Reminds me of when I got put with a class of 18 year olds & they started going through how to dimension an array etc - didn't have the heart to tell them I'd known that since I was six! Anyway in order not to frustrate the more advanced users don't insist on programs being only written in one language and then say it's because the board only accepts them in this language. I had a teacher say that to me about Visual Basic (when another another school doing exactly the same subject & board was using Delphi) when two of us wanted to program in c. If they get really bored they'll just hack the school network and get expelled (if caught) for it anyway.
I have a second computer with its own modem connected to another phone point in another room. This stops me being reliant on only one computer for Internet access & is set up with all the settings I need ie mail passwords, ftp server passwords etc.
Re: I'm always disappointed that Blizzard's betas only let you play multiplayer, but that's life. The reason for that is at the beta stage usually the AI for the computer player isn't finished yet - partly because that's usually the hardest bit to write & takes the longest.
Well it's a lot different to TV in the UK. Here if we want to watch any TV we have to pay a licence fee (about US $150) a year which all goes to the BBC. The government isn't involved in funding them at all (other than the free TV licenced they give to pensioners). Which do people think is a better way of funding this sort of TV - directly from tax revenue or by an imposed licence fee?
We'll be seeing TV adverts along the lines of - "Have you just been served by e-mail?" "Have you got a lawyer yet?" Well why not choose us - we've thrown out 95% of e-mail served cases on the basis that the person never actually read the e-mail due to thinking it was a SPAM/ a prank.
Yes but there's always the possiblity they've moved and those addresses are out of date - or that those weren't valid addresses in the first place - that mail is returned from those addresses etc! I remember once when I wanted to buy a domain I e-mailed the billing contact & they said they hadn't had anything to do with it for about 3 years - neither of the other addresses for the domain replied. The whois record isn't necessarily up to date or accurate (and this applies to the e-mail address too).
Our Inland Revenue (UK equivalent of IRS) who for anyone who registers to file their income tax online sets up a secure mailbox. They class any e-mail that's been sent to this as being received by you (whether or not you've actually read it). However they do send a reminder to you if one you haven't read has expired. Does anyone know of any other government departments acting in this way to save costs?
Do you know a link to the recommended hardware specs for different versions of Linux/ UNIX? I've been trying to find this information but with little success so far. It doesn't seem worth spending hours downloading a distro - wait for it to compile - only to find it won't run on my system.
BTW it's overclocked to 300Mhz (sorry I forgot to mention that). As to hardware I keep using it till it's more profitable to buy a new computer than it is to repair it. As to the $999 price tag - I'm sure you can get it for a lot less if you build it yourself (here the markup on new computers retail is about £250 (about $360).
If anyone has any suggestions as to a Linux distro I could try (please bear in mind if over about 50Mbs it has to be from a resumable ftp server) that won't take all night on a 56k modem then I'd be most grateful. (Please remember to post the URL and/ or details of the ftp server).
I agree with the article - although my "low-end" machine is an even lower spec than theirs - 220MHz with 32Mgs RAM - I have a few hundred Megabytes of harddisk free and have yet to find any small version of Linux that I can actually get to work! Hopefully I'll have more luck with this distro!
Ever made any usenet posts? Use a hotmail account at all? There are many reasons why people get span - as to the number quoted it was just an average - as with all averages most people will either be above or below it.
Why don't yahoo just put a few posts on/. and include their site in the sig link? Out of 33 comments I've made - 312 people in total have followed the signature link to my website - now that's got to be a higher reply rate than they'd get from sending spam!
The way to make spam less profitable is to completely ignore it when you get it. What I'm surprised by is that people still actually reply to it. (BTW I don't mean reply as in write back I mean reply as in respond to - ie go to the website or buy the product). Has anyone here ever bought something because of spam - or *cue pantomime boo* ever spammed themselves? (Goes before he starts sounding like Kilroy which for non-UK readers is a daytime talk show).
As far as I see it - there are two sides to Yahoo's e-mail POP operation -
1) People using Outlook Express, Pegasus etc to download mail from yahoo's pop server & therefore bypass the web ads (that's why they have to get the yahoo! delivers spam) and
2) Collecting mail from another pop3 mailbox using Yahoo!
Now what nobody seems to have made clear yet is whether both of these services are going to come under the paid for category or just one. I only ask because I only use one of them anyway.
I am sighing back - a lot now. In answer to your comments: First off; the notion that "political motivation" is some kind of arcane, evil-thing. I didn't say that! I just pointed out one instance in which I felt political justifications had put pressure on science resulting in things happening at a faster rate than they would have normally.
Without such "political motivation" there would be no Parliment, no PM, and Great Britan would still be a total and complete Monarchy. Well you've got a problem there because I happen to live in Great Britain. The reason we have a parliament is because of a civil war. Technically we are still a monarchy too - if you check a U.K. passport it says its holder is a subject (or at least used to - as they're renewed every ten years I'm not sure if that's out of date). As to the American revolution & Boston tea party - that was the result of the European powers putting increasingly higher taxes on certain goods (in this case tea). Therefore it was about economics really and not politics (although I'll agree with you that economics & politics are part of the same thing). As to missing your whole middle section - I didn't - I just didn't comment on it that's all. As to Tim Berners-Lee - to the common public there isn't any difference between the world wide web & the internet - without the W3 specification the world wide web would be still very basic - similar to the old BBS days.
As to your comment All Government work is politically motivated, to some extent. - it isn't - many things that the government does eg health, education etc are wanted by all political parties - the political part comes in as to how they're done - how much they'll cost - how many votes they'll get etc. As ARPAnet was classified it would have just come under the general military budget - although there is a committee of politicians that deal with such projects - they have to have security clearance first & their proceeedings aren't published.
As to Political motivation is not limited to campaigns for political office. - when did I say it was? Politicians tend to start worrying about votes when the next election is looming - not all the time.
Re: pen/pencil - I very much doubt that using a pencil in zero gravity results in pencil shavings & lead powder flying everywhere. Even in 0g things still have molecular cohesion. As to your comment about Parker Pens - discounting first the cost of licensing the technology from Parker Pens it still costs a very large amount of money to test any technology before it is used in space - that was what I was referring to really - not the initial research cost.
Well I'd have to agree with you over Mir problems - although if you remember it was only designed for (correct me if I'm wrong) - ten years but was in operation far longer than that. Nobody else (yet) has tried a space station - so criticising the problems of the first one (there are always problems with the first of anything) is a bit rich when you've got nothing to compare it to.
I've read through the last few of his posts after he posted a long diatribe about after I posted admittedly a rather flamebaitish comment. Just take what he says semi-seriously - every post I've read of his he seems to be taking objection as to what the previous person is saying & trying to provoke an arguement.
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I was after trying to speed read the whole of
From the he said, she said, all the other /.ers said department. :o)
Reminds me of when I got put with a class of 18 year olds & they started going through how to dimension an array etc - didn't have the heart to tell them I'd known that since I was six! Anyway in order not to frustrate the more advanced users don't insist on programs being only written in one language and then say it's because the board only accepts them in this language. I had a teacher say that to me about Visual Basic (when another another school doing exactly the same subject & board was using Delphi) when two of us wanted to program in c. If they get really bored they'll just hack the school network and get expelled (if caught) for it anyway.
I have a second computer with its own modem connected to another phone point in another room. This stops me being reliant on only one computer for Internet access & is set up with all the settings I need ie mail passwords, ftp server passwords etc.
for those too lazy to do a cut & paste job.
The Register Article
When he implanted something that made doors open for him in the building he works in.
Shouldn't the title of this be Lab-Grown Fish Chunks - It's what for dinner as they're made from goldfish? /leave nit-picking mode
It goes back to the radio days when you used to have to buy a radio licence from the Post Office (decades ago).
Re: I'm always disappointed that Blizzard's betas only let you play multiplayer, but that's life. The reason for that is at the beta stage usually the AI for the computer player isn't finished yet - partly because that's usually the hardest bit to write & takes the longest.
Well it's a lot different to TV in the UK. Here if we want to watch any TV we have to pay a licence fee (about US $150) a year which all goes to the BBC. The government isn't involved in funding them at all (other than the free TV licenced they give to pensioners). Which do people think is a better way of funding this sort of TV - directly from tax revenue or by an imposed licence fee?
We'll be seeing TV adverts along the lines of - "Have you just been served by e-mail?" "Have you got a lawyer yet?" Well why not choose us - we've thrown out 95% of e-mail served cases on the basis that the person never actually read the e-mail due to thinking it was a SPAM/ a prank.
Yes but there's always the possiblity they've moved and those addresses are out of date - or that those weren't valid addresses in the first place - that mail is returned from those addresses etc! I remember once when I wanted to buy a domain I e-mailed the billing contact & they said they hadn't had anything to do with it for about 3 years - neither of the other addresses for the domain replied. The whois record isn't necessarily up to date or accurate (and this applies to the e-mail address too).
Yes but this assumes people actually view HTML e-mails - if they view them by text as default this doesn't work.
Our Inland Revenue (UK equivalent of IRS) who for anyone who registers to file their income tax online sets up a secure mailbox. They class any e-mail that's been sent to this as being received by you (whether or not you've actually read it). However they do send a reminder to you if one you haven't read has expired. Does anyone know of any other government departments acting in this way to save costs?
