Using a web-based service where you can view the subjects, then choose to open on an email-by-email basis, does reduce the problem. However, if you're using a client such as Thunderbird or Mail.app (or Outlook Express), it's typically configured to download the emails one at a time in their entirety. This proses a problem to a home user without huge amounts of bandwidth, who simply can't afford to wait for it all to download, so they can flag it as junk, delete it, and so on. Even on a 1mbit connection, it's a massive pain having to wait for tons of messages to download and be purged - your filters may not let you see the messages, but they're still there and being downloaded.
Having given the website a quick look, I'm pretty pleased with how it's turned out. The layout's clear and understandable, it's got a few images but not too many to be especially taxing, and it has some nice features - switching the globe from night to day is cool, and implemented without using Flash, hurrah! On the whole, not bad.
Whenever it's appropriate to. Some emails are more pressing than others. Use your judgement - if a collegue is asking a question about the current project you're working on, prioritise it a little higher than a message asking if you're up for a game of pool later.
Yes. It's only spam. Unless you're a family on 56k having to download several hundred kilobytes, or even megabytes, of e-mail you have no use for, no wish to receive, and no convenient way of stopping since your ISP will only offer to sell you their "premium" e-mail with anti-spam services for some extortionate amount.
Not everyone knows how to set up their own mail server, blacklists, or whatever. Not everyone can simply up and switch providers every time their current address gets unusably bogged down with spam.
Yes, they most certainly do. E-mail is certainly a very useful means of getting a message from A to B, but it is nowhere near as convenient as an IM, especially to teenage users who value swift feedback. It's quicker and easier to send a message to someone over Yahoo, or MSN Messenger, than it is to e-mail them, plus you can hold a conversation in almost-real time. While obviously not perfect, IM is definitely useful to many.
I think that we can expect interoperability to take a much greater role in the next few years as the number of net users with an instant messenger increases. The number of users that have an IM account today is huge; I don't think I know a single person with Internet access who doesn't.
Typically someone looking to choose a network will want what their friends (etc.) use, which poses a problem for the major networks; once somebody's entrenched within a network, it's very difficult to convince them to switch. Client 'A' may offer some new form of user picture, or so on, but the end user is unlikely to make the switch unless they can convince most of their friends to make it too.
What the networks would love is for people to make an impulse switch. If they can guarentee a user that they'll still be able to contact all their friends, as existing pan-network clients such as Trillian or Adium do today, then the likelyhood of a user making a spur of the moment choice is far greater.
You may think it's 'retarded'. So might Jobs. But the shows that are going onto the iTMS are those that make a lot of money for ABC. Doesn't it make sense to try and hook the market with what's popular?
Ugh. 20-odd pages, each with only three paragraphs of text? Massive great ads in the middle of the text? Seems like just a glorified way of getting more adverts seen. I'll pass, thanks.
You misunderstand the term 'sovereign'. Quoth Wikipedia:
"Sovereignty is the exclusive right to exercise supreme authority over a geographic region, group of people or oneself. Sovereignty over a nation is generally vested in a government or other political agency, though there are cases where it is held by an individual. A monarch who rules a sovereign country can also be referred to as the sovereign of that country."
They're soon to release the Game Boy micro, a considerably smaller GBA without the clamshell design of the SP, but with replaceable fascias. It'll sell for $99. (Ars Technica journal article here)
I've personally always quite liked using WinZip on the PC; yes, Windows has had zip capabilities built-in for a while now (I believe they debuted in Windows ME), but I've still always preferred keeping WinZip around, especially for its disk-spanning capabilities.
However, with broadband increasing in prevelance, and pendrives and CD writers becoming pretty much the norm now for home users (my parents, never the most technologically literate of users, have their own USB pendrives which they love), not to mention zip integration into just about every common OS now, is there still a place for WinZip? Even if people continue to download it, most people I know who've used it just bypass the nag screens without a second thought - how long can they survive?
To whoever used a Coral link in the submission, nice one. If Slashdot could either automatically do that, or have the editors change links to point to a cache, the Slashdot effect could be minimised quite considerably.
