Thank you! Saved me a lot time trying to find a reply that would suit the parent's stubborn but inaccurate opinion.
The prior view only worked on the assumption that returns loss > warantees gain. Not to mention that fact that some returns probably do end up resurfacing as refurbs, for sale at a discounted but still profitable price.
If I had the points, I'd mod you up... but instead I'll elaborate:
First of all... there is definately some intelligence to the corny humour. A satirical look at comic books, perhaps? Curses!
Throw in the fact that the hero's weapon is an orgazmorator... a laser gun which causes the target to experience an instant orgasm... well, it's definately good for a few laughs.
Seriously, in a lot of shows which use lower-grade humour (dick and fart jokes) there often hides a lot of high-end wit. Check out some Kevin Smith movies: Dogma, if you aren't religiously easy to offend... the delivery is odd but there are a lot of good points/questions, and perhaps Chasing Amy otherwise.
Just because a movie uses a sexual innuendo as the main punchline doesn't mean there isn't some intelligent humour as well.
How about something more like a reality-TV show? For every 100/1000 spams sent... they spend one day on a deserted island. The island has water... but little food.
Eventually... we can wait until they turn on each other, or start suffering from malnutrition, whatever.
Disclaimer: I strongly dislike "reality TV", but I'd buy a dish and PPV just to see a bunch of miserable spammers shipped to some godforsaken remote destination
Now the question is... does this mean Intel will anti-overclock their chips - or just hold the patent. And does this patent have some hold with other laws to prevent people from breaking the anti-overclocking protection?
Well, I suppose you could modify your phone to use a car battery... but that might get a little heavy. Maybe you should just give alternative technologies a chance - eventually we'll get lasting charge and recharge ability.
Until then... think of how buff you'll get after lugging around that car battery...
Sometimes I shudder when I hear of people zipping large volumes onto backup. Hopefully hardware compression won't aggravate this problem by making it easier.
One of the big problems with compressed backups, particular if you are tar-gzipping something is that any resulting damage/error in the file can render an entire archive unusable.
Hopefully, most people are into tar-clustering files (that is to say... tar'ing large archives as a group of files, then gzip'ing the grouped archive). You might save a little on CPU and grow the file a bit, but the saving in integrity and possibly speed can be worth it.
That's actually somewhat of a odd comment. I've never seen these policies increase prices... if so it would certainly be in the store and not manufacturer (since the store bites the costs), in which case you could at least go elsewhere. But I've never seen stores raise prices due to overuse of warrantee... if anything it might just contribute to the raise in warantee costs but that's about all - it shouldn't affect normal customers.
I've dealt with the Future Shop extended warrantee on a few occasions, and I'd say that for pricey (or possibly risky) items it's a good shot.
Anyhow, for my own personal story of happiness, I bought a 12" subwoofer and on a whim, decided to get the extended warrantee (I almost never get them). Well, about 8 months later, as I was screwing it into a new box... my driver slipped and I put a nice crack in the bell. All I did was bring it back... say that "the bell on my sub is cracked", and I got a new one... no questions. I've heard salespeople sell them saying specifically that it will cover speakers if you overcrank and blow them as well, so it's almost idiotproof.
However, I've also heard horror stories where local staff cannot fix a PC, and it bounces from service-station to station before somebody with half a brain can fix it. Personally, it basically comes down to that while extended warrantees are nice... it's also important to have a knowlegable dealer (and in the case of computers, not a no-name parts-monster) when buying a PC etc. In that case, I'd rather have a normal warrantee on a good product... from a deal who knows a bit about what they're selling.
Conclusion: Extended Warrantees can be nice from some stores, but don't use them as a replacement for quality manufacturing or service.
You can spam from hotmail without using the web-client, since it has an interface for using/w outlook etc (http mail still though I think).
However, I myself don't get many *hotmail* spams, and many which I do are forged headers and not real hotmail addresses.
Limiting regular customers to emails-per-day actually sounds like a really good idea to me, so long customers sending mass mail (usergroups, proper mailing lists, etc) were able to sign up for a "special account" allowing them to continue. I don't know many normal people who would send >200 messages a day, and not many spammers who might bother to identify themselves when signing up for a special "mass-mail" account.
I've wondered about that, but am unsure as to exactly what purpose lung cilia actually serve? As just a guess I would say as some sort of filtration, but perhaps you could enlighten me (and the other/. readers)?
