That's probably because the things are just getting to be too god damn small! Phones are supposed to reach both your ear and your mouth, and if they don't, you're going to talk louder to make up for it.
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I mostly want a phone that, when unfolded, reaches both my ear and my mouth. My Treo 180 was good for that, but it died in a year. I haven't replaced it yet because I haven't found another phone that I like.
But the biggest challenge is not drawing a salary for a long period of time. Most people don't have enough savings to live for 12 months without any income.
Weren't we talking about people who were unemployed, anyway?
Yes, C++ comes with libraries that mitigate the worse of C's bare metal mindset, but you have to know the language pretty well to know they exist and how to properly apply them.
More to the point, if you're not doing any unusual trickery, why are you using C++ in the first place? Java would probably be a better fit.
That's what I use (NetScape 7.1, with the classic theme). It's not quite the same but, since I have a pretty fast PC, it's close enough. Still, it did make the hardware requirements skyrocket, and it was something like four years after the Mozilla project started that NetScape 6.1 came out (I tried 6.0, and immediately dropped it).
Why make more work for myself? Why go through the bother?
I still build PCs for myself because doing it once a year or so keeps me reasonably up to date on what's out there (I'm a programmer, so keeping up with hardware isn't exactly my job, but I'm a lot more confortable having a clue.). Also, I never see quite what I want from major manufacturers.
Those same factors would probably lead me to build my own PVR, as well, except that saving the digital signal directly to disk, without the analog-to-digital-back-to-analog process is a really big quality advantage, and you can only get that with the prebuilt unit.
The upside is it only costs $9 a month with no up-front purchase cost, the recording is of the original digital cable stream so there's no loss of quality due to recompression, and it can record 2 shows at once (2 tuners).
My DirevTivo is an extra $5 per month, and has all the other advantages, except that I had to buy the unit.
I personally shed no tears over commercials being skipped. Why? Because in order to skip commercials, I have to wait until the program is over. So I spend an hour to save 15 minutes?
With a VCR, sure. The fact that you don't have to do that is one of the big advantages of DVRs. If it's something I want to see immediately, I start watching at 9:15 (since Angel is currently the only show in this category), fast forward through commercials, and finish at 10.
For everything else, I don't bother. I watch Daria reruns whenever Noggin ("The N" at night -- whatever) plays an episode I haven't seen, and I watch Good Eats regularly. I have no clue when either of those are on.
------------ I like your quizzed advertising idea, though.
Master of Magic: I expect this will probably work.
Quest for Glory: Some of the earlier ones might be fine, but Quest for Glory 4 was too fast to play once I upgraded my DOS PC from a 486DX-33 to a K6-266.
Xonix: This was a stupid little character based game, but I loved it, and it was too fast to play on a 286-16. I've seen newer versions, both for Palm OS and as Java applets, but none of them seem to work right.
I know a friend of mine had to shut down his satan@hell.org address because his mail server was clogged by the bounce messages replying to spam supposedly from that address.
The underlying programming language (VB) sucks big ones, but the GUI maker is supurb
You're a bit out of date here. This was the situation in 1999, but VB.Net is only barely related to VB 6. VB.Net is a thin shell to access the.Net framework (C# is another), which is more or less Java minus the portability, plus six years of hindsight.
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That's probably because the things are just getting to be too god damn small! Phones are supposed to reach both your ear and your mouth, and if they don't, you're going to talk louder to make up for it.
I mostly want a phone that, when unfolded, reaches both my ear and my mouth. My Treo 180 was good for that, but it died in a year. I haven't replaced it yet because I haven't found another phone that I like.
But the biggest challenge is not drawing a salary for a long period of time. Most people don't have enough savings to live for 12 months without any income.
Weren't we talking about people who were unemployed, anyway?
How about something like these?
Yes, C++ comes with libraries that mitigate the worse of C's bare metal mindset, but you have to know the language pretty well to know they exist and how to properly apply them.
More to the point, if you're not doing any unusual trickery, why are you using C++ in the first place? Java would probably be a better fit.
On April 17, 1999, Russ Swift, of Darlington, County Durham, England, parked a Mini in a space that was only 33-cm (13-in) longer than the car.
