Actually, we are unionized. And the union gave us more of a bonus than my employer did - although we did have a free meat and cheese spread today. yum.
I'll be working for 12 hours.
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Now there is a reason they do it - WWF actually owns the time that Smackdown runs on (as they do with all their shows), and so they brand their content as does the network (which brands _everything_). But it's still silly.
In Canada, we get the TNN logo, the WWF logo, and the logo of the network that carries the show - The Score for Smackdown!, TSN for RAW, CTV Sportsnet for Heat.
Sometimes you can see the wrestlers, when they step into the middle of the screen.;)
... are tv shows on channels that are re-broadcasting it from another channel - you'll have a logo in two corners of the tv, and occasionally three. Ugly when watching, even worse if you're taping something.
But I doubt it's going to change. The people that care about it aren't near the majority of the people that just watch tv.
Rusty of Kuro5hin has written a great Op-Ed piece about reality and belief. It deserves the widest possible dissemination - so we'll Slashdot it. Bookmark the URL and try to read it tommorrow or sometime next week.
Just a note that Dumpshock.com (one of if not the largest Shadowrun sites on the net) has a FAQ about the FASA closing, with all the info we know as of now, for all the game lines and properties.
I don't think many are ignorant of the problems that happen in school, they're just sick to death of reading 'slice of my horrible teenage life' snippets with no end in sight, and with no insight or analysis or productive thoughs included by the 'author'.
Jon, if you have more 'chapters' of Hellmouth in this format, please for the love of all that is good skip them and post a chapter with some meat in it.
In word, to get 'By: ' left-justified on one side of a line and 'November 11, 2000' (yes, it's a date code--shows the date I print a document, not when it's created) right-justified on the other, you have to use a table.
It might be kludgy, but a tabstop would do the exact same thing. You would need to move it slightly depending on which month it was and how much text you had, but it's certainly managable.
In a similar vein, he'll have a blast with Brave New World. Oppressive goverment, no elections for nearly 40 years, Kennedy still in power, mandatory registration for Delta's (Superhero's), people fleeing to independant island nations, resistance movements.
Hell yeah, we're going right down that path for SURE!
(Except for the fact that we don't have superhero's, therefore Kennedy wasn't saved by a group of them, and there's still elections every 4 years, and there's no mandatory registration for the non-existant superhero's.. but we're going right down that path!)
When IE on Windows shows up at 95% plus, every dweeb of a web designer is going to insist that there's no point in sticking to any "standards" but Microsoft's.
And if the share of Netscape was 95%, every dweed of a web designer would have to continue to code around every little problem, glitch, and poorly supported standard in Netscape.
And there's a good chance I am missing something, as I've done no research into the time period when copyright was 'invented', but this seems to ring wrong:
These laws were enacted so that authors and artists would have an incentive to produce new works and to encourage the free and rapid circulation of ideas and opinions.
Would ideas and opinions not circulate faster - or at least, no slower - if copyright was nonexistant?
"It is a principle of American law that an author of a work may reap the fruits of his or her intellectual creativity for a limited period of time.", quoted from http://www.loc.gov/copyright/docs/cir c1a.html seems to be a more accurate description of what a copyrights purpose is. (Not that earning major bucks isn't an incentive to produce new works...)
Eudora Pro is a powerful client app, but isn't very stable running on Win2K so far
Not to question your setup or anything, but are you running the latest version of Eudora? I'm running 4.3.2 on 2K, and it seems more stable than it was under Win98SE. Versions 4.1 and 4.2 were fairly unstable IMO, but 4.3 seems to have tightened things up.
(FWIW: I recieve about 200 emails a day, mixed betwen two POP3 accounts, have about 30 filters and at least 10 mailboxes that recieve daily use.)
Because it's more natural to read that way. It may be several hours or several days since you last read a post on that subject, and on a busy list with topics that range wildly it's often hard to keep track of just every thread that's going on. Also, for someone reading the archives (Either of usenet posts or email), it's easier if there's some level of relevant quoting so they don't have to hunt through the other posts on the subject to find out what's being replied to.
Personally I favour placing replies below the quoted material for a few reasons:
* It means that people are more likely to snip irrelevant stuff it's above what they've written, while plenty of people who reply above just include the whole message below, including.sigs. * It shows that the person has at least skimmed the message, as opposed to just hitting "reply" and typing wildly * As mentioned above, when you haven't been paying attention to the entire thread I find it easier to read, especially if there's multiple replies in a single message, such as:
--- > Blah blah
oh really? very interesting..
