MSN views Hotmail as a conduit to annoy users into paying money, rather than as an opportunity to increase page views and advertising revenue. They shill MSN, Calendars, increased storage, etc. I've used my hotmail account for quite a few years now to manage mailing list subscriptions and to use as a sign-up account for new websites... Approximately 3 hours of using Gmail convinced me that it's well worthwhile to switch over to Gmail. Does MSN have any idea how many page views they're losing? I visit Hotmail several times a day.
Well, there are those messages that hotmail blocks from even reaching the user's filter settings-- the user remains happily unaware and less deluged with spam. But messages that Hotmail does not flag as spam through automagical filters would get dropped in "Junk Mail" once reaching a Hotmail account set to exclusive. Gmail's invite to me landed in Junk Mail, but that is, as you said, because my buddy's Gmail address was not yet whitelisted. This article would suggest that Gmail somehow gets filtered out before reaching my account... it does not appear that such happened with my HM account on Friday.
Ever hear of long eccentric orbits that bring comets nearer the sun for brief periods? That would be the simple explanation, even if you didn't RTFAs.
But if you do RTFAs, you learn that Wild 2 had a recent close encounter with Jupiter that substantially changed its orbit, so it's likely that it has received substantially more solar heating in recent decades.
Yup, I still have Hotmail's 2MB limit going. Sure is nice watching bounce-notice 40KB viral.pif attachments with my address spoofed as the sender bump my quota up in 2% increments about 5-10 times/day, to say nothing of the dozens of other messages that aren't so large. But I hear that a full Junk Mail folder cannot actually stop incoming mail.
I do however feel like mailing MS a floppy so that they can double my storage. Cheapskates... the postage would cost more.
Regardless of whether they're accurate or not, the statement stands as being dumbfounding. How many times is "memory is the bottleneck" pounded into the heads of Computer Architecture students? AMD just said memory is not the bottleneck. You don't need a faster bus, or a faster cache, you need more parallelism. Usually that sweeping of a statement is qualified with a few caveats.
Right now, we have plenty of memory and I/O bandwidth, so we're adding processing,
Wow, that's a helluva significant statement to make. More bandwidth and cache never hurts... you just get diminishing returns. Either it's marketspeak-- "You need two cores, pay up!" --or it flies in the face of some pretty basic assumptions I have about processor and cache architectures. Perhaps he meant, "Our cache and bandwidth is currently large enough to support two processes without being detrimental, given two processes that play nicely?" That could make sense...
I've found whitelists, combined with treating everything as junk, to be far more useful than blacklists.
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Safety? I'd much rather be in a turboprop during a thunderstorm than a rigid-frame airship. The US Navy's fleet of airships (Macon, Akron, Shenandoah) had a number of problems that involved squalls, crashing, and death. I don't know that there is a solution other than stringently avoiding gusty winds.
If I thought anyone cared, if I thought anyone would even be reading this, I'd probably make an effort to keep up appearances until the last possible moment. But no one does, and no one will. So I can pretty much say exactly what I think.
Oh, yes, the acknowledgements. I think not. I did it. I did it all, by myself.
So, for you the real question is, "Can we make Perl imitate ML syntax also?" (Speed and elegance be damned, I just want it to work off the top of my head: Perl)
Wouldn't want ML to feel left out of the Perl mimicry fest...
The ability to log in to all our favorite Web sites with one password.
Spam blocking for our e-mail accounts.
Calendar sharing with colleagues and friends to schedule meetings.
Automatic address book updates for all our contacts.
A virtual hard drive on the Internet for sharing files, photos, and music with our friends and access to these files via the Internet while traveling anywhere in the world.
Synchronization of our Internet bookmarks across all our computers.
Online profiles of personal information that we could choose to share with Web sites and social networks.
Perhaps because he's an MSN alumnus, it's perhaps unsurprising that this guy is clamoring for Hailstorm.
Yes, Hailstorm would have allowed you super-easy collaboration and synchronization regardless of your physical location, yet the Microsoft solution was basically an enhancement of the server-centric Passport system that stores all of a given customer's data in a centralized server. Not just any central server-- only a server running windows in a Microsoft data farm.
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MSN views Hotmail as a conduit to annoy users into paying money, rather than as an opportunity to increase page views and advertising revenue. They shill MSN, Calendars, increased storage, etc. I've used my hotmail account for quite a few years now to manage mailing list subscriptions and to use as a sign-up account for new websites... Approximately 3 hours of using Gmail convinced me that it's well worthwhile to switch over to Gmail. Does MSN have any idea how many page views they're losing? I visit Hotmail several times a day.
All sarcasm aside, I DO ask for it with my hotmail account (see above) and that just makes me so glad that I keep my other addresses quiet!
That sounds awful. I thought all the undead programmers worked for Microsoft, not Truevision.
I would not call Scaled Composites and Burt Rutan "anyone."
So they discount Edwards AFB, where the X-15 flew from a few decades ago?
Well, there are those messages that hotmail blocks from even reaching the user's filter settings-- the user remains happily unaware and less deluged with spam. But messages that Hotmail does not flag as spam through automagical filters would get dropped in "Junk Mail" once reaching a Hotmail account set to exclusive. Gmail's invite to me landed in Junk Mail, but that is, as you said, because my buddy's Gmail address was not yet whitelisted. This article would suggest that Gmail somehow gets filtered out before reaching my account... it does not appear that such happened with my HM account on Friday.
For what it's worth, I received a Gmail invite through my Hotmail account on Friday without any problems.
You could always purchase it, legally. Froogle and eBay would oblige.
But if you do RTFAs, you learn that Wild 2 had a recent close encounter with Jupiter that substantially changed its orbit, so it's likely that it has received substantially more solar heating in recent decades.
I do however feel like mailing MS a floppy so that they can double my storage. Cheapskates... the postage would cost more.
Four x86 cores.
Regardless of whether they're accurate or not, the statement stands as being dumbfounding. How many times is "memory is the bottleneck" pounded into the heads of Computer Architecture students? AMD just said memory is not the bottleneck. You don't need a faster bus, or a faster cache, you need more parallelism. Usually that sweeping of a statement is qualified with a few caveats.
Why don't we just put Daniel Goldman's today in old hardware history service on the front page? Pioneer 10 yesterday, Univac today... what's tomorrow?
I've found whitelists, combined with treating everything as junk, to be far more useful than blacklists.
Safety? I'd much rather be in a turboprop during a thunderstorm than a rigid-frame airship. The US Navy's fleet of airships (Macon, Akron, Shenandoah) had a number of problems that involved squalls, crashing, and death. I don't know that there is a solution other than stringently avoiding gusty winds.
But that reminds me of the Scheme Shell Acknowledgements and I have to smile...
Wouldn't want ML to feel left out of the Perl mimicry fest...
And I'd heard that he was marrying J-Lo. Oh well.
He appears to be 72.
You think 72-year old distinguished professors teach lectures? Especially undergrad lectures? I don't.
Hailstorm was one of the original facets of .NET until it was cancelled in 2002.
Yes, Hailstorm would have allowed you super-easy collaboration and synchronization regardless of your physical location, yet the Microsoft solution was basically an enhancement of the server-centric Passport system that stores all of a given customer's data in a centralized server. Not just any central server-- only a server running windows in a Microsoft data farm.
Are Mersennes really the easiest numbers to prove prime? Why? I figured they'd merely be the easiest to guess. Proving they have no factors, though...
And is originally in IR, so it would probably be grayscale unless prettied up.
That's a lot nicer than Idiots Behind Machines. Of course if you work for IBM, it's I've Been Moved.