As the dotcom boom hits bottom you look around and notice that fewer and fewer services have competitors anymore. That's the way it has become in on-line payments. There are a couple of alternatives that may still unseat PayPal as the major player in the space, but now that eBay has them I doubt it.
Low barrier of entry means this and the auction space are ripe, but getting traction in it is hard.
What concerns me the most is the service aspect of the deal. PayPal has a bad reputation, but there is hope it will it will improve.
"Before you dive into the coding, read this book to summarize and organize your overall design and implementation. It will be well worth your time. I'm looking forward to seeing the rest of the volumes in this series."
He says, "There is a limitless supply of hydrogen, and it poses no environmental harm, unlike carbon dioxide and other compounds generated by traditional gasoline or diesel engines," Dunn said. "
I like the idea of forwarding the spam, but the question remains what will they do with it?
For instance, Yahoo Mail has a feature where you can forward Spam to their Yahoo! Customer Care department. Yet, you don't know what happens.
I don't know if this is a "feel good" attempt at showing that they are handling spam or they actually run some super secret program and change their spam variables.
I'd like to see what the FTC is doing with the spam sent to them. Are they going to start a black list? Will they take action against the spammers?
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The space station is the biggest waste of money ever in the history of *ANY* space program.
Yes, we're living in space, but so what. The Russians lived there for years on MIR.
The scientists are supposed to be doing science, but all they are doing right now is maintenance. Over 75% of their time is spent doing maintenance of the space station.
What are we acheiving here? At least with the Apollo program we got to go to the moon and developed TANG.
A great opinion piece on this states, "This latest project is the international equivalent of a timeshare apartment. Sixteen countries have been conned into paying their bit towards a half-built orbiting holiday home." Amen.
Wow, the responses are just heart wrenching. Even the AC ones. Grow some balls and post under your ID.
Anyway, everyone likes to point out that it was with a lack of compassion that I posted. I didn't. I have no compassion for governments who can't get their act together. Do you think you or I ship monitors to China? It's called a market and someone must be buying what someone else is selling.
As for the kids who only have a grade school education, maybe I am wrong about this, but most kids know that after a while if they do A and feel the effects in terms of B they can relate the two.
"Hmmm, I sniffed boards all day and now I am sick." X 30 days and you have a winner.
No one answered the simple question of what these people would do if they didn't have the scrap? Sure, they make a dollar a day or so, but that might be enough for them. China hasn't provided jobs, so what should they do?
Someone said, "If there were a natural disaster in China or elsewhere would you simply say: "Oh well, they aren't 'mericans!"
Well, yes. You are a twit. A natural disaster can't be helped. No one makes a decision to say, "Hey, tornado come here." That's why it's called natural.
For the person who said, "You're a little heartless, aren't you? "Hey, if it's not my fault, I don't wanna hear about it." These people are suffering. Doesn't that mean anything to you? And as far as the thought that environmental concerns outside of the US isn't our concern, what do you say about the chemicals that are being released into the atmosphere when they burn all that stuff? Toxins don't respect international boundaries."
Not heartless. Tired of people blaming us for someone else's problems. If their government wants this to happen it will. Don't tell me they can't stop it. They've been able to stop democracy and religion. They should be able to stop computer parts.
As for toxins knowing no bounds, I put myself in the "earth can recover from pretty much anything" group.
And against my better judegement, the AC wennie who said, "oil is a reserve that is running low, and somehow fucking americans think they're so special they can use all the oil they want. i don't even see america *trying* to find ways to cut down on its oil consumption"
Um, why should we? Oil is running low? Crap, better tell that to the countries who supply it. They will want to do something about it.
This has been your daily, I am so pissed I am going to respond message, signing off.
that someone is finding value in old hardware. It's good that their economic system can support it.
As for the enviornmental concerns, last time I looked China wasn't the 51st state. If their government can't control it then it's their problem not ours.
Amazing how America can be portrayed as the bad guy all around the world. Face facts, if you're stupid enough to inhale fumes from PC parts you're burning you should be dead. Those who don't die make money.
If you don't like where you live... move. It's like Sam Kinnison used to say, "You live in a freaking desert. Move."
How big can the difference in quality be? If a normal person with no musical ability, say, like myself, listens to both a CD and the new format could I tell a difference? Is it as pronounced as moving from tape to CD?
