My ISP offers Postini, which is a pretty decent spam filter, for free. Therefore the 20,000 or so SoBig virus and related crap got stopped before it reached the mail server.
Of course, the folks at Postini have failed to take Microsoft's abysmal software into account: You can view/delete quarantied spam up to 200 at a time, but viruses must be deleted 10 at a time. Thpthpthpthpthpptt!
Microsoft: Creating the most effective virus development tools for over 10 years!
I'm not _that_ young, but.. I was being pretty stupid when I made that comment, however, I would include Pogo with Doonesbury in that regard... I was thinking more about "funnies" being the light, funny strips that are not making commentary. (Ironically, "Bloom County" did both... although I enjoyed it much more in the earlier years than the latter... after about 1987 he stopped doing the longer stories, and basically let the whole backdrop of Bloom County (even so far as to merely drawing surrealistic backgrounds) and the supporting characters all fell by the wayside until there were just a few central characters (Opus, Milo, Binkley, Ronald Ann, etc) whereas characters like Senator Bedfellow, Limekiller, Milo's editor, Mrs. Lipschultz, Oliver's parents (i.e., the adults) disappeared.
Clearly Pogo and Doonesbury predated Garfield by decades, but Garfield's contemporaries in the "funnies" as defined above were things like "Peanuts", "Beatle Bailey", "Hi and Lois", "B.C." (very intelligent, but not really cynical, Wiley notwithstanding)...
See, I can rationalize my statement pretty well...:-)
After all, they did "Rocky and Bullwinkle", which while it wasn't a great movie, was very true to the original. And the casting was good for Fearless Leader and Boris and Natasha.
But of course, Garfield has no plot. It's just eating lasagna and tormenting Odie. I have to say that Jim Davis pretty much introduced cynicism to the funnies (Doonesbury usually residing on the editorial page), but I think he ran out of steam pretty fast.
Garfield is the big thing now. Never will understand that.
Now? Try 1982. I discovered Garfield around 1980... but by the time it was really big, I had become rather tired of it, because after the mid 80's or so, he seemed to have run out of ideas, and was just recycling everything.
The special effects may be "hokey", but for showing what space travel would look and feel like they are better than almost anything since (minus the acid trip part, natch).
2010 wasn't bad either, in that department. I still get dizzy thinking about the scene where they spacewalked over to the ship.
No, they are completely free to be complete asses on his behalf. As his parents, they have every right in the world to take a humorous situation and make it a pathetic situation.
And we have every right in the world to criticize.
I read Kip Thorne's book (or presumably _one_ of Kip Thorne's books) on the subject. A book by Michio Kaku called (IIRC) "Hyperspace" and Brian Greene's "The Elegant Universe".
The books were all excellent, deep enough to satisfy this science fan without going over my head. Greene's book was best saved for last... he did the best job of explaining completely mind-blowing concepts in a comprehendable way, and after the mental exercise of the other two (not to mention Hawking's books, even Pagel's old "Cosmic Code" and the many other excellent books I've read) served as excellent mental exercise to build up to Greene's book.
There's a wealth of popular science (and math, since the current state of physics is essentially that the universe is geometry:-) books out there to feed your mind without requiring a physics background. Of course, if you have or want to acquire the background, more power to you...
Oh, come on... this is childish. This is what gives/. a bad name... we're talking about a serious topic and people reduce it to poop jokes... you/.ers are a bunch of childish-
Wait... I just thought of something. McBride will sue your child for violation of his IP... by pooping on a diaper with his face on it, you are creating a derivative work of his face. He can then charge you $699 per BM.
Actually, I couldn't resist. I have no idea of whether Tori Spelling can act or not. I do know that she looks like one of those aliens in Gene Roddenberry's most recent (non Star Trek) show.
"Randy?" You mean there is another misshapen, plasticine Spelling offspring contributing to the precipitous decline of the quality of network TV?! Yikes!
When I saw an ad for "The OC" on Fox, the first thing I thought of was Aaron Spelling jotting down:
Troubled teenager, California, breasts
on a cocktail napkin, then scribbling it out and writing "90210... again" and handing to the FOX programming execs and getting paid several million dollars. I don't know if he's involved in that show, but from the ads, it sure smells like one of his.
Yes, I'm sure Dr. Mengele's "research subjects" felt exactly the same way.
I guess it's a good thing today's victims can't scream.
There's nothing wrong with stem-cell research, as long as you're not killing people to get the stem-cells. Or getting someone else to do the dirty work either.
"Mad Scientist Monthly" just panders to people who want to take over the world. Blah blah blah. Taking over the world isn't worth the trouble, 'cause if you actually accomplished it, then everyone would blame you for all their problems. Besides, if you had the whole world, where would you keep it?
No, the TRUE mad scientist wants to destroy the Universe. Now there's a noble goal that should be sought after, not any of this penny-ante geopolitical oneupmanship, but total and complete annihilation of all that exists!!!!
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My ISP offers Postini, which is a pretty decent spam filter, for free. Therefore the 20,000 or so SoBig virus and related crap got stopped before it reached the mail server.
Of course, the folks at Postini have failed to take Microsoft's abysmal software into account: You can view/delete quarantied spam up to 200 at a time, but viruses must be deleted 10 at a time. Thpthpthpthpthpptt!
Microsoft: Creating the most effective virus development tools for over 10 years!
That's OK, EG, for every "good one" I make, there are 5 lame ones...
:-)
Besides, I saw the tapes and they demonstrated some serious ski-boxing moves (without the benefit of a third arm). Keep on sluggin'!
