My problem is different. Botnet spammers have not only harvested addresses of mine already, but they're also sending out spam under my domain, so I'm getting their bounce messages from non-existent, full, and filtered addresses.
You should set up SPF records for your domain. These days, it really does make a difference on the number of stupid bounces you get back: A lot of well-managed servers will not accept the spam pretending to be from you in the first place, so they won't try to bounce it to you after they realise they don't want it.
Is it just me or is the option to reply to a comment gone?
Gone for me too. I am replying to you by clicking the little number to the right of your comment and then clicking the Reply button on the next screen. Weird that such hijinks should be necessary through.
Words cannot express how much I hate the new tab thing.
Before, I could have as many tabs open as I liked, and they were all one click away.
Now they have put this scrolling tab thing in there, and suddenly when I have 20 tabs open I can only see 8 or 10 at a time.
Huge hit to productivity.
What was wrong with letting the tabs get narrow? You could use the icon (or even the position) to know which one was which, or in a pinch, mouseover the tab.
Is there any way to get the old behaviour back or do I just have to switch back to 1.5 and stay there?
That's true. There's a lot of natural beauty, it's got that going for it. There's nothing like being able to get to the beach in 15 minutes from any major city in the country.
But if you enjoy an intellectually stimulating fast-paced urban life, you'll be disappointed. Melbourne's the only place that comes close, and it's on par with an also-ran American city like San Diego or Seattle. Sydney, aside from a few semi-lively immigrant communities, is a vapid nest of wine bars and not much else culturally.
"Come to Australia." Ha! You say that like you don't know how difficult it is for us to do that.
What's hard about it? Australia is recruiting.
Better question is why you'd want to. Boring as hell; you get to choose between two seasons: Winter and Flies; prices are shocking (generally 2x what you'd pay in the US).
There's a whole world out there, don't just get stuck on the places from the movies.
And for the record, as soon as I retrain so that I'm more desirable to the NZ immigration folks, I'm outta here.
My friend, if NZ immigration doesn't want you, then your problems aren't going to be solved by training; they'll take anyone with a pulse. Their newspaper ads around here are just a shade shy of saying "DESPERATE" in big red letters.
If you did your own point calculation, you might want to spend a few bucks on an immigration consultant. They can explain to you where you failed to give yourself enough credit.
Checks are my preferred method of remittance for such things.
The giro system, as used in Europe, makes much more sense for this kind of stuff.
Your creditor (e.g., the phone company) sends you a monthly bill, and includes in the envelope a special form containing their bank account information and the amount of the bill.
You submit this form to your bank, and they pay the phone company from your account.
Many advantages:
- You can do all your payments at once, by dropping the giro slips off at the bank or mailing them in one envelope.
- You don't have to give the phone company a check that contains your bank account number.
- You don't have to worry about sending it to the wrong place or getting the amount wrong.
- You don't have to worry about running out of checks.
The only disadvantage of this system compared to checks is that you cannot so easily use it for, e.g., paying a little debt to a friend when you don't have any cash handy.
And you know what? I don't know jack shit about text editors. By your logic, I just failed the essay portion of SAT.
That's not his logic. You've taken an irrelevant component of his analogy and spent two paragraphs bashing it to pieces.
In the sample question that was represented as actually coming from the test, the subject matter was sufficiently generic that every living person could find some relevance to it. Text editors have nothing to do with his point, it was just an example that helped him demonstrate something.
You seem to forget how Swiftly and Finally two nukes setteled the war in the Pacific.
It is senseless to compare the two situations.
Japan's surrender came from an emperor who saw the end of his empire and the destruction of his people. All the USA had to do was swing that one man around to that viewpoint and the job was done.
Fanatical muslim terrorists operate independently, with different levels of rationality and different primary grievances (Iraq, Palestine, the propping up of corrupt regimes like the house of Saud, and so on). No act of violence will persuade all of them that it is time to stop fighting; many will just go at it with renewed vigour.
