"When you send a message to my account, you automatically get a bounce reply. You can reply to this message, and your message will be sent as normal. From then on, you never have to worry about it."
I found that this was too confusing for the majority of people who email me. That is to say that I deal with more one-off type emails, including many possible job prospects, than I do with a known group of friends. Also, I trialed it around the time that Sircam was sending large attachements to everyone and it drained my Spamcop funds pretty damn quickly.
I just wish that Yahoo would truly black-hole anything it would otherwise put in the "Bulk Mail" folder. Since it wont automatically delete bulk mail it just means I have to download it an let my Eudora filters sort it out (Yahoo adds a specific header to bulk mail). Some days that means it takes quite a while to download my real email first thing in the morning.
This is a load of crap. If I hold an unrealistic view of the world prior to a terrorist event then saying that replacing that view with a more realistic understanding of the way things work is somehow a victory for the terrorists is lunacy.
Anyone that tries to convince you that changing your ways is somehow a "win" for terrorists simply has a vested interest in the stasis-quo.
Be afraid - the world is a scary place. Be prepared - the world is an unpredictable place. Be alert - the world does not owe you a free ride.
I've also got a Gameboy Webcam that I run irregularly (dial-up connection). I've got one black jumper I wear frequently that comes out white on the camera (and with a heavy blue tint on my old Kodak DC20). After reading the site a few days back I decided I'd try to pickup a "hot mirror" filter to get rid of the IR at my next opportunity, but I did only find the site three days ago (which I suspect was went it was submitted to/.).
I based my post on the fact that one of the few sets of consumer/entertainment VR devices that ever made it to the city where I live is now gathering dust in a closed store. And that nothing has replaced them.
Yes, I did try to play it once and I was unable to see properly -- my glasses fogged up quickly, but without them I couldn't focus. No, I never played the next model up because there was never one available here.
Despite this, my interest in retro gaming has meant that I have actually tried to contact the owner of the store to acquire these neglected bits of history. I don't hate them, just like I didn't hate my Newton, but the technology has (at best) stalled. Gaming-wise it's as dead as the classic FMV titles like Night Trap and Ground Zero Texas.
I don't understand why the debate about music on the Internet needs to go beyond MP3.com's original service (not their "My MP3.com" crap with the commerical CDs that ehy got sued for). MP3.com lets artists freely upload their music to be freely downloaded by anyone. Why do we need to bother with the RIAA or any of the artists they "represent" ever again? Just stop buying CDs from your local supermarket, or whatever, and start downloading new music from a couple of interesting categories on MP3.com. How hard is that?
This is a photo I took recently of one of the original sets of VR entertainment devices, the Virtuality-something.
Nolan Bushnell, founder of Atari, mentioned in an ("Back In Time") interview that he believed VR's day would come soon. And I'm not inclined to dismiss that too quickly. However, up to this date it's like the Newton phase of PDA history.
A friend of mine completed the five year CS version of the EE IT course I bailed on. He's now doing bog-standard computer support at one of our local universities. I was doing better than him up to the end of last year until all the pisant little companies decided they could run without an IT manager. CS degrees are not worth it, you need to find something else.
"Haven't you ever seen Indiana Jones or Relic Hunter?"
Yes and the first 15 minutes of the first episode, I'm sorry to say.
But you're using the wrong examples. Archeology is obviously more like Jackie Chan Adventures!
One MORE thing... The job market sucks -- try to find a career where people can't claim they're experts without ever having done any recognised studies. The PC support market is saturated by people who bought a crappy PC an loaded on a pirate copy of Office. The multimedia and web design market is even worse off. I'm seriously looking at museum studies of some sort.
The best phrasing is; The project can be on time, on budget or right, pick two.
It all comes down to experience with similar things. Like any other project, if a software project is very like something you done hundreds of times before you'll know pretty well how long it will take. If it's unlike anything you've done before there isn't even much point in guessing.
Thing is, in the real world development happens once and then the "project" is duplication (ie; For a "So-and-So Homes" place - Design house once. Build house hundreds of times), but with software duplication is instant - just copy - the project is the original design. (ie; Design software once. Burn 10,000 CDs)
The fact that many companies design their own software, even when they're not software design compaines is the problem. If you were a real-estate place you wouldn't build your own cars, or photocopiers, why do you design your own software? Moreover, why are you surprised when it takes longer than you estimated?
A front-loading design has more impact on physical integration than height. I've got a PSX, Saturn, Sega CD II and SNES and they all load from the top, even though they're all quite short.
Anyway, I don't know how you can complain about the size of anything other than the Xbox.
If I get a game console / DVD player hybrid, it will be the Shinco 868 with a Mega Drive (Genesis) built in. Meanwhile, I like my games consoles mininalist and fan-free. The 'Cube is growing on me...
No, actually you sacrifice PRICE for extra features. Tthe 3DO and the Saturn have shown before the problem with a high ticket price on a game console and MS' Xbox will demonstrate it again.
