Oh yeah? Well I remember using rocks. Each rock represented a bit, oriented up/down for 0, or left/right for 1. A hard drive was as big as a medium-sized country and took 15 years to gather. Then it took another 15 years to install an OS based on the papyrus plans. It took 7 generations to boot Windows. It was called Windows 5, because that was the year.
Shit. FYI, I did check my facts. I looked at this page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_8859-1 and didn't find mu. I even searched the page for "mu" and "micro" and firefox didn't find them. But when you showed me exactly where to look (B5) it stood out like a sore thumb. At least I didn't get modded informative (yet).
Slashdot encodes its pages in ISO-8859-1, which is standard for the www. In fact, according to HTTP 1.1, it is the default if no content encoding is specified. Unfortunately, ISO-8859-1 is quite limited, and does not include support for the Greek letter mu, nor the micro symbol, which look identical, but actually each have their own code in Unicode.
Pre-1982 pennies probably aren't really worth melting. Maybe you would get 2.4 cents if scaled, but the typical person only has a few of these, and the time it takes to sort them, and take them to wherever you would get them melted, wouldn't be worth it. Even if you have several thousand in jars, you still wouldn't get more than $100.
Nickels, however, might be worth it. You can get a roll of nickels at a bank for $2. According to your numbers, you can melt it down for $2.36. You might be able to get them in mass, somehow. You'd still have to factor in shipping, etc. Buying and then melting 10,000 rolls of nickels would net you $3600, after other fees.
However, both of these plans might end up being like returning aluminum cans in Michigan. I don't know. I'm not a financial expert. I can't even afford to stay at a Holiday Inn Express.
No offense intended, but that kind of sound like something you made up. Or maybe you have an unusual local bank. Banks are very anal for accuracy. They have no problem sending a 42 cent (plus time, envelope, and paper) letter to correct a 1 cent mistake. Nor do they have a problem sending an account balance to an account which continually has $0.00 in it. They have regulations dictating what they do, even when it wouldn't seem to be financially the best decision. They don't "write off" incorrect deposits.
They provide everything I would want from a hosting company, such as ssh. Their servers are fast. I don't think their account maintenance interface requires javascript. They don't allow resident programs, but they allow you to run cron scripts. I haven't had any problems with them at all, and their prices are excellent.
A bunch of other companies do weird stuff regarding their hosting. I used a service a while ago, shieldhost. I was happy with them for a while. They provided ssh, and their servers were pretty fast. At some point, they decided to restrict ssh, and required that you send them a photocopy of your Driver's License and Social Security card, IIRC. I spent about an hour researching and diagnosing that problem. I remember thinking, "I'm not going to do that. The only people who won't have a problem are professional identity thieves who probably have boxes of that stuff." Then they got new management, and changed their billing service. They accidentally billed me twice, and I wrote half a dozen trouble tickets to billing in a two week period. Each of those disappeared without explanation. They weren't even "deleted", which would have shown up in the ticket history. I ended up having to get Paypal to give me that money back, and my Credit Card to give me back the other charge. My credit card actually gave me other problems, but that is another story. I withdrew both charges, because that was not an acceptable level of service. The new management also decided to remove all the site documentation, and replace it with a "knowledge base" system. The knowledge base is, to this day (over a year after I dumped them), completely empty.
I've used a few registrars, such as domainsarefree (pretty cheap domains, but not free). Their servers are slow as a snail, and their interface kept failing silently when I tried to enter my contact info. It turns out that they require each field to be in a very specific format. You can enter "California" into the State field, but after hitting submit, it will fail silently, and everything you entered will be lost. I ended up having to change one field at a time, and discover through experimentation what the arbitrary format is. I guess I live in "Ca", not "California". Add to this that it takes about 30 seconds to a minute to submit the form, and it is a serious problem, and not worth the $5 savings over using nearlyfreespeech.net
It's not that nearlyfreespeech is spectacular in any way. It's hosting; it shouldn't be that hard. It's just that the hosting industry is full of bullshit, and nearlyfreespeech has none that I am aware of.
