This is sort of off-topic, but I'd like to suggest why it is that home users get more spam than corporate users: they don't care. I'm using Yahoo. I simply delete spam. It's not hard. It takes up about five seconds of my day. There is no chance of not receiving something due to filtering. In a corporate enviornment, however, it is different. They pay for the servers, they pay for the [small amount of] productivity lost. At home, nobody cares. Sure, if you were getting 20 spams a day you would care, but most of us are not receive that volume of spam.
I can agree to the previous AC in some repects. I believe that the Internet is not something that you should worry about. Kids are bound to get a hold of a Playboy one day, and it's a good thing. Do you really want your children growing up believing that sex is bad and doesn't exist? Of course not. I think what we need is to have a blacklist of some sites (hard core porn, etc.) be available to those who want it, but we should not subject our children to kids-only sites. What's the matter when your kid wants to know what's going on in Lebanon and (s)he goes to nytimes.com? I'm sure that the NYTimes will not get nytimes.kid.us, and why should they? They're not a kid-oriented site, however they ARE a kid-FRIENDLY site. Kid-friendly != Kid oriented.
Sorry, you're all going to hate me for this, but IT'S A SNOW DAY! HURRAY!!! Sorry, I just needed to let that out. Who knows why I'm telling you people this with a no anonomity. Oh well. Anybody share my excitement?
I think that you people have merit, but you need to remember something: this is a problem. Sure, this case is completely ridiculous, but there is a huge difference between dubbing tapes and downloading music. Dubbing tapes can give the tapes to, what, ten, tweny people? Online music sharings gives the whole world access. If the RIAA did nothing about it (I don't give a shit about the MPAA, I don't know that anybody has ever not seen a movie that they really wanted to see just because it was bad when they downloaded, I personally only download movies _after_ I see them in theatres) for ten years and kept CD prices the way they were, they would be selling zero CDs. You people have to understand that dubbing tapes != downloading music.
I read the article. It did not talk about this. Yes, it talked about peeling, but not in this instance. Not regarding this particular idea. Please read both my comment and the article before commenting.
I think another cool application of the technology would be to maximize the bitrate, not lowering it. You could download.ogg files to a...well, I want to say MP3, but it's not...OGG player at awesomely high rates. But then the player would dynamically peel the layers off when space ran out (actually, with my idea there would be no space, but it would not appear as such) to add new songs.
Apostrophes do not denote plurality. Don't use either. Use "circa 1900s." And with the time that it takes you to find the damn tilde key you could write out "circa." That was Steve's helpful hint of the day.
I'd take any old computer! As long as it's a 486 or higher, it's still useful. Especially to a geek! Or give it to your child. Or just put it somewhere and use it as a typewriter. Or a print server. Or a regular ol' server. Or a file server. Or a router. Or a dildo. Er...maybe not the last one...but you catch my drift.
I meant "But most sites DON'T offer an alternative form of payment." I swear! And regarding the third comment: what's the point of inconviniencing these people and wasting your bandwidth on something they aren't going to use? Just because somebody doesn't look at the ad doesn't mean they're not a valuable customer. They tell other people who don't use ad blocking tools who click on the ads who raise their bottom line.
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But most sites offer an alternative form of payment. And plus, like an earlier poster pointed out, people who block pop-up ads are sure as hell not going to disable them to see a website. And even if they did, do you really think they'd click on them!?
Or you could connect the computers to the main librarians computer. Have a dedicated low resolution monitor (so that you couldn't see what they were writing, only when there were gigantic tits) that cycles through all of the computers every two or three minutes. Eh?
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This is sort of off-topic, but I'd like to suggest why it is that home users get more spam than corporate users: they don't care. I'm using Yahoo. I simply delete spam. It's not hard. It takes up about five seconds of my day. There is no chance of not receiving something due to filtering. In a corporate enviornment, however, it is different. They pay for the servers, they pay for the [small amount of] productivity lost. At home, nobody cares. Sure, if you were getting 20 spams a day you would care, but most of us are not receive that volume of spam.
