Actually! I think in the recent Tome of Battle, there was indeed a Tiger Hand discipline as one of the Nine Paths of the Sublime Way. Or maybe it was Tiger Claw... regardless, I'm not making this up, I swear.
I am glad somebody else recognizes this problem with the grandparent post!! Seriously, I am losing faith in Slashdot with this and a few of its children being modded Insightful. *Cries*.
Don't worry, your errors are ABSOLUTELY TRIVIAL compared to Mr. Grandparent Poster -_-.
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I am of course not 100 % sure, but I am fairly confident Google simply finds and displays those ads in real time. It isn't building an "ad profile" to show you based on your email; the only data that's processed is the current screen.
I kind of envision it as a script that grabs all the nouns, sends them with an XMLHttpRequest to some server code, and gets back ads in an iframe. But I definitely haven't poked around.
Regarding obvious spams, what's got me confused is why Gmail is not tagging things that actually have the string "(Spam) " as the first thing in their subject line. WTF?
Just this last year, our school introduced an extremely-restrictive proxy that would often block legitimate research sites (as well as all the fun ones.) In addition to finding a few workarounds (ping to get IP address, use that instead; google translation; etc.), I wrote a happy little program that I distributed throughout the computer lab.
What did this program do? It ran in the background, monitoring Internet Explorer's address bar (couldn't find a nice API for Firefox, but mozilla.org was blocked anyway). When it detected that the proxy had taken over (http://www.lghs.net?blockedsite=mozilla.org&reaso n=ADULT-CONTENT), it sent a nice little email to the IT guy. It was very polite, just saying a sentence or two about how I believe site.com had been added to the filter list in error and I would request its removal. Multiply that by every blocked site ever visited, though...:-D.
(Yes, I know it's probably not moral to use school computers for this. Yes, I know he could have created an email filtering rule to send the messages to the trash. I liked it, and so did the users. *Shrug*.)
Yeah, I don't know what to do about performance, but I think part of the whole Zerg appeal would be that only they get to have squad members. Maybe make them all simple in some way that makes network transmission easy... I dunno, talk to the Guild Wars developers, they seem to have a good handle on network performance. *Shrug*.
Yeah, mutation would be an awesome solution. Another might be having everyone be a cerebrate (prolly need some plot device to explain why there are so many now---cloning experiments or some such?), and have weak Zerg armies under his/her control. Like maybe you control a Zergling at level 1, up to a nicely customizable mixed force on the level of 12 Zerglings, 4 hydralisks, 1 ultralisk at level 50 (many other combos possible). It'd take some work to get a nice interface for managing all those, but it'd be cool. Doesn't City of Villians have some kind of mastermind thing?
[My english is better than most other people's german, so please point out mistakes politely. Thank you.]
Dear Sir or Madam,
I would humbly like to bring to your attention the fact that in most English dialects of which I am aware, proper nouns such as "English" or "German" are capitalized. I do hope you do not take offense, as I am merely attempting to inform you of something of which you may not be aware.
My friend's dad had a great theory on this. See, (at least where I live) the kind of stations that broadcast traffic reports broadcast such truly crappy radio that the amount of time you spend listening to crappy radio of your life will be much more than the amount of time you save the once-in-a-blue-moon that the traffic report actually helps.
My next statement must be taken with a grain of salt, since I'm a lame 18-year-old-without-a-license. That said, I can't see too much harm in checking traffic reports on one's cell phone while stuck in stop-and-go traffic. Looking down for 5 seconds at a time seems unlikely to cause accidents, no? Or you could just have a passenger do it, if you have that luxury.
See, I cannot justify to myself buying a non-Core 2 motherboard, simply because AMD's going to be the underdog for quite a while. So in a year or two (or three, whatever) when it comes time to upgrade, I'd much rather be choosing from Core 2 MB-compatible CPUs than AM2-compatible CPUs. That's worth the extra $100 or whatever.
I'm also hoping that once the processors are actually released (27th, right?) the motherboard prices come down. We'll see. My brother's really bugging me to build him a system ASAP, so he might end up paying an early-buyer's premium given how desparate he is.
