Yes, it states that, then states several solutions. I guess the developer doesn't consider whitelisting your mailing lists to be a good solution. I disagree, I think bulk mail is exactly the type of mail I don't mind whitelisting, while I would find it a major inconvenience to have to whitelist personal mail.
I agree, but this project isn't exactly e-postage... it's more like E-e-postage... you pay in computational cycles, not dollars (or pounds or lira or whatever you trade in your part of the world).
So as long as you're not sending out several thousand messages to new and different recepients on a daily basis, you needn't really worry.
RTFA, it handles mailing lists fine. You whitelist the sender and then they don't need to stamp the mail.
The technology is a hybrid solution to avoid the problem of universal adoption... a nice side-effect of this is you don't demand stamps from your white-list.
I have to say, I think it's quite an interesting combination of concepts, but still requires mass adoption to be useful.
Mine offers something similar... though it cracks me up that anyone would take it because neither are guaranteed speeds.
So I can upgrade my 3mbps line which averages 2mbps for a 5mbps line which would probably average about 3 mbps for an extra 50%.
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Didn't you see mimic? The won't die because you engineered them to, they'll get bigger and bigger and then start killing humans. Just like the wheat obviouslly would.
So step it up to what they listen to. Say it quite cleanly, this issue is important enough to sway my vote. And in fact, I'm starting a petition on this issue, and in fact I have X signatures, and in fact, I will be donating to your competitors campaign fund because he at least gives me an honest respond.
Eh, or not, depends on how important the issue is to you.
But that because we're not talking about the artist's money here, we're talking about the record label's money.
And before everyone thinks, how awful... I think the parent who refered to the album and radio play as advertisment isn't far off. Basically the record label lays out the dough to take a gamble on your band, to do the recording, and then to plaster your name everywhere. In return, they make a killing off the records that do sell, and you get fans to show up at your concert.
Also pretty much explains why so many of the more motivated and compitent individuals in the industry have made thei own labels after gaining sufficient success.
We're not exactly talking about a national priority here... you may have to think a little more grass roots than president at this point in time. Get letters to your state and local representitives, read their responses, and figure out who to vote for that way.
And use paper and ink, email just doesn't have the same effect on these people.
What about a more specialized approach for us software industry types? I mean I have 4 computers under my desk, and the guy who shares a cube wall with me has another 5. And the SQE lab I'm looking at has literally hundreds of computers next to eachother.
Since you obviouslly know much more about this than I do, at what length are such large diameters required? For these 2-3 meter runs I'm discussing would it be practicable to have some external power supply which would power 5-10 computers each?
IE is a perfect example of "it works good enough" at this point.
And that's for the end user, as a web designer it's godawful.
The things the masses don't realize are many, here's a short list.
Content/bandwidth/speed are all tinkered with because we need to add all sorts of specialty cases and bad code to make sure things turn out properly in IE.
Historical pages are occasionaly lost because new versions of IE change some quirk to some other quirk, neither get documented and unless the owner has interest in updating the page, it's just gone.
Security,spyware,viruses and whatnot love IE
It renders more slowly for most content
What I'm trying to say is, the reality is you're right... but that's because those of us on the other side spend many hours and many dollars making sure the choice most people have made works well. If the majority of the market used standards compliant browsers things could/would be very different.... more viables choices in browsers, more webapps, more full featured websites, more little cool things which work everywhere, easier adaptation to alternate OS's and the list goes on.
IE has become a ball and chain for webcontent in my opinion.
I think the 2.6 kernel has done alot towards this as well... I know I have a 500 MhZ machine with 196 Megs of RAM, and have tried distro after distro trying to resurrect that machine as a desktop with little luck because of general slowness. But then came the 2.6 Kernel and KDE 3.2... and that combination makes it useable.
Well, I use Linux because it's lighter. Now you've heard it in 2004.
I don't use Linux desktop because it's lighter (at least not KDE & Gnome)... but I do still love the fact that I can have a fully up to date and function operating system on my old first generation pentiums with 64-120 Megs of RAM which act as firewalls/webservers/databases/fileservers and the like.
I hate that there's no current version of windows which can make those boxes usable to do anything.
I did the same thing on my laptop, and then last time I was at my parents I did the same thing to their desktop. So far, the only commentary I've received is "I don't get popups anymore"... which to me is a very good sign.
If you're going to do this, don't forget the flash plugin though, it's a quick tripup that most people will expect to work.
I'm no MS Fanboy, but if you're reinstalling XP or 2k with any kind of regularlity you're doing something wrong... it's as simple as that.
I run a handful of Linux and a handful of Windows boxes, and you know what? I find myself re-installing Linux alot more often than I do Windows... and you know why? Because I don't know Linux well, so I'm constantly doing something wrong. Sounds to me like alot of posters here either don't know how to run Windows (which is hard to believe) or just haven't run it in 5 years.
Several laptops (I know for sure Dell and Toshiba anyway) are designed to work properly on a flat smooth surface. That is, they have either an input or output vent which is supposed to be kept just above the desk surface by little feet. Those of us keeping it on our laps defeat this and become perfect candidates for some type of platform... be it a pad or a phone book.
