The day I can drive from home to school (~400 miles) without buying gas is the day that I will buy an alternative-fuel car.
I own a 2003 Honda Accord EX V6 with a 6-speed manual transmission. I have driven slightly more than 600 km (370 miles) on one tank of regular unleaded gasoline. This was highway driving, and I could have probably extracted another 30-50 km (18-30 miles) from it if I'd had the balls to keep going until it was sucking fumes and misfiring, but I didn't want to have to call CAA and wait 45 minutes to have just enough gas delivered to me to get me to the next gas station.
Be sure to send me photos of your new FCX or Civic GX.:)
I think, in all my time on Slashdot, that your post has just cemented its place in the number-one spot on the (very short) list of posts which grossed me out the most.
Maybe it's Chernobyl, but somehow I still don't trust Russian nuclear reactor designs.
If you're gonna put a nuclear reactor on Mars, ferchrissake, make it a CANDU. Not only was the CANDU designed in Canada (w00t!), but it's also really, really safe.
There are exceptions -eg the UK -> France interconnector - there is ~ 1.5% loss which the trading party must bear. This is for a 26 mile link. So 3000 miles might be a bit hopeful... I can't be arsed to do the math, but...
I heard on the radio a few days ago that the link between England and France is DC, so you really can't use it for comparison with high-voltage AC links as far as transmission losses go...
Oh, an interesting fact about it is if you take a holographic film and cut it in half, because all the information about the image is stored throughout the film, you don't have half a hologram; you have a hologram of the entire object that is half the size of the original. Pretty cool stuff actually.
At the risk of sounding incredibly naive, how in the flying fuck is that possible? If you know how, please say so, because the sheer concept that the above is actually the case is absolutely mind-boggling to me (and I want to know so much more about it)!
Okay, I'll stop foaming at the mouth now. But please tell me more.
I can no more own a magic broad sword +2 vs Nose goblins as i can own the number 7
Are nose goblins kinda like underpants gnomes? I'd kill for a magic broadsword with a +2 against underpants gnomes!
Speaking of gnomes, I'd also like a sword with a bonus against the little bastards that keep hiding the keys to my Accord. That'll fix their wagons but good...
The fact that you signed a contract isn't why your preferential package details are grandfathered, it's because that's what your plan was, period. If we're thinking of the same "Build Your Own" plan, I was on the same plan, with the same details, without a contract -- until about a week ago when, being fully armed with all the details, I decided to switch plans to the new "Easy 4 U" Family Plan because I was adding another phone to my account, and couldn't do the add-a-phone-for-$15 since the rep wasn't able to add my existing package to the new phone since it was no longer offered. In so doing, I lost per-second billing and two hours of free local calling in the evenings. To make up for the loss, the CSR (which wasn't the average CSR, because I was speaking directly with the Loyalty department) gave me three months of unlimited local airtime 24x7 for three months, as well as two free months of enhanced voicemail and Caller ID. This sounds like a nice perk for people that sign a two-year contract, but what's nicer is that she did it without making me sign any contract whatsoever.
So to sum up, even if you were a month-to-month customer with no contract, you wouldn't lose your plan as long as you didn't change it. Once you change plans, you can't have the old one back if it's no longer offered.
I'm not going to correct every point, but here's what sticks out the most:
Your 6pm to 8am unlimited-local-calling window is grandfathered. Change your plan and you lose it (8pm to 8am now -- or you can have 6pm to 8am for $5/month more). You're probably billed by the second, too -- that's also no longer offered.
The VMWI issue is still a problem as far as I know. Their voicemail is still a two-tier product, with $4 and $7 versions (the $7 version includes VMWI among other things).
Rogers does NOT have agreements "all through the States" for GSM coverage. Notably, they still have no roaming agreement with T-Mobile, which serves much of the eastern USA. And the nasty Battle Creek-style surprises make me cringe at the thought of ever needing to make a call in the US on my Rogers SIM card unless I'm in some metropolis where they'd never get away with charging their clients US$4/min.
I've just given up the chance to mod down both of your comments, choosing instead to post a rebuttal to your FUD.
