Every company I've ever worked at (large or small) has used AIM. Bank of America (some areas) for example uses a client that ties into the AIM network. Most Mac users probably use AIM via iChat. My entire family uses AIM. Everyone I know who is in college uses it. It is really pretty common.
I've got domains that I have left inactive for year then re-added them to dns and set up mail accounts for them and the spam comes in immediately.
I can definately believe this, but there is also another phenomenon- I've have brand spanking new domains start receiving spam too. It happens when you create common email accounts, like "sales", "support", "admin". The assholes pick up on the new domain registration and start spamming common email addresses, I suppose.
AS we progress humans should have to memorize less things and use our tools to do more.
Agreed. Whis is why I friggin HATE technical interviews. I have 7 years of experience coding Java, and some guy on the other side of the desk asks me how many methods the serializable interface has. That was an actual question. Maybe, just maybe, I've spent MORE time learning concepts and how to build effective applications that users actually need, and LESS time memorizing javadoc that is only a click away from any PC in the country. And you wonder why big IT departments are disfunctional. Because they hire 80K walking javadoc repositories to develop apps.
Damn good point. In fact, this is a problem with productivity in offices as well. You're always stopping whatever you're doing to check email, send an IM, check the latest news, read slashdot, whatever. I never put together the correlation of this behavior with multi-tasking before, but you are exactly right on.
Of course, I'm not saying it is the computer's fault for being too powerful- as an employee it is my job to focus. I suppose if I can't do it, it is my own problem.
listening to how other industrial countries' space programs are flourishing
What? Russia still operates exclusively with early cold-war era hardware. Everything they've "announced" in the last several years has proved to be nothing more than hype. Further, they tried to make it to the moon and failed. They tried to build a shuttle program and... well, decided not to. Anyway, did you even RTFA?
Personally I'm damned proud to live in a country where a small company like Scaled Composites can and do exist. This is where the future of space exploration lies- not with the monolithic, inefficent US, Russian or Chinese governments.
You do have a point. Some cultures for one reason or another are not ready to embrace American style democracy.
Or, when they try, they find that in a battle of students vs. military tanks, tanks win every time. No fear though, they've cleaned the place up and that very location will be host to some activities during the 2008 Olympics.
Be real for a second and review industry's track record. Drugs for phantom depression. Drugs for sex enhancement. Drugs for obesity.
+5 insightful but should be -5 uninformed. I don't think you'll find that Lance Armstrong thanks Clinton or Congress for his recovery. He doesn't thank God either. Who does he thank? Science and the drug companies. The progress isn't always as apparent- it is easier to correct something like erectile disfunction than it is to cure cancer or AIDS. But do any Google search you want and you'll see that they are working on it and saving lives.
Next time you go into a hospital for a serious illness I challege you to waive off any privately financed drugs (since you say none exist) and demand to receive only state-sponsored medication. Good luck!
The government should be in charge of funding basic scientific research that drives forward our understanding of physics, biology, chemistry, etc, and creates the platform on which industry can develop specific products.
Exactly what part of the Constitution says so? By my reading, they should provide national defense, police protection, and a judicial system. Thats all. Protecting individual and property rights is all the Founding Fathers intended.
Yeah, they'd probably be pissed as hell to know how many things already leave behind a unique identifier.
Fingerprints. Every damn thing you touch leaves a fingerprint! Now, you can wear gloves but you'll always ask yourself, did you touch the kiddle porn BEFORE putting on the gloves w/o thinking about it?
Shooting a gun. The damn bullets can be matched up to the gun barrel. You can shoot some bastard in a robbery and the cops can trace the bullet to YOUR gun barrel. This has the makings of Soviet Russia if I've ever heard it.
Cameras, EVERYWHERE! You can't buy a slurpee w/o giving someone your mug shot. Shit. Just buying a lottery ticket and slurpee leaves proof.
Dental records. I recently discovered that my dentist keeps RECORDS of my teeth and if I'm found belly up, the cops can use the records to identify me. Now I'd be dead and you might be asking, "why would I care." Well this is slashdot- so if they use dental records that means Ashcroft wins.
I recently discovered my car in a satellite photo when evaluating keyhole. Now damnit, the problem comes in with the fact that I drove to Vegas to hire a hooker based on their claim that what happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas. Those fuckers. Not exactly the case when you can get 3 inch resolution sat images for 30 bucks a year, now is it?
