I clearly remember a slashdot article a month or two back where someone who gave his employer 2 weeks notice that he was leaving the job and his network access was immediately revoekd, though he still got paid. These are the situations why such company policies are enforced. It's not that they don't trust you or anything. It's because they'd rather lose 2 weeks of pay to you than to have damage done. Fortunately, all this person did was delete an account. Imagine what he could've done with the network priviledges he had.
You can complain all you want and even try to get back at the employer for not trusting you. But I believe such company policies should be enforced for damagae prevention.
that's interesting, because in my Google Analytics, it shows what % of users have javascript enabled. Is there a 2nd part of that function that allows them to do that?
declining by # or declining by %age
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Yet the amount of spam seems to be declining. Postini (www.postini.com) keeps real-time data on the amount of spam it stops. A few years ago, it said spam made up around 80% of all the email circulating. When I looked last week the figure was about 60%.
At first I assumed he was only couting spam that made it past the spam blocking softwares, but as it appears his theory is proven based on a different set of assumptions and facts.
His entire article bases on the fact that the % of spams from all emails caught has dropped. This can mean one or more of many things which only follows his theory.
1. Spam has actually decreased 2. Spam has found ways to avoid being detected 3. The volume of email has gone up, with more actual email while spam increased at a slower rate
Honestly, I'd like to see more statistics and figures to decide how spam has changed in these past few years. Just by looking at #s from one company and what percentage they've stopped isn't enough to say much in my opinion.
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I feel the same way. I tend to block all flash ads though because those are the most annoying. Also if the ad contains an annoying animated gif, I block those too.
Beer is the grossest tasting thing ever. Same with most alcoholic drinks. Any drink, remove the alcohol, I can almost gaurantee it'll taste better. But the alcohol's there for the "special effects" it does to your body. I'm pretty sure many may object to what I just said and what I'm about to say, but I can somewhat understand why people would drink beer (obviously for the alcohol content and not the taste), but I can not find any reason why anyone would drink non-alcoholic beer.
Well, it depends if it the slogan was intended for Intel or the user. imo, I think they are referring to those who use their products can 'leap ahead' of their competitors, and not them leaping ahead.
We play games to escape.' Microsoft's strategy is 'absolutely flawed,' he added.
hmmm, that's why MMORPGs are losing a lot of money, don't have much audience, and people aren't dropping out of college because of MMORPG addictions. It's so clear now.
in other words, are they saying, pre-lucy species went from asia to africa. after they became homo-sapiens, they went back to asia? or did that never happened and the asian species evolved into homo-sapiens too?
I had a discussion with a friend sometime ago and I had some suggestions on what Blockbuster could do to have save more money and make customers more happier.
Offer customers both the option of sending it back by mail or returning it back to a local store. That's an advantage of having a local store in almost every city which Netflix doesn't. Of course, if convenience is your thing, you're still allowed to drop it in your mailbox and have the postal service ship it back. But by offering both return methods, both parties will benefit from the user returning to the store. The user's queue will be emptied by the following day (instead of waiting ~3 days for the mail to be delivered and scanned), therefore that means more movies per month. Blockbuster saves money by shipping all the dvds back to the central office together, saving on shipping.
Another feature they can offer customers is the option to allow the subscriber to have 1 dvd out from the local store at any given time. They can even subtract that 1 dvd from the # of dvds they can have out at a time. They can even restrict it to 3+ months old movies, where if the subscriber wants to watch newer movies, they'll have to go through the online store. I mean, every Blockbuster has a bunch of movies that hardly ever circulate much. There's really no point in letting them sit there to collect dust. By allowing users to have access to the local store, this will make them happier and actually give those old dvds some worth in the store. Sometimes you might want to watch a movie that night, but neither netflix or blockbuster would fix that. If the 1 dvd out at a time is too much, you can restrict it to x dvds from local store / month.
I thought of something interesting as I read your point #3 regarding how much a reindeer can pull. Isn't that number really dependent on the static and kinetic friction of the sleigh and the floor? In the case of snow, where the static friction is close to 0, shouldn't reindeers be able to pull a lot more? I'm not saying flying through air would be the same as dragging it along the snow, but it does bring up an interesting point if indeed flyling reindeers exist.
