Try Katharion (www.katharion.com). We use it at my job and it works pretty well. You will get an e-mail once a day or once a week (whatever you set it up) summarizing all the e-mails it's blocked and you can release any of the ones you want. Check it out...
Yeah he's way off course with that one. Doom 3 was REALLY good. Personally I'd like to see a Quake 5 come out that's more closely related to Quake 2. I still play that and Quake 1 all the time (my personal favs)
" Could the spin off centered on the rugged Han Solo save the Star Wars franchise from its prequels or would it have been another mediocre release disappointing demanding fans?"
Ummm hello, Episode III was probably the 2nd or 3rd best of the hexalogy so I doubt saving it from "its prequels" is hardly fair. With that said, I definitely don't want to see a spin off of the franchise.
What's with all the old news??? Slashdot reports this almost 2 days late, NY Times reports that Vista will be delayed about a week after Microsoft announces it.
Well currently I'm an Information Systems Major, Business Minor at the University of North Florida. Basically it's a watered down computer science degree. It's virtually all programming, something I do not enjoy. I've had some professional experience in the field and I realize that proramming is a small part of the IT field. I've decided to earn a business degree concentrating in economics and thinking about changing computer science to a minor. I'm planning on staying in the IT field, and earn certifications in addition to my Economics degree.
All through high school, and during my freshman year I thought I was going to major in CompSci. Well, incidentally enough I'm bad at math, and found programming to be boring. I had always enjoyed computers, and was interested in starting a business at some point, preferably in computers. So eventually I realized why not combined the two: computer + business oriented degree, voila I discovered Management Information Systems. So now two years later I'm an Information Systems major (with all the programming classes and 1/3 of the math) and a business minor. The best of both worlds! Now hopefully I'll be able to get a job in a year or two.
Obviously your methodology is quite antiquated. With the ability to cache IM's documentation is always there, something you don't have with faxes (al la shredder), and telephone calls. Being a twenty-something, and working in IT I'm personally seeing both schools of thought. While I can see how IM'ing may be distracting and pose a threat to worker productivity, I've also seen where it can be of great use. The ability to transport files in real time, comes to mind. I believe that if you maintain your philosophy, you may indeed find yourself in trouble with "the boss man." The business world is evolving into a 24 hour, 7 days a week profession. I myself am on call 24 hours to maintain servers, and anything technical that might go wrong. Customers and clients aren't going to wait for when their convienant for your schedule, they're just going to move onto the next person who can support them when they need it -- which will be more than likely your competitor.
I say forget the potentional interferance that cell phones will cause. Who is going to want to sit next to someone who's talking on their cell phone for a 6 hour flight? Just from a pure courtesy stand point, I hope they keep the ban on cell phones.
People make the argument that since you get more from cable modems than dial up (faster download/upload speeds, always on convienance, etc) you should pay more. However since when has this been true in computing? All through history performance has gone up while prices have gone down. Processor prices, memory prices, monitor prices all drop and so will high speed connection prices. They should and will drop since competition and the law of supply side economics will force them down.
The performance has absolutely nothing to do with its price. Once the cable and dsl companies start meeting their break-even point prices will have to go down, especially to meet competition from the inevitable participation from "discount providers" which is what happened in the dial-up era. We saw providers such as AOL and CompuServe charging $9.99 for 20 hours of service, with 1 e-mail account and no WWW access per month back in the 80's and early 90's for 14.4 Kbps and 28.8Kbps access to what is running for $6.95/month for 56k access with often more than 1 e-mail account. The high speed internet industry will match this trend, especially with WiFi hotspots popping up around the country and are almost always free to use.
Well it depends on whether or not they're talking about the 6, 18, 24, or 32 panel ball. Ofcourse the universe will probably have truer flight if it was a 6 panel ball. I'm looking for the adidas FIFA Approved logo stamped on it right now.
Please, TechTV hasn't aired anything live since the days of the original iMac. When was that? Back in '97? They weren't even TechTV back then, remember the days of ZDTV? Ziff-Davis kept them to their roots, C|Net made them more popular but at a cost. I still remember actually getting replies on the air from Leo Laporte, try getting your e-mail read on the air now. LOL
I went to the Orlando conference today, and apparently they were having "internet connection trouble" also...
