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Re: "Is it:hallada@msgto.com ? How did you get such a short domain name?".
msgto.com is a free web based email system with spam blocking filters built in. They're grrrreat. They've given flawless performance for months, and will soon move out of beta.
Will the the real reform party please stand up.
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This voter.com story covers the reform party pretty well. This story cover the nomination proccess and what brought on the split in the party.
Buchanan received 49,529 votes to Hagelin's 28,539 votes in the primary balloting. Now they are both claiming to the be the "Real Reform party", they will likely end up in court to try and fight for thier gub'ment handout.
personally, I think that Buchanan is being a good little 'publican and is (knowing that no resonabley mineded moderate would consider voting for him), destoying the reform party and taking away the conservitive protest vote (thus helping bush).
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Imagine, if you will. ..
You decide to put up a fence in your yard and the inspector tells you you need a zoning variance to use the land on the border of your lot. You get your case together, and go before the local zoning board in your city and make your case for a variance. Your case is apealed to the city council along with a group of neibors seeking the same variance.
During the hearing, as each citizen gets up to make their case, the councel quietly passes a piece of paper among themselves as they listen. On the paper is the voting records of each citizen. City council, Mayor, Sherrif, Corener, Judges, and the political affileation of each speaker.
Quietly, to themselves, each city coucil member thinks to themselves "Will I loose a vote if I blow this person off?", "Did this person vote for my opponent?", "Did they organize for a party other than my own?", and the soft bigotry of voter idenification is revealed as the citizens loose their appeal for a variance as their voting records work against them.
Reform party? it's a simple system . . .
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. ..That only have to count 3 votes.;)
Re:Not owned by MS or AOL. nuff siad?
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"Besides the amazing hold Palms have on the market, what tricks do they have up their sleaves to maintain their position on top?"
"The FBI will always have to live with the legacy of the Hoover era, just as the Congress will have to constantly compare itself with the McCarthy hearings, and the Executive Branch must always remember Watergate. These and other incidents from our country's history have contributed to an unfortunate general distrust of our public institutions when they concern themselves with the rights of our citizens."
All it takes is one power hungry nutball to go after anyone they consider "devient" and you're being tracked by your "warm and friendly" FBI for being a member of the NRA, watching Rosie, or enjoying a cuban cigar.
"And the truly amazing part of this story is that there is nothing illegal about the data gathering, itself. Since the kiosk doesn't belong to you or me, we are bound by terms of usage that allow the kiosk provider to do pretty much whatever they want with the bits we run through their system. By simply using their machine, we give up our privacy without even knowing it."
It sounds like we need some privacy laws to fill the lupole that Carnivore seeks to exploit. I, for one, favor the british aproach to seeking the informed consent of the people providing the data before collecting it.
The sucess of the early amiga proved that taking full advantage of a great graphics card allows the user to get more from their peecee. micros~1 is trying to reimplement this amiga idea in their xbox.
From the article: "Nowadays, you've got nVidia, you've got Matrox, you've got 3dfx -- all these companies are spending billions of dollars just to produce graphics chipsets. I think the original gate counts in some of the chipsets that Amiga did were up in the tens of thousands, maybe a hundred thousand. You look at an nVidia GeForce, and it's over 20 million gates! And there's an entire company with a huge resource group behind it, just making graphics chipsets. The Playstation 2 chipset supposedly cost between a billion and a billion and a half dollars to develop. Even Intel makes one thing, the processor -- and maybe some chipsets -- but they jumped out of the graphics market."
Intel and AMD spend a lot of money convincing the market that it's all about.Ghz, but Fleecy Moss has seen a graphics card inclusive os work before and it will work again.
Re: "Okay, so is the message that if we go with Open Source software, we should be happy with what we can get?"
The message is: Contribute.
Read the FAQ, browse the source, help with a bug, do what you can to help and the product will ship quicker.
Most of the help needed doesn't even require you to be a programer. Helping to narrow the focus of bug reports helps the programer focus on the problem instead of the fluff. It's a huuuge help.
Information wants to be free. Even the sniveling dribble and clueless clacking of a script kiddie druling on his keyboard . . . wait for it . ..wants to be free!
This is the price you pay when you open things up for public scrutiny. Mozilla has been the only browser on this peecee (PIII 450 128RAM) for about a week now (I'm typing this in nightly build number 2000 07 23 20) and I respect everyone involved in building the lizard. Do I care if the finished lizard morphs into the next killer app? no. As long as they ship at least one version, and can demonstrate that the project has legs, I'll be contributing all that I can.
