We sold the TI/99 4A for years at my hardware store. Too bad we didn't get together...we could have bundled your games with the computer and made millions!:-)
Actually, most of our TI sales were to local school districts who used it for the LOGO programming language. It was about a two year run before TI pulled the plug on the computer.
We support PHP, Perl, and Cold Fusion on our web servers and the choice depends on who's coding it and who's going to support it. I've got several people who grew up with HTML and CFML and they like that whole "world", and their comfort level makes it easier for me.
Finally remembered the name of the product...PC Satisfaction. There are a few news articles on the web about it including this one regarding system performance. My wife and kids nearly killed me for testing it on our home PC as it was such a resource hog. Late in the beta it got a little bit better but then they decided to shelve the product. I'd guess that they took what they learned in that beta and applied it to the AntiSpyware and upcoming antivirus programs.
I was involved in a beta test about two years ago for a Microsoft security product for home use that included anti-virus and a firewall. The name of the product escapes me (PCHealth?) but although it worked well enough it was quite a system resource hog. The beta went on for about six months and then shut down with no released product.
No, it's mostly because I can load up a Q3A game in about fifteen seconds while connecting to Halo 2 on Xbox Live usually takes five minutes (or longer).
You're right, there were lots of new shows on there as well...including a U2 show from last week. There were also musical performances from TV like Green Day "Storytellers" from VH1 on April 2. I really could have written a more accurate and detailed submission, but I wanted to leave stuff for all the rest of you to post.:-)
Honestly, a lot of the material should not have been on EZT, but where else will one find older shows by artists that the major labels have abandoned. In my submission I mentioned Ian Hunter...just two days ago on EZT I found a video from a vintage show in 1979. I had seen him on this tour, and it was great to be able to burn a DVD-R and watch the show. That's the kind of stuff I miss when sites like EZT shut down.
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Sadly you're correct. EZTree wasn't an ad-supported or subscription site, just a group of people who decided to set up a torrent tracker. They had no money to even speak with an attorney for five minutes let alone respond to multiple legal notices.
So instead of letting fans get access to these shows via torrents the music industry will drive them back to bootleggers who sell these shows on CD for a profit. Does anyone else remember when you had to buy a bootleg LP for $15 or $20 in order to hear studio outtakes or live unreleased shows? To me, the best thing about P2P networks is that they take the criminal middle-man (bootlegger) out of the equation and let the fans trade materials directly.
My multi-disc SOny CD player (nearly 15 years old now) had a "shuffle" mode that appeared to repeat songs. It only held five discs (containing about 60 songs in total) and we'd notice that within 45 minutes we'd get a repeat and some songs just never would show up in the "random" shuffle. I always assumed it was some sort of a bug and never thought about it mathematically. I guess the results I got were to be expected considering the small sample of songs.
Again, there really is a difference. Neo-Nazi sites normally have content that is illegal in Germany (and of course simply disgusting) on the other hand there are many legitimate causes for searching for "Adolf Hitler" on the web.
There are many legitimate reasons for searching for neo-nazi sites sites. In fact the same person searching for Adolf Hitler may want to search for neo-Nazi sites as well. Censorship is a slippery slope. Both Google and MSN are private corporations so they are not constrained by "rights" that may apply to government databases, so although I find their filtering objectionable I support their right to run their business as they see fit. I just wonder how many users are aware that their search results may be incomplete. Does Google post a message when search results have been filtered?
They were filtering out "objectionable" sites and sites that violated local laws. If you know a site if filtering "Adolf Hitler" that's more up-front than filtering "objectionable" sites. I disagree with both approaches.
Wikipedia has over 450,000 English entries, over 200,000 German articles, and over 100,000 Japanese articles. France is in fourth with over 83,000 articles.
This sounds correct...the courts didn't have a problem with the mother monitoring her daughter's phone call, just with the police using the conversation as evidence.
Even more important, what about IM logging programs like Parent Tools used to monitor children's conversations in chat rooms? Does the parent have to notify their children that they are being recorded?
And how about sites like Perverted Justice that post recorded IM conversations between two adults? I guess they should avoid child predators in Florida. Even if the police get involved, a judge would likely toss the case since the initial investigation was done illegally.
