Remember an Internet-Scam era company called RealNames?
They claimed that they would be MORE IMPORTANT than DNS, and that getting the right "RealName" was key to having a successful website. They kept coming around to my employer at the time (a Big Media company) trying to convince them to pay top $$$ for RealName keywords before "someone else" did.
Thankfully, they went out of business, and DNS is still here!
I've had the EXACT SAME experience with hotmail! I can create a yahoo mail account with a random long name like rasw92183432su13l334jh and it will never get spam.
But if I do the same with a hotmail account, it will get spam! I used to wonder what happenend, like is there an "opt out" directory somewhere that I didn't uncheck--now I'm wondering if it's an "internal" job.
Of course not! If Steve Jobs (not to be confused with his close relative that Clinton talks about in his new book) were to have developed this so your iPod could talk to your Newton, everyone here would be drooling and saying "OOOH! Steeevie, you're SO SMART" and camping outside the Apple Store to buy one.
Give Microsoft a break here! The invented some physical device and they have a great reason to patent it.
I got mine on the 3rd try, but I figure seeing the text of the screen will help you boys and girls that are trying to write SCRIPTS automatically keep trying the Gmail Machine!
And no, you're not getting my new gmail address! I want to keep it spam free.
Here's what WINNING SCREEN looks like
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I got mine on the 3rd try, but I figure seeing the text of the screen will help you boys and girls that are trying to write SCRIPTS automatically keep trying the Gmail Machine!
And no, you're not getting my new gmail address! I want to keep it spam free.
Darn! I got 1338 on Gmail Machine...
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I got 1338 on the Gmail Machine, and they gave me a HOTMAIL account! So close....!
Maybe, but I bought my VHS back in 1981 because the tapes were longer (in recording hours.) For the reasons I wanted a videotape recorder, VHS was "better".
We've been supplying 3D products, like our 3D WebCam for years now, but potential customers are put off by the viewing methods that require glasses.
I'm really hoping that autostereo displays will catch on, not just for gaming, but for natural appearance 3D photography.
Once you've seen how nice a 3D photo can appear (the best way is to view Realist 3D Slides on a polarized screen), you'll never want to go pack to "flat" photography again.
...because I suspect the movie studios fear that a lot of the used DVDs for sale have been copied by their orignal owners and then put up for sale to recoup the costs! (Though I beleive people just want to get rid of them. There are very few movies I want to watch over and over.)
The used DVD (and CD) business must be hurting Hollywood. I NEVER buy anything new anymore. It's so easy to buy used from Amazon now. And a used CD (incl. shipping) is almost always cheaper than iTunes, and you get better quality and a backup!
.NET may be more usable but they still have an underpinning on an API that was designed to be backwards compatable with 16 bit windows and the 16 bit Windows API
There's absolutely NO "16-bit windows" support in.NET!
And, since it's written for a virtual machine environment you can't possibly claim it has its roots in old Win16 baggage.
I program professionally on both Mac and Windows and I'd have to say that the Windows.NET API is MUCH easier to deal with than all the "baggage" I have to deal with on Apple's platform! (Like using QuickTime for images, Carbon/Cocoa/NextStep/Objective C, etc.)
MFC has not been actively supported from Microsoft for years. I'd say MFC was their biggest failure. Few people used it for real applications, and MS didn't use it internally for much.
I refuse to run Java for political reasons (I don't care to support pedophilia), but I recently starting doing a lot of work in Microsoft's C#, which is similar in it's implementation.
Like Java, C# is compiled to an intermediate code for a "virtual machine" that is typically JIT compiled for the target processor. I've been amazed at the speed. I'm doing graphics applications where I'm moving bits around manually, and C# is plenty fast! And it's nice to have garbage collection and modern features.
C# also has some other advantages over Java: it's a standard language (it has been submitted to the ECMA standardization committee), and has advanced features like "generic types" (similar to templates), pointers, and good XML serialization support.
