I got my first SMS spam a couple of months ago and promptly complained to T-Mobile. The rep pointed me to their text messaging which includes some simple spam filters. I haven't gotten any SMS spam since.
Now would be a good time to start breeding those smart cows from The Restaurant at the End of the Universe. You can send them an e-mail to let them know when to baste themselves and hop in the oven.
On DS9, you just had guys, and sometimes they were good, and sometimes they wern't.
Well, see, I'm not so sure about that. Which of the lead characters in the show were ever on the wrong side?
Kira?
Former terrorist, claimed that Cardassian women and children were legitimate terrorist targets during the occupation in "The Darkness and the Light."
O'Brien?
Sisko?
Used chemical weapons against The Maquis in "For the Uniform."
Condoned Garak's tactics which included lying, forgery, and murder while trying to trick the Romulans into joining the Dominion War in "The Pale Moonlight."
At its core, Deep Space Nine was identical to the previous series. You had the good guys (in the credits) and everyone else was... well, everyone else. I will admit that there were more shades of grey in the secondary characters in DS9 than in other Star Trek series, but the effect was really the same. This wasn't like Babylon 5 where a major character could turn out to be a traitor
Dr. Bashir was replaced by a Changeling and tried to blow up Bajor's sun in "By Inferno's Light."
or could just die all of the sudden.
Jadzia Dax did precisely that (well, she was murdered by Dukat but still...).
You return your books to the library. If you don't they send you a big fat bill in the mail.
Yes, that is a big difference. When you check a book out of the library, it becomes unavailable to others. This is why you must return it. But if you copy an MP3, the original file remains and can still be used -- no need for returns.
The bottom line is that if I hear a cool song in commercial for Grand Theft Auto: Vice City, I'm not going to run out to the record store and buy an entire Flock of Seagulls CD just to listen to the rest of that song. But I might download "I Ran..." from Kazaa or Usenet. I'll probably just listen to the song once.
But who knows? I just might download more stuff by Flock of Seagulls and be impressed enough to buy their CDs. Or I might not be. In the latter case, the has not lost any sales because I was not interested in them before downloading their work. In the former case, they've actually gained a sale.
In either case, the legality of downloading copyrighted material is irrelevant in the same way the speed limit on a crowded highway is irrelevant. The cops won't catch everybody who does it and it's such a piddly crime that they generally won't give a damn one way or the other. So ultimately, people just decide on their own whether or not they will obey this particular law which simply isn't that important in the greater scheme of things.
Piracy funds terrorism. Good thing I burn my own disks.
Drugs fund terrorism. Good thing I grow my own pot.
SUVs burn up a lot of gas which comes from oil which funds terrorism. Good thing I only drive an SUV and not a fuel guzzling private jet like the self-righteous asses who make these stupid commercials.
This is a deal breaker. I want a DSL line or a wireless access point in the bathroom. I want no part of a future where the throne room has no Internet access.
The newest version of the PalmOS, version 5, allows PalmOS devices to have more than 16MB of RAM. But so far only the Garmin iQue 3600 has added more RAM. As drool-worthy as all of the NZ90's stats are, the measely 16MB (only 11MB of which are available to the user) feel like a deal breaker. Granted the Memory Stick slot makes the extra RAM less necessary but still....
I've often wondered how the worlds religious leaders would react if a flying saucer landed on the lawn of the white house. The Catholic church only just admited that dinosaurs existed, how would they handle another inteligent species?
They would immediately try to convert the heathen extra-terrestrials to Christianity.
"Tell me Glorp, have you accepted Jesus Christ as your personal savior? Let us bow our tripodal stalks in prayer."
1. Found obscure cult involving aliens. 2. Ask "tithes" for support and basic nescecities. (6 acres of land, 4 million USD villa, heated swimming pool, turkish sauna, botanic garden, 4 wives, 4^n children, 3 Mercedes', 2 BMWs, 2 Cessnas, 1 Learjet, 1 converted Boeing 727 and a division of lawyers to keep the 4 wives from running away with all aforementioned "nescecities".) 3. Profit!
And to think I blew all my cash on dotcoms when these guys have a real business model. What's their NASDAQ symbol again?
The small size is very tempting but I'm afraid that this is a case where small is too small. There is no physical keyboard or keypad -- one or the other is necessary for a real phone. The phone is also running Windows CE with a proprietary shell which means that it won't run PocketPC applications. In fact, little or no third-party applications are likely to be available unless it becomes very popular. It's storage (16MB with an SD slot) and battery life are nice.
