You can POP3 your Yahoo mail, but it requires paying $30/year. I want to do this, but am scared about the automatic renewal. There is no option to have it automatically stop at the expiration date.
It's $19.99 per year. They send you at least one notice: [This is a notice to remind you that your Yahoo! POP Access and Forwarding service will automatically renew on 22-APR-03, and your Yahoo! Wallet will be charged the annual service fee of $19.99 on that date. This is 20% off the current regular price.] before doing so.
That said, I'm getting impatient with it, the spam filtering is not very good, misses a lot and has false positives. For the same price I could get my own domain and look after my pown email; just inertis stops me so far.
but there was no option to exclude the Junk folder from POP3.
Yes there is.
Mail Options ->POP Access & Forwarding -> uncheck "Include Bulk Mail folder when downloading new messages"
Maybe you should look at YPOPs, "This application emulates a POP3 server and enables popular email clients like Outlook, Netscape, Eudora, Mozilla, etc., to download email from Yahoo!" When I get somethng better I'll use something like this to keep an eye on my Yahoo account.
Even better, the disclaimer is in the footer of a document. By reading the document, you are therefore in material breach of a contract that you haven't even read yet.
Don't complain about that. A friend a a legal firm's emails all have the fucking disclaimer, PREPENDED to his message. At least it's relatively brief:
Please note: This e-mail is confidential and may also be privileged.
Please notify us immediately if you are not the intended recipient. You should not copy it, forward it or use it for any purpose or disclose the contents to any person.
Piracy is the new definition most people in the world use for unauthorized copying
Not new, actually, 18th C, according to the Oxford Dictionary.
pirate...
3 v.t. Reproduce or use (another's work, idea, etc.) without authority, esp. in contravention of patent or copyright. Freq. as pirated ppl a. E18.
But I do dislike the equation of copyright infringement with theft, particularly analogies with cars, which Americans seem particualrly prone to making.
If you've seen one of these camcorder pirate videos, complete with sound like it was recorded in the toilet of a bus station, you'll never bother again. I can't imagine how it would cut into the cinema showings or sale of legit DVDs. It won't satisfy anyone who's halfway intersted in the movie. It's when the high quality ones come out, duped from screeners, that you have a product worth watching.
But it has to manipulate things. This is an inflatable ironing board.
>It takes a wet and wrinkled shirt and makes it dry and wrinkle free. That arguably is manipulation.
It would be if it was the one who "took" the shirt, but you have to dress it, and button it up (maybe it has clips instead). It's an inside-out ironing press. Basically I could iron a shirt the old fashioned way in about the same time.
In the article, as opposed to the headline, it's called an "ironing dummy". I'd say a robot has to perform the functions a human operator would with "dumb" tools. Eg, an electric screwdriver is not a robot, but something that could pick up a screw and drive it into the correct position would be. So an "ironing robot" should be able to pick up a wet shirt and produce a folded ironed shirt.
Now, I agree with this comment (there's no way that's a robot)
>Why not? A robot does not need to walk or talk.
But it has to manipulate things. This is an inflatable ironing board. An "automatic" washing machine displays more intelligence and does more useful stuff. Also, the damn thing would take up a lot of floorspace. Anyone with the money and space to use one of these wouldn't be doing their own laundry anyway, they'd have a maid or send their laundry out.
In other words, the Patriot act is being used to stifle dissent against the act itself.
"The girls were crying. 'Did we do anything wrong?' they said. The men said no and pushed them away out the door with the ends of their clubs. 'Then why are you chasing us out?' the girls said.
'Catch-22,' the men said. 'What right do you have?' the girls said. 'Catch-22,' the men said. All they kept saying was 'Catch-22,
Catch-22.' What does it mean, Catch-22? What is Catch-22?"
"Didn't they show it to you?" Yossarian demanded, stamping about in ager and distress. "Didn't you even make them read it?"
