And an iPod makes a handy firewire drive for moving music around. Or anything else. There's tons of stuff on versiontracker.com for accessing the iPod as a drive.
Here's another point. Apple sold two million tracks in the first two weeks. Their only advertising was the initial PR, the web buzz and coverage in the press. The advertising for the store didn't start until late in the second week (on Thursday, during Friends). A healthy portion of their user base (home iMac users) hans't even heard of the store yet.
I'm going to be very interested in what the sales figures do after the advertising kicks in.
Meh. Rent it on DVD. You know how they say about big-budget films, "you can see it all on the screen" ? Well, you can't. Seriously, it looks waaaaaaaaaaaaaaay cheap.
Expect cheesy and you'll be fine. Have some beers handy and be prepared to laugh at spots that weren't supposed to be funny. You know the drill.
Well, then there's that whole collateral damage thing...
I'd say the safest way to do it is to use an RBL that has an efficient removal process to handle mistaken listings. Or you could only run your heaviest filters on messages flagged by the RBL. I'm not running a mail server right now (thank heavens) so that's just off the top of my head.
Any mail admin who is using RBLs alone isn't doing the whole job. I can't see it being professionally responsible (in the strictest sense) to rely on a sole source for refusing mail from whole netblocks. RBLs are simply too controversial, and for good reasons, to be used without at least confirmation. Ideally, you confirm from multiple sources and at best you combine RBLs with other methods entirely.
What happened to peacefire.org is a Bad Thing. Steps Must Be Taken to see that innocents are not harmed. But for "just" email, a few percent error is acceptable if the errors are corrected quickly.
Well, if anybody can come up with a rugged, low-power optical drive it's Sony. There are already anti-skip CD players for joggers, I'm sure they can come up with something.
You think the GameGear was bad, try the Lynx. Great game library (multiplayer autoduel !) but it ate batteries.
See, they had an HTML rendering engine before they started on Safari, it's the one in the help system. You'll notice they threw it out and adopted KHTML for Safari. As soon as Safari is out of beta you can expect them to update Help to use WebCore.
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It may have been unintentional, but SCO absolutely had the authority to release the code. There's a strong case to be made that at the point where SCO released the code, that IP was placed under the GPL. So everyone is off the hook.
I burned an audio cd at work. At home, the Mac with an older version of iTunes played it just fine, the Win2k box with a current WinAmp had serious issues with parts of ther tracks, and the Playstation 2 played it fine.
Fox's show, "24" has hit pretty close to this mark. As of this week they introduced a shadowy intustrialist character who is apparently interested in profiting from a Middle East war.
Just to clarify this a bit, this concerns the MS Intellimouse. Supposedly, the horrible design that puts the cord rubbing against a sharp edge is really HP's fault, since they're the OEM on this item. Whoever blew this one ruined a very nice optical mouse.
When I first called MS about this a few years ago they wanted serial numbers from the mice. So I photocopied a buncha mice, faxed 'em over and a couple weeks later we got a buncha new mice. Same design flaw, but if my.bomb was still a going concern I'd still be there, faxing mouse serial #s to MS a couple time a year.
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I forward to both spamcop and the FTC using a group alias. It adds no time to the reporting. Spamcop (maybe) gets the spammer shut down, then the FTC comes along later and uses them. Works great !
In this case the client desperately needed to be told what he really wanted. Heck, he practically said it himself. He thought he had a "wonder of automation". Well, build him one. It'll be fun.
The recommendation of any automated build system is clearly indicated. Or, if you're a scripting guy, write him more scripts to tie the ones he has together. Heck, put 'em in as cron jobs and you get automated daily builds.
And he'll think you are a fucking god. I put a system together for one bunch of idiots using Filemaker and Applescript. The GUI had a display for each sales lead and two big buttons marked in primary colors. They loved it. It wasn't much, but I got to do something clever [1], they didn't care how, I got paid for it, and that bunch of evil cretins was happy for a while.
