Your best bet is to ditch the old email address and get a new one, then teach her the fundamental tenets of spam avoidance...
1) NEVER give out your email address to someone you don't know. (This includes posting on forums and sites that "require" you to register with a valid email address.)
2) Even if you think you are giving your address to a trusted source, read that Privacy Policy. Look for something like: "we do not share user data with our associates". If the policy is hard to find or isn't there, don't trust them.
3) NEVER click the unsubscribe link at the bottom of the email.
4) For those cases where you need to sign up with a non-trusted source to get information, setup an account purely for retrieving passwords and registration confirmation.
Ignorance, as is the case with pretty much everything, is the biggest problem that is easy to solve. Don't think just because she's "Mom" she can't learn these tips. My parents and grandparents both had a really bad spam problem, and by just showing them how to avoid getting spam in the first place goes far in reducing the over-all problem. (Especially when you can get them to spread the word to their friends and co-workers.)
Probably the whole thing with Evolution not being available for Windows.
(Much to my Dismay, I like Mozilla mail, but I'd love to have a fully Open-Source and Cross-Platform PIM... and no Mozilla Calendar just isn't there yet in terms of features and stability)
They have worked together in the past, latest thing I heard is that they are both part of the HyperTransport Consortium along with Sun, NEC, Cisco, HP, NVIDIA, Transmeta etc...
Given the benchmarks we have seen with Sledgehammer (I still think they should have stuck with that name instead of "Opteron"... sounds like the damn thing is going to transform) using a HyperTransport, sure would be sweet to see it coupled with a pair of PPC 970's *drool*
One small nit on some of the standard def "letterbox" shows like Enterprise and West Wing, they arent "really" 16x9, they are usually ~14x9, (My HDTV has a 14x9 zoom mode with small grey bars on either side, Enterprise fits it almost perfectly).
I suppose its a way to give the widescreen look while still offering enough of the 4:3 screen so the majority of viewers dont raie hell about only getting "half" a show.
The Low level Mac OS X Equivalent to the iexplore dll is the apple port of kHTML that is being used in Safari. IIRC you can download the development kit and integrate an HTML renderer into any Cocoa App.
Natural Selection is another professional-quality but free Half-Life Mod which more/less combines the RTS and FPS genres in a very interesting way. Best way to describe it would be: Imagine playing Starcraft, but your marines are controlled by real people. Truly focuses on team strategy, instead of individual frag counts. The team is currently in final beta for the 1.1 release, very exciting times indeed.
The whole idea is that you can separate the core content from the presentation. You want plain text, run an XSLT file that converts your source xml to a Tagless ASCII file(Keeping the source intact of course). Want all the fancy HTML/Javascript stuff? Yup have another XSLT file for that too. WML for your Cell Phone? Yup.
No need for a separate net, just use the tools that are already available.
IIRC only 4 of the 9 episodes will be downloadable.
We already have two and the other two will come out in April and May, then in June they will release the DVD with all 9 episodes.
Assume that the average august rainfall in North Devon is around 2 inches (5.08 cm). That would mean that 500 inches(1270 cm) of rain fell in that storm... almost 42 FEET(12.7 m) of rain fell in that single day.
I have a feeling they meant 250% of normal, 5 inches(12.7 cm) of rain falling in a farily short amt of time(say an hour or two) can have devastating effects, especially in flood plains where local rivers are already close to flood level. Far more likely than having enough rain to submerge a 5 storey building...
For example, I have no interest in Airport updates.
You may already know this, but if you dont want to see updates for certain packages, highlight the offending package in the Software Update window and hit Command-minus, or go to the File menu and click "Make Inactive". The package wont bug you to update again until you make it visible.
Of course I still wouldn't just apply a software update on a production machine till a few days have passed, and the bug reports start flowing in...(Or if you have the luck to have a testing box sitting at your desk to futz with...:-) )
Will Wright started the Sim line, primarily focused on SimCity and "The Sims"
Sid Meyer created the "True" Civilization line (Civ I, II, and III, Call To Power I&II were created by others before Sid could get the copyright back) During the copyright battle, he also created Alpha Centauri.
