If someone came up to me in a train station and said "I'll give you this free pen if you tell me your password", I'd just make something up and collect the pen.
'Cause, you know... free pen.
Until the people who ran this survey actually *test* their findings, their data isn't very valid.
And did they want me to find out it took them 600-plus takes to get the parts of their car to work right together?
Of course you did. You are talking about it, which is part of what advertising is meant to do.
I'm surprised this article wasn't a paid advertisement by Honda. If I had a cool product to sell, or a cool ad to sell it, I'd try and get it posted on/..
OmniWeb 4.5sp2 contains the following changes since 4.5sp1
* Corrected a problem that could result in some windows not auto-sizing correctly (probably most noticeable when opening new windows)
* We now cache font metrics rather than recalculating them each time we need them, This should help speed up rendering in some cases as well as resizing of windows.
* We now save the "continuous spell checking enabled" setting to preferences when you leave a text area, and restore it from preferences when you enter one.
* Speech Recognition has been completely disabled for now, the preference setting for this is not honored.
Well, a bit of Googling (tm) turned up a fairly detailed bio, along with links to other articles, one of which is related to the posted article.
A quick look over some other articles of hers pull out choice quotes such as:
What the homelessness industry really wants is total exemption from the law for street vagrants, so that they can remain publicly visible until the final throes of alcoholism and schizophrenia drive them to the hospital or the grave.
Apparently she's a contributing editor at the Manhattan Institute's City Journal. And the M.I. is a 501(C)(3) non-profit organization, so maybe a donor list is available.
Some more choice info on the M.I.:
... the Manhattan Institute, a CIA initiated "think tank" funded by far right Eugenics advocates like the Pioneer Fund and corporations such as the Rockefeller's Chase Bank which have historically promoted the Eugenics agenda. The Manhattan Institute has sponsored research projects and books like the Bell Curve, Fixing Broken windows and numerous others which propose the idea that blacks are mentally inferior. While the Manhattan Institute is not publicly advocating mass extermination or mass relocation of minorities the policies it does promote are mostly about targeting black and Latino inner City populations in such a way as to make relocation an attractive option and elimination a day to day reality....
The corporations, banks and far right race-obsessed groups that fund the Manhattan Institute today were in many cases backing Hitler's rise to power just 70 years ago. They are also the same groups behind Giuliani's Senate campaign and GW Bush's Presidential bid. Chase Bank, the Manhattan Institute's main sponsor, has publicly apologized on numerous occasions for its avid support of Hitler and its enthusiasm to turn over Jewish Bank accounts to the Nazis before they were ever asked to do so....
The Manhattan Institute's founder, former CIA director William Casey,......
Along with ongoing subsidies from a number of large conservative foundations, the Manhattan Institute has gained funding from such corporate sources as the Chase Manhattan Bank, Citicorp, Time Warner, Procter & Gamble and State Farm Insurance, as well as the Lilly Endowment and philanthropic arms of American Express, Bristol-Myers Squibb, CIGNA and Merrill Lynch. Boosted by major firms, the Manhattan Institute budget reached $5 million a year by the early 1990s."
There is a growing shortage of people who are familiar with the workings of the large mechanical clocks on churches and public buildings, as routine maintenance tasks such as winding the clocks become automated.
Heck, there is a growing shortage of people who can set the clock on the camcorder needed to adjust the timing of their pendulum clock!
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Exactly what about this idea make you feel it is "5 years too early"? You think it's really cool, so why can't/shouldn't its time be now?
Mostly use to help people from having their WHOIS information harvested, but should work for general email use too.
Oh, and the 100 email limit on Hotmail is kinda lame. I doubt that many of the 100+ spams I get from Hotmail accounts each day are actually from Hotmail users. Fake headers, more likely.
Server: One Apple G4 or Windows 2000 server supports up to 10,000 students with a single database.
I guess this is simply an acknowledgement of the kind of hardware most schools have. But I find it amusing anyway: how often does Apple release software for Windows computers? It's almost always been the other way (Office, etc.).
If you just want to get reviews of books you might find interesting, check out other online sites like Amazon. Or (gasp) join a book club. Talk to friends. Read reviews in the newspaper.
And if you want to create an uber-list of all the books in existance, I'm afraid the Library of Congress has probably beaten you to it.
What makes the IMDB useful (for me, at least) is not their reviews, but the way I can see who was in a particular movie, and what other movies they may have been in. Or to look up who played the part of that really cool character in such-and-such a film.
There are no comparable "searches" you could do on a IBList-type site. The LoC (among many other places) could give you the list of all the books by a particular author. And if you are looking for "If you loved Dickens, then you'll also like..." type suggestions, that's where your book club/reviews/knowledgeable bookstore staff will help.
