I have a very small number of users, and get about 2,000 messages in a normal day, across all of my domains/users/etc.
I'm watching the mail logs, and I'm seeing one or two of these getting rejected every second.
I'm also seeing that a huge number of them were coming from the same two addresses. I've blocked those addresses, which has slowed down the rate a little.
I actually looked for recipies for Apache cooking, and was not able to find anything. From what I gathered from various cooking and food mailing lists, much of what was eaten by the Apache people prior to the influx of Europeans changed a great deal after the introduction of European foods.
Anyways (yes, I know you were joking) I'm currently reading "Chasing Shadows", which is about the Apache people during the late 1800s and early 1900s, and I *highly* recommend it as a way to learn about the Apache people.
("Chasing Shadows", Shelley Bowen Hatfield (no relation), ISBN 0826318533, Amazon.com)
I don't care. Why should I? We have a free market economy for a reason. Disney, for all of our fuzzy feelings about it, is a business, and they are free to make decisions, good or bad. Whether they are good or bad will be decided by the market, not by protests.
Anyway, with any luck, these folks will find jobs with companies that are able to make better movies than they were before, with stories that are actually interesting, rather than being vehicles for the Disney Corporation's particular brand of political correctness. So in that respect, this seems like a good move for us, the consumers.
I do Apache web server training and support. By far, the largest percentage of people coming to training are from government and para-government organizations - National Guard, NSA, NASA, state government, and so on. And many of these places have been in the process of migrating from IIS to Apache, or, in a few cases, from Netscape to Apache. I don't know if this indicates a trend, but it certainly accounts for most of my company's bottom line.
And, if you really enjoy a challenge, you can use Win32::OLE to actually open Excel/Word/Etc and pass commands to it, which allows you to do things like export the file to a CSV, save it as HTML, or whatever you want. It's a little cumbersome, but it saves you from actually having to use the products yourself!
If you'd like to contribute your vast expertise in this field towards the effort to improve the xml-to-html conversion process in order to make these pages more in line with your pedantry^Wpassion for correctness, we are always on the lookout for fresh victims^W^Wnew volunteers.
Can you be a little more specific about what it is that you'd like to see? We're very interested in user feedback, but this is just a little too vague.
The newer version of the package comes with another module, Date::DayOfWeek, that actually has a function to calculate the day of the week for any day in the Gregorian calendar.
http://search.cpan.org/search?mode=module&query=Do omsday
These folks were at Comdex in Chicago, in early 2000, demonstrating these things. They said that they would be available any day. Apparently it took them a while to get them out. Apparently they also misjudged what they were going to charge, since at Comdex they were estimating about half of what they are asking now. What I want is one of these that is actually the size of a laptop battery, rather than the size of a laptop.
I frequently find that Best Buy (and I am sure there are other stores that do this) will advertise a price for an item, taking off the amount of the rebate. For example, if an item is priced at $50, and there's a $10 rebate, the advertised price is $40. The catch is that the $10 rebate is already expired at the time that the advertisement is printed. They will then make the excuse that the rebate is offered by the manufacturer, not by them, and so they are not responsible. But the rebate says on it very clearly what its valid dates are.
Rebates appear to be a way to sucker someone into buying something that they would probably not buy at the higher price. When the rebate does not actually materialize, well, you already have the product, you've already started using it, and it was just $10 after all, so you might as well keep it. I expect that most consumers 1) forget to send in the rebate form, 2) if they do send it in, forget that they have done so, so when no rebate comes, they don't actually notice, or 3) realize that the rebate has not shown up, but figure it's just not worth their time and trouble to pursue any further. So, for the price of the ink to print "with a $20 rebate", they are able to jack up the price by $20, and almost nobody really minds.
Perhaps if more people would run these rebates down and make them pay up, perhaps we'd get prices that actually reflect the value of items, and not what some marketing goon thinks that they can squeeze out of the half-awake buyer.
