I think that the people that respond to spam are basically illiterate. The see the (obvious to the rest of us) Subject line and go: "Hmmm, I bet I could figure out what that means by sounding it out phonetically." They then do, and reply out of self-satisfaction and then get caught in the spammers' web.
The "!" in Yahoo keeps me from considering it as a serious organization, nevermind the backwoods, redneck exclamation connotations it tends to evoke (not to mention the multiple cookies set).
I'm much more comfortable with a made-up word like "Google".
It just seems to me that we are paying more and more for CAD software (with less and less useful features/tool additions - it's the lock-in, upgrade game) that are for the most part incompatible with other CAD programs.
For a consulting engineering firm to have to maintain multiple systems (in order to provide drawing and 3D model data to be shared with multiple clients using different engineering apps), this gets expensive real quick.
Yeah, that's one of the many little bits that make the film a classic. As a Monty Python fan, I admit that some parts of the movie are weak but the best scenes more than make up for it. The witch scene is one of the better ones if only for the study of ignorant crowd behaviour and manipulation.
Other parts are just absurd and just as enjoyable.
Here is the phone number for G2 Computer Intelligence, 516 XXX-7025. Most unknown emails go to spam boxes these days, at least in my case.
Uh-huh. And how many phone calls get shunted to an "answering (see the irony in that adjective?) machine" where you have to know the exact code in order to speak with a human being?
We've gotten so good at avoiding real communication and providing pseudo-communication that it's pissing people off.
The preceding has been a pre-programmed response from [insert name here]. If you would like to speak to me personally, press 0 on your phone...wait...maybe there will be a beep...hold on...NOW.
[...]
Sorry, your message length has exceeded the maximum allowable. Please call back and try again and thank you for calling!!! [dial tone]
Just FYI, this particular Urban Legends Reference Page was written by snopes himself (David). When Barbara writes a page she signs-off with an internym.
snopes.com is a great resource and doesn't talk down to the readers or assume a haughty, know-it-all stance.
During a 20 Questions interview with Playboy magazine, Cleese spun a wild yarn about his ancestors being named "Cheese". Couple this with the fact that close friends call him Jack (a common alternative for John), Cleese joked that he might go back to his old "family" name and move to Monterey, California... thus becoming Monterey Jack Cheese. In fact, though, his grandfather's name *was* Cheese and he did change it to Cleese!
Remember that what terrorists need most is willing martyrs (typically very uneducated and likely fanatical or forced) and bloodthirsty hate (violent, psychopathic minds), not technological information.
GUARD #1: Where'd you get the coconut?
ARTHUR: We found them.
GUARD #1: Found them? In Mercea? The coconut's tropical!
ARTHUR: What do you mean?
GUARD #1: Well, this is a temperate zone.
ARTHUR: The swallow may fly south with the sun or the house
martin or the plumber may seek warmer climes in winter yet these
are not strangers to our land.
GUARD #1: Are you suggesting coconuts migrate?
ARTHUR: Not at all, they could be carried.
GUARD #1: What -- a swallow carrying a coconut?
ARTHUR: It could grip it by the husk!
GUARD #1: It's not a question of where he grips it! It's a
simple question of weight ratios! A five ounce bird could not
carry a 1 pound coconut.
ARTHUR: Well, it doesn't matter. Will you go and tell your
master that Arthur from the Court of Camelot is here.
GUARD #1: Listen, in order to maintain air-speed velocity, a
swallow needs to beat its wings 43 times every second, right?
ARTHUR: Please!
GUARD #1: Am I right?
ARTHUR: I'm not interested!
GUARD #2: It could be carried by an African swallow!
GUARD #1: Oh, yeah, an African swallow maybe, but not a European
swallow, that's my point.
GUARD #2: Oh, yeah, I agree with that...
ARTHUR: Will you ask your master if he wants to join my court
at Camelot?!
GUARD #1: But then of course African swallows are not migratory.
GUARD #2: Oh, yeah...
GUARD #1: So they couldn't bring a coconut back anyway...
[clop clop]
GUARD #2: Wait a minute -- supposing two swallows carried it
together?
GUARD #1: No, they'd have to have it on a line.
GUARD #2: Well, simple! They'd just use a strand of creeper!
GUARD #1: What, held under the dorsal guiding feathers?
GUARD #2: Well, why not?
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I think that the people that respond to spam are basically illiterate. The see the (obvious to the rest of us) Subject line and go: "Hmmm, I bet I could figure out what that means by sounding it out phonetically." They then do, and reply out of self-satisfaction and then get caught in the spammers' web.
Every context shift you do sets you back at least 15 minutes in concentration (scientifically proven, ask any serious psychologist).
I agree. Do you have any good links on this?
I'll bet you're semi-horizontal while you do that.
Anyone if/when the Google Maps' aerial photos are updated? Don't they own the satellite?
The "!" in Yahoo keeps me from considering it as a serious organization, nevermind the backwoods, redneck exclamation connotations it tends to evoke (not to mention the multiple cookies set).
I'm much more comfortable with a made-up word like "Google".
Some would say that the 24 hour news cycle (created, or at least lit by CNN) is responsible.
No, just bragging rights.
I read that as "a grant for a video card."
That's about what I'd need to get one.