If you give your government the excuse not to build new capacities while you do everything to conserve, you are setting yourself up for a surprise in the long term with energy becoming more and more expensive because you've been so good at saving energy. At some point you will be very very efficient and incapable of saving anything else. But there will be no capacity to sell to you at reasonable prices and since the demand grows all the time no matter what you do, you will end up paying higher prices for the same energy.
It is counter-productive to yourself and to your descendants in the long run not to increase capacity. If the capacity is not increased proportionatly to the demand, the quality of life of your descendants WILL be worse than yours.
I am having difficulty following your logic.
1) Are you saying that the only way that capacity can be increased is if I and everyone else uses all the capacity that is currently available?
2) If so, then when do I stop? As long as I am committed to using everything that is available, no amount of increased capacity will satisfy my consumption, so nobody else is any better off anyway.
What is it about my consumption in particular that facilitates the development of new capacity, which would not be facilitated by the demand of these future consumers for whom you weep?
The building where I live covers all expenses from my maintenance fee. So for 480CAD/mo I get electricity, water, sewage, hot/cold air etc. It's included. Personally I only use it when I need it, but most people do not. They use it any time they want and in any quantities they desire.
I used to live in such a building, it saddened me to see people running the air-conditioners with the windows open, etc.
Now I pay my own way, and my bills total under US$15/month (power, water, sewage, gas - does not include phone and DSL). I use my computer all the time, keep the place brightly lit, take two hot showers a day, do one or two loads of laundry a week. It doesn't seem that hard to economise - simple things like using an LCD monitor, compact fluourescent lighting, energy-efficient washer, air-drying the clothes on the balcony, decommissioning the water heater and using an electric coil shower, hand-washing dishes while I'm waiting on hold on the phone, ceiling fans instead of A/C, controlling excess sun heat with thick drapes, etc.... it all adds up in a big way. None of these things is any hardship, and I seem to be C$5539 ahead of your neighbours each year.
Whatever it takes, we can use up all of the energy that is available and it is good. That's what we do. You want to be 'one' with the nature, it's your choice but it is not the choice of 99% of all other people
It's not as simple as little gift-wrapped bundles of energy sitting in green fields waiting to be plucked and consumed. Each source of energy comes with considerable negative side effects, many of which are very long-lasting or even permanent, forcing our descendants for all time to suffer the consequences of our choices. Is that fair?
I do wonder sometimes what my computers pull in because I subscribe to the 'I hate sleep mode' train of thought and my iMac G5 is on 24x7.
Sleep mode on the Mac is pretty painless; what about it puts you off?
The only thing that I have to worry about is dropped keepalives causing SSH sessions to disappear. So as long as I close all of those, it's trouble-free. Hit the sleep sequence (power-S) before walking away, then hit the shift key again when I get back.
Except that, in my experience, they don't. The $15 pack of CFL bulbs I bought quit working within a couple of weeks.
I haven't been to your house (have I?) but in my experience, failures are usually caused by using them with dimmers or with electronic switches. With normal circuits and mechanical switches I've never had one go bad in the several years I've been using them, and I've got chandeliers full of 'em (in Malaysia you can get tiny ones with small screw bases, I haven't seen those in the USA).
The ultimate proof of #2 is the self checkout lanes at most grocery stores nowadays.
Huh? Self-checkout lanes are the pinnacle of customer service. The queues are shorter, it's bagged the way I like it, everything is rung up without any mistakes, and I don't have to talk with anyone about stupid crap. Those checkout lanes alone are enough to determine where I do my grocery shopping.
99.9% of your calls are things people could have done on the website if they tried.
In contrast, I only call when there is something I couldn't do on the website. Unfortunately, those are the same things that can't be done with the automated system. I usually find myself losing patience and repeatedly punching zero while saying "No! Operator! No! Operator!" until I get someone. And of course the first live person you get can also only do things that you could have done yourself on the website.
I wonder if any of the systems have a secret word you can say to get direct to a second-line person who actually knows and can do things.
I thought that I heard that there are actually very few home computers in Japan. Their connection to the internet is most likely to occur via cellular phones. It does somewhat change the methods of interaction.
Japan has wired home broadband penetration (cable & DSL) similar to that of the United States. There are a lot of mobile devices, but plenty of computers too.