I'm not saying to do shoddy work, but don't forget to manage your own expectations.
In these cases, where obvious cretins are waving their hands and talking about databases as if it were magic - because to them it is - in these cases shiny works. Ideally, you get to do a pet project, because they don't ultimately care about the implementation, so long as they get their shiny toy. "Dashboard" is a good buzzword if he reads magazines and you're doing any sort of system management or control project.
They get what they want. You get paid. They're happy. At worst you have a reference. At best he talks you up so persistently that the cluefull people hire you for real work.
By the way, SW Eng should have been you natural ally.
[1] I managed to optimize this process by about 2 orders of magnitude while showering (try it) a few months ago (ahem). But the process only bottlenecked on speed once, on a job where they forgot to tell us that the client had paid for this feature. Then they had to get 3 weeks worth of leads (it took that long for these bozos, my cretins and a now-all-but-defunct European ERP vendor, to notice) emailed out in the TWO HOURS before the sales veep would address the field reps. Did I mention there had been no leads for 3 weeks ? My original implementation was fast enough by about 12 minutes. I wish I'd thought of the optimization 3 years ago, but that's life.
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And an iPod makes a handy firewire drive for moving music around. Or anything else. There's tons of stuff on versiontracker.com for accessing the iPod as a drive.
Here's another point. Apple sold two million tracks in the first two weeks. Their only advertising was the initial PR, the web buzz and coverage in the press. The advertising for the store didn't start until late in the second week (on Thursday, during Friends). A healthy portion of their user base (home iMac users) hans't even heard of the store yet.
I'm going to be very interested in what the sales figures do after the advertising kicks in.
No let's NOT think about the movie "Backdraft". Please ?
Meh. Rent it on DVD. You know how they say about big-budget films, "you can see it all on the screen" ? Well, you can't. Seriously, it looks waaaaaaaaaaaaaaay cheap.
Expect cheesy and you'll be fine. Have some beers handy and be prepared to laugh at spots that weren't supposed to be funny. You know the drill.
Well, then there's that whole collateral damage thing...
I'd say the safest way to do it is to use an RBL that has an efficient removal process to handle mistaken listings. Or you could only run your heaviest filters on messages flagged by the RBL. I'm not running a mail server right now (thank heavens) so that's just off the top of my head.
Any mail admin who is using RBLs alone isn't doing the whole job. I can't see it being professionally responsible (in the strictest sense) to rely on a sole source for refusing mail from whole netblocks. RBLs are simply too controversial, and for good reasons, to be used without at least confirmation. Ideally, you confirm from multiple sources and at best you combine RBLs with other methods entirely.
What happened to peacefire.org is a Bad Thing. Steps Must Be Taken to see that innocents are not harmed. But for "just" email, a few percent error is acceptable if the errors are corrected quickly.
Well, if anybody can come up with a rugged, low-power optical drive it's Sony. There are already anti-skip CD players for joggers, I'm sure they can come up with something.
You think the GameGear was bad, try the Lynx. Great game library (multiplayer autoduel !) but it ate batteries.
See, they had an HTML rendering engine before they started on Safari, it's the one in the help system. You'll notice they threw it out and adopted KHTML for Safari. As soon as Safari is out of beta you can expect them to update Help to use WebCore.
Oh dear me. No mod points, and one of the funniest one-liners ever to appear on Slashdot.
Whatever shall we do ? Won't someone please think of the moderators.
I still want a copy of "Where in Blazes is Carmen Sandiego", which would be based on Dante's "Inferno".
Not gonna happen, but it would be cool.
Anybody else remember Aztec ? That game turned graphical glitches into gameplay enhancements.
Arguably worse than goatse.
I didn't know Denis Leary posted to slashdot
It may have been unintentional, but SCO absolutely had the authority to release the code. There's a strong case to be made that at the point where SCO released the code, that IP was placed under the GPL. So everyone is off the hook.