Or the pad itself, which will dissipate out the top, or at least that's their claim. Personally, it looks overly bulky, complex and inefficient to me.
Personally I prefer this solution... it's cheaper, it's low tech, it's obvious in how it works, it fits in my laptop case and helps with a few other things as well.
I just glanced at your dream PC, it seems like it'd likely blow the alienware away... I did notice the alienware comes with liquid cooling, I'm guessing that's probably worth a few hundred dollars, though I wonder if you're gaining any performance/stability issues on a stock box with liquid cooling.
Seriously? I can see $2k or even $3k when you deck everything out.... but all the $5k gaming machines I've seen are either gaming laptops, or have $2k worth of multiple monitors hooked up.
And that brings up the one big difference of computers vs. consoles, if you shell out this kind of cash for a computer, you'll likely be able to re-use several parts of it when it goes by the wayside.
I see this working out like cell phone technology. The hardware will be there for a set price, but if you're willing to sign up for a contract with some vendor, they're going to supply the hardware free... of course it won't be cutting edge, those will be upgrades with set prices.
This is nothing new, and in fact is a business model I've been setting up for a particular piece of software I'm working on because I'm sellin to a very low-tech crowd and want to offer a complete package.
Actually, the law states that you cannot put security cameras in places where their is an expectation of privacy. Including dressing rooms and bathrooms. Given that you're expected to change in a tanning booth, I would imagine it would fall under the dressing room category... sounds to me like the woman needed a better lawyer.
As far as theatres go, I doubt there's any argument to be made there about expectation of privacy, and I can't really imagine more than a handful of people boycotting movies because of this level of surveillance.
Hence the watermarking and the like. Sure you might not stop this one, but with enough precautions you're now able to reasonably exclude certain cinema's from your release list, or perhaps set up a system of fines.
Like most statements of "it can't be done" this one seems pretty suspect to me... let's think
Drop a typed letter into the mailbox (not the one in front of your house) addressed to a newspaper
Leave a stack of flyers somewhere (obviouslly places not filmed)
I'm sure there are a couple others... but in general the real issue is in choosing the appropriate medium, and the internet is not it... granted freenet comes to mind, but I don't know it well enough to trust it.
But most people encode at 128Kbps, and most stores sell them encoded at 128Kbps, it's basically been decided by public opinion that it's an acceptable size for a song.
Unless you can get a 64Kbps recording to have the same quality as a 128Kbps recording, there's no market justifiable reason to really care.
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Yes, it states that, then states several solutions. I guess the developer doesn't consider whitelisting your mailing lists to be a good solution. I disagree, I think bulk mail is exactly the type of mail I don't mind whitelisting, while I would find it a major inconvenience to have to whitelist personal mail.
I agree, but this project isn't exactly e-postage... it's more like E-e-postage... you pay in computational cycles, not dollars (or pounds or lira or whatever you trade in your part of the world).
So as long as you're not sending out several thousand messages to new and different recepients on a daily basis, you needn't really worry.
RTFA, it handles mailing lists fine. You whitelist the sender and then they don't need to stamp the mail.
The technology is a hybrid solution to avoid the problem of universal adoption... a nice side-effect of this is you don't demand stamps from your white-list.
I have to say, I think it's quite an interesting combination of concepts, but still requires mass adoption to be useful.
Mine offers something similar... though it cracks me up that anyone would take it because neither are guaranteed speeds.
So I can upgrade my 3mbps line which averages 2mbps for a 5mbps line which would probably average about 3 mbps for an extra 50%.
Didn't you see mimic? The won't die because you engineered them to, they'll get bigger and bigger and then start killing humans. Just like the wheat obviouslly would.
So step it up to what they listen to. Say it quite cleanly, this issue is important enough to sway my vote. And in fact, I'm starting a petition on this issue, and in fact I have X signatures, and in fact, I will be donating to your competitors campaign fund because he at least gives me an honest respond.
Eh, or not, depends on how important the issue is to you.
I'm no expert but this sounds about right to me.
But that because we're not talking about the artist's money here, we're talking about the record label's money.
And before everyone thinks, how awful... I think the parent who refered to the album and radio play as advertisment isn't far off. Basically the record label lays out the dough to take a gamble on your band, to do the recording, and then to plaster your name everywhere. In return, they make a killing off the records that do sell, and you get fans to show up at your concert.
Also pretty much explains why so many of the more motivated and compitent individuals in the industry have made thei own labels after gaining sufficient success.
We're not exactly talking about a national priority here... you may have to think a little more grass roots than president at this point in time. Get letters to your state and local representitives, read their responses, and figure out who to vote for that way.
And use paper and ink, email just doesn't have the same effect on these people.
What about a more specialized approach for us software industry types? I mean I have 4 computers under my desk, and the guy who shares a cube wall with me has another 5. And the SQE lab I'm looking at has literally hundreds of computers next to eachother.