I can agree to the previous AC in some repects. I believe that the Internet is not something that you should worry about. Kids are bound to get a hold of a Playboy one day, and it's a good thing. Do you really want your children growing up believing that sex is bad and doesn't exist? Of course not. I think what we need is to have a blacklist of some sites (hard core porn, etc.) be available to those who want it, but we should not subject our children to kids-only sites. What's the matter when your kid wants to know what's going on in Lebanon and (s)he goes to nytimes.com? I'm sure that the NYTimes will not get nytimes.kid.us, and why should they? They're not a kid-oriented site, however they ARE a kid-FRIENDLY site. Kid-friendly != Kid oriented.
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Sorry, you're all going to hate me for this, but IT'S A SNOW DAY! HURRAY!!! Sorry, I just needed to let that out. Who knows why I'm telling you people this with a no anonomity. Oh well. Anybody share my excitement?
I think that you people have merit, but you need to remember something: this is a problem. Sure, this case is completely ridiculous, but there is a huge difference between dubbing tapes and downloading music. Dubbing tapes can give the tapes to, what, ten, tweny people? Online music sharings gives the whole world access. If the RIAA did nothing about it (I don't give a shit about the MPAA, I don't know that anybody has ever not seen a movie that they really wanted to see just because it was bad when they downloaded, I personally only download movies _after_ I see them in theatres) for ten years and kept CD prices the way they were, they would be selling zero CDs. You people have to understand that dubbing tapes != downloading music.
I read the article. It did not talk about this. Yes, it talked about peeling, but not in this instance. Not regarding this particular idea. Please read both my comment and the article before commenting.
I think another cool application of the technology would be to maximize the bitrate, not lowering it. You could download .ogg files to a...well, I want to say MP3, but it's not...OGG player at awesomely high rates. But then the player would dynamically peel the layers off when space ran out (actually, with my idea there would be no space, but it would not appear as such) to add new songs.
Yes. I agree. So far a slab of wood with four sticks has been working out for me fine.
Apostrophes do not denote plurality. Don't use either. Use "circa 1900s." And with the time that it takes you to find the damn tilde key you could write out "circa." That was Steve's helpful hint of the day.
She was alergic to...beep beep beep beep. And, man, it was really an alergy! It was like...yeah.
I'd take any old computer! As long as it's a 486 or higher, it's still useful. Especially to a geek! Or give it to your child. Or just put it somewhere and use it as a typewriter. Or a print server. Or a regular ol' server. Or a file server. Or a router. Or a dildo. Er...maybe not the last one...but you catch my drift.
I had a cousin who had a friend whose housekeeper's wicked step mother once pooped out a bootlegged Star Wars DVD...two years before it was realeased.
I meant "But most sites DON'T offer an alternative form of payment." I swear! And regarding the third comment: what's the point of inconviniencing these people and wasting your bandwidth on something they aren't going to use? Just because somebody doesn't look at the ad doesn't mean they're not a valuable customer. They tell other people who don't use ad blocking tools who click on the ads who raise their bottom line.
WASHINGTON, D.C.--Since November 25th, when the Anti-Leech law was passed requiring all to look at billboards, half of the American public has died in gruesome crashes will abiding this law. As a result and easy fix to this, the Anti-Leech law will be ammended to outlaw death. More news at eleven.
But most sites offer an alternative form of payment. And plus, like an earlier poster pointed out, people who block pop-up ads are sure as hell not going to disable them to see a website. And even if they did, do you really think they'd click on them!?
It seems that a lot of people have PDAs that they don't use. Anybody want to donate them to an...er..."greater cause" (read: me)?
Uh...first post? I'm kind of embarassed considering the shittiness of the article.
Uh...yeah...how about...NO. You moron.
Then why aren't we all using Lynx on DOS right now?
Next you'll be telling me that porn is legal, and in fact built the Internet, VHS tapes, and DVDs. Ha!
Or you could connect the computers to the main librarians computer. Have a dedicated low resolution monitor (so that you couldn't see what they were writing, only when there were gigantic tits) that cycles through all of the computers every two or three minutes. Eh?
That's why you italicize singular letters.
Dot your is and cross your ts!
...or...
Dot your Is and cross your Ts!
ALPHA CENTAURI, Universe--Today when Visa Corp. sued the natural laws of...well...everything in a federal court for infringing on their European trademark of "Visa Electron" the court orded the Universe to cease and desist producing, using, or even acknowlodging the atomic particle formerly known as "electron." Incidentally, the Universe came to a screeching halt everywhere except for Alpha Centauri where the whole Universe is pilled onto one atom with no valence electrons. More news at eleven.