I have received spam in all sorts of languages, including Chinese, English, Japanese, Korean, Russian, and quiet a few that I could not identify with a quick glence.
English and Chinese (both traditional from Taiwan and simplified from China) are the top 2 that account for over 90% of my spam.
I think this might be very closely related to the fact that these are the 2 languages I speak. My guess is that either somehow my e-mail address got harvested from sites I vist, or my idiotic friends exposed my address to spam collectors. Either way the information would have been language specific.
However, they forgot to mention that one little hole in your equipment will ruin your computer without warning.
Of course they did.
Quote the article: The disadvantages of watercooling are obvious; H20 and electrical components don't mix! Should a watercooling setup spring a leak while your system is on, you had better plan on purchasing some new hardware
Local dollar stores?
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I have been searching for some old-fashion toys recently myself, for old-time's sake. I have noticed that the big department chains don't even carry those anymore. In fact, they have little beside the highly advertised hot items.
Then I paid a visit to my local dollar stores. Although I haven't being able to find the particular items I was looking for, I did found quiet a few other old-time favorites that I though have gone extinct.
On a side note, you can easily make a kaleidoscope with easy-to-find items... a paper towel tube, 3 reflective serfaces, and some beads coloured paper, and you get yourself a nice new toy. May even be a lot making it with your kids instead of just buying them.
When the target server, in this case, http://www.yourcompany.com, is not up, your browser, depending on setting, may start searching for an alternate location.
With some well-placed desktop short-cuts/launchers, and menus, I was able to get my mom, who is one of the most non-technical people I know, to learn to use both win2k and rh linux for searching, downloading, and viewing her soap operas and related materials. Recently, she even taught her self to look for on-line flash games.
Now my new problem is that I can get her off the PC....
The site provides GB, BIG5, and image for peoplel without the Chinese fonts. Here's a link to the BIG5 page.
http://content.sina.com/news/23/49/3234936_1_b5.ht ml?skin=newscenter
When I built the ad management system on our JSP community site, we were quiet pressed for time, so I just went for the simplest solution I could think of.
I threw the list of banners into a table, along with the chance of showing and statistics, then I insert into the pages a javascript that randomly pulls a banner according to that statistics each time a banner is displayed. I tracked the banner display counts as they are requested. For tracking the clicking, I just used a JSP page to forward the users after they click on the banner before sending them to the real URL.
I was able to implement and test this in a few days... Or is this not what you were looking for?
This seems to me is a whole lot of effort and resources allocated on something quiet irrelavent.
There are already several well-known tricks that solve the onion slicing problem quiet well. Is it really neccessary to temper with onion's genetic makeup, and risk eating something that may have unforeseen effects?
Genetically alter a produce to increase production and solve femine, I can understand, but just to make tear-free onions?
PS:personally I go with a sharp knife for dicing onions. Works like a charm for me as long as I don't rub my eye while slicing them.
Maybe what you can do is sending a horde of politically sensitive e-mails to the source of these spam, maybe then the Chinese government will help making them disappear? =)
Personally I chose working in the public sector. Basically for the stability. With a family to feed in an slow economy like this, working for the government doesn't seem such a bad idea.
Besides, my health has already went all the way down hill after pulling the countless overtime in the private sector. I need to take time and recover quiet a bit, and the resonable working hour is just great for that.
Back when I was coding for a dot com company, the owner and manager there held pride in getting 100~200 hours PER WEEK from each of us.
The result? The dev team quickly lost precious health. The project leader ended up in hospital.
The quality of our code went straight down to hell since we got so exhausted and disgruntaled.
The management ignored our request for a more resonable work hour, and kept promising the clients quick product developement and giving us impossible deadlines.
The owner kept buying these flashy and expansive toys while telling us that his short on fund to buy us tools or hire more much needed helps. After he said the same about the bonus he promised us, the entire dev team quit.
From my own experience, if you pull to much overtime, most of that time is going to be debugging and fixing the stupid mistakes you make because you are dead tired.