Since you obviouslly know much more about this than I do, at what length are such large diameters required? For these 2-3 meter runs I'm discussing would it be practicable to have some external power supply which would power 5-10 computers each?
And that's for the end user, as a web designer it's godawful.
The things the masses don't realize are many, here's a short list.
What I'm trying to say is, the reality is you're right... but that's because those of us on the other side spend many hours and many dollars making sure the choice most people have made works well. If the majority of the market used standards compliant browsers things could/would be very different.... more viables choices in browsers, more webapps, more full featured websites, more little cool things which work everywhere, easier adaptation to alternate OS's and the list goes on.
IE has become a ball and chain for webcontent in my opinion.
I think the 2.6 kernel has done alot towards this as well... I know I have a 500 MhZ machine with 196 Megs of RAM, and have tried distro after distro trying to resurrect that machine as a desktop with little luck because of general slowness. But then came the 2.6 Kernel and KDE 3.2... and that combination makes it useable.
Well, I use Linux because it's lighter. Now you've heard it in 2004.
I don't use Linux desktop because it's lighter (at least not KDE & Gnome)... but I do still love the fact that I can have a fully up to date and function operating system on my old first generation pentiums with 64-120 Megs of RAM which act as firewalls/webservers/databases/fileservers and the like.
I hate that there's no current version of windows which can make those boxes usable to do anything.
I did the same thing on my laptop, and then last time I was at my parents I did the same thing to their desktop. So far, the only commentary I've received is "I don't get popups anymore"... which to me is a very good sign.
If you're going to do this, don't forget the flash plugin though, it's a quick tripup that most people will expect to work.
Leftover Win95/98/ME FUD.
I'm no MS Fanboy, but if you're reinstalling XP or 2k with any kind of regularlity you're doing something wrong... it's as simple as that.
I run a handful of Linux and a handful of Windows boxes, and you know what? I find myself re-installing Linux alot more often than I do Windows... and you know why? Because I don't know Linux well, so I'm constantly doing something wrong. Sounds to me like alot of posters here either don't know how to run Windows (which is hard to believe) or just haven't run it in 5 years.
Several laptops (I know for sure Dell and Toshiba anyway) are designed to work properly on a flat smooth surface. That is, they have either an input or output vent which is supposed to be kept just above the desk surface by little feet. Those of us keeping it on our laps defeat this and become perfect candidates for some type of platform... be it a pad or a phone book.
Or the pad itself, which will dissipate out the top, or at least that's their claim. Personally, it looks overly bulky, complex and inefficient to me.
Personally I prefer this solution... it's cheaper, it's low tech, it's obvious in how it works, it fits in my laptop case and helps with a few other things as well.
Where's your $50 power cord?
I just glanced at your dream PC, it seems like it'd likely blow the alienware away... I did notice the alienware comes with liquid cooling, I'm guessing that's probably worth a few hundred dollars, though I wonder if you're gaining any performance/stability issues on a stock box with liquid cooling.
Including their $48 "heavy duty" power cable, and their $21 10-foot ethernet cable.
As cool as some of the features on that box look, those two details make me think rip-off.
Any builders out there able to tell us an estimated cost of building this one themselves?
Seriously? I can see $2k or even $3k when you deck everything out.... but all the $5k gaming machines I've seen are either gaming laptops, or have $2k worth of multiple monitors hooked up.
And that brings up the one big difference of computers vs. consoles, if you shell out this kind of cash for a computer, you'll likely be able to re-use several parts of it when it goes by the wayside.
I see this working out like cell phone technology. The hardware will be there for a set price, but if you're willing to sign up for a contract with some vendor, they're going to supply the hardware free... of course it won't be cutting edge, those will be upgrades with set prices.
This is nothing new, and in fact is a business model I've been setting up for a particular piece of software I'm working on because I'm sellin to a very low-tech crowd and want to offer a complete package.
Actually, the law states that you cannot put security cameras in places where their is an expectation of privacy. Including dressing rooms and bathrooms. Given that you're expected to change in a tanning booth, I would imagine it would fall under the dressing room category... sounds to me like the woman needed a better lawyer.
As far as theatres go, I doubt there's any argument to be made there about expectation of privacy, and I can't really imagine more than a handful of people boycotting movies because of this level of surveillance.
Hence the watermarking and the like. Sure you might not stop this one, but with enough precautions you're now able to reasonably exclude certain cinema's from your release list, or perhaps set up a system of fines.
Who, not the pronoun, but rather a player with the unlikely name of who.
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- Drop a typed letter into the mailbox (not the one in front of your house) addressed to a newspaper
- Leave a stack of flyers somewhere (obviouslly places not filmed)
I'm sure there are a couple others... but in general the real issue is in choosing the appropriate medium, and the internet is not it... granted freenet comes to mind, but I don't know it well enough to trust it.But most people encode at 128Kbps, and most stores sell them encoded at 128Kbps, it's basically been decided by public opinion that it's an acceptable size for a song.
Unless you can get a 64Kbps recording to have the same quality as a 128Kbps recording, there's no market justifiable reason to really care.