"First they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out -- because I was not a Jew.
Then they came for the communists, and I did not speak out -- because I was not a communist.
Then they came for the trade unionists and I did not speak out -- because I was not a trade unionist.
Then they came for me -- and there was no one left to speak out for me." -Pastor Niemoller
My ex works for a direct marketing company, and almost every week, she'd come home and tell me about some new email based marketing thing she was thinking about pitching. I always had to sit down and tell her how it would really dick her client over in the long run, because people hate spam so much, but she said "they would be sent to a list of people that said they want to recieve mail" ok.. I asked where she got it "Oh, we bought it" yeah.. so it was spam. Anyway, Here's what I see happening; marketing people such as her are gonna hear about this and go, "Oh, the junk mail I'm going to send falls within the limits in this law, so why can't I do it? I'll send out "good spam"" Similar things could happen to more reputable companies that just happen to have a clueless marketing guy, and then they would get thier mail servers blocked, and get all ticked because they thought everything they were doing was kosher, because it was within the limits of the law. This seems obvious to us, but some small company isn't nessessarily going to even know of the concept that people get thier mail servers blocked for doing something that isn't illegal.
get a T1.. at my work, one of my customers can keep a T1 pegged at 1.5mbps for the entire term of thier contract if they want to. Now, we don't monitor traffic on DSL circuits etc. in the first place, but I'm pretty sure T1s and higher are always run like that.
Dell is now offering thier own product, competing with the iPod. I'd not expect them to cut the price on the iPod, diverting potential buyers of a Dell branded device.
Now, I'm not 100% sure on this (and I didn't RTFA), but someone posted in a different article a while back (and got modded up) that due to the tax on blank CDRs, people in Canada could download music legally, so isn't this kind of a moot point?
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Sounds like you need to visit Virtual World They used to have one in Walnut Creek, CA, when I lived up there, but now they seem to have shifted to selling pods to arcades and stuff. It was great when they had thier own buildings though. Everything was battletech themed, there was a big mech arm hanging from the cieling, and a bar where you could order drinks that were mentioned in the battletech books.
I don't mind competing with a powerful constant. I already compete with Verizon and comcast. I do *not* however want to compete with a powerful constant that is funded by my tax dollars. The government is supposed to be looking out for it's citizens, not putting them out of business.
this seems all well and good, but what about local ISPs in utah? How are mom and pop shops expected to compete with the government? Hopefully this doesn't happen in PA, or I'd be out a job, and very very angry at my local government.
I bought an SL-5500 a while back, so I could have a little linux machine to knock around on. I certianly didn't buy it to play games, but it has the added bonus of having a port of an SNES emulator, a gameboy/gameboy advanced emulator, Exult, and a stack of others. So, I sure wouldn't spend $300 on a PDA solely for video games, but it's nice to get that functionality out of one that you already bought for other reasons.
Now, I'm guessing the 'like my penis' part is what got this moderated as a troll, but I found it very useful, as I had no freakin' idea what LGM stood for.
Since I work at an ISP, my numbers are probally biased, but I know many many many more people using ISDN then I do using bluetooth, and this in in Philadelphia.
I think the oldest hardware I'm currently running would be 11 Sun Sparc IPCs. The NVRAM is dead in all of them, so if they lose power, I have to manually enter a mac address etc. No hard drives, they all boot off of a netbsd machine that I set up for that purpose. What do they do, you ask? Well, they do a pretty good job of heating up my living room in the winter. I mostly just got them for the fun of setting them up. $100 on ebay for the whole set.
but that doesn't mean she didn't already buy the songs.. I usually download mp3s of CDs i've already purchaced, because I can download them faster and with less hassle then I can rip the CD. Then, the stuff I'm downloading is gonna match songs traded on napster, but I still own a legit copy.
I noticed this yesterday. Got me a new lappy, and wanted to download a couple things. Searched google for kazaalite, and couldn't find the link I was looking for (even though I distinctly remember finding it on Google last week) so what did i do? I used another search engine.. (http://www.dogpile.com actually)
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>Democrats get sodomized. Ahh, electronic buggery in the senate
then you whitelist thier numbers..
"First they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out -- because I was not a Jew.
Then they came for the communists, and I did not speak out -- because I was not a communist.
Then they came for the trade unionists and I did not speak out -- because I was not a trade unionist.
