No. It works. I started being meticulous about asking to be on the DNC list for every company represented by the TM I was talking to. Within 6 months, no more calls. It's been years now and I only take perhaps 6 to 10 calls a year. Those are either pollsters, political parties (which of COURSE will never get a law passed against them) or piddly little heating-duct cleaning places that are just going through the phone book.
You're not doing it right then. When a telemarketer calls, you don't say "please put me on your do-not-call list."
You say "Please put me on the do-not-call list for EVERY company that your firm represents."
I started doing this a few years ago, and within 6 months, NO TM calls, except for piddly little local places like one-man heating duct cleaning places just going through the phone book at night, and that's like 3 a year.
Also, the DMA's "no junk mail" list works. I sent mine in, and I haven't seen a credit card application or anything else like it for a couple of years.
But I still like this, and signed up for it the first day. If there were 100 ways to tell TMs to frag off, I'd do them all.
Me, too. The first time I turn on a new machine, there's a bootable install CD in the drive.
Actually, the FIRST thing I do is boot to a bootable CD with Drive Image in it. I make a virgin image onto CD-R, lock it away, then reformat the drive and reinstall from scratch. I started doing this back in the "shovelware" era (which still hasn't stopped for some mfgs) where the machine would come preloaded with tons of useless crap.
Also I've received machines from major manufacturers that had really bad installs; wrong drivers, missing drivers, etc. I found I had much more stable machines if I just threw out their installs and did my own.
Mozilla used to open it. It doesn't seem to work anymore. I don't know why, it's not a microsoft specific file format, it's a standard MIME encoded file envelope.
Even if you didn't have IE, if you were really hard up to view the file you could just burst all the files out with a standard MIME app and view them in whatever you had.
I'm glad DeBeers provides those machines
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for telling real from synthetic. If I ever am in the market for a diamond, I'll make sure it's synthetic. Screw DeBeers. They're one of the main reasons I've never bought diamonds. Well, that and the fact that I think they're just expensive rocks, and not very pretty ones at that - I like other gems better.
Yes, but the mercury was nicely contained. We get it out of the rock and release it into the atmosphere and waterways where it can get into the food chain.
The other poster's point about reducing mercury emissions of power plants is a good one. Coal plants release a bunch of heavy metals and other stuff to the atmosphere. I grew up near two nuclear plants, and I'd MUCH rather have them in my backyard than a coal plant. With a nuke plant, there's a possibility of an accident causing you some health problems. With a coal plant, it's a sure thing.
I've got a lot of pretty old LED stuff. I've never seen one burn out. From what I know of how they pump photons, I'm not sure how you would burn them out other than running them outside of spec.
Why does the article say "lasts up to 10 times longer"? Are they figuring on the probability of losing them to surges or accidents? Or is there something I don't know about LEDs?
They already do this, and CFs are still not very popular.
Every CF package I've seen says "Saves $80 during the life of the bulb!" on a CF bulb costing $8. Pretty much a no-brainer, right? But still not many people using them.
I think the problem is that they still aren't quite bright enough. For some reason, nearly all the CFs peak out at about the lumen output of a 60, or maybe 75 watt bulb. Guess what, people want 100 watts of light output, or more.
I bought a fluorescent torchiere, but I had a hell of a time finding it and nearly as much trouble replacing the bulb. Also it still doesn't come close to the light put out by a 300 watt halogen torchiere.
Fluorescent bulbs contain mercury, and are rarely disposed of properly. Here's a stat I just found on the web (so it must be true)...discarded [fluorescent] bulbs release approximately 2-4 tons of mercury per year in the United States...
(this is just the ones that are improperly disposed of and break)
OK, I certainly am. But... why the hell does a little appliance router even need to know what time it is? Are they providing NTP to their connected machines? If not, why does it matter what time it is? Maybe they have cute features like allowing access to certain things at certain times of the day? I'm guessing here.
"Doesn't encourage" is a happy dream of MS's. They think they want 100% market penetration, but they also think they can get away without taking on the responsibility which that implies.
They're "encouraging" everyone to use MS products excusively, everywhere. When it gets to the point where everything is Microsoft and nobody knows anything else (which is what Microsoft is shooting for) how are they going to deny responsibility for stuff like this?
This might be compared to a concrete manufacturer coercing the market, becoming the sole supplier of concrete, but all along saying something like "you shouldn't use our product for pre-stressed bridge segments." Once they became the sole supplier for concrete, what the hell else are people who want to build bridges supposed to do?
