My client-side email app does filtering on the header only. It also applies a few tests to the sender name and email. (Reads each header off the server, checks it out, rates it spam, not spam, or unsure.)
I get phenomenal accuracy without looking at the body, and it's quicker too.
The internet opened up everyone's junk closet to the world, and we all pay the post office to shift it. They may be losing regular letter postage to email, but parcel mail must be more profitable.
Hands up everyone who thinks IE7 will set itself as the default browser after installing it through Update. Even if Firefox is your current browser, and IE6 is explicitly NOT your default.
It's just too big an opportunity to immediately gain 15% market share. They'd have to do it, right?
You and I will run Firefox manually, set it to default, and go ahead with our browsing while muttering curses. Meanwhile, the tens of thousands/millions of people we carefully set up with Firefox will wonder why the intarweb looks all different.
I'm not saying they WILL, I'm just saying I BET they will.
My kids are 8 and 11, and the 'You wouldn't steal a car, so you shouldn't steal movies' featurette at the start of some films has them in stitches. According to that puffery, if they copy a film they'd be real criminals, just like people who rob banks and shoot each other, and while it sounds exciting they're somewhat puzzled by the wildly different levels of harm to society between each crime.
I just got a Panasonic TV projector, so instead of a DVD player we're now using a PC with a freeware media player. The skip button works perfectly, every time, so no more crap at the start of every film. And no more 'But how do I steal a car?' questions from the 8-year-old.
Agreed. I have a vested interest because I'm an author, but I do love the flexibility of English. Anyway, this uniform spelling rubbish would immediately kill off nine tenths of all jokes, double entendres and puns, which just goes to show that reformists are a humourless bunch of uankas.
As an aside, from age 8 to 15 I attended schools in Spain, so almost all my learning was in Spanish. That didn't stop me graduating from uni here in Australia with a degree in English Lit & Creative writing, even though I only had 2 years in English schooling to my name. It's not impossible, just difficult, and learning difficult things exercises the mind.
... manufacturers wouldn't keep putting high-intensity LEDs in the most ludicrous places. I have a cheapo laminator with a clear plastic handle on top, and embedded in the handle are two of the brightest blue LEDs I have ever seen. They're pointing straight up, which is exactly where my eyes are when I'm trying to feed a sheet of paper into the machine. Of all the stupid gonzo designs...
Anyway, nine layers of masking tape and a liberal application of black texta later these LEDs are barely enough to light three rooms of my house.
Next up are bright LEDS on speaker controls, the front of my LCD monitor, my mouse... After correcting all these things my gear looks like it was smashed with a hammer and stuck back together with tape.
So, kudos to the guy for inventing the LEDS, and minus several million points to the manufacturers for using them.
I bought VMWare for Linux a couple of years back and the supplier actually phoned me to make sure I hadn't selected it by mistake, and hadn't I really meant the Windows version? Nice of them to ask, but for once I knew what I was doing.
I was particularly thinking of GT Legends, which offers you a mini cooper and a lotus cortina, neither of which are much cop. In real life I drive a Subaru WRX, so playing a 'thrilling' PC game where the vehicles have 1/4 the horsepower of my road car and don't so much take corners as mug them isn't much fun.
On a side note, GT Legends came with starfire or rimfire or fire-something protection crap which kept swapping my DVD player back to PIO mode, so I uninstalled the thing and went through a bunch of steps deleting dll files and registry entries. Fair enough if all games used the same protection system and drivers, but once you install 30-50 titles over a two-three year period you're looking at some seriously messed up shit.
The wrong way: You install a racing game and only have access to two pissweak cars for about the first five weeks of gameplay. (They ought to let you drive the better cars, against correspondingly better opposition.) If you have to lock stuff up, make it the tracks.
The Right Way: Oblivion. Masses of stuff is locked away from the player, but there's enough interesting things to do at the lower levels that you just don't care.