Indeed common sense should apply, but to the teacher, not the student. These are kids we are talking about, and the people that are supposed to be their role models. I'm not suggesting that all highschool kids are mindless sheep, but I am suggesting that teachers have a huge responsibility to kids, to lead them, teach them, and mentor them, quite apart from giving them academic direction. As a parent, I'm also not suggesting that parents assume the role of parents - or usurp it, I should say - as our government, and many parents, seem to want. I am, however, saying that this sort of casual attitude towards kids is not something we should blame on the kids.
Yeah, the kid did something stupid, and he should be disciplined for it. But the teacher who encouraged the student to break the law should not be simply forgiven with such a lame excuse as "well I didn't really mean it." Kids are impressionable, and a teacher's entire career is about creating the right impressions on those kids. This sort of thing is inexcusable.
As an IT manager, I find your question rather amusing, because I have no idea what you're talking about. Now, I realize that this is because I've come up through the ranks, rather than getting a management degree and getting transplanted into a management role. But I would think that I would have at least encountered one or two of these techniques you're referring to. *sigh*. I guess I need to go back and read "How To Be A PHB."
I was always rather under the impression that interest in Stanislaw Lem was rather limited to people with too much mathematical training. When I was at the University of Kentucky, I found a copy of Cyberiad tucked away in a "special collection" - whatever that meant - and spent several hours chorting over it, and being shushed by the stern librarians. There's a charming poem in there about Love and Tensor Algebra, which, at one point in my educational career, I understood all of, and it was immensely funny. All of this is, of course, in response to one of your study questions. Do you find that the type of humor is closely related, or was that just a red herring? I'll have to grab a copy of this book somewhere, and see for myself.
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Um. Dude. It *is* the BSD license with a trademark restriction.
Astonishingly, the article is more informative than the comments of people who didn't read the article. Imagine that.
The device protects the parking lot at the plant. It's not something that will be installed on your next Altima.
I suppose it's a measure of how far technology has brought us that something as useless as this needs a further 2 years of development time.
I can hardly wait.
I have a very small number of users, and get about 2,000 messages in a normal day, across all of my domains/users/etc.
I'm watching the mail logs, and I'm seeing one or two of these getting rejected every second.
I'm also seeing that a huge number of them were coming from the same two addresses. I've blocked those addresses, which has slowed down the rate a little.
I actually looked for recipies for Apache cooking, and was not able to find anything. From what I gathered from various cooking and food mailing lists, much of what was eaten by the Apache people prior to the influx of Europeans changed a great deal after the introduction of European foods.
Anyways (yes, I know you were joking) I'm currently reading "Chasing Shadows", which is about the Apache people during the late 1800s and early 1900s, and I *highly* recommend it as a way to learn about the Apache people.
("Chasing Shadows", Shelley Bowen Hatfield (no relation), ISBN 0826318533, Amazon.com)
I don't care. Why should I? We have a free market economy for a reason. Disney, for all of our fuzzy feelings about it, is a business, and they are free to make decisions, good or bad. Whether they are good or bad will be decided by the market, not by protests.
Anyway, with any luck, these folks will find jobs with companies that are able to make better movies than they were before, with stories that are actually interesting, rather than being vehicles for the Disney Corporation's particular brand of political correctness. So in that respect, this seems like a good move for us, the consumers.
I do Apache web server training and support. By far, the largest percentage of people coming to training are from government and para-government organizations - National Guard, NSA, NASA, state government, and so on. And many of these places have been in the process of migrating from IIS to Apache, or, in a few cases, from Netscape to Apache. I don't know if this indicates a trend, but it certainly accounts for most of my company's bottom line.
And, if you really enjoy a challenge, you can use Win32::OLE to actually open Excel/Word/Etc and pass commands to it, which allows you to do things like export the file to a CSV, save it as HTML, or whatever you want. It's a little cumbersome, but it saves you from actually having to use the products yourself!