Here are a few potential cons to nearlyfreespeech: To curb spam, nearlyfreespeech limits outgoing mail to 1 per minute, with a 100 mail bucket. This might be a problem for some people. I'm not sure if they will relax this on request, but they might. Also, they require accurate whois info for their registrar service. They said that they would delete accounts with inaccurate info without refund. Their documentation is a bit scattered. It's way above average in regards to completeness, but I've had to use Google to search their site for answers.
There are hundreds, maybe even thousands of email services. Most of them are free, but you can pay if you want. There is no threat of Gmail being the only email provider in the foreseeable future.
I've been considering making a Firefox extension, or a greasemonkey script, to do just that. Although I wanted to filter attention whore articles, such as those about Jack Thompson, Uwe Boll, John Dvorak, or those submitted by Roland. Filtering kdawson would be good too. Unfortunately, I have no experience writing extensions or greasemonkey scripts for Firefox.
On the other hand, if we filtered all of the stories that we complain about on Slashdot, there would be nothing left. Then where would we waste our time?
If her name is misspelled in the filename, chances are that the file was encoded just as carelessly. Their are plenty of copies of each of Britney Spears's songs on each of the networks; there is no reason to include misspellings in your search.
I would imagine the results of a crash would be much like being strapped to the hood of your car during a collision
Welcome to the world of motorcycles, where safety is not our primary concern. Motorcycles don't offer any protection in a crash, and never have, with few exceptions. The best you can hope for in a crash is that you get thrown one way, and your bike another so that it doesn't crush you. And wear a helmet. If safety is your primary concern, cars and buses are much safer.
Identity theft is easy for the pros. It's like a Slashdot user installing a computer program. This guy discovered that it is a bad idea to paint a target on your own back.
How can a community edited work be published under by-nc-ND? The nd means "no derivative" which means that the public can't distribute modified works. When he says, "community edited" does he mean a private community? Also, according the the website, they are selling this book, which you can't do if it is by-NC-nd, where the NC means non-commercial. If it was community edited, you would need permission from every copyright holder (which might mean a lot) if you want a different license.
With so many things left unanswered, how can we answer this guy's question?
Each extension has a "max-version". Some extensions devs will compare their extension with the current version of Firefox, say 2.0.0.14, make sure it works, and publish an extension with the max-version set to 2.0.0.14. This is what they are "supposed to" do. When 2.0.0.15 comes out, these extensions won't work any more, until the devs test them with the current version of Firefox, and upload a new version.
Some devs "break the rules", and if the current version is 2.0.0.14, they will set the max-version of their extension to 2.0.0.99, or something like that. These extensions probably won't break between upgrades, but are only tested by the devs after the fact, if at all.
Call me sentimental, but I tend to think that the inspirational value -- to everyone, not just aspiring legless athletes -- of letting this fellow compete trumps any concerns over fairness.
Yeah, that's usually how short-term benefits over long-term consequences work. They are sentimental, feel good, and you don't really see how bad it is for a long time. The worst part is that there aren't much feel good short-term benefits. This is guy is good, but according to what I've read, including TFS, isn't quite good enough for the Olympics. So in just a years time, the only thing we will be left with is the precedent that allows cyborgs in the Olympics.
As stupid and annoying as going through 6 ad-filled pages, that is entirely the publisher's choice to do, and working around it would be, while maybe not wrong, not nice.
If only they would provide a single page article with ads. Then a site like slashdot could link to that, they would get ad money, and we wouldn't have to type or click so much just to RTFA. The problem isn't with the ads (we can just block those), we have objection to the click-fest.
