This is why I use SpamAssassin- I'm not willing to give up Evolution yet and I need to use it on my client end. However, it works great for about a day after I train it. Then within two days later, I'm getting a hundred spam a day in my inbox. So I retrain again, no spam for about a day, and then it forgets everything it knows. Lather, rinse, repeat. I'm tired of spending more time futzing with my spam filter than I would spend just manually deleting the spam myself!
I ditched Verizon Wireless for that very reason. Every time I went into the store to get customer service, and I mean every time, I had to wait at least an hour. The last straw was when I went in because I wasn't getting any service, arrived two hours before the store closed, and was told, "We're too busy, we can't help any more people today." What were they busy doing? Helping people who wanted to buy phones and pay them money, of course.
Then there's the call thing. OMG. First of all, there was no published CS number. When I was the victim of a billing error and they stopped my service, I was routed to a recording if I tried to make a call that told me I had to pay up to get it turned back on and these were my options: Pay now by credit card, pay now by credit card, or pay now by credit card. Well, I wasn't going to pay them anything, because I didn't owe them anything. But the computerized menu system did not offer any option to talk to any real person. I looked online, in phone books, in my literature, etc. for a CS number, and every one I found all went to the same computerized menu and would not let me talk to a real person. Finally I called someone in some unrelated department (engineering or something) that I found in the book, and asked if they could please tell me the number. They gave me a different number. It went to the same place! After several more calls, I was finally informed that even though the menu didn't give the option, I could press 0 anyway, and get a person! Unbelievable.
So even though the actual wireless service from Verizon is without peer (at least in this part of the country), I'm now with another company that actually provides halfway decent customer service, and when I call, I can talk to a person!
I still owe Verizon Wireless serveral hundred dollars because I just quit paying them until they terminated the account. And after the last collections notice I wrote them back and informed them that "I'm too busy today, I'll get around to it when I find the time." I still haven't found it.
Let's face it, open source software doesn't seem to employ very many people. It's not good business for Governments to push products that are detrimental to the welfare of its citizens.
So while having to equip huge government agencies with excruciatingly expensive software will keep 40 engineers employed at MS, they will have to cut 200 government jobs because they spent so much on software.
Which is more detrimental?
(These aren't researched numbers, just illustrating the point)
OK, I take that back. It's not yEnc that's the problem, it's something else. It has problems displaying many attachements in-line, even those that can be opened successfully using an external viewer. Hmmm.
On ICQ I always limited my contacts to those on my buddy list, and yet continued to receive "spim" on a regular basis from those not on my buddy list anyway. I made myself "invisible" to those not on my list, and did everything else possible to supposedly make it "impossible" for me to get messages from those not on my list and it made no difference. Well, ok, it probably reduced the amount, but it sure didn't stop it.
There is a very good tool to help people run a business, and those businesses that succeed usually use it. It's called a business degree and you can get one at most universities and colleges. Which, btw, would keep lots of university employees employed. Sure it takes lots of time and money to get one. That's life. Things worth having always have a cost. The problem is everyone wanting to take the quick and easy way and bypass the work necessary to succeed. Quit looking for a silver platter, even one with software installed on it!
I for one am getting so sick and tired of the attitude that [some piece of legistlation] doesn't do "enough" so we just shouldn't do anything at all. There is no perfect law and no, legistlation will never solve the whole problem. So does that mean we should just say, oh well, poor us, there's nothing we can do about it? Give me a break. You have to start somewhere!
Uh, wait a minute. So basically, NCR just successfully patented the internet? Wasn't Al Gore smart enough to do that when he invented the thing to begin with?
Hollywood is winning, folks. You are losing. And you'd better start caring.
I'm confused. Hollywood is winning because they expect to be compensated for their work? And we're losing because we're actually expected to pay for things we use? I suppose demonstrating how to get a shopping cart of food out of the grocery store without paying for it would be a "stand on the right side of the issue"?
These digital protections are in place to protect artists and creators from having their work stolen. Region coding in particular prevents China, e.g., from flooding the US markets with their pirated DVDs and undercutting the whole industry.
Sure, sometimes these protections and laws can catch a few dolphins in their tuna nets, so to speak, but in general they're there for a reason. I'm sure there are plenty of people who can (and probably will) point out how some of these protections prevent legitimate activities (such as making archival copies for personal use, etc.), but all of these activities get abused by greedy, dishonest people. Only thieves and pirates would have a genuine need to circumvent them.
1) Your ignorance is not the standard against which fame is measured. There are millions of people around the world that have never even heard of the Beatles. Perhaps you're one?
2) It's one thing to be ignorant, it's quite another to advertise it proudly to the whole internet. But then that's probably why you posted anonymously.
3) It's even worse to be so arrogant as to assume that you're the epitomy of knowlege and that your experience defines the entirety of human inerests.
Janis Ian "another wacko who couldn't cut it the old fashioned way". Now I've heard everything!
