Marking what my spam filter (Thunderbird's built in one) misses is a significant effort.
My ISP is helping me a bit with this one. They add a custom header to mark things that have been RBLed so I now have set one of the labels (purple in my case) as "known spammer". I then added a message rule that reads essentially if "X-Warning RBL" = "Listed" then label message "known spammer", mark as read, and move to "Junk" folder.
This way when spam comes in that Thunderbird does not detect on its own, but my ISP has flagged, I don't get notified that I have mail, it gets moved into the Junk folder, and turned purple to verify WHY it's there. This has simplified my life.
So in theory, you could assign 40,000 CPU's for 2 hours on the task and get a collision.
Thank God that although I am very important to a select few people, I'm not worth 2 hours time on 40,000 processors. The little guy rests easy tonight.
I'm sorry, Fry, but astronomers renamed Uranus in 2620 to end that stupid joke once and for all...
The new pronunciation that seems to have taken the scientific community about three days after "E.T.: The Extra Terrestrial" hit theatres sounds just as foul to me. Urinous (as I hear it) seems to describe a color or smell. "For some reason they painted the room a urinous yellow." Or God forbid, a taste...
For the last seven years when forced to provide information, I've been a 99-year-old woman who earns less than $15,000 (or whatever the low number is for a given survey) per year. You can reach me at me@home.con. If the tld can't resolve, it won't add to one particular organization's bandwidth.
If You see this in your registration info... um... it was someone else. I'd never lie.
One of those things that took ten years to tell my Mom about: A friend was arguing the case that a flourescent tube had to be plugged in in order to work. I settled the issue by microwaving it for one second in my Mom's gigantic tukey-cooking microwave. Intensely bright. The opposite of me at the time.
RealPlayer my ass. AdPlayer more like it. You get this huge window full of advertisements and flashy widgets, and maybe 10% of the window is covered by actual video in blocky, shitty quality that jumps and skips constantly. Even Windows Media Player, for all its DRM crap, has the majority of the window covered by the video.
So the radio program will be easier to see now?
Sorry 'bout that. I agree with your point but still could not supress my inner wiseass.
The Pat Boone album you mentioned is priceless. Three things point to its greatness:
The guitar parts from Crazy Train as played by a trombone section still rock.
At the time it came out I read an interview with him about the album. I can't find it online right now, so I'll paraphrase... He said something to the effect that when doing Van Halen's Panama he had to change the lyrics a bit because for a while it was hard to tell if he was talking about the car or talking about the girl. I don't know if he is so innocent as to miss the concept of the double-entendre or is clever enough to gloss over it believably, but either way this is great.
After release of this album I recall reading that he lost his broadcasting job. Apparently the community didn't appreciate him tipping his hat to Satan (which is so much funnier if you actually listen to this lovely tame album.)
At work I hardly noticed the ventilation noise. Then one day it stopped (for a few minutes).. It was like *heaven*.. we all just realized how noisy our environment was, and it felt like a huge weight was removed from us. We basically felt just a lot better and more relaxed.
In my house we keep the fan (only the fan) running on the hvac unit 24/7/365. It does three things for us: 1) Evens out temperatures so the hot and cold spots in the house are less pronounced. 2) Filters out some of the ambient cat hair and dust (yes I change my filters often) and 3) Provides white noise to cover the otherwise distracting sounds of being married to someone who keeps a differant schedule than you do.
And let me tell you, it was CRUCIAL when we still lived in apartments to block the noise though our neighboirs walls. Do I really want to block all the noise of my computer to improve my perception of (a few years ago) my neighbour listening to "Who let the dogs out?" On repeat? There are worse things in the world than white noise.
It's a slightly different breed of technology, but it can be done in real time. I have a co-worker who feels strongly about language and protects herself and her family by using a product I can't help but find fascinatingly entertaining. Curse-Free TV uses closed-captioning to identify and replace (visually while muting the sound if I'm not mistaken) potentially offensive language.