Are you ready? Here we go:
I've got one friend who has been through 7 (count 'em) VTech phones
That's your buddy's first mistake. If I want to buy today's equivalent of the Speak and Spell, I'll buy Vtech. Otherwise, I'll give my money to a company that's been making cellphones for more than two or three years.
We've tested half-a-dozen (actually, more) different phones from 6 people who use Fido - none of them can send or receive calls from my home,
Oh my God! Do you mean that your house actually sits in a dead spot for Fido's coverage? That couldn't possibly be the case!
Give me a moment to extract my tongue from my cheek... Okay, thanks.
Back in 2000 or so, I had a problem along McLaughlin Avenue in Mississauga, a road I frequently drove along when living there. Every single time I was on a call, there was a one-block area (without tall buildings, even -- just south of Matheson, if you know the area) that the call would get dropped due to a tiny, but very much dead, dead spot. I called them and told them about it. Two weeks later, it was gone, never to return -- my calls were never dropped there again.
Did you or your friends bother calling Fido to let them know? I didn't think so.
and most of them have to go outside when they're calling from their own homes if they want to get a clear signal. I go to their place, and it's "no problemo" for me.
Then their places are apparently better served by Rogers' cell layout than Fido's. In this case, perhaps Rogers would be the better choice for them. (However, Rogers TDMA and GSM coverage are not equal, even though the antennae for both are usually on the same towers. They'd want to make sure of their choice before switching.)
They don't want to loose their phone number and have to call up everyone and give out their new number
Indeed, probably one of the most common reasons for not changing your local loop provider or cell phone provider, period. Local number portability would cure this, but it's not here... yet...
They don't want to have to buy a new phone (the SIM cards aren't compatible between Fido and Rogers, but they CAN sometimes be swapped between Fido and Telus)
The whole point of GSM is that the subscription is held in the SIM, not the phone. Simlocking aside, if you take a GSM1900 phone that's being used by a Fido (Microcell) subscriber, pop out the Fido SIM and pop in a Rogers SIM, the phone will work on the Rogers network, period. I have a Nokia 6310i GSM900/1800/1900 handset, and switch between my Fido and Rogers SIM cards regularly. Even though the sticker on the faceplate says Rogers, the phone is not simlocked and therefore will accept any SIM, period.
Indeed, if your friend moves from Fido to Rogers, they'll have to get a new Rogers SIM for something like $25. As for the phone, if your friend has been with Fido for more than 12 months, they will provide the two 10-digit (for Nokia, in this example) SIM unlocking codes at no charge -- or even after 6 months if his bill is consistently more than $100/month before tax. How do I know this? Because I've done exactly that.
Last I heard, Bell and Telus, the two big CDMA carriers in Canada, were thinking of going GSM, but hadn't launched their GSM service yet. Even if they had, a Fido SIM absolutely CAN NOT be used to activate another provider's service on, just like you couldn't activate Rogers GSM service on a VoiceStream/T-Mobile SIM -- the first ten digits of the SIM card number tell you, and the network, what your home network is (for authentication and billing purposes). Every Fido SIM card number starts with the digits 89302 37010 -- 302 is the MCC (country code) for Canada, and 37 (or 370, depending on who you ask) is the MNC (network code) for Fido. (Rogers is 302 720.)
Even though I have modpoints at the moment, I will forego moderating in this discussion to pose the following question to the rest of the Slashdot readership:
What the hell happened to Ninjai? I was really getting into it, then they stopped, two episodes from the end, and haven't pumped out anything new for nearly a year.:(
And now you can only view chapters 1 through 3, instead of the 10 they'd completed! Argh!
So now stores that sell these CPUs now have even less to work with when determining whether John Smith walking into the store asking for a CPU exchange actually had a faulty CPU to begin with or was doing mad l33t overclocking in his basement last night.
As someone that's worked for a computer store, who gives a shit? If there's nothing on the CPU indicating it's been tampered with or abused, then the retailer can make a warranty/DOA claim with their distributor/supplier and won't be left out of pocket, since if there's no way the store can prove the CPU was abused, there's no way the distributor can, either!
