My personal favorite was a call a got a few years ago. A qwest customer service rep. called at dinnertime to sell a new service. The new service in question... blocking telemarketers's calls. I asked her if it would block calls like hers and she told me, "No, you are our customer so we can still call you." I didn't opt for the service.
I think if we're going to start reshuffling money, the Superconducting Supercollider project should be given another chance. The space station always did seem like a PR move anyway. Not that the PR seems to be working.:)
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I'd like to see Linux drivers in the "roadmap". I still can't get 3d acceleration and tv-in on my 8500 card. The newer gen. cards look great, but how long till the drivers are available for them?
By the way, this is a good open source project for drivers (ATI) here.
By that same logic, your post should have been sent via the postal system. It's not a perfect analogy, but I think the argument is similar to the one about email vs. the postal service. I don't think we need to outlaw innovation to protect jobs./rant off
I'm still waiting for a pda with a small harddrive, like the ipod. I know that it would use more power, be slower, larger...but it would still be cool. Maybe apple will make a video/pda ipod soon.
OSNews.com has a story about how Palm dropped the Palm desktop for Apple, but as I understand it, there are better programs for synching on that platform. I don't believe that Palm Desktop has ever been very popular on the Mac.
It's probably a sign of age, but I can't listen to most of the new music that's coming out now. For some reason, my perception of culture changing halted sometime around 1995. Most of the music I listen to came out of the 70's or 80's. I've enjoyed a few newer songs, but I can't tell most of these new bands apart.
That sounds a lot like Bill Gates argument on why Windows is the most secure operating system available. Not that I agree with Bill about windows, but you make a pretty good point. I don't see how something can be very secure without some real-world testing. Now if I could just get my coworkers to stop opening up every attatchment in their inboxes.:)
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I just got this story emailed to me by my girlfriend yesterday. She went back to school to get her second batchelor's degree in psychology. She's been job hunting for a position and the salary on that list is about dead on. She's going back to grad. school nest semester because the higher degree makes a big difference in that field.
Here is a perfect example of how p2p technology can be used in a legal, useful and beneficial way. I'm wondering if the 90% study was done with the same logic as: one download = a lost sale. I know there is a lot of copywritten material floating around out on the networks, but there are legitimate uses too. How many Bittorent links have you seen posted in these very forums to prevent slashdotting? I'd like this issue settled so we can start finding more innovative uses for p2p networks. and pr0n of course:)
That reminds me of the "Google Traffic Takes Down Web Site" article a little while ago. I wonder if the BBC reporter read that article. It would be ironic if the BBC was slashdoted after writing such a negotive story. I think if anyone has a problem with the BBC article they should contact the BBC and let their feelings be known.
After all of the SCO FUD, I'm not suprised so many people were taking enjoyment out of SCO's misfortune. Unfortunatly, people are looking for someone to blame and this does make for a good story. I've seen slashdot members' comments quoted on stories about this virus, so people are looking here for a response. I know it's been talked about before, but here is Bruce Perens letter to the OSS community again. Everyone's certainly entitled to their opinions, but he makes a good point.
I read about this in the local Denver paper a couple of days ago. Here's an article that describes a few bills, local and federal, that deal with the outsourcing trend. I'm not sure if these will pass in their current form. I have mixed feelings about them too. I've heard some good arguments both ways. If my state punishes outsourcers, it's likely when the trend changes, these companies will be located in California and other states. Mmmmmm. To be fair, I'd probably feel more strongly if my company had outsourced my job to India.
I thought everyone used their cellphones to tell time now. Seriously, I can't stand the feel of a wrist watch on my arm, it gets in the way of typing and reading slashdot.
I remember reading an article a couple of years ago about games on cellphones. The author claimed that the manufactures are putting games on the phones so the buttons wear out faster. Worn out buttons = need a new phone sooner.
so: 1. Make a phone with games. 2. User wears out buttons faster. 3. ? 4. Profit!
I use it too. You can get cheaper phones and not worry about how long you talk. I'd love for them to go data though. The biggest problem is that they don't have roaming. Just because they are in different cities doesn't mean that an L.A. user can use his/her phone in Denver.
He said DivX, so I think the pain would be waiting for all of those to convert to mpeg2 for video CD's. Not a big deal for 4-5 movies, but you'd be suprised at how many DivX movies some people have collected.