The difference here is that the Xbox was shipping hardware, whereas the PowerMacs the developer's build of OS X ships on is intended for developers only. Granted, neither company is going to be entirely happy that their hardware's been exploited, but then again, Apple only had their developers (which are going to be far, far fewer in number than the potential number of Xbox users who could crack that security) to worry about.
I think this works quite nicely for the lawmakers. People get full of righteous indignation to begin with, but by the time their final rights are taken away, people grow apathetic. It's the seige tactics of the 21st Century: continually erode people's rights, until they capitulate and you can seize the whole bally lot of them.
"And the next thing we will see is beastiality becomming normal."
So, killing them is okay, but having sex with them is pure EVIL!!! ?
Mod parent up. We, as humans, can steal animal's children, rape them with machines for artificial insemination, force them to breed, keep them in intolerable conditions, squashed together in tiny cages-
But for someone, who truly loves an animal, to have sex with it is somehow wrong?
A hotel's internal network is not public. It is private, owned by the hotel. The hotel then goes and hires these agencies to probe their networks (or invites, or is offered an inspection by), who then report what they find.
Quartz Extreme will work on these iBooks. That needs a 16Mb or greater AGP graphics adaptor, which the iBooks and Mac minis have. You're thinking of Core Image/Core Video.
USB flash drives are already quite highly accepted amongst non-technical users; both my parents have bought pendrives, as have many of my friends. They're quite comfortable with just popping in the drive, waiting for the OS to see it, and grabbing files off it.
So, what if someone handed them a pendrive and asked them to grab some files from it, and it turns out that this pendrive would cause an attack like this? One could be switched by a black-hat, or planted, or mailed... put simply, the attacker wouldn't need physical access, just access to someone who does.
Ah, but they'll still get a few thousand people who'll gladly pay to have the latest browser - whereas if they release it for older OSes, they lose out on that. When weighing up a small profit versus none at all, Microsoft (as with any sensible company) would gladly take the former over the latter.
Yahoo have had a [Windows] toolbar for years longer than Google. Back when I used to use Yahoo Groups (or Clubs, as it was called then), I was quite content to use the Yahoo toolbar with IE.
Nowadays I just use Firefox's built-in search box, but this isn't entirely a case of Yahoo copying Google.
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Using a web-based service where you can view the subjects, then choose to open on an email-by-email basis, does reduce the problem. However, if you're using a client such as Thunderbird or Mail.app (or Outlook Express), it's typically configured to download the emails one at a time in their entirety. This proses a problem to a home user without huge amounts of bandwidth, who simply can't afford to wait for it all to download, so they can flag it as junk, delete it, and so on. Even on a 1mbit connection, it's a massive pain having to wait for tons of messages to download and be purged - your filters may not let you see the messages, but they're still there and being downloaded.
Having given the website a quick look, I'm pretty pleased with how it's turned out. The layout's clear and understandable, it's got a few images but not too many to be especially taxing, and it has some nice features - switching the globe from night to day is cool, and implemented without using Flash, hurrah! On the whole, not bad.
Whenever it's appropriate to. Some emails are more pressing than others. Use your judgement - if a collegue is asking a question about the current project you're working on, prioritise it a little higher than a message asking if you're up for a game of pool later.
Yes. It's only spam. Unless you're a family on 56k having to download several hundred kilobytes, or even megabytes, of e-mail you have no use for, no wish to receive, and no convenient way of stopping since your ISP will only offer to sell you their "premium" e-mail with anti-spam services for some extortionate amount.
Not everyone knows how to set up their own mail server, blacklists, or whatever. Not everyone can simply up and switch providers every time their current address gets unusably bogged down with spam.
Yes, they most certainly do. E-mail is certainly a very useful means of getting a message from A to B, but it is nowhere near as convenient as an IM, especially to teenage users who value swift feedback. It's quicker and easier to send a message to someone over Yahoo, or MSN Messenger, than it is to e-mail them, plus you can hold a conversation in almost-real time. While obviously not perfect, IM is definitely useful to many.
I think that we can expect interoperability to take a much greater role in the next few years as the number of net users with an instant messenger increases. The number of users that have an IM account today is huge; I don't think I know a single person with Internet access who doesn't.
