How about something like "page does not contain out of stock"? Or maybe looking at another item that is in stock and seeing what it says in that particular place? It isn't rocket science. Then again you are using PHP.
The display is just to get you in the door. The boxes are all empties and the clerk will probably laugh when you ask if they have any. If you are desperate they may have a waiting list. Or you can find out what days they get their shipments on and stop by early each day.
4 billion years from now the sun will have swallowed the earth and all the inner planets as it expands into a red giant. A slowing rotation will be the least of our worries. Still I've always thought that Venus would make a better planet for us to live on than Mars if we could change the rotation and overcome the rampant global warming. Its the only planet in the solar system that spins the other way. So whatever hit it early on did a lot bigger number on it than just creating a moon.
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Must... resist replying to... "You must be new here" comment... Ahh damn you got me.
I've never been a very active poster but every now and then go through phases. I think most of us with the low uids have moved into positions where we don't have as much time to post anymore. And of course others have just moved on from/. I still make it my homepage on most of the systems I use regularly and so am an active reader just not poster.
Oh that reminded me of the ascii toilet paper rolls that would have peoples names in them. Always thought they were pretty funny, at least for the first month or so.
It doesn't even have to be poorly crafted. I find that when I'm working with an object I'm frequently accessing several different properties instead of the same one over and over. I have a personal rule anyway that if I'm accessing a property more than a couple times I should probably think about caching it in a local variable. I find the "last used" feature to be an idea that sounds good on paper but generally is just not helpful.
There's no need to check. You know that in all likelihood they would. However it is much harder to pressure a group than it is to pressure and individual. So get one to cave in and move on to the next.
Don't worry I'm no Saddam sympathizer. I just don't think that we can use the justification that since he was a bad guy the war was justified. There are so many more bad guys out there that we'll never get them all. How do we choose which ones go down and which ones can stay around? Oil or other natural resources? You're absolutely correct that we helped build up Japan and S. Korea and western Europe for that matter. However we tend to do that kind of thing when it suits are whim. Why else would we send the CIA to countries to incite revolutions and coupes in freely elected governments that we don't like (notably Chile). Why else would we have propped up bad governments like Saudi Arabia? We do good things and bad things. In many cases I wish we would just keep our noses in our own business and only stick it out when there are times that we can't stand idly by like with Dar-Fur (spelling I know). I love my country and know it has done good things, but I wish it was a better citizen in the world and had far less black marks.
Sovereign usually means independent. Puerto Rico while a nation is not really a sovereign nation as it is a US territory but unlikely to become a full member of the US any time soon. Jordan, Egypt, Syria, Lebanon and Israel were all nations recognized by the UN during the wars of the 60's, 70's and 80's.
As for making the claim for war, its always done as justification. Politicians will always dig up some kind of reason to justify going to war even though it is usually to further their own interests.
On the point of Kuwait it could be argued that it should have been part of Iraq. When the British relinquished control of the land and formed the country of Iraq based on lines drawn on a map (thanks Churchill) they held onto Kuwait to extract some more oil. The territory was supposed to be part of Iraq and it was generally understood that it would become part of Iraq when the British left. It didn't happen. Iran and Iraq however are a different story.
Still I don't see anything that refutes the claim that Saddam is not the only leader since WW2 to invade another country. Hint look at the US examples as all of them take place in countries that we don't share a border with.
Saddam will also go down as the only modern-military and sovereign state to invade another -- barring civil war -- since WW2.
Not sure what you mean by modern-military. I'm guessing you mean mechanized or they had guns. Either way, modern history is full of examples that disprove this statement. China invaded Tibet and Vietnam. USSR invaded Afghanistan. US invaded Panama, Grenada, Vietnam, North Korea* and of course Iraq. Israel was involved in several wars in its early years. Sometimes it was the aggressor and other times not. This is not an exhaustive list but should be sufficient enough disprove that statement.
