But the less traffic they get, the less revenue they generate from the 'friendly' banners. So the ads get more intrusive, and traffic decreases.
It's a downward spiral that forces once respectable and informative sites to become crappy "0-day warez and pr0n" scams.
Ads pay for the sites. So long as they aren't ridiculously intrusive or annoying (popping up 99 new windows for every page loaded - and all 99 windows have the exact same ad), they dont bother me.
What I'm saying is, I don't block popups. I do avoid sites that annoy me. But thanks to mozilla et al, now the sites that used to play fair are forced into the cheap annoying tricks to pay the rent.
I've seen laminated cardboards glued together with natural resins which are as strong as steel. Essentially we're talking about plywood made from recycled paper here, it's actually a trend in the construction industry thats gaining ground.
Alternative materials like this just could be the way of the future for the eMachines of the world to cut costs, and pacify the tree hugger clique.
From what I get from the translation, it does make some sense.
If your PC is going to be recycled in a couple of years anyways, because the parts on the inside are so cheap, why do we need to use all the noxious chemicals and whatnot to spray paint a steel or aluminum box (or powder coat or annodize or whatever for the pretty fuzzy cases).
Reinforced cardboard would do the same job just fine, with much less impact on the environment. The chemicals in spray paint are friggin brutal, especially automotive or industrially applied paints.
The last paragraph seems to point to the fact that "modding" is as easy as doodling with some crayolas.
Then when you're sick of the case, you just grab a new one.
Or, more likely, the better sites that use pop-ups properly (ie, not opening 50 popups and redirects that go full-screen, but just one harmless little ad) will just lose what little revenue they bring in, and will just go under.
It seems inevitable to me that the WWW will eventually decay into a collection of corporate sites, a big shopping mall. It's getting to expensive for a non-profit motivated voice to be heard.
A lot of sites (like the once really cool but now really pathetic Vintage Gaming Network) now block downloads or forum access or other features if you block popups.
Popups arent similar to telemarketers. If you don't like them, you needn't visit sites that use them. They aren't unsolicited in that regard.
People throw around phrases like "vote with your wallet" but seldom practice what they preach. Don't like a certain method of advertising? Don't visit those sites.
Same as if (for example) Nickelodeon started running ads for cigarettes and beer during "The Wiggles". Stop watching nickelodeon.
But everyone sits through it, not wanting to be inconvenienced by their principles, and waits for some sort of law to make it alright.
And now we have a billion zillion conflicting laws restricting what we can or cannot do. Bah.
On having a site dedicated to bashing a company's (or companies) products and policies, while at the same time selling sed company large blocks of advertising space in the middle of articles.
It's called the "Method for a Hypocritical Advertising Revenue System". Dig deep Taco, I'm coming after you first.
The ISP sends only one challenge. You respond once, and henceforth are allowed to send as much as you want.
Now if I wanted to Joe Job some guy, I just pick someone who's chances are good that he's already allowed through earthlink. Say the maintainer of a mailing list with earthlink subscribers.
I've said it before. This is just a step towards making SMTP a pain in the ass, and obsolete. We can look forward to a high tech pay-per-use replacement in the future. Yay! Paying to send e-mail, I cant wait. But at least the two or three spams I get a month will be gone.
Once the spammers work around this (and they can, i mean you only have to respond once to get the full run of earthlink), they'll find another way to make SMTP a pain in the ass. Like charging a nickel for email, or some shit like that.
Eventually, when it's such a hassle or expense to use, and noone uses it, then it can be replaced.
Look at satellite radio. Why would anyone pay 40 bucks a month for a new kind of radio? Simple, they made regular FM radio suck. So if you want to hear anything but the top 40, you need to pay.
Because no OCR routines have ever been written, this is absolutely foolproof.
Even so, you only have to respond once, and you then have the full run of earthlink. So you spend a day responding to challenges from all the ISPs, then go back to business as usual.
The way I read it, earthlink, up on recieving an e-mail, sends a challenge to the email sender. If the e-mail sender responds, it delivers the mail.
From the article:
When someone sends an e-mail to a challenge-response user, he or she gets an e-mail back asking to verify that the sender is a live person.
Once the sender does that by replicating a word or picture displayed on the screen, the original e-mail is allowed through. The system automatically recognizes future e-mails from the same sender, so the verification needs only to be performed once. Without the verification, the e-mail is not delivered.