In the early 1990s, when Japanese language support in mainstream OSes was sort of weak, what you say was true. Today they are computing at full steam.
Where I live, in tropical Southeast Asia, the level of ambient nerdiness has to be seen to be believed. Hot women bring their laptop computers to parties.
Though the availability and affordability of broadband internet may be greater abroad. From my experiences traveling, internet culture seems to reside in the US and UK.
I don't know anything about you, of course, but I suspect you may be missing out on much of the global internet culture. There is an awful lot going on in Chinese and Japanese that most English speakers would never get near.
Culturally, he is a Spaniard. There is no doubt about that. Where he was actually born matters little.
He doesn't talk like a Spaniard. And there are many far more Spanish people than Castro in Havana. But I don't know how we can argue this; the point is fundamentally elusive.
Liechtenstein: I very much doubt Liechtenstein is poorer than Spain. The standard of living of the average Liechtensteinian is higher than that of the average Spanish citizen.
From my experience this is quite true.
While Classical Greece is considered the birthplace of Western Civilization it is in the east of the European subcontinent (look at a map if you don't believe me). The claim that Greece is in "Westen Europe" is laughable to anyone who has ever glanced at a map.
Don't be ridiculous. I used to live in Athens; I know perfectly well where it is. It's west of Helsinki, for example. And Stockholm is east of Prague. If longitude were the determiner of what's called "east" and "west" in Europe, then the past 60 years would have been very different indeed.
In recent history, the standard of living of the average Portugese citizen has been higher than that of the average Spanish citizen.
This I find very difficult to believe. Outside of a tiny number of metropolises and tourism-distored local economies, Portugal is a sleepy backwater where you can barely find a supermarket and almost nothing works; it's like Spain 20 years ago.
Which says very little as Spain has a lot more citizens. Nobody considers Austria, the Netherlands, Luxemburg, Denmark, Norway, Australia, Hong Kong, or Singapore poorer than Spain even though those countries all have "smaller economies" than Spain (measured by GDP).
Nor did I see anyone making the claim that size of the economy was the same as wealth of a country's citizens. I was merely trying to save the extra back-and-forth when you said Spain's per-cap GDP was anomalous due to relative economy size.
I take it that no one can debate the rest of my points (which is what my post was actually supposed to be about), which bodes very well for me.
It certainly does! You can expect the call from the Nobel Prize committee around 3pm.
I doubt an island in the Caribbean ruled by a Spaniard dictator (Spain is the poorest Western European country) is able to succeed
1. Castro is not a Spaniard, his father was. Fidel was born in Cuba.
2. Spain is not the poorest country in western Europe (it's only the most annoying country). Per-capita GDP is lower in Liechtenstein, Greece, Malta, and Portugal. And of course Spain's economy is larger than these as well.
3. What a stupid argument. You are basing expectations of someone's professional competency on present-day ascribed characteristics of the government their parents were born under?
The USA were the first ones with access to the Internet. Every other country got their infrastructure built later. When the more recent infrastructures were built, they used the latest technologies available, which are obviously better than the early ones. So the result of this study is not surprising in my opinion.
I don't see how this adds up. The US has a huge amount of dark fibre, so the long-haul links are not constrained by early development. And many countries built out consumer broadband before the USA did, but now have better service.
Some countries who are building their Internet infrastructure these days are going straight to wireless.
That'll come back to bite them in the ass. Wireless is a severely bandwidth-constraining medium with unknown public health risks. It's the choice of those who don't want (or can't afford) to invest in real infrastructure for the long term.
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You should set up SPF records for your domain. These days, it really does make a difference on the number of stupid bounces you get back: A lot of well-managed servers will not accept the spam pretending to be from you in the first place, so they won't try to bounce it to you after they realise they don't want it.
Gone for me too. I am replying to you by clicking the little number to the right of your comment and then clicking the Reply button on the next screen. Weird that such hijinks should be necessary through.
Same deal in Firefox and Safari.
As a follow-up to my own comment, I have discovered that it's possible to squeeze more tabs into the window.
Go to about:config in the URL bar.
