You can do all of this today with Pocomail.(on a Windows box) I already filter against my address book and specific "to" addresses for maillists. I haven't bothered to set up the automatic reply, but it could be easily done with Poco's native scritping capability.
I think Yahoo is using Brightmail. Earthlink uses it too and I was quite impressed when I used Earthlink. I quickly got to a point where I never logged into the server to check the junk folder.
You could try pointing customers to http://www.pocomail.com as their Windows email client. Not only does it solve all the MS Email Viri issues, but the built in spam filtering is pretty damn good. I'm not sure what the theroretical underpinnngs are, but out of the box it will put most spam in the junk mail folder, and with some tweaking it will get 90% of it.
I've been asking myself that same question. I really don't know who is doing the buying. I just sold my house and bought another for about the same price - but I moved father out so I have 33% more house and 600% more land for the same mortgage payment. The mortgage company was shocked that I would buy far less than what they claimed I could afford. It was kind of funny - they didn't know how to deal with somebody who wasn't scraping to buy the most expensive house they could get approved for.
Gen-X'ers, (including me) may have to admit that the lifestyle we got used to from 1996-2001 was a mirage, and we really can't afford a county club house and two BMW's in the garage. Here in Northern VA we are starting to see people selling their $500K McMansions and downsizing to a house more in keeping with their current income levels. For those of us that have been working in the dot com environment the last few years, I think its necessary to assume you will make less money the next couple of years, and adjust your lifestyle accordingly.
There is no such thing as good web design. There is only good user design. Who are you users? What do they want to accomplish by visiting your site? What do you want them to accomplish on your site? Once you answer those questions you'll be in a position to make some decisions about a design that compliments your goals.
Or, you could just put all the important stuff in flashing text;)
I've purchasd probably about $500 worth of stuff via paypal, in 7-10 seperate transactions and have not had a problem. I also use them for online membership renewals for a non-profit that I am President of. Granted, I do sweep the money to our bank as soon as it hits $50 - but I have not had any reason to be concerened. YMMV
And what better time for government to propose legislation that limits freedom than right after a national tragedy that has everybody scared. A Washington Post poll this weekend found that 60% off Americans would trade freedom for security right now. I appreciate RMS's effort, but I fear this battle has already been lost.
I sign a lot of non-disclosure agreements and there is always a clause along the lines of "must take reasonable care to prevent accidental disclosure blah blah blah..." Appropriate virus protection seems like it would be covered under reasonable care so failure to block the virus could make you liable for releasing the information under an NDA, I think. If the document were clearly and obviously confidential I suspect the receiver could be liable for damages if they took some active part in disseminating the document. Just receiving it and deleting it should be safe.
Sounds like an attempt to increase hosting revenues to me. I imagine a lot of people use Verizon for their ISP but host their domains elsewhere as the major ISP's hosting prices are usually on the high side. Of course, if you own your domain name - what ISP you are using is transparent more or less so I would think changing ISP's will be easier than moving your domain to Verizon.
The bottom line is, no matter how much MS OS's suck, not matter how much they charge or overchage for the software and applications, no matter how much we hate it - until "Ready to Read with Pooh" and about a zillion other education software titles can run on Linux - Windows will own the school systems, and Windows will own the parents. People buy computers for the applications they run, and 99.9% of the useful educational software runs on Windows or Mac, almost none of it runs on *nix.
Next week - or maybe 7 years from now - you could be involved in a nasty divorce battle, and you have children. Her attorney could very well suponea those grocery store records and use your weekly beer purchases and Maxxim habit to try and convince a judge that you are a porn addicted alcoholic not worthy of custody or maybe even visitation rights with your own children...
Unlikely?? Probably. Worth the risk?? That's up to you.
Luckily there is one grocery chain where I live that has not and claims they will not implement the bonus card crap where you have to give up your personal details to get sale prices. This particular chain is starting to use it as a competitive advantage...advertising that they give their best prices to all customers all the time...
I know the digerati keep telling us that micropayments will solve all these problem...bah, ain't gonna happen.
What I think could happen is content / ISP partnerships where you pay say 19.95 for the basic Earthlink account, 21.95 gets you subscribtions to ESPN and CNN, 25.95 gets you even more, etc etc. The ISP splits the marginal revenue with the content sites, and everybody makes a little more money without bankrupting the consumers. They could even start to segment - have a sports subscription with access to all the premium sports content, a gamers subscribtion, etc. You get the idea...