This can't be compared to the 3DO because the designers of the GameCube, Nintendo, are actually releasing a model of their own -- 3DO never did this and it was interpreted as a lack of support.
Getting DVDs classed as software to give the companies more control in how high they can set the price for their product is a lot different from actually getting people to pay that price. Fine, kill imports, nuke rental places renting grey market stuff, change 4 times the current price -- The market will simply go elsewhere for their fun. Weekend swapmeets are growing and, hey, there's that funky library thing too.
The limit on the size of Slashdot comment signatures is a little on the low side for a disclaimer, but my new one should cover most of the recent crap. I can change it back to something pithy after this blows over (because if it doesn't blow over there's not going to be a single public forum on the 'Net ever again).
Maybe we should just stamp "Parental Guidance Recommended in permanent ink on each child's forehead when they're born -- include a bar code and removing it would probably be a violation of the DCMA.
What next, will media corporations sue us if we don't buy advertiser's products?
A damn good question. I no longer believe paid advertisements. None of them. If it's a paid ad then I consider it to be at best a lie and at worst fraud. Should I expect a nastygram from some legal team or other for expressing this opinion? Or rather, should advertisers seek to understand this shift in public opinion? Ads don't work nearly as well as they did when everyone believed any old crap that was broadcast or printed. Now we've all been screwed by some dodgy bit of copy or another and we simply aren't interested anymore. Sure, there's still the odd rube too clueless to see through the latest scam, but there's an increasing number of aware people more than ready to fight the good fight.
Dear Companies - make better products that actually do what people want and stop relying on marketing to sell your crap. Word of mouth will save you a fortune.
As if April Fool's isn't tendious enough, we have to wade through America's facination with Halloween at the end of October. I don't suppose the "Christmas Cheer" entry in the story exclusion options can be expanded to include all cultural and religious festivals...
Excluding the artsy Gameboy Camera and Casio Wristcam, I use my Fujifilm MX-2700 heaps for ebay. I've been buying and selling retro video games for several months now and I carefully document, photographically, each item I sell. I keep all the raw images, I publish the edited images in a format that anyone can keep a copy of, then I burn both versions to CD and shift a copy from my little portable's hard drive to a big 20Gig in a removable drive bracket.
All of this would have been impossible pre-digital, so heaps of images are being taken now that never would have been taken before -- all through eBay there's image after image of rare, collectable crap that otherwise might never be seen by people who care about it.
Saying that press photography is somehow worse-off in a way that society should be concerned about is more than a little self-indulgant.
The small discs also won't work in those old caddy-loading CD drives, although there is an adapter that comes with the Sony CDr cameras that may cope with slot-loading and caddy-loading drivers...
Win 95b w/OSR2.x and Win 95c both support USB and I have gotten such things as USB scanners and Palm USB adapters running under 95, however USB support was dramatically improved under 98 and few companies bother to write 95 drivers for their USB devices (which is a shame).
I have seen mini CDR media but no mini CDRW. Who wants to backup their stuff onto a 180MB mini CDR? I mean once in a while its cool, but if you can't use your CDR to back up CDs, whats the point? The mini media is nice, but a mini burner that wont take fullsize media at all is useless IMHO.
That would be me. As I collect data from the 'Net (MP3s, images, web pages, programs, etc) and as I create my own content (digital photos, personal multimedia projects), I group the files into 180MB volumes and then use a friend's burner to burn them onto 8cm CDr discs. I don't have any desire to copy complete CDs and I have an ultralight portable with limited expansion options. For me, this is the idea CD-burner, even before you get to the point where it can play MP3s.
However, while I am without a job, the US$400 price tag is way out of my budget.
It's mildly interesting and all, but I can't believe this article was posted and my Cuttle Cart story wasn't. Maybe I'll be able to get it accepted when I can load Space Invaders from my Rio MP3 player onto it...
I'd comment on this story if I could actually download a sample, but 46 minutes for 2.75MB is code for "This download will break in 3... 2... 1..."
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I just wish that Yahoo would truly black-hole anything it would otherwise put in the "Bulk Mail" folder. Since it wont automatically delete bulk mail it just means I have to download it an let my Eudora filters sort it out (Yahoo adds a specific header to bulk mail). Some days that means it takes quite a while to download my real email first thing in the morning.
Anyone that tries to convince you that changing your ways is somehow a "win" for terrorists simply has a vested interest in the stasis-quo.
Be afraid - the world is a scary place. Be prepared - the world is an unpredictable place. Be alert - the world does not owe you a free ride.
I've also got a Gameboy Webcam that I run irregularly (dial-up connection). I've got one black jumper I wear frequently that comes out white on the camera (and with a heavy blue tint on my old Kodak DC20). After reading the site a few days back I decided I'd try to pickup a "hot mirror" filter to get rid of the IR at my next opportunity, but I did only find the site three days ago (which I suspect was went it was submitted to /.).
