Sorry, got a little over excited, cause I've heard they were making a movie.
They are.
The article even says that "[Douglas] Adams had been working on a film version for more than a decade, but it had never got past the planning stage." In the posthumous book The Salmon of Doubt it is said that the movie will come out "any decade now".
However, the project finally seems to be getting somewhere. The cast is known, and Slashdot even covered an interview that the screenwriter had with himself.
The movie won't be released tomorrow, though. The first episode of the new radio series will. (Actually, today from where I'm posting.)
Specifically, I am trying to find a simple freeware/open-source todo list manager.
You do know that the TODO-list is patented, don't you?
All your base to do are belong to MS.
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Is use the GMail data to operate a checksum blacklist. Obviously, if thousands (or millions) of their users are getting the exact same email, it's probably spam.
Have you read a spam message recently?
Most of the spam messages in my inbox/spam folder tend to have strange xqwv words or rather ackward interpunction { in them; These anomalies change from message to message, even if the the rest of the contents is the same. The whole point is to circumvent checksum-based blacklists.
Google has some pretty bright minds aboard, and a potentially a huge lot of email to use as corpus. I strongly believe that Google/GMail is capable of implementing a rather good email filter. But it will be a bit more complex than the solution you suggest.
I was going to smugly inform the "why do I have to use GConf to get back my old Nautilus" posters that my stock GNOME allows you to change from spatial to browser view right in the Preferences... I was, of course, shocked to find out that I was talking through my hat and in fact there was no such setting. Although I'm very stuck on new spatial Nautilus, I agree that the lack of an easy-to-change option was a rash decision on the part of the GNOME devs.
I completely agree.
Luckily, the GNOME developers have come to realise that, too. There will be a brower-mode setting in the Preferences of Nautilus in GNOME 2.8. It's already in CVS.
Microsoft Windows is on 80% of desktops or thereabouts. Microsoft Windows is responsible for 80% of spam. Seems fairly obvious to me.
It isn't obvious. At all. In earlier years, spam was sent by spam hosts owned by spammers.
By "spammers" I mean those people who knowingly and deliberatly distribute spam, and usually make money by doing so.
The hosts and the networks they were connected to became discovered and mail coming from those hosts and networks was treated suspicious by black-list-based filters.
So the spammers use more and more infected zombie PCs. Microsoft Windows is on 80% or more of the desktops. And now these Microsoft Windows-based infected zombie PCs are sending 80% of spam, according to the article
However, this does not mean (which would contradict your "this is obvious" logic) that the x% MacOS X-based, Linux-based and *BSD-based PCs are as easily infected and effectively sending x% of the spam.
He won not because of his movie, but because of his message.
Quentin [Tarantino, head of the jury] whispered in my ear: "We want you to know that it was not the politics of your film that won you this award. We are not here to give a political award. Some of us have no politics. We awarded the art of cinema, that is what won you this award and we wanted you to know that as a fellow filmmaker." - Michael Moore
On the Palme d'Or being a French award:
There was only one French citizen on the jury. Four out of nine were American. (...) This is not a French award, it was given by an international jury dominated by Americans. - Michael Moore
Personally, I love hiking and camping with a couple of friends.
I mostly go hiking/backpacking/camping/... in the mountains of Scotland, Austria,... Population density is low, but they are not completely unpopulated.
There is little need to track me. I actually don't want to be tracked.
The whole point of such a holiday (to me) is being away from it all: being away from the every-day life, being away from busy cities, being away from computers and technology. Not that I don't like busy cities and computers and technology, on the contrary, but it's nice to live low-tech in a more nature-like environment every once in a while. I'm not available. My cell-phone is off, and the only reason I'm keeping it with me is to be able to call people in case of an emergency (or to assure friends and family that I'm still alive at conveniant times to me).
The whole point is being away from schedules, being away from being constantly available (through IM, cell-phone,...), being away from being tracked.
Like his friends Sergey Brin and Larry Page, Craig Silverstein abandoned his PhD studies at Stanford to become employee No.1 and technology director at Google.
I wanted to know why three people became all employee No. 1 after they abandoned their PhD studies. You would expect them to become employees No. 1, 2 and 3.
Or even employees No. 0, 1 and 2, since Google is a geeky company. (With their IPO, they hope to raise 2,718,281,828 dollars with is floor(e billion) dollar.)
I Googled, didn't find it. Just maybe Google's not completely perfect.
Very, because it's 'degrees Fahrenheit' or 'Celsius', with no degrees.
No, it isn't.
It's "degrees Fahrenheit" (F), "degrees Celsius" (C) (also known as "Centigrades"), "degrees Réamur" (R) (=old French unit, hardly ever uses anymore. Confusingly, "degrees Rankine", the US answer to Kelvin, uses R as symbol too.
The official SI unit *is* "Kelvin" (K) though, without "degrees". It's only used in science.
0 K = -273.15 C = -459.7 F = 218,5 R (Réamur) = 0 R (Rankine) is the coldest temperature possible.
I guess they're wondering if the criminal charges have an 'opt-out' list....
