Is RPG IV still column-specific, as the version I learned in high school (I don't recall if it was II or III) was? IOW, do you need to use [code] tags around that snippet?
There's an old joke about a fellow who died, and as he was standing in the long line to get into Heaven he noticed a small trickle of people branching off from the queue. He asked someone (St. Peter?) who those people were, and was told they were the Unitarians. It turned out that the branch point was at a signpost; the mass of people were going in the direction marked "Heaven," and the U-U adherents were going on a trail to "Discussion about Heaven."
ISTR it was the default option in Red Hat Linux at some point in the late '90s, when the logo featured the weird kris-knife thing (or maybe it was a drizzle of solder).
Once, Bill Joy commented on an article, and was promptly spelling-flamed.
Someone responded to the flamer that that was totally improper and disrespectful, and that if he wanted to flame Bill Joy, he should do so for writing csh and vi.
Sometimes it is absolutely necessary for the health of society. Remember Rosa Parks? Fugitive slave laws? Laws that made the teaching of the theory of evolution illegal?
"Because I love you, I can say this: no rich young white guy has ever gotten anywhere with me comparing himself to Rosa Parks." - Isaac Jaffe, Sports Night
Glen Canyon and Hoover are separate dams; Glen Canyon Dam is upstream of the Grand Canyon and Hoover (which spans Black Canyon acc. to WP) is downstream of it. So far as the destruction goes (and I am not one to harp on such things, but this answer seems obvious), I suppose everything that is now at the bottom of Lakes Powell and Mead (respectively) could count. Cf. the former Maine plantations of Dead River and Flagstaff.
I don't follow their execs all that closely (I'd recognize the names of the two founders, but that's about it), but Googling those two led me to this article which mentions both and certainly doesn't call your conclusions into question.
And, within certain limits simply described as "timidity where the commission of felonies is concerned," I'd probably land comfortably within the circles described by your second paragraph, so I'm not going to throw stones.
This is why I feel that "Don't Be Evil" lost all meaning the moment that Google bought Doubleclick (inventors of the tracking cookie). Of course, I'm also old enough to remember the sheer outrage and total boycotting of X10 by Slashdot users (decimating their consumer customer base) because they were the first company to launch a major ad campaign using popunders. I'm still waiting for similar outrage to be aimed at Netflix.
(Incidentally, Chris Wright's Help Desk comic has established that the actual Face of Google is an extradimensional eldritch horror known to us as "G'oo'gl", and "it's not G'oo'gl's fault that when it communicates in the ancient language of its race, all of the meaningful nuances, tones and inflections of the words are lost to the range of human hearing, making every utterance sound like the same thing over and over and over again. It's also not its fault that the basic structure of its language sounds like a philosophical statement supporting something it has been opposed to since the beginning of time. After all, its language came first..."
The "every utterance that sounds like the same thing over and over again," of course, sounds like the phrase "Don't be evil."
My standard answer -- and the only really cool Flash app I've ever seen -- is MLB's Gameday. That brings me to a genuine question: does HTML 5 support the sort of live data feeds that an app like Gameday runs on (not video, but a data stream that is then turned into a graphical display on the client side)?
Susan's not up for re-election this year; her colleague, Olympia Snowe, is.
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If you aren't using script blockers, any page on English Wikipedia will come up and then immediately be replaced by a blacked-out page explaining the protest.
That's what Registered Mail is for... it not only generates a paper trail, it also gets special-security handling (as in, they lock it in a safe for the interval between you handing it in at the desk and it needing to be sorted, etc.) Plus, Registered Mail is an international standard so the benefits are supposed to apply when sending to any UPU member state (although I'm not going to venture a guess as to what might have happened to the wad of cash you may have sent to that nice man in Nigeria). If it was good enough to carry the Hope Diamond, it's probably going to get your negotiable bearer bonds there in one piece.
IIRC, the early-generation SX-70 films, back in the Garner/Hartley era when they took 10 minutes for the image to fully appear, had the same caveat regarding protecting the image from ambient light. My uncle used to lay them face-down on the table while they developed.
I made a tax payment to my city recently, and found that they are now adding a surcharge for credit card payments, essentially to recoup the discount fee (not sure if they add it for debit card transactions as well, as I didn't use one for that particular payment). There was no similar charge for using checks.
Remember that word? It was coined to provide a generic noun for this sort of site that appeared where people linked to, and wrote about and commented on, things they browsed on the web. One of the sites that it was used to describe, of course, was Slashdot, back in those early days of no logins and The Glorious MEEPT! and Ogg the Open-Source Caveman and TacoHell if you knew how to find it and hot grits (Natalie Portman, naked and petrified, came along slightly later). Of course, the word was quickly shortened to "blog" and now everyone knows what it is, but slashdot was here first! For better or worse, CmdrTaco, in this space and using your own widely-criticized software, you were --and will always be-- one of the inventors of the blog. As Felix Unger used to say, "Let it be on your head!"
Good luck, Rob. May you always be the person your dog believes you to be.
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I just turned 48, you insensitive clod!
"Whoa there! You still haven't explained how we settled on the first!"
I don't know! (He's on third!)
Is RPG IV still column-specific, as the version I learned in high school (I don't recall if it was II or III) was? IOW, do you need to use [code] tags around that snippet?
