Well, there goes my idea. But I wasn't thinking they'd filter based on gTLD... I was thinking that it might help me avoid dictionary-attack spam.
Having, say, magenospamfile@foo.com would also help, but the problem there is letting humans know that for once they're not supposed to take out the nospam...
And, AFAIAC, it can't make my spam any worse than it already is. Oh, hello, shub-internet, where did you come from?
Actually, although I don't have time now, when I run my own mailserver in a year or two, I plan on getting an odd domain -.us,.biz,.info, etc. Actually, the best one for this would probably be.cx, but I don't want to scare off potential employers;-)
What really sucks, though, is being joe-jobbed... and getting spam from your own damn account.
I assume by subtitles you mean closed captions, in which case what Sky did is a violation of Federal law. It's illegal to strip captions from media that has it, or to sell A/V equipment without a caption decoder, except in a few very specific cases.
Unfortunately, there's no codified enforcement, and there's no quality requirements - in theory, they could send a "." every five minutes and be completely legal. Smacktards.
I'm hard of hearing, so I need captions in order to be able to follow a TV show without straining to hear. Still, though, the best part is probably when you're watching a cartoon, and the captions have one joke, and the audio has another.
Not quite... they provide us with a product - search. They compete for us. The advertisers come because we're there. So, even if we're not exactly giving Google something tangible, we're they're customers - just like radio stations consider the listeners their customers.
As it is now, my current teacher doesn't like my essays, but isn't clear about what I can do to improve - a program might help with that. And it would be more consistent.
But somehow, I doubt it's that good. Plus, kids like me are just waiting for it to be released so we can figure out how to scam it.:) Too bad I don't live in Indiana.
I think you're referring to the Black Fleet Crisis trilogy, in which Luke discovered that his mother was with the Fallanassaii
Yes, I was, thanks.
Granted, this assumes that we regard BFC as an authoritative source...
Now, granted, this doesn't apply to Lucas, but the authors have (mostly) been pretty good about using each others' work as references. Plus, Amidala having latent Jedi powers would explain Luke's powers, and there's not a whole lot of other feasible explanations for how Vader (a) didn't hunt down Amidala (b) didn't find Luke.
I agree about the Vader/C3P0 thing... but as for Tatooine, it's a literary thing. Ever hear of "coming full circle"? Although why D.V. wouldn't look on his home planet first for Luke is beyond me, unless he didn't realize Amidala was pregnant. Under those dresses, it might be possible. And what about the traveling Jedi commune she joins and disappears in? (Mentioned in one of the books).
And the "can't use it too much or you'll fall to the dark side" thing that Luke grapples with in Vision of the Future and Spectre of the Past by Timothy Zahn.
Which planet was it whose reps told Han that all Jedi as powerful as Luke ended up falling sooner or later? It began with a B or a D.
I got it through blogger... have been using it frequently, so I got 2 invites. Gave 'em away. One of the invited guys now has 1 Tb, and one I haven't heard from. I still only have 1 Gb. Damn my generosity!
If you'd read the rest of my post, you'd've seen that Darwin's source has been given away.
Neither the BSD nor the GPL prevents them from selling it; only from keeping the source code from those they sell it to. And source code is not all that much better than binary as a method of distribution (from Joe Random's perspective, maybe worse), so they're not afraid of pirating.
And they could make it Cocoa or Aqua based. In fact, the Mac-using OO.org community has been clamoring for that, and OO.org has said that they can't justify a fork like that - but Apple could.
The Captioned Media Project, a service provided for free to the deaf/hard of hearing by the Department of Education, only uses streaming Real because of copyright issues (i.e., they need to be able to track how many times you watch something). They're switching to Windows Media in the next few months though, since it now has DRM, and they say that Microsoft is contracting with someone now to do a Linux version. As long as MPlayer or similar can still play it, I'll be fine, but now I have to go do another codec hunt. Dammit.