Ear hair? Fine hair follicles?
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I would be interested in how this would help people with problems related to the smaller-scale hairlike follicles that are found in the ear (cilia). Some people experience hearing loss due to damaged cilia, though I believe in many it's due to damage to the "stirrup."
Hair is more than just that which is on your head (or visible on the rest of your body). Knowing more about the creation/behavior of the tiny hairs which line various internal parts of our bodies, and moreover being able to fix them, could be very useful indeed
So basically, it's OK to use SSN because students aren't smart enough or are too lazy to learn a new PIN. While the PIN seems pretty long, I still see no reason for an SSN. Between phone #, address, etc, you should be able to identify your Michael John Smiths. Being that the identifier given is relatively the same length as an SIN (at least ones around here) - why couldn't anyone who memorizes their SIN memorize the ID.
For those that can't... put it in your damn wallet on a card or something, because with the SIN they're probably referencing their card anyhow.
I don't know about this. I've been an avid FF fan, anime fan, and a large fan of Japanese culture in general. While I dig the concept of Gaia and life-force... the plot still seemed weak.
I mean, the base-idea was good, but the characters lacked depth and events were somewhat predictable.
Perhaps as a fan of the game series, I was expecting something more (something intriguing, or unexpected) from the movie.
I mean, if you look at the plots of FFIV, FFVI... some things are hokey but the otherall idea was really cool. Espers, a half-esper. Crystals and dark crystals. Even in games like FFIX and FFX, with the main character in IX being basically a genetically engineered robot, and FFX being a dream... there's a bit of things unexpected and interesting - not to mention FFVII (exempting now-hokey graphics)
And the classics... an Omega Weapon.... swords over guns...magic... etc. This was an animated movie, but it wasn't Final Fantasy, it was a sci-fi animated CGI movie.
Indeed. And as opposed to the simpsons (or at least a greater expected), there's also a strong correlation between CGI and technology. So as technology for digital imagery and 3d, etc becomes more advanced, we can probably expect much more realistic artistry as the capacity of digital storage increases (I'll bet it takes huge space to store all the meshes, textures, keyframes, etc) - as well as of course the graphic equipment.
although definitely not even Final Fantasy quality
Many fans' primary beef with the FF movie was the thin plot, not the lack of impressive CGI. For a movie, a lot of effort can be invested in minute details etc to render with realism.
For a TV series, I would expect less quality simply because there is less time to rollout, and continuous rollouts as opposed to one big event.
And if you want to step up a little bit, you can always use "elinks", which is similar in concept but has nice color-coding and is mouse-clickable even through putty.
Often enough I'm not the one writing the code... it's code coming from other sources or projects. Those that wrote code within my organization did a nice, neat job of it.... it's adding features to/fixing the imported stuff that gives me a huge headache.
I've seen a lot of apps - especially web-based ones - that look great and are coded like crap. The problem with somewhat simpler languages, especially scripting languages, is that the ease of learning the basics often leads to some very undereducated programmers.
I don't consider myself a "professional" Perl programmer, though I've had several years experience, but even I can see when a large system is made up of a lot of little shyte.
Another thing one might notice in particular, is on group-programmer projects. The interface coding might be very nice, and then when one goes the the back-end modules that query mySQL DB's, etc... it's obvious that it was a different and less experienced programmer.
When I start seeing things like:
$stuff[1], $stuff[2]
$blah
etc
it scares me. If code isn't going to be commented, at the very least the variables can be intuitively named so as to make sense, and using arrays of hard-to-determine crap for no reason is just bad (at the least, use named hashes, or just normal vars).
The problem is, you are still getting spam. The filter may block you from seeing most of it, and it may stop you from getting tags with linked images, etc... but it's still coming in.
You, and your ISP, are paying for the bandwidth it uses. And if you ever had to travel and get email by dialup/cellphone... you can expect that you'll notice spam simply by the large delays it takes you to download email.
Client-side filters only mask the problem... it's like having an air-freshener and big fan in a public washroom.... the stink is still lingering in the background.
I think this could almost be measured on a sliding scale based on lifetime of an account. Once a user opens a new account - unless the email address is easily guessable or his email provided sells it off - spam volume per real email will be low.
Then, you get a few friends your email. General email volume increases. You sign up for some server or other and forget to use a protect email... spam starts to drip in.
