It would be better to use realistic names, addresses, and phone numbers. The reason is that you want some human at the mortgage company to actually have to place a sales call. The most expensive way for the call to fail is to be to a valid phone number where someone picks up and the caller asks for a name that doesn't match. When they actually place the call, there's an expense, when the human has to talk to them, there's an expense. Plus, the real person they call will likely bitch them out (because it is a cold call). Hey, they might even be on the Do Not Call list. The fact that they got a "lead" for that number offers no protection as the lead is bogus (i.e. incorrect name, incorrect address.), so now you are putting the mortgage company in a position where they may be liable for fines. End result: you give Spam a very bad name in the leads generation business by poisoning the well.
Someone posed as me on a BBS in 1985 and said a whole bunch of really nasty things about a girl who I was friends with. It happened one weekend when my parents forced us to go out of town to visit some loser relative. So, the first I knew about it was when a bunch of people wanted to kick my ass and several girls who I had been friends with wouldn't speak to me. I was never even able to convince these people I didn't do it.
It was on an old Apple II BBS. I suppose there are lots of ways someone could have gotten my password.
Anyway, it was pretty awful. I lived in a very small town (we had just moved there) and all the kids that were into computers hated me after that. So, I got into other things, suffered through 4 years of High School, and got the hell outta there.
Sometimes I wonder why anyone would have done such a mean thing to me for no reason. People can be really vicious.
I made it to the age of 33 and I only have one store that I feel really strongly I won't ever shop at. That's Sears over something they did to me when I was 19 (the last time I shopped there.)
You are thinking of the world from a zenophobic perspective AND indulging in what "ought to be" rather than what is.
The US is not "more responsible" than Australia, Iceland, Sweden, the UK, or Japan. In fact, the US is the most likely to actually use a new super weapon in war. The US is the only country so far to use an atomic weapon in a war.
Plus, the guy in power right now in the US is a warmonger.
These arguments make the assumption that virus writers attack MS because they are popular. No one has been able, to my satisfaction, rule out the explanation that virus writers attack MS more often because they are evil.
MS could loose some market share to Linux (and eventually will I think, once Linux on the desktop gets a little easier to use), and this might make MS less popular. It would not, however, make them less evil.
Dead celebrities whose estates get paid for them being in new commercials and other uses of their image.
Nobody who works damn hard for a living (like Pilots, wedding photographers, etc.) is overpaid like these people. I mean, they just lay there rotting and get major bank.
No problem. BeOS was ported to Intel and now you have a choice of operating systems on your build it yourself intel box. You don't have to use Windows, you can use Be.
Oh, they went out of business? What's that? Failed business model? Microsoft threatened to kill any OEM that shipped Be?
Was that the sound of Bill Gates laughing? Or was it Jean Louis Gasse sobbing (played backwards)?
Seriously, Be proved that you can't compete with Microsoft with an OS on commodity hardware. Not when Microsoft can kill you before you ever get started just by making a phone call.
Obviously they can't kill Linux because there is no company to kill. (And that's what scares them.)
So, I'm trying to understand what you're saying. You get better *value* from other cars, but people buy BMWs because they are better cars - just not so much better as to be worth the extra money?
So you are saying Sun should focus on making the Sparc the best processor money can buy. Period. Cost is no object. But if you factor in price/performance they would suck, but if you have infinite money and don't care, its marginally better?
I have relatives who don't even *have* computers. They aren't using Linux, so I want my money.
Also, I have lots of friends who don't use Linux. Can I refer them to SCO so I can get paid for their continued non-Linux use? Some of them may be deceased , so I can guarentee they won't use Linux.
Choice in online stores? Well given that the iTunes music store has about the same prices as everyone else, and the choice is similar to everyone else, and that it has had 80% of online sales of music, don't you think that just having the iTunes Music Store is enough?
What if iTMS doesn't have some title that you want and one of the other stores does?
I love iTMS and its the only music store I use. I had a Mac and an iPod before iTMS came online and I bought music there on the first day. However, they don't have everything I want. I would like to buy the album "Under the Big Black Sun" by "X". They have several other "X" albums, but for some reason they don't have that one (even though it was released on the same label - Electra).
I guess I can buy it on CD (or I guess I could rip it directly from my vinyl LP), but if I had other choises with Music stores, I would probably buy it online.
Be was muscled out of being able to get OEM deals by Microsoft. Microsoft flat out tells the OEMs that if they put a non-Windows OS on a machine and ship it, there will be retaliation to pay in terms higher prices in the future for Windows.
Be had a deal with an OEM and the OEM had to back out of it because of pressure from Microsoft. This part is where they crossed the line of legality.
As long as they can get away with this shit, ideas like MacOS for intel just don't make any sense at all.
But if you want a PC, even to run an non-Microsoft OS, you generally have to pay for Windows - even if you choose not to use it.