Think of seeing that R-Rated action movie cut up for network television. You know the edits themselves were entertaining. Admit it. So far my favorite example she has used to explain it is the following paraphrase (I'd quote, but that requires a decent memory): Say someone makes a referance to his posterior. Instead of having to hear someone say "Bob you really busted your butt on this project!" the captions read "Bob you really busted your toe on this project!" It can be done, but sometimes the results stick out.
The shorter the movie is, the more times the theater can show it. The more times the theater shows the movie, the more tickets they can sell. The more tickets they sell, the more money the studio makes. Movie studios tend to do things that they think will make them money.
Too true. This is why Quentin Tarantino's new movie Kill Bill got chopped in half.
Did we go through the 80s without any (mainstream) 3 hour movies and after so long a time movie studios forgot the concept?
I know I saw two movies in the Eighties with intermissions. I can't remember the second but Gandhi was absolutely wonderful and had a full intermission.
I do agree that there should be more of those. When I saw Goodfellas" in 1990 it was so riviting I never left my seat. I'll admit that it was only two hours, twenty-five minutes, but that was the longest stretch I've ever endured that didn't involve the legal system. My urinary tract took years to recover: they intro the movie in 1971, then go back in time. The whole time I'm watching the calander to see when they get back to 1971. Little did I know the movie tracks the characters on into the Eighties...
But to be really nitpicking, I should point out that it's not the power of the sea being harnessed at all -- it's the power of the moon. Or strictly, the earth-moon gravitational field.
The energy comes from there but the moon is not the actor, it's the impetus. A few years ago when a semi smashed my car and then drove off, I didn't tell the cop that the giant dent was caused by gasoline!
An important note: My current understanding is that the price cuts UMVD is offering are only good if a store is willing to submit to some draconian measures to keep the biggest seller of music in power. An example: this price is good at a local independent store (who sells a smoking boatload of independent music) if and only if Universal is guaranteed 25% of the shelf space and 33% of listening stations, which in this store amounts to about 80 slots.
Don't think that Uni is doing anyone favors yet - this is just a different way of leveraging their power.
Going at 6 PM is bad because when you get home it's 8 PM or 9 PM so you don't go to bed immediately but you're too exhausted to work or study efficiently - so the time before going to bed is simply wasted. Ideally I'd either go so early in the morning that you're still "waking up" afterwards and feel good working the rest of the day.
I couldn't agree more. I've been getting up at six every day (in previous years I would be surprised that there was a six in the morning given that there was a six in the evening an sometimes a six that came at the end of the night. but I digress) including weekends for several months. After viewing myself as a natural night person for years, I'm surprised at how much I enjoy this. Two or three days a week I go swimming at a city pool, once per weekend I play basketball. No matter how sleepy you feel driving or walking to the pool, the moment you hit the water you are awake. All day after that you get to feel good that you have already done something good for yourself.
Even the days I don't swim it feels good to be up early. The habit makes it hurt less to do - I often beat my alarm. Housework is easier for me in the morning when I'm not already worn out from work. No phone calls can distract and/. has only posted two stories since I went to bed 8^)
Long story short - try mornings. It feels good and there is little to get in the way of things that can be so easily interrupted in the evenings.
CNBC will initiate a reverse class action suit against all of its viewers, for viewing its valuable television programs without paying.
I hate to burst you bubble but I'd guess that the first "C" stands for "Cable" which last I checked you had to p... Oh never mind, I'm going back to watching my four and a half channels of peasant TV now.
"Even the lower voltages in a phone system [snip] can cause a tingling sensation."
I can vouch for that. In college I had occasional work wiring telephone and computer systems when companies moved to new locations. I was in the habit of stripping the inner insulation from the phone wire with my teeth until the day the wire I had just stripped touched my eyelid right as the phone rang with the other wire in my mouth...
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My ISP is helping me a bit with this one. They add a custom header to mark things that have been RBLed so I now have set one of the labels (purple in my case) as "known spammer". I then added a message rule that reads essentially if "X-Warning RBL" = "Listed" then label message "known spammer", mark as read, and move to "Junk" folder.
This way when spam comes in that Thunderbird does not detect on its own, but my ISP has flagged, I don't get notified that I have mail, it gets moved into the Junk folder, and turned purple to verify WHY it's there. This has simplified my life.
