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I have been reading as much as I can and wanted to ask everyone here. What is some of the best / easiest wine you have made from dried fruit? I have seen recipes for dried apricots, dried elderberries and even just plain raisins. I want to try something but wanted input from everyone here. Maybe some recipes and suggestions.
Dried fruits are expensive unless you make your own. Use dried fruits with the same kind of 100% juice in the grocery. Best of 2 worlds that way.
Also you can buy jam in the grocery. I have made wine from Blackberry jam that was awesome. Think outside of the box.
Dried cranberry, no oil added ones, along with white grape juice as the base, or even red grape as the base is great.
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We have to vote for dried elderberries as one of the easiest and best. WVMJ
Never tasted elderberry. What does it taste like?
Dried elderberry, the fresh tastes alittle different, but it tastes like the best wine ever If you add enough dried berries, a good red wine yeast and some nutrients its not hard to make. Some pics and recipies on our edlerbrry website. WVMJ
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I'm looking for that driver for my RPM, so i want to be a betatester :)Fons Adriaensen says there is a version that really works for RPM. I found
two file versions in the July posts, which one is the correct?
Can you please tell me what i need to do for the installation, which extra
packages i need (i supose the rme hdsp firmware), an how to install this
driver? Sorry i'm not a Linux advanced user.Also tell me please if i need to modify any code line in the files provided?
I have two laptops, one with Ubuntu 10.04 and the other with Ubuntu 11.04.
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(Buda Castle at the time was the seat of the ruler of Hungary)
Let me put it in terms that the British can understand. Britain is under Soviet military occupation. A bunch of Soviet T72s roll up to Downing Street 10, while Soviet soldiers swarm in and arrest the rules of the country. They kidnap the PM's son and either forge his signature to documents giving up power or force him to sign (historians debate the issue). This is not a "Soviet backed coup" it's a military invasion.
And I don't appreciate the Economist making light of the German military invasion, which even it admits was there to stop Hungary exiting the war.
Without the German tanks (cavalry) and Hungary being allowed to surrender/ask for armistice in 1944 many hundreds of thousands of people would have lived. It could be even antisemitic to make light of the German invasion because before the German invasion the size of the Jewish community was over 800 000 people, and after the German invasion... After the German invasion the Nazi Germans turned all of Hungary into a battlefield, and the Germans declared Budapest a fort city, after which it was levelled to the ground. So yes the consequences of the German tanks (invasion) were very real.
typo fix: " arrest the rules of the country" reads of course "arrest the rulers of the country" an R was missing by typo.
Happier times: Admiral-Regent Horthy reviewing Hungarian cavalry in 1940, the year Hungary recovered a part of what she lost at the Treaty of Trianon in 1920...
You may not have checked my link about the German Cavalry in Budapest, Buda Castle
It was actually a King Tiger, a Panzerkampfwagen VI., a 70 ton heavy tank of which only 492 was made during the whole war.
A whole bunch of these tanks were in Budapest. Needless to say the Hungarian army (most of which was actually on the border unlike the occupying german troops) did not have any weapons that were effective against such a monster. Not to mention the rest of the nazi army.
In any case without the German invasion and occupation Hungary would have been able to ask for an armistice or surrender (see Horthy's letter to Stalin in real history http://www.historia.hu/archivum/2005/0503horthy.htm), before all of Hungary was turned into a battlefield and hundreds of thousands of people would have lived.
Of course I did and recognised what it was, hence my "Happier times" reference and link. By the way, they didn't have the benefit of hindsight, in 1940 they could not know what would happen in 1944-45.


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But just how much bite this watchdog has is open to question. Bill Minutaglio, a veteran Texas journalist and a professor at the University of Texas at Austin, wrote as much in 2011 in the Texas Observer:
The Times reported early on that the Tribune was going to offer "the good-for-you, Brussels sprouts journalism—education financing, lobbying, bureaucratic priorities, civics and state government … a niche site with a very narrow focus." It has delivered on that, and it's also been constrained by it. There are drawbacks to the demands of providing instant online journalism aimed at insiders.
What the Tribune needs is consistent, long-ball narrative and multipart investigative projects. It needs the 5,000-word drill-downs like Sy Hersh does for The New Yorker. It needs the huge packages that win Pulitzer Prizes for ProPublica, for investigative work and public service.