Something that bugged me when I was visiting Canada a while back, that. [... ] Why on earth are prices across the pond shown pre-tax even when you're charged the tax? Surely you should be shown the price you're charged?
In Atlantic Canada (New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island, and maybe Newfoundland & Labrador), they have converted the GST (federal Goods and Services Tax, 7%) and PST (Provincial Sales Tax, which varies by province) into HST (Harmonized Sales Tax, which because of the varying provincial portion isn't the same percentage from province to province), which is then built into the displayed price. (What a sentence, sorry.)
So over there (I haven't been there yet, just relaying what I've heard), when something is displayed at $19.99, your $20 bill will suffice, and you'll get a penny in change (which I generally tell the cashier to keep). This was supposed to be a test before introducing the HST system nationally, IIRC, and I would rather deal with that than having separate taxes. So bring it to Ontario already!
On the topic of pennies, we should do what I've heard the Aussies do -- round everything up or down to the nearest nickel ($0.05 coin). I've heard some people complain that makes things more expensive, but that's FUD -- the number of instances that get rounded up is equal to the number of instances that get rounded down. I would find this system to be very convenient, and I don't think I'm the only one!
He has recovered over 83% of his savings lost to the RIAA, and his search engine is back up.
You call this "back up"?:
06/19/03: The ChewPlastic Campus Search Engine is currently available to the public as a demonstration of the site as it was. NOTE: The files listed through the results on this site are fictitious - they DO NOT EXIST. This means that you cannot download them because they are fake computers on a fake network. While there is a small assortment of files listed in the search engine, they are not meant to represent the actual assortment of files available during the Search Engine's operation.
Topic in #os: hey guyz, stop pickin on irix. <SCO> w00t! i bought unix! im gonna b so rich! <novell>/msg atnt haha. idiot. <novell> whoops. was that out loud? <atnt> rotfl <ibm> lol <SCO> why r u laffin at me? <novell> dude, unix is so 10 years ago. linux is in now. <SCO> wtf? <SCO> hey guyz, i bought caldera, I have linux now. <red_hat> haha, your linux sucks. <novell> lol <atnt> lol <ibm> lol <SCO> no wayz, i will sell more linux than u! <ibm> your linux sucks, you should look at SuSE <SuSE> Ja. Wir bilden gutes Linux fr IBM. <SCO> can we do linux with you? <SuSE> Ich bin nicht sicher... <ibm> *cough* <SuSE> Gut lassen Sie uns vereinigen. * SuSE is now SuSE[UL] * SCO is now caldera[UL] <turbolinux> can we play? <conectiva> we're bored... we'll go too. <ibm> sure! * turbolinux is now turbolinux[UL] * conectiva is now conectiva[UL] <ibm> redhat: you should join! <SuSE[UL]> Ja! Wir sind vereinigtes Linux. Widerstand ist vergeblich. <red_hat> haha. no. <red_hat> lamers. <ibm> what about you debian? <debian> we'll discuss it and let you know in 5 years. <caldera[UL]> no one wants my linux! <turbolinux[UL]> i got owned. <caldera[UL]> u all tricked me. linux is lame. * caldera[UL] is now known as SCO <SCO> i'm going back to unix. <SGI> yeah! want to do unix with me? <SCO> haha. no. lamer. <novell> lol <ibm> snap! <SGI>:~( <SCO> hey, u shut up. im gonna sue u ibm. <ibm> wtf? <SCO> yea, you stole all the good stuff from unix. <red_hat> lol <SuSE[UL]> heraus laut lachen <ibm> lol <SCO> shutup. i'm gonna email all your friends and tell them you suck. <ibm> go ahead. baby. <SCO> andandand... i revoke your unix! how do you like that? <ibm> oh no, you didn't. AIX is forever. <novell> actually, we still own unix, you can't do that. <SCO> wtf? we bought it from u. <novell> whoops. our bad. <SCO> i own u. haha <SCO> ibm: give me all your AIX now! <ibm> whatever. lamer. * ibm sets mode +b SCO!*@* * SCO has been kicked from #os (own this.)