I'm calling you on a +1: Funny. Slashdot has linked to BitTorrent several times in the last couple fo weeks.
I don't think anyone wants a whiff of your computer.
"Facts, schmacts. You can use facts to prove anything that's even remotely true."
I burned an audio cd at work. At home, the Mac with an older version of iTunes played it just fine, the Win2k box with a current WinAmp had serious issues with parts of ther tracks, and the Playstation 2 played it fine.
I'd say this is a pretty useful format.
Without clicking on the link, I'm going to use my powerful properties of prognostication...
No, you don't need to see the image. In fact, if I were Kreskin I might go so far as to say you you NEED to NOT see that picture.
Two links to the forthcoming patch for Forgotten Battles. They're putting in both the Mistel AND the TB-3 with parasite I-16s.
Mistel model in 3dStudio
TB-3 with parasites
Il-2/Forgotten Battles is a great sim. Give it a shot. Both of these oddballs will be flyable aircraft by early May.
Fox's show, "24" has hit pretty close to this mark. As of this week they introduced a shadowy intustrialist character who is apparently interested in profiting from a Middle East war.
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Just to clarify this a bit, this concerns the MS Intellimouse. Supposedly, the horrible design that puts the cord rubbing against a sharp edge is really HP's fault, since they're the OEM on this item. Whoever blew this one ruined a very nice optical mouse.
.bomb was still a going concern I'd still be there, faxing mouse serial #s to MS a couple time a year.
When I first called MS about this a few years ago they wanted serial numbers from the mice. So I photocopied a buncha mice, faxed 'em over and a couple weeks later we got a buncha new mice. Same design flaw, but if my
I forward to both spamcop and the FTC using a group alias. It adds no time to the reporting. Spamcop (maybe) gets the spammer shut down, then the FTC comes along later and uses them. Works great !
I read part of that as "Windows is like driving a broken piano".
The on/off road analogy is a pretty good one actually. I'll have to remember that one.
I miss Phil.
And people wonder why the economy sucks. Business is run by idiots. If spending an extra $37K makes sense, then your accounting system is broken.
But I state the obvious.
In this case the client desperately needed to be told what he really wanted. Heck, he practically said it himself. He thought he had a "wonder of automation". Well, build him one. It'll be fun.
The recommendation of any automated build system is clearly indicated. Or, if you're a scripting guy, write him more scripts to tie the ones he has together. Heck, put 'em in as cron jobs and you get automated daily builds.
And he'll think you are a fucking god. I put a system together for one bunch of idiots using Filemaker and Applescript. The GUI had a display for each sales lead and two big buttons marked in primary colors. They loved it. It wasn't much, but I got to do something clever [1], they didn't care how, I got paid for it, and that bunch of evil cretins was happy for a while.
I'm not saying to do shoddy work, but don't forget to manage your own expectations.
In these cases, where obvious cretins are waving their hands and talking about databases as if it were magic - because to them it is - in these cases shiny works. Ideally, you get to do a pet project, because they don't ultimately care about the implementation, so long as they get their shiny toy. "Dashboard" is a good buzzword if he reads magazines and you're doing any sort of system management or control project.
They get what they want. You get paid. They're happy. At worst you have a reference. At best he talks you up so persistently that the cluefull people hire you for real work.
By the way, SW Eng should have been you natural ally.
[1] I managed to optimize this process by about 2 orders of magnitude while showering (try it) a few months ago (ahem). But the process only bottlenecked on speed once, on a job where they forgot to tell us that the client had paid for this feature. Then they had to get 3 weeks worth of leads (it took that long for these bozos, my cretins and a now-all-but-defunct European ERP vendor, to notice) emailed out in the TWO HOURS before the sales veep would address the field reps. Did I mention there had been no leads for 3 weeks ? My original implementation was fast enough by about 12 minutes. I wish I'd thought of the optimization 3 years ago, but that's life.