What Grinds My Gears: I've probably made this rant before, but I really really hate the help cell phone service providers provide when you lose your phone. In other words, NO HELP. A friend recently lost his cell phone and it irked me since the T-Mobile was giving him the same bullshit they gave me. Once again, I could never see WHY they wouldn't help us track the phone or help the law enforcement track down the thief? What more easier way is there when a thief is carrying a tracking device!?!?! There should be a list of all reported stolen phones and when someone tries to make a call from that phone, it'll try to locate the person through triangulation and notify the nearest police department to that area (which is easily doable since 911 works on a cell phone). Another service easily providable is any call made from that phone no matter what # was dialed (besides emergency #s like 911) will be forwarded to 1 particular # which the own can set. I mean in the event where the owner loses the phone and the person who found the phone wants to return it, he'd probably try to call someone on that list and ask if they knew who owned this #. By being able to forward all calls to say your home line, you won't have to worry about long distance charges and you can be certain if they try to make a call, it'll be forwarded to you. Another extremely stupid idea is that when you lose your phone is that they recommend that you suspend your account to prevent the thief from putting charges on your bill. However if you're under contract, suspending your account VIOLATES the contract and you're forced to pay the cancellation fee. Which really only leaves you instead of suspending the account to immediately purchase a new phone and swap it onto the current plan. I've asked before if it was okay to suspend the account, but continue paying for the service until I could get a new phone. They apologize and said they couldn't do that. OH MY GOSH! I'm willing to pay for a service which I WILL NOT BE USING, but instead they make it harder on the customer and force them to either get a new phone immediate or suspend the service and pay the cancellation fee.
Besides just comparing the # of error per article or per quantity of text, they should've compared it with the number of facts presented per article. This will also give us an approximation of how much more info one encyclopedia has over the other. I agree what a fact consists of may be subjective, but it shouldn't be too hard to set some guidelines for what a fact is for this study.
"It is a very high-powered, focused radar beam that could be used to find an enemy object out in space and, having found it, zero in on it," Coyle said.
It sounds exactly like what it is, a telescope using radio waves to detect objects with higher precision and farther range. The submitter made it sound like it was some sort of weaponry able to use the radio waves to distort, defend, or even attack (read the star wars defense post comment). This is like calling a binoculars, radars, or sonars weapons. They are tools used for detection and has no real defense or offense capability, besides aiding in defense efforts.
maybe most, but many of the systems I've used before have been great and google's definitely not the 1st one to think of such a system.
http://www.transitinfo.org/ does a really good job of the bay area starting from San Francisco all the way down to San Jose. They even cover the east side such as Oakland and Berkeley.
I would not say this idea is anywhere new or as hyped as everyone is claiming it to be... It's just a nice service they're providing to area(s) that don't have such a system yet.
So in other words, this forces any company that holds a monopoly in a particular market to release lower quality product by not able to provide as many features as competitors, because by that law, competitors cand bundle anything they want giving their software more worth, while companies which hold monopolies can't making their software less attractive.
Maybe that's the law, but I personally think this law needs to be thought out more. What ends up happening is the other extreme where the company who has a monopoly is at an unfair disadvantage.
Apple OSX bundles Safari, iChat and Quicktime, but I don't see government forcing them to strip that software and post competing links. Safari, iChat and Quicktime are all free and made by Apple just like IE, MSN Messenger, and WMP is made by Microsoft. I don't see why you guys complain about Microsoft in this issue when all other operating systems do the same. It's not like Microsoft forbids other software to be installed or making it really hard.
Personally I think by providing these software gives the OS more worth, but many of you just tend to think it's anti-competition. Is it because Microsoft is easier to pick on? has more money to milk?
O'Donnell urged anyone with Xbox problems to call 1-800-4myXbox or go to http://www.xbox.com./ If the problems can't be immediately resolved, Microsoft will pay to ship the console overnight to a repair center, overnight it back once it's fixed, or ship a replacement.
"They'll be playing again in three to five days," O'Donnell said.
