This is going to cause expression collision. "It looks good, on paper." "The project is done, on paper." And scariest, "I'm serving you with these legal papers, 150 GB in all."
This IR flasher will probably also ruin the day of anyone behind you trying to tape the movie. Most video cameras are sensitive to IR, after all. (Why don't movie theater do that rather than spying?)
Now, Slashdot moral quiz: Is that good or bad? Start the test...
A nice bright IR LED with a blinker circuit. It doesn't even have to be pointed right at the guy, just on your head/neck/glasses pointing back. I think a longer delay like 30 seconds would be best. It gives the capacitor time to charge up, and it won't be as easy to "tune-out" and ignore. (Not blinding, just damned distracting while trying to peep on the audience.)
The interface and engine are indeed awesome, shame about the game.;) It was that little pond in the middle of the island that boggled me. Zoom in. Closer. Closer. There! Turtles. As far as I know, they play no part in the game, but there they are. WTF?!
It would be nice if the engine were eventually released for people to tinker with. I could see doing something like the DOOM job-control interface from a few years ago, but on a far grander scale. (Although I doubt I'd want to train my creature not to eat my file system!)
"Your villagers want a tavern, why not build it for them?" -- Black & Blacker.
Oopsie perhaps, but just for a moment aren't you annoyed that your flat UI doesn't work right?
It has me pondering whenever I do something like StartBar, Programs, Accessories, System Tools, Character Map. Click-menu, sub-sub-sub-menu, click-click? Why can't I hit the hotkey to go to those programs that I left by the fountain?:)
Yeah, that's true. But until we block spam to that last guy, with more relatives than chromosomes, who keeps buying spammed products, the spammers will just keep increasing power to the spam engines to reach him. They already depend on cranking out 100,000 emails to make a sale, and it doesn't cost them much more to go to a million or 10 million per sale.
As always, spam is about consent not content. Perhaps all this smoke and mirrors is to distract from people noticing that spam from politicians is now "legal"?
That's not fair! Many spammers assure me that they are complying with bill S1618--even when they're sending it from Argentina to a Canadian email address. Okay, so S1618/Murky was never passed, but they're trying, they're very trying.
Just because a spammer is buying Chinese hosting, abusing proxies in Korea, or zombies everywhere, doesn't mean that they've actually moved offshore. After blowing through bogus registration, dummy names, corporate shells, technical mis-direction, the spammer is usually still living in some mortgaged-to-the-hilt house in the USA.
Their false trail leading outside the country isn't going to do much good when the law or someone with money (AOL) comes a calling.
By the time the spam gets to the reader, it's already eaten bandwidth and storage along the way. If labelling their spam made it quasi-legal, the spam flood would be like a drink from the firehose compared to now (as bad as it is). Look at the figures large ISPs are publishing for the percentage of their total email that is spam, and growing amount of it.
Filters are great for the end user, but eventually we're going to run out of carpets to sweep the spam under. Labelling is not "playing fair".
Play a game like Black & White for a few hours straight until you don't think about your mouse/wheel motions to move around in the 3D world. Then switch right back to the desktop and see if you don't try to grab the screen to rotate your view or zoom in/out. It's a very strange sensation.
I'm not sure if a desktop that worked that way would be any easier, but to really use it, you'd have to change over all your normal reflexes. (There is no "try".) That would be a hard sell--which is where the coolness comes in, I suspect.:)
Ah, a special statute (and likewise in other countries), how nice. (I doubt MasterCard or American Express can muster that kind of clout. Probably.) I notice that there are some exceptions that they don't pay much attention to when hassling the little guy:
The word "Olympic" may be used, without sanction, to identify a business or goods or services if:
such use is not combined with any of the Olympic trademarks
it is evident from the circumstances that such use of the name "Olympic" refers to the naturally occurring mountains or geographical region of the same name, and that it does not refer to the Corporation or to any Olympic activity;
such business, goods or services are operated, sold and marketed in the State of Washington west of the Cascade Mountain range, and marketing outside this area is not substantial.
Also, any use of "Olympic" commencing before September 21, 1950, may continue.
