I just tried logging into my AOL account with the AOL client, used the "ftp" keyword, and it brought up the "NO WEB FOR YOU!" page that you see when trying to access the web files from outside. I think at least keeping the upload/download interface up for a couple of months after the fecal matter impacting the rotary impeller would have been nice.
This was really the only reason I still had an AOL account. (Well, that and the modem pool for super emergencies, which I am now informed is also long gone.) I was using it as a place to put pictures and stuff for inline linking that wasn't the web server on my own DSL, and had barely used it for that in years. Now I need to make sure that my mom still isn't using her sub-account for mail years after I got her to switch to using my own mail server, then I can nuke the whole account from orbit.
After reading the article, even though it's not metioned explicitly, this actually seems to be the last supplier of pre-recorded VHS tapes. Not blanks. The bit about selling to dollar stores was the clue. Which is fine with me, because those things take up way too much shelf space even for dollar stores.
FYI, Final Fantasy XI not only has mixed-population hardware on its servers (PS2, 360, PC), it also does not separate servers by region. And you can put a keyboard next to you on a couch. (mouse support is rather pointless in FFXI if you have a joypad)
CP/M? Now there's a whole new world of hurt on a hard drive. I helped a dental lab keep their computer running, which was a TRS-80 Model II running CP/M 2.x, with a 5 megabyte SASI (it was a 50-pin connector anyhow) drive attached. It was in four partitions because the drive was so large. But at least it had no pretense of a hierarchial directory structure. It was speedy compared to those 8-inch floppy drives (clunk - whiirrr - clunk - whiirrr - clunk).
One big reason is interference. With my house full of nerd gear and Ethernet wiring, using a real tuner amp gives very noisy AM reception. Even using USB extension cables to put it along an outside wall as far away from electronic devices as possible, I still get the same trouble with a Griffin RadioShark. I also get bad interference on AM radio as I drive my car into my garage.
RFI is nothing new. When I was a kid, I had to turn off my TRS-80 whenever the family wanted to watch channel 12 on the TV.
Re-inventing the wheel after you finish your education is pathology.
Knowing how to re-invent the wheel, and how to do it properly, is what's important. Every CS graduate should be able to put an implementation of strcpy() on a white board in under five minutes. In elementary school, you need to learn how to add and subtract by yourself before you can go using calculators to do higher-level stuff.
That's the difference between a craftsman and a random person standing in the day-labor crowd in front of Home Depot. One of them has a Yellow Pages listing because you can trust him to see the big picture, instead of nailing up a bunch of boards until someone (maybe) points out to him that he's installing everything upside-down.
Tier I flasks increase XP by 10% and cost $1.00. Tier II flasks increase XP by 25% and cost $5.00. Tier III flasks increase XP by 50%, and cost $10.00 each. All flask tiers last for 4 hours on use, and more than one can't be used at a time."
FFXI has been doing this for free (at the cost of some in-game numbers that you can easily get doing normal XP leveling) for a long time. 50% extra XP for 3 hours for 1000 max XP (which means you get a total of 3000 using it), and there are a couple of other rings with different rates and times. Depending on how you get your XP, it could be used up in one hour, or you could go all 3 hours without finishing it off (which is why the other rings exist).
3000 xp is half a level in the 20s. There is also a 16-hour cooldown time, and a limit of 7 charges per week for this item, but that's still better than forking over 30-70 bucks to $ony.
due to the advantages of 'having their miners virtually next door to the mother lode of data centers.' The new NSA facility is just a few miles from Microsoft's data center of the same size.
That folders didn't exist for applications on 400k disks was also frustrating
If you thought that was bad, you should have seen MFS's performance on a 5 megabyte (not gigabyte!) hard drive. Using the serial port in high-speed mode to connect the hard drive didn't help, but once you got all the directory and desktop data into the computer, things didn't get any faster.
While areas like Valkurm used to be camped to hell, now it's impossible to find a gang of more than 2-3 to play with.
That's not a general problem with FFXI, that's just your server sucking. Valkurm's awfulness is enjoyed by a healthy number of players on Fairy. Well, a healthy number of San d'Oria and Bastok players, anyhow. Windurst hasn't had Zulkheim for months. Seriously, tell us which server you were on so that the rest of/. can know to avoid it.
And those that are around don't speak English.
Assuming you aren't just on at the wrong hours, again, that's just your server sucking.
Solution: don't use Apple's DVD player. The usual reason for this (at least on Windows) is that DVD playback is done with assistance from the video card, in such a way that screen grabbers can't see the output. Try using VLC, though you may have to tweak its output settings to output directly to video memory.