So now it's time to quit using MCI/UUNET. A suitable alternative is to just quit paying them money
It's on my "to do" list, but I wonder how much work and expense I can justify to "punish" them. Will it be MCI that suffers, or me? In the big picture there are political and social issues that need my attention more than battling MCI over their spam policy.
I've found our mail server blocked by several smaller RBL's merely because our Class C is part of MCI's pool. Granted that most ISP's don't use these small personal RBL's, but it isn't a good sign when someone will block MCI's entire IP block because of the amount of spam originating within their network.
Exactly the reason for the program. Why offer you windshield washer fluid for 99 cents when I can charge you $1.59. My regular customers, the ones who purchase lots of hardware needs, will get the 99 cent price. You will instead shop at the big box stores link Home Depot and enjoy their wonderful service and ambiance. Honestly, my dufus hardware store doesn't want the cherry-picker customer anyway.
BTW, we don't require a card. Our POS system can retrieve people by last name or phone number if they don't want to "carry" around another heavy loyalty card.
Loyalty programs don't necessarily mean higher prices. Our hardware store uses a loyalty program in order to offer special prices and rebates to our top customers. Our prices did not go up when we started the program, and we still run occasional sales that don't require a loyalty card. We ask for an address on the card application so we can mail the rebate check. We ask for a birthday (month only, and it's optional) so we can send a $10 certificate redeemable that month. Yes, if we wanted to we could discover who bought a plunger to clear their stopped up toilet, or who bought paint chemicals that could be used to make drugs. However, we also can look up your sale so you can return something even if you lost the receipt. We can reprint a receipt quickly if you need it for your taxes or a warranty repair.
Obviously you give up a bit of information to gain some benefit, and that's the case in a myriad of things we do each day. You provide info for credit card applications, job applications, drivers license applications, purchasing items online, etc.
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We sold the TI/99 4A for years at my hardware store. Too bad we didn't get together...we could have bundled your games with the computer and made millions! :-)
Actually, most of our TI sales were to local school districts who used it for the LOGO programming language. It was about a two year run before TI pulled the plug on the computer.
We support PHP, Perl, and Cold Fusion on our web servers and the choice depends on who's coding it and who's going to support it. I've got several people who grew up with HTML and CFML and they like that whole "world", and their comfort level makes it easier for me.
You gotta love the dancing stars.
Finally remembered the name of the product...PC Satisfaction. There are a few news articles on the web about it including this one regarding system performance. My wife and kids nearly killed me for testing it on our home PC as it was such a resource hog. Late in the beta it got a little bit better but then they decided to shelve the product. I'd guess that they took what they learned in that beta and applied it to the AntiSpyware and upcoming antivirus programs.
I was involved in a beta test about two years ago for a Microsoft security product for home use that included anti-virus and a firewall. The name of the product escapes me (PCHealth?) but although it worked well enough it was quite a system resource hog. The beta went on for about six months and then shut down with no released product.
No, it's mostly because I can load up a Q3A game in about fifteen seconds while connecting to Halo 2 on Xbox Live usually takes five minutes (or longer).
Excellent...although I have Halo/Halo2, and Unreal Tournament (all Xbox) I keep going back to Q3Arena on my PC for multi-player gaming.
Looking forward to 3....2....1....
FIGHT!
Based on this message it appears that the admins of Easytree have examined the letter(s) sent to their ISP and may bring the site back online.
You're right, there were lots of new shows on there as well...including a U2 show from last week. There were also musical performances from TV like Green Day "Storytellers" from VH1 on April 2. I really could have written a more accurate and detailed submission, but I wanted to leave stuff for all the rest of you to post. :-)
Honestly, a lot of the material should not have been on EZT, but where else will one find older shows by artists that the major labels have abandoned. In my submission I mentioned Ian Hunter...just two days ago on EZT I found a video from a vintage show in 1979. I had seen him on this tour, and it was great to be able to burn a DVD-R and watch the show. That's the kind of stuff I miss when sites like EZT shut down.
Sadly you're correct. EZTree wasn't an ad-supported or subscription site, just a group of people who decided to set up a torrent tracker. They had no money to even speak with an attorney for five minutes let alone respond to multiple legal notices.
