This has happened to me in the past as well. The worst part was that Yahoo started filtering mail that was really from me! A few of my firends weren't getting any email I sent them, so I asked them to check their Bulk Mail folder. They found my emails, and I asked them to mark them as "not spam". That seems to have worked, at least for the people I know. I think Yahoo adds an email to a personal whitelist if you say it isn't spam though, so my email may still get filtered if I send to someone else. Lucky for me I don't really use my Yahoo email address anymore -- except for filling out online registrations. heh.
Much of your point about agents is valid, but they do have a good use: searching for things that don't exist yet. For example: suppose you're planning on buying a house. An agent that looks over real estate listings as they're released and informs you when it finds something relevant is a lot more useful than having to remember to do a search for the same thing every morning.
Yes, the bulk mail folder is still downloaded, but messages from the bulk mail folder have an extra header. I think it's "X-Yahoo-Bulk". You can then filter (eg: with procmail) those messages into a separate folder.
BTW, the POP/SMTP access isn't free in Canada anymore either.
Sorry to hijack this thread, but it looks like no-one has mentioned a very important fact:
While the test file and the "Listen" samples do work on Linux, the purchased songs cannot be played on Linux. Wal-Mart screwed up and didn't apply the same DRM they use on the purchased songs to the test file, so it isn't really an adequate test. I was able to play the test file on Linux using MPlayer. I then tried purchasing a song and testing it out. MPlayer recognizes the file format, but it won't play any sound.
Let that be a lesson to you: always make your test cases as close as possible to the real thing!
As a side-note, if anyone knows of a freeware sound driver for Windows that writes audio to WAV files, I'd like to know about it.
I've been looking for a new car stereo myself, recently, and I've noticed that Crutchfield sells a bunch with front aux inputs. Just go to "Car Audio & Video", select your car's year/make/model, then go to "All CD Receivers". The "Features & Specs" tab on a each receiver's page will tell you if there's an AUX input, and whether it's on the front or rear. You can also usually confirm this by looking at the photos they've got.
Shameless plug: if you're going to spend $200 or more at Crutchfield please feel free to use my referral code, "phy84-qzqew-9sek1". That'll give you a $20 discount on your purchase.
It isn't the unconventional medium that pisses people off. It's the fact that many of these so-called pieces of art don't require any creativity or skill to either conceive of or to implement. These are all examples of "art by reputation of the artist" or "art by being good friends with someone who works at the museum", not actual Art.
For some reason I'm remined of Richard Stallman's website... For such a presumably intelligent person to get so upset over something like that is completely laughable... I can't understand why anyone would be [so offended] unless they were nothing but reactionary assholes in the first place.
Sawfish was removed b/c its code was extremely complex (messy) and I believe I heard that its maintainer was quitting, hence Gnome wanted a lightweight WM that they could *properly* integrate into the desktop. As Metacity matures, expect to see it gain some more functionality, although it will never be as customizable (bloated) as Sawfish.
Sawfish's code wasn't messy or bloated. Now Enlightenment, it was messy and bloated to the extreme. Sawfish has a very good design. Large parts of sawfish are in Lisp though (actually rep), which I suspect scared off some of the highschool programmers. So my guess about the real reasons for abandoning sawfish are Lisp-phobia, possibly combined with an accute "NIH" complex.
As far as your last comment on using politics as an excuse for the things they are doing, what they are doing is making the interface easier to use and attracting new users...
While it's admirable that GNOME is trying to attract new users, some thought should be put into not losing the existing users as well. Sawfish is actually one of the main reasons I use GNOME rather than KDE. If it's going to become just as hard to use sawfish in GNOME as it is to use sawfish in KDE, then there's very little stopping me from switching over to KDE.
I have a lot of respect for KDE (and the file picker dialog really is better because of offering easy shortcuts to desktop, floppy, CD etc. even if a little busy... I bet GNOME will adopt those).