Actually, e-mail is not free. It costs bandwidth to send/receive e-mail. It costs time and effort to filter out spam from useful e-mail. The reason that so much more people are pissed off about e-mail spam then regular junk mail is that while traditional junk mailer are paying for the junk and the delivery, the e-mail spam victims are paying for e-mail spam.
I like having pages in seperate windows so that I can resize them however I feel apropriate for comparing the data I'm looking at. I want to be able to place them on different monitors and desktops....
uh... being able to use tab doesn't mean you have to use tab. You can still open links in new windows if you would like to.
Also, the anti-popup feature in Mozilla does not kill all popups, but only only the ones "you do not request for". While it does need some fine tuning, it's a lot better then most other approches you can find now.
Well... this is kinda a none-issue here. At the client's request, the site is geared towards users with high-end machines and fast connections. The site is chulked full of graphics that will just kill someone with a modem connection. The site even has a flash front page that contains movie and music.
I am not proud of it, but sometimes you just gotta give the clients what they ask for.
I have the same problem with my Rio. After taking it apart, I discovered that the problem was at the poor contact at where the battery cap meets the board.
The first thing I tried was to just solder them togather, but a few weeks later the solder cracked and I got the same problem again.
Now I have a peice of wire soldered from the board to the cap, and I haven't had the power-off problem again.
I think the point is to have the added benifit to be able to do I/O with the older analog systems... you know.. backward compatibility. Personally I wouldn't mind being able to do that and convert my casset collection to digital form with ease and not having to bother with wiring my casset player to my PC.
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I have received spam in all sorts of languages, including Chinese, English, Japanese, Korean, Russian, and quiet a few that I could not identify with a quick glence.
English and Chinese (both traditional from Taiwan and simplified from China) are the top 2 that account for over 90% of my spam.
I think this might be very closely related to the fact that these are the 2 languages I speak. My guess is that either somehow my e-mail address got harvested from sites I vist, or my idiotic friends exposed my address to spam collectors. Either way the information would have been language specific.
This is not a cartoon battling robot we are talking about.
The point is to have a human-shaped robot that is able to balance itself on uneven terran, while in various positions.
I am guessng that they picked tai chi becuase it's collection of forms with emphsis on balance, besides using it as a gimmick.
Actually, that quote was used to on Lisa's perpetual motion machine, which according to the second law of thermodynamics, is impossible.
The fusor, however, does not violate this rule, because it does consume fuel - fusion is produced from an isotope of hydrogen called deuterium.
However, they forgot to mention that one little hole in your equipment will ruin your computer without warning.
Of course they did.
Quote the article:
The disadvantages of watercooling are obvious; H20 and electrical components don't mix! Should a watercooling setup spring a leak while your system is on, you had better plan on purchasing some new hardware
I have been searching for some old-fashion toys recently myself, for old-time's sake. I have noticed that the big department chains don't even carry those anymore. In fact, they have little beside the highly advertised hot items.
Then I paid a visit to my local dollar stores. Although I haven't being able to find the particular items I was looking for, I did found quiet a few other old-time favorites that I though have gone extinct.
On a side note, you can easily make a kaleidoscope with easy-to-find items... a paper towel tube, 3 reflective serfaces, and some beads coloured paper, and you get yourself a nice new toy. May even be a lot making it with your kids instead of just buying them.
When the target server, in this case, http://www.yourcompany.com, is not up, your browser, depending on setting, may start searching for an alternate location.
I am glad to know that... what would the world be like if a man can't grep his log without wihout paying a loyalty?
They might not be as challenged as you thought.
With some well-placed desktop short-cuts/launchers, and menus, I was able to get my mom, who is one of the most non-technical people I know, to learn to use both win2k and rh linux for searching, downloading, and viewing her soap operas and related materials. Recently, she even taught her self to look for on-line flash games.
Now my new problem is that I can get her off the PC....
The site provides GB, BIG5, and image for peoplel without the Chinese fonts. Here's a link to the BIG5 page. http://content.sina.com/news/23/49/3234936_1_b5.ht ml?skin=newscenter
I think it was mentioned yesterday in the discussion of the story Run Your Laptop On Nuclear Energy.