"They don't have to show us Catch-22," the old woman answered. "The law says they don't have to."
Excel was actually quite the pioneer. it was the *first* spreadsheet program that had a full blown GUI.
Have you ever used Lotus 123 for DOS? It has a GUI, not Windows but a GUI, though in earlier versions text driven (i.e. you open the menus by typing the first letter), but you could also use arrow keys. Mouse support was added later, before Excel I think. It was able to make all kinds of charts from a very early version. Anyway, I saw no basic difference with Excel and didn't bother to change until years after Excel came out.
Not just linux, I just tried it in Acrobat reader on my windows box, and it's also got the black background...
Looks like someone made a bad pdf =P
Either that, or they were on a mac.
The file info says it was made by Quartz in OS X. Anyway, I was viewing it in Acrobat 4 on Windows, which showed parts obscured by black boxes. But I could delete them with the Touch-up object tool and it looks fine now.
bottom line, i don't agree with it, but it isn't ridiculous, they do have a point.
It IS ridiculous, because they complain that: 'Moreover, "Manchuria", "West Xinjiang", and "Tibet" appeared as independent sovereign countries in the maps of the game. In addition, it even included China's Taiwan province as the territory of Japan at the beginning of the game.'
Well, Taiwan WAS a Japanese colony in 1936, (following the 1894 Sino-Japanese war Taiwan was ceded to the Japanese) and Tibet WAS independent till 1959 when China invaded it.
bottom line, i don't agree with it, but it isn't ridiculous, they do have a point.
It IS ridiculous, because they complain that: 'Moreover, "Manchuria", "West Xinjiang", and "Tibet" appeared as independent sovereign countries in the maps of the game. In addition, it even included China's Taiwan province as the territory of Japan at the beginning of the game."
Well, Taiwan WAS a Japanese colony in 1936, (following the 1894 Sino-Japanese war Taiwan was ceded to the Japanese) and Tibet WAS independent till 1959 when China invaded it.
He certainly stole Adams idea of combining humour with SciFi (or Fantasy),
L Sprague de Camp was doing that back in the 1930s. For that matter, Mark Twain did it with A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court in 1889, and Jonathan Swift in Gulliver's Travels in 1726.
someone who ought to be proud of what they write, unashamed - he sure masks a lot of words with random punctuation
You might notice that the page is on go.com, part of Disney, as is the movie, and Disney still shies away from that stuff (as they did from Michael Moore, on a related issue).
Also, you realize you are talking to people who can't actually effect change right?
That's exactly my point. My mail is blocked because of the actions of people retaliating against other people I have no power to affect in the slightest. I'm collateral damage.
You can't be ignoring the crucial detail that there must be a reason they are spamming from China right?
But what does that have to do with me? It's my personal mail that is blocked. And again, most of the spam originates in the US. If you quarantined Boca Raton most of the world's spam would disappear. Ridiculous to contemplate; but you and people like you are fine with blocking a billion people because of the actions of a few dozen.
Am I to believe that this happened and somehow it was so beneficial to the new species that they prospered more than the organisms that were reproducing asexually?
Bacteria and such unicellular organisms usually reproduce by fission. But they also often exchange genetic material with other bacteria, of similar or even different species, by merging and then splitting again. (Roughly the mechanism for genetic engineering.) This shuffling of genes allows greater diversity and much faster evolution than waiting for random errors in genes to generate changes -- note also that here we're mostly exchanging healthy genes, not damaged ones as mutated ones usually are. So this process was advantageous and when multi-cellular organisms evolved those that exchanged genetic material evolved much more quickly, becoming the sexual reproduction we are so grateful for.
I block all mail from CN, HK. & KR becasue I get nothing but SPAM from them.
I live in Hong Kong. For every legitimate email I get from the US I get hundreds of spams. All in English, selling drugs, mortgages, software, porn, cable decoders etc. The US creates the spam, and routes it through whatever servers it can find. And you know who thw spammers are (ROKSO) and do nothing to even slow them down. But you block my emails becuae I live in the same country as the server the American spammers are using.