Seems to me that there is no reason that a snapshot dump of the database can't be released, and subsequently "forked" into another web site. (The problem of synchronizing submissions once the original site does come up again is left as an exercise for the reader.) It doesn't matter that the live site scripts won't work as long as you share the database. The flatter the format, the better. It's the information, stupid.
As for the original question, I would say "until they can't", which is a point that may have been reached here.
From reading other posts, apparently Tyco produced both some good bricks and some bad bricks. I only know what I've seen from skimming bins at thrift stores, but the good ones were the ones that had the Tyco logo on them, so they are they only ones I know of as being from Tyco. The ones I've found tended to have pastel colors, perhaps having been sold in "for girls" sets. But they put their logo on the brick between the studs, so I can't be sure if a given 1x1 block is Tyco or not, only that it's not Lego. In any case, I keep them in a separate (and small) collection, away from the Lego.
That's called a "flea market" here over in the USA. Except for the bit about selling right out of the car. A proper flea market has tables for you to put your stuff, where it is easier to see.
The only bricks up to Lego quality have been the Tyco blocks. (That's Tyco the toy company, not Tyco the electronics company.) They have the same sharp and shiny ABS look as genuine Lego, only without the Lego logo. I think Tyco got sued out of making them before Ritvik/Mega Blocks came out. But Mega Blocks are made of inferior plastic. The only good Mega Blocks are some of the parts from the Dragons series, especially the 2x4 "stone" brick and the baseplates.
If someone can send a little robo-rover that can roll up to the site and take pictures, that in itself would be rather historic. (And probably still wouldn't satsify people who say that the moon landings were a hoax.) But if you want to take that to its illogical conclusion, imagine a train of rovers leading away from the site, each there to take a picture of the previous historic rover.
I've got a pile of those things too, and I've modded one or two of them to output plain ASCII. But now I've found two business-quality scanners, so they're less useful.
One bit of advice if you want to use a CueCat (or other PS2-plug bar code scanner) with a PS2-to-USB adapter is that not all such adapters are compatible. out of half a dozen devices with that capability, two work, two do not work, and two produce gibberish that confuses Mac OS X and causes it to flip around between different applications.
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I just tried logging into my AOL account with the AOL client, used the "ftp" keyword, and it brought up the "NO WEB FOR YOU!" page that you see when trying to access the web files from outside. I think at least keeping the upload/download interface up for a couple of months after the fecal matter impacting the rotary impeller would have been nice.
This was really the only reason I still had an AOL account. (Well, that and the modem pool for super emergencies, which I am now informed is also long gone.) I was using it as a place to put pictures and stuff for inline linking that wasn't the web server on my own DSL, and had barely used it for that in years. Now I need to make sure that my mom still isn't using her sub-account for mail years after I got her to switch to using my own mail server, then I can nuke the whole account from orbit.
Betamax != Betacam. Only the physical tape/cartridge format stayed the same.
After reading the article, even though it's not metioned explicitly, this actually seems to be the last supplier of pre-recorded VHS tapes. Not blanks. The bit about selling to dollar stores was the clue. Which is fine with me, because those things take up way too much shelf space even for dollar stores.
FYI, Final Fantasy XI not only has mixed-population hardware on its servers (PS2, 360, PC), it also does not separate servers by region. And you can put a keyboard next to you on a couch. (mouse support is rather pointless in FFXI if you have a joypad)
How could you forget The Shatner? That's unforgivable, eh?
CP/M? Now there's a whole new world of hurt on a hard drive. I helped a dental lab keep their computer running, which was a TRS-80 Model II running CP/M 2.x, with a 5 megabyte SASI (it was a 50-pin connector anyhow) drive attached. It was in four partitions because the drive was so large. But at least it had no pretense of a hierarchial directory structure. It was speedy compared to those 8-inch floppy drives (clunk - whiirrr - clunk - whiirrr - clunk).
One big reason is interference. With my house full of nerd gear and Ethernet wiring, using a real tuner amp gives very noisy AM reception. Even using USB extension cables to put it along an outside wall as far away from electronic devices as possible, I still get the same trouble with a Griffin RadioShark. I also get bad interference on AM radio as I drive my car into my garage.
RFI is nothing new. When I was a kid, I had to turn off my TRS-80 whenever the family wanted to watch channel 12 on the TV.
Re-inventing the wheel after you finish your education is pathology.
Knowing how to re-invent the wheel, and how to do it properly, is what's important. Every CS graduate should be able to put an implementation of strcpy() on a white board in under five minutes. In elementary school, you need to learn how to add and subtract by yourself before you can go using calculators to do higher-level stuff.
Otherwise you end up with yet another WTF.
That's the difference between a craftsman and a random person standing in the day-labor crowd in front of Home Depot. One of them has a Yellow Pages listing because you can trust him to see the big picture, instead of nailing up a bunch of boards until someone (maybe) points out to him that he's installing everything upside-down.
