Do we really need yet another remake of King-Kong? The original King-Kong was very good. The remake was very good. Is there some important angle that Peter can bring to the movie the third time around that the first two missed? Better FX will not make the story better.
After King-Kong perhaps he'd like to remake Planet Of The Apes. At least in that case the second version sucked so much the third version would have to be an improvement, although it would be hard to imaging a remake that could improve on the original in any area besides special-effects.
Hey, how about Hollywood declares 2004 "King-Kong remake year" and ONLY releases remakes of King Kong. Twenty or thirty versions of King Kong. I'd like to see Wood Allen's angst-ridden ape, and Tim Burton's darkly oddball monkey. Roman Polanski's version would have the big furball fall for a 13 year old Ann Darrow. Jim Carrey could play King Kong through facial contortions alone without makeup. What a great trend Peter Jackson has started! Viva La-Kong!
They have invented a new text compression method that is analogous to the pscho-acoustic models used to remove the sound the human ear doesn't notice anyway.
Thy smply rmv ll f th vwls n th txt. Ths wy thy cn gt a hghr cmprssn rt.
Thnk f t ths wy: Thy cn cmprss t 11. The thr gys cn nly cmprss t 10. S, 11 s bttr thn 10.
> Slashdot itself is one of the worst examples of it, however. Consider how/. stories have a smart-assed commentary that is almost always anti-Microsoft, pro-Linux and Mac-snickering (to coin a term).
> converting old VHS home movies to a more timeless digital format, such as VCD, SVCD, and DVD
I have kids that handle my videotapes and DVDs, and let me tell you ALL of the videotapes are still going strong and most of the DVDs have been rendered useless from mishandling. When I borrow movies from the library (not yet a felony) I always choose videotapes over DVDs because heavily used DVDs are almost always unwatchable due to freezes, skips, and garbled scenes.
My paid-for DVDs are being destroyed by normal use, and the MPAA would like to make me a criminal if I make copies of those DVDs... but that's a different rant...
Yeah great... but what IS this?
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Myth II Updated
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Forgive my ignorance, but I never played Myth the first time around. The article and web site doesn't say what this download IS! Is it a freely downloadable version of the game Myth or do I need to already have the game and this provides some kind of patch to the game?
>My PDA doesn't fit in my pocket (well most of the time). Plus, since it's "out of the way", I don't use it.
Exactly why I am still using my REX PDA and LOVING IT! I leave it in my shirt pocket or in my front pants pocket all the time. I use it constantly. I have an old Palm that never leaves it's drawer at home. I love it so much that when they went on sale for $30 I bought three of them just in case one breaks in the future.
> > put satchel in front of hole > > put mail on satchel > > hang robe on hook > > press button > > And I still think I'm missing a step.
5. Profit!!!
Re:Move the onus from the recipient to the sender.
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You are missing the point of IM2000. The spammer has to pay the expense of storing millions of outgoing emails on HIS OWN servers. He can't just drop them on someone else's servers. That eliminates "hit-and-run" spamming. As soon as his ISP detected too many outgoing emails they could be stopped before they were picked up. A spamming service would have to have the expense of storing all the spams on their own servers.
This changes the cost of spam so that one gullible customer per 1,000,000 spams is no longer cost effective.
> Sounding loud and clear over the cubicle farm [...] my colleagues [...] Are now having to wonder who all these other people in here are...
Unless you work in an Amish cubicle-farm I doubt your colleagues are as clueless as you think they are.
Other quotes to expect from your colleagues: "But how does this buggy run without a horse?!" "How did you get those little people inside the picture tube?"
The solution to this is simple. Each email has a "potential" cost. The person receiving the email decides if it's worth a "click" to collect the money. Most of us wouldn't click on mail from our family or friends and their accounts would not be debited. Many people would gladly run through their spam-filter folder clicking on all of them to collect the money. Even if it isn't much money (a cent or less) I would click on them just for the principle of it.
So don't think of it as "sender pays", think of it as "sender offers to pay".
I just figured out a way to send a message back in time to myself when I was 12. Yes, that's YOU I'm talking about. I'm you. I mean I was. You are me. I mean you will be me. Anyway here's the point, attached are the plans for the device so you can send a message to yourself when you were 6. Use it wisely!
1) Learn to speak Inuit. It has become the international language. 2) Don't become an airplane pilot. Airplanes became obsolete when the aliens gave us teleportation. 3) Sell Microsoft. 4) Stop reading Slashdot. The FBI is profiling everyone who reads Slashdot.
Oh damn... sorry wrong message board. I am from 2030 trying to warn my 20 year old self...
> share with us the procmail lines you use to do this
Sorry, not procmail. It's a sendmail milter. A Perl program that uses the Sendmail MILTER API to filter mail as it comes in, before it sits in my mail queue.
