Witnesses report seeing John Cusack holding the server over his head outside Ione Skye's window. Authorities are en route. (Link for the 80s-impaired.)
Try writing a game or a book in second person. It doesnt work, because the reader/player has to be willing to surrender in absolute domination to the storyteller. They have to be willing to accept the forced actions and feelings that the story teller shoves on them... It's not used, cause it's not effective. Period.
Wrong. For some reason it's unusual and rare but it can be done just fine. (Note: like everything else, not everyone will like it.) One of my favorite books of all times just happens to be Jay McInerney's Bright Lights, Big City which, by the way, was a bestseller. (Click on that link, then the book cover, to read the first chapter.)
The night has already turned on that imperceptible pivot where two A.M. changes to six A.M. You know this moment has come and gone, but you are not yet willing to concede that you have crossed the line beyond which all is gratuitous damage and the palsy of unraveled nerve endings. Somewhere back there you could have cut your losses, but you rode past that moment on a comet trail of white powder and now you are trying to hang on to the rush... You are leaning back against a post that may or may not be structural with regard to the building, but which feels essential to your own maintenance of any upright position.
I have no problem with the style because I always imagine myself as the protagonist when reading a first-person book anyway, and I imagine many others feel the same way. All that matters are the same things that matter in any other book--characters, humor, etc. Some people might be put off by the style but most others won't mind. Wikipedia lists others.
I don't know if it's true but I heard that something like half of the bandwidth, which cost money, is used by spam. ISPs pay for the bandwidth used then have to pay for the mail servers and storage.
True, but if spam (miraculously) went "legit" then there would be a whole lot less of it. The reason there is so much now is because it comes from machines that the spammers aren't paying for in the first place. If a real c@n4dian ph@rm@cy called an ISP and said "I'd like to send out 20,000,000 emails this week, how much will that cost?" they'd be given a quote comparable to what streaming video providers pay. And if from" headers weren't forged, filtering would get a bunch easier and could be implemented at the server and that again would lower the costs of the network providers
OK, maybe not tonight-at-eleven news, but this is a totally clever hack, which is exactly what many people on Slashdot live for.
On a related note, I came up with a roundabout way to do something similar to help a friend who was having trouble moving large files. On the remote end, split the file into small chunks. Then md5 them all and save those results into a text file. Then, ftp them, and when they arrive, md5 them all again and compare your values to what's in the text file. If any don't match, re-download them; else cat them all together and you should be good.
I don't think this wouldn't have worked for the submitter, even if he knew someone with a known-good copy of the file, because I imagine these things work linearly, so if the bad part of the file was at the halfway mark, every chunk after that would have the wrong checksum. His method was very, very clever.
I wouldn't mind getting spam if every piece of it came from a company's own servers and with a legitimate return address. But when spammers a) steal resources (via botnets and trojaned machines) to send their mail and then b) they forge the From: header so you can't possibly respond, I think it's pretty clear from part B that they know that what they're doing--part A--is wrong.
Note that I said I wouldn't *mind* spam in these conditions. I'd be even happier to receive no ads, period, but as long as they have to pay their own way and not hide their identity then I figure it's not AS bad as what they do now. I *would* accept an inbox full of junk mail if it meant that acres of trees didn't have to die to keep my physical mailbox full of junk. I don't disagree with people who say "you have no right to be in my inbox, period"--I just don't personally feel as strongly. Marketing assholes will be marketing assholes until they're all exterminated; so we may as well give them a less-wasteful outlet for their bullshit.:-)
PLEASE oh PLEASE oh PLEASE let the next Flash plugin incorporate 100% of the work you already put in to your now-dead SVG plugin! Making graphics out of thin air--nothing but an XML file with some basic info and a few (X,Y) coordinates--is SO sweet! C'mon Adobe, you used to* love SVG... right up until the day you bought Macromedia.