My guess is the CSS problems you're seeing is people using IE CSS hacks, without targeting them for IE <= 6. Sure, there are definitely still missing stuffs in IE7, but most of the problem is when the developers essentially do an:
if (IE): css_hack_that_wont_work_in_IE7(); else: good_css();
instead of
if (IE && IE.version <= 6): css_hack_that_wont_work_in_IE7(); else: good_css();
Not so much gamers, as anyone doing slightly-intensive multitasking. There are definitely times when I wish my processor wouldn't choke on whatever it's doing at work (compiling, loading a huge file into a sucky inefficient Java IDE... doing anything Java, for that matter... even Firefox can be a bit of a CPU hog for a few seconds sometimes). With a second core, I could let one core choke while the other caters to me.... at least, that's how I understand it.
I'm all outraged at the current administration as well, but thinking about it (for not very long) I can't really think of many free speech issues. It's more just lots of surveilance. What am I forgetting?
While in my gut I agree with you, philosophically I'm having a hard time justifying that. He's less evil because it was money, which is a step detached from the misery its lack causes? He's certainly not less evil by quantity; he managed to miserableify (that should be a word:-P) tons of people.
The pedophile definitely gets a much worse gut reaction than the corporate scammer. But who causes more suffering?
I mean, from a Mill (utilitarian) standpoint, it's clearly Lay who's worse... from Kant... I guess it depends on whether Lay was just being selfish or was actively trying to screw people over. But then, the same could be said for the pedophile. Hrm. Philosophy is fun.
Or is the administration themselves a terrorist threat as they use the threat of violence against individuals or property to intimidate society to achieve political objectives?
When I saw this, a lightbulb went off. Then you diverged from my line of thinking.
Isn't that exactly what they're doing with Guantanamo/secret prison camps (individuals) or wiretapping/bank tracking/electronic communications tracking (property)?
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Priceless. You, sir, are a comic genius (and perhaps a tad too insightful, heh).
What are you talking about!?! Our football team is undefeated since 1993! :-P
Actually! I think in the recent Tome of Battle, there was indeed a Tiger Hand discipline as one of the Nine Paths of the Sublime Way. Or maybe it was Tiger Claw... regardless, I'm not making this up, I swear.
I am glad somebody else recognizes this problem with the grandparent post!! Seriously, I am losing faith in Slashdot with this and a few of its children being modded Insightful. *Cries*.
Don't worry, your errors are ABSOLUTELY TRIVIAL compared to Mr. Grandparent Poster -_-.
I am of course not 100 % sure, but I am fairly confident Google simply finds and displays those ads in real time. It isn't building an "ad profile" to show you based on your email; the only data that's processed is the current screen.
I kind of envision it as a script that grabs all the nouns, sends them with an XMLHttpRequest to some server code, and gets back ads in an iframe. But I definitely haven't poked around.
Too much informative :-P
Regarding obvious spams, what's got me confused is why Gmail is not tagging things that actually have the string "(Spam) " as the first thing in their subject line. WTF?
Anyone else have this problem?
Just this last year, our school introduced an extremely-restrictive proxy that would often block legitimate research sites (as well as all the fun ones.) In addition to finding a few workarounds (ping to get IP address, use that instead; google translation; etc.), I wrote a happy little program that I distributed throughout the computer lab.
o n=ADULT-CONTENT), it sent a nice little email to the IT guy. It was very polite, just saying a sentence or two about how I believe site.com had been added to the filter list in error and I would request its removal. Multiply that by every blocked site ever visited, though... :-D.
What did this program do? It ran in the background, monitoring Internet Explorer's address bar (couldn't find a nice API for Firefox, but mozilla.org was blocked anyway). When it detected that the proxy had taken over (http://www.lghs.net?blockedsite=mozilla.org&reas
(Yes, I know it's probably not moral to use school computers for this. Yes, I know he could have created an email filtering rule to send the messages to the trash. I liked it, and so did the users. *Shrug*.)
OMG out loud is popular where I am; OMFSM is my preferred rendition, though.
