Lacking mod points, I'll simply add a Me Too
Back when gmail was difficult to get, I gave gmail invites in exchange for completed referrals. I never promised that my referrals would get an iPod, just that I'd give them gmail if they helped me get mine.
For the iPod, I signed up for an offer (Netscape ISP) which I cancelled with no charges. I used a mail.com address, which hasn't been hit with any more spam than usual, and I haven't received any postal junk mail or phone solicitations.
I also did the same deal to get referrals on the freeDesktopPC site, and I got a decent Dell (2.8Ghz P4, works much better with an addtional $40 worth of RAM)
For that, I signed up with an offer that I find valuable -- inPhone directory assistance -- so I continue to use that service.
Again, no spam, no phone solicitations, no junk mail, no hassles.
It's a Ponzi scheme if you consider your time and signup fees to be a "cost of participating" in the program. It's a referral based program (multilevel for multi == 2) and so it'll tank eventually, leaving tons and tons of people without enough referrals to get the prize -- far more people will be disappointed than will ever get an iPod -- but I did my best to be honest with my referrals.
There are a bunch of knock-off sites, of course, but the gratis internet sites are exactly what they claim to be.
If it sounds reasonable to you and you want to give it a try, there are freeiPod links all over the place. Personally, I'd kind of like to get a free flat-panel monitor next.
The great irony is that this would sound like crap -- phono output isn't the same signal profile as line output -- without the addition of a phono de-emphasizer. This method was pioneered by an organization that wanted to get the finest quality of sound out of the (vinyl) recording medium. The organization is the Recording Industry Association of America, and the input processor is commonly called a RIAA-phono preamp.
So in a way, the RIAA laughs as your pathetic LP crack!
Fujitsu breaks through the $10,000 barrier with the new Eagle blah blah blah.
Yeah, I remember the Eagle. Something like 80lbs, and what, 200Meg?
When our Pyramid tech came onsite to replace one, I wondered why he needed a hand truck to move a disk drive up from his car, and I REALLY wondered why he needed my help to get it into the rack.
Most Hotmail users use it because it is free, or they don't know about the alternatives.
I have a hotmail account as my permanent email address since 1996? maybe 1995? It was around the time that usa.com was starting to offer free lifetime email addresses. I looked at the idea, and chose a company (MS) that isn't going anywhere. I change ISPs, I change employers, but until MS goes out of business, I have one email address that isn't going away.
Yes, I've got gmail, and I've got yahoo. Heck, I've even got mail.com (what usa.com became, later bought by outblaze) but hotmail.com is what's on my resume.
Wow, with all that bandwidth testing the site might be in danger of a slashdotting!
I think it would be prudent to have a backup mirror of the site, just in case. Here's what I use:
Well, he lives about a mile from me, so I did consider driving by to play with it "live" before Christmas. Turns out, his house is in a gated community.
Want to upgrade your skills? Sign up now, and for only 10 payments of $49.95 each, we'll teach you all you need to know about the new 65c02 opcodes!
Don't be left behind, order today!
And of course, the BEST best part of the 1990 SGI was that you could play the flight simulator in dogfight mode (assuming you had more than one SGI on the network)
One evening, I went to dinner with a friend, but we forgot who was driving, and both ended up drunk. (one car at the restaurant, one at the office)
We took a cab back to work and flew P38s in dogfight mode until we sobered up. Don't do this without a helmet, or at least don't use swivel chairs.
The old groups interface would save your preferences (filtering/sort/#hits per page) in a cookie. Now it appears you have to register/sign-in to have your preferences saved
Which is actually kind of handy if you use it from different machines (work and home, for example)
Blogs are the Weekly World News of journalism. For every useful piece of information you get from one there's 10,000 dorks out there flaming about how Bush is Hitler and Haliburton is running the government. They have no credibility and are just soap boxes for trolls.
Amen to that! I can't count how many blogs are out there putting forth complete nonsense, but there is no accountability, so it can look just as legit as facts.
Besides, everyone knows that Cheney is Hitler, not Bush.
Ok, well, my mom's been to the South Pole research station, so it can't be that hard. In fact, the process must be downright intuitive. I don't know that she ran around naked while she was there, but come to think of it, I never asked either.
Damn, you you just missed Thanksgiving too. Oh well, there's always Christmas.
"Merry Christmas, Mom! We brought cookies. I love how you've decorated the place this year. Say, Mom, there's something I've been wondering......"
The issue is commonly referred to as the "last mile" problem. Yes, there are backbones that reach coast to coast, border to border.
When we speak of population density, it's not so much at a macroscopic level, but block-by-block. Getting a connection to each living unit is expensive. The Bell System got there with subsidy dollars. The Cable Companies got there with subsidies, but also operating at a loss. (Many now-bankrupt cable MSOs can testify to this)
Our hunger for better net connections hasn't (yet) pushed us to the point of approving government subsidies for 100Mb connections to each house, and there isn't a business model that will justify private dollars paying for the infrastructure.