An interesting alternative, but only 500 contacts, 250 calendar entries, and 30 to-do list entries? Close, but no Cuban cigar.
Really? You try finding a handset that does AMPS, GSM1900, and dualband TDMA. I'll even give you a hint to Google for: GAIT. If someone wants three network types in one phone, they're probably going to have to compromise on the frills, and most people that need such a handset will want the network flexibility more than the fluff.
And so much better on the discs. Try feeding a slotloader a 3-incher and see what happens
Staying away from the obvious fufme.com (now defunct) reply, there are adapter rings you can snap onto a round 3" disc to fit it into a slotload drive (or car CD player, for that matter). It doesn't work with business card CDs or weirdly-shaped discs, though. (I have yet to run across any, so it's no big deal to me.)
or try keeping your fingerprints off of a DVD-10 while slotloading it. Not easy. I'll stick with my trays. When constructed properly, they last and are easier on the discs.
This shows how little experience you have with slotload drives. I have owned quite a few Pioneer slotload DVD-ROM drives over the last few years (nearly all the machines in my home office have one), and there is a technique which comes naturally over time, not unlike loading discs into a car CD player without getting them all greasy.
I hold the disc with my index finger in the hole and my thumb and middle finger against the outside edges at the 8 o'clock and 4 o'clock positions (so my fingers are in a triangular arrangement), then I remove my index finger from the hole, holding the disc by its edges (again, not at the outermost points on the disc, but more at the 8:00 and 4:00 positions), then start to insert the front edge of the disc into the drive. At that point, I sort of bring my middle finger and thumb towards each other while still holding the disc with them, which causes the disc to press outwards from my hand. Done quickly, the disc will be flicked right into the drive (well, far enough into the drive so the mechanism grabs it and sucks it in the rest of the way). If I don't flick it far enough for that to happen, I can tap on the exposed edge to nudge it in far enough for the drive to do the rest.
That's a bit convoluted, but it's the best I can explain it. With practice, the motion is very smooth and not at all awkward.
The end result is that there isn't a single fingerprint anywhere on either side of the disc, with the possible exception of a small smudge from my index finger in the clear area around the hole (which is harmless, since nothing is stored there).
It thinks it's running on a real physical fruit machine and acts in exactly the same way in all circumstances (except money doesn't actually come out of your PC).
I feel sorry for those that have one of those ultrasexy Pioneer slotload DVD-ROM drives and wants the fruit machine experience on their home PC...
On a related topic, does anyone make a slotload burner? Better yet, are there any plans for a slotload version of the Sony DRU-500A/DRU-510A? I would (almost) sell myself on a street corner to have one! Trayload is so nineties...
The agreement, which is scheduled to take effect June 22, will mean all ads that mimic the style of error messages must be clearly labelled as advertisements. Moreover, the ads will not display "minimize," "maximize" or "X" buttons that don't perform their proper function. Buttons that used to be labelled "OK" will now contain the phrase "More Info."
Oh, whatever. Don't emulate the Windows UI, period.
The company also will refrain from claiming that a computer is "broadcasting" its Internet protocol address. Internet protocol addresses are transmitted to Web sites as part of normal Internet browsing. Bonzi's ad implied that such a "broadcast" posed a security problem.
This will be nice, as I've gotten frantic calls from older people I know about these same popups.
However, I just visited Bonzi.com, and got this advertisement. So much for compliance.
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The day I can drive from home to school (~400 miles) without buying gas is the day that I will buy an alternative-fuel car.
:)
I own a 2003 Honda Accord EX V6 with a 6-speed manual transmission. I have driven slightly more than 600 km (370 miles) on one tank of regular unleaded gasoline. This was highway driving, and I could have probably extracted another 30-50 km (18-30 miles) from it if I'd had the balls to keep going until it was sucking fumes and misfiring, but I didn't want to have to call CAA and wait 45 minutes to have just enough gas delivered to me to get me to the next gas station.
Be sure to send me photos of your new FCX or Civic GX.
