covers everything that the government doesn't like. Which would be a lot of things. Maybe the U.S. is trying to see if it works well, so they could possibly instate a similar system in the future...
Dihydrogen Monoxide is one of the worst chemicals known to man. In recent times, humans carry a lot of it in our bodies, thanks to the industrial revolution.
This is just a slap on the wrist for spammers. What they need to do is impose a per-email fine per recorded spam from a particular company, and if the violations keep stacking up, blacklist them from ISPs or start posting names/addresses of the spammers involved. All of those would be good. Ruin their reputation even more, take away most of their earnings, and make it damn hard for them to get decent internet access again. And if they do get internet access, it should be monitored for large amounts of outgoing mail. Maybe a per-day quota could be set up for the spammer.
Any kind of light ultimately damages the eye. Some types do more damage than others. Lasers, notorious for being high power and having the ability to easily blind people have gotten a bad rep. Low-power lasers do very little harm, probably less harm than a few minutes outdoors on a bright Winter day. I believe they are doing this now, or will be starting to, paint images on the retina directly using a laser for flight and other types of training.
Not sure if other parts of DirectX work under Linux/MacOS, but this is certainly a big step for them. If they can get some DirectSound wrapper up and running, Linux/MacOS users would almost be home free to play Windows games. Only a few more things would have to be done.
Microsoft should be FORCED to sell you a complete version of Windows, manual, S/N, licence, AND the standard media if they want to make money from a bundle sale like that. My laptop came with WindowsME on it, but I got no WindowsME CD, only a recovery CD which will format my HDD if I use it. That's unacceptable to me.