Many spammers in Asia say they do not understand why spam is a problem. "It's a sign of respect that
someone sends you an electric business card. It means he wants you as a customer."
Don't believe any of that crap. They know damn well ppl don't like spam. It's just a trick for naive westerners.
It's like saying "sorry officer, I didn't know how fast I was going, I was just following the car in front..."
So, have you ever noticed that you can get Chinese/Japanese/Korean etc versions of windows? Did you notice when DL patches to your programs you usually have to choose from about 50 language versions?
What kind of pomp ass are you to think the all IT ppl must have a fluent level of English?
Why don't you go apply for a job in Japan and see how much of their computer systems you can understand.
And if you stop and think, an admin may have the skills to know the diff btwn File->Open and File->Close.
That doesn't mean they'll wack out the dictionary and spend half an hour reading an email in English from some unknown location when all their work/customer email comes in their native language.
Especially when they hit a swear word in the 2nd line.
Given that co.s like MS CHARGE you to call their tech support line, I doubt they wouldn't want you on hold for an hour b4 telling you your Far East ContollerPad isn't supported.
We launch a first voyage to go in 1 direction for 50yrs or so.
Meanwhile, we keep developing hyperspace tech or whatever. When it's finally done, we use the new tech to catch up to the 1st ship, who's waiting to take measurements or something to help calibration of the tech.
Or if we had a tech which allowed travel between 2 portals, we would have to firstly take one of the portals far away by conventional means.
More simply, move to preferential voting. You can vote firstly for your fav candidate, then your 2nd-nth preference can be used to let them know which one of [Bush/Gore] you hate least.
Ban campaign contributions, but instead pay candidates from the public purse for every PRIMARY vote they get.
So in the end you would ensure your fav candidate gets funding, while still keeping out [Bush/Gore], and [Bush/Gore] doesn't get any of your money.
Maybe, because o/s html coders will take a 20K/yr, while locals want to do the same for 50K+?
Your argument is the same argument that pays subsidies to farmers, imposes tariffs on imports, and raises prices for everyone while benefitting nobody in the long run.
If there were no minimum wages, you may be worried about cheap o/s labor, but you know, they have to spend just as much on their rent as locals do.
If they can make a healthy living, then maybe their pay isn't too low.
What I remember about Functional Programming is the lack of variables for temp storage.
As a result, everything is recursive. It was very difficult to write iterative versions of functions, and when you finally wrote them, they were hard to read.
The recursive version is easy to read (and maybe maintain?), but very slow. Maybe it was just our platform.
It was a pain to write. It's probably not worth the benefits it your $50/hr programmer has to spend double the time to write your programs.
More important would be to ignore 'expires' dates which are obviously fake (ie in the past). Why is the server giving me this page if it expired in Aug 96 eh?
Esp sites like toms hw that have 500KB pages (with images AND js turned OFF) making you wait 2min pressing the back button.
Really, we should be ignoring expires and no-cache on a domain basis.
Say that in the future people will do better with 6 fingers on each hand (5+thumb?). What happens when a child is born with 6 fingers? 1 is cut off! My friend in high school said they were born with 6 fingers and had 1 cut off. OK, they may have been lying...
Face it, most people wouldn't pay whether something costs $1 or $50. 'COSTS TOO MUCH' is just an excuse by the people who can't admit they just don't want to pay.
You don't see ppl telling BMW their cars cost too much compared to a Hyundai.
If you don't want to pay $40 for an FTP client, you can find a cheaper one or write your own. But people don't, do they? FTP comes with windows after all.
If you look at the way shareware prices have gone UP, you would realise it's because they get the same few numbers of paying users anyway. They better cover costs by charging more.
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We eradicated smallpox.
Nobody is too unhappy about that...
What would you rather eradicate? The flies, or let the flies eradicate the people?
I guess the difference is:
On the net, are you trading with your friends or strangers?
If they're your friends, then it's fine (F).
You haven't covered strangers in your argument.
Great.
But we already have bulletproof glass. What's so special?
Well, because several top ISPs in the US sell special spammer accounts to, well, spammers. For the purpose of spamming.
And it pays them well.
Don't believe any of that crap. They know damn well ppl don't like spam. It's just a trick for naive westerners.
It's like saying "sorry officer, I didn't know how fast I was going, I was just following the car in front..."
So, have you ever noticed that you can get Chinese/Japanese/Korean etc versions of windows?
Did you notice when DL patches to your programs you usually have to choose from about 50 language versions?
What kind of pomp ass are you to think the all IT ppl must have a fluent level of English?
Why don't you go apply for a job in Japan and see how much of their computer systems you can understand.
And if you stop and think, an admin may have the skills to know the diff btwn File->Open and File->Close.
That doesn't mean they'll wack out the dictionary and spend half an hour reading an email in English from some unknown location when all their work/customer email comes in their native language.
Especially when they hit a swear word in the 2nd line.