So if earthlink people are on your mailing list, you'll get a challenge next time you send it out. It should only happen once, and from then on, you're email addy is "legit".
It's not like you get 9000000 challenges from everyone on the list. But if every ISP did it, you'd get a challenge from every ISP on the list.
This is the first step towards email being such a pain in the ass, that people just no longer bother using it.
I'm sure you were expecting deep thought provoking cinema.
I expected the same thing from "Superfriends" but instead I get superman flying to the moon (split in two by bizarro) and welding it back together with his heat vision.
Batman flew there with him. Not only can Batman fly, but both can survive in the vacuum of space.
Is that for real? I'd like one for the geek factor, (in all practicality, an emulator is a better choice) but wonder about some of the specs.
3.5" floppy drive connector with 1581 emulation (using PC drive) with 64k RAM
I'd heard many times in the emu community that reading 1541 (5.25) or 1581 (3.5) disks with a PC drive is physically impossible, and that running a real 1581/41 over a serial port is impractical because of the precise timings of the system (the good old blinking drive led)
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>> "Uhh... the effects of nuclear radiation on the human body".
And that has to do with 'da bomb' and nothing to do with kimotherapy, people who work in power facilities or are exposed to other environmental sources of radiation, right?
You also needn't use IIS, you can use the very same apache that runs on a linux box.
None of this scripting has anything to do with linux. It all has to do with the interface (or lack of) that userland apps expose.
In unix, some expose good programatic interfaces, some others are limited to parsing the text from stdout and a return value.
Windows has bad userland apps with no interface as well. But at least theres a framework (ActiveX and now.NET) to expose functionality so that anyone can make use of it.
People can hate MS all day and night, but scripting in a world where everything you need is exposed via COM/ActiveX is a cakewalk.
There's plenty of documentation on the APIs for windows, the only thing hidden is the source code itself - which is irrelevant.
Whether you're scripting OpenOffice or MS Word, you assume that the methods and objects you work with perform as documented. If it doesnt you expect the authors to fix it (at least you do when you pay for it, if it was free you just cross your fingers or write some kludge to get around it)
Scripting in a world where virtually everything you want is exposed through ActiveX/COM and now.NET is much superior than jerking around with ancient return codes from command line apps.
UNIX is as inflexible and unweildly as it was in the 70s.
And an MCSD wouldn't write one to do anything in windows - it's a DOS construct, he'd write a VBScript, JavaScript, or - if he wanted to be just like you - write it in perl or bash or tcl.
Every userland language/app that exists for linux exists for NT.
If MS wanted a locked down platform, they'd abandon the PC architecture for something proprietary, and embed their software in all the ROMS, and make sure off-the-shelf parts don't work with it.
You know, like Apple.
And, you know what? It could happen. MS could develop the MS-2000 CPU that only runs their own code. Just like Apple. And whos to stop them? Noone.
Would it mean x86 ceases to exist? Nope, not so long as people want it.
Would it mean linux ceases to exist? Nope, not so long as people want it.
If linux dissappears, it will be because it carries no value, not because the borg-bill icon came to life and stole it.
So all this whining energy should be focused on making linux a compelling product with value. That's the only way to ensure its survival.
If there's a demand for linux, there will be someone selling hardware to run it. It's as simple as that.
The only way linux could be locked out, would be if it became 100% absolutely useless and there was no demand for it.
Nothing about this product is supposed to be revolutionary, except perhaps MS shift of focus from software to hardware. It's somewhat more maclike, trying to create a PC with a better look and feel. More power to 'em.
Don't like it? Don't buy one. This is pure and simple consumerism, not a march towards world domination.
The Xbox hasn't (and wont any time soon) dominated the console market, and they have only 2 competitors.
How can the Athens PC achieve this when there is countless competition, from not only big name vendors, but the little PC shop down the street, or the DIY'ers?
It's ridiculous, and pure anti-MS zealot FUD. Typical Taco commentary.
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I dont mean Internet = Profit, I mean Internet = One Big Online Catalog.
It's already pretty close to being so. The WWW is fast getting useless for anything except shopping online.
But the less traffic they get, the less revenue they generate from the 'friendly' banners. So the ads get more intrusive, and traffic decreases.
It's a downward spiral that forces once respectable and informative sites to become crappy "0-day warez and pr0n" scams.
