You're telling me that one scream from one Elf in a 3 hour movie during a protracted battle scene "detracts from the movie"? Can we say "overly critical"?
Well, maybe not one scream, but those god damned dots they show in the middle hour of the movie every 4 mins (timed) WAS REALLY PISSING ME OFF!!
I work at a university, and I've got a few professors who use their inbox as their address book. So whenever they write to me, the message invariably has the same subject line
This is not the problem of the email service. Just as described above, anyone who views these messages in Opera, et al. will see them as threaded.
The email reader (Outlook/OE) provides the user with an address book feature (and it's comparitively simple to use).. if the user has trouble with it, maybe professors need a basic course in IT.
I worked as a Jr. Sys Admin for a rather respectable university on the east coast and even the professors in the College of IT had trouble using computers and were mostly the proliferators of viruses in emails!
Our admin staff resorted to adding the following to their sigs:
"Any email subject which does not match the body or content of the message will not be answered for at least a week, on principle."
"There is no way to rule innocent men. The only power any government has is the power to track down criminials. Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so things to be a crime that it is impossible to live without breaking any laws."
Without trying to rile you up, is it fair to the child that his or her "consent" is based off of something as arbitrary as how many revolutions s/he has made around the sun?
I dare you to try and contact the Earthlink Network Abuse department. At my work, we are a (legal) online betting site and were getting pounded by several Earthlink IPs grabbing our free odds.
With megs of apache logs for each IP address, Earthlink network abuse must have taken the week off. 17 Emails and 8 calls. With NO answer, NO response on anything.
We cannot just block all of Earthlink's dynamic numbers because of ten insipid users. I wish death on all the sysadmins at Earthlink and I curse their children with webbed genitailia.
((Before replying with suggestions to do on my end, they have been tried. mod_throttle wasn't an option, dynamic temp bans had to be watched, blah, blah, blah.))
Once we know who messages are from, people can be held responsible. And at that point, anti-spam laws can handle the rest.
No, I'm sorry, that will never do. We need MORE and STRICTER SPAM LAWS, even a few that actually encompass the normal user sending a regular email. That way almost everyone is already a criminal (ala DMCA) and it will be easier to catch the spammers.
Then, after a few years and spammers have gone, we just forget to remove the laws where everyone is deemed a criminal and 1984 ensues.
Give two cuts away on your website under an open license as a demo...Sell 'em the rest of the album at five bucks a pop.
This still doesn't answer the question of what happens when KFG (for example, I'm not accusing) pirates this $5 album on the P2P network and no one buys it anymore...
telemarketers think their job is going to be harder with a list of people who don't want to receive calls from them....a list of people who, 99% of the time, will just hang up on them anyway
While I hate arguing by analogy because someone always picks apart the relation, imagine walking into a bar and every girl already having a "NO" sign on them. They have already preempted your sleezy pickup lines by letting you know ahead of time.
Here's the rebuttle to that. How do you know you don't want my product unless you know what it is. A girl could be losing out on the love of her life, or a good one night stand. Either way, she's already closed her mind off before even knowing about something.
Apply this to other venues, you refuse to eat "peas and brocolli" because "they look yucky." or something. Never bothering to open your mind and at least hear and idea out.
You can see how this can be abused. The fight is not about first amendment rights (that's only a buzzword to get in the media), its most likely about politely convincing someone by throwing down an iron curtain, they could be losing out on something good...
We're a record label. But we're not evil... So if you are anti-RIAA (artist or consumer) and looking for an option (albeit a small option), this may be a start.
I am now taking bets for when the RIAA will sue over defamation and slander. Monday, Sept 28th and "The day after a big record label loses a big client to them" are already taken.
MPAA Exec: We need to stop piracy.
Lackey: Sir, if you don't mind. I happen to know a community which will solve this for us.
Exec: Go on...
Lackey: For free
Exec: Go on...
Lackey: Well, you see, I've been following them for some years now, and they are so full of themselves, that well, if you suggest a bad idea, and they hate us, they will boast in about our grand ignorance and say "Why didn't you do it this way?" Then, we can take their way, and use it against them.
I hate to sound like the typical crybaby, but why do the good guys always get screwed? If we (the spam-hating/fighting collective) were to do this, I can almost guarentee there would be media and probably law-enforcement backlash against us (as proven by the story of the spammer whose information was leaked by someone).
