Things that solve this problem, like Yahoo!'s "DomainKeys", are the future of anti-spam, not more highly-polished rocks.
Domain Keys, at least to this point is utter crap in my experience. I get these small floods of spam into my Yahoo! mailbox. What most of them have in common is they are certified by Domain Keys. A couple months ago, I was getting the exact same spam every day for some mortgage coming from different addresses. All were DK certified.
For what it's worth, I do send off those specific emails to the abuse alias at Yahoo! Their canned emails state that they have dealt with the problem according to their TOS.
I don't know where the flaw lies, but it's there in Domain Keys.
Turn off email for a few hours. If it's that important someone will find you (IM, Phone, Cell, or walk over if that's possible).
The problem I have is those half dozen folks who do exactly that. The call me or pop over to my cube for every little problem or question. I find that far more disruptive than getting an email that I can answer when the time is right.
Unless it's highly urgent, send me an email. I'll get back to you after I'm done with this piece of code, or this bug, or the other 3 problems that the QA folks have sent me, you know the Java exception stacks with no other information.
If it's that important, mark the email high priority. I'll see the exclamation point. Trust me.
Email has its flaws as does its implementation in Outlook/Exchange at my work. But I'll take it over most other disruptive forms of communication.
I haven't heard HD (as it's too inconvenient at this point to bother). However, I follow a Usenet group that is dominated mostly by radio engineers - along with the typical set of Usenet freaks. The majority of opinions is that it's an expensive, hyped technology under the control of a single company, iBiquity, that is wooing the radio conglomerates without providing much of a real benefit.
In addition, there is apparently a big problem with interference, referred to as "hash" by the posters.
In January I decided to see a homeopathic M.D. to see if there was something I could do about my cold hands. After taking an extensive history, he decided that my autonomic nervous system was probably out of balance...
Isn't "homeopathic M.D." an oxymoron? As long as we're throwing links around here are some about homeopathy:
And if you want to spew anecdotes, when my dad was in his early 60's he could barely walk across a room without being out of breath and had had a minor heart attack. With 4 weeks preparation with drugs and diet to prep for major surgery, he went through a triple bypass operation. After the recovery of a few months the results were astounding.
Bypass operations are not to be taken lightly, but that doesn't mean there aren't successful results.
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Bonus: OK, here's #2: I use Yahoo's webmail. Looking at my inbox, I want to read, say, 5 random messages out of the 10 new ones.
I also tried Yahoo's new AJAX mail beta but went back to the old style almost immediately. It's very slick, but I'm happy with the plain-vanilla version.
I concur. I've used Yahoo!'s mail both as my "Yahoo" web mail and it slurps my personal domain mail too. There are a number of reasons I do not like the new mail client in beta, but the main is that I can do quick "find as you type" searches on the classic mail client using Firefox. It's simple and it works. Plus I do use the Calendar Event functionality to track my bills. It's all connected in the classic interface. The new mail client is slow and doesn't cleanly integrate the other pieces (addresses, calendar, notes).
The mail search isn't as neatly integrated as Gmail, but it works. My typical use is I'm looking for a subject or a name. It finds it easily. The deep searches are a little more clunky (separate page with checkboxes for all the folders), but the results are fine.
I find the eBook format as simply another alternative for choosing to read something. My Palm T3 has become more of a reading device and less of an organizer.
I keep news updated in AvantGo and browse through articles from CNet, The New York Times, Wired, and many others. Many times the downloaded articles are never read. But they're there if I feel like reading something. It's also handy that I can read some in bed without needing external light (and waking the wife).
But that does not preclude me from reading news on other mediums: web broswer, newspaper or even a newscrawler on the TV.
Likewise reading a book may happen by holding a physical book, and I have read a number of books bought through Palm's eReader store. I don't get too hung up on DRM as I choose books that are priced to sell, typically less than $10. I've read a few of the Dan Brown books, a book on poker, and a few children's books on my Palm.
