About two years ago I tested this theory and found just the opposite.
I had been regularly receiving large volumes of spam in a hotmail account, so I created five fresh hotmail accounts. I then unsubscribed to about 100 spam messages from my main account using each of the new accounts (split into groups of twenty per hotmail account).
After two months, I still had received spam on only one of the accounts. I was truly shocked. (I submitted a SlashDot post about this at the time. It was not posted.)
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Most Colleges and Universities do well to get a graduation rate of 10%. This plan could be tied to student loans that would be forgiven once the students have graduated and finished their teaching.
My theory is that DirecTV can "Recycle" their bandwidth by having the satellites in different positions in the sky. Two carriers can share the same frequency if they have different focal points at the satellite dish. (Right?)
Read the fine print in DirecTV's ads. They will have more HD *capacity* but not more HD Channels. They will have to use most of their HD channels to broadcast the many iterations of the local affiliates. That means less channels for each individual market.
Also, I don't see how IPTV will help cable. IPTV doesn't magically reduce the bandwidth needed to broadcast a channel, it only moves the data stream from the MAC layer of the network, to the transport layer (which would actually make it less efficient.)
Run wires to speakers in another room and there is no charge
With digital speakers, there would be a charge.
And at this rate, there will be charges for sharing files from a server to a workstation.
And on the workstation charges to copy and paste an mp3 into another folder.
And two charges to hear the song, (one for the left speaker, another charge for the right speaker).
And another charge for the copy of the mp3 in RAM...
I guess you could say, this issue needs more than a "Band-Aid" for a solution.
Get it?
Band-Aid!!
(OK, It was a term that used to be used exclusively to mean a specific brand, but has now changed its meaning over time to mean something broader. I don't know why I even try with you people...)
I've already given away the printers, but thanks anyway.
I had a Lexmark Z45 and an HP Office Jet. Neither would work after I tried other drivers from similar models.
Also interesting; if printer manufacturers do artificially discount the price of their printers, why would they not want to post drivers online for new operating systems? If Lexmark had a driver for Vista, I would have downloaded it and continued to purchase their ink cartridges. As it stands, Lexmark wanted me to just purchase another printer, so I did. A Samsung.
Wouldn't it have been more cost effective for them to develop and distribute drivers for older printers on newer operating systems?
The printer (and ink) manufacturing companies brought this negative public opinion upon themselves when *they* created the conflict of interest (by locking other vendors out of making ink cartridges for their printers).
Normally, I would give anyone the benefit of the doubt, but when a company sets up their own conflict of interest, I consider them guilty until proven innocent.
Nobody dares go back to charging the "real" price for the printer and the ink, as their printers would immediately seem more expensive to the average customer.
I'm not sure that I can agree with you here. Just last week I went shopping for a new printer (old one wasn't compatible with new Vista Upgrade. Thanks Microsoft, HP). I purposefully chose a laser (Samsung) over cheaper ink jet models because I knew I would save more on toner over the long-run. I'm sure that there *is* a market for printers that have a higher up-front cost in exchange for cheaper ink/toner.
This is just a negotiating tactic
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The music industry knows that they don't have a leg to stand on. What they want is a way out of their contract to license music to satellite radio. When the radio companies started paying big money for on-air personalities (Think Howard Stern, Oprah, etc), the music companies wanted a bigger piece of the pie.
They're reasoning is that music is the biggest draw for XM listeners. So if XM can afford to pay Jimmie Johnson a million a year for one radio show, then the music cartel deserves at least 60 times that much (for sixty channels of music). But currently, the muisc mafia is locked into a ten year contract for a total of 60 million dollars.
This was all explained in a letter to XM subscribers a couple of months ago.
Yeah but this time (unlike buying from a 3rd party retailer), MS will have your credit card details on file, and would be much easier to verify against, than if you lost your license details after any other kind of purchase.
Good point. Why would Microsoft bother to verify that your current copy of Vista is good? It would be more profitable for MS to just charge your credit card again. This will be a big benefit to customers because MS will make more money that way. It will all be made clearer in the EULA/sarcasm
1. I know this sounds a little extreme, but maybe the banks are borderline crminial organizations. Thirty-five dollars for a bounced check? Thirty Nine percent interest for a credit card? Some banks are just thieves.
2. I treat my personal data like it's already on billboards. Obviously the banks don't care about our privacy, so I try to use services where my personal information isn't needed. Using prepaid credit cards instead of a credit line at the bank, or money orders instead of a checking acount may be the way of the future if banks keep giving away our social security numbers.
The criminals already have all or our personal data. Now we need to act accordingly.
Wikipedia is already performing a vital function in aggregating information and external links on important (and sometimes not-so-important) stuff.
