Unlike most people on Y! mail, I pay for it. Don't really use it much anymore (in particular since gmail), and it's coming up for renewal soon. Wasn't much of an argument to keep it, so this is the nail in the coffin.
I'm not paying for spam. Bad enough their filtering is shit in the first place. It will not filter email that's not addressed to your Y! address.
I forward mail to it from my mailserver so I can check it on the road if need be. So all the junk that hits that address passes right through to Y! as it is.
What really pissed me off was I spent forever training it with thousands of spams that had acrued and the only message it marked as bulk was legit. After much back and forth, I finally got an answer.
-- Dear XXX We appreciate you following up with us. We have received your communication regarding SpamGuard.
SpamGuard is designed to operate with your Yahoo! Mail account and is not optimized for external accounts that are forwarding to your Yahoo! Mail account. If you forward messages to your Yahoo! Mail account, we suggest that you create filters which will route these messages to a specific folder.
--
Which of course, with their filters being limited in number and functionality, it's not practical.
My point is that with the page title example, I don't think it's more consistant to be able to attach it to one or more elements than it is to just have a singular title tag. More convienent maybe, but not more consistant.
This denotes the heading as the XHTML 2.0 title of the document, and specifies it as the inline heading. Finally, an end to writing the title out twice in every document!
It seems to me that introduces it's own quirks... <h property="title">Welcome to my home page</h> <div property="title">Second title, what now?</div>
When my mother had a stroke when she was dying of cancer, a very odd thing happened.
I rushed to the hospital, she seemed ok, but weak. We talked for hours, everything seemed fine. I still don't know what prompted me to ask the question as our converstation was pretty much normal. I asked her "Do you know you who I am?"
She said "No, should I?". Pretty much the worst moment of my life. As it turned out, she though it was 1968 and she was in there to give birth to what would be my brother Kevin.
Thankfully, over the next few weeks, most of it came back, but it all came back in chronological order.
She was back to the 1980's within a few hours, but the next 12 years came back much slower. She thought I was still with my first girlfriend circa 1990, that we had our old pets. The last few years were the only thing that remained somewhat little fuzzy.
I always thought that was very telling about the mind. Not sure exactly what it says, but it definitely says something. Maybe memory is stored tree-like. The other thing that was odd, was the closer to the present it got, the slower it came back.
I know a bit about winter myself, I've got 15 winters driving in Massachusetts under my belt.
Not arguing that ABS doesn't have it's moments. Just that none of these systems are perfect and can create additional situations.
They're bound to keep getting better, but I think as they do, the times that they do misbehave are going to be even more problematic for someone who's always relied on them.
My car's ABS goes off way too easy. Until I started driving around it, it would often send me through an intersection. (Slopes usually make it happen the most).
Now I always pump my brakes and I always stop exactly where I want to, unless I want the ABS to activate, for instance if some assclown drunk pulls into my lane while I'm in it and I want to steer. It's all pretty much ingrained at this point.
ABS can also dramatically increase distances in certain conditions.
References a test done by a finnish mag with a VW Golf. (Can't find the link at the moment)
Stopping distance on ice at @ 50mph Locked wheels - 255 m ABS - 404 m
But most of the time it comes up in my car circles, people think it's always better then a person could do, which is obviously not always (or even often) true if the person knows how to threshold brake.
Oddly enough, this link on howstuff works references an IIHS study that found drivers with ABS were more likely to die.
I have problems with Traction Control too. Occasionally, if I hit a slight depression with the front tire (and Boston is full of depressions, ruts and everything else), it brakes that tire and jerks the wheel. The first time it happened, almost hit a guard rail. Was like a hand on the wheel. It was a nice day and the road was fine. Just a little bridge plate and it cinched up. I've learned to live with it and anticipate it as well. But to someone who is less experienced, I imagine the outcome might be different.
All bitching aside, every once in awhile, it works the way it's supposed to, when it matters and makes it worthwhile. Both have saved me from wrecking at least once. Though both have almost caused me to wreck more than once, so maybe it's a wash.
I'm not against tech assistance mind you , but people really should learn how to threshold brake and other skills. Perhaps it's because most of my previous cars were banged up shitboxes. Hell I drove on a donut for a year with one of them , knowing the cars limits were a requirement back in those days.
I think these devices give people a false sense of security. Like with 4 wheel drive. People thing they can just disregard the laws of physics. "I can take the icy corner at 90mph!", not realizing that in 4x4, as all tires are biting, it can skip out.
I'm going to stop right here. I could rant about Massachusett drivers all day.
When I was there, it seemed about half (keep in mind it was a long, long time ago). Not that I had a problem with it. Though much of it was anime style stuff which I don't get at all.
