Re:History of the term: Snail Mail?
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Really? Can you link to any etymological documentation?
I really doubt that mail without a zip code was actually stamped "Snail Mail". Perhaps I wouldn't mind this comment if the moderators rated it "funny", but all the moderators so far has rated it "informative".
- Kill your browser
- Delete your cookies (if you can, just for that site)
Then check again. I'm not sure if you've witnessed actual price increase based on number of visits or just an unfortunate timing of a general price increase. Be scientific about your approach.
-dvs-
"It goes without saying that..."
Re:The ABCs of Google Complete
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Just to add to the list:
1 is for 1
2 is for 2004 election
3 is for 3m
4 is for 411
5 is for 50 cent
6 is for 60 minutes
7 is for 7th heaven
8 is for 89.com (as bad as Paris Hilton!!)
9 is for 911
Bose is actually named for its 1964 founder (and current MIT professor of EE & CS) Dr. Amar Bose. I agree that what you're buying is marketing, but I don't want the parent's acronym (humorous as it is) to be labelled as informative.
You know what feature I'd love to see? I'd love to have a random Wikipedia article show up in my mailbox each morning, just like a Word of the Day.
Just clicking on the Random Page link gave me articles on Butha-Buthe, the Chestnut-headed Bee-eater, and Farragut North. I love learning how much I don't know.
If you ask many non-techs how they find information on the web, they don't say "I search for it" they say "I google it".
I still say that I'll make a xerox of something, or ask for a kleenex, even if I'm not using Xerox or Kleenex. I would guess that people have picked up google as a verb, but I bet over time the verb will be a synonym for searching online as opposed to using the brand Google.
I find the idea of generating a text adventure (using TADS or Inform) to be very appealing. I love adventures, text or graphical, and I could come up with many clever puzzles or story lines.
However, I could never come up with the art needed for the graphical adventure.
I think it's a rare person who has the talents of putting together a good story, good puzzles, and good artwork in order to use these tools.
Okay. I just figured out today that the article was an April Fool's joke. Please forget my last posting.
It all balances out, though. I get embarrassed by believing the One Ring post, but I discover I get to see RotK five months earlier than I had previously thought!
A friend of mine recommended breaks every half on hour when typing regularly at work. I wanted to find a good, quick UNIX way to have a message pop up every half hour that doesn't need to be clicked away causing more unnecessary mouse usage. (So, no mail messages, for instance.)
I set up two jobs in my crontab, one on the half hour called displaymessage that creates the message (using xmessage), the other running every five minutes after the half hour finding all processes with xmessage and killing it.
However, then I started getting email messages from crontab telling me my processes had been killed. (Thanks.) The only trick I found that worked without sending extra mail was wrapping the displaymessage program in a perl script:
#!/usr/local/bin/perl
`/[PATH OF EXECUTIBLE]/displaymessage`;
I'm not a UNIX guru, so I'd love to hear what others have done to set up a regular reminder without requiring extra mouse clicks.
When I first had my tendonitis symptoms, I felt like I opened a door into all my friends' and coworkers' lives on unexplained pain and disappointment with doctors. Reading through all these/. posts, I'm reliving that.
Just because you as an individual had a certain outcome does not mean it will work for everyone. (The same goes for my post earlier.) I think there's high emotions around this stuff and the societal need to connect and broadcast what we all went through.
Each person is different, each set of symptoms is different, and these injuries and symptoms are subtle. Is it stress? diet? RSI from typing or computer games? My friend gave me the best advice: go to many different people in different modalities, take what you can as advice or information from each. You have to become your own expert. Just don't broadcast your results as the One True Answer for others.
I've lived through an unfortunate bout of tendonitis.
I was still experiencing tingling symptoms and arm pains and popping my anti-inflammatories after 8 months when I finally found a physical therapist who successfully pinpointed that I have very tight muscles in my neck (scalenes) and chest (pec minor) that are impinging on my circulation & nerves in my arms. When he works those muscles, I get referred tingles & pain in my arms.
Whereas my regular doctor blamed computer usage and recommended I take off a few months from work, my PT believes this my symptoms were caused by poor posture over a lifetime - shoulders drooping forward, neck dropping forward. I believe the PT more than my doctor. (I have since changed doctors.)
