Nope, it was a brand new CTX monitor, and it had one pixel that was always the wrong color. Like maybe stuck on blue, as if the red and green phosphors were missing for that pixel. I don't remember the details, as it was 10 years ago, and I returned the monitor the same day I got it. Definitely not a frame buffer problem as other monitors worked fine connected to the same video card.
I guess "pixel" doesn't really mean anything for a variable-scan CRT; I should probably say "very small area of the screen" instead. It only ever manifested as a single pixel at whatever resolutions I was using.
Same here. The only screen I've ever had with "stuck" or "dead" pixels was a CRT!
My big problem with LCDs is their fragility. I bumped into an LCD screen and it tipped over, right onto a power brick that happened to be facing plug-side-up -- big gouge, ruined screen. CRTs sure don't tip over that easily.
He knew it was a crazy idea; he was desperate and brainstorming, hoping for any kind of clue as to what was happening to him. It's better to have lots of crazy ideas than no ideas at all. Obviously it's best to have the right idea, but that can be very hard to find, particularly when you're not an expert and all the experts keep telling you there's no problem, when there very very clearly is a problem. Patrick Volkerding is no prima donna, and no hypochondriac. If he says he's seriously ill, he's seriously ill.
Heh, how about the complete freedom not to accept any mail from spam-friendly operations? Imagine two separate, distinct Internets: one that allows spam and one that doesn't. They're both worldwide, but they're not connected to each other. You can choose which one to be on, unless you spam, then your node gets cut off from the spam-unfriendly network and the spam-friendly network is your only option. Spam all you want; your only victims will be other spammers.
That is already happening. In a few more years spammers won't be able to stay on the spam-unfriendly Internet long enough to make any money, so they'll go into some other sleazy business instead.
The Hormel meat product trademark is "SPAM" (all-caps). See here: SPAM and the Internet
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UBE = email spam, plain and simple. (The term "spam" can also apply to other media besides mail; I'm not aware of any all-encompasing general definition of "spam".)
The FTC has to stick "commercial" in there somewhere, because that's the only way it has jurisdiction. Remember, it's the Federal Trade Commission.
As far as "more than enough food... doing nothing but rotting" goes, there will always be logistical inefficiences. Even with massive overproduction there will always be localized shortages. (I.e. people will starve, FSVO "starve".) That doesn't change the fact that there are too many individuals for the good of the species, and that there's going to be some kind of major crisis in the foreseeable future. The problem isn't that people are dying now, the problem is that the current unhappy system is unsustainable and doomed to collapse into something even less happy, with much higher death rates. Even if we could somehow do away with greed and selfishness, and fairly distribute all the world's resources, we will not be able to keep up current levels of production for very long. Human population _must_ decline soon. Forced reductions in human population are _always_... how shall I say... unpleasant.
I'd also go so far as to say that colonizing other planets is now the most important thing mankind can achieve.
We cannot establish viable autonomous colonies on other planets using fossil fuels (carbon or hydrocarbons combustion, or even uranium fission). We need some kind of long-term sustainable, scalable energy supply (e.g. controlled hydrogen fusion) before we can do any kind of useful space migration. If we don't solve that problem in the next 50 years our species is doomed no matter what.
I don't know, it seems like a pretty nice fantasy world to live in. I wish my misinterpretation of reality were that positive. No, I just have these crappy delusions of persecution.
No, if you do notify the authorities then you are held accountable. After all, how could you have known it was going to happen unless you had something to do with it?
When you block legitimate mail from a legitimate server that's properly configured, you have failed.
Not at all. My servers "block" mail by rejecting the SMTP "DATA" command with a rather verbose 5xx error which includes an alternate mailing address and a link to a webmail form. Any "blocked" user will get a bounce from their own mail server with this error message, and can easily contact me by alternate methods. This is not a failure, it is a temporary setback.
The only alternative is to let enough spam through that I'll miss more legitimate mail by false positives in my filtering stage (be it wetware or software) than by "blocked" users giving up. Mail filtered to/dev/null or a spamheap is effectively lost without a trace; at least a "blocked" user knows what happened.
The "dynamic address" RBLs that I know of build their lists from information provided by the ISPs. If your ISP calls your "static" address space "dynamic" then you have a problem. If your ISP refuses to segregate static from dynamic, you need a better ISP.
Zombie spam cannons can easily get around greylisting just by doing every spam run twice. Everyone using greylisting gets one copy of the spam; everyone else gets two. Future spam blasting software will probably make a second (and maybe third and fourth) attempt automatically on every 4xx error. Greylisting is a very temporary solution.
Well... if the thing is a filter, removing some interference on the AC lines that somehow makes it through the transformer and affects the audio circuitry, then adding more filtering by chaining the cables could conceivably result in an improvement. I can't find any clear explanation of what kind of filtering these cables allegedly do, so I'm inclined to believe that they are very very expensive placebos like most other audiophile equipment. (Expensive as in $2000 for a 10-foot power cord. That's right, two thousand US dollars.)
Country: the land. Nation: the people. State: the government.
People almost always confuse them and use "country" to mean all three, but it is good to be aware of the difference and use the words as clearly and precisely as possible.
Wow. Why do people think the only place Macs are used are in "design"?
My world is also a University.
Get yourself down to the Philosophy department and sign up for a Formal Logic or Logic in Language course, and learn the difference between "there exists" and "for all". One off-hand example of potential Mac prevalence was suggested. There were no claims that it's the only realm of such prevalence.
My guess is that it's not popular enough among the hoi polloi, so they aren't making enough money from it. They're trying to draw in a larger audience by making it less technical or something. That way they can make more advertising revenue. Maybe the new format is somehow more advertiser-friendly too.
