DHTML doesn't mean anything by itself except for using client side script to change page layout. There used to be significant differences between how to do that in IE and Netscape - document.all versus document.layers, but that's irrelevant today. As long as you use the Document Object Model to do your DHTML you're standards-compliant and cross-browser compatible (with many minor bugs affecting one browser or another, but still pretty close).
Paying for it or using credits to get it. For as long as some number of people sign up for the service every month and purchase at least a few songs for the first month or so, those who've been there for a long time allowing people to download from them will accumulate some credits. I didn't say it would be fast, but as long as you have a few songs that others like and leave your service available 24/7, then it's basically inevitable.
Each person you upload to does decrease your chance to sell that song again, true. But it also gives you some credit towards getting another song to add to your list.
It has many of the hallmarks of a classic pyramid scheme to my eye. You have an incentive to get other people to join and hopefully buy from you. The earlier you get in on the action, the better your chance of doing well. Expect a lot of sigs and comment spam about peer impact in the future for just that reason, a la freeipod.com, etc. Once there is a large enough user base that the chance of people downloading from you asymptotically approaches zero then it's time to give up. But as long as this takes off at all, there will be a sweet spot for people who get in early who will be able to earn a disproportianate amount of credits for their investment.
I just don't know why anyone would use relaying at all. Why not a VPN or something into the corporate office? Even GoToMyPC? Relaying for authenticated users can still get you into trouble as I found when someone spent some time guessing a user's password at my last company, for the sole purpose of getting us listed as an open relay, which we really weren't. But, since he did guess the password (name of the company, idiot users, can't do anything about that), he easily could have spammed through us.
After a month or so of being on the service and making a few purchases, I'd imagine everyone would simply leave their share up and gradually accumulate credits. Before long at all, everyone would be be buying everything for free-except-for-bandwidth credits.
OK I see how that works. But the situation you outline above, and probably 90% of similar relaying situations, exist within an organization, where the staff can set one mail server to not use spf filtering on other mail servers within their company. Never had to do anything like that, but it seems like it should be doable.
A huge amount of spam comes from zombie PCs. The point of SPF is that you specify a list of ip addresses that are allowed to send email from your domain. So if a zombie PC tries to send email from that domain it fails since its not in the list and the mail server can reject it.
Although I'm not sure that would be the case if you just specified all the ip blocks used by AOL in your SPF - not sure whether something that broad is allowed, but I don't see anything that necessarily rules it out.
You don't need to use exchange. What mail server you have is completely irrelevant. All that's in an SPF document is your domain name and the IP addresses of the mail servers that are authorized to send mail from that domain.
At my last company when management decided that they wanted to implement this it took me five minutes to use a wizard, enter the ip addresses, and send the file to our hosting company.
I don't care that it's not a complete solution. It will reduce a large amount of spam.
I didn't get the article when they talked about how it wouldn't work with forwarding. How do you 'forward' a mail thru another address? That makes no sense. If you have an account set up to relay your mail, the mail would still be sent from the server where the relaying was going on, and would thus have the proper headers for that domain.
They used a basic wiki. Everything annoying that can happen in that setup did. Why are wikis like wikipedia and all the programming wikis able to survive? I know wikipedia allows you to subscribe to an entry so you can be notified if it's modified, but is that all there is? Just a situation where there was so little modifiable on the paper's wiki that all the bad tendencies overwhelmed them? Not that I'd really mind porn on their site, but knowing slashdot it was all goatse.cx
