While I'm sure that these new gizmos will meet "performance requirements", I doubt they can meet my budget requirements.
Last summer I bought a 512MB CF card for less than $100; that is one sixteenth the capacity of these new products. However, the price that I paid is ONE SIXTIETH the stated $6000 price of this product... not exactly a proportional increase, now is it?
Perhaps in the meantime, until the manufacturers of these toys can develop a more fair and realistic price structure, perhaps I can simply buy sixteen of those 512MB CF cards and tape them together?
That page doesn't work the way it's intended for me:
[IE Address Bar Exploit Removed]
So what was the point of this page? Well, there's a bug in IE....
That's the way I see the page because I have this nifty filtering HTTP proxy called Proxomitron, and one of my fellow users wrote a filter that effectively solves the problem BEFORE the phony URL gets to the browser.
Who needs Microsoft for a solution? Their "solutions" rarely are.
I'm not sure this is particularly newsworthy: this is just a minor twist on the very old routine of American corporations - shielded from any ethical responsibility by having been granted the legal status of an individual - abusing the fear and ignorance of consumers for their own profit.
The worst cases are when corporations actually deliberately MIS-educate consumers; a case in point: TV ads by the Clorox Co. in 2002 that attempted to convince people that ONLY their brand of sodium hypochlorite solution (bleach) was capable of killing germs!
The anti-virus companies are actually very late players to this particular game.
The personal pronoun "I" is always capitalized. All sentences must end in a period. If your cover letter looks like this I will not even look at your resume:
i m interested in your summer job.
here is my resume
So I suppose this means he wouldn't consider hiring e.e. cummings?
There's nothing "innovative" about membership only by invitation, that's for sure: elitist country clubs and the like have been using it to exclude unwanted demographics for centuries. I wrote a quick commentary to them about it:
I'm confused: if orkut.com membership is available only by invitation of an existing member, how did anyone manage to become a member in the first place? What criteria were used to pick the initial members?
How can you be certain that your initial membership choices were truly free of unintended discrimination against various demographic groups? I worry that, if your initial membership wasn't just perfect, the extrapolated result of those members' invitation choices may be a cascade or domino effect, resulting in whatever minute demographic exclusions might have existed initially becoming far more pronounced over time.
That's a fine membership model for elitist country clubs, but I hope that wasn't really your intention.
After reading this article, am I to presume that Forbes' position on all issues of this sort is that "all business is Good business"? Did you honestly intend to assert that Fax.com has never been guilty of wrongdoing and deliberately disregarding Federal law?
This article has not succeeded in eliciting any empathy from me whatsoever for Fax.com's predicament. They made their own bed - soiled their own goodwill and business - and now they'll have to lie in it. The motives, greed, or zealousness of Fax.com's detractors in no way exonerates it of own alleged mis-deeds; the incidental wrongs of an accuser do not invalidate the accusations.
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I'm a greatly-reviled hardass and stickler for social ethics in my neck of the woods, and even I'm not bothered by the implications of this particular instance. I can certainly see the potential for abuse with this practice, but there's no abuse in this instance.
The guy is apparently a Boston native (39 years of local broadcasting) and still technically lives there; leave the guy alone and let him have his perk "migrations". Sheesh!
How exactly is this a new development? I recall reading in-depth material, including interior photos, of this case as much as six months ago. Nor of course are heatpipes new, though perhaps this is the first "mass-market" commercial application of them in computing.
I blocked it out immediately afterward, because I can't see paying $1400 for eliminating a few measly decibels. I'm saying this as someone who has Asperger's Syndrome and serious noise hypersensitivities, and EVEN I don't have a problem with PC noise; I have four case fans in my Antec SX1030 case, and a Koolance Exos (watercooling) unit on top with its three fans, and that doesn't bother me!
If you wanna waste $1400 to eliminate something that doesn't even bother an autistic, be my guest!
