Seems like a good place to ask. In a recent job I asked why we stick to login/password? Why not have just passwords? Yes you'll have to reject taken passwords, but that's good policy anyway.
Quick question. How do you deal with email rejected as spam? The right email can make or break an entire company--as it looks like you've seen. Whitelist certain potential customers?
From all we know about nervous systems, the interaction occurs at synapses. Without multiple cells, we can almost certainly say that sentience is not present (current theories center around oscillations among the thalamus and pre-frontal cortex). So apparently it's not the gene count that makes sentience.
Yes, I know thermonuclear means fusion. I was making a joke at the typical hypertechie response (after all, nuclear is the only power source other animals haven't discovered--using something other animals have already done isn't geeky at all!).
Always have some hypertechie/transhumanist piping up how we just need antimatter!!! Well, I'm a solid transhumanist and I think it's not necessary to replace. In twenty years, everything changes. Whatever environmental changes humans make up until then is nothing compared to previous mass extinctions. And after that point--we can't even see past that point.
This is just lame. Desperation, not innovation. Why can't they just charge more for the printer? I'd pay more for a printer with better ink capacity and lower ink costs. The disposable razor IS a bad idea. It will only lead to crap like this.
What about donations? What about rich people running sites? Ads aren't the only game in town. Look at wikipedia. Look at the BBC even (taxpayer funded).
By giving directly to Slashdot, 100% of the money goes towards content creation. Buy viewing ads, a lot of the money goes to people who create and broker ads. Where does it come from? The prices you pay for the advertised products. People who design and broker these ads are dead weight--money not going to innovation.
Or buy HBO stuff. Buying a season DVD of the Simpsons, for example, will only make them think they can make more money selling ads. When Family Guy was brought back, it wasn't on HBO.
I've used Yahoo music and now Urge subscription. It's quite annoying when your player barfs on you because you haven't tethered (the smaller devices can play on battery much longer than the cutoff point it seems). But still I use it--because I can get any song I want. I use it on my phone, which is always with me (8125).
I like freedom too, but this is the compromise I make. As I've said before, I don't want to support ad people.
I've tried to take a stand against ads myself. I'll subscribe to whatever I need, as long as I don't see ads. The way I see it, subscribing to slashdot (for example) puts money towards content and away from useless ad people. The only ads I want to see are when I do a google search. That's it! I'd rather subscribe (or even better, donate). I'm sick of the ad culuture, and it's got to stop. I won't be using this free music source because I already subscribed to Urge (plays for sure). At least more of that money is going to artists. With this, you have all sorts of ad brokers taking a cut.
Mod this guy up. Hope you're looking. Anyways, I meant for actual cell calls, the latency seems to be a few seconds for connect. I did notice horrid latencies with EDGE, around a second like you said. UMTS/HSDPA I heard has better latencies--thanks for the info.
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Well, you all make good points. But still, for a just-for-fun bulletin board, it may be OK. Hashing is not a problem with few users and a fast system.
Usernames are public (say it's a bulletin board).
Seems like a good place to ask. In a recent job I asked why we stick to login/password? Why not have just passwords? Yes you'll have to reject taken passwords, but that's good policy anyway.
Yeah let's reject all emails from China. Good business sense. Not.
Quick question. How do you deal with email rejected as spam? The right email can make or break an entire company--as it looks like you've seen. Whitelist certain potential customers?
Nah, it's not too interesting. Besides microscopic flagella, nature didn't even invent a wheel.
What is this an antislash plant?
Bit to do with jocks getting all the sex and beating up the transhumanists (/.ers) back in high school.
Look, the stereotype of /. is that we are transhumanists. Nothing else matters.
Same thing for Microsoft search. Point is, I'm looking for ads.
From all we know about nervous systems, the interaction occurs at synapses. Without multiple cells, we can almost certainly say that sentience is not present (current theories center around oscillations among the thalamus and pre-frontal cortex). So apparently it's not the gene count that makes sentience.
Yes, I know thermonuclear means fusion. I was making a joke at the typical hypertechie response (after all, nuclear is the only power source other animals haven't discovered--using something other animals have already done isn't geeky at all!).
Always have some hypertechie/transhumanist piping up how we just need antimatter!!! Well, I'm a solid transhumanist and I think it's not necessary to replace. In twenty years, everything changes. Whatever environmental changes humans make up until then is nothing compared to previous mass extinctions. And after that point--we can't even see past that point.
Are you sure it was for the same size cartridge?
So you want all patents gone?
This is just lame. Desperation, not innovation. Why can't they just charge more for the printer? I'd pay more for a printer with better ink capacity and lower ink costs. The disposable razor IS a bad idea. It will only lead to crap like this.
So it was HP ink? Have you always used HP ink? I really don't think that's on purpose.
Went into an endless fall loop in one of the dungeons. Although it's frankly astounding how few bugs there are on console games.
What about donations? What about rich people running sites? Ads aren't the only game in town. Look at wikipedia. Look at the BBC even (taxpayer funded).
By giving directly to Slashdot, 100% of the money goes towards content creation. Buy viewing ads, a lot of the money goes to people who create and broker ads. Where does it come from? The prices you pay for the advertised products. People who design and broker these ads are dead weight--money not going to innovation.
Or buy HBO stuff. Buying a season DVD of the Simpsons, for example, will only make them think they can make more money selling ads. When Family Guy was brought back, it wasn't on HBO.
I've used Yahoo music and now Urge subscription. It's quite annoying when your player barfs on you because you haven't tethered (the smaller devices can play on battery much longer than the cutoff point it seems). But still I use it--because I can get any song I want. I use it on my phone, which is always with me (8125).
I like freedom too, but this is the compromise I make. As I've said before, I don't want to support ad people.
I've tried to take a stand against ads myself. I'll subscribe to whatever I need, as long as I don't see ads. The way I see it, subscribing to slashdot (for example) puts money towards content and away from useless ad people. The only ads I want to see are when I do a google search. That's it! I'd rather subscribe (or even better, donate). I'm sick of the ad culuture, and it's got to stop. I won't be using this free music source because I already subscribed to Urge (plays for sure). At least more of that money is going to artists. With this, you have all sorts of ad brokers taking a cut.
I wouldn't worry too much. I doubt they'll just leave them with nothing. Patience!
Mod this guy up. Hope you're looking. Anyways, I meant for actual cell calls, the latency seems to be a few seconds for connect. I did notice horrid latencies with EDGE, around a second like you said. UMTS/HSDPA I heard has better latencies--thanks for the info.