Classic Case of Cheaper, Smaller, Faster: Pick Any two.
Unfortunately the big PC companies are Driven by the fact that the Masses think "more Ghz == Better!" so Faster is required. So you now get to pick between an expensive, but small and fast notebook, or cheap and fast, but large laptop.
We actually had guys showing up in shorts, torn jeans and t-shirts.
This can actually act in the persons favor.
I was recently hired as a Web application developer/Graphic Artist/whatever for a small but stable company.(read only 8 employees but profitable for the past 6 years...) I came in wearing a t-shirt and shorts, unshaven and with long hair. I looked more/less presentable but not business-like. The guy who hired me was the resident geek and took me thru the typical interview. Later on they emailed me and asked me to come in for a second interview, mentioning that the company had a business-casual dress code. I got a hair cut, shaved, and came in wearing a collared shirt and khakis. They asked a few more questions and they hired me.
Point of the Story?
I showed in the first interview that I knew what was needed for the position, and in the second interview I showed that I cared enough about what the company wanted to clean myself up and look "professional". I suppose its kinda in the same vein as "let people assume that you know less than you really do so you can impress them later".:-)
(In addition I learned that they care more about what I can offer the company than what I look like. Turned out to be a good deal for both of us. Within a week they gave me a raise because I "made a substantial contribution to the company" when they figured it would be several months before I became useful.)
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Possibly because ID didn't produce the Unreal series?
As for why Epic didn't... who knows.
Your best bet is to ditch the old email address and get a new one, then teach her the fundamental tenets of spam avoidance...
1) NEVER give out your email address to someone you don't know. (This includes posting on forums and sites that "require" you to register with a valid email address.)
2) Even if you think you are giving your address to a trusted source, read that Privacy Policy. Look for something like: "we do not share user data with our associates". If the policy is hard to find or isn't there, don't trust them.
3) NEVER click the unsubscribe link at the bottom of the email.
4) For those cases where you need to sign up with a non-trusted source to get information, setup an account purely for retrieving passwords and registration confirmation.
Ignorance, as is the case with pretty much everything, is the biggest problem that is easy to solve. Don't think just because she's "Mom" she can't learn these tips. My parents and grandparents both had a really bad spam problem, and by just showing them how to avoid getting spam in the first place goes far in reducing the over-all problem. (Especially when you can get them to spread the word to their friends and co-workers.)
Probably the whole thing with Evolution not being available for Windows.
(Much to my Dismay, I like Mozilla mail, but I'd love to have a fully Open-Source and Cross-Platform PIM... and no Mozilla Calendar just isn't there yet in terms of features and stability)
They have worked together in the past, latest thing I heard is that they are both part of the HyperTransport Consortium along with Sun, NEC, Cisco, HP, NVIDIA, Transmeta etc...
Given the benchmarks we have seen with Sledgehammer (I still think they should have stuck with that name instead of "Opteron"... sounds like the damn thing is going to transform) using a HyperTransport, sure would be sweet to see it coupled with a pair of PPC 970's *drool*
One small nit on some of the standard def "letterbox" shows like Enterprise and West Wing, they arent "really" 16x9, they are usually ~14x9, (My HDTV has a 14x9 zoom mode with small grey bars on either side, Enterprise fits it almost perfectly).
I suppose its a way to give the widescreen look while still offering enough of the 4:3 screen so the majority of viewers dont raie hell about only getting "half" a show.
The Low level Mac OS X Equivalent to the iexplore dll is the apple port of kHTML that is being used in Safari. IIRC you can download the development kit and integrate an HTML renderer into any Cocoa App.
Natural Selection is another professional-quality but free Half-Life Mod which more/less combines the RTS and FPS genres in a very interesting way. Best way to describe it would be: Imagine playing Starcraft, but your marines are controlled by real people. Truly focuses on team strategy, instead of individual frag counts. The team is currently in final beta for the 1.1 release, very exciting times indeed.
This is where XML comes into play.