> blah blah blah!
You just said that..
> blah blah!!
Okay, now you're just being repetitive. ---
However, if the person running the mailing list or the majority of the list members prefer placing replies on top, as long as everyone does it that way it's not a big deal, although I personally find it harder to read.
I've run several fairly high traffic mailing lists for going on four years now, and while I've never looked into automated features to help out newbies, I've never really thought they were needed.
First of all, every single list needs a FAQ, or if the amount of specifics for each list is small enough, you need a global FAQ for all the lists. At the very least, this FAQ needs to contain:
* the name of the list * who's running it * the purpose of the list * the amount of email that you can expect to get on it (Some people don't realize that a busy mailing list can easily hit 100+ messages a day) * the web address to unsubscribe and subscribe if your mailing list software supports it * the email commands to unsubscribe, subscribe, set yourself to digest, nomail, etc. * a brief description of those features.
And, finally, the biggie:
* Expected posting guidelines. Don't scrimp on these. You'll always have some user who thinks that they have the right to free speech everywhere and that they don't have to play by the rules, and the better your posting guidelines are the easier it is to say "Sorry kid, go play on Usenet" and unsubscribe him.
(Anyone who has run a mailing list understands this type of user.)
Sample posting guidelines for the lists I run:
* Place your replies below the text you're quoting, snip irrelevant text, make sure you correctly attribute the people you're responding to. * No HTML, attachements, vcards, or anything but pure straight text. * Don't flame, post anything illegal, spam, harass other list members, and try to keep stuff On Topic.
Keeping stuff On Topic is another side note - it's hard to do, and nobody wants to watch email all day and bitch at people for being OT or not. We've had good success asking people to prefix posts that they KNOW are off topic with the [OT] tag. People who have absolutely no desire to read off topic stuff can then filter it out.
Also, clearly lay out what the punishments are for violations. We use a three strikes rule - you get two personal warnings, and on the third you get removed from the list. You're allowed to resubscribe, but if you violate again we'll ask you not to resubscribe for a length of time.
We've only ever had to block one person from acessing our lists once in my four years with them, and I believe once before I started working with them too. Not a bad record for 7 years...
Now, to get to the subject of my post - The Human Element.
The lists we run always have two main Admins - The Fearless Leader and the Assistant Fearless Leader. From there we add another people as neede d - we have someone who maintains the FAQs and the website that they're on, and on one of the lists we have someone who maintains a Newbies Guide (Said list is an Interactive Fiction list, and has strict guidelines so such a guide is necessary).
For the busiest list we have what we call GridSec, or without the "themed" term, Flunkies.:)
These people do the day to day job of scanning the list for posting violations or users having problems, sending our warnings, and keeping the senior Admins abreast of any problems. Personally I don't really have time now to read each and every post to the list, so having these guys around is a great big help. We had an "Open Call" for applications to be one, and ended up picking 3 people from different parts of the planet - this means we can safely sleep while we know the Euro based flunky can keep his eye on things.;)
Also, it's best to pick people who have been on the list a decent length of time, and who contribute positively - that way it's more likely that the people on the other end are going to listen to them and understand that they're not trying to be jerks, but they're trying to keep the list flowing smoothly.
I've probably forgotten a few things (Long posts first thing in the morning;), so if you have questions, feel free.:-)
Pong was entirely hardware based. At one time Pong was added into MAME, obviously not using emulation but recreation, and I believe it was taking out shortly thereafter because it broke the purpose of MAME, which was to be a documentaiton project.
It defaults to the advertising based mode when installing. I'm not at my home computer right now so I can't talk you through the exact procedure, but there's a menu item under the Help menu for changing your registration mode - go to "paid" mode and type in your name/serial, and if you don't have it handy (Like I didn't, as I didn't bother to register it when I bought it), you'll get a prompt to toss your CD in, it will verify that it's a legit copy, connect to eudora.com and register itself for you. I don't believe the website mentions the CD fix anywhere, btw.
But then, who the heck saves all of those silly ICQ conversations?
ICQ logs by default, I believe. Pretty easy for the average person to not even know that they can be deleted - or even that they exist.
I haven't read many of the ICQ logs from the site, but writing actual conversational speech that reads like real speech isn't a trivial thing. Not saying it's impossible that all the ICQ logs were fabricated, but it would have taken a lot of time, especially considering having to generate and keep all the time/date stamps sane.