In fairness, Smith said from the start that the Tribune would not be a place "where the reporters go into a windowless room for six months and try to win a Pulitzer." In an essay published in Texas Monthly earlier this year, the faults Smith found with Texas's papers—an inability to serve as a "true public square," an abdication of the role of explainer and arbiter—were reverse images of the Tribune's strengths. What's more, the Trib's politics coverage is often accountability-minded—"transparency" is a watchword—and the site has done quick-hit enterprise reporting and investigations. Ramshaw herself recently pegged a Houston-area Tea Party leader with ties to none other than the American Fascist Party. But blockbuster investigations "have not been our strongest suit over the years," she concedes.
Now, she says, "I think we now have our feet under us." In January, the Tribune rolled out a new project, "Bidness as Usual," which focuses on potentially unsavory connections between lawmakers' financial interests and their legislative efforts. The Trib clearly has high hopes for the effort, and seems eager to ruffle some feathers in its well-cultivated community. In a note accompanying the project's launch, Smith invited irked officials to call him directly: "We like you, but this is business."
Bidness As Usual is still in the early stages. In typical Tribune style, the related Ethics Explorer feature offers a lot of data, painstakingly gathered from various sources and presented in an easy-to-digest format. You can quickly learn that the top donor to Attorney General Greg Abbott, for instance, is Harold Simmons, who has contributed nearly $1 million. It's a valuable resource and an interesting guide, especially if you know what you're looking for. But read through the articles on the project's landing page, and amid the discussion of ethical concerns and disclosure loopholes you'll find only one lawmaker singled out for potential conflicts of interests so far in what amounts to the Tribune's signature sustained investigative project.
A very short trip down the hall from Ramshaw's standup desk, just past the coffee pots, is the office of Rodney Gibbs, the chief innovation officer. Unlike a legacy news organization, the Tribune is something of a technology company, too, in its own way. (Co-founder Thornton made his fortune in the technology business.) And the technology is, after all, where most of the Tribune's community resides.
Nearly a third of the Tribune's web traffic no longer comes from someone sitting at a computer; instead, it comes from mobile devices. The website has recently been reconfigured using "responsive design," to make it run more smoothly on mobile devices. Next up is making the experience more personalized—using geo-location to allow a user to explore, say, a particular chart or data set about public schools that is automatically limited to her local district. Three years from now it will all be about mobile, Gibbs continues, and it will all be about sharing. Making information more shareable by making it "atomized," says Gibbs, "is true to our mission."
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Yeah, they really are that fast- it's night and day in terms of user interface response.
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Hasn't been the 'block' or the 'cooler' since the 1950's!
It's either 'the seg' (Segregation unit) or 'on the rule' (Rule 43/46(?) of prison regs that allow voluntary/compulsory segregation- usually used for 'vulnerable prisoners' eg. sex offenders).
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If the US is at war, then they should be held under the terms of the Geneva convention. If not, they should be held as civilians with the right to due process accorded to them.
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Oooh, you're Andy Coulson, AICMFP.
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Because a birth certificate is sooo hard to forge.
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There is no war game, simulation or RPG mechanic so utterly baroque that someone won't decry streamlining it as 'dumbing down' the game.
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I, and many like me, modded their xboxes solely to run XBMC as well as using it as your normal, everyday console.
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Sky, in this context, are an ISP who were ordered by the courts to provide data to ACS law.
They provided the data in an encrypted format, it was ACS who failed to retain that encryption.
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Apart, of course, from the departments that are. Like the Home Office, and other departments running a Fujitsu contract.
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Bzzt! We do not, and never have had, a formal written constitution. If you have citations to refute this, I'd love to see them.
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You have to account for the money you spend anyway. From your point of view as a buyer, nothing will change.
What will happen is the way the accounts get reported up will change, and this won't affect you in the slightest.
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Yes you can- that was one of the points of the ID cards. Indeed, you've still got ~100 days to enjoy passport-less travel from the UK to EU destinations.
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But it is part of the EU, which means national identity cards are accepted as an alternative to passports, where border crossings still check them.
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The concern is that if he's tried over here, he'll get sent down for five years, be out in three, and end up with job at a security consultancy.
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Familiarity is the first myth of reality. What one knows best one observes the least. The canard of high growth rate among Muslims has played on the public imagination so much that one fails to see the reality. A cursory look at the census data shows that growth rate in the community has in fact registered a decline.
According to Sachar Committee report, the Muslim population growth has slowed down and in future it will be slower. "Eventually, the population is bound to reach replacement levels," the report says.
A popular misconception is that Muslims are against adoption of family planning methods. The emergence of vote bank politics has only given currency to this fallacy. That birth control concept goes against the teachings of Islam is another falsehood.
