I laughed when I first saw GNOME's "Start button," but with a Foot icon, all those years ago.
Don't be flattered by our attempts to proselytize your userbase. We aren't imitating your success, we're trying to win your users over. Real Linux people use the console. Those of us who do use X usually use Enlightenment or the like.
Here's a nickel kid, go get yourself a virtual desktop and a few terms.
He didn't realise the historic importance of the event, and so didn't bother to have any photographs taken of his machine flying, though [as mentioned above], there is extensive evidence from witnesses describing his flights.
And previously...
in fact the first formal mention of his achievement was some seven years later in the newspapers of 1909.
So what we got here is a newspaper article written 6 years after the fact, as referenced by a web site author who doesn't know the difference between "proper ailerons" and spoilers.
By the way, kids, the South won the war. Just thought you'd like to know. I read it in a newspaper from 1870.
There are programs available to allow you to run your own model, specifying the domain, grid spacing, time interval, etc.
I have to admit, that is WAY cooler than creating a tornado in SimCity. The only way these tools could possibly come to good use among the slashdot crowd is in the area of theoretical knowledge relating to city-destroying superstorms.
Rationally, I think the only way around it is to attack the economics of spam, as has been suggested by many much smarter than me.
When you talk about changing the economy of spam, you are talking about creating scarcity with regard to communication by taxing it. I couldn't disagree more with the suggestion that we must restrict communications in order to solve the spam problem.
We demand that outfits such as the RIAA learn to adapt in a world where communication is profligate and free. How can we, in good conscience, recommend that communication be restricted in an area where our personal convenience and comfort is concerned, and not in another, where someone's multimillion dollar industry is concerned? If we think freedom of information is a good thing, we must be consistent in that belief.
Do you really think that a company goes to an ad agency, plonks down a million dollars, and says to them, "make us something that will piss people off -- we want them annoyed!"
In point of fact, they do exactly that. They are trying to create an emotional response. Creating that emotional response with anger is very effective with one particular type of advertising - name recognition. It is a well known and time proven marketing strategy.
If the effects aren't strong enough to measure, why the asymmetry in the "cuckoo" rating for the pro and anti side?
With an obvious answer. An excellent review! This is really useful information in deciding whether to buy the book. Since I prefer not to pay for biased pseudoscientific drivel, I won't be purchasing the book.
Didn't RTFA because I don't read German and don't trust the fish.
Does this mean that the US can block the civilian variant of Galileo, allowing EU military to still use the system unimpeded on an encrypted channel? If so, then I'm cool with it.
Even if not, I'm sure the conversation went something like this:
Any insurance ad or anything related to money management in any way.
Any luxury car ad, unless sex is involved.
Any ad in what I like to call the "Brookstone" style, such as Bose and specialty mattress ads.
You know, as I write this list, it seems that the problem with me is that TV programmers think I have a silver spoon up my ass, and my problem with their ads is that I don't. Or it could be that the demographic for Mythbusters, Junkyard Wars, Monster Garage, Wild Boyz, and Viva La Bam is tragically different than the programmers believe.
Maybe advertisers will be forced to think up *gasp horror* interesting adverts that people will actually want to watch!
That's the rule of Tivo as I see it personally. I find that I will often forget to FF the commercials if they are interesting and/or entertaining enough. But, inevitably, a Carrot-Top or similar ad, designed deliberately to be annoying, comes along. Now I am fast forwarding the rest of the commercial break. Advertisers should start to think of these ads as break killers. Sustaining interest should be of paramount importance, not just to the individual advertiser, but to the programming director as well.
Except that there actually is an adaptive spam filter in Mozilla. I wonder if you are trying to suggest that it is irrelevant somehow. You might do well not to confuse opinion with (ahem) intellectual honesty.
I can install Spamassassin and six other applications via CPAN in the time it takes to get the syntax right for one license key.
I also like the characterization of Spamassassin as "first generation" without any supporting evidence to the fact. First generation was adding spam senders to your e-mail client's blocklist. Bayesian filtering is well beyond first generation, but spammers have learned to defeat Bayesian filtering with poison data in non-eyeball space and text obfuscation. The next generation in spam detection is to detect the Bayesian evasion features - and guess what does that!? Spamassassin (2.60).
