Here's another one - When you have 5000+ spam messages in an account, and pop, imap, or a webmail client will take too long to download/process that many messages. Log in with pine and just hold the D down till they're gone. (ok so you have to log out to finally delete them but hey...)
The taxation that led to the American revolution was not unfair. The British had been fighting the French in Canada and preventing them taking over the land occupied by the American settlers. When they (quite reasonably) asked for some taxes to help pay for this defense, the settlers got all arsey about it and refused to pay. At which point, the French decided the best way to hurt the British, was to help foment a revolution. Quite how Britain came out to be the villain in all this is a mystery to me, considering that we pretty much supplied the manpower, transport and money to set up the colony in the first place. What would be the state of industry today, if when the venture capitalists asked for their money back when a company started making profit, were told to get fucked ?
But we westerners having been raised on I, Robot have a negative outlook on robotics.
WTF ? You consider yourself "raised" by a crappy film, that stole its name from a series of interesting and thought provoking books ? There was virtually nothing in that film that resembled anything from the Asimov books, just a nod here and there, to the 3 laws for instance. Personally, I was "raised" reading Isaac Asimov, Arthur C Clarke, Robert A Heinlein, Frank Herbert, Piers Anthony, Ray Bradbury, Philip K. Dick, George Orwell, Neal Stephenson and H.G Wells (amongst others, I just scanned my bookshelf). To form an "outlook" requires more than viewing the latest shit film featuring Hollywoods take on a subject. But then you probably believe everything in "An inconvenient truth". So please don't include me in your "we".
Why do you want to neuter 1 rabbit ? Is there a local risk of rampant feral rabbits impregnating your pet ? BTW, rabbits don't generally like being "cuddled", so you had better get its front teeth and rear claws removed too. Some people should only be allowed robots, they don't know enough about real animals.
I think you're the one missing the point. The idea of this software is to warn of these massive waves, but there is also scope for improving ship design, now that the very existence of such waves is accepted. And turning the ship to face the wave is not a solution. google MV Derbyshire for such a story. The ship is so long that it bridges the waves and leaves the middle section unsupported, and the effect is to break the ship in half. You can't take a massive wave broadside or you'll capsize. And BTW, the Derbyshire was only 4 years old when it sank. No there is no proof that a massive wave caused the sinking, but there is no proof that anything else was the cause either. You have to deal with probabilities, and the existence of possible 100 foot waves changes the calculations somewhat.
Good thing all the WW2 veterans are dead, so they didn't have to see it...
Eh ? They're not all dead. My grandfather is in his nineties and served in Africa. As far as I know, there was even still one live WW1 vet at Remembrance Sunday this year. WW2 was only over 62 years ago, and most of the troops were in their 20s when they fought. Don't be in such a hurry to "lose" the past.
It's the downside of democracy there's always going to be a percentage that disagree with the majority.
Really ? I thought the downside of democracy (in the first past the post system anyway) was that the ruling party rarely constitutes the majority. Hence the majority don't get a say in the governing of their country. Besides which, is dissent with popular opinion properly described as a "downside" ? Perhaps you would prefer totalitarianism.
I'm not sure what you mean by "revenues", but their consolidated net sales as of March 31st 2007 were $11,557,268,881 which is just a tad more than $3 billion.
Corporate info here.
Oh dear, First it was sneakernet, then the internet. What are the ?iaa going to do now you can transfer a couple of movies just by sneezing ! Pretty soon, all information exchange is gonna be viral.
I'm guessing you're American *. Maybe they were trying to show a bit of respect, and making the effort to communicate. How arrogant would it be to send a message and leave the translation of it up to the recipient ? * Maybe not, you said "tons" and yanks use pounds for everything.
I used to be quite happy using iframes, and a bit of perl server side to generate the requested content. It saved having to do a complete page reload and allowed multiple different frames to change according to what was requested. Then there were exploits based around iframes and they became a dirty word, although the exploit was mainly one of a malicious phishing style, where the site appeared to be 1 thing but the content was coming from elsewhere. As long as all the content is coming from the same server, I don't see a problem with them. So, why should I use ajax ?