If you'd like to contribute your vast expertise in this field towards the effort to improve the xml-to-html conversion process in order to make these pages more in line with your pedantry^Wpassion for correctness, we are always on the lookout for fresh victims^W^Wnew volunteers.
Can you be a little more specific about what it is that you'd like to see? We're very interested in user feedback, but this is just a little too vague.
The newer version of the package comes with another module, Date::DayOfWeek, that actually has a function to calculate the day of the week for any day in the Gregorian calendar. http://search.cpan.org/search?mode=module&query=Do omsday
"It's like spending $100K of hard-earned money on a Ferrari, but not bothering to keep it clean." Non-sequiturs make me eat lampshades.
These folks were at Comdex in Chicago, in early 2000, demonstrating these things. They said that they would be available any day. Apparently it took them a while to get them out. Apparently they also misjudged what they were going to charge, since at Comdex they were estimating about half of what they are asking now. What I want is one of these that is actually the size of a laptop battery, rather than the size of a laptop.
I frequently find that Best Buy (and I am sure there are other stores that do this) will advertise a price for an item, taking off the amount of the rebate. For example, if an item is priced at $50, and there's a $10 rebate, the advertised price is $40. The catch is that the $10 rebate is already expired at the time that the advertisement is printed. They will then make the excuse that the rebate is offered by the manufacturer, not by them, and so they are not responsible. But the rebate says on it very clearly what its valid dates are. Rebates appear to be a way to sucker someone into buying something that they would probably not buy at the higher price. When the rebate does not actually materialize, well, you already have the product, you've already started using it, and it was just $10 after all, so you might as well keep it. I expect that most consumers 1) forget to send in the rebate form, 2) if they do send it in, forget that they have done so, so when no rebate comes, they don't actually notice, or 3) realize that the rebate has not shown up, but figure it's just not worth their time and trouble to pursue any further. So, for the price of the ink to print "with a $20 rebate", they are able to jack up the price by $20, and almost nobody really minds. Perhaps if more people would run these rebates down and make them pay up, perhaps we'd get prices that actually reflect the value of items, and not what some marketing goon thinks that they can squeeze out of the half-awake buyer.
Indeed common sense should apply, but to the teacher, not the student. These are kids we are talking about, and the people that are supposed to be their role models. I'm not suggesting that all highschool kids are mindless sheep, but I am suggesting that teachers have a huge responsibility to kids, to lead them, teach them, and mentor them, quite apart from giving them academic direction. As a parent, I'm also not suggesting that parents assume the role of parents - or usurp it, I should say - as our government, and many parents, seem to want. I am, however, saying that this sort of casual attitude towards kids is not something we should blame on the kids. Yeah, the kid did something stupid, and he should be disciplined for it. But the teacher who encouraged the student to break the law should not be simply forgiven with such a lame excuse as "well I didn't really mean it." Kids are impressionable, and a teacher's entire career is about creating the right impressions on those kids. This sort of thing is inexcusable.
In exchange for your left foot (payment up front) I will write you Quicktime and ASF for Linux.
As an IT manager, I find your question rather amusing, because I have no idea what you're talking about. Now, I realize that this is because I've come up through the ranks, rather than getting a management degree and getting transplanted into a management role. But I would think that I would have at least encountered one or two of these techniques you're referring to. *sigh*. I guess I need to go back and read "How To Be A PHB."
I was always rather under the impression that interest in Stanislaw Lem was rather limited to people with too much mathematical training. When I was at the University of Kentucky, I found a copy of Cyberiad tucked away in a "special collection" - whatever that meant - and spent several hours chorting over it, and being shushed by the stern librarians. There's a charming poem in there about Love and Tensor Algebra, which, at one point in my educational career, I understood all of, and it was immensely funny. All of this is, of course, in response to one of your study questions. Do you find that the type of humor is closely related, or was that just a red herring? I'll have to grab a copy of this book somewhere, and see for myself.