And now, they can track my printouts. That just does it. I'm so THROUGH with this country. I'm moving to Canada. I refuse to live under communism- so socialism will have to do. Only problem I see is that iTMS isn't available in Canada but I secretly think iPods are part of a grander communist plot anyway (have you see the U2 model? awful lot of RED on the damn thing.)
Anyway, those are just some ideas off the top of my head. The point is that if people know what they're up against, they can find a workaround. Ideally, these kinds of tricks would be kept secret. In the case, the point is trip up ignorant cons who don't account for something they don't realize exists.
Shit, and I was thinking... "just buy a different printer..." The article does say "several" printer companies which doesn't mean "all."
Just make sure some pub in Britain does the cooking. As bad as their food is supposed to be, it is the only place I've ever had good Flipper and chips.
Might want to try these guys where you can buy a set of icons for around 35 bucks or so. You could have bought the whole mac daddy set that they sell for less than the price of one of the pieces of software you mentioned you are using.
If he has found something wrong with the article, he should take a few minutes and correct it.
What about a kid using Wikipedia it for a school report? He is learning about Hamilton from Wikipedia, so he doesn't know there is a problem with the article. People don't typically read articles in encyclopedias because they are already a subject matter expert on what they are reading, do they? I always thought it was a reference guide and never really gave much thought to having to question everything inside one.
I wonder, what about NSIS? It was OS already- but who was doing most of the work? I wonder if it will be affected?
Lots of folks rely on NSIS for their open source and commercial products, and it is top-notch in my book. It fits a nice niche too- it just isn't practical for shareware or open source authors to spend hundreds upon hundreds of dollars to gear up with the massive bloat known as Installshield.
Yeah, why did they even accept his story? Surely other people with better Karma submitted the same story. It seems like kind of a "reward" to even mention this dumb ass on the homepage.
Secondly, doesn't this guy have a life? Like you pointed out his whole history is nothing but idiotic dumb ass "I'm new here" posts.
You keep using that word. I don't think that you know what it means.
Hint- if you've used it right, you should be able to substitute something like "although."
How freaking dumb does "an although lengthy process" sound? Another hint. To an educated person, "an albeit lengthy process" sounds just as dumb. It sounds like someone trying to sound smarter than they actually are.
I'm just curious, which Bush rallies (date and location) where you refused tickets, and what was the reason given.
Secondly, which Kerry rallies (date and location) did you attend successfully?
Further, was there any difference between the two- when you asked for tickets, overall attendance numbers, etc? Just elaborate on the overall circumstances.
This from the same campaign that applies loyalty tests to people who want to hear the President speak in person. Not a Bush supporter? Go away.
Come on, use your brain. The same is true for any presidential candidate in modern history. There are a lot of freaks out there on both sides and it doesn't matter if your last name is Clinton, Gore, or Bush- you don't need one of those freaks showing up and yelling absurdities, setting themselves on fire, or worse. There are also a lot of people who would like to harm or kill an elected official or a candidate. Knowing this, I'm perfectly fine with "limited access". Unfortunately a few have ruined it and now it is just indicative of the world we live in.
What the rest of the world thinks does not matter.
Exactly. I mean, why would it? It is the right of any sovereign to exist on her own. Like the old saying goes, "You've got to look out for number one..."
It's quite ironic, actually incredibly ironic, that a process that is almost entirely driven by word of mouth would aim for promotion using above the line advertising.
Personally, and this is just an opinion, I reckon that money would be better spent on wining and dining journalists and trying to get Firefox on the cover of Times Magazine.
While I use Firefox and thing it is great, there is something sadly funny about having to spend all this money to give something away for free. For God's sake, this society loves free stuff- most folks give up the email addresses of their best friends for a chance at getting something for free. If you have something that is free like Firefox with absolutely no catches, and people don't immediately take it- well it is their loss. But don't spend perfectly good money trying to convince them to take something for free. There are a lot of better things to spend money on.
I am a linux nut and I see no need for a PDA that runs linux on it.
I am a Linux nut and see no reason to run a proprietary OS that requires large, expensive development cycles such as Palm OS/Win CE/etc. when a perectly good embedded Linux platform exists which can run thousands of apps already written with minimal or no changes.
Besides, there's also folk music and street performers
Yeah, my girlfriend and I were heading out for dinner and a concert, but I'll let her know that after dinner we'll be sitting on the street listening to a panhandler play the spoons.
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Whenever I hear swarm in an IT context, I can't help but think about Crichton's Prey.