Information from any single source should not be trusted without verification. Britanica, CNN.com, or FoxNews may all be fine sites. But let's see them show a list of links to external websites noting their sources, and alternative views. Once you have found the definitive source for all of your information, you have just become another sheep.
I wonder if they might collaborate with Microsoft to setup a Windows based website for people to verify their diamond activation codes. They could call it the "DeBeers Genuine Advantage". Or maybe I heard that somewhere else.
The issue with MS integrating a web browser with the OS was that it was good enough for most people, thus no need for Netscape.
In this case, Microsoft has spent a long time establishing their reputation as the worst company ever for software security. Even if MS integrated a "free" antivirus with Windows, it will only become the newest platform for Spyware authors to start using for their own purposes. Thus, their antivirus will never be good enough. Much like Packard Bell could not have ever made it in the mainframe business.
The need for other vendors to step in and try to fix the problems that Microsoft writes will always be present, because Microsoft will always use the "Sell it now, because we can fix it later through Windows Update" methodology.
In related news, Fisher-Price announced they will begin manufacturing pad-locks.
I prefer Google to find information on very specific searchs, like "Midget Wheelchair Porn". I look to Wikipedia for information on less specific searches, like "Porn", or "More Porn".
Actually, now that I think of it, I use BringBackThePorn.com for most of my searches...
Activation is already a part of XP, and Genuine Advantage software has already been installed on lots of Windows computers. I'm not saying this will never happen, but it is not like this issue will be new with Vista. Rather, it's a problem for which we are already waiting to happen.
Point 1: Microsoft makes an incredibly restricitve license, then appeases organizations by "loosening" the artificial terms to get some deals done. It's like when a car salesman has a sale where all cars are 70% off, one day after they have marked UP all of the cars 80%.
Point 2: Microsoft would never do anything without knowing they will make more money off of the deal in the future. Nothing is free if you have to pay more for other products needed to make it work (See also: Microsoft AntiVirus)
Point 3: Microsoft can give away all of their software for free today. Of course, the day after the deal is done, the Product Activation may stop working. Then Microsoft can charge for the "Genuine Advantages"
Could the links in the articles point to a redirect page? This could track weather commenter bothered to actually view the article, and also the amount of time between the article view and the reply.
Because this could be so easily manipulated (Browser prefetchers, people that just open the page and close it immediately), it could only count against posters that never bothered to follow the link in the first place. Also, less time viewing the page would count against a poster.
Most trolls never bother to read the articles in the first place, so this would help to count against them. Also, it would help to irritate the trolls, as it would take more of their time to post a comment that could actually be read by others.
The later comments posted to the site most often go unnoticed. At the same time, new stories start with wasted space until people have time to post comments. Could this unused space be filled with comments from previous posts in the same category that did not get many page views?
These comments could be ordered according to the number of points they did get when they were on the original story, but might inelligable to get modded up once cross-referenced to the new story.
Also, these posts would be the ones to get pushed first to pages 2 and 3 as needed, as they are essentially page fillers for when the real posts start appearing.
Additionally, could there be pages for "Discussion Only" that have continuous comments posted? These could be started according to categories instead of stories. The stories in each category could be inserted as milestones among the comments, but the comments would mainly be ordered from newest to oldest.
There would be less emphasis on points and replies, so commenters would have to be made aware that they sould copy the relevent text into their comments, as there may not be as strong a connection to "Parent Posts" as there is in the current system.
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About two years ago I tested this theory and found just the opposite. I had been regularly receiving large volumes of spam in a hotmail account, so I created five fresh hotmail accounts. I then unsubscribed to about 100 spam messages from my main account using each of the new accounts (split into groups of twenty per hotmail account). After two months, I still had received spam on only one of the accounts. I was truly shocked. (I submitted a SlashDot post about this at the time. It was not posted.)
Most Colleges and Universities do well to get a graduation rate of 10%. This plan could be tied to student loans that would be forgiven once the students have graduated and finished their teaching.
My theory is that DirecTV can "Recycle" their bandwidth by having the satellites in different positions in the sky. Two carriers can share the same frequency if they have different focal points at the satellite dish. (Right?)
Read the fine print in DirecTV's ads. They will have more HD *capacity* but not more HD Channels. They will have to use most of their HD channels to broadcast the many iterations of the local affiliates. That means less channels for each individual market. Also, I don't see how IPTV will help cable. IPTV doesn't magically reduce the bandwidth needed to broadcast a channel, it only moves the data stream from the MAC layer of the network, to the transport layer (which would actually make it less efficient.)
Get it?
Band-Aid!!
(OK, It was a term that used to be used exclusively to mean a specific brand, but has now changed its meaning over time to mean something broader. I don't know why I even try with you people...)