They should, if they don't already. If spammers choose to opt out, the charges are dropped immediately. In a completely unrelated note, by sheer coincidence, they mysteriosly get charged within a few weeks (or even days) with a dozen of other (spam-related, internet-related or unrelated) charges.
Mods, what's so funny? Time travel *does* exist, you know. (And questions about the availability of replacement parts are very legitimate when purchasing cars.)
Quoting Douglas Adams's proof The Salmon of Doubt, page 121 (in the British version):
Time travel? I believe there are people regularly travelling back from the future and interfering with our lives on a daily basis. The evidence is all around us. I'm talking about how every time we make an insurance claim we discover that somehow mysteriously the exact thing we're claiming for is now precisely excluded from our policy.
Yahoo! buys its contents from Reuters, not the other way around. Notice in the Yahoo! version the "LONDON (Reuters) -" at the beginning and the "Technology (Reuters)" in the section header.
Jeesh, I thought that this was "News" here.
The timestamps of both versions are the same: Thu Mar 18, 2004 04:30 AM ET. Which is logical, since it is the same news article.
It's about using the right tool for the right job. Havoc isn't proposing the usage of C in the Linux kernel or even in the X Window System.
Java and C#/.NET are great tools for coding high-level applications.
Development is a lot easier, since you don't have to spend hours looking for those small memory leaks.
It's a few times faster, hence RAD: Rapid Application Development. (Mikael Hallendal described how his RSS/RDF-reader BLAM! was ready in 1 week.)
Arguably, it's better maintainable.
Indeed, there's a performance price to pay.
There are already a few small GNOME-based applications written in C#: RSS/RDF reader BLAM!, WoodPusher chess game, Muine music player,...
At some point, GNOME will have to decide if such applications can be part of GNOME, and I agree that GNOME should choose a high-level language and environment as their default high-level language and environment. That doesn't mean GNOME should drop C.
You're right. Currently the European Union has no constitution. Yet almost all Member State have (except the United Kingdom) and a lot of freedoms are written in them. (To my knowledge, the right to carry arms is not in any of those constitutions. Can't say I dislike that.)
The European Union will have a constitution soon though (probably this or next year). This table of contents gives you an idea of part two of the final draft:
Dignity
Human dignity
Right to life - explicitly forbidding death penalty
Right to the integrity of the person
Prohibition of torture and inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment
Prohibition of slavery and forced labour
Freedoms
Right to liberty and security
Respect for private and family life
Protection of personal data
Right to marry and right to found a family
Freedom of thought, conscience and religion
Freedom of expression and information
Freedom of assembly and of association
Freedom of the arts and sciences
Right to education
Freedom to choose an occupation and right to engage in work
Freedom to conduct a business
Right to property
Right to asylum
Protection in the event of removal, expulsion or extradition
Equality
Equality before the law
Non-discrimination
Cultural, religious and linguistic diversity
Equality between men and women
The rights of the child
The rights of the elderly
Integration of persons with disabilities
Solidarity
Workers' right to information and consultation within the undertaking
Right of collective bargaining and action
Right of access to placement services
Protection in the event of unjustified dismissal
Fair and just working conditions
Prohibition of child labour and protection of young people at work
Family and professional life
Social security and social assistance
Health care
Access to services of general economic interest
Environmental protection
Consumer protection
Citizens' rights
Right to vote and to stand as a candidate at elections to the European Parliament
Right to vote and to stand as a candidate at municipal elections
Right to good administration
Right of access to documents
Ombudsman
Right to petition
Freedom of movement and of residence
Diplomatic and consular protection - if you are not in your own country
Justice
Right to an effective remedy and to a fair trial
Presumption of innocence and right of defence
Principles of legality and proportionality of criminal offences and penalties
Right not to be tried or punished twice in criminal proceedings for the same criminal offence
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They are.
The article even says that "[Douglas] Adams had been working on a film version for more than a decade, but it had never got past the planning stage." In the posthumous book The Salmon of Doubt it is said that the movie will come out "any decade now".
However, the project finally seems to be getting somewhere. The cast is known, and Slashdot even covered an interview that the screenwriter had with himself.
The movie won't be released tomorrow, though. The first episode of the new radio series will. (Actually, today from where I'm posting.)
You do know that the TODO-list is patented, don't you?
All your base to do are belong to MS.
Have you read a spam message recently?
Most of the spam messages in my inbox/spam folder tend to have strange xqwv words or rather ackward interpunction { in them; These anomalies change from message to message, even if the the rest of the contents is the same. The whole point is to circumvent checksum-based blacklists.
Google has some pretty bright minds aboard, and a potentially a huge lot of email to use as corpus. I strongly believe that Google/GMail is capable of implementing a rather good email filter. But it will be a bit more complex than the solution you suggest.
I completely agree.
Luckily, the GNOME developers have come to realise that, too. There will be a brower-mode setting in the Preferences of Nautilus in GNOME 2.8. It's already in CVS.