Most jams are fairly transitory. What this system should do is make the car slow down just enough to prevent the jams in the first place. How many times have you been behind any idiot who hits the brakes but slows down way too much for the conditions, and so makes you brake too much etc etc. If you keep your eyes on the traffic in front of the car in front, you do a much better job of keeping a decent average speed. Of course that also means you can't tailgate at 80+ mph, which seems to be de rigeur these days. It also means that you can't take advantage of a jam to catch up on paperwork, or to engage in meaningful face to face conversation with the person in the back seat, I mean come on, you're supposed to be DRIVING a car, not pressing a few pedals according to mood. Even the police here (UK) have started using rolling roadblocks rather than stopping traffic, because it makes more sense to control the speed rather than reduce it to nothing. I know from experience, that when on a road with dynamically controlled speed limits (M6 Birmingham, M25/M4 etc) if you actually comply with the posted limit, then you keep moving at that limit. What screws it up are the few wankers who decide that a 50 sign actually means 42 or 60. Another place they screw it up is average speed limit zones. Because they brake when they see a camera, the average goes down by 10 mph, so I can get away with doing 60 through a 50 for as long as I was doing 40. It's so much easier just to read the damn sign and do it. But people don't seem to have common sense any more, it's all me me me, and so the governments have no recourse other than increasingly invasive measures to control our behaviour. And that of course results in the familiar situation of the good being punished for the actions of the idiots.
I don't use IE, just firefox, and I have the same version of firefox on WinXP as I do on Fedora 4 / Gnome.
I have been used to the default fonts on both systems, but the winXP always looked terrible. So I just checked the windows setup and it was using Times New Roman - Uuurgh. So, I changed it to reflect what the Fedora system is using - Bitstream Vera Sans, which I am very happy with ( I don't "do" the net on WinXP usually, so this was just for a test.) Result, crappy rendering on WinXP. So expecting to have some idea of what a site will look like on another system is IMHO a bit hopeful. Have a look yourself, open each of these links in a separate tab and contrast and compare. Windows Fedora The layout may differ slightly, as I don't have the browser maximised in either screen shot, but you can see the difference in the appearance of the font. (And yes, I do have mod points left)
Bollocks !
For the first 18 years of my life, I never went into a pub. The next 20 years of my life I was in there every weekend, for 3 days. Am I in the pub now ? Please, enlighten me. And bear in mind that the sun has a lot longer life cycle than me. (and I have access to the net anywhere due to 3G telephony).
I really hope you don't run someone else's machines - seriously ! If you can't handle the English language you're going to have real trouble understanding a computer. And surprisingly, that has nothing to do with language, just your commitment to learning the environment.
Not a pun at all. A pun is a play on words, such that one word or phrase can have different meanings, or using a different word but similar in sound, for comic effect. eg. "Will this elastic do the job ? At a stretch". A harbor (or harbour) is a harbor is a harbor, in whatever context, and means the same thing through each. Google it Now if the headline was "Reports of Saturns moons harboring life don't hold water" then that's a pun. Man discovered dead, he was a cigarette addict - well there's your smoking gun. Which one of these women is really married to God - None. The balloon magician was good, but his prices were inflated. 2 quarrymen have been slated for dismissal. etc.
I hope he lives long enough to see them take it back. He's full of shit, and he jumped on the bandwagon just to keep his name in lights. He hasn't raised awareness of the issue, rather he has injected fallacious arguments into the feeble minds of the general population. Now the hard part is to change their minds to reflect the real truth. ie. Are they really suggesting that we try to halt climate change ? Think about it before you flame.
Bad idea ? To receive 1 "bounce" to verify your real MXs, then never have to do it again sounds pretty good to me. I have 20 domains, and if I could opt to receive 20 messages in order to stop the thousands I currently get purporting to come from my domains - well lets just say, where can I get the software ? You know, we may actually have to do something if we are ever going to stop the spam epidemic. If the necessary patches were applied to existing mail server software, then the thing would be almost automatic.