Given that co.s like MS CHARGE you to call their tech support line, I doubt they wouldn't want you on hold for an hour b4 telling you your Far East ContollerPad isn't supported.
Yes
But what would you do once you become blind trying to read your own screen?
Remember in the game Homeworld?
We launch a first voyage to go in 1 direction for 50yrs or so.
Meanwhile, we keep developing hyperspace tech or whatever. When it's finally done, we use the new tech to catch up to the 1st ship, who's waiting to take measurements or something to help calibration of the tech.
Or if we had a tech which allowed travel between 2 portals, we would have to firstly take one of the portals far away by conventional means.
Hrm, so where did they hold the stuff from them 50s? ;)
have you heard of credit unions, building societies, and insurance companies?
You basically have 3 points.
1) Philips loses $ on lost licensing fees.
Yes prolly true
2) Unlicensed players are likely not to handle instructions/layered disks etc properly.
Well, NO. They can produce a player but they forget to implement the instruction set? Unlikely.
They can't play layered disks? Maybe. But same with some licensed ones.
Plus, they can play from any region, a plus to users' experiences. (esp frequent travellers)
3) Content protection.
Really, should players be implementing protection?
I mean, should I have a text file with all my passwords and insist people only read it with my super secure program instead of notepad?
All that aside, how would piracy skyrocket? People pirate DVDs. When did you last see a pirate copying DVDs onto VHS and selling them?
Pirate DVDs are PRESSED in factories in China or wherever, and are unrelated to players being licensed.
sure it makes sense. if u sell your player, the buyer buys your old one, and u buy a new one.
if u can't sell your player, the one who would have bought it buys a new one, and u buy a new one.
More simply, move to preferential voting. You can vote firstly for your fav candidate, then your 2nd-nth preference can be used to let them know which one of [Bush/Gore] you hate least.
Ban campaign contributions, but instead pay candidates from the public purse for every PRIMARY vote they get.
So in the end you would ensure your fav candidate gets funding, while still keeping out [Bush/Gore], and [Bush/Gore] doesn't get any of your money.
So are you saying that all the tings on the Tampa had no significance to Australia other than to affect the election?
If the gov't isn't supposed to negotiate a solution in Australia's interest, whose interest should it negotiate for?
Maybe, because o/s html coders will take a 20K/yr, while locals want to do the same for 50K+?
Your argument is the same argument that pays subsidies to farmers, imposes tariffs on imports, and raises prices for everyone while benefitting nobody in the long run.
If there were no minimum wages, you may be worried about cheap o/s labor, but you know, they have to spend just as much on their rent as locals do.
If they can make a healthy living, then maybe their pay isn't too low.
What I remember about Functional Programming is the lack of variables for temp storage.
As a result, everything is recursive. It was very difficult to write iterative versions of functions, and when you finally wrote them, they were hard to read.
The recursive version is easy to read (and maybe maintain?), but very slow. Maybe it was just our platform.
It was a pain to write. It's probably not worth the benefits it your $50/hr programmer has to spend double the time to write your programs.
More worrying, how big is the .NET runtime that the user has to download to run my 10kb text editor?
More important would be to ignore 'expires' dates which are obviously fake (ie in the past). Why is the server giving me this page if it expired in Aug 96 eh?
Esp sites like toms hw that have 500KB pages (with images AND js turned OFF) making you wait 2min pressing the back button.
Really, we should be ignoring expires and no-cache on a domain basis.
How many people DO look over the source code of Linux just to look for bugs?
I would suggest most just USE Linux.
There are prolly more ppl paid to look at w2k code than people working on Linux code at any one time.
Of course, those looking at w2k code are prolly not searching for bugs either, but adding more 'features' to it.
Lots of people die in wars. Ppl able to participate in wars have to be fit (to a certain standard).
Same for firefighters and other rescue workers.
They risk their lives more than the rest of us.
So wouldn't it be true that the strong take risky jobs, and are more likely to be killed overall?
Say that in the future people will do better with 6 fingers on each hand (5+thumb?). What happens when a child is born with 6 fingers? 1 is cut off! My friend in high school said they were born with 6 fingers and had 1 cut off. OK, they may have been lying...
If he has 7hrs a day free to play games, that's like he has enough time to sleep eat and play games. Maybe shower every 2nd day?
I wonder what the parents were doing every day not noticing maybe he should spend some time doing something else.
Face it, most people wouldn't pay whether something costs $1 or $50. 'COSTS TOO MUCH' is just an excuse by the people who can't admit they just don't want to pay.
You don't see ppl telling BMW their cars cost too much compared to a Hyundai.
If you don't want to pay $40 for an FTP client, you can find a cheaper one or write your own. But people don't, do they? FTP comes with windows after all.
If you look at the way shareware prices have gone UP, you would realise it's because they get the same few numbers of paying users anyway. They better cover costs by charging more.
I think u mean only change 1 thing in /one/ group.