I think I'll keep my Treo for now. But the Kyocera 7135 is a very nice alternative with a more traditional form factor.
My first thoughts as I read this article were of the Turing Test. I don't know if I could handle it if spammer tools became smart enough to pass a test that I myself have with on bad days.
Sure, some people think those error messages are real but I'm having a hard time thinking of this as deceptive advertisements. Anybody who clicks on these things should quickly realize that they are ad banners disguised as error messages. If they want to sue over this, why not sue beer companies because you're not immediately surrounded by half-naked babes as soon as you open an ice cold Bud?
If you'd actually folow the link and read the page, you'd see that the application is made for the Tungsten T and reads the files off expansion cards. So it will run on the Tungsten (which has 16MB of RAM), read ogg files off SD expansion cards (which come in sizes up to 128MB), and you can use headphones.
I can search kazaa for divx's of movies, and if I like them, I go out and buy the DVD.
Yeah, but will you still do that when you can download them to.vob files and burn them to DVD-ROMs?
But by the time this is possible, DVDs will be passe and they'll have some other storage medium that will enable the movie studios to bloat up movies so that they will once again take hours to download.
Also a lot of Spanish channels run American movies that have been dubbed into Spanish. So if you record Buffy: The Vampire Slayer, TiVo might decide that you are a fan of Sarah Michelle Geller and suggest that you might enjoy watching one of her movies like Se lo Que Hicieron el Verano Pasado (the spanish translation of I Know What You Did Last Summer).
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I got my first SMS spam a couple of months ago and promptly complained to T-Mobile. The rep pointed me to their text messaging which includes some simple spam filters. I haven't gotten any SMS spam since.
Now would be a good time to start breeding those smart cows from The Restaurant at the End of the Universe. You can send them an e-mail to let them know when to baste themselves and hop in the oven.
On DS9, you just had guys, and sometimes they were good, and sometimes they wern't.
Well, see, I'm not so sure about that. Which of the lead characters in the show were ever on the wrong side?
Kira?
Former terrorist, claimed that Cardassian women and children were legitimate terrorist targets during the occupation in "The Darkness and the Light."
O'Brien?
Sisko?
Used chemical weapons against The Maquis in "For the Uniform."
Condoned Garak's tactics which included lying, forgery, and murder while trying to trick the Romulans into joining the Dominion War in "The Pale Moonlight."
At its core, Deep Space Nine was identical to the previous series. You had the good guys (in the credits) and everyone else was... well, everyone else. I will admit that there were more shades of grey in the secondary characters in DS9 than in other Star Trek series, but the effect was really the same. This wasn't like Babylon 5 where a major character could turn out to be a traitor
Dr. Bashir was replaced by a Changeling and tried to blow up Bajor's sun in "By Inferno's Light."
or could just die all of the sudden.
Jadzia Dax did precisely that (well, she was murdered by Dukat but still...).
You return your books to the library. If you don't they send you a big fat bill in the mail.
Yes, that is a big difference. When you check a book out of the library, it becomes unavailable to others. This is why you must return it. But if you copy an MP3, the original file remains and can still be used -- no need for returns.
The bottom line is that if I hear a cool song in commercial for Grand Theft Auto: Vice City, I'm not going to run out to the record store and buy an entire Flock of Seagulls CD just to listen to the rest of that song. But I might download "I Ran..." from Kazaa or Usenet. I'll probably just listen to the song once.
But who knows? I just might download more stuff by Flock of Seagulls and be impressed enough to buy their CDs. Or I might not be. In the latter case, the has not lost any sales because I was not interested in them before downloading their work. In the former case, they've actually gained a sale.
In either case, the legality of downloading copyrighted material is irrelevant in the same way the speed limit on a crowded highway is irrelevant. The cops won't catch everybody who does it and it's such a piddly crime that they generally won't give a damn one way or the other. So ultimately, people just decide on their own whether or not they will obey this particular law which simply isn't that important in the greater scheme of things.
Piracy funds terrorism.
Good thing I burn my own disks.
Drugs fund terrorism.
Good thing I grow my own pot.
SUVs burn up a lot of gas which comes from oil which funds terrorism.
Good thing I only drive an SUV and not a fuel guzzling private jet like the self-righteous asses who make these stupid commercials.
The longest week he has logged was 106 hours, and 60-hour-plus weeks are typical in deadline crunches, he said.
