Thank you for asking...I was wondering the same thing. Maybe they meant "slick buttered chick", which sounds better. Hopefully they will reply.
However, I have a (offtopic, though it may be) question for you (and others):
Here in the US (Ohio), the local PBS (WOSU) has been airing Father Ted at 11:00 pm on Saturdays. Great show. However, they all seem to say feck, rather than fuck. Is that just the way the Irish say it? Or is it easier to say with the accent? Or what?
Actually, I would say that, in general, magnetic media arranged on a disk-like platter is a `disk' where as optical media on disk-like platter is a `disc'. Though, who really cares, call them HDDs or CDs or DVDs and be done with it:) .
Since when has having a large penis made you a technology leader?
Don't forget that with most any Microsoft "Upgrade" version, you can insert a disk from an older qualifying version while installing if you want to do a fresh install.
For instance, at work, we only have Win95 upgrade CDs. So, when installing it, it asks for a qualifying software package. I insert disk 1 of Win 3.11, tell it to look at A:, and it's on it's way.
The "Upgrade" version is really for if you don't want/need to pay more for a new version. So, basically, the difference between Win98 and WinXP Home costs $99.
Just in case others try to follow your link and don't want to have to BS their way through RR's hoops, here's their AUP:
-----Begin RR AUP-----
Road Runner Acceptable Use Policy
Road Runner seeks to create and foster an on-line community that can be used and enjoyed by all its members. To further that goal, Road Runner has developed an Acceptable Use Policy. Although much of what is included here is common sense, Road Runner takes these issues very seriously and will enforce its rules to ensure enjoyment by all of its members. Road Runner therefore has reserved the right to remove any content posted to its system that it deems offensive, inappropriate or violative of its policies. It also reserves the right to suspend or cancel a subscriber's account for engaging in inappropriate conduct. (Subscribers, of course, also remain legally responsible for any such acts.) In using Road Runner, subscribers accept this non-exhaustive list of restrictions as well as those set forth in the Road Runner Cable Modem Service Subscription Agreement and agree to use Road Runner only for lawful purposes and not to use or allow others to use Road Runner in violation of the following guidelines:
Unless you have specifically subscribed for commercial grade service, the Road Runner service is provided to you for personal, non-commercial use only. This service cannot be used for any enterprise purpose whatsoever whether or not the enterprise is directed toward making a profit. If it is your intention to use this service for these purposes, please contact your local Time Warner Cable affiliated cable operator to inquire whether commercial Road Runner service programs are available.
The Road Runner service may not be used to engage in any conduct that interferes with Road Runner's ability to provide service to others, including the use of excessive bandwidth.
The Road Runner service may not be used to breach or attempt to breach the security, the computer, the software or the data of any person or entity, including Road Runner, to circumvent the user authentication features or security of any host, network or account, to use or distribute tools designed to compromise security, or to interfere with another's use of the Road Runner service through the posting or transmitting of a virus or other harmful item or to deliberately overload or flood that entity's system.
In using the Road Runner service, you may not use an IP address or client ID not assigned to you, forge any TCP/IP packet header or any part of the header information in an e-mail or newsgroup posting or probe, scan or test the vulnerability of any system or network by the use of sniffers, SNMP tools or any other method.
The Road Runner service may not be used to post or transmit content that violates child pornography statutes or contains graphic visual depictions of sexual acts or sexually explicit conduct involving children, or other depictions of children, the primary appeal of which is prurient.
The Road Runner service may not be used to upload, post, transmit or otherwise make available any materials or content that violate or infringe on the rights or dignity of others. These include, but are not limited to, materials infringing or compromising intellectual property rights or any party's ability to maintain trade secrets and other personal information as private; hate speech; threats of physical violence; harassing conduct; sexually oriented material that is offensive or inappropriate; and unsolicited bulk e-mail.
The Road Runner service may not be used to engage in or foster any consumer fraud such as illegal gambling, "Make Money Fast" schemes, chain letters, Pyramid, or other investment schemes, or to make or encourage people to accept fraudulent offers of products, items or services, originating from your account, or through a third party which implicates your account or to post or transmit off-topic or commercial messages on bulletin boards.
You may not engage in any of the above activities using the service of another Internet provider, while channeling such activities through your Road Runner account or using this account as a mail drop for responses.