Every company I've ever worked at (large or small) has used AIM. Bank of America (some areas) for example uses a client that ties into the AIM network. Most Mac users probably use AIM via iChat. My entire family uses AIM. Everyone I know who is in college uses it. It is really pretty common.
I've got domains that I have left inactive for year then re-added them to dns and set up mail accounts for them and the spam comes in immediately.
I can definately believe this, but there is also another phenomenon- I've have brand spanking new domains start receiving spam too. It happens when you create common email accounts, like "sales", "support", "admin". The assholes pick up on the new domain registration and start spamming common email addresses, I suppose.
AS we progress humans should have to memorize less things and use our tools to do more.
Agreed. Whis is why I friggin HATE technical interviews. I have 7 years of experience coding Java, and some guy on the other side of the desk asks me how many methods the serializable interface has. That was an actual question. Maybe, just maybe, I've spent MORE time learning concepts and how to build effective applications that users actually need, and LESS time memorizing javadoc that is only a click away from any PC in the country. And you wonder why big IT departments are disfunctional. Because they hire 80K walking javadoc repositories to develop apps.
Damn good point. In fact, this is a problem with productivity in offices as well. You're always stopping whatever you're doing to check email, send an IM, check the latest news, read slashdot, whatever. I never put together the correlation of this behavior with multi-tasking before, but you are exactly right on.
Of course, I'm not saying it is the computer's fault for being too powerful- as an employee it is my job to focus. I suppose if I can't do it, it is my own problem.
listening to how other industrial countries' space programs are flourishing
What? Russia still operates exclusively with early cold-war era hardware. Everything they've "announced" in the last several years has proved to be nothing more than hype. Further, they tried to make it to the moon and failed. They tried to build a shuttle program and... well, decided not to. Anyway, did you even RTFA?
Personally I'm damned proud to live in a country where a small company like Scaled Composites can and do exist. This is where the future of space exploration lies- not with the monolithic, inefficent US, Russian or Chinese governments.
You do have a point. Some cultures for one reason or another are not ready to embrace American style democracy.
Or, when they try, they find that in a battle of students vs. military tanks, tanks win every time. No fear though, they've cleaned the place up and that very location will be host to some activities during the 2008 Olympics.
Be real for a second and review industry's track record. Drugs for phantom depression. Drugs for sex enhancement. Drugs for obesity.
+5 insightful but should be -5 uninformed. I don't think you'll find that Lance Armstrong thanks Clinton or Congress for his recovery. He doesn't thank God either. Who does he thank? Science and the drug companies. The progress isn't always as apparent- it is easier to correct something like erectile disfunction than it is to cure cancer or AIDS. But do any Google search you want and you'll see that they are working on it and saving lives.
Next time you go into a hospital for a serious illness I challege you to waive off any privately financed drugs (since you say none exist) and demand to receive only state-sponsored medication. Good luck!
The government should be in charge of funding basic scientific research that drives forward our understanding of physics, biology, chemistry, etc, and creates the platform on which industry can develop specific products.
Exactly what part of the Constitution says so? By my reading, they should provide national defense, police protection, and a judicial system. Thats all. Protecting individual and property rights is all the Founding Fathers intended.
Yeah, they'd probably be pissed as hell to know how many things already leave behind a unique identifier.
Fingerprints. Every damn thing you touch leaves a fingerprint! Now, you can wear gloves but you'll always ask yourself, did you touch the kiddle porn BEFORE putting on the gloves w/o thinking about it?
Shooting a gun. The damn bullets can be matched up to the gun barrel. You can shoot some bastard in a robbery and the cops can trace the bullet to YOUR gun barrel. This has the makings of Soviet Russia if I've ever heard it.
Cameras, EVERYWHERE! You can't buy a slurpee w/o giving someone your mug shot. Shit. Just buying a lottery ticket and slurpee leaves proof.
Dental records. I recently discovered that my dentist keeps RECORDS of my teeth and if I'm found belly up, the cops can use the records to identify me. Now I'd be dead and you might be asking, "why would I care." Well this is slashdot- so if they use dental records that means Ashcroft wins.
I recently discovered my car in a satellite photo when evaluating keyhole. Now damnit, the problem comes in with the fact that I drove to Vegas to hire a hooker based on their claim that what happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas. Those fuckers. Not exactly the case when you can get 3 inch resolution sat images for 30 bucks a year, now is it?
And now, they can track my printouts. That just does it. I'm so THROUGH with this country. I'm moving to Canada. I refuse to live under communism- so socialism will have to do. Only problem I see is that iTMS isn't available in Canada but I secretly think iPods are part of a grander communist plot anyway (have you see the U2 model? awful lot of RED on the damn thing.)
