Seems like the spam spikes in relation to this sort of story, to try to phish someone into 'securing' their info.
Email is the last way a bank should go about contacting a customer; even without the constant phishing, I think there are plenty of people that merely don't even know their own correct email address, nor can relate it accurately on a form, so there are examples outside of the phishing world.
Dell apparently is one of the most brilliant businessmen of our time, because he told me so.
>
He read it aloud on the audio book I was referencing, his biography, as read by Michael Dell. If that doesn't count as an "I approve this message", I do not know what does.
The Biography was self serving and proud. Not Humble. I believe it was put forth as his autobiography; yet it may have been ghostwritten, which makes it even more of a slap on the back of hubris. In any case, it was a several hour lecture on how clever he thought he was.
On the negative side of the ledger, someone -- or, more likely, some committee -- somewhere along the decision chain, stipulated that almost every page of the book should be formatted so that the outside 1.5 inches, which is the easiest for a reader to see, should be consumed by a mostly empty and useless gutter, the bulk of which is filled with a light gray bar.
I sez:
I can't judge the design not having seen it with my own eyes, and cannot speak to the light grey bar at all, but the wide outer margin is a common design when
one might be expected to make notes in the margin.
I know, I sort of trained myself never to write in books and I'm sure that is a practice many reading this follow. But the other night, I had a question about something I was reading, and I had no other paper around, so I made a note about
the text in context over to the side.
Often, the bare outer design is often used by the authors themselves for illustrations and side bars. And a bar of color along the side is often used like a thumb index to delineate chapters. There are purposes for design elements, including negative space, towards a books outer margins.
If you could truly cover 12 miles of touring in an hour (The top segways speed), such segway tourism could make some sense for the time constrained tourist. The thing is, the tours are always on the segways slow setting, barely faster than walking speed, to prevent accidents.
Without RTFA, I can tell you that people can still manage to get themselves thown off of a segway, which is why the new model uses leaning for steering, instead of wrist twisting.
Segways were not introduced at 5 thousand.. more like half that price... it is just that they have been modded up to that price range.
The big problem with them is, they were designed to replace the driving automobiles for medium distances-- they were not intended to replace walking, or prevent exercise.
Bikes take up more of a parking footprint, and get stolen because they are left outside. Ideally, the segway city would have people bring their segway in and park it next to their desk, or stow in a locker, and would be for people who lived within 12 miles of work or so, that did not mind an hour commute.
A motorized Razor, that one could fold and put in a backpack, would be cheaper and handier. Mass Transit that people would actually use would be handier.
I wish there were a better feedback system for sites that could be useful slang dictionaries, like urbandictionary.com (I think that is the url). Some entries reflect actual usage, some are obvious inventions on the spot, but get ranked highly anyway, because someone thinks they are funny or useful enough.
I think I got the bizarre idea of dell selling mac clones, from the advertising styles of the two main mac clone makers of the time. One was clearly motorola, and had more clout in traditional retail, and the other was clearly primarily mail order if not completely mail order.
If there was still a lucrative market of Macs being cloned, would Dell have been part of it somehow? Or would he have ignored it completely?
One reason the clone market WAS detrimental was that one of the clone makers, was the company providing apple with its chips, and could keep the advantages of supply to themselves. It also seemed, with others buying their chips, Motorola would always fill the smallest orders first, to get them out of the way, while the company that had ordered 80 to 90 percent of them, were last in line, their order was 'still being fulfilled'.
>Michael Dell is the polar opposite of a "loudmouthed blowhard".
Have you heard his autobiography as an audiobook? It might change your idea of what polar opposite means. Unless you are Bizarro Superman.
Even worse, I think that pat oneself on ones back fest of a bio was ghostwritten even. Although he read it with pride.
Did not Dell, for a short period, sell Macintosh Clones?
Dell was in the right place at the right time, really. When the company surfed the growth curve, they were providing better value, compared to those mired in retail distribution of similar wares, with other product lines to worry about.
Casady and Greene was also to a huge extent, a remarketer, a publisher rather than a developer. Their business model was very much like Ambrosia Software, providing a distribution point for independantly developed shareware and software, rather than building everything they sold from the ground up.
Casady and Greene put discs in boxes, advertised the goods, and distributed to retailers. It is always possible they were not the fountainhead for SoundJam.