Yes, most major Japanese cities can get 100Mb net access for US$100 or less, but the cost of connecting to the living unit is spread out over the hundreds of apartments in that living unit, and the cost of reaching that building is only a small step up from the cost of reaching that block of buildings.
I agree completely. That's why my hosts files uses 66.35.250.150 instead.
Plus, I get slashdot in a handy sidebar-style view when I look at dilbert.com. --
I picked up an iPod the other day and I found that its USB and Firewire connectivity on PCs to be iffy at best. I couldn't get Firewire to work at all, most of the time when iTunes tries to connect to the iPod, it causes a fatal system error and I have to reboot XPpro. I haven't had trouble with any other devices using these ports so I have to assume the PC version of iTunes has some glitches that create problems with some PC configurations.
It might be worth applying Occam's Razor here. Which is the more likely point of failure:
That's kind of interesting.
I copy-pasted the numbers from that page and ran a simple query against them. In most counties, the turnout was less than the number of registered voters, but there are 30
accounting for 97,489 mystery voters -- more votes were counted in those precincts than there are registered voters.
This isn't just a matter of absentee ballots being put in the wrong category, nor is it minor double-counting of ballots. Here are a few excerpts (check 'em yourself!)
HIGHLAND HILLS VIL has 760 registered voters, yet counted 8822 votes, for an overage of 8062 votes, or a 1161% voter turnout rate.
WOODMERE VIL has 558 registered voters, yet counted 8854 votes, for an overage of 8296 votes, or a 1587% voter turnout rate.
Note that I'm only looking at the cases where num_votes > num_voters. If you plot the voter turnout percentages, MANY more precincts show an abnormally high turnout rate, just less than 100%.
Now I'm off to see if Colorado posts the same raw numbers online. --
[snip] Hunting is about understanding your place in nature:
You are a predator.
You are at the top of the food chain
[snip]
Top of the food chain? Come hunt in Colorado, where that title is contested between bears, mountain lions (cougars) and man. Usually we end up on top, but not always.
Slashdot Mirror
... but what about the vast majority of spam that's sent from zombied PCs and open relays instead of from the spammer's own mail servers?
Lacking mod points, I'll simply add a Me Too
Back when gmail was difficult to get, I gave gmail invites in exchange for completed referrals. I never promised that my referrals would get an iPod, just that I'd give them gmail if they helped me get mine.
For the iPod, I signed up for an offer (Netscape ISP) which I cancelled with no charges. I used a mail.com address, which hasn't been hit with any more spam than usual, and I haven't received any postal junk mail or phone solicitations.
I also did the same deal to get referrals on the freeDesktopPC site, and I got a decent Dell (2.8Ghz P4, works much better with an addtional $40 worth of RAM)
For that, I signed up with an offer that I find valuable -- inPhone directory assistance -- so I continue to use that service.
Again, no spam, no phone solicitations, no junk mail, no hassles.
It's a Ponzi scheme if you consider your time and signup fees to be a "cost of participating" in the program. It's a referral based program (multilevel for multi == 2) and so it'll tank eventually, leaving tons and tons of people without enough referrals to get the prize -- far more people will be disappointed than will ever get an iPod -- but I did my best to be honest with my referrals.
There are a bunch of knock-off sites, of course, but the gratis internet sites are exactly what they claim to be.
If it sounds reasonable to you and you want to give it a try, there are freeiPod links all over the place. Personally, I'd kind of like to get a free flat-panel monitor next.
Gmail lets you connect via POP3
So long as your mail client isn't Netscape 7.1
Then it lets you connect, but it doesn't actually download any messages. Grrrr.....
The great irony is that this would sound like crap -- phono output isn't the same signal profile as line output -- without the addition of a phono de-emphasizer. This method was pioneered by an organization that wanted to get the finest quality of sound out of the (vinyl) recording medium. The organization is the Recording Industry Association of America, and the input processor is commonly called a RIAA-phono preamp.
So in a way, the RIAA laughs as your pathetic LP crack!
The Eagle Has Landed!
Fujitsu breaks through the $10,000 barrier with the new Eagle blah blah blah.
Yeah, I remember the Eagle. Something like 80lbs, and what, 200Meg?
When our Pyramid tech came onsite to replace one, I wondered why he needed a hand truck to move a disk drive up from his car, and I REALLY wondered why he needed my help to get it into the rack.
Most Hotmail users use it because it is free, or they don't know about the alternatives.
I have a hotmail account as my permanent email address since 1996? maybe 1995? It was around the time that usa.com was starting to offer free lifetime email addresses. I looked at the idea, and chose a company (MS) that isn't going anywhere. I change ISPs, I change employers, but until MS goes out of business, I have one email address that isn't going away.