> spam that I get is from accounts like hotmail.com or yahoo.com
Take a look at your full headers, those are forged. I filter out mail from @yahoo.com|@msn.com|@hotmail.com|@aol.com where the connecting host does NOT end in yahoo.com, msn.com, hotmail.com, or aol.com Just this alone got rid of 20% of my mail (all spam, never a false positive).
I used to hate getting telemarketing calls. I bought a house recently so I got tons and tons of them.
Just recently however, I picked up the phone, heard the tell-tale delay before the poor-underpaid-hates-her-job-but-has-no-choice-but -to-annoy-people-all-day slob started her script. I was in a weird mood so instead of hanging up I decided to try and sell her a Chinchilla fur coat. Of course I don't HAVE any Chinchilla fur coats, but I still had a load of fun describing how you raise Chinchillas and make coats from their fur. I went on and on about how nice the telemarketer would look in one of my Chinchilla furs, and would she like to purchase one or at least receive my special promotional offers?
At first of course she knew/thought I was kidding. But I kept it up and wouldn't let her get a word in edgewise. I kept her on for 5 minutes before she gave up and thanked me and said goodbye.
Since then this has been my S.O.P. I've made telemarkets angry, made then laugh out loud, confused some, but always had a good time instead of getting angry myself. I've attempted to sell Chinchilla furs, luxury coffins, you name it. One telemarketer had the wrong name so I got into a lengthy discussion about whether or not Jose is pronounced "Jo-Say" or "Josie" and stubbornly denied that "Ho-Say" is possible.
Try it!
Next on my hit list: Every email spam is eventually tied to a real company selling a real product. I may not be able to automatically filter them all, but I sure can leave my autodialer hitting their 800 number all day while I am out! Ooops!
Slashdot Mirror
> it's time to just offer them to whoever wants them, for free
Excellent idea! Like Book-Crossing.
And we can call the Free-CDs 'FRIAA', pronounced "Free-a" and you can guess what the 'F' stands for!
> ... much effort in trying to improve computing ... ... there are many efforts in several fronts ... ... many of these efforts are hard to track ...
>
>
If there are so many efforts, how about a few links instead of a content-free post?
(1) Club baby seal
(2) ?
(3) Oil!
Do we really need yet another remake of King-Kong? The original King-Kong was very good. The remake was very good. Is there some important angle that Peter can bring to the movie the third time around that the first two missed? Better FX will not make the story better.
After King-Kong perhaps he'd like to remake Planet Of The Apes. At least in that case the second version sucked so much the third version would have to be an improvement, although it would be hard to imaging a remake that could improve on the original in any area besides special-effects.
Hey, how about Hollywood declares 2004 "King-Kong remake year" and ONLY releases remakes of King Kong. Twenty or thirty versions of King Kong. I'd like to see Wood Allen's angst-ridden ape, and Tim Burton's darkly oddball monkey. Roman Polanski's version would have the big furball fall for a 13 year old Ann Darrow. Jim Carrey could play King Kong through facial contortions alone without makeup. What a great trend Peter Jackson has started! Viva La-Kong!
> Remove all the 0's from the bitstream, then just count the number of 1's and send the count.
567.
They have invented a new text compression method that is analogous to the pscho-acoustic models used to remove the sound the human ear doesn't notice anyway.
Thy smply rmv ll f th vwls n th txt. Ths wy thy cn gt a hghr cmprssn rt.
Thnk f t ths wy: Thy cn cmprss t 11. The thr gys cn nly cmprss t 10. S, 11 s bttr thn 10.
This important factor was not considered.
Photoshoot of scantily clad women
vs.
Hunched over video game, thumbs pounding frantically
> Slashdot itself is one of the worst examples of it, however. Consider how /. stories have a smart-assed commentary that is almost always anti-Microsoft, pro-Linux and Mac-snickering (to coin a term).
Yeah, but Microsoft does suck though.
> converting old VHS home movies to a more timeless digital format, such as VCD, SVCD, and DVD
I have kids that handle my videotapes and DVDs, and let me tell you ALL of the videotapes are still going strong and most of the DVDs have been rendered useless from mishandling. When I borrow movies from the library (not yet a felony) I always choose videotapes over DVDs because heavily used DVDs are almost always unwatchable due to freezes, skips, and garbled scenes.
My paid-for DVDs are being destroyed by normal use, and the MPAA would like to make me a criminal if I make copies of those DVDs... but that's a different rant...
Forgive my ignorance, but I never played Myth the first time around.
The article and web site doesn't say what this download IS! Is it a freely downloadable version of the game Myth or do I need to already have the game and this provides some kind of patch to the game?
>My PDA doesn't fit in my pocket (well most of the time). Plus, since it's "out of the way", I don't use it.