I was thinking "current" (being phased out by Dell) floppies were 3.25, and the old ones thus were 5.5. But, I checked, and it's 3.5 and 5.25 inches. And 8 point something before that. No idea what it is in metric, or how many it would take to equal the weight of the SI Kilo platinum thing in France.
because you know MS would kill Office for Mac in a heartbeat.
Maybe, maybe not. There are few benefits for MS making Office for Mac other than as a loss leader to get 'em to use it on Windows.
And by the way, they'd then have to spend even more money creating a Microsoft Office 2004-compatible office suite,
Really? Why not do for OpenOffice.org what they did for Darwin? It's under GPL/LGPL, or they could use SISSL (although I'm not familiar enough with SISSL to know if they'd benefit from that or not). I mean, they already released the source code to Darwin, and I don't think the BSD license required them to do that. So it's not like they've shown themselves to be anti-open-source
How about scrolling? Or at least 3 button, with the middle button bringing up the scroller-thingy? Sorry for the stupidity, I've just recently been exposed to Mac OS X after not having used Mac OS-anything since LC IIs. Oh, and I used an LC I and a Mac Classic a few times (only one program on a 5.5 inch floppy, so more appliance-like than computer), but those experiences were 4-6 years ago.
I like Mac OS X (Darwin + nice GUI + It Just Works(tm) for most stuff), but I hate the way the mice and keyboards feel. Plus, you can save on hardware by using x86 stuff...
How efficiently does it run? I.e., how fast/expensive a box do I need to get a normal experience?
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Well, there goes my idea. But I wasn't thinking they'd filter based on gTLD ... I was thinking that it might help me avoid dictionary-attack spam.
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Having, say, magenospamfile@foo.com would also help, but the problem there is letting humans know that for once they're not supposed to take out the nospam
Sweet! I got first post and didn't even realize it! This is going into my permanent bookmarks folder for sure.
<SCRIPT language="javascript">
tongue.outOfCheek(setTrue);
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And, AFAIAC, it can't make my spam any worse than it already is. Oh, hello, shub-internet, where did you come from?
.us, .biz, .info, etc. Actually, the best one for this would probably be .cx, but I don't want to scare off potential employers ;-)
... and getting spam from your own damn account.
Actually, although I don't have time now, when I run my own mailserver in a year or two, I plan on getting an odd domain -
What really sucks, though, is being joe-jobbed
Only problem with this thing is everyone will be wearing glasses. It's either that or implants.
... oh. Right
I'd be happy with seeing more implants around
It's very Unix-y - do one thing and do it well. It's also very un-Linux/BSD-ish - I can't afford one.
I assume by subtitles you mean closed captions, in which case what Sky did is a violation of Federal law. It's illegal to strip captions from media that has it, or to sell A/V equipment without a caption decoder, except in a few very specific cases.
Unfortunately, there's no codified enforcement, and there's no quality requirements - in theory, they could send a "." every five minutes and be completely legal. Smacktards.
I'm hard of hearing, so I need captions in order to be able to follow a TV show without straining to hear. Still, though, the best part is probably when you're watching a cartoon, and the captions have one joke, and the audio has another.
Not quite ... they provide us with a product - search. They compete for us. The advertisers come because we're there. So, even if we're not exactly giving Google something tangible, we're they're customers - just like radio stations consider the listeners their customers.
extra points to a particularly good paper from a stupid student or take away points for a particularly bad paper from a brilliant student.
A "stupid" student doesn't deserve more points just for improving than a non-"stupid" student, and vice versa.
As it is now, my current teacher doesn't like my essays, but isn't clear about what I can do to improve - a program might help with that. And it would be more consistent.
:) Too bad I don't live in Indiana.
But somehow, I doubt it's that good. Plus, kids like me are just waiting for it to be released so we can figure out how to scam it.
I think you're referring to the Black Fleet Crisis trilogy, in which Luke discovered that his mother was with the Fallanassaii
Yes, I was, thanks.
Granted, this assumes that we regard BFC as an authoritative source...
Now, granted, this doesn't apply to Lucas, but the authors have (mostly) been pretty good about using each others' work as references. Plus, Amidala having latent Jedi powers would explain Luke's powers, and there's not a whole lot of other feasible explanations for how Vader (a) didn't hunt down Amidala (b) didn't find Luke.