Now, knowing that law enforcement WON'T do anything against this, what happens when we decide on vigilante justice and return the favor onto the spammers who DDOoSed them (it's an assumption)? Will the law suddenly perk up and seek those who struck back?
And what sort of example is this proving? That Law Enforcement doesn't matter/work with technology as the internet? Is this foreshadowing for the California Anti-Spam bill?
This is your typical example of hitting your little brother/sister back after s/he hit you and your mom catching you only citing "It's always the second person who gets caught."
almost 15 per cent of films will be viewed by "on-demand" services such as rather than by DVD or video by 2005.
These will be the films such as "Gigli" and other no-name box office flops. They will now not leave our lives, but will be provided and forced down our throats on such places as our on-screen TV guide. (God damnnit, I hate comcast.)
"Missed 'Gigli' in the theatre, see it first on PPV-On-Demand!
And how long until this "rent for 24 hours" idea jumps into the music realm.
Having a party? Get 'Bootylicious Beats Vol. 5' streamed directly to your TV/Receiver for the less than the price of an electric toothbrush! Order Now
Seriously, how long does it take to seperate whites from darks and if you are in that serious need of time, you have a scheduling issue.
On a tin-foil-hat note: this is how freedoms are taken away.
"It's for convienence!"
"But it'll save time... no one is going to monitor what types of razor blades you buy."
"If you just swipe your finger, you'll check out quicker, save time and money 5% off to customers who use RFID!"
"I'm sorry, but it's a requirement that all people have RFID tags in their heads. well, people were cutting off their fingers to not be tracked by us. And anyone who doesn't submit to InstaTrace is considered a criminal."
I hate to sound like a Montanian, but consider this when security and freedoms are concerned (I forget who said it, didn't bother googling).
"When you draw a line in the sand, and step over it, it does not appear to be a big step from your last position, so you allow it. But if you continue to allow it, over time, you will realize (albeit, probably too late) that you do not have your original position in sight as you turn around."
Since it was already taking 30 seconds to feed me the page, I might as well copy what I got..
CD-Recordable discs unreadable in less than two years Posted by Dennis on 19 August 2003 - 14:33 - Source: PC-Active
The Dutch PC-Active magazine has done an extensive CD-R quality test. For the test the magazine has taken a look at the readability of discs, thirty different CD-R brands, that were recorded twenty months ago. The results were quite shocking as a lot of the discs simply couldn't be read anymore:
Roughly translated from Dutch:
The tests showed that a number of CD-Rs had become completely unreadable while others could only be read back partially. Data that was recorded 20 months ago had become unreadable. These included discs of well known and lesser known manufacturers.
It is presumed that CD-Rs are good for at least 10 years. Some manufacturers even claim that their CD-Rs will last up to a century. From our tests it's concluded however that there is a lot of junk on the market. We came across CD-Rs that should never have been released to the market. It's completely unacceptable that CD-Rs become unusable in less than two years.
On the image you can see the exact same CD-R. On the left you see the outcome of our tests done in 2001. On the right you see the same CD-R in 2003. The colours indicate the severeness of the errors in the following order; white, green, yellow and red whereas white indicates that the disc can be read well and red indicates that it cannot be read.
For those of you who are interested, the original Dutch article can be found here and in the September issue of PC-Active. Please discuss this subject in our Media Forum.
forcing people with your attitude (no offence implied)
No offense taken.:) But this is just another case of the PHB blues. No sense in paying another $35k a year for a techie to answer less than 4 phone calls during an 8 hour shift at night. Lets just have the sysadmin do it.
I bet there are still many sysadmins, [et al.] who would be happy to spend some of the time answering users' questions.
That is definately a good place for feedback, some things which may be obvious to a developer isn't obvious or even intuitive for a (l)user. I'm just more agreeing with the author of the article saying that users need base knowledge before they attempt at software. And I, as Level II/III, don't feel like having to be the one to give that to them.
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You're telling me that one scream from one Elf in a 3 hour movie during a protracted battle scene "detracts from the movie"? Can we say "overly critical"?
Well, maybe not one scream, but those god damned dots they show in the middle hour of the movie every 4 mins (timed) WAS REALLY PISSING ME OFF!!
I work at a university, and I've got a few professors who use their inbox as their address book. So whenever they write to me, the message invariably has the same subject line
This is not the problem of the email service. Just as described above, anyone who views these messages in Opera, et al. will see them as threaded.
