When shows have episodes that totally depart from the usual 'reality' of the show, it's destined for disaster.
The Simpsons encountered this with the 'Behind The Laughter' episode. Every prank the Simpsons pulled up to that point was within a defined reality of The Simpsons being a 'real' cartoon family. That episode f*cked it all up.
And the same with this 'musical' episode. Buffy fights vampires, she doesn't dance and sing with them! I'm all for fantasy and adventure, but when you pull a set of characters from a show and make them do what the characters WOULD NOT EVER DO FOR 'REAL' then you've ballsed the whole thing up.
Ah well, at least Buffy has now 'jumped the shark'.
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This article makes some good points, and so does the guy that runs that company. He says that advertising is everywhere, so why are people getting so pissy about it when it's in e-mail? Good point, I say. We're often handed crap in the street, forced to digest TV ads, or have to face hundreds of billboards, yet we don't whine as much as when we get some e-mail ads. Why?
Scelson sees a big difference between what he does - which he considers proper e-mail marketing - and indiscriminate, anonymous e-mail advertising - which he regards as true spam.
Right again. Getting ads in your e-mail is not, as a concept, bad. I mean, we've all bought something that we've seen in an advert, right? The whole concept of advertising is not just an evil scheme, it's one that customers can find just as useful as the businesses. We need to learn about new deals, and it helps us shop around.
"I've gone into newsgroups and fought to prove that spam can be done right," Scelson says.
This brings me to my main point. Currently, 90% of the spam I receive is 'done wrong'. It's marked up with irrelevant subject lines designed to TRICK me into opening them (things like 'Re: that thing you wanted' or 'Your account is overdue!').
If we're going to have e-mail ads, let the spammers at least 'do it right'. We want all ads to have subjects starting with 'COMM:', 'AD:' or similar, so that we can filter them out or into a different folder if we want to. And then, we want relevant subjects that sell to us!
I mean, come on, if I got a great 0% APR credit card offer in as 'AD: Visa 0% APR Offer from SomeCardCo', I might well be interested! But not if it looks like a scam or some cheesey trick mailer to harvest e-mail addresses.
Ads should also be targeted by location. I live in the UK, and if I receive ads for US credit card companies, what bloody good is that!? Sell me things I want, and that I can buy!
So, I don't think spam, as a concept, is evil.. just the way it's currently sent is.
I'm not into LOTR at all, so when I saw this story on the front page, I thought, "Cool! They're making an action film about the WTC!" Imagine my disappointment to find out it was LOTR.
And before you cast me off as 'sick', was Schlindler's List 'sick'? No, I think not.
Too soon perhaps. But you just KNOW we're going to have a WTC movie at some point in the future. Perhaps after WW3 has finished.
It's no secret that UFOs are mostly sighted near to air bases or in places where flights are popular. Scotland is ripe for this, since a) there are a lot of secluded air bases there, b) most flights from Europe/UK go over Scotland to reach places like LA, Canada, etc!
Weezer have far more 'geek' fans than wannabe-populist Moby, or even the fine Pearl Jam (whose audience was mostly psuedo-intellectual depressed teens).
Weezer have continued to have great success, and Maladroit has sold more than the green album. All this despite a -very- easy to obtain high quality rip coming out weeks in advance! Weezer aren't anti file-sharing either, so it's all good.
Moby can go stick his head in a grinder. I actually like Moby and what he stands for, I even like his music.. but really, his music is pretty damn dull. It's no surprise people wouldn't buy it.
Who wants to watch soccer? Why can't the robots play proper football instead?
Oh, I forgot, they haven't got motors strong enough to carry all that wussy 'protection' gear, and robots are too smart to waste waiting 5 minutes between every play.
If you're in the UK, eBuyer are very good. Europeans generally get ripped off for PC components, with prices in pounds being the numeric equivalent in dollars! eBuyer is very cheap though, and the prices approach American levels. You can get all of the components for a respectable 1Ghz box for about £250.
However, an even better resource is uk.adverts.computer. There are some real bargains on there! Everyone deals one to one, and bad traders are ferreted out and shamed in the group. It's pretty safe, and the prices are even lower. You can also get good advice about components there.. or in uk.comp.homebuilt.
Computer fairs in the UK generally aren't as good value as they used to be, unless you're looking for black goods.
Buying prebuilt computers from small builders is also very cost effective now. Sure, it's more expensive than building your own, but with the warranties, it can work out better, and you don't have to cut your hands to bits.
