Lots/most people do pay for receiving SMS on their cell phones - either they pay for each or they pay for each after XXX free. In any case, it's going to get worse before it gets better.
I go to Fileplanet, right-click download, and save-as wherever I want.
I go to Sourceforge, click download, then click the file I want to download (can't right click yet!), click another link entitled download (still can't right click), and then.... nothing happens. It keeps reloading the page over and over again. (I'm using Mozilla, fwiw).
Now I know it hasn't always done this. It used to then redirect to yet another page, which would then start the download via meta refresh. But damn, what a fucking hassle.
It's especially bad that you can't just "fetch" the files in any reliable way - you have to go through this completely bizarre download system.
I'd bet the game works just fine with the keys banned - in single player mode. I haven't seen an agreement for online play that did not allow banning for hacking...
More often, I'm around people that SHOUT FOR NO REASON when they're right next to the people they're talking to. Restaurants that have no-cellphone policies don't act against people who are shouting because chances are they're drinking, and alcohol is easy money.
There have always been loud people in public places, even before there were cell phones, and there always will be, even after the direct mind-to-phone interfaces are widespread.
In any case, there are restaurants that tend to have a quieter crowd than other restaurants. All I can suggest is to go to them instead. It might cost more, but it seems like, to the people so adamantly opposed to cell phone use, that it would be worth it.
So here we are worried about passengers taking nail clippers aboard flights when all they have to do is bring on a radio and GPS receiver and cell phone and they can take down the entire plane!
I find it VERY hard to believe that the airplanes electronics are this fragile. People use cell phones all over the airport, but planes can still take off very close by. The people on the ground driving the little carts around use radios without problems.
If the school was simultaneously a strip club and a school, I'd agree, parents should not drop their kids off there, and should find a school that meets their moral needs better.
Anyways, real schools have supervision, of a sort. The kids should not have unrestricted/unmonitored access to the Internet while there, either.
If the world degrades to the point that pornography is impossible to separate from the schools, then parents probably ought to choose to either create a new school or teach their kids themselves.
Agreed 110%. Parents shouldn't be dropping their kids off at a strip club any more than they should be leaving them alone while on the Internet. If they can't handle that, they should get snipped/tied.
Fatal flaw in that: Many votes are done using the "voice vote" method, leaving them completely unaccountable to their actions. As long as that method of voting exists for members of congress, there is no hope.
How about a system where the phone number is "technically" a lot longer. Like, 100 digits. The first 90 digits define the company code, the last 10 are your phone number. You don't ever actually have to dial 10 numbers, but the phone switches pre-pend your 90 digit company code to every call you make. Incoming calls would ask a switch for "*2065551212" and route the call to the result.
(Doesn't have to be 100 digits, just threw that number out there..)
The last 5 phone companies I've dealt with (one cellular) have included a number portability fee. AFAICR, I've been paying for this service for YEARS. I didn't know it wasn't working.
What about the CPU cost per hit of a high traffic (1Mhit/day or more) CGI-based applicatoin? Reducing a quarter of a second to a hundredth of a second can save you real dollars (in terms of server purchasing), and in most cases, it can be done, if you're not afraid to reinvent a bit.
Btw, mod_perl is not the answer here - it consumes memory and CPU like nothing else, has issues with caching or something (I don't know how to describe it exactly, but sometimes data that is changed between hits doesn't actually reflect as changed. It's inconsistent, at best.)
Not to mention how much CPU time each of those takes. For example, check out the "tinyurl.pl" example in CPAN. It uses:
use POE; use POE::Component::IRC; use LWP::UserAgent; use HTTP::Response; use HTTP::Request::Common; use URI::Find;
Each of which probably use a good number of libraries themselves. Running perl -wc on the script takes.6 user CPU seconds alone - an approximation of how much CPU time it takes to start up (and by my measurement, a pretty accurate approximation).
Hell, check this out:
$ time perl -e "use POE"
0.23s real 0.21s user 0.01s system
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Er, I should say.. in the US. Sorry.
Lots/most people do pay for receiving SMS on their cell phones - either they pay for each or they pay for each after XXX free. In any case, it's going to get worse before it gets better.
Just don't remove the content and you'll be OK.
Woah, are you kidding?
. tar.gz?use_mirror=heanet
I go to Fileplanet, right-click download, and save-as wherever I want.
I go to Sourceforge, click download, then click the file I want to download (can't right click yet!), click another link entitled download (still can't right click), and then.... nothing happens. It keeps reloading the page over and over again. (I'm using Mozilla, fwiw).
Now I know it hasn't always done this. It used to then redirect to yet another page, which would then start the download via meta refresh. But damn, what a fucking hassle.
