Re:What? Hello.... non-western countries... DRM...
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I feel the author of this story is looking at radio totally from a US / Western perspective.
Did the author stop to think for just one minute of all the non-western countries around the world where some people still don't even know what a computer is let alone even dream of being able to afford one? (Tip: please please travel more...!!)
Have you ever heard of Telex which was around before fax machines? Fax machines and Telex are dead in world, right? Wrong!, Both Telex machines and Fax machines are still very much alive elsewhere in the world with many companies offering gateways to convert between "modern" systems and Telex/Fax !!!
If you work for a international company then you will know how important it is to still have access to this out of date technology (in western terms) to be able to communicate with non-western countries who haven't quite reached the same level of infrastructure. [In fact I'm please to see that as a whole the US has finally almost caught up with Europe in relation to mobile (radio) phones...:-) !!!]
Radio has been around for 100 years. It's pretty amazing that TV, the Internet, etc. haven't killed it. It's still enjoyed by hundreds of millions of people here in the US every day.
Exactly... only radio is enjoyed by BILLIONS of people around the world in additional to the US. What is more radio is very much alive with new developments still coming into existance such as Digital Radio Mondiale (DRM) (long range *digital* AM/MW!)
Radio will be around for at least another 100 years in the western world and will continue to exist for many more outside the western world, regardless of if people think it is dead in the west.
NO TO DISTRIBUTED SPELL CHECKING!!!!! This is a very bad idea which should be dropped now otherwise it will put a stop to CmdrTaco's scientific research....
I think most people either forget or simply don't know that effectively *any* webserver object that is linked to "could" be a program which performs all sorts of functions in relation to querying the web browser before serving the "expected" advertised content.
So why is it that people still keep going on and on about 1x1 pixels?
Now before I get flamed to death regarding not knowing about 1x1 pixels... A little story: I wrote an experimental webbug which I emailed to a close friend (SimonW) for a joke, basically the bug was designed to email him again to say something like "Hi, why did it take you so long to open the first email. It's now X time on X date etc". The webbug also blind copied me on all the emails every time it was activated which leads me onto a handy programming tip...
If for whatever warped reason you decided to write a webbug, do make sure that you include within your design a routine to prevent excessive execution. I was feeling lazy and couldn't be bothered when I wrote mine.....
Unfortunately for me my friend Simon quickly guessed that I would have designed the script to email myself as well as him. Needless to say he cleverly got his own revenge by generating a lot of automatic emails back to me! And.... because I didn't have access to my webserver remotely at the time he launched his revenge... he had the added pleasure of me calling him up to beg for mercy as it was costing me money every time he ran the damn thing since all my emails were being sent to my mobile phone!!!!!
Which well as I'm sure the slashdot crowd will all agree served me right! Webbug lesson learnt!:-)))))
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I feel the author of this story is looking at radio totally from a US / Western perspective.
:-) !!!]
Did the author stop to think for just one minute of all the non-western countries around the world where some people still don't even know what a computer is let alone even dream of being able to afford one? (Tip: please please travel more...!!)
Have you ever heard of Telex which was around before fax machines? Fax machines and Telex are dead in world, right? Wrong!, Both Telex machines and Fax machines are still very much alive elsewhere in the world with many companies offering gateways to convert between "modern" systems and Telex/Fax !!!
If you work for a international company then you will know how important it is to still have access to this out of date technology (in western terms) to be able to communicate with non-western countries who haven't quite reached the same level of infrastructure. [In fact I'm please to see that as a whole the US has finally almost caught up with Europe in relation to mobile (radio) phones...
Radio has been around for 100 years. It's pretty amazing that TV, the Internet, etc. haven't killed it. It's still enjoyed by hundreds of millions of people here in the US every day.
Exactly... only radio is enjoyed by BILLIONS of people around the world in additional to the US. What is more radio is very much alive with new developments still coming into existance such as Digital Radio Mondiale (DRM) (long range *digital* AM/MW!)
Radio will be around for at least another 100 years in the western world and will continue to exist for many more outside the western world, regardless of if people think it is dead in the west.
Strange... have they removed the /firstlady/images/ page? As I'm getting a 404 error !
Well I'm glad that I don't work in an office full of smelly anti-social evil thieving.... erm.... what did you say your name was again?
I used to work for Radioshack/Tandy Electronics and have good experience
:-)
Surely that statement is an oxymoron......
Yes it would be wrong. As it wouldn't be very funny
Does this have anything to do with the type of calls you are making ??
NO TO DISTRIBUTED SPELL CHECKING!!!!! This is a very bad idea which should be dropped now otherwise it will put a stop to CmdrTaco's scientific research....
I think most people either forget or simply don't know that effectively *any* webserver object that is linked to "could" be a program which performs all sorts of functions in relation to querying the web browser before serving the "expected" advertised content.
So why is it that people still keep going on and on about 1x1 pixels?
Now before I get flamed to death regarding not knowing about 1x1 pixels... A little story: I wrote an experimental webbug which I emailed to a close friend (SimonW) for a joke, basically the bug was designed to email him again to say something like "Hi, why did it take you so long to open the first email. It's now X time on X date etc". The webbug also blind copied me on all the emails every time it was activated which leads me onto a handy programming tip... If for whatever warped reason you decided to write a webbug, do make sure that you include within your design a routine to prevent excessive execution. I was feeling lazy and couldn't be bothered when I wrote mine.....
Unfortunately for me my friend Simon quickly guessed that I would have designed the script to email myself as well as him. Needless to say he cleverly got his own revenge by generating a lot of automatic emails back to me! And.... because I didn't have access to my webserver remotely at the time he launched his revenge... he had the added pleasure of me calling him up to beg for mercy as it was costing me money every time he ran the damn thing since all my emails were being sent to my mobile phone!!!!!
Which well as I'm sure the slashdot crowd will all agree served me right! Webbug lesson learnt! :-)))))