A little while later, the drip becomes a trickle as your email gets sold again, and again, and spreads like splitting amoebas.
Then... a few friends send you e-cards around Christmas, or invite you to some joke sites etc. Not your really gonna get it (I strongly b*tch-out any who e-card me at my work address).
To top it off, a LUG or whatever you are posting to puts their history on a public website... you start getting picked up by spam-spiders.
So over time, one will go from maybe 0-5% spam, to 50+% spam. As more people get you in their address books, the more likely it is that somebody will let your email slip to a spam-source. And spam-sources sell your email to other spam-sources... it spreads like wildfire.
The best way to protect yourself is to use a difficult-to-guess, 9+ character email, for which you never sign up for anything with, and only give to people you trust not to e-card you or have "sniffers" installed on their system which gives away the address book. Using bounce addresses might help also, as you could then switch bounces but still pull from the main email, and then filter the ones that get messy or drop them.
A little long in replying but: I really appreciate the link, though it's often recommended to use 1.5-2x the operating voltage for the cap's maximum. A 12V battery (up to what, 15V with powerful alternator) would run more safely with a 24V cap - know where to find any of these @ 4-500000uf?
But the question is, why? Is it because MS doesn't want anyone removing WMP, so as to squelch competing products? Since I've installed Winamp the only time I'd use WMP is if a new format came out it didn't support as well.
It's annoying, but I'd suspect that it might have a lot to with the way they developed the OS in relation to media. The media components are used by a lot of different parts of windows - using integrated systems increases bloat (in that they exist and must exist) but also decreases bloat in the aspect that having everything segregated could lead to a lot of redundancy.
But maybe I'm just missing the point. What is it about WMP that bothers people so much? It's not the default media handler for anything on my system, not even online. I've found the fact that the newer quicktime reasserts itself (particularly when somebody else using the computer accesses it, it put itself back in "startup" for everyone) on a regular basis more annoying that WMP.
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Thank you! Saved me a lot time trying to find a reply that would suit the parent's stubborn but inaccurate opinion.
The prior view only worked on the assumption that returns loss > warantees gain. Not to mention that fact that some returns probably do end up resurfacing as refurbs, for sale at a discounted but still profitable price.
If I had the points, I'd mod you up... but instead I'll elaborate:
First of all... there is definately some intelligence to the corny humour. A satirical look at comic books, perhaps? Curses!
Throw in the fact that the hero's weapon is an orgazmorator... a laser gun which causes the target to experience an instant orgasm... well, it's definately good for a few laughs.
Seriously, in a lot of shows which use lower-grade humour (dick and fart jokes) there often hides a lot of high-end wit. Check out some Kevin Smith movies: Dogma, if you aren't religiously easy to offend... the delivery is odd but there are a lot of good points/questions, and perhaps Chasing Amy otherwise.
Just because a movie uses a sexual innuendo as the main punchline doesn't mean there isn't some intelligent humour as well.
Probably. I mean, think of the poor ferrets
How about something more like a reality-TV show? For every 100/1000 spams sent... they spend one day on a deserted island. The island has water... but little food.
Eventually... we can wait until they turn on each other, or start suffering from malnutrition, whatever.
Disclaimer: I strongly dislike "reality TV", but I'd buy a dish and PPV just to see a bunch of miserable spammers shipped to some godforsaken remote destination
Someone is paying for that... Who is? We all are.
The people that buy warrantee are. In many cases overuse makes the warrantee cost go up, not the consumer item.
And WTF does shoplifting have to do with warrantees either?
Now the question is... does this mean Intel will anti-overclock their chips - or just hold the patent. And does this patent have some hold with other laws to prevent people from breaking the anti-overclocking protection?
Nah... just do what our mentor does. Snitch a few special emails, maybe plant a few webcams...
I wonder if there are actually any admins out there who get away for BOFH-like power?
Well, I suppose you could modify your phone to use a car battery... but that might get a little heavy. Maybe you should just give alternative technologies a chance - eventually we'll get lasting charge and recharge ability.
Until then... think of how buff you'll get after lugging around that car battery...
Sometimes I shudder when I hear of people zipping large volumes onto backup. Hopefully hardware compression won't aggravate this problem by making it easier.
One of the big problems with compressed backups, particular if you are tar-gzipping something is that any resulting damage/error in the file can render an entire archive unusable.