The email reader (Outlook/OE) provides the user with an address book feature (and it's comparitively simple to use).. if the user has trouble with it, maybe professors need a basic course in IT.
I worked as a Jr. Sys Admin for a rather respectable university on the east coast and even the professors in the College of IT had trouble using computers and were mostly the proliferators of viruses in emails!
Our admin staff resorted to adding the following to their sigs: "Any email subject which does not match the body or content of the message will not be answered for at least a week, on principle."
Sat Jan 10 13:36:41 GMT 2004
:)
Sat Jan 10 13:37:03 GMT 2004
So, it depends on if I'm 1337 or not?
(or, choose your funniest joke)
If the world does end at 13:36, then the 1337 won't inherit the earth?
Hey, I'm tryinG
"There is no way to rule innocent men. The only power any government has is the power to track down criminials. Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so things to be a crime that it is impossible to live without breaking any laws."
-- Ayn Rand, "Atlas Shrugged"
Well, let's be honest.. In the US a few years ago we did have the OJ Trial...
Without trying to rile you up, is it fair to the child that his or her "consent" is based off of something as arbitrary as how many revolutions s/he has made around the sun?
I dare you to try and contact the Earthlink Network Abuse department. At my work, we are a (legal) online betting site and were getting pounded by several Earthlink IPs grabbing our free odds.
With megs of apache logs for each IP address, Earthlink network abuse must have taken the week off. 17 Emails and 8 calls. With NO answer, NO response on anything.
We cannot just block all of Earthlink's dynamic numbers because of ten insipid users. I wish death on all the sysadmins at Earthlink and I curse their children with webbed genitailia.
((Before replying with suggestions to do on my end, they have been tried. mod_throttle wasn't an option, dynamic temp bans had to be watched, blah, blah, blah.))
Once we know who messages are from, people can be held responsible. And at that point, anti-spam laws can handle the rest.
No, I'm sorry, that will never do. We need MORE and STRICTER SPAM LAWS, even a few that actually encompass the normal user sending a regular email. That way almost everyone is already a criminal (ala DMCA) and it will be easier to catch the spammers.
Then, after a few years and spammers have gone, we just forget to remove the laws where everyone is deemed a criminal and 1984 ensues.
Doesn't anyone remember Rock'em Sock'em Robots??
...among the winners are Slashdot for favorite Linux web site...
/. is unbiased news and "we are a not a linux site"?
Who keeps telling me that
Give two cuts away on your website under an open license as a demo...Sell 'em the rest of the album at five bucks a pop.
This still doesn't answer the question of what happens when KFG (for example, I'm not accusing) pirates this $5 album on the P2P network and no one buys it anymore...
telemarketers think their job is going to be harder with a list of people who don't want to receive calls from them....a list of people who, 99% of the time, will just hang up on them anyway
While I hate arguing by analogy because someone always picks apart the relation, imagine walking into a bar and every girl already having a "NO" sign on them. They have already preempted your sleezy pickup lines by letting you know ahead of time.
Here's the rebuttle to that. How do you know you don't want my product unless you know what it is. A girl could be losing out on the love of her life, or a good one night stand. Either way, she's already closed her mind off before even knowing about something.
Apply this to other venues, you refuse to eat "peas and brocolli" because "they look yucky." or something. Never bothering to open your mind and at least hear and idea out.
You can see how this can be abused. The fight is not about first amendment rights (that's only a buzzword to get in the media), its most likely about politely convincing someone by throwing down an iron curtain, they could be losing out on something good...
We're a record label. But we're not evil ... So if you are anti-RIAA (artist or consumer) and looking for an option (albeit a small option), this may be a start.
I am now taking bets for when the RIAA will sue over defamation and slander. Monday, Sept 28th and "The day after a big record label loses a big client to them" are already taken.
MPAA Exec: We need to stop piracy.
Lackey: Sir, if you don't mind. I happen to know a community which will solve this for us.
Exec: Go on...
Lackey: For free
Exec: Go on...
Lackey: Well, you see, I've been following them for some years now, and they are so full of themselves, that well, if you suggest a bad idea, and they hate us, they will boast in about our grand ignorance and say "Why didn't you do it this way?" Then, we can take their way, and use it against them.
For all my searching needs I now use freedb.org
I hate to sound like the typical crybaby, but why do the good guys always get screwed? If we (the spam-hating/fighting collective) were to do this, I can almost guarentee there would be media and probably law-enforcement backlash against us (as proven by the story of the spammer whose information was leaked by someone).
