By including this clause in their contract, are they not themselves tending to damage the reputation of AT&T? Do they not provide Internet service to themselves? If so, then they should "immediately terminate or suspend all or a portion of [their] Service, any Member ID, electronic mail address, IP address, Universal Resource Locator or domain name used by" themselves.
Wow, that was easy. I'm all set up to follow in Oolon Coluphid's footsteps.
According to a response on the Washington Post blog post about this, the download manager is required for album downloads, although not for single tracks. And... "In addition, the download manager only works on XP, Vista, and Mac OS X 10.4 (or higher)." Unfortunately, I can't get to the Amazon site to check right now.
What, no complaints about how the CIA and NSA don't actually drive around in LA shooting at people? I think Chuck is probably more fun at parties than you are.
I can't tell, are you trying to be a spelling Nazi? If so, you might want to look up tack:
2 a: the direction of a ship with respect to the trim of her sails b: [...] c: [...] d: [...] e: a course or method of action; especially : one sharply divergent from that previously followed
Everybody wants to go on and on about free speech. For the record, the first amendment to the US Constitution reads as follows:
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.
See, it's about what Congress can not do. It has pretty much no effect on how a privately owned website operates. Facebook could ban all groups or user profiles with the word "gun" or "fuck" or "Linux" in them and it still wouldn't be a "free speech issue."
The rebate company also gets the customer's name and mailing address (and any other information that is "mandatory"). This information will more than likely be packaged up and sold to lots of direct-marketing companies.
I think a lot of us learned this lesson in the midst of the Y2K hoo-hah. And I don't see the need to gag at COBOL, it played a huge part in getting computers into daily life. Sure, it has some flaws, and anybody who ever used an ALTER statement should be shot on sight, but any language can be misused.
Holidays are specific days, usually government sanctioned in some way, such as Christmas, Thanksgiving, Labor Day, Memorial Day, and Veteran's Day (and a few more). Some of these have specific dates (25 December), others are specified as Nth X-day of the month (Thanksgiving is the fourth Thursday in November), others used to have specific dates but have become generalized to Nth Mondays (Memorial Day used to be May 30, now it is the last Monday in May). These would be somewhat analogous to Bank Holidays in the UK. Not all employers give days off on all the holidays - the financial and government sectors get the best deals there.
Vacation is generally thought of a bulk time off, one or two weeks taken at a time. Even if you stay at home, it's still "vacation" because you're not at work. ("What did you do on your vacation, Bob?" "Nothing really, Fred, just stayed around the house and played Metroid Prime 3.")
More and more corporations seem to be changing away from offering employees "vacation days". My particular employer gives me a certain amount of "Managed Time Off" which I need to use for vacations, sick days, dentists visits, etc.
Several years back, when I worked with Unisys microcomputer systems, somebody had filed a bug report mentioning that the spell-checker flagged "Unisys" and the first suggested correction was "anuses." The report was closed with the notation "works as intended."
There used to be a website with a bunch of the "Bell System" recorded announcements. Unfortunately, I just checked my bookmark and got a 404 for the subpage, and just a parked domain notice for the site. Guess I should have saved them when I could.
Your recollection is correct. Infocom sold "I Got The Babelfish" t-shirts at the time. As I recall, they didn't require proof that you'd gotten the babelfish, but I did not buy mine until I had, in fact, done so. I am pretty sure I have that shirt around somewhere still, although the chances of it fitting me now are, ahem, slim.
Ah, the old computed GOTO. In the first line, the value of KQ is used as an index to the list of labels. If KQ=1, GOTO 5014, if KQ=2, GOTO 5000, etc. etc. If KQ is outside the range (0 or greater than 4), then no GOTO is performed, so you'd hit the PAUSE statement. Looks like it's essentially saying "this shouldn't happen".
2027 is similar, there's just a lot more possible values. That rogue 1 is a continuation indicator, it would have been in column 6 on your punch card.
Firefly wasn't given the dreaded post-NFL slot, but it did get pre-empted by baseball regularly. The myriad other blunders made by Fox are well-chronicled elsewhere.
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Right-o. If you decide to leave the showroom without purchasing the membership, you are "never" allowed back.
They make Scientologists look like the most forthcoming guys on the planet.
By including this clause in their contract, are they not themselves tending to damage the reputation of AT&T? Do they not provide Internet service to themselves? If so, then they should "immediately terminate or suspend all or a portion of [their] Service, any Member ID, electronic mail address, IP address, Universal Resource Locator or domain name used by" themselves.
Wow, that was easy. I'm all set up to follow in Oolon Coluphid's footsteps.
Except the same joke was already used today in another MS article. By the same AC? Who knows . . .
And I was just getting into Metroid Prime 3.