*North and South Korea were pretty much separate countries with the agreed upon border being the 38th parallel. The North invaded and the US stepped in. Mac Arthur wanted a total victory as he had achieved in pacific theater during WW2 and pushed the North to the Chinese border.
I don't recommend it. I thought I could go the semi-cheap route with DVD/RWs but it hasn't really worked out. I bought a Toshiba DVD recorder last Christmas and have been unimpressed. First the RWs it needed have to be a higher speed than you normally find on store shelves. The only ones I found that would do it were 4x made for video recording RWs. They worked out fine for a bit but after recording and erasing around 4 shows on the same disc, the recorder can't use the disc anymore. I'm not a fool and understand that every time a disc is written to it degrades but I had no idea that they would degrade so fast. I don't think the discs are so degraded that I couldn't use them on a PC. Its more likely that the recorder just can't write to the degraded disc fast enough and it freezes up. I wish that I had gone the PVR or DVR with HD route now. It would have been more expensive but I think it would have worked out better.
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How Image Spam Works
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I know that in the past I have received spam promoting a product that I was interested in. I don't remember now what it was but it wasn't anything like the viagra/porn/stock spams. I deleted the spam on principal but there are others out there that may not know/care.
There is a root password but it isn't really documented anywhere. For all I know it is randomly generated at install time. If you want to change it just type sudo passwd root, type in your own password for sudo and then type in the new root password. After that you can su all you want. I still do a lot of command line stuff and like having to make the distinction of running a command with root privelages or not so I rarely su anymore. If you use sudo once, it will remember for so many minutes and you don't have to retype your password for every sudo command.
Buying the expansions isn't really about being competitive. It just gives you more content and access to more territory. If you don't want it then you don't have to buy it. If you do want it but don't want to pay full price, wait a few months. I picked up Nightfall a couple months after release for $30. I'll probably do the same for the new expansion pack as well. Unless it already cost that much since it is supposed to be a true expansion pack.
I guess this might be due to the success of programs like Peer Guardian? For those that don't know, it is a black listing program that helps you to deny connections from IP addresses known to be used by companies like BayTSP. If you are going to do P2P and download "questionable" content, you should have something like this. It isn't %100 but safer than nothing. Most popular clients will have some sort of plug-in that will do this. I guess it's time now for the trackers to start running this kind of software too.
I don't think you would have complained so loudly if he said that after kicking of the download he popped a frozen pizza in the oven and sat in front of the tube for an hour and a half. Really, he could just be one of those guys that goes to church on Christmas and Easter and only really went this time because his girlfriend drug him along. You seem to believe that because he went to church on Christmas Eve and mentions it as part of the chronology leading up to his review that he is some kind of bible thumper shoving religion down your throat. If he would have said that he went to church so that he could save his immortal soul from burning in hell and that you should too then I would be able to see your point. Otherwise it is just a casual mention of something that many Americans do on Christmas and I think you are over reacting to it.
P.S. You mention that he has to slip in a reference to his beliefs in everything he writes. Well take a look for yourself.
So mentioning that he went to church is shoving it down your throat? Would you rather he lied? I think he was just providing context for the story. Why should he have to hide what he did? Really if he would have mentioned that he went to temple or went to his local mosque or to the new Rocky movie it wouldn't have made me feel any different. I guess I'm just not as sensitive to people mentioning religious activities as you.
The only advantage that I have seen is in Wii Sports Baseball. The manual says that the faster you "throw" the remote, the faster the pitch will go. I've noticed this to some small extent. That said, I have two boys ages 4 & 6 and never have the controllers left their hands when they are playing. My 4 year old is especially "active" and the only problem I've had is him creeping up to the TV during boxing.
Maybe because politicians make the laws and most politicians are/were lawyers? The real question is. Why do we continually trust lawyers to make our laws for us if we continually bash them as being unscrupulous and lower than low?
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How about something like "page does not contain out of stock"? Or maybe looking at another item that is in stock and seeing what it says in that particular place? It isn't rocket science. Then again you are using PHP.
