I'm not so sure this would work. The kind of people who one books are probably the same kind of people who would get really annoyed if the book was damaged by some random stranger (ear marked pages, etc).
At least that's the way I am. I don't even like to let my family or girlfriend borrow my books.
I don't know if thunderbird uses the same filter as mozilla, but for me, thunderbird is horrible at spam recognition. I have an account that gets about 50 spams a day, and one legit email from 'word a day'. It consistently screws up even after weeks of training. Thunderbird couldn't find a spam labeled 'young virgin sluts selling herbal viagra from the Congo'. But then again, it's only 0.1, so I'm more than willing to cut it some slack.
It wasn't mentioned in the article, but I really must plug popfile. It filters out my spam yes, but it is also a general mail categorizer. It sorts ten yahoo groups for me, personal, work, and school related emails. I know you think you could do this with rules for the emails, but for example, I get several hundred emails a day from the Harry Potter for Grownups List. Popfile can sort them into 'probably interesting' and 'probably not' for me. Very nice.
Well, sure, the Frinkiac-7 looks impressive, don't touch it! But I predict that within 100 years computers will be twice as powerful, 10,000 times larger, and so expensive that only the five richest kings of Europe will own them.
This is one hell of a collection, but I can't help but wonder if he does anything to prevent bitrot or is preserving these games in some way. It's cool now, but in 20 years, he will be left with a lot of worthless plastic and silicon.
Slashdot Mirror
The story on slashdot was longer than the story it linked to.
For example, if you take a thousand samples of Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 processors
Did anyone else stop reading the article at that point? Nothing like an (R) to completely destroy the flow of an article.
Thanks Intel(R)!
This special event takes place because of the specific positions of Mars and Earth in their orbits.
I love sentences like that. Mars will be the closest to Earth it's ever been, because Mars will be the closest to Earth it's ever been!
People who trusted your key would know immediately that this was a spoof.
Yeah, all zero of them.
Not that Congress is going to authorize the establishment of an anti-spam unit...are they?
:/
As long as the Dept of Homeland Security runs it, I'll feel safer.
I'm not so sure this would work. The kind of people who one books are probably the same kind of people who would get really annoyed if the book was damaged by some random stranger (ear marked pages, etc).
At least that's the way I am. I don't even like to let my family or girlfriend borrow my books.
So instead of having some weirdo hit on you in a public building, they can now do it in the privacy of your own home.
Does this mean that geeks start coding in graffiti?
I already do that on my Handspring Visor.
SPRAY-ON computers the size of a grain of sand... They plan to spray the nano computers...
I wish people would stop using the word 'nano' to mean very small. It's 10^-9m. A hell of a lot smaller than a grain of sand.
"In a cubic millimetre, you can have a sensor for heat, pressure, light and so on, but also a computer and wireless technology."
I am afraid this is just another grant hunt. There is no battery that would be suitable for this project.
And that is why we have grants. So people can build a bettery that is suitable.
Chris Rock says Nigger all the time.
He does have the advantage of being black, but everyone also knows that he is not intending for the word to be an insult.
But show her a flash card with the word "damn" written on it, and Cindy purses her lolly-pink lips.
"We don't say those kind of words," she shrills, refusing to even spell it.
"That's a bad word."
This mentality annoys me. I'm with George Carlin on this: A word is only as bad as the intentions of the person using it.
I wouldn't want a doll to teach my daughter that certain conglomerations of sound are intrinsically evil.
But willing to risk the flames for an answer that is not ten pages long.
What's the difference between a worm and a virus?
I don't know if thunderbird uses the same filter as mozilla, but for me, thunderbird is horrible at spam recognition. I have an account that gets about 50 spams a day, and one legit email from 'word a day'. It consistently screws up even after weeks of training. Thunderbird couldn't find a spam labeled 'young virgin sluts selling herbal viagra from the Congo'. But then again, it's only 0.1, so I'm more than willing to cut it some slack.
It wasn't mentioned in the article, but I really must plug popfile. It filters out my spam yes, but it is also a general mail categorizer. It sorts ten yahoo groups for me, personal, work, and school related emails. I know you think you could do this with rules for the emails, but for example, I get several hundred emails a day from the Harry Potter for Grownups List. Popfile can sort them into 'probably interesting' and 'probably not' for me. Very nice.
He put the odds of corrupting the software undetected at 1 billion to one.
If you make a statement like that you are asking for trouble. It's like walking into a bar and saying 'No one here could win in a fight with me.'
Hey!
That's not funny, that's informative
-Darl McBride
Looks like Frink was a bit off:
Well, sure, the Frinkiac-7 looks impressive, don't touch it! But I predict that within 100 years computers will be twice as powerful, 10,000 times larger, and so expensive that only the five richest kings of Europe will own them.
Supercomputer Breaks the $100/GFLOPS Barrier
Not after you factor in the SCO license fees.
Look Harder
Because the photos are of games, moron. Give it up with this "ha ha, you don't have a girlfriend" bullshit. It's not funny and it never was.
:)
Very true, but this is slashdot after all. That's why I titled my post Obligatory girlfriend remark. Someone had to make it
3DO, Vectrex, ColecoVision, Nintendo, Atari, Intellivision, Game Gear, Astrocade, PlayStation...
:)
Fine, fine. Good collection.
TI-99?
OK buddy, you have a problem. I think this has gone too far. You need some help
This is one hell of a collection, but I can't help but wonder if he does anything to prevent bitrot or is preserving these games in some way. It's cool now, but in 20 years, he will be left with a lot of worthless plastic and silicon.
I have shit-loads of money
Not after you pay for the bandwidth on all those images.
I don't see a girlfriend in any of these photos... I wonder why.