but one has to wonder if anything would've helped reduce the loss of life.
warning systems can help but what does one do when one lives on an island that is at sea level?
even the tallest buildings would be susceptible if anything happens to one of their supports.
this is truly a horrific event and my heart and prayers go out to all those affected.
i have always known that when i pass on that no one would be able to access my data.
so in order to secure that...i've left a note detailing my passwords and accts locked in a safe within my home.
it's not like i have anything secret to hide.
and the lord knows my email would be a great cure for insomnia but still i feel it necessary to give my family the ability to log me off of all apps and spam lists.
The one troubling thing I see from this...
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This is what I started a thesis on (and never finished).
The biggest problem with personalized news is that the viewer/user will often only get news that they are interested in.
They will not get other viewpoints of the same stories and they will also be able to avoid any news/informational items that might make them think.
those folks should just go ahead and create auto-search buttons for the most obvious video search terms, pamela anderson, paris hilton, jenna jamison, etc...
that way users won't have to burn off extra energy trying to remember how to spell their names.
i report every piece of spam i get and one thing i've noticed since lycos announced this program is the inclusion of the nvidia.com and yahoo.com domain names as active links in the spam.
this is no doubt an attempt to direct the ddos over to innocent bystanders.
lycos is going to have to realize that the only way to stop spam is to remove the financial reward to those who do spam.
don't buy from spamvertised companies and you'll see the spam problem diminish.
I'm just not convinced that I need to buy digital music. I'll keep on buying cd's, ripping them and storing them on my media server.
I just don't see the advantage in downloading music.
When you download from any source, legit or not, you're not in control of how the file was extracted.
The bit rate may not be what you wanted, there is always the possibility of some digital artifacts during playback, and i'm just not comfortable with it.
Plus, I don't own an iPod. I don't think I want one. I'm quite happy with my CD based MP3 player which uses CDRW's.
I can put 10 hours worth of music on one disc and it works nicely.
Besides I like to be in control of my music and my gear and I don't like when I can't replace the battery like the way the iPod is setup.
i spent many an english class (just before trig) in high school messing around with my TI-41
that old sunday school teacher that i had for an english teacher used to get so mad at me for doing math in her class...but discussing the significance of the shadow of a tree in the third act of some play written in olde english just wasn't that appealing to me.
the folks at aol are going to have to face the reality that dialup is just not as relevant as it once was.
there are many ways to connect to the net and bypass their filtered system and filtered content.
their software cannot be controlled (it downloads updates on its own), their model is becoming obsolete, and their subscriber base has always been the un-net-educated.
as users become more sophisticated, they move away from aol because aol is incapable of providing that next step of service.
if tw/aol had any brains they would've combined the tw road runner service with aol from the get-go and then let you switch to earthlink or the other online companies.
by allowing broadband customers the ability to completely bypass the software and connect to the net, tw sealed aol's fate.
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sometimes open source software works better than a commercial product...ie...the gimp, apache, open office.
and sometimes non-open software is better...i.e. macromedia's flash.
and until someone creates a non-open or open equivilent.
they don't think the logo is professional enough?
that logo is fine the way it is.
that logo is what got me to try freebsd in the first place.
this is what happens when companies listen to marketing wonks instead of their clients.
they wind up wasting money on stuff that doesn't need fixing in the first place.
when Legislators listen to the industry its about to regulate when drafting laws to regulate them.
the line in the article that says this legalized spam, is pretty much right.
the only anti-spam laws that can work is to force an opt-in and to also make it criminal to employee/contract with a spammer.
even if you get the current batch of spammers to stop, the money and the drive to spam will remain.
you need to go after the folks like avenue a, and others who pay outside mailers to handle this and don't follow up on who is being spammed.
on the one hand...i like the fact that there is a company there that can counter microsoft's lobby.
but on the otherside...i firmly believe that this is what is so horribly wrong with our government.
lobbying by corporations seems to have made lawmakers more responsible to the lobbyist rather than the constituent
think about this for a minute.
years ago the at chassis was built to sit on the desk and under the monitor (i'm sure that wasn't the design scheme but it worked out that way).
then came the upright boxes and the stands to turn your desktop box into a standup case to get it off of your desk.
and now it looks like we've come full circle and are going back to having a pc we can put on top of the desk again.
it would be a little difficult, i suspect, to issue a firmware update to all sony digital music player buyers this late in the game.
they will probably make the change to allow the mp3, wmv, ogg, or other formats on later versions.
the downside to your idea that it gives the family something to hold on to may be something bad.
he may have had a second/dark side that he didn't want his family/friends to have access to.
and certainly a soldier dying on the battlefield doesn't need to have his legacy tarnished by some ill-advised email exchange.