But the Sachar Committee says there is a 'substantial demand' from the community for fertility regulations and modern contraceptives. Over 20 million Muslim couples currently use modern contraceptives and their number will grow if choice-based reproductive healthcare services are made available, says Sachar committee report.
Muslim scholars are unanimous in their opinion that Islam doesn't prevent adoption of family planning methods as a temporary measure. What it objects to is adoption of permanent methods such as vasectomy and tubectomey. But even this is permissible provided the life of the mother is at stake.
"Islam encourages proper planning and strategy in all aspects of life and this also includes the size of the family. Fathering children is one thing and taking good care of them is another," says Dr. Fakhruddin Mohammed, director, MESCO.
Improper interpretation of Quran and Hadith, many feel, is the main reason for the misconception about Muslims and family planning.
Does limiting the family size indicate deficiency in one's faith? While some feel so, others hold a different view. There is nothing wrong if one doesn't go for a large family with the intent of taking proper care of children. "Islam doesn't support poverty. It encourages well being and social order," says Mazhar Husain, executive director, COVA.
Growth of large families has nothing to do with religion. It is the education and socio-economic norms that determines the size of the family irrespective of the faith one professes. But this fact is usually lost sight of and Muslims are singled out for blame, says Mr. Husain.
"My grandfather had 12 children while my father had six and I have four and my son has just one. Poverty and education has never been an issue in our family. It is the changing social norms that have made the difference," says Dr. Fakhruddin and points out to the remarkable success achieved by many Muslim countries in birth control.
The fertility rate among Muslims in Kerala, the most literate state, and Tamil Nadu is indicative of the changing trend. The Muslim population here has recorded a lower growth than the Hindus. This clearly shows that the community has plumped for the 'chota parivar, sukhi parivar' concept.
It may not be strictly 'hum do hamare do' policy, but many Muslim couples these days do not have more than three children. Linking population growth to increased poverty, many think, is a Malthusian theory which sustainable agriculture has proved wrong.
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We are using Kafka as a queueing mechanism for receiving messages from stateless producers. We are operating in a legal framework where we can never lose a committed message, but we can reject a write if Kafka is unavailable and it will be retried in the future. We are operating all of our servers in one rack so we are vulnerable if a whole rack goes out. We will have 3-4 Kafka brokers and have RF=3 To guarantee that we never (to the greatest extent possible) lose a message that we have acknowledged, it seems like we need to have request.required.acks=-1 and log.flush.interval.messages = 1, i.e. fsync on every message and wait for all brokers in ISR to reply before returning successfully. This would guard against the failure scenario where all servers in our rack go down simultaneously. Is my understanding correct? Thanks, Daniel. |


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TLM Becomes an IEEE Standard
IEEE Announces Revision to IEEE 1666™ – Adds Transaction-Level Modeling Support
A significant step forward to address standards for advanced system-on-chip (SoC) designs has taken place by the IEEE. The IEEE announced the new revision of the SystemC standard, known as IEEE 1666™-2011, has been approved. While it is a revision of the current SystemC standard, IEEE 1666™-2005, the major new feature added was Transaction-Level Modeling (TLM), which is new to an IEEE standard.
For many years now, the TLM specification and accompanying open source code has been incubating in the Open SystemC Initiative (OSCI). OSCI's TLM Working Group has developed the TLM 1.0 and TLM 2.0 specifications, both of which are part of the revised IEEE 1666 standard. TLM is important to SystemC, but it has also been leveraged outside of it.
We at Mentor Graphics pioneered the use of TLM in SystemVerilog (IEEE 1800™-2009) when our seminal open-source work on the Advanced Verification Methodology (AVM) brought an implementation to the verification community based on SystemVerilog. This lives on today, as AVM motivated the Open Verification Methodology (OVM), which became the basis for Accellera's Universal Verification Methodology (UVM).
If you don't already know what TLM is and how the verification community is using it in OVM and UVM, the Verification Academy has a lot of written material and video training modules that will help you learn how this important new IEEE standard is used from simulation to emulation and has boosted verification productivity. The "Understanding TLM" module is featured in the Advanced UVM section, so if you are still a novice to UVM, you may wish to start with the Basic material first. This module is presented by fellow Verification Horizons Blogger, Tom Fitzpatrick and offers subtitles in English, Russian, Japanese and Chinese (Traditional & Simplified) to help drive rapid global adoption.
As we brought TLM into the modern verification methodology practice with a SystemVerilog implementation, it also surfaced that there is an opportunity for the creator of TLM, OSCI, and an adopter of it in UVM, Accellera, to discuss what they could do together. And as I've blogged before, those two organizations announced their intention to unite before the end of 2011, as others have seen the potential when both are brought together. I expect to see more great ideas come from these two groups when they join forces, just like the TLM work that is now an IEEE standard.
