"It's a shame, too. The ad was quite clever. A "G.I. Joe" action figure leaps into a remote control 300ZX, drives down the hall of a family's house to the sister's room, and picks up "Barbie" at her dream house, much to "Ken's" dismay (I use quotes because they didn't use the actual trademarked dolls), set to the tune of Van Halen's cover of "You Really Got Me"."
Excellent example. If I'd been thinking of buying a Nissan, after seeing that ad. I would be looking for another brand.
Similarly, cola is cola, but Pepsi ad.s make me want to ensure that I never give PepsiCo another penny even though their fizzy brown sugar water is no worse than anybody else's. There should be a De-Advertising Hall of Shame for campaigns that turn people away from the products they hawk.
I *like* a car I don't have to think about. Not all of us can live on the California coast. Here in the Midwest, the roads are straight and flat, poorly-timed stoplights are frequent, and if I could just step into a transfer booth and step out at my destination I would cheerfully reclaim the time lost in getting there.
(That said, I do prefer a car that will kick me in the rear when I drive over the inevitable pothole. I want to be in command of my car, but I get my excitement elsewhere.)
Honda, please don't listen to this guy. Your products do their job without fuss and that's good.
How do we get more commercials banned here? AFAICT, the higher a firm is on the list of "top advertising agencies", the worse their stuff is. Can we get the Top 20's entire output on the bad list? Pleeeeze?
(BTW my grandfather was in advertising, and I'm not against *all* ad.s, just the ludicrous / insulting / insane / repellent / inscrutable or otherwise counterproductive ones. IOW 90% of modern advertising.:-/ )
The answer is as obvious as the answer to email worms: my (telephone|MUA) should not even *try* to be a public compute server, which is exactly what the ability to send "active" attachments means. Just Say No to active messaging. The cool factor simply doesn't outweigh the potential cost.
Instead of just blocking this stuff, how hard would it be to poison the database by sending back tags that were randomly generated, or exchanged with others'?
If HDTV hucksters really want to ramp up sales, they need to stop packing in features and LOWER THE PRICE, just like they were taught in ECON 101. $6000.00 is too much for teevee no matter how clear it is -- I'm waiting for it to hit $600 or lower.
Yeah, yeah, recovery of development costs and all that. But it's not going to move in volume until the price comes down. (Like Dvorak's Law: no computer, no matter how sexy, will appeal to the mass market until it goes below $2500.)
I remember running a filter suite called "magickfilter"
"magicfilter". I use it. It works well.
One thing it did not have, however, was the ability to have custom printer filters applied by a printer server. In other words, I wanted to be able to send the job from a client workstation to a central printer server, have a custom PostScript-based coverpage (with the printee's username on it) prepended to the print job.
LPRng does "bounce" filtering like that. I use LPRng. It works well.
'These radio waves were picked up by HAM radio operators, who I guess used to listen in regularly.'
Oh, yes. The electronics magazines were full of stuff on what bands were used for which parts of a mission, how to build and aim your antenna, etc. (That is, for U.S. missions. I dunno how much was known about the Soviet comm.s.)
IIRC they used something slightly odd, like Double SideBand, for the moon voice link, but there were plenty of amateurs who worked hard to pick it up and make sense of it, and I think quite a number succeeded.
I think the most NASA could have done would be to cut off the direct feeds to the news agencies, so that the story would trickle out slowly and could be managed somewhat.
Now that I think about it, it would've looked odd to say "we came in peace for all Mankind" and then scramble the voice channel.
*sigh* We see a tremendous explosion, and someone is asked for a comment. "I'm sure they died instantly." People start trying to figure out what happened, evidence begins to turn up, and someone else is asked to comment. "It looks like they must have died rather quickly." Months later more evidence is assembled and calmly analyzed, and someone else is asked to comment on the considered findings. "It looks like they may have been alive when they hit the water."
