Oh, I agree wholeheartedly. My point to the parent of my response was that he was looking for such values as integrity and such that have no place, ideally speaking, in a corporate mind. Apparent integrity may or may not hold value, but pure integrity on the part of a corporate officer, especially one that costs the company stock value, will likely get said officer sued.
The job of the company's officers is to create shareholder value. Like grandparent had said, they have nothing else to do this with, so they're doing this with lawsuits.
Either they're looking to be bought out, or they're extremely desparate.
After lugging my 12" without the use of an automobile, lugging the 17" could only be termed as "torture" *grin*.
However, the 12", though a lovely machine, lacks horsepower to be my primary machine. I think Decemberish I will be giving myself a Christmas present:D
NO NO NO. I'm not sure what the level of service is in France, but here, where the "tip" is just a notional "service charge" that's set at N% across the board, the level of disservice here is astounding.
I've paid $10 tip for a $20 meal for *exceptional* service, and done the polar opposite for $80 meal. You know what? I tend to get better service at places I frequent now. I see your point for McFood, but if I'm at a real restaurant, I want service, and I want to reward or not reward for good service. Both the carrot and the stick needs to be there, IMO.
Clusters are *lovely* if the data can be discreet and the various nodes don't need to know what the other nodes know. However, due to the latency of off-system data access, sometimes you just need a bigger machine. It all depends on the application, of course.
The majority of people use PC's to get their email.
That's why NTT DoCoMo is one of the largest, and fastest-growing ISP's in the world, right? They just happen to be a mobile phone company. PC's are the reason people are signing up in droves to use the newer mobiles with WAP and i-Mode capabilities all across the world, right?
If you want to spend the money, go ahead. For me, couple of procmail rules and a few judicious choices of trust/no trust works fine. I've been spam-free since, oh, 1997, with the same email address (singular) since then. Total cost: $0.
Now, for the meat of my rebuttal:
As for your idea that you have to download it repeatedly, you must not know much about computers. First of all, you have to check your email - just like y ou have to check the bulletin board. If it is too inconveneient to pset up a nice favorite that you can push and take you to the newest post on the bulletin board, then Push technology is available. If you want your PC to constantly check the bulletin board and download any new page, it is available NOW.
Your original claim was sending 1kb mail to 10 people was somehow less bandwith-friendly than putting a 1kb article of the same content on the web and having those same ten people come in and have a look. Right, and tell me again how that is more bandwith friendly? Ad hominem attacks aside, here are my line-by-line rebuts for the rest of your posting.
First of all, you have to check your email - just like you have to check the bulletin board.
My point was that my email is automated and checks for me. Furthermore, the bandwith is constrained to my local network, and thus free, for some value thereof. Actually, even better, using IMAP, my mail client sits quite idle until the server wakes it up, letting it know where the mail is. Furthermore, with my previous mention of procmail, I can automatically collate and sort these pieces of mail to varying mailboxes, to be looked at when I have the time.
If it is too inconvenient to pset up a nice favorite that you can push and take you to the newest post on the bulletin board, then Push technology is available.
And what if you don't set up a lovely push thing? It becomes a simulated push, with my system polling your webform. Even if your webform honours the If-Modified-Since header, that's still bandwith and time wasted. Furthermore, I have to spend $10 for the polling software (or spend time to write it myself, whichever), when stable email clients have been around forever?
Please read a post before you do anymore knee-jerk responses.
So instead of being sent 1k emails, you log on to download a 1k article. TANSTAAFL. Bandwith will get eaten *somewhere*.
And now, instead of having email sent to you, you pull the content list many times a day, often finding nothing new. No thank you, I don't have the time to check something many times a day.
You're being extraordinarily arrogant when you map your own world-view on to others. I am NOT willing to pay, on top of bandwith I already pay for, to send email. I get VERY LITTLE spam, and if you're getting spam, you either 1) don't know how to guard your email address, or 2) need to invest in spam-blocking systems.
Hrm, I did that, and I got this bit about wildflowers as the first google link. Is this what you wanted? Of course, I did use the "Feeling Lucky" button.
Other posters have said, abolishment of slavery, equality under law, and sufferage for women are rightings of the wrongs our society (and others!) have created.
It truly depends on what you buy and how you buy it, and who you buy it from.
You can go to an NTT Docomo store, and buy the phone outright, and be in a non-binding contract. You can also get them subsidised from a pseudo-authorised reseller, and get them as low as $50, or lower, depending on the model.
The NTT Docomo *monthly* are *much* lower than $50 now. I'm *currently* paying $30/month, plus a little more for going over the minutes and some international calls on it. Now, the reason ARPU is so high, I'm assuming, is because the figure includes people who use the bloody things *a lot*.
Now, FOMA is another story. I've yet to see a FOMA handset for less than $100, but the monthly bills on them are slightly less.
