I ran a simple procmail filter for a while, and I was astounded how much spam I could nuke by filtering based on subject line punctation. Some of my triggers:
more than 2 exclamation marks
more than 2 dollar signs
All caps
Think about cell phone minutes. Imagine a plan where the price is $50 and everyone can use the phone as often as they like. Most people will use only as many minutes as a current $40 plan provides.
Well.. no.. actually, it's more like this:
Imagine a plan where the price is $50 and everyone can use the phone as often as they like. Most people will use only as many minutes as a $10 plan, while a handfull use as much as a $500 plan. Doesn't make any sense.
Hey don't get me wrong, I enjoyed the free ride too, but don't have these new-economy delusions of it lasting forever. Bandwidth will definately get cheaper and more ubiquitous in the long term, but in the short term, it's every man for himself, and the telco/cable co's are just trying to stay afloat. Give it a few years to burn off the bubble and things will settle out.
Let me guess, you also complained bitterly when your Netscape shares stopped going up too, right?
In my early days of slashdotting, I'm pretty sure I tried a first post or two, just to see what the fuss was about. If you actually dug one up, I'd be impressed. Do you have a link?
If you don't, I'm curious to know why the CID# is the same as the comment I just posted, and why the year is not included in the date, as per usual/. format, etc etc.
I grew up in a remote northern mining town in the Yukon (that's Canada, if you didn't know) We only got 1 channel for a number of years, and that was CBC, the national public channel. So I grew up on the standard kids fare they carried, Sesame Street et al.
Thing is, there was a dirty little secret I didn't learn about until quite recently. I may have thought I was learning my abc's with the rest of the country, but in fact, I was a day late.
There was no CBC reception in that area. Every day, 24 hrs of the previous day's broadcast was taped and flown up, to be rebroadcast 24 hrs late, on a small transmitter in town.
So even back then, we had decent bandwidth capacity (coulda put more tapes of other channels on the plane), just horrible latency.:)
Final Scratch does not replace your mixer, nor act as one. It is placed inline between your turntables and your existing mixer. You mixer functions exactly as before. The laptop is for storing & selecting music files. All mixing takes place where it belongs, in your mixer.
Better to crowd existing cities than pave the wilderness to build new ones. The people are going to come and they have to live somewhere. Unless you'd like to close the borders and implement a one child policy.
The problem is money. Nobody wants to spend the dollars necessary to hook us all up with data cable.
The problem is money. You don't want to spent the dollars necessary (i.e. more than $50/month) to hook yourself all up with data cable.
Sweet bandwidth costs sweet dough for somebody, somewhere. It's not a birthright and nobody owes you the world on a platter for $50/month. This will change with time, certainly, but for now, stop whining.
Certainly the federal government could help, in a number of different ways, but as you acknowledge, it all comes down to money. If taxpayer dollars should pay for all of us to be LPB, where does it end? Should the constitution be amended to make an annual new car a right of citizenship? How about new wardrobes too? Why or why not? Defend your position, don't whine.
If you want to reduce the profits of telco's in California, just convince them to sink a few billion in 3G deployment. They'll be bankrupt in no time.
Seriously, I don't even know where to begin. I suppose an economics text book would be a good start.
The community would be best served by a profitable telco. One that makes a profit from it's services, including broadband home access. As so many others have said, if you think that $49 of your monthly $50 for "unlimited" cable/dsl/wireless/whatever bandwidth is profit, you're fooling yourself. I'd be surprised if there's any profit in it at all, so that means you're getting a good deal right now and you'd be wise to stop complaining.
You're forgetting the/. 99.99/0.01 rule - that is that/. represents 0.1 % of the people who might see those ads and we're the only ones know what a mega/kilo-bit means and get excited about what we could do with all that bandwidth. The other 99.99% want to know if it works with their fav. apps and is it fast. 500Kbps is plenty fast for someone who's been used to dialup.
The only people being "mislead" are tech-heads, and they should be smarter than to take advertisements at their word.
Newsflash: this is not going to be solved anytime soon by anything other than a full keyboard, and nobody wants that on their phone.
The "auto-complete" is called predictive text and it works very well. It almost always gets the right word, and fixing its mistakes (1 in 20 perhaps) just requires you to press * to cycle through the options.
