I work for a newspaper and blocking on keyword is actually extremely difficult.
Given the quantity, quality and variety of mail we receive, we can't even do the obvious like block 'viagra', 'lesbain' or even 'hardcore' as it may be an email describing the receipt of such mail!
Instead we pay for a third party filter that uses patterns and occurences rather than just individual words.
And deploy an ever-growing white list.
It sounds to me like companies are either paranoid or believing the hype.
Just a couple of months ago I sent an email to a friend of mine asking if he'd like to go for a beer.
It was rejected because of the word 'beer'.
Madness.
This 'story' was never going to make a good film.
When first produced as a radio series, DNA admitted that he wrote much of it week-to-week. Why would a multi-part, 30 minutes per show radio programme make a good 90+ minuted movie?
Don't get me wrong - I love the radio show, the books and the TV series (which did work as it was a similar format to radio), but I always knew H2G2 would miss too much as a film.
Some years ago, I had the great prvilidge of sharing dinner with Douglas and Richard Dawkins when they did an excellent open lecture on evolution at the Sheldonian in Oxford.
He was a witty and broad-thinking man but be wasn't a movie author (although I actually think Dirk Gently would work as a movie.
Yes! Yours Truly steals a march on/.
I reported on this in my Internet column for the local newspaper on Monday.
Bugger that it comes out on Thursday, thus making it look (once again) that I simply lift my article from/. posts.
OK, so it's karma as it's true most of the time.
Have to hope that most of my readers don't regularly check/. or the BBC's tech section.
I've just posted about how keeping files organised is a better idea but given the 'smart folders' idea isn't TIVO a good analogy? i.e. Set and forget?
Guess I'm putting both sides of the argument here but - meh. Personally, don't care either way.
I'm a power user, accessing many hundreds of files on my machine on a regular basis.
Personally speaking, I don't find much need for a full system search every time I want something as I keep it well organised to start with.
Maybe these new-fangled searches will make such hosekeeping requirements a thing of the past, but can you really imagine a time where you save everything to root or a 'docs' dir just because the OS search is so good?
I, for one, will always favor actually knowing where my files are.
Do my parents, or even my friends, have so many files that such a feature will help them be anything other than even more mindless users?
I think not.
Good point, well made.
You are, of course, correct. I shouldn't have use chronology. What I meant was that films are rarely as good as their book versions.
Let's face it - whoever made this movie, whoever produced it, whoever starred in it - it was always, *always* going to be either loved or hated. Such is the sentiment and legacy towards DNA.
As is made clear in just about every item one reads about Douglas (including TFA), he saw each incarnation of H2G2 as a different entity in its own right and felt no compunction to translate perfectly between mediums.
The sad fact is that Douglas is dead. So we can either have no movie ever, or hand it over to someone else. The latter was always the best idea, IMO. Let's stop whining and celebrate the fact that the geek's favourite book has finally made it to film. Films are practically never as good as the books they follow (one or two exceptions like 2001 and, for me, Fear & Loathing (thanks to Johnny Depp, but I digress) spring to mind). H2G2 is the best example of this as it fires the imagination like nothing else.
I, for one, am all too happy to see both negative and positive reviews.
It's indifference I don't like.
The phone in TFA is way too bulky to be an acceptable portable device, so I assume its merely a prototype.
Manufacturers clearly realise that the phone in its current size is a device people find comfortable carrying around. This is the device that will end up converging with all the other gadgets that we geeks like to carry around these days.
Personally, I can't wait for the summer day when I don't have to wear a multi-pocket combat jacket with something stuffed in every pocket - camera, phone, PDA, MP3 player, portable TV (OK, so I don't have one of those).
A projected keyboard may well cause your fingers to bleed but it's not designed as a replacement to a standard tactile piece of hardware - merely something that serves a better purpose than multiple key presses or tapping a tiny screen with a stylus.
Looks like a step in the right direction to me.
This is a remnant from the Iapetusian Cold War, when the folk from the northern hemisphere were separated from those in the southern.
Be grateful that Cassini-Huygens' lens isn't more powerful or you might have been able to make out David Hasselhoff standing on it singing a song about freedom.
Isn't this a standard Google hack as listed in O'Reilly's book.
I've had loads of fun with this one. Turning supposedly security cameras in on themselves etc.
We even have such a camera watching things at work.