...because PopFile does it for me now. Well, technically Outlook is doing the deed, but PopFile is the one issuing the orders. These random words of which the article speaks really aren't random at all: they're CHOSEN, and they haven't fooled PopFile's Bayesian algorithm at all in months. Since last summer, its accuracy has climbed to 99.39% today; at the beginning of this month I finally changed my Outlook spam rule from "move" to "delete", so I don't even have to bother at all now. So let the spammers try some new trick: I'll teach it to PopFile once or twice and never have to worry about it again. Never having to use the [delete] key again on spam? Heh... I could get used to being this lazy.
If I happen to be a naturalist/atheist/freethinker/Bright (take your pick) or maybe even just a Mormon or Scientologist, would it be a conflict of belief - would I be a hypocrite - for buying product from these guys, knowing that after a fashion some of the money might be used to indoctrinate others with a message of conviction contrary to my own?
Sauer's argument is not a very supportable one: corporate business models, motives, and goals change too, and often product lines and support options change rather unexpectedly as well. Companies also merge, sell out, declare Chapter 11, or go completely out of business, and products and support often suffer or disappear entirely then as well.
There is plenty enough unpredictability in commercial products and support to render his contention invalid. I have a number of stories and experiences with this myself, and I'll bet many of you do, too.
Television advertising has never really worked. The profit directly generated by TV ads has never offset the cost of the advertising... and guess who's been paying to make up the difference? National advertising campaigns have been a significant factor behind inflation for decades.
Of course the CEO (Scott Silverman) would be quoted as saying that their product could replace credit cards: he has personal stock options and hungry venture capitalists to consider. To any healthy skeptic, though, it should sound like little more than Ye Olde Wishful Thinking.
I'd like to know, though: what's to stop talented thieves from eventually cutting it out of their arm/whatever, hacking the daylights out of the thing and replacing it... or perhaps even doing it in-situ?
Turkeys south of the Canadian border are an endangered species today....
This is yet another example how unchecked capitalism is bad for both consumers and the environment: batteries and "cordless" devices actually lead to a higher profit margin for the manufacturers, and at the same time a much higher TCO for consumers.
Since many small devices use components that require DC voltage, prior to the popularity of cordless devices the manufacturers were obligated to provide either built-in AC-to-DC conversion or an external "AC adapter"; either of those represented a higher cost of design, materials, and production compared to cordless devices that use batteries. Further, the "convenience factor" of cordless devices meant that manufacturers could charge even more for an equivalent cordless product even while it was less costly to produce. Perhaps worst of all, for those devices with non-removable internal batteries, the manufacturers have known for years that most people will simply DISPOSE OF THE ENTIRE PRODUCT and buy a replacement rather than "repair" the worn-out battery, thus netting the manufacturers even more profit. All of this needless disposal, of course, comes at a cost to both the environment and consumers. If one compares the TCO of corded versus cordless devices, even excluding the environmental cost, one finds that cordless devices really aren't worth what we've been paying for them. Even so-called AC adapters are a wasteful alternative, since they remain connected to the AC power grid 24/7, drawing a small amount of current to power one coil of a transformer even when the device isn't in use (though I suppose the waste heat generated is a minute help to winter heating costs).
Footnote: in my own private way I fight this tyranny: I've disassembled, de-soldered and replaced the batteries in numerous small appliances rather than replace them outright... twice for my Norelco razor and once for my Braun toothbrush, for instance. Finally, I retrofitted them to use AC adapters instead, to which on/off switches have been added.
This article asks the wrong question or asks it backwards: IBM should have chosen the 68000 from Motorola for the original PC, rather than Apple later retooling for the x86. Linear memory space is a programmer's best friend! Intel's filthy paged memory f**ked-up the evolution of software for more than a decade.
I still have four archived versions of PowWow, including the 4.22 final version. Perhaps I should send copies to MS and the USPTO just to shake things up?
There's nothing at all "innovative" about redirecting DNS requests for selfish or nefarious purposes. I've been doing it myself for years, even at home, using DNSKong or a hosts file. I even do an analog of that with HTTP requests, grabbing certain URLs before they reach the browser and trans-mogrifying them. Maybe I should patent the process?
Even better, IMHO, would be to use that same system to also track the total drinks consumed by bar-hoppers. If someone who's had more than a few too many walks into yet another bar and demands a round, the barkeep then has a good defensible reason for refusing the sop any more liquor. "You've had ten drinks already tonight at the last three bars you visited. Wouldja like me to call you a cab, or are you close enough to home to crawl?"
