In that case why don't you just look it up? That's what I do nearly each time I encounter something new. And I do learn something that way... If it's worthy enough to bitch about it's certainly worthy enough to look it up, right?
Yup. However: "Both an abstract and the full text of the PhD thesis entitled “Internet Bad Neighborhoods” are available on request.". Let's all request it, and maybe next time there will be a link to a pdf;-).
Yup OVH is close to #1 spam source here. Good luck reaching their abuse desk. Another nasty one is Dimenoc. Spamcop seems to become more and more pointless as more and more abuse@ addresses bounce. Furthermore, in my experience, more and more ISPs start using their own forms for reporting... Handling abuse costs time, time = money; it's a whining geek versus a paying customer. And as long as they can get away with it, they prefer the latter (and hence make it very hard for the former to contact them).
I certainly agree with that. However, I have the feeling that a lot of visitors don't decide to block ads; someone else does: a family member/friend for example. Moreover, I often see people claiming that they don't have a problem with text based ads. Yet over 50% of the people visiting my site block the ads. (at least last time I checked)
Several years back my blog got quite some traffic and some friends convinced me to give AdSense a try. I did. Just before December. In January Google paid me 1200 USD... The following months I made over 700 USD/month. Over the years this dropped, and I guess it's now around 100 USD or so.
My site is still a hobby, but when I made 700 USD/month with it, I was able to put a lot of extra time in it. And no, I am not going to do my hobby the way you want it; it's my hobby after all. If you're not happy with that, start your own hobby.
I run a simple blog with modest text only AdSense and last time I checked 50+% of the visitors do block ads. There was a time I made 700+ USD/month with it. It's now closer to 100 USD, also because I just can't afford to put much time in it (and hence visitors dropped, a lot).
In my experience, those decade old articles if still used as references for recent articles also can be gotten by just contacting one of the authors of the recent article. And indeed they are often low quality (scanned, etc), so I am all for converting those to PDF as much as possible (not 1:1 scanned pages in a PDF).
As I hinted at in my previous reply I do some (amateurish) research into scorpions (one scientist calls me a "live scorpion enthusiast", which I think describes me quite well). I am not alone in this, and it's quite easy to build a network consisting of professional researchers and amateurs that do exchange articles, even decades old. It beats paying (for example) Elsevier 35 USD for each single article.
In my experience, just contacting one of the authors and kindly asking for a copy works. Moreover, once you start to contribute a little (in my case reporting possible new species of scorpions and assisting on a field trips / being a guide to a location of a possible new species) makes that new articles just come in regularly by email.
Maybe also check out: MaXX Desktop. It started as a port of Indigo Magic (which I enjoyed using back in the 90's on SGI hardware). Scroll down for desktop screen shots.
Display started to show a bright about after a month. Earlier this month a whole line of pixels died. Support? Yeah, only if you live in the USA. I got the KF as a Christmas present last year. Since I live in Mexico having the thing replaced under warranty costs well over 100 USD. So Bezos, if you want to give me a great Christmas: shove a KF so far up your ass that the light of the backlight shines out of your nostrils. If you do, I will gladly offer mine at no additional cost.
Most of my customers pick up inline replying soon enough, but often keep jumping through hoops to achieve what is so simple once you just fall back to plain text emails. I am sure that a lot of time is also wasted on deciphering top replied to email, etc. but still this is the most popular way of writing emails in my experience.
As for reply-all: as soon as there are more than 3 people actively involved it becomes messy and a forum / mailing list / wiki might be a better solution (in my experience).
Email is a fantastic tool, I prefer it a lot over IM (which for work I consider mostly a waste of time and source of annoyance) and a lot of problems with email have more to do with the user doing it wrong than anything else (but what else is new)
Heh, it's more like:
1) can we break this
2) is it easy to do so
3) can we get away with it
4) get we something out of it (real or assumed)
if all 4 can be answered with yes, then a lot of people do so, even the reward is just a giggle. Hence vandalism, animal torture, uprooted plants, names scratched in objects/trees, shop lifting, graffiti, you name it.
Advertising is always obnoxious no matter how subtle it's done.
I guess your browser has HTTP_X_PREFIX_ARTICLE_TITLE set to "In the near future, it looks as if we'll have a ".
I can see how that makes Slashdot more pleasant to read;-)
The processor does seem weak, but it is a $200 machine that's only going to be used for light tasks.
Yeah, and be happy if it still runs after a year. My experience with Acer is that they are a very bad brand. Maybe because the last one I bought was a "made for Mexico" model were consumer protection is weak (so say the least). Each time I see those Acers at the local supermarket -- Chedraui, well known for the utter crap they sell -- for about 3000 pesos I wonder how much of those are still running a year from now. Wouldn't surprise me if it was less than 50%.
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"New" as in "new to me", of course.
In that case why don't you just look it up? That's what I do nearly each time I encounter something new. And I do learn something that way... If it's worthy enough to bitch about it's certainly worthy enough to look it up, right?
Uhm... I think it's better to 410 (Gone) the offending URLs. Or better, if possible, redirect them to similar on-site content.
Do you ever get reports from SpamCop? If not, you might want to verify that you have a working abuse@...
Yup. However: "Both an abstract and the full text of the PhD thesis entitled “Internet Bad Neighborhoods” are available on request.". Let's all request it, and maybe next time there will be a link to a pdf ;-).