I've already given away the printers, but thanks anyway. I had a Lexmark Z45 and an HP Office Jet. Neither would work after I tried other drivers from similar models. Also interesting; if printer manufacturers do artificially discount the price of their printers, why would they not want to post drivers online for new operating systems? If Lexmark had a driver for Vista, I would have downloaded it and continued to purchase their ink cartridges. As it stands, Lexmark wanted me to just purchase another printer, so I did. A Samsung. Wouldn't it have been more cost effective for them to develop and distribute drivers for older printers on newer operating systems?
The printer (and ink) manufacturing companies brought this negative public opinion upon themselves when *they* created the conflict of interest (by locking other vendors out of making ink cartridges for their printers). Normally, I would give anyone the benefit of the doubt, but when a company sets up their own conflict of interest, I consider them guilty until proven innocent.
They're reasoning is that music is the biggest draw for XM listeners. So if XM can afford to pay Jimmie Johnson a million a year for one radio show, then the music cartel deserves at least 60 times that much (for sixty channels of music). But currently, the muisc mafia is locked into a ten year contract for a total of 60 million dollars.
This was all explained in a letter to XM subscribers a couple of months ago.
Good point. Why would Microsoft bother to verify that your current copy of Vista is good? It would be more profitable for MS to just charge your credit card again. This will be a big benefit to customers because MS will make more money that way. It will all be made clearer in the EULA /sarcasm
Here are the results for the word "Crap" in the Apple discussion forums. http://discussions.apple.com/search.jspa?search=Go &q=crap
2. I treat my personal data like it's already on billboards. Obviously the banks don't care about our privacy, so I try to use services where my personal information isn't needed. Using prepaid credit cards instead of a credit line at the bank, or money orders instead of a checking acount may be the way of the future if banks keep giving away our social security numbers.
The criminals already have all or our personal data. Now we need to act accordingly.
Information from any single source should not be trusted without verification. Britanica, CNN.com, or FoxNews may all be fine sites. But let's see them show a list of links to external websites noting their sources, and alternative views. Once you have found the definitive source for all of your information, you have just become another sheep.
The vandalism keeps us in check.
What does BitchTorrent mean?
I wonder if they might collaborate with Microsoft to setup a Windows based website for people to verify their diamond activation codes. They could call it the "DeBeers Genuine Advantage". Or maybe I heard that somewhere else.
In this case, Microsoft has spent a long time establishing their reputation as the worst company ever for software security. Even if MS integrated a "free" antivirus with Windows, it will only become the newest platform for Spyware authors to start using for their own purposes. Thus, their antivirus will never be good enough. Much like Packard Bell could not have ever made it in the mainframe business.
The need for other vendors to step in and try to fix the problems that Microsoft writes will always be present, because Microsoft will always use the "Sell it now, because we can fix it later through Windows Update" methodology.
In related news, Fisher-Price announced they will begin manufacturing pad-locks.
They are talking about Microsoft's QC checks (or lack thereof) for Windows, right?
Actually, now that I think of it, I use BringBackThePorn.com for most of my searches...
Activation is already a part of XP, and Genuine Advantage software has already been installed on lots of Windows computers. I'm not saying this will never happen, but it is not like this issue will be new with Vista. Rather, it's a problem for which we are already waiting to happen.
Point 2: Microsoft would never do anything without knowing they will make more money off of the deal in the future. Nothing is free if you have to pay more for other products needed to make it work (See also: Microsoft AntiVirus)
Point 3: Microsoft can give away all of their software for free today. Of course, the day after the deal is done, the Product Activation may stop working. Then Microsoft can charge for the "Genuine Advantages"
They would have, but the developers complained about having to use the IPod's scroll wheel to type all of their code.
Because this could be so easily manipulated (Browser prefetchers, people that just open the page and close it immediately), it could only count against posters that never bothered to follow the link in the first place. Also, less time viewing the page would count against a poster.
Most trolls never bother to read the articles in the first place, so this would help to count against them. Also, it would help to irritate the trolls, as it would take more of their time to post a comment that could actually be read by others.
These comments could be ordered according to the number of points they did get when they were on the original story, but might inelligable to get modded up once cross-referenced to the new story.
Also, these posts would be the ones to get pushed first to pages 2 and 3 as needed, as they are essentially page fillers for when the real posts start appearing.
Additionally, could there be pages for "Discussion Only" that have continuous comments posted? These could be started according to categories instead of stories. The stories in each category could be inserted as milestones among the comments, but the comments would mainly be ordered from newest to oldest.
There would be less emphasis on points and replies, so commenters would have to be made aware that they sould copy the relevent text into their comments, as there may not be as strong a connection to "Parent Posts" as there is in the current system.