This is pretty much exactly what SpamArrest does. I've been trying it out for a couple of weeks, looks good so far. I will probably subscribe at the end of the free first month. Going from 180 spams a day to *none* is very very nice indeed, and certainly beats the alternative of ditching my favourite 7 year old email address.
Yes, why don't we get rid of all the agricultural machinery while we're at it, so we can all get back to being rural peasants, and knock it off with this pretentions "technology" stuff.
I actually like to cook, and I'm pretty good at it. Typically I'll make some sort of Thai or Indian curry, because I'm into hot food like that.
That said, I often get better results on curries when I outsource the development to professionals. With food prices the way they are here in Los Angeles, it ends up costing about the same anyway, plus I get the added bonus of not actually having to do anything other than enjoy the food.
I guess the other thing is that cleaning up afterwards is so incredibly not fun that I'll generally avoid cooking just to avoid having to clean up after cooking.
I am wondering why organisms like these don't get bit rot in their chromosones and die. More specifically, I'm wondering why plants don't get cancer.
Thinking about it. Over 11000 years, an organism must experience a hell of a lot of mutations in cell division, obviously most of which cause immediate cell death... but can someone just explain what happens to the mutations that don't die in plants like this?
1)...Unix programmers are too busy making money, driving fast cars and picking up the babes to bother maing a virus.
7) Linux users don't have many contacts in their address books, due to their bathing habits.
Lucky thing that Linux isn't Unix eh? Oh yeah, this red hat box... that's running some kind of Unix... oh yeah, definitely... not sure which exactly, but it's definitely not Linux. My bath works fine thank you.
This sounds a lot like...
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"Business Casual".
Combining unprofessional with unattractive, whilst diminishing neither.
Put enough people on a big enough ship and eventually maybe they'll get there. Maybe not in their lifetime, but I'm sure they'll be able to figure out what to do.
Not if they're a bunch of hairdressers, PHBs and advertising execs...
IBM (and others) tried to make on-screen objects look and act like real objects. Real CD player [iarchitect.com] and RealPhone [iarchitect.com]
The interesting thing about this is that it's rather pointless. It's simply another rehash of an existing interface. Let's face it, very few people know how to make a phone or CD player work without their button panel.
I reckon dropping the metaphors is a good thing though.
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It's not just the parts, but their relationship to each other and the whole. A system requires more than just parts, it requires organisation and interactions.
And that was from my old Systems Analysis class, ten years ago.
Do what we used to do back in the old days of the 1980s and early 1990s: read fucking reviews.
How about an emphatic NO, for starters. Book reviewers, and ESPECIALLY movie reviewers, aren't worth the time you waste reading their pontifications, because invariably what they consider to be an amazing , life-changing experience, I'll consider dull, unoriginal crap.
Let's slowly and painfully state the overly obvious:
It's all subjective. I'd much rather get a reccommendation from a friend with similar tastes and intelligence levels to mine, or better still borrow that book/cd/movie/software/x from my friend and try before I buy.
Take the case of music CDs. Say my friend reccommends a CD and I go out and buy it, take it home and find that it turns out to in fact be drivel from my point of view, then I'm kinda screwed. The record company has got my money for a product I don't even want, because I can't get a refund for an opened package. If I can borrow that CD for a while, or even (Loki forbid!) download a few tracks to check them out, then I have more of a basis for a rational purchasing decision, according to my tastes. And that's how it should be.
Vicarious liability arises when the defendant "has the right and ability to supervise the infringing activity and also has a direct financial interest in such activities." Napster, 239 F.3d at 1022.
So this effectively means that one cannot get sued for merely writing some nifty software.
Worst case scenario, if we completely give up on helping the poor and wretched, and instead focus on our freedoms, the next generation of us can still come back and help them someday.
What is with that? I've seen a friend of mine do it and it makes no sense whatsoever! It's probably bad for your health, not to mention downright inconsiderate of persons who are sensitive to flashing lights, who may be passing by at this very moment! The last thing you want is to be browsing away and have unconscious people falling on you.
So stop that, it's silly! We can't be having any of these kind of shenanigans around here. Righty-o then.
Now look here, the thing is that a well structured hierarchy, with well-organised use of symbolic links for objects that fall into multiple catgories, is a great way to organise things.
Of course, full metadata would be nicer, but that's not gonna happen, because people are lazy.
What's really needed is a desktop tool for managing one's workspace hierarchically, with transparent management of symbolic links.
Konqueror comes close to what I'm thinking about here, the way when you drag a file to a different folder, it will politely ask you whether you want to Copy, Move or Link To the original file. THIS KICKS ASS.
However, what is really needed is something that will assist the user in maintaining referential integrity in the links. Anyone know of anything like that?
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Silly question, but between the existing Mozilla suite and Phoenix and Galeon, why should I bother with this?
damn i wish i had some mod points about now. nice post, Sentry21.
don't you mean "polynomially"? or am i completely deranged?
This is pretty much exactly what SpamArrest does. I've been trying it out for a couple of weeks, looks good so far. I will probably subscribe at the end of the free first month. Going from 180 spams a day to *none* is very very nice indeed, and certainly beats the alternative of ditching my favourite 7 year old email address.