Actually, requiring the removal of old cabling when you leave a space could be disastrous. Sure, you'll get all the cat5 you ran, as well as the cabling supporting the security and climate control system, and about 100 feet of twinax that does something impossibly important for the grumpy men on the 13th floor.
The landlord should bear the burden of cable management in the plenum spaces. They should install basic cabling, and a tenant should be allowed to install better, on the condition that they leave it in place (sans punch down blocks and racks) for possible re-use by the next tenant. The only people who should be running around in the ceiling pulling wires out are those responsible for ALL the wires.
I wasn't under the impression that common work areas affected the likeliness of surveillence. Furthermore, a cube in no way prevents you from hearing everything everyone else around you does.
A friendly word from a geek who has remained employed throughout the recession...
The days of the techno primadonna are over. If you were part of the social group associated with the beginning of the computer age, cool, but you need to understand that inability to communicate or work well with others is and always has been a liability. In the heady days of signing bonuses and six figure salaries, the idea was that you had to tolerate sociopaths if you wanted IT talent. Today's rule of thumb with regard to IT labor goes something like this - is outsourcing your job to an Indian programmer who will work for 10% of what you make more difficult for me than dealing with your bad attitude?
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I laughed when I first saw GNOME's "Start button," but with a Foot icon, all those years ago.
Don't be flattered by our attempts to proselytize your userbase. We aren't imitating your success, we're trying to win your users over. Real Linux people use the console. Those of us who do use X usually use Enlightenment or the like.
Here's a nickel kid, go get yourself a virtual desktop and a few terms.
He didn't realise the historic importance of the event, and so didn't bother to have any photographs taken of his machine flying, though [as mentioned above], there is extensive evidence from witnesses describing his flights.
And previously...
in fact the first formal mention of his achievement was some seven years later in the newspapers of 1909.
So what we got here is a newspaper article written 6 years after the fact, as referenced by a web site author who doesn't know the difference between "proper ailerons" and spoilers.
By the way, kids, the South won the war. Just thought you'd like to know. I read it in a newspaper from 1870.
But modding it as such is a little like blaming me for fire at a tanker wreck.
Is the Howard Stern show still on the radio these days? That could get dangerous.
It could get worse. I spend most of my driving time listening to (and using) a CB radio.
Threat: If something damages the thermal protection system, the shuttle might turn into tons of flaming debris raining down on a random Texas town.
Conclusion: We might need to know if there are holes in the wing.
Result: Install sensors slightly more informative than reporting the destruction of the landing gear assembly.
Sounds pretty reasonable to me.
Whaa?! A meatspace joke? Guards, seize him!
At the same time, some expected plumes, such as one believed to be under Yellowstone National Park, did not show up.
Whew!
There are programs available to allow you to run your own model, specifying the domain, grid spacing, time interval, etc.
I have to admit, that is WAY cooler than creating a tornado in SimCity. The only way these tools could possibly come to good use among the slashdot crowd is in the area of theoretical knowledge relating to city-destroying superstorms.
What? Nice troll.
Isn't there an extension to Godwin's law out there that applies to that accusation? I find I can't take seriously anything that follows it.
Rationally, I think the only way around it is to attack the economics of spam, as has been suggested by many much smarter than me.
When you talk about changing the economy of spam, you are talking about creating scarcity with regard to communication by taxing it. I couldn't disagree more with the suggestion that we must restrict communications in order to solve the spam problem. We demand that outfits such as the RIAA learn to adapt in a world where communication is profligate and free. How can we, in good conscience, recommend that communication be restricted in an area where our personal convenience and comfort is concerned, and not in another, where someone's multimillion dollar industry is concerned? If we think freedom of information is a good thing, we must be consistent in that belief.
If the imbalance had been in the other direction, since it played to your sympathies, you would have bought it.
Not if I understand the difference between opinion and fact, which the question I quoted so eloquently points out.
Do you really think that a company goes to an ad agency, plonks down a million dollars, and says to them, "make us something that will piss people off -- we want them annoyed!"
In point of fact, they do exactly that. They are trying to create an emotional response. Creating that emotional response with anger is very effective with one particular type of advertising - name recognition. It is a well known and time proven marketing strategy.