For those who want a copy of the revised IEEE 1666 standard, it is still in final IEEE editorial review as the they do their last formatting. I will share with you when it is ready to use as well as how to get it and where to find it.
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Internally, we have a CAD Intranet, hosted on SharePoint 2010. We have created an RSS feed page for informing the drafters of system and content changes. The CAD PC's are configured to this page via a registry file generated by the CAD Manager Control Utility.
In the past, with 2011, any update to the page has generated a notification balloon from InfoCenter. After an Intranet sever change, and subsequent update to the registry location, we are no longer receiving balloon notifications. They were working in the past. Whilst we can see the new message after opening Communication Center, there is no notification balloon appearing to inform the users, which is what we are relying on.
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One stream of Nunn's research focuses on the relationship between historic events and current economic performance within Africa. In "Historical Legacies: A Model Linking Africa's Past to its Current Underdevelopment", published in the Journal of Development Economics in 2007, Nunn develops a game-theoretic model showing how the slave trade and colonial rule could have had permanent long-term effects on economic performance. In "The Long-Term Effects of Africa's Slave Trades" (Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2008), Nunn documents the long-term adverse economic effects of Africa's slave trades.
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CORPUS CHRISTI - Supporters of Palmer Drug Abuse Program had an extra perk this year. The group's 22nd annual fundraising drive kicked off Sept. 17 with a luncheon at the Omni Bayfront Hotel. The beauty of this event was for the first time in 22 years, guests weren't ask to get up at the crack of dawn to attend a 6 a.m. breakfast. About 300 people arrived at the crack of noon.
I wandered through the banquet room looking for my table and got lost amidst the Nelda Martinez tables. At last count, she had 12. I knew she was a big supporter, so I wasn't surprised when the program announced she was chairwoman. I heard a familiar voice and realized Bob Tucker was speaking. A former broadcaster, Bob has taken over as executive director. He and Nelda hosted the luncheon and presented awards.
During lunch, I chatted with board member Cathy Sellers who is involved in bringing the event to fruition. Her father, Doggy McClure, was at our table and told us of his plans to participate in the Texas A&M University senior ring ceremony this month. Kathryn Rhodes, retired Student Learning and Guidance Center teacher, was happy to attend and continue her support of at-risk teens. Martha Kiel, a volunteer coordinator for Christus Spohn Health System, told the table about Wednesday flowers. This is a much-anticipated event each week, where an anonymous donor delivers flowers to a patient selected by the nursing staff. I have accepted her invitation to deliver the flowers this week.
Daiquiri Richard let the cat out of the bag and told a few close friends that local philanthropist Dusty Durrill will be honored at the Beautify Corpus Christi Association Denim and Diamonds gala in March. I can't think of Beautify Corpus Christi without remembering my father's efforts when the campaign first began. He was an Agnes street scrap dealer (translation: owned a junk yard) and welded steel palm trees for the yard. When I get nostalgic, I drive down Agnes to see them.
Former executive director for 25 years and great-grandmother Lucy Hill was honored by having the Freedom Award carry her name. She was the inaugural recipient of the award. Two others received the award this year as well. Tom Dobson accepted on behalf of his mother, Grace Dobson, who upon her death bequeathed the original Whataburger Headquarters building to Palmer. Sam L. Susser accepted on behalf of Stripes, which raised more than $100,000 from its Keep A Kid Off Drugs Campaign.
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Pilot Newsletter Software AUG.2006
Pilot Newsletter Software from Pilot Group is a complete software package that contains everything you need to start sending successful newsletters. This system is written in PHP and installs on your Web server. Thus, you don't need to rely on your ISP's mail server. You control everything via a Web front-end. The program features an unlimited number of mailing lists, advanced customization and statistics including link tracking.
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List Sorcerer 5.05
Bulk Email Marketing Software Suite that is 100% CanSpam Compliant which will manage your lists, personalize your outgoing emails, provide autoresponders, automatically process removal requests, allow automation with internet explorer, ensure data integrity, List Sorcerer is also multi-user and so much more...
See also: direct email marketing, bulk email marketing, personalized html email, bulk mail bomber, email newsletter and campaign software, website promotional tool, bulk email and email marketing, bulk email marketing software, opt in list management software, not for profit organization membership mailings, automated autoresponders
ListManger 5.0
Whether you want to sort URL- or email lists, remove duplicated elements, split, merge and substract unsubscribed lists, our List Manager can do it all! Particularly it stands out by its brilliant filtering function. With the filtering function, you can for example sort out all email addresses with the ending ".de". Or you create a list, which consists only of info or sales addresses. The filters are totally flexible.