To quote someone who put it well: "You can gain, or loose, a lot of customers fast on the net". This flame war of the day is just an illustration of that.
Last night, while running my SETI@Home program, my screen wnet blank and a message from the people of the "United People Of Pluto" and it said:
"People of Earth. Welcome. Please come to our planet. We are only 5,913,520,000 mil^H^H kilometers from the sun. er ummm.. or was it miles?. Nevermind."
This is the core question. ms has done a fine job a cludging together a heap of backward compatibility and bloat that somehow manages to boot. We should be learning from the glaring failures in windows as we point, laugh and learn. Programers should learn new things everyday, but not the same things.
This is just another excuse for ms to pop up that obnoxious paper clip. Parse out the meaningfull word in the sentence and little clippy shows you a menu of choices. It's twice baked Ask Jeeves.
Now, if ms would just devote 1/2 of the money and time they spend on uptime, interoperability, compatibility and, conectivity they might have something usefull. ___
Re:Forgive me if I don't think of the W3C members as Olympian gods dispensing truth from the mountain-top.
You should, and here's why.
You don't remember the "bad old days" before the web when nobody could view documents from other computers, when just conecting to another computer was a chore, when the very thought of a multi-platform, standards compliant, hyperlinked file viewer would have been laughable, when sharing information was a futile strugle of incompatibility and broken conections.
This is the world ms longs for. This is the result of implementing anything proprietary on a public network, and it's what ms is spending millions of marketing dollars to get developers to buy in to.
Tim Berners Lee has given the world the web and has dedicated his life to making sure everyone can use it.
You bring some interesting points that are spot on. Here's another example, just to give you a "what if" kinda thing.
I work for a small company (about 15 people) and we sell our product mostly in our little state. We've been a good corporate citizen for more than 20 years, and we have the exclusive distrobution rights in wisconsin to handle a lot of differant products. That is to say, we're a local state company.
If, on our web site, there is a user from another state that harasses our customers in our little discussion forum, can we shut him up for "disrupting interstate comerce"? If so, what would be our burden of proof in such a situation?
My point being, does just having a presence on the net automaticly make you an interstate, or international comercial entity? ___
If I have a site that is dedicated to local products and services (like these) does just having my site connected to the net give me and my site the right to use the federal law to enforce my will across a states border? What about states rights? ___
..in the civil code to help people with problem customers, diffcult people or x wives and husbands. If you own a 7/11 you can expect a certian percent of the population to be disruptive to your store, and if you can prove it to a local judge, you can seek a restraining order in oder to maintain a civil 7/11. ___
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msgto.com is a free web based email system with spam blocking filters built in. They're grrrreat. They've given flawless performance for months, and will soon move out of beta.
Buchanan received 49,529 votes to Hagelin's 28,539 votes in the primary balloting. Now they are both claiming to the be the "Real Reform party", they will likely end up in court to try and fight for thier gub'ment handout.
personally, I think that Buchanan is being a good little 'publican and is (knowing that no resonabley mineded moderate would consider voting for him), destoying the reform party and taking away the conservitive protest vote (thus helping bush).
You decide to put up a fence in your yard and the inspector tells you you need a zoning variance to use the land on the border of your lot. You get your case together, and go before the local zoning board in your city and make your case for a variance. Your case is apealed to the city council along with a group of neibors seeking the same variance.
During the hearing, as each citizen gets up to make their case, the councel quietly passes a piece of paper among themselves as they listen. On the paper is the voting records of each citizen. City council, Mayor, Sherrif, Corener, Judges, and the political affileation of each speaker.
Quietly, to themselves, each city coucil member thinks to themselves "Will I loose a vote if I blow this person off?", "Did this person vote for my opponent?", "Did they organize for a party other than my own?", and the soft bigotry of voter idenification is revealed as the citizens loose their appeal for a variance as their voting records work against them.
. . .That only have to count 3 votes. ;)
They aren't owned by by ms or Aol.
. .If you look close enough at the pictures of the cold, dead planet on this page, it kinda looks like cold, dead Algore.
The X Box does not yet exist.
"The FBI will always have to live with the legacy of the Hoover era, just as the Congress will have to constantly compare itself with the McCarthy hearings, and the Executive Branch must always remember Watergate. These and other incidents from our country's history have contributed to an unfortunate general distrust of our public institutions when they concern themselves with the rights of our citizens."
All it takes is one power hungry nutball to go after anyone they consider "devient" and you're being tracked by your "warm and friendly" FBI for being a member of the NRA, watching Rosie, or enjoying a cuban cigar.
History is prolog.
