My main address is 95% spam. But I've had it since before the telcos even coined the DSL acronym. I don't want to stop using it! I just want the spam to go away.
But since Sender ID, I _still_ receive ever more spam but now I can't send email to, among others, my wife AND come November, I won't be able to email any of the poor souls using Hotmail.
I *will not* use the email address my DSL provider's assigned me. Their mail server has 1/10 the reliability of my regular address.
Sender ID (in my experience) hampers spammers NOT ONE IOTA but it jerks me around. A LOT!
Don't jerk me around; execute spammers!
But that won't happen. They won't even slap their wrists hard.
I'll just stop using the net at the end of the year. It'll just be too useless to bother with by then.
does not imply the Nazis built, or were close to building, an atomic bomb. But a detail in the report hints some Nazi scientists may have been closer to that goal than was previously believed.
Look, this is already known. The concept and means of creating an atomic bomb was the brainchild of a woman working in a Nazi lab. Hitler kicked her out because she was Jewish! Her co-workers protested, stating that she was the brains of the outfit. But he wouldn't listen and she was turfed.
She then submitted a paper that was published in a scientific journal. Only very advanced physicists could infer what she was hinting at, among them Einstein, who figured he had to tell the President but figured he had no way to get close to the President. But someone else did. And the Manhattan Project was an outgrowth of that.
Right on! FinePrint is a great utility. I just printed the 110-page book A Byte of Python on just 7 letter-sized pages! This is just too cool to not have.
I know that everyone here has large print jobs on occasion and small print jobs that need tricking out.
So... you must go to http://www.fineprint.com/ and download a copy. You'll be glad you did!
The REAL user manual for the mind
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... is actually The Yoga Aphorisms of Patanjali. AKA The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali. One translation is even entitled How To Know God.
statistically it tends to be poor people living next to high-voltage power lines and poor people have higher cancer rates for all sorts of other reasons.
Right you are! The primary reason is that, statistically, it's richer people who are able to buy residences that are remote from environmental hazards.
Luvey: "Oh, Thurston, I want to live beside an airport." Doesn't happen.
I could not find one study that provided a link between power and radio frequency radiation and cancer.
That's because it would be bad for business. You'll find those studies in Russia, where they're much more strict about how close people/power lines can be.
Just like you're not gonna find any studies that say that cell phones cook your brains. It would be bad for business.
Always remember: It's not really science until an American scientist gets paid to make a pronouncement.
No! The time for wireless power was a century ago. The brainchild of Tesla, the man who invented the 20th century (and some of the 21st, no doubt).
But we don't have it today because radiant power is to difficult to meter and bill. Because in the modern age, the only essential benefit of anything is that it pays. But worry not, soon enough we'll be billed for it whether we use it or not (or whether it's provided or not).
In the '80s in Transactor Magazine we had a story on making holograms with your Commodore 64. You printed them on your Commodore 1525 printer. That story blew my mind then. When I started working there as the editor in 1988, I saw the hologram. That blew my mind too. But today? Sorry, about 15 years too late to blow my mind.
I used to listen to the CBC all the time with the Real Player. Now that they've changed, I don't seem to be able to listen at all. Unless I use a radio.
Can't use the WMP streams because M$ ostracizes its customers until they come back to be exploited and used again, more onerously this time.
WinAmp 2.80 claims to run ogg but when I click on the link it connects and plays nothing. After a half hour of searching for other ways to play ogg streams, I gave up. BUT... I will search further when I have more time.
N.B. - This will probably have replies that recommend things that aren't for Win95. Happens all the time.
Red Bear, you've nailed it. I've said, "Don't look at the numbers; look at what you're getting. Spend as much on a PC as you would on a Mac and the result won't be as good."
It's like saying, "Why should I spend all that money on the Porsche, when I can get a Beetle fender for $x, a Pacer roof for $x, a Pinto hood for $x, and Mini Cooper tires for $x each."
Fine! Buy them. Put them together. Forget about trying to tell me that it's better in ANY respect save the initial outlay.
