This has been my experience too. I have never bought anything from an online pharmacy, but we get a lot of calls from telemarketers who are trying to sell various thing that sound like scams. When we say were not interested, they start talking obscenely.
So what do you say about the telemarketers that start becoming obscene with me when I or my wife politely say, "No thank you. I am not interested in your service."
Until telemarketers stop behaving like that, I don't consider them a legitimate business and it wouldn't bother me if it was simply outlawed.
If they would all say, "Well thank you very much for your time." and end the call without having to start cussing at me, then I would not have a problem with it. However, I've noticed that before DNC, 60-70% were polite. Now its more like 5% are polite and the rest are foul-mouthed rude jerks.
That's because telemarketers know that everyone in Kentucky is unemployed, sitting on the front porch of a shack with a dirt floor, barefoot, playing a banjo. Thus, they can't buy anything.
My wife asks telemarketers not to call again and asks them to take her off the list. Generally they just start cussing at her. She has actually had a telemarketer say to her: "Shut the fuck up, Bitch! We will call you whenever we feel like it." Unfortunately there is nothing we can do because they were in Canada.
I saw SW episode 1 - it sucked really bad. I skipped both Episodes 2 & 3 because of that and I have been assurred that I missed nothing. Why would anyone have gone to see this in the theater? Why would anyone have even downloaded it for free on the internet?
I've seen better movies than SW episode 1 made by amateurs with a video camera and a free weekend.
Dropping a hammer on your foot is a stupid thing to do. That does not mean that everyone who drops a hammer on their foot is an unintelligent person. Believing in God is a stupid thing to do, but that does not imply the person is unintelligent. It implies they are engaged in a stupid belief.
Which of its original design goals has the shuttle actually met?
The "going into space" design goal, the "shaped kind of like an airplane" design goal, the "has a cargo bay" design goal, the "lands at an airforce base" design goal.
Of course there is a dark side of the Moon! Just like there is a dark side of the Earth. Its called "nighttime". The half (or side)of the moon that faces away from the sun is dark.
Which is why the USA now places such emphasis on a return to the Moon
Bush (taking bong hit):Let's go to the moon, man.
Cheney (giggling): Yeah, think of all the cheese!
The above is ficticious - I'd probably have more respect for the administration if they actually had put that level of thought into the "going to the moon" proposal.
Cheney: One of these days, George, Bang! Zoom! Straight to the moon!
Bush: Oh, good idea. It could be like when my dad proposed we go to Mars.
And were the people in Europe blowing up soldiers, beheading journalists, and saying things like "At least Hitler was a European"?
The difference is that people in europe wanted our help and had a history of democracy. The people in Iraq do not want our help and think that we are only there to steal their oil. The majority of Iraqis have said they preferred Sadaam Hussein's rule to the presence of the Americans.
Sure. The guy who was thinking about robbing you, he heard you were across town and went over there so you could could shoot him instead of going to your house to rob. That's how criminals work.
I don't know what Microsoft was thinking with their Word and Excel CE versions
Microsoft did not develop these and doesn't own them. The company that does is called WesTek.
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The Pilot was doomed from the start. As a basic contacts + calendar + to-do PDA, it was great. I guess that's why it failed: too basic.
Are you kidding me? The original Palm Pilot sold in huge numbers and was wildly successful by any measure you want to take. At the time I remember reading it was the most successful consumer electronics product ever. People were talking abouts adoption curve being steeper than television, VCRs, transitor radios, personal computers, cell phones, etc.
I too was/am a fan of the Newton, but you shouldn't be blind to the reasons why the Newton did not sell anywhere near the numbers that Palm sold. I think it comes down to three factors: size, speed, and connectivity.
Most Palm organizers can go into your shirt pocket. There was no Newton ever close to being that small. The OMP was the size of a day runner and three times as heavy. The best of the group - the MessagePad 2X00 was even larger. I worked for a company that made medical software for the Newton and we would advertise it as "fits in your lab coat pocket." which it did. Shirt pocket - no way.
Also, the Palm did a great job of feeling responsive to the user. Remember how on most of the Newton models, you would press the page down control and the whole system would stop for about 5-6 seconds? I think that was something people wouldn't put up with. The Newton 2000 fixed that, but Palm was able to pull that off with a motorola 68000 processor and still have better battery life than Newton. The Newton OS was engineered to be a nice modern OS that would be easily maintainable and nice to use far into the future - at the expense of some of Apple's immediate needs. Palm was like the opposite of that and that's why today the thing seems long in the tooth.
And finally, connectivity was an area where the original Palm far exceeded the Newton. Do you remember Apple trying to charge like $150 for the Newton Connectivity Kit on the original MessagePad? That was insane - and the connectivity just got worse from there! The best Newton connectivity solution by far was Dan Rowley's X-Port product. There was a thing you could get to synchronize with Outlook for Windows, but again it was third party and not available until Newton 2.0 had shipped. Apple's connectivity SDK for developers was always buggy and perpetually late. They never shipped any connectivity solution worthy of the device.