To all those posters pontificating on the reason this business has failed, you should know that Virgin has just sold its Megastores in a management buyout. Maybe the new owners of all things musical in Virgin don't see any profit in maintaining the online music store ? And even if the online store was to remain outside of the buyout, Virgin Media have been making moves towards being a *big* media company for some time now (broadband, cable tv, mobile & landline telephony). Maybe there is no room for online music sales in that future. Control the infrastructure, let others worry about the consumables.
But Standard-Definition Digital TV isn't better than analog - it degrades differently with noise, but its primary advantage is that it's easier to put more channels on the cable using digital. The channels you get don't look better than the ones you get on analog, but the channels you didn't get on analog might look better in digital.
Not true. If the transmitted program was recorded digitally, ie. recently, it does look better, and is mpeg2 standard (DVD) with bit rates up to 15 Mbs (thats the highest I've seen so far). If the transmitted program was recorded to tape and then converted to digital for transmission, then of course it doesn't look any better. Try recording a cassette tape to cd and see if you get "digital" quality. The problem is that most programming schedules consist of ancient repeats and so are not digital in origin. Here* is a screenshot of the tech details for a random DVB-t program I just looked at (BBC1). Notice the picture size, bitrate and encoding. They are all substantially better quality than analogue tv provides. *The reason the background is black is due to the video using overlay. However, the artifacts are the worst drawback of digital tv. With analogue transmission, you may get ghosting or lines on the picture, but you get a picture. If there is interference with digital transmission, you very frequently get no picture at all, or it's so blocky and halting that it's unwatchable. Mobile receivers will be up in arms when the analogue gets switched off, as they will not be able to get a picture in places they currently enjoy, albeit a crappy one. I know, I live in and drive a truck weekdays. I have resorted to satellite to ensure I get a signal.
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Here's another one -
When you have 5000+ spam messages in an account, and pop, imap, or a webmail client will take too long to download/process that many messages.
Log in with pine and just hold the D down till they're gone. (ok so you have to log out to finally delete them but hey...)
The taxation that led to the American revolution was not unfair. The British had been fighting the French in Canada and preventing them taking over the land occupied by the American settlers. When they (quite reasonably) asked for some taxes to help pay for this defense, the settlers got all arsey about it and refused to pay. At which point, the French decided the best way to hurt the British, was to help foment a revolution. Quite how Britain came out to be the villain in all this is a mystery to me, considering that we pretty much supplied the manpower, transport and money to set up the colony in the first place.
What would be the state of industry today, if when the venture capitalists asked for their money back when a company started making profit, were told to get fucked ?
You consider yourself "raised" by a crappy film, that stole its name from a series of interesting and thought provoking books ? There was virtually nothing in that film that resembled anything from the Asimov books, just a nod here and there, to the 3 laws for instance.
Personally, I was "raised" reading Isaac Asimov, Arthur C Clarke, Robert A Heinlein, Frank Herbert, Piers Anthony, Ray Bradbury, Philip K. Dick, George Orwell, Neal Stephenson and H.G Wells (amongst others, I just scanned my bookshelf).
To form an "outlook" requires more than viewing the latest shit film featuring Hollywoods take on a subject. But then you probably believe everything in "An inconvenient truth".
So please don't include me in your "we".
How long before the reverse becomes true, and in-game events affect real world conditions/actions ?
Why do you want to neuter 1 rabbit ? Is there a local risk of rampant feral rabbits impregnating your pet ?
BTW, rabbits don't generally like being "cuddled", so you had better get its front teeth and rear claws removed too.
Some people should only be allowed robots, they don't know enough about real animals.