It works so good, I wonder why we bother with laptop keyboards/pen interfaces etc etc.
> --
> Proud omnivore. Why are so many people ashamed
> and/or guilty of their place in the food chain?
> Ignorance?
Perhaps, but for many people the disconnect between the natural food chain and modern industrial farming is too vast to be reconciled.
I am (mostly) a vegetarian, yet I will freely acknowledge to being an omnivore. But being an omnivore does not mean my place in a the food chain is too eat, 3 times a day, pork rinds and chili dogs made from animals who have never known their natural place in the world or the food chain.
If you believe in the food chain, then you know that cows eating ground up cows, and countless other ontold atrocities, have no place on it, and you'd know better than to eat the results.
- text based internet would be plenty fast w/56k modem
- WWW was used for a) me & cat pages b) utilitarian purposes, i.e. the original intent, physists sharing data. Most people ignored the former and used the latter if that was their thing. And if it wasn't? Then they used the *other* 99.99% of the internet that had nothing to do with www-anything.
"This is where the EFF lives and where many of you live -- we live on the cutting edge," she said. "We're looking at
problems that actually haven't hit home to the consumer yet. That's where we always try to be... until everyone else
catches up."
I'm astounded that even the EFF reduces all human activity to, "consumption" I did not donate money to the EFF to be called a consumer and if anything would help the debate about our rights in the electronic age (EFF's alleged mission) it would be to recognize the rights we are looking for are citizen's rights, not consumers.
I just finished writing my email to Cindy Cohn a the EFF (cindy@eff.org), and I encourage others to follow-suit.
Feel free to use:
Thanks for all your work for the EFF - I recently became a member and I'm
pleased with the EFF's support of the Dimitry & Felten cases.
I'm a little non-plussed though, to see the EFF using language that, IMO,
do nothing to help the world recognize the need for ciziten's rights in
cyberspace. To wit:
> "This is where the EFF lives and where many of you live -- we live on
> the cutting edge," she said. "We're looking at problems that actually
> haven't hit home to the consumer yet. That's where we always try to be
>... until everyone else catches up."
I'm a great many things in my life, but "consumer" is right near the
bottom of it. I consume what I need to consume in order to do the things
that are higher on the list, like be a good citizen and contribute to my
community. If we allow ourselves to be called consumers, we will only be
able to fight for "consumers rights". I don't want consumers rights, I
want citizen's rights. I want to be recognized as a living, thinking,
articulate member of society, not a consumer.
I know it may seem like a minor point, and I know that "consumer" has
become popular media slang for the common man, but I don't think it's a
positive trend and I feel that it's a trend that will only hurt the causes
that EFF stands for.
I humbly suggest the EFF do justice to the people it claims to fight for
and call them citizens in all public comment or releases.
That's all well and good, but how does this help me right now? I want to buy a computer today. What should I buy? A Pentium 4 which might or might not become worth something years ahead down the road
The previous poster is not trying to suggest that the P4 you buy today will magically become a better chip in 10 years, he is arguing that the P4 architecture is designed for the future and that it will r0x0rs, given time. But that won't do anything for the chip you already bought. Get an AMD if you're buying now, compare again if you're buying in 5 years.
oops../me hides face in shame from high school math teacher and any collegues who also learned base 16 math 20 years ago when the rest of the school was playing football...
Yes, I'd have to agree, and in that sense, Steve Case may just be the smartest man in the tech biz.
At the top of the boom, he buys a "real" company with his stock (inflated, like everyone elses) I might disagree w/his choice of company, but as you say, buying real assets with inflated paper, can't be beat.
Try a "real" company that didn't get caught up in the bubble. If you don't know what a bubble is, read up on your history. Nortel & Cisco were real companies until they started to believe their stock price was justified. Then they went out & overpaid for other companies inflated stock with shareholders money (dilution of capital stock).
A real company would have been issuing press releases left, right, and centre suggesting that current valuations were unwarranted. I mean they tell you they're undervalued when the stock is down, why not the reverse? But alas, we're a greedy species.