But I guess the 3-5 day delay wasn't worth it. Instead he's going to fight this matter over court which will take probably several months or even longer.
another way to see this scenario is as the parent's parent described. Lets say Sony is the father and Sony BMG is son #1 and Sony Fuel Cell is son #2. They run a business together. The father takes care of the major stuff but has given son #1 almost all control over the music aspect of the business. Son #2, the smarter one in the family, is in charge of R&D and invents many cool things. However, all money made, no matter what, goes back to the dad and he decides how to redistribute it.
The parent is wrong to think both Sony BMG and Sony Fuel Cell are managed by the same people, but you are right in that funds can be transferred from one part of the bigger company to another part.
The real question should be, what's the purpose of the boycott? To kill the company or to make them change their ways? Everyone's answer would probably be different, but to me, a successful boycott would mean the company would apologize and change their ways to make the consumers happier. Of course it becomes harder when they have funds coming in from somewhere else, but if you take a step back and look at the overall picture, Sony BMG makes a lot of money by itself. Even if money is coming in elsewhere, if they see some drop in profits/revenue, they'll definitely go research why. I mean, it's not like the PS2 or PS3 where they're expecting to lose money. They're actually expecting to make money from their music business and if sales drop even 5% and they find out it was because people are boycotting them because of the rootkit, you'd think they'd shape up.
I'm probably going to lose karma points because of this, but I don't believe you understand what the difference between open format vs open source is. As long as the file format is documented and everything is available to public, then it's opened. They aren't required to make tools to "help" other platforms.
I originally thought you were just trying to be funny. Then I saw rated 5 insightful. I guess either the moderators didn't get the joke, or they themselves don't understand what an open format is.
Html I believe is a somewhat analogous example. Html is a royalty free file format that people are allowed to use and create. However, it does not mean that the creators of the html file format needed to provide development kits or tools for every platform. I mean the file format's out there. It's there so developers can use it to create the tools and development kits themselves. Microsoft decided to create the dev kit and the tools for their own platforms to further its worth and I see nothing wrong with that.
I mean if I were to complain someone wrote a tool/dev kit based on some "open format" for linux , but not for Windows, would I have the right to complain?
all you have to do is type the word followed by hitting ctrl+enter and it'll tack on the.com for you. If you hit enter without hoding down ctrl, then it returns I'm feeling luck from google.
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I clearly remember a slashdot article a month or two back where someone who gave his employer 2 weeks notice that he was leaving the job and his network access was immediately revoekd, though he still got paid. These are the situations why such company policies are enforced. It's not that they don't trust you or anything. It's because they'd rather lose 2 weeks of pay to you than to have damage done. Fortunately, all this person did was delete an account. Imagine what he could've done with the network priviledges he had.
You can complain all you want and even try to get back at the employer for not trusting you. But I believe such company policies should be enforced for damagae prevention.
that's interesting, because in my Google Analytics, it shows what % of users have javascript enabled. Is there a 2nd part of that function that allows them to do that?
At first I assumed he was only couting spam that made it past the spam blocking softwares, but as it appears his theory is proven based on a different set of assumptions and facts.
His entire article bases on the fact that the % of spams from all emails caught has dropped. This can mean one or more of many things which only follows his theory.
1. Spam has actually decreased
2. Spam has found ways to avoid being detected
3. The volume of email has gone up, with more actual email while spam increased at a slower rate
Honestly, I'd like to see more statistics and figures to decide how spam has changed in these past few years. Just by looking at #s from one company and what percentage they've stopped isn't enough to say much in my opinion.
I feel the same way. I tend to block all flash ads though because those are the most annoying. Also if the ad contains an annoying animated gif, I block those too.
What you're asking for is a RPG where the battles are fighting game style. They actually have that already:
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Namco X Capcom
Here's some english reviews:
http://www.gamestats.com/objects/726/726493/
http://ps2.gamespy.com/playstation-2/namco-x-capc
http://ps2.ign.com/objects/726/726493.html
Beer is the grossest tasting thing ever. Same with most alcoholic drinks. Any drink, remove the alcohol, I can almost gaurantee it'll taste better. But the alcohol's there for the "special effects" it does to your body. I'm pretty sure many may object to what I just said and what I'm about to say, but I can somewhat understand why people would drink beer (obviously for the alcohol content and not the taste), but I can not find any reason why anyone would drink non-alcoholic beer.
"Aerodynamically, the bumble bee shouldn't be able to fly, but the bumble bee doesn't know it so it goes on flying anyway."
