Even though their stuff is generally inferior to Lego, yes Mega Blocks did deserve to win. Quality-wise, the only bricks I've found up to Lego's quality have been Tyco, and Lego probably scared them out of business. The newer BTR sets are of almost as high quality of plastic as Lego, but they have a lot more pre-cast big chunks, like vehicle chassis, and I don't think I've ever seen anything but BTR "kit" sets. I don't recall seeing any BTR sets of just a bunch of bricks.
The one exception to Mega Blocks being crap is their Dragons sets. Not only are there a lot of cool pieces, they have these nifty gray stone brick pieces that are nice for making castles.
So will OS X be at version 10.6, 10.7, or 10.8 by the time Vista is released? Will Duke Nukem Forever be released by then? Will we achive sustained nuclear fusion? Will we have flying cars? Warp drive?
So where are you going to put this 200 feet of Cat5E? Are you going to string it across your neighbors' yards? How long will it last when exposed to the sun and the weather? Will the phone company be okay with you mucking about in their wiring box?
Are you going to dig up your neighbors' gardens to bury the wire? I'm sure they won't mind. And I'm sure someone will loan you a trenching machine over the weekend for free. Of course as long as you're going that, you might as well drop in a few bits of fiber, too.
Anyhow, I don't know exactly where the Remote Terminal box with my DSLAM is, but I get 6Mbits right now, and my line was tested to 8Mbits by the installer. What the BBC article fails to mention is that you don't have to be across the street from the phone company office, you just have to be close to the Remote Terminal where the DSLAM is.
At least they've got folks advertising it over there. I've heard SBC will do it eventually, but so far I've heard not a peep about even a trial install.
We have to nuke Canada immediately! We must not allow there to be a telescope gap! The next thing you know, they're going to want Our Precious Bodily Fluids!
My own sugestion is to drill a hole into the ground as far as is possible i.e. several kilometres, let off an appropriate nuke to create an underground chamber.
I'm sure the rest of the world would enjoy hearing about such a violation of the Test Ban Treaty.
Yes, you've been getting crummy bulbs. I've been replacing incandescents with helical CF as they burn out, with whatever was cheap at Home Despot, and I've never had slow start problems. I have had one (of three in a fixture) which buzzed a lot in the kitchen, so I swapped the noisy one out to the garage. I may also have had one die young.
The best part isn't the energy savings, it's not having to replace bulbs all the time. The savings in labor of replacing burnt-out incandescents may be even more than the savings on the electric bill, if your free time is worth anything.
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Er. I just checked the definition of googlewhack, and it's not a googlewhack because I used quotes. Both times. (Hey, don't look at me, I never claimed it was, it was that other guy over there!)
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it's not a googlewhack. it contains punctuation (the -).
But Google ignores punctuation!
And I'd like to point out that even though I misspelled it, "Bayesian Babble" also only has exactly one hit, also in a page of, what else, Bayesian Babble.
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I would like to take this opportunity to coin the term "bloat-compatible".
A quick check with Google shows only one hit, on a page full of Baynesian Babble.
Because they flicker in my peripheral vision. That's the number one reason, and I would like to point out that magazine ads are not animated. Even tiny affiliate site link buttons that constantly flicker are annoying. I would also like to point out that text link ads like AdWords do NOT flicker.
Because they try to take over your web browser, whether by popping up, or trying to hide under like some damned cockroach. I have my Mozilla set to not allow JavaSh^Hcript to raise or lower windows.
I stopped allowing Flash ads once I got one that made sound... of a truck honking its horn... when it was in another brower tab, no less. If I want sound, I'll play something in iTunes. Magazine ads also don't play jingles or crap MIDI. I eventually found a CSS trick that lets properly embedded Flash become a button. Some advertisers don't use the EMBED tag, but most do. I also use the same user CSS to block the most annoying advertisers, the doubleclicks and tribalfusions and so forth.