There's nothing at all "innovative" about redirecting DNS requests for selfish purposes. I've been doing it for years at home using DNSKong and a hosts file. Maybe I should patent the process?
Yeah, I can HARDLY WAIT for them to incorporate this same concept (of course in a different form) into cellphones that jackass people can use while driving! As if they aren't dangerous enough already, yeah: let's completely isolate them from the inputs they might use to drive without being a public hazard....
They did more than that: they replaced the photo!
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Last summer I bought a 512MB CF card for less than $100; that is one sixteenth the capacity of these new products. However, the price that I paid is ONE SIXTIETH the stated $6000 price of this product... not exactly a proportional increase, now is it?
Perhaps in the meantime, until the manufacturers of these toys can develop a more fair and realistic price structure, perhaps I can simply buy sixteen of those 512MB CF cards and tape them together?
[IE Address Bar Exploit Removed]
So what was the point of this page? Well, there's a bug in IE....
That's the way I see the page because I have this nifty filtering HTTP proxy called Proxomitron, and one of my fellow users wrote a filter that effectively solves the problem BEFORE the phony URL gets to the browser.
Who needs Microsoft for a solution? Their "solutions" rarely are.
The worst cases are when corporations actually deliberately MIS-educate consumers; a case in point: TV ads by the Clorox Co. in 2002 that attempted to convince people that ONLY their brand of sodium hypochlorite solution (bleach) was capable of killing germs!
The anti-virus companies are actually very late players to this particular game.
i m interested in your summer job.
here is my resume
So I suppose this means he wouldn't consider hiring e.e. cummings?
I'm confused: if orkut.com membership is available only by invitation of an existing member, how did anyone manage to become a member in the first place? What criteria were used to pick the initial members?
How can you be certain that your initial membership choices were truly free of unintended discrimination against various demographic groups? I worry that, if your initial membership wasn't just perfect, the extrapolated result of those members' invitation choices may be a cascade or domino effect, resulting in whatever minute demographic exclusions might have existed initially becoming far more pronounced over time.
That's a fine membership model for elitist country clubs, but I hope that wasn't really your intention.
More "ironic" than you might think: olivine actually contains iron.
Gentlemen:
After reading this article, am I to presume that Forbes' position on all issues of this sort is that "all business is Good business"? Did you honestly intend to assert that Fax.com has never been guilty of wrongdoing and deliberately disregarding Federal law?
This article has not succeeded in eliciting any empathy from me whatsoever for Fax.com's predicament. They made their own bed - soiled their own goodwill and business - and now they'll have to lie in it. The motives, greed, or zealousness of Fax.com's detractors in no way exonerates it of own alleged mis-deeds; the incidental wrongs of an accuser do not invalidate the accusations. [/quote]
The guy is apparently a Boston native (39 years of local broadcasting) and still technically lives there; leave the guy alone and let him have his perk "migrations". Sheesh!
I blocked it out immediately afterward, because I can't see paying $1400 for eliminating a few measly decibels. I'm saying this as someone who has Asperger's Syndrome and serious noise hypersensitivities, and EVEN I don't have a problem with PC noise; I have four case fans in my Antec SX1030 case, and a Koolance Exos (watercooling) unit on top with its three fans, and that doesn't bother me!
If you wanna waste $1400 to eliminate something that doesn't even bother an autistic, be my guest!
...because PopFile does it for me now. Well, technically Outlook is doing the deed, but PopFile is the one issuing the orders. These random words of which the article speaks really aren't random at all: they're CHOSEN, and they haven't fooled PopFile's Bayesian algorithm at all in months. Since last summer, its accuracy has climbed to 99.39% today; at the beginning of this month I finally changed my Outlook spam rule from "move" to "delete", so I don't even have to bother at all now. So let the spammers try some new trick: I'll teach it to PopFile once or twice and never have to worry about it again. Never having to use the [delete] key again on spam? Heh... I could get used to being this lazy.