If you ever stop and watch these people write, using the synchronous handwriting recognition "feature," they're writing as though they've just learned how to write in cursive. When the demonstrators were writing at normal speeds they had tons of trouble recognizing the input. As speed is concerned their own slides conceded that typing IS FASTER than writing on this pad.
Also.....to install software on these things you need to mount the tablet in a docking bay. When I informed the salespeople how stupid it was, they said that it had wireless capabilities and it would be easy to download software. So next time I think I need some Microsoft software, I believe I'll fire up Kazaa on the wireless capable TabletPC and download me some good ol' Microsoft products.
E-Week PRINTED magazine had this story about a week or two ago that Dell would be going into the PDA market. How is a PRINTED magazine ahead of the game by that much???
His tuition goes toward paying for that "college's private network" so he EVERY RIGHT to use it. They can only withdraw that priviledge if he violated one their preset rules directly. The college can not go along making up rules as they go to pinhole people they don't agree with. If anything I think he should take this one to court, and watch the University settle the case real fast. The amount of bad publicity over such a stupid thing can cost tens of thousands of dollars worth potentional tuition money from other geeks who were thinking about going there.
OK, I'm not condoning uncapping cable modems, as we all know it's theft and it hurts the other users. However, an FBI raid?????? Don't we have drug dealers, and murders that need to be put in jail, not necessarily bandwidth whores? I don't believe it warranted an FBI raid, the cable company should have handled it themselve by terminating service do the fact the users violated their end-user agreement. Just think how many FBI raids Microsoft will cause after this situation.
ummm has anybody thought that nobody likes moby, and maybe he sucks???? this is how eminem can get away with making cracks on moby, have his album pirated weeks in advance of release, and still have the #1 album in the country???
If anyone has ever heard of the Library of Alexandria it was supposedly the most impressive knowledge base the world had ever assembled. Some crazy guy came by and burnt it to the ground -- setting the entire industrialized planet back hundreds perhaps thousands of years.
We are now in the process of surpassing this great library, and are making it even easier for people to have access to knowledge. That knowledge may be porn, may be the morning news, or sports scores, it may even be how to construct a nuclear bomb. Nevertheless it is knowledge and EVERY person who is alive has the God (and any other higher power) given right to knowledge, despite what any government agency, or copyright may say.
21st century libraries such as the WayBack Machine are providing the tools necessary for researchers to go "back to the future." This is a great service to mankind, and it's overall importance should not be outweighed by greedy, and or overparanoid privacy rights activists. If you do not wish to be known, please do not post any information on the web, and move to the jungles of Africa and step away from a time and place known as the PRESENT.
How predictable and unoriginal...
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Review: Insomnia
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Well as usual our belated film critic (how often does he review movies weeks or even years behind) regurgitates some stuck up stuffy critic's article.
This movie was uninteresting, unoriginal, and completely predictable. Surrounded by much hype, not even my favorite Robin Williams and Al Pacino were able to save this wannabe Oscar flop. The only part of the movie that I did not predict was when Robin Williams' character knocks out Hiliary Swank -- this by the way hurt Williams credibility as being a "manslaughterer" rather than a "murderer."
The climatic ending was ridiculous. Pacino and Williams dying in the end was absurd, especially with Williams body coincidentally falling into the icy abyss. Then Swank tampering the evidence at the end.
What would have been a better movie would have been if Pacino's partner was the one who shot at him, and through ballistics Pacino realized he had done the right thing, Williams character gets what he deserves and Pacino could die another way. This way there would be more interweaving in the story line and make it more of thinking movie, which I believe was what the director and writers originally intended on doing.
Skip this So called Oscar contender and go watch UNDERCOVER BROTHER.
Intellectual Property IS a fictional representation of what "innovators" (I use the term loosely) use to maintain a stranglehold on what has been given TOO MUCH power. Should the Bible or collections of Plato's or Aristotle's work be paid to whomever distributes it? They were not the author of the work, so why should the publisher be reimbursed for their time and effort. Plato, Aristotle, and God did not ASK for the publisher to publish and distribute their good works, so why are we forced to actually spend money to purchase their work?