-----End RR AUP-----
Well, I guess you're right. The only thing there that looks like it might even remotely look down on using a router is the "excessive bandwidth" part. Even then, you don't use any more bandwidth while using a router.
At our place (in Columbus, Ohio) we've ordered DSL from Ameritech. It's supposed to be turned on today (maybe). Our options are: DSL (Ameritech, maybe others), Cable (TWC:RR, Earthlink?), and 28.8Kbps dialup. Currently, we have dialup. It's slow. We would get cable except that the cable companies don't like people sharing the connection across a local network, and we'd like to have an internet connection across the entire network. Buying multiple IPs for a non-cable TV-subscriber is expensive ($15US/ip/month).
So, in our case, there is no shortage of options (in fact, we have more methods of connecting than most, though there aren't many providers) but the problem is that the cable companies don't like routers. Now, if it was my decision, I'd probably say "to hell with them! they've got my money for the one IP I'm using!". But it's not.
Anyway, what's holding us back from taking advantage of the best offer we have available is the cost of staying within the bounds of the RR agreement.
So that's why TWC will not be getting any of our money! So there TWC! *PBTHHHHHT*
(Of course, the best BEST option would be to move to one of the campus dorms. Mmmmm university broadband....speedy.)
That second link has a few sentences that concern me a bit:
My intuition led me into a Chinese goods store, and the store manager, who saw me holding my arm in pain, told me he knew just what I needed!
He handed me a set of Baoding Balls used in Qi Gong. I twirled the jade balls maybe three times in my left hand, then fell to the ground in pain. I knew these were just what I needed; an answer to an unspoken prayer.
Errr? Is this person just really masochistic or is the answer to CTS supposed to be twirling little oriental balls in our hands in order to feel terrible pain?
(~OT: That evil guy in Akazukin ChaCha must have pretty bad CTS as he's always twiddling his balls.)
Just out of curiosity (since I'm reading this after the title has apparently been changed to what you suggested), what was in the place of ``Saved'' in the original title?
Well, you might take comfort knowing that the music available on their site is available in MP3. However, wgetting the files doesn't seem to be working. It fails part of the way through and has to restart from the beginning, rather than just continuing.
Anyone have any thoughts (besides "that is a stupid waste of time")?
I think what the previous poster means is that, in basic math, the 0 in.10 would be truncated, and thus (.1 <.9).
The answer to their question is that, yes, (.10 <.9). However, in software releases, the period is just a separator, and not a decimal point. Thus, (10 > 9) is true.
I currently use FVWM2 on my desktop and have tried WindowMaker and BlackBox. I haven't yet taken the time to venture into KDE- or Gnome-Land.
They are all fast to start up. However, FVWM2 is slow as hell at moving windows around opaquely. Okay, not slow, choppy... not smooth. BlackBox and WindowMaker are both pretty fast/smooth (they should be since BlackBox's window movement routines were derived from WM's). But neither BB or WM are as smooth as Windows boxes with high refresh rates set for the PS/2 mouse (for Win9x, use: http://www.students.tut.fi/~zibbo/other/ps2rate/ps 2rate.zip) .
This slow opaque window movement is the one thing I miss most when I go home and use my Linux box after using Windows 9x/2k machines.
I have a Radeon VE, and it does work very well (1600x1200@24bit and 75Hz on a Samsung 900IFT) on X 4.1.0. My main gripe is that I need to use the DVI->VGA adapter in order to use it on my CRT. I don't suppose it would be all that clearer if it was directly on the VGA, but it would be nice.
I guess it's also a little slow at moving windows around opaquely in FVWM2. But I think that's a combined result of no DirectX, X just being slow (assuming DirectX is what allows Windows to move windows opaquely so well), and FVWM2 being slow at moving windows opaquely (BlackBox and WindowMaker are speedier).
Other than that, 2D is pretty good and GL apps run really well. Maybe not as well as they could, but acceptably well.
How to (maybe) get some of the movies.
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Go to the Google Cache link, click it.
In the cached page, right-click and copy a URL that points to a commercial's page.
In general, I believe that the attitude towards software (no minimum standards) compared to that towards cars/bridges is due to the possibility of loss of life. If your car spontaneously blows up, or a bridge crumbles in the breeze due to shoddy engineering, there's a possibility of loss of life. However, if your computer crashes just as you're about to finish off a bit of million-dollar code that you haven't saved yet, then you will not die (you may kill yourself, but your computer hasn't killed you).