If I happen to be a naturalist/atheist/freethinker/Bright (take your pick) or maybe even just a Mormon or Scientologist, would it be a conflict of belief - would I be a hypocrite - for buying product from these guys, knowing that after a fashion some of the money might be used to indoctrinate others with a message of conviction contrary to my own?
Whaddaya know... Stardust returns to Earth on my birthday. I guess I'll be able to wish on a (falling) star for sure that day.
I went to high school in California with his nephew George. He would be about 42 right now.
There is plenty enough unpredictability in commercial products and support to render his contention invalid. I have a number of stories and experiences with this myself, and I'll bet many of you do, too.
Television advertising has never really worked. The profit directly generated by TV ads has never offset the cost of the advertising... and guess who's been paying to make up the difference? National advertising campaigns have been a significant factor behind inflation for decades.
I'd like to know, though: what's to stop talented thieves from eventually cutting it out of their arm/whatever, hacking the daylights out of the thing and replacing it... or perhaps even doing it in-situ?
Turkeys south of the Canadian border are an endangered species today....
This is yet another example how unchecked capitalism is bad for both consumers and the environment: batteries and "cordless" devices actually lead to a higher profit margin for the manufacturers, and at the same time a much higher TCO for consumers. Since many small devices use components that require DC voltage, prior to the popularity of cordless devices the manufacturers were obligated to provide either built-in AC-to-DC conversion or an external "AC adapter"; either of those represented a higher cost of design, materials, and production compared to cordless devices that use batteries. Further, the "convenience factor" of cordless devices meant that manufacturers could charge even more for an equivalent cordless product even while it was less costly to produce. Perhaps worst of all, for those devices with non-removable internal batteries, the manufacturers have known for years that most people will simply DISPOSE OF THE ENTIRE PRODUCT and buy a replacement rather than "repair" the worn-out battery, thus netting the manufacturers even more profit. All of this needless disposal, of course, comes at a cost to both the environment and consumers. If one compares the TCO of corded versus cordless devices, even excluding the environmental cost, one finds that cordless devices really aren't worth what we've been paying for them. Even so-called AC adapters are a wasteful alternative, since they remain connected to the AC power grid 24/7, drawing a small amount of current to power one coil of a transformer even when the device isn't in use (though I suppose the waste heat generated is a minute help to winter heating costs). Footnote: in my own private way I fight this tyranny: I've disassembled, de-soldered and replaced the batteries in numerous small appliances rather than replace them outright... twice for my Norelco razor and once for my Braun toothbrush, for instance. Finally, I retrofitted them to use AC adapters instead, to which on/off switches have been added.
This article asks the wrong question or asks it backwards: IBM should have chosen the 68000 from Motorola for the original PC, rather than Apple later retooling for the x86. Linear memory space is a programmer's best friend! Intel's filthy paged memory f**ked-up the evolution of software for more than a decade.
I still have four archived versions of PowWow, including the 4.22 final version. Perhaps I should send copies to MS and the USPTO just to shake things up?
There's nothing at all "innovative" about redirecting DNS requests for selfish or nefarious purposes. I've been doing it myself for years, even at home, using DNSKong or a hosts file. I even do an analog of that with HTTP requests, grabbing certain URLs before they reach the browser and trans-mogrifying them. Maybe I should patent the process?
Even better, IMHO, would be to use that same system to also track the total drinks consumed by bar-hoppers. If someone who's had more than a few too many walks into yet another bar and demands a round, the barkeep then has a good defensible reason for refusing the sop any more liquor. "You've had ten drinks already tonight at the last three bars you visited. Wouldja like me to call you a cab, or are you close enough to home to crawl?"
There's nothing at all "innovative" about redirecting DNS requests for selfish purposes. I've been doing it for years at home using DNSKong and a hosts file. Maybe I should patent the process?
Yeah, I can HARDLY WAIT for them to incorporate this same concept (of course in a different form) into cellphones that jackass people can use while driving! As if they aren't dangerous enough already, yeah: let's completely isolate them from the inputs they might use to drive without being a public hazard....
http://www.sco.com/products/authentication/
http://www.sco.com/images/auth/newauth.jpg
(Notice the word "new" in the image filename?)