Q:Do you wish you'd started the Web as a business? A: If I'd started "Web Inc." it would have been just another proprietary system. You wouldn't have had this universality. For something like the Web to exist, it has to be based on public, nonproprietary standards. — Tim Berners-Lee, Wired, 1997
I've seen the MacBook Air in person and it is an amazing design. It really is incredible how light it is. That said, it's pricey (not that Apple minds that) and what I really wish they would have made would have been... - 10 or 11" screen - 8 or 16 GB solid-state drive--for a secondary machine which WON'T be used for lots of DV capture, storing your whole iTunes library, etc., a small drive is fine - built-in CF reader, and you could get a big CF card to be used as a TimeMachine volume
In other news, I do have a (non-Pro, non-Air) MacBook and the drive is ridicuously easy to get in and out. (Remove the battery, loosen three captive screws, pull away the L-shaped piece of metal, slide out the drive) and I'd like to experiment with some kind of SSD, either a 'proper' drive or a CF/SD/whatever card in a SATA adapter. Any suggestions on where to start? A newegg search for 'sata ssd' shows an 8 GB unit for $210 and a 16 GB one for $340. Searching for 'sata cf adapter' shows a $40 unit--could I just get one of those and a fast CF card? This page ends with the conclusion "A serious SSD a CompactFlash card is not" but it is from 2000 (but then again, shows as being updated a just a few months ago. I've written to the author.) Any thoughts?
Sounds about right to me. I still spend a lot of my time on a dual-1.25 GHz G4 with OS X 10.3.9 and Safari 1.3 and surfing is often painful on this machine. On a whim I saved the front page of ebay.com, looked at the source, and downloaded every referenced.js file I saw. (I think there were about 10.) It wound up being a total of ONE-THIRD of a megabyte of code. So all that code has to be executed, on top of all the HTML, CSS, and images. No wonder it takes forever and makes the browser unresponsive. Yes, I also have Firefox, but it's painful to use for other reasons. (Yes, I'm one of those people. Not religiously, and I won't argue with you about it, but I've got my preferences.) I do use it to "balance the load"--to open up sites that I know are heavy and that I won't spend a lot of time at.
To answer the article's original question however, my answer would be: Who gives a toss? Math is useful. Whatever semantic definition we apply to the process by which we expand our mathematical capabilities has absolutely zero impact upon that expansion.
Has nothing to do with expansion. If it is "invented" it can be patented. And owned. And controlled.
THIS WAS A FLAGRANT VIOLATION OF THE USE OF ARPANET AS THE NETWORK IS TO BE USED FOR OFFICIAL U.S. GOVERNMENT BUSINESS ONLY. APPROPRIATE ACTION IS BEING TAKEN TO PRECLUDE ITS OCCURRENCE AGAIN.
OK, now to get around the lameness filter, I need to post some non-caps. Old joke: User: How do I view this email attachment? Sysadmin: You uudecode it. User: I I I decode it?
So either a) the market changed overnight, and the amazing iPod team was able to enable video in just 3 weeks, or b) Steve was lying through his teeth. And this wasn't just a case of "well, everyone KNOWS Apple will/won't do such-and-such" and Apple having other plans, unbeknownst to anyone else, or reading too much or too little into an offhand remark. This was Steve explicitly saying one thing and doing another. Though if you dig a little deeper, you'll find a lawyer-like escape caluse:
"Jobs is yet to see a demand for the device and is unimpressed with the existing video players on the market. Speaking today at Apple's annual European conference, Apple Expo in Paris, he said: 'Whether people want to buy a device just to watch video is not clear--so far the answer's been no. Devices that do video... have not been successful yet. No-one's figured out the right formula.' However, he didn't shut the door on a video playing device. 'One never knows,' he added.
Speaking of Space Invaders, remember when the big cheat was to hold down reset while turning it on? That gave you the ability to fire two shots. None of this up-up-down-down or IDKFA crap.:-)
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Witnesses report seeing John Cusack holding the server over his head outside Ione Skye's window. Authorities are en route. (Link for the 80s-impaired.)
