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I'm pulling for you. I don't just believe, but know, that technical solutions like yours will win the day as opposed to legislation or some other social BS. Engineers > politicians. Go, man, go.
people don't want to install a system when there is no guarantee that all the recipients have it too.
I've heard this argument thrown around alot. My reply: has anyone tried in earnest? I didn't install Gentoo Linux until I heard other people's success with it. I would not have been able to install Gentoo unless someone put together the distribution.
I think we underestimate the power of word of mouth. If a new mail protocol and system were devised, an ISP installed it, and that ISP found that it was da bomb, then I suspect that other ISP's would get on board real fast. No it won't be easy, but you subtract 100+ spam mails a day from your average user's inbox, and you might have a customer for all time.
There's multitasking, and then there is getting stuff done. Sometimes I wonder if all the game playing I've done (I'm thirty) has whittled down my patience and persistence to follow through on some things. Like work. But then, I'd rather have one large project of my own, than a bunch of smaller ones from other people.
I don't want to learn any more languages. Are new languages necessary, or can existing languages be extended to meet our needs? Personally, I'd rather it be the latter, but then I'm a thirty year old burnout.
I looked into this a few years ago for college basketball no less. I got a tepid response because I was a "small timer" looking to do some stuff for a fantasy league, but they probably have package that will meet your (obviously NFL football this time of year) fantasy league's needs and costs forty times the worth of your firstborn.
This is why I dropped Redhat for Gentoo. Well, that and RPM which meant that if Perl wasn't installed, virtually nothing was installed. I'm running Gentoo 1.4rc4 with X 4.3.0 and an ATI Radeon 9700 Pro, and loving America's Army, UT2003, and RTCW. I get 6300+ fps in glgears. Installing Gentoo was easy, and now everything that gets compiled from source gets the optimizations I want. Beautiful.
I'll begin by noting that I'm a bread lover. Rolls, loaves, biscuits. All of them. You can put me on the Atkin's diet when you pry the Italian sweet loaf from my cold, dead fingers.
I tried the Atkin's diet for two weeks, and it failed me. I didn't gain weight to my amazement, but I didn't lose any either. I did realize that it was silly to deprive myself of certain foods (breads, anything with a fair amount of carbs) because I live a whack, sedentary existence as a programmer. I gave up the protein-or-bust diet, bought a $50 elliptial machine (still working after 2 years), bought a road bike, and swore off fast food. Now I bike to work, mix in some work on the elliptial machine, and enjoy a diverse diet limited only by the number of calories and some fundamental nutritional requirements.
I lost fifteen pounds in two months and have kept it off. I feel great. And most importantly, I don't feel deprived.
What is it about our culture that makes us feel we have to go cold turkey on natural instincts? I say, "Want a slice of cake?" Have at it and attack that next hill on your bike this weekend. Angry at that girl that cut you off in traffic? Roll down your window and launch into a profanity-laden tirade the likes of which traffic has never seen so she thinks thirty-thousand times before doing it again.
Goddamn these scientists that tell you what you can't eat. Goddamn the lawyers that put responsibility on trial. We live in a world of consequences, and your life is not the control group of a scientific experiment nor does it require the a writ of habeas corpus to satisfy someone else's lack of sensibilities. You can fend for yourself. You have it in you. Your ancestors would not been able to pass you the genetic torch if they did not have it. Life and happiness are not exclusive.
Buy some weights. Use them at least every other day. Keep increasing the weight you are using as much and as often as possible to build muscle (as opposed to toning)
I always believed that lifting weights with less weight and higher reps was better and that I wanted to tone (I'd rather be slender and toned than muscular and bulky). I'm curious: why lift more weight for muscle instead of toning?
If at all possible, take up residence a few miles from your place of employment and pedal to work. Thanks to encouragement and tips offered by fellow/.'ers, I regularly enjoy a 1.5 mile ride to and from work on my Bianchi.
And it has just taken off from there. I go outside of town around Lexington, Kentucky's horse farms on the weekends and get thirty miles in Saturdays and some Sundays. I love it. Cycling is easy for a novice to pick up and continue enjoying. Once you learn, you'll never forget!
Data, even metadata, belongs in files, not fs
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I agree that metadata in the filesystem is a risky proposition. Just on general principle, I prefer my data inside the file and not left with the filesystem. The MP3 metadata example, to me, is like Windows file extensions on HGH. I remember John Dvorak wrote a piece about Windows file extensions a long while back, and he argued that file types, etc. should be inside the file. A header of sorts. I tended to agree then, and I see filesystem metadata as a bad trend.