What, you mean hip-hop and rap aren't the highest form of musical sophistication and lyrical construct?
birge, meet troll. Troll, birge.
Oops, I guess IHBT as well with this reply.
It just seems to me that we are paying more and more for CAD software (with less and less useful features/tool additions - it's the lock-in, upgrade game) that are for the most part incompatible with other CAD programs.
For a consulting engineering firm to have to maintain multiple systems (in order to provide drawing and 3D model data to be shared with multiple clients using different engineering apps), this gets expensive real quick.
Same thing with AutoCAD.
I think the CAD market would be a great place to start.
I, too, fell out of the ugly tree and hit every branch on the way down.
Look, for the last time, the word is "oogle", not "oggle". I seem to be alone in correcting this, even dictionaries disagree with me.
Do you remember Barney Google with the goo-goo googly eyes? Probably not.
"oggle" or "ogle" sounds too much like "ogre" or "goggle" and that's just not right when it comes to lookin
Hey, look, bouncing boobies! [drool]
They don't sell because people don't want to work for a sense of accomplishment. They want the illusion of accomplishment.
I modded you up before I re-read your post so sorry if your rank goes down - my mod point is gone.
That's an excellent evaluation of many games and maybe an allusion to the now and future workforce.
Yeah, that's one of the many little bits that make the film a classic. As a Monty Python fan, I admit that some parts of the movie are weak but the best scenes more than make up for it. The witch scene is one of the better ones if only for the study of ignorant crowd behaviour and manipulation.
Other parts are just absurd and just as enjoyable.
Here is the phone number for G2 Computer Intelligence, 516 XXX-7025. Most unknown emails go to spam boxes these days, at least in my case.
Uh-huh. And how many phone calls get shunted to an "answering (see the irony in that adjective?) machine" where you have to know the exact code in order to speak with a human being?
We've gotten so good at avoiding real communication and providing pseudo-communication that it's pissing people off.
The preceding has been a pre-programmed response from [insert name here]. If you would like to speak to me personally, press 0 on your phone...wait...maybe there will be a beep...hold on...NOW.
[...]
Sorry, your message length has exceeded the maximum allowable. Please call back and try again and thank you for calling!!! [dial tone]
Hmmm, maybe that explains this.
The only thing I know for sure about Cleese is that he is funny and tall.
I misinterpreted your original message. Wouldn't want to piss-off a fan.
Just FYI, this particular Urban Legends Reference Page was written by snopes himself (David). When Barbara writes a page she signs-off with an internym.
snopes.com is a great resource and doesn't talk down to the readers or assume a haughty, know-it-all stance.
During a 20 Questions interview with Playboy magazine, Cleese spun a wild yarn about his ancestors being named "Cheese". Couple this with the fact that close friends call him Jack (a common alternative for John), Cleese joked that he might go back to his old "family" name and move to Monterey, California... thus becoming Monterey Jack Cheese. In fact, though, his grandfather's name *was* Cheese and he did change it to Cleese!
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000092/bio
As with most Python-related stuff, I'd take this unsigned anecdote with a grain of salt.
Would you like to argue about this?
That's in Scene 8, you silly git.
Remember that what terrorists need most is willing martyrs (typically very uneducated and likely fanatical or forced) and bloodthirsty hate (violent, psychopathic minds), not technological information.
Some might consider one tribe might be the English, and some might consider that the other to be the French.
In this one, which nationality discovers that coconuts are *not* migratory?
http://www.rit.edu/~smo4215/monty.htm
GUARD #1: Where'd you get the coconut?
ARTHUR: We found them.
GUARD #1: Found them? In Mercea? The coconut's tropical!
ARTHUR: What do you mean?
GUARD #1: Well, this is a temperate zone.
ARTHUR: The swallow may fly south with the sun or the house martin or the plumber may seek warmer climes in winter yet these are not strangers to our land.
GUARD #1: Are you suggesting coconuts migrate?
ARTHUR: Not at all, they could be carried.
GUARD #1: What -- a swallow carrying a coconut?
ARTHUR: It could grip it by the husk!
GUARD #1: It's not a question of where he grips it! It's a simple question of weight ratios! A five ounce bird could not carry a 1 pound coconut.
ARTHUR: Well, it doesn't matter. Will you go and tell your master that Arthur from the Court of Camelot is here.
GUARD #1: Listen, in order to maintain air-speed velocity, a swallow needs to beat its wings 43 times every second, right?
ARTHUR: Please!
GUARD #1: Am I right?
ARTHUR: I'm not interested!
GUARD #2: It could be carried by an African swallow!
GUARD #1: Oh, yeah, an African swallow maybe, but not a European swallow, that's my point.
GUARD #2: Oh, yeah, I agree with that...
ARTHUR: Will you ask your master if he wants to join my court at Camelot?!
GUARD #1: But then of course African swallows are not migratory.
GUARD #2: Oh, yeah...
GUARD #1: So they couldn't bring a coconut back anyway...
[clop clop]
GUARD #2: Wait a minute -- supposing two swallows carried it together?
GUARD #1: No, they'd have to have it on a line.
GUARD #2: Well, simple! They'd just use a strand of creeper!
GUARD #1: What, held under the dorsal guiding feathers?
GUARD #2: Well, why not?