The last time I was at a Mac World was in the early 90s in Boston when I was a teen. I was supposed to be giving out free subscriptions to macworld magazine or something, but ended up mainly talking to Julie Strain and some other Penthouse Pets that were there promoting some Penthouse VCDs and the programmers of it.:)
Some executive from Microsoft coming over and hanging out too. With the programmers, basically talking about some info John Carmack posted on Worldnet BBS about using Eigenvectors for color quantization of video to 256 colors. A great excuse to spend some time in their booth;)
When Carmack came up, of course so did Wolfenstein. I remember the MS guy talking about how it gave him motion sickness. LOL
I was suprised by the sheer amount of porn there. They had one porn booth that was enclosed in a curtain with the hardcore stuff. There were so many dudes in there, when you walked by, you could see their shapes presses against the curtains. Like in the movies when the ghouls start coming out of the wall.
Damn that's creepy. Last place I'm going to watch porn is pressed against 20 other dudes.
I agree with people who invested directly. I remember one client in particular who was burning 70 million a year selling t-shirts. Not even selling them, selling them on consignment. Didn't take a genius to figure out that it was a point of diminishing returns.
But it's not quite as simple as that is it? Many people who lost money didn't invest directly in it.
Two things of note, when I said 1500, I meant 15,000. I've had my Y! account for years and there are a few addresses that I still need to keep even though they were scraped off of work sites. I check it rarely, cleaning it out happens even more rarely. I just wish they had noted that it was pointless in that situation somewhere before I spent the time classifying it. It took me awhile to get past the idiotic cut & paste support replies. I kept classifying more and more as it's results refused to improve. The only one it had ever classified as spam was a legitimate email list I'm on.
I wasn't making a comparision. My gmail account, the few spams I've received (again from aliases and not the gmail address correctly) it's classified correctly, but I've been fairly protective of the address so it's not a fair for me to comapre them as I've had almost no spam at that address.
Slashdot Mirror
:P
Seriously though, the few violent acts in the actual story line are you have to stop someone from beating up on them.
Was my first thought too. "Crossing fingers"
LOL I wish +5 wasn't the mod limit.
Unlike most people on Y! mail, I pay for it. Don't really use it much anymore (in particular since gmail), and it's coming up for renewal soon. Wasn't much of an argument to keep it, so this is the nail in the coffin.
I'm not paying for spam. Bad enough their filtering is shit in the first place. It will not filter email that's not addressed to your Y! address.
I forward mail to it from my mailserver so I can check it on the road if need be. So all the junk that hits that address passes right through to Y! as it is.
What really pissed me off was I spent forever training it with thousands of spams that had acrued and the only message it marked as bulk was legit. After much back and forth, I finally got an answer.
--
Dear XXX
We appreciate you following up with us. We have received your
communication regarding SpamGuard.
SpamGuard is designed to operate with your Yahoo! Mail account and is
not optimized for external accounts that are forwarding to your Yahoo!
Mail account. If you forward messages to your Yahoo! Mail account, we
suggest that you create filters which will route these messages to a
specific folder.
--
Which of course, with their filters being limited in number and functionality, it's not practical.
Good points. Substituting respect and trust for surveillance doesn't exactly foster much of anything but paranoia.
It's one thing for the police to locate you, it's another for employers to do so.
I'm not concerned with people getting busted for doing things on work time that they should not, but it's the precedent it sets.
Read the original article. Makes the PS3 sound like shit and that it's doomed to fail before it arrives.
Better yet, he repeats heresay that he doesn't understand, as to why the 360 is better.
If it were my decision, I'd fire him and kick him in the ass on the way out.
Many of the roads here don't have any lines. They got too frigging lazy after shifting everything around during the Big Dig.
Now please report to the education center for re-Nedification
My point is that with the page title example, I don't think it's more consistant to be able to attach it to one or more elements than it is to just have a singular title tag. More convienent maybe, but not more consistant.
I guess what I'm getting at, is I don't see why it's any better than it is now.
I'm not saying it's bad way of doing things, but I think it's just different, not better.
<h property="title">Welcome to my home page</h>
This denotes the heading as the XHTML 2.0 title of the document, and specifies it as the inline heading. Finally, an end to writing the title out twice in every document!
It seems to me that introduces it's own quirks...
<h property="title">Welcome to my home page</h>
<div property="title">Second title, what now?</div>
While I'll give you credit for making a science joke, and a decent one, it's still kind of dickish don't you think?
When my mother had a stroke when she was dying of cancer, a very odd thing happened.
I rushed to the hospital, she seemed ok, but weak. We talked for hours, everything seemed fine. I still don't know what prompted me to ask the question as our converstation was pretty much normal. I asked her "Do you know you who I am?"
She said "No, should I?". Pretty much the worst moment of my life. As it turned out, she though it was 1968 and she was in there to give birth to what would be my brother Kevin.
Thankfully, over the next few weeks, most of it came back, but it all came back in chronological order.
She was back to the 1980's within a few hours, but the next 12 years came back much slower. She thought I was still with my first girlfriend circa 1990, that we had our old pets. The last few years were the only thing that remained somewhat little fuzzy.