The whole idea is that you can separate the core content from the presentation. You want plain text, run an XSLT file that converts your source xml to a Tagless ASCII file(Keeping the source intact of course). Want all the fancy HTML/Javascript stuff? Yup have another XSLT file for that too. WML for your Cell Phone? Yup.
No need for a separate net, just use the tools that are already available.
and then the batteries die...
So I wonder how long till someone puts Lin- er Windows on it...
With the release of Eclipse 2.1 Xored has released version 0.3.4 of the WebStudio plugin that is compatable (Finally we can stop using 2.1 M5...)
:-) )
Excellent Cross platform PHP/HTML IDE
Now all I need is a -good- XML/XSLT editing plugin and I can have all of my dev work in one integrated tool.
(Guess I'll have to pick up some esoteric language so I can have a reason to keep vim open, wouldn't feel right to be so efficient
IIRC only 4 of the 9 episodes will be downloadable. We already have two and the other two will come out in April and May, then in June they will release the DVD with all 9 episodes.
Check out some of the vids on the Apple site, the symbols on the keys DO light up.
You were looking for hard sci-fi in a Trek movie?
Isn't that like looking for filet mignon at McDonalds?
</joke>
I would have to agree, based on the numbers...
Assume that the average august rainfall in North Devon is around 2 inches (5.08 cm). That would mean that 500 inches(1270 cm) of rain fell in that storm... almost 42 FEET(12.7 m) of rain fell in that single day.
I have a feeling they meant 250% of normal, 5 inches(12.7 cm) of rain falling in a farily short amt of time(say an hour or two) can have devastating effects, especially in flood plains where local rivers are already close to flood level. Far more likely than having enough rain to submerge a 5 storey building...
For example, I have no interest in Airport updates.
:-) )
You may already know this, but if you dont want to see updates for certain packages, highlight the offending package in the Software Update window and hit Command-minus, or go to the File menu and click "Make Inactive". The package wont bug you to update again until you make it visible.
Of course I still wouldn't just apply a software update on a production machine till a few days have passed, and the bug reports start flowing in...(Or if you have the luck to have a testing box sitting at your desk to futz with...
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You mixed up your legendary Game designers. :-)
Will Wright started the Sim line, primarily focused on SimCity and "The Sims"
Sid Meyer created the "True" Civilization line (Civ I, II, and III, Call To Power I&II were created by others before Sid could get the copyright back) During the copyright battle, he also created Alpha Centauri.
Of course what they fail to mention is that in order to accomodate the additional bandwidth, you can only display at 1600x1200 in Monochrome.:-)
Classic Case of Cheaper, Smaller, Faster: Pick Any two.
Unfortunately the big PC companies are Driven by the fact that the Masses think "more Ghz == Better!" so Faster is required. So you now get to pick between an expensive, but small and fast notebook, or cheap and fast, but large laptop.
GF: You want me to smear Artic Silver WHERE?!
I thought that was what the TAB key was for?
*rimshot*
Really nifty utility for dealing with sites that choose the long obfuscated URL approach...
Once I actually went to explicity search for "pussy"
Bars tend to be better than search engines for that sort of thing.
We actually had guys showing up in shorts, torn jeans and t-shirts.
:-)
This can actually act in the persons favor.
I was recently hired as a Web application developer/Graphic Artist/whatever for a small but stable company.(read only 8 employees but profitable for the past 6 years...) I came in wearing a t-shirt and shorts, unshaven and with long hair. I looked more/less presentable but not business-like. The guy who hired me was the resident geek and took me thru the typical interview. Later on they emailed me and asked me to come in for a second interview, mentioning that the company had a business-casual dress code. I got a hair cut, shaved, and came in wearing a collared shirt and khakis. They asked a few more questions and they hired me.
Point of the Story?
I showed in the first interview that I knew what was needed for the position, and in the second interview I showed that I cared enough about what the company wanted to clean myself up and look "professional". I suppose its kinda in the same vein as "let people assume that you know less than you really do so you can impress them later".
(In addition I learned that they care more about what I can offer the company than what I look like. Turned out to be a good deal for both of us. Within a week they gave me a raise because I "made a substantial contribution to the company" when they figured it would be several months before I became useful.)