I admit I didn't read the entire article; after one long, boring page the prospect of eight more just like it made me give up. So maybe my question is answered somewhere in the last 88% of the article: Why would they promote the products, if they aren't paid and don't believe in them? By "paid" I mean any kind of compensation at all -- coupons, "bonuses", pat on the head, shares of the company, whatever.
My apparently incomplete understanding is that bzzz is attempting to organize and control the natural propagation of product and brand awareness through friend networks -- an ambitions, and probably hopeless, project. Is there more (or less) to it? Are they really just insinuating hired shills into friend networks? Do they somehow program (or otherwise induce) people to promote products inappropriately?
Huh? They're not being paid for this "advertising". They're promoting products they actually like to their friends. I tell my friends about stuff I like all the time, and they do the same for me. Why shouldn't we? Why should we distrust each other for doing so? Where is the deceit?
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(Disclaimer: I know nothing about that camera, how many bpp it uses or even exactly what "RAW" means in this context.)
I guess "pixel" doesn't really mean anything for a variable-scan CRT; I should probably say "very small area of the screen" instead. It only ever manifested as a single pixel at whatever resolutions I was using.
My big problem with LCDs is their fragility. I bumped into an LCD screen and it tipped over, right onto a power brick that happened to be facing plug-side-up -- big gouge, ruined screen. CRTs sure don't tip over that easily.
He knew it was a crazy idea; he was desperate and brainstorming, hoping for any kind of clue as to what was happening to him. It's better to have lots of crazy ideas than no ideas at all. Obviously it's best to have the right idea, but that can be very hard to find, particularly when you're not an expert and all the experts keep telling you there's no problem, when there very very clearly is a problem. Patrick Volkerding is no prima donna, and no hypochondriac. If he says he's seriously ill, he's seriously ill.
Yeah, Usenet is great. I hear they even have some discussion groups on there now.
That is already happening. In a few more years spammers won't be able to stay on the spam-unfriendly Internet long enough to make any money, so they'll go into some other sleazy business instead.
The Hormel meat product trademark is "SPAM" (all-caps). See here: SPAM and the Internet
The FTC has to stick "commercial" in there somewhere, because that's the only way it has jurisdiction. Remember, it's the Federal Trade Commission.
As far as "more than enough food ... doing nothing but rotting" goes, there will always be logistical inefficiences. Even with massive overproduction there will always be localized shortages. (I.e. people will starve, FSVO "starve".) That doesn't change the fact that there are too many individuals for the good of the species, and that there's going to be some kind of major crisis in the foreseeable future. The problem isn't that people are dying now, the problem is that the current unhappy system is unsustainable and doomed to collapse into something even less happy, with much higher death rates. Even if we could somehow do away with greed and selfishness, and fairly distribute all the world's resources, we will not be able to keep up current levels of production for very long. Human population _must_ decline soon. Forced reductions in human population are _always_ ... how shall I say ... unpleasant.
I don't know, it seems like a pretty nice fantasy world to live in. I wish my misinterpretation of reality were that positive. No, I just have these crappy delusions of persecution.
It doesn't even matter whether he was an American citizen. The rights recognized by the US Constitution are innate human rights; everybody has them.
Rule #1: Don't talk to cops.
So? I block American spammers and zombies too. What's to re-think?
The only alternative is to let enough spam through that I'll miss more legitimate mail by false positives in my filtering stage (be it wetware or software) than by "blocked" users giving up. Mail filtered to /dev/null or a spamheap is effectively lost without a trace; at least a "blocked" user knows what happened.
The "dynamic address" RBLs that I know of build their lists from information provided by the ISPs. If your ISP calls your "static" address space "dynamic" then you have a problem. If your ISP refuses to segregate static from dynamic, you need a better ISP.
Zombie spam cannons can easily get around greylisting just by doing every spam run twice. Everyone using greylisting gets one copy of the spam; everyone else gets two. Future spam blasting software will probably make a second (and maybe third and fourth) attempt automatically on every 4xx error. Greylisting is a very temporary solution.
Well... if the thing is a filter, removing some interference on the AC lines that somehow makes it through the transformer and affects the audio circuitry, then adding more filtering by chaining the cables could conceivably result in an improvement. I can't find any clear explanation of what kind of filtering these cables allegedly do, so I'm inclined to believe that they are very very expensive placebos like most other audiophile equipment. (Expensive as in $2000 for a 10-foot power cord. That's right, two thousand US dollars.)
Nation: the people.
State: the government.
People almost always confuse them and use "country" to mean all three, but it is good to be aware of the difference and use the words as clearly and precisely as possible.
Heh, I did the same thing on my CoCo. I guess all us TRS-80 kids did that....
My guess is that it's not popular enough among the hoi polloi, so they aren't making enough money from it. They're trying to draw in a larger audience by making it less technical or something. That way they can make more advertising revenue. Maybe the new format is somehow more advertiser-friendly too.
My apparently incomplete understanding is that bzzz is attempting to organize and control the natural propagation of product and brand awareness through friend networks -- an ambitions, and probably hopeless, project. Is there more (or less) to it? Are they really just insinuating hired shills into friend networks? Do they somehow program (or otherwise induce) people to promote products inappropriately?
Huh? They're not being paid for this "advertising". They're promoting products they actually like to their friends. I tell my friends about stuff I like all the time, and they do the same for me. Why shouldn't we? Why should we distrust each other for doing so? Where is the deceit?
I liked Matlock when I was young. So don't worry, you'll probably still hate it when you're old.