Increase and decrease on the spam-o-meter
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Since about Sept. I've received about 50% more spam on my company account and about 10% of that is making its way through the spam filters (had a few this week already). So from that perspective I've seem an increase in spam. But my Yahoo account used to get 150+ a week in spam, that has trickled down to 10 or so. Gmail is the best with almost nothing, just a few and no adult or pron spam.
I work on linux (redhat 7.2) and although I'm constrained to older libs due to company reasons, I have mozilla and system crashes at least once a week. My bro is a IT director for a book company and he has shared many a tale of apple system crashes too. Windows is crap, but it isn't the only software that crashes. I suppose even WinTel running VIM all the time prob won't crash (until it is hacked).
When I was in consulting I was the youngest software architect in my organization. I had trouble getting respect from clients and the "gray beards" so I grew out a beard. Made a huge difference, and I only shaved it off when I began interviewing for another job.
Also, I am a proponent of dressing well at the office, irregardless of day's tasks. I'll sit at my terminal all day in my cubicle in khakies and button down shirt. I do feel that I am percieived to hold a greater position that I actually do because my coworkers are jeans and t-shirt folks. It is a great deal of perception, but I believe it also shows that I have a respect for the work place and that in turn gains me some professional respect irrespective of my job function.
It is possible to change careers, people do it, the government helps (not greatly), and people eventually adapt to survive. It sucks, but it happens.
There are still lifer jobs, local government is a good example. Be a clerk, be a cop (in most places). The long and short of it, we (the ones that access/.) are angry, and have the right to be when we worked so hard to see it just ripped away. In the long run it needs to be this way, else the technology will grow from the ground up in developing countries (by those that take bits and pieces over there) and we will be even worse off.
Politicians these days are not what they were during the Great Depression era. We can no longer rely on them to do good for the greater population. The Iraq situation is a great example of that. What most likely will happen in the short term is trade rules or IRS rules that effect those companies that outsource labor to appease those that are angry for their loss. This will not help, this will artifically increase barriers that will increase the demand for technology orginating from offshore firms with no US connection.
I am curious where coastwalker thinks all the manufacturing workers went (into the trash??).
That is why Costco sells so many PS1 games. They are much less expensive. The simple economics of it is that if the next generation support the previous generation games then game publishers can get extended life out of the products. This is good!!! Do you realize that helps reduce costs, else each generation would have to fully support itself. These next generation games are not nearly as easy to program, the shaders alone are very complicated. Now with network programming and advanced human interfacing yet to come (advanced controllers), this stuff is going to be more costly to create. In the end, if a company can ship a few more thousand units of an old product they can afford to put the extra effort into the new games without charging the real cost of development.
That is right on the money. Without backwards compatibility many game makers would hold off release of games for the current console (and all those eager consumers) so they would not have to spend the high expense of porting or having a short shelf life.
Looking at the big picture can be hard, but it shows the reasons quite clearly.
Web surfers started printing out whatever looked interesting.
I knew one of these... she would print everything she liked and keep it in many folders. What was worse is it was all in color! No wonder IT departments have to keep sending out those "DO NOT PRINT PERSONAL..." emails all the time. I was guitly of the print-a-color-map for directions, now I have the PocketPC maps and that rocks.
Another thing that amazed me was working for a company where everyone had laptops and the meeting organizers still printed copies of the presentation for everyone... try email.
Most of the high tech crowd is younger than most, and doesn't remember the outsourcing of manufacturing and even the big offshoring of textiles (remember that jean company by the name of Levi's?).
Change is difficult, even moreso in this case because the people displaced are not blue collar, they are intelligent highly paid engineers and developers. This makes it easy to bash, rant, and become emotionally involved in the inevitable. What we need to do now is think ahead. What is the next great industry that the US will teach the world?
At lunch the other day, the topic invariably came about and the discussion centered on the infrastructure of the countries where these jobs are going. Maybe there is opportunity in innovating something that will cause those countries to funnel money back to the US for the very badly needed instant improvement in transportation, power/data transmission, and medical care.
We are not at the end of the road... just need to wake up and realize that we need to adjust for the turn in the road.
SPAMing is not honest work. How hard is it to collect as many emails that you can and then extrapolate the rest and then have a bunch of linux machines crank out email!! Every technology has its good and bad uses. Without SPAMers though, we would not be spending money on really smart engineers to find solutions to the problem... so there is the rose in the manure pile.
The front offices (at least the ones that have them) seem to be in America. A large amount of emails originate from outside the United States. I guess it is hard to get a backwater Russian/Indian/etc. business person to offer up the services like the US based ones can.
People do read them... Microsoft and New York believe that $40M will bankrupt him... so that means someone is paying him big bucks to send the spam, and those people are getting results.
Uhh, wasn't this exactly the portrayal provided about the robots in the AniMatrix??
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And what is with making it a requirement to have a working remote with most DVDs to make the thing simply PLAY ad disc??? You think that would be a pretty darn basic function!
From the old software deployment methodology, why can we have the computer stations that work on the Operation (that childrens game) model. After you punch down your punch is counted in the computer and you still have your card. Spend a few years counting both and see how that works out. By then should be on version 3 or so and service pack 5.
This is why technology and politics do not mix well. The average politician does not understand the complexity of these systems, the vulnerability, and the consequences. With administrators like Linda Lamone, we are laying the groundwork for another fiasco like the 2000 election.