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Actually, we are unionized. And the union gave us more of a bonus than my employer did - although we did have a free meat and cheese spread today. yum.
The moral of this story? Go to college.
Now there is a reason they do it - WWF actually owns the time that Smackdown runs on (as they do with all their shows), and so they brand their content as does the network (which brands _everything_). But it's still silly.
;)
In Canada, we get the TNN logo, the WWF logo, and the logo of the network that carries the show - The Score for Smackdown!, TSN for RAW, CTV Sportsnet for Heat.
Sometimes you can see the wrestlers, when they step into the middle of the screen.
... are tv shows on channels that are re-broadcasting it from another channel - you'll have a logo in two corners of the tv, and occasionally three. Ugly when watching, even worse if you're taping something.
But I doubt it's going to change. The people that care about it aren't near the majority of the people that just watch tv.
Rusty of Kuro5hin has written a great Op-Ed piece about reality and belief. It deserves the widest possible dissemination - so we'll Slashdot it. Bookmark the URL and try to read it tommorrow or sometime next week.
Fudge is available at http://www.fudgerpg.com
http://forums.dumpshock.com//Forum1/HTML/001271.ht ml.
It's available at http://www.dumpshock.com/FASA-FAQ.html.
(Yes, I'm one of the webmasters at Dumpshock.)
Jon, if you have more 'chapters' of Hellmouth in this format, please for the love of all that is good skip them and post a chapter with some meat in it.
Adam
It might be kludgy, but a tabstop would do the exact same thing. You would need to move it slightly depending on which month it was and how much text you had, but it's certainly managable.
Adam
Hell yeah, we're going right down that path for SURE!
(Except for the fact that we don't have superhero's, therefore Kennedy wasn't saved by a group of them, and there's still elections every 4 years, and there's no mandatory registration for the non-existant superhero's.. but we're going right down that path!)
Adam
You would think that since he just wrote an article about it a few months back, Jon could remember that the name of the game is Shadowrun.
Adam
"Soon" has been quite a few months now..
Adam
Less than the cup does. ;)
Adam
I have an old MSN CD-rom sitting around for this very purpose.
Adam
And if the share of Netscape was 95%, every dweed of a web designer would have to continue to code around every little problem, glitch, and poorly supported standard in Netscape.
These laws were enacted so that authors and artists would have an incentive to produce new works and to encourage the free and rapid circulation of ideas and opinions.
Would ideas and opinions not circulate faster - or at least, no slower - if copyright was nonexistant?
"It is a principle of American law that an author of a work may reap the fruits of his or her intellectual creativity for a limited period of time.", quoted from http://www.loc.gov/copyright/docs/cir c1a.html seems to be a more accurate description of what a copyrights purpose is. (Not that earning major bucks isn't an incentive to produce new works...)
Adam
Not to question your setup or anything, but are you running the latest version of Eudora? I'm running 4.3.2 on 2K, and it seems more stable than it was under Win98SE. Versions 4.1 and 4.2 were fairly unstable IMO, but 4.3 seems to have tightened things up.
(FWIW: I recieve about 200 emails a day, mixed betwen two POP3 accounts, have about 30 filters and at least 10 mailboxes that recieve daily use.)
Adam
Because it's more natural to read that way. It may be several hours or several days since you last read a post on that subject, and on a busy list with topics that range wildly it's often hard to keep track of just every thread that's going on. Also, for someone reading the archives (Either of usenet posts or email), it's easier if there's some level of relevant quoting so they don't have to hunt through the other posts on the subject to find out what's being replied to.
.sigs.
Personally I favour placing replies below the quoted material for a few reasons:
* It means that people are more likely to snip irrelevant stuff it's above what they've written, while plenty of people who reply above just include the whole message below, including
* It shows that the person has at least skimmed the message, as opposed to just hitting "reply" and typing wildly
* As mentioned above, when you haven't been paying attention to the entire thread I find it easier to read, especially if there's multiple replies in a single message, such as:
---
> Blah blah
oh really? very interesting..
> blah blah blah!
You just said that..
> blah blah!!
Okay, now you're just being repetitive.
---
However, if the person running the mailing list or the majority of the list members prefer placing replies on top, as long as everyone does it that way it's not a big deal, although I personally find it harder to read.