Oh, and by "knowledgeable", I suggest you ignore your big-box Chapters, B&N or whatever, and visit your local, independent bookseller (if they haven't been driven out of business yet). In my experience, their knowledge and service far outweighs any minor price discount from Big Book City. Often, the independent is cheaper too, especially on new hardcovers.
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That's got to be the subtlest way of spamming I can think of. So subtle, in fact, that I fail to see the benefit to the spammer.
Sure, you might peruse your logs and wonder why there is a referrer from www.some-spamming-site.com, and visit it. Once. Then you'll ignore them.
I suppose there is the issue if you make the referrers available on a public part of your site (as opposed to a password-protected staff section).
I also suppose there is the fact that he's using your bandwidth to generate those referrers. In which case, blackhole his IP.
Easy: buy shares in whoever provides you with bandwidth.
What will they name the resulting crater?
If someone came up to me in a train station and said "I'll give you this free pen if you tell me your password", I'd just make something up and collect the pen.
... free pen.
'Cause, you know
Until the people who ran this survey actually *test* their findings, their data isn't very valid.
At least it has retro-appeal.
You want ugly? Take a look at their 7210 model.
"A Connecticut Yankee In King Arther's Court", anyone?
And did they want me to find out it took them 600-plus takes to get the parts of their car to work right together?
/..
Of course you did. You are talking about it, which is part of what advertising is meant to do.
I'm surprised this article wasn't a paid advertisement by Honda. If I had a cool product to sell, or a cool ad to sell it, I'd try and get it posted on
I'm more interested on why this article has both the Sun and AMD icons. /. supports articles in more than one category now?
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A quick look over some other articles of hers pull out choice quotes such as:
Apparently she's a contributing editor at the
Manhattan Institute's City Journal. And the M.I. is a 501(C)(3) non-profit organization, so maybe a donor list is available.
Some more choice info on the M.I.:
Nice.
There is a growing shortage of people who are familiar with the workings of the large mechanical clocks on churches and public buildings, as routine maintenance tasks such as winding the clocks become automated.
Heck, there is a growing shortage of people who can set the clock on the camcorder needed to adjust the timing of their pendulum clock!
Exactly what about this idea make you feel it is "5 years too early"? You think it's really cool, so why can't/shouldn't its time be now?
MyPrivacy.ca
Mostly use to help people from having their WHOIS information harvested, but should work for general email use too.
Oh, and the 100 email limit on Hotmail is kinda lame. I doubt that many of the 100+ spams I get from Hotmail accounts each day are actually from Hotmail users. Fake headers, more likely.
Besides, Al Gore invented Rendezvous so it's only fitting he get a place on the board.
RSS was kicked out of opening night for complaining that it wasn't called "GNU/MacBeth"
Nah, just transfer it equally to the screen and the keyboard and turn your laptop into a George Foreman Grill.
Although, maybe the grill marks from a keyboard would be better suited to waffles.
"aluminum" uses both hands (all the right except the "a").
Now, how about "typewriter"?
Almost all of the cool Spidey stuff in the first movie was CGI anyway, so what is it exactly that Mr. Macguire can't do? Pose?
Do you really need that much back muscle to kiss a dripping wet Kirsten Dunst?
I claim ownership of the Sun!
Just wear your lead vest ... ... and tinfoil hat.
What, you mean they didn't invent currency?
Nope, but give them a week and they'll patent it.
What if the little green have the cure for Alzheimers and Parkinsons?
his DVD drive will be toast if he uses it too much
So it's toast if he uses Toast?
If you just want to get reviews of books you might find interesting, check out other online sites like Amazon. Or (gasp) join a book club. Talk to friends. Read reviews in the newspaper.
..." type suggestions, that's where your book club/reviews/knowledgeable bookstore staff will help.
And if you want to create an uber-list of all the books in existance, I'm afraid the Library of Congress has probably beaten you to it.
What makes the IMDB useful (for me, at least) is not their reviews, but the way I can see who was in a particular movie, and what other movies they may have been in. Or to look up who played the part of that really cool character in such-and-such a film.
There are no comparable "searches" you could do on a IBList-type site. The LoC (among many other places) could give you the list of all the books by a particular author. And if you are looking for "If you loved Dickens, then you'll also like
Oh, and by "knowledgeable", I suggest you ignore your big-box Chapters, B&N or whatever, and visit your local, independent bookseller (if they haven't been driven out of business yet). In my experience, their knowledge and service far outweighs any minor price discount from Big Book City. Often, the independent is cheaper too, especially on new hardcovers.