Ads pay for the sites. So long as they aren't ridiculously intrusive or annoying (popping up 99 new windows for every page loaded - and all 99 windows have the exact same ad), they dont bother me.
What I'm saying is, I don't block popups. I do avoid sites that annoy me. But thanks to mozilla et al, now the sites that used to play fair are forced into the cheap annoying tricks to pay the rent.
I've seen laminated cardboards glued together with natural resins which are as strong as steel. Essentially we're talking about plywood made from recycled paper here, it's actually a trend in the construction industry thats gaining ground.
Alternative materials like this just could be the way of the future for the eMachines of the world to cut costs, and pacify the tree hugger clique.
This means physical location as in which drive, even which PC the data is located on.
And before someone jumps in, this is different from mount points and symlinks and mapped drives.
From what I get from the translation, it does make some sense.
If your PC is going to be recycled in a couple of years anyways, because the parts on the inside are so cheap, why do we need to use all the noxious chemicals and whatnot to spray paint a steel or aluminum box (or powder coat or annodize or whatever for the pretty fuzzy cases).
Reinforced cardboard would do the same job just fine, with much less impact on the environment. The chemicals in spray paint are friggin brutal, especially automotive or industrially applied paints.
The last paragraph seems to point to the fact that "modding" is as easy as doodling with some crayolas.
Then when you're sick of the case, you just grab a new one.
I actually like this idea.
Or, more likely, the better sites that use pop-ups properly (ie, not opening 50 popups and redirects that go full-screen, but just one harmless little ad) will just lose what little revenue they bring in, and will just go under.
It seems inevitable to me that the WWW will eventually decay into a collection of corporate sites, a big shopping mall. It's getting to expensive for a non-profit motivated voice to be heard.
squidguard and/or DansGuardian.
The first will block domains and IPs out, the latter will filter the pages themselves (really more useful as a childproofing tool).
Be aware that lots of sites wont work if you block the popups (like not allowing downloads or access to features, etc).
A lot of sites (like the once really cool but now really pathetic Vintage Gaming Network) now block downloads or forum access or other features if you block popups.
Popups arent similar to telemarketers. If you don't like them, you needn't visit sites that use them. They aren't unsolicited in that regard.
People throw around phrases like "vote with your wallet" but seldom practice what they preach. Don't like a certain method of advertising? Don't visit those sites.
Same as if (for example) Nickelodeon started running ads for cigarettes and beer during "The Wiggles". Stop watching nickelodeon.
But everyone sits through it, not wanting to be inconvenienced by their principles, and waits for some sort of law to make it alright.
And now we have a billion zillion conflicting laws restricting what we can or cannot do. Bah.
On having a site dedicated to bashing a company's (or companies) products and policies, while at the same time selling sed company large blocks of advertising space in the middle of articles.
It's called the "Method for a Hypocritical Advertising Revenue System". Dig deep Taco, I'm coming after you first.
The ISP sends only one challenge. You respond once, and henceforth are allowed to send as much as you want.
Now if I wanted to Joe Job some guy, I just pick someone who's chances are good that he's already allowed through earthlink. Say the maintainer of a mailing list with earthlink subscribers.
I've said it before. This is just a step towards making SMTP a pain in the ass, and obsolete. We can look forward to a high tech pay-per-use replacement in the future. Yay! Paying to send e-mail, I cant wait. But at least the two or three spams I get a month will be gone.
This is step 1.
Make email more of a pain in the ass.
Once the spammers work around this (and they can, i mean you only have to respond once to get the full run of earthlink), they'll find another way to make SMTP a pain in the ass. Like charging a nickel for email, or some shit like that.
Eventually, when it's such a hassle or expense to use, and noone uses it, then it can be replaced.
Look at satellite radio. Why would anyone pay 40 bucks a month for a new kind of radio? Simple, they made regular FM radio suck. So if you want to hear anything but the top 40, you need to pay.
Because no OCR routines have ever been written, this is absolutely foolproof.
Even so, you only have to respond once, and you then have the full run of earthlink. So you spend a day responding to challenges from all the ISPs, then go back to business as usual.
From the article:
So if earthlink people are on your mailing list, you'll get a challenge next time you send it out. It should only happen once, and from then on, you're email addy is "legit".
It's not like you get 9000000 challenges from everyone on the list. But if every ISP did it, you'd get a challenge from every ISP on the list.
