My wife and I watch the entire Extended Blu-Ray of the Lord of the Rings Trilogy. We just finished Fellowship. Tomorrow we will watch Two Towers and Return of the King. We've been doing this since the movies were all available on DVD. (we both hate watching sports so New Years Day football was out).
Sure, it is java, but NeoOffice/J is a pretty nice non-X11 dependent OS X port of OOo, complete with an aquafied menu, and continued development. Check it out:
http://www.planamesa.com/neojava/en/index.php
That's not a real fix. I mean, it solves the problem of the person who totally steals an entire paper. What happens more often, however, is that a student will plagiarize snippets of text rather than the entire thing. This quiz method doesn't usually catch them in such instances, as they are somewhat familiar with the text involved from piecing it into their own argument.
couldn't you just run a really long line (made out of something a bit more durable than rope) with knots in it, and tie one end to the Cape and the other to the Space Station?
I mean, sure, totally useless, but, man, oh man would it make for an excitingly boring extreme sport (in the same ways that golf is exciting). Call the game: Xtreme Climbing: Better than Everest!
ANNOUNCER: "Billy Bob had made it all the way to the one mile mark on the space rope, but a strong wind and bolt of lightning looks to have just knocked him to his death."
ANNOUNCER #2: "So much for his claims that his 'lucky' Bowie knife would protect him from lightning!"
ANNOUNCER: "Ouch!"
didn't somebody already sort of attempt this?
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Oh, wait, it was me! http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=105335&cid=896 5252
Eh, I only got 180MB worth of email and spam out of the deal though, before I decided to delete the account. The Gmail Spam filter was rather horrible at the time; catching only the most tried and true SPAM, letting tons of other SPAM through, and then randomly flagging legitimate messages from people whom it had not flagged before. I think it has improved some since then.
I've been working in tech support for roughly four years. I have a G5 sitting on my desk and I run two computer labs that are filled with peecees running XP and the only way I can keep everything locked down and protected is thanks to a program called DeepFreeze that prevents the users from mucking everything up. All I do is restart and the machines are fine again.
That being said, in my experience, 90% of Windoze users are the most ill informed lot of computer users out there. They expect the computer to work like an appliance, or they are frightened of it and think some how it will reveal to everyone else that it is in fact smarter than they are, or they are antagonistic towards it and look at it as an evil force working against them. On the other hand, there are about 10% that are uber-users who actually know what they are doing and enjoy the platform.
Linux users tend to know Windoze inside and out and smirk and laugh at the uninitiated masses who haven't realized how nice it is to get free software that works, but they also tend to not realize how much time they have spent learning linux compared to the masses who still want that easy on appliance that hooks to their internet and their email and helps them write papers.
Mac users are divided into 3rds. One third of them are power users who know Mac inside and out classic to OS X and as a result of living in a Windoze world know PeeCees well enough to get around. Another third are very capable of troubleshooting their own macs but have no idea how to work windoze and get confused when they encounter the lab computers, but they usually aren't afraid to learn. The final third know only what they know on the Mac and nothing else; they are fortunate that nothing goes wrong that often with their macs, but they are also oblivious to how seldom things do go wrong, so that the smallest thing is made to be a HUGE ORDEAL.
The last two crowds are generally easier to deal with than the Windoze users, and that is why I personally don't do windoze.
That, of course, and because Micro$oft is a scum-bag of a company that eats the souls of everyone and everything it can.
Wait 20 years or so. The original trilogy will continue to be seen as a seminal work, and the "prequels" as a bastardized ripoff.
Unfortunately, in order to resolve all the story problems from the prequels, Lucas will most likely bastardize episodes 4-6 even more than he has already done, and he won't release any versions on anything close to permanent (like DVD) until after he has bastardized it even further, so in 20 years, we'll merely have a bunch of horribly decayed VHS and beta tapes of the originals and six really crappy digital films filled with Jar Jar and his decendants, who by then will have replaced all the Ewoks.