So congress decided that they were "engineers" and said that there would be "inteference", and gutted LPFM.
Face it. You will not get a solution to a technical problem like spam from these jokers on Capitol Hill. And for those of you who think spam is a social problem, you will not get a solution to a social problem from these people either.
Wow. Why did I ever believe Congress was a place that American business, be it commercial, social, or cultural, got done? Did Congress always stand opposed to the individual as it does today?
Anyone else out there have any experience with this combination? I recently upgraded from RH 8 to 9, and found that I would be lacking 3D acceleration. Anybody have any word on whether my 9700 Pro will ever run accelerated with RH 9 and XFree86 4.3?
But the best sporting technical innovation: scores displayed permanently in the top left corner of your TV picture.
This is far and away the worst thing to happen to sports television ever. Look, if you can't stand to pay attention to the frickin' game, then don't. Why I should have to bear witness to the Flash equivalent for sports TV, is beyond me.
No, the greatest innovation in sports viewing is yet to come: total control of what I see and who I hear. Don't want the goddamned score box in the top left corner? Go to options, and remove it. Ears can't withstand Dicky V? Go to options, kill the color man's mike, maybe the play-by-play man's too, and leave the action sound on. Can't stand the extreme closeup of Phil Jackson's nostril? Choose a wide angle camera and lock it.
Sports broadcasting has come a long way and has enhanced a lot of things, but I've reached my limit and want my ballgame back.
Reform SMTP or do away with it all together, and this problem likely goes away or becomes a non-issue. Legislation on technology is too often a concession to failure. My God, we haven't even tried an alternative to SMTP, and you're talking about passing laws. There's countless gun control laws at every level of government in the U.S., and does that absolutely prevent people who should not have a gun from getting one? No.
When applied to crises, legislation rarely affects changes as intended. Please, people, do not let the politicians get into this. Do not give them another issue to gain face time, tack non-germane amendments to another bill, and complicate a problem with a simpler technical solution. Please, those of you with bigger programming wits than I, develop an alternative to SMTP.
There will be countless solutions offered, many of which only address symptoms and not the problem on the whole. Laws, improved security, expanded blacklists. These will not fix the problem: anyone can send anyone a message, an entire frickin' message. Not a header, or subject. An entire message.
I don't pretend to have all the answers, but from where I type, until mail transfer methods are reformed to challenge senders (something along the lines of whitelists) and only send message headers before such challenges are passed/accepted, this BS will continue. E-mail will continue to suck Olympic cock until then.
And spam accounting for half of all messages? I don't know what to say first. "Only half?!" Or more on my point, "Half. How much more incentive do we need to reform e-mail?"
Excellent! Now I can set these to false and get similar behavior in Windows. This has been bugging me forever! No longer will a single click select everything in the location bar again!
This is a great idea for Missouri. You fuckers need to fix your fucking roads, and I mean all of them. Some of the potholes are so deep that when you look into them, they look into you.
Legislation will NOT curb or stop spam. Politicians are the very last people you want working on the spam problem. Roughly ninety percent of incumbents win their elections (in 1998, 98% of U.S. Representatives won their elections). These people have nothing at stake. They have no incentive to fix this problem.
Techies like you and I do, and I would rather cast my lot with fellow techies who share in my pain.
Success comes from failure if you dare to try again, revise, adapt, and overcome. I don't see why we should continue to bend over for spammers if the possibility exists that they will exploit a new system for mail transfer.
Personally, the SMTP system has rendered e-mail useless. I'd accept a challenge system, whitelists, or whatever else someone comes up with if it meant I could communicate with my family and friends effectively. As it stands, 100-200 spam messages are jamming the transmission.
Storing to hard drives is not a good solution just because it can be done. Consider that he is looking to preserve media from VHS tapes, some 20 years old. First, the portability of the media is lost if you dump it on a hard drive; not everybody (most folks if I had to guess) wants to sit in front of a desktop PC to watch that content. Second, IDE drives themselves are given to fail after several short years. Assuming he's willing to watch movies on a computer, he's going to be right back where he started in five to ten years.
At first, I thought it would be a travesty to remove the snake's reflection in the glass. But giving it a little more thought, I think it would be neat. The snake's reflection is a fairly well known goof. To look for it and not see it would be kind of neat.