There's an old joke about a fellow who died, and as he was standing in the long line to get into Heaven he noticed a small trickle of people branching off from the queue. He asked someone (St. Peter?) who those people were, and was told they were the Unitarians. It turned out that the branch point was at a signpost; the mass of people were going in the direction marked "Heaven," and the U-U adherents were going on a trail to "Discussion about Heaven."
ISTR it was the default option in Red Hat Linux at some point in the late '90s, when the logo featured the weird kris-knife thing (or maybe it was a drizzle of solder).
Once, Bill Joy commented on an article, and was promptly spelling-flamed.
Someone responded to the flamer that that was totally improper and disrespectful, and that if he wanted to flame Bill Joy, he should do so for writing csh and vi.
My favorites were The Glorious MEEPT! and Oog the Open-Source Caveman!
OOG BREAK HEAD WITH OPEN-SOURCE CD!!!
(Of course, Oog would be rejected by the lameness filter nowadays....)
You do know which site you're on, right?
It was called "The Eighties" :)
(Hey, it's Opening day at Fenway, I couldn't resist!)
Glen Canyon and Hoover are separate dams; Glen Canyon Dam is upstream of the Grand Canyon and Hoover (which spans Black Canyon acc. to WP) is downstream of it. So far as the destruction goes (and I am not one to harp on such things, but this answer seems obvious), I suppose everything that is now at the bottom of Lakes Powell and Mead (respectively) could count. Cf. the former Maine plantations of Dead River and Flagstaff.
I don't follow their execs all that closely (I'd recognize the names of the two founders, but that's about it), but Googling those two led me to this article which mentions both and certainly doesn't call your conclusions into question.
And, within certain limits simply described as "timidity where the commission of felonies is concerned," I'd probably land comfortably within the circles described by your second paragraph, so I'm not going to throw stones.
This is why I feel that "Don't Be Evil" lost all meaning the moment that Google bought Doubleclick (inventors of the tracking cookie). Of course, I'm also old enough to remember the sheer outrage and total boycotting of X10 by Slashdot users (decimating their consumer customer base) because they were the first company to launch a major ad campaign using popunders. I'm still waiting for similar outrage to be aimed at Netflix.
(Incidentally, Chris Wright's Help Desk comic has established that the actual Face of Google is an extradimensional eldritch horror known to us as "G'oo'gl", and "it's not G'oo'gl's fault that when it communicates in the ancient language of its race, all of the meaningful nuances, tones and inflections of the words are lost to the range of human hearing, making every utterance sound like the same thing over and over and over again. It's also not its fault that the basic structure of its language sounds like a philosophical statement supporting something it has been opposed to since the beginning of time. After all, its language came first..."
The "every utterance that sounds like the same thing over and over again," of course, sounds like the phrase "Don't be evil."
My standard answer -- and the only really cool Flash app I've ever seen -- is MLB's Gameday. That brings me to a genuine question: does HTML 5 support the sort of live data feeds that an app like Gameday runs on (not video, but a data stream that is then turned into a graphical display on the client side)?
Susan's not up for re-election this year; her colleague, Olympia Snowe, is.
If you aren't using script blockers, any page on English Wikipedia will come up and then immediately be replaced by a blacked-out page explaining the protest.
Ubersoft.net is blacked out as well, although theirs isn't actually black.
Incidentally, while Geekculture.com and Joy of Tech are blacked out, the After-Y2K page (some of us still dream) isn't.
Damn... why did it strip my link? Hope Diamond ref: http://postalmuseum.si.edu/museum/1d_Hope_Diamond.html .
That's what Registered Mail is for... it not only generates a paper trail, it also gets special-security handling (as in, they lock it in a safe for the interval between you handing it in at the desk and it needing to be sorted, etc.) Plus, Registered Mail is an international standard so the benefits are supposed to apply when sending to any UPU member state (although I'm not going to venture a guess as to what might have happened to the wad of cash you may have sent to that nice man in Nigeria). If it was good enough to carry the Hope Diamond, it's probably going to get your negotiable bearer bonds there in one piece.
I knew they were no longer pushing (sorry) the iDEN PTT network in their ads, but have they actually turned it off?
IIRC, the early-generation SX-70 films, back in the Garner/Hartley era when they took 10 minutes for the image to fully appear, had the same caveat regarding protecting the image from ambient light. My uncle used to lay them face-down on the table while they developed.
I made a tax payment to my city recently, and found that they are now adding a surcharge for credit card payments, essentially to recoup the discount fee (not sure if they add it for debit card transactions as well, as I didn't use one for that particular payment). There was no similar charge for using checks.
"Weblog"
Remember that word? It was coined to provide a generic noun for this sort of site that appeared where people linked to, and wrote about and commented on, things they browsed on the web. One of the sites that it was used to describe, of course, was Slashdot, back in those early days of no logins and The Glorious MEEPT! and Ogg the Open-Source Caveman and TacoHell if you knew how to find it and hot grits (Natalie Portman, naked and petrified, came along slightly later). Of course, the word was quickly shortened to "blog" and now everyone knows what it is, but slashdot was here first! For better or worse, CmdrTaco, in this space and using your own widely-criticized software, you were --and will always be-- one of the inventors of the blog. As Felix Unger used to say, "Let it be on your head!"
Good luck, Rob. May you always be the person your dog believes you to be.
Not to mention that Judas Priest appeared on American Idol.
"Pick up the subtleties in the cryptic clues."
You can't see, hear, touch or taste anything.