It's official now! Customers hate popups! This is serious opposition! Um... RESISTANS! Yeah!
But wait... we already knew that. So why are they still around? Oh, yeah. They're a cash cow.
The next big thing is probably going to be those meta refresh ads that force you to look at an ad for N seconds before showing the actual page. That seems just jaw-droppingly arrogant and obnoxious enough to be a commercially viable avenue, don't you think?
Reminds me of a tour guide in West Virginia who advised us to wear extra sunscreen because we'd be "awfully close to the sun" at the top of the ski slope.
I'd make up some quip about that level of intelligence being par for WV, but then again, I was the one visiting a ski slope during the summer.
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You'll be able distribute a ROM to thousands or millions of people, without cost (aside from i-net access, for which you are already paying), and in virtually no time at all.
Captain Reality to the rescue!
Serving data of any kind to the general public (be it Ethically Correct or not) might just seem like a magical process of copying all the 1 bits and the 0 bits. But it does not scale to "thousands or millions" without significant cost. Think, your connection is either:
a residential connection, which caps its upstream speed, forbids servers in the Terms of Service, or both
something more substantial, which is metered
But don't worry, I used to think the Internet was free, too.
A SYN for breakfast, a SYN/ACK for lunch and a sensible dinner.
One would think that interplanetary latency falls well outside the range of "things we can tune application-side". Calling an Earth/Mars link a backbone is probably about as fitting as calling an IP-over-Avian-Carrier link a backbone.
That RFC raises a lot of good points, but "backbone to Mars by 2008" really shattered the sensationalist illusion for me.:(
Even a stripped-down firewall on each desktop would give you a little more defense in depth than just a firewall per gateway. Sure, the OS could handle firewalling too, but here's a solution that's OS independent (I'm assuming).
I think that's supposed to be the appeal, but then, what do I know? I'm an amateur.
April fools' jokes are pathetic. Almost as pathetic as ThinkGeek's overpriced target-marketed crap, or joking about bribing your way to love. But it's hard to have a sense of humor when you've got a splitting headache and all anyone can do is tell you the moon is falling.
Well, count your blessings, we still have WinMX and Kazaa and Morpheus and people on IRC we know and people on IRC we don't know but run fservs anyway and am I leaving any out? Maybe I'm only speaking for myself when I say that we all have so many MP3s that trading them doesn't even seem like a necessity anymore.
Oh, while I have your attention, hire me!
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It's official now! Customers hate popups! This is serious opposition! Um... RESISTANS! Yeah!
But wait... we already knew that. So why are they still around? Oh, yeah. They're a cash cow.
The next big thing is probably going to be those meta refresh ads that force you to look at an ad for N seconds before showing the actual page. That seems just jaw-droppingly arrogant and obnoxious enough to be a commercially viable avenue, don't you think?
Reminds me of a tour guide in West Virginia who advised us to wear extra sunscreen because we'd be "awfully close to the sun" at the top of the ski slope.
I'd make up some quip about that level of intelligence being par for WV, but then again, I was the one visiting a ski slope during the summer.
You'll be able distribute a ROM to thousands or millions of people, without cost (aside from i-net access, for which you are already paying), and in virtually no time at all.
Captain Reality to the rescue!
Serving data of any kind to the general public (be it Ethically Correct or not) might just seem like a magical process of copying all the 1 bits and the 0 bits. But it does not scale to "thousands or millions" without significant cost. Think, your connection is either:
But don't worry, I used to think the Internet was free, too.
"to get back on topic, maybe using laser weapons"
Shorthanded moderator with the off-topic WHAT A SAVE!!!!!!!!
Unbelievable off-topic glove save by sql*kitten!
Yes, I'm still bitter the Hurricanes didn't win the Cup. Ah... but perhaps laser weapons will give them the edge in 2003!
Candygram.
They're using state-of-the art hologram technology to visualize, um, an internal combustion fossil fuel-burning car. Ain't entrenchment a blast?
Next, we'll be using sophisticated CAD simulations to design the latest generation of high-performance vehicles.
I'm surprised no one's yet mentioned the command to "read mail, real fast".
A SYN for breakfast, a SYN/ACK for lunch and a sensible dinner.
One would think that interplanetary latency falls well outside the range of "things we can tune application-side". Calling an Earth/Mars link a backbone is probably about as fitting as calling an IP-over-Avian-Carrier link a backbone.
That RFC raises a lot of good points, but "backbone to Mars by 2008" really shattered the sensationalist illusion for me. :(
Even a stripped-down firewall on each desktop would give you a little more defense in depth than just a firewall per gateway. Sure, the OS could handle firewalling too, but here's a solution that's OS independent (I'm assuming).
I think that's supposed to be the appeal, but then, what do I know? I'm an amateur.
The only people who are going to buy these are people who are fairly security-conscious anyway.
April fools' jokes are pathetic. Almost as pathetic as ThinkGeek's overpriced target-marketed crap, or joking about bribing your way to love. But it's hard to have a sense of humor when you've got a splitting headache and all anyone can do is tell you the moon is falling.
And apparently I'm not the only one who thinks so. Okay. nm. >_
http://hop-on.com/
I don't get it. Is the SEC still doing that thing with the fake investment pages to educate the public? This is so obviously a scam.
Not if it's a joke, heh. Who'd troll here for a job, anyway?
Well, count your blessings, we still have WinMX and Kazaa and Morpheus and people on IRC we know and people on IRC we don't know but run fservs anyway and am I leaving any out? Maybe I'm only speaking for myself when I say that we all have so many MP3s that trading them doesn't even seem like a necessity anymore. Oh, while I have your attention, hire me!
Hey, Jeff. Phone's for you. It's 1995. They want their lame Pentium jokes back.