Shows some good shots of the Pixar compound, their gigantic atrium, and the people in general. There are more, but I'll leave it to you to find them (or leave it to you to use google, more likely).
Well, thinking about what you said, or what the article said:
But none of the addresses that were obscured, whether in "human-readable" or "HTML-obscured" form, received a single piece of spam, leading us to conclude that e-mail address "harvesters" are not presently capable of collecting such addresses. While this may change as time passes and technology develops, for the time being it appears that obscuring an e-mail address is an effective means of avoiding spam.
It's not that the harvesters can't figure out obscured email addresses. Searching for the @ sign isn't that much easier than searching for the HTML equivalent. I think the reason obscured addresses don't get spam is this:
The spammers realize that anyone smart enough to obscure is someone who hates spam really bad. Obviously someone like that isn't going to be an easy sell, and may already be filtering for spam. What's the point in targeting that demographic? Waste of time.
DOS we're familiar with = so many requests for connection that real (legitimate) requests are very slow to get through, if at all. mailDOS = so many catalogs that finding your real mail (if there is any) is an incredible waste of time, and some pieces (packets?) may be lost (dropped) in the confusion.
If this isn't the best translation of electronic DOS to physical DOS I don't know what is.
Can't you see this Ask Slashdot is a total troll? The situation is as follows.
Geek #1: I'll bet you ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS that you can't post an Ask Slashdot question that will get regular Slashdot constituents to propose a non-Linux solution. Geek #2: One hundred dollars, eh? JUST WATCH ME.
Yes, I'm next to "Highlander Warrior" on the right proudly holding my Realm Keepers shield with my helmet removed in tribute.
This is why you all are getting pathetic loser comments. You were at home, in front of a computer. Your character was standing next to so-and-so doing such-and-such.
Things like this are the reason I don't buy those all-in-one scanner/fax/copier office doodads - what if it breaks?
I mean, seriously, what good is having all this wonderful componentry all in one box when if one thing breaks it takes the whole system down with it? Sure, it's not a printer, so there are few moving parts like rollers to get screwed up and gum the whole works, but still...
I prefer to keep all my pieces seperate, thank you very much. That way I can fix, upgrade, or toss them at will instead of having to worry about getting a whole new box.
Aw, shit, man, he's just fscking with us. His next article is going to be a 100k piece on how the kids at Columbine spawned these continents of the internet and are also responsible for his newest book and global warming.
He just wants us to think he's making his stuff shorter. This was just a fake, a feint before the big blow. LOOK OUT.
What does one do with a script like this, though, to make it understand that people can't spell for shit? I mean, the likelihood of me spelling something like Edinburgh (or anything for that matter) right the first time is poor. I'm not going to get it correct here on/., much less in IRC where no one bothers to check their spelling.
Do you have some... weird error-correcting spellchecking written in, or... does it just respond with the spelling handed to it by the interacting party?
After reading the article, I feel as though I know all those people. A lot of my friends live in the dorms here, and I've seen many of them switch dorms just for the beloved cat5 jacks in the walls. I don't live on campus, though, so I have to get a cable modem to my house. When I come to work (I work in a hospital playing with Linux boxen) I've got cable access. When I go to school I have their access (at least cable speed if not better).
It's become such a part of my life that I can't imagine not having it, just like those poor geeks in the article. It's how I communicate with the outside world. Every time I'm around a computer, I automatically assume it has an instant and fast connection. At a friend's house recently I wanted to check what movies were playing. He suggested I buy a newspaper.
A what?
So I turned to his computer to check the listings online, and...
What?
What do you mean you don't have internet access? It's a COMPUTER, isn't it?
My mind has been warped permanantly by having instant access from every computer I use on a regular basis. This is the future.
Maybe I'm being a bit too cynical, but coming from a department where I have to sometimes give technical support...
I think it sucks.
I can only imagine the frustration that people in my position will have, once/if these rodents become commonplace. Calls about "Why won't x program let me do this?" from the keyboarders, and "Why does this stuff keep popping up and obscuring my text?" from the mousers.
I shudder to think of how slow software like this would be on less-than-adequate systems (like the 486s that some slobs are still stuck with at work). Maybe I'm being too hard, but I prefer a simple command-line interface, not fading toolboxes combined with hardware that's a little too friendly.
Aw, hell. We all know that whatever the Evil empire wants us to use people will start using. I can live without wheel mice, but now that they're so popular, everyone just *has* to have one. One more frustration in the life of a lowly PC/LAN tech.
I'm not so sure that what you've said reaches the point of the matter. With help from the definitions by grmoc, we can see that 'evolution' is not simply man descending from apes. Why is it that people are so quick to assume that's the entire definion of the word? Personally, I don't see that the concept of evolution on a grand scale has anything to do with creationism. It's yet another silly debate to get sucked into. Who cares in what fashion our existence came about? Worry more about the important things like war and famine and Microsoft taking over the world.
