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You just have to make some macros...
And a little program that allows you to put multiple instructions on one line seperated by semicolons...
And then start using # signs for comments instead of semicolons...

But really, it can be quite structured and easy.

Some Structured Assembly Language

It's just that most assembly programmers are bent on keeping things difficult for some reason.

Hey, if its offered, who cares how its used...

Its the same amount of space if its a 500mb ISO image of a ripped application, or if its 500mb of vacation images sent to gramma..

So whats the difference..

The difference is that the offer is built around average use rather than maximum use. If you use disk space over the average (say ~10MB), then Google's losing money on you. By storing 500MB of anything, you can bet your ass that you'll pop up on their radar and they'll check your account out. Both you and Grandma will likely be booted for using your account for "3.(iv) ...for inappropriate purpose;" (from their TOS.) But really, you're being booted for being unprofitable.

I run a free hosting service and it works much the same way. Everyone gets all excited that we offer 200MB of disk space, but the average uses just 1.4MB. We know that's how it works, and count on it. Same with DSL providers, banks, and gyms.

Think about it, each neighborhood gym has thousands of memberships, but no gym could handle every member working out once a day for 20 minutes. It's not dishonest, it's just understanding the nature of the business. They price their offer attractively for average use. They're being reasonable as long as they don't set up their offer so the average user gets screwed (e.g. unbreakable long-term contracts.)

We LOVE to boot the packrats on our service for not following the rules.

"After a night in bulk club, everything in the real world gets the volume turned down. Nothing can piss you off. Your word is law, and if other people break that law or question you, even that doesn't piss you off."

Maybe this parody of Fight Club helps shine insight on how spammers can sleep peacefully knowing full well that millions of barbs of dislike and spite are pointed their way. What do they care? They've got the bulk club.

Go play at AloofHosting.com, free web hosting that makes sense.

Oh well, there's always geocities...

Or AloofHosting free web hosting
- 200MB disk space / 1GB bandwidth
- 2-line footer text ad, rather than popups or banners.

May 27th we're switching to link content ads (so we'll take up even less screen real estate) and upgrading our free hosting offering to 250MB disk space / 3GB bandwidth (metered daily.)

It's an exciting time for us.
10,000 websites hosted since Christmas.

If you have more than 100 links in the same page, Google doesn't index it. I've had some pages kept precisely at 50 links and google visited once, then never returned. Content link-advertising would most certainly get the page banned by Google.

Things I miss are the sites where you could get free webspace to do whatever with, and not have to fart around with banner ads, popups, etc. Granted that's moot since I have a friend who hosts one of my sites.

My company, SurveyComplete, sponsors a service called AloofHosting which provides free webspace to people. Signups don't get to do anything they want with the space, it is understood that users are meant to host a website, and not use it as a file-server, but for the most part people seem pretty happy. It's also partially supported by a 2-line text ad placed in the footer of each webpage. So it's not really "free" as in without obligations, but it's very mild when compared with the popups and banners enforced on users of other "free" webpage services.

On the plus side, users do get 50MB of diskspace and 500MB of transfer a month. It's really a pretty good service, reminiscent of GeoCities before they placed the floating G on every page.

Just last week I bought Dungeon Siege, the first computer game I've bought in a year, just so I could play the fan-based remake of Ultima V featured on slashdot the other day. It was a neat concept to remake an old (but loved) game.

There's also a user created Wing Commander mod for Vega Strike.

I really dig the user-created remakes. They're just so crappy in comparison to the originals.

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Since you're here, you should sign up for a banner / pop-up free website on AloofHosting.com. 50MB disk space, 500MB transfer, FTP, and a pissed off monkey comes with each free account.

* Monkey may not be available in your state. *

Why languages should be case-sensitive:

People may use |COUNT| and |count| to mean the same thing, but mathematicians don't. In mathematical expressions it's very useful to use case distinctions for related entities. For example,

Consider a graph G(V,E)

for each vertex v in V do
find an edge e in E such that e is incident on v ...

Since programming languages are meant for use by technical people, and since computer programming and mathematics are so intimately related, it pays to let computer programmers use the same tools that mathematicians do. Not only should programming languages be case-sensitive, but they should allow the use of subscripts, superscripts, and Greek letters too, to make the notation more powerful and more intuitive. Right now we have to go through some trouble to compact mathematical notation to a verbose format just because the computer's character set is so inadequate.

...And that's why you should sign up for free hosting with aloofhosting.com.

If I were more serious about this stuff I might dump the free sites completely and pay for something decent.