So instead of letting fans get access to these shows via torrents the music industry will drive them back to bootleggers who sell these shows on CD for a profit. Does anyone else remember when you had to buy a bootleg LP for $15 or $20 in order to hear studio outtakes or live unreleased shows? To me, the best thing about P2P networks is that they take the criminal middle-man (bootlegger) out of the equation and let the fans trade materials directly.
My multi-disc SOny CD player (nearly 15 years old now) had a "shuffle" mode that appeared to repeat songs. It only held five discs (containing about 60 songs in total) and we'd notice that within 45 minutes we'd get a repeat and some songs just never would show up in the "random" shuffle. I always assumed it was some sort of a bug and never thought about it mathematically. I guess the results I got were to be expected considering the small sample of songs.
Again, there really is a difference. Neo-Nazi sites normally have content that is illegal in Germany (and of course simply disgusting) on the other hand there are many legitimate causes for searching for "Adolf Hitler" on the web.
There are many legitimate reasons for searching for neo-nazi sites sites. In fact the same person searching for Adolf Hitler may want to search for neo-Nazi sites as well. Censorship is a slippery slope. Both Google and MSN are private corporations so they are not constrained by "rights" that may apply to government databases, so although I find their filtering objectionable I support their right to run their business as they see fit. I just wonder how many users are aware that their search results may be incomplete. Does Google post a message when search results have been filtered?
They were filtering out "objectionable" sites and sites that violated local laws. If you know a site if filtering "Adolf Hitler" that's more up-front than filtering "objectionable" sites. I disagree with both approaches.
Google was caught filtering out neo-Nazi sites back in 2002 so MSN is just following common practice.
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Wikipedia has over 450,000 English entries, over 200,000 German articles, and over 100,000 Japanese articles. France is in fourth with over 83,000 articles.
Waiting here as well... :-(
This sounds correct...the courts didn't have a problem with the mother monitoring her daughter's phone call, just with the police using the conversation as evidence.
Even more important, what about IM logging programs like Parent Tools used to monitor children's conversations in chat rooms? Does the parent have to notify their children that they are being recorded?
And how about sites like Perverted Justice that post recorded IM conversations between two adults? I guess they should avoid child predators in Florida. Even if the police get involved, a judge would likely toss the case since the initial investigation was done illegally.
So now it's time to quit using MCI/UUNET. A suitable alternative is to just quit paying them money
It's on my "to do" list, but I wonder how much work and expense I can justify to "punish" them. Will it be MCI that suffers, or me? In the big picture there are political and social issues that need my attention more than battling MCI over their spam policy.
I've found our mail server blocked by several smaller RBL's merely because our Class C is part of MCI's pool. Granted that most ISP's don't use these small personal RBL's, but it isn't a good sign when someone will block MCI's entire IP block because of the amount of spam originating within their network.
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I wish they were still just uuNet.
Charge excessively high fees for product updates that are really just bug fixes.
Exactly the reason for the program. Why offer you windshield washer fluid for 99 cents when I can charge you $1.59. My regular customers, the ones who purchase lots of hardware needs, will get the 99 cent price. You will instead shop at the big box stores link Home Depot and enjoy their wonderful service and ambiance. Honestly, my dufus hardware store doesn't want the cherry-picker customer anyway.
BTW, we don't require a card. Our POS system can retrieve people by last name or phone number if they don't want to "carry" around another heavy loyalty card.
Loyalty programs don't necessarily mean higher prices. Our hardware store uses a loyalty program in order to offer special prices and rebates to our top customers. Our prices did not go up when we started the program, and we still run occasional sales that don't require a loyalty card. We ask for an address on the card application so we can mail the rebate check. We ask for a birthday (month only, and it's optional) so we can send a $10 certificate redeemable that month. Yes, if we wanted to we could discover who bought a plunger to clear their stopped up toilet, or who bought paint chemicals that could be used to make drugs. However, we also can look up your sale so you can return something even if you lost the receipt. We can reprint a receipt quickly if you need it for your taxes or a warranty repair.
Obviously you give up a bit of information to gain some benefit, and that's the case in a myriad of things we do each day. You provide info for credit card applications, job applications, drivers license applications, purchasing items online, etc.