This is the first step towards email being such a pain in the ass, that people just no longer bother using it.
Kiss SMTP and POP3 goodbye.
It's a fucking cartoon, guy.
I'm sure you were expecting deep thought provoking cinema.
I expected the same thing from "Superfriends" but instead I get superman flying to the moon (split in two by bizarro) and welding it back together with his heat vision.
Batman flew there with him. Not only can Batman fly, but both can survive in the vacuum of space.
But know what?
It's a cartoon written for little kids.
imagine you actually typed all that shit just to download something..
Welcome to the lovely land of linux.
Windows users, just use a dl manager like getright.
Is that for real? I'd like one for the geek factor, (in all practicality, an emulator is a better choice) but wonder about some of the specs.
3.5" floppy drive connector with 1581 emulation (using PC drive) with 64k RAM
I'd heard many times in the emu community that reading 1541 (5.25) or 1581 (3.5) disks with a PC drive is physically impossible, and that running a real 1581/41 over a serial port is impractical because of the precise timings of the system (the good old blinking drive led)
>> "Uhh... the effects of nuclear radiation on the human body".
And that has to do with 'da bomb' and nothing to do with kimotherapy, people who work in power facilities or are exposed to other environmental sources of radiation, right?
You also needn't use IIS, you can use the very same apache that runs on a linux box.
.NET) to expose functionality so that anyone can make use of it.
None of this scripting has anything to do with linux. It all has to do with the interface (or lack of) that userland apps expose.
In unix, some expose good programatic interfaces, some others are limited to parsing the text from stdout and a return value.
Windows has bad userland apps with no interface as well. But at least theres a framework (ActiveX and now
People can hate MS all day and night, but scripting in a world where everything you need is exposed via COM/ActiveX is a cakewalk.
The thin client model is all but dead.
It's also known as the "put all your eggs in one basket so when your big server/network connection goes down, noone in the office can work" model.
There's plenty of documentation on the APIs for windows, the only thing hidden is the source code itself - which is irrelevant.
.NET is much superior than jerking around with ancient return codes from command line apps.
Whether you're scripting OpenOffice or MS Word, you assume that the methods and objects you work with perform as documented. If it doesnt you expect the authors to fix it (at least you do when you pay for it, if it was free you just cross your fingers or write some kludge to get around it)
Scripting in a world where virtually everything you want is exposed through ActiveX/COM and now
UNIX is as inflexible and unweildly as it was in the 70s.
.bat isn't a script, it's a batch file.
And an MCSD wouldn't write one to do anything in windows - it's a DOS construct, he'd write a VBScript, JavaScript, or - if he wanted to be just like you - write it in perl or bash or tcl.
Every userland language/app that exists for linux exists for NT.
If MS wanted a locked down platform, they'd abandon the PC architecture for something proprietary, and embed their software in all the ROMS, and make sure off-the-shelf parts don't work with it.
You know, like Apple.
And, you know what? It could happen. MS could develop the MS-2000 CPU that only runs their own code. Just like Apple. And whos to stop them? Noone.
Would it mean x86 ceases to exist? Nope, not so long as people want it.
Would it mean linux ceases to exist? Nope, not so long as people want it.
If linux dissappears, it will be because it carries no value, not because the borg-bill icon came to life and stole it.
So all this whining energy should be focused on making linux a compelling product with value. That's the only way to ensure its survival.
If there's a demand for linux, there will be someone selling hardware to run it. It's as simple as that.
The only way linux could be locked out, would be if it became 100% absolutely useless and there was no demand for it.
Nothing about this product is supposed to be revolutionary, except perhaps MS shift of focus from software to hardware. It's somewhat more maclike, trying to create a PC with a better look and feel. More power to 'em.
Don't like it? Don't buy one. This is pure and simple consumerism, not a march towards world domination.
The Xbox hasn't (and wont any time soon) dominated the console market, and they have only 2 competitors.
How can the Athens PC achieve this when there is countless competition, from not only big name vendors, but the little PC shop down the street, or the DIY'ers?
It's ridiculous, and pure anti-MS zealot FUD. Typical Taco commentary.
Exactly how?
So Microsoft is trying to reinvent itself somewhat in Apples image. I thought we all love proprietary locked-down Macs.
This is just one product.
If there's a demand for linux, there will be a demand for hardware that runs linux. Just don't expect to be buying it from Jobs or Gates.