See also: email filter, newsletter list manager, email list manager, email, email direct marketing software
EmailVerifier 5.0
Keep your email lists up to date and remove email addresses which do not exist any longer. You just have to define the path of your email lists. As a result you receive a list with guaranteed valid email addresses, a list containg probably valid email addresses and a list with invalid email addresses.
See also: newsletter, email tester, email validator, email verifier, emailverifier, email direct marketing software
URLCollector 2.0
The URLCollector scans search engines like Yahoo or Google for domain names and saves them. If you keep running the URLCollector long enough, you can find a great part of the domain names stored in the search engines. You can use these URL's for example to generate email addresses using our EmailGenerator. Settings for search engines are already given. These can however be replaced or supplemented.
See also: search engine scanner, url spider, url grabber, url collector, url scanner, email direct marketing software
EmailGenerator Platinum 9.0
The EmailGenerator doesn't only offer you the possibility to generate any possible email address, this program can also check these if they are valid or not. With this software, you generate thousands of email addresses within a few minutes.
See also: email direct marketing software, email harvester, email grabber, email extractor, email generator, email
Auto Mailer 2.2
Bulk email client for sending individual, personalized text or HTML messages to your mailing list. Emails can be sent with the built in SMTP server, your own SMTP server, or using a MAPI email client. Sends emails quickly with parallel threads. Has mail merge capabilities to personalize your messages. "Verify" mode to validate your email addresses without actually sending a message. Schedule a mail job to run at any time.
See also: group emailer, mass email, email marketing software, mailing software, direct mail, email marketing, newsletter mailer, e-mail, newsletter email software, bulk email software, bulk email, email sender, group email client, group mailer
Mail Sender Express Professional 1.01
Mail Sender Express Pro is a professional e-mail newsletter sender that allows you to organize large email marketing mailing lists in groups for easy manageability to make your email marketing campaigns simpler. - Free Trial download - 50% off in Promotional campaign - Send up to 50,000 e-mails per hour - Easy email list management: Maintain mailing lists by defining mailing groups of targeted consumers. - Email Sending Reports
See also: Email Software, Bulk Email Software, Email Marketing Software, Builk Email Marketing, Email Sending, Bulk emailing software, bulk email advertising, html email marketing, mass email marketing, bulk emailing, mass emailing, Direct email marketing software, Builk Email Marketing campaigns
Email Spider 1.5
Advanced and powerfull tool for extracting email, page title, page URL from website, popular search engines (google, altavista, excite, yahoo, infoseek etc.) using keywords for targeted consumer, internet marketing, website promotion, list management and research.
See also: email spider, email extractor, website crawler, email harvester, email collector, gather email, newsgroup extractor, email software, bulk email, bulk email extractor, bulk email marketing, email utilities, windows application, email sorter, email filter, email extraction, email retriever, internet advertising, direct email marketing, mailing list, search email, search emails, targeted email, targeted email addresses, email grab, extract email, advanced email extractor, bulkmail search, email list manager, email marketing, email marketing software, mail list, mailing list, mailing lists, mass mail, mass mailer, mass mailing, internet spider, web spider, friendly bulk email, group mail, group mailer, mass email, web collector, bulk email magnet, bulk email provider, business opportunity, business promotion, e-commerce tool, email accounts, mail merger, internet marketing, internet promotion program, mail utilities, mail management, marketing online, mass emailing, mass emailing software, mass mailing list
Mass Mailing News Personal Edition 184.108.40.206
Mass Mailing News is one of the most proven customer email relationship management software for successful opt-in email marketing campaigns, subscriber lists building. It makes building your business easy with tools that cover every aspect of email marketing. Build your own opt-in contact lists, create and send email campaigns in just minutes. It's never been easier to generate revenue and build relationships.
See also: Mass Mailing, newsletter, bulk email, e-campaign, bulk email direct sender, personalized email marketing, email marketing software, bulk mailer, mailing list, direct email, email campaign, mailing list, CRM, mail merge, e-mail
007 Email Sender Express 4.77
Fast Newletter Bulk Email Software. 1) Very Easy to send bulk email newletter to lots of recipients. 2) Powerful Direct Send Email ability bypass your ISP's mail server. 3) High speed bulk email sender application by using multi-threaded delivery. 4) Automaticly remove duplicate email addresses. 5)Support multi-attachments. Both Text and Html Format Support. Support embedded Image . Invaluable for internet email marketing services.