Given the kind of justice that is often meted out in China, is it that far from the truth?
Pretty far. If you do something against the Chinese government, expect labour camps, torture, your children thrown out of school, your mother evicted from her house, etc. If you commit an economic crime that only affects foreigners, expect a slap on the wrist, then pay a bribe, continue spamming.
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It's $19.99 per year. They send you at least one notice: [This is a notice to remind you that your Yahoo! POP Access and Forwarding service will automatically renew on 22-APR-03, and your Yahoo! Wallet will be charged the annual service fee of $19.99 on that date. This is 20% off the current regular price.] before doing so.
That said, I'm getting impatient with it, the spam filtering is not very good, misses a lot and has false positives. For the same price I could get my own domain and look after my pown email; just inertis stops me so far.
but there was no option to exclude the Junk folder from POP3.
Yes there is.
Mail Options ->POP Access & Forwarding -> uncheck "Include Bulk Mail folder when downloading new messages"
Maybe you should look at YPOPs, "This application emulates a POP3 server and enables popular email clients like Outlook, Netscape, Eudora, Mozilla, etc., to download email from Yahoo!" When I get somethng better I'll use something like this to keep an eye on my Yahoo account.
Don't complain about that. A friend a a legal firm's emails all have the fucking disclaimer, PREPENDED to his message. At least it's relatively brief:
Which I've just violated, of course.Not new, actually, 18th C, according to the Oxford Dictionary.
But I do dislike the equation of copyright infringement with theft, particularly analogies with cars, which Americans seem particualrly prone to making.If you've seen one of these camcorder pirate videos, complete with sound like it was recorded in the toilet of a bus station, you'll never bother again. I can't imagine how it would cut into the cinema showings or sale of legit DVDs. It won't satisfy anyone who's halfway intersted in the movie. It's when the high quality ones come out, duped from screeners, that you have a product worth watching.
>It takes a wet and wrinkled shirt and makes it dry and wrinkle free. That arguably is manipulation.
It would be if it was the one who "took" the shirt, but you have to dress it, and button it up (maybe it has clips instead). It's an inside-out ironing press. Basically I could iron a shirt the old fashioned way in about the same time.
In the article, as opposed to the headline, it's called an "ironing dummy". I'd say a robot has to perform the functions a human operator would with "dumb" tools. Eg, an electric screwdriver is not a robot, but something that could pick up a screw and drive it into the correct position would be. So an "ironing robot" should be able to pick up a wet shirt and produce a folded ironed shirt.
"Klaatu...Barada... Necktie?... Nectar?... Nickel?"*
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>Why not? A robot does not need to walk or talk.
But it has to manipulate things. This is an inflatable ironing board. An "automatic" washing machine displays more intelligence and does more useful stuff. Also, the damn thing would take up a lot of floorspace. Anyone with the money and space to use one of these wouldn't be doing their own laundry anyway, they'd have a maid or send their laundry out.
Spelling right; but Klaatu was the human(oid), (Michael Rennie). Gort (Lock Martin) was the robot.
"The girls were crying. 'Did we do anything wrong?' they said. The men said no and pushed them away out the door with the ends of their clubs. 'Then why are you chasing us out?' the girls said. 'Catch-22,' the men said. 'What right do you have?' the girls said. 'Catch-22,' the men said. All they kept saying was 'Catch-22, Catch-22.' What does it mean, Catch-22? What is Catch-22?"
"Didn't they show it to you?" Yossarian demanded, stamping about in ager and distress. "Didn't you even make them read it?"
"They don't have to show us Catch-22," the old woman answered. "The law says they don't have to."
"What law says they don't have to?"
"Catch-22."
Most people use just Word, a smaller proportion use Excel, a few percent use Access. I can't even remember rhat the fourth is. (Outlook? Publisher?)