Exactly why I am still using my REX PDA and LOVING IT! I leave it in my shirt pocket or in my front pants pocket all the time. I use it constantly. I have an old Palm that never leaves it's drawer at home.
I love it so much that when they went on sale for $30 I bought three of them just in case one breaks in the future.
> in an object-oriented event driven world.
Jon Katz, is that you?
Mdog, you have permanently damaged my eyes and my brain. I curse you! I hate you!
That makes goatse.cx look like a Disney feature.
Bastard.
Degenerate.
Sadist.
I have to go wash my eyes with soap now.
> > put satchel in front of hole
> > put mail on satchel
> > hang robe on hook
> > press button
>
> And I still think I'm missing a step.
5. Profit!!!
You are missing the point of IM2000.
The spammer has to pay the expense of storing millions of outgoing emails on HIS OWN servers.
He can't just drop them on someone else's servers.
That eliminates "hit-and-run" spamming. As soon as his ISP detected too many outgoing emails they could be stopped before they were picked up.
A spamming service would have to have the expense of storing all the spams on their own servers.
This changes the cost of spam so that one gullible customer per 1,000,000 spams is no longer cost effective.
> Sounding loud and clear over the cubicle farm [...] my colleagues [...] Are now having to wonder who all these other people in here are...
Unless you work in an Amish cubicle-farm I doubt your colleagues are as clueless as you think they are.
Other quotes to expect from your colleagues:
"But how does this buggy run without a horse?!"
"How did you get those little people inside the picture tube?"
The solution to this is simple.
Each email has a "potential" cost. The person receiving the email decides if it's worth a "click" to collect the money.
Most of us wouldn't click on mail from our family or friends and their accounts would not be debited. Many people would gladly run through their spam-filter folder clicking on all of them to collect the money. Even if it isn't much money (a cent or less) I would click on them just for the principle of it.
So don't think of it as "sender pays", think of it as "sender offers to pay".
I just figured out a way to send a message back in time to myself when I was 12. Yes, that's YOU I'm talking about. I'm you. I mean I was. You are me. I mean you will be me. Anyway here's the point, attached are the plans for the device so you can send a message to yourself when you were 6. Use it wisely!
1) Learn to speak Inuit. It has become the international language.
2) Don't become an airplane pilot. Airplanes became obsolete when the aliens gave us teleportation.
3) Sell Microsoft.
4) Stop reading Slashdot. The FBI is profiling everyone who reads Slashdot.
Oh damn... sorry wrong message board. I am from 2030 trying to warn my 20 year old self...
> ... hockey ... one of the few remaining sports where kids have to shake hands afterwards
Unless, of course, they go pro, in which case they pick their opponents teeth out of their knuckles afterwards.
> share with us the procmail lines you use to do this
Sorry, not procmail. It's a sendmail milter. A Perl program that uses the Sendmail MILTER API to filter mail as it comes in, before it sits in my mail queue.
Ginger: $5000
Marianne: free! winner! winner!
1) Build very expensive motor-scooter with auto-balance
2) Redesign all cities around it
3) Profit!
> spam that I get is from accounts like hotmail.com or yahoo.com
Take a look at your full headers, those are forged.
I filter out mail from @yahoo.com|@msn.com|@hotmail.com|@aol.com where the connecting host does NOT end in yahoo.com, msn.com, hotmail.com, or aol.com
Just this alone got rid of 20% of my mail (all spam, never a false positive).
I used to hate getting telemarketing calls. I bought a house recently so I got tons and tons of them.
t -to-annoy-people-all-day slob started her script. I was in a weird mood so instead of hanging up I decided to try and sell her a Chinchilla fur coat. Of course I don't HAVE any Chinchilla fur coats, but I still had a load of fun describing how you raise Chinchillas and make coats from their fur. I went on and on about how nice the telemarketer would look in one of my Chinchilla furs, and would she like to purchase one or at least receive my special promotional offers?
Just recently however, I picked up the phone, heard the tell-tale delay before the poor-underpaid-hates-her-job-but-has-no-choice-bu
At first of course she knew/thought I was kidding. But I kept it up and wouldn't let her get a word in edgewise. I kept her on for 5 minutes before she gave up and thanked me and said goodbye.
Since then this has been my S.O.P.
I've made telemarkets angry, made then laugh out loud, confused some, but always had a good time instead of getting angry myself.
I've attempted to sell Chinchilla furs, luxury coffins, you name it.
One telemarketer had the wrong name so I got into a lengthy discussion about whether or not Jose is pronounced "Jo-Say" or "Josie" and stubbornly denied that "Ho-Say" is possible.
Try it!
Next on my hit list:
Every email spam is eventually tied to a real company selling a real product. I may not be able to automatically filter them all, but I sure can leave my autodialer hitting their 800 number all day while I am out!
Ooops!