If that's it, I don't get the 'offending' part, then. It's a vertical banner space. Sometimes (usually) there is an annoying blinking banner, sometimes there is this ad from "Techno Scout" that has hyperlinks to product pages on technoscout.com
Are we bitching about ads that are hyperlinks? I've seen this ad on a few other sites, not just Yahoo! and it doesn't seem that confusing or misleading to me. (Is anyone going to think "Workout technology that provides safe, easy-to-change resistance" is supposed to be a news item?)
I was expecting to have one of the news item links pop up an x-10 ad. That would be wrong.
Exactly. Online bill payment is a great convenience. I would assume that reverting to checks by mail to avoid.NET is a price many would be willing to pay?
>Did anyone else find that just a tinsy bit unrealistic
you're kidding, right? as opposed to the rest of the original series plots that were entirely realistic?
That episode does happen to be one of my favorites. The two planets had been at war for centuries, they had 'solved' the problems of their civilizations being destroyed by enacting a treaty whereby they would conduct their war via two linked computers. Simulated attacks were conducted and the computer told them how many civilians had been 'killed'. Those designated as casualties had 24 hours to report to a disintegration (sp?) station. Nice and neat, no damage to buildings, no suffering, famine, disease, etc.
>zooms Captain Kirk and in under half an hour he's sorted the situation out
Actually, we never find out how the situation is resolved. Kirk stumbles in and gets his ship declared 'destroyed' and has 24 hours to beam his entire crew to the surface to be disintegrated. He of course refuses and then violates the prime directive by destroying one of the computers, thus causing the treaty to be broken, forcing the two sides to negotiate an end to the war or face real weapons. The episode ends with the elders scrambling to contact the other planet to avert a real attack, and Kirk leaves some diplomat dude there to help.
As far as we know, the two planets break out their real missles and end up destroying each other. Or, maybe they suspend the war until the computers are back up and they continue as before.
This RCA has a remote, sort of. You program it to recognize the IR remotes of the attached devices. When you power on your DVD via it's remote, the box switches to that device's input. The problem is that the TiVo doesn't really have a power on/off. I've programmed the rca box to recognize when I hit the 'tivo' button on the tico remote and switch to that source. Not perfect, but it gets the job done most of the time (the rest of the time I can manage to drag my @ss off the couch and change it myself).
We used them all the time in our wireless billing system (since about 1984). The cellphone switches would record the AMA to tape, which they shipped to us. We would exchange billing and settlement data with other billers and clearinghouses via mag tape. All of our bank payment lockbox data came in on tape. It was the standard (at least in our cellular industry).
Internally, we used round reels until about 90-91 when we started converting to cartridge tapes. I think just about all of the external data exchange is done over network transmission now, but we still have 9-track around as a backup (they'll send tape if they can't transmit).
So? Not like they copied them to fresh reels. Just because they are going to stop making the media, doesn't mean every drive out there will suddenly cease to read existing tapes.
Yeah, I had the same situation. Solved it with a nice little $65 box from RCA that lets you switch video sources for your TV. Only feature lacking in this box is an s-video to rca or reverse conversion. Not all of my devices have s-video, you have to use all one or the other. There was a more expensive box, I think from Recoton, that did this, though.
Really, he makes it sound link a bad thing (that we'd have to hack it). Heck, that was probably the biggest reason I got one in the first place, that you could hack it ( mine does ppp over serial to do updates over my cable, and I added a 75 GB to the 30 already in there).
I was pretty interested in getting a PVR, but when I found out what you could do (there's something just so cool about being able to telnet to your TiVo), I wasted no time in talking the wife into getting one. (I've since done 2 other units, one for my brother-in-law and one for my brother).
I never heard 'sequel' until I started running into Microsoft SQL Server. My first db class at school the prof pronounced it S-Q-L. and I never heard anyone say anything different until we started seeing projects at work using Microsoft.
To this day, the only time we say 'sequel' is when we are referring to MS SQL Server, otherwise it's S-Q-L.
That whole "open letter to spammers" was hilarious. I cut n pasted that to save for later.
I will never get over the embarrassment of belonging to the same species as you. You are a monster, an ogre, a malformity. I barf at the very thought of you. You have all the appeal of a paper cut. Lepers avoid you. You are vile, worthless, less than nothing. You are a weed, a fungus, the dregs of this earth. And did I mention you smell?
