Does anyone else get the feeling that incredible leaps forward in signal reception and processing technology have all been leading toward just such a development? Wi-Max direct to brain, anyone? (My prediction, less than 30 years - you saw it here, folks)
Seems like it would work ever so much better for zoom-and-shoot games like X-Wing, Tie Fighter, etc..., Put the pilot's seat in the middle of the room, give it lots of swivel in enough dimensions to require a safety harness, apply various forces to the seat to simulate motion in combination with visual cues - head to head with another pilot in a different cave? Simulator training for fighter jocks? Anybody developing this, I know a lot of testers that would work on it *real* cheap...
1. Read Slashdot article slamming Cisco for attempting security through obscurity and unfairly siccing the FBI on the whistleblower.
2. Short-sell Cisco stock or buy put options.
3. PROFIT!!!!
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47 weeks, 7 hours per day, every working day. Defense Language Institute, Foreign Language Center, Presidio of Monterey, Monterey CA. At least, that was how long it took in 1982...
Whoosh! went the somewhat humorous attempt at avoiding remaining negatively modded, although... a non-logged in AC may post a reply to the post modded down - personally I wish more people had the nerve to log in and leave an email address available so that any discussion concerning negatively moddable issues need not disturb the entire thread.
After the horrible mangling they put "Vampire: The Masquerade" through in order to get more $$$ for "Vampire: The Requiem", I (and several of my associates) voted with our wallets and our feet, i.e., departed. Any game-administrating company that shows as much callous disregard for the wishes of its customer/players as White Wolf has deserves to crumble into the dust.
Lots of vitriol being spilled around this issue, might be time for yet another meaningless poll:
How to handle Space Exploration for the next decade:
1. Leave it as it is - The Vulcans will be visiting us soon anyway. 2. Bless those brave astronauts! 3. Ground the shuttle until we're absolutely positive nothing *else* will fall off. 4. In Soviet Russia, old Korean window covers fall off of CowboyNeal. 5. Space is too expensive, we need to pay for other stuff. 6. With the new Ultra-Telescopic lenses, all 107 cameras can resolve breasts from orbit! (sign me up!)
Yes, oh elder user troll, I am newer than you on/., but that doesn't mean that I am going to stop advertising my business completely within the laws and regulations that apply, including but not limited to CAN-SPAM.
While I understand there are those who think money is something the government prints and that doing things to actually earn money make one some sort of whore, those particular individuals will not care about my opinion of them either. If my doing business means offering something in exchange for money that your terribly sensitive self might not wish to purchase, tune my ads out, or set your filters to delete the emails I send (hint: per CAN-SPAM, they all start "ADV:" in the subject line).
Were I looking for sympathy, I know where to find it - in the dictionary between "suck" and "syphilis" - What I do look for here on/. is at least a glimmering of intelligence, maybe even (GASP) sense or wisdom concerning the idiocy of passing yet another piece of stupid feel-good legislation that won't affect the individuals it's aimed at anyway.
What do I get? Some sort of elitist who has no need for money that thinks they can affect my business by suggesting I not advertise in the most cost-effective method available to me, lest I offend their delicate sensitivities.
Tell you what, troll: In the above case, what you want is as immaterial to me as what my opinion concerning virtually unenforceable legislation is to you. Advertising via Unsolicited Commercial Email will continue whether you or anyone else like it or not.
FTFA: In order to avoid running afoul of these new laws, email marketers have two choices:
1. They can ensure that they never send any email containing unpermitted materials, links to unpermitted materials, or even links to sites which have information about the unpermitted materials; or
2. They can match their mailing lists against the email registries maintained by Michigan and Utah, on a monthly basis. There is a fee associated with this list matching. Email lists are provided to the state in an encrypted fashion, and the email address registry is also encrypted.