After a 106 hour marathon game testing session, he went home to unwind by going over budget figures in Microsoft Excel.
But IMO Charisma Carpenter [fhm.com] is way hotter than SMG.
Maybe she was, but she frumpted out big time once she cut her hair.
That's because she's pregnant.
This is a deal breaker. I want a DSL line or a wireless access point in the bathroom. I want no part of a future where the throne room has no Internet access.
This phone looks like it has a very nice form factor. No word on memory or expandability though.
The newest version of the PalmOS, version 5, allows PalmOS devices to have more than 16MB of RAM. But so far only the Garmin iQue 3600 has added more RAM. As drool-worthy as all of the NZ90's stats are, the measely 16MB (only 11MB of which are available to the user) feel like a deal breaker. Granted the Memory Stick slot makes the extra RAM less necessary but still....
Now when the RIAA comes calling, we can show them our receipt to prove we already paid our MP3 taxes and send them on their way.
Does it has a red ball on top of its antenna so you can find it quicker in the parking lot?
Not mention where's the fuzzy dice? The dice! The dice!
I've often wondered how the worlds religious leaders would react if a flying saucer landed on the lawn of the white house. The Catholic church only just admited that dinosaurs existed, how would they handle another inteligent species?
They would immediately try to convert the heathen extra-terrestrials to Christianity.
"Tell me Glorp, have you accepted Jesus Christ as your personal savior? Let us bow our tripodal stalks in prayer."
We all know MS is bad and they are hard at work on Evil Master Plan v1.0
This actually comes as something of a relief. We know it always takes Microsoft until at least version 3.0 to get everything to work.
1. Found obscure cult involving aliens.
2. Ask "tithes" for support and basic nescecities. (6 acres of land, 4 million USD villa, heated swimming pool, turkish sauna, botanic garden, 4 wives, 4^n children, 3 Mercedes', 2 BMWs, 2 Cessnas, 1 Learjet, 1 converted Boeing 727 and a division of lawyers to keep the 4 wives from running away with all aforementioned "nescecities".)
3. Profit!
And to think I blew all my cash on dotcoms when these guys have a real business model. What's their NASDAQ symbol again?
I've never seen one of these RC car spams. All I ever get is offers for viagra and horny teens.
Infosync has a pretty picture of this phone.
The small size is very tempting but I'm afraid that this is a case where small is too small. There is no physical keyboard or keypad -- one or the other is necessary for a real phone. The phone is also running Windows CE with a proprietary shell which means that it won't run PocketPC applications. In fact, little or no third-party applications are likely to be available unless it becomes very popular. It's storage (16MB with an SD slot) and battery life are nice.
I think I'll keep my Treo for now. But the Kyocera 7135 is a very nice alternative with a more traditional form factor.
is it a good thing that i'm rooting for AOL?
Well, isn't it possible for an evil company to make people happy?
-- Sir Gary Coleman
My first thoughts as I read this article were of the Turing Test. I don't know if I could handle it if spammer tools became smart enough to pass a test that I myself have with on bad days.
Sure, some people think those error messages are real but I'm having a hard time thinking of this as deceptive advertisements. Anybody who clicks on these things should quickly realize that they are ad banners disguised as error messages. If they want to sue over this, why not sue beer companies because you're not immediately surrounded by half-naked babes as soon as you open an ice cold Bud?
If you'd actually folow the link and read the page, you'd see that the application is made for the Tungsten T and reads the files off expansion cards. So it will run on the Tungsten (which has 16MB of RAM), read ogg files off SD expansion cards (which come in sizes up to 128MB), and you can use headphones.
The developer's page says that it was developed for Palm's latest model, the Tungsten T which uses 144 MHz Arm-based processor and a DSP.
I can search kazaa for divx's of movies, and if I like them, I go out and buy the DVD.
Yeah, but will you still do that when you can download them to
But by the time this is possible, DVDs will be passe and they'll have some other storage medium that will enable the movie studios to bloat up movies so that they will once again take hours to download.
Also a lot of Spanish channels run American movies that have been dubbed into Spanish. So if you record Buffy: The Vampire Slayer, TiVo might decide that you are a fan of Sarah Michelle Geller and suggest that you might enjoy watching one of her movies like Se lo Que Hicieron el Verano Pasado (the spanish translation of I Know What You Did Last Summer).
Do said trees have radioactive squirrels?
In another time, a teenager bitten by a radioactive squirrel would have been a great idea for a superhero.