When it comes to the devices such as dedicated readers, I can see the hesitance about making the purchase for many of the reasons spelled out by others: price, fragility, proprietary. If you're in a situation where your device - Palm, laptop - is comfortable for reading, then it is what it is: something you can use for reading just as you might choose to read on paper.
I have listened to WOXY for years from my cube in Palo Alto going back to when they were a real FM station. They were a true Mom-n-Pop station that was free to program as they saw fit. You had a wide array of alternative along with DJs who knew what they were talking about.
They finally sold the station but came back about a year later under the internet model. Once they implemented the AAC Plus streams, it was a joy to hear even at low bandwidth settings.
WOXY is a truly unique station able to blend musical styles with new and unfamiliar bands along with more familiar commercial offerings. If you emailed a DJ or the program director, you got a response.
Alas, I cannot bring myself to plunk down $9.95 a month for 2 streams that I access only from work. It seems everyone wants that magic ten bucks a month recurring revenue stream.
Brian Jay and the team need to come up with a better solution. This one won't survive. And if I have an idea, I will pass that along. The best I can say right now is, talk to the folks at Google. They're obviously looking for ways to apply AdSense to every medium possible, at least their acquisitions indicate such.
Any company that uses this data must agree to four basic principles: the data is the property of the user, it can be moved from one service or device to another at will, it can be exchanged for something of value, and the user has the right to know who is using it and how.
And some company that agrees to this (wink, wink) decides to violate those terms. Then what?
I'll keep my browsing to myself. I can see this being part of the default install from the IS department at a corporation near you.
Writing and communication skills. Be able to describe through documentation (e.g. UML, Visio, Word, Javadocs) what you are actually doing in a way that is understandable to: QA engineers, other developers and managers, product managers, and sometimes external customers. In most cases, I would not want to hire someone who knows the latest bells and whistles to build something but leaves the company in a lurch when s/he quits because no one can make sense of how the hell product/module/feature XYZ was built.
To complex? Compared to what? This is a BMW not some american car. Germans may suck as human beings but they know how to make cars. Cars that actually just bloody work instead of needing to be fixed every ten miles.
I'd pit a 1998 Chevy Silverado with 90,000 miles against the same year 740iL any day of the week. Fewer trips to the mechanic, and less cost when it's there.
German cars drive wonderfully, but have their share of problems.
Yes, cars have VINs, license plates, and.......... The DMV. That's the first thing I thought of reading the/. headline. (Nope, didn't RTFA.) We could have this simple, wonderful system of transfer just like the DMV.
I've been going to these sites to shop for stuff like digital cameras, laptops and the like. As has been pointed out in other posts, they are all looking similar in the results: PriceGrabber, Shopping.com/Epinions, Nextag, MySimon. There are a few differences.
For me, they give me a range of acceptable prices. Then I go to the retailers I trust, your Amazons, J&Rs, Tar-jays, etc. Someone is usually hitting a good price.
Some of those obscure companies with the ultra low prices are slime. When shopping for a Fuji S7000, the retail was $699 and the majors were pricing at $599 or slightly lower. I found one that was $499. I bit. I ordered and received an email that they needed me to call to complete the order. That's when you have to add all the accessories or they won't complete. My response was something to the effect of "Eat me!"
More specifically, I have to write or update shell scripts every few months. For years, if I don't the regex syntax or awk syntax quite right, I post the question to comp.unix.shell. It takes about an hour or so get at least a half dozen responses containing:
1. Insults to my question
2. Useful answers
Additionally, I read a few of the SF Bay Area ba.* groups. There's some spamming, trolling, and flaming, but not so much that I cannot find and track the useful conversations.
VP is a leading candidate as is Enterprise Architect. Cost matters so Rose and XDE are low on the list but still under eval.
We are licensed users of Altova's XMLSpy. I was very high on their introducing an XML tool at a fair price. Then I discovered it didn't support sequence diagrams. I was shocked. For me, that's the single most useful diagram in the UML suite. What a waste.