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Since about Sept. I've received about 50% more spam on my company account and about 10% of that is making its way through the spam filters (had a few this week already). So from that perspective I've seem an increase in spam. But my Yahoo account used to get 150+ a week in spam, that has trickled down to 10 or so. Gmail is the best with almost nothing, just a few and no adult or pron spam.
I work on linux (redhat 7.2) and although I'm constrained to older libs due to company reasons, I have mozilla and system crashes at least once a week. My bro is a IT director for a book company and he has shared many a tale of apple system crashes too. Windows is crap, but it isn't the only software that crashes. I suppose even WinTel running VIM all the time prob won't crash (until it is hacked).
Seems Google email realized they have Windows users... that auto-save has been great for retaining those important emails to my drinking buddies.
When I was in consulting I was the youngest software architect in my organization. I had trouble getting respect from clients and the "gray beards" so I grew out a beard. Made a huge difference, and I only shaved it off when I began interviewing for another job. Also, I am a proponent of dressing well at the office, irregardless of day's tasks. I'll sit at my terminal all day in my cubicle in khakies and button down shirt. I do feel that I am percieived to hold a greater position that I actually do because my coworkers are jeans and t-shirt folks. It is a great deal of perception, but I believe it also shows that I have a respect for the work place and that in turn gains me some professional respect irrespective of my job function.
There are still lifer jobs, local government is a good example. Be a clerk, be a cop (in most places). The long and short of it, we (the ones that access /.) are angry, and have the right to be when we worked so hard to see it just ripped away. In the long run it needs to be this way, else the technology will grow from the ground up in developing countries (by those that take bits and pieces over there) and we will be even worse off.
Politicians these days are not what they were during the Great Depression era. We can no longer rely on them to do good for the greater population. The Iraq situation is a great example of that. What most likely will happen in the short term is trade rules or IRS rules that effect those companies that outsource labor to appease those that are angry for their loss. This will not help, this will artifically increase barriers that will increase the demand for technology orginating from offshore firms with no US connection.
I am curious where coastwalker thinks all the manufacturing workers went (into the trash??).
That is why Costco sells so many PS1 games. They are much less expensive. The simple economics of it is that if the next generation support the previous generation games then game publishers can get extended life out of the products. This is good!!! Do you realize that helps reduce costs, else each generation would have to fully support itself. These next generation games are not nearly as easy to program, the shaders alone are very complicated. Now with network programming and advanced human interfacing yet to come (advanced controllers), this stuff is going to be more costly to create. In the end, if a company can ship a few more thousand units of an old product they can afford to put the extra effort into the new games without charging the real cost of development.
Looking at the big picture can be hard, but it shows the reasons quite clearly.
I knew one of these... she would print everything she liked and keep it in many folders. What was worse is it was all in color! No wonder IT departments have to keep sending out those "DO NOT PRINT PERSONAL..." emails all the time. I was guitly of the print-a-color-map for directions, now I have the PocketPC maps and that rocks.
Another thing that amazed me was working for a company where everyone had laptops and the meeting organizers still printed copies of the presentation for everyone... try email.
Most of the high tech crowd is younger than most, and doesn't remember the outsourcing of manufacturing and even the big offshoring of textiles (remember that jean company by the name of Levi's?). Change is difficult, even moreso in this case because the people displaced are not blue collar, they are intelligent highly paid engineers and developers. This makes it easy to bash, rant, and become emotionally involved in the inevitable. What we need to do now is think ahead. What is the next great industry that the US will teach the world? At lunch the other day, the topic invariably came about and the discussion centered on the infrastructure of the countries where these jobs are going. Maybe there is opportunity in innovating something that will cause those countries to funnel money back to the US for the very badly needed instant improvement in transportation, power/data transmission, and medical care. We are not at the end of the road... just need to wake up and realize that we need to adjust for the turn in the road.
I second the "asshat" comment!
Why doesn't Microsoft do what it does best... Hire him! He then could help them build their holy grail of spam killers.
SPAMing is not honest work. How hard is it to collect as many emails that you can and then extrapolate the rest and then have a bunch of linux machines crank out email!! Every technology has its good and bad uses. Without SPAMers though, we would not be spending money on really smart engineers to find solutions to the problem... so there is the rose in the manure pile.
Most of the orginating email addresses are not real.
The front offices (at least the ones that have them) seem to be in America. A large amount of emails originate from outside the United States. I guess it is hard to get a backwater Russian/Indian/etc. business person to offer up the services like the US based ones can.
People do read them... Microsoft and New York believe that $40M will bankrupt him... so that means someone is paying him big bucks to send the spam, and those people are getting results.
With the way the US economy is going, it will be less expensive to have a human than a robot in the vehicle! But the robot may be more intelligent.
Uhh, wasn't this exactly the portrayal provided about the robots in the AniMatrix??
And what is with making it a requirement to have a working remote with most DVDs to make the thing simply PLAY ad disc??? You think that would be a pretty darn basic function!
From the old software deployment methodology, why can we have the computer stations that work on the Operation (that childrens game) model. After you punch down your punch is counted in the computer and you still have your card. Spend a few years counting both and see how that works out. By then should be on version 3 or so and service pack 5.
This is why technology and politics do not mix well. The average politician does not understand the complexity of these systems, the vulnerability, and the consequences. With administrators like Linda Lamone, we are laying the groundwork for another fiasco like the 2000 election.
I think you misunderstand. This is Slashdot. Facts are not necessary nor generally desired.