The above scenario gets at the heart of why 'anti-spam' measures will never work.
The email system, and the Internet as a whole, actually, are based on a flawed 'consensus' system where everybody reads RFCs and follows them voluntarily. Said 'consensus' based system doesn't scale well to the whole world. It only works well in small communities, and, perhaps, networks the size of Fido-net from back in the BBS days.
Spam won't 'go away' until there are fundamental changes in how the Internet is structured. Anybody who claims otherwise is fooling themselves, because we're not one big happy family. The very notion that we are one big happy family implies a hierarchy and rules that break the whole concept of 'consensus.'
The Net just needs to balkanize, to break up into entities with gateways, and rules within said gateways. Unfortunately that's the only way it's ever going to 'work.' And it's happening. It wasn't a band of autonomous individuals who sued Ralsky. It was Verizon, one of the 'overlords' who own one of said 'entities.'
Sorry. You can't 'equate' Capitalism and Communism.
Capitalism is just a label applied after-the-fact to a set of practices and a way that people interact commercially. 'Communism' is an ideology spun whole-cloth out of theory by a dude sitting in the Britsh Library who inherited his wealth.
Capitalism is something that evolved. 'Communism' is something that a bunch of ideologues in the 19th century said 'was the next evolutionary step' but which didn't happen.
A more useful cassette tape oriented question that I have been thinking about is: Has anybody come up with a software package to emulate an audio cassette deck using a PC with a sound card? It seems like it would be a trivial task and it'd be cool for people with 'classic' hardware. The old TRS-80 or Sinclair 1000 would be more useful with a 100% reliable storage system like an old Pentium Machine that mimics a cassette. It would need audio in/out and possibly a digital input for 'motor control' that many old computers used.
I have been selling Macs on eBay for awhile now. I've been selling Beige G3's, 7300s, a few other PPC Macs. The Macs that I regularly use include my SE/30 and the Beige G3 that I'm holding onto. I have a Quadra 650 that I'm keeping as a collectable.
Actually, the counterculture that 'LOTR' first thrived in was kind of sappy, naive, and completely non-ironic. So the Nimoy video seems to kind of fit in that culture pretty well. The fact that it's aged so badly is more a sign of how far we've fallen since. I look at the covers of my old Tolkein Trilogy, the 1960's paperback edition, and look at the bookstore at the bombastic 'piece of Classic art' bullshit that the trilogy is packaged in now, and I have to wonder if it's anything that Tolkein would have wanted. I mean, sure, he probably would have no problem with his descendents benefitting from his work, he'd want that. But the outright whoring that goes on...
Too much of what passes for 'current' now is blatant repackaging of the goodness from the past (all the Star Trek/Star Wars/Casper, etc. etc. dreck that gets remade over and over and over and over again) Seems like we're not capable of moving on.
I don't have a single machine with a processor faster than 800. And quite a number of them run my apps 'very well.'
'Complex Data Storage' app on an $800 Mac? Don't be silly. An $800 entry-level Mac is about equivalent to the PC Clone machines I buy at auction for $15 apiece when it comes to 'complex data storage' apps. And the $15 machines are a better deal, because they're not proprietary so I can mix-n-match pieces out of them into newer boxes.
It scales from $15 to 3000, now that you reminded me, and now that you start talking about 'complex data storage' apps, i.e. server stuff.
try taking a skinned app like winamp and move it around on the screen as fast as you can.
Why would I want to do that? To justify having spent so much $$?
I'm entering this text in Mozilla on a Pentium Pro 200 MHz machine running NetBSD, even while at the same time compiling native OpenOffice for NetBSD from source. I consider that impressive, not how many layers of corpulent bloat 'skinnability' my hardware will support.
Steve Jobs openly boasted of the Mac being 'hacker proof' at an early press conference speech I heard on the radio. And he wasn't talking 'hacker' in the terms we use the word 'cracker' for on Slashdot.
He was smugly boasting that the Mac was the machine for 'the rest of us' who (he put it very condescendingly) wouldn't ever open our computer's case.