And last, but not least, because I don't freaking care about what they advertise. This is why I never blocked the OSDN ads on Slashdot. I'm perfectly fine with seeing ads for the latest ThinkGeek gadget. After a while they started letting in outside ad servers, and I see a blocked Flash at the top of my window right now.
Menu bar , GO,Go to Folder , then type in the folder you want EG:/etc ,/bin ETC. . Simple as that for accessing low level folders
Terminal, type in "open/etc", even simpler, and no need to install anything.
Not that I have any need for that, as I can just "open -e/etc/whatever.conf", and bypass any kind of Finder GUI whatsoever. Of course even that's only needed if you're allergic to vi.
If you keep a Terminal window aligned at an edge of the screen, it takes just one click, and it takes advantage of Fitts' Law just like the regular Mac menu bar.
That's bear with. Bear, not bare. As in 'I can't bear to look.'
then maybe -- just maybe -- Cmdr. Taco could fiddle with the packet-transporters to merge ScuttleMonkey and Zonk back into a cohesive whole?
Ach, Cappin', the transporters, they nae ken take the stress!
Of course, this would mean all the posts between the respective dupes would slam together into a single entity of posts, creating a massive disturbance between their respective mirror universes and...
...this is bad. Crossing the streams bad.
The strange part is that this time, Zonk's dupe preceeded the original article by a whole day. Hey, didn't I just see that same cat walk by a moment ago?
Uhhhh... once both clients have the file, they don't need to upload to each other any more... because now you've got the file, which is the whole point of leeching! (I never said it was a workaround for ratio quotas, did I?)
Nothing stops several (2 or 3) clients from corroberating.
I can use two clients to abuse upload ratios even without hacking the clients or the data they send. All I have to do is find a reasonably small torrent (15-20 or so clients max) where I have a good chance of one client being requested to send data to the other, and put them on the same Ethernet segment, the faster the better, and turn off any bandwidth limits. They don't even have to have the same real IP address (I get five addresses on my DSL, and normally use three).
Once one client starts sending to the other, the upload rate goes sky-high, giving you lots of karma with the tracker. If the receiving client is asked to report its download rate, it will even agree. Again, standard client, no hacking involved.
That being said, years ago I've heard of hacked clients that the moment they appear, suddenly everyone else's download rate flatlines (seen from a client in the torrent that shows everybody's stats), as everybody's client starts sending data to the leech. Then once they've leeched the file, they disconnect immediately.
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The one exception to Mega Blocks being crap is their Dragons sets. Not only are there a lot of cool pieces, they have these nifty gray stone brick pieces that are nice for making castles.
So will OS X be at version 10.6, 10.7, or 10.8 by the time Vista is released? Will Duke Nukem Forever be released by then? Will we achive sustained nuclear fusion? Will we have flying cars? Warp drive?
It damn well better have hamster balls for the little kids to katamari around in, then!
Are you going to dig up your neighbors' gardens to bury the wire? I'm sure they won't mind. And I'm sure someone will loan you a trenching machine over the weekend for free. Of course as long as you're going that, you might as well drop in a few bits of fiber, too.
Anyhow, I don't know exactly where the Remote Terminal box with my DSLAM is, but I get 6Mbits right now, and my line was tested to 8Mbits by the installer. What the BBC article fails to mention is that you don't have to be across the street from the phone company office, you just have to be close to the Remote Terminal where the DSLAM is.
At least they've got folks advertising it over there. I've heard SBC will do it eventually, but so far I've heard not a peep about even a trial install.
We have to nuke Canada immediately! We must not allow there to be a telescope gap! The next thing you know, they're going to want Our Precious Bodily Fluids!
I'm sure the rest of the world would enjoy hearing about such a violation of the Test Ban Treaty.
The best part isn't the energy savings, it's not having to replace bulbs all the time. The savings in labor of replacing burnt-out incandescents may be even more than the savings on the electric bill, if your free time is worth anything.
Er. I just checked the definition of googlewhack, and it's not a googlewhack because I used quotes. Both times. (Hey, don't look at me, I never claimed it was, it was that other guy over there!)
But Google ignores punctuation!
