...Remember that the original Star Trek did just fine...
No it didn't. It was cancelled just a couple of seasons in. It didn't suit the audience of that time and didn't truly enjoy success until it was syndicated and gained a cult following.
The new trek series have tried to meet the wants of the trekkies while being completely formulaic in order to meet the wants of the average spoon-fed network/viewer.
If HBO picked up a Star Trek option, I wouldn't be surprised if it ended up with tight writing, good continuity, and a strong following. Sadly, fat chance of that happening:(
Rather than trying to create a governing body to manage this internationally, what about an idea like the following:
Incorporate the ability to create a certificate on your own computer. This certificate can have an expiration date of your choosing... 1 day, 1 month, whatever. When your client receives mail that isn't certified, it send a copy of the current certificate to the sender. They can then email you until the certificate expires. The odd spammer will get through, but this would lower the effectiveness of spamming greatly because it would take time for them to build databases. And expiring certificates takes that time away from them. Plus, in order to get a certificate they'd need to send email from a real account. Certificates could always be bound specifically to the requested account for even more frustation at their end. Since spoofing wouldn't help them, they'd be more easily traced for legal action.
I'm sure there are holes in this idea, and I have no means of implementing this in any way myself. Is it practical to add a feature like this to an open source email client?
You could end up like a fellow from the UK I used to talk to in the mid 90s. Moved to Florida to be with his net love. She turned out to be a heroin addict. Oops.
The thing is though, hooking up online hasn't seemed to be any worse than meeting girls in bars. One way or another the bad apples make themselves known eventually. The big plus is for those whose looks are "less than perfect". Someone who doesn't give them a second look in a social setting can become attached to them online, and overlook the things that might have turned them off in the first place.
That's the only way I can explain why my girlfriend stayed with me:)
Interesting. Jake was said to be doing a cameo as Cletus Cassidy (sp?) in the movie, as a setup to possible Venom and Carnage action in #3.
I wonder what Brian Bosworth (Stone Cold, Blackout) is doing these days. He'd be the right age to play Eddie Brock and, if he's still in shape, the right build as well.
I managed to do it another way as well, but can't remember offhand. My disk was missing from my collection of driver disks when I got the OEM card, but the dealer had extras kicking around. It doesn't hurt to ask for them:)
And as the parent says, full install SUCKS! Go with only what you need.
It may be a smart gun, but it should be designed to help weed out the stupid gun owners.
For example, the guys that clean loaded guns... then end up on the Darwin Awards page. This a natural way of culling them from the herd. It shouldn't be messed with.
They also preschedule mailouts to occur so they don't overload the mail server. So your next two or three weeks of spam may have been queued up a month in advance.
I hate spam as much as anyone else I know, but I'll give some spammers the benefit of the doubt. If a legitimate company sends me spam, then I deal with them directly if possible. It might not get me off every list a middleman sold, but at least I know that the legit company doesn't want to piss me off by sending me more junk I don't want.
And after a couple of weeks, it usually stops... just like they promise.
Think of how many more fat people on bikes you'll see on the roads. I think one case of "missing bike seat" syndrom is enough to see in one lifetime. It's the goatse.cx of the cycling world.
He's just regurgitating a joke that's been done to death on other gaming sites. "Is this the _____ that makes the game fun?"...
One of the other popular ones is "Looks like an SOF2" clone.
It's the "unoriginal bastard" way of patting themselves on the back for how witty they are:) Like the "in soviet russia Myth patches you!" stuff. Heh.
Myth was a cool game. Especially the tutorials, "Way to blow things up!". I stayed away from Myth2 though because of the installer. If you uninstalled the game before the patch you could lose a good chunk of your directory tree due to a bug in it. Ouch.
Good question. I've thought about using PGP or other methods to communicate important info, or even sort spam out of my mail (no key, no read), but the big stumbling block is having friends and family with no other concept than "i have the internet on my web browser".
Transparency to the user is a great thing, until they break something. (Eg. XP encrypted folders)
If the public won't learn something new, what do you do to make the tools more attractive to them?
Musicians can usually start making a living (albeit a meager one) without going to university for their careers. Potential developers have those pesky student loans hanging over them, so they don't necessarily have the cash to even shoesting a dev studio on their own.
So the crappy, low quality sites will get filtered out as your friends chastise you... leaving only the optimum viewing experience for your guilty pleasure. hmmmm
I love it! This could be a great tool for first-time authors as well. When you get your 50 free books (or whatever amount) from the publisher, release them into the wild this way. Not only do you get to share your writing, you can actually see what people think about it as the books get passed on, without jaded or sycophantic reviewers cluttering up the scenery.
With contribution from the slashdot community I bet the back-end and interface could be sweetened up considerably.
As for selling out, it will easily cover the costs of bandwidth and admin time if he becomes an affilliate to booksellers. For each book title, a couple of links to popular book sellers. No banner ads or other crap. The thing is to do this from the start so contributors understand what they are investing time in. As long as they're straightforward about it, I don't see there being anything wrong with using it to pay the bills.
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I'm still looking for the "Bugger all this for a lark" version of the bible mentioned here.:)
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...Remember that the original Star Trek did just fine ...
:(
No it didn't. It was cancelled just a couple of seasons in. It didn't suit the audience of that time and didn't truly enjoy success until it was syndicated and gained a cult following.
The new trek series have tried to meet the wants of the trekkies while being completely formulaic in order to meet the wants of the average spoon-fed network/viewer.