I always thought that was very telling about the mind. Not sure exactly what it says, but it definitely says something. Maybe memory is stored tree-like. The other thing that was odd, was the closer to the present it got, the slower it came back.
Serious, you hear how some people "talk" these days?
For most, isn't it entirely in their control?
You could take a look at Pugs, a Perl 6 inprogress implementation in Haskell.
I know a bit about winter myself, I've got 15 winters driving in Massachusetts under my belt.
Not arguing that ABS doesn't have it's moments. Just that none of these systems are perfect and can create additional situations.
They're bound to keep getting better, but I think as they do, the times that they do misbehave are going to be even more problematic for someone who's always relied on them.
My car's ABS goes off way too easy. Until I started driving around it, it would often send me through an intersection. (Slopes usually make it happen the most).
Now I always pump my brakes and I always stop exactly where I want to, unless I want the ABS to activate, for instance if some assclown drunk pulls into my lane while I'm in it and I want to steer. It's all pretty much ingrained at this point.
ABS can also dramatically increase distances in certain conditions.
References a test done by a finnish mag with a VW Golf. (Can't find the link at the moment)
Stopping distance on ice at @ 50mph
Locked wheels - 255 m
ABS - 404 m
But most of the time it comes up in my car circles, people think it's always better then a person could do, which is obviously not always (or even often) true if the person knows how to threshold brake.
Oddly enough, this link on howstuff works references an IIHS study that found drivers with ABS were more likely to die.
I have problems with Traction Control too. Occasionally, if I hit a slight depression with the front tire (and Boston is full of depressions, ruts and everything else), it brakes that tire and jerks the wheel. The first time it happened, almost hit a guard rail. Was like a hand on the wheel. It was a nice day and the road was fine. Just a little bridge plate and it cinched up. I've learned to live with it and anticipate it as well. But to someone who is less experienced, I imagine the outcome might be different.
All bitching aside, every once in awhile, it works the way it's supposed to, when it matters and makes it worthwhile. Both have saved me from wrecking at least once. Though both have almost caused me to wreck more than once, so maybe it's a wash.
I'm not against tech assistance mind you , but people really should learn how to threshold brake and other skills. Perhaps it's because most of my previous cars were banged up shitboxes. Hell I drove on a donut for a year with one of them , knowing the cars limits were a requirement back in those days.
I think these devices give people a false sense of security. Like with 4 wheel drive. People thing they can just disregard the laws of physics. "I can take the icy corner at 90mph!", not realizing that in 4x4, as all tires are biting, it can skip out.
I'm going to stop right here. I could rant about Massachusett drivers all day.
To summarize, most people suck at driving.
Spitty Slurpy!
Glad to know I'm not the only one who misses it.
I know at least 12 people with various generations of ipods, and they all had them die within six months.
On the plus side when they die, usually it dies quick and is warrantied. What happens if it dies again...
When I was there, it seemed about half (keep in mind it was a long, long time ago). Not that I had a problem with it. Though much of it was anime style stuff which I don't get at all.
The last time I was at a Mac World was in the early 90s in Boston when I was a teen. I was supposed to be giving out free subscriptions to macworld magazine or something, but ended up mainly talking to Julie Strain and some other Penthouse Pets that were there promoting some Penthouse VCDs and the programmers of it. :)
;)
Some executive from Microsoft coming over and hanging out too. With the programmers, basically talking about some info John Carmack posted on Worldnet BBS about using Eigenvectors for color quantization of video to 256 colors. A great excuse to spend some time in their booth
When Carmack came up, of course so did Wolfenstein. I remember the MS guy talking about how it gave him motion sickness. LOL
I was suprised by the sheer amount of porn there. They had one porn booth that was enclosed in a curtain with the hardcore stuff. There were so many dudes in there, when you walked by, you could see their shapes presses against the curtains. Like in the movies when the ghouls start coming out of the wall.
Damn that's creepy. Last place I'm going to watch porn is pressed against 20 other dudes.
I agree with people who invested directly. I remember one client in particular who was burning 70 million a year selling t-shirts. Not even selling them, selling them on consignment. Didn't take a genius to figure out that it was a point of diminishing returns.
But it's not quite as simple as that is it? Many people who lost money didn't invest directly in it.
Two things of note, when I said 1500, I meant 15,000. I've had my Y! account for years and there are a few addresses that I still need to keep even though they were scraped off of work sites. I check it rarely, cleaning it out happens even more rarely. I just wish they had noted that it was pointless in that situation somewhere before I spent the time classifying it. It took me awhile to get past the idiotic cut & paste support replies. I kept classifying more and more as it's results refused to improve. The only one it had ever classified as spam was a legitimate email list I'm on.
I wasn't making a comparision. My gmail account, the few spams I've received (again from aliases and not the gmail address correctly) it's classified correctly, but I've been fairly protective of the address so it's not a fair for me to comapre them as I've had almost no spam at that address.