When I was in an apartment I had a setup much like this. The only major difference was I had an A/V transmitter sending the video from the computer to the TV over the air. Granted, I had to tweak the wireless network so it wouldn't interfere with the signal and everytime someone juiced up the microwave, I got some interference. In general it was kind of fun setting up. I used a RF remote and an IR transmitter to a wireless keyboard.
Maybe it wouldn't make as much sense if you are truely building from scratch, but this is slashdot. How many peeps here don't have a basement/closet full of spare parts. If you have a box sitting around, it's much cheaper than say a replayTV or MCE Windoze box. Part of building your own is the fun. Aside from that, you can cusomize your own box a lot more than a tivo or replaytv. Mame anyone? Check out MythTV for a cool OSS project or MyHtpc.net for a really cool, community driven front-end. For an all around informative site about hardware, and mostly windows frontend software, check out ruel.net It's more tweaking and screwing around, but more adaptable too.
I didn't mean to exactly reply to the email. This email "client" would access the site, just the main domain, from a browser. If it was coded right, they would only get an ip address.
There are millions of stolen credit card numbers floating around. It may be risky to use them on products delivered to a home, but what about the spammers. How many spammers are going to be buying these numbers and using them to charge up their spam? Could this cause an increase to identity theft?
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I didn't RTFA, but I've heard this idea proposed before. The idea was to only charge postage on accounts after they have sent the first 500 or so emails. I still think the idea stinks. I've heard other solutions that are better. My favorite was offering bounties for spammers. Another interesting idea that I've heard involved costing the advertisers money.
The idea: Spammers are hard to track down, but the companies that advertise with spammers are right there in the email. I doubt they get more than 1 in 100, maybe 1 in 1000 click-throughs on a given broadcast of spam. If everybody that got that message hit their webpage, instant Slashdot effect (that's a nice way of putting it). The point is, bandwidth costs money, and these advertisers are costing us bandwidth. Spam wouldn't be cost-effective anymore if they got hit with 3 million people reloading their webpage a few times a day for a week. An email client that tapped back a little wouldn't be hard to come up with. Since they are inviting us the their pages, I don't even think there would be much of a legal issue. INAL (I'm not a lawyer) though. The spammers aren't the problem, it's the guys paying the spammers.
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My personal favorite was a call a got a few years ago. A qwest customer service rep. called at dinnertime to sell a new service. The new service in question... blocking telemarketers's calls. I asked her if it would block calls like hers and she told me, "No, you are our customer so we can still call you." I didn't opt for the service.
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I think if we're going to start reshuffling money, the Superconducting Supercollider project should be given another chance. The space station always did seem like a PR move anyway. Not that the PR seems to be working. :)
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I'd like to see Linux drivers in the "roadmap". I still can't get 3d acceleration and tv-in on my 8500 card. The newer gen. cards look great, but how long till the drivers are available for them? By the way, this is a good open source project for drivers (ATI) here.
By that same logic, your post should have been sent via the postal system. It's not a perfect analogy, but I think the argument is similar to the one about email vs. the postal service. I don't think we need to outlaw innovation to protect jobs. /rant off
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I'm still waiting for a pda with a small harddrive, like the ipod. I know that it would use more power, be slower, larger...but it would still be cool. Maybe apple will make a video/pda ipod soon.
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OSNews.com has a story about how Palm dropped the Palm desktop for Apple, but as I understand it, there are better programs for synching on that platform. I don't believe that Palm Desktop has ever been very popular on the Mac.
It's probably a sign of age, but I can't listen to most of the new music that's coming out now. For some reason, my perception of culture changing halted sometime around 1995. Most of the music I listen to came out of the 70's or 80's. I've enjoyed a few newer songs, but I can't tell most of these new bands apart.
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That sounds a lot like Bill Gates argument on why Windows is the most secure operating system available. Not that I agree with Bill about windows, but you make a pretty good point. I don't see how something can be very secure without some real-world testing. Now if I could just get my coworkers to stop opening up every attatchment in their inboxes. :)
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I just got this story emailed to me by my girlfriend yesterday. She went back to school to get her second batchelor's degree in psychology. She's been job hunting for a position and the salary on that list is about dead on. She's going back to grad. school nest semester because the higher degree makes a big difference in that field.
It was a lame attemp at a joke at 2:00 in the morning. Nevermind. :(
Here is a perfect example of how p2p technology can be used in a legal, useful and beneficial way. I'm wondering if the 90% study was done with the same logic as: one download = a lost sale. I know there is a lot of copywritten material floating around out on the networks, but there are legitimate uses too. How many Bittorent links have you seen posted in these very forums to prevent slashdotting? I'd like this issue settled so we can start finding more innovative uses for p2p networks. and pr0n of course :)
That reminds me of the "Google Traffic Takes Down Web Site" article a little while ago. I wonder if the BBC reporter read that article. It would be ironic if the BBC was slashdoted after writing such a negotive story. I think if anyone has a problem with the BBC article they should contact the BBC and let their feelings be known.