So, I've had a gmail account for a while now and decided to try to get people to fill it up by posting it all over my website and in the comments here at/. and a few other places. So far, only 180MBs have been filled, most of it by people responding to my request to spam me and the rest from actual spam bots who grabbed the info from where I posted the email, like here: cksampleiii@gmail.com. Please feel free to send as many attachments as you can handle to this address and let's see if we can get my original experiment to its original projected limit 1GB, even though it is now listing as 1TB. My other gmail account (which I haven't publicized at all) is still only at 1GB.
Things that I've learned so far: the spam filter in Gmail is sporadic. Of course, this is probably b/c I haven't bothered to train it at all, but nevertheless, it seems to only catch the most widely known spam, while at other times it will suddenly start reporting messages from a source that have gotten through before as spam, which is odd, and as far as I can tell, via no discernible methodology. Some people have sent me over 100 emails with pron porn xxx in the subject and body with no blocking whatsoever, whereas other people have been sending me very innocent messages with large attachments and the first 10 get through and the rest get blocked (although this doesn't happen across the board / consistently).
Also, Gmail says it supports 10MB attachments, but it would seem to mean that the email itself + attachment has to register at under 10MB as I've had a few 9.7MB files that have failed to send.
Otherwise pretty good webmail implementation.
I set up one Gig accounts on both Gmail and SpyMac that I've had people sending attachments and emails to to see how they hadnle reaching a GIG. so far, Gmail is only up to 127MB and SpyMac is only at 27MB (but their servers would seem to be a day behind on listing my new email). So far, I have discovered that Gmail's spam filter has caught one actual spam message, and suddenly blocked 5 of 15 messages from one person with no clear reason why. Also, the ad bots only scan the body text of the emails, as all attachment only emails have been ad free. cksampleiii@gmail.com and cksample3@spymac.com if you are interested in contributing to the experiment.
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My wife and I watch the entire Extended Blu-Ray of the Lord of the Rings Trilogy. We just finished Fellowship. Tomorrow we will watch Two Towers and Return of the King. We've been doing this since the movies were all available on DVD. (we both hate watching sports so New Years Day football was out).
Ethan Hawke is going to be happy about this one.
unfilled the filled hole... link
Sure, it is java, but NeoOffice/J is a pretty nice non-X11 dependent OS X port of OOo, complete with an aquafied menu, and continued development. Check it out: http://www.planamesa.com/neojava/en/index.php
That's not a real fix. I mean, it solves the problem of the person who totally steals an entire paper. What happens more often, however, is that a student will plagiarize snippets of text rather than the entire thing. This quiz method doesn't usually catch them in such instances, as they are somewhat familiar with the text involved from piecing it into their own argument.
I mean, sure, totally useless, but, man, oh man would it make for an excitingly boring extreme sport (in the same ways that golf is exciting). Call the game: Xtreme Climbing: Better than Everest!
ANNOUNCER: "Billy Bob had made it all the way to the one mile mark on the space rope, but a strong wind and bolt of lightning looks to have just knocked him to his death."
ANNOUNCER #2: "So much for his claims that his 'lucky' Bowie knife would protect him from lightning!"
ANNOUNCER: "Ouch!"
I've successfully invited over 5 people with Hotmail accounts. People need to learn to type...
bash in 3-D...NICE!
Eh, I only got 180MB worth of email and spam out of the deal though, before I decided to delete the account. The Gmail Spam filter was rather horrible at the time; catching only the most tried and true SPAM, letting tons of other SPAM through, and then randomly flagging legitimate messages from people whom it had not flagged before. I think it has improved some since then.
