99% of people come from one of these seven women? Man, they must have been huge sluts!:)
Seriously, I don't see the point of this. When people want to trace their ancestry, they're mostly concerned with who their great great grandparents were and who their relatives were that lived during the Civil war, not 150,000 years ago. Yeah, it's cool, but nothing I'd pay $180 for.
Unisys: Give us money.... Company: OK....let's see, where did I put that..... (stall until 2003 and then) Company: Oh, here it is. (Pull out a middle finger from pocket).
Yes, replying to my own post, but I just thought about this:
If you ever get spammed by a brick and motar place and you have some free time, go visit the store. Ask them about the product in the ad. Get a demonstration. Ask tons of questions, "Will it work with my current widget?" "What if I upgrade my widget?" "Can it do this?" "What better models are there?" "What can they do above this model?"
And then when you get bored, tell him, "You've spammed me. You wasted my resources and time. Now that I've wasted yours, I hope you'll not spam again."
If it was a product you were truly interested in, you now have all the info about it so you can just walk into another store and get one.
I say this would only work for a brick and motar, but I suppose a startup spamming company couldn't copy and paste e-mail if you asked very rare questions.
Rudy Temiz, the company's 22-year-old president, said yesterday afternoon that he didn't plan to repeat the exercise but expressed no remorse either, saying that the marketing technique had generated "quite a few" sales.
This is what encourages spamming. People need to be educated that they should not purchase anything from spammers, even if it's a product that wasn't advertised to you. If they offer you something that's a really good deal, be wary. These companies are usually fly-by-night or startups that may not be around in a few months.
Will the software run on AMD, or will it depend on Intel-only extensions (PSN). I see this as a way for Intel to try and push their PSN stff more. It'd be nice to see someone port it to non-Intel chips if the license agreement doesn't restrict that.
Also, why is it that no one really cares about the PSN anymore? It seemed like it was going to be a huge deal, then it just kind of disappeared.
Domain Names cannot be of the form (Organization).US or (Organization).(state).US.
The domain name for an organization, company, or individual should only be of the form (Organization).(Locality).(State).US
So Microsoft would have to be microsoft.redmond.wa.us Not impressive. Ask some non-computer people if they know where MS HQ is. Do you know where Transmeta's HQ is? Also, if you use it for personal use, then you get stuck with a geographically centered name.
Also from the page: The US Domain currently registers businesses, individuals, federal government agencies, state government agencies, K12 schools, community colleges, technical/vocational schools, private schools, libraries, museums, and city and county government agencies.
But I don't think businesses or individuals would be useful using it.
"Well, it's a problem with their policy then." Yes, but anyone is free to get a.com,.net, or.org name, so does it matter? Even foreigners can get it.
I've seen these things on TV. They're basically fancy game controllers. Instead of hitting a combo of buttons to fire the cannon, you place a person by the cannon on the physical ship in front of you and that character is there. It can distinguish between different characters. You can use the wheel to steer the ship. Pretty innovative concept. Maybe Lego will make some sensors so you can design your own game or download plans and game files. Put it together and then play the game.
A few years ago, my local paper put in a notice about the "Good Times" virus. I e-mailed them and told them it was a hoax. They responded with, "A very respected doctor sent us that information. Do you have any proof?" (I worked for the local ISP, and I have helped many doctors. Just because they have a medical degree doesn't make them computer experts). I sent them some URL's from Norton and McAffee, but they never printed a retraction.
Wow, an AC (obviously new to Linux) asks a straight-forward question and he gets a straight answer. No sarcasm, no "RTFM", exactly what he was looking for. This is what we need in the Linux community.
m3000, I publicly say, "Thank you" for being a good member of the Linux community.
$25 a year for Ethernet....not that bad, consider they have to pay techs. Of course, I don't use them, but some other people do. Bring in an old 486 and a no-name Ethernet card with no drivers. Then call and wonder why the network doesn't work because they can't get to Hotmail.
Of course, cable TV and a phone line is free. We don't have AC in the guys dorms, and my room usually gets to 80 degrees. Up to 90 at the beginning of the year.