It was such a beautiful quote too!
Well, it depends if it the slogan was intended for Intel or the user. imo, I think they are referring to those who use their products can 'leap ahead' of their competitors, and not them leaping ahead.
in other words, are they saying, pre-lucy species went from asia to africa. after they became homo-sapiens, they went back to asia? or did that never happened and the asian species evolved into homo-sapiens too?
I had a discussion with a friend sometime ago and I had some suggestions on what Blockbuster could do to have save more money and make customers more happier.
Offer customers both the option of sending it back by mail or returning it back to a local store. That's an advantage of having a local store in almost every city which Netflix doesn't. Of course, if convenience is your thing, you're still allowed to drop it in your mailbox and have the postal service ship it back. But by offering both return methods, both parties will benefit from the user returning to the store. The user's queue will be emptied by the following day (instead of waiting ~3 days for the mail to be delivered and scanned), therefore that means more movies per month. Blockbuster saves money by shipping all the dvds back to the central office together, saving on shipping.
Another feature they can offer customers is the option to allow the subscriber to have 1 dvd out from the local store at any given time. They can even subtract that 1 dvd from the # of dvds they can have out at a time. They can even restrict it to 3+ months old movies, where if the subscriber wants to watch newer movies, they'll have to go through the online store. I mean, every Blockbuster has a bunch of movies that hardly ever circulate much. There's really no point in letting them sit there to collect dust. By allowing users to have access to the local store, this will make them happier and actually give those old dvds some worth in the store. Sometimes you might want to watch a movie that night, but neither netflix or blockbuster would fix that. If the 1 dvd out at a time is too much, you can restrict it to x dvds from local store / month.
Just my 2 cents.
I thought of something interesting as I read your point #3 regarding how much a reindeer can pull. Isn't that number really dependent on the static and kinetic friction of the sleigh and the floor? In the case of snow, where the static friction is close to 0, shouldn't reindeers be able to pull a lot more? I'm not saying flying through air would be the same as dragging it along the snow, but it does bring up an interesting point if indeed flyling reindeers exist.
I posted this on my blog somewhile back: http://www.krunk4ever.com/blog/?p=56
What Grinds My Gears: I've probably made this rant before, but I really really hate the help cell phone service providers provide when you lose your phone. In other words, NO HELP. A friend recently lost his cell phone and it irked me since the T-Mobile was giving him the same bullshit they gave me. Once again, I could never see WHY they wouldn't help us track the phone or help the law enforcement track down the thief? What more easier way is there when a thief is carrying a tracking device!?!?! There should be a list of all reported stolen phones and when someone tries to make a call from that phone, it'll try to locate the person through triangulation and notify the nearest police department to that area (which is easily doable since 911 works on a cell phone). Another service easily providable is any call made from that phone no matter what # was dialed (besides emergency #s like 911) will be forwarded to 1 particular # which the own can set. I mean in the event where the owner loses the phone and the person who found the phone wants to return it, he'd probably try to call someone on that list and ask if they knew who owned this #. By being able to forward all calls to say your home line, you won't have to worry about long distance charges and you can be certain if they try to make a call, it'll be forwarded to you. Another extremely stupid idea is that when you lose your phone is that they recommend that you suspend your account to prevent the thief from putting charges on your bill. However if you're under contract, suspending your account VIOLATES the contract and you're forced to pay the cancellation fee. Which really only leaves you instead of suspending the account to immediately purchase a new phone and swap it onto the current plan. I've asked before if it was okay to suspend the account, but continue paying for the service until I could get a new phone. They apologize and said they couldn't do that. OH MY GOSH! I'm willing to pay for a service which I WILL NOT BE USING, but instead they make it harder on the customer and force them to either get a new phone immediate or suspend the service and pay the cancellation fee.
Besides just comparing the # of error per article or per quantity of text, they should've compared it with the number of facts presented per article. This will also give us an approximation of how much more info one encyclopedia has over the other. I agree what a fact consists of may be subjective, but it shouldn't be too hard to set some guidelines for what a fact is for this study.
That's not too far from the truth. Have you seen the newest music videos. I'd say at least 25% have quite erotic scenes in them.