According to a response on the Washington Post blog post about this, the download manager is required for album downloads, although not for single tracks. And ... "In addition, the download manager only works on XP, Vista, and Mac OS X 10.4 (or higher)." Unfortunately, I can't get to the Amazon site to check right now.
Ah, you mean the way it already works, then? Good idea!
Is this tin foil hat day or what? This isn't a new feature in FF3, it's already in FF2.
Wait, maybe it's sending server dumps and some developer said "if you don't like it, fork it." That must be it.
Do we get a "this is a non-story" correction to this post too?
What, no complaints about how the CIA and NSA don't actually drive around in LA shooting at people? I think Chuck is probably more fun at parties than you are.
Interchange Code. But thanks for the chuckle, fellow old guy.
I can't tell, are you trying to be a spelling Nazi? If so, you might want to look up tack:
2 a: the direction of a ship with respect to the trim of her sails b: [...] c: [...] d: [...] e: a course or method of action; especially : one sharply divergent from that previously followed
See, it's about what Congress can not do. It has pretty much no effect on how a privately owned website operates. Facebook could ban all groups or user profiles with the word "gun" or "fuck" or "Linux" in them and it still wouldn't be a "free speech issue."
The rebate company also gets the customer's name and mailing address (and any other information that is "mandatory"). This information will more than likely be packaged up and sold to lots of direct-marketing companies.
I think a lot of us learned this lesson in the midst of the Y2K hoo-hah. And I don't see the need to gag at COBOL, it played a huge part in getting computers into daily life. Sure, it has some flaws, and anybody who ever used an ALTER statement should be shot on sight, but any language can be misused.
Thank you for reading the summary.
Holidays are specific days, usually government sanctioned in some way, such as Christmas, Thanksgiving, Labor Day, Memorial Day, and Veteran's Day (and a few more). Some of these have specific dates (25 December), others are specified as Nth X-day of the month (Thanksgiving is the fourth Thursday in November), others used to have specific dates but have become generalized to Nth Mondays (Memorial Day used to be May 30, now it is the last Monday in May). These would be somewhat analogous to Bank Holidays in the UK. Not all employers give days off on all the holidays - the financial and government sectors get the best deals there.
Vacation is generally thought of a bulk time off, one or two weeks taken at a time. Even if you stay at home, it's still "vacation" because you're not at work. ("What did you do on your vacation, Bob?" "Nothing really, Fred, just stayed around the house and played Metroid Prime 3.")
More and more corporations seem to be changing away from offering employees "vacation days". My particular employer gives me a certain amount of "Managed Time Off" which I need to use for vacations, sick days, dentists visits, etc.
Several years back, when I worked with Unisys microcomputer systems, somebody had filed a bug report mentioning that the spell-checker flagged "Unisys" and the first suggested correction was "anuses." The report was closed with the notation "works as intended."
> prominent science fiction names (like 'Asimov' and 'Silverburg')
Silverburg? Really? Last I checked, The Book of Skulls was written by Robert Silverberg (as well as a host of other great books).
> as well as Web sites like Keepvid.com and Mozilla Latest News about Mozilla Foundation Firefox add-ons like VideoDownloader.
I'll take a wild guess here and assume that everything from the first Mozilla through to Foundation can be ignored.
As far as using any Real product? Sorry, but their past behavior condemns them to a future of being completely ignored.
Billy Bragg read the MySpace terms of service, thought through the consequences, and did something about it.
There used to be a website with a bunch of the "Bell System" recorded announcements. Unfortunately, I just checked my bookmark and got a 404 for the subpage, and just a parked domain notice for the site. Guess I should have saved them when I could.
> I have to go and reset it to "classic" interface
It's a single click, the link in the upper right corner. Hardly a long drawn out "reset" process.
It used to be called the Google "customized home page." The iGoogle name is, I agree, stupid.
Your recollection is correct. Infocom sold "I Got The Babelfish" t-shirts at the time. As I recall, they didn't require proof that you'd gotten the babelfish, but I did not buy mine until I had, in fact, done so. I am pretty sure I have that shirt around somewhere still, although the chances of it fitting me now are, ahem, slim.
Ah, the old computed GOTO. In the first line, the value of KQ is used as an index to the list of labels. If KQ=1, GOTO 5014, if KQ=2, GOTO 5000, etc. etc. If KQ is outside the range (0 or greater than 4), then no GOTO is performed, so you'd hit the PAUSE statement. Looks like it's essentially saying "this shouldn't happen".
2027 is similar, there's just a lot more possible values. That rogue 1 is a continuation indicator, it would have been in column 6 on your punch card.
I wonder what this system says when the input text is "Dear aunt, let's set so double the killer delete select all"?
Firefly wasn't given the dreaded post-NFL slot, but it did get pre-empted by baseball regularly. The myriad other blunders made by Fox are well-chronicled elsewhere.