HELLO DEAR, WHITE I THAT THIS LETTER LIKES a SURPRISE, but, TO THEM, THERE not CONCERNS, all COMING IS PROPERTY. I AM Mr. HARRIS PETER, OFFICE LEADER FINANCIAL confidence $ bank PLC, which is IN MAURITIUS CLUTCHES OF EGGS some years ago, CAME a MAN, who WAS CALLED Mr. SHAW SMITH, that, Who FROM ITS COUNTRY, DETAILS FROM YOUR PART IS, TO MY COUNTRY (MAURITIUS) IN the RUBBER SECTOR.UNFORTUNATELY TO INVESTMENT, HE DIED IN a SELBSTCAbbruch. Mr. SHAW SMITH DIED, the SUM the DOLLAR 15MILLION US IN MY BANK LEAVING. I REQUEST HEREBY YOUR SUPPORT TO HELPING, the MONEY TO STATING. I BECOME THEM NEEDING, WHEN the COUSIN LATE SHAW SMITH FOR SERVING, BECAUSE at the moment, HE DOES NOT HAVE the FOLLOWING of the TRUNKS, SO THAT the MONEY ON BROUGHT can. IF THEM RECIEVE THE MONEY, THEM IS 40% TAKING, THE OVER DOLLAR 6MILLION LIKE YOUR PORTION AND IT GIVING ME THE OTHER 60%. The GOVERNMENT PLANS, the MONEY TO TAKING OVER, IF KEINS REPRESENTS ABOVE, SINCE ITS FOLLOWING OF KIN.I EXAMINES that EVERYTHING IS NOT UNDER CONTROL, SINCE I AM the ADDRESS MANAGER.SO THEM ANYTHING CREDIT, itself ABOUT.ALL TO CONCERNS, THEM DOING HAVING BEING SUPPOSED ME ANSWERS, IF THEY ARE INTERESTED THUS WE the NESSECARY -, DOCUMENTS FOR the TRANSMISSION TO PROCESSING BEGINNINGS ABILITY. OFFICE LEADER OF THE THANKS HARRIS PETER F.T.B
With the newer versions of Vignette they supported coding in both ASP and JSP and working within the vignette platform. They might be better now, but when they first added this feature the native Tcl code ran much faster than a template written in ASP or JSP. And if you're writing in ASP or JSP, why bother with vignette? The only thing vignette ever got right was charging a million dollars per installation so that managers would think 'wow, this must be good if it costs so much'.
Vignette was the biggest pain in the butt I ever developed for, though I did like Tcl a lot.
They give to charities as a PR stunt, which they judge to be in the interest of the company. Chevron may run glitzy ads about cleaning up an oil spill, but what do they really follow up on? Pure PR.
Please notice that they said anything short of breaking the law. Enron broke the law. SCO, to my knowledge, has not.
It's not just 'how corporations work', it is actually how they are required to work today. Everything they do is supposed to be to benefit their shareholders.
You negotiated the right to view/modify the source perhaps. But you have no right to redistribute it. That's the difference.
Take this example. A company hires a software team to develop an inventory tracking system for their specific needs. The team charges them less if it's open source b/c they can use all the GPL libraries, so they say that's fine. They buy the product and the code, and then they never distribute it. Why would they want to distribute it? Now maybe the team would want to distribute it, but who would want it? It's entirely customized to the customer's particular needs, and they realize it's not a good general purpose solution to inventory tracking, so they never distribute it either. It is still open source though, because of the license. That's what makes it open source, not the re-distributing itself.
That's interesting. The old security through obscurity thing? Oddly enough, I found myself thinking the same thing. All you need is a basic understanding of the code to see what places on the web/irc/etc to avoid, and one person to post it to one of those channels and it's useless.
Maybe I feel like it's different because it is a system that has only one purpose (find criminals) versus a normal system that does something general purpose? I don't know....
I like that too, but I first read about it on Slashdot in like 2001 http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/09/07/013324 8&mode=thread/. By the way, the program that controlled the Lego Rubik robot I read about? Written in Visual Basic. More details here. By the way, he's willing to distribute his code to anyone that has an urgent need for solving a rubik's code in visual basic 5 using lego mindstorm robots. Why the possibilities are endless:)
By the way, am I missing something? I RTFA, but I didn't see Lego mentioned in there. Curiously enough, searching Ars Technica did give this result:
People all over this world are making things. (Imagine that!) Shown here is a Lego machine that can solve a Rubik's Cube, a guy who built a keg-cooler based on the Peltier effect, and a computer that calculates...
But I couldn't find that anywhere in the article. Are these comments just recycled from the last time this review was posted?
It seems that Linux may already have an explicit conflict between version 2 and version 2.4.18. Any comments on the copying file overriding the submitters' intent?
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Glowing powerballs in the corners for huge power ups:)
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I read an aritcle on Wired a while back from a journalist who bet that he could make as much money buying and selling Everquest items as he could from his real job, over the course of a month. The result? He came within about 5-10% of doing it. Of course, that month also included all the ramp-up time to meet people, establish a name, etc. Over that month he made the equivalent of a $45,000/yr, so I guess he's paid pretty well as a journalist. One of the most humorous suggestions I've ever heard for ending African poverty (admittedly not a humorous subject) is to have everyone there work 8/hrs a day acquiring Everquest items and selling them. The entire economy of offline everquest transactions is larger than the GNP of a huge number of countries.
