...rather than government legislation. It doesn't matter how much one country's government may ban spam, if it still comes from outside it's still going to come in time and time again.
This setup may not be perfect, but to me it's a step in the right direction. Working towards a system that doesn't allow spammers to exist is wholly more admirable.
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Curiously, why were open relays ever in existence? And once spam started, why were open relays kept around? Is there a use for them? Why not have all mail servers require authentication for outgoing mail, much like POP retrieval. That would have to stop a great deal of spam
Scary bit is - while your comment made me laugh, it's probably more true than funny. bah.
Perhaps what the article really means is "Intel isn't ready for 64 bit computing and is scared shitless they can't do anything useful with it until 2007"
I get a similar kind of feeling when I open up a terminal, as when I used to play TBAs.
---- "You are in a directory. The sign above the well worn path reads/etc. All around you see the most villanous, evil scum in the galaxy. Sitting in the far corner is the worst of them all, sendmail.cf"
# cd ~ You run home like a cowardly dog, tail between your legs. # ---- Ahh. memories.
The concept of an itanium notebook, considering their current power usage (current power... geddit?) is almost laughable.
Powerbooks are a huge part of Apple's market now, and even if their desktops fared the equal of a PC in pure grunt, would still be a major source of revenue.
Pick an option - Itanium all through the line including powerbooks, or PPC Powerbooks and Itanium desktops. It doesn't seem likely to me.
Then again, Itanium XServes doesn't sound quite as far-fetched.
Dvorak is keeping true to form. In about 6 months he'll be proposing that Apple use a "secret new processor" being developed by IBM, that's related to their Power architecture as used in IBM big iron.
(and yes, it'll be rehashes of rumours the rest of us heard 6 months ago)
I think an important part of what you said is about power requirements, and the processor being ready for the desktop.
If it's only barely able to be used in a desktop because of cost, and the power requirements are high, Apple would either have to say goodbye to their iBook/Powerbook line, or continue supporting two architectures - PPC powerbooks and Itanium desktops. That sounds pretty messy and expensive for apple to even think about implementing at their current size.
That's a bit simplistic, and when placed in a world that has either hardware companies or software companies for the most part, it's understandable to put apple in the same boat.
Apple is a solutions company. They do both, and they work together, neither working best without the other. It's always been touted as one of Apple's advantages, that the software works well because ALL of the base hardware is known. That isn't a side effect of apple being a hardware-company-that-releases-software-too, but it's the basis of the way they do business.
(apart from the clone years, which thankfully ended. I've had to support hundreds of mac and mac compatible machines, and those clones just aren't holding up anywhere as well as Apple's own machines)
Telstra give a shit, I think. When i've dealt with them and only needed to handle one department, the service and people have been fine. The odd problem, but they've been on-par with anyone else.
Problems come up when one department of telstra need to talk to another. There's just no useful communication between groups, no trust from one section to another.
I once had a billing issue I had to contact telstra about. Billing attempted several times to contact the technical dept that did the work. That just didn't happen after 3 weeks, despite constantly calling Billing.
After a day of phoning around I was able to get through to one of the engineering departments who performed phone work for me, and they immediately saw the error and attempted to get back in contact with Billing. It took another month, and *ME* faxing information sent to me by engineering, to actually get anything resolved.
It could have been fixed overnight if there was appropriate communicationbetween departments. I get the feeling telstra like breaking up into little bureaucratic bundles, each with their own world.
It's a computer. This plan has them using computers at school, and many of them will use one at work.
What's the problem there?
Teach them the abilities to adapt to conditions that aren't always identical and you have them all the stronger for the real world.
While you're at it flooding a school with kids who only know MS software, best make sure they only eat at McDonalds, only watch the most popular television shows, read the most popular books and only wear the most common clothes. After all, what's the chance they'll grow up choosing what they wish to do.
The bane of 2nd hand mac collectors could then turn into a bonus for schools.
Macs hold their value to ridiculous levels, some because the hardware is quite decent to start with, and part because there are less 2nd hand macs to go around than say, 2nd hand Dells.
In any case, schools should either be able to get a decent amount back from selling the things to upgrade when it's necessary, or if the machines are leased from apple it's likely there are planned upgrades in there.
I think when it comes to porn/warez, there's a far higher retention rate than other data. One of my best friends, Liz, recently married a bit of a pr0n fiend. Not only did he continuously download the stuff, but last I heard had a collection of near 400 burnt CDs of pr0n, and a few (3 I think) 80gb drives stacked with it.