Anyway, those are just some ideas off the top of my head. The point is that if people know what they're up against, they can find a workaround. Ideally, these kinds of tricks would be kept secret. In the case, the point is trip up ignorant cons who don't account for something they don't realize exists.
Shit, and I was thinking... "just buy a different printer..." The article does say "several" printer companies which doesn't mean "all."
Time for Flipper and chips.
Just make sure some pub in Britain does the cooking. As bad as their food is supposed to be, it is the only place I've ever had good Flipper and chips.
I don't recall Walt ever drawing Mickey Mouse as a dirty dirty whore
Well, perhaps not Mickey. But Minnie...
Might want to try these guys where you can buy a set of icons for around 35 bucks or so. You could have bought the whole mac daddy set that they sell for less than the price of one of the pieces of software you mentioned you are using.
If he has found something wrong with the article, he should take a few minutes and correct it.
What about a kid using Wikipedia it for a school report? He is learning about Hamilton from Wikipedia, so he doesn't know there is a problem with the article. People don't typically read articles in encyclopedias because they are already a subject matter expert on what they are reading, do they? I always thought it was a reference guide and never really gave much thought to having to question everything inside one.
I wonder, what about NSIS? It was OS already- but who was doing most of the work? I wonder if it will be affected?
Lots of folks rely on NSIS for their open source and commercial products, and it is top-notch in my book. It fits a nice niche too- it just isn't practical for shareware or open source authors to spend hundreds upon hundreds of dollars to gear up with the massive bloat known as Installshield.
Yeah, why did they even accept his story? Surely other people with better Karma submitted the same story. It seems like kind of a "reward" to even mention this dumb ass on the homepage.
Secondly, doesn't this guy have a life? Like you pointed out his whole history is nothing but idiotic dumb ass "I'm new here" posts.
Flamebait? my ass? Whoever posted this story doesn't have adequate command of our language.
You keep using that word. I don't think that you know what it means.
Hint- if you've used it right, you should be able to substitute something like "although."
How freaking dumb does "an although lengthy process" sound? Another hint. To an educated person, "an albeit lengthy process" sounds just as dumb. It sounds like someone trying to sound smarter than they actually are.
I'm just curious, which Bush rallies (date and location) where you refused tickets, and what was the reason given.
Secondly, which Kerry rallies (date and location) did you attend successfully?
Further, was there any difference between the two- when you asked for tickets, overall attendance numbers, etc? Just elaborate on the overall circumstances.
This from the same campaign that applies loyalty tests to people who want to hear the President speak in person. Not a Bush supporter? Go away.
Come on, use your brain. The same is true for any presidential candidate in modern history. There are a lot of freaks out there on both sides and it doesn't matter if your last name is Clinton, Gore, or Bush- you don't need one of those freaks showing up and yelling absurdities, setting themselves on fire, or worse. There are also a lot of people who would like to harm or kill an elected official or a candidate. Knowing this, I'm perfectly fine with "limited access". Unfortunately a few have ruined it and now it is just indicative of the world we live in.
What the rest of the world thinks does not matter.
Exactly. I mean, why would it? It is the right of any sovereign to exist on her own. Like the old saying goes, "You've got to look out for number one..."
It's quite ironic, actually incredibly ironic, that a process that is almost entirely driven by word of mouth would aim for promotion using above the line advertising.
Personally, and this is just an opinion, I reckon that money would be better spent on wining and dining journalists and trying to get Firefox on the cover of Times Magazine.
While I use Firefox and thing it is great, there is something sadly funny about having to spend all this money to give something away for free. For God's sake, this society loves free stuff- most folks give up the email addresses of their best friends for a chance at getting something for free. If you have something that is free like Firefox with absolutely no catches, and people don't immediately take it- well it is their loss. But don't spend perfectly good money trying to convince them to take something for free. There are a lot of better things to spend money on.
I am a linux nut and I see no need for a PDA that runs linux on it.
I am a Linux nut and see no reason to run a proprietary OS that requires large, expensive development cycles such as Palm OS/Win CE/etc. when a perectly good embedded Linux platform exists which can run thousands of apps already written with minimal or no changes.
Besides, there's also folk music and street performers
Yeah, my girlfriend and I were heading out for dinner and a concert, but I'll let her know that after dinner we'll be sitting on the street listening to a panhandler play the spoons.