Quick googling seems to reveal that less than 10 people have ever caught AIDS from transfusion, yet many more people have either become ill from a vaccine or had a ineffective vaccine.
I would assume that even such early spam was soon frowned upon. In its infancy unsolicited communicaiton was probably novel but it wouldn't take long to become the burden it is today. But because it has remained a burden for so long proves its success.
It is no more ingenious than a brute force attack. However, wherever else brute force fails it succeeds in the marketplace. If we tighten our email schemes, turn off pop-ups in our browsers and so on it stands to reason that spam will simply evolve, not die out. It has survived the shift from telegrams to email and all steps in between, it will likely not be quenched by anything less than a superior competitor: something that provides the same service - pairing potential buyers with sellers of questionable goods - yet isn't a burden to anyone who isn't interested.
Much like factoring prime numbers and brute forcing encryption it may well be impossible to replace spam with something "better". But if it will be stopped that's the only way.
I have heard that Apple has a corporate sales department. I haven't dealt with them myself, nor can I find contact information on the Apple site. However I am optimistic that you may be able to reach them and get more customization options. My guess would be to call the Apple front desk and get transfered to someone who can help.
At the very least this kind of attempt will let Apple know what businesses desire. Although it is rare for customer requests to significantly change Apple policy the eMac is one example of this happening.
Spam isn't the main reason that Google's results seem worse. The big problem is that people now have higher expectations. You said "The results at Altavista were littered with spurious results" so by comparison Google was much better. But now everyone is used to the results Google gives and we have realised that there is still room for improvement.
I'm confused: unless I'm mistaken paraffin=kerosene so the problem with Kerosene/LOX is the LOX part, which is liquid oxigen? As opposed to the nitrous oxide you being your post with.
Your post reads as if their choice of propellant is wrong when really all you're saying is that TFA says they're using a different oxidizer than they actually are?
Seems like a major assumption to have to have PRODUCT_X_PATH as the very first item in the path list. What is to be done when PRODUCT_Y and PRODUCT_Z have the same requirement?
Surely it's trivial to be able to accept the path no matter where it appears?
I don't think concern experesses fully the issues that Windows XP's security has. That sounds as if I'm wearing a tinfoil hat worrying about black helicopters.
The issues with XP's security are factual: try installing XP on a computer you intend to connect to the internet. Go to windows update as fast as you can, and try to download the RPC patch as fast as you can. I can confidently guarantee that your machine will try to reboot itself well before you can even download it, let alone apply it.
I cannot fathom what horrible hoops people unfamiliar with computers must go through to get a new version of windows installed. Even worse, a machine sold with a 6 month old version of XP preinstalled. Unless they are blessed with a computer-savvy friend nothing less than a $50 or more visit to a computer store would help them.
Why don't I use windows? Because I wouldn't have any problem letting my parents upgrade OS X. Because I like to spend my weekends using my computer, not fixing it.
And damn it, because I prefer computers that don't have a boot process that still uses decade-old DOS graphics.
This is a bit of a problem with Google as well: they don't like to hire people without degrees. For the most part formally educated people will perform better than uneducated people. However, there are always notable exceptions.
From what I've read and my own experience Google won't hire anyone without a degree. I've got to wonder, would they pass over a young Bill Gates or Larry Elison?
People get mad when another new feature is added to cell phones. They say stuff like, "it used to be: phone = phone". But that's not the point. The important part about mobile phones is the mobile part.
Technology is getting smaller so more things can fit into a cell phone. What's happening is that everything people might want to carry with them at all times is being added to cellphones. That's amazing, incredible, and it will only become more impressive as time goes on. Soon your cell phone, iPod, PDA (hell, laptop) will be one device.
Now think of the other things you carry with you: car keys, house keys, wallet. Those will get added too, eventually. Don't be afraid, the security will be worked out, probably so well that it'll be more difficult to take your phone and steal your car than it currently is to steal your keys and take your car.
Back when computers were the size of small airplane hangars there were people complaining about all the fancy new features of computers and they said stuff like, "it used to be that computer = calculator".
This is obviously a sign that they've found a cure for that pox upon the tech sector, NIHS or Not Invented Here Syndrome. I estimate, based on absolutely no data, that NIHS costs the US economy billions of dollars.
HP showed signs of beating NIHS with their iPod deal with Apple. With this announcement they have shown that they have a cure for NIHS, at least in some quantity.
People and corporations with NIHS, unlike normal people, have an unfounded fear of technologies they didn't invent. It is related to paranoid dylusion. Countless hours and money is spent recreating technology that has already been inveted by someone else.
It is yet to be seen if HP will sell their NIHS cure to other companies or keep it for themselves as a competitive edge. However, even if they do decide to sell the cure it is likely that most people and corporations will fear the NIHS cure and attempt to create their own.