We're not really buying computers; we're buying computer _experiences_ (and a whale of a lot of them at that!). The Mac experience is better.
If I spent *TWICE* what I paid for this iMac on a PC, **it would still be a PC**! And a freaking annoying one at that. Life's too short.
The question should be: If MacOS came to x86, would I stay? Too late! I switched! Windows is the worst and Mac has the right back-end and the BEST front-end.
I know almost nothing about Unix or the Mac but, mercifully, knowing nothing is not a real impediment on the Mac. It just works! And looks beautiful doing it.
I've told people for years that if they wanted to be happy with their computers, use Mac. I decided I wanted to be happy.:)
Yeah, I know that _most_/. users are serious power users. And quite honestly, I've mostly settled all the BS I've gotten from Windows. BUT I SHOULDN'T HAVE TO! One day I'll know Unix & Mac as well as I knew PCs/Windows. In between times, I'm happier. Much happier. Join me.:)
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My main address is 95% spam. But I've had it since before the telcos even coined the DSL acronym. I don't want to stop using it! I just want the spam to go away.
But since Sender ID, I _still_ receive ever more spam but now I can't send email to, among others, my wife AND come November, I won't be able to email any of the poor souls using Hotmail.
I *will not* use the email address my DSL provider's assigned me. Their mail server has 1/10 the reliability of my regular address.
Sender ID (in my experience) hampers spammers NOT ONE IOTA but it jerks me around. A LOT!
Don't jerk me around; execute spammers!
But that won't happen. They won't even slap their wrists hard.
I'll just stop using the net at the end of the year. It'll just be too useless to bother with by then.
Of course, it was reported on Slashdot when it became the first Linux store.
http://www.sub300.com/
Look, this is already known. The concept and means of creating an atomic bomb was the brainchild of a woman working in a Nazi lab. Hitler kicked her out because she was Jewish! Her co-workers protested, stating that she was the brains of the outfit. But he wouldn't listen and she was turfed.
She then submitted a paper that was published in a scientific journal. Only very advanced physicists could infer what she was hinting at, among them Einstein, who figured he had to tell the President but figured he had no way to get close to the President. But someone else did. And the Manhattan Project was an outgrowth of that.
Something to think about. A few things actually.
Right on! FinePrint is a great utility. I just printed the 110-page book A Byte of Python on just 7 letter-sized pages! This is just too cool to not have. I know that everyone here has large print jobs on occasion and small print jobs that need tricking out. So... you must go to http://www.fineprint.com/ and download a copy. You'll be glad you did!
... is actually The Yoga Aphorisms of Patanjali. AKA The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali. One translation is even entitled How To Know God.
It's all right there. Have a read.
>>You could make full-screen icons on Ami!
>But why would you want to?
Didn't say I did. Didn't say I liked them. (I mostly didn't.)
>Sure, the Amiga could use any arbitrary size
And in that respect, I think it's unique and therefore merits a special place in the history.
Talk about icons! You could make full-screen icons on Ami! And the selected version could be a completely different picture from the unselected.
That said, it was mostly a low-overhead UI. Now sadly missed.
word is supposed to be "shows". Poster had his right hand placed one key to the left of where it should have been.
:)
But as another has posted below, it's a perfectly cromulent word.
Guy told me about this as a way to get better search engine rankings.
I said, "That's just about functionally identical to peeing in the street repeatedly until the whole town knows your name."
He said, "Well, yeah, it is."
I hope the initiatives taken will eliminate the problem.
Copper and aluminum have _fibres_?! Who knew?
Right on, rahard! Many (or most) of the 24 rely on microprocessors. I was gonna pick it for #1 and I figured someone else would have beat me to it.
You raise an interesting point though. As does a previous poster striking down other 25+ year items.
Course, it _could_ be argued that the 20th century was spent just evolving and marketing Tesla innovations.
Right you are! The primary reason is that, statistically, it's richer people who are able to buy residences that are remote from environmental hazards.