Musicians and movie producers produce movies and music for people to watch and listen to. They put a copyright on their work so nobody else can make identical copies of their work and distribute it as their own work, and so that the proper author's are credited, not necessarily in monetary value. However, well paid politicians are "lobbied" coincidentally enough by the people seeking to earn more money for the labor of love by others -- distributers such as you and me who use such services as Kazaa, and Gnutella. The entertainment industry tries to implant a guilt trip in the consciousness of it's consumers stating that anybody who copies and distributes the work of their artists without retribution is a THIEF. This I find an apaulling lie as the artist only keeps a tiny fraction of the original price of the CD or DVD. From this fraction they are forced to reimburse the studio (who is again making money on the guilt of it's consumers and contractual agreements of it's artist) for use and promotion. Where the artist really makes their money from is T-SHIRT/paraphernalia sales, and concerts. These can not be distributed via the internet, nor any medium, since they are actual TANGIBLE items.
Over time the BILLIONS that the RIAA and MPAA have made from not giving the consumer a choice has gone into protecting their huge fortune by inventing a term known as "INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY." This fictional asset has been adopted into the legal system as an actual law. It is a law that is not right and is used to control people unjustly. Yes, it is a law that governs you and me, but in the past we have seen unjust laws come and go. Slavery, and segregation were also considered "fair" and "just" laws at the time that governed people but over time were deemed WRONG. However to get those laws overturned large groups of people over time needed to rebel against the unjust laws, and send a signal to big business and the government that WE THE PEOPLE WILL NOT be trampled upon. Eventually, after hard work by the consumers and the people who bring us great software such as Kazaa and Gnutella, reason will prevail and bring an end of an era to unjust "intellectual property" laws.
Intellectual Property IS a fictional representation of what "innovators" (I use the term loosely) use to maintain a stranglehold on what has been given TOO MUCH power. Should the Bible or collections of Plato's or Aristotle's work be paid to whomever distributes it? They were not the author of the work, so why should the publisher be reimbursed for their time and effort. Plato, Aristotle, and God did not ASK for the publisher to publish and distribute their good works, so why are we forced to actually spend money to purchase their work?
Musicians and movie producers produce movies and music for people to watch and listen to. They put a copyright on their work so nobody else can make identical copies of their work and distribute it as their own work, and so that the proper author's are credited, not necessarily in monetary value. However, well paid politicians are "lobbied" coincidentally enough by the people seeking to earn more money for the labor of love by others -- distributers such as you and me who use such services as Kazaa, and Gnutella. The entertainment industry tries to implant a guilt trip in the consciousness of it's consumers stating that anybody who copies and distributes the work of their artists without retribution is a THIEF. This I find an apaulling lie as the artist only keeps a tiny fraction of the original price of the CD or DVD. From this fraction they are forced to reimburse the studio (who is again making money on the guilt of it's consumers and contractual agreements of it's artist) for use and promotion. Where the artist really makes their money from is T-SHIRT/paraphernalia sales, and concerts. These can not be distributed via the internet, nor any medium, since they are actual TANGIBLE items.
Over time the BILLIONS that the RIAA and MPAA have made from not giving the consumer a choice has gone into protecting their huge fortune by inventing a term known as "INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY." This fictional asset has been adopted into the legal system as an actual law. It is a law that is not right and is used to control people unjustly. Yes, it is a law that governs you and me, but in the past we have seen unjust laws come and go. Slavery, and segregation were also considered "fair" and "just" laws at the time that governed people but over time were deemed WRONG. However to get those laws overturned large groups of people over time needed to rebel against the unjust laws, and send a signal to big business and the government that WE THE PEOPLE WILL NOT be trampled upon. Eventually, after hard work by the consumers and the people who bring us great software such as Kazaa and Gnutella, reason will prevail and bring an end of an era to unjust "intellectual property" laws.
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Try Katharion (www.katharion.com). We use it at my job and it works pretty well. You will get an e-mail once a day or once a week (whatever you set it up) summarizing all the e-mails it's blocked and you can release any of the ones you want. Check it out...