I worked at a Little Caesar's. It was a few years ago, but the cash register wasn't anything special. You just had that small screen that displayed the prices. The input? A keypad with many buttons. Althought, we never used half of them. The ones we did use were basically overload by hitting "Large" then "Crazy Bread" or "Small" then "Crazy Bread". With a little practice on the register, you could punch in orders with one hand faster than the receipt could print.
I couldn't find the specs for their cash registers, but I wouldn't want an LCD screen (It'd get oil, flour, or just cracked by a customer) or a computer that required a fan. The (non-computer) fans always had grease in them, clogged them up good.
Even though it was a crappy system, people still had trouble with it (I was always ask to change the printer ribbon).
Maybe they're making it a different design than I'm assuming. Of course, having a Perl script to generate reports on various sales (you have to make reports on how much you sold per hour on average for the last four weeks, and how many of a certain item, such as medium pops, you sold each day). Disclaimer: I worked at an LC inside a K-mart, so the independent LC's may have different tills.
Also, my store couldn't get the damn Icee machine working on a consistent basis (it had a power switch, two defrost knobs (one for each side), and two dispenser levers), do you think they could get a Linux box to work all the time?
The specs say it's 100 MBps Ethernet. Not 10/100. Will the thing not run properly on 10? I'm not going to get one of these, but I could see this as being a problem. Having to buy an expensive switch rather than a cheap-o hub to connect it.
On another note, businesses fail all the time. It just happened that net businesses usually did very well. Now they are starting to collapse just like brick and motar counterparts.
Someone should start a project that should rescue dead formats also. I'm assuming if you're getting some picture off a 20 year old tape, it's not going to be in PNG format. Or what about spreadsheets from old programs? There should be a way to convert this stuff into a new format so we have it available. Is anyone aware of a repository for "current" file formats, such as MP3's, Word97 documents, JPG's, Gif's, Png's all in one location? Gathering this information NOW would be easier than gathering it in 10 years, and will prevent information from becoming lost, even though we have the file.
Why was this moderated as Redundant? Can anyone explain the reasoning behind this? Yes, the guy's post was offtopic, but it was true. Do moderators understand the meaning of Redundant? No one else posted anything about it. This is the reason I would like to be able to meta moderate comments that I choose. The random ones lose their context when taken by themselves. There's no way to know if this was redundant weeks from now, and someone will metamoderate it as "Fair".
If there's one thing to be learned, providing an actual link to http://www.openssh.org will allow us to, as a community, Slashdot them (it brings in the people to lazy to type in the address)! But on a more serious note, he does provide a link to openssh.com. He doesn't try to deceive anyone.
expensive plasma conference screens and digital maps showing global time zones
Was this stuff really necessary? Also, couldn't a plasma screen be easily used in another place? The time zone maps, those were probably made especially for Y2K, which is just wasteful.
I remember reading about this a while ago. One potential use could be a gas station could broadcast some special to everyone in the area to boost sales. I'm worried if some hacker created a device to make these broadcast, and then we all get porn advertisements. Another possibility is the phone companies charging more to block ads.
I just got back from class and received notice that napter is now banned. Just a few hours after this Slashdot article came out. Coincidence? No, because the message is date from yesterday....
UND Computer Center, in agreement with the UND administration, is announcing that the Napster client software is officially banned for use by UND faculty, staff, and students. Napster is a program for sharing recorded music over networks and is being banned because it utilizes a large amount of Internet bandwidth, thus interfering with more suitable use. This action is based on the HECN Policy and Procedures (Section 4 Paragraph 3), which prohibits incidental personal use of information technology services, if such use interferes with other network usage. This policy can be viewed at the following web location http://www.nodak.edu/hecn/policy/. Certain technical measures have been taken to enforce this policy for the UND campus. Attempts to bypass these measures will be interpreted as violations of this policy. Your cooperation is appreciated.
They filed a lawsuit against B&N, so what makes you think they won't enforce this? Hopefully you do get moderated down, because you're not thinking about the past actions of Amazon.