No, it is not, but outlook express, an application distributed with IE, is.
When I built the ad management system on our JSP community site, we were quiet pressed for time, so I just went for the simplest solution I could think of.
I threw the list of banners into a table, along with the chance of showing and statistics, then I insert into the pages a javascript that randomly pulls a banner according to that statistics each time a banner is displayed. I tracked the banner display counts as they are requested. For tracking the clicking, I just used a JSP page to forward the users after they click on the banner before sending them to the real URL.
I was able to implement and test this in a few days... Or is this not what you were looking for?
This seems to me is a whole lot of effort and resources allocated on something quiet irrelavent.
There are already several well-known tricks that solve the onion slicing problem quiet well. Is it really neccessary to temper with onion's genetic makeup, and risk eating something that may have unforeseen effects?
Genetically alter a produce to increase production and solve femine, I can understand, but just to make tear-free onions?
PS:personally I go with a sharp knife for dicing onions. Works like a charm for me as long as I don't rub my eye while slicing them.
"Sure, they'll end up in jail or executed..."
You sound as if it's a bad thing.
Maybe what you can do is sending a horde of politically sensitive e-mails to the source of these spam, maybe then the Chinese government will help making them disappear? =)
Personally I chose working in the public sector. Basically for the stability. With a family to feed in an slow economy like this, working for the government doesn't seem such a bad idea.
Besides, my health has already went all the way down hill after pulling the countless overtime in the private sector. I need to take time and recover quiet a bit, and the resonable working hour is just great for that.
Back when I was coding for a dot com company, the owner and manager there held pride in getting 100~200 hours PER WEEK from each of us.
The result? The dev team quickly lost precious health. The project leader ended up in hospital.
The quality of our code went straight down to hell since we got so exhausted and disgruntaled.
The management ignored our request for a more resonable work hour, and kept promising the clients quick product developement and giving us impossible deadlines.
The owner kept buying these flashy and expansive toys while telling us that his short on fund to buy us tools or hire more much needed helps. After he said the same about the bonus he promised us, the entire dev team quit.
From my own experience, if you pull to much overtime, most of that time is going to be debugging and fixing the stupid mistakes you make because you are dead tired.
You mean we need someone who's trustworthy?
Actually, e-mail is not free. It costs bandwidth to send/receive e-mail. It costs time and effort to filter out spam from useful e-mail. The reason that so much more people are pissed off about e-mail spam then regular junk mail is that while traditional junk mailer are paying for the junk and the delivery, the e-mail spam victims are paying for e-mail spam.
I like having pages in seperate windows so that I can resize them however I feel apropriate for comparing the data I'm looking at. I want to be able to place them on different monitors and desktops....
uh... being able to use tab doesn't mean you have to use tab. You can still open links in new windows if you would like to.
Also, the anti-popup feature in Mozilla does not kill all popups, but only only the ones "you do not request for". While it does need some fine tuning, it's a lot better then most other approches you can find now.
Well... this is kinda a none-issue here. At the client's request, the site is geared towards users with high-end machines and fast connections. The site is chulked full of graphics that will just kill someone with a modem connection. The site even has a flash front page that contains movie and music.
I am not proud of it, but sometimes you just gotta give the clients what they ask for.
hmm... maybe, just maybe using open souce software is not the same thing as opening your data to all?
:/
But my regular e-mail messages often do contain the words "sex" and "sexy".
I have the same problem with my Rio. After taking it apart, I discovered that the problem was at the poor contact at where the battery cap meets the board.
The first thing I tried was to just solder them togather, but a few weeks later the solder cracked and I got the same problem again.
Now I have a peice of wire soldered from the board to the cap, and I haven't had the power-off problem again.
I think the point is to have the added benifit to be able to do I/O with the older analog systems... you know.. backward compatibility. Personally I wouldn't mind being able to do that and convert my casset collection to digital form with ease and not having to bother with wiring my casset player to my PC.