Until people stop replying to the medication ads, and the scammers, spam will continue to multiply and add itself to many different communication streams.
We must begin to boycott these types of unwanted spam. Once this happens, the spam will begin to get worse, but then they will realise that people have adapted and they must adapt with them, providing targetted spam to potential clients.
Yes, the problem must get worse before it gets better.
That's not a correct assumption.
You saw the punch cards. They said COBOL on them.
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"Now I have an extra 10,000 hits a week on my website, and I've got to figure out what to do here."
hits != unique vistors
Each unique visitor can easily generate 100 hits or more depending on how the website is organized.
10,000 / 100 = 100 visitors, and alot of that may be non-unique vistors (such as return visitors,) or even extra Googlebot, Yahoo, or MSN activity.
Don't get me wrong, I think it's great that the P2P community can bring life to a show that the corporate world sent to the trash.. power to the people and all that stuff.. but lets not get overly excited. 10,000 hits extra a week is a marginal amount of activity considering the amount of people actually surfing the Internet at a given time.
People are using blogs and forums to post links to their own sites. These links show up as backlinks to Google, and due to Google's ranking procedure that determines which website is the most relevant to each search, each extra backlink pointing to a website can effectively make that website more relevant in the searches.
Luckily, Google is one step ahead of the spammers, and has allowed only one link from each forum to contribute as a valid backlink. Therefore, having 100 forum signatures linking to www.spamdomain.com will no longer give credit for 100 backlinks; Only one backlink will be credited towards www.spamdomain.com. The problem is, alot of people have not realised that Google has done this yet, and as a result, people are still adding 8+ forum signature links in their posts, hoping to cheat the search engine ranking system.
This is a great way to give people diversity when choosing which OS they wish to use to play their favourite games.
However, shouldn't the responsibility to provide a Linux gaming platform be on the software engineers and companies that create these games? There's nothing more enjoyable knowing that a company and their programming team took the time to acknowledge the Linux community and create a port of the game specifically for the Linux platform. Not only does it create a game that can be widely played on many platforms by many different types of people, it also gives the company a massive amount of creditability with real computer nerds.
Overall, I for one see this as a step in the correct direction, but I think some responsibility should lie with the developers as well.
I had a look at the screenshots, and quite frankly, the ones that they are displaying are very console-looking and really quite bad.
If they ever want to really win over anyone in the gaming world that is over the age of 18, they're going to have to try harder than that.
I have been on the Internet way before the big boom in the mid 1990s.
Back then, the information was still free, and the general newsgroup guppie was extremely more knowledgable and willing to help other people much more than what we have today.
I'm not trying to say that the Internet was better in its younger days; but what I am saying is that even though the Internet was available and used by a select few when in constrast to the number of people that it access it on a daily basis today, we still had extremely good quality information at our disposal. There were no ads then (well, very very few,) and there doesn't need to be now.
If companies only want to be on the Internet and update their content because it will increase their capital, well, I say goodbye to that. Companies need to start enbracing the Internet for what is it: an extremely powerful and quick way to deliver information to a massive amount of people, but don't try to get rich on PPC and ad impressions. If you really want to get rich, provide a product that people will want to buy instead constantly trying to sell ice to eskimos. Don't get me wrong, I understand advertising is the key to selling your product, but I think it's taken too far. I also understand the mantras of advertsing, one being that if there isn't a "want" for your product, create one; thus in other words, market your product where people aren't looking for your product. But enough is enough! If people want to find your product, they will search in special directories or on search engines. This is where you need to concentrate your ads, not on flashing banners while I'm trying to find information on why my son is sick.
Here's my opinion on paying for internet content.
Pay only for positive information that will positively increase your way of living or your professional job. Example. If you're an IT professional, it would be a wise idea to pay for subscription to Windows IT Professional Magazine, or Experts-Exchange.com.
Why pay for news? You can turn on the TV and get the same thing for free. Plus, most news is negative and will not positively effect your life.
hexed
There may be more to this story than HP is leading us to believe. First of all, why is HP releasing this information? Is it to give other chip makers a heads up of what HP is planning in the near future? I think not. This story sounds more like a cover-up rather than an explanation.
Microsoft CDs now contain Oxytocin
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In the latest news, Microsoft is now coating their new software CDs with oxytocin, a substance that has disgruntled linux administrators adopting the most secure server and workstation software since computers were invented.
You must understand that a 18nm transistor emits alot more heat and is much more unefficient than a single molecule.
That said, the molecules can be packed much, much closer and without a massive amount of compromise for heat issues.
Awesome! Great work on taking the copycat's site down. There are way too many punks on the internet these days that will stoop to massive lows just to make a buck or two, it's pure garbage. I have many ideas always in the mix and I dare tell a couple people about them before the official release date - I've been ripped off by people before like this.
sadly, you know as well as I, it won't be long before your copycat starts up on a new hosting server and does the exact thing again.
I hated that damn cat. No, it's not that you were younger, King's Quest III was one of the hardest adventures of its time.
You know what else was difficult though: Police Quest series.