I've been working in tech support for roughly four years. I have a G5 sitting on my desk and I run two computer labs that are filled with peecees running XP and the only way I can keep everything locked down and protected is thanks to a program called DeepFreeze that prevents the users from mucking everything up. All I do is restart and the machines are fine again. That being said, in my experience, 90% of Windoze users are the most ill informed lot of computer users out there. They expect the computer to work like an appliance, or they are frightened of it and think some how it will reveal to everyone else that it is in fact smarter than they are, or they are antagonistic towards it and look at it as an evil force working against them. On the other hand, there are about 10% that are uber-users who actually know what they are doing and enjoy the platform. Linux users tend to know Windoze inside and out and smirk and laugh at the uninitiated masses who haven't realized how nice it is to get free software that works, but they also tend to not realize how much time they have spent learning linux compared to the masses who still want that easy on appliance that hooks to their internet and their email and helps them write papers. Mac users are divided into 3rds. One third of them are power users who know Mac inside and out classic to OS X and as a result of living in a Windoze world know PeeCees well enough to get around. Another third are very capable of troubleshooting their own macs but have no idea how to work windoze and get confused when they encounter the lab computers, but they usually aren't afraid to learn. The final third know only what they know on the Mac and nothing else; they are fortunate that nothing goes wrong that often with their macs, but they are also oblivious to how seldom things do go wrong, so that the smallest thing is made to be a HUGE ORDEAL. The last two crowds are generally easier to deal with than the Windoze users, and that is why I personally don't do windoze. That, of course, and because Micro$oft is a scum-bag of a company that eats the souls of everyone and everything it can.
Wait 20 years or so. The original trilogy will continue to be seen as a seminal work, and the "prequels" as a bastardized ripoff. Unfortunately, in order to resolve all the story problems from the prequels, Lucas will most likely bastardize episodes 4-6 even more than he has already done, and he won't release any versions on anything close to permanent (like DVD) until after he has bastardized it even further, so in 20 years, we'll merely have a bunch of horribly decayed VHS and beta tapes of the originals and six really crappy digital films filled with Jar Jar and his decendants, who by then will have replaced all the Ewoks.
So, I've had a gmail account for a while now and decided to try to get people to fill it up by posting it all over my website and in the comments here at /. and a few other places. So far, only 180MBs have been filled, most of it by people responding to my request to spam me and the rest from actual spam bots who grabbed the info from where I posted the email, like here: cksampleiii@gmail.com. Please feel free to send as many attachments as you can handle to this address and let's see if we can get my original experiment to its original projected limit 1GB, even though it is now listing as 1TB. My other gmail account (which I haven't publicized at all) is still only at 1GB.
Things that I've learned so far: the spam filter in Gmail is sporadic. Of course, this is probably b/c I haven't bothered to train it at all, but nevertheless, it seems to only catch the most widely known spam, while at other times it will suddenly start reporting messages from a source that have gotten through before as spam, which is odd, and as far as I can tell, via no discernible methodology. Some people have sent me over 100 emails with pron porn xxx in the subject and body with no blocking whatsoever, whereas other people have been sending me very innocent messages with large attachments and the first 10 get through and the rest get blocked (although this doesn't happen across the board / consistently).
Also, Gmail says it supports 10MB attachments, but it would seem to mean that the email itself + attachment has to register at under 10MB as I've had a few 9.7MB files that have failed to send.
Otherwise pretty good webmail implementation.
Thanks! I do what I can!
cool. do it. I want to see if the spam filter catches it.
I set up one Gig accounts on both Gmail and SpyMac that I've had people sending attachments and emails to to see how they hadnle reaching a GIG. so far, Gmail is only up to 127MB and SpyMac is only at 27MB (but their servers would seem to be a day behind on listing my new email). So far, I have discovered that Gmail's spam filter has caught one actual spam message, and suddenly blocked 5 of 15 messages from one person with no clear reason why. Also, the ad bots only scan the body text of the emails, as all attachment only emails have been ad free. cksampleiii@gmail.com and cksample3@spymac.com if you are interested in contributing to the experiment.
that'll make your current LCD-screened laptop have a 3-D display. Sounds a lot cheaper than this NEC will be.