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DHTML doesn't mean anything by itself except for using client side script to change page layout. There used to be significant differences between how to do that in IE and Netscape - document.all versus document.layers, but that's irrelevant today. As long as you use the Document Object Model to do your DHTML you're standards-compliant and cross-browser compatible (with many minor bugs affecting one browser or another, but still pretty close).
Paying for it or using credits to get it. For as long as some number of people sign up for the service every month and purchase at least a few songs for the first month or so, those who've been there for a long time allowing people to download from them will accumulate some credits. I didn't say it would be fast, but as long as you have a few songs that others like and leave your service available 24/7, then it's basically inevitable.
Each person you upload to does decrease your chance to sell that song again, true. But it also gives you some credit towards getting another song to add to your list.
It has many of the hallmarks of a classic pyramid scheme to my eye. You have an incentive to get other people to join and hopefully buy from you. The earlier you get in on the action, the better your chance of doing well. Expect a lot of sigs and comment spam about peer impact in the future for just that reason, a la freeipod.com, etc. Once there is a large enough user base that the chance of people downloading from you asymptotically approaches zero then it's time to give up. But as long as this takes off at all, there will be a sweet spot for people who get in early who will be able to earn a disproportianate amount of credits for their investment.
I just don't know why anyone would use relaying at all. Why not a VPN or something into the corporate office? Even GoToMyPC? Relaying for authenticated users can still get you into trouble as I found when someone spent some time guessing a user's password at my last company, for the sole purpose of getting us listed as an open relay, which we really weren't. But, since he did guess the password (name of the company, idiot users, can't do anything about that), he easily could have spammed through us.
After a month or so of being on the service and making a few purchases, I'd imagine everyone would simply leave their share up and gradually accumulate credits. Before long at all, everyone would be be buying everything for free-except-for-bandwidth credits.
Man, the RIAA are freakin' geniuses.
OK I see how that works. But the situation you outline above, and probably 90% of similar relaying situations, exist within an organization, where the staff can set one mail server to not use spf filtering on other mail servers within their company. Never had to do anything like that, but it seems like it should be doable.
A huge amount of spam comes from zombie PCs. The point of SPF is that you specify a list of ip addresses that are allowed to send email from your domain. So if a zombie PC tries to send email from that domain it fails since its not in the list and the mail server can reject it.
Although I'm not sure that would be the case if you just specified all the ip blocks used by AOL in your SPF - not sure whether something that broad is allowed, but I don't see anything that necessarily rules it out.
You don't need to use exchange. What mail server you have is completely irrelevant. All that's in an SPF document is your domain name and the IP addresses of the mail servers that are authorized to send mail from that domain.
At my last company when management decided that they wanted to implement this it took me five minutes to use a wizard, enter the ip addresses, and send the file to our hosting company.
I don't care that it's not a complete solution. It will reduce a large amount of spam.
I didn't get the article when they talked about how it wouldn't work with forwarding. How do you 'forward' a mail thru another address? That makes no sense. If you have an account set up to relay your mail, the mail would still be sent from the server where the relaying was going on, and would thus have the proper headers for that domain.
They used a basic wiki. Everything annoying that can happen in that setup did. Why are wikis like wikipedia and all the programming wikis able to survive? I know wikipedia allows you to subscribe to an entry so you can be notified if it's modified, but is that all there is? Just a situation where there was so little modifiable on the paper's wiki that all the bad tendencies overwhelmed them? Not that I'd really mind porn on their site, but knowing slashdot it was all goatse.cx
HELLO DEAR, WHITE I THAT THIS LETTER LIKES a SURPRISE, but, TO THEM, THERE not CONCERNS, all COMING IS PROPERTY. I AM Mr. HARRIS PETER, OFFICE LEADER FINANCIAL confidence $ bank PLC, which is IN MAURITIUS CLUTCHES OF EGGS some years ago, CAME a MAN, who WAS CALLED Mr. SHAW SMITH, that, Who FROM ITS COUNTRY, DETAILS FROM YOUR PART IS, TO MY COUNTRY (MAURITIUS) IN the RUBBER SECTOR.UNFORTUNATELY TO INVESTMENT, HE DIED IN a SELBSTCAbbruch. Mr. SHAW SMITH DIED, the SUM the DOLLAR 15MILLION US IN MY BANK LEAVING. I REQUEST HEREBY YOUR SUPPORT TO HELPING, the MONEY TO STATING. I BECOME THEM NEEDING, WHEN the COUSIN LATE SHAW SMITH FOR SERVING, BECAUSE at the moment, HE DOES NOT HAVE the FOLLOWING of the TRUNKS, SO THAT the MONEY ON BROUGHT can. IF THEM RECIEVE THE MONEY, THEM IS 40% TAKING, THE OVER DOLLAR 6MILLION LIKE YOUR PORTION AND IT GIVING ME THE OTHER 60%. The GOVERNMENT PLANS, the MONEY TO TAKING OVER, IF KEINS REPRESENTS ABOVE, SINCE ITS FOLLOWING OF KIN.I EXAMINES that EVERYTHING IS NOT UNDER CONTROL, SINCE I AM the ADDRESS MANAGER.SO THEM ANYTHING CREDIT, itself ABOUT.ALL TO CONCERNS, THEM DOING HAVING BEING SUPPOSED ME ANSWERS, IF THEY ARE INTERESTED THUS WE the NESSECARY -, DOCUMENTS FOR the TRANSMISSION TO PROCESSING BEGINNINGS ABILITY. OFFICE LEADER OF THE THANKS HARRIS PETER F.T.B
It is against the law actually. It's called adultery.