You know, I wondered what the fallout from this would be. I'm assuming that Mr. Schifman is going to get a whole lot more email today, wonder if he's going to start threatening slashdot with his vaporous lawsuits as well?
I will never get over the embarrassment of belonging to the same species as you. You are a monster, an ogre, a malformity. I barf at the very thought of you. You have all the appeal of a paper cut. Lepers avoid you. You are vile, worthless, less than nothing. You are a weed, a fungus, the dregs of this earth. And did I mention you smell?
Reuters (as published via Yahoo news) seems to interpret this as having a much more far reaching effect than this one case:
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - In a decision that may affect millions of Americans, the U.S. Supreme Court (news - web sites) ruled on Tuesday that a landmark 1990 federal law protecting the disabled from discrimination only covered physical impairments that prevented them from carrying out tasks important to daily life.
The SC probably wouldn't get involved on the factual merits of an individual case, they are in the business of overseeing the interpretation of law, no?
Oh, that would be great if that worked! I got a Sony 30 hr tivo and added a second drive (IBM 75 GB) right away and was very pleased with the results, except for the noise.
My concern, of course, is if this is possible to make this change now that the drive is already installed. Anyone have any experience with this?
Well, I guess my question has been answered. AT&T @Home went cold about 9 this mornin in Chicago.
The message on their support line used to say 'go to help.broadband.att.com for details' (gee thanks, that helps a lot!) now they say we are sorry for the inconvenience, we will switch you to our new service within 7 days, but you get a credit worth two days' service for each day you are out. Whoopee:-(
No, this appears to not be the case. Lost my service around 9 central.
I'm able to get online through my company's ppp lines. AT&T CustSvc is little more than a busy signal right now. Looks like I am going to be limited to 28.8 up to my company and then out their http-only firewall for the time being.
Has there been any shut-downs? Has a deal been struck? I'm an @Home customer and my service is still intact as of 7am central. I can't find any news anywhere (not even on my @Home startpage) to tell me what is going on.
I never got any letter or email from AT&T as some of my friends at work did. They all had @Home from when it was offered by TCI where I've only been recently converted from MediaOne when AT&T bought them out and switched us to @home. I'm wondering if I'm just in some lucky circumstance where the outage won't affect me, or if something has happened to stall off @home shutting down for now?
I wonder about that. when I was a worldnet customer it was @worldnet.att.net - pocketnet phones are something like pocketnet.att.net so I wonder if it would be bbi.att.net or something?
I'm sorry, but that makes it all the more suspect. Maybe I'm just imagining the state of a cumputer that has been hidden under a chicken coop for a couple years.
I would probably have found it easier to believe that he was able to get a laptop from Pakistani black market smugglers. I would imagine there are all kinds of opportunities now that the Taliban are gone, although there probably isn't much cash to spend on things. Barter economy is probably in effect.
Here I have the latest American technology. In Pakistan it would sell for over 50,000 Drachmas. I can let you have it for, say, 3 goats.
How about 2 goats and 6 sacks of rice from that blown-up RedCross warehouse?
Slashdot Mirror
>(Yeah I know - calling Tremors [imdb.com] art is stretching it a little... ok alot)
Hey! I _liked_ that movie! How many fliks have star power like Reba McEntire and Michael J Fox's dad (Michael Gross) as a couple of survival nuts!
Good six-pack movie.
If that's it, I don't get the 'offending' part, then. It's a vertical banner space. Sometimes (usually) there is an annoying blinking banner, sometimes there is this ad from "Techno Scout" that has hyperlinks to product pages on technoscout.com
Are we bitching about ads that are hyperlinks? I've seen this ad on a few other sites, not just Yahoo! and it doesn't seem that confusing or misleading to me. (Is anyone going to think "Workout technology that provides safe, easy-to-change resistance" is supposed to be a news item?)
I was expecting to have one of the news item links pop up an x-10 ad. That would be wrong.
Exactly. Online bill payment is a great convenience. I would assume that reverting to checks by mail to avoid .NET is a price many would be willing to pay?
>Did anyone else find that just a tinsy bit unrealistic
you're kidding, right? as opposed to the rest of the original series plots that were entirely realistic?
That episode does happen to be one of my favorites. The two planets had been at war for centuries, they had 'solved' the problems of their civilizations being destroyed by enacting a treaty whereby they would conduct their war via two linked computers. Simulated attacks were conducted and the computer told them how many civilians had been 'killed'. Those designated as casualties had 24 hours to report to a disintegration (sp?) station. Nice and neat, no damage to buildings, no suffering, famine, disease, etc.
