Ironically enough, I cut down my spam by about 70% by sending everything with "@yahoo.com" in the headers to my spam directory. Not one false positive to date.
James Cameron bowed out, then signed back on to do T3. This was news three years ago. Currently, I believe he is out again and it is being developed by two other guys who bought the franchise.
T4 is also in scripting now. Maybe you guys should appoint an editor to take a look at Coming Attractions (http://something, something, corona.bc.ca, mumble...hell, I'm lazy, go look it up) once a year or so.
I don't want Office for linux, I just want those cool little helpers like Einstein and the happy face, that replaced Clippy. Those guys are the shit. How else am I going to get a 3D "assistant" popping up every few seconds while I'm trying to get some work done in linux?
I learned from scratch (first linux install was Slackware 1.x sometime in 94), using the command line and a very primitive window manager when I got X running--twm, I believe. These days I use KDE and tools like pico instead of vi, even though I grew up with vi. I still prefer command line tools to most of the GUI tools (things like tar cf - . |(cd/foo/bar; tar xvf -) to move directories as opposed to right clicking it, dragging it to a new filesystem, and clicking "move"). The point is, KDE looks better than twm and has more features.
I have seen the epidemic of linux gurus explaining things to newbies cryptically. Those are usually the types of gurus who feel a need to show off how smart they are. I agree with you that KDE (or Gnome) is a good way to teach newbies linux, but they should also be making their own effort to learn the more powerful tools and shortcuts if they want to get the most use out of it. Of course, if they don't need the full power of linux, they shouldn't *have* to learn it in such depth.
I'm giving myself a (Score: -1, Rambling) rating here by removing my +1 bonus.:)
The Onion had this sort of floating ad flying around the screen with that Say It Isn't So movie.(Guy fucks girl, discovers big secret: is she really his sister? Who cares?)
It lasted for less than a week, and I never saw anything like it since. I believe people bitched so loudly at them that they decided to stop running the ads. Now they're using the "redirect" ads for the AV Club section (click on link, get a full-page ad that redirects you to the content after a pause). Very annoying.
Kind of a stupid adage, then, since the money Bill "makes" in those few seconds is really just an average of what he makes in the course of a year, divided into second-long segments. In other words, since he's not actually earning anything for walking to work, he'd be wise to pick up the bill, if only to blow his nose with or whatever it is he does with $100 bills.
Neither the move to linux nor the move to IIS should be news. People continue to use what works best for them, as they have for the past 40,000 years or so.
And the system (now an Tbird-1.33) is still slower than Windows 2K (ex., the mouse gets jerky when my apps thrash the disk).
My system (PII-350, 192M RAM, KDE 2.2.1) has never done that. Do you have enough memory? Large swap space on its own partition?
In fact, the only reason I've considered getting a faster system in the past few years is because vmware runs Windows a bit slow on this one. If your 1.33 GHz system can't handle disk reads/writes without slowing down, something is probably misconfigured.
Note that I'm not trying to convince you linux is better than Windows. Use whatever meets your needs. I use both.
I forgot to mention it, but my site gets enough hits to break even via banner ads (if I were to use them) despite the fact that it's a poorly-designed piece of shit. It's the content that matters most, folks.
If your site is becoming obscure, it's probably because (get this) it doesn't appeal to enough people to keep it viable.
My heart bleeds for these people who aren't making any money from their sites. No, really.
I could make enough off banner ads on my own site to just about break even on the cost of maintaining it every month. But banner ads suck, and I run my site because I want to, not because I feel the need to make money from it. You unfortunates who are sliding into obscurity should probably rethink your business plan.
Especially in laptops, this could be great, and hypothetically could power the device indefinetely, assuming an initial charge to start everything up.
You *might* extend battery life for a small length of time (measured in tens of minutes at the most) by recycling some of the waste heat, but entropy still rules. You cannot recycle all of the waste heat, so you will be unable to run your device for anything close to indefinitely.
You didn't understand her very simple questions, then treated her like shit for following the script she was supposed to. Read this again:
In-Angela Stone says: Michael, may I know why do you want to discontinue the services? You say: I've paid you guys probably $1500 dollars or more over the last three years or so.... You say: Now I am disconnected You say: YES I want to discontinue my service DUH!
(Note that she wasn't asking you if you wanted to disconnect your service. "DUH!" indeed.)
In-Angela Stone says: I am sincerely sorry for all the trouble this .
(Note her apology and extreme grace after most likely dealing with assholes like you all day long.)