I quote:
"And the truly amazing part of this story is that there is nothing illegal about the data gathering, itself. Since the kiosk doesn't belong to you or me, we are bound by terms of usage that allow the kiosk provider to do pretty much whatever they want with the bits we run through their system. By simply using their machine, we give up our privacy without even knowing it."
It sounds like we need some privacy laws to fill the lupole that Carnivore seeks to exploit. I, for one, favor the british aproach to seeking the informed consent of the people providing the data before collecting it.
From the article:
"Nowadays, you've got nVidia, you've got Matrox, you've got 3dfx -- all these companies are spending billions of dollars just to produce graphics chipsets. I think the original gate counts in some of the chipsets that Amiga did were up in the tens of thousands, maybe a hundred thousand. You look at an nVidia GeForce, and it's over 20 million gates! And there's an entire company with a huge resource group behind it, just making graphics chipsets. The Playstation 2 chipset supposedly cost between a billion and a billion and a half dollars to develop. Even Intel makes one thing, the processor -- and maybe some chipsets -- but they jumped out of the graphics market."
Intel and AMD spend a lot of money convincing the market that it's all about .Ghz, but Fleecy Moss has seen a graphics card inclusive os work before and it will work again.
There's more sucking here than a white house pizza party.
The message is: Contribute.
Read the FAQ, browse the source, help with a bug, do what you can to help and the product will ship quicker.
Most of the help needed doesn't even require you to be a programer. Helping to narrow the focus of bug reports helps the programer focus on the problem instead of the fluff. It's a huuuge help.
Even the sniveling dribble and clueless clacking of a script kiddie druling on his keyboard . . . wait for it . .
This is the price you pay when you open things up for public scrutiny. Mozilla has been the only browser on this peecee (PIII 450 128RAM) for about a week now (I'm typing this in nightly build number 2000 07 23 20) and I respect everyone involved in building the lizard. Do I care if the finished lizard morphs into the next killer app? no. As long as they ship at least one version, and can demonstrate that the project has legs, I'll be contributing all that I can.
To quote someone who put it well:
"You can gain, or loose, a lot of customers fast on the net".
This flame war of the day is just an illustration of that.
It was intended to be a joke about the metric to english conversion problem NASA had with the Climate Orbiter spacecraft around Mars.
"People of Earth. Welcome. .. or was it miles?.
Please come to our planet.
We are only 5,913,520,000 mil^H^H kilometers from the sun.
er ummm
Nevermind."
This is the core question. ms has done a fine job a cludging together a heap of backward compatibility and bloat that somehow manages to boot. We should be learning from the glaring failures in windows as we point, laugh and learn. Programers should learn new things everyday, but not the same things.
msCLI> Make an email virus.
msCLI> Done. File created = iluvyou.vbs
Wow, that was simple.
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msCLI> mount linux file system.
msCLI> unable to comply.
this thing doesn't work!
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Now, if ms would just devote 1/2 of the money and time they spend on uptime, interoperability, compatibility and, conectivity they might have something usefull.
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When budgeting your PBS pay check, how do you decide between buying bread or water?
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The X Box does not yet exist.
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You should, and here's why.
You don't remember the "bad old days" before the web when nobody could view documents from other computers, when just conecting to another computer was a chore, when the very thought of a multi-platform, standards compliant, hyperlinked file viewer would have been laughable, when sharing information was a futile strugle of incompatibility and broken conections.
This is the world ms longs for. This is the result of implementing anything proprietary on a public network, and it's what ms is spending millions of marketing dollars to get developers to buy in to.
Tim Berners Lee has given the world the web and has dedicated his life to making sure everyone can use it.
Pay the man his props.
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I work for a small company (about 15 people) and we sell our product mostly in our little state. We've been a good corporate citizen for more than 20 years, and we have the exclusive distrobution rights in wisconsin to handle a lot of differant products. That is to say, we're a local state company.
If, on our web site, there is a user from another state that harasses our customers in our little discussion forum, can we shut him up for "disrupting interstate comerce"? If so, what would be our burden of proof in such a situation?
My point being, does just having a presence on the net automaticly make you an interstate, or international comercial entity?
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If I have a site that is dedicated to local products and services (like these) does just having my site connected to the net give me and my site the right to use the federal law to enforce my will across a states border? What about states rights?
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. .in the civil code to help people with problem customers, diffcult people or x wives and husbands. If you own a 7/11 you can expect a certian percent of the population to be disruptive to your store, and if you can prove it to a local judge, you can seek a restraining order in oder to maintain a civil 7/11.
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