Yeah, car commercials are becoming the Next Big Thing in music promotion. Even established artists like Sting are resorting to having their music used to sell cars to get their stuff out there (especially now that you can go to the car company websites and find links to buy the CDs the songs came from, in some cases).
Well, checking Amazon's top-sellers in music, I see that:
Four out of the top 5... (three are more than a week away)
Five out of the top 10... (four of which are more than a week away)
Six out of the top 20... (five of which are more than a week away)
Somebody's preordering CDs...
Of course, out of those six:
Two are CD singles by (I think) the American Idol contestants (ie they have the Fox promotional empire behind them)
The remaining four (a Zeppelin live album, a Metallica album, a Jewel album, and a Radiohead album) are all by established artists with large and devoted fanbases.
Of course, gcc compiles first to it's own meta-asm (with an ungodly large number of registers), then from there to assembly.
Stroustrup's old Cfront C++ compiler, of course, compiled C++ down to C, so if you're using that compiler with gcc as your C-compiler, it's going through three different languages before you get machine code.
If you have a decent mail-server (Postfix can do this), you can do regexp filtering on the headers from the getgo.
Re:Scelson, as all spammers, is a liar
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There are a few possibilities:
AOL sold the member list, and Leonsis affirms: major PR disaster
AOL sold the member list, and Leonsis denies: Leonsis is risking perjury and contempt of Congress charges (both of which are jailable offenses)
AOL did not sell the member list, and Leonsis affirms: perjury and PR disaster
AOL did not sell the member list, and Leonsis denies: status quo ante
Leonsis neither affirms nor denies: status quo ante
There's no reason Leonsis would know every dealing that AOL does (especially those before he rose to this level); if he affirms, he's fucked. If he denies, the best he can hope for is status quo ante if he's right; if he's wrong, he's fucked. So if he answers, 4 things can happen, and 3 of them are bad.
Re:Scelson, as all spammers, is a liar
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First rule (if you're afraid of committing perjury and/or being found in contempt of Congress, both of which are punishable by jail terms, hefty fines, and disbarment): if you don't know the answer to what you've been asked, do not answer in any way.
Re:Spamming != bulk mailings
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Spam is a direct consequence of the fact that the email system was designed without taking this possibility into account.
The only way to stop spam is going to be junking some major portion of the email infrastructure. Every antispam measure yet proposed does this.
filtering and auto-deleting, along with its close cousin, whitelisting: junks the assumption that the mail will actually be read by a recipient
blacklisting IPs and networks: junks the assumption that there will be open communication
replacing SMTP with some new protocol: junks the underlying protocol by which the email system works
banning anonymity: junks the assumption that the uses of anonymity would be "good" uses.
ending common carrier (at least for the purposes of civil liability; this is quite possibly the best option): junks the idea under which the internet as a whole has operated for the past few decades (namely that the carrier of the data is not necessarily responsible for the data).
Either the spam problem continues, or you espouse getting rid of some part of the traditions by which email and the Internet have operated since the early days.
I am sure you are all amazled by this noveliffic use of wireless technology. And, aftr sampling some of my fortifiedallic wine, I'm sure you will want to see my latest fight, featuring the "Weirdo from Bordeaux" and the "Jappa from Napa". It's only $49.95 on Pay-Per-View!
I immediately knew that it was Phil Mushnick. Basically, the guy is the resident Sports TV critic for the post (which at any newspaper is a job they give the old fart who's effectively retired). He's complained about the hits in sports games being illegal.
Considering that I can trace my line back to the Mayflower, unless you're descended from pre-1620 Jamestown or the Spaniards or French, I've got you beat.
New England has come thisclose to seceding on a few occasions, most notably over going to war with Britain in the War of 1812.
We'll be glad to take refugees from Silicon Valley (and maybe Austin and the other outposts of civilization in Redneckhickistan too).:o)
Re:What are the odds that Ogg will replace mp3?