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Oh yeah? Well I remember using rocks. Each rock represented a bit, oriented up/down for 0, or left/right for 1. A hard drive was as big as a medium-sized country and took 15 years to gather. Then it took another 15 years to install an OS based on the papyrus plans. It took 7 generations to boot Windows. It was called Windows 5, because that was the year.
Producers are delusional, but not that much.
FCC FU: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fzaqXFcsH2U
Shit. FYI, I did check my facts. I looked at this page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_8859-1 and didn't find mu. I even searched the page for "mu" and "micro" and firefox didn't find them. But when you showed me exactly where to look (B5) it stood out like a sore thumb. At least I didn't get modded informative (yet).
Slashdot encodes its pages in ISO-8859-1, which is standard for the www. In fact, according to HTTP 1.1, it is the default if no content encoding is specified. Unfortunately, ISO-8859-1 is quite limited, and does not include support for the Greek letter mu, nor the micro symbol, which look identical, but actually each have their own code in Unicode.
Pre-1982 pennies probably aren't really worth melting. Maybe you would get 2.4 cents if scaled, but the typical person only has a few of these, and the time it takes to sort them, and take them to wherever you would get them melted, wouldn't be worth it. Even if you have several thousand in jars, you still wouldn't get more than $100.
Nickels, however, might be worth it. You can get a roll of nickels at a bank for $2. According to your numbers, you can melt it down for $2.36. You might be able to get them in mass, somehow. You'd still have to factor in shipping, etc. Buying and then melting 10,000 rolls of nickels would net you $3600, after other fees.
However, both of these plans might end up being like returning aluminum cans in Michigan. I don't know. I'm not a financial expert. I can't even afford to stay at a Holiday Inn Express.
No offense intended, but that kind of sound like something you made up. Or maybe you have an unusual local bank. Banks are very anal for accuracy. They have no problem sending a 42 cent (plus time, envelope, and paper) letter to correct a 1 cent mistake. Nor do they have a problem sending an account balance to an account which continually has $0.00 in it. They have regulations dictating what they do, even when it wouldn't seem to be financially the best decision. They don't "write off" incorrect deposits.
That wouldn't even work. Flash runs as a regular user, but needs administrator access to update its own code.
That can't be. It's reasonable, but involves one of the Big Four record labels.
They provide everything I would want from a hosting company, such as ssh. Their servers are fast. I don't think their account maintenance interface requires javascript. They don't allow resident programs, but they allow you to run cron scripts. I haven't had any problems with them at all, and their prices are excellent.
A bunch of other companies do weird stuff regarding their hosting. I used a service a while ago, shieldhost. I was happy with them for a while. They provided ssh, and their servers were pretty fast. At some point, they decided to restrict ssh, and required that you send them a photocopy of your Driver's License and Social Security card, IIRC. I spent about an hour researching and diagnosing that problem. I remember thinking, "I'm not going to do that. The only people who won't have a problem are professional identity thieves who probably have boxes of that stuff." Then they got new management, and changed their billing service. They accidentally billed me twice, and I wrote half a dozen trouble tickets to billing in a two week period. Each of those disappeared without explanation. They weren't even "deleted", which would have shown up in the ticket history. I ended up having to get Paypal to give me that money back, and my Credit Card to give me back the other charge. My credit card actually gave me other problems, but that is another story. I withdrew both charges, because that was not an acceptable level of service. The new management also decided to remove all the site documentation, and replace it with a "knowledge base" system. The knowledge base is, to this day (over a year after I dumped them), completely empty.
I've used a few registrars, such as domainsarefree (pretty cheap domains, but not free). Their servers are slow as a snail, and their interface kept failing silently when I tried to enter my contact info. It turns out that they require each field to be in a very specific format. You can enter "California" into the State field, but after hitting submit, it will fail silently, and everything you entered will be lost. I ended up having to change one field at a time, and discover through experimentation what the arbitrary format is. I guess I live in "Ca", not "California". Add to this that it takes about 30 seconds to a minute to submit the form, and it is a serious problem, and not worth the $5 savings over using nearlyfreespeech.net
It's not that nearlyfreespeech is spectacular in any way. It's hosting; it shouldn't be that hard. It's just that the hosting industry is full of bullshit, and nearlyfreespeech has none that I am aware of.