I've been reading the OS X Missing Manual for a month now, and I find myself frustrated by the author's writing style. There's a heavy flavor of Aren't-We-Mac-Users-So-Special and gleeful putdowns of Microsoft that turns me off. The information could have been presented more professionally and objectively.
I did find it immediately useful to discover features I didn't know Mac OS X had, such as speech recognition. For that alone, I'm glad I received the book as a birthday gift.
In contrast, I absolutely adored the iMovie Missing Manual. I devoured it over a few weeks and found it fun, useful, interesting, and without all the "nudge nudge wink wink"s.
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Really? Can you link to any etymological documentation?
I really doubt that mail without a zip code was actually stamped "Snail Mail". Perhaps I wouldn't mind this comment if the moderators rated it "funny", but all the moderators so far has rated it "informative".
If you suspect a site raised the price:
- Kill your browser
- Delete your cookies (if you can, just for that site)
Then check again. I'm not sure if you've witnessed actual price increase based on number of visits or just an unfortunate timing of a general price increase. Be scientific about your approach.
-dvs-
"It goes without saying that..."
Just to add to the list:
1 is for 1
2 is for 2004 election
3 is for 3m
4 is for 411
5 is for 50 cent
6 is for 60 minutes
7 is for 7th heaven
8 is for 89.com (as bad as Paris Hilton!!)
9 is for 911
Bose is actually named for its 1964 founder (and current MIT professor of EE & CS) Dr. Amar Bose. I agree that what you're buying is marketing, but I don't want the parent's acronym (humorous as it is) to be labelled as informative.
You know what feature I'd love to see? I'd love to have a random Wikipedia article show up in my mailbox each morning, just like a Word of the Day.
Just clicking on the Random Page link gave me articles on Butha-Buthe, the Chestnut-headed Bee-eater, and Farragut North. I love learning how much I don't know.
If you ask many non-techs how they find information on the web, they don't say "I search for it" they say "I google it".
I still say that I'll make a xerox of something, or ask for a kleenex, even if I'm not using Xerox or Kleenex. I would guess that people have picked up google as a verb, but I bet over time the verb will be a synonym for searching online as opposed to using the brand Google.
However, I could never come up with the art needed for the graphical adventure.
I think it's a rare person who has the talents of putting together a good story, good puzzles, and good artwork in order to use these tools.
Good adventure games like this can not be replayed, but they can be remembered with fondness.
It all balances out, though. I get embarrassed by believing the One Ring post, but I discover I get to see RotK five months earlier than I had previously thought!
Actually, Return of the King won't be coming until May 2004.
I set up two jobs in my crontab, one on the half hour called displaymessage that creates the message (using xmessage), the other running every five minutes after the half hour finding all processes with xmessage and killing it.
However, then I started getting email messages from crontab telling me my processes had been killed. (Thanks.) The only trick I found that worked without sending extra mail was wrapping the displaymessage program in a perl script:
I'm not a UNIX guru, so I'd love to hear what others have done to set up a regular reminder without requiring extra mouse clicks.
Just because you as an individual had a certain outcome does not mean it will work for everyone. (The same goes for my post earlier.) I think there's high emotions around this stuff and the societal need to connect and broadcast what we all went through.
Each person is different, each set of symptoms is different, and these injuries and symptoms are subtle. Is it stress? diet? RSI from typing or computer games? My friend gave me the best advice: go to many different people in different modalities, take what you can as advice or information from each. You have to become your own expert. Just don't broadcast your results as the One True Answer for others.
Through some Alexander technique and structural integration work (i.e., rolfing), I'm finally better.
Whereas my regular doctor blamed computer usage and recommended I take off a few months from work, my PT believes this my symptoms were caused by poor posture over a lifetime - shoulders drooping forward, neck dropping forward. I believe the PT more than my doctor. (I have since changed doctors.)
I did find it immediately useful to discover features I didn't know Mac OS X had, such as speech recognition. For that alone, I'm glad I received the book as a birthday gift.
In contrast, I absolutely adored the iMovie Missing Manual. I devoured it over a few weeks and found it fun, useful, interesting, and without all the "nudge nudge wink wink"s.