I think, in all my time on Slashdot, that your post has just cemented its place in the number-one spot on the (very short) list of posts which grossed me out the most.
:P
Well done.
I have posted the interview here rather than make a link to CRN as they are sponsoring SCOForum and do not deserve the Hits.
Nice link, dude.
Maybe it's Chernobyl, but somehow I still don't trust Russian nuclear reactor designs.
If you're gonna put a nuclear reactor on Mars, ferchrissake, make it a CANDU. Not only was the CANDU designed in Canada (w00t!), but it's also really, really safe.
There are exceptions -eg the UK -> France interconnector - there is ~ 1.5% loss which the trading party must bear. This is for a 26 mile link. So 3000 miles might be a bit hopeful... I can't be arsed to do the math, but...
I heard on the radio a few days ago that the link between England and France is DC, so you really can't use it for comparison with high-voltage AC links as far as transmission losses go...
Why can't the OS read an ISO9660 image natively? It's not like it's that hard -- ISO 9660 is already in the OS for cds.
I quickly stopped bitching about this once I found DAEMON Tools. Get it, install it, love it.
Also go here and download awxDTools, a great shell extension addon that allows you to mount any supported image type by right-clicking it.
Oh, an interesting fact about it is if you take a holographic film and cut it in half, because all the information about the image is stored throughout the film, you don't have half a hologram; you have a hologram of the entire object that is half the size of the original. Pretty cool stuff actually.
At the risk of sounding incredibly naive, how in the flying fuck is that possible? If you know how, please say so, because the sheer concept that the above is actually the case is absolutely mind-boggling to me (and I want to know so much more about it)!
Okay, I'll stop foaming at the mouth now. But please tell me more.
I can no more own a magic broad sword +2 vs Nose goblins as i can own the number 7
Are nose goblins kinda like underpants gnomes? I'd kill for a magic broadsword with a +2 against underpants gnomes!
Speaking of gnomes, I'd also like a sword with a bonus against the little bastards that keep hiding the keys to my Accord. That'll fix their wagons but good...
The fact that you signed a contract isn't why your preferential package details are grandfathered, it's because that's what your plan was, period. If we're thinking of the same "Build Your Own" plan, I was on the same plan, with the same details, without a contract -- until about a week ago when, being fully armed with all the details, I decided to switch plans to the new "Easy 4 U" Family Plan because I was adding another phone to my account, and couldn't do the add-a-phone-for-$15 since the rep wasn't able to add my existing package to the new phone since it was no longer offered. In so doing, I lost per-second billing and two hours of free local calling in the evenings. To make up for the loss, the CSR (which wasn't the average CSR, because I was speaking directly with the Loyalty department) gave me three months of unlimited local airtime 24x7 for three months, as well as two free months of enhanced voicemail and Caller ID. This sounds like a nice perk for people that sign a two-year contract, but what's nicer is that she did it without making me sign any contract whatsoever.
So to sum up, even if you were a month-to-month customer with no contract, you wouldn't lose your plan as long as you didn't change it. Once you change plans, you can't have the old one back if it's no longer offered.
I'm not going to correct every point, but here's what sticks out the most:
Your 6pm to 8am unlimited-local-calling window is grandfathered. Change your plan and you lose it (8pm to 8am now -- or you can have 6pm to 8am for $5/month more). You're probably billed by the second, too -- that's also no longer offered.
The VMWI issue is still a problem as far as I know. Their voicemail is still a two-tier product, with $4 and $7 versions (the $7 version includes VMWI among other things).
Rogers does NOT have agreements "all through the States" for GSM coverage. Notably, they still have no roaming agreement with T-Mobile, which serves much of the eastern USA. And the nasty Battle Creek-style surprises make me cringe at the thought of ever needing to make a call in the US on my Rogers SIM card unless I'm in some metropolis where they'd never get away with charging their clients US$4/min.
I've just given up the chance to mod down both of your comments, choosing instead to post a rebuttal to your FUD.
Are you ready? Here we go:
I've got one friend who has been through 7 (count 'em) VTech phones
That's your buddy's first mistake. If I want to buy today's equivalent of the Speak and Spell, I'll buy Vtech. Otherwise, I'll give my money to a company that's been making cellphones for more than two or three years.