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99% of people come from one of these seven women? Man, they must have been huge sluts! :)
Seriously, I don't see the point of this. When people want to trace their ancestry, they're mostly concerned with who their great great grandparents were and who their relatives were that lived during the Civil war, not 150,000 years ago. Yeah, it's cool, but nothing I'd pay $180 for.
When will the BOFH meeting be held?
Unisys: Give us money....
Company: OK....let's see, where did I put that.....
(stall until 2003 and then)
Company: Oh, here it is. (Pull out a middle finger from pocket).
Yes, replying to my own post, but I just thought about this:
If you ever get spammed by a brick and motar place and you have some free time, go visit the store. Ask them about the product in the ad. Get a demonstration. Ask tons of questions, "Will it work with my current widget?" "What if I upgrade my widget?" "Can it do this?" "What better models are there?" "What can they do above this model?"
And then when you get bored, tell him, "You've spammed me. You wasted my resources and time. Now that I've wasted yours, I hope you'll not spam again."
If it was a product you were truly interested in, you now have all the info about it so you can just walk into another store and get one.
I say this would only work for a brick and motar, but I suppose a startup spamming company couldn't copy and paste e-mail if you asked very rare questions.
Rudy Temiz, the company's 22-year-old president, said yesterday afternoon that he didn't plan to repeat the exercise but expressed no remorse either, saying that the marketing technique had generated "quite a few" sales.
This is what encourages spamming. People need to be educated that they should not purchase anything from spammers, even if it's a product that wasn't advertised to you. If they offer you something that's a really good deal, be wary. These companies are usually fly-by-night or startups that may not be around in a few months.
Will the software run on AMD, or will it depend on Intel-only extensions (PSN). I see this as a way for Intel to try and push their PSN stff more. It'd be nice to see someone port it to non-Intel chips if the license agreement doesn't restrict that.
Also, why is it that no one really cares about the PSN anymore? It seemed like it was going to be a huge deal, then it just kind of disappeared.
- Domain Names cannot be of the form
- The domain name for an organization, company, or individual should only be of the form
So Microsoft would have to be microsoft.redmond.wa.us(Organization).US or (Organization).(state).US.
(Organization).(Locality).(State).US
Not impressive. Ask some non-computer people if they know where MS HQ is. Do you know where Transmeta's HQ is? Also, if you use it for personal use, then you get stuck with a geographically centered name.
Also from the page:
The US Domain currently registers businesses, individuals, federal government agencies, state government agencies, K12 schools, community colleges, technical/vocational schools, private schools, libraries, museums, and city and county government agencies.
But I don't think businesses or individuals would be useful using it.
"Well, it's a problem with their policy then." Yes, but anyone is free to get a .com, .net, or .org name, so does it matter? Even foreigners can get it.
I've seen these things on TV. They're basically fancy game controllers. Instead of hitting a combo of buttons to fire the cannon, you place a person by the cannon on the physical ship in front of you and that character is there. It can distinguish between different characters. You can use the wheel to steer the ship. Pretty innovative concept. Maybe Lego will make some sensors so you can design your own game or download plans and game files. Put it together and then play the game.
Considering someone posted it on the April Fools article (but that had correct spelling).
A few years ago, my local paper put in a notice about the "Good Times" virus. I e-mailed them and told them it was a hoax. They responded with, "A very respected doctor sent us that information. Do you have any proof?" (I worked for the local ISP, and I have helped many doctors. Just because they have a medical degree doesn't make them computer experts). I sent them some URL's from Norton and McAffee, but they never printed a retraction.
Wow, an AC (obviously new to Linux) asks a straight-forward question and he gets a straight answer. No sarcasm, no "RTFM", exactly what he was looking for. This is what we need in the Linux community.
m3000, I publicly say, "Thank you" for being a good member of the Linux community.
$25 a year for Ethernet....not that bad, consider they have to pay techs. Of course, I don't use them, but some other people do. Bring in an old 486 and a no-name Ethernet card with no drivers. Then call and wonder why the network doesn't work because they can't get to Hotmail.
Of course, cable TV and a phone line is free. We don't have AC in the guys dorms, and my room usually gets to 80 degrees. Up to 90 at the beginning of the year.