Find browser.tabs.tabMinWidth and change the number to something more reasonable, like 20.
This way the tabs will shrink down to icon size, like they used to, so Firefox 2.0 is usable.
Words cannot express how much I hate the new tab thing.
Before, I could have as many tabs open as I liked, and they were all one click away.
Now they have put this scrolling tab thing in there, and suddenly when I have 20 tabs open I can only see 8 or 10 at a time.
Huge hit to productivity.
What was wrong with letting the tabs get narrow? You could use the icon (or even the position) to know which one was which, or in a pinch, mouseover the tab.
Is there any way to get the old behaviour back or do I just have to switch back to 1.5 and stay there?
That's true. There's a lot of natural beauty, it's got that going for it. There's nothing like being able to get to the beach in 15 minutes from any major city in the country. But if you enjoy an intellectually stimulating fast-paced urban life, you'll be disappointed. Melbourne's the only place that comes close, and it's on par with an also-ran American city like San Diego or Seattle. Sydney, aside from a few semi-lively immigrant communities, is a vapid nest of wine bars and not much else culturally.
What's hard about it? Australia is recruiting.
Better question is why you'd want to. Boring as hell; you get to choose between two seasons: Winter and Flies; prices are shocking (generally 2x what you'd pay in the US).
There's a whole world out there, don't just get stuck on the places from the movies.
My friend, if NZ immigration doesn't want you, then your problems aren't going to be solved by training; they'll take anyone with a pulse. Their newspaper ads around here are just a shade shy of saying "DESPERATE" in big red letters.
If you did your own point calculation, you might want to spend a few bucks on an immigration consultant. They can explain to you where you failed to give yourself enough credit.
Hmmm... sounds like Australia, Germany, or Spain.
The giro system, as used in Europe, makes much more sense for this kind of stuff.
Your creditor (e.g., the phone company) sends you a monthly bill, and includes in the envelope a special form containing their bank account information and the amount of the bill.
You submit this form to your bank, and they pay the phone company from your account.
Many advantages:
- You can do all your payments at once, by dropping the giro slips off at the bank or mailing them in one envelope.
- You don't have to give the phone company a check that contains your bank account number.
- You don't have to worry about sending it to the wrong place or getting the amount wrong.
- You don't have to worry about running out of checks.
The only disadvantage of this system compared to checks is that you cannot so easily use it for, e.g., paying a little debt to a friend when you don't have any cash handy.
I'm not sure how impressive that is, given that the highest score on the GRE is 2400.
+5, Insightful
That's not his logic. You've taken an irrelevant component of his analogy and spent two paragraphs bashing it to pieces.
In the sample question that was represented as actually coming from the test, the subject matter was sufficiently generic that every living person could find some relevance to it. Text editors have nothing to do with his point, it was just an example that helped him demonstrate something.
Second largest. Indonesia still has a few more. And it is also a secular democracy.
It is senseless to compare the two situations.
Japan's surrender came from an emperor who saw the end of his empire and the destruction of his people. All the USA had to do was swing that one man around to that viewpoint and the job was done.
Fanatical muslim terrorists operate independently, with different levels of rationality and different primary grievances (Iraq, Palestine, the propping up of corrupt regimes like the house of Saud, and so on). No act of violence will persuade all of them that it is time to stop fighting; many will just go at it with renewed vigour.
I am having difficulty following your logic.
1) Are you saying that the only way that capacity can be increased is if I and everyone else uses all the capacity that is currently available?
2) If so, then when do I stop? As long as I am committed to using everything that is available, no amount of increased capacity will satisfy my consumption, so nobody else is any better off anyway.
What is it about my consumption in particular that facilitates the development of new capacity, which would not be facilitated by the demand of these future consumers for whom you weep?
I used to live in such a building, it saddened me to see people running the air-conditioners with the windows open, etc.