You've made a good point. There is little doubt that Radiohead would prefer to release no singles. In fact Kid A had no singles. But you saw the likes of Optimistic on MTV, right? That was recorded from a live performance.
Radiohead's hands are tied because they are contracually obliged to produce singles and videos for their record label. Signing the contract was neccessary for launching their careers, especially in pre-Internet 1990. Perhaps they regret the contract now?
Regardless, they have said that now that they have fullfilled their obligations and are contract-free they will be pursuing alternative methods of releasing their music. That's really the test of how true to their art they are.
Radiohead isn't an example of a band lying about their intentions, they're just another example of RIAA member companies' continued mistreatment of their artists.
Obviously it's the people that purchased a formal education that think it is a wise investment. I think the decision is more complex than that.
I'm not going to attack spending several thousand dollars and four years to get an education. However I do take issue with the idea that there is no other way to become skilled. A highly motivated person can reach the same amount of skill as an educated person in the same amount of time at a much lower cost and often with real world experience colleges don't supply.
The downside is the requirement for motivation. Obviously if sleeping in until noon, skipping class and writing all your papers the night before they are due is you preferred method of working then picking up some books from the library and reading them isn't going to do you any good; the books will go unread.
But how is this method of learning, which many people use to get their degrees, of any benefit? Long term memory takes repetition and association. This is not something that happens in a night of binge studying especially when those newly formed links in the brain are hammered with beer as a celebration for finishing final exams.
Some fields, such as law, have no alternatives. The bar exam requires the sponsorship of a law school. And, of course, a highly motivated person is likely to excell within the education system as well as outside it. So, as I said first, the decision is complicated. To buy a degree or not? That's a fifty thousand dollar question.
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Quick googling seems to reveal that less than 10 people have ever caught AIDS from transfusion, yet many more people have either become ill from a vaccine or had a ineffective vaccine.
So your argument is moot.
The question is: will it ever need men?
I would assume that even such early spam was soon frowned upon. In its infancy unsolicited communicaiton was probably novel but it wouldn't take long to become the burden it is today. But because it has remained a burden for so long proves its success.
It is no more ingenious than a brute force attack. However, wherever else brute force fails it succeeds in the marketplace. If we tighten our email schemes, turn off pop-ups in our browsers and so on it stands to reason that spam will simply evolve, not die out. It has survived the shift from telegrams to email and all steps in between, it will likely not be quenched by anything less than a superior competitor: something that provides the same service - pairing potential buyers with sellers of questionable goods - yet isn't a burden to anyone who isn't interested.
Much like factoring prime numbers and brute forcing encryption it may well be impossible to replace spam with something "better". But if it will be stopped that's the only way.
Weren't around for Code Red, were you?
e nc /data/codered.worm.html
That was a very nasty virus that only attacked IIS web servers.
http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/v
I have heard that Apple has a corporate sales department. I haven't dealt with them myself, nor can I find contact information on the Apple site. However I am optimistic that you may be able to reach them and get more customization options. My guess would be to call the Apple front desk and get transfered to someone who can help.
At the very least this kind of attempt will let Apple know what businesses desire. Although it is rare for customer requests to significantly change Apple policy the eMac is one example of this happening.
Spam isn't the main reason that Google's results seem worse. The big problem is that people now have higher expectations. You said "The results at Altavista were littered with spurious results" so by comparison Google was much better. But now everyone is used to the results Google gives and we have realised that there is still room for improvement.
They make Google change their search results, yahoo change thier auctions and now Apple change their business strategy?
I suggest that Apple pull the music store out of France entirely.
I'm confused: unless I'm mistaken paraffin=kerosene so the problem with Kerosene/LOX is the LOX part, which is liquid oxigen? As opposed to the nitrous oxide you being your post with. Your post reads as if their choice of propellant is wrong when really all you're saying is that TFA says they're using a different oxidizer than they actually are?
Wreckage on the Alberta countryside? It's launching off from Saskatchewan...
Seems like a major assumption to have to have PRODUCT_X_PATH as the very first item in the path list. What is to be done when PRODUCT_Y and PRODUCT_Z have the same requirement? Surely it's trivial to be able to accept the path no matter where it appears?
Meh, I'm trying to get them all to switch to the Mac.
I don't think concern experesses fully the issues that Windows XP's security has. That sounds as if I'm wearing a tinfoil hat worrying about black helicopters.
The issues with XP's security are factual: try installing XP on a computer you intend to connect to the internet. Go to windows update as fast as you can, and try to download the RPC patch as fast as you can. I can confidently guarantee that your machine will try to reboot itself well before you can even download it, let alone apply it.
I cannot fathom what horrible hoops people unfamiliar with computers must go through to get a new version of windows installed. Even worse, a machine sold with a 6 month old version of XP preinstalled. Unless they are blessed with a computer-savvy friend nothing less than a $50 or more visit to a computer store would help them.