I, at the time, had a 'Bigboard' Xerox 820 clone running CP/M. It didn't even have a case, just being a single board that sat on the table. I thought 'fuck you, Steve Jobs' and since then the only Apple hardware I've bought (I've got plenty, actually) has been stuff bought for pennies on the dollar used.
Since Apple has spent literally decades driving the 'Oranges' out of their market segment (they even sued and ran out of business 'Orange Computer' who made an Apple II clone), I would say it's near impossible to make 'Apple to Orange' comparisons within the Mac market.
But it's refreshing to know that I can build up my investment in software and know it'll run robustly on anywhere from a $300-3000 machine.
Apple's product line doesn't scale the same way the PC Clone product line does, because they're pointedly a single-sourced supplier.
The G5 is slick, fast, has an OS I felt at home with in minutes, and just looks stunning. Price be damned, I'm buying one.
In that regard, Apple and OS X are bad for Linux. If the people who lust after flash/substance all migrate over to OS X that means less mindshare for Linux desktops. Windows 2000 already did something similar to Linux when it proved to solve the 'uptime' issue that was drawing people away from Microsoft OSes.
I want something that plays low-rate MP3s and has 20 MB of storage for $20. I mainly use MP3 to play old radio programs, where a one hour program is compressed to 10 MB.
The interesting sellers of OpenOffice on ebay are these people who make a business of selling OpenOffice totally wrapped up in obscurity so that people who buy it think it's a commercial product.
I'm pretty sure I mentioned that I have the current Britannica on CD-ROM as well. A few years ago they actually published a non-multimedia version that was the actual encyclopedia, not a bunch of graphical BS.
I prefer the paper version for lots of historical stuff, and for things like looking up card games and older technical info.
Actually, there technically was a state called Palestine, because I have coins labelled 'Palestine' in my coin collection. However, they are colonial European coins from the first half of the 20th century, and were NOT issued by a 'Palestianian state' as is tricked up by people who are anti-Israel.
Naw. If NASA got more money, they'd just buy new filing cabinets. That, and the cost of the Unionized labor to move out the old and install the new filing cabinets, and they'd probably end up having LESS money for space exploration.
Krakatoa erupting around 535 A.D., affecting the global climate for a handful of years,
Yes, and the evidence shows that modern volcanic eruptions spew out amounts of 'bad stuff' that dwarf human emissions.
Really, the loudest segment of the 'Global Warming' crowd are people who propose fundamental economic change and use the threat of Global Warming as an excuse to push their agenda.
Maybe we should concentrate instead on capping the volcanoes and containing all those eruptions. Maybe even throw in some virgins for good measure to be culturally diverse and embrace traditional culture or somesuch.
The cost to 'the health service' of smoking is complex. Smoking causes a considerable number of people to live shorter lives than they would otherwise. Living shorter lives can actually reduce the cost to 'the health service.'
The whole 'ban smoking' thing sounds pretty fascistic, though. It's a plant that grows naturally. It's an activity that many people enjoy. The fact that other people (busybodies) disapprove isn't really relevant.
Maybe we should ban a whole lot of things that make people less productive to 'the hive.'
Almost none of what you describe in your list has to do with 'case modding' as it's carried out by most people into that sort of thing.
They want it to 'look cool' and unique.
Why you spun off into that rant is unclear.
My first 'case mod' housed an 8 MHz 8088 motherboard, BTW, although I did put that bare 'Big Board' computer with the Z-80 processor into a used rackmount case because it came with none.
People who are 'in the know' shunt around the whole Taiwan/China controversey by referring to that island as Formosa. Formosa is the Dutch colonial name for the island, so it pisses off all the different factions of Chinese equally to call it that.
'make my own decision' about the correctness of a random comglomeration of opinions, on a subject that I don't know much about so I went out looking for info on it?
Is truth a consensus process? Have we come to this?
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The above scenario gets at the heart of why 'anti-spam' measures will never work.
The email system, and the Internet as a whole, actually, are based on a flawed 'consensus' system where everybody reads RFCs and follows them voluntarily. Said 'consensus' based system doesn't scale well to the whole world. It only works well in small communities, and, perhaps, networks the size of Fido-net from back in the BBS days.
