On a more serious note, that's not necessary. If I have an uncle named Jack and an uncle named Bob, I can refer to one of 'em as "My uncle Jack". If I were to put the 'Jack' between commas, the meaning of the sentence would change, which is a no-no.
As bash.org says in one of the best quotes: Capitalization is the difference between "Helping your uncle Jack off a horse" and "helping your uncle jack off a horse".
I type very ad-hoc, usually with about 6-8 fingers at a time. I type fairly well (barring typo's made by being tired, or whatever). I type at a decent pace, though not on the level of touch-typists. And I can type blind, with my eyes averted from both the keyboard and the screen, if need be.
I'd say that most people don't *need* to type at 80 words per minute or higher because that would remove any thought from what is being typed. Barring dictation or copying, I can't see any use for typing at such speeds.
Now see, there's this low-end company called Sweex. They make crap, to keep this story simple. It's cheap, and they know it, and they sell it as such. Keyboards for $5, mice for $3, wireless mice for $15, webcams for $15, etc. It all works, quite well, and it's cheap.
I want to see this company succeed, because any time that I don't care about performance or life expectancy or whatever, I buy Sweex. They can't revert to high-margin products because they simply don't have them.
These are the companies that are now feeling the effects of a non-related industry selling at dumpprices (because they make up the losses with their other products that Sweex et al can't offer).
In short: The reason these companies are having problems is that they can't give away stuff for free while making money on service, they have to make money on the products themselves.
Technically correct, yet not very practical. It's a difference of deterrance vs. guilt-appointment after the fact.
In Holland, if someone's using a phone (in a non-handsfree manner) while driving, he now gets a minimum 136 euro ticket. Even if he was driving perfectly with the phone to his head. I know plenty of people who've made the switch to handsfree calling because of this.
Spelling these things out helps clarity. It also increases police revenue (always a good thing) and actually has a discernible effect.
In Holland, we don't have anything like a "learner's permit", and we have to take lessons. Taking the test is about $100-150, and the lessons are about 30-50 an hour (depending on where and when you take classes).
I'd mod this up. The clean-up worm in the article sounds like an active one, or else one that simply doesn't limit its intrustion in the data-traffic of the user.
Perhaps the best system would be having vaccination programs, running in the background. I run the autoimmune daemon, some IP scans me, the daemon patches the hole, then shuts down depending on my network usage, coming up later. No need for the actual autoimmune-response to stay resident at all, although this could certainly be arranged. The main traffic of the cleanup effort is concentrated at those who choose to install the autoimmune daemon.
Hmm, I see a potential college project. Perhaps for my final project in 1 to 1.5 years.
In the Netherlands, I'm looking at 1500 to 2000 euro's just to get a driver's license. Most people here know how to drive. The license fees alone aren't going to stop someone who wants to fly, I think.
Three geeks! One who has the mental capacity of a wet noodle, one who has the social skills a wet noodle, and the third who has the physical capacity of a wet noodle!
(not funny, but I don't see y'all doing any better)
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I can't stuff a potato up your tailpipe from here in the Netherlands, knowing your car's registration number. Doing the equivalent online would be pretty much trivial.
It's a difficult thing. On the one hand, I deeply value this casual anonomity (where it is not quite trivial to get at me, though not impossible). On the other hand, many people are boneheaded dipsticks who should be taken out and clubbed to death with baby seals. Getting at these people might be worth it.
Spam is very annoying, yes. I get about 50-100 a day, and none of 'em are even interesting anymore (except for the time traveller asking for a phase-inverter or something, to be delivered about 250 feet over an existing intersection in the US. "Do not teleport, for they will deflect the beam!". Good stuff.)
However, for the amount of money earned and effort expended, I wish I'd gotten in on the game and made a lot of cash. Morality is all well and good, but so's seven or eight figures on the old bank account.
Call of Duty is an excellent online shooter, that does not require the CD in the drive either.