Yeah he's way off course with that one. Doom 3 was REALLY good. Personally I'd like to see a Quake 5 come out that's more closely related to Quake 2. I still play that and Quake 1 all the time (my personal favs)
So exactly how many of the other 94% of web users are generating the other 50% of ad clicks????
" Could the spin off centered on the rugged Han Solo save the Star Wars franchise from its prequels or would it have been another mediocre release disappointing demanding fans?" Ummm hello, Episode III was probably the 2nd or 3rd best of the hexalogy so I doubt saving it from "its prequels" is hardly fair. With that said, I definitely don't want to see a spin off of the franchise.
What's with all the old news??? Slashdot reports this almost 2 days late, NY Times reports that Vista will be delayed about a week after Microsoft announces it.
Well currently I'm an Information Systems Major, Business Minor at the University of North Florida. Basically it's a watered down computer science degree. It's virtually all programming, something I do not enjoy. I've had some professional experience in the field and I realize that proramming is a small part of the IT field. I've decided to earn a business degree concentrating in economics and thinking about changing computer science to a minor. I'm planning on staying in the IT field, and earn certifications in addition to my Economics degree.
All through high school, and during my freshman year I thought I was going to major in CompSci. Well, incidentally enough I'm bad at math, and found programming to be boring. I had always enjoyed computers, and was interested in starting a business at some point, preferably in computers. So eventually I realized why not combined the two: computer + business oriented degree, voila I discovered Management Information Systems. So now two years later I'm an Information Systems major (with all the programming classes and 1/3 of the math) and a business minor. The best of both worlds! Now hopefully I'll be able to get a job in a year or two.
Obviously your methodology is quite antiquated. With the ability to cache IM's documentation is always there, something you don't have with faxes (al la shredder), and telephone calls. Being a twenty-something, and working in IT I'm personally seeing both schools of thought. While I can see how IM'ing may be distracting and pose a threat to worker productivity, I've also seen where it can be of great use. The ability to transport files in real time, comes to mind. I believe that if you maintain your philosophy, you may indeed find yourself in trouble with "the boss man." The business world is evolving into a 24 hour, 7 days a week profession. I myself am on call 24 hours to maintain servers, and anything technical that might go wrong. Customers and clients aren't going to wait for when their convienant for your schedule, they're just going to move onto the next person who can support them when they need it -- which will be more than likely your competitor.
I don't understand...since when did Slashdot become a place for technical support? Here's your official Symantec Tech Support line: http://www.symantec.com/techsupp/enterprise/produc ts/sav_ce/sav_ce_10/contact_ts_online.html
I say forget the potentional interferance that cell phones will cause. Who is going to want to sit next to someone who's talking on their cell phone for a 6 hour flight? Just from a pure courtesy stand point, I hope they keep the ban on cell phones.
People make the argument that since you get more from cable modems than dial up (faster download/upload speeds, always on convienance, etc) you should pay more. However since when has this been true in computing? All through history performance has gone up while prices have gone down. Processor prices, memory prices, monitor prices all drop and so will high speed connection prices. They should and will drop since competition and the law of supply side economics will force them down.
The performance has absolutely nothing to do with its price. Once the cable and dsl companies start meeting their break-even point prices will have to go down, especially to meet competition from the inevitable participation from "discount providers" which is what happened in the dial-up era. We saw providers such as AOL and CompuServe charging $9.99 for 20 hours of service, with 1 e-mail account and no WWW access per month back in the 80's and early 90's for 14.4 Kbps and 28.8Kbps access to what is running for $6.95/month for 56k access with often more than 1 e-mail account. The high speed internet industry will match this trend, especially with WiFi hotspots popping up around the country and are almost always free to use.
Well it depends on whether or not they're talking about the 6, 18, 24, or 32 panel ball. Ofcourse the universe will probably have truer flight if it was a 6 panel ball. I'm looking for the adidas FIFA Approved logo stamped on it right now.
How was prohibition not harming liquor and beer companies back in the 1930's? Yes...there were beer and liquor companies back then.