Yup OVH is close to #1 spam source here. Good luck reaching their abuse desk. Another nasty one is Dimenoc. Spamcop seems to become more and more pointless as more and more abuse@ addresses bounce. Furthermore, in my experience, more and more ISPs start using their own forms for reporting... Handling abuse costs time, time = money; it's a whining geek versus a paying customer. And as long as they can get away with it, they prefer the latter (and hence make it very hard for the former to contact them).
https://www.google.com/search?q=enabling%20editing%20command%20prompt
I certainly agree with that. However, I have the feeling that a lot of visitors don't decide to block ads; someone else does: a family member/friend for example. Moreover, I often see people claiming that they don't have a problem with text based ads. Yet over 50% of the people visiting my site block the ads. (at least last time I checked)
Paywall? Right
Several years back my blog got quite some traffic and some friends convinced me to give AdSense a try. I did. Just before December. In January Google paid me 1200 USD... The following months I made over 700 USD/month. Over the years this dropped, and I guess it's now around 100 USD or so.
My site is still a hobby, but when I made 700 USD/month with it, I was able to put a lot of extra time in it. And no, I am not going to do my hobby the way you want it; it's my hobby after all. If you're not happy with that, start your own hobby.
I run a simple blog with modest text only AdSense and last time I checked 50+% of the visitors do block ads. There was a time I made 700+ USD/month with it. It's now closer to 100 USD, also because I just can't afford to put much time in it (and hence visitors dropped, a lot).
I guess you mean you miss things in XFCE that are in Gnome 2? Care to post a list, since I want to switch to Xubuntu soonish. Thanks!
In my experience, those decade old articles if still used as references for recent articles also can be gotten by just contacting one of the authors of the recent article. And indeed they are often low quality (scanned, etc), so I am all for converting those to PDF as much as possible (not 1:1 scanned pages in a PDF).
As I hinted at in my previous reply I do some (amateurish) research into scorpions (one scientist calls me a "live scorpion enthusiast", which I think describes me quite well). I am not alone in this, and it's quite easy to build a network consisting of professional researchers and amateurs that do exchange articles, even decades old. It beats paying (for example) Elsevier 35 USD for each single article.
In my experience, just contacting one of the authors and kindly asking for a copy works. Moreover, once you start to contribute a little (in my case reporting possible new species of scorpions and assisting on a field trips / being a guide to a location of a possible new species) makes that new articles just come in regularly by email.
That said, I do agree that access should be free.
Ever done heavy manual labour in 35C? 40C? 45C?
Maybe also check out: MaXX Desktop. It started as a port of Indigo Magic (which I enjoyed using back in the 90's on SGI hardware). Scroll down for desktop screen shots.
If you mean JSON; YAML (1.2 and up) is a superset of JSON.
I don't think you mean actual JavaScript in a configuration file and eval-ing that....
Display started to show a bright about after a month. Earlier this month a whole line of pixels died. Support? Yeah, only if you live in the USA. I got the KF as a Christmas present last year. Since I live in Mexico having the thing replaced under warranty costs well over 100 USD. So Bezos, if you want to give me a great Christmas: shove a KF so far up your ass that the light of the backlight shines out of your nostrils. If you do, I will gladly offer mine at no additional cost.
See also: http://johnbokma.com/mexit/2012/03/04/kindle-fire-outside-usa-beware.html
In short: don't send a Kindle Fire overseas. Amazon can't ship the KF after repairs so it will be very expensive
Most of my customers pick up inline replying soon enough, but often keep jumping through hoops to achieve what is so simple once you just fall back to plain text emails. I am sure that a lot of time is also wasted on deciphering top replied to email, etc. but still this is the most popular way of writing emails in my experience.
As for reply-all: as soon as there are more than 3 people actively involved it becomes messy and a forum / mailing list / wiki might be a better solution (in my experience).
Email is a fantastic tool, I prefer it a lot over IM (which for work I consider mostly a waste of time and source of annoyance) and a lot of problems with email have more to do with the user doing it wrong than anything else (but what else is new)
Heh, it's more like: 1) can we break this 2) is it easy to do so 3) can we get away with it 4) get we something out of it (real or assumed) if all 4 can be answered with yes, then a lot of people do so, even the reward is just a giggle. Hence vandalism, animal torture, uprooted plants, names scratched in objects/trees, shop lifting, graffiti, you name it. Advertising is always obnoxious no matter how subtle it's done.
I guess your browser has HTTP_X_PREFIX_ARTICLE_TITLE set to "In the near future, it looks as if we'll have a ". I can see how that makes Slashdot more pleasant to read ;-)
FTA: In the near future, it looks as if we’ll have water bottles that can capture drinkable water from the air as well.
Yeah, it's just that simple, of course there are no name clashes at all....
Yeah, and be happy if it still runs after a year. My experience with Acer is that they are a very bad brand. Maybe because the last one I bought was a "made for Mexico" model were consumer protection is weak (so say the least). Each time I see those Acers at the local supermarket -- Chedraui, well known for the utter crap they sell -- for about 3000 pesos I wonder how much of those are still running a year from now. Wouldn't surprise me if it was less than 50%.
And yet you just made an effort to post similar junk to Slashdot....
http://www.curioustaxonomy.net/etym/fiction.html Enjoy!