I think you're the one missing the point. The idea of this software is to warn of these massive waves, but there is also scope for improving ship design, now that the very existence of such waves is accepted. And turning the ship to face the wave is not a solution. google MV Derbyshire for such a story. The ship is so long that it bridges the waves and leaves the middle section unsupported, and the effect is to break the ship in half. You can't take a massive wave broadside or you'll capsize. And BTW, the Derbyshire was only 4 years old when it sank. No there is no proof that a massive wave caused the sinking, but there is no proof that anything else was the cause either. You have to deal with probabilities, and the existence of possible 100 foot waves changes the calculations somewhat.
They're not all dead. My grandfather is in his nineties and served in Africa. As far as I know, there was even still one live WW1 vet at Remembrance Sunday this year. WW2 was only over 62 years ago, and most of the troops were in their 20s when they fought.
Don't be in such a hurry to "lose" the past.
I thought the downside of democracy (in the first past the post system anyway) was that the ruling party rarely constitutes the majority. Hence the majority don't get a say in the governing of their country. Besides which, is dissent with popular opinion properly described as a "downside" ? Perhaps you would prefer totalitarianism.
I'm not sure what you mean by "revenues", but their consolidated net sales as of March 31st 2007 were $11,557,268,881 which is just a tad more than $3 billion.
Corporate info here.
Oh dear,
First it was sneakernet, then the internet.
What are the ?iaa going to do now you can transfer a couple of movies just by sneezing !
Pretty soon, all information exchange is gonna be viral.
I'm guessing you're American *.
Maybe they were trying to show a bit of respect, and making the effort to communicate. How arrogant would it be to send a message and leave the translation of it up to the recipient ?
* Maybe not, you said "tons" and yanks use pounds for everything.
I used to be quite happy using iframes, and a bit of perl server side to generate the requested content. It saved having to do a complete page reload and allowed multiple different frames to change according to what was requested.
Then there were exploits based around iframes and they became a dirty word, although the exploit was mainly one of a malicious phishing style, where the site appeared to be 1 thing but the content was coming from elsewhere. As long as all the content is coming from the same server, I don't see a problem with them.
So, why should I use ajax ?
The BBC did a program on this months ago called Superstorm. It didn't work out too well, and ended up being militarized by the (US) govt.
Most jams are fairly transitory. What this system should do is make the car slow down just enough to prevent the jams in the first place. How many times have you been behind any idiot who hits the brakes but slows down way too much for the conditions, and so makes you brake too much etc etc. If you keep your eyes on the traffic in front of the car in front, you do a much better job of keeping a decent average speed. Of course that also means you can't tailgate at 80+ mph, which seems to be de rigeur these days. It also means that you can't take advantage of a jam to catch up on paperwork, or to engage in meaningful face to face conversation with the person in the back seat, I mean come on, you're supposed to be DRIVING a car, not pressing a few pedals according to mood.
Even the police here (UK) have started using rolling roadblocks rather than stopping traffic, because it makes more sense to control the speed rather than reduce it to nothing.
I know from experience, that when on a road with dynamically controlled speed limits (M6 Birmingham, M25/M4 etc) if you actually comply with the posted limit, then you keep moving at that limit. What screws it up are the few wankers who decide that a 50 sign actually means 42 or 60. Another place they screw it up is average speed limit zones. Because they brake when they see a camera, the average goes down by 10 mph, so I can get away with doing 60 through a 50 for as long as I was doing 40. It's so much easier just to read the damn sign and do it. But people don't seem to have common sense any more, it's all me me me, and so the governments have no recourse other than increasingly invasive measures to control our behaviour. And that of course results in the familiar situation of the good being punished for the actions of the idiots.
I don't use IE, just firefox, and I have the same version of firefox on WinXP as I do on Fedora 4 / Gnome. I have been used to the default fonts on both systems, but the winXP always looked terrible. So I just checked the windows setup and it was using Times New Roman - Uuurgh.
So, I changed it to reflect what the Fedora system is using - Bitstream Vera Sans, which I am very happy with ( I don't "do" the net on WinXP usually, so this was just for a test.) Result, crappy rendering on WinXP. So expecting to have some idea of what a site will look like on another system is IMHO a bit hopeful.