This has me totally confused. I've been using GNOME for a few years now, and the file picker dialog doesn't look like the one in the article. It looks more like this, and it's looked like that for many months.
The author's argument that KDE apps automatically gain from having standardized components like the file picker is also bogus, because GNOME applications benefit from the same thing. Does he really think that every GNOME application writer implements their own file dialog?
I get one or two calls from telemarketers virtually every weekday. They tend to be between 10am and 4pm though, so I'm usually not here. Just about every day my phones record a couple more "private", "unknown", or "blocked" calls (in the caller ID list) during that time period, and when I am home they always turn out to be telemarketers.
Frames first appeared in Netscape 2.0 which was released in early (March?) 1996. I remember that the page Netscape had announcing the feature had examples that made the "navigational frame" a pretty obvious usage. Take a look for yourself. It even says:
Queries executed in one frame can generate results in another frame, simplifying navigation by reducing the need to jump back and forth between screens.
Unfortunately, the wayback machine doesn't have an early 1996 version of this page, but I'm pretty sure the 1997 version (linked above) is pretty much unchanged (modulo copyright dates) from the one I saw back when Netscape 2.0 was first released.
If just AOL blocked port 25, this could reduce spam by 50% (I base this figure on close examination of the headers of the spam I receive).
If it did reduce spam by 50%, it would only be for a very short time. The vast majority of spammers that would be foiled by this would simply find another way to send their spam. So in the end you'll have pretty much the same amount of spam, but you'll inconvenience all of the people who had legitimate reasons for using port 25. Doesn't sound like a great idea.
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It's awfully funny that your example, which was supposed to illustrate something bad about Java, is actually C++, and not legal Java. Even more ironic, the Java equivalent would be several characters shorter.
So will cellphone weblogs spend all of their time talking about the wonders of cellphone weblogs? Or are discussions about weblogs in general fair game?
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This has happened to me in the past as well. The worst part was that Yahoo started filtering mail that was really from me! A few of my firends weren't getting any email I sent them, so I asked them to check their Bulk Mail folder. They found my emails, and I asked them to mark them as "not spam". That seems to have worked, at least for the people I know. I think Yahoo adds an email to a personal whitelist if you say it isn't spam though, so my email may still get filtered if I send to someone else. Lucky for me I don't really use my Yahoo email address anymore -- except for filling out online registrations. heh.
Much of your point about agents is valid, but they do have a good use: searching for things that don't exist yet. For example: suppose you're planning on buying a house. An agent that looks over real estate listings as they're released and informs you when it finds something relevant is a lot more useful than having to remember to do a search for the same thing every morning.
Yes, the bulk mail folder is still downloaded, but messages from the bulk mail folder have an extra header. I think it's "X-Yahoo-Bulk". You can then filter (eg: with procmail) those messages into a separate folder.
BTW, the POP/SMTP access isn't free in Canada anymore either.
Sorry to hijack this thread, but it looks like no-one has mentioned a very important fact:
While the test file and the "Listen" samples do work on Linux, the purchased songs cannot be played on Linux. Wal-Mart screwed up and didn't apply the same DRM they use on the purchased songs to the test file, so it isn't really an adequate test. I was able to play the test file on Linux using MPlayer. I then tried purchasing a song and testing it out. MPlayer recognizes the file format, but it won't play any sound.
Let that be a lesson to you: always make your test cases as close as possible to the real thing!
As a side-note, if anyone knows of a freeware sound driver for Windows that writes audio to WAV files, I'd like to know about it.
I've been looking for a new car stereo myself, recently, and I've noticed that Crutchfield sells a bunch with front aux inputs. Just go to "Car Audio & Video", select your car's year/make/model, then go to "All CD Receivers". The "Features & Specs" tab on a each receiver's page will tell you if there's an AUX input, and whether it's on the front or rear. You can also usually confirm this by looking at the photos they've got.