Yes, I did try to play it once and I was unable to see properly -- my glasses fogged up quickly, but without them I couldn't focus. No, I never played the next model up because there was never one available here.
Despite this, my interest in retro gaming has meant that I have actually tried to contact the owner of the store to acquire these neglected bits of history. I don't hate them, just like I didn't hate my Newton, but the technology has (at best) stalled. Gaming-wise it's as dead as the classic FMV titles like Night Trap and Ground Zero Texas.
I don't understand why the debate about music on the Internet needs to go beyond MP3.com's original service (not their "My MP3.com" crap with the commerical CDs that ehy got sued for). MP3.com lets artists freely upload their music to be freely downloaded by anyone. Why do we need to bother with the RIAA or any of the artists they "represent" ever again? Just stop buying CDs from your local supermarket, or whatever, and start downloading new music from a couple of interesting categories on MP3.com. How hard is that?
This is a photo I took recently of one of the original sets of VR entertainment devices, the Virtuality-something.
Nolan Bushnell, founder of Atari, mentioned in an ("Back In Time") interview that he believed VR's day would come soon. And I'm not inclined to dismiss that too quickly. However, up to this date it's like the Newton phase of PDA history.
A friend of mine completed the five year CS version of the EE IT course I bailed on. He's now doing bog-standard computer support at one of our local universities. I was doing better than him up to the end of last year until all the pisant little companies decided they could run without an IT manager. CS degrees are not worth it, you need to find something else.
But you're using the wrong examples. Archeology is obviously more like Jackie Chan Adventures!
One MORE thing... The job market sucks -- try to find a career where people can't claim they're experts without ever having done any recognised studies. The PC support market is saturated by people who bought a crappy PC an loaded on a pirate copy of Office. The multimedia and web design market is even worse off. I'm seriously looking at museum studies of some sort.
Hey, it was the post above me that was all "great, more advertising".
It all comes down to experience with similar things. Like any other project, if a software project is very like something you done hundreds of times before you'll know pretty well how long it will take. If it's unlike anything you've done before there isn't even much point in guessing.
Thing is, in the real world development happens once and then the "project" is duplication (ie; For a "So-and-So Homes" place - Design house once. Build house hundreds of times), but with software duplication is instant - just copy - the project is the original design. (ie; Design software once. Burn 10,000 CDs)
The fact that many companies design their own software, even when they're not software design compaines is the problem. If you were a real-estate place you wouldn't build your own cars, or photocopiers, why do you design your own software? Moreover, why are you surprised when it takes longer than you estimated?
Anyway, I don't know how you can complain about the size of anything other than the Xbox.
If I get a game console / DVD player hybrid, it will be the Shinco 868 with a Mega Drive (Genesis) built in. Meanwhile, I like my games consoles mininalist and fan-free. The 'Cube is growing on me...
No, actually you sacrifice PRICE for extra features. Tthe 3DO and the Saturn have shown before the problem with a high ticket price on a game console and MS' Xbox will demonstrate it again.
This can't be compared to the 3DO because the designers of the GameCube, Nintendo, are actually releasing a model of their own -- 3DO never did this and it was interpreted as a lack of support.
Getting DVDs classed as software to give the companies more control in how high they can set the price for their product is a lot different from actually getting people to pay that price. Fine, kill imports, nuke rental places renting grey market stuff, change 4 times the current price -- The market will simply go elsewhere for their fun. Weekend swapmeets are growing and, hey, there's that funky library thing too.
You do if you think you do.
Maybe we should just stamp "Parental Guidance Recommended in permanent ink on each child's forehead when they're born -- include a bar code and removing it would probably be a violation of the DCMA.
Dear Companies - make better products that actually do what people want and stop relying on marketing to sell your crap. Word of mouth will save you a fortune.
As if April Fool's isn't tendious enough, we have to wade through America's facination with Halloween at the end of October. I don't suppose the "Christmas Cheer" entry in the story exclusion options can be expanded to include all cultural and religious festivals...
All of this would have been impossible pre-digital, so heaps of images are being taken now that never would have been taken before -- all through eBay there's image after image of rare, collectable crap that otherwise might never be seen by people who care about it.
Saying that press photography is somehow worse-off in a way that society should be concerned about is more than a little self-indulgant.
The small discs also won't work in those old caddy-loading CD drives, although there is an adapter that comes with the Sony CDr cameras that may cope with slot-loading and caddy-loading drivers...
Win 95b w/OSR2.x and Win 95c both support USB and I have gotten such things as USB scanners and Palm USB adapters running under 95, however USB support was dramatically improved under 98 and few companies bother to write 95 drivers for their USB devices (which is a shame).
However, while I am without a job, the US$400 price tag is way out of my budget.
I'd comment on this story if I could actually download a sample, but 46 minutes for 2.75MB is code for "This download will break in 3... 2... 1..."