Can a supplier reasonably be excused for making crappy product which kills someone because they said to use some other product, even though they themselves were the ones who drove all the other products out of the marketplace?
ISPs and other interested parties can trace IP numbers back to the machine that sent them, no matter how "fake" they are set.
What about infected end user machines that are being used as anonymizing zombies? There are, by all accounts, tens of thousands of them out there. You can bet that they don't keep logs.
When I was a kid, the local amateur group provided a lot of services. We worked crowd and traffic control at parades and large events, coordinating with police and rescue, etc. In general the entire amateur community is people who really want to help their wider community.
Also, ham operators use a wide variety of communications. CB is voice only. Ham operators do everything from morse code to television (ATV) to spread spectrum. BTW, spread spectrum was first implemented by ham operators (although, as we all know, it was invented by Hedy Lamarr during WWII). They run data over the radio using a system called "packet radio" and have been since before the internet became popular. They were some of the first to interface computers to radios. They're also experimenting all the way up into microwave and even laser communications.
Much of the innovation in transmission technologies and methods have been invented or pioneered by amateur radio operators.
I'm a Verizon customer in SE Michigan. My cell service went out 5 minutes after the power failed, and didn't come back for 24 hours. I had SIGNAL; the tower was up, but I couldn't connect to anything, not even in-system; I couldn't dial my wife's cell phone even when we were both in the same room, nor could I get to my voicemail.
This was true as I drove around many miles and skipped to other towers, even when I went out of town and was roaming if I was still in an outage area. I only had service during this period when I drove over to a town that had power, and was roaming on another company's towers.
In the past MS has packaged EULA updates along with software updates. I really wouldn't have too much trouble with this as long as they don't try to push EULA changes along with the update. Sure, some people might want to turn it off, but by and large I think there would be less damage with it on. I rarely meet a person who even knows what MS Update *is* let alone have used it.
I wonder how well this would work on dialup though? It seems like the world is really leaving dialup folks behind. I have cable myself but know a lot of people on dialup either because high speed is not available to them or because they really don't need a fulltime connection, and are getting by just fine on a $5/month dialup plan.
Now, if we can just shut off the rest of the outside lights... I'll bet some children saw stars for the first time in their entire lives.
I got really excited and went to the garage to recollimate my scope, getting ready for a great all-nighter...then I remembered it was a full moon. Can we get the next regional blackout on a new moon night, please?
Even with the haze and moon, it was great. Very nice to be able to use the scope to the horizon in the direction of town.
I wish people weren't so afraid of the dark, and I also wish they wouldn't use the cheapest, shitting, wasteful lighting fixtures they could find.
Those with CS degrees will recognize the name; they have been pioneers in computer graphics for decades.
A local planetarium just took delivery of the first E&S Digistar 3 planetarium machine. It's an incredible piece of equipment and is pretty cutting edge. The demos I saw on it were breathtaking.
The equipment? The projector box is a dual-AMD 2200+ running Windows XP/DirectX and two ATI Radeon 9800 Pros.
Sometimes, the stepper motor dies. Wow, where do you find drives with stepper motors? I haven't seen them for over 10 years.
But the parent is right; I've certainly gotten data back by replacing logic boards, I know lots of people who have. I have even swapped platters into another drive to get data back. Without a cleanroom it's a race to get the data off before the drive melts but it can work.
Beats me. Gas is gas, unless you've got some place that lets water run into their tanks.
Maybe by "cheap gas" he means low octane? Indeed some cars require higher octane fuel. If you have a car that says 93 octane then certainly you don't want to feed it 89, but if it says 89, there's no point in giving it 93.
Most standard passenger cars these days have NO reason to eat anything > 87 octane. Both of my cars, a 97 taurus and a 2000 Windstar, actually say in their owner's manuals that 87 octane fuel is all that's required, using a higher octane fuel will not result in any improvement in performance, fuel economy, or wear on the engine. It's just a waste to use anything > 87 octane.
I know a few people that are engine designers, and they agree; unless you have an engine has been modified for racing, using an octane higher than the minimum stated in your owners manual is just wasting money.
Occasionally I hear anecdotes of higher fuel economy or better performance, but the improvement is so low that without double-blind tests I'd have to write it off the a placebo effect.
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While I'm at it, why don't I just steal the computer too? That would be cheapest of all.