Pop Ups pay for the content you read on certain sites. Yep, the internet isn't free nor is the content. It costs to generate content and one way of paying for that is, shudder, advertising.
Someone has to pay. If it's not pop ups it'll be something else.
Why do people continue to believe that the internet is free and always will be free?
We don't have a micropayment system in place, so web site operators need to generate revenue somewhere.
His website is a great treasure chest of information for folks looking to do this in their spare time. He seems to be pretty level headed, but just gets off on this.
1) It doesn't have a story line. 2) I need a new PC to run it. 3) It doesn't handle some graphical crap I don't understand.
All I care about is the immersion. Do I feel like I am somewhere else. When Doom was released I felt that. The sounds, the sights, the gameplay all contributed to making you feel like you would die around the next corner.
Fire up Doom ][ and if you feel your stomach quiver when you drop off a very high walkway into acid you'll know what I mean.
I have a firm commitment from the CFO, read wife, that when Doom 3 comes out I get a brand new PC the next day.:-) I'm happy.
Getting tired of the Slashdot effect, I threw up the main article and pics. The benchmarks aren't there, but the meat of the article and hardware pics are up there.
Slashdot Mirror
A Wired article touched on this previously.
The neat thing are the carbon nanotubes used to drive these things. NEC is working on fuel cells for phones.
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Interview with GoDaddy President Bob Parsons
As the dotcom boom hits bottom you look around and notice that fewer and fewer services have competitors anymore. That's the way it has become in on-line payments. There are a couple of alternatives that may still unseat PayPal as the major player in the space, but now that eBay has them I doubt it.
Low barrier of entry means this and the auction space are ripe, but getting traction in it is hard.
What concerns me the most is the service aspect of the deal. PayPal has a bad reputation, but there is hope it will it will improve.
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Go Daddy President Interview
Book Review of Building Java Enterprise Applications Vol. 1 Architecture
"Before you dive into the coding, read this book to summarize and organize your overall design and implementation. It will be well worth your time. I'm looking forward to seeing the rest of the volumes in this series."
His psycho bent on it was fantastic. Who did you prefer? VAL KILMER? GEORGE CLOONEY? Please ...
Dunn is also working on Fuel Cell planes.
Fuel Cell and Aviation
He says, "There is a limitless supply of hydrogen, and it poses no environmental harm, unlike carbon dioxide and other compounds generated by traditional gasoline or diesel engines," Dunn said. "
ISPs on Anti Spam Hunt
MAPS Attack
I like the idea of forwarding the spam, but the question remains what will they do with it?
For instance, Yahoo Mail has a feature where you can forward Spam to their Yahoo! Customer Care department. Yet, you don't know what happens.
I don't know if this is a "feel good" attempt at showing that they are handling spam or they actually run some super secret program and change their spam variables.
I'd like to see what the FTC is doing with the spam sent to them. Are they going to start a black list? Will they take action against the spammers?
Here is the link to the story:
Slon Article
The space station is the biggest waste of money ever in the history of *ANY* space program.
Yes, we're living in space, but so what. The Russians lived there for years on MIR.
The scientists are supposed to be doing science, but all they are doing right now is maintenance. Over 75% of their time is spent doing maintenance of the space station.
What are we acheiving here? At least with the Apollo program we got to go to the moon and developed TANG.
A great opinion piece on this states, "This latest project is the international equivalent of a timeshare apartment. Sixteen countries have been conned into paying their bit towards a half-built orbiting holiday home." Amen.
Just for the record:
1) I don't use razors, so I don't care how much they cost.
2) I don't own an Xbox, but would like one.
3) Pissant is a perfect word for an obsolete government such as China's.
How in the hell are we to blame? You're kidding, right?
Did you send your monitor there?
Did anyone?
It's not like someone rented a ship, filled it up and went to the coast of china. Once there they didn't just throw the crap out there.
Someone sold it to them, them being someone in China, who did this. It wasn't us.
Wow, the responses are just heart wrenching. Even the AC ones. Grow some balls and post under your ID.
Anyway, everyone likes to point out that it was with a lack of compassion that I posted. I didn't. I have no compassion for governments who can't get their act together. Do you think you or I ship monitors to China? It's called a market and someone must be buying what someone else is selling.
As for the kids who only have a grade school education, maybe I am wrong about this, but most kids know that after a while if they do A and feel the effects in terms of B they can relate the two.
"Hmmm, I sniffed boards all day and now I am sick." X 30 days and you have a winner.
No one answered the simple question of what these people would do if they didn't have the scrap? Sure, they make a dollar a day or so, but that might be enough for them. China hasn't provided jobs, so what should they do?
Someone said, "If there were a natural disaster in China or elsewhere would you simply say: "Oh well, they aren't 'mericans!"
Well, yes. You are a twit. A natural disaster can't be helped. No one makes a decision to say, "Hey, tornado come here." That's why it's called natural.
For the person who said, "You're a little heartless, aren't you? "Hey, if it's not my fault, I don't wanna hear about it." These people are suffering. Doesn't that mean anything to you? And as far as the thought that environmental concerns outside of the US isn't our concern, what do you say about the chemicals that are being released into the atmosphere when they burn all that stuff? Toxins don't respect international boundaries."
Not heartless. Tired of people blaming us for someone else's problems. If their government wants this to happen it will. Don't tell me they can't stop it. They've been able to stop democracy and religion. They should be able to stop computer parts.
As for toxins knowing no bounds, I put myself in the "earth can recover from pretty much anything" group.
And against my better judegement, the AC wennie who said, "oil is a reserve that is running low, and somehow fucking americans think they're so special they can use all the oil they want. i don't even see america *trying* to find ways to cut down on its oil consumption"
Um, why should we? Oil is running low? Crap, better tell that to the countries who supply it. They will want to do something about it.
This has been your daily, I am so pissed I am going to respond message, signing off.
I love it. You managed to make it into a Linux vs. MS thing. Post it AC and run. Good job.
The third world is called the third world for good reason. Their governments suck. Sucks to be their citizens, but that's the way it is.
Just look at the godawful mess in Africa. You'd think the continent where man grew from would be able to get it right after a few thousand years.
that someone is finding value in old hardware. It's good that their economic system can support it.
... move. It's like Sam Kinnison used to say, "You live in a freaking desert. Move."
As for the enviornmental concerns, last time I looked China wasn't the 51st state. If their government can't control it then it's their problem not ours.
Amazing how America can be portrayed as the bad guy all around the world. Face facts, if you're stupid enough to inhale fumes from PC parts you're burning you should be dead. Those who don't die make money.
If you don't like where you live
A record sounds better than a CD?
How big can the difference in quality be? If a normal person with no musical ability, say, like myself, listens to both a CD and the new format could I tell a difference? Is it as pronounced as moving from tape to CD?
This is the ICANN evaluation. It shows why they did and who they looked at. Good reading. Seems above board to me.
Lonely Sig Alert: http://www.compunotes.com
Pop Ups pay for the content you read on certain sites. Yep, the internet isn't free nor is the content. It costs to generate content and one way of paying for that is, shudder, advertising.
Someone has to pay. If it's not pop ups it'll be something else.
Why do people continue to believe that the internet is free and always will be free?
We don't have a micropayment system in place, so web site operators need to generate revenue somewhere.
That would require a vote from the board. Of course, I am not *on* the board. :-)
That pretty much sums it up.
His website is a great treasure chest of information for folks looking to do this in their spare time. He seems to be pretty level headed, but just gets off on this.
You can tell me:
:-) I'm happy.
1) It doesn't have a story line.
2) I need a new PC to run it.
3) It doesn't handle some graphical crap I don't understand.
All I care about is the immersion. Do I feel like I am somewhere else. When Doom was released I felt that. The sounds, the sights, the gameplay all contributed to making you feel like you would die around the next corner.
Fire up Doom ][ and if you feel your stomach quiver when you drop off a very high walkway into acid you'll know what I mean.
I have a firm commitment from the CFO, read wife, that when Doom 3 comes out I get a brand new PC the next day.
Getting tired of the Slashdot effect, I threw up the main article and pics. The benchmarks aren't there, but the meat of the article and hardware pics are up there.
You can find them here.
They are fantastic reading! Have them in the bathroom and never tire of flipping through them. The Dungeon Master's Guide was well done as well.
A good article about today's RPG Economics inside the fantasy worlds.
It's amazing to think that a few people designed a system so well working that it's served as the basis for countless types in the genre.