Spam won't 'go away' until there are fundamental changes in how the Internet is structured. Anybody who claims otherwise is fooling themselves, because we're not one big happy family. The very notion that we are one big happy family implies a hierarchy and rules that break the whole concept of 'consensus.'
The Net just needs to balkanize, to break up into entities with gateways, and rules within said gateways. Unfortunately that's the only way it's ever going to 'work.' And it's happening. It wasn't a band of autonomous individuals who sued Ralsky. It was Verizon, one of the 'overlords' who own one of said 'entities.'
Sorry. You can't 'equate' Capitalism and Communism.
Capitalism is just a label applied after-the-fact to a set of practices and a way that people interact commercially. 'Communism' is an ideology spun whole-cloth out of theory by a dude sitting in the Britsh Library who inherited his wealth.
Capitalism is something that evolved. 'Communism' is something that a bunch of ideologues in the 19th century said 'was the next evolutionary step' but which didn't happen.
See the difference?
Or you should 'steal' some cable television programming. It doesn't exist in physical form, either, so you should be just fine.
Oh, wait. We're in favor of that sort of 'clever hack.'
A more useful cassette tape oriented question that I have been thinking about is: Has anybody come up with a software package to emulate an audio cassette deck using a PC with a sound card? It seems like it would be a trivial task and it'd be cool for people with 'classic' hardware. The old TRS-80 or Sinclair 1000 would be more useful with a 100% reliable storage system like an old Pentium Machine that mimics a cassette. It would need audio in/out and possibly a digital input for 'motor control' that many old computers used.
I got a 17" monitor a few months ago for free. You'd pay money for a 17" monitor?
The machines I've been buying for $15 are Pentium II 400's, with 128 MB of RAM, 4 gig HD's, integrated sound, etc.
I can buy a lot of other stuff for the extra money I didn't spend. Maybe even a firewire card (shrug)
I have been selling Macs on eBay for awhile now. I've been selling Beige G3's, 7300s, a few other PPC Macs. The Macs that I regularly use include my SE/30 and the Beige G3 that I'm holding onto. I have a Quadra 650 that I'm keeping as a collectable.
Actually, the counterculture that 'LOTR' first thrived in was kind of sappy, naive, and completely non-ironic. So the Nimoy video seems to kind of fit in that culture pretty well. The fact that it's aged so badly is more a sign of how far we've fallen since. I look at the covers of my old Tolkein Trilogy, the 1960's paperback edition, and look at the bookstore at the bombastic 'piece of Classic art' bullshit that the trilogy is packaged in now, and I have to wonder if it's anything that Tolkein would have wanted. I mean, sure, he probably would have no problem with his descendents benefitting from his work, he'd want that. But the outright whoring that goes on...
Too much of what passes for 'current' now is blatant repackaging of the goodness from the past (all the Star Trek/Star Wars/Casper, etc. etc. dreck that gets remade over and over and over and over again) Seems like we're not capable of moving on.
Would that include all seventeen versions of 'Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds'? Even the blotter edition?
I don't have a single machine with a processor faster than 800. And quite a number of them run my apps 'very well.'
'Complex Data Storage' app on an $800 Mac? Don't be silly. An $800 entry-level Mac is about equivalent to the PC Clone machines I buy at auction for $15 apiece when it comes to 'complex data storage' apps. And the $15 machines are a better deal, because they're not proprietary so I can mix-n-match pieces out of them into newer boxes.
It scales from $15 to 3000, now that you reminded me, and now that you start talking about 'complex data storage' apps, i.e. server stuff.
try taking a skinned app like winamp and move it around on the screen as fast as you can.
Why would I want to do that? To justify having spent so much $$?
I'm entering this text in Mozilla on a Pentium Pro 200 MHz machine running NetBSD, even while at the same time compiling native OpenOffice for NetBSD from source. I consider that impressive, not how many layers of corpulent bloat 'skinnability' my hardware will support.
Steve Jobs openly boasted of the Mac being 'hacker proof' at an early press conference speech I heard on the radio. And he wasn't talking 'hacker' in the terms we use the word 'cracker' for on Slashdot.
He was smugly boasting that the Mac was the machine for 'the rest of us' who (he put it very condescendingly) wouldn't ever open our computer's case.
