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Fanwing Planes?
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Except when you glide a plane you better hope you are near an runway
Nonsense. You can bring a light airplane down on any flat surface that is a couple hundred feet long. I have personally landed Cessnas in muddy fields during flight test practice. It's bumpy, and not ideal, but it can be done. In emergency situations, all you care about is walking away, not saving the airplane.
Incidentally, landing into trees is preferable to landing on water. Skimming the tops of trees cushions the landing and provides gradual slowing. And if you're knocked unconcious, you'll hang in the trees till rescuers arrive. If you pile into the water, on the other hand, you might as well be hitting concrete at those speeds. Sure, there won't be a fire, but if you're knocked unconcious, you're as good as dead (drowning).
Why not just charge to send email?
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The Economics of Spam
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I have an easy solution, although some might find it a tough pill to swallow. What if ISPs started charging subscribers and affiliates a small fee to send emails? Say, 1 cent per email? For people like you and I, who send maybe 5 - 10 emails a day, that's nothing. But to a spammer, suddenly their cost to send 1,000,000 emails has gone from virtually nothing (I think the number mentioned in the article was $250) to $10,000.
They'd have to get an awful lot of buys to make back their costs.
I'd wholeheartedly support a 1 cent/email fee to be imposed across the board, by law, everywhere. Would you?
Managers and IT admins don't decline this sort of thing over something as pedantic as performance degradation - they decline it over much bigger issues, including but not limited to
Risk of virus/worm infection
Risk of inadvertently exposing a security hole
Risk of compromising proprietary information
Decreased employee productivity over installing/watching the client
Lost time/money if this thing crashes an employee's machine, just as they were putting the finishing touches on the customer presentation due in 20 minutes
Does anyone really think that the reason these things are being rejected by management is because of performance???
No you can't. CRTC "Canadian Content" regulations still apply. For example, you can't just get all your analog channels, and ask for an American digital channel. You're legally required to buy a Canadian digital channel, too. Trust me. I tried this. I wanted PLBY, and I couldn't get it unless I bought another "Canadian" premium package (I ended up opting for The Movie Network's 4 channels, but there were only 2 options anyway).
It'd be nice if we were allowed to pick and choose (and pay for) only the channels we want, but Dictator Chretien has decreed that we must have Canadian content shoved down our throats, too, at our own expense.
Oh, and you're not allowed to copy a cd you've borrowed from someone; that violates international copyright law everywhere in the world.
You're wrong. Canada levies a special tax on blank CD-R media. It's outrageously high (last time I checked, it was 77 cents per CD-R, adding $7.70 to every 10 pack you buy), but it comes with a caveat that we are allowed to copy CDs "for private use." There is no restriction that we must OWN the CD we're copying - just that it be for "private use" (i.e., no reselling).
Argh, my "Preview" button hasn't been working lately, I keep getting a bunch of thread summaries. Sorry about the excessive bold in my previous post. Here's a version that's easier on the eyes.
Someday, DRM-enabled hardware is going to be the law of the land
Uh, dude, it may become the law of your land, but that still leaves about 5.7 billion of us who don't give a rat's ass what stupid laws your knuckle-dragging, war-mongering leader foists upon your apathetic populace.
Why do Americans think that they can pass laws for the whole world? It was the same thing with the CDA/CDA-II. They were supposed to eliminate porn on the net. Why would a Brazilian pervert care about American laws when he's downloading his German porn from a Eurpoean fetish site? He wouldn't.
And here in Canada, we're legally allowed to copy all the CDs we want, as long as we do it ourselves (i.e., I'm not allowed to sell a bunch of burned copies of Celine Dion's latest album, but I am allowed to lend you the CD, and you are allowed to copy it yourself). Think those DRM mobos will be popular up here? Ha! And when you pass that silly law, do you think the supply of non-crippled boards will dry up? Sorry, Yanks, you're not that important.