I'm not _that_ young, but.. I was being pretty stupid when I made that comment, however, I would include Pogo with Doonesbury in that regard... I was thinking more about "funnies" being the light, funny strips that are not making commentary. (Ironically, "Bloom County" did both... although I enjoyed it much more in the earlier years than the latter... after about 1987 he stopped doing the longer stories, and basically let the whole backdrop of Bloom County (even so far as to merely drawing surrealistic backgrounds) and the supporting characters all fell by the wayside until there were just a few central characters (Opus, Milo, Binkley, Ronald Ann, etc) whereas characters like Senator Bedfellow, Limekiller, Milo's editor, Mrs. Lipschultz, Oliver's parents (i.e., the adults) disappeared.
:-)
Clearly Pogo and Doonesbury predated Garfield by decades, but Garfield's contemporaries in the "funnies" as defined above were things like "Peanuts", "Beatle Bailey", "Hi and Lois", "B.C." (very intelligent, but not really cynical, Wiley notwithstanding)...
See, I can rationalize my statement pretty well...
THat only means stupid people WRITE Windows... there are plenty of smart people who use Windows... /. bigotry notwithstanding.
Oh. I guess it was bound to happen.
After all, they did "Rocky and Bullwinkle", which while it wasn't a great movie, was very true to the original. And the casting was good for Fearless Leader and Boris and Natasha.
But of course, Garfield has no plot. It's just eating lasagna and tormenting Odie. I have to say that Jim Davis pretty much introduced cynicism to the funnies (Doonesbury usually residing on the editorial page), but I think he ran out of steam pretty fast.
Garfield is the big thing now. Never will understand that.
Now? Try 1982. I discovered Garfield around 1980... but by the time it was really big, I had become rather tired of it, because after the mid 80's or so, he seemed to have run out of ideas, and was just recycling everything.
Yeah, I miss the load times old days of gaming on an Atari 800.
... 5 minutes pass... Grink-gronk! Grink-gronk! GROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOONK! Grink-gronk! ...
GROOOOOOOOOOONK! Grink-gronk! Grink-gronk! Grink-gronk! GROOOOOONK! Grink-gronk!
I already have a second head, you insensitive clod!
Sturgeon said it:
90% of everything is crud.
The special effects may be "hokey", but for showing what space travel would look and feel like they are better than almost anything since (minus the acid trip part, natch).
2010 wasn't bad either, in that department. I still get dizzy thinking about the scene where they spacewalked over to the ship.
No, they are completely free to be complete asses on his behalf. As his parents, they have every right in the world to take a humorous situation and make it a pathetic situation.
And we have every right in the world to criticize.
It immediately darkens when dangers is near because what you can't see can't hurt you.
Now if they shrink it down to sunglasses size, we can all be like Zaphod Beeblebrox!
Yeah I knew, I like my version better. Too much Terry Pratchett I suppose.
(e.g., Usury: Theft from Bears)
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
"Who mops up after the janitors?"
?
I read Kip Thorne's book (or presumably _one_ of Kip Thorne's books) on the subject. A book by Michio Kaku called (IIRC) "Hyperspace" and Brian Greene's "The Elegant Universe".
:-) books out there to feed your mind without requiring a physics background. Of course, if you have or want to acquire the background, more power to you...
The books were all excellent, deep enough to satisfy this science fan without going over my head. Greene's book was best saved for last... he did the best job of explaining completely mind-blowing concepts in a comprehendable way, and after the mental exercise of the other two (not to mention Hawking's books, even Pagel's old "Cosmic Code" and the many other excellent books I've read) served as excellent mental exercise to build up to Greene's book.
There's a wealth of popular science (and math, since the current state of physics is essentially that the universe is geometry
Either that or he is simply admitting that the largest software company in the world is grossly incompetent.
Oh, come on... this is childish. This is what gives /. a bad name... we're talking about a serious topic and people reduce it to poop jokes... you /.ers are a bunch of childish-
Wait... I just thought of something. McBride will sue your child for violation of his IP... by pooping on a diaper with his face on it, you are creating a derivative work of his face. He can then charge you $699 per BM.
Ha ha! "Poop". I love that word.
By this silly "virii" thinking, I guess the plural of radius would be "radiii"
So, explain Spanish, which has no irregular pronunciation...
Randy has all of Tori's acting talent
You mean none?
Actually, I couldn't resist. I have no idea of whether Tori Spelling can act or not. I do know that she looks like one of those aliens in Gene Roddenberry's most recent (non Star Trek) show.
"Randy?" You mean there is another misshapen, plasticine Spelling offspring contributing to the precipitous decline of the quality of network TV?! Yikes!
When I saw an ad for "The OC" on Fox, the first thing I thought of was Aaron Spelling jotting down:
Troubled teenager, California, breasts
on a cocktail napkin, then scribbling it out and writing "90210... again" and handing to the FOX programming execs and getting paid several million dollars. I don't know if he's involved in that show, but from the ads, it sure smells like one of his.
we're dressed as 70's relief pitchers.
Yes, I'm sure Dr. Mengele's "research subjects" felt exactly the same way.
I guess it's a good thing today's victims can't scream.
There's nothing wrong with stem-cell research, as long as you're not killing people to get the stem-cells. Or getting someone else to do the dirty work either.
"Mad Scientist Monthly" just panders to people who want to take over the world. Blah blah blah. Taking over the world isn't worth the trouble, 'cause if you actually accomplished it, then everyone would blame you for all their problems. Besides, if you had the whole world, where would you keep it?
No, the TRUE mad scientist wants to destroy the Universe. Now there's a noble goal that should be sought after, not any of this penny-ante geopolitical oneupmanship, but total and complete annihilation of all that exists!!!!