I use OnlyPCs who are a local firm, but will supply a brand new 1Ghz machine with CDRW, monitor, etc.. for £450 inc VAT!
That's why I could post that and not be a perv.
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I'm in the UK too, and luckily of an age where dating 16 year olds would not be considered 'sick'.
And yes, if you went to the US, and had sex with a girl under the age of consent in that state (the ages vary), you'd be done (in more ways than one).
The buzz generated by this early show made Doom III the indisputable 'must see' of E3 2002.
Yeah, I see the logic here. Let's apply this to women.
The Olsen Twins are hot. Okay, they're 16, but hell, they're hot. Their buns might not yet be fully cooked, but they're due for release in two years, and I can already say that those puppies will be bouncy and full of fun.
So what if Doom isn't finished? It's like a barely underage girl. You just know they'll be even hotter in a year or two.
Oh gee, well I might be a scientific dumbass, but hey.. I learned what punctuation is. Of course, I should mention 'spelling' for good measure too.
Nice troll though.
Anyway, my post was somewhat an in joke. Most of my friends know that I have quite a dislike for basic science, so I just pretend I know shit about it;-) I like it that way.
Good afternoon, I'm a movie geek and COBOL programmer based in Dorksville, TX. I am interested in learning about these 'two fleshy things that go into your shoes' that are you talking about.
My car is my current form of mobility. I use it to get to my mailbox, pick up soda from WAL*Mart, and also to walk my dog.
Kindly send me some information on the 'two fleshy things that go into your shoes'.
When I was a young kid, about sixteen years ago, I was introduced to magnets/magnetism, and like any budding engineer, I asked my parents why couldn't you have a big metal tube that was magnetised 'north', and a train covered in metal that was mangetised 'south'.. no friction!
They couldn't figure out any reason why that wouldn't work, although I couldn't figure out a very good way of propelling the train at that time. My best solution was to stick a giant fan on the back of the train and have it push itself along!!
It's quite funny, therefore, to see maglev come along in the last few years. I feel like 'I invented it!' Of course, that's not true, but I'm sure lots of people have great ideas without ever learning about the idea before, and then are bitterly disappointed when they find it already exists;-)
Unfortunately, my creative skills have dropped off somewhat in the past sixteen years, and now I'm doing drone work.. hmm.. perhaps these technology companies should be employing some smart 5 year olds..
Your entire argument is sound, and what we would expect from a monopolistic MS. I would, however, like to think that maybe they're going to chill out a bit in the future, and leverage free operating systems for their own benefit.
Businesses can change. Just look at the story about Sony selling songs on the Net for 99 cents a pop.
You're also forgetting that Java has limited control over the operating system it's running on. For security, this is great, but when it comes to making proper software, it's not so good.
Java apps just don't look as good and don't work as well as regular apps. Java apps have a reputation for being rather unstable..NET provides features like Windows Forms and ADO.NET so that.NET applications can look and work in exactly the same way as regular apps (or at least the user thinks so).
OTOH, many Java apps have weird customized UIs, or use awful Motif style interfaces. Thta's not what we want, we want people using native interface libraries, and.NET encourages this.
I wasn't highlighting office software as being 'exciting', but it's what users need and want. I think virtual machines are the most exciting things in the programming world right now, but users don't say, 'Gee, virtual machines are so cool, we must go check some out.' Office software was only an example.
I was making the point that Microsoft can make their big bucks on software rather than operating systems.. because.NET will give them penetration on multiple platforms.
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When shows have episodes that totally depart from the usual 'reality' of the show, it's destined for disaster.
The Simpsons encountered this with the 'Behind The Laughter' episode. Every prank the Simpsons pulled up to that point was within a defined reality of The Simpsons being a 'real' cartoon family. That episode f*cked it all up.
And the same with this 'musical' episode. Buffy fights vampires, she doesn't dance and sing with them! I'm all for fantasy and adventure, but when you pull a set of characters from a show and make them do what the characters WOULD NOT EVER DO FOR 'REAL' then you've ballsed the whole thing up.
Ah well, at least Buffy has now 'jumped the shark'.
We're sorry to hear that you are upset at a new feature built into our latest version of SmartFilter. We do, however, appreciate all feedback, and this has certainly been useful in locating a bug within our software.
It appears our QA department inadvertently made an error in the data files for SmartFilter. SourceForge is not, technically, banned as being an MP3 site, but is in a new category we added called 'Sites for Geeky Losers'. The pointer for this category has remained pointed at 'MP3 Sites' in our symbol table. We will be fixing this in our next release.