By "spammers" I mean those people who knowingly and deliberatly distribute spam, and usually make money by doing so.
The hosts and the networks they were connected to became discovered and mail coming from those hosts and networks was treated suspicious by black-list-based filters.
So the spammers use more and more infected zombie PCs. Microsoft Windows is on 80% or more of the desktops. And now these Microsoft Windows-based infected zombie PCs are sending 80% of spam, according to the article
However, this does not mean (which would contradict your "this is obvious" logic) that the x% MacOS X-based, Linux-based and *BSD-based PCs are as easily infected and effectively sending x% of the spam.
Quentin [Tarantino, head of the jury] whispered in my ear: "We want you to know that it was not the politics of your film that won you this award. We are not here to give a political award. Some of us have no politics. We awarded the art of cinema, that is what won you this award and we wanted you to know that as a fellow filmmaker."
- Michael Moore
On the Palme d'Or being a French award: There was only one French citizen on the jury. Four out of nine were American. (...) This is not a French award, it was given by an international jury dominated by Americans.
- Michael Moore
You won't have to wait much longer. According to The Salmon of Doubt the movie will be released any decade now.
And so probably will the website.
(Douglas Adams described the filmmaking as twenty years of constipation.)
Personally, I love hiking and camping with a couple of friends.
I mostly go hiking/backpacking/camping/... in the mountains of Scotland, Austria, ... Population density is low, but they are not completely unpopulated.
There is little need to track me. I actually don't want to be tracked.
The whole point of such a holiday (to me) is being away from it all: being away from the every-day life, being away from busy cities, being away from computers and technology. Not that I don't like busy cities and computers and technology, on the contrary, but it's nice to live low-tech in a more nature-like environment every once in a while. I'm not available. My cell-phone is off, and the only reason I'm keeping it with me is to be able to call people in case of an emergency (or to assure friends and family that I'm still alive at conveniant times to me).
The whole point is being away from schedules, being away from being constantly available (through IM, cell-phone, ...), being away from being tracked.
I wanted to know why three people became all employee No. 1 after they abandoned their PhD studies. You would expect them to become employees No. 1, 2 and 3.
Or even employees No. 0, 1 and 2, since Google is a geeky company. (With their IPO, they hope to raise 2,718,281,828 dollars with is floor(e billion) dollar.)
I Googled, didn't find it. Just maybe Google's not completely perfect.
No, it isn't.
It's "degrees Fahrenheit" (F), "degrees Celsius" (C) (also known as "Centigrades"), "degrees Réamur" (R) (=old French unit, hardly ever uses anymore. Confusingly, "degrees Rankine", the US answer to Kelvin, uses R as symbol too.
The official SI unit *is* "Kelvin" (K) though, without "degrees". It's only used in science.
0 K = -273.15 C = -459.7 F = 218,5 R (Réamur) = 0 R (Rankine) is the coldest temperature possible.
Mods, what's so funny? Time travel *does* exist, you know. (And questions about the availability of replacement parts are very legitimate when purchasing cars.)
Quoting Douglas Adams's proof The Salmon of Doubt, page 121 (in the British version):
Quod erat demostrandum.
Yet another story ripped from Yahoo!
Yahoo! buys its contents from Reuters, not the other way around. Notice in the Yahoo! version the "LONDON (Reuters) -" at the beginning and the "Technology (Reuters)" in the section header.
Jeesh, I thought that this was "News" here.
The timestamps of both versions are the same: Thu Mar 18, 2004 04:30 AM ET. Which is logical, since it is the same news article.
Java and C#/.NET are great tools for coding high-level applications. Development is a lot easier, since you don't have to spend hours looking for those small memory leaks. It's a few times faster, hence RAD: Rapid Application Development. (Mikael Hallendal described how his RSS/RDF-reader BLAM! was ready in 1 week.) Arguably, it's better maintainable.
Indeed, there's a performance price to pay.
There are already a few small GNOME-based applications written in C#: RSS/RDF reader BLAM!, WoodPusher chess game, Muine music player, ...
At some point, GNOME will have to decide if such applications can be part of GNOME, and I agree that GNOME should choose a high-level language and environment as their default high-level language and environment. That doesn't mean GNOME should drop C.
The right to health care doesn't necessarily mean it has to be free. It just means that it has to be affordable.
It's not utopian. The current situation in most (Western) European countries is pretty good.
I am sick and tired of hearing your stupid little digs at it.I haven't said that the Second Amendment is a bad thing. I can understand it. It's some kind of do-it-yourself right to safety and security.
All I said is that (to my knowledge) no European country has such a right in its constitution and that I have no problem that.
USB 1.1 is now called 2.0
That's only hyping it by a factor 1.81
I know a company who the called the 4.0 version of its main product Windows 95
That was multiplying the version number by a factor 23.75
Try to beat that!
(In fact, it has beaten itself. There's even a version 2000)
The European Union will have a constitution soon though (probably this or next year). This table of contents gives you an idea of part two of the final draft: