Weird, I don't usually see analogies on Slashdot that make sense./applause
But anyway, that's only one aspect of it. Richter is also going after them for forwarding complaints to OIRB's ISP instead of the company directly. It's not that people use their blacklists (although that's part of it), it's that SpamCop is actively trying to get ISPs to shut him down. Presumably for a violation of TOS or whatnot. Richter claims that it's unlawfully costing him business. I know, I know, he's full of #$@$, I am just stating the facts.:P
Right next to the "Post Anonymously" checkbox, we need one for "Post Cliché Joke", like the subscriber asterisk. Then all of the folks who have nothing interesting to contribute except cracks about Beowulf clusters and BSODs in Soviet Russia (you insensitive clod) can have their fun, and I can set it to "-6" in my preferences.
They are still going to shelve it next to the GBA/SP, not going to replace the "old" model. Looks like it will have Bluetooth replacing clunky wires for multiplay, and have backwards compatibility with GBA games. Touch-screen, too. Nifty. Maybe not in your pocket, but definitely still portable.
I'm also a happy iPod owner. That said, I am going to disagree with your choice of words. There are a great many portable music players that are better than the iPod in one or a few key areas. Many have better battery life, some have a clever UI quirk, a growing number have support for oddball music formats, like OGG or lossless FLAC, etc. But none of them have everything (though I hear the Rio Karma is coming close, good for them), that's ultimately what puts Apple on the top of the heap. For now.
Oh, this is rich. Here I am, trying to get Debian installed on an old P3-800 machine. I'm about to strangle the installer with my bare hands, so I decide to take a break and see what's on/. this morning. +5 Informative for the article! Since this is a throwaway machine, I will be a guinea pig for them. My day is not entirely shot after all.;)
Statement: This documentary needed to be made. I still don't understand how the meatbags stand living. The sloshing sounds would drive me insane.
Aside: Michael Dorn is not bad for a meatbag, though clearly a droid would make a superior host.
Resigned: *sigh* If only my assassination protocol were still functional.
Appeasement: Maybe they will make a sequel.
Re:He CAN-SPAM... the law says so!
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He's untouchable, he'll plead guilty as charged to being scum... but he's breaking no laws.
Funny thing about Scott Richter, that's not true. To be crude: he's one of those people that thinks his shit doesn't stink. If you read any interview that he has done, he will repeatedly declare he is an "e-mail marketer", a regular hotshot internet entrepreneur. He's convinced himself he is a legitimate businessman. I suppose that's the only way a whackjob like Scott Richter can get to sleep at night.
That's way less than they anticipated. Only 5 million out of 100 knocked me flat. Since iTunes serves a pretty specific market, I guess that says a lot. Especially since the tracks are free. The question on my mind: how many of those 100 million winners actually reached folks? TFA mentioned something about distribution problems.
Also, about the new authentication crack: I am curious how this will impact their deal to offer free weekly songs, I'm assuming it's some sort of deal with the record industry. Today is a fairly uninspiring Avril Lavigne track (but free! I got it anyway!:P), but I have to wonder.
One of the many things we learned about the advertising idiocy during the dotcom boom was that you can't just spew your message everywhere. Random, untargetted advertising is what gave us Spank the Monkey and Win $20 (someone feel free to bring up the Microsoft ad I'm looking at now, not touching that one with a 10-foot stick).
These people are trying to serve ads to people actively trying to block them. Oh yeah, that's brilliant.
I wasn't advocating migration, nor was I suggesting sticking with Microsoft. I'm only stating the facts for the benefit of the folks who couldn't RTFA. You, and I guess your sibling post (I think? Pepsi analogy broke my brain), think I have an axe to grind, but I don't.
I actually missed the added cost of support, but another poster picked up on it.
Nothing is ever free. Sometimes the costs of migration are more than the cost of staying with Microsoft's licensing. As the now-dead article mentioned, this is why OO is cheap for small companies: They don't have the cost savings of volume licensing that the big kids do.
No, I'd mod you up if I had points, because you're absolutely right (that's what you meant, though, isn't it?).
Even Microsoft faced a backlash when they screwed with the UI in Windows XP, despite the fact that it's more intuitive. After users finally got used to the setup in NT/95/98/ME/2K, everything got flipped on its head. Fortunately, they are smart, and left a classic view in.
For a Linux distro with a small userbase, trying to get Windows converts is an uphill battle if the UI looks different than Windows. Maybe not for you or I, but the technically inclined are a minority section of the Windows userbase. There is a lesson here, I think.
I've more or less stopped trying to show people that IE is stunting their growth. It makes them onery and defensive. Instead, I like ignoring IE's faults, and show them nifty things in Opera they never knew they needed. Things like mouse gestures, linked windows, tabbed browsing (as you mentioned), customizable interface, crash-recovery, etc etc. Easiest thing to do is link to this Opera zealot's site:
The pacing is well-done. He encourages people to try the browser for a month, because that's how long it takes to really get yourself out of an IE rut.
You know, I just accidentally closed the window before I copied over the link address, but instead of having to search for it again, I just hit ctrl-alt-Z to re-open the last window I closed. Little things like this is why I can no longer stand IE. No offense intended to those poor souls who still like using the back button, or can't turn off images with a single button, or natively block popups without a third-party app.
It defines spyware as software that transmits personal information or computer usage data without obtaining explicit approval from the user.
Doesn't sound like it will catch most of what we call Spyware. Pond-scum companies like Gator/Claria can always count on stupid people who click through EULAS. Barring that, they can always attach themselves to a legitimate program that needs the revenue, and may require the Spyware installed in order to function (blah blah, AdAware, but that's not the point).
I'd be more interested in something that took a dig at the EULAS, in the grand tradition of protecting silly people from themselves. This bill looks like do-nothing election-year fluff. Were I a New Yorker, I'd tell this fellow to go back to the drawing board and try again.
Many readers submitted rebuttals to the claim I repeated that an Israeli web portal was the first to give users 1GB email accounts;
...and as mentioned in another article, if the "on-duty" editor would listen to the subscribers occasionally, someone would have known before it went live. Oops!:D
It's the glue. It can corrode the top layer. I've seen some stories about it, still a few floating around, seems to depend largely on which one you use. The problem may be mitigated by this point, now that they know, but I still don't trust labels over cases/sleeves. You have to get that label on really well, air bubbles being your enemy.:D
The story about the Rot of Death seems to come up every once and a while. My fun strategies for longevity:
- If you can rub the top of a CD and have your finger come back silver, that's a bad sign. I avoid cheap CD-Rs. Sorry, CompUSA. - I burn at 2x, always, unless I am burning something that I don't care about. Someone showed me the difference in color, I was convinced. - Sticker on top = CD death. - Take care of your media. Had a friend who left a CD on the windowsill and forgot about it. Many months later, you could see right through it. Nice corrosion.
I find it weird that anyone can stick a 100 year lifespan on a product that hasn't been around that long. I know that they have processes that supposedly accelerate the process and give you a rough estimate, but I am skeptical. Maybe they really are that durable, and people are just careless/cheapskates. You know what they say about malice and idiocy.
Makes me wonder though, if corporate greed can be used to our advantage. Knowing that profit is the motivator, and not altruism/patriotism/whatever, means that hitting them in the wallet is the best assurance that they will play nice. It's a known target.
Maybe it's naive to assume it will work, and there will be a horde of ACs to inform me as such, but while we're in fantasy land: strict government guidelines for how electronic voting functions. Even paper ballots have a margin of error, your electronic system has to do at least as well, with a certain amount of guaranteed uptime. Certified this, authorized that. Otherwise, you'll never get that check to cash, or maybe get hit with some stiff investor-frightening fines.
Hmm, maybe strict rules like that will scare away the private sector from making voting machines, though... Hell, that works for me, too.
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Weird, I don't usually see analogies on Slashdot that make sense. /applause
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But anyway, that's only one aspect of it. Richter is also going after them for forwarding complaints to OIRB's ISP instead of the company directly. It's not that people use their blacklists (although that's part of it), it's that SpamCop is actively trying to get ISPs to shut him down. Presumably for a violation of TOS or whatnot. Richter claims that it's unlawfully costing him business. I know, I know, he's full of #$@$, I am just stating the facts.
scottrichter422@yahoo.com
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I would say he's probably changed it or it was fake to begin with (Yahoo? He could run his own email server), but you asked.
It already does, with the new firmware. I'm not sure what ALE is, but it appears to be homegrown.
I find that a little hard to believe, but I can't prove it, so I won't argue the point. ;)
Right next to the "Post Anonymously" checkbox, we need one for "Post Cliché Joke", like the subscriber asterisk. Then all of the folks who have nothing interesting to contribute except cracks about Beowulf clusters and BSODs in Soviet Russia (you insensitive clod) can have their fun, and I can set it to "-6" in my preferences.
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Who's with me?
They are still going to shelve it next to the GBA/SP, not going to replace the "old" model. Looks like it will have Bluetooth replacing clunky wires for multiplay, and have backwards compatibility with GBA games. Touch-screen, too. Nifty. Maybe not in your pocket, but definitely still portable.
Miyamoto is no fool.
I'm also a happy iPod owner. That said, I am going to disagree with your choice of words. There are a great many portable music players that are better than the iPod in one or a few key areas. Many have better battery life, some have a clever UI quirk, a growing number have support for oddball music formats, like OGG or lossless FLAC, etc. But none of them have everything (though I hear the Rio Karma is coming close, good for them), that's ultimately what puts Apple on the top of the heap. For now.
Oh, this is rich. Here I am, trying to get Debian installed on an old P3-800 machine. I'm about to strangle the installer with my bare hands, so I decide to take a break and see what's on /. this morning. +5 Informative for the article! Since this is a throwaway machine, I will be a guinea pig for them. My day is not entirely shot after all. ;)
Aside: Michael Dorn is not bad for a meatbag, though clearly a droid would make a superior host
Resigned: *sigh* If only my assassination protocol were still functional.
Appeasement: Maybe they will make a sequel.
Oh HK-47, what WOULD we do without you?
