pleaded with them to tell their readers not to watch the new Battlestar Gallactica
This does not appear in the text. The quote was for "devoted fans of the 1970s sci-fi series" not to watch it, not for all readers not to watch it.
Which means I'll definitely watch it... I liked Lorne Green out of the original series, but that was about it.
Just in case first-time fliers weren't scared....
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You can always count on the airline industry! Just in case first-time fliers weren't scared enough, they now need to be worried about being jumped because they're acting scared.
To turn it off, I need to press and hold down the Source (Tuner/CD) button for about a second. Any button will turn it back on.
To be honest, it doesn't bother me much, and I never turn it off by mistake. I'm not sure that Off really has any meaning for a car stereo; it's on when the ignition is on, and off any other time, and as long as I can get it to shut up with a single button press (Mute/Pause) I don't really care what it's labelled as.
You know, I read it as exactly the opposite: Futuremark agrees not to call it "cheating," and to "consider" a need for an alternate benchmark. Meanwhile, they are going to code so that none of the optimizations are activated.
In short, nVidia isn't going to be called "cheater." But on every other point they lost, and the facts really do speak for themselves.
It's about what happens to society when someone discovers proof of the human soul... and a whodunit involving virtual personas created as a method of simulating possible afterlifes.
I'll stick with NVidia - I'll take a little performance hit for the added reliability of their drivers
nVidia makes reliable drivers? Since when?
I've spent many months coding around defects in nVidia's drivers. Sure, those bugs are fixed now, but the nature of the bugs was astonishingly bad. Basic Windows common controls would cause the PC to spontaneously restart because of block overruns, null pointers and the like.
The fries included with McDonald's combos are quite a bit smaller in Canada than in the US. Canadian also has a significantly healthier menu. Or, at least, it has more low-fat options (such as my favorite sandwhich, a grilled chicken on whole wheat with light BBQ sauce instead of mayo, or a veggie burger which I'm afraid to try but I'm told by a vegetarian friend is very good).
(This might be considered mildly OT, but I iamgine a few people would be somewhat interested in it and there aren't many stories relating to McDonald's combos on slashdot!)
This is pretty much the definition I use (from spamfaq.net).
2.1.1 What are UBE and UCE? What is SPAM?
These are all types of email abuse; that is, abuse _of_ the email system. They differ from abuse _on_ the email system (e.g. stalking, sexual harassment) in that they endanger the usability of electronic mail as a communications medium.
UBE stands for "Unsolicited Bulk Email" and is an email message that is:
Unsolicited
i.e. it wasn't explicitly requested by the recipient
and
Bulk (or Broadcast) i.e. substantively identical messages were sent to a non-trivial number of recipients
To put it another way, UBE is most of the junk email messages that plop into your email box every day. UBE isn't necessarily advertising, and emailed advertising is not necessarily UBE (advertising isn't UBE if you request it, or you knowingly request something that it is attached to, for example), but most UBE is advertising (because advertisers are the ones with the most interest in making you see something you don't necessarily want to).
UCE is often used as an alternative to "UBE" - it stands for "Unsolicited Commercial Email". Which term you prefer is largely a matter of style. UCE is easier to prove than UBE - it's easier for one individual to see if an email is commercial in nature than to see if it is sent in bulk - but UCE doesn't necessarily endanger the email system if it isn't UBE.
Of course, as a spam-victim, you will probably be in no place to judge whether a suspected spam you received really was sent in bulk, as you'll only get one copy of the spam yourself. For the most part, this doesn't matter, as you can make a jolly good guess based upon what it looks like and whether you solicited anything like it. Unsolicited advertising is rarely sent individually. As the saying goes, if it waddles like a duck and quacks like a duck then it probably is a duck.
While almost all UCE is also UBE, the converse is not true - there are whole classes of UBE that are not UCE, such as:
Political - politicians love to make direct contact with the electorate. Many of them will see UBE as an ideal medium for this.
Charitable - the world's worthiest causes need our help. Many charities don't understand the issues surrounding bulk email and might think it'd be okay to send UBE requesting donations.
Religious - there is no shortage of people preaching the end of the world and repentance as the only salvation, and seeing UBE as an ideal way to reach a large number of sinners.
Five minutes spent thinking will throw up plenty more examples.
SPAM is a tasty luncheon meat produced by Hormel (http://www.hormel.com). Spam (note capitalisation differences) is a colloquial term with a large and sordid history; in news.admin.net-abuse.email it is generally used as a synonym for UBE or UCE.
The subtle differences between these terms can be confusing, but for the most part UBE and spam can be equated and UCE considered a subset of them.
Other people may have different definitions. For example, some maintain that spam is any unsolicited, non-personal email. Most definitions are broadly compatible but differ in a few places around the edges.
A legitimate company that cares about not spamming people would not be emailing me without me signing up for their emails in the first place in the first place.