Shameless plug: if you're going to spend $200 or more at Crutchfield please feel free to use my referral code, "phy84-qzqew-9sek1". That'll give you a $20 discount on your purchase.
I once got a call from 555-555-1234. Since I don't live in a movie, I figured it was spoofed.
I'm surprised that they're even able/allowed to spoof caller-ID.
You could get sued and have your domain taken away from you.
I hope the prevayler guys have an education and are more gentlemen like you
That seems unlikely, considering their "if you don't know how to program" crack.
Maybe MS should get one of these.
It isn't the unconventional medium that pisses people off. It's the fact that many of these so-called pieces of art don't require any creativity or skill to either conceive of or to implement. These are all examples of "art by reputation of the artist" or "art by being good friends with someone who works at the museum", not actual Art.
Not necessarily. For all we know, Trinity wrote sshnuke.
For some reason I'm remined of Richard Stallman's website... For such a presumably intelligent person to get so upset over something like that is completely laughable... I can't understand why anyone would be [so offended] unless they were nothing but reactionary assholes in the first place.
I think that about sums it up.
4. "There is a new version of Windows Media Player available. Would you like to download it now?"
Maytag owned Hoover before the Free Flight promo.
I tried using Kartoo, and it seemed to be completely useless. What's an example of a query where Kartoo actually gives useful results?
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Frequently the gnome help browser says it can't find the info documentation, even though "info" can find it. What's up with that?
Sawfish was removed b/c its code was extremely complex (messy) and I believe I heard that its maintainer was quitting, hence Gnome wanted a lightweight WM that they could *properly* integrate into the desktop. As Metacity matures, expect to see it gain some more functionality, although it will never be as customizable (bloated) as Sawfish.
Sawfish's code wasn't messy or bloated. Now Enlightenment, it was messy and bloated to the extreme. Sawfish has a very good design. Large parts of sawfish are in Lisp though (actually rep), which I suspect scared off some of the highschool programmers. So my guess about the real reasons for abandoning sawfish are Lisp-phobia, possibly combined with an accute "NIH" complex.
As far as your last comment on using politics as an excuse for the things they are doing, what they are doing is making the interface easier to use and attracting new users...
While it's admirable that GNOME is trying to attract new users, some thought should be put into not losing the existing users as well. Sawfish is actually one of the main reasons I use GNOME rather than KDE. If it's going to become just as hard to use sawfish in GNOME as it is to use sawfish in KDE, then there's very little stopping me from switching over to KDE.
I have a lot of respect for KDE (and the file picker dialog really is better because of offering easy shortcuts to desktop, floppy, CD etc. even if a little busy... I bet GNOME will adopt those).
This has me totally confused. I've been using GNOME for a few years now, and the file picker dialog doesn't look like the one in the article. It looks more like this, and it's looked like that for many months.
The author's argument that KDE apps automatically gain from having standardized components like the file picker is also bogus, because GNOME applications benefit from the same thing. Does he really think that every GNOME application writer implements their own file dialog?
I get one or two calls from telemarketers virtually every weekday. They tend to be between 10am and 4pm though, so I'm usually not here. Just about every day my phones record a couple more "private", "unknown", or "blocked" calls (in the caller ID list) during that time period, and when I am home they always turn out to be telemarketers.
If just AOL blocked port 25, this could reduce spam by 50% (I base this figure on close examination of the headers of the spam I receive).
If it did reduce spam by 50%, it would only be for a very short time. The vast majority of spammers that would be foiled by this would simply find another way to send their spam. So in the end you'll have pretty much the same amount of spam, but you'll inconvenience all of the people who had legitimate reasons for using port 25. Doesn't sound like a great idea.
It's awfully funny that your example, which was supposed to illustrate something bad about Java, is actually C++, and not legal Java. Even more ironic, the Java equivalent would be several characters shorter.
So will cellphone weblogs spend all of their time talking about the wonders of cellphone weblogs? Or are discussions about weblogs in general fair game?
Beck must hate writing checks...