Unbelievable! I suppose you'll be writing the next book in the Lord of the Rings series under the name J.R.R. Tolkein and everyone will celebrate the genius of your "original work".
This whole line of reasoning just blows my mind. Telling them to put me on the no-call list does not reimburse me for the time or money they cost me to answer the first call to begin with. Nor does it stop the next one that I haven't talked to yet. This aside from all the astute comments about the futility of thinking you could actually sue them if they called again. What is needed is something that stops them from robbing you to begin with. It's funny that if someone enters my house without authorization and steals something, he goes to jail. But if he violates my person via my cell phone and steals my time and money, all I can do is tell him he's not allowed to do it a second time. And hope that he suddendly gets morals. Right.
Oh, right. As if spending an hour a day actually reading these messages wouldn't be bad enough, I'm supposed to spend 5 hours a day doing all this reporting and emailing? If I had that kind of time I would actually enjoy reading the spam to begin with! Sorry, nice idea, but very impracticle. The ones I do report are the ones that continue to spam over a period of time from the same address.
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This has always amazed me. To compare a 2002 movie's revenues at $8 a seat to a 1977 movie's revenues at $4 a seat and say it outsold Star Wars! Well, duh!
Now why don't we just look at number of tickets sold and see where we stand, keeping in mind that even that metric is skewed by the size of the movie-going population now vs then, the economic climate in which the movie was released (millions of out-of-work people all over the US and even Europe right now probably aren't shelling out the bucks to go see a movie, and if they do, they probably won't see it multiple times like they might if they had lots of discretionary money or time).
And another thing that's meaningless is how much a movie did in it's first weekend (as opposed to altogether). I and many people I know purposely avoid seeing any blockbuster its first weekend because we don't like waiting hours in line to find out it's sold out, or at the very least having to sit in the front row, often not even together, and crane your neck to see 1/4 of the screen at a time. Phooey. Just wait until it's been out a week or so. Does that mean it's not as good a film because I didn't see it in the first couple days? Get real. And to compare first weekend sales of movie A, which came out in February (let's say) in the middle of winter with nothing going on, to movie B which is released in late spring when the weather is beautiful and people want to be outdoors instead of in a theater, there are graduations going on, and a million other distractions, is ridiculous at best.
Meaningless numbers are just that- meaningless. You must look at the meaning behind the statistics and take everything that could affect them into account.
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This is why I use SpamAssassin- I'm not willing to give up Evolution yet and I need to use it on my client end. However, it works great for about a day after I train it. Then within two days later, I'm getting a hundred spam a day in my inbox. So I retrain again, no spam for about a day, and then it forgets everything it knows. Lather, rinse, repeat. I'm tired of spending more time futzing with my spam filter than I would spend just manually deleting the spam myself!
I ditched Verizon Wireless for that very reason. Every time I went into the store to get customer service, and I mean every time, I had to wait at least an hour. The last straw was when I went in because I wasn't getting any service, arrived two hours before the store closed, and was told, "We're too busy, we can't help any more people today." What were they busy doing? Helping people who wanted to buy phones and pay them money, of course.
Then there's the call thing. OMG. First of all, there was no published CS number. When I was the victim of a billing error and they stopped my service, I was routed to a recording if I tried to make a call that told me I had to pay up to get it turned back on and these were my options: Pay now by credit card, pay now by credit card, or pay now by credit card. Well, I wasn't going to pay them anything, because I didn't owe them anything. But the computerized menu system did not offer any option to talk to any real person. I looked online, in phone books, in my literature, etc. for a CS number, and every one I found all went to the same computerized menu and would not let me talk to a real person. Finally I called someone in some unrelated department (engineering or something) that I found in the book, and asked if they could please tell me the number. They gave me a different number. It went to the same place! After several more calls, I was finally informed that even though the menu didn't give the option, I could press 0 anyway, and get a person! Unbelievable.
So even though the actual wireless service from Verizon is without peer (at least in this part of the country), I'm now with another company that actually provides halfway decent customer service, and when I call, I can talk to a person!
I still owe Verizon Wireless serveral hundred dollars because I just quit paying them until they terminated the account. And after the last collections notice I wrote them back and informed them that "I'm too busy today, I'll get around to it when I find the time." I still haven't found it.
Let's face it, open source software doesn't seem to employ very many people. It's not good business for Governments to push products that are detrimental to the welfare of its citizens.
So while having to equip huge government agencies with excruciatingly expensive software will keep 40 engineers employed at MS, they will have to cut 200 government jobs because they spent so much on software.
Which is more detrimental?
(These aren't researched numbers, just illustrating the point)OK, I take that back. It's not yEnc that's the problem, it's something else. It has problems displaying many attachements in-line, even those that can be opened successfully using an external viewer. Hmmm.
Very nice. However, it still can't display yEnc encoded attachments, so for now I'll have to stick with Pan, horrible as it is in other respects.
How and where does any company come up with 40 BILLION dollars?!?
On ICQ I always limited my contacts to those on my buddy list, and yet continued to receive "spim" on a regular basis from those not on my buddy list anyway. I made myself "invisible" to those not on my list, and did everything else possible to supposedly make it "impossible" for me to get messages from those not on my list and it made no difference. Well, ok, it probably reduced the amount, but it sure didn't stop it.
There is a very good tool to help people run a business, and those businesses that succeed usually use it. It's called a business degree and you can get one at most universities and colleges. Which, btw, would keep lots of university employees employed. Sure it takes lots of time and money to get one. That's life. Things worth having always have a cost. The problem is everyone wanting to take the quick and easy way and bypass the work necessary to succeed. Quit looking for a silver platter, even one with software installed on it!
I for one am getting so sick and tired of the attitude that [some piece of legistlation] doesn't do "enough" so we just shouldn't do anything at all. There is no perfect law and no, legistlation will never solve the whole problem. So does that mean we should just say, oh well, poor us, there's nothing we can do about it? Give me a break. You have to start somewhere!
Uh, wait a minute. So basically, NCR just successfully patented the internet? Wasn't Al Gore smart enough to do that when he invented the thing to begin with?
One of the funniest movies I've ever seen.
Hollywood is winning, folks. You are losing. And you'd better start caring.
I'm confused. Hollywood is winning because they expect to be compensated for their work? And we're losing because we're actually expected to pay for things we use? I suppose demonstrating how to get a shopping cart of food out of the grocery store without paying for it would be a "stand on the right side of the issue"?
These digital protections are in place to protect artists and creators from having their work stolen. Region coding in particular prevents China, e.g., from flooding the US markets with their pirated DVDs and undercutting the whole industry.
Sure, sometimes these protections and laws can catch a few dolphins in their tuna nets, so to speak, but in general they're there for a reason. I'm sure there are plenty of people who can (and probably will) point out how some of these protections prevent legitimate activities (such as making archival copies for personal use, etc.), but all of these activities get abused by greedy, dishonest people. Only thieves and pirates would have a genuine need to circumvent them.
How long before we suddenly find out that Al Gore patented the internet?
1) Your ignorance is not the standard against which fame is measured. There are millions of people around the world that have never even heard of the Beatles. Perhaps you're one?
2) It's one thing to be ignorant, it's quite another to advertise it proudly to the whole internet. But then that's probably why you posted anonymously.
3) It's even worse to be so arrogant as to assume that you're the epitomy of knowlege and that your experience defines the entirety of human inerests.
Janis Ian "another wacko who couldn't cut it the old fashioned way". Now I've heard everything!
Unbelievable! I suppose you'll be writing the next book in the Lord of the Rings series under the name J.R.R. Tolkein and everyone will celebrate the genius of your "original work".
This whole line of reasoning just blows my mind. Telling them to put me on the no-call list does not reimburse me for the time or money they cost me to answer the first call to begin with. Nor does it stop the next one that I haven't talked to yet. This aside from all the astute comments about the futility of thinking you could actually sue them if they called again. What is needed is something that stops them from robbing you to begin with. It's funny that if someone enters my house without authorization and steals something, he goes to jail. But if he violates my person via my cell phone and steals my time and money, all I can do is tell him he's not allowed to do it a second time. And hope that he suddendly gets morals. Right.
Oh, right. As if spending an hour a day actually reading these messages wouldn't be bad enough, I'm supposed to spend 5 hours a day doing all this reporting and emailing? If I had that kind of time I would actually enjoy reading the spam to begin with! Sorry, nice idea, but very impracticle. The ones I do report are the ones that continue to spam over a period of time from the same address.
This has always amazed me. To compare a 2002 movie's revenues at $8 a seat to a 1977 movie's revenues at $4 a seat and say it outsold Star Wars! Well, duh!
Now why don't we just look at number of tickets sold and see where we stand, keeping in mind that even that metric is skewed by the size of the movie-going population now vs then, the economic climate in which the movie was released (millions of out-of-work people all over the US and even Europe right now probably aren't shelling out the bucks to go see a movie, and if they do, they probably won't see it multiple times like they might if they had lots of discretionary money or time).
And another thing that's meaningless is how much a movie did in it's first weekend (as opposed to altogether). I and many people I know purposely avoid seeing any blockbuster its first weekend because we don't like waiting hours in line to find out it's sold out, or at the very least having to sit in the front row, often not even together, and crane your neck to see 1/4 of the screen at a time. Phooey. Just wait until it's been out a week or so. Does that mean it's not as good a film because I didn't see it in the first couple days? Get real. And to compare first weekend sales of movie A, which came out in February (let's say) in the middle of winter with nothing going on, to movie B which is released in late spring when the weather is beautiful and people want to be outdoors instead of in a theater, there are graduations going on, and a million other distractions, is ridiculous at best.
Meaningless numbers are just that- meaningless. You must look at the meaning behind the statistics and take everything that could affect them into account.