See also: email, bulk email, bulk email software, bulk email sender, email marketing, email address, direct email, email sender express, send, sending, mailer, mass, sender, mailing list, mail, smtp, send, emails, sender, fast, e-mail
ListMate Express 4.80
ListMate Express is an ULTRA-HIGH-SPEED email list management suite of tools for Windows. It features 9 separate tools/screens each with its own host of features...all executed at warp-speed. It comes in 3 different "levels" so you can custom-tailor your ListMate Express solution just right for you - pay only for the capacity you need! Level 1 - handles up to 100 megs Level 2 - handles up to 250 megs Level 3 - handles up to 500 megs
See also: direct email marketing, email list management, bulk email, email list management software, email marketing, internet marketing, mailing list management, mass email, mass email marketing, online marketing, bulk email marketing
Jet Email Extractor 1.4
Extract thousands of emails from newsgroups.Collect targeted email addresses of potential customers to boost online revenue by driving more traffic to your web site and reducing the hands-on time. Get numerous benefits for your business.
See also: email grabber, email capture, email extractor, email retriever, promotional address lists, mass mail programs, push products, internet research programs, email campaigns, email collector, bulk email, direct email marketing
Mass Mailing News Free Edition 184.108.40.206
Aprisa Mail 1.5
Aprisa Mail is affordable bulk email marketing software. It's easy for anyone to create & send messages to thousands of people, as easy as sending a single message. It's easy for the non-technical beginner and the seasoned expert. Aprisa Mail comes with powerful features like quick send, follow-up campaigns, html emails, built in database with custom fields, automatic handling of opt-out requests, & built in form processing. For Mac or Win.
See also: email marketing, email marketing software, email software, bulk email software, bulk email marketing, email marketing campaign, direct email marketing software, email marketing solution, b2b email, bulk email software solution
BulkMailer Professional 6.1.7
Send personalized bulk emails from any database (via OLE DB/ODBC) or use the internal database to organize the addresses. A full featured HTML editor for HTML mails, full mime support, bounce management, file attachments, and many other features make this software a perfect marketing tool.
See also: bulk email, bulk email software, mass email, mass email software, bulk email marketing, bulk email advertising, email software, online advertising, internet marketing, permission marketing, online direct marketing, opt-in, opt-out
Mail Communicator 3.0
Mail Communicator is the ultimate automated Email Marketing software and bulk email marketing tool to send personalized mail, follow-up autoresponders, check email, manage email list response and track your email marketing campaigns. Designed to save you time and money this tool allows you to keep in touch and build stronger relationships with your customers with customizable emails and newsletters to build a more profitable online business.
See also: email marketing, bulk email software, personalized email, mail communicator, direct email marketing, email program, mail merge, bulk email marketing software, email promotion, autoresponder, direct email, bulk emailer, mailing list, opt in


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The Definitive Evisceration of The Phantom Menace *NSFW*
Re:Why a decade later (629 comments)
I managed to see an episode. Don't bother tracking it down, it sucks... well, balls.
Put me down for opening night of Jews in Space though.
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Re:Why a decade later (629 comments)
I managed to see an episode. Don't bother tracking it down, it sucks... well, balls.
Put me down for opening night of Jews in Space though.
Re:In the year 2199... (239 comments)
Every nerd should have some Star Blazers stuff. If you won't take our word for it, just watch the damn thing on Netflix.
Japanese movie release of Space Battleship Yamato, subtitled, in Netflix Instant:
Re:apple - the most anti-open company (600 comments)
At the very least Palm would need to strip all the USB logos from all of their products.
That's probably all they can do, actually.
And it would be a real pain in the ass for Palm to do. They'd have to re-design their packaging and promotional materials to get rid of the USB logo, they may even need to edit the copy to remove some references to USB compatibility. This costs money and takes time. Then they have to recall all their product in the sales channel and all the promotional material. This costs Palm more time and money and it also costs time and money for their channel partners.
You think Sprint is going to be happy to round up and ship out all the Pre boxes, flyers, endcaps, and other materials in every single on of their retail locations and warehouses ? No they will not, they'll probably send Palm a bill for it.
How about Verizon or any other carrier working on bringing Palm WebOS devices to market ? They have to stop, destroy or return materials and make new versions of *everything* Palm related. If there's a "will be available" clause in the contracts, the new carriers might be in a position to re-negotiate and get a better deal for themselves.