While the amounts of what he keeps probably isn't typical, I do see perhaps half the people I know keeping rather large (tens of gigs) pr0n collections.
I was only saying within the last few weeks how good it would be for Apple to increase market share by releasing Safari for Windows. With iDisk out, it looks more positive for software such as iTunes to follow to support the iPod, and perhaps Safari after that
I think this kind of system, while it may very well do good for promoting songs that have similar qualities to existing 'popular' ones, would eventually bring up flaws if relied on too heavily, from the feedback loop it would have to generate. A few wildly popular songs would define what's released/promoted in the future. Those promotions, themselves only selected due to the use of an artificial construct, would then define what follows. I think some pretty icky patterns could start to reveal themselves.
2005: a little known new zealand band is suddenly promoted beyond belief. In most respects they're identical to the spice girls, they just happen to sound like New Kids On The Block, and their lead singer is named "Michael Jackson"
You might like to take safari out of there. I downloaded the most recent, and see no tabs. I suspect ThinkSecret.com has been up to some photoshopping to get a bit of traffic
I'd like the ability for it to play different songs on different FM frequencies, so maybe I could be in the office and say someone else could be too, and we could all be listening to different music all streamed from the one device. THAT would be killer!?!
There already is. The AmigaOne is just what you're after. A Brand new architecture, RISC based, 64 bit already out of the box, and a soon to be released PPC pure OS. No legacy code or hardware in this beast!
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...rather than government legislation. It doesn't matter how much one country's government may ban spam, if it still comes from outside it's still going to come in time and time again.
This setup may not be perfect, but to me it's a step in the right direction. Working towards a system that doesn't allow spammers to exist is wholly more admirable.
--
Curiously, why were open relays ever in existence? And once spam started, why were open relays kept around? Is there a use for them? Why not have all mail servers require authentication for outgoing mail, much like POP retrieval. That would have to stop a great deal of spam
Scary bit is - while your comment made me laugh, it's probably more true than funny. bah.
Perhaps what the article really means is "Intel isn't ready for 64 bit computing and is scared shitless they can't do anything useful with it until 2007"
I get a similar kind of feeling when I open up a terminal, as when I used to play TBAs.
/etc. All around you see the most villanous, evil scum in the galaxy. Sitting in the far corner is the worst of them all, sendmail.cf "
----
"You are in a directory. The sign above the well worn path reads
# cd ~
You run home like a cowardly dog, tail between your legs.
#
----
Ahh. memories.
The concept of an itanium notebook, considering their current power usage (current power... geddit?) is almost laughable.
Powerbooks are a huge part of Apple's market now, and even if their desktops fared the equal of a PC in pure grunt, would still be a major source of revenue.
Pick an option - Itanium all through the line including powerbooks, or PPC Powerbooks and Itanium desktops. It doesn't seem likely to me.
Then again, Itanium XServes doesn't sound quite as far-fetched.
Dvorak is keeping true to form. In about 6 months he'll be proposing that Apple use a "secret new processor" being developed by IBM, that's related to their Power architecture as used in IBM big iron.
(and yes, it'll be rehashes of rumours the rest of us heard 6 months ago)
I think an important part of what you said is about power requirements, and the processor being ready for the desktop.
If it's only barely able to be used in a desktop because of cost, and the power requirements are high, Apple would either have to say goodbye to their iBook/Powerbook line, or continue supporting two architectures - PPC powerbooks and Itanium desktops. That sounds pretty messy and expensive for apple to even think about implementing at their current size.
That's a bit simplistic, and when placed in a world that has either hardware companies or software companies for the most part, it's understandable to put apple in the same boat.
Apple is a solutions company. They do both, and they work together, neither working best without the other. It's always been touted as one of Apple's advantages, that the software works well because ALL of the base hardware is known. That isn't a side effect of apple being a hardware-company-that-releases-software-too, but it's the basis of the way they do business.
(apart from the clone years, which thankfully ended. I've had to support hundreds of mac and mac compatible machines, and those clones just aren't holding up anywhere as well as Apple's own machines)
How right you are. It's Win1.x that's 600 something kb zipped, and 2.x that's over a mb
I was mixing up some of the archaic software I have - it's Photoshop 0.63ß that comes to around 200kb
And still runs in classic under OSX!
Hey, at least the bloat hadn't yet set in. I have a few versions of Windows archived away here just because they don't take up too much room.