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It's probably going to take streaming media. At this point, Ogg seems to be the ideal format for streaming (Vorbis for music and Speex for talk). With Vorbis, at least to my ears, 64kbps is indistinguishable from CD quality. 40kbps and less is FM radio quality to me. Windows Media and Real have not, to my ear, delivered that quality.
Combine that with the likely lack of patent encumbrances or restrictive licenses, and I suspect that Ogg will become more common for streaming media.
In the Northeast height restrictions are generally at the level of "nothing taller than 20 to 30 stories without board approval (which, if you're planning to build something taller than that is trivial to get)". Boston has begun putting the little height restrictions they have by saying that, if 50% of the floors in the building are at least 50% residential, whatever height would normally be allowed by the formula is doubled.
The Northeast Corridor (that is to say Baltimore to Portland) should just secede from the US. You fucking idiotic Texans, Californians, Arizonans, Coloradoans, Georgians, Floridians, etc. are making me fucking sick. You're nothing more than Northeasterners who couldn't cut it in the high-point of Western Civilization.
Silicon Valley? You're a bunch of MIT rejects or MIT people who lacked the physical and mental strength to stay here. Die, assholes!
Oh yeah, and since we fucking came up with the United States, we'll take that name, thank you very much. Come up with some appropriate name like Redneckhickistan for yourselves.
I don't doubt that we'll have economic relations. We'll buy food and oil and so forth from you. But forget sending welfare checks to you inbred retards west of the Appalachians and south of Baltimore.
You're fucking insane if you want to drive in either city (especially downtown). In the case of Boston, the ancient street layout (laid out by cows in the 17th century) makes automobiles hugely impractical. Of course most Bostonians (especially the richer ones, who live in the South End, Back Bay, Beacon Hill, and (using a term coined by my father when he was at Codman & Company which is gaining in acceptance in Boston) Midtown) walk, taking the T only when it's raining or snowing. The only thing Boston needs is a 24-hour T, but that will never happen because that's what they do in Noo Yawk, and anything that Noo Yawk does is stupid and wrong.
New York, of course, has one of the most extensive subway systems in the world. Most of the residents use the subway instead.
And more often than not it's the same fucking people who give prodigiously to the Sierra Club and so forth, who push for the uber-restrictive zoning codes. Fucking hypocrites. NIMBY, my ass.
This is why I'll never willingly leave the Northeast, where zoning codes are nowhere near as strict (and generally have more to do with building height than anything else).
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Other than port-forwarding, no.
Yeah, car commercials are becoming the Next Big Thing in music promotion. Even established artists like Sting are resorting to having their music used to sell cars to get their stuff out there (especially now that you can go to the car company websites and find links to buy the CDs the songs came from, in some cases).
Well, checking Amazon's top-sellers in music, I see that:
Somebody's preordering CDs...
Of course, out of those six:
Of course, gcc compiles first to it's own meta-asm (with an ungodly large number of registers), then from there to assembly.
Stroustrup's old Cfront C++ compiler, of course, compiled C++ down to C, so if you're using that compiler with gcc as your C-compiler, it's going through three different languages before you get machine code.
Two words:
THERMAL. PASTE.
No, you're misunderstanding.
In most C/C++ compilers, the compilation step is simply translating it to asm. Then the assembler is used to get to object code.
However, to the user, compilation implies the compilation and assembly.
If you have a decent mail-server (Postfix can do this), you can do regexp filtering on the headers from the getgo.
There are a few possibilities:
There's no reason Leonsis would know every dealing that AOL does (especially those before he rose to this level); if he affirms, he's fucked. If he denies, the best he can hope for is status quo ante if he's right; if he's wrong, he's fucked. So if he answers, 4 things can happen, and 3 of them are bad.
First rule (if you're afraid of committing perjury and/or being found in contempt of Congress, both of which are punishable by jail terms, hefty fines, and disbarment): if you don't know the answer to what you've been asked, do not answer in any way.
Spam is a direct consequence of the fact that the email system was designed without taking this possibility into account.
The only way to stop spam is going to be junking some major portion of the email infrastructure. Every antispam measure yet proposed does this.