RIP Sgt. and I hope your family finds peace.
it gives microsoft the potential for additional revenue.
by using their drm and codecs, the authorized distributor could run ads, announcements, or other multimedia on the end user's pc.
i'm not wild about wmp but it is far less clunky than my musicmatch jukebox player.
Ads flashing on your ram???
who knows...or how about porn on your ram?
think about it...the possibilities are endless.
however, i would avoid the pat robertson sermon on my ram.
i've heard about this law. i just wonder if what the RIAA is doing, http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/12/31/155 3231&tid=95&tid=97&tid=172&tid=17 will be criminalized (as it should be).
but one has to wonder if anything would've helped reduce the loss of life. warning systems can help but what does one do when one lives on an island that is at sea level? even the tallest buildings would be susceptible if anything happens to one of their supports. this is truly a horrific event and my heart and prayers go out to all those affected.
actually, couldn't legislation be considered to make it illegal to irresponisbly run a pc connected to the net?
i don't know if that would work or not. i'm just kinda thinking out loud.
many spamming websites are hosted in china.
while they are turning off the spigot to squelch dissent, can we please get them to turn off the spam too?
and who hasn't played with that handy vibrate function?
uhmm....did i just say that out loud?
i have always known that when i pass on that no one would be able to access my data.
so in order to secure that...i've left a note detailing my passwords and accts locked in a safe within my home.
it's not like i have anything secret to hide.
and the lord knows my email would be a great cure for insomnia but still i feel it necessary to give my family the ability to log me off of all apps and spam lists.
This is what I started a thesis on (and never finished).
The biggest problem with personalized news is that the viewer/user will often only get news that they are interested in.
They will not get other viewpoints of the same stories and they will also be able to avoid any news/informational items that might make them think.
if it's in my inbox and it's not from a friend or family and i didn't ask for it...it's spam.
i cannot tell you how many messages i get with no subject line and no body.
it would seem that the purpose of that email is to test the spam list.
those folks should just go ahead and create auto-search buttons for the most obvious video search terms, pamela anderson, paris hilton, jenna jamison, etc...
that way users won't have to burn off extra energy trying to remember how to spell their names.
i just removed the words beta from the url. try it... http://groups.google.com/ i can get to the old groups with no problem.
i report every piece of spam i get and one thing i've noticed since lycos announced this program is the inclusion of the nvidia.com and yahoo.com domain names as active links in the spam.
this is no doubt an attempt to direct the ddos over to innocent bystanders.
lycos is going to have to realize that the only way to stop spam is to remove the financial reward to those who do spam.
don't buy from spamvertised companies and you'll see the spam problem diminish.
I'm just not convinced that I need to buy digital music. I'll keep on buying cd's, ripping them and storing them on my media server.
I just don't see the advantage in downloading music.
When you download from any source, legit or not, you're not in control of how the file was extracted.
The bit rate may not be what you wanted, there is always the possibility of some digital artifacts during playback, and i'm just not comfortable with it.
Plus, I don't own an iPod. I don't think I want one. I'm quite happy with my CD based MP3 player which uses CDRW's.
I can put 10 hours worth of music on one disc and it works nicely.
Besides I like to be in control of my music and my gear and I don't like when I can't replace the battery like the way the iPod is setup.
i spent many an english class (just before trig) in high school messing around with my TI-41
that old sunday school teacher that i had for an english teacher used to get so mad at me for doing math in her class...but discussing the significance of the shadow of a tree in the third act of some play written in olde english just wasn't that appealing to me.
this makes me miss the days of trs80's and writing basic code that you saved to a tape recorder.
this makes me miss punch cards and the fear you had of getting them out of order.
it makes me miss...ti calculators where if you held down three of the corner keys, the thing would bypass the on button.
sigh...i miss the old days.
the folks at aol are going to have to face the reality that dialup is just not as relevant as it once was.
there are many ways to connect to the net and bypass their filtered system and filtered content.
their software cannot be controlled (it downloads updates on its own), their model is becoming obsolete, and their subscriber base has always been the un-net-educated.
as users become more sophisticated, they move away from aol because aol is incapable of providing that next step of service.
if tw/aol had any brains they would've combined the tw road runner service with aol from the get-go and then let you switch to earthlink or the other online companies.
by allowing broadband customers the ability to completely bypass the software and connect to the net, tw sealed aol's fate.
the company i work for has purchased two large loads of dimms recently for laptops and about 60-70% of the ram starting giving our laptops fits.
we'd pull out the new one and put the old back in and the problems would go away.
we have been lucky and able to return most of it but i think there still might be a few bad sticks circulating amongst our many locations.
unfortunately, we've purchased the ram from multiple vendors and the ram is different brands so i can't add much more than this to the thread.
one tale-tell way that i've found is to load a heavily java encoded page and look for errors coming from the jvm.