Someday, DRM-enabled hardware is going to be the law of the land
Uh, dude, it may become the law of your land, but that still leaves about 5.7 billion of us who don't give a rat's ass what stupid laws your knuckle-dragging, war-mongering leader foists upon your apathetic populace.
Why do Americans think that they can pass laws for the whole world? It was the same thing with the CDA/CDA-II. They were supposed to eliminate porn on the net. Why would a Brazilian pervert care about American laws when he's downloading his German porn from a Eurpoean fetish site? He wouldn't.
And here in Canada, we're legally allowed to copy all the CDs we want, as long as we do it ourselves (i.e., I'm not allowed to sell a bunch of burned copies of Celine Dion's latest album, but I am allowed to lend you the CD, and you are allowed to copy it yourself). Think those DRM mobos will be popular up here? Ha! And when you pass that silly law, do you think the supply of non-crippled boards will dry up? Sorry, Yanks, you're not that important.
Before you get too carried away, have you considered donating your old computers and (much more importantly) your time to a needy school in your own damn country?
Ah sure, a few slashdotters get all riled up and temporarily motivated to do something good in standard niche-bandwagon style, but it doesn't even occur to them that their neighbors have been doing good for their own people right under their noses, and could really use their help. How trendy, in a non-conformist, tatoo-and-piercing sort of way.
In the grand sceme of things, whether you pay out $300 or $10 for a peice of software, it won't make a difference in Microsofts' wallet
Uh, check your math, dude. Actually, it'll make precisely $290 difference to Microsoft's wallet.
What, you think that when you pull in billions per year, the hundreds don't matter anymore? Newsflash: the hundreds are what ADD UP to the billions. They matter!
The distributors want to extract as much money as they can from each market
Those bastards! I suppose you work for free then? I suppose you believe that investors should just randomly invest their money in companies, rather than favouring those who tend to turn the biggest profit? Perhaps in your view, we should do away with the whole concept of "money" altogether?
serious jail time levied against the *individuals* responsible for the corporate crimes.
Whoever makes that price-fixing deal in Europe ought to be paying $143M out of pocket as well as facing 5 years in a hard-core, anal rape kind of prison. I'd even throw in manditory termination without severance from whatever company they worked for, with lifetime banishment from the industry.
So let me get this straight. You're saying that if a foreign country doesn't like what your company is doing, then they should be allowed to extradite you to their country and punish you as they see fit?
So, if your product is sold in Libya, and Libya thinks that your "action figures" are offensive because the women aren't covering their faces, you'd have no problem with the US packaging you up and shipping you off to Libya, to spend the next 5 years in THEIR prison, after losing all your assets and being banished from your job, because you had the moral contempt to actually manufacture an idol of a female who is not covering her face?
Really? Please name one. I've never heard of a single compelling use which I considered as beneficial to me as a visitor to a script-requiring webpage.
Large menus. By implementing them as a dynamic, client-side tree control, very large document structures can be displayed in a very compressed space, reducing client-server communications, and allowing the user to navigate directly to the topic they're interested in, in a much large pool than would otherwise be possible (practical) without scripting.
If you were commissioned to design a new 8-lane, divided highway, would you make all the road signs fly from one side of the road to the other? Would you have "Hit the Monkey and Win $20" interactive highway advertisements? Would you make drivers have to drive over a certain spot to see certain signs?
Of course not, but I would have stoplights here and there that occassionally need to change, and possibly some railway crossings that need to flash, with gates that rise and fall, and...
Believe it or not, but dynamic content on the web is USEFUL when not abused.
much as I'd love to add stuff to my web pages, I don't want to block out some of the lower denominators such as lynx
Well, that's certainly a pretty low denominator! But let me ask you this. If you were commissioned to design a new 8-lane, divided highway, would you set the speed limit at 30 mph, to ensure that those who choose to drive around in Model T's can keep up with traffic?