If HBO picked up a Star Trek option, I wouldn't be surprised if it ended up with tight writing, good continuity, and a strong following. Sadly, fat chance of that happening
Rather than trying to create a governing body to manage this internationally, what about an idea like the following:
Incorporate the ability to create a certificate on your own computer. This certificate can have an expiration date of your choosing... 1 day, 1 month, whatever. When your client receives mail that isn't certified, it send a copy of the current certificate to the sender. They can then email you until the certificate expires. The odd spammer will get through, but this would lower the effectiveness of spamming greatly because it would take time for them to build databases. And expiring certificates takes that time away from them. Plus, in order to get a certificate they'd need to send email from a real account. Certificates could always be bound specifically to the requested account for even more frustation at their end. Since spoofing wouldn't help them, they'd be more easily traced for legal action.
I'm sure there are holes in this idea, and I have no means of implementing this in any way myself. Is it practical to add a feature like this to an open source email client?
I hope they sent references.
:)
You could end up like a fellow from the UK I used to talk to in the mid 90s. Moved to Florida to be with his net love. She turned out to be a heroin addict. Oops.
The thing is though, hooking up online hasn't seemed to be any worse than meeting girls in bars. One way or another the bad apples make themselves known eventually. The big plus is for those whose looks are "less than perfect". Someone who doesn't give them a second look in a social setting can become attached to them online, and overlook the things that might have turned them off in the first place.
That's the only way I can explain why my girlfriend stayed with me
Hey, I think I played on your server :) Then again, it probably happened on more than one, as I played it for 8 hours a day for the first six months.
My favorite response to the in-game chat was in this strip.
They've been on two dates already and he's made it to third base, and still hasn't realized it was just a linebacker with voice masking :)
If you can save this one child from the evils of illiteracy, you have earned a place in history.
:)
Try not to spontaneously combust while doing so
I was thinking of the highest results being hit like a serial bomber running down the list, but good point. :)
Why not just post this link?
Actually, if he's counting on the laziness of people, he's preventing it from being slashdotted immediately.
That little extra bit of work would actually function as a deterrent. The attention span of web surfers is infinitis--- what was I saying?
Interesting. Jake was said to be doing a cameo as Cletus Cassidy (sp?) in the movie, as a setup to possible Venom and Carnage action in #3.
I wonder what Brian Bosworth (Stone Cold, Blackout) is doing these days. He'd be the right age to play Eddie Brock and, if he's still in shape, the right build as well.
cool :) I'd mod you up but since I already posted here I can't. +Informative this one :)
There is a way to do a full install using the update versions of the driver.
:)
You can find it here.
I managed to do it another way as well, but can't remember offhand. My disk was missing from my collection of driver disks when I got the OEM card, but the dealer had extras kicking around. It doesn't hurt to ask for them
And as the parent says, full install SUCKS! Go with only what you need.
It may be a smart gun, but it should be designed to help weed out the stupid gun owners.
For example, the guys that clean loaded guns... then end up on the Darwin Awards page. This a natural way of culling them from the herd. It shouldn't be messed with.
Actually we only catch a majority of known-to-victim killers.
Killings by strangers, on the other hand, still tend to go unsolved in the majority of cases.
Then they should build it with Vacuum Tubes! :)
They helped slow down the lizard invasion during WW2.
Sorry, I mistook tongue-in-cheek for head-up-ass. :)
They also preschedule mailouts to occur so they don't overload the mail server. So your next two or three weeks of spam may have been queued up a month in advance.
I hate spam as much as anyone else I know, but I'll give some spammers the benefit of the doubt. If a legitimate company sends me spam, then I deal with them directly if possible. It might not get me off every list a middleman sold, but at least I know that the legit company doesn't want to piss me off by sending me more junk I don't want.
And after a couple of weeks, it usually stops... just like they promise.
That's not the worst part...
Think of how many more fat people on bikes you'll see on the roads. I think one case of "missing bike seat" syndrom is enough to see in one lifetime. It's the goatse.cx of the cycling world.
He's just regurgitating a joke that's been done to death on other gaming sites. "Is this the _____ that makes the game fun?"...
:) Like the "in soviet russia Myth patches you!" stuff. Heh.
One of the other popular ones is "Looks like an SOF2" clone.
It's the "unoriginal bastard" way of patting themselves on the back for how witty they are
Myth was a cool game. Especially the tutorials, "Way to blow things up!". I stayed away from Myth2 though because of the installer. If you uninstalled the game before the patch you could lose a good chunk of your directory tree due to a bug in it. Ouch.
Good question. I've thought about using PGP or other methods to communicate important info, or even sort spam out of my mail (no key, no read), but the big stumbling block is having friends and family with no other concept than "i have the internet on my web browser".
Transparency to the user is a great thing, until they break something. (Eg. XP encrypted folders)
If the public won't learn something new, what do you do to make the tools more attractive to them?
You'd be surprised how many people only know you as "Old Fart" in your department :)
Musicians can usually start making a living (albeit a meager one) without going to university for their careers. Potential developers have those pesky student loans hanging over them, so they don't necessarily have the cash to even shoesting a dev studio on their own.
So the crappy, low quality sites will get filtered out as your friends chastise you... leaving only the optimum viewing experience for your guilty pleasure. hmmmm
I love it! This could be a great tool for first-time authors as well. When you get your 50 free books (or whatever amount) from the publisher, release them into the wild this way. Not only do you get to share your writing, you can actually see what people think about it as the books get passed on, without jaded or sycophantic reviewers cluttering up the scenery.
With contribution from the slashdot community I bet the back-end and interface could be sweetened up considerably.
As for selling out, it will easily cover the costs of bandwidth and admin time if he becomes an affilliate to booksellers. For each book title, a couple of links to popular book sellers. No banner ads or other crap. The thing is to do this from the start so contributors understand what they are investing time in. As long as they're straightforward about it, I don't see there being anything wrong with using it to pay the bills.
I'm still looking for the "Bugger all this for a lark" version of the bible mentioned here. :)