With the newer versions of Vignette they supported coding in both ASP and JSP and working within the vignette platform. They might be better now, but when they first added this feature the native Tcl code ran much faster than a template written in ASP or JSP. And if you're writing in ASP or JSP, why bother with vignette? The only thing vignette ever got right was charging a million dollars per installation so that managers would think 'wow, this must be good if it costs so much'.
Vignette was the biggest pain in the butt I ever developed for, though I did like Tcl a lot.
They give to charities as a PR stunt, which they judge to be in the interest of the company. Chevron may run glitzy ads about cleaning up an oil spill, but what do they really follow up on? Pure PR.
Please notice that they said anything short of breaking the law. Enron broke the law. SCO, to my knowledge, has not.
It's not just 'how corporations work', it is actually how they are required to work today. Everything they do is supposed to be to benefit their shareholders.
You negotiated the right to view/modify the source perhaps. But you have no right to redistribute it. That's the difference.
Take this example. A company hires a software team to develop an inventory tracking system for their specific needs. The team charges them less if it's open source b/c they can use all the GPL libraries, so they say that's fine. They buy the product and the code, and then they never distribute it. Why would they want to distribute it? Now maybe the team would want to distribute it, but who would want it? It's entirely customized to the customer's particular needs, and they realize it's not a good general purpose solution to inventory tracking, so they never distribute it either. It is still open source though, because of the license. That's what makes it open source, not the re-distributing itself.
That's interesting. The old security through obscurity thing? Oddly enough, I found myself thinking the same thing. All you need is a basic understanding of the code to see what places on the web/irc/etc to avoid, and one person to post it to one of those channels and it's useless.
Maybe I feel like it's different because it is a system that has only one purpose (find criminals) versus a normal system that does something general purpose? I don't know....
Why drive two hours? Join netflix and have them delivered by mail.
Was that you could peruse interesting Amazonian cultures under the bedcovers ;)
By the way, am I missing something? I RTFA, but I didn't see Lego mentioned in there. Curiously enough, searching Ars Technica did give this result: But I couldn't find that anywhere in the article. Are these comments just recycled from the last time this review was posted?
Can someone tell me why this isn't an option?
I honestly don't get it.
I used perl years ago, and it's expressive, but I personally went the VB
route myself.
It seems that Linux may already have an explicit conflict between version 2 and version 2.4.18. Any comments on the copying file overriding the submitters' intent?
We invented nuclear bombs before we invented intermittent wipers for cars. Progress is never a smooth line.
Glowing powerballs in the corners for huge power ups :)
I read an aritcle on Wired a while back from a journalist who bet that he could make as much money buying and selling Everquest items as he could from his real job, over the course of a month. The result? He came within about 5-10% of doing it. Of course, that month also included all the ramp-up time to meet people, establish a name, etc. Over that month he made the equivalent of a $45,000/yr, so I guess he's paid pretty well as a journalist. One of the most humorous suggestions I've ever heard for ending African poverty (admittedly not a humorous subject) is to have everyone there work 8/hrs a day acquiring Everquest items and selling them. The entire economy of offline everquest transactions is larger than the GNP of a huge number of countries.
You are definitely one of the 7337 if you got a score:5, troll. Huzzah to the shopkeep!