If I can't see a site without scripting enabled, I am not going to look at that site. Period.
Wow, well it's good to see that you're very progressive and open-minded. Why don't you try broadening your scope a bit? Sure, no one needs Java, Javascript, Flash, CSS, or DHTML to punch up a few news stories or your resume. But what about sites that let you dynamically monitor distributed processes? Or how about a little thing you've obviously never heard of called "e-commerce?" There are plenty of real, useful ways in which scripting makes things a lot easier, both for the visitor and the author.
While I have a lot of respect for Porche (though I'd never drive one of their cars
You're confused - this laptop has absolutely nothing to do with the carmaker, although admittedly, the headline was very misleading. Porsche is manufacturing some pretty stupid things lately (an SUV? *Gag*!), but laptops aren't one of them.
I'm just a "back and forth, no need to make up for my small penis size" car guy
You're still confused. The small penis guys are the ones with trucks. Porsches are actually very sporty, comfortable, efficient and practical cars, if you've got the money. Nothing really terribly audacious about them anymore.
I realize you're just karma-whoring for the "Funny" mods, but this is just lame.
First of all, you've screwed up the joke (there are only 3 steps, not 4, and you didn't even bother numbering the third one... what's the '?' if not step 3? Step 2.5?).
Secondly, your post isn't even funny, because it probably pretty much IS their business model, and it's not a terribly bad one at that. Pretty much anyone can take a "ho-hum" Wintel laptop, leech a couple good design ideas from here and there, and with the proper marketing and bundling, will usually come out ahead (i.e., "profit").
You're lucky I don't have any moderator points or you'd already be off the map as a "-1 Troll" (Slashdot needs a "-1 Karmawhore" moderation)
there is simply no good excuse for writing something that doesn't work from a text-based browser. Sure, some people will haul out graphic design and art design. Fooey on you; if your art designer can't make a good looking page that also works with a text based browser, it's time to find a more creative art designer.
Aren't you the guy I saw this morning, driving his Ford Model T on the highway, doing 30 mph?
Psst... technology evolves. Quit trying to hold science back. The standard out there is IE 4 and above. If you can get by on the sites you frequent using whatever browser it is you choose to use, then great, power to you. But don't whine when you come across a site that won't work in Lynx. Either upgrade to a browser using 21st century technology, or keep quiet.
I find it very interesting that the majority of people posting here who are saying "I should be able to visit the entire web using a 1980's, text-only browser" are kids. People whose only exposure to web authoring has been a piddly little personal web page. Why don't you step out into the real world, and design an eCommerce site using.NET and then try to tell me how easy it is to make attractive (and don't try to tell me that's not important - marketing sells, whether you believe it or not), functional eShopping website.
In summary: step into the present, man. Ditch Lynx and get a real browser. You don't expect to be able to keep up with traffic in a 1940's vehicle, so why would you expect to keep up with the web with an outdated browser?
But from what little I remember of the Civil War / War Between the States, the federal government of the United States won't take kindly to secession.
So what? Isn't that EXACTLY what the Second Amendment exists for? Stop being a coward. Organize a militia, arm yourselves, and fight for it. Actually, I'm positive that that is in fact precisely why the Second Amendment exists. It's supposed to guarantee that an organized and armed populace can overpower a corrupt government.
Oh, what's that? You say decades of apathy have allowed the government to completely castrate the spirit of the second amendment to its current state of barely protecting pellet guns? Gee, that's too bad. Maybe those "gun nuts" were onto something?
How are you going to find 20k people who always agree 100% on all of the issues listed on the website, will unanimously agree on all unforseen issues that will come up in the future, and will diligently vote on every single issue, achieving an unheard of 100% voter turnout rate?
That, and they will be free of all local taxes.
So won't they also be "free of all local services," too? Who's going to pay to plow/pave/patrol the streets?