Because the typical American won't pay for phones, while the typical Japanese will pay upwards of $300-$400USD for a phone.
Mind you, the former are strapped to an annual contract, while the latter aren't, but that's just semantics.
Oh, and the reason why the Japanese are willing to pay that much for a mobile? Have you priced landlines in Japan lately? You must first *buy* the *right* to get a phone, which is at least double that of the mobile. It used to be that the rights purchase paid for, among other things, pulling the physical line to the place. Now, all it pays for is some technician activating a port from a remote console.
And, it does matter. 6-pin offers power+data. 4-pin only offers data. I've yet to see a 6-pin FW port on a PC laptop, and the addon cards only have 4-pin, or unpowered 6-pin.
I'll do a point-by-point rebut. I used to work for a large credit-card company, though under my NDA, I'm unable to name them for another few years. It's not that I know things other people might not know, either, but....
1. Ship to addresses that differ from the address on the account must be added to the account as a ship-to address. New Egg [newegg.com] currently does this at least.
Right. You're assuming US-based retailers. non-US retailers cannot do this, either for legal reasons, or address-format difference reasons. For example, in some cases in Japan, a given address must be given down to the head-of-household's name in order to map to a specific domicile. In other regions of the world, namely some of the EU countries, the release of that sort of information by the CC companies apparently violates privacy laws.
2. the 3 digit security code on the back of your card, though I dunno if that info is part of the DB stolen. This is becoming more promenent every day on line.
The CVC2 that you refer to, MUST NOT be stored by the merchant. However, that information is quite useless with some banks, as 1) they use other information in the magstripe to compute the value, and 2) the banks themselves don't necessarily store that information either.
3. A PIN, visa is currently marketing this as Verified Visa.
This will only protect Visa customers. I'm all for credit card companies doing this sort of thing, but a PIN really doesn't mean diddly-squat when the $BAD_GUY takes a card, writes it to a blank, and swipes it at a mom-and-pop's whose clearing house does things in batch mode. You can simply tell the mom-and-pop's to use a different clearing house, but what we want them to do is to proactively prevent the use of these numbers in any means by marking them "cancelled" or "stolen".
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Just a rant - being a Democrat doesn't automatically place you out of the Right. Not knowing Mondale, this comment may be inappropriate, though.
Oh, I agree wholeheartedly. My point to the parent of my response was that he was looking for such values as integrity and such that have no place, ideally speaking, in a corporate mind. Apparent integrity may or may not hold value, but pure integrity on the part of a corporate officer, especially one that costs the company stock value, will likely get said officer sued.
s/these days.$/at all./.
The job of the company's officers is to create shareholder value. Like grandparent had said, they have nothing else to do this with, so they're doing this with lawsuits.
Either they're looking to be bought out, or they're extremely desparate.
as a fellow(?) aquariast, I salute you. I would've with moderation, but alas, I lack one. Your post was the first funny /. post in months!
Offtopic, but I found that sportsillustrated.cnn.com and friends also mirrored the content, and they were really zippy.
After lugging my 12" without the use of an automobile, lugging the 17" could only be termed as "torture" *grin*.
:D
However, the 12", though a lovely machine, lacks horsepower to be my primary machine. I think Decemberish I will be giving myself a Christmas present
to try to increase market share in a previously untapped segment? Just a thought, of course :)
NO NO NO. I'm not sure what the level of service is in France, but here, where the "tip" is just a notional "service charge" that's set at N% across the board, the level of disservice here is astounding.
I've paid $10 tip for a $20 meal for *exceptional* service, and done the polar opposite for $80 meal. You know what? I tend to get better service at places I frequent now. I see your point for McFood, but if I'm at a real restaurant, I want service, and I want to reward or not reward for good service. Both the carrot and the stick needs to be there, IMO.
Clusters are *lovely* if the data can be discreet and the various nodes don't need to know what the other nodes know. However, due to the latency of off-system data access, sometimes you just need a bigger machine. It all depends on the application, of course.
You know, what he was saying is the PCs are cheaper than macs, period, not that the Macs are more expensive.
Before you get pissy, please read what the parent has written, thanks.
(before you get on my case because you didn't read *my* post, I'm typing this on a 12"PB.)
That's why NTT DoCoMo is one of the largest, and fastest-growing ISP's in the world, right? They just happen to be a mobile phone company. PC's are the reason people are signing up in droves to use the newer mobiles with WAP and i-Mode capabilities all across the world, right?
Now, for the meat of my rebuttal:
Your original claim was sending 1kb mail to 10 people was somehow less bandwith-friendly than putting a 1kb article of the same content on the web and having those same ten people come in and have a look. Right, and tell me again how that is more bandwith friendly? Ad hominem attacks aside, here are my line-by-line rebuts for the rest of your posting.
