the folks who use "dummy" email addresses that might actually be someone else's actual email address are as guilty as the spammers!
The folks who own "null.com" or "nothing.com" have to deal with mountains of crap from STOOOPID people, like the person who posed this question on Ask/. (And, btw, the intelligence of the person who's been using "nowhere.com" is questionable.)
Please, FOLKS! If you need to enter an email address to make some form happy, and they don't require active registration (i.e., you answer the email), use a FAKE TLD!
I've been using FUCK@YOU.UPTHEASS for years! I doubt that.UPTHEASS will ever beome a valid.TLD. And most sites only look for a @ and a . That's how they can claim 5 Billion Registered users!
Try to attract a more mainstream user base. The fact that your user community is tainted by a vocal contigent of "Zealots" doesn't help you get acceptance.
Similarly, get rid of all your OS-9 era employees. Face it, it was NeXT that aquired Apple, not the other way around. The OS-9 people that failed to bring your company into the 21st century should be working elsewhere.
Release Mail and Safari for Windows! This will prove to the Windows community that Macintosh apps really can be better than windows apps! And it'll be easier for companies to have both Macs and Windows in the same office if they all used the same email program and browser.
More consumer products! They get mainstream acceptance
Developers! Developers! Developers! Face it, Steve Ballmer has a point. Your tools should be the best. They're not. Much as I'd love to love them, Microsoft Visual Studio is MILES ahead of Apple's tools.
Make it clearly faster than the competition. I have an AMD-64 single processor machine and a G5 sitting here side by side. The AMD just "feels" faster. A lot of it has to do with UI performance.
I have to buy special "Macintosh" software, and if I add any third-party product (like memory or disk drives), Apple won't service it, even if I'm paying for the repairs.
I created two groups: CSHARP and 3D PHOTOGRAPHY. I tried several times to create new topics and post (I even tried a different broswer in case it was a Firefox problem) and met with failure.
I'd get a message saying "Your post will be added momentarily" but, 12 hours later it still isn't there.
Nonsense! I was up in Seattle for the launch party (with Jay Leno!) Bill Gates personally handed me a signed Win 95 box (which I have here on a shelf.)
Apple had a billboard truck driving across the street that said C:\NGRULAT.ONS (making fun of the old DOS file length limitation. They shouldn't have been so cocky because Win95 had 255 character file names, while Mac was stuck at 32.)
Yes! Don't you know that BILL GATES has a time machine...he jumps 3-5 years into the future, sees what Apple's doing, and then goes back and puts in into his operating system.
Like Active Desktops, which Windows users had since 1995.
Just because your company has a policy doesn't mean you shouldn't try them to make an exception for YOU. (Just don't tell anyone else what you're getting.)
I'm pretty sure that for a good CS researcher in the days with no compression algorithms other than Huffman coding and run-length encoding (both are relatively obvious), thinking for a whole day should probably result in something similar
Nobody did for YEARS! When I was in college, they taught Huffman coding. NOBODY in my school and 100s of others around the country came up with LZW until Lempel and Ziv did.
And the "obvious" requirement in patents doesn't mean you have to think of it in "more than a day". Of the 5 patents I hold, I probably came up with all those ideas pretty fast...
Just like Orrin Hatches' (suuport for) laws against Sodomy stopped Sodomy! In fact, when the Supreme Court ruled the laws unconsitituional, hundreds of thousands of folks said "Hurrah! now I can be a Sodomite!"
Part of the PATENT PROCESS is to MAKE THINGS PUBLIC! Anyone can go read any patent. They're not "secret".
You can go the the patent on-line RIGHT NOW and read it. The algorithm is well-known. In case you can't read the patent's description there are other sources.
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In fact, I would gladly do a beta test for a company that would make such a product.
And I appreciated the smiley!
I guess I'll have to go to another school.
'cept that Windows 1.0 shipped BEFORE the Mac did.
And it's exciting to think that we may get 64-bit laptops soon!
Exactly! And if some EVIL MORON who asks an ask /. is a general reflection of the intelligence of the /. community, then /.is finished!
The folks who own "null.com" or "nothing.com" have to deal with mountains of crap from STOOOPID people, like the person who posed this question on Ask /. (And, btw, the intelligence of the person who's been using "nowhere.com" is questionable.)
Please, FOLKS! If you need to enter an email address to make some form happy, and they don't require active registration (i.e., you answer the email), use a FAKE TLD!
I've been using FUCK@YOU.UPTHEASS for years! I doubt that .UPTHEASS will ever beome a valid .TLD. And most sites only look for a @ and a . That's how they can claim 5 Billion Registered users!
Thank you!
...when to use "it's" and when to use "its?" I learned that in third grade, and never forgot.
If I bought an IBM laptop that had problems like that, my next one would be a Sony!
Absolutely not! They wouldn't touch my machine until I removed the RAM myself. The RAM wasn't the problem in the end.
It's a lot like my G5!
I have to buy special "Macintosh" software, and if I add any third-party product (like memory or disk drives), Apple won't service it, even if I'm paying for the repairs.
I'd get a message saying "Your post will be added momentarily" but, 12 hours later it still isn't there.
Anyone else have any better luck?
Apple had a billboard truck driving across the street that said C:\NGRULAT.ONS (making fun of the old DOS file length limitation. They shouldn't have been so cocky because Win95 had 255 character file names, while Mac was stuck at 32.)
Like Active Desktops, which Windows users had since 1995.
You need a TiVo
At least that's how it was explained to me!
Just because your company has a policy doesn't mean you shouldn't try them to make an exception for YOU. (Just don't tell anyone else what you're getting.)
If you're smart enough to come up with the next great compression algoritm, I encourage you to do so!
Nobody did for YEARS! When I was in college, they taught Huffman coding. NOBODY in my school and 100s of others around the country came up with LZW until Lempel and Ziv did.
And the "obvious" requirement in patents doesn't mean you have to think of it in "more than a day". Of the 5 patents I hold, I probably came up with all those ideas pretty fast...
800 numbers always have access to your number, regardless of your "Caller ID" preference.
Just like Orrin Hatches' (suuport for) laws against Sodomy stopped Sodomy! In fact, when the Supreme Court ruled the laws unconsitituional, hundreds of thousands of folks said "Hurrah! now I can be a Sodomite!"
You can go the the patent on-line RIGHT NOW and read it. The algorithm is well-known. In case you can't read the patent's description there are other sources.