We've tested half-a-dozen (actually, more) different phones from 6 people who use Fido - none of them can send or receive calls from my home,
Oh my God! Do you mean that your house actually sits in a dead spot for Fido's coverage? That couldn't possibly be the case!
Give me a moment to extract my tongue from my cheek... Okay, thanks.
Back in 2000 or so, I had a problem along McLaughlin Avenue in Mississauga, a road I frequently drove along when living there. Every single time I was on a call, there was a one-block area (without tall buildings, even -- just south of Matheson, if you know the area) that the call would get dropped due to a tiny, but very much dead, dead spot. I called them and told them about it. Two weeks later, it was gone, never to return -- my calls were never dropped there again.
Did you or your friends bother calling Fido to let them know? I didn't think so.
and most of them have to go outside when they're calling from their own homes if they want to get a clear signal. I go to their place, and it's "no problemo" for me.
Then their places are apparently better served by Rogers' cell layout than Fido's. In this case, perhaps Rogers would be the better choice for them. (However, Rogers TDMA and GSM coverage are not equal, even though the antennae for both are usually on the same towers. They'd want to make sure of their choice before switching.)
They don't want to loose their phone number and have to call up everyone and give out their new number
Indeed, probably one of the most common reasons for not changing your local loop provider or cell phone provider, period. Local number portability would cure this, but it's not here... yet...
They don't want to have to buy a new phone (the SIM cards aren't compatible between Fido and Rogers, but they CAN sometimes be swapped between Fido and Telus)
The whole point of GSM is that the subscription is held in the SIM, not the phone. Simlocking aside, if you take a GSM1900 phone that's being used by a Fido (Microcell) subscriber, pop out the Fido SIM and pop in a Rogers SIM, the phone will work on the Rogers network, period. I have a Nokia 6310i GSM900/1800/1900 handset, and switch between my Fido and Rogers SIM cards regularly. Even though the sticker on the faceplate says Rogers, the phone is not simlocked and therefore will accept any SIM, period.
Indeed, if your friend moves from Fido to Rogers, they'll have to get a new Rogers SIM for something like $25. As for the phone, if your friend has been with Fido for more than 12 months, they will provide the two 10-digit (for Nokia, in this example) SIM unlocking codes at no charge -- or even after 6 months if his bill is consistently more than $100/month before tax. How do I know this? Because I've done exactly that.
Last I heard, Bell and Telus, the two big CDMA carriers in Canada, were thinking of going GSM, but hadn't launched their GSM service yet. Even if they had, a Fido SIM absolutely CAN NOT be used to activate another provider's service on, just like you couldn't activate Rogers GSM service on a VoiceStream/T-Mobile SIM -- the first ten digits of the SIM card number tell you, and the network, what your home network is (for authentication and billing purposes). Every Fido SIM card number starts with the digits 89302 37010 -- 302 is the MCC (country code) for Canada, and 37 (or 370, depending on who you ask) is the MNC (network code) for Fido. (Rogers is 302 720.)
I would say the biggest incompatability is the authors grasp of the english language.
I would say the biggest incompatibility is the author's grasp of the English language.
Even though I have modpoints at the moment, I will forego moderating in this discussion to pose the following question to the rest of the Slashdot readership:
:(
What the hell happened to Ninjai? I was really getting into it, then they stopped, two episodes from the end, and haven't pumped out anything new for nearly a year.
And now you can only view chapters 1 through 3, instead of the 10 they'd completed! Argh!
So now stores that sell these CPUs now have even less to work with when determining whether John Smith walking into the store asking for a CPU exchange actually had a faulty CPU to begin with or was doing mad l33t overclocking in his basement last night.
As someone that's worked for a computer store, who gives a shit? If there's nothing on the CPU indicating it's been tampered with or abused, then the retailer can make a warranty/DOA claim with their distributor/supplier and won't be left out of pocket, since if there's no way the store can prove the CPU was abused, there's no way the distributor can, either!