Consistency is the key, IMO.
Adam
I've run several fairly high traffic mailing lists for going on four years now, and while I've never looked into automated features to help out newbies, I've never really thought they were needed.
:)
;)
;), so if you have questions, feel free. :-)
First of all, every single list needs a FAQ, or if the amount of specifics for each list is small enough, you need a global FAQ for all the lists. At the very least, this FAQ needs to contain:
* the name of the list
* who's running it
* the purpose of the list
* the amount of email that you can expect to get on it (Some people don't realize that a busy mailing list can easily hit 100+ messages a day)
* the web address to unsubscribe and subscribe if your mailing list software supports it
* the email commands to unsubscribe, subscribe, set yourself to digest, nomail, etc.
* a brief description of those features.
And, finally, the biggie:
* Expected posting guidelines. Don't scrimp on these. You'll always have some user who thinks that they have the right to free speech everywhere and that they don't have to play by the rules, and the better your posting guidelines are the easier it is to say "Sorry kid, go play on Usenet" and unsubscribe him.
(Anyone who has run a mailing list understands this type of user.)
Sample posting guidelines for the lists I run:
* Place your replies below the text you're quoting, snip irrelevant text, make sure you correctly attribute the people you're responding to.
* No HTML, attachements, vcards, or anything but pure straight text.
* Don't flame, post anything illegal, spam, harass other list members, and try to keep stuff On Topic.
Keeping stuff On Topic is another side note - it's hard to do, and nobody wants to watch email all day and bitch at people for being OT or not. We've had good success asking people to prefix posts that they KNOW are off topic with the [OT] tag. People who have absolutely no desire to read off topic stuff can then filter it out.
Also, clearly lay out what the punishments are for violations. We use a three strikes rule - you get two personal warnings, and on the third you get removed from the list. You're allowed to resubscribe, but if you violate again we'll ask you not to resubscribe for a length of time.
We've only ever had to block one person from acessing our lists once in my four years with them, and I believe once before I started working with them too. Not a bad record for 7 years...
Now, to get to the subject of my post - The Human Element.
The lists we run always have two main Admins - The Fearless Leader and the Assistant Fearless Leader. From there we add another people as neede d - we have someone who maintains the FAQs and the website that they're on, and on one of the lists we have someone who maintains a Newbies Guide (Said list is an Interactive Fiction list, and has strict guidelines so such a guide is necessary).
For the busiest list we have what we call GridSec, or without the "themed" term, Flunkies.
These people do the day to day job of scanning the list for posting violations or users having problems, sending our warnings, and keeping the senior Admins abreast of any problems. Personally I don't really have time now to read each and every post to the list, so having these guys around is a great big help. We had an "Open Call" for applications to be one, and ended up picking 3 people from different parts of the planet - this means we can safely sleep while we know the Euro based flunky can keep his eye on things.
Also, it's best to pick people who have been on the list a decent length of time, and who contribute positively - that way it's more likely that the people on the other end are going to listen to them and understand that they're not trying to be jerks, but they're trying to keep the list flowing smoothly.
I've probably forgotten a few things (Long posts first thing in the morning
Adam
Pong was entirely hardware based. At one time Pong was added into MAME, obviously not using emulation but recreation, and I believe it was taking out shortly thereafter because it broke the purpose of MAME, which was to be a documentaiton project.
Adam
It defaults to the advertising based mode when installing. I'm not at my home computer right now so I can't talk you through the exact procedure, but there's a menu item under the Help menu for changing your registration mode - go to "paid" mode and type in your name/serial, and if you don't have it handy (Like I didn't, as I didn't bother to register it when I bought it), you'll get a prompt to toss your CD in, it will verify that it's a legit copy, connect to eudora.com and register itself for you. I don't believe the website mentions the CD fix anywhere, btw.
Adam
The fact that Microsoft owns FASA Interactive and thus the electronic rights to Shadowrun would make this a dicey proposition. ;)
Adam
ICQ logs by default, I believe. Pretty easy for the average person to not even know that they can be deleted - or even that they exist.
I haven't read many of the ICQ logs from the site, but writing actual conversational speech that reads like real speech isn't a trivial thing. Not saying it's impossible that all the ICQ logs were fabricated, but it would have taken a lot of time, especially considering having to generate and keep all the time/date stamps sane.
Adam
That day is today - I use Google.
(I can't believe somebody hasn't said this already...)
Adam