When I watch DVD content on my laptop, I often will decide to watch interlaced, rather than the interpolation (non-interlaced) that the computer can hack up. There are different sort of artifacts in both case, in fact, I think that some of the stink (not all) that has been raised about digital clean up for animated content, might actually be due to the viewing method, interlaced or non-interlaced. With outlined flat colors, as with 2d animation, you see a little spiderweb across the lines when viewing 'non-interlaced', the interpolated average. And of course, with interlaced, during movement, depending on exactly how it was digitally mastered for TV at one point or another, you will see the interlaced movement.
As noticeable on a set meant for viewing? I haven't made the comparison. And this is with the lower res DVD standard.
Anyway, most content is, and will be interlaced, and has an NTSC legacy. Is anyone broadcasting 1080p? The only progressive content I am sure I have seen is from my camcorder which creates 30 fps progressive.
This might be due to how the data for MEDICARE itself is set up where insurance is processed (government programming) or it may be due to the history of electronic claim filing. Before PCs or even fax machines were commonly available as a common consumer office product, the medical insurance industry tried other methods to allow submitting of claims electronically.
One of these methods was a keyboard that used an acoustically coupled modem for transmittal. The keyboard itself was a custom keyboard barely longer than a telephone receiver (they used to look sorta like barbells, kiddies), and a lot of keys did double duty.
But I think it is a programming legacy. And it deals with data sets that may be decades old still being in use. I still on a daily basis, on the PCs at work, particularly at registers if not other info kiosks, run into data where the expected input is ALL CAPS, more often converted for the typist these days, but still, ALL CAPS. Why is that? Some one somewhere, set up their code where they only allowed that particular ASCII subset, perhaps to help the code flow later as it is being munched.
Even among AOL accounts, I doubt the use of AOL search field or its browser is that huge a percentage. You could use an outside browser with AOL dialup before there even were the first creaky attempts to rig a browser into the AOL client itself, around version 3 or so. Although clicking on an URL in email will use the AOL browser.
Just saying the population being spunkd is even a smaller subset.
I somewhat share that perspective. What YouTube really does, is popularize Flash for content that would be better served by something from the mpeg side of the media family tree. I would feel better about YouTube if they streamed, or allowed download, of some other media format.
It is a considerable pain to have to convert the flv to view in a preferred media player.
Tabs as transcribed by fans, are often MORE accurate. And if they err (in the manner a published transcription may err in order to make the 'arrangement' easier to play, they often hit the accuracy and ease of play targets more accurately than the rushed officially published sheet music transcription. Sure there are lot of poor fan transcriptions out there that are wrong, but they sort of get wikied away. People take what they can use and leave the rest.
Official published transcription and tablature, when and where it even exists, has a tighter range of quality, but the target often falls short of the mark. Sometimes, deliberately. Either the transcriptionists they use could care less, or there is a deliberate corruption of the published arrangement, and lyric content, perhaps as a copyright trap, if not pure carelessness. Those versions sometimes see some correction in the marketplace, but not much.
The main reason there is so much fan driven tablature is selection. You can't keep sheet music in print indefinitely, as a paper product, even print on demand kiosks are limited.
With Bill not coming into the office, and the new competitive threat, I think you can count on a resurgance of MSFT squatting on ad distorting 'standards', the old assimilate and break routine.
On the platter-
Bring back IE wonkiness to shatter advances towards web standards.
Make a "Microsoft" flavor of PDF, a return of the old "lets screw with the fonts and imaging trick"
Kill Macros on Office on other platforms (I would not be surprised to see other changes in Office to help throw a spanner in the OpenOffice movement).
Buy out and kill companies that would make cross platform communications seamless and more trouble free.
-- Or you know, they could just stop development for PPC legacy code that no longer needs support now that others have taken that small market.
okay, without RTFA, I think I have figured how this might work.
When you keep the molecules relatively still by keeping them cold, it is more likely for a fizzing sub-atomic troublemaker to go from nucleus to nucleus, because everybody isn't dancing around so.
Its the difference between playing pool in your typical pool hall, versus playing pool on a small houseboat in a storm, where the balls won't keep still.
By what percentages is this speeding up decay, shortening the halflife?
And yeah, it does make it more radioactive, even if for a shorter period of time, but I bet most of these half lifes are still longer than the typical human full life.
Doesn't slowing decay actually EXTEND its half life? I mean, doesn't this merely make it radioactive for a longer period of time, a slower decay keeping the isotope in its initial form longer? Isn't the typical mode of decay from "More highly radioactive isotope to less radioactive isotope?
I didn't RTFA, and I am not a new clear fizzy cyst, but, am I missing something obvious here? Or is the poster? Contradicting well established theory this is.
What is it about cooling to near Kelvin that makes it burn faster? Did someone merely get things backwards? Is there some sort of semantic misapprehension going on? Did they merely mean, reduce decay, rather than, reducing decay time?