Businesses are starting to collect more information, expanding into more markets, becoming (finally) a little more computer literate.
This statement is absolutely true. I've begun to wonder if companies are intelligence agencies with the amount of information they collect. We collect name, address, phone, email, etc. for everything we do. Promotional stuff, sign-up form. Newsletter, sign-up form. Broadcast schedule, sign-up form. Survey, sign-up form. Ordering, sign-up form. It gets really interesting when some ham in another department wants to add real specific questions to these forms and we collect that info too. "How do you use your DVD player?" was one such question I saw recently on one of our forms.
Do we need all of this? Of course not, but as long as it is possible to ask it of a patron, we'll happily collect it and let it rot in a SQL database somewhere. How else will the Terminators in the future have "detailed files" on people?;)
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I'm pulling for you. I don't just believe, but know, that technical solutions like yours will win the day as opposed to legislation or some other social BS. Engineers > politicians. Go, man, go.
I've heard this argument thrown around alot. My reply: has anyone tried in earnest? I didn't install Gentoo Linux until I heard other people's success with it. I would not have been able to install Gentoo unless someone put together the distribution.
I think we underestimate the power of word of mouth. If a new mail protocol and system were devised, an ISP installed it, and that ISP found that it was da bomb, then I suspect that other ISP's would get on board real fast. No it won't be easy, but you subtract 100+ spam mails a day from your average user's inbox, and you might have a customer for all time.
There's multitasking, and then there is getting stuff done. Sometimes I wonder if all the game playing I've done (I'm thirty) has whittled down my patience and persistence to follow through on some things. Like work. But then, I'd rather have one large project of my own, than a bunch of smaller ones from other people.
That franchise has had its run. Bury it. Move on. Come up with a new idea, that's right a new one, and build a moneysucking franchise out of it.
Man. Anybody else tired of keeping up?
I looked into this a few years ago for college basketball no less. I got a tepid response because I was a "small timer" looking to do some stuff for a fantasy league, but they probably have package that will meet your (obviously NFL football this time of year) fantasy league's needs and costs forty times the worth of your firstborn.
This is why I dropped Redhat for Gentoo. Well, that and RPM which meant that if Perl wasn't installed, virtually nothing was installed. I'm running Gentoo 1.4rc4 with X 4.3.0 and an ATI Radeon 9700 Pro, and loving America's Army, UT2003, and RTCW. I get 6300+ fps in glgears. Installing Gentoo was easy, and now everything that gets compiled from source gets the optimizations I want. Beautiful.
I tried the Atkin's diet for two weeks, and it failed me. I didn't gain weight to my amazement, but I didn't lose any either. I did realize that it was silly to deprive myself of certain foods (breads, anything with a fair amount of carbs) because I live a whack, sedentary existence as a programmer. I gave up the protein-or-bust diet, bought a $50 elliptial machine (still working after 2 years), bought a road bike, and swore off fast food. Now I bike to work, mix in some work on the elliptial machine, and enjoy a diverse diet limited only by the number of calories and some fundamental nutritional requirements.
I lost fifteen pounds in two months and have kept it off. I feel great. And most importantly, I don't feel deprived.
What is it about our culture that makes us feel we have to go cold turkey on natural instincts? I say, "Want a slice of cake?" Have at it and attack that next hill on your bike this weekend. Angry at that girl that cut you off in traffic? Roll down your window and launch into a profanity-laden tirade the likes of which traffic has never seen so she thinks thirty-thousand times before doing it again.
Goddamn these scientists that tell you what you can't eat. Goddamn the lawyers that put responsibility on trial. We live in a world of consequences, and your life is not the control group of a scientific experiment nor does it require the a writ of habeas corpus to satisfy someone else's lack of sensibilities. You can fend for yourself. You have it in you. Your ancestors would not been able to pass you the genetic torch if they did not have it. Life and happiness are not exclusive.
I always believed that lifting weights with less weight and higher reps was better and that I wanted to tone (I'd rather be slender and toned than muscular and bulky). I'm curious: why lift more weight for muscle instead of toning?
And it has just taken off from there. I go outside of town around Lexington, Kentucky's horse farms on the weekends and get thirty miles in Saturdays and some Sundays. I love it. Cycling is easy for a novice to pick up and continue enjoying. Once you learn, you'll never forget!