I have no clue anymore who its from, as I haven't seen the box for a few months, and I don't have any splashscreens or whatnot. It does take 1.2GB on the harddrive, but it's worth it for me.
It's like roulette. The odds stay the same for each individual roll, regardless of what came before. So just because the house hasn't been hit before, doesn't mean its chances of being hit again decrease in any way.
Of course, if you look at roulette, you'll see that Red and Black are mostly at about a 50% distribution. So after six reds, a black might seem more likely. It's an utterly stupid way to spend your money, but perfectly sound intuitism. Especially at a French Roulette table, where they don't have a $50 minimum on side-bets.:-)
Investopedia.com... Never knew something like that existed. Looks readable and just what I've been searching for. (for 'searching' read: 'hoping to stumble upon')
Thank you for the explanation. It's a bit over my head, but I think I get the gist of what you're saying.
Maybe if you reverse the phase polarity... polarise the anti-matter stream through the main deflector... jiggle the handle?
Damn, that's some impressive technobabble you people have. Do you have any recommendations for introductory books or web-sites that explain the basics well? (as opposed to just being a glossary with a high price-point, which presumably only enable the author to make money)
I'm thinking both explaining terms like you're tossing about, and basic market operation, like what influences stockvalues and how, and such. Preferably at the amateur level.
You miss the point. They need one in ten million of those who receive spam *now*. If a majority of servers block spam, 'ten million' people won't get reached, and the odds of getting through to the 'one' they need drop into insignificance.
Thus they'd need to upgrade the amount they send, which at some point becomes unfeasible because all the damned mailservers are running so slowly.
Of course we're going to let unauthorized personnel mess with the insides of their own possessions. Not allowing them to fights the wrong fight.
Most viruses and worms are spread by E-mail, anonymously. Add virusscanning to the core-functions of all mail-software and you've got a workable solution there. Remove the ability to send anonymously, and you've taken a bite out of spam, too.
Virii are also a technical problem, not just a social one. You're now arguing the equivalent of "people should get sex-licenses, instead of spending money working on cures for VDs." And that's just wrong.
"We were looking for a way to make the ratings soar
So we orchestrated an encounter with the Borg
Normally you'd think that that would get us into shit
But this one has a smashing ass and a lovely set of tits"
While at my employer we do have a script, those of some experience get to skip the questions in the script and only use it for logging and checking their solutions.
The goal there is to have techsupports who can basically do everything, including simple account management like editing passwords or changing e-mail addresses.
We had outsourced to another company under a several-year contract, but we eventually broke the contract because the results were so fucking bad. Having first- and second-tier techsupport do the troubleshooting and third-tier techsupport do the few tough problems and appointment-making doesn't work. So now we hired about 180 people (and have already canned a few dozen of them because they're idiots or for other reasons), and life is good.
If you do decide to get a new monitor, you might want to check out the Iiyama E431S. 17" 1280x768 display, 16ms response time, and no visible ghosting that I've seen. And I play plenty of games, and watch DVD movies.
The thing has digital and analog inputs (not supplied with a DVI cable, though), which is good, and overall is an extremely nice piece of hardware. Better than a lot of competitors, and not the most expensive, either.
Of course, why don't we all just toss out our E-mail, address books, bookmarks and 'special files' three times a month?
While all those things can be backed up, practically noone actually does this, and so keeping a system running is top priority.
Besides which, 'known good media' means 'unpatched windows'. A pre-SP1 WinXP takes about 15-30 seconds from first connect to infection with MSBlaster, even nowadays. What you want people to have is a during-install-service-pack-update.
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On a more serious note, that's not necessary. If I have an uncle named Jack and an uncle named Bob, I can refer to one of 'em as "My uncle Jack". If I were to put the 'Jack' between commas, the meaning of the sentence would change, which is a no-no.