Absolutely. They want something that works NOW and which can improve over time. So what if it takes fifteen keystrokes to find a settings form or the tab order is up the chute? Better than endless promises of a killer app which will be ready Any Day Now, which either never arrives or sucks when it DOES arrive.
I learnt that lesson as a teenager in the early 80's, thanks to over-hyped computer games which truly sucked when they finally (if ever) arrived. Other speccy users will know exactly which titles I'm referring to.
Agreed. I wrote (and still maintain) a very powerful stock market charting app almost entirely in VB6. Yes, I use a couple of DLLs for intensive calculations but the GUI and 99% of the code is VB. It works, it's stable, and the users love it. Wish I could say the same about a number of other apps sitting on my computer.
In summary: don't blame VB for shitty programs, blame the programmer. And if you'd rather write in something else, why should I care? I'll judge you on the results, not the language used to write it.
I'm curious what they'll do to insure it only runs on Vista.
My guess? They'll make DX 10 Vista only. If not 10, then 11. They did this with DX 7 or 8 (can't remember which), and it no longer installed on Win98. DX is tied in much closer with the OS and drivers than any game would be.
I'm happy with my nice stable XP and fave games (never thought I'd say that) and I'd never upgrade an OS for a single game.
Off topic, but when SMSing is there any way to say 'yes I accept the bloody letter you're showing me, now let me pick another on the same button' or do I have to wait for the cursor? I've read manuals, searched the web, pulled my hair out but all to no avail.
Example: I want to type 'action'. Press 2 for A then wait, wait, wait until I can press 2 again (twice) for C. What I want is 2 for A then (something which accepts it) then 2 twice for C.
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My client-side email app does filtering on the header only. It also applies a few tests to the sender name and email. (Reads each header off the server, checks it out, rates it spam, not spam, or unsure.)
I get phenomenal accuracy without looking at the body, and it's quicker too.
So when I'm down and want cheering up, they show me depressing pictures. Fantastic.
The internet opened up everyone's junk closet to the world, and we all pay the post office to shift it. They may be losing regular letter postage to email, but parcel mail must be more profitable.
It's not them acting any more, it's CGI.
Yes, and just think how much worse EP 1 would have been without any acting.
If they've been buried long enough they'll probably glow anyway. So, you can skip one stage.
Just get the virtual star to bounce on a virtual sofa.
And unless they used some kind of obfusication, the images of text could easily be read using OCR.
Hands up everyone who thinks IE7 will set itself as the default browser after installing it through Update. Even if Firefox is your current browser, and IE6 is explicitly NOT your default.
It's just too big an opportunity to immediately gain 15% market share. They'd have to do it, right?
You and I will run Firefox manually, set it to default, and go ahead with our browsing while muttering curses. Meanwhile, the tens of thousands/millions of people we carefully set up with Firefox will wonder why the intarweb looks all different.
I'm not saying they WILL, I'm just saying I BET they will.
Maybe they're hoping little Johnny will nick his mum's credit card and run up a few grand before anyone notices.
If you do get past step two you might find it very profitable. If the russians and old people don't get you first, that is.
... it won't so much roll off the tongue as slice right through it.
My kids are 8 and 11, and the 'You wouldn't steal a car, so you shouldn't steal movies' featurette at the start of some films has them in stitches. According to that puffery, if they copy a film they'd be real criminals, just like people who rob banks and shoot each other, and while it sounds exciting they're somewhat puzzled by the wildly different levels of harm to society between each crime.
I just got a Panasonic TV projector, so instead of a DVD player we're now using a PC with a freeware media player. The skip button works perfectly, every time, so no more crap at the start of every film. And no more 'But how do I steal a car?' questions from the 8-year-old.
Agreed. I have a vested interest because I'm an author, but I do love the flexibility of English. Anyway, this uniform spelling rubbish would immediately kill off nine tenths of all jokes, double entendres and puns, which just goes to show that reformists are a humourless bunch of uankas.