Case in point, I once invested in a firm that got into trouble and eventually declared bankruptcy. In the preceding chaos, the stock had several rallies and the CEO calmly informed shareholders and shareholders to be that while they were doing the best they could to preserve the shareholders position, it was likely that 100% of the company would end up with it's creditors, with nothing left for shareholders. When asked why he thought the stock was rallying he replied, "Wallpaper! Maybe they need cheap wallpaper!"
a) maintain an exchange listing requirement that the shares trade above some price, i.e. $1
b) pander to joe-six pack investors who equate big prices to stabilty & respectibility
Splits are only done for joe-six packs also, but for a different reason - they don't have enough money to buy a board lot (100 shares) at $100+/share, so most companies try to do splits to keep their share price between $10 & $100.
It's the valuation that matters - you can have 1 billion shares trading at one penny each or 1 million shares trading at $1 - makes no financial difference whatsoever, only a pyschological difference in the minds of some investors. (which of course, will manifest itself in a real financial difference for the company's stock performance if people buy or sell based on that pyschology, which they do.)
Of course, if a company has to worry about a) or b) above, there's probably a reason for it, a reason you should know before you invest.
I must add my voice to the choir urging you to stock titles that have stood the test of time. I'd skip anything written in the last 10 years, just to make the job easier. Then, once you've got the classics, you can wade into the heyday of the 90's and pick & choose.
Another guide line would be to avoid any title that focuses on a specific commercial product.
A couple of picks I haven't seen yet:
The Mythical Man Month of course
any good text on the Database Relational Theory
(I have a 2001 one called by CJ Date called, "The Database Relational Model.)
In A.D. 1961
Space War was beginning.
Captain: What happen ?
Operator: Somebody set up us the black hole
Operator: We get signal
Captain: What !
Operator: Oscilliscope turn on
Captain: It's You !!
Cats: How are you gentlemen !!
Cats: All your ships are belong to our gravity
Cats: You are on the way to destruction
Captain: What you say !!
Cats: You have no chance to survive make your time
Cats: HA HA HA HA....
Captain: Take off every 'zig*'
Captain: You know what you doing
Captain: Move 'zig'
Captain: For great gaming hegemony
Slashdot Mirror
I ran a simple procmail filter for a while, and I was astounded how much spam I could nuke by filtering based on subject line punctation. Some of my triggers:
more than 2 exclamation marks
more than 2 dollar signs
All caps
etc etc.
Worked pretty well, for its simplicity.
Well.. no.. actually, it's more like this:
Imagine a plan where the price is $50 and everyone can use the phone as often as they like. Most people will use only as many minutes as a $10 plan, while a handfull use as much as a $500 plan. Doesn't make any sense.
Hey don't get me wrong, I enjoyed the free ride too, but don't have these new-economy delusions of it lasting forever. Bandwidth will definately get cheaper and more ubiquitous in the long term, but in the short term, it's every man for himself, and the telco/cable co's are just trying to stay afloat. Give it a few years to burn off the bubble and things will settle out.
Let me guess, you also complained bitterly when your Netscape shares stopped going up too, right?
Well, first a confession:
/. format, etc etc.
In my early days of slashdotting, I'm pretty sure I tried a first post or two, just to see what the fuss was about. If you actually dug one up, I'd be impressed. Do you have a link?
If you don't, I'm curious to know why the CID# is the same as the comment I just posted, and why the year is not included in the date, as per usual
True Story:
:)
I grew up in a remote northern mining town in the Yukon (that's Canada, if you didn't know) We only got 1 channel for a number of years, and that was CBC, the national public channel. So I grew up on the standard kids fare they carried, Sesame Street et al.
Thing is, there was a dirty little secret I didn't learn about until quite recently. I may have thought I was learning my abc's with the rest of the country, but in fact, I was a day late.
There was no CBC reception in that area. Every day, 24 hrs of the previous day's broadcast was taped and flown up, to be rebroadcast 24 hrs late, on a small transmitter in town.
So even back then, we had decent bandwidth capacity (coulda put more tapes of other channels on the plane), just horrible latency.
You buy another one for $12 US. If you're a pro, you buy a whole bunch when you first set up to cover the inevitable breakages.
Final Scratch does not replace your mixer, nor act as one. It is placed inline between your turntables and your existing mixer. You mixer functions exactly as before. The laptop is for storing & selecting music files. All mixing takes place where it belongs, in your mixer.