As bash.org says in one of the best quotes:
Capitalization is the difference between "Helping your uncle Jack off a horse" and "helping your uncle jack off a horse".
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I type very ad-hoc, usually with about 6-8 fingers at a time. I type fairly well (barring typo's made by being tired, or whatever). I type at a decent pace, though not on the level of touch-typists. And I can type blind, with my eyes averted from both the keyboard and the screen, if need be.
I'd say that most people don't *need* to type at 80 words per minute or higher because that would remove any thought from what is being typed. Barring dictation or copying, I can't see any use for typing at such speeds.
It's a pity one of those keys isn't "shift" every once in a while.
To make matters worse, the bastard didn't use a standards-compliant sig delimiter either.
Now see, there's this low-end company called Sweex. They make crap, to keep this story simple. It's cheap, and they know it, and they sell it as such. Keyboards for $5, mice for $3, wireless mice for $15, webcams for $15, etc. It all works, quite well, and it's cheap.
I want to see this company succeed, because any time that I don't care about performance or life expectancy or whatever, I buy Sweex. They can't revert to high-margin products because they simply don't have them.
These are the companies that are now feeling the effects of a non-related industry selling at dumpprices (because they make up the losses with their other products that Sweex et al can't offer).
In short: The reason these companies are having problems is that they can't give away stuff for free while making money on service, they have to make money on the products themselves.
Technically correct, yet not very practical. It's a difference of deterrance vs. guilt-appointment after the fact.
In Holland, if someone's using a phone (in a non-handsfree manner) while driving, he now gets a minimum 136 euro ticket. Even if he was driving perfectly with the phone to his head. I know plenty of people who've made the switch to handsfree calling because of this.
Spelling these things out helps clarity. It also increases police revenue (always a good thing) and actually has a discernible effect.
On the off chance someone reads this :-)
In Holland, we don't have anything like a "learner's permit", and we have to take lessons. Taking the test is about $100-150, and the lessons are about 30-50 an hour (depending on where and when you take classes).
I'd mod this up. The clean-up worm in the article sounds like an active one, or else one that simply doesn't limit its intrustion in the data-traffic of the user.
Perhaps the best system would be having vaccination programs, running in the background. I run the autoimmune daemon, some IP scans me, the daemon patches the hole, then shuts down depending on my network usage, coming up later. No need for the actual autoimmune-response to stay resident at all, although this could certainly be arranged. The main traffic of the cleanup effort is concentrated at those who choose to install the autoimmune daemon.
Hmm, I see a potential college project. Perhaps for my final project in 1 to 1.5 years.
In the Netherlands, I'm looking at 1500 to 2000 euro's just to get a driver's license. Most people here know how to drive. The license fees alone aren't going to stop someone who wants to fly, I think.
Three geeks!
One who has the mental capacity of a wet noodle,
one who has the social skills a wet noodle, and the third who has the physical capacity of a wet noodle!
(not funny, but I don't see y'all doing any better)
I can't stuff a potato up your tailpipe from here in the Netherlands, knowing your car's registration number. Doing the equivalent online would be pretty much trivial.
It's a difficult thing. On the one hand, I deeply value this casual anonomity (where it is not quite trivial to get at me, though not impossible). On the other hand, many people are boneheaded dipsticks who should be taken out and clubbed to death with baby seals. Getting at these people might be worth it.
Given the characters and keys the dude introduced, I'd have imagined you'd come up with:
"Has he been backslashed?"
Or even "escaped".
My faith in you all, not exactly at a stellar level already, just dropped another few points, and is now halfway through to the Earth's core.
I thought settlement was not an admission of guilt.
Doesn't this fall under either extortion, or perhaps even barratry if they did this a lot?
Spam is very annoying, yes. I get about 50-100 a day, and none of 'em are even interesting anymore (except for the time traveller asking for a phase-inverter or something, to be delivered about 250 feet over an existing intersection in the US. "Do not teleport, for they will deflect the beam!". Good stuff.)