Yes, I've got gmail, and I've got yahoo. Heck, I've even got mail.com (what usa.com became, later bought by outblaze) but hotmail.com is what's on my resume.
I think it would be prudent to have a backup mirror of the site, just in case. Here's what I use:
Alek, how much did you make from the Google Ad placement last year?
Well, he lives about a mile from me, so I did consider driving by to play with it "live" before Christmas. Turns out, his house is in a gated community.
Want to upgrade your skills? Sign up now, and for only 10 payments of $49.95 each, we'll teach you all you need to know about the new 65c02 opcodes!
Don't be left behind, order today!
And of course, the BEST best part of the 1990 SGI was that you could play the flight simulator in dogfight mode (assuming you had more than one SGI on the network)
One evening, I went to dinner with a friend, but we forgot who was driving, and both ended up drunk. (one car at the restaurant, one at the office)
We took a cab back to work and flew P38s in dogfight mode until we sobered up. Don't do this without a helmet, or at least don't use swivel chairs.
They might not have been the first to report the story, but they were the first ones to use the headline: Chestnuts roasting on an open FireWire
Here, I thought our "leaders" had too much fscking free time.
Thanks, China.
Damn, there's the next big moneymaker -- register slashdot.in quick!
I can't believe I gave up moderating this thread for that
The old groups interface would save your preferences (filtering/sort/#hits per page) in a cookie. Now it appears you have to register/sign-in to have your preferences saved
Which is actually kind of handy if you use it from different machines (work and home, for example)
Blogs are the Weekly World News of journalism. For every useful piece of information you get from one there's 10,000 dorks out there flaming about how Bush is Hitler and Haliburton is running the government. They have no credibility and are just soap boxes for trolls.
Amen to that! I can't count how many blogs are out there putting forth complete nonsense, but there is no accountability, so it can look just as legit as facts.
Besides, everyone knows that Cheney is Hitler, not Bush.
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Ok, well, my mom's been to the South Pole research station, so it can't be that hard. In fact, the process must be downright intuitive. I don't know that she ran around naked while she was there, but come to think of it, I never asked either.
Damn, you you just missed Thanksgiving too. Oh well, there's always Christmas.
"Merry Christmas, Mom! We brought cookies. I love how you've decorated the place this year. Say, Mom, there's something I've been wondering......"
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Real programmers use cat.
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The issue is commonly referred to as the "last mile" problem. Yes, there are backbones that reach coast to coast, border to border.
When we speak of population density, it's not so much at a macroscopic level, but block-by-block. Getting a connection to each living unit is expensive. The Bell System got there with subsidy dollars. The Cable Companies got there with subsidies, but also operating at a loss. (Many now-bankrupt cable MSOs can testify to this)
Our hunger for better net connections hasn't (yet) pushed us to the point of approving government subsidies for 100Mb connections to each house, and there isn't a business model that will justify private dollars paying for the infrastructure.
Yes, most major Japanese cities can get 100Mb net access for US$100 or less, but the cost of connecting to the living unit is spread out over the hundreds of apartments in that living unit, and the cost of reaching that building is only a small step up from the cost of reaching that block of buildings.
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By the way, the undated article was "Last-Modified: Mon, 20 Oct 2003 16:06:47 GMT"
At least according to it's httpd.
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I agree completely. That's why my hosts files uses 66.35.250.150 instead.
Plus, I get slashdot in a handy sidebar-style view when I look at dilbert.com.
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That's kind of interesting.
I copy-pasted the numbers from that page and ran a simple query against them. In most counties, the turnout was less than the number of registered voters, but there are 30 accounting for 97,489 mystery voters -- more votes were counted in those precincts than there are registered voters.
This isn't just a matter of absentee ballots being put in the wrong category, nor is it minor double-counting of ballots. Here are a few excerpts (check 'em yourself!)
HIGHLAND HILLS VIL has 760 registered voters, yet counted 8822 votes, for an overage of 8062 votes, or a 1161% voter turnout rate.
WOODMERE VIL has 558 registered voters, yet counted 8854 votes, for an overage of 8296 votes, or a 1587% voter turnout rate.
Note that I'm only looking at the cases where num_votes > num_voters. If you plot the voter turnout percentages, MANY more precincts show an abnormally high turnout rate, just less than 100%.
Now I'm off to see if Colorado posts the same raw numbers online.
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[snip]
Hunting is about understanding your place in nature:
You are a predator.
You are at the top of the food chain
[snip]
Top of the food chain? Come hunt in Colorado, where that title is contested between bears, mountain lions (cougars) and man.
Usually we end up on top, but not always.
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they SEEM to have made a prototype, but have they considered how they're going to get the muzak to be audible once they get into space?
Don't worry, we've already covered that one
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