Then they came for me -- and there was no one left to speak out for me." -Pastor Niemoller
That doesn't mean that they don't support IPv6, it just means they haven't yet implemented it..
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My ex works for a direct marketing company, and almost every week, she'd come home and tell me about some new email based marketing thing she was thinking about pitching. I always had to sit down and tell her how it would really dick her client over in the long run, because people hate spam so much, but she said "they would be sent to a list of people that said they want to recieve mail" ok.. I asked where she got it "Oh, we bought it" yeah.. so it was spam. Anyway, Here's what I see happening; marketing people such as her are gonna hear about this and go, "Oh, the junk mail I'm going to send falls within the limits in this law, so why can't I do it? I'll send out "good spam"" Similar things could happen to more reputable companies that just happen to have a clueless marketing guy, and then they would get thier mail servers blocked, and get all ticked because they thought everything they were doing was kosher, because it was within the limits of the law. This seems obvious to us, but some small company isn't nessessarily going to even know of the concept that people get thier mail servers blocked for doing something that isn't illegal.
get a T1.. at my work, one of my customers can keep a T1 pegged at 1.5mbps for the entire term of thier contract if they want to. Now, we don't monitor traffic on DSL circuits etc. in the first place, but I'm pretty sure T1s and higher are always run like that.
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I think that commands are the way forward, for example, pressing 'fsck /dev/hda1' opens fsck
oh wait..
Dell is now offering thier own product, competing with the iPod. I'd not expect them to cut the price on the iPod, diverting potential buyers of a Dell branded device.
It wasn't a comment in response to an article, it was the article itself.
Now, I'm not 100% sure on this (and I didn't RTFA), but someone posted in a different article a while back (and got modded up) that due to the tax on blank CDRs, people in Canada could download music legally, so isn't this kind of a moot point?
Sounds like you need to visit Virtual World They used to have one in Walnut Creek, CA, when I lived up there, but now they seem to have shifted to selling pods to arcades and stuff. It was great when they had thier own buildings though. Everything was battletech themed, there was a big mech arm hanging from the cieling, and a bar where you could order drinks that were mentioned in the battletech books.
I don't mind competing with a powerful constant. I already compete with Verizon and comcast. I do *not* however want to compete with a powerful constant that is funded by my tax dollars. The government is supposed to be looking out for it's citizens, not putting them out of business.
this seems all well and good, but what about local ISPs in utah? How are mom and pop shops expected to compete with the government? Hopefully this doesn't happen in PA, or I'd be out a job, and very very angry at my local government.
not to pick nits, especially in peoples .sigs, but it's GIR, not Grr. He's a busted version of the SIR robot.
I bought an SL-5500 a while back, so I could have a little linux machine to knock around on. I certianly didn't buy it to play games, but it has the added bonus of having a port of an SNES emulator, a gameboy/gameboy advanced emulator, Exult, and a stack of others. So, I sure wouldn't spend $300 on a PDA solely for video games, but it's nice to get that functionality out of one that you already bought for other reasons.
Now, I'm guessing the 'like my penis' part is what got this moderated as a troll, but I found it very useful, as I had no freakin' idea what LGM stood for.
Since I work at an ISP, my numbers are probally biased, but I know many many many more people using ISDN then I do using bluetooth, and this in in Philadelphia.
I think the oldest hardware I'm currently running would be 11 Sun Sparc IPCs. The NVRAM is dead in all of them, so if they lose power, I have to manually enter a mac address etc. No hard drives, they all boot off of a netbsd machine that I set up for that purpose. What do they do, you ask? Well, they do a pretty good job of heating up my living room in the winter. I mostly just got them for the fun of setting them up. $100 on ebay for the whole set.
Whens the last time you installed a Microsoft OS? The installers pelt you with ads for every microsoft product imaginable.
embedded you say? Hmm... time to get to loading OpenZaurus on it!
yeah, i figured that out after I posted. That's what I get for not RTFA-ing.
but that doesn't mean she didn't already buy the songs.. I usually download mp3s of CDs i've already purchaced, because I can download them faster and with less hassle then I can rip the CD. Then, the stuff I'm downloading is gonna match songs traded on napster, but I still own a legit copy.
I noticed this yesterday. Got me a new lappy, and wanted to download a couple things. Searched google for kazaalite, and couldn't find the link I was looking for (even though I distinctly remember finding it on Google last week) so what did i do? I used another search engine.. (http://www.dogpile.com actually)