We are pretty much in agreement that tech support sucks partly because the manufactuers don't really invest in it, and partly because so many users are so clueless that God himself on the phone couldn't talk them through the issues.
So what do we do?
I don't have the answer - and I think the problem goes far deeper into our culture than we realize.
His point (based on Jon's article, I have not read the book) seesm to be that all these choices are bad for us. 'Common Framework" sounds suspiciously like "Group Think." Its better that we all get the same info - even if its not entirely accurate?? I don't buy it, choice is good, as long as you really have a choice. The problems start when the "choices" are not really that different.
I know bioengineering holds great promise...but releasing genertically engineered insects into the wild (I'm assuming they will do that after this test...) is a crapshoot. There are an infinite number of variables in the ecosystem, there is just no way to account for them all.
Wasn't it just last summer that the we had a problem with some type of genetically enhanced corn that was being tested but decided to spread itself via the wind all across the midwestern US? I think hundreds of farmers were financially ruined because their "infected" corn was not FDA approved for human consumption...
Altough Barry is obviously trying to be funny - I think he is also trying to slap a few parents upside the head. This attitude that we have to have everything NOW is what drives the massive consumer debtloads in this country. Parents make sure that the attitude is passed on their kids by going to these extrodinary lengths to get this years hot toy. Anybody remember the $100 Furby's on Ebay a couple of Christams' ago?? Or the talking Elmo? It nuts.
Hell, I stil can't win on most of the games I have for the original Playstation...
In analyzing any new business opportunity - or any new feature in a current product - the question I always ask myself is "What problem does this solve???"
I don't know. I've never been overcome with the urge to do anything with my cell phone except talk to other people - preferably while I'm not driving a vehicle. The cell phone is a shitty order entry device, its not good for reading email. Hell, if your on SprintPCS like me, its barely passable for use as a damn telephone.
I see this dying a very quick death to be forever immortalized on fuckedcompany.com If they get to an IPO - I'll be shorting from day 1!
If you want to see all the returns, you have to watch Fox or the Fox News Network. All the other "major" networks will be ignoring everybody except Bush and Gore - even Nader will be ignored with the exception of those few states where he will have enough support to affect the outcome.
I voted for Browne. Voting your conscious is never a wasted vote.
To paraphrase The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy...
"Anybody who wants to be president should be imediately disqualified from seeking the job..."
Or as I like to think of it...
Nobody who wants that level of power can be trusted with it.
As long as the government has the money and the power to exert the level of control over society that it does today - things will only change for the worse. Take away the power (Libertarians) and nobody will bother throwing money at the government.
Your right, I did typo his name. I didn't personally read the book - so who knows, maybe it is a myth. He did write a multi-volume history of the world in the early 1800's, the quote would be in those books I would guess.
Does it really matter? I could have claimed the statement as an original and that wouldn't make it any less relevant.
Aexander Tyler wrote the following regarding the fall of the Athenian Republic. I believe it is a fairly accurate description of America today. Do you agree or disagree, and why?
"A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves money from the public treasure. From that moment on the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most money from the public treasury, with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy followed by a dictatorship. The average age of the world's great civilizations has been two hundred years. These nations have progressed through the following sequence: from bondage to spiritual faith, from spiritual faith to great courage, from courage to liberty, from liberty to abundance, from abundance to selfishness, from selfishness to complacency from complacency to apathy, from apathy to dependency, from dependency back to bondage."
I have read this book- a couple of years ago actually. The over-riding point that I took from the book is that the information age makes location unimportant. Today, for the most part, if you want to sell to the masses of American people, you have to be here physically, and thus subject yourself to US law. However, in a future world where we may do almost everything online - the business location may not be terribily imporant to the transaction and that could open up competition among the nation states as they position themselves as the place to locate. And of course, competition among the nations of the worls would in theory reduce the cost of doing business in any one of them.
I think some of this is already happening today with several carribean islands marketing themselves as tax havens for off-shore businesses and I think you can buy Swiss citzenship for a one time "fee."
However, I tend to believe that the "state" won't go down easily and that getting to this point, if we ever make it, will be a long and probably bloody affair.