Yeah, I'll drink to that one.
That's way less than they anticipated. Only 5 million out of 100 knocked me flat. Since iTunes serves a pretty specific market, I guess that says a lot. Especially since the tracks are free. The question on my mind: how many of those 100 million winners actually reached folks? TFA mentioned something about distribution problems.
:P), but I have to wonder.
Also, about the new authentication crack: I am curious how this will impact their deal to offer free weekly songs, I'm assuming it's some sort of deal with the record industry. Today is a fairly uninspiring Avril Lavigne track (but free! I got it anyway!
One of the many things we learned about the advertising idiocy during the dotcom boom was that you can't just spew your message everywhere. Random, untargetted advertising is what gave us Spank the Monkey and Win $20 (someone feel free to bring up the Microsoft ad I'm looking at now, not touching that one with a 10-foot stick).
These people are trying to serve ads to people actively trying to block them. Oh yeah, that's brilliant.
I wasn't advocating migration, nor was I suggesting sticking with Microsoft. I'm only stating the facts for the benefit of the folks who couldn't RTFA. You, and I guess your sibling post (I think? Pepsi analogy broke my brain), think I have an axe to grind, but I don't.
I actually missed the added cost of support, but another poster picked up on it.
Nothing is ever free. Sometimes the costs of migration are more than the cost of staying with Microsoft's licensing. As the now-dead article mentioned, this is why OO is cheap for small companies: They don't have the cost savings of volume licensing that the big kids do.
While you're at it, to hell with anything that requires maintainence, or is more complex than "Hello World". Speed isn't everything.
Given the choice between writing all of my programs in assembly, or being thrown face-first down a flight of stairs, I'd have to think about it.
No, I'd mod you up if I had points, because you're absolutely right (that's what you meant, though, isn't it?).
Even Microsoft faced a backlash when they screwed with the UI in Windows XP, despite the fact that it's more intuitive. After users finally got used to the setup in NT/95/98/ME/2K, everything got flipped on its head. Fortunately, they are smart, and left a classic view in.
For a Linux distro with a small userbase, trying to get Windows converts is an uphill battle if the UI looks different than Windows. Maybe not for you or I, but the technically inclined are a minority section of the Windows userbase. There is a lesson here, I think.
I've more or less stopped trying to show people that IE is stunting their growth. It makes them onery and defensive. Instead, I like ignoring IE's faults, and show them nifty things in Opera they never knew they needed. Things like mouse gestures, linked windows, tabbed browsing (as you mentioned), customizable interface, crash-recovery, etc etc. Easiest thing to do is link to this Opera zealot's site:
Click
The pacing is well-done. He encourages people to try the browser for a month, because that's how long it takes to really get yourself out of an IE rut.
You know, I just accidentally closed the window before I copied over the link address, but instead of having to search for it again, I just hit ctrl-alt-Z to re-open the last window I closed. Little things like this is why I can no longer stand IE. No offense intended to those poor souls who still like using the back button, or can't turn off images with a single button, or natively block popups without a third-party app.
I'd be more interested in something that took a dig at the EULAS, in the grand tradition of protecting silly people from themselves. This bill looks like do-nothing election-year fluff. Were I a New Yorker, I'd tell this fellow to go back to the drawing board and try again.
"Don't attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity." Or something close to that. Used to be my sig.
It's the glue. It can corrode the top layer. I've seen some stories about it, still a few floating around, seems to depend largely on which one you use. The problem may be mitigated by this point, now that they know, but I still don't trust labels over cases/sleeves. You have to get that label on really well, air bubbles being your enemy. :D
The story about the Rot of Death seems to come up every once and a while. My fun strategies for longevity:
- If you can rub the top of a CD and have your finger come back silver, that's a bad sign. I avoid cheap CD-Rs. Sorry, CompUSA.
- I burn at 2x, always, unless I am burning something that I don't care about. Someone showed me the difference in color, I was convinced.
- Sticker on top = CD death.
- Take care of your media. Had a friend who left a CD on the windowsill and forgot about it. Many months later, you could see right through it. Nice corrosion.
I find it weird that anyone can stick a 100 year lifespan on a product that hasn't been around that long. I know that they have processes that supposedly accelerate the process and give you a rough estimate, but I am skeptical. Maybe they really are that durable, and people are just careless/cheapskates. You know what they say about malice and idiocy.
You bring up an excellent point!
Makes me wonder though, if corporate greed can be used to our advantage. Knowing that profit is the motivator, and not altruism/patriotism/whatever, means that hitting them in the wallet is the best assurance that they will play nice. It's a known target.
Maybe it's naive to assume it will work, and there will be a horde of ACs to inform me as such, but while we're in fantasy land: strict government guidelines for how electronic voting functions. Even paper ballots have a margin of error, your electronic system has to do at least as well, with a certain amount of guaranteed uptime. Certified this, authorized that. Otherwise, you'll never get that check to cash, or maybe get hit with some stiff investor-frightening fines.
Hmm, maybe strict rules like that will scare away the private sector from making voting machines, though... Hell, that works for me, too.