Wow, what great timing, what with Bush about to wage war on Iraq. Now our pilots should be just a little bit safer from all those rogue nations out there with super-advanced, high-tech, long-range, radar-guided missiles that this jet can now avoid.
Oh, wait a sec, that's right... the US is the only nation who can afford the kinds of missiles that this jet can avoid. So what was the point of this trillion-dollar boondoggle again?
For that 18-38$ that you're spending on a DVD, I spend the same amount of money to rent 5 movies from Blockbuster
Whoop-de-doo. A DVD rental here costs me $6.50. And I like building up a DVD collection. Guess that makes me a moron. I suppose it's time to ditch my stamp collection too, since I doubt I'll ever need to mail 2,400 letters....
You're an uncultured clod. Guy Pearce gave a great lead performance (well, shared with Russell Crowe) in L.A. Confidential, a movie released in 1997. It received 9 Academy Award nominations
Oh, a film snob, how cute. I haven't run into one of you in a while. FYI, I never saw "LA Confidential." Guess that's enough to make me "uncultured." As for the Oscar nominations, one need only look at the 2001 "Best Picture" to see what a hollow, meaningless fiasco the Academy Awards are. Unless, of course, being such a film connisseur, you actually believe that "Gladiator" was a fantastic work of creative, artistic cinematic accomplishment?
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Nonsense. You can bring a light airplane down on any flat surface that is a couple hundred feet long. I have personally landed Cessnas in muddy fields during flight test practice. It's bumpy, and not ideal, but it can be done. In emergency situations, all you care about is walking away, not saving the airplane.
Incidentally, landing into trees is preferable to landing on water. Skimming the tops of trees cushions the landing and provides gradual slowing. And if you're knocked unconcious, you'll hang in the trees till rescuers arrive. If you pile into the water, on the other hand, you might as well be hitting concrete at those speeds. Sure, there won't be a fire, but if you're knocked unconcious, you're as good as dead (drowning).
They'd have to get an awful lot of buys to make back their costs.
I'd wholeheartedly support a 1 cent/email fee to be imposed across the board, by law, everywhere. Would you?
I suppose you believe that people who can't repair their own vehicles shouldn't be driving, too?
Does anyone really think that the reason these things are being rejected by management is because of performance???
No you can't. CRTC "Canadian Content" regulations still apply. For example, you can't just get all your analog channels, and ask for an American digital channel. You're legally required to buy a Canadian digital channel, too. Trust me. I tried this. I wanted PLBY, and I couldn't get it unless I bought another "Canadian" premium package (I ended up opting for The Movie Network's 4 channels, but there were only 2 options anyway).
It'd be nice if we were allowed to pick and choose (and pay for) only the channels we want, but Dictator Chretien has decreed that we must have Canadian content shoved down our throats, too, at our own expense.
copyright law everywhere in the world.
You're wrong. Canada levies a special tax on blank CD-R media. It's outrageously high (last time I checked, it was 77 cents per CD-R, adding $7.70 to every 10 pack you buy), but it comes with a caveat that we are allowed to copy CDs "for private use." There is no restriction that we must OWN the CD we're copying - just that it be for "private use" (i.e., no reselling).
I'm not making this stuff up, do some googling for "canada cd levy blank" or some such combination. Here's a quick article to get you started.
Someday, DRM-enabled hardware is going to be the law of the land
Uh, dude, it may become the law of your land, but that still leaves about 5.7 billion of us who don't give a rat's ass what stupid laws your knuckle-dragging, war-mongering leader foists upon your apathetic populace.
Why do Americans think that they can pass laws for the whole world? It was the same thing with the CDA/CDA-II. They were supposed to eliminate porn on the net. Why would a Brazilian pervert care about American laws when he's downloading his German porn from a Eurpoean fetish site? He wouldn't.