The display is just to get you in the door. The boxes are all empties and the clerk will probably laugh when you ask if they have any. If you are desperate they may have a waiting list. Or you can find out what days they get their shipments on and stop by early each day.
4 billion years from now the sun will have swallowed the earth and all the inner planets as it expands into a red giant. A slowing rotation will be the least of our worries. Still I've always thought that Venus would make a better planet for us to live on than Mars if we could change the rotation and overcome the rampant global warming. Its the only planet in the solar system that spins the other way. So whatever hit it early on did a lot bigger number on it than just creating a moon.
Almost Jeff spends way too much time in conference calls with corporate offices
Must... resist replying to... "You must be new here" comment... Ahh damn you got me.
/. I still make it my homepage on most of the systems I use regularly and so am an active reader just not poster.
I've never been a very active poster but every now and then go through phases. I think most of us with the low uids have moved into positions where we don't have as much time to post anymore. And of course others have just moved on from
Before it was possible to make a first post comment without using a bot...
Oh that reminded me of the ascii toilet paper rolls that would have peoples names in them. Always thought they were pretty funny, at least for the first month or so.
No moderation and no logins either. When moderation was introduced it was possible to see your actual Karma value and not the fuzzy terms.
And don't forget the hot grits in the pants.
It doesn't even have to be poorly crafted. I find that when I'm working with an object I'm frequently accessing several different properties instead of the same one over and over. I have a personal rule anyway that if I'm accessing a property more than a couple times I should probably think about caching it in a local variable. I find the "last used" feature to be an idea that sounds good on paper but generally is just not helpful.
There's no need to check. You know that in all likelihood they would. However it is much harder to pressure a group than it is to pressure and individual. So get one to cave in and move on to the next.
Don't worry I'm no Saddam sympathizer. I just don't think that we can use the justification that since he was a bad guy the war was justified. There are so many more bad guys out there that we'll never get them all. How do we choose which ones go down and which ones can stay around? Oil or other natural resources? You're absolutely correct that we helped build up Japan and S. Korea and western Europe for that matter. However we tend to do that kind of thing when it suits are whim. Why else would we send the CIA to countries to incite revolutions and coupes in freely elected governments that we don't like (notably Chile). Why else would we have propped up bad governments like Saudi Arabia? We do good things and bad things. In many cases I wish we would just keep our noses in our own business and only stick it out when there are times that we can't stand idly by like with Dar-Fur (spelling I know). I love my country and know it has done good things, but I wish it was a better citizen in the world and had far less black marks.
Sovereign usually means independent. Puerto Rico while a nation is not really a sovereign nation as it is a US territory but unlikely to become a full member of the US any time soon. Jordan, Egypt, Syria, Lebanon and Israel were all nations recognized by the UN during the wars of the 60's, 70's and 80's.
As for making the claim for war, its always done as justification. Politicians will always dig up some kind of reason to justify going to war even though it is usually to further their own interests.
On the point of Kuwait it could be argued that it should have been part of Iraq. When the British relinquished control of the land and formed the country of Iraq based on lines drawn on a map (thanks Churchill) they held onto Kuwait to extract some more oil. The territory was supposed to be part of Iraq and it was generally understood that it would become part of Iraq when the British left. It didn't happen. Iran and Iraq however are a different story.
Still I don't see anything that refutes the claim that Saddam is not the only leader since WW2 to invade another country. Hint look at the US examples as all of them take place in countries that we don't share a border with.
Saddam will also go down as the only modern-military and sovereign state to invade another -- barring civil war -- since WW2.
Not sure what you mean by modern-military. I'm guessing you mean mechanized or they had guns. Either way, modern history is full of examples that disprove this statement. China invaded Tibet and Vietnam. USSR invaded Afghanistan. US invaded Panama, Grenada, Vietnam, North Korea* and of course Iraq. Israel was involved in several wars in its early years. Sometimes it was the aggressor and other times not. This is not an exhaustive list but should be sufficient enough disprove that statement.