Any commercial email I receive that I didn't report is reported as spam. Because it is.
Now try writing down a phone number while you're talking over it!:)
I can't help but feel that what makes a good palm-held computer makes a crappy phone, and what makes a good phone makes a crappy palm-held computer. Among other things, the physical profiles are incompatible; the Palm has to be wide enough to write on, and the phone has to be narrow enough to be comfortable.
Nope. I'll take the smallest phone I can that's comfortable, and a reasonably sized palm, and rely on them linking together to exchange data.
Your question was asked as an or, but it really isn't.
Those who are capable of programming in assembly -- even for a made up architecture -- tend to have a better understanding of how computers work. It is my belief that someone who can not learn a simple assembly set and implement algorithms in it will find themselves out of their league in any language sooner or later. It is just much more difficult to realize someone lacks a basic understanding in Java than in, say, Cardiac because there are so many levels of abstraction for them to accidentally find a way for something to work.
I worked with a guy once who didn't understand how to iterate through nested lists.
As to the second part of your question, I suspect there will always be microcontrollers that need to be programmed in assembly. They will keep getting smaller as other chips become more complex.
No, I don't remember a cohesive story arc involving Klingons. I remember some episodes, spread over several years, that did together show some story progression. But B5 and DS9 had story arcs planned out in advance. B5 even had tremendous amounts of foreshadowing: since he knew what would happen in the future, JMS could put in lots of little signs and portents.
There were a good dozen episodes in the arc as I recall, spread out over three or four years. Perhaps more. No, it wasn't an arc like Babylon 5's arc... but it was still there.
Heh. I may be stretching too far, especially given that Crusade has been off the air for years. Still, it's interesting that JMS has had two space SF series, one about a space station and one about saving the Earth, and Trek did DS9 and now this.
I agree: "interesting." I just wouldn't put anything else behind it.
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pleaded with them to tell their readers not to watch the new Battlestar Gallactica
This does not appear in the text. The quote was for "devoted fans of the 1970s sci-fi series" not to watch it, not for all readers not to watch it.
Which means I'll definitely watch it... I liked Lorne Green out of the original series, but that was about it.
You can always count on the airline industry! Just in case first-time fliers weren't scared enough, they now need to be worried about being jumped because they're acting scared.
To turn it off, I need to press and hold down the Source (Tuner/CD) button for about a second. Any button will turn it back on.
To be honest, it doesn't bother me much, and I never turn it off by mistake. I'm not sure that Off really has any meaning for a car stereo; it's on when the ignition is on, and off any other time, and as long as I can get it to shut up with a single button press (Mute/Pause) I don't really care what it's labelled as.
Does your state use FarmFriends.com for sexual education? What about Horny House Wives?
Give me a break. There's a big difference between what's used in education vs. what's available on FarmFriends.com.
Note: I'm not actually sure that's the URL... I could turn off my spam filter for 15 minutes and check, but it seems not worth the effort.
You know, I read it as exactly the opposite: Futuremark agrees not to call it "cheating," and to "consider" a need for an alternate benchmark. Meanwhile, they are going to code so that none of the optimizations are activated.
In short, nVidia isn't going to be called "cheater." But on every other point they lost, and the facts really do speak for themselves.
The books are probably better suited to a musical adaptation than a movie.
Though I doubt it could be done properly in less than twice the time of the trilogy...
You chuckle to yourself and continue playing the music CD you already burned, of course.
The Terminal Experiment, by Robert J. Sawyer.
It's about what happens to society when someone discovers proof of the human soul... and a whodunit involving virtual personas created as a method of simulating possible afterlifes.
Heck, nearly any of his works would do.
Unless 11Mbps for 802.11b was also a raw speed, which seems likely from other comments here.
I'll stick with NVidia - I'll take a little performance hit for the added reliability of their drivers
nVidia makes reliable drivers? Since when?
I've spent many months coding around defects in nVidia's drivers. Sure, those bugs are fixed now, but the nature of the bugs was astonishingly bad. Basic Windows common controls would cause the PC to spontaneously restart because of block overruns, null pointers and the like.
The fries included with McDonald's combos are quite a bit smaller in Canada than in the US. Canadian also has a significantly healthier menu. Or, at least, it has more low-fat options (such as my favorite sandwhich, a grilled chicken on whole wheat with light BBQ sauce instead of mayo, or a veggie burger which I'm afraid to try but I'm told by a vegetarian friend is very good).
(This might be considered mildly OT, but I iamgine a few people would be somewhat interested in it and there aren't many stories relating to McDonald's combos on slashdot!)
Opera is decent on Windows. It isn't my cup of tea, but I can respect that people would prefer it.
My impression of Opera for the Mac, on the other hand, was that it was a buggy, bloated POS that couldn't render even simple web pages.
...that the final episode was filmed a full year before the end of the series!