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Do you want to see the Pixar studios in glorious color and moving pictures? Pull out your Monsters, Inc. DVD and hit the following easter egg:
Paper airplane contest
Shows some good shots of the Pixar compound, their gigantic atrium, and the people in general. There are more, but I'll leave it to you to find them (or leave it to you to use google, more likely).
But none of the addresses that were obscured, whether in "human-readable" or "HTML-obscured" form,
received a single piece of spam, leading us to conclude that e-mail address "harvesters" are not presently
capable of collecting such addresses. While this may change as time passes and technology develops, for the
time being it appears that obscuring an e-mail address is an effective means of avoiding spam.
It's not that the harvesters can't figure out obscured email addresses. Searching for the @ sign isn't
that much easier than searching for the HTML equivalent. I think the reason obscured addresses don't get
spam is this:
The spammers realize that anyone smart enough to obscure is someone who hates spam really bad.
Obviously someone like that isn't going to be an easy sell, and may already be filtering for spam. What's
the point in targeting that demographic? Waste of time.
That is why you should obscure your addresses.
Oh, but it's DOS all right.
DOS we're familiar with = so many requests for connection that real (legitimate) requests are very slow to get through, if at all.
mailDOS = so many catalogs that finding your real mail (if there is any) is an incredible waste of time, and some pieces (packets?) may be lost (dropped) in the confusion.
If this isn't the best translation of electronic DOS to physical DOS I don't know what is.
Can't you see this Ask Slashdot is a total troll? The situation is as follows.
Geek #1: I'll bet you ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS that you can't post an Ask Slashdot question that will get regular Slashdot constituents to propose a non-Linux solution.
Geek #2: One hundred dollars, eh? JUST WATCH ME.
And so we have today's Ask Slashdot.
'Tis true.
This is why you all are getting pathetic loser comments. You were at home, in front of a computer. Your character was standing next to so-and-so doing such-and-such.
Big difference between the two of you, pal.
Actually, a handful of atoms measures out to be a whole lot more than a few nanometers.
But who am I to pick internits?
"Even though he is stubborn at times, you can trust this dependable Droid to be your devoted helper and friend."
What do they mean, he can be stubborn? Oh. I see. They mean that his programming is faulty and he just plain isn't going to work correctly at times.
Guess that's what you get for a $100 robot.
What about my "Best of Marcel Marceau" LP, copyright 1955?
I refer them to this handy guide: Bob The Angry Flower's Quick Guide to the Apostrophe, You Idiots
Hopefully that'll clear things right up.
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I mean, seriously, what good is having all this wonderful componentry all in one box when if one thing breaks it takes the whole system down with it? Sure, it's not a printer, so there are few moving parts like rollers to get screwed up and gum the whole works, but still...
I prefer to keep all my pieces seperate, thank you very much. That way I can fix, upgrade, or toss them at will instead of having to worry about getting a whole new box.
That wouldn't be a problem for me considering my car won't do above 35 on a good day anyway ...
Why tile that whole huge image when you can tile just one square?
He just wants us to think he's making his stuff shorter. This was just a fake, a feint before the big blow. LOOK OUT.
Do you have some ... weird error-correcting spellchecking written in, or ... does it just respond with the spelling handed to it by the interacting party?
It's become such a part of my life that I can't imagine not having it, just like those poor geeks in the article. It's how I communicate with the outside world. Every time I'm around a computer, I automatically assume it has an instant and fast connection. At a friend's house recently I wanted to check what movies were playing. He suggested I buy a newspaper.
A what?
So I turned to his computer to check the listings online, and ...
What?
What do you mean you don't have internet access? It's a COMPUTER, isn't it?
My mind has been warped permanantly by having instant access from every computer I use on a regular basis. This is the future.
Was I rambling? I'm not awake yet.
I think it sucks.
I can only imagine the frustration that people in my position will have, once/if these rodents become commonplace. Calls about "Why won't x program let me do this?" from the keyboarders, and "Why does this stuff keep popping up and obscuring my text?" from the mousers.
I shudder to think of how slow software like this would be on less-than-adequate systems (like the 486s that some slobs are still stuck with at work). Maybe I'm being too hard, but I prefer a simple command-line interface, not fading toolboxes combined with hardware that's a little too friendly.
Aw, hell. We all know that whatever the Evil empire wants us to use people will start using. I can live without wheel mice, but now that they're so popular, everyone just *has* to have one. One more frustration in the life of a lowly PC/LAN tech.
I'm not so sure that what you've said reaches the point of the matter. With help from the definitions by grmoc, we can see that 'evolution' is not simply man descending from apes. Why is it that people are so quick to assume that's the entire definion of the word? Personally, I don't see that the concept of evolution on a grand scale has anything to do with creationism. It's yet another silly debate to get sucked into. Who cares in what fashion our existence came about? Worry more about the important things like war and famine and Microsoft taking over the world.