It's especially bad that you can't just "fetch" the files in any reliable way - you have to go through this completely bizarre download system.
Here's the link I was testing with:
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/gaim/gaim-0.64
I'd bet the game works just fine with the keys banned - in single player mode. I haven't seen an agreement for online play that did not allow banning for hacking...
3. Develop viruses in-house, distribute them, and then distribute patches for those viruses faster than MS. ;)
More often, I'm around people that SHOUT FOR NO REASON when they're right next to the people they're talking to. Restaurants that have no-cellphone policies don't act against people who are shouting because chances are they're drinking, and alcohol is easy money.
There have always been loud people in public places, even before there were cell phones, and there always will be, even after the direct mind-to-phone interfaces are widespread.
In any case, there are restaurants that tend to have a quieter crowd than other restaurants. All I can suggest is to go to them instead. It might cost more, but it seems like, to the people so adamantly opposed to cell phone use, that it would be worth it.
So here we are worried about passengers taking nail clippers aboard flights when all they have to do is bring on a radio and GPS receiver and cell phone and they can take down the entire plane!
I find it VERY hard to believe that the airplanes electronics are this fragile. People use cell phones all over the airport, but planes can still take off very close by. The people on the ground driving the little carts around use radios without problems.
Damn man, if you can't handle being around other people talking, you need either some really good earplugs or just to stay at home and telecommute.
Seriously, people like you really worry me - any other person talking around you and you call it abuse. I call it "being around other people".
I never thought I'd see the day that someone on /. would be asking to mod a patent up.
Cool. I'll pretend to be a kid to be rid of spam, no problem.
If the school was simultaneously a strip club and a school, I'd agree, parents should not drop their kids off there, and should find a school that meets their moral needs better.
Anyways, real schools have supervision, of a sort. The kids should not have unrestricted/unmonitored access to the Internet while there, either.
If the world degrades to the point that pornography is impossible to separate from the schools, then parents probably ought to choose to either create a new school or teach their kids themselves.
Agreed 110%. Parents shouldn't be dropping their kids off at a strip club any more than they should be leaving them alone while on the Internet. If they can't handle that, they should get snipped/tied.
Fatal flaw in that: Many votes are done using the "voice vote" method, leaving them completely unaccountable to their actions. As long as that method of voting exists for members of congress, there is no hope.
Banks will process unsigned checks without caring much. They only primarily pay attention to what the merchant says is on the check.
My handwriting was great, for my age, before I learned cursive.
Then came cursive.
My cursive was not good, and my regular handwriting quality plummeted.
Down with cursive, I say!
I prefer the term "Women's Studies"
Names aren't unique though.
How about a system where the phone number is "technically" a lot longer. Like, 100 digits. The first 90 digits define the company code, the last 10 are your phone number. You don't ever actually have to dial 10 numbers, but the phone switches pre-pend your 90 digit company code to every call you make. Incoming calls would ask a switch for "*2065551212" and route the call to the result.
(Doesn't have to be 100 digits, just threw that number out there..)
The last 5 phone companies I've dealt with (one cellular) have included a number portability fee. AFAICR, I've been paying for this service for YEARS. I didn't know it wasn't working.
That makes me pretty unhappy.
What about the CPU cost per hit of a high traffic (1Mhit/day or more) CGI-based applicatoin? Reducing a quarter of a second to a hundredth of a second can save you real dollars (in terms of server purchasing), and in most cases, it can be done, if you're not afraid to reinvent a bit.
Btw, mod_perl is not the answer here - it consumes memory and CPU like nothing else, has issues with caching or something (I don't know how to describe it exactly, but sometimes data that is changed between hits doesn't actually reflect as changed. It's inconsistent, at best.)
Not to mention how much CPU time each of those takes. For example, check out the "tinyurl.pl" example in CPAN. It uses:
.6 user CPU seconds alone - an approximation of how much CPU time it takes to start up (and by my measurement, a pretty accurate approximation).
use POE;
use POE::Component::IRC;
use LWP::UserAgent;
use HTTP::Response;
use HTTP::Request::Common;
use URI::Find;
Each of which probably use a good number of libraries themselves. Running perl -wc on the script takes
Hell, check this out:
$ time perl -e "use POE"
0.23s real 0.21s user 0.01s system
Sick.
The 3 R's:
49% of the time, reuse
49% of the time, reinvent
2% of the time, PARTY DOWN!
And some of us developers know and can demonstrate our way is better, quite frankly.
Especially when it comes to perl, where the more times you use "use", the slower your code runs per instance.
No, it does not. Scroll down to "Minot"
Broadcast television is by currently definition a local service. However, look no further than ClearChannel to see that it won't always be that way.
Unfortunately.