Hopefully, most people are into tar-clustering files (that is to say... tar'ing large archives as a group of files, then gzip'ing the grouped archive). You might save a little on CPU and grow the file a bit, but the saving in integrity and possibly speed can be worth it.
That's actually somewhat of a odd comment. I've never seen these policies increase prices... if so it would certainly be in the store and not manufacturer (since the store bites the costs), in which case you could at least go elsewhere. But I've never seen stores raise prices due to overuse of warrantee... if anything it might just contribute to the raise in warantee costs but that's about all - it shouldn't affect normal customers.
I've dealt with the Future Shop extended warrantee on a few occasions, and I'd say that for pricey (or possibly risky) items it's a good shot.
Anyhow, for my own personal story of happiness, I bought a 12" subwoofer and on a whim, decided to get the extended warrantee (I almost never get them). Well, about 8 months later, as I was screwing it into a new box... my driver slipped and I put a nice crack in the bell. All I did was bring it back... say that "the bell on my sub is cracked", and I got a new one... no questions. I've heard salespeople sell them saying specifically that it will cover speakers if you overcrank and blow them as well, so it's almost idiotproof.
However, I've also heard horror stories where local staff cannot fix a PC, and it bounces from service-station to station before somebody with half a brain can fix it. Personally, it basically comes down to that while extended warrantees are nice... it's also important to have a knowlegable dealer (and in the case of computers, not a no-name parts-monster) when buying a PC etc. In that case, I'd rather have a normal warrantee on a good product... from a deal who knows a bit about what they're selling.
Conclusion: Extended Warrantees can be nice from some stores, but don't use them as a replacement for quality manufacturing or service.
You can spam from hotmail without using the web-client, since it has an interface for using /w outlook etc (http mail still though I think).
However, I myself don't get many *hotmail* spams, and many which I do are forged headers and not real hotmail addresses.
Limiting regular customers to emails-per-day actually sounds like a really good idea to me, so long customers sending mass mail (usergroups, proper mailing lists, etc) were able to sign up for a "special account" allowing them to continue. I don't know many normal people who would send >200 messages a day, and not many spammers who might bother to identify themselves when signing up for a special "mass-mail" account.
I've wondered about that, but am unsure as to exactly what purpose lung cilia actually serve? As just a guess I would say as some sort of filtration, but perhaps you could enlighten me (and the other /. readers)?
I would be interested in how this would help people with problems related to the smaller-scale hairlike follicles that are found in the ear (cilia). Some people experience hearing loss due to damaged cilia, though I believe in many it's due to damage to the "stirrup."
Hair is more than just that which is on your head (or visible on the rest of your body). Knowing more about the creation/behavior of the tiny hairs which line various internal parts of our bodies, and moreover being able to fix them, could be very useful indeed
So basically, it's OK to use SSN because students aren't smart enough or are too lazy to learn a new PIN. While the PIN seems pretty long, I still see no reason for an SSN. Between phone #, address, etc, you should be able to identify your Michael John Smiths. Being that the identifier given is relatively the same length as an SIN (at least ones around here) - why couldn't anyone who memorizes their SIN memorize the ID.
For those that can't... put it in your damn wallet on a card or something, because with the SIN they're probably referencing their card anyhow.
I don't know about this. I've been an avid FF fan, anime fan, and a large fan of Japanese culture in general. While I dig the concept of Gaia and life-force... the plot still seemed weak.
I mean, the base-idea was good, but the characters lacked depth and events were somewhat predictable.
Perhaps as a fan of the game series, I was expecting something more (something intriguing, or unexpected) from the movie.
I mean, if you look at the plots of FFIV, FFVI... some things are hokey but the otherall idea was really cool. Espers, a half-esper. Crystals and dark crystals. Even in games like FFIX and FFX, with the main character in IX being basically a genetically engineered robot, and FFX being a dream... there's a bit of things unexpected and interesting - not to mention FFVII (exempting now-hokey graphics)
And the classics... an Omega Weapon.... swords over guns...magic... etc. This was an animated movie, but it wasn't Final Fantasy, it was a sci-fi animated CGI movie.