Thank God that although I am very important to a select few people, I'm not worth 2 hours time on 40,000 processors. The little guy rests easy tonight.
The new pronunciation that seems to have taken the scientific community about three days after "E.T.: The Extra Terrestrial" hit theatres sounds just as foul to me. Urinous (as I hear it) seems to describe a color or smell. "For some reason they painted the room a urinous yellow." Or God forbid, a taste...
If You see this in your registration info... um... it was someone else. I'd never lie.
Holy friggin' cow! I've never been afraid of deer before. They can do 75mph? Time to buy a set of deer whistles.
Sorry 'bout that. I agree with your point but still could not supress my inner wiseass.
2) Fold
3) Mutilate
4)...
I'll leave the karma poor to fill in #5 for fun and...
Mr. Pat Boone, my hat is off to you, Sir!
Freakily appropriate. (shiver)
In my house we keep the fan (only the fan) running on the hvac unit 24/7/365. It does three things for us:
1) Evens out temperatures so the hot and cold spots in the house are less pronounced.
2) Filters out some of the ambient cat hair and dust (yes I change my filters often) and
3) Provides white noise to cover the otherwise distracting sounds of being married to someone who keeps a differant schedule than you do.
And let me tell you, it was CRUCIAL when we still lived in apartments to block the noise though our neighboirs walls. Do I really want to block all the noise of my computer to improve my perception of (a few years ago) my neighbour listening to "Who let the dogs out?" On repeat? There are worse things in the world than white noise.
HOLY CRAP! News from 997 years in the future!!!
Think of seeing that R-Rated action movie cut up for network television. You know the edits themselves were entertaining. Admit it. So far my favorite example she has used to explain it is the following paraphrase (I'd quote, but that requires a decent memory): Say someone makes a referance to his posterior. Instead of having to hear someone say "Bob you really busted your butt on this project!" the captions read "Bob you really busted your toe on this project!" It can be done, but sometimes the results stick out.
I do agree that there should be more of those. When I saw Goodfellas" in 1990 it was so riviting I never left my seat. I'll admit that it was only two hours, twenty-five minutes, but that was the longest stretch I've ever endured that didn't involve the legal system. My urinary tract took years to recover: they intro the movie in 1971, then go back in time. The whole time I'm watching the calander to see when they get back to 1971. Little did I know the movie tracks the characters on into the Eighties...
The energy comes from there but the moon is not the actor, it's the impetus. A few years ago when a semi smashed my car and then drove off, I didn't tell the cop that the giant dent was caused by gasoline!
O.K. you got me there. I promise if I drop a cookie into my intestine, I won't be putting it back into my mouth.
No matter what
Don't think that Uni is doing anyone favors yet - this is just a different way of leveraging their power.
I couldn't agree more. I've been getting up at six every day (in previous years I would be surprised that there was a six in the morning given that there was a six in the evening an sometimes a six that came at the end of the night. but I digress) including weekends for several months. After viewing myself as a natural night person for years, I'm surprised at how much I enjoy this. Two or three days a week I go swimming at a city pool, once per weekend I play basketball. No matter how sleepy you feel driving or walking to the pool, the moment you hit the water you are awake. All day after that you get to feel good that you have already done something good for yourself.
Even the days I don't swim it feels good to be up early. The habit makes it hurt less to do - I often beat my alarm. Housework is easier for me in the morning when I'm not already worn out from work. No phone calls can distract and /. has only posted two stories since I went to bed 8^)
Long story short - try mornings. It feels good and there is little to get in the way of things that can be so easily interrupted in the evenings.
Your kind words were too late for me, but I've never updated my hosts file faster.
Hey, look at it this way: I'm no longer interested in that unneeded late night snack now...
I hate to burst you bubble but I'd guess that the first "C" stands for "Cable" which last I checked you had to p... Oh never mind, I'm going back to watching my four and a half channels of peasant TV now.
I can vouch for that. In college I had occasional work wiring telephone and computer systems when companies moved to new locations. I was in the habit of stripping the inner insulation from the phone wire with my teeth until the day the wire I had just stripped touched my eyelid right as the phone rang with the other wire in my mouth...
Who says I learned nothing in school?