Jeez, scientists do the same thing all the time. First they said blood just sloshed around in the body; then they said it passed from one ventricle to the other through "insensible pores"; then they said it circulated through the lungs. Which of these is the real truth, and why did they "lie"? What was Galen trying to cover up? Aren't we all glad that Harvey blew the whistle on him and his cohorts?
I think the problem is that people who wanted instant answers believed they were truth, instead of waiting until we *knew* something.
As I read these comments, I'm reminded of the story about a fictional first man in orbit. Something went wrong, and the world hung on his every word as the oxygen ran out and he urged them to set aside his loss and continue to explore space. His capsule became a sort of shrine, taboo to a generation of spacefaring men and women who heeded his words and made space flight an everyday reality, until one guy poked his head inside and found only a recording.
Nod. Whenever I'm asked to recommend a web authoring package I reply, "emacs!" The more you want to use nesting tables, frames, animation, javascript, etc. the more you need something that won't make them easy.
(If someone has coded up an emacs mode to automagically generate horrible kaleidoscopic pages, I don't want to know.)
(No, I don't list a page on/. because I don't have a personal page. There's nothing sufficiently interesting about me to warrant one yet. The pages I do for work are all gray with paragraphs of plain black text, and people are always asking for more of 'em because the information content is high and the clutter is low.)
I prefer to believe that someone in the British government will have the sand to try them in public, although I am enjoying wondering just how smart the cracker-dudes will feen when a commando team blows the door and hauls them away to possibly face a firing squad if convicted.
If handled right, this case could have a salutary chilling effect on such shenanigans worldwide even if the perp.s only get prison time. I think I'm glad that someone finally pulled a stunt big enough to get slapped down HARD.
It looks like the stuff about having to recompile all your app.s is just grandstanding. What it really means is that if you want to use APIs that are new in 2000, you have to rewrite your code. Duuh! Of course my apps won't be "directory enabled" unless I write code to interface to the directory.
Now, if they'd decided to scrap the random, poorly documented Windows API set for something organized and understandable, *that* would be news.
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"It's a shame, too. The ad was quite clever. A "G.I. Joe" action figure leaps into a remote control 300ZX, drives down the hall of a family's house to the sister's room, and picks up "Barbie" at her dream house, much to "Ken's" dismay (I use quotes because they didn't use the actual trademarked dolls), set to the tune of Van Halen's cover of "You Really Got Me"."
Excellent example. If I'd been thinking of buying a Nissan, after seeing that ad. I would be looking for another brand.
Similarly, cola is cola, but Pepsi ad.s make me want to ensure that I never give PepsiCo another penny even though their fizzy brown sugar water is no worse than anybody else's. There should be a De-Advertising Hall of Shame for campaigns that turn people away from the products they hawk.
I *like* a car I don't have to think about. Not all of us can live on the California coast. Here in the Midwest, the roads are straight and flat, poorly-timed stoplights are frequent, and if I could just step into a transfer booth and step out at my destination I would cheerfully reclaim the time lost in getting there.
(That said, I do prefer a car that will kick me in the rear when I drive over the inevitable pothole. I want to be in command of my car, but I get my excitement elsewhere.)
Honda, please don't listen to this guy. Your products do their job without fuss and that's good.
How do we get more commercials banned here? AFAICT, the higher a firm is on the list of "top advertising agencies", the worse their stuff is. Can we get the Top 20's entire output on the bad list? Pleeeeze?
:-/ )
(BTW my grandfather was in advertising, and I'm not against *all* ad.s, just the ludicrous / insulting / insane / repellent / inscrutable or otherwise counterproductive ones. IOW 90% of modern advertising.
The answer is as obvious as the answer to email worms: my (telephone|MUA) should not even *try* to be a public compute server, which is exactly what the ability to send "active" attachments means. Just Say No to active messaging. The cool factor simply doesn't outweigh the potential cost.
Instead of just blocking this stuff, how hard would it be to poison the database by sending back tags that were randomly generated, or exchanged with others'?