Worse even than damaging the relationship with the cell carriers who are essential to Palm's survival is the period of time in which the Pre (or Pixie or whatever else is coming) is simply unavailable to buy. Let's start with the fact that some people will simply delay replacing a Treo for a while, but people simply shopping for "a smartphone" will buy something else; be honest now, who here would think "we'll buy something next month, Palm is just doing a minor product recall".
Let's say it takes a month to repackage everything without the USB logo. That's a whole month with *no* revenue from WebOS devices. US$0.00. That probably won't put Palm out of business by itself, but it will hurt. Businesses NEED to make payroll, they need to pay their bills (every line item for "late fee" is money they just pissed away) and missing loan payments not only adds late fees but can make it harder or more expensive to obtain credit. And the stock price is usually not directly tied to line-of-business operations, but missing a month's revenue and thereby a quarterly earnings estimate will hit a lot of people in the pocketbook.
Prediction: Palm will cave, they're in too precarious a position to take on the huge load of shit removing the USB logo from their packaging would be.
Re:Fox and New Corp (423 comments)
Also, Marvel/Pixar = WIN.
That's the first thing I thought of. Because that would be fucking awesome.
Re:Hehe (582 comments)
Hmm. Yeah. A PHB that can have you taken away, tortured and executed.
Hitler just got a lot more scary for me.
Re:some of those goofs are goofy (461 comments)
The Kelvin had a window, the captain orders it to be polarized at which point the bright light shining in is dimmed down to a viewable level. The Enterprise had a viewscreen. I conclude that because when it started to crack during the escape from the black hole at the end of the film, the air didn't start leaking out.
Re:i hate stupid bad guys (461 comments)
You missed the line where Nero says he doesn't just want to save his planet, but to destroy the Federation to clear the path for the Romulan Empire. And to cause Spock and the Vulcans as much pain as he can.
He also isn't a genius like, oh, Khan. Just a guy doing a job who feels betrayed by those who promised to save his planet and his family. And went completely nuts. Honestly, Bana's delivery on "Hello Christopher, I'm Nero" should have been subtitled "I'm a crazy person, how are you ?" It came through, for my friends and I anyway, as a well delivered line intended to convey that Nero is nuttier than a squirrel's pantry.
And they left a few important background scenes out of the theatrical cut, which is worse than the lens flares, shaky cam and overly quick editing.
Re:Sort of (107 comments)
Funny, TF2 has a "griefing" Achievement:
BarbeQueQ: Cause a dominated player to leave the server.
Pyro only. I definitely want this one.
Re:Screw your alternative timeline! (820 comments)
Naval officer "cadets" joined the navy at around age 12 throughout the entire Wooden Walls period (2 centuries). So every officer at the battle of Trafalgar had been in the navy and at sea since before they were old enough to shave.
Re:A Message From a Loyal Fan (820 comments)
Kirk was also older than most of the academy graduates, his adult life prior to entering the Academy can be summed up as "the only genius-level repeat offender in Iowa". But he'd also done SOME studying, since he was conversant with Uhura's specialty. A stretch, but not as bad as a 21-year old cadet on academic suspension taking the captain's chair.
Re:Taste (366 comments)
The one that kills me is the Trader Joes label Macallan 12. They had that for $25 a few years ago. Twenty Five Dollars (US) for a Macallan 12. They stopped carrying it, nobody looked at the label closely enough to see what it really was and so sales were terrible. My local Costco has the 12 for $38, but I still wish I'd had the cash to lay in a couple of cases for $25/bottle. Tragic, really.
Re:Dear Blizzard... (87 comments)
That's only for trademarks.
Re:Travesty? (447 comments)
The last word on the Kirk-Spock thing:
Re:Begin is BACK! (82 comments)
That actually looks promising, thanks for the link.
Re:Hams FTW (461 comments)
"Morris code" implies Morse Dancing. Which added a little hilarity to my afternoon.
Re:One answer to Sci-Fi MMOs (194 comments)
Yeah, that's almost exactly EVE. Try it.
it rocked (852 comments)
excellent ending
Re:Apple has a problem with this...... (610 comments)
Nope, any price you like. I think Apple has standardized on $x.99 pricing, but you can go as high as you like. I've seen specialist dictionaries on the store listed for $19.99 or more.
Re:Apple has a problem with this...... (610 comments)
That $99 also buys you a publishing and distribution deal, RIM has set up a software store but I'm not familiar with the terms. It's a safe bet that Apple's is seeing more traffic and dollars spent.
Re:What was their target subscriber pool? (89 comments)
yeah, it's probably back to that. I've been out of the fleet scene in recent months, but word is the lagmonster has been defeated.