"It's secure", said our IT manager (my boss - did someone mention Dilbert?).
Once home, it took me all of 10 mins to spy on my colleagues.
Has anyone seen the Kevin Rose footage on WarSpying - increasing the range of a receiver and driving around a neighborhood to spy on the X10 network cams?
Broadcatching is one of the coolest new uses of RSS and the huge availability of TV shows available as Bittorrents.
Think of it as Tivo for your computer. Simply construct some well crafted regular expressions into an RSS Importer plugin for your favorite multi platform Bittorrent client and you're good to go.
Buy yourself a quality 400GB HDD and store up a plethora of the shows you like ready to watch when you are.
Here's a great step-by-step how to, should you need it.
Word or two of advice: it's a good idea to learn how to build some pretty precise expressions or you will end up with a number of different version of the same show (format, compression etc.).
" If it is a success, we want to move into orbital flights and then, possibly, even get a hotel up there"
Am I a hopeless geek who needs therapy or does reading that quote from Branson bring a genuine tear of emotion to anyone else's eye?
That such a thing has taken one very real step closer to realisation in my lifetime is - quite literally - awesome.
... that the copious scene alterations and 'enhancements' might just be another marketing ploy?
I can see it now - just in time for the Christmas 2005 market 'Star Wars: The Original Trilogy - Classic Edition DVD'.
Lucas et al aren't stupid. They know we geeks wants DVD quality version of IV, V and VI.
I betcha this is on the cards.
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Don't we need to update the iMac icon?
Either the new design iMac or, at least, the original 'classic' iMac would better represent it, surely?
I work for a newspaper and blocking on keyword is actually extremely difficult.
Given the quantity, quality and variety of mail we receive, we can't even do the obvious like block 'viagra', 'lesbain' or even 'hardcore' as it may be an email describing the receipt of such mail!
Instead we pay for a third party filter that uses patterns and occurences rather than just individual words.
And deploy an ever-growing white list.
It sounds to me like companies are either paranoid or believing the hype.
Just a couple of months ago I sent an email to a friend of mine asking if he'd like to go for a beer.
It was rejected because of the word 'beer'.
Madness.
This 'story' was never going to make a good film.
When first produced as a radio series, DNA admitted that he wrote much of it week-to-week. Why would a multi-part, 30 minutes per show radio programme make a good 90+ minuted movie?
Don't get me wrong - I love the radio show, the books and the TV series (which did work as it was a similar format to radio), but I always knew H2G2 would miss too much as a film.
Some years ago, I had the great prvilidge of sharing dinner with Douglas and Richard Dawkins when they did an excellent open lecture on evolution at the Sheldonian in Oxford.
He was a witty and broad-thinking man but be wasn't a movie author (although I actually think Dirk Gently would work as a movie.
Yes! Yours Truly steals a march on /. /. posts. /. or the BBC's tech section.
I reported on this in my Internet column for the local newspaper on Monday.
Bugger that it comes out on Thursday, thus making it look (once again) that I simply lift my article from
OK, so it's karma as it's true most of the time.
Have to hope that most of my readers don't regularly check
I've just posted about how keeping files organised is a better idea but given the 'smart folders' idea isn't TIVO a good analogy? i.e. Set and forget?
Guess I'm putting both sides of the argument here but - meh. Personally, don't care either way.
I'm a power user, accessing many hundreds of files on my machine on a regular basis.
Personally speaking, I don't find much need for a full system search every time I want something as I keep it well organised to start with.
Maybe these new-fangled searches will make such hosekeeping requirements a thing of the past, but can you really imagine a time where you save everything to root or a 'docs' dir just because the OS search is so good?
I, for one, will always favor actually knowing where my files are.
Do my parents, or even my friends, have so many files that such a feature will help them be anything other than even more mindless users?
I think not.
Good point, well made.
You are, of course, correct. I shouldn't have use chronology. What I meant was that films are rarely as good as their book versions.
Let's face it - whoever made this movie, whoever produced it, whoever starred in it - it was always, *always* going to be either loved or hated. Such is the sentiment and legacy towards DNA.
As is made clear in just about every item one reads about Douglas (including TFA), he saw each incarnation of H2G2 as a different entity in its own right and felt no compunction to translate perfectly between mediums.