Tier I flasks increase XP by 10% and cost $1.00. Tier II flasks increase XP by 25% and cost $5.00. Tier III flasks increase XP by 50%, and cost $10.00 each. All flask tiers last for 4 hours on use, and more than one can't be used at a time."
FFXI has been doing this for free (at the cost of some in-game numbers that you can easily get doing normal XP leveling) for a long time. 50% extra XP for 3 hours for 1000 max XP (which means you get a total of 3000 using it), and there are a couple of other rings with different rates and times. Depending on how you get your XP, it could be used up in one hour, or you could go all 3 hours without finishing it off (which is why the other rings exist).
3000 xp is half a level in the 20s. There is also a 16-hour cooldown time, and a limit of 7 charges per week for this item, but that's still better than forking over 30-70 bucks to $ony.
due to the advantages of 'having their miners virtually next door to the mother lode of data centers.' The new NSA facility is just a few miles from Microsoft's data center of the same size.
They forgot to mention the other mother lode of data centers.
Also, San Antonio has a lot of IT people with security clearances, which may also be useful for them.
That folders didn't exist for applications on 400k disks was also frustrating
If you thought that was bad, you should have seen MFS's performance on a 5 megabyte (not gigabyte!) hard drive. Using the serial port in high-speed mode to connect the hard drive didn't help, but once you got all the directory and desktop data into the computer, things didn't get any faster.
Well, teach him how to use ping then...
Here is a user manual more appropriate to his age range.
While areas like Valkurm used to be camped to hell, now it's impossible to find a gang of more than 2-3 to play with.
That's not a general problem with FFXI, that's just your server sucking. Valkurm's awfulness is enjoyed by a healthy number of players on Fairy. Well, a healthy number of San d'Oria and Bastok players, anyhow. Windurst hasn't had Zulkheim for months. Seriously, tell us which server you were on so that the rest of /. can know to avoid it.
And those that are around don't speak English.
Assuming you aren't just on at the wrong hours, again, that's just your server sucking.
Solution: don't use Apple's DVD player. The usual reason for this (at least on Windows) is that DVD playback is done with assistance from the video card, in such a way that screen grabbers can't see the output. Try using VLC, though you may have to tweak its output settings to output directly to video memory.
...and they don't want the G5 back. IBM is behind the curve on taking a POWER-based architecture off the desktop.
Seems to me that there is no reason that a snapshot dump of the database can't be released, and subsequently "forked" into another web site. (The problem of synchronizing submissions once the original site does come up again is left as an exercise for the reader.) It doesn't matter that the live site scripts won't work as long as you share the database. The flatter the format, the better. It's the information, stupid.
As for the original question, I would say "until they can't", which is a point that may have been reached here.
From reading other posts, apparently Tyco produced both some good bricks and some bad bricks. I only know what I've seen from skimming bins at thrift stores, but the good ones were the ones that had the Tyco logo on them, so they are they only ones I know of as being from Tyco. The ones I've found tended to have pastel colors, perhaps having been sold in "for girls" sets. But they put their logo on the brick between the studs, so I can't be sure if a given 1x1 block is Tyco or not, only that it's not Lego. In any case, I keep them in a separate (and small) collection, away from the Lego.
He's been building it for a few years now. I've driven by it on City Park Road every now and then and it's looking something like this.
That's called a "flea market" here over in the USA. Except for the bit about selling right out of the car. A proper flea market has tables for you to put your stuff, where it is easier to see.
The only bricks up to Lego quality have been the Tyco blocks. (That's Tyco the toy company, not Tyco the electronics company.) They have the same sharp and shiny ABS look as genuine Lego, only without the Lego logo. I think Tyco got sued out of making them before Ritvik/Mega Blocks came out. But Mega Blocks are made of inferior plastic. The only good Mega Blocks are some of the parts from the Dragons series, especially the 2x4 "stone" brick and the baseplates.
And I can't wait to hear "future" Spock say "1.21 Jiggawatts"!
If someone can send a little robo-rover that can roll up to the site and take pictures, that in itself would be rather historic. (And probably still wouldn't satsify people who say that the moon landings were a hoax.) But if you want to take that to its illogical conclusion, imagine a train of rovers leading away from the site, each there to take a picture of the previous historic rover.
Immediately! This is exactly the sort of thing the Ig Nobel folks are looking for.
I've got a pile of those things too, and I've modded one or two of them to output plain ASCII. But now I've found two business-quality scanners, so they're less useful.
One bit of advice if you want to use a CueCat (or other PS2-plug bar code scanner) with a PS2-to-USB adapter is that not all such adapters are compatible. out of half a dozen devices with that capability, two work, two do not work, and two produce gibberish that confuses Mac OS X and causes it to flip around between different applications.