This comment is probably the most well-deserved "Score:5" I've seen in quite some time.
:)
Scotty.
Brilliant.
Something that bugged me when I was visiting Canada a while back, that. ... ]
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Why on earth are prices across the pond shown pre-tax even when you're charged the tax? Surely you should be shown the price you're charged?
In Atlantic Canada (New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island, and maybe Newfoundland & Labrador), they have converted the GST (federal Goods and Services Tax, 7%) and PST (Provincial Sales Tax, which varies by province) into HST (Harmonized Sales Tax, which because of the varying provincial portion isn't the same percentage from province to province), which is then built into the displayed price. (What a sentence, sorry.)
So over there (I haven't been there yet, just relaying what I've heard), when something is displayed at $19.99, your $20 bill will suffice, and you'll get a penny in change (which I generally tell the cashier to keep). This was supposed to be a test before introducing the HST system nationally, IIRC, and I would rather deal with that than having separate taxes. So bring it to Ontario already!
On the topic of pennies, we should do what I've heard the Aussies do -- round everything up or down to the nearest nickel ($0.05 coin). I've heard some people complain that makes things more expensive, but that's FUD -- the number of instances that get rounded up is equal to the number of instances that get rounded down. I would find this system to be very convenient, and I don't think I'm the only one!
He has recovered over 83% of his savings lost to the RIAA, and his search engine is back up.
You call this "back up"?:
06/19/03: The ChewPlastic Campus Search Engine is currently available to the public as a demonstration of the site as it was. NOTE: The files listed through the results on this site are fictitious - they DO NOT EXIST. This means that you cannot download them because they are fake computers on a fake network. While there is a small assortment of files listed in the search engine, they are not meant to represent the actual assortment of files available during the Search Engine's operation.
Topic in #os: hey guyz, stop pickin on irix. /msg atnt haha. idiot. :~(
<SCO> w00t! i bought unix! im gonna b so rich!
<novell>
<novell> whoops. was that out loud?
<atnt> rotfl
<ibm> lol
<SCO> why r u laffin at me?
<novell> dude, unix is so 10 years ago. linux is in now.
<SCO> wtf?
<SCO> hey guyz, i bought caldera, I have linux now.
<red_hat> haha, your linux sucks.
<novell> lol
<atnt> lol
<ibm> lol
<SCO> no wayz, i will sell more linux than u!
<ibm> your linux sucks, you should look at SuSE
<SuSE> Ja. Wir bilden gutes Linux fr IBM.
<SCO> can we do linux with you?
<SuSE> Ich bin nicht sicher...
<ibm> *cough*
<SuSE> Gut lassen Sie uns vereinigen.
* SuSE is now SuSE[UL]
* SCO is now caldera[UL]
<turbolinux> can we play?
<conectiva> we're bored... we'll go too.
<ibm> sure!
* turbolinux is now turbolinux[UL]
* conectiva is now conectiva[UL]
<ibm> redhat: you should join!
<SuSE[UL]> Ja! Wir sind vereinigtes Linux. Widerstand ist vergeblich.
<red_hat> haha. no.
<red_hat> lamers.
<ibm> what about you debian?
<debian> we'll discuss it and let you know in 5 years.
<caldera[UL]> no one wants my linux!
<turbolinux[UL]> i got owned.
<caldera[UL]> u all tricked me. linux is lame.
* caldera[UL] is now known as SCO
<SCO> i'm going back to unix.
<SGI> yeah! want to do unix with me?
<SCO> haha. no. lamer.
<novell> lol
<ibm> snap!
<SGI>
<SCO> hey, u shut up. im gonna sue u ibm.
<ibm> wtf?
<SCO> yea, you stole all the good stuff from unix.
<red_hat> lol
<SuSE[UL]> heraus laut lachen
<ibm> lol
<SCO> shutup. i'm gonna email all your friends and tell them you suck.
<ibm> go ahead. baby.
<SCO> andandand... i revoke your unix! how do you like that?
<ibm> oh no, you didn't. AIX is forever.
<novell> actually, we still own unix, you can't do that.