Now I pay my own way, and my bills total under US$15/month (power, water, sewage, gas - does not include phone and DSL). I use my computer all the time, keep the place brightly lit, take two hot showers a day, do one or two loads of laundry a week. It doesn't seem that hard to economise - simple things like using an LCD monitor, compact fluourescent lighting, energy-efficient washer, air-drying the clothes on the balcony, decommissioning the water heater and using an electric coil shower, hand-washing dishes while I'm waiting on hold on the phone, ceiling fans instead of A/C, controlling excess sun heat with thick drapes, etc.... it all adds up in a big way. None of these things is any hardship, and I seem to be C$5539 ahead of your neighbours each year.
It's not as simple as little gift-wrapped bundles of energy sitting in green fields waiting to be plucked and consumed. Each source of energy comes with considerable negative side effects, many of which are very long-lasting or even permanent, forcing our descendants for all time to suffer the consequences of our choices. Is that fair?
Sleep mode on the Mac is pretty painless; what about it puts you off?
The only thing that I have to worry about is dropped keepalives causing SSH sessions to disappear. So as long as I close all of those, it's trouble-free. Hit the sleep sequence (power-S) before walking away, then hit the shift key again when I get back.
I haven't been to your house (have I?) but in my experience, failures are usually caused by using them with dimmers or with electronic switches. With normal circuits and mechanical switches I've never had one go bad in the several years I've been using them, and I've got chandeliers full of 'em (in Malaysia you can get tiny ones with small screw bases, I haven't seen those in the USA).
Huh? Self-checkout lanes are the pinnacle of customer service. The queues are shorter, it's bagged the way I like it, everything is rung up without any mistakes, and I don't have to talk with anyone about stupid crap. Those checkout lanes alone are enough to determine where I do my grocery shopping.
In contrast, I only call when there is something I couldn't do on the website. Unfortunately, those are the same things that can't be done with the automated system. I usually find myself losing patience and repeatedly punching zero while saying "No! Operator! No! Operator!" until I get someone. And of course the first live person you get can also only do things that you could have done yourself on the website.
I wonder if any of the systems have a secret word you can say to get direct to a second-line person who actually knows and can do things.
Japan has wired home broadband penetration (cable & DSL) similar to that of the United States. There are a lot of mobile devices, but plenty of computers too.
In the early 1990s, when Japanese language support in mainstream OSes was sort of weak, what you say was true. Today they are computing at full steam.
Where I live, in tropical Southeast Asia, the level of ambient nerdiness has to be seen to be believed. Hot women bring their laptop computers to parties.
I don't know anything about you, of course, but I suspect you may be missing out on much of the global internet culture. There is an awful lot going on in Chinese and Japanese that most English speakers would never get near.
He doesn't talk like a Spaniard. And there are many far more Spanish people than Castro in Havana. But I don't know how we can argue this; the point is fundamentally elusive.
From my experience this is quite true.
Don't be ridiculous. I used to live in Athens; I know perfectly well where it is. It's west of Helsinki, for example. And Stockholm is east of Prague. If longitude were the determiner of what's called "east" and "west" in Europe, then the past 60 years would have been very different indeed.
This I find very difficult to believe. Outside of a tiny number of metropolises and tourism-distored local economies, Portugal is a sleepy backwater where you can barely find a supermarket and almost nothing works; it's like Spain 20 years ago.
Nor did I see anyone making the claim that size of the economy was the same as wealth of a country's citizens. I was merely trying to save the extra back-and-forth when you said Spain's per-cap GDP was anomalous due to relative economy size.
It certainly does! You can expect the call from the Nobel Prize committee around 3pm.
1. Castro is not a Spaniard, his father was. Fidel was born in Cuba.
2. Spain is not the poorest country in western Europe (it's only the most annoying country). Per-capita GDP is lower in Liechtenstein, Greece, Malta, and Portugal. And of course Spain's economy is larger than these as well.
3. What a stupid argument. You are basing expectations of someone's professional competency on present-day ascribed characteristics of the government their parents were born under?
I don't see how this adds up. The US has a huge amount of dark fibre, so the long-haul links are not constrained by early development. And many countries built out consumer broadband before the USA did, but now have better service.
That'll come back to bite them in the ass. Wireless is a severely bandwidth-constraining medium with unknown public health risks. It's the choice of those who don't want (or can't afford) to invest in real infrastructure for the long term.