I'm not worried about doing 200km/h; I'm worried about being able to have the available power to step on the gas to avoid the cell phone talking housewive driving the navigator that almost ran me over.
Here comes a bad pun..
Coloured HAM is old, and you should definately throw it away. How does something like this stay in the fridge this long anyways?
Yes, we had graphics and sound, but it was the good old Adlib. I mean, some on. They have THX now that describes the sound effect 100%. Back then we didn't even have speech, so we had to use our imagination to understand how this 6 foot dragon in front of us sounded. Yes, games have alot more freedom, and I play those games daily, but is freedom really the liberation of our imagination, or is it counterproductive?
Yes, what you say is true. These days concentration has been put on graphics instead of creativity. 15 years ago, we were forced to use our imagination for the lack of graphics, sounds, and other stimulations, ultimately inspiring us to lead the way and attempt to create something better. These days the creators are us, and the games are becoming too much like hollywood. This leads to kids wanting to "watch" games and wait for the next big release rather than proactively attempt to learn or care to learn how it was all done, and the engineering that went into its creation.
Everything went downhill after Sierra stopped making their classic Space Quest series, King's Quest series and the such. These were games that actually look some sort of cognitive abilities and sometimes puzzles could stump you for days depending on how you viewed a certain situation. These days, it's all about point and click and there is no more typing "look east", "east", "throw midget east".
Seriously.. I think I remember having to throw a midget once, but for the life of me I can't remember which game it was in.
Sad thing is, I've been buying AMD chips now for my corporate clients.
1. They cost less, corporations like that.
2. This amounts for the best bang for the buck vs. Intel.
I love Intel, in fact, I have two Intels for my main computers. However, Intel has not responded and AMD is taking it away with both price and speed. Moreover, the promising NVIDIA 4 ultra/sli chipset has been released for the AMD line of processors and the combo is very promising in the preliminary results.
Intel has its chance to make the jump into the 64bit market and decided it was better to hold on to 32bit processors at the time. And it probably wouldn't have been a bad idea, if they had a plan to deal with the heat issues in their prescott line of processors. 33% more power for 5% less performance does not sit well with the market (prescott vs. northwood)
This guy is awesome. Total geekness and I love it.
I tip my hat to people like this as they are people whom really attempt to understand the inner workings of computers and technology.
Great job!
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Until people stop replying to the medication ads, and the scammers, spam will continue to multiply and add itself to many different communication streams.
We must begin to boycott these types of unwanted spam. Once this happens, the spam will begin to get worse, but then they will realise that people have adapted and they must adapt with them, providing targetted spam to potential clients.
Yes, the problem must get worse before it gets better.
That's not a correct assumption. You saw the punch cards. They said COBOL on them.
"Now I have an extra 10,000 hits a week on my website, and I've got to figure out what to do here."
hits != unique vistors
Each unique visitor can easily generate 100 hits or more depending on how the website is organized.
10,000 / 100 = 100 visitors, and alot of that may be non-unique vistors (such as return visitors,) or even extra Googlebot, Yahoo, or MSN activity.
Don't get me wrong, I think it's great that the P2P community can bring life to a show that the corporate world sent to the trash.. power to the people and all that stuff.. but lets not get overly excited. 10,000 hits extra a week is a marginal amount of activity considering the amount of people actually surfing the Internet at a given time.
People are using blogs and forums to post links to their own sites. These links show up as backlinks to Google, and due to Google's ranking procedure that determines which website is the most relevant to each search, each extra backlink pointing to a website can effectively make that website more relevant in the searches.
Luckily, Google is one step ahead of the spammers, and has allowed only one link from each forum to contribute as a valid backlink. Therefore, having 100 forum signatures linking to www.spamdomain.com will no longer give credit for 100 backlinks; Only one backlink will be credited towards www.spamdomain.com. The problem is, alot of people have not realised that Google has done this yet, and as a result, people are still adding 8+ forum signature links in their posts, hoping to cheat the search engine ranking system.
This is a great way to give people diversity when choosing which OS they wish to use to play their favourite games.
However, shouldn't the responsibility to provide a Linux gaming platform be on the software engineers and companies that create these games? There's nothing more enjoyable knowing that a company and their programming team took the time to acknowledge the Linux community and create a port of the game specifically for the Linux platform. Not only does it create a game that can be widely played on many platforms by many different types of people, it also gives the company a massive amount of creditability with real computer nerds.
Overall, I for one see this as a step in the correct direction, but I think some responsibility should lie with the developers as well.
I had a look at the screenshots, and quite frankly, the ones that they are displaying are very console-looking and really quite bad. If they ever want to really win over anyone in the gaming world that is over the age of 18, they're going to have to try harder than that.
I have been on the Internet way before the big boom in the mid 1990s.
Back then, the information was still free, and the general newsgroup guppie was extremely more knowledgable and willing to help other people much more than what we have today.
I'm not trying to say that the Internet was better in its younger days; but what I am saying is that even though the Internet was available and used by a select few when in constrast to the number of people that it access it on a daily basis today, we still had extremely good quality information at our disposal. There were no ads then (well, very very few,) and there doesn't need to be now.