Win 1.0 is a 244k zip file.
Win 2.0 really went overkill and that's where the bloat set in I'm afraid. 667kb. What do people need all that for anyway?
The idea of "Hot swappable" when it comes to cooling couplings is making my head spin.
Telstra give a shit, I think. When i've dealt with them and only needed to handle one department, the service and people have been fine. The odd problem, but they've been on-par with anyone else.
Problems come up when one department of telstra need to talk to another. There's just no useful communication between groups, no trust from one section to another.
I once had a billing issue I had to contact telstra about. Billing attempted several times to contact the technical dept that did the work. That just didn't happen after 3 weeks, despite constantly calling Billing.
After a day of phoning around I was able to get through to one of the engineering departments who performed phone work for me, and they immediately saw the error and attempted to get back in contact with Billing. It took another month, and *ME* faxing information sent to me by engineering, to actually get anything resolved.
It could have been fixed overnight if there was appropriate communicationbetween departments. I get the feeling telstra like breaking up into little bureaucratic bundles, each with their own world.
It's a computer. This plan has them using computers at school, and many of them will use one at work.
What's the problem there?
Teach them the abilities to adapt to conditions that aren't always identical and you have them all the stronger for the real world.
While you're at it flooding a school with kids who only know MS software, best make sure they only eat at McDonalds, only watch the most popular television shows, read the most popular books and only wear the most common clothes. After all, what's the chance they'll grow up choosing what they wish to do.
The bane of 2nd hand mac collectors could then turn into a bonus for schools.
Macs hold their value to ridiculous levels, some because the hardware is quite decent to start with, and part because there are less 2nd hand macs to go around than say, 2nd hand Dells.
In any case, schools should either be able to get a decent amount back from selling the things to upgrade when it's necessary, or if the machines are leased from apple it's likely there are planned upgrades in there.
Personally, I don't give a shit for the case, liner notes, and physical apparatus surrounding a song, I buy music for the music.
When I have to buy an album for the 3 songs I like, with 10 mediocre ones, I'm paying $4 per song. maybe a bit less if some of the crud grows on me.
For 99c a track I pay $20 for 20 songs I fully choose, and KNOW I'll like.
Buy into the music, not the packaging, whether that packaging is the case, pretty pictures on it, or the crud filler that it's bundled with
It's a lot more elegant than my attempts at dead-web-servers. The smallest I've been able to manage before this was a small dog.
I did have experiments in the mid 90s with webservers inside dead bodies, but they only led to dismal failures
(RIP Trevor, my flatmate 1992-1995)
I think when it comes to porn/warez, there's a far higher retention rate than other data. One of my best friends, Liz, recently married a bit of a pr0n fiend. Not only did he continuously download the stuff, but last I heard had a collection of near 400 burnt CDs of pr0n, and a few (3 I think) 80gb drives stacked with it.
While the amounts of what he keeps probably isn't typical, I do see perhaps half the people I know keeping rather large (tens of gigs) pr0n collections.
I was only saying within the last few weeks how good it would be for Apple to increase market share by releasing Safari for Windows. With iDisk out, it looks more positive for software such as iTunes to follow to support the iPod, and perhaps Safari after that
I think this kind of system, while it may very well do good for promoting songs that have similar qualities to existing 'popular' ones, would eventually bring up flaws if relied on too heavily, from the feedback loop it would have to generate. A few wildly popular songs would define what's released/promoted in the future. Those promotions, themselves only selected due to the use of an artificial construct, would then define what follows. I think some pretty icky patterns could start to reveal themselves.
2005: a little known new zealand band is suddenly promoted beyond belief. In most respects they're identical to the spice girls, they just happen to sound like New Kids On The Block, and their lead singer is named "Michael Jackson"
I'm running scared already.
I gott ask tho, at what point would it have made more sense just to buy a regular computer?
probably at the point where imagination gives up, I think most mods are useless from a practical point of view but feh, you have fun doing it
You might like to take safari out of there. I downloaded the most recent, and see no tabs. I suspect ThinkSecret.com has been up to some photoshopping to get a bit of traffic
I'd like the ability for it to play different songs on different FM frequencies, so maybe I could be in the office and say someone else could be too, and we could all be listening to different music all streamed from the one device. THAT would be killer!?!
There already is. The AmigaOne is just what you're after. A Brand new architecture, RISC based, 64 bit already out of the box, and a soon to be released PPC pure OS. No legacy code or hardware in this beast!