I agree that metadata in the filesystem is a risky proposition. Just on general principle, I prefer my data inside the file and not left with the filesystem. The MP3 metadata example, to me, is like Windows file extensions on HGH. I remember John Dvorak wrote a piece about Windows file extensions a long while back, and he argued that file types, etc. should be inside the file. A header of sorts. I tended to agree then, and I see filesystem metadata as a bad trend.
Face it. You will not get a solution to a technical problem like spam from these jokers on Capitol Hill. And for those of you who think spam is a social problem, you will not get a solution to a social problem from these people either.
Wow. Why did I ever believe Congress was a place that American business, be it commercial, social, or cultural, got done? Did Congress always stand opposed to the individual as it does today?
I'd give up everything I know to meet the wife and kids of my dreams.
Good night.
Anyone else out there have any experience with this combination? I recently upgraded from RH 8 to 9, and found that I would be lacking 3D acceleration. Anybody have any word on whether my 9700 Pro will ever run accelerated with RH 9 and XFree86 4.3?
This is far and away the worst thing to happen to sports television ever. Look, if you can't stand to pay attention to the frickin' game, then don't. Why I should have to bear witness to the Flash equivalent for sports TV, is beyond me.
No, the greatest innovation in sports viewing is yet to come: total control of what I see and who I hear. Don't want the goddamned score box in the top left corner? Go to options, and remove it. Ears can't withstand Dicky V? Go to options, kill the color man's mike, maybe the play-by-play man's too, and leave the action sound on. Can't stand the extreme closeup of Phil Jackson's nostril? Choose a wide angle camera and lock it.
Sports broadcasting has come a long way and has enhanced a lot of things, but I've reached my limit and want my ballgame back.
When applied to crises, legislation rarely affects changes as intended. Please, people, do not let the politicians get into this. Do not give them another issue to gain face time, tack non-germane amendments to another bill, and complicate a problem with a simpler technical solution. Please, those of you with bigger programming wits than I, develop an alternative to SMTP.
I don't pretend to have all the answers, but from where I type, until mail transfer methods are reformed to challenge senders (something along the lines of whitelists) and only send message headers before such challenges are passed/accepted, this BS will continue. E-mail will continue to suck Olympic cock until then.
And spam accounting for half of all messages? I don't know what to say first. "Only half?!" Or more on my point, "Half. How much more incentive do we need to reform e-mail?"
Excellent! Now I can set these to false and get similar behavior in Windows. This has been bugging me forever! No longer will a single click select everything in the location bar again!
Baseball doesn't give a damn about you either, Craig.
All these worlds are yours to explore except Europa. Attempt no landing there.
This is a great idea for Missouri. You fuckers need to fix your fucking roads, and I mean all of them. Some of the potholes are so deep that when you look into them, they look into you.
Techies like you and I do, and I would rather cast my lot with fellow techies who share in my pain.
Success comes from failure if you dare to try again, revise, adapt, and overcome. I don't see why we should continue to bend over for spammers if the possibility exists that they will exploit a new system for mail transfer.
Personally, the SMTP system has rendered e-mail useless. I'd accept a challenge system, whitelists, or whatever else someone comes up with if it meant I could communicate with my family and friends effectively. As it stands, 100-200 spam messages are jamming the transmission.
Storing to hard drives is not a good solution just because it can be done. Consider that he is looking to preserve media from VHS tapes, some 20 years old. First, the portability of the media is lost if you dump it on a hard drive; not everybody (most folks if I had to guess) wants to sit in front of a desktop PC to watch that content. Second, IDE drives themselves are given to fail after several short years. Assuming he's willing to watch movies on a computer, he's going to be right back where he started in five to ten years.
At first, I thought it would be a travesty to remove the snake's reflection in the glass. But giving it a little more thought, I think it would be neat. The snake's reflection is a fairly well known goof. To look for it and not see it would be kind of neat.
This statement is absolutely true. I've begun to wonder if companies are intelligence agencies with the amount of information they collect. We collect name, address, phone, email, etc. for everything we do. Promotional stuff, sign-up form. Newsletter, sign-up form. Broadcast schedule, sign-up form. Survey, sign-up form. Ordering, sign-up form. It gets really interesting when some ham in another department wants to add real specific questions to these forms and we collect that info too. "How do you use your DVD player?" was one such question I saw recently on one of our forms.
Do we need all of this? Of course not, but as long as it is possible to ask it of a patron, we'll happily collect it and let it rot in a SQL database somewhere. How else will the Terminators in the future have "detailed files" on people?