I, at the time, had a 'Bigboard' Xerox 820 clone running CP/M. It didn't even have a case, just being a single board that sat on the table. I thought 'fuck you, Steve Jobs' and since then the only Apple hardware I've bought (I've got plenty, actually) has been stuff bought for pennies on the dollar used.
Since Apple has spent literally decades driving the 'Oranges' out of their market segment (they even sued and ran out of business 'Orange Computer' who made an Apple II clone), I would say it's near impossible to make 'Apple to Orange' comparisons within the Mac market.
But it's refreshing to know that I can build up my investment in software and know it'll run robustly on anywhere from a $300-3000 machine.
Apple's product line doesn't scale the same way the PC Clone product line does, because they're pointedly a single-sourced supplier.
The G5 is slick, fast, has an OS I felt at home with in minutes, and just looks stunning. Price be damned, I'm buying one.
In that regard, Apple and OS X are bad for Linux. If the people who lust after flash/substance all migrate over to OS X that means less mindshare for Linux desktops. Windows 2000 already did something similar to Linux when it proved to solve the 'uptime' issue that was drawing people away from Microsoft OSes.
I want something that plays low-rate MP3s and has 20 MB of storage for $20. I mainly use MP3 to play old radio programs, where a one hour program is compressed to 10 MB.
3-Demon rulez on the PCjr.
(when you turn to face down a long wireframe corridor the game noticibly slows down as the machine struggles to render it.)
The interesting sellers of OpenOffice on ebay are these people who make a business of selling OpenOffice totally wrapped up in obscurity so that people who buy it think it's a commercial product.
1978... Wiki's a wee bit more current.
I'm pretty sure I mentioned that I have the current Britannica on CD-ROM as well. A few years ago they actually published a non-multimedia version that was the actual encyclopedia, not a bunch of graphical BS.
I prefer the paper version for lots of historical stuff, and for things like looking up card games and older technical info.
Actually, there technically was a state called Palestine, because I have coins labelled 'Palestine' in my coin collection. However, they are colonial European coins from the first half of the 20th century, and were NOT issued by a 'Palestianian state' as is tricked up by people who are anti-Israel.
Naw. If NASA got more money, they'd just buy new filing cabinets. That, and the cost of the Unionized labor to move out the old and install the new filing cabinets, and they'd probably end up having LESS money for space exploration.
'Hunt is on for new things to study so scientists don't ever have to leave campus and enter real world.'
Krakatoa erupting around 535 A.D., affecting the global climate for a handful of years,
Yes, and the evidence shows that modern volcanic eruptions spew out amounts of 'bad stuff' that dwarf human emissions.
Really, the loudest segment of the 'Global Warming' crowd are people who propose fundamental economic change and use the threat of Global Warming as an excuse to push their agenda.
Maybe we should concentrate instead on capping the volcanoes and containing all those eruptions. Maybe even throw in some virgins for good measure to be culturally diverse and embrace traditional culture or somesuch.
The cost to 'the health service' of smoking is complex. Smoking causes a considerable number of people to live shorter lives than they would otherwise. Living shorter lives can actually reduce the cost to 'the health service.'
The whole 'ban smoking' thing sounds pretty fascistic, though. It's a plant that grows naturally. It's an activity that many people enjoy. The fact that other people (busybodies) disapprove isn't really relevant.
Maybe we should ban a whole lot of things that make people less productive to 'the hive.'
Almost none of what you describe in your list has to do with 'case modding' as it's carried out by most people into that sort of thing.
They want it to 'look cool' and unique.
Why you spun off into that rant is unclear.
My first 'case mod' housed an 8 MHz 8088 motherboard, BTW, although I did put that bare 'Big Board' computer with the Z-80 processor into a used rackmount case because it came with none.
So anyway...
People who are 'in the know' shunt around the whole Taiwan/China controversey by referring to that island as Formosa. Formosa is the Dutch colonial name for the island, so it pisses off all the different factions of Chinese equally to call it that.
'make my own decision' about the correctness of a random comglomeration of opinions, on a subject that I don't know much about so I went out looking for info on it?
Is truth a consensus process? Have we come to this?