After all of the SCO FUD, I'm not suprised so many people were taking enjoyment out of SCO's misfortune. Unfortunatly, people are looking for someone to blame and this does make for a good story. I've seen slashdot members' comments quoted on stories about this virus, so people are looking here for a response. I know it's been talked about before, but here is Bruce Perens letter to the OSS community again. Everyone's certainly entitled to their opinions, but he makes a good point.
I read about this in the local Denver paper a couple of days ago. Here's an article that describes a few bills, local and federal, that deal with the outsourcing trend. I'm not sure if these will pass in their current form. I have mixed feelings about them too. I've heard some good arguments both ways. If my state punishes outsourcers, it's likely when the trend changes, these companies will be located in California and other states. Mmmmmm. To be fair, I'd probably feel more strongly if my company had outsourced my job to India.
I've got about seven dot matrix printers in the basement that your welcome to. You just have to pick them up. :)
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I thought everyone used their cellphones to tell time now. Seriously, I can't stand the feel of a wrist watch on my arm, it gets in the way of typing and reading slashdot.
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I remember reading an article a couple of years ago about games on cellphones. The author claimed that the manufactures are putting games on the phones so the buttons wear out faster. Worn out buttons = need a new phone sooner.
so:
1. Make a phone with games.
2. User wears out buttons faster.
3. ?
4. Profit!
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I use it too. You can get cheaper phones and not worry about how long you talk. I'd love for them to go data though. The biggest problem is that they don't have roaming. Just because they are in different cities doesn't mean that an L.A. user can use his/her phone in Denver.
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LoL, sorry man. I have a few backed-up movies too. I've been looking into larger hard drives so I can view them "video on demand" style.
He said DivX, so I think the pain would be waiting for all of those to convert to mpeg2 for video CD's. Not a big deal for 4-5 movies, but you'd be suprised at how many DivX movies some people have collected.
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When I was in an apartment I had a setup much like this. The only major difference was I had an A/V transmitter sending the video from the computer to the TV over the air. Granted, I had to tweak the wireless network so it wouldn't interfere with the signal and everytime someone juiced up the microwave, I got some interference. In general it was kind of fun setting up. I used a RF remote and an IR transmitter to a wireless keyboard.
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Maybe it wouldn't make as much sense if you are truely building from scratch, but this is slashdot. How many peeps here don't have a basement/closet full of spare parts. If you have a box sitting around, it's much cheaper than say a replayTV or MCE Windoze box. Part of building your own is the fun. Aside from that, you can cusomize your own box a lot more than a tivo or replaytv. Mame anyone? Check out MythTV for a cool OSS project or MyHtpc.net for a really cool, community driven front-end. For an all around informative site about hardware, and mostly windows frontend software, check out ruel.net It's more tweaking and screwing around, but more adaptable too.
I didn't mean to exactly reply to the email. This email "client" would access the site, just the main domain, from a browser. If it was coded right, they would only get an ip address.
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There are millions of stolen credit card numbers floating around. It may be risky to use them on products delivered to a home, but what about the spammers. How many spammers are going to be buying these numbers and using them to charge up their spam? Could this cause an increase to identity theft? -
I didn't RTFA, but I've heard this idea proposed before. The idea was to only charge postage on accounts after they have sent the first 500 or so emails. I still think the idea stinks. I've heard other solutions that are better. My favorite was offering bounties for spammers. Another interesting idea that I've heard involved costing the advertisers money.
The idea: Spammers are hard to track down, but the companies that advertise with spammers are right there in the email. I doubt they get more than 1 in 100, maybe 1 in 1000 click-throughs on a given broadcast of spam. If everybody that got that message hit their webpage, instant Slashdot effect (that's a nice way of putting it). The point is, bandwidth costs money, and these advertisers are costing us bandwidth. Spam wouldn't be cost-effective anymore if they got hit with 3 million people reloading their webpage a few times a day for a week. An email client that tapped back a little wouldn't be hard to come up with. Since they are inviting us the their pages, I don't even think there would be much of a legal issue. INAL (I'm not a lawyer) though. The spammers aren't the problem, it's the guys paying the spammers.
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