Regards,
Chuck "Jesus" Smythe
SmartFilter Corp. -- Banning the sites that we don't like.
This article makes some good points, and so does the guy that runs that company. He says that advertising is everywhere, so why are people getting so pissy about it when it's in e-mail? Good point, I say. We're often handed crap in the street, forced to digest TV ads, or have to face hundreds of billboards, yet we don't whine as much as when we get some e-mail ads. Why?
Scelson sees a big difference between what he does - which he considers proper e-mail marketing - and indiscriminate, anonymous e-mail advertising - which he regards as true spam.
Right again. Getting ads in your e-mail is not, as a concept, bad. I mean, we've all bought something that we've seen in an advert, right? The whole concept of advertising is not just an evil scheme, it's one that customers can find just as useful as the businesses. We need to learn about new deals, and it helps us shop around.
"I've gone into newsgroups and fought to prove that spam can be done right," Scelson says.
This brings me to my main point. Currently, 90% of the spam I receive is 'done wrong'. It's marked up with irrelevant subject lines designed to TRICK me into opening them (things like 'Re: that thing you wanted' or 'Your account is overdue!').
If we're going to have e-mail ads, let the spammers at least 'do it right'. We want all ads to have subjects starting with 'COMM:', 'AD:' or similar, so that we can filter them out or into a different folder if we want to. And then, we want relevant subjects that sell to us!
I mean, come on, if I got a great 0% APR credit card offer in as 'AD: Visa 0% APR Offer from SomeCardCo', I might well be interested! But not if it looks like a scam or some cheesey trick mailer to harvest e-mail addresses.
Ads should also be targeted by location. I live in the UK, and if I receive ads for US credit card companies, what bloody good is that!? Sell me things I want, and that I can buy!
So, I don't think spam, as a concept, is evil.. just the way it's currently sent is.
Flying black and white, shurely? Color, nor 'flying' existed in the 1800s.
Birds must have had a real tough time of it.
Oops, I meant that humans didn't have the ability to fly in the 1800's.
The image [...] has passed its first full-scale analysis with flying colors
Flying black and white, shurely? Color, nor 'flying' existed in the 1800s.
That has to be one of the smartest humor posts I've seen on Slashdot in, oh, ever.
I'm not into LOTR at all, so when I saw this story on the front page, I thought, "Cool! They're making an action film about the WTC!" Imagine my disappointment to find out it was LOTR.
And before you cast me off as 'sick', was Schlindler's List 'sick'? No, I think not.
Too soon perhaps. But you just KNOW we're going to have a WTC movie at some point in the future. Perhaps after WW3 has finished.
It's no secret that UFOs are mostly sighted near to air bases or in places where flights are popular. Scotland is ripe for this, since a) there are a lot of secluded air bases there, b) most flights from Europe/UK go over Scotland to reach places like LA, Canada, etc!
Weezer have far more 'geek' fans than wannabe-populist Moby, or even the fine Pearl Jam (whose audience was mostly psuedo-intellectual depressed teens).
Weezer have continued to have great success, and Maladroit has sold more than the green album. All this despite a -very- easy to obtain high quality rip coming out weeks in advance! Weezer aren't anti file-sharing either, so it's all good.
Moby can go stick his head in a grinder. I actually like Moby and what he stands for, I even like his music.. but really, his music is pretty damn dull. It's no surprise people wouldn't buy it.
Who wants to watch soccer? Why can't the robots play proper football instead?
Oh, I forgot, they haven't got motors strong enough to carry all that wussy 'protection' gear, and robots are too smart to waste waiting 5 minutes between every play.
If you're in the UK, eBuyer are very good. Europeans generally get ripped off for PC components, with prices in pounds being the numeric equivalent in dollars! eBuyer is very cheap though, and the prices approach American levels. You can get all of the components for a respectable 1Ghz box for about £250.
However, an even better resource is uk.adverts.computer. There are some real bargains on there! Everyone deals one to one, and bad traders are ferreted out and shamed in the group. It's pretty safe, and the prices are even lower. You can also get good advice about components there.. or in uk.comp.homebuilt.
Computer fairs in the UK generally aren't as good value as they used to be, unless you're looking for black goods.
Buying prebuilt computers from small builders is also very cost effective now. Sure, it's more expensive than building your own, but with the warranties, it can work out better, and you don't have to cut your hands to bits.