Also, there was more to this case than just "Microsoft is big". Microsoft has engaged in practices since the 80s to use their monopoly on the OS to crush people in other markets. A saying at MS in the 80s and early 90s was "DOS isn't done until Lotus 1-2-3 won't run." Now, Excel is a major part of Office and Microsoft rakes it in every quarter based on sales of Office alone. Is that fair to Lotus?
Is it fair to Apple when Microsoft purposely breaks QuickTime?
Is it fair to the OpenSource community when they "embrace and extend" open standards and twist them into Microsoft owned technologies?
Is it fair to Netscape that they can steal all their ideas and make IE "part of the OS"?
What if they made Microsoft Money part of the OS and tweaked things until they could break Quicken. (They tried!)
None of this is fair.
I did think that once Bush got in that would be the end the case. He ordered the justice department to settle on terms favorable to Microsoft. Big surprise - Microsoft contributed heavily to his campaign. This is like paying a boxer to take a dive in a fight.
Finally someone is standing up and saying "You can't take that dive." Let's hope it works.
No, you can't turn this feature off. Plus, Symantec sends goons to your office who point guns at your head and make you order their product and use it.
There isn't a database. They just obfuscated the path. They did that so that you wouldn't take your iPod loaded with 200+ albums, plug it into a friends computer and give him your whole music library.
You *can* do this. I forget what the path is, but its freely available on the net. You can write your own program to the synchronization if you want.
Before I had iTunes, I had Cassidy and Greene's software (I can't remember the name) for playing and managing MP3s and moving them onto my Rio 500.
Then iTunes came out and it did everything except better. It probably disabled the Cassidy and Greene software. Who cares? I sure didn't. I deleted the damn thing once I had iTunes.
Now I have iTunes (for Mac) and an iPod. I don't see why I would want anything else?
I thought MusicMatch was the stop gap solution for Windows iPod users until iTunes comes out. Now that iTunes is out, why would you want to keep using Music Match?
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So, when you're done with the lawyer, you just throw him out the airlock?
George W. Bush says that anyone who measures temperature using Celcius is irrelevant and will be bombed.
"The bombs are coming in five minutes."
-Ronald Wilson Reagan
And how do I exactly go about holding Enron accountable?
When Apple gets this into a G5, they will call it the super-duper drive.
Congratulations on having successfully passed the Rush Limbaugh brainwashing school. Here are some complimentary horse tranquilizers.
It would be better to use realistic names, addresses, and phone numbers. The reason is that you want some human at the mortgage company to actually have to place a sales call. The most expensive way for the call to fail is to be to a valid phone number where someone picks up and the caller asks for a name that doesn't match. When they actually place the call, there's an expense, when the human has to talk to them, there's an expense. Plus, the real person they call will likely bitch them out (because it is a cold call). Hey, they might even be on the Do Not Call list. The fact that they got a "lead" for that number offers no protection as the lead is bogus (i.e. incorrect name, incorrect address.), so now you are putting the mortgage company in a position where they may be liable for fines. End result: you give Spam a very bad name in the leads generation business by poisoning the well.
Someone posed as me on a BBS in 1985 and said a whole bunch of really nasty things about a girl who I was friends with. It happened one weekend when my parents forced us to go out of town to visit some loser relative. So, the first I knew about it was when a bunch of people wanted to kick my ass and several girls who I had been friends with wouldn't speak to me. I was never even able to convince these people I didn't do it.
It was on an old Apple II BBS. I suppose there are lots of ways someone could have gotten my password.
Anyway, it was pretty awful. I lived in a very small town (we had just moved there) and all the kids that were into computers hated me after that. So, I got into other things, suffered through 4 years of High School, and got the hell outta there.
Sometimes I wonder why anyone would have done such a mean thing to me for no reason. People can be really vicious.
I made it to the age of 33 and I only have one store that I feel really strongly I won't ever shop at. That's Sears over something they did to me when I was 19 (the last time I shopped there.)
>>you'll get a bunch of crap files littered all over the place that alledgedly make it easier for the mac to use it
I suppose they are "crap files" unless you want your fat32 disk to work correctly on a Mac and give the Mac user all the features they expect.
>>but if you have a mac formated disc, its worthless unless you have a mac
Not true. There are utilities you can install on a PC that will allow it to read/write Mac formatted disks. MacSEE is one.
I use one all the time at work. I work for InFocus.
You are thinking of the world from a zenophobic perspective AND indulging in what "ought to be" rather than what is.
The US is not "more responsible" than Australia, Iceland, Sweden, the UK, or Japan. In fact, the US is the most likely to actually use a new super weapon in war. The US is the only country so far to use an atomic weapon in a war.
Plus, the guy in power right now in the US is a warmonger.
These arguments make the assumption that virus writers attack MS because they are popular. No one has been able, to my satisfaction, rule out the explanation that virus writers attack MS more often because they are evil.
MS could loose some market share to Linux (and eventually will I think, once Linux on the desktop gets a little easier to use), and this might make MS less popular. It would not, however, make them less evil.