If companies only want to be on the Internet and update their content because it will increase their capital, well, I say goodbye to that. Companies need to start enbracing the Internet for what is it: an extremely powerful and quick way to deliver information to a massive amount of people, but don't try to get rich on PPC and ad impressions. If you really want to get rich, provide a product that people will want to buy instead constantly trying to sell ice to eskimos. Don't get me wrong, I understand advertising is the key to selling your product, but I think it's taken too far. I also understand the mantras of advertsing, one being that if there isn't a "want" for your product, create one; thus in other words, market your product where people aren't looking for your product. But enough is enough! If people want to find your product, they will search in special directories or on search engines. This is where you need to concentrate your ads, not on flashing banners while I'm trying to find information on why my son is sick.
Who's with me on this?
Here's my opinion on paying for internet content. Pay only for positive information that will positively increase your way of living or your professional job. Example. If you're an IT professional, it would be a wise idea to pay for subscription to Windows IT Professional Magazine, or Experts-Exchange.com. Why pay for news? You can turn on the TV and get the same thing for free. Plus, most news is negative and will not positively effect your life. hexed
There may be more to this story than HP is leading us to believe. First of all, why is HP releasing this information? Is it to give other chip makers a heads up of what HP is planning in the near future? I think not. This story sounds more like a cover-up rather than an explanation.
In the latest news, Microsoft is now coating their new software CDs with oxytocin, a substance that has disgruntled linux administrators adopting the most secure server and workstation software since computers were invented.
You must understand that a 18nm transistor emits alot more heat and is much more unefficient than a single molecule. That said, the molecules can be packed much, much closer and without a massive amount of compromise for heat issues.
This is extremely important. Canada has just went down in the history books as creating the most influencal science in our life times. Go Canada.
Yes, nothing much disguising and hard to follow than an ultra-bright blob.
Awesome! Great work on taking the copycat's site down. There are way too many punks on the internet these days that will stoop to massive lows just to make a buck or two, it's pure garbage. I have many ideas always in the mix and I dare tell a couple people about them before the official release date - I've been ripped off by people before like this.
sadly, you know as well as I, it won't be long before your copycat starts up on a new hosting server and does the exact thing again.
I hated that damn cat. No, it's not that you were younger, King's Quest III was one of the hardest adventures of its time. You know what else was difficult though: Police Quest series.
I'm not worried about doing 200km/h; I'm worried about being able to have the available power to step on the gas to avoid the cell phone talking housewive driving the navigator that almost ran me over.
Here comes a bad pun.. Coloured HAM is old, and you should definately throw it away. How does something like this stay in the fridge this long anyways?
Yes, we had graphics and sound, but it was the good old Adlib. I mean, some on. They have THX now that describes the sound effect 100%. Back then we didn't even have speech, so we had to use our imagination to understand how this 6 foot dragon in front of us sounded. Yes, games have alot more freedom, and I play those games daily, but is freedom really the liberation of our imagination, or is it counterproductive?
Hahaha, thanks for the link. It's sad, but I think I'll be playing peasant's quest over HL2 this week.
Yes, what you say is true. These days concentration has been put on graphics instead of creativity. 15 years ago, we were forced to use our imagination for the lack of graphics, sounds, and other stimulations, ultimately inspiring us to lead the way and attempt to create something better. These days the creators are us, and the games are becoming too much like hollywood. This leads to kids wanting to "watch" games and wait for the next big release rather than proactively attempt to learn or care to learn how it was all done, and the engineering that went into its creation.
Everything went downhill after Sierra stopped making their classic Space Quest series, King's Quest series and the such. These were games that actually look some sort of cognitive abilities and sometimes puzzles could stump you for days depending on how you viewed a certain situation. These days, it's all about point and click and there is no more typing "look east", "east", "throw midget east".
Seriously.. I think I remember having to throw a midget once, but for the life of me I can't remember which game it was in.
Anything that can begin to cut down on the amount of pollution that is generated in our atmosphere is a step in the right direction.
Sure, I'm not about to give up my VW GTI VR6 just yet, but sooner or later something's gotta give. Even Buzz Lightyear from Toy Story is mocking us:
'Do you people still use fossil fuels, or have you discovered crystallic fusion?'
Sad thing is, I've been buying AMD chips now for my corporate clients. 1. They cost less, corporations like that. 2. This amounts for the best bang for the buck vs. Intel. I love Intel, in fact, I have two Intels for my main computers. However, Intel has not responded and AMD is taking it away with both price and speed. Moreover, the promising NVIDIA 4 ultra/sli chipset has been released for the AMD line of processors and the combo is very promising in the preliminary results.
Intel has its chance to make the jump into the 64bit market and decided it was better to hold on to 32bit processors at the time. And it probably wouldn't have been a bad idea, if they had a plan to deal with the heat issues in their prescott line of processors. 33% more power for 5% less performance does not sit well with the market (prescott vs. northwood)
This guy is awesome. Total geekness and I love it. I tip my hat to people like this as they are people whom really attempt to understand the inner workings of computers and technology. Great job!