I think my best is a space about 16 inches bigger than my Sunbird. My next door neighbor is better at it than I am, though.
Um, no. Advertising is a subset of marketing. Marketing also includes deciding what people are likely to buy, and thus, what companies should sell.
With my wife (his daughter) in the room I didn't really say anything
Was that to keep her in the dark about his porn habits, or yours?
That's what I use (NetScape 7.1, with the classic theme). It's not quite the same but, since I have a pretty fast PC, it's close enough. Still, it did make the hardware requirements skyrocket, and it was something like four years after the Mozilla project started that NetScape 6.1 came out (I tried 6.0, and immediately dropped it).
Instead of getting rid of useful tags and redesigning HTML as XML
Um, no. While there are a few sublanguages that deal with display (XSL-FO, XHTML), XML is mainly a data format.
We all know that Netscape 4 is an awful, crashy, buggy, standards-breaking piece of crap that set the Internet back years.
Perhaps, but the UI was nice. I would have prefered if they had shoved Gecko into the rest of NetScape 4.
But are they bringing back the Mindstorms with high fructose corn syrup, or is it still the real cane sugar?
I actually liked The Tigger Movie. I thought Piglet's Big Movie kind of sucked, but my son still liked it.
Why not? It's satellite; there shouldn't be any deographic limitations.
Construx and K'Nex are different products. I believe K'Nex are still made. I mostly played with Construx, though.
Why make more work for myself? Why go through the bother?
I still build PCs for myself because doing it once a year or so keeps me reasonably up to date on what's out there (I'm a programmer, so keeping up with hardware isn't exactly my job, but I'm a lot more confortable having a clue.). Also, I never see quite what I want from major manufacturers.
Those same factors would probably lead me to build my own PVR, as well, except that saving the digital signal directly to disk, without the analog-to-digital-back-to-analog process is a really big quality advantage, and you can only get that with the prebuilt unit.
The upside is it only costs $9 a month with no up-front purchase cost, the recording is of the original digital cable stream so there's no loss of quality due to recompression, and it can record 2 shows at once (2 tuners).
My DirevTivo is an extra $5 per month, and has all the other advantages, except that I had to buy the unit.
I personally shed no tears over commercials being skipped. Why? Because in order to skip commercials, I have to wait until the program is over. So I spend an hour to save 15 minutes?
With a VCR, sure. The fact that you don't have to do that is one of the big advantages of DVRs. If it's something I want to see immediately, I start watching at 9:15 (since Angel is currently the only show in this category), fast forward through commercials, and finish at 10.
For everything else, I don't bother. I watch Daria reruns whenever Noggin ("The N" at night -- whatever) plays an episode I haven't seen, and I watch Good Eats regularly. I have no clue when either of those are on.
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I like your quizzed advertising idea, though.
Master of Magic: I expect this will probably work.
Quest for Glory: Some of the earlier ones might be fine, but Quest for Glory 4 was too fast to play once I upgraded my DOS PC from a 486DX-33 to a K6-266.
Xonix: This was a stupid little character based game, but I loved it, and it was too fast to play on a 286-16. I've seen newer versions, both for Palm OS and as Java applets, but none of them seem to work right.
A negative book review on Slashdot. This has to be a first.
(I'm not the original poster.)
I know a friend of mine had to shut down his satan@hell.org address because his mail server was clogged by the bounce messages replying to spam supposedly from that address.
The underlying programming language (VB) sucks big ones, but the GUI maker is supurb
.Net framework (C# is another), which is more or less Java minus the portability, plus six years of hindsight.
You're a bit out of date here. This was the situation in 1999, but VB.Net is only barely related to VB 6. VB.Net is a thin shell to access the
It wouldn't surprise me. Judging by my networking textbook that Tannenbaum wrote, I suspect he's a hell of a good teacher.
That's not all that big. I've downloaded 5 gig of porn movies in about 2 days a couple of times, and that was stuff I'd legitimately paid for.
Up popped a message that my laptop battery was about to die, and that I'd better plug the machine in, etc. Well, I looked, and it was plugged in.
That usually means the power bar isn't plugged in.