But this, is not, one of, those times.
Wrong. For some reason it's unusual and rare but it can be done just fine. (Note: like everything else, not everyone will like it.) One of my favorite books of all times just happens to be Jay McInerney's Bright Lights, Big City which, by the way, was a bestseller. (Click on that link, then the book cover, to read the first chapter.)I have no problem with the style because I always imagine myself as the protagonist when reading a first-person book anyway, and I imagine many others feel the same way. All that matters are the same things that matter in any other book--characters, humor, etc. Some people might be put off by the style but most others won't mind. Wikipedia lists others.
I don't know if it's true but I heard that something like half of the bandwidth, which cost money, is used by spam. ISPs pay for the bandwidth used then have to pay for the mail servers and storage.
True, but if spam (miraculously) went "legit" then there would be a whole lot less of it. The reason there is so much now is because it comes from machines that the spammers aren't paying for in the first place. If a real c@n4dian ph@rm@cy called an ISP and said "I'd like to send out 20,000,000 emails this week, how much will that cost?" they'd be given a quote comparable to what streaming video providers pay. And if from" headers weren't forged, filtering would get a bunch easier and could be implemented at the server and that again would lower the costs of the network providers
OK, maybe not tonight-at-eleven news, but this is a totally clever hack, which is exactly what many people on Slashdot live for.
On a related note, I came up with a roundabout way to do something similar to help a friend who was having trouble moving large files. On the remote end, split the file into small chunks. Then md5 them all and save those results into a text file. Then, ftp them, and when they arrive, md5 them all again and compare your values to what's in the text file. If any don't match, re-download them; else cat them all together and you should be good.
I don't think this wouldn't have worked for the submitter, even if he knew someone with a known-good copy of the file, because I imagine these things work linearly, so if the bad part of the file was at the halfway mark, every chunk after that would have the wrong checksum. His method was very, very clever.
I wouldn't mind getting spam if every piece of it came from a company's own servers and with a legitimate return address. But when spammers a) steal resources (via botnets and trojaned machines) to send their mail and then b) they forge the From: header so you can't possibly respond, I think it's pretty clear from part B that they know that what they're doing--part A--is wrong.
:-)
Note that I said I wouldn't *mind* spam in these conditions. I'd be even happier to receive no ads, period, but as long as they have to pay their own way and not hide their identity then I figure it's not AS bad as what they do now. I *would* accept an inbox full of junk mail if it meant that acres of trees didn't have to die to keep my physical mailbox full of junk. I don't disagree with people who say "you have no right to be in my inbox, period"--I just don't personally feel as strongly. Marketing assholes will be marketing assholes until they're all exterminated; so we may as well give them a less-wasteful outlet for their bullshit.
PLEASE oh PLEASE oh PLEASE let the next Flash plugin incorporate 100% of the work you already put in to your now-dead SVG plugin! Making graphics out of thin air--nothing but an XML file with some basic info and a few (X,Y) coordinates--is SO sweet! C'mon Adobe, you used to* love SVG... right up until the day you bought Macromedia.
* note the dated references on that page to CS2
*send*
Q: Do you wish you'd started the Web as a business?
A: If I'd started "Web Inc." it would have been just another proprietary system. You wouldn't have had this universality. For something like the Web to exist, it has to be based on public, nonproprietary standards.
— Tim Berners-Lee, Wired, 1997
...someone who is not a total cock... sorry, a wife-murdering total cock...
...but Microsoft is a convicted monopolist!
(For those who don't get the joke--that's a reference to someone's sig here, but since google doesn't index them, I can't find it.)
my EVD0 USB dongle from Sprint is about 2.5 inches long, and weighs 2.01 ounces
:-)
You should peel off the sticker and get it down to two ounces even!
I've seen the MacBook Air in person and it is an amazing design. It really is incredible how light it is. That said, it's pricey (not that Apple minds that) and what I really wish they would have made would have been...