*North and South Korea were pretty much separate countries with the agreed upon border being the 38th parallel. The North invaded and the US stepped in. Mac Arthur wanted a total victory as he had achieved in pacific theater during WW2 and pushed the North to the Chinese border.
I don't recommend it. I thought I could go the semi-cheap route with DVD/RWs but it hasn't really worked out. I bought a Toshiba DVD recorder last Christmas and have been unimpressed. First the RWs it needed have to be a higher speed than you normally find on store shelves. The only ones I found that would do it were 4x made for video recording RWs. They worked out fine for a bit but after recording and erasing around 4 shows on the same disc, the recorder can't use the disc anymore. I'm not a fool and understand that every time a disc is written to it degrades but I had no idea that they would degrade so fast. I don't think the discs are so degraded that I couldn't use them on a PC. Its more likely that the recorder just can't write to the degraded disc fast enough and it freezes up. I wish that I had gone the PVR or DVR with HD route now. It would have been more expensive but I think it would have worked out better.
I know that in the past I have received spam promoting a product that I was interested in. I don't remember now what it was but it wasn't anything like the viagra/porn/stock spams. I deleted the spam on principal but there are others out there that may not know/care.
There is a root password but it isn't really documented anywhere. For all I know it is randomly generated at install time. If you want to change it just type sudo passwd root, type in your own password for sudo and then type in the new root password. After that you can su all you want. I still do a lot of command line stuff and like having to make the distinction of running a command with root privelages or not so I rarely su anymore. If you use sudo once, it will remember for so many minutes and you don't have to retype your password for every sudo command.
Buying the expansions isn't really about being competitive. It just gives you more content and access to more territory. If you don't want it then you don't have to buy it. If you do want it but don't want to pay full price, wait a few months. I picked up Nightfall a couple months after release for $30. I'll probably do the same for the new expansion pack as well. Unless it already cost that much since it is supposed to be a true expansion pack.
I guess this might be due to the success of programs like Peer Guardian? For those that don't know, it is a black listing program that helps you to deny connections from IP addresses known to be used by companies like BayTSP. If you are going to do P2P and download "questionable" content, you should have something like this. It isn't %100 but safer than nothing. Most popular clients will have some sort of plug-in that will do this. I guess it's time now for the trackers to start running this kind of software too.
we're not a company that tends to tread the same ground
This from the company that brought us Diablo, Diablo 2, Warcraft, Warcraft 2, Warcraft 3, Starcraft and World of Warcraft?
I don't think you would have complained so loudly if he said that after kicking of the download he popped a frozen pizza in the oven and sat in front of the tube for an hour and a half. Really, he could just be one of those guys that goes to church on Christmas and Easter and only really went this time because his girlfriend drug him along. You seem to believe that because he went to church on Christmas Eve and mentions it as part of the chronology leading up to his review that he is some kind of bible thumper shoving religion down your throat. If he would have said that he went to church so that he could save his immortal soul from burning in hell and that you should too then I would be able to see your point. Otherwise it is just a casual mention of something that many Americans do on Christmas and I think you are over reacting to it.
P.S. You mention that he has to slip in a reference to his beliefs in everything he writes. Well take a look for yourself.
So mentioning that he went to church is shoving it down your throat? Would you rather he lied? I think he was just providing context for the story. Why should he have to hide what he did? Really if he would have mentioned that he went to temple or went to his local mosque or to the new Rocky movie it wouldn't have made me feel any different. I guess I'm just not as sensitive to people mentioning religious activities as you.
The only advantage that I have seen is in Wii Sports Baseball. The manual says that the faster you "throw" the remote, the faster the pitch will go. I've noticed this to some small extent. That said, I have two boys ages 4 & 6 and never have the controllers left their hands when they are playing. My 4 year old is especially "active" and the only problem I've had is him creeping up to the TV during boxing.
Maybe because politicians make the laws and most politicians are/were lawyers? The real question is. Why do we continually trust lawyers to make our laws for us if we continually bash them as being unscrupulous and lower than low?
That's because they are afraid you'll talk back.