First of all, you have to check your email - just like you have to check the bulletin board.
My point was that my email is automated and checks for me. Furthermore, the bandwith is constrained to my local network, and thus free, for some value thereof. Actually, even better, using IMAP, my mail client sits quite idle until the server wakes it up, letting it know where the mail is. Furthermore, with my previous mention of procmail, I can automatically collate and sort these pieces of mail to varying mailboxes, to be looked at when I have the time.
If it is too inconvenient to pset up a nice favorite that you can push and take you to the newest post on the bulletin board, then Push technology is available.
And what if you don't set up a lovely push thing? It becomes a simulated push, with my system polling your webform. Even if your webform honours the If-Modified-Since header, that's still bandwith and time wasted. Furthermore, I have to spend $10 for the polling software (or spend time to write it myself, whichever), when stable email clients have been around forever?
Please read a post before you do anymore knee-jerk responses.
What part of NTT? DoCoMo?
:)
There are parts of this post that need rebutting, but I can't begin until you tell me where I should start
So instead of being sent 1k emails, you log on to download a 1k article. TANSTAAFL. Bandwith will get eaten *somewhere*.
And now, instead of having email sent to you, you pull the content list many times a day, often finding nothing new. No thank you, I don't have the time to check something many times a day.
You're being extraordinarily arrogant when you map your own world-view on to others. I am NOT willing to pay, on top of bandwith I already pay for, to send email. I get VERY LITTLE spam, and if you're getting spam, you either 1) don't know how to guard your email address, or 2) need to invest in spam-blocking systems.
My choice is quite clear. Yours?
No, comparing C++ to Java is apples to oranges. Comparing either to Perl is comparing apples to beef. HTH, HAND.
either that, or she was carrying a mockup :)
parsed that as, "Network transparency is used in more places than you probably serialise". Good night, it does show that it's 2:30am here.
Hrm, I did that, and I got this bit about wildflowers as the first google link. Is this what you wanted? Of course, I did use the "Feeling Lucky" button.
Other posters have said, abolishment of slavery, equality under law, and sufferage for women are rightings of the wrongs our society (and others!) have created.
I'll partially disagree. NASA in competition with CCCP good. NASA alone bad. It's funding + competition, not just funding.
But not in a single contiguous chunk. You get to page in 4GB chunks (and this only works on Xeons).
It truly depends on what you buy and how you buy it, and who you buy it from.
You can go to an NTT Docomo store, and buy the phone outright, and be in a non-binding contract. You can also get them subsidised from a pseudo-authorised reseller, and get them as low as $50, or lower, depending on the model.
The NTT Docomo *monthly* are *much* lower than $50 now. I'm *currently* paying $30/month, plus a little more for going over the minutes and some international calls on it. Now, the reason ARPU is so high, I'm assuming, is because the figure includes people who use the bloody things *a lot*.
Now, FOMA is another story. I've yet to see a FOMA handset for less than $100, but the monthly bills on them are slightly less.
Because the typical American won't pay for phones, while the typical Japanese will pay upwards of $300-$400USD for a phone.
Mind you, the former are strapped to an annual contract, while the latter aren't, but that's just semantics.
Oh, and the reason why the Japanese are willing to pay that much for a mobile? Have you priced landlines in Japan lately? You must first *buy* the *right* to get a phone, which is at least double that of the mobile. It used to be that the rights purchase paid for, among other things, pulling the physical line to the place. Now, all it pays for is some technician activating a port from a remote console.
Freaking third-rate country.
And, it does matter. 6-pin offers power+data. 4-pin only offers data. I've yet to see a 6-pin FW port on a PC laptop, and the addon cards only have 4-pin, or unpowered 6-pin.
I'll do a point-by-point rebut. I used to work for a large credit-card company, though under my NDA, I'm unable to name them for another few years. It's not that I know things other people might not know, either, but....
Right. You're assuming US-based retailers. non-US retailers cannot do this, either for legal reasons, or address-format difference reasons. For example, in some cases in Japan, a given address must be given down to the head-of-household's name in order to map to a specific domicile. In other regions of the world, namely some of the EU countries, the release of that sort of information by the CC companies apparently violates privacy laws.
The CVC2 that you refer to, MUST NOT be stored by the merchant. However, that information is quite useless with some banks, as 1) they use other information in the magstripe to compute the value, and 2) the banks themselves don't necessarily store that information either.
This will only protect Visa customers. I'm all for credit card companies doing this sort of thing, but a PIN really doesn't mean diddly-squat when the $BAD_GUY takes a card, writes it to a blank, and swipes it at a mom-and-pop's whose clearing house does things in batch mode. You can simply tell the mom-and-pop's to use a different clearing house, but what we want them to do is to proactively prevent the use of these numbers in any means by marking them "cancelled" or "stolen".