And I'd like to point out that even though I misspelled it, "Bayesian Babble" also only has exactly one hit, also in a page of, what else, Bayesian Babble.
A quick check with Google shows only one hit, on a page full of Baynesian Babble.
Right, because the best time to stop the modders is a year before you release a whole new console? That doesn't make a lot of sense to me.
And I hear the new PS2 unit is also incompatible with FFXI. :-)
...and Aurum, and Ferrum, and, uh, Nickel, and Cobalt and Zinc and Tungsten and...
Because they try to take over your web browser, whether by popping up, or trying to hide under like some damned cockroach. I have my Mozilla set to not allow JavaSh^Hcript to raise or lower windows.
I stopped allowing Flash ads once I got one that made sound... of a truck honking its horn... when it was in another brower tab, no less. If I want sound, I'll play something in iTunes. Magazine ads also don't play jingles or crap MIDI. I eventually found a CSS trick that lets properly embedded Flash become a button. Some advertisers don't use the EMBED tag, but most do. I also use the same user CSS to block the most annoying advertisers, the doubleclicks and tribalfusions and so forth.
And last, but not least, because I don't freaking care about what they advertise. This is why I never blocked the OSDN ads on Slashdot. I'm perfectly fine with seeing ads for the latest ThinkGeek gadget. After a while they started letting in outside ad servers, and I see a blocked Flash at the top of my window right now.
They're not just stupid, they're stuck on stupid.
Zonk is so good that he's been posting dupes before the original article appears!
Terminal, type in "open /etc", even simpler, and no need to install anything.
Not that I have any need for that, as I can just "open -e /etc/whatever.conf", and bypass any kind of Finder GUI whatsoever. Of course even that's only needed if you're allergic to vi.
If you keep a Terminal window aligned at an edge of the screen, it takes just one click, and it takes advantage of Fitts' Law just like the regular Mac menu bar.
That's bear with. Bear, not bare. As in 'I can't bear to look.'
then maybe -- just maybe -- Cmdr. Taco could fiddle with the packet-transporters to merge ScuttleMonkey and Zonk back into a cohesive whole?
Ach, Cappin', the transporters, they nae ken take the stress!
Of course, this would mean all the posts between the respective dupes would slam together into a single entity of posts, creating a massive disturbance between their respective mirror universes and...
...this is bad. Crossing the streams bad.
The strange part is that this time, Zonk's dupe preceeded the original article by a whole day. Hey, didn't I just see that same cat walk by a moment ago?
Cars? Have you see the size of those things? They're definitely SUVs! And who was president when they were sent there? George W Bush!
Uhhhh... once both clients have the file, they don't need to upload to each other any more... because now you've got the file, which is the whole point of leeching! (I never said it was a workaround for ratio quotas, did I?)
I can use two clients to abuse upload ratios even without hacking the clients or the data they send. All I have to do is find a reasonably small torrent (15-20 or so clients max) where I have a good chance of one client being requested to send data to the other, and put them on the same Ethernet segment, the faster the better, and turn off any bandwidth limits. They don't even have to have the same real IP address (I get five addresses on my DSL, and normally use three).
Once one client starts sending to the other, the upload rate goes sky-high, giving you lots of karma with the tracker. If the receiving client is asked to report its download rate, it will even agree. Again, standard client, no hacking involved.
That being said, years ago I've heard of hacked clients that the moment they appear, suddenly everyone else's download rate flatlines (seen from a client in the torrent that shows everybody's stats), as everybody's client starts sending data to the leech. Then once they've leeched the file, they disconnect immediately.
Farther than that. Think Nintendo Elbow (as in tennis elbow) and maybe even Nintendo Shoulder.
Because the thing you really want to do with a server is double- or triple-boot it. Yeah. Ph33r my sub 1-day uptimes.
That wooshing sound you hear is your joke going right over the heads of most of the Slashdot readers.
Given what I remember of the Levi Strauss history, I'm pretty sure the miners in question were gold miners. And they generally weren't underground.