Yes, let's crowd the cities even more! Brilliant!
Better to crowd existing cities than pave the wilderness to build new ones. The people are going to come and they have to live somewhere. Unless you'd like to close the borders and implement a one child policy.
The problem is money. You don't want to spent the dollars necessary (i.e. more than $50/month) to hook yourself all up with data cable.
Sweet bandwidth costs sweet dough for somebody, somewhere. It's not a birthright and nobody owes you the world on a platter for $50/month. This will change with time, certainly, but for now, stop whining.
Certainly the federal government could help, in a number of different ways, but as you acknowledge, it all comes down to money. If taxpayer dollars should pay for all of us to be LPB, where does it end? Should the constitution be amended to make an annual new car a right of citizenship? How about new wardrobes too? Why or why not? Defend your position, don't whine.
You won't be needing all that pr0n once the two of you live on the same continent, will you?
If you want to reduce the profits of telco's in California, just convince them to sink a few billion in 3G deployment. They'll be bankrupt in no time.
Seriously, I don't even know where to begin. I suppose an economics text book would be a good start.
The community would be best served by a profitable telco. One that makes a profit from it's services, including broadband home access. As so many others have said, if you think that $49 of your monthly $50 for "unlimited" cable/dsl/wireless/whatever bandwidth is profit, you're fooling yourself. I'd be surprised if there's any profit in it at all, so that means you're getting a good deal right now and you'd be wise to stop complaining.
You're forgetting the /. 99.99/0.01 rule - that is that /. represents 0.1 % of the people who might see those ads and we're the only ones know what a mega/kilo-bit means and get excited about what we could do with all that bandwidth. The other 99.99% want to know if it works with their fav. apps and is it fast. 500Kbps is plenty fast for someone who's been used to dialup.
The only people being "mislead" are tech-heads, and they should be smarter than to take advertisements at their word.
Please demonstrate the court of /. one piece of evidence to back up your insinuation that kazza is profitable.
Newsflash: this is not going to be solved anytime soon by anything other than a full keyboard, and nobody wants that on their phone.
The "auto-complete" is called predictive text and it works very well. It almost always gets the right word, and fixing its mistakes (1 in 20 perhaps) just requires you to press * to cycle through the options.
It works so good, I wonder why we bother with laptop keyboards/pen interfaces etc etc.
But the Air Force can have a strong influence even on the strong-minded.
> --
> Proud omnivore. Why are so many people ashamed
> and/or guilty of their place in the food chain?
> Ignorance?
Perhaps, but for many people the disconnect between the natural food chain and modern industrial farming is too vast to be reconciled.
I am (mostly) a vegetarian, yet I will freely acknowledge to being an omnivore. But being an omnivore does not mean my place in a the food chain is too eat, 3 times a day, pork rinds and chili dogs made from animals who have never known their natural place in the world or the food chain.
If you believe in the food chain, then you know that cows eating ground up cows, and countless other ontold atrocities, have no place on it, and you'd know better than to eat the results.
You're a troll, but what the hell:
- text based internet would be plenty fast w/56k modem
- WWW was used for a) me & cat pages b) utilitarian purposes, i.e. the original intent, physists sharing data. Most people ignored the former and used the latter if that was their thing. And if it wasn't? Then they used the *other* 99.99% of the internet that had nothing to do with www-anything.
I'm astounded that even the EFF reduces all human activity to, "consumption" I did not donate money to the EFF to be called a consumer and if anything would help the debate about our rights in the electronic age (EFF's alleged mission) it would be to recognize the rights we are looking for are citizen's rights, not consumers.
I just finished writing my email to Cindy Cohn a the EFF (cindy@eff.org), and I encourage others to follow-suit.
Feel free to use:
Thanks for all your work for the EFF - I recently became a member and I'm pleased with the EFF's support of the Dimitry & Felten cases.
I'm a little non-plussed though, to see the EFF using language that, IMO, do nothing to help the world recognize the need for ciziten's rights in cyberspace. To wit:
> "This is where the EFF lives and where many of you live -- we live on > the cutting edge," she said. "We're looking at problems that actually > haven't hit home to the consumer yet. That's where we always try to be > ... until everyone else catches up."