Have a look yourself, open each of these links in a separate tab and contrast and compare.
Windows
Fedora
The layout may differ slightly, as I don't have the browser maximised in either screen shot, but you can see the difference in the appearance of the font. (And yes, I do have mod points left)
That painting is actually the first representation of Bukakke, but they cleaned it up before exhibition.
Bollocks !
For the first 18 years of my life, I never went into a pub.
The next 20 years of my life I was in there every weekend, for 3 days.
Am I in the pub now ? Please, enlighten me. And bear in mind that the sun has a lot longer life cycle than me. (and I have access to the net anywhere due to 3G telephony).
I really hope you don't run someone else's machines - seriously !
If you can't handle the English language you're going to have real trouble understanding a computer. And surprisingly, that has nothing to do with language, just your commitment to learning the environment.
Maybe you should read this.
Not a pun at all.
A pun is a play on words, such that one word or phrase can have different meanings, or using a different word but similar in sound, for comic effect. eg. "Will this elastic do the job ? At a stretch".
A harbor (or harbour) is a harbor is a harbor, in whatever context, and means the same thing through each.
Google it
Now if the headline was "Reports of Saturns moons harboring life don't hold water" then that's a pun.
Man discovered dead, he was a cigarette addict - well there's your smoking gun. Which one of these women is really married to God - None. The balloon magician was good, but his prices were inflated. 2 quarrymen have been slated for dismissal.
etc.
I hope he lives long enough to see them take it back.
He's full of shit, and he jumped on the bandwagon just to keep his name in lights. He hasn't raised awareness of the issue, rather he has injected fallacious arguments into the feeble minds of the general population. Now the hard part is to change their minds to reflect the real truth. ie. Are they really suggesting that we try to halt climate change ?
Think about it before you flame.
Bad idea ?
To receive 1 "bounce" to verify your real MXs, then never have to do it again sounds pretty good to me. I have 20 domains, and if I could opt to receive 20 messages in order to stop the thousands I currently get purporting to come from my domains - well lets just say, where can I get the software ?
You know, we may actually have to do something if we are ever going to stop the spam epidemic. If the necessary patches were applied to existing mail server software, then the thing would be almost automatic.
The way I understand this would work is -
I don't claim to be an expert in SMTP, but surely this could be useful ?
To all those posters pontificating on the reason this business has failed, you should know that Virgin has just sold its Megastores in a management buyout.
Maybe the new owners of all things musical in Virgin don't see any profit in maintaining the online music store ?
And even if the online store was to remain outside of the buyout, Virgin Media have been making moves towards being a *big* media company for some time now (broadband, cable tv, mobile & landline telephony). Maybe there is no room for online music sales in that future. Control the infrastructure, let others worry about the consumables.
If the transmitted program was recorded digitally, ie. recently, it does look better, and is mpeg2 standard (DVD) with bit rates up to 15 Mbs (thats the highest I've seen so far).
If the transmitted program was recorded to tape and then converted to digital for transmission, then of course it doesn't look any better. Try recording a cassette tape to cd and see if you get "digital" quality. The problem is that most programming schedules consist of ancient repeats and so are not digital in origin.
Here* is a screenshot of the tech details for a random DVB-t program I just looked at (BBC1). Notice the picture size, bitrate and encoding. They are all substantially better quality than analogue tv provides.
*The reason the background is black is due to the video using overlay.
However, the artifacts are the worst drawback of digital tv. With analogue transmission, you may get ghosting or lines on the picture, but you get a picture. If there is interference with digital transmission, you very frequently get no picture at all, or it's so blocky and halting that it's unwatchable. Mobile receivers will be up in arms when the analogue gets switched off, as they will not be able to get a picture in places they currently enjoy, albeit a crappy one. I know, I live in and drive a truck weekdays. I have resorted to satellite to ensure I get a signal.