Now, I would not mind filtering any commercial email list I might maintain against their "do not email" list: What I definitely DO mind is being CHARGED for the privilege!! It makes zero sense to reward the businesses who use Unsolicited Commercial Email within all apllicable laws and regulations with FEES charged in order to ensure that they *continue* to operate within the regs. The sad part is, even if your list is double opt-in, if one of the member addresses on that list is also on Utah's or Michigan's "Do not" list, *you*, as the provider of email, are the one punished. The double-opted in subscriber in question, in all likelihood an enforcement official involved in entrapment, faces no penalty whatsoever.
I try, I really do try, to keep my language within bounds of decency, but sometimes one just simply must say !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
No? How much did the annual sub trip cost, and then add the actual gold bars? Not to mention the uber-secret computer information network, and the cover of Folcroft Sanitarium, even in 1960's era dollars? sigh. Naw, I didn't love losing myself in the cheesy pulp known as "The Destroyer", not a bit...
BitTorrent's worst enemies are the people who use it to foist monstrous spyware app bundles onto unsuspecting noobs who don't realize that they don't have to accept the installs to get the video file they wanted...
Apologies for going over-board with my inferences.
If I were that concerned about maintaining continuous gainful employment, I'd put in the extra hours and build my other income streams up to where they surpass my current job income.
My point is that part of being an employee in someone else's business is subjecting oneself to the uncertainties surrounding surrendering that control to someone else, who is not bound by anything to keep the well-being of anyone but themself in mind when they consider potential actions.
Being other than self-employed means that what we may prefer doesn't count.
Again, I apologize, my own dislike of the appearance of learned helplessness reared its ugly head.
Yep! More specifically, because you seem to think that having a job entitles you to keep said job until you're ready to leave it.
Caveat: I have a job. However, it is not my sole source of income, nor do I expect that the owner of the company I work for will continue to employ me just because I do good work or am somehow morally deserving: If my employer sells this business, this position may or may not continue. While I am not currently in a completely secure financial position, neither am I in "desperation mode" where continuing employment is concerned.
Suggestions: Learn some basic financial management; save, invest, reduce your debt, develop some alternate streams of income, and prepare yourself for the inevitable.
People who refuse to do these things are usually the causes of their own grief. Quit blaming and start owning the responsibility for your own situation.
"Oh, those greedy bastard CEOs are the cause of all the unemployment in the world" Yeah - you and Michael Moore.
Oh, no, won't catch *me* goin' after money I might have to give back... I wish I owned an ISP, so I could sue these list-maintaining, self-elected, intarweb-trolling ogre-resembling wanna-be traffic cop/censors into oblivion.
Far better, were one to create such a list, to at all times maintain the high ground, even to the point of providing the reason/evidence for listing a given IP to *any* requestor, and provide space for rebuttals - far more work involved, to be certain, but then, quality does occasionally require sacrifice.
Is somebody with interest listening, or am I gonna have to follow through myself? (If the latter, interested volunteer assistants please email me: "I'm more an idea rat" - Ratbert)
1. Publish your own list. 2. Get sued for libel ("How dare you list my IP as a SPAMMER?"). 3. Counter-sue, showing proof that your list is honest/truthful/accurate ("Because this SPAM was in fact sent from it on this date at this time!"). 4. PROFIT!!! y'all please excuse me, this looks viable...
Price of DVDR *machines* has come down to reasonable - when the price of rewritable dvd *media* can come anywhere near blank vhs tapes' cost, that will be one driver of my switching over...
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Would someone please be kind enough to copy-n-paste it?
Does anyone else get the feeling that incredible leaps forward in signal reception and processing technology have all been leading toward just such a development? Wi-Max direct to brain, anyone?
(My prediction, less than 30 years - you saw it here, folks)
Seems like it would work ever so much better for zoom-and-shoot games like X-Wing, Tie Fighter, etc..., Put the pilot's seat in the middle of the room, give it lots of swivel in enough dimensions to require a safety harness, apply various forces to the seat to simulate motion in combination with visual cues - head to head with another pilot in a different cave? Simulator training for fighter jocks?