One way to kill the Hollywood mindset of regurgitating sequels for a safe bet because of compromise of innovation to hedge bets against huge development costs, is to open console games up to user modification. This is going to HAVE to happen for consoles; it has been propping up the PC game market a considerable more than some developers might be willing to admit.
Mods and Cheats need to be built in to console games.
The difficult thing, is to convince financiers wanting to 'own' a franchise, that this is the healthiest way to continue.
One way they might be convinced, is in merely rereleasing previous game in a new souped up, more flexible and editable engine. A bit less investment on their part. Unfortunately, this is too much like just pumping out sequels, and remakes, could be considered worse.
My typical game purchasing pattern: Buy new console; read of a few interesting games that never are released, suffer the lack in variety as the same safe blockbuster titles are regurgitated.
It depends what editors think is 'good enough' for their audience.
I wouldn't trust ANY encyclopedia beyond perhaps its use as a rough outline for further research.
Generally, despite being open to vandalism, I would generally trust Wikipedia more than lets say U.S. Television Network news, cable or broadcast, which feed error to the masses everyday.
There are different levels of feedback and revision flavoring all sources, for a variety of logistic reasons. There are different styles of error, commission and omission, based on these logistics.
What parts of the company do you think they represented?
Who do you think they will go work for?
My wild guess is, they were the sales force needed to touch
base with Dell, and some of these layoffs may end up working
for AMD in the same capacity, as account managers for Dell
at AMD.
Practically every MySpace site pushes an MP3 stream to you. Constantly. As long as that page is open in a tab in your browser.
Compare that to all of the other browsing one may do, where the bandwidth hogs are mostly annoying Flash ads, and most of the real content, text and jpegs, has loaded before you read the first sentence.
Slashdot Mirror
Seems like the spam spikes in relation to this sort of story, to try to phish someone into 'securing' their info.
Email is the last way a bank should go about contacting a customer; even without the constant phishing, I think there are plenty of people that merely don't even know their own correct email address, nor can relate it accurately on a form, so there are examples outside of the phishing world.
Dell apparently is one of the most brilliant businessmen of our time, because he told me so.
>
He read it aloud on the audio book I was referencing, his biography, as read by Michael Dell. If that doesn't count as an "I approve this message", I do not know what does.
The Biography was self serving and proud. Not Humble. I believe it was put forth as his autobiography; yet it may have been ghostwritten, which makes it even more of a slap on the back of hubris. In any case, it was a several hour lecture on how clever he thought he was.
Leading post sez:
On the negative side of the ledger, someone -- or, more likely, some committee -- somewhere along the decision chain, stipulated that almost every page of the book should be formatted so that the outside 1.5 inches, which is the easiest for a reader to see, should be consumed by a mostly empty and useless gutter, the bulk of which is filled with a light gray bar.
I sez:
I can't judge the design not having seen it with my own eyes, and cannot speak to the light grey bar at all, but the wide outer margin is a common design when one might be expected to make notes in the margin.
I know, I sort of trained myself never to write in books and I'm sure that is a practice many reading this follow. But the other night, I had a question about something I was reading, and I had no other paper around, so I made a note about the text in context over to the side.
Often, the bare outer design is often used by the authors themselves for illustrations and side bars. And a bar of color along the side is often used like a thumb index to delineate chapters. There are purposes for design elements, including negative space, towards a books outer margins.
If you could truly cover 12 miles of touring in an hour (The top segways speed), such segway tourism could make some sense for the time constrained tourist. The thing is, the tours are always on the segways slow setting, barely faster than walking speed, to prevent accidents.
Without RTFA, I can tell you that people can still manage to get themselves thown off of a segway, which is why the new model uses leaning for steering, instead of wrist twisting.
Segways were not introduced at 5 thousand.. more like half that price... it is just that they have been modded up to that price range.
The big problem with them is, they were designed to replace the driving automobiles for medium distances-- they were not intended to replace walking, or prevent exercise.
Bikes take up more of a parking footprint, and get stolen because they are left outside. Ideally, the segway city would have people bring their segway in and park it next to their desk, or stow in a locker, and would be for people who lived within 12 miles of work or so, that did not mind an hour commute.
A motorized Razor, that one could fold and put in a backpack, would be cheaper and handier. Mass Transit that people would actually use would be handier.
I wish there were a better feedback system for sites that could be useful slang dictionaries, like urbandictionary.com (I think that is the url). Some entries reflect actual usage, some are obvious inventions on the spot, but get ranked highly anyway, because someone thinks they are funny or useful enough.