Why don't I use windows? Because I wouldn't have any problem letting my parents upgrade OS X. Because I like to spend my weekends using my computer, not fixing it.
And damn it, because I prefer computers that don't have a boot process that still uses decade-old DOS graphics.
This is a bit of a problem with Google as well: they don't like to hire people without degrees. For the most part formally educated people will perform better than uneducated people. However, there are always notable exceptions.
From what I've read and my own experience Google won't hire anyone without a degree. I've got to wonder, would they pass over a young Bill Gates or Larry Elison?
I rip the damn key off my keyboards. That way I can't accidentally hit it and I am still compatible with other people's keyboards.
People get mad when another new feature is added to cell phones. They say stuff like, "it used to be: phone = phone". But that's not the point. The important part about mobile phones is the mobile part.
Technology is getting smaller so more things can fit into a cell phone. What's happening is that everything people might want to carry with them at all times is being added to cellphones. That's amazing, incredible, and it will only become more impressive as time goes on. Soon your cell phone, iPod, PDA (hell, laptop) will be one device.
Now think of the other things you carry with you: car keys, house keys, wallet. Those will get added too, eventually. Don't be afraid, the security will be worked out, probably so well that it'll be more difficult to take your phone and steal your car than it currently is to steal your keys and take your car.
Back when computers were the size of small airplane hangars there were people complaining about all the fancy new features of computers and they said stuff like, "it used to be that computer = calculator".
Somewhat finite? I wasn't aware something could just kind of have an end. Is that like Return of the King, or what?
Somewhat finite? I wasn't aware somthing could be somewhat finite. So it just kinda has an end? What's that like, Return of the King, or what?
This is obviously a sign that they've found a cure for that pox upon the tech sector, NIHS or Not Invented Here Syndrome. I estimate, based on absolutely no data, that NIHS costs the US economy billions of dollars.
HP showed signs of beating NIHS with their iPod deal with Apple. With this announcement they have shown that they have a cure for NIHS, at least in some quantity.
People and corporations with NIHS, unlike normal people, have an unfounded fear of technologies they didn't invent. It is related to paranoid dylusion. Countless hours and money is spent recreating technology that has already been inveted by someone else.
It is yet to be seen if HP will sell their NIHS cure to other companies or keep it for themselves as a competitive edge. However, even if they do decide to sell the cure it is likely that most people and corporations will fear the NIHS cure and attempt to create their own.
That's some pretty poor self-deprecation. Not that I could do any better.
From the article:
The only problem is, this Roku can almost do all these things, but "almost" only counts in horseshoes, hand grenades and nuclear weapons.
Nuclear weapons? As in, "we almost found nuclear weapons in Iraq"?
It works like this: you get paid less and taxed more.
In exchange it costs slightly less to live and hostpitals won't turn you away.
Create your playlist, "Rock List" as such:
- if genre == rock
Then create your second list, "Highly Rated Rock" as:- if my rating > 3
- if playlist is "Rock List"
and you're done. Easy.You've made a good point. There is little doubt that Radiohead would prefer to release no singles. In fact Kid A had no singles. But you saw the likes of Optimistic on MTV, right? That was recorded from a live performance.
Radiohead's hands are tied because they are contracually obliged to produce singles and videos for their record label. Signing the contract was neccessary for launching their careers, especially in pre-Internet 1990. Perhaps they regret the contract now?
Regardless, they have said that now that they have fullfilled their obligations and are contract-free they will be pursuing alternative methods of releasing their music. That's really the test of how true to their art they are.
Radiohead isn't an example of a band lying about their intentions, they're just another example of RIAA member companies' continued mistreatment of their artists.
Obviously it's the people that purchased a formal education that think it is a wise investment. I think the decision is more complex than that.
I'm not going to attack spending several thousand dollars and four years to get an education. However I do take issue with the idea that there is no other way to become skilled. A highly motivated person can reach the same amount of skill as an educated person in the same amount of time at a much lower cost and often with real world experience colleges don't supply.
The downside is the requirement for motivation. Obviously if sleeping in until noon, skipping class and writing all your papers the night before they are due is you preferred method of working then picking up some books from the library and reading them isn't going to do you any good; the books will go unread.
But how is this method of learning, which many people use to get their degrees, of any benefit? Long term memory takes repetition and association. This is not something that happens in a night of binge studying especially when those newly formed links in the brain are hammered with beer as a celebration for finishing final exams.
Some fields, such as law, have no alternatives. The bar exam requires the sponsorship of a law school. And, of course, a highly motivated person is likely to excell within the education system as well as outside it. So, as I said first, the decision is complicated. To buy a degree or not? That's a fifty thousand dollar question.
One word... Networking.
So you think I should get my CCIE?