Anybody developing this, I know a lot of testers that would work on it *real* cheap...
1. Read Slashdot article slamming Cisco for attempting security through obscurity and unfairly siccing the FBI on the whistleblower.
2. Short-sell Cisco stock or buy put options.
3. PROFIT!!!!
47 weeks, 7 hours per day, every working day. Defense Language Institute, Foreign Language Center, Presidio of Monterey, Monterey CA.
At least, that was how long it took in 1982...
(shudders at old memories)
My score: 849
That was mildly entertaining...
Briefly...
Oh, well, back to work.
In the potential absence of put options, yeppers!
Whoosh! went the somewhat humorous attempt at avoiding remaining negatively modded, although... a non-logged in AC may post a reply to the post modded down - personally I wish more people had the nerve to log in and leave an email address available so that any discussion concerning negatively moddable issues need not disturb the entire thread.
After the horrible mangling they put "Vampire: The Masquerade" through in order to get more $$$ for "Vampire: The Requiem", I (and several of my associates) voted with our wallets and our feet, i.e., departed. Any game-administrating company that shows as much callous disregard for the wishes of its customer/players as White Wolf has deserves to crumble into the dust.
Your point?
Lots of vitriol being spilled around this issue, might be time for yet another meaningless poll:
How to handle Space Exploration for the next decade:
1. Leave it as it is - The Vulcans will be visiting us soon anyway.
2. Bless those brave astronauts!
3. Ground the shuttle until we're absolutely positive nothing *else* will fall off.
4. In Soviet Russia, old Korean window covers fall off of CowboyNeal.
5. Space is too expensive, we need to pay for other stuff.
6. With the new Ultra-Telescopic lenses, all 107 cameras can resolve breasts from orbit! (sign me up!)
Keep a good a(TT)itude!
Dude, the boss is coming! Quick, take a call! (your neighbor in Cube-Farm Hell)
How to solve the public education problems:
1. Public warehousing of young human animals is fine, don't rock the boat.
2. Pay teachers based on performance.
3. Apply corporal puni^H^Hencouragement to under-performing students.
4. In Soviet Russia, CowboyNeal's Korean grandma gets educated by YOU.
5. Print lessons over graphics of large firm breasts.
6. Scrap the entire system and start over from scratch.
Keep a good a(TT)itude!
Yeah, work harder - millions of welfare recipients are counting on *us*...
sigh.
Who doesn't?
Of course, it means I'm not the one driving the cart...
Yes, oh elder user troll, I am newer than you on /., but that doesn't mean that I am going to stop advertising my business completely within the laws and regulations that apply, including but not limited to CAN-SPAM. /. is at least a glimmering of intelligence, maybe even (GASP) sense or wisdom concerning the idiocy of passing yet another piece of stupid feel-good legislation that won't affect the individuals it's aimed at anyway.
While I understand there are those who think money is something the government prints and that doing things to actually earn money make one some sort of whore, those particular individuals will not care about my opinion of them either. If my doing business means offering something in exchange for money that your terribly sensitive self might not wish to purchase, tune my ads out, or set your filters to delete the emails I send (hint: per CAN-SPAM, they all start "ADV:" in the subject line).
Were I looking for sympathy, I know where to find it - in the dictionary between "suck" and "syphilis" - What I do look for here on
What do I get? Some sort of elitist who has no need for money that thinks they can affect my business by suggesting I not advertise in the most cost-effective method available to me, lest I offend their delicate sensitivities.
Tell you what, troll: In the above case, what you want is as immaterial to me as what my opinion concerning virtually unenforceable legislation is to you. Advertising via Unsolicited Commercial Email will continue whether you or anyone else like it or not.