I worked at a Little Caesar's. It was a few years ago, but the cash register wasn't anything special. You just had that small screen that displayed the prices. The input? A keypad with many buttons. Althought, we never used half of them. The ones we did use were basically overload by hitting "Large" then "Crazy Bread" or "Small" then "Crazy Bread". With a little practice on the register, you could punch in orders with one hand faster than the receipt could print.
I couldn't find the specs for their cash registers, but I wouldn't want an LCD screen (It'd get oil, flour, or just cracked by a customer) or a computer that required a fan. The (non-computer) fans always had grease in them, clogged them up good.
Even though it was a crappy system, people still had trouble with it (I was always ask to change the printer ribbon).
Maybe they're making it a different design than I'm assuming. Of course, having a Perl script to generate reports on various sales (you have to make reports on how much you sold per hour on average for the last four weeks, and how many of a certain item, such as medium pops, you sold each day). Disclaimer: I worked at an LC inside a K-mart, so the independent LC's may have different tills.
Also, my store couldn't get the damn Icee machine working on a consistent basis (it had a power switch, two defrost knobs (one for each side), and two dispenser levers), do you think they could get a Linux box to work all the time?
The specs say it's 100 MBps Ethernet. Not 10/100. Will the thing not run properly on 10? I'm not going to get one of these, but I could see this as being a problem. Having to buy an expensive switch rather than a cheap-o hub to connect it.
Amazon's on the list! WooHoo!
On another note, businesses fail all the time. It just happened that net businesses usually did very well. Now they are starting to collapse just like brick and motar counterparts.
Someone should start a project that should rescue dead formats also. I'm assuming if you're getting some picture off a 20 year old tape, it's not going to be in PNG format. Or what about spreadsheets from old programs? There should be a way to convert this stuff into a new format so we have it available. Is anyone aware of a repository for "current" file formats, such as MP3's, Word97 documents, JPG's, Gif's, Png's all in one location? Gathering this information NOW would be easier than gathering it in 10 years, and will prevent information from becoming lost, even though we have the file.
Why was this moderated as Redundant? Can anyone explain the reasoning behind this? Yes, the guy's post was offtopic, but it was true. Do moderators understand the meaning of Redundant? No one else posted anything about it. This is the reason I would like to be able to meta moderate comments that I choose. The random ones lose their context when taken by themselves. There's no way to know if this was redundant weeks from now, and someone will metamoderate it as "Fair".
If there's one thing to be learned, providing an actual link to http://www.openssh.org will allow us to, as a community, Slashdot them (it brings in the people to lazy to type in the address)! But on a more serious note, he does provide a link to openssh.com. He doesn't try to deceive anyone.
Was this stuff really necessary? Also, couldn't a plasma screen be easily used in another place? The time zone maps, those were probably made especially for Y2K, which is just wasteful.
I remember reading about this a while ago. One potential use could be a gas station could broadcast some special to everyone in the area to boost sales. I'm worried if some hacker created a device to make these broadcast, and then we all get porn advertisements. Another possibility is the phone companies charging more to block ads.
UND Computer Center, in agreement with the UND administration, is announcing that the Napster client software is officially banned for use by UND faculty, staff, and students. Napster is a program for sharing recorded music over networks and is being banned because it utilizes a large amount of Internet bandwidth, thus interfering with more suitable use. This action is based on the HECN Policy and Procedures (Section 4 Paragraph 3), which prohibits incidental personal use of information technology services, if such use interferes with other network usage. This policy can be viewed at the following web location http://www.nodak.edu/hecn/policy/. Certain technical measures have been taken to enforce this policy for the UND campus. Attempts to bypass these measures will be interpreted as violations of this policy. Your cooperation is appreciated.
I hit the ground in a dream once. You don't die. You just wake up and it feels like someone hit you in the gut really really hard.
They filed a lawsuit against B&N, so what makes you think they won't enforce this? Hopefully you do get moderated down, because you're not thinking about the past actions of Amazon.
Wow...patenting buddies. Amazing concept.