You say: fortunately my Telocity back up DSL service is functioning fine so that I
can 'chat' with you about being disconnected You say: can we get on with it?
The proper thing to do if you're angry at a company is to ask to speak to someone in management and blast *them*, not the frontline people who don't know what's going on in the first place. If you want to be mature about it, that is. If you want to be a tantrum-throwing brat, you do it your way.
Awhile back, after getting sick of excite@home's spam and their ignoring my complaints, I complained to their advertisers directly, asking if they really wanted to be associated with a bunch of spamming morons who were about to be sued. I think their advertisers backed out, and that's the reason for this mess.
They've already got Qwest, and are forcing virtually all DSL subscribers west of the Mississippi (outside California) to use a proprietary MSN and sign up for Passport.
This is incorrect. I've had DSL for a couple of years now at three different locations, and I've used the same local ISP every time. There has never been any push or even a suggestion from Qwest for me to use MSN.
I hate Qwest and MS as much as the next guy, but let's stick to facts.
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Ah, those were the days.
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Coffee, stat!
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T4 is also in scripting now. Maybe you guys should appoint an editor to take a look at Coming Attractions (http://something, something, corona.bc.ca, mumble...hell, I'm lazy, go look it up) once a year or so.
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I have seen the epidemic of linux gurus explaining things to newbies cryptically. Those are usually the types of gurus who feel a need to show off how smart they are. I agree with you that KDE (or Gnome) is a good way to teach newbies linux, but they should also be making their own effort to learn the more powerful tools and shortcuts if they want to get the most use out of it. Of course, if they don't need the full power of linux, they shouldn't *have* to learn it in such depth.
I'm giving myself a (Score: -1, Rambling) rating here by removing my +1 bonus. :)
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It lasted for less than a week, and I never saw anything like it since. I believe people bitched so loudly at them that they decided to stop running the ads. Now they're using the "redirect" ads for the AV Club section (click on link, get a full-page ad that redirects you to the content after a pause). Very annoying.
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And ours can use the Queen's English properly. :P
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Move along, nothing to see here.
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My system (PII-350, 192M RAM, KDE 2.2.1) has never done that. Do you have enough memory? Large swap space on its own partition?
In fact, the only reason I've considered getting a faster system in the past few years is because vmware runs Windows a bit slow on this one. If your 1.33 GHz system can't handle disk reads/writes without slowing down, something is probably misconfigured.
Note that I'm not trying to convince you linux is better than Windows. Use whatever meets your needs. I use both.
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My heart bleeds for these people who aren't making any money from their sites. No, really.
I could make enough off banner ads on my own site to just about break even on the cost of maintaining it every month. But banner ads suck, and I run my site because I want to, not because I feel the need to make money from it. You unfortunates who are sliding into obscurity should probably rethink your business plan.
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So are they "cold hearted" because they're not religious or because they're coming up with new ways to save lives?
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Why do I get the feeling that all my friends would laugh at me if I pursued an education at Hacker U?
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Wouldn't it have been easier to say "40 degrees"?
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You *might* extend battery life for a small length of time (measured in tens of minutes at the most) by recycling some of the waste heat, but entropy still rules. You cannot recycle all of the waste heat, so you will be unable to run your device for anything close to indefinitely.
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In-Angela Stone says: Michael, may I know why do you want to discontinue the services?
You say: I've paid you guys probably $1500 dollars or more over the last three years or so....
You say: Now I am disconnected
You say: YES I want to discontinue my service DUH!
(Note that she wasn't asking you if you wanted to disconnect your service. "DUH!" indeed.)
In-Angela Stone says: I am sincerely sorry for all the trouble this .
(Note her apology and extreme grace after most likely dealing with assholes like you all day long.)
You say: fortunately my Telocity back up DSL service is functioning fine so that I can 'chat' with you about being disconnected
You say: can we get on with it?
The proper thing to do if you're angry at a company is to ask to speak to someone in management and blast *them*, not the frontline people who don't know what's going on in the first place. If you want to be mature about it, that is. If you want to be a tantrum-throwing brat, you do it your way.
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My bad.
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This is incorrect. I've had DSL for a couple of years now at three different locations, and I've used the same local ISP every time. There has never been any push or even a suggestion from Qwest for me to use MSN.
I hate Qwest and MS as much as the next guy, but let's stick to facts.
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Too bad you couldn't have slapped her around a little too, to show her who the man was, eh?
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