FTFA:
In order to avoid running afoul of these new laws, email marketers have two choices:
1. They can ensure that they never send any email containing unpermitted materials, links to unpermitted materials, or even links to sites which have information about the unpermitted materials; or
2. They can match their mailing lists against the email registries maintained by Michigan and Utah, on a monthly basis. There is a fee associated with this list matching. Email lists are provided to the state in an encrypted fashion, and the email address registry is also encrypted.
Now, I would not mind filtering any commercial email list I might maintain against their "do not email" list: What I definitely DO mind is being CHARGED for the privilege!! It makes zero sense to reward the businesses who use Unsolicited Commercial Email within all apllicable laws and regulations with FEES charged in order to ensure that they *continue* to operate within the regs. The sad part is, even if your list is double opt-in, if one of the member addresses on that list is also on Utah's or Michigan's "Do not" list, *you*, as the provider of email, are the one punished. The double-opted in subscriber in question, in all likelihood an enforcement official involved in entrapment, faces no penalty whatsoever.
I try, I really do try, to keep my language within bounds of decency, but sometimes one just simply must say !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Does anyone know of a "least common denominator" CSS/(X)HTML reference listing the items that will auto render properly in IE, FF, and Opera?
Or must the burden be on the site authors to test against each browser still?
No? How much did the annual sub trip cost, and then add the actual gold bars? Not to mention the uber-secret computer information network, and the cover of Folcroft Sanitarium, even in 1960's era dollars?
sigh.
Naw, I didn't love losing myself in the cheesy pulp known as "The Destroyer", not a bit...
BitTorrent's worst enemies are the people who use it to foist monstrous spyware app bundles onto unsuspecting noobs who don't realize that they don't have to accept the installs to get the video file they wanted...
Apologies for going over-board with my inferences.
If I were that concerned about maintaining continuous gainful employment, I'd put in the extra hours and build my other income streams up to where they surpass my current job income.
My point is that part of being an employee in someone else's business is subjecting oneself to the uncertainties surrounding surrendering that control to someone else, who is not bound by anything to keep the well-being of anyone but themself in mind when they consider potential actions.
Being other than self-employed means that what we may prefer doesn't count.
Again, I apologize, my own dislike of the appearance of learned helplessness reared its ugly head.
Yep! More specifically, because you seem to think that having a job entitles you to keep said job until you're ready to leave it.
Caveat: I have a job. However, it is not my sole source of income, nor do I expect that the owner of the company I work for will continue to employ me just because I do good work or am somehow morally deserving: If my employer sells this business, this position may or may not continue. While I am not currently in a completely secure financial position, neither am I in "desperation mode" where continuing employment is concerned.
Suggestions:
Learn some basic financial management; save, invest, reduce your debt, develop some alternate streams of income, and prepare yourself for the inevitable.
People who refuse to do these things are usually the causes of their own grief.
Quit blaming and start owning the responsibility for your own situation.
"Oh, those greedy bastard CEOs are the cause of all the unemployment in the world"
Yeah - you and Michael Moore.
Oh, no, won't catch *me* goin' after money I might have to give back... I wish I owned an ISP, so I could sue these list-maintaining, self-elected, intarweb-trolling ogre-resembling wanna-be traffic cop/censors into oblivion.
Far better, were one to create such a list, to at all times maintain the high ground, even to the point of providing the reason/evidence for listing a given IP to *any* requestor, and provide space for rebuttals - far more work involved, to be certain, but then, quality does occasionally require sacrifice.
Is somebody with interest listening, or am I gonna have to follow through myself?
(If the latter, interested volunteer assistants please email me: "I'm more an idea rat" - Ratbert)
1. Publish your own list.
2. Get sued for libel ("How dare you list my IP as a SPAMMER?").
3. Counter-sue, showing proof that your list is honest/truthful/accurate ("Because this SPAM was in fact sent from it on this date at this time!").
4. PROFIT!!!
y'all please excuse me, this looks viable...
Price of DVDR *machines* has come down to reasonable - when the price of rewritable dvd *media* can come anywhere near blank vhs tapes' cost, that will be one driver of my switching over...