No. It works. I started being meticulous about asking to be on the DNC list for every company represented by the TM I was talking to. Within 6 months, no more calls. It's been years now and I only take perhaps 6 to 10 calls a year. Those are either pollsters, political parties (which of COURSE will never get a law passed against them) or piddly little heating-duct cleaning places that are just going through the phone book.
You're not doing it right then.
When a telemarketer calls, you don't say "please put me on your do-not-call list."
You say "Please put me on the do-not-call list for EVERY company that your firm represents."
I started doing this a few years ago, and within 6 months, NO TM calls, except for piddly little local places like one-man heating duct cleaning places just going through the phone book at night, and that's like 3 a year.
Also, the DMA's "no junk mail" list works. I sent mine in, and I haven't seen a credit card application or anything else like it for a couple of years.
But I still like this, and signed up for it the first day. If there were 100 ways to tell TMs to frag off, I'd do them all.
Because I want a windows box, and buying the OS with the machine is the cheapest way to get it.
I think you can immediately sue any company that calls a cell phone number. Free money.
Me, too. The first time I turn on a new machine, there's a bootable install CD in the drive.
Actually, the FIRST thing I do is boot to a bootable CD with Drive Image in it. I make a virgin image onto CD-R, lock it away, then reformat the drive and reinstall from scratch. I started doing this back in the "shovelware" era (which still hasn't stopped for some mfgs) where the machine would come preloaded with tons of useless crap.
Also I've received machines from major manufacturers that had really bad installs; wrong drivers, missing drivers, etc. I found I had much more stable machines if I just threw out their installs and did my own.
What about people who make 4 spelling errors and multiple grammar errors in one sentence?
Grammar Cops! Over here!!!! Catch him!
Mozilla used to open it. It doesn't seem to work anymore. I don't know why, it's not a microsoft specific file format, it's a standard MIME encoded file envelope.
Even if you didn't have IE, if you were really hard up to view the file you could just burst all the files out with a standard MIME app and view them in whatever you had.
for telling real from synthetic. If I ever am in the market for a diamond, I'll make sure it's synthetic. Screw DeBeers. They're one of the main reasons I've never bought diamonds. Well, that and the fact that I think they're just expensive rocks, and not very pretty ones at that - I like other gems better.
Yes, but the mercury was nicely contained. We get it out of the rock and release it into the atmosphere and waterways where it can get into the food chain.
The other poster's point about reducing mercury emissions of power plants is a good one. Coal plants release a bunch of heavy metals and other stuff to the atmosphere. I grew up near two nuclear plants, and I'd MUCH rather have them in my backyard than a coal plant. With a nuke plant, there's a possibility of an accident causing you some health problems. With a coal plant, it's a sure thing.
I've got a lot of pretty old LED stuff. I've never seen one burn out. From what I know of how they pump photons, I'm not sure how you would burn them out other than running them outside of spec.
Why does the article say "lasts up to 10 times longer"? Are they figuring on the probability of losing them to surges or accidents? Or is there something I don't know about LEDs?
They already do this, and CFs are still not very popular.
Every CF package I've seen says "Saves $80 during the life of the bulb!" on a CF bulb costing $8. Pretty much a no-brainer, right? But still not many people using them.
I think the problem is that they still aren't quite bright enough. For some reason, nearly all the CFs peak out at about the lumen output of a 60, or maybe 75 watt bulb. Guess what, people want 100 watts of light output, or more.
I bought a fluorescent torchiere, but I had a hell of a time finding it and nearly as much trouble replacing the bulb. Also it still doesn't come close to the light put out by a 300 watt halogen torchiere.
Fluorescent bulbs contain mercury, and are rarely disposed of properly. Here's a stat I just found on the web (so it must be true) ...discarded [fluorescent] bulbs release approximately 2-4 tons of mercury per year in the United States...
(this is just the ones that are improperly disposed of and break)
OK, I certainly am. But... why the hell does a little appliance router even need to know what time it is? Are they providing NTP to their connected machines? If not, why does it matter what time it is?
Maybe they have cute features like allowing access to certain things at certain times of the day? I'm guessing here.
"Doesn't encourage" is a happy dream of MS's.
They think they want 100% market penetration, but they also think they can get away without taking on the responsibility which that implies.
They're "encouraging" everyone to use MS products excusively, everywhere. When it gets to the point where everything is Microsoft and nobody knows anything else (which is what Microsoft is shooting for) how are they going to deny responsibility for stuff like this?