I agree about the Vader/C3P0 thing ... but as for Tatooine, it's a literary thing. Ever hear of "coming full circle"? Although why D.V. wouldn't look on his home planet first for Luke is beyond me, unless he didn't realize Amidala was pregnant. Under those dresses, it might be possible. And what about the traveling Jedi commune she joins and disappears in? (Mentioned in one of the books).
But if there's any chance at all of seeing hot grits, count me in.
That, plus the whole isolation thing.
And the "can't use it too much or you'll fall to the dark side" thing that Luke grapples with in Vision of the Future and Spectre of the Past by Timothy Zahn.
Which planet was it whose reps told Han that all Jedi as powerful as Luke ended up falling sooner or later? It began with a B or a D.
I got it through blogger ... have been using it frequently, so I got 2 invites. Gave 'em away. One of the invited guys now has 1 Tb, and one I haven't heard from. I still only have 1 Gb. Damn my generosity!
AFAIK, the guy with a Tb still has it.
It would certainly distract from the threats against Kerry's ability to get the Eucharist.
If you'd read the rest of my post, you'd've seen that Darwin's source has been given away.
Neither the BSD nor the GPL prevents them from selling it; only from keeping the source code from those they sell it to. And source code is not all that much better than binary as a method of distribution (from Joe Random's perspective, maybe worse), so they're not afraid of pirating.
And they could make it Cocoa or Aqua based. In fact, the Mac-using OO.org community has been clamoring for that, and OO.org has said that they can't justify a fork like that - but Apple could.
The Captioned Media Project, a service provided for free to the deaf/hard of hearing by the Department of Education, only uses streaming Real because of copyright issues (i.e., they need to be able to track how many times you watch something). They're switching to Windows Media in the next few months though, since it now has DRM, and they say that Microsoft is contracting with someone now to do a Linux version. As long as MPlayer or similar can still play it, I'll be fine, but now I have to go do another codec hunt. Dammit.
I was thinking "current" (being phased out by Dell) floppies were 3.25, and the old ones thus were 5.5. But, I checked, and it's 3.5 and 5.25 inches. And 8 point something before that. No idea what it is in metric, or how many it would take to equal the weight of the SI Kilo platinum thing in France.
1600x1200 15" panel perched on my lap right now.
/.? Shouldn't you be off doing something only rich people do?
Is it an OLED? Didn't think so. And if it is, WTF are you doing reading
I want my Jesus back, Jesus back, Jesus back ribs from Chili's!
Christian music is just pop, but s/baby/Jesus, as applied by a friend of mine
because you know MS would kill Office for Mac in a heartbeat.
Maybe, maybe not. There are few benefits for MS making Office for Mac other than as a loss leader to get 'em to use it on Windows.
And by the way, they'd then have to spend even more money creating a Microsoft Office 2004-compatible office suite,
Really? Why not do for OpenOffice.org what they did for Darwin? It's under GPL/LGPL, or they could use SISSL (although I'm not familiar enough with SISSL to know if they'd benefit from that or not). I mean, they already released the source code to Darwin, and I don't think the BSD license required them to do that. So it's not like they've shown themselves to be anti-open-source
How about scrolling? Or at least 3 button, with the middle button bringing up the scroller-thingy? Sorry for the stupidity, I've just recently been exposed to Mac OS X after not having used Mac OS-anything since LC IIs. Oh, and I used an LC I and a Mac Classic a few times (only one program on a 5.5 inch floppy, so more appliance-like than computer), but those experiences were 4-6 years ago.
I like Mac OS X (Darwin + nice GUI + It Just Works(tm) for most stuff), but I hate the way the mice and keyboards feel. Plus, you can save on hardware by using x86 stuff ...
How efficiently does it run? I.e., how fast/expensive a box do I need to get a normal experience?
and it said it's supposed to prevent buffer overflows, and that some are being provided to MSFT for testing ... but WTF is NX, and HTF does it work?