However, for the amount of money earned and effort expended, I wish I'd gotten in on the game and made a lot of cash. Morality is all well and good, but so's seven or eight figures on the old bank account.
Call of Duty is an excellent online shooter, that does not require the CD in the drive either.
I have no clue anymore who its from, as I haven't seen the box for a few months, and I don't have any splashscreens or whatnot. It does take 1.2GB on the harddrive, but it's worth it for me.
It's like roulette. The odds stay the same for each individual roll, regardless of what came before. So just because the house hasn't been hit before, doesn't mean its chances of being hit again decrease in any way.
:-)
Of course, if you look at roulette, you'll see that Red and Black are mostly at about a 50% distribution. So after six reds, a black might seem more likely. It's an utterly stupid way to spend your money, but perfectly sound intuitism. Especially at a French Roulette table, where they don't have a $50 minimum on side-bets.
Investopedia.com... Never knew something like that existed. Looks readable and just what I've been searching for. (for 'searching' read: 'hoping to stumble upon')
Thank you for the explanation. It's a bit over my head, but I think I get the gist of what you're saying.
Maybe if you reverse the phase polarity... polarise the anti-matter stream through the main deflector... jiggle the handle?
Damn, that's some impressive technobabble you people have. Do you have any recommendations for introductory books or web-sites that explain the basics well? (as opposed to just being a glossary with a high price-point, which presumably only enable the author to make money)
I'm thinking both explaining terms like you're tossing about, and basic market operation, like what influences stockvalues and how, and such. Preferably at the amateur level.
You miss the point. They need one in ten million of those who receive spam *now*. If a majority of servers block spam, 'ten million' people won't get reached, and the odds of getting through to the 'one' they need drop into insignificance.
Thus they'd need to upgrade the amount they send, which at some point becomes unfeasible because all the damned mailservers are running so slowly.
Of course we're going to let unauthorized personnel mess with the insides of their own possessions. Not allowing them to fights the wrong fight.
Most viruses and worms are spread by E-mail, anonymously. Add virusscanning to the core-functions of all mail-software and you've got a workable solution there. Remove the ability to send anonymously, and you've taken a bite out of spam, too.
Virii are also a technical problem, not just a social one. You're now arguing the equivalent of "people should get sex-licenses, instead of spending money working on cures for VDs." And that's just wrong.
"We were looking for a way to make the ratings soar So we orchestrated an encounter with the Borg Normally you'd think that that would get us into shit But this one has a smashing ass and a lovely set of tits"
While at my employer we do have a script, those of some experience get to skip the questions in the script and only use it for logging and checking their solutions.
The goal there is to have techsupports who can basically do everything, including simple account management like editing passwords or changing e-mail addresses.
We had outsourced to another company under a several-year contract, but we eventually broke the contract because the results were so fucking bad. Having first- and second-tier techsupport do the troubleshooting and third-tier techsupport do the few tough problems and appointment-making doesn't work. So now we hired about 180 people (and have already canned a few dozen of them because they're idiots or for other reasons), and life is good.
Well hi, welcome to 2004.
If you do decide to get a new monitor, you might want to check out the Iiyama E431S. 17" 1280x768 display, 16ms response time, and no visible ghosting that I've seen. And I play plenty of games, and watch DVD movies.
The thing has digital and analog inputs (not supplied with a DVI cable, though), which is good, and overall is an extremely nice piece of hardware. Better than a lot of competitors, and not the most expensive, either.
Of course, why don't we all just toss out our E-mail, address books, bookmarks and 'special files' three times a month?
While all those things can be backed up, practically noone actually does this, and so keeping a system running is top priority.
Besides which, 'known good media' means 'unpatched windows'. A pre-SP1 WinXP takes about 15-30 seconds from first connect to infection with MSBlaster, even nowadays. What you want people to have is a during-install-service-pack-update.