- 10 or 11" screen
- 8 or 16 GB solid-state drive--for a secondary machine which WON'T be used for lots of DV capture, storing your whole iTunes library, etc., a small drive is fine
- built-in CF reader, and you could get a big CF card to be used as a TimeMachine volume
In other news, I do have a (non-Pro, non-Air) MacBook and the drive is ridicuously easy to get in and out. (Remove the battery, loosen three captive screws, pull away the L-shaped piece of metal, slide out the drive) and I'd like to experiment with some kind of SSD, either a 'proper' drive or a CF/SD/whatever card in a SATA adapter. Any suggestions on where to start? A newegg search for 'sata ssd' shows an 8 GB unit for $210 and a 16 GB one for $340. Searching for 'sata cf adapter' shows a $40 unit--could I just get one of those and a fast CF card? This page ends with the conclusion "A serious SSD a CompactFlash card is not" but it is from 2000 (but then again, shows as being updated a just a few months ago. I've written to the author.) Any thoughts?
I'd love to see it but I'm a few states away. Do you, perchance, have a decent camera and a Flickr page?
Clever. I wonder if it could be adapted to find duplicate text files? :-)
Does it run Linux?
Screw that... does it run Javagator?
I'd be extremely impressed if someone could get a story approved that started with "Slashdot reports that..."
Sounds about right to me. I still spend a lot of my time on a dual-1.25 GHz G4 with OS X 10.3.9 and Safari 1.3 and surfing is often painful on this machine. On a whim I saved the front page of ebay.com, looked at the source, and downloaded every referenced .js file I saw. (I think there were about 10.) It wound up being a total of ONE-THIRD of a megabyte of code. So all that code has to be executed, on top of all the HTML, CSS, and images. No wonder it takes forever and makes the browser unresponsive. Yes, I also have Firefox, but it's painful to use for other reasons. (Yes, I'm one of those people. Not religiously, and I won't argue with you about it, but I've got my preferences.) I do use it to "balance the load"--to open up sites that I know are heavy and that I won't spend a lot of time at.
To answer the article's original question however, my answer would be: Who gives a toss? Math is useful. Whatever semantic definition we apply to the process by which we expand our mathematical capabilities has absolutely zero impact upon that expansion.
Has nothing to do with expansion. If it is "invented" it can be patented. And owned. And controlled.
"We will begin with the firemen, then the math teachers, and so on in that fashion..."
-----Lrrr, Futurama
Your post advocates a
( ) technical (x) legislative ( ) market-based ( ) vigilante
approach to fighting spam...
OK, now to get around the lameness filter, I need to post some non-caps. Old joke:
User: How do I view this email attachment?
Sysadmin: You uudecode it.
User: I I I decode it?
Imagine it is some kind of change on the sun. How do we handle that?
Nuke it from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.
September 20, 2005: Jobs took some time to discuss video on personal devices, like the much-rumored Video iPod... Jobs said that the market isn't yet right for personal video devices.
October 12, 2005: Fifth Generation iPod Now Plays Music, Photos & Video
So either a) the market changed overnight, and the amazing iPod team was able to enable video in just 3 weeks, or b) Steve was lying through his teeth. And this wasn't just a case of "well, everyone KNOWS Apple will/won't do such-and-such" and Apple having other plans, unbeknownst to anyone else, or reading too much or too little into an offhand remark. This was Steve explicitly saying one thing and doing another. Though if you dig a little deeper, you'll find a lawyer-like escape caluse: http://hardware.silicon.com/storage/0,39024649,39152441,00.htm
Wait... is that their 1,000,000,000the hard drive, or their 1,073,741,824th?
Missing option: Yar's Revenge
:-)
Speaking of Space Invaders, remember when the big cheat was to hold down reset while turning it on? That gave you the ability to fire two shots. None of this up-up-down-down or IDKFA crap.
Dear Slashdot,
Please don't allow ACs to use <A HREF> tags.
Thanks,
-----everyone