I think I got the bizarre idea of dell selling mac clones, from the advertising styles of the two main mac clone makers of the time. One was clearly motorola, and had more clout in traditional retail, and the other was clearly primarily mail order if not completely mail order.
If there was still a lucrative market of Macs being cloned, would Dell have been part of it somehow? Or would he have ignored it completely?
One reason the clone market WAS detrimental was that one of the clone makers, was the company providing apple with its chips, and could keep the advantages of supply to themselves. It also seemed, with others buying their chips, Motorola would always fill the smallest orders first, to get them out of the way, while the company that had ordered 80 to 90 percent of them, were last in line, their order was 'still being fulfilled'.
To get the previous lecture podcast, you must attend the next class.
Missed lectures will be provided one week before exam. Password distributed in class.
Also, consider visual aids will not make it into typical podcast (although possible, dependant on ipod or media player)
>Michael Dell is the polar opposite of a "loudmouthed blowhard".
Have you heard his autobiography as an audiobook? It might change your idea of what polar opposite means. Unless you are Bizarro Superman.
Even worse, I think that pat oneself on ones back fest of a bio was ghostwritten even. Although he read it with pride.
Did not Dell, for a short period, sell Macintosh Clones?
Dell was in the right place at the right time, really. When the company surfed the growth curve, they were providing better value, compared to those mired in retail distribution of similar wares, with other product lines to worry about.
I read practically the same article in a Readers Digest in the late seventies.
Anyone have access to a Readers Guide to Periodical Literature?
After all, isn't Canada the last known whereabouts of famous foreclosure mortgage robber baron Snidely Whiplash?
I thought the mountie always got his man...
Is this landlord favoring policy possibly a British legacy?
Casady and Greene was also to a huge extent, a remarketer, a publisher rather than a developer. Their business model was very much like Ambrosia Software, providing a distribution point for independantly developed shareware and software, rather than building everything they sold from the ground up.
Casady and Greene put discs in boxes, advertised the goods, and distributed to retailers. It is always possible they were not the fountainhead for SoundJam.
>interlacing (why we still use it is beyond me)
When I watch DVD content on my laptop, I often will decide to watch interlaced, rather than the interpolation (non-interlaced) that the computer can hack up. There are different sort of artifacts in both case, in fact, I think that some of the stink (not all) that has been raised about digital clean up for animated content, might actually be due to the viewing method, interlaced or non-interlaced. With outlined flat colors, as with 2d animation, you see a little spiderweb across the lines when viewing 'non-interlaced', the interpolated average. And of course, with interlaced, during movement, depending on exactly how it was digitally mastered for TV at one point or another, you will see the interlaced movement.
As noticeable on a set meant for viewing? I haven't made the comparison. And this is with the lower res DVD standard.
Anyway, most content is, and will be interlaced, and has an NTSC legacy. Is anyone broadcasting 1080p? The only progressive content I am sure I have seen is from my camcorder which creates 30 fps progressive.
If there is a driving force for getting home WiFi systems on a faster standard, it will probably be video streaming.
As others have said, why go faster than the slowest bottleneck, unless you are serving higher bandwidth than your web connection anyway.
Public WiFi space, may update sooner due to number of users.
This might be due to how the data for MEDICARE itself is set up where insurance is processed (government programming) or it may be due to the history of electronic claim filing. Before PCs or even fax machines were commonly available as a common consumer office product, the medical insurance industry tried other methods to allow submitting of claims electronically.
One of these methods was a keyboard that used an acoustically coupled modem for transmittal. The keyboard itself was a custom keyboard barely longer than a telephone receiver (they used to look sorta like barbells, kiddies),
and a lot of keys did double duty.
But I think it is a programming legacy. And it deals with data sets that may be decades old still being in use. I still on a daily basis, on the PCs at work, particularly at registers if not other info kiosks, run into data where the expected input is ALL CAPS, more often converted for the typist these days, but still, ALL CAPS. Why is that? Some one somewhere, set up their code where they only allowed that particular ASCII subset, perhaps to help the code flow later as it is being munched.
Why is that?
Even among AOL accounts, I doubt the use of AOL search field or its browser is that huge a percentage. You could use an outside browser with AOL dialup before there even were the first creaky attempts to rig a browser into the AOL client itself, around version 3 or so. Although clicking on an URL in email will use the AOL browser. Just saying the population being spunkd is even a smaller subset.
I somewhat share that perspective. What YouTube really does, is popularize Flash for content that would be better served by something from the mpeg side of the media family tree. I would feel better about YouTube if they streamed, or allowed download, of some other media format.