Palm, on the other hand, had the hot sync and their conduit SDK which was relatively easy to program. They had good synchronization with Outlook and other apps - at least via the cradle.
I will agree that in recent years, WinCE devices have surpassed Palm in synchronization and so have Blackberry devices. Also, Palm screwed themselves by not standardizing on one type of cradle/charger and sticking to it. It hurt their customers and it hurt their own inventory management.
In short, Palm got a lot closer to the mark than Newton, but still never followed through on what their cool devices should have been.
Oh, and not releasing a device with WiFi and Blue Tooth together was stupid. I am aware of the technical reasons why, but it is still stupid. They should have had Blue Tooth and Wifi on the Treo 600 and had a nicer screen, and more built in software. Towards the end, they just couldn't get all the cool features on a single device.
Before you go and visit your attorney, I would do the following:
1. Make a list of the issues you would like to cover. What do you want the contract to say?
2. Take a swag at writing the contract. Write up something that just states the things in the list.
Then visit your attorney and take this stuff with you. Tell him/her that you want him to turn this into a contract and also advise you on any issues you might have missed.
The book "Authentication" recommends a scheme whereby you create a password consisting of 2 short unrelated words with a number or punctuation character in between. They say this is a good compromise between ease of remembering and security from dictionary attacks.
Examples:
duck3quit item(mind
These are easier to remember (you may not have to write them down) than something like "j4*v@m4o-", but just as secure.
For some bizare reason, everyone here has laptops. I sit in a cube and code all day and I have two laptops (one Mac and one PC). I'd much prefer a G5 tower to my PowerBook, but for whatever reason they don't buy desktops here unless you make a big fuss.
I do have one desktop computer, a Mac Mini, which I got for testing.
There are a lot of systems that work like what you are describing. For example the Keychain feature of MacOS.
It is not without its flaws. And neither are physical keys. There are all sorts of problems with real locks. If I get a hold of your keys for just a second, I can make a clay imprint of your key and duplicate it. People know how to pick locks, etc.
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This has been my experience too. I have never bought anything from an online pharmacy, but we get a lot of calls from telemarketers who are trying to sell various thing that sound like scams. When we say were not interested, they start talking obscenely.
So what do you say about the telemarketers that start becoming obscene with me when I or my wife politely say, "No thank you. I am not interested in your service."
Until telemarketers stop behaving like that, I don't consider them a legitimate business and it wouldn't bother me if it was simply outlawed.
If they would all say, "Well thank you very much for your time." and end the call without having to start cussing at me, then I would not have a problem with it. However, I've noticed that before DNC, 60-70% were polite. Now its more like 5% are polite and the rest are foul-mouthed rude jerks.
If you like doing these things, you'd love this.
That's because telemarketers know that everyone in Kentucky is unemployed, sitting on the front porch of a shack with a dirt floor, barefoot, playing a banjo. Thus, they can't buy anything.
My wife asks telemarketers not to call again and asks them to take her off the list. Generally they just start cussing at her. She has actually had a telemarketer say to her: "Shut the fuck up, Bitch! We will call you whenever we feel like it." Unfortunately there is nothing we can do because they were in Canada.
Wrong. Being polite does not help with telemarketers. Often as not, they will cuss you out just as soon as its clear you aren't going to buy.
Let's face it - these people are not legitimate. They are scam artists and whatever bad happens to them can't ever be enough.
When it rains, it pours. Another solution for telemarketing was invented just as DNCL is enacted.
I saw SW episode 1 - it sucked really bad. I skipped both Episodes 2 & 3 because of that and I have been assurred that I missed nothing. Why would anyone have gone to see this in the theater? Why would anyone have even downloaded it for free on the internet?
I've seen better movies than SW episode 1 made by amateurs with a video camera and a free weekend.
Dropping a hammer on your foot is a stupid thing to do. That does not mean that everyone who drops a hammer on their foot is an unintelligent person. Believing in God is a stupid thing to do, but that does not imply the person is unintelligent. It implies they are engaged in a stupid belief.
How about subs? Military.
Yeah, I had a sub yesterday for lunch. The military invented those? Cool.
Which of its original design goals has the shuttle actually met?
The "going into space" design goal, the "shaped kind of like an airplane" design goal, the "has a cargo bay" design goal, the "lands at an airforce base" design goal.
There is no "dark side" of the Moon.
Of course there is a dark side of the Moon! Just like there is a dark side of the Earth. Its called "nighttime". The half (or side)of the moon that faces away from the sun is dark.
Yeah, we gained a lot of knowledge when we faked the moon landing: how to get TV ratings, advanced the state of the art in special effects, etc.
Believing in God is stupid. The fact that most people in the US do it does not make it less stupid.
Great idea. How soon can you be ready to leave?
Which is why the USA now places such emphasis on a return to the Moon
Bush (taking bong hit):Let's go to the moon, man.