<SCO> wtf? we bought it from u.
<novell> whoops. our bad.
<SCO> i own u. haha
<SCO> ibm: give me all your AIX now!
<ibm> whatever. lamer.
* ibm sets mode +b SCO!*@*
* SCO has been kicked from #os (own this.)
An interesting alternative, but only 500 contacts, 250 calendar entries, and 30 to-do list entries? Close, but no Cuban cigar.
Really? You try finding a handset that does AMPS, GSM1900, and dualband TDMA. I'll even give you a hint to Google for: GAIT. If someone wants three network types in one phone, they're probably going to have to compromise on the frills, and most people that need such a handset will want the network flexibility more than the fluff.
If you want AMPS, GSM1900, and TDMA800/1900 in the same phone, you want the Nokia 6340.
And so much better on the discs. Try feeding a slotloader a 3-incher and see what happens
Staying away from the obvious fufme.com (now defunct) reply, there are adapter rings you can snap onto a round 3" disc to fit it into a slotload drive (or car CD player, for that matter). It doesn't work with business card CDs or weirdly-shaped discs, though. (I have yet to run across any, so it's no big deal to me.)
or try keeping your fingerprints off of a DVD-10 while slotloading it. Not easy. I'll stick with my trays. When constructed properly, they last and are easier on the discs.
This shows how little experience you have with slotload drives. I have owned quite a few Pioneer slotload DVD-ROM drives over the last few years (nearly all the machines in my home office have one), and there is a technique which comes naturally over time, not unlike loading discs into a car CD player without getting them all greasy.
I hold the disc with my index finger in the hole and my thumb and middle finger against the outside edges at the 8 o'clock and 4 o'clock positions (so my fingers are in a triangular arrangement), then I remove my index finger from the hole, holding the disc by its edges (again, not at the outermost points on the disc, but more at the 8:00 and 4:00 positions), then start to insert the front edge of the disc into the drive. At that point, I sort of bring my middle finger and thumb towards each other while still holding the disc with them, which causes the disc to press outwards from my hand. Done quickly, the disc will be flicked right into the drive (well, far enough into the drive so the mechanism grabs it and sucks it in the rest of the way). If I don't flick it far enough for that to happen, I can tap on the exposed edge to nudge it in far enough for the drive to do the rest.
That's a bit convoluted, but it's the best I can explain it. With practice, the motion is very smooth and not at all awkward.
The end result is that there isn't a single fingerprint anywhere on either side of the disc, with the possible exception of a small smudge from my index finger in the clear area around the hole (which is harmless, since nothing is stored there).
It thinks it's running on a real physical fruit machine and acts in exactly the same way in all circumstances (except money doesn't actually come out of your PC).
I feel sorry for those that have one of those ultrasexy Pioneer slotload DVD-ROM drives and wants the fruit machine experience on their home PC...
On a related topic, does anyone make a slotload burner? Better yet, are there any plans for a slotload version of the Sony DRU-500A/DRU-510A? I would (almost) sell myself on a street corner to have one! Trayload is so nineties...
Hell, there's even a simpler problem: If I have more than one credit card which one will it "charge?" Or will it charge both?
The one you pull out of your wallet/purse and hold in front of the reader?
There'd be no +++ATH0 if you got booted off by call waiting (or other phone-line problems).
Wow, someone gets it! Hence the garbage just before the loss of carrier.
The agreement, which is scheduled to take effect June 22, will mean all ads that mimic the style of error messages must be clearly labelled as advertisements. Moreover, the ads will not display "minimize," "maximize" or "X" buttons that don't perform their proper function. Buttons that used to be labelled "OK" will now contain the phrase "More Info."
Oh, whatever. Don't emulate the Windows UI, period.
The company also will refrain from claiming that a computer is "broadcasting" its Internet protocol address. Internet protocol addresses are transmitted to Web sites as part of normal Internet browsing. Bonzi's ad implied that such a "broadcast" posed a security problem.
This will be nice, as I've gotten frantic calls from older people I know about these same popups.
However, I just visited Bonzi.com, and got this advertisement. So much for compliance.