It is a considerable pain to have to convert the flv to view in a preferred media player.
Tabs as transcribed by fans, are often MORE accurate. And if they err (in the manner a published transcription may err in order to make the 'arrangement' easier to play, they often hit the accuracy and ease of play targets more accurately than the rushed officially published sheet music transcription. Sure there are lot of poor fan transcriptions out there that are wrong, but they sort of get wikied away. People take what they can use and leave the rest.
Official published transcription and tablature, when and where it even exists, has a tighter range of quality, but the target often falls short of the mark. Sometimes, deliberately. Either the transcriptionists they use could care less, or there is a deliberate corruption of the published arrangement, and lyric content, perhaps as a copyright trap, if not pure carelessness. Those versions sometimes see some correction in the marketplace, but not much.
The main reason there is so much fan driven tablature is selection. You can't keep sheet music in print indefinitely, as a paper product, even print on demand kiosks are limited.
With Bill not coming into the office, and the new competitive threat, I think you can count on a resurgance of MSFT squatting on ad distorting 'standards', the old assimilate and break routine.
On the platter-
Bring back IE wonkiness to shatter advances towards web standards.
Make a "Microsoft" flavor of PDF, a return of the old "lets screw with the fonts and imaging trick"
Kill Macros on Office on other platforms (I would not be surprised to see other changes in Office to help throw a spanner in the OpenOffice movement).
Buy out and kill companies that would make cross platform communications seamless and more trouble free.
--
Or you know, they could just stop development for PPC legacy code that no longer needs support now that others have taken that small market.
okay, without RTFA, I think I have figured how this might work. When you keep the molecules relatively still by keeping them cold, it is more likely for a fizzing sub-atomic troublemaker to go from nucleus to nucleus, because everybody isn't dancing around so. Its the difference between playing pool in your typical pool hall, versus playing pool on a small houseboat in a storm, where the balls won't keep still. By what percentages is this speeding up decay, shortening the halflife? And yeah, it does make it more radioactive, even if for a shorter period of time, but I bet most of these half lifes are still longer than the typical human full life.
Doesn't slowing decay actually EXTEND its half life? I mean, doesn't this merely make it radioactive for a longer period of time, a slower decay keeping the isotope in its initial form longer? Isn't the typical mode of decay from "More highly radioactive isotope to less radioactive isotope? I didn't RTFA, and I am not a new clear fizzy cyst, but, am I missing something obvious here? Or is the poster? Contradicting well established theory this is. What is it about cooling to near Kelvin that makes it burn faster? Did someone merely get things backwards? Is there some sort of semantic misapprehension going on? Did they merely mean, reduce decay, rather than, reducing decay time?
One way to kill the Hollywood mindset of regurgitating sequels for a safe bet because of compromise of innovation to hedge bets against huge development costs, is to open console games up to user modification. This is going to HAVE to happen for consoles; it has been propping up the PC game market a considerable more than some developers might be willing to admit.
Mods and Cheats need to be built in to console games.
The difficult thing, is to convince financiers wanting to 'own' a franchise, that this is the healthiest way to continue.
One way they might be convinced, is in merely rereleasing previous game in a new souped up, more flexible and editable engine. A bit less investment on their part. Unfortunately, this is too much like just pumping out sequels, and remakes, could be considered worse.
My typical game purchasing pattern: Buy new console; read of a few interesting games that never are released, suffer the lack in variety as the same safe blockbuster titles are regurgitated.
It depends what editors think is 'good enough' for their audience.
I wouldn't trust ANY encyclopedia beyond perhaps its use as a rough outline for further research.
Generally, despite being open to vandalism, I would generally trust Wikipedia more than lets say U.S. Television Network news, cable or broadcast, which feed error to the masses everyday.
There are different levels of feedback and revision flavoring all sources, for a variety of logistic reasons. There are different styles of error, commission and omission, based on these logistics.
what about The Intel layoffs?
What parts of the company do you think they represented?
Who do you think they will go work for?
My wild guess is, they were the sales force needed to touch
base with Dell, and some of these layoffs may end up working
for AMD in the same capacity, as account managers for Dell
at AMD.
Practically every MySpace site pushes an MP3 stream to you. Constantly. As long as that page is open in a tab in your browser.
Compare that to all of the other browsing one may do, where the bandwidth hogs are mostly annoying Flash ads, and most of the real content, text and jpegs, has loaded before you read the first sentence.
Yeah, I know its a stupid question, but what is the main use of this? Running old MS-DOS programs within XP, that might not run otherwise? A sandbox?