And here in Canada, we're legally allowed to copy all the CDs we want, as long as we do it ourselves (i.e., I'm not allowed to sell a bunch of burned copies of Celine Dion's latest album, but I am allowed to lend you the CD, and you are allowed to copy it yourself). Think those DRM mobos will be popular up here? Ha! And when you pass that silly law, do you think the supply of non-crippled boards will dry up? Sorry, Yanks, you're not that important.
Uh, dude, it may become the law of your land, but that still leaves about 5.7 billion of us who don't give a rat's ass what stupid laws your knuckle-dragging, war-mongering leader foists upon your apathetic populace.
Why do Americans think that they can pass laws for the whole world? It was the same thing with the CDA/CDA-II. They were supposed to eliminate porn on the net. Why would a Brazilian pervert care about American laws when he's downloading his German porn from a Eurpoean fetish site? He wouldn't.
And here in Canada, we're legally allowed to copy all the CDs we want, as long as we do it ourselves (i.e., I'm not allowed to sell a bunch of burned copies of Celine Dion's latest album, but I am allowed to lend you the CD, and you are allowed to copy it yourself). Think those DRM mobos will be popular up here? Ha! And when you pass that silly law, do you think the supply of non-crippled boards will dry up? Sorry, Yanks, you're not that important.
Before you get too carried away, have you considered donating your old computers and (much more importantly) your time to a needy school in your own damn country?
Ah sure, a few slashdotters get all riled up and temporarily motivated to do something good in standard niche-bandwagon style, but it doesn't even occur to them that their neighbors have been doing good for their own people right under their noses, and could really use their help. How trendy, in a non-conformist, tatoo-and-piercing sort of way.
Uh, check your math, dude. Actually, it'll make precisely $290 difference to Microsoft's wallet.
What, you think that when you pull in billions per year, the hundreds don't matter anymore? Newsflash: the hundreds are what ADD UP to the billions. They matter!
Well, that, plus another couple billion in the R&D to actually develop it, but hey, we can't count that, right?
Those bastards! I suppose you work for free then? I suppose you believe that investors should just randomly invest their money in companies, rather than favouring those who tend to turn the biggest profit? Perhaps in your view, we should do away with the whole concept of "money" altogether?
Go back to China, pinko commie.
Whoever makes that price-fixing deal in Europe ought to be paying $143M out of pocket as well as facing 5 years in a hard-core, anal rape kind of prison. I'd even throw in manditory termination without severance from whatever company they worked for, with lifetime banishment from the industry.
So let me get this straight. You're saying that if a foreign country doesn't like what your company is doing, then they should be allowed to extradite you to their country and punish you as they see fit?
So, if your product is sold in Libya, and Libya thinks that your "action figures" are offensive because the women aren't covering their faces, you'd have no problem with the US packaging you up and shipping you off to Libya, to spend the next 5 years in THEIR prison, after losing all your assets and being banished from your job, because you had the moral contempt to actually manufacture an idol of a female who is not covering her face?
Ok then...
Large menus. By implementing them as a dynamic, client-side tree control, very large document structures can be displayed in a very compressed space, reducing client-server communications, and allowing the user to navigate directly to the topic they're interested in, in a much large pool than would otherwise be possible (practical) without scripting.
Of course not, but I would have stoplights here and there that occassionally need to change, and possibly some railway crossings that need to flash, with gates that rise and fall, and ...
Believe it or not, but dynamic content on the web is USEFUL when not abused.
Well, that's certainly a pretty low denominator! But let me ask you this. If you were commissioned to design a new 8-lane, divided highway, would you set the speed limit at 30 mph, to ensure that those who choose to drive around in Model T's can keep up with traffic?
Wow, well it's good to see that you're very progressive and open-minded. Why don't you try broadening your scope a bit? Sure, no one needs Java, Javascript, Flash, CSS, or DHTML to punch up a few news stories or your resume. But what about sites that let you dynamically monitor distributed processes? Or how about a little thing you've obviously never heard of called "e-commerce?" There are plenty of real, useful ways in which scripting makes things a lot easier, both for the visitor and the author.