Do you know a link to the recommended hardware specs for different versions of Linux/ UNIX? I've been trying to find this information but with little success so far. It doesn't seem worth spending hours downloading a distro - wait for it to compile - only to find it won't run on my system.
BTW it's overclocked to 300Mhz (sorry I forgot to mention that). As to hardware I keep using it till it's more profitable to buy a new computer than it is to repair it. As to the $999 price tag - I'm sure you can get it for a lot less if you build it yourself (here the markup on new computers retail is about £250 (about $360).
If anyone has any suggestions as to a Linux distro I could try (please bear in mind if over about 50Mbs it has to be from a resumable ftp server) that won't take all night on a 56k modem then I'd be most grateful. (Please remember to post the URL and/ or details of the ftp server).
They can't be much of a geek if they can't decrypt a simple password file!
I agree with the article - although my "low-end" machine is an even lower spec than theirs - 220MHz with 32Mgs RAM - I have a few hundred Megabytes of harddisk free and have yet to find any small version of Linux that I can actually get to work! Hopefully I'll have more luck with this distro!
Ever made any usenet posts? Use a hotmail account at all? There are many reasons why people get span - as to the number quoted it was just an average - as with all averages most people will either be above or below it.
Why don't yahoo just put a few posts on /. and include their site in the sig link? Out of 33 comments I've made - 312 people in total have followed the signature link to my website - now that's got to be a higher reply rate than they'd get from sending spam!
The way to make spam less profitable is to completely ignore it when you get it. What I'm surprised by is that people still actually reply to it. (BTW I don't mean reply as in write back I mean reply as in respond to - ie go to the website or buy the product). Has anyone here ever bought something because of spam - or *cue pantomime boo* ever spammed themselves? (Goes before he starts sounding like Kilroy which for non-UK readers is a daytime talk show).
As far as I see it - there are two sides to Yahoo's e-mail POP operation - 1) People using Outlook Express, Pegasus etc to download mail from yahoo's pop server & therefore bypass the web ads (that's why they have to get the yahoo! delivers spam) and 2) Collecting mail from another pop3 mailbox using Yahoo! Now what nobody seems to have made clear yet is whether both of these services are going to come under the paid for category or just one. I only ask because I only use one of them anyway.
I am sighing back - a lot now. In answer to your comments:
First off; the notion that "political motivation" is some kind of arcane, evil-thing. I didn't say that! I just pointed out one instance in which I felt political justifications had put pressure on science resulting in things happening at a faster rate than they would have normally.
Without such "political motivation" there would be no Parliment, no PM, and Great Britan would still be a total and complete Monarchy. Well you've got a problem there because I happen to live in Great Britain. The reason we have a parliament is because of a civil war. Technically we are still a monarchy too - if you check a U.K. passport it says its holder is a subject (or at least used to - as they're renewed every ten years I'm not sure if that's out of date). As to the American revolution & Boston tea party - that was the result of the European powers putting increasingly higher taxes on certain goods (in this case tea). Therefore it was about economics really and not politics (although I'll agree with you that economics & politics are part of the same thing). As to missing your whole middle section - I didn't - I just didn't comment on it that's all. As to Tim Berners-Lee - to the common public there isn't any difference between the world wide web & the internet - without the W3 specification the world wide web would be still very basic - similar to the old BBS days.
As to your comment All Government work is politically motivated, to some extent. - it isn't - many things that the government does eg health, education etc are wanted by all political parties - the political part comes in as to how they're done - how much they'll cost - how many votes they'll get etc. As ARPAnet was classified it would have just come under the general military budget - although there is a committee of politicians that deal with such projects - they have to have security clearance first & their proceeedings aren't published.
As to Political motivation is not limited to campaigns for political office. - when did I say it was? Politicians tend to start worrying about votes when the next election is looming - not all the time.
Re: pen/pencil - I very much doubt that using a pencil in zero gravity results in pencil shavings & lead powder flying everywhere. Even in 0g things still have molecular cohesion. As to your comment about Parker Pens - discounting first the cost of licensing the technology from Parker Pens it still costs a very large amount of money to test any technology before it is used in space - that was what I was referring to really - not the initial research cost.
Well I'd have to agree with you over Mir problems - although if you remember it was only designed for (correct me if I'm wrong) - ten years but was in operation far longer than that. Nobody else (yet) has tried a space station - so criticising the problems of the first one (there are always problems with the first of anything) is a bit rich when you've got nothing to compare it to.
I've read through the last few of his posts after he posted a long diatribe about after I posted admittedly a rather flamebaitish comment. Just take what he says semi-seriously - every post I've read of his he seems to be taking objection as to what the previous person is saying & trying to provoke an arguement.