This might be compared to a concrete manufacturer coercing the market, becoming the sole supplier of concrete, but all along saying something like "you shouldn't use our product for pre-stressed bridge segments." Once they became the sole supplier for concrete, what the hell else are people who want to build bridges supposed to do?
Can a supplier reasonably be excused for making crappy product which kills someone because they said to use some other product, even though they themselves were the ones who drove all the other products out of the marketplace?
ISPs and other interested parties can trace IP numbers back to the machine that sent them, no matter how "fake" they are set.
What about infected end user machines that are being used as anonymizing zombies? There are, by all accounts, tens of thousands of them out there. You can bet that they don't keep logs.
When I was a kid, the local amateur group provided a lot of services. We worked crowd and traffic control at parades and large events, coordinating with police and rescue, etc. In general the entire amateur community is people who really want to help their wider community.
Also, ham operators use a wide variety of communications. CB is voice only. Ham operators do everything from morse code to television (ATV) to spread spectrum. BTW, spread spectrum was first implemented by ham operators (although, as we all know, it was invented by Hedy Lamarr during WWII). They run data over the radio using a system called "packet radio" and have been since before the internet became popular. They were some of the first to interface computers to radios. They're also experimenting all the way up into microwave and even laser communications.
Much of the innovation in transmission technologies and methods have been invented or pioneered by amateur radio operators.
I got my license at age 14.
I'm a Verizon customer in SE Michigan. My cell service went out 5 minutes after the power failed, and didn't come back for 24 hours. I had SIGNAL; the tower was up, but I couldn't connect to anything, not even in-system; I couldn't dial my wife's cell phone even when we were both in the same room, nor could I get to my voicemail.
This was true as I drove around many miles and skipped to other towers, even when I went out of town and was roaming if I was still in an outage area. I only had service during this period when I drove over to a town that had power, and was roaming on another company's towers.
In the past MS has packaged EULA updates along with software updates. I really wouldn't have too much trouble with this as long as they don't try to push EULA changes along with the update.
Sure, some people might want to turn it off, but by and large I think there would be less damage with it on. I rarely meet a person who even knows what MS Update *is* let alone have used it.
I wonder how well this would work on dialup though? It seems like the world is really leaving dialup folks behind. I have cable myself but know a lot of people on dialup either because high speed is not available to them or because they really don't need a fulltime connection, and are getting by just fine on a $5/month dialup plan.
Now, if we can just shut off the rest of the outside lights... I'll bet some children saw stars for the first time in their entire lives.
I got really excited and went to the garage to recollimate my scope, getting ready for a great all-nighter...then I remembered it was a full moon. Can we get the next regional blackout on a new moon night, please?
Even with the haze and moon, it was great. Very nice to be able to use the scope to the horizon in the direction of town.
I wish people weren't so afraid of the dark, and I also wish they wouldn't use the cheapest, shitting, wasteful lighting fixtures they could find.
Those with CS degrees will recognize the name; they have been pioneers in computer graphics for decades.
A local planetarium just took delivery of the first E&S Digistar 3 planetarium machine. It's an incredible piece of equipment and is pretty cutting edge. The demos I saw on it were breathtaking.
The equipment? The projector box is a dual-AMD 2200+ running Windows XP/DirectX and two ATI Radeon 9800 Pros.
Sometimes, the stepper motor dies.
Wow, where do you find drives with stepper motors? I haven't seen them for over 10 years.
But the parent is right; I've certainly gotten data back by replacing logic boards, I know lots of people who have. I have even swapped platters into another drive to get data back. Without a cleanroom it's a race to get the data off before the drive melts but it can work.
Beats me. Gas is gas, unless you've got some place that lets water run into their tanks.
Maybe by "cheap gas" he means low octane? Indeed some cars require higher octane fuel. If you have a car that says 93 octane then certainly you don't want to feed it 89, but if it says 89, there's no point in giving it 93.
Most standard passenger cars these days have NO reason to eat anything > 87 octane. Both of my cars, a 97 taurus and a 2000 Windstar, actually say in their owner's manuals that 87 octane fuel is all that's required, using a higher octane fuel will not result in any improvement in performance, fuel economy, or wear on the engine. It's just a waste to use anything > 87 octane.
I know a few people that are engine designers, and they agree; unless you have an engine has been modified for racing, using an octane higher than the minimum stated in your owners manual is just wasting money.
Occasionally I hear anecdotes of higher fuel economy or better performance, but the improvement is so low that without double-blind tests I'd have to write it off the a placebo effect.