You'd be wrong. Several of my clients are using a command-line php script of mine for dispatching mail. Why did I use PHP and not Perl? DBI.
Let's terraform the bastards before they evolve into ten foot tall insection beasts with razor sharp teeth, glistening with demonic slobber.
Terraform Venus Now!
Yes, why don't we get rid of all the agricultural machinery while we're at it, so we can all get back to being rural peasants, and knock it off with this pretentions "technology" stuff.
What makes you think that this doesn't exist already? You have just described the status quo.
Well, I guess I'm finally motivated enough to go and find out if jonkatzsucks.com is registered...
No, it's available.
Tempting, very tempting indeed... oh, the karmic implications!
I actually like to cook, and I'm pretty good at it. Typically I'll make some sort of Thai or Indian curry, because I'm into hot food like that.
That said, I often get better results on curries when I outsource the development to professionals. With food prices the way they are here in Los Angeles, it ends up costing about the same anyway, plus I get the added bonus of not actually having to do anything other than enjoy the food.
I guess the other thing is that cleaning up afterwards is so incredibly not fun that I'll generally avoid cooking just to avoid having to clean up after cooking.
I am not a biologist.
I am wondering why organisms like these don't get bit rot in their chromosones and die. More specifically, I'm wondering why plants don't get cancer.
Thinking about it. Over 11000 years, an organism must experience a hell of a lot of mutations in cell division, obviously most of which cause immediate cell death... but can someone just explain what happens to the mutations that don't die in plants like this?
1) ...Unix programmers are too busy making money, driving fast cars and picking up the babes to bother maing a virus.
7) Linux users don't have many contacts in their address books, due to their bathing habits.
Lucky thing that Linux isn't Unix eh? Oh yeah, this red hat box... that's running some kind of Unix... oh yeah, definitely... not sure which exactly, but it's definitely not Linux. My bath works fine thank you.
"Business Casual".
Combining unprofessional with unattractive, whilst diminishing neither.
Put enough people on a big enough ship and eventually maybe they'll get there. Maybe not in their lifetime, but I'm sure they'll be able to figure out what to do.
Not if they're a bunch of hairdressers, PHBs and advertising execs...
According to the IMDB, she's dead, Frank.
Thank you, Mr. Goldstein! I mean. Erm. Yes.
IBM (and others) tried to make on-screen objects look and act like real objects. Real CD player [iarchitect.com] and RealPhone [iarchitect.com]
The interesting thing about this is that it's rather pointless. It's simply another rehash of an existing interface. Let's face it, very few people know how to make a phone or CD player work without their button panel.
I reckon dropping the metaphors is a good thing though.
It's not just the parts, but their relationship to each other and the whole. A system requires more than just parts, it requires organisation and interactions.
And that was from my old Systems Analysis class, ten years ago.
Humans: just another domesticated animal.
I'd like to know why anyone would be bothered to play Civ for "half an hour at the most".
Oh, shit.
Do what we used to do back in the old days of the 1980s and early 1990s: read fucking reviews.
How about an emphatic NO, for starters. Book reviewers, and ESPECIALLY movie reviewers, aren't worth the time you waste reading their pontifications, because invariably what they consider to be an amazing , life-changing experience, I'll consider dull, unoriginal crap.
Let's slowly and painfully state the overly obvious:
It's all subjective. I'd much rather get a reccommendation from a friend with similar tastes and intelligence levels to mine, or better still borrow that book/cd/movie/software/x from my friend and try before I buy.
Take the case of music CDs. Say my friend reccommends a CD and I go out and buy it, take it home and find that it turns out to in fact be drivel from my point of view, then I'm kinda screwed. The record company has got my money for a product I don't even want, because I can't get a refund for an opened package. If I can borrow that CD for a while, or even (Loki forbid!) download a few tracks to check them out, then I have more of a basis for a rational purchasing decision, according to my tastes. And that's how it should be.
Would you buy a car without test-driving it?
So this effectively means that one cannot get sued for merely writing some nifty software.
Groovy.
Worst case scenario, if we completely give up on helping the poor and wretched, and instead focus on our freedoms, the next generation of us can still come back and help them someday.
Not if they're dead.
What is with that? I've seen a friend of mine do it and it makes no sense whatsoever! It's probably bad for your health, not to mention downright inconsiderate of persons who are sensitive to flashing lights, who may be passing by at this very moment! The last thing you want is to be browsing away and have unconscious people falling on you.
So stop that, it's silly! We can't be having any of these kind of shenanigans around here. Righty-o then.
Now look here, the thing is that a well structured hierarchy, with well-organised use of symbolic links for objects that fall into multiple catgories, is a great way to organise things.
Of course, full metadata would be nicer, but that's not gonna happen, because people are lazy.
What's really needed is a desktop tool for managing one's workspace hierarchically, with transparent management of symbolic links.
Konqueror comes close to what I'm thinking about here, the way when you drag a file to a different folder, it will politely ask you whether you want to Copy, Move or Link To the original file. THIS KICKS ASS.
However, what is really needed is something that will assist the user in maintaining referential integrity in the links. Anyone know of anything like that?