However, I'm sure that, say traffic-signal software designers and medical robotics software designers have some sort of minimum requirements. The people that design the software that operates your local traffic signals can't say: "Whoops! Those lights aren't supposed to be all green! Sorry for your head through your windshield. We'll start working on a fix right away!" Or the robotics designers: "You got stuck with a needle full of WHAT?! Wow! Sorry about your flesh rotting due to the E.Bola. Heh, we never expected that to happen. We'll check on that." They'd be sued to death.
Hm, if so, that could make things a little more interesting since, AFAIK, there's no "fourth amendment" in Russia, and so he couldn't plead the fourth.
The other day I was reading salon and this jaguar ad started out like an innocent 160xmumble standard ad banner. Said something about "rip into jaguar" or something equally retarded. Then this paper-tearing effect starts and extends down and to the left, covering about 30% of the page i was reading.
It appears as if this new ad campaign is working splendidly. You remembered everything that happened. And it was "the other day", rather than "15 minutes ago."
These new methods of advertising seem similar to that annoying kid that acts up all the time and thus gets attention. First it's: "Don't link to us!". Now: "We'll annoy the crap out of you!"
Someday there will be no more banner ads. Just stupid companies doing annoying things to get in our way. Then we will wish we had banner ads again.
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Thank you for asking...I was wondering the same thing. Maybe they meant "slick buttered chick", which sounds better. Hopefully they will reply.
However, I have a (offtopic, though it may be) question for you (and others):
Here in the US (Ohio), the local PBS (WOSU) has been airing Father Ted at 11:00 pm on Saturdays. Great show. However, they all seem to say feck, rather than fuck. Is that just the way the Irish say it? Or is it easier to say with the accent? Or what?
Thanks.
Hah, and here I was thinking you were being serious and trying to say something more like dis[c/k]s. Oh well..
technology leader with the largest dis(c)ks.
:) .
Hard drives are `disks'.
CDs are Compact Discs.
Actually, I would say that, in general, magnetic media arranged on a disk-like platter is a `disk' where as optical media on disk-like platter is a `disc'. Though, who really cares, call them HDDs or CDs or DVDs and be done with it
Since when has having a large penis made you a technology leader?
Damn! I was hoping I hadn't messed it up...thanks for correcting me.
They could probably do something like:
pi(radius^2)*revolutions
Because you know you'd have a horrible time getting it back in shape of you stretched it all the way out and tried to measure with a tape.
Congrats, Corporal!
Don't forget that with most any Microsoft "Upgrade" version, you can insert a disk from an older qualifying version while installing if you want to do a fresh install.
For instance, at work, we only have Win95 upgrade CDs. So, when installing it, it asks for a qualifying software package. I insert disk 1 of Win 3.11, tell it to look at A:, and it's on it's way.
The "Upgrade" version is really for if you don't want/need to pay more for a new version. So, basically, the difference between Win98 and WinXP Home costs $99.
Just in case others try to follow your link and don't want to have to BS their way through RR's hoops, here's their AUP:
-----Begin RR AUP-----
Road Runner Acceptable Use Policy
Road Runner seeks to create and foster an on-line community that can be used and enjoyed by all its members. To further that goal, Road Runner has developed an Acceptable Use Policy. Although much of what is included here is common sense, Road Runner takes these issues very seriously and will enforce its rules to ensure enjoyment by all of its members. Road Runner therefore has reserved the right to remove any content posted to its system that it deems offensive, inappropriate or violative of its policies. It also reserves the right to suspend or cancel a subscriber's account for engaging in inappropriate conduct. (Subscribers, of course, also remain legally responsible for any such acts.) In using Road Runner, subscribers accept this non-exhaustive list of restrictions as well as those set forth in the Road Runner Cable Modem Service Subscription Agreement and agree to use Road Runner only for lawful purposes and not to use or allow others to use Road Runner in violation of the following guidelines:
Unless you have specifically subscribed for commercial grade service, the Road Runner service is provided to you for personal, non-commercial use only. This service cannot be used for any enterprise purpose whatsoever whether or not the enterprise is directed toward making a profit. If it is your intention to use this service for these purposes, please contact your local Time Warner Cable affiliated cable operator to inquire whether commercial Road Runner service programs are available.