Indeed. And as opposed to the simpsons (or at least a greater expected), there's also a strong correlation between CGI and technology. So as technology for digital imagery and 3d, etc becomes more advanced, we can probably expect much more realistic artistry as the capacity of digital storage increases (I'll bet it takes huge space to store all the meshes, textures, keyframes, etc) - as well as of course the graphic equipment.
although definitely not even Final Fantasy quality
Many fans' primary beef with the FF movie was the thin plot, not the lack of impressive CGI. For a movie, a lot of effort can be invested in minute details etc to render with realism.
For a TV series, I would expect less quality simply because there is less time to rollout, and continuous rollouts as opposed to one big event.
And if you want to step up a little bit, you can always use "elinks", which is similar in concept but has nice color-coding and is mouse-clickable even through putty.
Often enough I'm not the one writing the code... it's code coming from other sources or projects. Those that wrote code within my organization did a nice, neat job of it.... it's adding features to/fixing the imported stuff that gives me a huge headache.
Ooops. Forgot to mention, I run a small .com. Lots of spam that comes seeking entry, even if 90% of it gets ignored because the usernames are invalid.
I've seen a lot of apps - especially web-based ones - that look great and are coded like crap. The problem with somewhat simpler languages, especially scripting languages, is that the ease of learning the basics often leads to some very undereducated programmers.
I don't consider myself a "professional" Perl programmer, though I've had several years experience, but even I can see when a large system is made up of a lot of little shyte.
Another thing one might notice in particular, is on group-programmer projects. The interface coding might be very nice, and then when one goes the the back-end modules that query mySQL DB's, etc... it's obvious that it was a different and less experienced programmer.
When I start seeing things like:
$stuff[1], $stuff[2]
$blah
etc
it scares me. If code isn't going to be commented, at the very least the variables can be intuitively named so as to make sense, and using arrays of hard-to-determine crap for no reason is just bad (at the least, use named hashes, or just normal vars).
The problem is, you are still getting spam. The filter may block you from seeing most of it, and it may stop you from getting tags with linked images, etc... but it's still coming in.
You, and your ISP, are paying for the bandwidth it uses. And if you ever had to travel and get email by dialup/cellphone... you can expect that you'll notice spam simply by the large delays it takes you to download email.
Client-side filters only mask the problem... it's like having an air-freshener and big fan in a public washroom.... the stink is still lingering in the background.
I think this could almost be measured on a sliding scale based on lifetime of an account. Once a user opens a new account - unless the email address is easily guessable or his email provided sells it off - spam volume per real email will be low.
Then, you get a few friends your email. General email volume increases. You sign up for some server or other and forget to use a protect email... spam starts to drip in.
A little while later, the drip becomes a trickle as your email gets sold again, and again, and spreads like splitting amoebas.
Then... a few friends send you e-cards around Christmas, or invite you to some joke sites etc. Not your really gonna get it (I strongly b*tch-out any who e-card me at my work address).
To top it off, a LUG or whatever you are posting to puts their history on a public website... you start getting picked up by spam-spiders.
So over time, one will go from maybe 0-5% spam, to 50+% spam. As more people get you in their address books, the more likely it is that somebody will let your email slip to a spam-source. And spam-sources sell your email to other spam-sources... it spreads like wildfire.
The best way to protect yourself is to use a difficult-to-guess, 9+ character email, for which you never sign up for anything with, and only give to people you trust not to e-card you or have "sniffers" installed on their system which gives away the address book. Using bounce addresses might help also, as you could then switch bounces but still pull from the main email, and then filter the ones that get messy or drop them.
A little long in replying but: I really appreciate the link, though it's often recommended to use 1.5-2x the operating voltage for the cap's maximum. A 12V battery (up to what, 15V with powerful alternator) would run more safely with a 24V cap - know where to find any of these @ 4-500000uf?
But the question is, why? Is it because MS doesn't want anyone removing WMP, so as to squelch competing products? Since I've installed Winamp the only time I'd use WMP is if a new format came out it didn't support as well.
It's annoying, but I'd suspect that it might have a lot to with the way they developed the OS in relation to media. The media components are used by a lot of different parts of windows - using integrated systems increases bloat (in that they exist and must exist) but also decreases bloat in the aspect that having everything segregated could lead to a lot of redundancy.
But maybe I'm just missing the point. What is it about WMP that bothers people so much? It's not the default media handler for anything on my system, not even online. I've found the fact that the newer quicktime reasserts itself (particularly when somebody else using the computer accesses it, it put itself back in "startup" for everyone) on a regular basis more annoying that WMP.