Either the spam problem continues, or you espouse getting rid of some part of the traditions by which email and the Internet have operated since the early days.
I am sure you are all amazled by this noveliffic use of wireless technology. And, aftr sampling some of my fortifiedallic wine, I'm sure you will want to see my latest fight, featuring the "Weirdo from Bordeaux" and the "Jappa from Napa". It's only $49.95 on Pay-Per-View!
I immediately knew that it was Phil Mushnick. Basically, the guy is the resident Sports TV critic for the post (which at any newspaper is a job they give the old fart who's effectively retired). He's complained about the hits in sports games being illegal.
The guy's a crackpot troll...
Gotta love cowsay!
You win.
:o)
Go ahead you uncivilized brutes.
And where will the centers of world finance be? Hint: the closest thing to a financial center in Redneckhickistan is Charlotte.
Also, the bulk of the intelligent folk in the US are in the northeast corridor. You can take the stupid midwesterners.
Considering that I can trace my line back to the Mayflower, unless you're descended from pre-1620 Jamestown or the Spaniards or French, I've got you beat.
New England has come thisclose to seceding on a few occasions, most notably over going to war with Britain in the War of 1812.
We'll be glad to take refugees from Silicon Valley (and maybe Austin and the other outposts of civilization in Redneckhickistan too). :o)
It's probably going to take streaming media. At this point, Ogg seems to be the ideal format for streaming (Vorbis for music and Speex for talk). With Vorbis, at least to my ears, 64kbps is indistinguishable from CD quality. 40kbps and less is FM radio quality to me. Windows Media and Real have not, to my ear, delivered that quality.
Combine that with the likely lack of patent encumbrances or restrictive licenses, and I suspect that Ogg will become more common for streaming media.
Your spamguard decoding skills are commendable. I'm guessing you are a product of one of the fine trade schools found outside the Northeast Corridor.
In the Northeast height restrictions are generally at the level of "nothing taller than 20 to 30 stories without board approval (which, if you're planning to build something taller than that is trivial to get)". Boston has begun putting the little height restrictions they have by saying that, if 50% of the floors in the building are at least 50% residential, whatever height would normally be allowed by the formula is doubled.
The Northeast Corridor (that is to say Baltimore to Portland) should just secede from the US. You fucking idiotic Texans, Californians, Arizonans, Coloradoans, Georgians, Floridians, etc. are making me fucking sick. You're nothing more than Northeasterners who couldn't cut it in the high-point of Western Civilization.
Silicon Valley? You're a bunch of MIT rejects or MIT people who lacked the physical and mental strength to stay here. Die, assholes!
Oh yeah, and since we fucking came up with the United States, we'll take that name, thank you very much. Come up with some appropriate name like Redneckhickistan for yourselves.
I don't doubt that we'll have economic relations. We'll buy food and oil and so forth from you. But forget sending welfare checks to you inbred retards west of the Appalachians and south of Baltimore.
Never been to NYC or Boston, have you?
You're fucking insane if you want to drive in either city (especially downtown). In the case of Boston, the ancient street layout (laid out by cows in the 17th century) makes automobiles hugely impractical. Of course most Bostonians (especially the richer ones, who live in the South End, Back Bay, Beacon Hill, and (using a term coined by my father when he was at Codman & Company which is gaining in acceptance in Boston) Midtown) walk, taking the T only when it's raining or snowing. The only thing Boston needs is a 24-hour T, but that will never happen because that's what they do in Noo Yawk, and anything that Noo Yawk does is stupid and wrong.
New York, of course, has one of the most extensive subway systems in the world. Most of the residents use the subway instead.
And more often than not it's the same fucking people who give prodigiously to the Sierra Club and so forth, who push for the uber-restrictive zoning codes. Fucking hypocrites. NIMBY, my ass.
This is why I'll never willingly leave the Northeast, where zoning codes are nowhere near as strict (and generally have more to do with building height than anything else).
To hear of the excellence that will be the new Bond game.
I still doubt anything in the game series will be a better game than GoldenEye for the N64, though.
But of course...