If the effects aren't strong enough to measure, why the asymmetry in the "cuckoo" rating for the pro and anti side?
With an obvious answer. An excellent review! This is really useful information in deciding whether to buy the book. Since I prefer not to pay for biased pseudoscientific drivel, I won't be purchasing the book.
Didn't RTFA because I don't read German and don't trust the fish.
Does this mean that the US can block the civilian variant of Galileo, allowing EU military to still use the system unimpeded on an encrypted channel? If so, then I'm cool with it.
Even if not, I'm sure the conversation went something like this:
US We want SA over your system.
EU Blow it out your ass.
US We'll shoot down all your sattellites.
EU OK.
Yeah, but this is still in fair-enough land, because I get a choice as to whether that advertiser is going to benefit from repetition. (Hint - No.)
- Any long distance telephone service ad.
- Any insurance ad or anything related to money management in any way.
- Any luxury car ad, unless sex is involved.
- Any ad in what I like to call the "Brookstone" style, such as Bose and specialty mattress ads.
You know, as I write this list, it seems that the problem with me is that TV programmers think I have a silver spoon up my ass, and my problem with their ads is that I don't. Or it could be that the demographic for Mythbusters, Junkyard Wars, Monster Garage, Wild Boyz, and Viva La Bam is tragically different than the programmers believe.Maybe advertisers will be forced to think up *gasp horror* interesting adverts that people will actually want to watch!
That's the rule of Tivo as I see it personally. I find that I will often forget to FF the commercials if they are interesting and/or entertaining enough. But, inevitably, a Carrot-Top or similar ad, designed deliberately to be annoying, comes along. Now I am fast forwarding the rest of the commercial break. Advertisers should start to think of these ads as break killers. Sustaining interest should be of paramount importance, not just to the individual advertiser, but to the programming director as well.
On the other hand, zero gravity offers unique advantages for food preparation: If you're careful, you never need to run out of counter space.
So *that's* why they are so picky about sheathing the knives.
Except that there actually is an adaptive spam filter in Mozilla. I wonder if you are trying to suggest that it is irrelevant somehow. You might do well not to confuse opinion with (ahem) intellectual honesty.
Yeah because Google is a much bigger threat to Microsoft than Apple.
Given the Google is a defacto Linux knowledgebase, is that statement supposed to be sarcasm?
I can install Spamassassin and six other applications via CPAN in the time it takes to get the syntax right for one license key.
I also like the characterization of Spamassassin as "first generation" without any supporting evidence to the fact. First generation was adding spam senders to your e-mail client's blocklist. Bayesian filtering is well beyond first generation, but spammers have learned to defeat Bayesian filtering with poison data in non-eyeball space and text obfuscation. The next generation in spam detection is to detect the Bayesian evasion features - and guess what does that!? Spamassassin (2.60).
jumper removal for 50000 hard drives - $457,000
25000 new IDE cables - $1,250,000
Making them pay for their own stupidity - priceless.
Actually, requiring the removal of old cabling when you leave a space could be disastrous. Sure, you'll get all the cat5 you ran, as well as the cabling supporting the security and climate control system, and about 100 feet of twinax that does something impossibly important for the grumpy men on the 13th floor.
The landlord should bear the burden of cable management in the plenum spaces. They should install basic cabling, and a tenant should be allowed to install better, on the condition that they leave it in place (sans punch down blocks and racks) for possible re-use by the next tenant. The only people who should be running around in the ceiling pulling wires out are those responsible for ALL the wires.
I wasn't under the impression that common work areas affected the likeliness of surveillence. Furthermore, a cube in no way prevents you from hearing everything everyone else around you does.
A friendly word from a geek who has remained employed throughout the recession...
The days of the techno primadonna are over. If you were part of the social group associated with the beginning of the computer age, cool, but you need to understand that inability to communicate or work well with others is and always has been a liability. In the heady days of signing bonuses and six figure salaries, the idea was that you had to tolerate sociopaths if you wanted IT talent. Today's rule of thumb with regard to IT labor goes something like this - is outsourcing your job to an Indian programmer who will work for 10% of what you make more difficult for me than dealing with your bad attitude?