In reference to the GameStop employees that are planning on going...
I expect to say this on the phone a thousand times over the next two months.
E3 has instituted a "Priority Buyer" program this year.
If you work at any of the major retailers (EG: gamestop, game crazy, EB, Best Buy), then you will not be allowed to register for free admission.
Instead, the corporate offices of these companies will be sent a pre-determined number of pre-qualified passes. These passes are the only people from these companies that will be allowed to attend for free.
Anyone else from these companies will be welcome to pay 500 bucks to get in.
This means attendance is going to be way down, but the experience will be far better.
The original idea behind HTML was to let the author control content, and the viewer control the actual display according to their own hardware and preferences.
Style sheets were an attempt by authors to control not only content, but presentation as well. I leave it to the reader to decide which major company feels that you should only see things the way they want you to. (Hint: "Where do you think you're going today?")
More often than not the style sheet causes those of us who use computers as tools (and so don't need to upgrade every month, and have no need of more than, say, 800x600) to look at seriously malformed pages.
If you want to make them DOCs, then make them DOCS. If you leave them as HTML they look great,
but given the choice between stylesheets and vanilla text I will take vanilla text.
Blacklisting is usually done when the domain
administrators ignore request to deal with
the spammers or when they simply continue to
allow the spam to come in spite of stopping the
individual offenders.
If the blacklisting is done improperly, IMHO,
it is because the IP is blocked, but the name
service is allowed to continue to serve spammers.
If cleansweep2001 spams, and the IP is blocked,
they just move the IP and keep the name.
For example, if I had the ability I would
have no problem with blocking all domains registered through joker.com.
Pretty much every email scam I get comes from
a domain registered with them. (today it was
for globalsecureorders.com)
Perhaps there are valid domains hosted there too,
but IMHO blocking the company would drive the good customers to responsible name registrants, encouraging them to clean up their act or go out of business.
Simply saying the name registrar is not responsible for the content hosted by the registant is a straw man argument.
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In reference to the GameStop employees that are planning on going...
I expect to say this on the phone a thousand times over the next two months.
E3 has instituted a "Priority Buyer" program this year.
If you work at any of the major retailers (EG: gamestop, game crazy, EB, Best Buy),
then you will not be allowed to register for free admission.
Instead, the corporate offices of these companies will be sent a pre-determined
number of pre-qualified passes. These passes are the only people from these
companies that will be allowed to attend for free.
Anyone else from these companies will be welcome to pay 500 bucks to get in.
This means attendance is going to be way down, but the experience will be far better.
***if you don't work at one of these places.***
The original idea behind HTML was to let the author control content, and the viewer control the actual display according to their own hardware and preferences. Style sheets were an attempt by authors to control not only content, but presentation as well. I leave it to the reader to decide which major company feels that you should only see things the way they want you to. (Hint: "Where do you think you're going today?") More often than not the style sheet causes those of us who use computers as tools (and so don't need to upgrade every month, and have no need of more than, say, 800x600) to look at seriously malformed pages. If you want to make them DOCs, then make them DOCS. If you leave them as HTML they look great, but given the choice between stylesheets and vanilla text I will take vanilla text.
Blacklisting is usually done when the domain administrators ignore request to deal with the spammers or when they simply continue to allow the spam to come in spite of stopping the individual offenders. If the blacklisting is done improperly, IMHO, it is because the IP is blocked, but the name service is allowed to continue to serve spammers. If cleansweep2001 spams, and the IP is blocked, they just move the IP and keep the name. For example, if I had the ability I would have no problem with blocking all domains registered through joker.com. Pretty much every email scam I get comes from a domain registered with them. (today it was for globalsecureorders.com) Perhaps there are valid domains hosted there too, but IMHO blocking the company would drive the good customers to responsible name registrants, encouraging them to clean up their act or go out of business. Simply saying the name registrar is not responsible for the content hosted by the registant is a straw man argument.