I use OnlyPCs who are a local firm, but will supply a brand new 1Ghz machine with CDRW, monitor, etc.. for £450 inc VAT!
I'm in the UK too, and luckily of an age where dating 16 year olds would not be considered 'sick'.
And yes, if you went to the US, and had sex with a girl under the age of consent in that state (the ages vary), you'd be done (in more ways than one).
The buzz generated by this early show made Doom III the indisputable 'must see' of E3 2002.
Yeah, I see the logic here. Let's apply this to women.
The Olsen Twins are hot. Okay, they're 16, but hell, they're hot. Their buns might not yet be fully cooked, but they're due for release in two years, and I can already say that those puppies will be bouncy and full of fun.
So what if Doom isn't finished? It's like a barely underage girl. You just know they'll be even hotter in a year or two.
This isn't entirely a joke.
The review of Naked Lesbian Tennis for the NES.
Jeez, I was like 5. The magnet had a blue end and a red end.
Oh gee, well I might be a scientific dumbass, but hey.. I learned what punctuation is. Of course, I should mention 'spelling' for good measure too.
;-) I like it that way.
Nice troll though.
Anyway, my post was somewhat an in joke. Most of my friends know that I have quite a dislike for basic science, so I just pretend I know shit about it
Oh well, my recollection skills have also fallen in use. Yeah, whatever ones repel each other. (You can tell I'm no engineer now)
Good afternoon, I'm a movie geek and COBOL programmer based in Dorksville, TX. I am interested in learning about these 'two fleshy things that go into your shoes' that are you talking about.
My car is my current form of mobility. I use it to get to my mailbox, pick up soda from WAL*Mart, and also to walk my dog.
Kindly send me some information on the 'two fleshy things that go into your shoes'.
Yours,
Afatpro Grammar
When I was a young kid, about sixteen years ago, I was introduced to magnets/magnetism, and like any budding engineer, I asked my parents why couldn't you have a big metal tube that was magnetised 'north', and a train covered in metal that was mangetised 'south'.. no friction!
;-)
They couldn't figure out any reason why that wouldn't work, although I couldn't figure out a very good way of propelling the train at that time. My best solution was to stick a giant fan on the back of the train and have it push itself along!!
It's quite funny, therefore, to see maglev come along in the last few years. I feel like 'I invented it!' Of course, that's not true, but I'm sure lots of people have great ideas without ever learning about the idea before, and then are bitterly disappointed when they find it already exists
Unfortunately, my creative skills have dropped off somewhat in the past sixteen years, and now I'm doing drone work.. hmm.. perhaps these technology companies should be employing some smart 5 year olds..
To think of the legions of rednecks who could now possibly be running Lindows instead of Windows...
Rednecks can't spell anyway, so they probably think it's exactly the same as what they had previously.
You, Sir, are the idiot.
.NET will be ported to other OS's is an idiot.
.NET on FreeBSD is also nonsense?
Anyone who actually thinks that
So Ximian's Linux port is nonsense. Oh, and Microsoft's own source code for
I am, however, interested in this OCP thing you mention. What is it?
How would you dethrone Word, if everyone needs to have Word file support, and Microsoft doesn't give you the file format?
OpenOffice seems to have worked it out to a 99% degree of accuracy.
Your entire argument is sound, and what we would expect from a monopolistic MS. I would, however, like to think that maybe they're going to chill out a bit in the future, and leverage free operating systems for their own benefit.
Businesses can change. Just look at the story about Sony selling songs on the Net for 99 cents a pop.
You're also forgetting that Java has limited control over the operating system it's running on. For security, this is great, but when it comes to making proper software, it's not so good.
.NET provides features like Windows Forms and ADO.NET so that .NET applications can look and work in exactly the same way as regular apps (or at least the user thinks so).
.NET encourages this.
Java apps just don't look as good and don't work as well as regular apps. Java apps have a reputation for being rather unstable.
OTOH, many Java apps have weird customized UIs, or use awful Motif style interfaces. Thta's not what we want, we want people using native interface libraries, and
I wasn't highlighting office software as being 'exciting', but it's what users need and want. I think virtual machines are the most exciting things in the programming world right now, but users don't say, 'Gee, virtual machines are so cool, we must go check some out.' Office software was only an example.
.NET will give them penetration on multiple platforms.
I was making the point that Microsoft can make their big bucks on software rather than operating systems.. because