Please, TechTV hasn't aired anything live since the days of the original iMac. When was that? Back in '97? They weren't even TechTV back then, remember the days of ZDTV? Ziff-Davis kept them to their roots, C|Net made them more popular but at a cost. I still remember actually getting replies on the air from Leo Laporte, try getting your e-mail read on the air now. LOL
Couldn't you buy a pack of CD's from a US retailer? Are the fees levied for anything that crosses the border despite it coming from America?
If you ever stop and watch these people write, using the synchronous handwriting recognition "feature," they're writing as though they've just learned how to write in cursive. When the demonstrators were writing at normal speeds they had tons of trouble recognizing the input. As speed is concerned their own slides conceded that typing IS FASTER than writing on this pad.
Also.....to install software on these things you need to mount the tablet in a docking bay. When I informed the salespeople how stupid it was, they said that it had wireless capabilities and it would be easy to download software. So next time I think I need some Microsoft software, I believe I'll fire up Kazaa on the wireless capable TabletPC and download me some good ol' Microsoft products.
E-Week PRINTED magazine had this story about a week or two ago that Dell would be going into the PDA market. How is a PRINTED magazine ahead of the game by that much???
His tuition goes toward paying for that "college's private network" so he EVERY RIGHT to use it. They can only withdraw that priviledge if he violated one their preset rules directly. The college can not go along making up rules as they go to pinhole people they don't agree with. If anything I think he should take this one to court, and watch the University settle the case real fast. The amount of bad publicity over such a stupid thing can cost tens of thousands of dollars worth potentional tuition money from other geeks who were thinking about going there.
OK, I'm not condoning uncapping cable modems, as we all know it's theft and it hurts the other users. However, an FBI raid?????? Don't we have drug dealers, and murders that need to be put in jail, not necessarily bandwidth whores? I don't believe it warranted an FBI raid, the cable company should have handled it themselve by terminating service do the fact the users violated their end-user agreement. Just think how many FBI raids Microsoft will cause after this situation.
ummm has anybody thought that nobody likes moby, and maybe he sucks???? this is how eminem can get away with making cracks on moby, have his album pirated weeks in advance of release, and still have the #1 album in the country???
If anyone has ever heard of the Library of Alexandria it was supposedly the most impressive knowledge base the world had ever assembled. Some crazy guy came by and burnt it to the ground -- setting the entire industrialized planet back hundreds perhaps thousands of years. We are now in the process of surpassing this great library, and are making it even easier for people to have access to knowledge. That knowledge may be porn, may be the morning news, or sports scores, it may even be how to construct a nuclear bomb. Nevertheless it is knowledge and EVERY person who is alive has the God (and any other higher power) given right to knowledge, despite what any government agency, or copyright may say. 21st century libraries such as the WayBack Machine are providing the tools necessary for researchers to go "back to the future." This is a great service to mankind, and it's overall importance should not be outweighed by greedy, and or overparanoid privacy rights activists. If you do not wish to be known, please do not post any information on the web, and move to the jungles of Africa and step away from a time and place known as the PRESENT.
Well as usual our belated film critic (how often does he review movies weeks or even years behind) regurgitates some stuck up stuffy critic's article. This movie was uninteresting, unoriginal, and completely predictable. Surrounded by much hype, not even my favorite Robin Williams and Al Pacino were able to save this wannabe Oscar flop. The only part of the movie that I did not predict was when Robin Williams' character knocks out Hiliary Swank -- this by the way hurt Williams credibility as being a "manslaughterer" rather than a "murderer." The climatic ending was ridiculous. Pacino and Williams dying in the end was absurd, especially with Williams body coincidentally falling into the icy abyss. Then Swank tampering the evidence at the end. What would have been a better movie would have been if Pacino's partner was the one who shot at him, and through ballistics Pacino realized he had done the right thing, Williams character gets what he deserves and Pacino could die another way. This way there would be more interweaving in the story line and make it more of thinking movie, which I believe was what the director and writers originally intended on doing. Skip this So called Oscar contender and go watch UNDERCOVER BROTHER.