Luvey: "Oh, Thurston, I want to live beside an airport." Doesn't happen.
That's because it would be bad for business. You'll find those studies in Russia, where they're much more strict about how close people/power lines can be.
Just like you're not gonna find any studies that say that cell phones cook your brains. It would be bad for business.
Always remember: It's not really science until an American scientist gets paid to make a pronouncement.
No! The time for wireless power was a century ago. The brainchild of Tesla, the man who invented the 20th century (and some of the 21st, no doubt).
But we don't have it today because radiant power is to difficult to meter and bill. Because in the modern age, the only essential benefit of anything is that it pays. But worry not, soon enough we'll be billed for it whether we use it or not (or whether it's provided or not).
Make a law that says:
THE 'DO NOT CALL' LIST IS THE *PHONE BOOK*!
Attempting to post that got me:
Lameness filter encountered. Post aborted!
Reason: Don't use so many caps. It's like YELLING.
But what if you _are_ yelling? And have been doing so for decades.
Alright! Feature #1! I'm sold. :)
It's SO 21st century: Find something that was built with public funds; then steal it.
Wow! How much money has he sent to Nigeria so far?
In the '80s in Transactor Magazine we had a story on making holograms with your Commodore 64. You printed them on your Commodore 1525 printer. That story blew my mind then. When I started working there as the editor in 1988, I saw the hologram. That blew my mind too. But today? Sorry, about 15 years too late to blow my mind.
|| Another thing to try might be VideoLan player. ||
VLC worked once, with many regular dropouts, like speed bumps. Worse, it IPF'd 3 times so far.
Thanks for the suggestion though.
|| Get winamp 2.91 from this page. ||
Well, I'm not using that page, thanks. In a stunning twist of fate, I found WinAmp 2.91 in my download dir. DOH!
Installed it, works well, supports my unregettable (i.e. it's vanished) skin too. Thanks, DM.
I used to listen to the CBC all the time with the Real Player. Now that they've changed, I don't seem to be able to listen at all. Unless I use a radio.
... I will search further when I have more time.
Can't use the WMP streams because M$ ostracizes its customers until they come back to be exploited and used again, more onerously this time.
WinAmp 2.80 claims to run ogg but when I click on the link it connects and plays nothing. After a half hour of searching for other ways to play ogg streams, I gave up. BUT
N.B. - This will probably have replies that recommend things that aren't for Win95. Happens all the time.
Story about Skype. All about Skype. First word is Skype. And there's no link to Skype! Not even in related links! How does something like that happen?
http://www.skype.com/
Red Bear, you've nailed it. I've said, "Don't look at the numbers; look at what you're getting. Spend as much on a PC as you would on a Mac and the result won't be as good."
It's like saying, "Why should I spend all that money on the Porsche, when I can get a Beetle fender for $x, a Pacer roof for $x, a Pinto hood for $x, and Mini Cooper tires for $x each."
Fine! Buy them. Put them together. Forget about trying to tell me that it's better in ANY respect save the initial outlay.
We're not really buying computers; we're buying computer _experiences_ (and a whale of a lot of them at that!). The Mac experience is better.
If I spent *TWICE* what I paid for this iMac on a PC, **it would still be a PC**! And a freaking annoying one at that. Life's too short.
The question should be: If MacOS came to x86, would I stay? Too late! I switched! Windows is the worst and Mac has the right back-end and the BEST front-end.
:)
/. users are serious power users. And quite honestly, I've mostly settled all the BS I've gotten from Windows. BUT I SHOULDN'T HAVE TO! One day I'll know Unix & Mac as well as I knew PCs/Windows. In between times, I'm happier. Much happier. Join me. :)
I know almost nothing about Unix or the Mac but, mercifully, knowing nothing is not a real impediment on the Mac. It just works! And looks beautiful doing it.
I've told people for years that if they wanted to be happy with their computers, use Mac. I decided I wanted to be happy.
Yeah, I know that _most_