Speaking of Office 2000 and UML, I currently do my UML diagrams with Visio 2000. Since there's no Java import, everything must be hand built. In a weird way, it has the positive side effect that the diagrams are very lightweight. I don't stick every attribute or method in there, only the ones necessary to tell the story. Plus copying those simple diagrams into my Word 2000 functional specs is a piece of cake.
Same goes for where I work. We upgrade all kinds of things, e.g. NT4->Win2K->XP, Eclipse IDE, Java SDKs, SQL Server, Outlook. We constantly talk about and evaluate the latest software. Right now we're evaluating tons of UML tools.
But Office remains at v2000 and there hasn't even been a mention of if, when, or why we would upgrade or change.
Sometimes a tool, even with its shortcomings, gets the job done. So far, Office 2000 meets that requirement.
On a side note, since this news broke, if any CIO manager who is dependent upon Windows is not starting to look for strategic alternatives, that IT mangaer is not doing his or her job.
An IT manager in San Francisco who has built and managed a large functional company network on Windows should look for alternatives because Microsoft might pull Windows from S. Korea?
That's paranoid. The IT manager should always have a finger on the technology in place in relation to the alternatives, the business, and the business' future plans. But if Windows is up to the task (or Linux or Solaris or Xserve), I'm sure there are other problems to solve.
What is the point of saying he responded to "only" 32% of the letters. Many communications I get in email do not warrant a response. Granted, it's quite simple that I will respond with a "thanks" message. But if it were sent in a letter, I don't think I would bother to write (literally) back with an acknowledgement if it didn't extend the context of the message.
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Domain Keys, at least to this point is utter crap in my experience. I get these small floods of spam into my Yahoo! mailbox. What most of them have in common is they are certified by Domain Keys. A couple months ago, I was getting the exact same spam every day for some mortgage coming from different addresses. All were DK certified.
For what it's worth, I do send off those specific emails to the abuse alias at Yahoo! Their canned emails state that they have dealt with the problem according to their TOS.
I don't know where the flaw lies, but it's there in Domain Keys.
The problem I have is those half dozen folks who do exactly that. The call me or pop over to my cube for every little problem or question. I find that far more disruptive than getting an email that I can answer when the time is right.
Unless it's highly urgent, send me an email. I'll get back to you after I'm done with this piece of code, or this bug, or the other 3 problems that the QA folks have sent me, you know the Java exception stacks with no other information.
If it's that important, mark the email high priority. I'll see the exclamation point. Trust me.
Email has its flaws as does its implementation in Outlook/Exchange at my work. But I'll take it over most other disruptive forms of communication.
In addition, there is apparently a big problem with interference, referred to as "hash" by the posters.
http://groups.google.com/group/ba.broadcast/search ?group=ba.broadcast&q=iboc
Isn't "homeopathic M.D." an oxymoron? As long as we're throwing links around here are some about homeopathy:
Homeowatch (cousin of Quackwatch)
The Skeptic's Dictionary
And if you want to spew anecdotes, when my dad was in his early 60's he could barely walk across a room without being out of breath and had had a minor heart attack. With 4 weeks preparation with drugs and diet to prep for major surgery, he went through a triple bypass operation. After the recovery of a few months the results were astounding.
Bypass operations are not to be taken lightly, but that doesn't mean there aren't successful results.
I concur. I've used Yahoo!'s mail both as my "Yahoo" web mail and it slurps my personal domain mail too. There are a number of reasons I do not like the new mail client in beta, but the main is that I can do quick "find as you type" searches on the classic mail client using Firefox. It's simple and it works. Plus I do use the Calendar Event functionality to track my bills. It's all connected in the classic interface. The new mail client is slow and doesn't cleanly integrate the other pieces (addresses, calendar, notes).
The mail search isn't as neatly integrated as Gmail, but it works. My typical use is I'm looking for a subject or a name. It finds it easily. The deep searches are a little more clunky (separate page with checkboxes for all the folders), but the results are fine.
I keep news updated in AvantGo and browse through articles from CNet, The New York Times, Wired, and many others. Many times the downloaded articles are never read. But they're there if I feel like reading something. It's also handy that I can read some in bed without needing external light (and waking the wife).