Dead celebrities whose estates get paid for them being in new commercials and other uses of their image.
Nobody who works damn hard for a living (like Pilots, wedding photographers, etc.) is overpaid like these people. I mean, they just lay there rotting and get major bank.
I got a G5 after seeing the ad. Imagine my relief when I was not blown through a wall of my house into a tree.
No problem. BeOS was ported to Intel and now you have a choice of operating systems on your build it yourself intel box. You don't have to use Windows, you can use Be.
Oh, they went out of business? What's that? Failed business model? Microsoft threatened to kill any OEM that shipped Be?
Was that the sound of Bill Gates laughing? Or was it Jean Louis Gasse sobbing (played backwards)?
Seriously, Be proved that you can't compete with Microsoft with an OS on commodity hardware. Not when Microsoft can kill you before you ever get started just by making a phone call.
Obviously they can't kill Linux because there is no company to kill. (And that's what scares them.)
So, I'm trying to understand what you're saying. You get better *value* from other cars, but people buy BMWs because they are better cars - just not so much better as to be worth the extra money?
So you are saying Sun should focus on making the Sparc the best processor money can buy. Period. Cost is no object. But if you factor in price/performance they would suck, but if you have infinite money and don't care, its marginally better?
OK. I guess so.
I have relatives who don't even *have* computers. They aren't using Linux, so I want my money.
Also, I have lots of friends who don't use Linux. Can I refer them to SCO so I can get paid for their continued non-Linux use? Some of them may be deceased , so I can guarentee they won't use Linux.
Choice in online stores? Well given that the iTunes music store has about the same prices as everyone else, and the choice is similar to everyone else, and that it has had 80% of online sales of music, don't you think that just having the iTunes Music Store is enough?
What if iTMS doesn't have some title that you want and one of the other stores does?
I love iTMS and its the only music store I use. I had a Mac and an iPod before iTMS came online and I bought music there on the first day. However, they don't have everything I want. I would like to buy the album "Under the Big Black Sun" by "X". They have several other "X" albums, but for some reason they don't have that one (even though it was released on the same label - Electra).
I guess I can buy it on CD (or I guess I could rip it directly from my vinyl LP), but if I had other choises with Music stores, I would probably buy it online.
But what if I prefer vinyl with liner notes that I can read without a magnifying glass?
Be was muscled out of being able to get OEM deals by Microsoft. Microsoft flat out tells the OEMs that if they put a non-Windows OS on a machine and ship it, there will be retaliation to pay in terms higher prices in the future for Windows.
Be had a deal with an OEM and the OEM had to back out of it because of pressure from Microsoft. This part is where they crossed the line of legality.
As long as they can get away with this shit, ideas like MacOS for intel just don't make any sense at all.
But if you want a PC, even to run an non-Microsoft OS, you generally have to pay for Windows - even if you choose not to use it.
Also, there was more to this case than just "Microsoft is big". Microsoft has engaged in practices since the 80s to use their monopoly on the OS to crush people in other markets. A saying at MS in the 80s and early 90s was "DOS isn't done until Lotus 1-2-3 won't run." Now, Excel is a major part of Office and Microsoft rakes it in every quarter based on sales of Office alone. Is that fair to Lotus?
Is it fair to Apple when Microsoft purposely breaks QuickTime?
Is it fair to the OpenSource community when they "embrace and extend" open standards and twist them into Microsoft owned technologies?
Is it fair to Netscape that they can steal all their ideas and make IE "part of the OS"?
What if they made Microsoft Money part of the OS and tweaked things until they could break Quicken. (They tried!)
None of this is fair.
I did think that once Bush got in that would be the end the case. He ordered the justice department to settle on terms favorable to Microsoft. Big surprise - Microsoft contributed heavily to his campaign. This is like paying a boxer to take a dive in a fight.
Finally someone is standing up and saying "You can't take that dive." Let's hope it works.
No, you can't turn this feature off. Plus, Symantec sends goons to your office who point guns at your head and make you order their product and use it.
But you didn't tell us - what's the speed of a Sound Bite in space?
There isn't a database. They just obfuscated the path. They did that so that you wouldn't take your iPod loaded with 200+ albums, plug it into a friends computer and give him your whole music library.
You *can* do this. I forget what the path is, but its freely available on the net. You can write your own program to the synchronization if you want.
Before I had iTunes, I had Cassidy and Greene's software (I can't remember the name) for playing and managing MP3s and moving them onto my Rio 500.
Then iTunes came out and it did everything except better. It probably disabled the Cassidy and Greene software. Who cares? I sure didn't. I deleted the damn thing once I had iTunes.
Now I have iTunes (for Mac) and an iPod. I don't see why I would want anything else?
I thought MusicMatch was the stop gap solution for Windows iPod users until iTunes comes out. Now that iTunes is out, why would you want to keep using Music Match?