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Now, if Barbra STREISAND DRM'ed her disks, I'd be upset!
...he can have eight arms!
And will there be skinny, pimply kids with their Linux iPods hanging around out front?
They claimed that they would be MORE IMPORTANT than DNS, and that getting the right "RealName" was key to having a successful website. They kept coming around to my employer at the time (a Big Media company) trying to convince them to pay top $$$ for RealName keywords before "someone else" did.
Thankfully, they went out of business, and DNS is still here!
Hire someone to mow your lawn! (Over there, "across the pond", do you say "rent somebody?" I ask that because you hire cars.)
Well put! That's why I use a standard language like C# over Java. (Can't link to the Java standard because there isn't one!)
But if I do the same with a hotmail account, it will get spam! I used to wonder what happenend, like is there an "opt out" directory somewhere that I didn't uncheck--now I'm wondering if it's an "internal" job.
A screen with Nigritude!
Give Microsoft a break here! The invented some physical device and they have a great reason to patent it.
What did you want to see? Objective-C code? Java (a proprietary language?) code? I can't figure out why the /. crowd is so NUTS!
using System.XML;
[...]
if (ContainsAdSenseAds())
{
pageRank++;
}
so Mac Linux users are still SOL when it comes to game playing ;-(
Technical details of failure:
PERM_FAILURE: SMTP Error (state 7): 554 HELO/EHLO: Unable to verify that you are mproxy.gmail.com
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I hope *that's* out of Beta! Wouldn't want any accidents!
It contains a small amount of text, two links, and words like:
- free
- ads
- click, copy, paste
- Enjoy
- offers
- invitation
I'd be disappointed if my email provider's spam blocker DIDN'T put this in my suspect list!I got mine on the 3rd try, but I figure seeing the text of the screen will help you boys and girls that are trying to write SCRIPTS automatically keep trying the Gmail Machine!
And no, you're not getting my new gmail address! I want to keep it spam free.
I got mine on the 3rd try, but I figure seeing the text of the screen will help you boys and girls that are trying to write SCRIPTS automatically keep trying the Gmail Machine!
And no, you're not getting my new gmail address! I want to keep it spam free.
I got 1338 on the Gmail Machine, and they gave me a HOTMAIL account! So close....!
I suspect many other consumers felt the same way.
Well, here's a 3D Live Webcam site! All you'd have to do is ask the guy on the other end to take his shirt off!
I'm really hoping that autostereo displays will catch on, not just for gaming, but for natural appearance 3D photography.
Once you've seen how nice a 3D photo can appear (the best way is to view Realist 3D Slides on a polarized screen), you'll never want to go pack to "flat" photography again.
The used DVD (and CD) business must be hurting Hollywood. I NEVER buy anything new anymore. It's so easy to buy used from Amazon now. And a used CD (incl. shipping) is almost always cheaper than iTunes, and you get better quality and a backup!
There's absolutely NO "16-bit windows" support in .NET!
And, since it's written for a virtual machine environment you can't possibly claim it has its roots in old Win16 baggage.
I program professionally on both Mac and Windows and I'd have to say that the Windows .NET API is MUCH easier to deal with than all the "baggage" I have to deal with on Apple's platform! (Like using QuickTime for images, Carbon/Cocoa/NextStep/Objective C, etc.)
MFC has not been actively supported from Microsoft for years. I'd say MFC was their biggest failure. Few people used it for real applications, and MS didn't use it internally for much.
Like Java, C# is compiled to an intermediate code for a "virtual machine" that is typically JIT compiled for the target processor. I've been amazed at the speed. I'm doing graphics applications where I'm moving bits around manually, and C# is plenty fast! And it's nice to have garbage collection and modern features.
C# also has some other advantages over Java: it's a standard language (it has been submitted to the ECMA standardization committee), and has advanced features like "generic types" (similar to templates), pointers, and good XML serialization support.
...if you download more than 1G/month, the ISP will pull the plug on you for excessive bandwith use!