With it GPLed, we can get something to play RealMedia files on Windows that doesn't involve the neverending barrage of ads!
I'm happy for you Linux desktop folks, but the implications for an alternate player for Windows is what does it for me.
-PM
I'm not sure that monkeys know the difference, but when I consider chance in a wagering-like fashion, I tend to consider whether or not something will really change my life for more than just the short-term.
Dropping $20 on an array of Mega Millions tickets is mathematically irrational, but with or without that $20, my life for the next two weeks will be about the same. If I were to win, however, even the second-best prize, it would enable me to purchase a nice house.
When it's a matter of playing a game where the expected value of my dollar is $0.95, but I'm more likely to win $2 or $3, why bother? But even if the expected value of my dollar is $0.75 or less with a prize of many million and many over $100k, despite the miniscule chances of winning, it would change my life.
Of course, if I had an expected value of $1.05 for my dollar, I'm smart enough to play consistently even if my dollar only wins a little at a time.
-PM
Re:For those of you about to defend this...
on
Reverse Graffiti
·
· Score: 1
Popups and commercials pay for the material you're viewing. In that way, they've 'earned' their right to be there. Partially cleaning a wall or bridge does not convey privilege to display your message.
-PM
For those of you about to defend this...
on
Reverse Graffiti
·
· Score: 5, Insightful
I just hope that anyone about to defend this consider how much you hate what you think of as unwanted commercial messages all over the place. Besides pop-up blockers, many/. readers block banner ads and the like as well.
It's not their place to be placing these messages. It's not a matter of betterment of public spaces, that's just a distraction from the fact that these are unwanted commercial messages placed where the advertiser wants them.
I sincerely hope that SBC includes managed firewall appliances with the service. Pricing should be high enough to include a minimally managed CPE for those who want one.
Is to do away with current email protocols and go with new ones with verification.
That should take care of the problems. The gov is now concentrating on this.
Except for making a new standard that's a requirement for doing business with federal agencies, just what do you think government's capable of doing regarding replacing protocols?
http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.xtremeads. com/
The website's never had anything useful on it.
It looks like a domain someone purchased for "Xtreme Ads" as in advertising, but never used. Then, he gets drunk at a BBQ and sees his buddy's kid playing with a toy bazooka with a spark-plug screwed into the end of it. Hmm...
Is there a reason there isn't a standardized procedure with the phone company whereby the cops say "there was a bomb threat made at 1pm to this number" and the phone company says "these were the incoming calls and where they came from"?
Seems ridiculous that the cops in Podunk need to know how to request the info specifically.
Before anyone jumps on me about privacy issues and overzealous cops with warrants, in cases where the customer (the school in this case) agrees to have their call records searched, this wouldn't really be an issue.
They say they'll destroy the data after 3 months. While this whole thing reeks evil to me, at least [they say] they're not going to be storing all this info in perpetuity.
Slashdot Mirror
With it GPLed, we can get something to play RealMedia files on Windows that doesn't involve the neverending barrage of ads! I'm happy for you Linux desktop folks, but the implications for an alternate player for Windows is what does it for me. -PM
I'm not sure that monkeys know the difference, but when I consider chance in a wagering-like fashion, I tend to consider whether or not something will really change my life for more than just the short-term.
Dropping $20 on an array of Mega Millions tickets is mathematically irrational, but with or without that $20, my life for the next two weeks will be about the same. If I were to win, however, even the second-best prize, it would enable me to purchase a nice house.
When it's a matter of playing a game where the expected value of my dollar is $0.95, but I'm more likely to win $2 or $3, why bother? But even if the expected value of my dollar is $0.75 or less with a prize of many million and many over $100k, despite the miniscule chances of winning, it would change my life.
Of course, if I had an expected value of $1.05 for my dollar, I'm smart enough to play consistently even if my dollar only wins a little at a time.
-PM
Popups and commercials pay for the material you're viewing. In that way, they've 'earned' their right to be there. Partially cleaning a wall or bridge does not convey privilege to display your message.
-PM
I just hope that anyone about to defend this consider how much you hate what you think of as unwanted commercial messages all over the place. Besides pop-up blockers, many /. readers block banner ads and the like as well.
It's not their place to be placing these messages. It's not a matter of betterment of public spaces, that's just a distraction from the fact that these are unwanted commercial messages placed where the advertiser wants them.
-PM
I think that the reason they went after the online porn industry was to establish legal precedent.
After all, in court, isn't it simple enough to find bias against people who "harm society" to make judgements not based on the rule of law?
-PM
You could pipe nothing into the phone and pretend it's a Cage piece.
-PM
For database abstraction, George mentions PDO in his blog as a nice solution.
e s/ 260_PDO.html
http://www.schlossnagle.org/~george/blog/archiv
-PM
Bah. Not Slackware X, not Slackware XP.
;)
C'mon! Where's the marketing, folks?
-PM
Booth babes don't eat!
Does the declining attendance reflect the fact that employers are less willing to waste/invest money sending people to "Gee Whiz" conventions?
-PM
I sincerely hope that SBC includes managed firewall appliances with the service. Pricing should be high enough to include a minimally managed CPE for those who want one.
-PM
I'll hook you up with an 80Mbyte drive *and* a 3.2MHz CPU for 250 quid.
I should be able to find an 80Mbyte drive in a 386 somewhere, but I'll have to underclock an XT for the 3.2MHz CPU.
Just what we need... more fuckin' 419 scammers. *sigh*
I suppose information-bearing lasers over that distance aren't practical, but it sure could make for pretty pictures.
Except for making a new standard that's a requirement for doing business with federal agencies, just what do you think government's capable of doing regarding replacing protocols?
-PM
http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.xtremeads. com/
The website's never had anything useful on it.
It looks like a domain someone purchased for "Xtreme Ads" as in advertising, but never used. Then, he gets drunk at a BBQ and sees his buddy's kid playing with a toy bazooka with a spark-plug screwed into the end of it. Hmm...
Until, of course, you get a bit of the light reflected from the metal below, and it shines in your eye?
Personally, I found that my 2.4GHz cordless phone did too good of a job of disrupting my 802.11g, so I unplugged it and use a 900MHz phone.
Is there a reason there isn't a standardized procedure with the phone company whereby the cops say "there was a bomb threat made at 1pm to this number" and the phone company says "these were the incoming calls and where they came from"?
Seems ridiculous that the cops in Podunk need to know how to request the info specifically.
Before anyone jumps on me about privacy issues and overzealous cops with warrants, in cases where the customer (the school in this case) agrees to have their call records searched, this wouldn't really be an issue.
-PM
They say they'll destroy the data after 3 months. While this whole thing reeks evil to me, at least [they say] they're not going to be storing all this info in perpetuity.
-PM
Aerosmith should get in on this
I think everyone can acknowledge right now that we'd be better off without them, right?
Will this be a fat person tax, too? Hmm?
(Wetware of Mass Disorientation)
Sun doesn't sell to Walmart. Sun sells to Microtel, who's a Walmart supplier. God forbid anyone even follow a fucking link.