I'm a great many things in my life, but "consumer" is right near the bottom of it. I consume what I need to consume in order to do the things that are higher on the list, like be a good citizen and contribute to my community. If we allow ourselves to be called consumers, we will only be able to fight for "consumers rights". I don't want consumers rights, I want citizen's rights. I want to be recognized as a living, thinking, articulate member of society, not a consumer.
I know it may seem like a minor point, and I know that "consumer" has become popular media slang for the common man, but I don't think it's a positive trend and I feel that it's a trend that will only hurt the causes that EFF stands for.
I humbly suggest the EFF do justice to the people it claims to fight for and call them citizens in all public comment or releases.
Thanks for you time.
You just posted a virus in public - have the DMCA police (as requested by Microsoft) broken down your door yet? :)
The previous poster is not trying to suggest that the P4 you buy today will magically become a better chip in 10 years, he is arguing that the P4 architecture is designed for the future and that it will r0x0rs, given time. But that won't do anything for the chip you already bought. Get an AMD if you're buying now, compare again if you're buying in 5 years.
> actually thats 65536
/me hides face in shame from high school math teacher and any collegues who also learned base 16 math 20 years ago when the rest of the school was playing football...
oops..
Yes, I'd have to agree, and in that sense, Steve Case may just be the smartest man in the tech biz.
At the top of the boom, he buys a "real" company with his stock (inflated, like everyone elses) I might disagree w/his choice of company, but as you say, buying real assets with inflated paper, can't be beat.
Try a "real" company that didn't get caught up in the bubble. If you don't know what a bubble is, read up on your history. Nortel & Cisco were real companies until they started to believe their stock price was justified. Then they went out & overpaid for other companies inflated stock with shareholders money (dilution of capital stock).
A real company would have been issuing press releases left, right, and centre suggesting that current valuations were unwarranted. I mean they tell you they're undervalued when the stock is down, why not the reverse? But alas, we're a greedy species.
Case in point, I once invested in a firm that got into trouble and eventually declared bankruptcy. In the preceding chaos, the stock had several rallies and the CEO calmly informed shareholders and shareholders to be that while they were doing the best they could to preserve the shareholders position, it was likely that 100% of the company would end up with it's creditors, with nothing left for shareholders. When asked why he thought the stock was rallying he replied, "Wallpaper! Maybe they need cheap wallpaper!"
Reverse splits are done all the time to:
a) maintain an exchange listing requirement that the shares trade above some price, i.e. $1
b) pander to joe-six pack investors who equate big prices to stabilty & respectibility
Splits are only done for joe-six packs also, but for a different reason - they don't have enough money to buy a board lot (100 shares) at $100+/share, so most companies try to do splits to keep their share price between $10 & $100.
It's the valuation that matters - you can have 1 billion shares trading at one penny each or 1 million shares trading at $1 - makes no financial difference whatsoever, only a pyschological difference in the minds of some investors. (which of course, will manifest itself in a real financial difference for the company's stock performance if people buy or sell based on that pyschology, which they do.)
Of course, if a company has to worry about a) or b) above, there's probably a reason for it, a reason you should know before you invest.
I must add my voice to the choir urging you to stock titles that have stood the test of time. I'd skip anything written in the last 10 years, just to make the job easier. Then, once you've got the classics, you can wade into the heyday of the 90's and pick & choose.
Another guide line would be to avoid any title that focuses on a specific commercial product.
A couple of picks I haven't seen yet:
The Mythical Man Month of course
any good text on the Database Relational Theory
(I have a 2001 one called by CJ Date called, "The Database Relational Model.)
In A.D. 1961 ....
Space War was beginning.
Captain: What happen ?
Operator: Somebody set up us the black hole
Operator: We get signal
Captain: What !
Operator: Oscilliscope turn on
Captain: It's You !!
Cats: How are you gentlemen !!
Cats: All your ships are belong to our gravity
Cats: You are on the way to destruction
Captain: What you say !!
Cats: You have no chance to survive make your time
Cats: HA HA HA HA
Captain: Take off every 'zig*'
Captain: You know what you doing
Captain: Move 'zig'
Captain: For great gaming hegemony
* zig = Zero Influence of Gravity torpedos