Cheney (giggling): Yeah, think of all the cheese!
The above is ficticious - I'd probably have more respect for the administration if they actually had put that level of thought into the "going to the moon" proposal.
Cheney: One of these days, George, Bang! Zoom! Straight to the moon!
Bush: Oh, good idea. It could be like when my dad proposed we go to Mars.
And were the people in Europe blowing up soldiers, beheading journalists, and saying things like "At least Hitler was a European"?
The difference is that people in europe wanted our help and had a history of democracy. The people in Iraq do not want our help and think that we are only there to steal their oil. The majority of Iraqis have said they preferred Sadaam Hussein's rule to the presence of the Americans.
Sure. The guy who was thinking about robbing you, he heard you were across town and went over there so you could could shoot him instead of going to your house to rob. That's how criminals work.
Mission Accomplished!
Palm had (still has) better Macintosh compatibility than the Newton had.
I don't know what Microsoft was thinking with their Word and Excel CE versions
Microsoft did not develop these and doesn't own them. The company that does is called WesTek.
The Pilot was doomed from the start. As a basic contacts + calendar + to-do PDA, it was great. I guess that's why it failed: too basic.
Are you kidding me? The original Palm Pilot sold in huge numbers and was wildly successful by any measure you want to take. At the time I remember reading it was the most successful consumer electronics product ever. People were talking abouts adoption curve being steeper than television, VCRs, transitor radios, personal computers, cell phones, etc.
I too was/am a fan of the Newton, but you shouldn't be blind to the reasons why the Newton did not sell anywhere near the numbers that Palm sold. I think it comes down to three factors: size, speed, and connectivity.
Most Palm organizers can go into your shirt pocket. There was no Newton ever close to being that small. The OMP was the size of a day runner and three times as heavy. The best of the group - the MessagePad 2X00 was even larger. I worked for a company that made medical software for the Newton and we would advertise it as "fits in your lab coat pocket." which it did. Shirt pocket - no way.
Also, the Palm did a great job of feeling responsive to the user. Remember how on most of the Newton models, you would press the page down control and the whole system would stop for about 5-6 seconds? I think that was something people wouldn't put up with. The Newton 2000 fixed that, but Palm was able to pull that off with a motorola 68000 processor and still have better battery life than Newton. The Newton OS was engineered to be a nice modern OS that would be easily maintainable and nice to use far into the future - at the expense of some of Apple's immediate needs. Palm was like the opposite of that and that's why today the thing seems long in the tooth.
And finally, connectivity was an area where the original Palm far exceeded the Newton. Do you remember Apple trying to charge like $150 for the Newton Connectivity Kit on the original MessagePad? That was insane - and the connectivity just got worse from there! The best Newton connectivity solution by far was Dan Rowley's X-Port product. There was a thing you could get to synchronize with Outlook for Windows, but again it was third party and not available until Newton 2.0 had shipped. Apple's connectivity SDK for developers was always buggy and perpetually late. They never shipped any connectivity solution worthy of the device.
Palm, on the other hand, had the hot sync and their conduit SDK which was relatively easy to program. They had good synchronization with Outlook and other apps - at least via the cradle.
I will agree that in recent years, WinCE devices have surpassed Palm in synchronization and so have Blackberry devices. Also, Palm screwed themselves by not standardizing on one type of cradle/charger and sticking to it. It hurt their customers and it hurt their own inventory management.
In short, Palm got a lot closer to the mark than Newton, but still never followed through on what their cool devices should have been.
Oh, and not releasing a device with WiFi and Blue Tooth together was stupid. I am aware of the technical reasons why, but it is still stupid. They should have had Blue Tooth and Wifi on the Treo 600 and had a nicer screen, and more built in software. Towards the end, they just couldn't get all the cool features on a single device.
Before you go and visit your attorney, I would do the following:
1. Make a list of the issues you would like to cover. What do you want the contract to say?
2. Take a swag at writing the contract. Write up something that just states the things in the list.
Then visit your attorney and take this stuff with you. Tell him/her that you want him to turn this into a contract and also advise you on any issues you might have missed.
The book "Authentication" recommends a scheme whereby you create a password consisting of 2 short unrelated words with a number or punctuation character in between. They say this is a good compromise between ease of remembering and security from dictionary attacks.
Examples:
duck3quit
item(mind
These are easier to remember (you may not have to write them down) than something like "j4*v@m4o-", but just as secure.
For some bizare reason, everyone here has laptops. I sit in a cube and code all day and I have two laptops (one Mac and one PC). I'd much prefer a G5 tower to my PowerBook, but for whatever reason they don't buy desktops here unless you make a big fuss.
I do have one desktop computer, a Mac Mini, which I got for testing.
There are a lot of systems that work like what you are describing. For example the Keychain feature of MacOS.
It is not without its flaws. And neither are physical keys. There are all sorts of problems with real locks. If I get a hold of your keys for just a second, I can make a clay imprint of your key and duplicate it. People know how to pick locks, etc.