Typically someone looking to choose a network will want what their friends (etc.) use, which poses a problem for the major networks; once somebody's entrenched within a network, it's very difficult to convince them to switch. Client 'A' may offer some new form of user picture, or so on, but the end user is unlikely to make the switch unless they can convince most of their friends to make it too.
What the networks would love is for people to make an impulse switch. If they can guarentee a user that they'll still be able to contact all their friends, as existing pan-network clients such as Trillian or Adium do today, then the likelyhood of a user making a spur of the moment choice is far greater.
You may think it's 'retarded'. So might Jobs. But the shows that are going onto the iTMS are those that make a lot of money for ABC. Doesn't it make sense to try and hook the market with what's popular?
Ugh. 20-odd pages, each with only three paragraphs of text? Massive great ads in the middle of the text? Seems like just a glorified way of getting more adverts seen. I'll pass, thanks.
Me too!
So there you go.
They're soon to release the Game Boy micro, a considerably smaller GBA without the clamshell design of the SP, but with replaceable fascias. It'll sell for $99. (Ars Technica journal article here)
However, with broadband increasing in prevelance, and pendrives and CD writers becoming pretty much the norm now for home users (my parents, never the most technologically literate of users, have their own USB pendrives which they love), not to mention zip integration into just about every common OS now, is there still a place for WinZip? Even if people continue to download it, most people I know who've used it just bypass the nag screens without a second thought - how long can they survive?
Just a hint: might want to check your facts. We use miles in the UK... :P
To whoever used a Coral link in the submission, nice one. If Slashdot could either automatically do that, or have the editors change links to point to a cache, the Slashdot effect could be minimised quite considerably.
August 2003: Sobig
August 2004: Sasser
August 2005: Zotob
What's next?
4. ???
5. Profit?
The difference here is that the Xbox was shipping hardware, whereas the PowerMacs the developer's build of OS X ships on is intended for developers only. Granted, neither company is going to be entirely happy that their hardware's been exploited, but then again, Apple only had their developers (which are going to be far, far fewer in number than the potential number of Xbox users who could crack that security) to worry about.
I think this works quite nicely for the lawmakers. People get full of righteous indignation to begin with, but by the time their final rights are taken away, people grow apathetic. It's the seige tactics of the 21st Century: continually erode people's rights, until they capitulate and you can seize the whole bally lot of them.
"And the next thing we will see is beastiality becomming normal." So, killing them is okay, but having sex with them is pure EVIL!!! ?
Mod parent up. We, as humans, can steal animal's children, rape them with machines for artificial insemination, force them to breed, keep them in intolerable conditions, squashed together in tiny cages-
But for someone, who truly loves an animal, to have sex with it is somehow wrong?
A hotel's internal network is not public. It is private, owned by the hotel. The hotel then goes and hires these agencies to probe their networks (or invites, or is offered an inspection by), who then report what they find.
When you have permission, it's okay.
Also, the Imperial pint is made of 20 Imperial fl. oz.
Quartz Extreme will work on these iBooks. That needs a 16Mb or greater AGP graphics adaptor, which the iBooks and Mac minis have. You're thinking of Core Image/Core Video.
USB flash drives are already quite highly accepted amongst non-technical users; both my parents have bought pendrives, as have many of my friends. They're quite comfortable with just popping in the drive, waiting for the OS to see it, and grabbing files off it.
So, what if someone handed them a pendrive and asked them to grab some files from it, and it turns out that this pendrive would cause an attack like this? One could be switched by a black-hat, or planted, or mailed... put simply, the attacker wouldn't need physical access, just access to someone who does.
Ah, but they'll still get a few thousand people who'll gladly pay to have the latest browser - whereas if they release it for older OSes, they lose out on that. When weighing up a small profit versus none at all, Microsoft (as with any sensible company) would gladly take the former over the latter.
Yahoo have had a [Windows] toolbar for years longer than Google. Back when I used to use Yahoo Groups (or Clubs, as it was called then), I was quite content to use the Yahoo toolbar with IE.
Nowadays I just use Firefox's built-in search box, but this isn't entirely a case of Yahoo copying Google.
Exactly - it just disables them outright, not giving you the chance to say no.
I'll give the app.extension.version a try, though, when the en-gb release is available.