The Road Runner service may not be used to engage in any conduct that interferes with Road Runner's ability to provide service to others, including the use of excessive bandwidth.
The Road Runner service may not be used to breach or attempt to breach the security, the computer, the software or the data of any person or entity, including Road Runner, to circumvent the user authentication features or security of any host, network or account, to use or distribute tools designed to compromise security, or to interfere with another's use of the Road Runner service through the posting or transmitting of a virus or other harmful item or to deliberately overload or flood that entity's system.
In using the Road Runner service, you may not use an IP address or client ID not assigned to you, forge any TCP/IP packet header or any part of the header information in an e-mail or newsgroup posting or probe, scan or test the vulnerability of any system or network by the use of sniffers, SNMP tools or any other method.
The Road Runner service may not be used to post or transmit content that violates child pornography statutes or contains graphic visual depictions of sexual acts or sexually explicit conduct involving children, or other depictions of children, the primary appeal of which is prurient.
The Road Runner service may not be used to upload, post, transmit or otherwise make available any materials or content that violate or infringe on the rights or dignity of others. These include, but are not limited to, materials infringing or compromising intellectual property rights or any party's ability to maintain trade secrets and other personal information as private; hate speech; threats of physical violence; harassing conduct; sexually oriented material that is offensive or inappropriate; and unsolicited bulk e-mail.
The Road Runner service may not be used to engage in or foster any consumer fraud such as illegal gambling, "Make Money Fast" schemes, chain letters, Pyramid, or other investment schemes, or to make or encourage people to accept fraudulent offers of products, items or services, originating from your account, or through a third party which implicates your account or to post or transmit off-topic or commercial messages on bulletin boards.
You may not engage in any of the above activities using the service of another Internet provider, while channeling such activities through your Road Runner account or using this account as a mail drop for responses.
-----End RR AUP-----
Well, I guess you're right. The only thing there that looks like it might even remotely look down on using a router is the "excessive bandwidth" part. Even then, you don't use any more bandwidth while using a router.
At our place (in Columbus, Ohio) we've ordered DSL from Ameritech. It's supposed to be turned on today (maybe). Our options are: DSL (Ameritech, maybe others), Cable (TWC:RR, Earthlink?), and 28.8Kbps dialup. Currently, we have dialup. It's slow. We would get cable except that the cable companies don't like people sharing the connection across a local network, and we'd like to have an internet connection across the entire network. Buying multiple IPs for a non-cable TV-subscriber is expensive ($15US/ip/month).
So, in our case, there is no shortage of options (in fact, we have more methods of connecting than most, though there aren't many providers) but the problem is that the cable companies don't like routers. Now, if it was my decision, I'd probably say "to hell with them! they've got my money for the one IP I'm using!". But it's not.
Anyway, what's holding us back from taking advantage of the best offer we have available is the cost of staying within the bounds of the RR agreement.
So that's why TWC will not be getting any of our money! So there TWC! *PBTHHHHHT*
(Of course, the best BEST option would be to move to one of the campus dorms. Mmmmm university broadband....speedy.)
Errr? Is this person just really masochistic or is the answer to CTS supposed to be twirling little oriental balls in our hands in order to feel terrible pain?
(~OT: That evil guy in Akazukin ChaCha must have pretty bad CTS as he's always twiddling his balls.)
Just out of curiosity (since I'm reading this after the title has apparently been changed to what you suggested), what was in the place of ``Saved'' in the original title?
Is that why they're called Midbar and not Highbar?
*nyuk nyuk nyuk*
Well, you might take comfort knowing that the music available on their site is available in MP3. However, wgetting the files doesn't seem to be working. It fails part of the way through and has to restart from the beginning, rather than just continuing.
Anyone have any thoughts (besides "that is a stupid waste of time")?
I believe FTP is 20 if in active mode. 22 would be ssh.
Is it possible to run a piece or pieces of code through some sort of an automated test that would check for buffer overflows?
My guess is that it isn't, because if it was, then they'd do it and we'd be done with them. But I thought I'd ask.
I think what the previous poster means is that, in basic math, the 0 in .10 would be truncated, and thus (.1 < .9).
.9). However, in software releases, the period is just a separator, and not a decimal point. Thus, (10 > 9) is true.