That's why it has been so successful.
I rather think that it was the bundle (Office) cost barely more than Word alone. Pricing, marketing, bundling and OEM sales drove it to dominance.
Have you ever used Lotus 123 for DOS? It has a GUI, not Windows but a GUI, though in earlier versions text driven (i.e. you open the menus by typing the first letter), but you could also use arrow keys. Mouse support was added later, before Excel I think. It was able to make all kinds of charts from a very early version. Anyway, I saw no basic difference with Excel and didn't bother to change until years after Excel came out.
100 is a three digit number, it isn't 50% of 100,000 (a six digit number).
The new prime has 7.2 million digits. That is 10e-2799998 % of "the size needed", 10e10000000.
Not even maybe. Word followed Wordstar and WordPerfect; Excel Visicalc and Lotus 123.
The file info says it was made by Quartz in OS X. Anyway, I was viewing it in Acrobat 4 on Windows, which showed parts obscured by black boxes. But I could delete them with the Touch-up object tool and it looks fine now.
It IS ridiculous, because they complain that: 'Moreover, "Manchuria", "West Xinjiang", and "Tibet" appeared as independent sovereign countries in the maps of the game. In addition, it even included China's Taiwan province as the territory of Japan at the beginning of the game.'
Well, Taiwan WAS a Japanese colony in 1936, (following the 1894 Sino-Japanese war Taiwan was ceded to the Japanese) and Tibet WAS independent till 1959 when China invaded it.
It IS ridiculous, because they complain that: 'Moreover, "Manchuria", "West Xinjiang", and "Tibet" appeared as independent sovereign countries in the maps of the game. In addition, it even included China's Taiwan province as the territory of Japan at the beginning of the game."
Well, Taiwan WAS a Japanese colony in 1936, (following the 1894 Sino-Japanese war Taiwan was ceded to the Japanese) and Tibet WAS independent till 1959 when China invaded it.
L Sprague de Camp was doing that back in the 1930s. For that matter, Mark Twain did it with A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court in 1889, and Jonathan Swift in Gulliver's Travels in 1726.
You might notice that the page is on go.com, part of Disney, as is the movie, and Disney still shies away from that stuff (as they did from Michael Moore, on a related issue).
That's exactly my point. My mail is blocked because of the actions of people retaliating against other people I have no power to affect in the slightest. I'm collateral damage.
You can't be ignoring the crucial detail that there must be a reason they are spamming from China right?
But what does that have to do with me? It's my personal mail that is blocked. And again, most of the spam originates in the US. If you quarantined Boca Raton most of the world's spam would disappear. Ridiculous to contemplate; but you and people like you are fine with blocking a billion people because of the actions of a few dozen.
Bacteria and such unicellular organisms usually reproduce by fission. But they also often exchange genetic material with other bacteria, of similar or even different species, by merging and then splitting again. (Roughly the mechanism for genetic engineering.) This shuffling of genes allows greater diversity and much faster evolution than waiting for random errors in genes to generate changes -- note also that here we're mostly exchanging healthy genes, not damaged ones as mutated ones usually are. So this process was advantageous and when multi-cellular organisms evolved those that exchanged genetic material evolved much more quickly, becoming the sexual reproduction we are so grateful for.
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Like grilling, but upside-down.
I live in Hong Kong. For every legitimate email I get from the US I get hundreds of spams. All in English, selling drugs, mortgages, software, porn, cable decoders etc. The US creates the spam, and routes it through whatever servers it can find. And you know who thw spammers are (ROKSO) and do nothing to even slow them down. But you block my emails becuae I live in the same country as the server the American spammers are using.
Pretty far. If you do something against the Chinese government, expect labour camps, torture, your children thrown out of school, your mother evicted from her house, etc. If you commit an economic crime that only affects foreigners, expect a slap on the wrist, then pay a bribe, continue spamming.
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