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You can do all of this today with Pocomail.(on a Windows box) I already filter against my address book and specific "to" addresses for maillists. I haven't bothered to set up the automatic reply, but it could be easily done with Poco's native scritping capability.
I think Yahoo is using Brightmail. Earthlink uses it too and I was quite impressed when I used Earthlink. I quickly got to a point where I never logged into the server to check the junk folder.
You could try pointing customers to http://www.pocomail.com as their Windows email client. Not only does it solve all the MS Email Viri issues, but the built in spam filtering is pretty damn good. I'm not sure what the theroretical underpinnngs are, but out of the box it will put most spam in the junk mail folder, and with some tweaking it will get 90% of it.
I've been asking myself that same question. I really don't know who is doing the buying. I just sold my house and bought another for about the same price - but I moved father out so I have 33% more house and 600% more land for the same mortgage payment. The mortgage company was shocked that I would buy far less than what they claimed I could afford. It was kind of funny - they didn't know how to deal with somebody who wasn't scraping to buy the most expensive house they could get approved for.
Gen-X'ers, (including me) may have to admit that the lifestyle we got used to from 1996-2001 was a mirage, and we really can't afford a county club house and two BMW's in the garage. Here in Northern VA we are starting to see people selling their $500K McMansions and downsizing to a house more in keeping with their current income levels. For those of us that have been working in the dot com environment the last few years, I think its necessary to assume you will make less money the next couple of years, and adjust your lifestyle accordingly.
There is no such thing as good web design. There is only good user design. Who are you users? What do they want to accomplish by visiting your site? What do you want them to accomplish on your site? Once you answer those questions you'll be in a position to make some decisions about a design that compliments your goals.
;)
Or, you could just put all the important stuff in flashing text
I've purchasd probably about $500 worth of stuff via paypal, in 7-10 seperate transactions and have not had a problem. I also use them for online membership renewals for a non-profit that I am President of. Granted, I do sweep the money to our bank as soon as it hits $50 - but I have not had any reason to be concerened. YMMV
And what better time for government to propose legislation that limits freedom than right after a national tragedy that has everybody scared. A Washington Post poll this weekend found that 60% off Americans would trade freedom for security right now. I appreciate RMS's effort, but I fear this battle has already been lost.
I sign a lot of non-disclosure agreements and there is always a clause along the lines of "must take reasonable care to prevent accidental disclosure blah blah blah..." Appropriate virus protection seems like it would be covered under reasonable care so failure to block the virus could make you liable for releasing the information under an NDA, I think. If the document were clearly and obviously confidential I suspect the receiver could be liable for damages if they took some active part in disseminating the document. Just receiving it and deleting it should be safe.
However, IANAL.
Sounds like an attempt to increase hosting revenues to me. I imagine a lot of people use Verizon for their ISP but host their domains elsewhere as the major ISP's hosting prices are usually on the high side. Of course, if you own your domain name - what ISP you are using is transparent more or less so I would think changing ISP's will be easier than moving your domain to Verizon.
The bottom line is, no matter how much MS OS's suck, not matter how much they charge or overchage for the software and applications, no matter how much we hate it - until "Ready to Read with Pooh" and about a zillion other education software titles can run on Linux - Windows will own the school systems, and Windows will own the parents. People buy computers for the applications they run, and 99.9% of the useful educational software runs on Windows or Mac, almost none of it runs on *nix.
One potential downside...
Next week - or maybe 7 years from now - you could be involved in a nasty divorce battle, and you have children. Her attorney could very well suponea those grocery store records and use your weekly beer purchases and Maxxim habit to try and convince a judge that you are a porn addicted alcoholic not worthy of custody or maybe even visitation rights with your own children...
Unlikely?? Probably. Worth the risk?? That's up to you.
Luckily there is one grocery chain where I live that has not and claims they will not implement the bonus card crap where you have to give up your personal details to get sale prices. This particular chain is starting to use it as a competitive advantage...advertising that they give their best prices to all customers all the time...
I know the digerati keep telling us that micropayments will solve all these problem...bah, ain't gonna happen.
What I think could happen is content / ISP partnerships where you pay say 19.95 for the basic Earthlink account, 21.95 gets you subscribtions to ESPN and CNN, 25.95 gets you even more, etc etc. The ISP splits the marginal revenue with the content sites, and everybody makes a little more money without bankrupting the consumers. They could even start to segment - have a sports subscription with access to all the premium sports content, a gamers subscribtion, etc. You get the idea...