That should excuse Zeus and the local Olympic Restaurant (est. 1948), but they always seem to send out the suited thugs with legal shotguns. ("Nice place, shame if someone dropped an Olympic torch on it..")
Of course, Rule #1. However, you will receive endless amounts of email from people who claim they made a closet-full of money doing this--as well as email of all kinds. (Since the spammer now has your email address, he's certainly going to include it in the next Millions CD of addresses that he/she sells.)
You aren't forced to use your ISP's SMTP. Most smart-hosting services will let you use another port. But unless it's business or the user has their own domain (or the ISP sucks:), it's not worth it.
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Just think of all the photographs you could keep on paper. Umm, hang on...
A 25 GB Post-It is not a "note"!
This is going to cause expression collision. "It looks good, on paper." "The project is done, on paper." And scariest, "I'm serving you with these legal papers, 150 GB in all."
Steve should keep walking and not make eye-contact. It just encourages them.
Now, Slashdot moral quiz: Is that good or bad? Start the test...
Now, no. Older military light-amplification ones didn't have very good limiters for sudden brightness. Stone-knives and bear-skins...
A nice bright IR LED with a blinker circuit. It doesn't even have to be pointed right at the guy, just on your head/neck/glasses pointing back. I think a longer delay like 30 seconds would be best. It gives the capacitor time to charge up, and it won't be as easy to "tune-out" and ignore. (Not blinding, just damned distracting while trying to peep on the audience.)
Jack Valenti doesn't need night-vision goggles. All vampires can see in the dark.
Of course, it's traditional.
It would be nice if the engine were eventually released for people to tinker with. I could see doing something like the DOOM job-control interface from a few years ago, but on a far grander scale. (Although I doubt I'd want to train my creature not to eat my file system!)
"Your villagers want a tavern, why not build it for them?" -- Black & Blacker.
"Villagers need drugs!" -- Black & Blacker.
Yeah, that's true. But until we block spam to that last guy, with more relatives than chromosomes, who keeps buying spammed products, the spammers will just keep increasing power to the spam engines to reach him. They already depend on cranking out 100,000 emails to make a sale, and it doesn't cost them much more to go to a million or 10 million per sale.
As always, spam is about consent not content. Perhaps all this smoke and mirrors is to distract from people noticing that spam from politicians is now "legal"?
That's not fair! Many spammers assure me that they are complying with bill S1618--even when they're sending it from Argentina to a Canadian email address. Okay, so S1618/Murky was never passed, but they're trying, they're very trying.
Just because a spammer is buying Chinese hosting, abusing proxies in Korea, or zombies everywhere, doesn't mean that they've actually moved offshore. After blowing through bogus registration, dummy names, corporate shells, technical mis-direction, the spammer is usually still living in some mortgaged-to-the-hilt house in the USA.
Their false trail leading outside the country isn't going to do much good when the law or someone with money (AOL) comes a calling.
Filters are great for the end user, but eventually we're going to run out of carpets to sweep the spam under. Labelling is not "playing fair".
I'm not sure if a desktop that worked that way would be any easier, but to really use it, you'd have to change over all your normal reflexes. (There is no "try".) That would be a hard sell--which is where the coolness comes in, I suspect. :)
Oh dear. Did I just say that MC and AmEx don't have clout? Of course not! "Clout Card" is VISA's trademark...
There's some newer files at their high capacity mirror (Haven't checked them over yet.)
I think Borland gave up on their brief name change, but they'd have more of a case: Take INPRISE, move two letters and add L: L-INSPIRE
Woah, reminds me of Borland's brief (and ignored) fling with Inprise. ("Linprise", hmmm.)
Of course, Rule #1. However, you will receive endless amounts of email from people who claim they made a closet-full of money doing this--as well as email of all kinds. (Since the spammer now has your email address, he's certainly going to include it in the next Millions CD of addresses that he/she sells.)
You aren't forced to use your ISP's SMTP. Most smart-hosting services will let you use another port. But unless it's business or the user has their own domain (or the ISP sucks :), it's not worth it.
And how do you obtain email addresses and the permission to send them email? Hopefully by some confirmed opt-in process and not by buying lists.