If HDTV hucksters really want to ramp up sales, they need to stop packing in features and LOWER THE PRICE, just like they were taught in ECON 101. $6000.00 is too much for teevee no matter how clear it is -- I'm waiting for it to hit $600 or lower.
Yeah, yeah, recovery of development costs and all that. But it's not going to move in volume until the price comes down. (Like Dvorak's Law: no computer, no matter how sexy, will appeal to the mass market until it goes below $2500.)
"magicfilter". I use it. It works well.
LPRng does "bounce" filtering like that. I use LPRng. It works well.
'These radio waves were picked up by HAM radio operators, who I guess used to listen in regularly.'
Oh, yes. The electronics magazines were full of stuff on what bands were used for which parts of a mission, how to build and aim your antenna, etc. (That is, for U.S. missions. I dunno how much was known about the Soviet comm.s.)
IIRC they used something slightly odd, like Double SideBand, for the moon voice link, but there were plenty of amateurs who worked hard to pick it up and make sense of it, and I think quite a number succeeded.
I think the most NASA could have done would be to cut off the direct feeds to the news agencies, so that the story would trickle out slowly and could be managed somewhat.
Now that I think about it, it would've looked odd to say "we came in peace for all Mankind" and then scramble the voice channel.
*sigh* We see a tremendous explosion, and someone is asked for a comment. "I'm sure they died instantly." People start trying to figure out what happened, evidence begins to turn up, and someone else is asked to comment. "It looks like they must have died rather quickly." Months later more evidence is assembled and calmly analyzed, and someone else is asked to comment on the considered findings. "It looks like they may have been alive when they hit the water."
Jeez, scientists do the same thing all the time. First they said blood just sloshed around in the body; then they said it passed from one ventricle to the other through "insensible pores"; then they said it circulated through the lungs. Which of these is the real truth, and why did they "lie"? What was Galen trying to cover up? Aren't we all glad that Harvey blew the whistle on him and his cohorts?
I think the problem is that people who wanted instant answers believed they were truth, instead of waiting until we *knew* something.
As I read these comments, I'm reminded of the story about a fictional first man in orbit. Something went wrong, and the world hung on his every word as the oxygen ran out and he urged them to set aside his loss and continue to explore space. His capsule became a sort of shrine, taboo to a generation of spacefaring men and women who heeded his words and made space flight an everyday reality, until one guy poked his head inside and found only a recording.
You're assuming that the failure would be in the LEM, not the CM or SM. Either of the latter would strand all three astronauts.
Arthur Clarke, meet Larry Niven. Larry has this Sinclair Monofilament that would be great for a sequel to _The Fountains of Paradise_....
Nod. Whenever I'm asked to recommend a web authoring package I reply, "emacs!" The more you want to use nesting tables, frames, animation, javascript, etc. the more you need something that won't make them easy.
/. because I don't have a personal page. There's nothing sufficiently interesting about me to warrant one yet. The pages I do for work are all gray with paragraphs of plain black text, and people are always asking for more of 'em because the information content is high and the clutter is low.)
(If someone has coded up an emacs mode to automagically generate horrible kaleidoscopic pages, I don't want to know.)
(No, I don't list a page on
I prefer to believe that someone in the British government will have the sand to try them in public, although I am enjoying wondering just how smart the cracker-dudes will feen when a commando team blows the door and hauls them away to possibly face a firing squad if convicted.
If handled right, this case could have a salutary chilling effect on such shenanigans worldwide even if the perp.s only get prison time. I think I'm glad that someone finally pulled a stunt big enough to get slapped down HARD.
It looks like the stuff about having to recompile all your app.s is just grandstanding. What it really means is that if you want to use APIs that are new in 2000, you have to rewrite your code. Duuh! Of course my apps won't be "directory enabled" unless I write code to interface to the directory.
Now, if they'd decided to scrap the random, poorly documented Windows API set for something organized and understandable, *that* would be news.
MicroChannel.