But that does not preclude me from reading news on other mediums: web broswer, newspaper or even a newscrawler on the TV.
Likewise reading a book may happen by holding a physical book, and I have read a number of books bought through Palm's eReader store. I don't get too hung up on DRM as I choose books that are priced to sell, typically less than $10. I've read a few of the Dan Brown books, a book on poker, and a few children's books on my Palm.
When it comes to the devices such as dedicated readers, I can see the hesitance about making the purchase for many of the reasons spelled out by others: price, fragility, proprietary. If you're in a situation where your device - Palm, laptop - is comfortable for reading, then it is what it is: something you can use for reading just as you might choose to read on paper.
Or they'll just buy Jotspot.
They finally sold the station but came back about a year later under the internet model. Once they implemented the AAC Plus streams, it was a joy to hear even at low bandwidth settings.
WOXY is a truly unique station able to blend musical styles with new and unfamiliar bands along with more familiar commercial offerings. If you emailed a DJ or the program director, you got a response.
Alas, I cannot bring myself to plunk down $9.95 a month for 2 streams that I access only from work. It seems everyone wants that magic ten bucks a month recurring revenue stream.
Brian Jay and the team need to come up with a better solution. This one won't survive. And if I have an idea, I will pass that along. The best I can say right now is, talk to the folks at Google. They're obviously looking for ways to apply AdSense to every medium possible, at least their acquisitions indicate such.
Good Luck to WOXY
And some company that agrees to this (wink, wink) decides to violate those terms. Then what?
I'll keep my browsing to myself. I can see this being part of the default install from the IS department at a corporation near you.
I'd pit a 1998 Chevy Silverado with 90,000 miles against the same year 740iL any day of the week. Fewer trips to the mechanic, and less cost when it's there.
German cars drive wonderfully, but have their share of problems.
No thanks.
For me, they give me a range of acceptable prices. Then I go to the retailers I trust, your Amazons, J&Rs, Tar-jays, etc. Someone is usually hitting a good price.
Some of those obscure companies with the ultra low prices are slime. When shopping for a Fuji S7000, the retail was $699 and the majors were pricing at $599 or slightly lower. I found one that was $499. I bit. I ordered and received an email that they needed me to call to complete the order. That's when you have to add all the accessories or they won't complete. My response was something to the effect of "Eat me!"
1. Insults to my question
2. Useful answers
Additionally, I read a few of the SF Bay Area ba.* groups. There's some spamming, trolling, and flaming, but not so much that I cannot find and track the useful conversations.
What a bunch of bull.
VP is a leading candidate as is Enterprise Architect. Cost matters so Rose and XDE are low on the list but still under eval.
We are licensed users of Altova's XMLSpy. I was very high on their introducing an XML tool at a fair price. Then I discovered it didn't support sequence diagrams. I was shocked. For me, that's the single most useful diagram in the UML suite. What a waste.
Speaking of Office 2000 and UML, I currently do my UML diagrams with Visio 2000. Since there's no Java import, everything must be hand built. In a weird way, it has the positive side effect that the diagrams are very lightweight. I don't stick every attribute or method in there, only the ones necessary to tell the story. Plus copying those simple diagrams into my Word 2000 functional specs is a piece of cake.
But Office remains at v2000 and there hasn't even been a mention of if, when, or why we would upgrade or change.
Sometimes a tool, even with its shortcomings, gets the job done. So far, Office 2000 meets that requirement.
An IT manager in San Francisco who has built and managed a large functional company network on Windows should look for alternatives because Microsoft might pull Windows from S. Korea?
That's paranoid. The IT manager should always have a finger on the technology in place in relation to the alternatives, the business, and the business' future plans. But if Windows is up to the task (or Linux or Solaris or Xserve), I'm sure there are other problems to solve.
What is the point of saying he responded to "only" 32% of the letters. Many communications I get in email do not warrant a response. Granted, it's quite simple that I will respond with a "thanks" message. But if it were sent in a letter, I don't think I would bother to write (literally) back with an acknowledgement if it didn't extend the context of the message.