Here are a few potential cons to nearlyfreespeech: To curb spam, nearlyfreespeech limits outgoing mail to 1 per minute, with a 100 mail bucket. This might be a problem for some people. I'm not sure if they will relax this on request, but they might. Also, they require accurate whois info for their registrar service. They said that they would delete accounts with inaccurate info without refund. Their documentation is a bit scattered. It's way above average in regards to completeness, but I've had to use Google to search their site for answers.
2008 hasn't failed to become the year of Linux on the desktop yet.
There are hundreds, maybe even thousands of email services. Most of them are free, but you can pay if you want. There is no threat of Gmail being the only email provider in the foreseeable future.
I'm really happy with nearlyfreespeech.net. It's not in the UK, though.
I've been considering making a Firefox extension, or a greasemonkey script, to do just that. Although I wanted to filter attention whore articles, such as those about Jack Thompson, Uwe Boll, John Dvorak, or those submitted by Roland. Filtering kdawson would be good too. Unfortunately, I have no experience writing extensions or greasemonkey scripts for Firefox.
On the other hand, if we filtered all of the stories that we complain about on Slashdot, there would be nothing left. Then where would we waste our time?
The government finds Ron Goldman useful. They won't destroy him.
If her name is misspelled in the filename, chances are that the file was encoded just as carelessly. Their are plenty of copies of each of Britney Spears's songs on each of the networks; there is no reason to include misspellings in your search.
Welcome to the world of motorcycles, where safety is not our primary concern. Motorcycles don't offer any protection in a crash, and never have, with few exceptions. The best you can hope for in a crash is that you get thrown one way, and your bike another so that it doesn't crush you. And wear a helmet. If safety is your primary concern, cars and buses are much safer.
Identity theft is easy for the pros. It's like a Slashdot user installing a computer program. This guy discovered that it is a bad idea to paint a target on your own back.
How can a community edited work be published under by-nc-ND? The nd means "no derivative" which means that the public can't distribute modified works. When he says, "community edited" does he mean a private community? Also, according the the website, they are selling this book, which you can't do if it is by-NC-nd, where the NC means non-commercial. If it was community edited, you would need permission from every copyright holder (which might mean a lot) if you want a different license.
With so many things left unanswered, how can we answer this guy's question?
Each extension has a "max-version". Some extensions devs will compare their extension with the current version of Firefox, say 2.0.0.14, make sure it works, and publish an extension with the max-version set to 2.0.0.14. This is what they are "supposed to" do. When 2.0.0.15 comes out, these extensions won't work any more, until the devs test them with the current version of Firefox, and upload a new version.
Some devs "break the rules", and if the current version is 2.0.0.14, they will set the max-version of their extension to 2.0.0.99, or something like that. These extensions probably won't break between upgrades, but are only tested by the devs after the fact, if at all.
I was thinking that too. I was just saying, "We don't have enough packaging formats." There's a lot of room for improvement, and adding features.
Try asking that question to the Phoenix web browser devs.
Yeah, that's usually how short-term benefits over long-term consequences work. They are sentimental, feel good, and you don't really see how bad it is for a long time. The worst part is that there aren't much feel good short-term benefits. This is guy is good, but according to what I've read, including TFS, isn't quite good enough for the Olympics. So in just a years time, the only thing we will be left with is the precedent that allows cyborgs in the Olympics.
If only they would provide a single page article with ads. Then a site like slashdot could link to that, they would get ad money, and we wouldn't have to type or click so much just to RTFA. The problem isn't with the ads (we can just block those), we have objection to the click-fest.
You seem to be missing the whole point of a boycott.