As an aside, from age 8 to 15 I attended schools in Spain, so almost all my learning was in Spanish. That didn't stop me graduating from uni here in Australia with a degree in English Lit & Creative writing, even though I only had 2 years in English schooling to my name. It's not impossible, just difficult, and learning difficult things exercises the mind.
... manufacturers wouldn't keep putting high-intensity LEDs in the most ludicrous places. I have a cheapo laminator with a clear plastic handle on top, and embedded in the handle are two of the brightest blue LEDs I have ever seen. They're pointing straight up, which is exactly where my eyes are when I'm trying to feed a sheet of paper into the machine. Of all the stupid gonzo designs...
Anyway, nine layers of masking tape and a liberal application of black texta later these LEDs are barely enough to light three rooms of my house.
Next up are bright LEDS on speaker controls, the front of my LCD monitor, my mouse... After correcting all these things my gear looks like it was smashed with a hammer and stuck back together with tape.
So, kudos to the guy for inventing the LEDS, and minus several million points to the manufacturers for using them.
I bought VMWare for Linux a couple of years back and the supplier actually phoned me to make sure I hadn't selected it by mistake, and hadn't I really meant the Windows version? Nice of them to ask, but for once I knew what I was doing.
Must have been a Microsoft Meteorite (TM)(R) - They programmed it to hit Finland, and it missed.
I was particularly thinking of GT Legends, which offers you a mini cooper and a lotus cortina, neither of which are much cop. In real life I drive a Subaru WRX, so playing a 'thrilling' PC game where the vehicles have 1/4 the horsepower of my road car and don't so much take corners as mug them isn't much fun.
On a side note, GT Legends came with starfire or rimfire or fire-something protection crap which kept swapping my DVD player back to PIO mode, so I uninstalled the thing and went through a bunch of steps deleting dll files and registry entries. Fair enough if all games used the same protection system and drivers, but once you install 30-50 titles over a two-three year period you're looking at some seriously messed up shit.
The wrong way: You install a racing game and only have access to two pissweak cars for about the first five weeks of gameplay. (They ought to let you drive the better cars, against correspondingly better opposition.) If you have to lock stuff up, make it the tracks.
The Right Way: Oblivion. Masses of stuff is locked away from the player, but there's enough interesting things to do at the lower levels that you just don't care.
Absolutely. They want something that works NOW and which can improve over time. So what if it takes fifteen keystrokes to find a settings form or the tab order is up the chute? Better than endless promises of a killer app which will be ready Any Day Now, which either never arrives or sucks when it DOES arrive.
I learnt that lesson as a teenager in the early 80's, thanks to over-hyped computer games which truly sucked when they finally (if ever) arrived. Other speccy users will know exactly which titles I'm referring to.
Well, perhaps in the future you'll be able to run skype on your mobile and use it for phone calls.
Agreed. I wrote (and still maintain) a very powerful stock market charting app almost entirely in VB6. Yes, I use a couple of DLLs for intensive calculations but the GUI and 99% of the code is VB. It works, it's stable, and the users love it. Wish I could say the same about a number of other apps sitting on my computer.
In summary: don't blame VB for shitty programs, blame the programmer. And if you'd rather write in something else, why should I care? I'll judge you on the results, not the language used to write it.
I'm curious what they'll do to insure it only runs on Vista.
My guess? They'll make DX 10 Vista only. If not 10, then 11. They did this with DX 7 or 8 (can't remember which), and it no longer installed on Win98. DX is tied in much closer with the OS and drivers than any game would be.
I'm happy with my nice stable XP and fave games (never thought I'd say that) and I'd never upgrade an OS for a single game.
And why not simply ".m"?
Off topic, but when SMSing is there any way to say 'yes I accept the bloody letter you're showing me, now let me pick another on the same button' or do I have to wait for the cursor? I've read manuals, searched the web, pulled my hair out but all to no avail.
Example: I want to type 'action'. Press 2 for A then wait, wait, wait until I can press 2 again (twice) for C. What I want is 2 for A then (something which accepts it) then 2 twice for C.
... so did the old one.