Ah, but is user error defined as "well, you know it doesn't work, so why'd you try"?
Try reversing the polarity. If that doesn't work, you can always bombard it with tachyons. :)
I don't think moderators ever get feedback from metamoderations. At least, I've never gotten any.
Hey, that is exactly why it is not boring. :)
Good point!
I'm sure it is greatly interesting to those involved, but to me this is rapidly approaching tabloid material...
Nothing's going to change. Nobody's going to back down. Further, it doesn't really matter.
This is pretty much the definition I use (from spamfaq.net).
2.1.1 What are UBE and UCE? What is SPAM?
These are all types of email abuse; that is, abuse _of_ the email system. They differ from abuse _on_ the email system (e.g. stalking, sexual harassment) in that they endanger the usability of electronic mail as a communications medium.
UBE stands for "Unsolicited Bulk Email" and is an email message that is:
Unsolicited
i.e. it wasn't explicitly requested by the recipient
and
Bulk (or Broadcast)
i.e. substantively identical messages were sent to a non-trivial number of recipients
To put it another way, UBE is most of the junk email messages that plop into your email box every day. UBE isn't necessarily advertising, and emailed advertising is not necessarily UBE (advertising isn't UBE if you request it, or you knowingly request something that it is attached to, for example), but most UBE is advertising (because advertisers are the ones with the most interest in making you see something you don't necessarily want to).
UCE is often used as an alternative to "UBE" - it stands for "Unsolicited Commercial Email". Which term you prefer is largely a matter of style. UCE is easier to prove than UBE - it's easier for one individual to see if an email is commercial in nature than to see if it is sent in bulk - but UCE doesn't necessarily endanger the email system if it isn't UBE.
Of course, as a spam-victim, you will probably be in no place to judge whether a suspected spam you received really was sent in bulk, as you'll only get one copy of the spam yourself. For the most part, this doesn't matter, as you can make a jolly good guess based upon what it looks like and whether you solicited anything like it. Unsolicited advertising is rarely sent individually. As the saying goes, if it waddles like a duck and quacks like a duck then it probably is a duck.
While almost all UCE is also UBE, the converse is not true - there are whole classes of UBE that are not UCE, such as:
Political - politicians love to make direct contact with the electorate. Many of them will see UBE as an ideal medium for this.
Charitable - the world's worthiest causes need our help. Many charities don't understand the issues surrounding bulk email and might think it'd be okay to send UBE requesting donations.
Religious - there is no shortage of people preaching the end of the world and repentance as the only salvation, and seeing UBE as an ideal way to reach a large number of sinners.
Five minutes spent thinking will throw up plenty more examples.
SPAM is a tasty luncheon meat produced by Hormel (http://www.hormel.com). Spam (note capitalisation differences) is a colloquial term with a large and sordid history; in news.admin.net-abuse.email it is generally used as a synonym for UBE or UCE.
The subtle differences between these terms can be confusing, but for the most part UBE and spam can be equated and UCE considered a subset of them.
Other people may have different definitions. For example, some maintain that spam is any unsolicited, non-personal email. Most definitions are broadly compatible but differ in a few places around the edges.
A legitimate company that cares about not spamming people would not be emailing me without me signing up for their emails in the first place in the first place.
Any commercial email I receive that I didn't report is reported as spam. Because it is.
Spammers will still get added to black lists, they'll still threaten to sue those who use black lists, and they'll still lose. Life will go on.
Spam has to be solved by technology.
Now try writing down a phone number while you're talking over it! :)
I can't help but feel that what makes a good palm-held computer makes a crappy phone, and what makes a good phone makes a crappy palm-held computer. Among other things, the physical profiles are incompatible; the Palm has to be wide enough to write on, and the phone has to be narrow enough to be comfortable.
Nope. I'll take the smallest phone I can that's comfortable, and a reasonably sized palm, and rely on them linking together to exchange data.
Your question was asked as an or, but it really isn't.
Those who are capable of programming in assembly -- even for a made up architecture -- tend to have a better understanding of how computers work. It is my belief that someone who can not learn a simple assembly set and implement algorithms in it will find themselves out of their league in any language sooner or later. It is just much more difficult to realize someone lacks a basic understanding in Java than in, say, Cardiac because there are so many levels of abstraction for them to accidentally find a way for something to work.
I worked with a guy once who didn't understand how to iterate through nested lists.
As to the second part of your question, I suspect there will always be microcontrollers that need to be programmed in assembly. They will keep getting smaller as other chips become more complex.
First, there's the concept, which is complete bunk. Secondly, the name works off of Apple's scheme.
A local paper printed a variant on a snopes story Thursday. That doesn't make it suddenly true.
There were a good dozen episodes in the arc as I recall, spread out over three or four years. Perhaps more. No, it wasn't an arc like Babylon 5's arc... but it was still there.
I agree: "interesting." I just wouldn't put anything else behind it.