We are pretty much in agreement that tech support sucks partly because the manufactuers don't really invest in it, and partly because so many users are so clueless that God himself on the phone couldn't talk them through the issues.
So what do we do?
I don't have the answer - and I think the problem goes far deeper into our culture than we realize.
His point (based on Jon's article, I have not read the book) seesm to be that all these choices are bad for us. 'Common Framework" sounds suspiciously like "Group Think." Its better that we all get the same info - even if its not entirely accurate?? I don't buy it, choice is good, as long as you really have a choice. The problems start when the "choices" are not really that different.
I know bioengineering holds great promise...but releasing genertically engineered insects into the wild (I'm assuming they will do that after this test...) is a crapshoot. There are an infinite number of variables in the ecosystem, there is just no way to account for them all.
Wasn't it just last summer that the we had a problem with some type of genetically enhanced corn that was being tested but decided to spread itself via the wind all across the midwestern US? I think hundreds of farmers were financially ruined because their "infected" corn was not FDA approved for human consumption...
Altough Barry is obviously trying to be funny - I think he is also trying to slap a few parents upside the head. This attitude that we have to have everything NOW is what drives the massive consumer debtloads in this country. Parents make sure that the attitude is passed on their kids by going to these extrodinary lengths to get this years hot toy. Anybody remember the $100 Furby's on Ebay a couple of Christams' ago?? Or the talking Elmo? It nuts.
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Hell, I stil can't win on most of the games I have for the original Playstation
In analyzing any new business opportunity - or any new feature in a current product - the question I always ask myself is "What problem does this solve???"
I don't know. I've never been overcome with the urge to do anything with my cell phone except talk to other people - preferably while I'm not driving a vehicle. The cell phone is a shitty order entry device, its not good for reading email. Hell, if your on SprintPCS like me, its barely passable for use as a damn telephone.
I see this dying a very quick death to be forever immortalized on fuckedcompany.com If they get to an IPO - I'll be shorting from day 1!
If you want to see all the returns, you have to watch Fox or the Fox News Network. All the other "major" networks will be ignoring everybody except Bush and Gore - even Nader will be ignored with the exception of those few states where he will have enough support to affect the outcome.
I voted for Browne. Voting your conscious is never a wasted vote.
To paraphrase The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy...
"Anybody who wants to be president should be imediately disqualified from seeking the job..."
Or as I like to think of it...
Nobody who wants that level of power can be trusted with it.
As long as the government has the money and the power to exert the level of control over society that it does today - things will only change for the worse. Take away the power (Libertarians) and nobody will bother throwing money at the government.
Your right, I did typo his name. I didn't personally read the book - so who knows, maybe it is a myth. He did write a multi-volume history of the world in the early 1800's, the quote would be in those books I would guess.
Does it really matter? I could have claimed the statement as an original and that wouldn't make it any less relevant.
I think we're getting very close to apathy Gore winning would be a sign for me that we are there.
Aexander Tyler wrote the following regarding the fall of the Athenian Republic. I believe it is a fairly accurate description of America today. Do you agree or disagree, and why?
"A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves money from the public treasure. From that moment on the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most money from the public treasury, with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy followed by a dictatorship. The average age of the world's great civilizations has been two hundred years. These nations have progressed through the following sequence: from bondage to spiritual faith, from spiritual faith to great courage, from courage to liberty, from liberty to abundance, from abundance to selfishness, from selfishness to complacency from complacency to apathy, from apathy to dependency, from dependency back to bondage."
I have read this book- a couple of years ago actually. The over-riding point that I took from the book is that the information age makes location unimportant. Today, for the most part, if you want to sell to the masses of American people, you have to be here physically, and thus subject yourself to US law. However, in a future world where we may do almost everything online - the business location may not be terribily imporant to the transaction and that could open up competition among the nation states as they position themselves as the place to locate. And of course, competition among the nations of the worls would in theory reduce the cost of doing business in any one of them.
I think some of this is already happening today with several carribean islands marketing themselves as tax havens for off-shore businesses and I think you can buy Swiss citzenship for a one time "fee."
However, I tend to believe that the "state" won't go down easily and that getting to this point, if we ever make it, will be a long and probably bloody affair.
So am I breaking the law if I wear my DeCSS shirt tomorrow?