Yeah, I don't know what to do about performance, but I think part of the whole Zerg appeal would be that only they get to have squad members. Maybe make them all simple in some way that makes network transmission easy... I dunno, talk to the Guild Wars developers, they seem to have a good handle on network performance. *Shrug*.
Yeah, mutation would be an awesome solution. Another might be having everyone be a cerebrate (prolly need some plot device to explain why there are so many now---cloning experiments or some such?), and have weak Zerg armies under his/her control. Like maybe you control a Zergling at level 1, up to a nicely customizable mixed force on the level of 12 Zerglings, 4 hydralisks, 1 ultralisk at level 50 (many other combos possible). It'd take some work to get a nice interface for managing all those, but it'd be cool. Doesn't City of Villians have some kind of mastermind thing?
Dear Sir or Madam,
I would humbly like to bring to your attention the fact that in most English dialects of which I am aware, proper nouns such as "English" or "German" are capitalized. I do hope you do not take offense, as I am merely attempting to inform you of something of which you may not be aware.
Sincerely yours,
-DeviantQ-
Wow, green and blue... I see what you mean. What's with the tripod branding, though? Is that like the guy who sold an ad on his head on eBay?
My friend's dad had a great theory on this. See, (at least where I live) the kind of stations that broadcast traffic reports broadcast such truly crappy radio that the amount of time you spend listening to crappy radio of your life will be much more than the amount of time you save the once-in-a-blue-moon that the traffic report actually helps.
My next statement must be taken with a grain of salt, since I'm a lame 18-year-old-without-a-license. That said, I can't see too much harm in checking traffic reports on one's cell phone while stuck in stop-and-go traffic. Looking down for 5 seconds at a time seems unlikely to cause accidents, no? Or you could just have a passenger do it, if you have that luxury.
See, I cannot justify to myself buying a non-Core 2 motherboard, simply because AMD's going to be the underdog for quite a while. So in a year or two (or three, whatever) when it comes time to upgrade, I'd much rather be choosing from Core 2 MB-compatible CPUs than AM2-compatible CPUs. That's worth the extra $100 or whatever.
I'm also hoping that once the processors are actually released (27th, right?) the motherboard prices come down. We'll see. My brother's really bugging me to build him a system ASAP, so he might end up paying an early-buyer's premium given how desparate he is.
Why does the FSM not get any love these days? Sniffle... don't worry, dear carbohydrate-based god, I'll still worship you.
Should I wait, or buy an iPod now?
My guess is the CSS problems you're seeing is people using IE CSS hacks, without targeting them for IE <= 6. Sure, there are definitely still missing stuffs in IE7, but most of the problem is when the developers essentially do an:
instead ofNot so much gamers, as anyone doing slightly-intensive multitasking. There are definitely times when I wish my processor wouldn't choke on whatever it's doing at work (compiling, loading a huge file into a sucky inefficient Java IDE... doing anything Java, for that matter... even Firefox can be a bit of a CPU hog for a few seconds sometimes). With a second core, I could let one core choke while the other caters to me. ... at least, that's how I understand it.
I'm all outraged at the current administration as well, but thinking about it (for not very long) I can't really think of many free speech issues. It's more just lots of surveilance. What am I forgetting?
Fixed that for ya...
While in my gut I agree with you, philosophically I'm having a hard time justifying that. He's less evil because it was money, which is a step detached from the misery its lack causes? He's certainly not less evil by quantity; he managed to miserableify (that should be a word :-P) tons of people.
The pedophile definitely gets a much worse gut reaction than the corporate scammer. But who causes more suffering?
I mean, from a Mill (utilitarian) standpoint, it's clearly Lay who's worse... from Kant... I guess it depends on whether Lay was just being selfish or was actively trying to screw people over. But then, the same could be said for the pedophile. Hrm. Philosophy is fun.
When I saw this, a lightbulb went off. Then you diverged from my line of thinking.
Isn't that exactly what they're doing with Guantanamo/secret prison camps (individuals) or wiretapping/bank tracking/electronic communications tracking (property)?
I WANT THAT IQ!!! :-D.
This is something to remember... "I have room temperature IQ... in KELVINS!! PWNED!"