It sounds exactly like what it is, a telescope using radio waves to detect objects with higher precision and farther range. The submitter made it sound like it was some sort of weaponry able to use the radio waves to distort, defend, or even attack (read the star wars defense post comment). This is like calling a binoculars, radars, or sonars weapons. They are tools used for detection and has no real defense or offense capability, besides aiding in defense efforts.
This is sweet! Holding down middle click allows you to draw a box and zoom into that region!
maybe most, but many of the systems I've used before have been great and google's definitely not the 1st one to think of such a system.
http://www.transitinfo.org/ does a really good job of the bay area starting from San Francisco all the way down to San Jose. They even cover the east side such as Oakland and Berkeley.
http://www.soundtransit.org/ is another great one where they cover most of the greater seattle area.
I would not say this idea is anywhere new or as hyped as everyone is claiming it to be... It's just a nice service they're providing to area(s) that don't have such a system yet.
So in other words, this forces any company that holds a monopoly in a particular market to release lower quality product by not able to provide as many features as competitors, because by that law, competitors cand bundle anything they want giving their software more worth, while companies which hold monopolies can't making their software less attractive.
Maybe that's the law, but I personally think this law needs to be thought out more. What ends up happening is the other extreme where the company who has a monopoly is at an unfair disadvantage.
Apple OSX bundles Safari, iChat and Quicktime, but I don't see government forcing them to strip that software and post competing links. Safari, iChat and Quicktime are all free and made by Apple just like IE, MSN Messenger, and WMP is made by Microsoft. I don't see why you guys complain about Microsoft in this issue when all other operating systems do the same. It's not like Microsoft forbids other software to be installed or making it really hard.
Personally I think by providing these software gives the OS more worth, but many of you just tend to think it's anti-competition. Is it because Microsoft is easier to pick on? has more money to milk?
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/6420AP_WA_Xbo
But I guess the 3-5 day delay wasn't worth it. Instead he's going to fight this matter over court which will take probably several months or even longer.
another way to see this scenario is as the parent's parent described. Lets say Sony is the father and Sony BMG is son #1 and Sony Fuel Cell is son #2. They run a business together. The father takes care of the major stuff but has given son #1 almost all control over the music aspect of the business. Son #2, the smarter one in the family, is in charge of R&D and invents many cool things. However, all money made, no matter what, goes back to the dad and he decides how to redistribute it.
The parent is wrong to think both Sony BMG and Sony Fuel Cell are managed by the same people, but you are right in that funds can be transferred from one part of the bigger company to another part.
The real question should be, what's the purpose of the boycott? To kill the company or to make them change their ways? Everyone's answer would probably be different, but to me, a successful boycott would mean the company would apologize and change their ways to make the consumers happier. Of course it becomes harder when they have funds coming in from somewhere else, but if you take a step back and look at the overall picture, Sony BMG makes a lot of money by itself. Even if money is coming in elsewhere, if they see some drop in profits/revenue, they'll definitely go research why. I mean, it's not like the PS2 or PS3 where they're expecting to lose money. They're actually expecting to make money from their music business and if sales drop even 5% and they find out it was because people are boycotting them because of the rootkit, you'd think they'd shape up.
Exactly what i was thinking about. Being higher means you have a lot more potential energy.
I'm probably going to lose karma points because of this, but I don't believe you understand what the difference between open format vs open source is. As long as the file format is documented and everything is available to public, then it's opened. They aren't required to make tools to "help" other platforms.
I originally thought you were just trying to be funny. Then I saw rated 5 insightful. I guess either the moderators didn't get the joke, or they themselves don't understand what an open format is.
Html I believe is a somewhat analogous example. Html is a royalty free file format that people are allowed to use and create. However, it does not mean that the creators of the html file format needed to provide development kits or tools for every platform. I mean the file format's out there. It's there so developers can use it to create the tools and development kits themselves. Microsoft decided to create the dev kit and the tools for their own platforms to further its worth and I see nothing wrong with that.
I mean if I were to complain someone wrote a tool/dev kit based on some "open format" for linux , but not for Windows, would I have the right to complain?
all you have to do is type the word followed by hitting ctrl+enter and it'll tack on the .com for you. If you hit enter without hoding down ctrl, then it returns I'm feeling luck from google.