The sad fact is that Douglas is dead. So we can either have no movie ever, or hand it over to someone else. The latter was always the best idea, IMO. Let's stop whining and celebrate the fact that the geek's favourite book has finally made it to film. Films are practically never as good as the books they follow (one or two exceptions like 2001 and, for me, Fear & Loathing (thanks to Johnny Depp, but I digress) spring to mind). H2G2 is the best example of this as it fires the imagination like nothing else.
I, for one, am all too happy to see both negative and positive reviews.
It's indifference I don't like.
This might be a coherent comment if you had the ability to punctuate.
Erm, yeah. Thanks but I know that!
OK. So I have been seeing more popups in FF recently and I thought this might be cool.i ghtly/experimental/popupsdie/popupsdie.xpi), restarted, but using the Flash plugin test at http://chrisbenard.net/slashdot/ffpop.html I still get the popunder.
I installed the extension (http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/n
Am I missing something?
Why not just use Adblocker to block all banners?p ?application=firefox&version=1.0&os=MacOSX&id=10
https://addons.mozilla.org/extensions/moreinfo.ph
The phone in TFA is way too bulky to be an acceptable portable device, so I assume its merely a prototype.
Manufacturers clearly realise that the phone in its current size is a device people find comfortable carrying around. This is the device that will end up converging with all the other gadgets that we geeks like to carry around these days.
Personally, I can't wait for the summer day when I don't have to wear a multi-pocket combat jacket with something stuffed in every pocket - camera, phone, PDA, MP3 player, portable TV (OK, so I don't have one of those).
A projected keyboard may well cause your fingers to bleed but it's not designed as a replacement to a standard tactile piece of hardware - merely something that serves a better purpose than multiple key presses or tapping a tiny screen with a stylus.
Looks like a step in the right direction to me.
I don't actually understand this.
One sends emails to someone else rather than back to yourself so why do they need to get them from Yahoo?
I think the word you're looking for is sensationalist
Unless you're intentionally complimenting him! ;-)
This is a remnant from the Iapetusian Cold War, when the folk from the northern hemisphere were separated from those in the southern.
Be grateful that Cassini-Huygens' lens isn't more powerful or you might have been able to make out David Hasselhoff standing on it singing a song about freedom.
Given that the first Mac rumour post is from 1982, I make that at least 23 years of archive.
Isn't this a standard Google hack as listed in O'Reilly's book.
I've had loads of fun with this one. Turning supposedly security cameras in on themselves etc.
We even have such a camera watching things at work.
"It's secure", said our IT manager (my boss - did someone mention Dilbert?).
Once home, it took me all of 10 mins to spy on my colleagues.
Has anyone seen the Kevin Rose footage on WarSpying - increasing the range of a receiver and driving around a neighborhood to spy on the X10 network cams?
Broadcatching is one of the coolest new uses of RSS and the huge availability of TV shows available as Bittorrents.
Think of it as Tivo for your computer. Simply construct some well crafted regular expressions into an RSS Importer plugin for your favorite multi platform Bittorrent client and you're good to go.
Buy yourself a quality 400GB HDD and store up a plethora of the shows you like ready to watch when you are.
Here's a great step-by-step how to, should you need it.
Word or two of advice: it's a good idea to learn how to build some pretty precise expressions or you will end up with a number of different version of the same show (format, compression etc.).
... and Microsoft have never stolen anything.
" If it is a success, we want to move into orbital flights and then, possibly, even get a hotel up there"
Am I a hopeless geek who needs therapy or does reading that quote from Branson bring a genuine tear of emotion to anyone else's eye?
That such a thing has taken one very real step closer to realisation in my lifetime is - quite literally - awesome.
... that the copious scene alterations and 'enhancements' might just be another marketing ploy?
I can see it now - just in time for the Christmas 2005 market 'Star Wars: The Original Trilogy - Classic Edition DVD'.
Lucas et al aren't stupid. They know we geeks wants DVD quality version of IV, V and VI.
I betcha this is on the cards.
Have to admit...
All-In-One-Gestures now disabled
ChromEdit now disabled
IEView now disabled (but hopefully needed less anyway)
... to the Slashdot rendering problems I have with 0.9?
My poor F5 key is getting worn...
Sadly, I think it's an Old Skool Slashdot issue. Will anyone ever drag my favorite site out of 1996 and introduce it to some lovely CSS-P?
Yours, in hope...
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