It says a lot that you couldn't see that. Period.
You're confused - this laptop has absolutely nothing to do with the carmaker, although admittedly, the headline was very misleading. Porsche is manufacturing some pretty stupid things lately (an SUV? *Gag*!), but laptops aren't one of them.
I'm just a "back and forth, no need to make up for my small penis size" car guy
You're still confused. The small penis guys are the ones with trucks. Porsches are actually very sporty, comfortable, efficient and practical cars, if you've got the money. Nothing really terribly audacious about them anymore.
I realize you're just karma-whoring for the "Funny" mods, but this is just lame.
... what's the '?' if not step 3? Step 2.5?).
First of all, you've screwed up the joke (there are only 3 steps, not 4, and you didn't even bother numbering the third one
Secondly, your post isn't even funny, because it probably pretty much IS their business model, and it's not a terribly bad one at that. Pretty much anyone can take a "ho-hum" Wintel laptop, leech a couple good design ideas from here and there, and with the proper marketing and bundling, will usually come out ahead (i.e., "profit").
You're lucky I don't have any moderator points or you'd already be off the map as a "-1 Troll" (Slashdot needs a "-1 Karmawhore" moderation)
Aren't you the guy I saw this morning, driving his Ford Model T on the highway, doing 30 mph?
Psst... technology evolves. Quit trying to hold science back. The standard out there is IE 4 and above. If you can get by on the sites you frequent using whatever browser it is you choose to use, then great, power to you. But don't whine when you come across a site that won't work in Lynx. Either upgrade to a browser using 21st century technology, or keep quiet.
I find it very interesting that the majority of people posting here who are saying "I should be able to visit the entire web using a 1980's, text-only browser" are kids. People whose only exposure to web authoring has been a piddly little personal web page. Why don't you step out into the real world, and design an eCommerce site using .NET and then try to tell me how easy it is to make attractive (and don't try to tell me that's not important - marketing sells, whether you believe it or not), functional eShopping website.
In summary: step into the present, man. Ditch Lynx and get a real browser. You don't expect to be able to keep up with traffic in a 1940's vehicle, so why would you expect to keep up with the web with an outdated browser?
So what? Isn't that EXACTLY what the Second Amendment exists for? Stop being a coward. Organize a militia, arm yourselves, and fight for it. Actually, I'm positive that that is in fact precisely why the Second Amendment exists. It's supposed to guarantee that an organized and armed populace can overpower a corrupt government.
Oh, what's that? You say decades of apathy have allowed the government to completely castrate the spirit of the second amendment to its current state of barely protecting pellet guns? Gee, that's too bad. Maybe those "gun nuts" were onto something?
That, and they will be free of all local taxes.
So won't they also be "free of all local services," too? Who's going to pay to plow/pave/patrol the streets?
Wow, what great timing, what with Bush about to wage war on Iraq. Now our pilots should be just a little bit safer from all those rogue nations out there with super-advanced, high-tech, long-range, radar-guided missiles that this jet can now avoid.
Oh, wait a sec, that's right ... the US is the only nation who can afford the kinds of missiles that this jet can avoid. So what was the point of this trillion-dollar boondoggle again?
Whoop-de-doo. A DVD rental here costs me $6.50. And I like building up a DVD collection. Guess that makes me a moron. I suppose it's time to ditch my stamp collection too, since I doubt I'll ever need to mail 2,400 letters....
Oh, a film snob, how cute. I haven't run into one of you in a while. FYI, I never saw "LA Confidential." Guess that's enough to make me "uncultured." As for the Oscar nominations, one need only look at the 2001 "Best Picture" to see what a hollow, meaningless fiasco the Academy Awards are. Unless, of course, being such a film connisseur, you actually believe that "Gladiator" was a fantastic work of creative, artistic cinematic accomplishment?
Will never happen. Think doctors/cops/firemen/nurses with pagers.