What Cue Cat fiasco? I never heard anything about it
Intellectual Property IS a fictional representation of what "innovators" (I use the term loosely) use to maintain a stranglehold on what has been given TOO MUCH power. Should the Bible or collections of Plato's or Aristotle's work be paid to whomever distributes it? They were not the author of the work, so why should the publisher be reimbursed for their time and effort. Plato, Aristotle, and God did not ASK for the publisher to publish and distribute their good works, so why are we forced to actually spend money to purchase their work? Musicians and movie producers produce movies and music for people to watch and listen to. They put a copyright on their work so nobody else can make identical copies of their work and distribute it as their own work, and so that the proper author's are credited, not necessarily in monetary value. However, well paid politicians are "lobbied" coincidentally enough by the people seeking to earn more money for the labor of love by others -- distributers such as you and me who use such services as Kazaa, and Gnutella. The entertainment industry tries to implant a guilt trip in the consciousness of it's consumers stating that anybody who copies and distributes the work of their artists without retribution is a THIEF. This I find an apaulling lie as the artist only keeps a tiny fraction of the original price of the CD or DVD. From this fraction they are forced to reimburse the studio (who is again making money on the guilt of it's consumers and contractual agreements of it's artist) for use and promotion. Where the artist really makes their money from is T-SHIRT/paraphernalia sales, and concerts. These can not be distributed via the internet, nor any medium, since they are actual TANGIBLE items. Over time the BILLIONS that the RIAA and MPAA have made from not giving the consumer a choice has gone into protecting their huge fortune by inventing a term known as "INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY." This fictional asset has been adopted into the legal system as an actual law. It is a law that is not right and is used to control people unjustly. Yes, it is a law that governs you and me, but in the past we have seen unjust laws come and go. Slavery, and segregation were also considered "fair" and "just" laws at the time that governed people but over time were deemed WRONG. However to get those laws overturned large groups of people over time needed to rebel against the unjust laws, and send a signal to big business and the government that WE THE PEOPLE WILL NOT be trampled upon. Eventually, after hard work by the consumers and the people who bring us great software such as Kazaa and Gnutella, reason will prevail and bring an end of an era to unjust "intellectual property" laws.
Intellectual Property IS a fictional representation of what "innovators" (I use the term loosely) use to maintain a stranglehold on what has been given TOO MUCH power. Should the Bible or collections of Plato's or Aristotle's work be paid to whomever distributes it? They were not the author of the work, so why should the publisher be reimbursed for their time and effort. Plato, Aristotle, and God did not ASK for the publisher to publish and distribute their good works, so why are we forced to actually spend money to purchase their work?
Musicians and movie producers produce movies and music for people to watch and listen to. They put a copyright on their work so nobody else can make identical copies of their work and distribute it as their own work, and so that the proper author's are credited, not necessarily in monetary value. However, well paid politicians are "lobbied" coincidentally enough by the people seeking to earn more money for the labor of love by others -- distributers such as you and me who use such services as Kazaa, and Gnutella. The entertainment industry tries to implant a guilt trip in the consciousness of it's consumers stating that anybody who copies and distributes the work of their artists without retribution is a THIEF. This I find an apaulling lie as the artist only keeps a tiny fraction of the original price of the CD or DVD. From this fraction they are forced to reimburse the studio (who is again making money on the guilt of it's consumers and contractual agreements of it's artist) for use and promotion. Where the artist really makes their money from is T-SHIRT/paraphernalia sales, and concerts. These can not be distributed via the internet, nor any medium, since they are actual TANGIBLE items.
Over time the BILLIONS that the RIAA and MPAA have made from not giving the consumer a choice has gone into protecting their huge fortune by inventing a term known as "INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY." This fictional asset has been adopted into the legal system as an actual law. It is a law that is not right and is used to control people unjustly. Yes, it is a law that governs you and me, but in the past we have seen unjust laws come and go. Slavery, and segregation were also considered "fair" and "just" laws at the time that governed people but over time were deemed WRONG. However to get those laws overturned large groups of people over time needed to rebel against the unjust laws, and send a signal to big business and the government that WE THE PEOPLE WILL NOT be trampled upon. Eventually, after hard work by the consumers and the people who bring us great software such as Kazaa and Gnutella, reason will prevail and bring an end of an era to unjust "intellectual property" laws.