I have had a revelation. Sony isn't trying for 1st place in the console market, they're just trying to get a lot of BluRay players out there. The Cell processor is complicated enough that we'll see the capabilities of games grow over time much as we did with the PS2. First-gen PS2 games don't compare well to, say God of War and FF XII in terms of graphics.
By the time Microsoft and Nintendo are thinking about launching their next consoles, they'll have all the problems a console always has at launch (high price, few games). And the PS3 will be out there with a large installed base, dozens of good titles in the value packaging and their third generation games announced and being marketed if not actually sold. XBox 720 games will be up against MGS5, FF XV and God of War 5. They'll pump advertising into the games, not the console and sell as well against the next gen as the PS2 did (and is) against the 360 and Wii.
They're going to win the next console war and tide themselves over with BluRay dominance. Not a bad strategy.
Ok, I give up.
People who've never called tech support from a Mac or hate rants can stop reading.
The standard Mac meta-key is the Command key. They're the ones next to the space bar with the funny symbol and an Apple[tm] logo on them. Apple calls 'em the Command key. The documentation calls it a Command key.
Say 'Command-N' to a luser [1]. Blank stare. Say 'Apple-N'. New window. Aaaaaaaaaargh.
Sometime this past weekend something died inside me [2]. I gave up. I'm calling it the Apple key now. Fine.
[1] This nomenclature issue is a really good clue-meter in Apple shops. Anyone who knows this has gotten used to keyboard shortcuts, and that's good on any OS.
[2] Not the worst that coulda happened, I have enough ex-girlfriends to make a maudlin drinking binge really unpleasant for my friends. This one went by in 2 seconds and was unnoticeable to the outside world.
I think I may have just run into a real live Heisenbug.
This showed up on Mac OS X 10.37 and Entourage 11.10. A user called, complaining that a batch of jpegs dragged from the attachment section of an email to Preview.app in the Dock opened in Photoshop instead of in a single window in Preview. He showed me what happened. In his case, the jpegs were tagged as Photoshop files so that makes a certain amount of sense, although I would expect preview to operate through the Dock as it does in the Finder - opening any image it can handle.
The part that does not make sense, is that dragging from Entourage to the Dock isn't supposed to work. Neither I nor a colleague can get it to do that on our machines, and it has now stopped working for the original user. I've told him not to mention it to anyone.
If anyone out there has a Mac with a patched-up Office 2004 running Panther, try it and let me know.
As a Mac user I've suspected it for years.
There's a previously uncataloged meme on Slashdot, and it's spreading. It's the $300 PC meme.
New iMac ? $300 PC
Computer for the kids ? $300 PC
No Linux games ? $300 PC
New tablet computer ? You guessed it...
Frank Stallone !
Ok, that's cool. I note that I now have a fan with a lower userID than mine. This would have taken a disturbingly long time if that sort of thing mattered.
Here's a telemarketing situation where I'm just waiting for the payoff. Our office has several blocks of 100 numbers each, most of which aren't in use and are forwarded to the front desk (because a client may have an old number). Some months ago a mortgage company started autodialing our blocks. Our receptionist went from calm to frothing at the mouth in 60 seconds flat, and eveyone else was getting either a hangup call or a voicemail left for them.
I called the 800 number in the voicemail I personally received, got a manager on the line in record time (it helps if you sound like you want to confirm your satellite recon for the imminent airstrike) and explained that we had a block of numbers, that they were calling ALL of them and to please stop right-fucking-now. I then did the usual bit about do not call lists and a copy of the policy (which I never got). The do not call list was tough, since numbnuts didn't grok the "I have several hundred consecutive numbers" part very well.
The next day they did it again. I got another manager on the line, who was significantly less than understanding about the whole affair. In point of fact, he seemed dismissive of the whole fact that I had complained the day before and tha the was perhaps a bit offended that I was trying to interfere with his attempt to rescue a failing mortgage business. I reminded him about the FCC's $500 per call regulation and he got offended. Go figure. Apaprently the fact that the Federal government might put him out of business wasn't a factor in his worldview. I rang off.
And called the local police department and reported a couple hundred harassing phone calls. I leaned heavily on the second manager's attitude toward my request of the previous day and on his utter disregard for Federal codes covering his business. I named both managers in the complaint. These guys are less than fifty miles from us and in the same state, so it could happen.
We have a case number. Some day they'll screw up, and then a telemarketing manager will do the Perp Walk. I'll be sure to put whatever details I can on a website so we can all share the joy.
Or maybe a -1: No Sense of Humor option.
So I'll just declare a "foe" until then.