Now, knowing that law enforcement WON'T do anything against this, what happens when we decide on vigilante justice and return the favor onto the spammers who DDOoSed them (it's an assumption)? Will the law suddenly perk up and seek those who struck back?
And what sort of example is this proving? That Law Enforcement doesn't matter/work with technology as the internet? Is this foreshadowing for the California Anti-Spam bill?
This is your typical example of hitting your little brother/sister back after s/he hit you and your mom catching you only citing "It's always the second person who gets caught."
These will be the films such as "Gigli" and other no-name box office flops. They will now not leave our lives, but will be provided and forced down our throats on such places as our on-screen TV guide. (God damnnit, I hate comcast.)
"Missed 'Gigli' in the theatre, see it first on PPV-On-Demand!
And how long until this "rent for 24 hours" idea jumps into the music realm.
Having a party? Get 'Bootylicious Beats Vol. 5' streamed directly to your TV/Receiver for the less than the price of an electric toothbrush! Order Now
A ninety six bit R F I D and Ashcroft privacy will die...
On a tin-foil-hat note: this is how freedoms are taken away.
- "It's for convienence!"
- "But it'll save time... no one is going to monitor what types of razor blades you buy."
- "If you just swipe your finger, you'll check out quicker, save time and money 5% off to customers who use RFID!"
- "I'm sorry, but it's a requirement that all people have RFID tags in their heads. well, people were cutting off their fingers to not be tracked by us. And anyone who doesn't submit to InstaTrace is considered a criminal."
I hate to sound like a Montanian, but consider this when security and freedoms are concerned (I forget who said it, didn't bother googling)."When you draw a line in the sand, and step over it, it does not appear to be a big step from your last position, so you allow it. But if you continue to allow it, over time, you will realize (albeit, probably too late) that you do not have your original position in sight as you turn around."
Since it was already taking 30 seconds to feed me the page, I might as well copy what I got..
CD-Recordable discs unreadable in less than two years
Posted by Dennis on 19 August 2003 - 14:33 - Source: PC-Active
The Dutch PC-Active magazine has done an extensive CD-R quality test. For the test the magazine has taken a look at the readability of discs, thirty different CD-R brands, that were recorded twenty months ago. The results were quite shocking as a lot of the discs simply couldn't be read anymore:
Roughly translated from Dutch:
The tests showed that a number of CD-Rs had become completely unreadable while others could only be read back partially. Data that was recorded 20 months ago had become unreadable. These included discs of well known and lesser known manufacturers.
It is presumed that CD-Rs are good for at least 10 years. Some manufacturers even claim that their CD-Rs will last up to a century. From our tests it's concluded however that there is a lot of junk on the market. We came across CD-Rs that should never have been released to the market. It's completely unacceptable that CD-Rs become unusable in less than two years.
On the image you can see the exact same CD-R. On the left you see the outcome of our tests done in 2001. On the right you see the same CD-R in 2003. The colours indicate the severeness of the errors in the following order; white, green, yellow and red whereas white indicates that the disc can be read well and red indicates that it cannot be read.
For those of you who are interested, the original Dutch article can be found here and in the September issue of PC-Active. Please discuss this subject in our Media Forum.
I'm sorry. I had apparently text'd most of my friends saying electricity was poor, and almost immediately word spread around the north east..
In Response to the famous /. proposal.
Kathleen, I bet you are kicking yourself for giving in so soon now!
(with apologizes to CmdrTaco)
(dramatization)
This is the only way I know how to say I love you.
*gets down on one knee*
*hands over diamond semiconductor based super-computer*
Me: "Sir, please press 1 the next time you call this support line"
Them: "Are you insulting me?"
Me: "I would, but you aren't bright enough to notice, so I won't."
Them: "Good."
forcing people with your attitude (no offence implied)
:) But this is just another case of the PHB blues. No sense in paying another $35k a year for a techie to answer less than 4 phone calls during an 8 hour shift at night. Lets just have the sysadmin do it.
No offense taken.
I bet there are still many sysadmins, [et al.] who would be happy to spend some of the time answering users' questions.
That is definately a good place for feedback, some things which may be obvious to a developer isn't obvious or even intuitive for a (l)user. I'm just more agreeing with the author of the article saying that users need base knowledge before they attempt at software. And I, as Level II/III, don't feel like having to be the one to give that to them.
Let the Reboot Monkeys with the headsets do that.