Edited by author 05-27-2003 06:58 AM
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Is the Goodman a digital radio? The description describes a digital tuner with an analogue radio. Or is that what all digital radios really are?
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The Goodmans is a DAB radio plus an FM/AM radio (so you can still get crackle and hiss if you like that sort of thing)

The Info Mike posted about anti-spam tactics impacts us on two fronts.

1. As legitimate email marketers we need to update our systems to remain compliant. This might mean adding a review process to replies from our newsletters… and also changing our subscription process so that we get added to the subscribers “white list”
2. As email users we should identify the anti-spam mechanism that we are going to use and deploy it to the Economist Group. And also participate in public discussions to encourage other businesses and influential users to quickly converge on a standard.

Do we have any self-anointed experts in the area of “anti-spam mechanisms”? I’d like to learn more about what our options are and the direction that influential industry leaders are advocating.

We have pretty senior contacts within DoubleClick (which is where some of the info came from). They have a very strong interest in stopping spam and have high level meetings with the ISPs. Challenge-Response responses will be sent to the client (i.e. us, the publisher) via DARTmail).

However, I suspect that we may have to say that the subscriber (to the e-mail) needs to verify their address will accept e-mail from us (or our agents) as part of our ts & cs.

Of course if you have Sky satellite you can get most of the radio stations that broadcast on DAB in the same quality through there at no extra expense. Not much use if you haven't got Sky

...or if you want to listen to the radio in the kitchen and your tv's upstairs.

Edited by author 06-03-2003 07:10 AM
... although Sky TV does have the edge over digital radio sets by virtue of its live tractor-pulling coverage from Eindhoven on Eurosport.

Edited by author 06-11-2003 08:51 AM
Steve Jobbs and the Beatles

Steve Jobbs (unless this is an urban legend, which I very much doubt), called the company Apple (and the logo, note is a bitten apple), in honour of Alan Turing, the British inventor of the "computer", the Cambridge mathematician, who cracked the enigma code that decided the battle of the Atlantic in favour of the Allies in WWII.

Alan Turing committed suicide by biting a poisoned apple, as a symbolic gesture towards the social abuse he received (indirectly), and his marginalisation after WWII. Ergo the bitten apple logo.

Mmm. The version I read was that he named Apple after the aforementioned recod label. Maybe we should e-mail him and ask.

Edited by author 06-11-2003 12:30 PM
Actually, yes, why not, let's email him... sometimes I am really intrigued by trivia of the kind.

Having said that, I jsut looked and it seems that your version is probably correct... I wish I remembered where I read mine...
for more info look at: http://www.apple-history.com/frames/?

Edited by author 11-04-2003 12:04 PM
Is millinery a hint that we are all mad as a hatter? I can but wonder.

As far as the treo is concerned, I would really wait until the bugs are weeded out [sic] until I looked into upgrading my palm. Perhaps it is a sign of old age, but I stick to the things I have come to trust over the years -- especially the palm, which, small and old and clumsy(ish) as it is -- it has never let me down....

Well... regarding the ip address for mobile printing, it was first introduced in Mac OS X, from version 10.0... it is good to see that HP are not snobbish and that they incorporate ideas rivals have put to work, since they work so well.

Does the feature on OS X work for any printer or just Mac aware printers? I think the issue is probably Microsoft's in not making is easy for one to access a networked printer from the OS without setting a port up for it, but it is good that HP have (eventually) taken up the gauntlet.

You can change the order of files in the file - open under XP, I've done it. Unfortunetly I don't know how I've done it and it anoyes the hell out of me. It seems to be by application, either that or my PC is just acting weird. Word was doing as was CF Studio, but now it's only CF Studio

OS X has a few problems printing but once you have the IP address of the printer you can print on it. Getting the version of the drivers can be a bit adventurous though. I have found that the version of the OS is very important. Panther is the most stable of them all and I strongly recommend an update. Ironically, it is appletalk printers that sometimes cause problems with system X.