The answer to their question is that, yes, (.10 <
I currently use FVWM2 on my desktop and have tried WindowMaker and BlackBox. I haven't yet taken the time to venture into KDE- or Gnome-Land.
s 2rate.zip) .
They are all fast to start up. However, FVWM2 is slow as hell at moving windows around opaquely. Okay, not slow, choppy... not smooth. BlackBox and WindowMaker are both pretty fast/smooth (they should be since BlackBox's window movement routines were derived from WM's). But neither BB or WM are as smooth as Windows boxes with high refresh rates set for the PS/2 mouse (for Win9x, use: http://www.students.tut.fi/~zibbo/other/ps2rate/p
This slow opaque window movement is the one thing I miss most when I go home and use my Linux box after using Windows 9x/2k machines.
I have a Radeon VE, and it does work very well (1600x1200@24bit and 75Hz on a Samsung 900IFT) on X 4.1.0. My main gripe is that I need to use the DVI->VGA adapter in order to use it on my CRT. I don't suppose it would be all that clearer if it was directly on the VGA, but it would be nice.
I guess it's also a little slow at moving windows around opaquely in FVWM2. But I think that's a combined result of no DirectX, X just being slow (assuming DirectX is what allows Windows to move windows opaquely so well), and FVWM2 being slow at moving windows opaquely (BlackBox and WindowMaker are speedier).
Other than that, 2D is pretty good and GL apps run really well. Maybe not as well as they could, but acceptably well.
Go to Google, type in www.adcritic.com. [ENTER]
Go to the Google Cache link, click it.
In the cached page, right-click and copy a URL that points to a commercial's page.
Go back to Google, paste that link in. [ENTER]
Go to the cached page for that commercial's page.
Some of the movies may still be up.
Hm, so then if Russian laws do not apply, what are we all crying about? Under American law, he's guilty. Jail the bastard!
(yes, I'm exagerrating)
(And thanks nice Mr. Anonymous Coward, for not pointing out my error...5th, dammit, people plead the 5th)
In general, I believe that the attitude towards software (no minimum standards) compared to that towards cars/bridges is due to the possibility of loss of life. If your car spontaneously blows up, or a bridge crumbles in the breeze due to shoddy engineering, there's a possibility of loss of life. However, if your computer crashes just as you're about to finish off a bit of million-dollar code that you haven't saved yet, then you will not die (you may kill yourself, but your computer hasn't killed you).
However, I'm sure that, say traffic-signal software designers and medical robotics software designers have some sort of minimum requirements. The people that design the software that operates your local traffic signals can't say: "Whoops! Those lights aren't supposed to be all green! Sorry for your head through your windshield. We'll start working on a fix right away!" Or the robotics designers: "You got stuck with a needle full of WHAT?! Wow! Sorry about your flesh rotting due to the E.Bola. Heh, we never expected that to happen. We'll check on that." They'd be sued to death.
Hm, if so, that could make things a little more interesting since, AFAIK, there's no "fourth amendment" in Russia, and so he couldn't plead the fourth.
they already keep archived copies of all projects on zip disks
... *click* *click* *click*
Manager(on phone): Smith, I'm sorry to say that the building has burned down.
Smith: Oh! That's terrible!
M: I know, but the insurance will take care of it. What I'm most concerned about is the data. Our business is nothing without that.
S: Oh! that's no problem, we've got it all backed up off-site!
M: Excellent, Smith! Have a nice day!
S: No problem! Bye.
[next day, at off-site storage location]
Zip drive: *click* *click* *click*
S: AAAAAaaaaAAAAAaaaaAAAHHhhhHHHHH!!!!!
The other day I was reading salon and this jaguar ad started out like an innocent 160xmumble standard ad banner. Said something about "rip into jaguar" or something equally retarded. Then this paper-tearing effect starts and extends down and to the left, covering about 30% of the page i was reading.
It appears as if this new ad campaign is working splendidly. You remembered everything that happened. And it was "the other day", rather than "15 minutes ago."
These new methods of advertising seem similar to that annoying kid that acts up all the time and thus gets attention. First it's: "Don't link to us!". Now: "We'll annoy the crap out of you!"
Someday there will be no more banner ads. Just stupid companies doing annoying things to get in our way. Then we will wish we had banner ads again.
http://www.phrenetic.org/mp3/kpmg_jungle.mp3
It'll be the hottest thing on the dancefloors in a week.