>zooms Captain Kirk and in under half an hour he's sorted the situation out
Actually, we never find out how the situation is resolved. Kirk stumbles in and gets his ship declared 'destroyed' and has 24 hours to beam his entire crew to the surface to be disintegrated. He of course refuses and then violates the prime directive by destroying one of the computers, thus causing the treaty to be broken, forcing the two sides to negotiate an end to the war or face real weapons. The episode ends with the elders scrambling to contact the other planet to avert a real attack, and Kirk leaves some diplomat dude there to help.
As far as we know, the two planets break out their real missles and end up destroying each other. Or, maybe they suspend the war until the computers are back up and they continue as before.
He knew that we had it, or he knew Truman was prepared to use it?
Wait, I thought the real reason Truman dropped the bomb was to scare the Russians out of joining the war?
At this point, 12 moderation points have been used on this post:
six up, six down; the likely effect of this is that he has lost 3 points (assuming he is at the cap)
This RCA has a remote, sort of. You program it to recognize the IR remotes of the attached devices. When you power on your DVD via it's remote, the box switches to that device's input. The problem is that the TiVo doesn't really have a power on/off. I've programmed the rca box to recognize when I hit the 'tivo' button on the tico remote and switch to that source. Not perfect, but it gets the job done most of the time (the rest of the time I can manage to drag my @ss off the couch and change it myself).
We used them all the time in our wireless billing system (since about 1984). The cellphone switches would record the AMA to tape, which they shipped to us. We would exchange billing and settlement data with other billers and clearinghouses via mag tape. All of our bank payment lockbox data came in on tape. It was the standard (at least in our cellular industry).
Internally, we used round reels until about 90-91 when we started converting to cartridge tapes. I think just about all of the external data exchange is done over network transmission now, but we still have 9-track around as a backup (they'll send tape if they can't transmit).
So? Not like they copied them to fresh reels. Just because they are going to stop making the media, doesn't mean every drive out there will suddenly cease to read existing tapes.
Yeah, I had the same situation. Solved it with a nice little $65 box from RCA that lets you switch video sources for your TV. Only feature lacking in this box is an s-video to rca or reverse conversion. Not all of my devices have s-video, you have to use all one or the other. There was a more expensive box, I think from Recoton, that did this, though.
Really, he makes it sound link a bad thing (that we'd have to hack it). Heck, that was probably the biggest reason I got one in the first place, that you could hack it ( mine does ppp over serial to do updates over my cable, and I added a 75 GB to the 30 already in there).
I was pretty interested in getting a PVR, but when I found out what you could do (there's something just so cool about being able to telnet to your TiVo), I wasted no time in talking the wife into getting one. (I've since done 2 other units, one for my brother-in-law and one for my brother).
yah, good thought except the poll is closed now
.Net.
But by the time the poll closed, on 5 January, the position had dramatically changed, with three quarters of voters claiming to be implementing
Heh, reminds me of that Drew Carey HBO special.
"Save the dolphins? What about all the tuna? You see on flopping around a deck, 'whats the matter? not cute enough for you, you son-of-a-bitch!' "
I never heard 'sequel' until I started running into Microsoft SQL Server. My first db class at school the prof pronounced it S-Q-L. and I never heard anyone say anything different until we started seeing projects at work using Microsoft.
To this day, the only time we say 'sequel' is when we are referring to MS SQL Server, otherwise it's S-Q-L.
That whole "open letter to spammers" was hilarious. I cut n pasted that to save for later.
I will never get over the embarrassment of belonging to the same species as you. You are a monster, an ogre, a malformity. I barf at the very thought of you. You have all the appeal of a paper cut. Lepers avoid you. You are vile, worthless, less than nothing. You are a weed, a fungus, the dregs of this earth. And did I mention you smell?
You know, I wondered what the fallout from this would be. I'm assuming that Mr. Schifman is going to get a whole lot more email today, wonder if he's going to start threatening slashdot with his vaporous lawsuits as well?
I will never get over the embarrassment of belonging to the same species as you. You are a monster, an ogre, a malformity. I barf at the very thought of you. You have all the appeal of a paper cut. Lepers avoid you. You are vile, worthless, less than nothing. You are a weed, a fungus, the dregs of this earth. And did I mention you smell?
Reuters (as published via Yahoo news) seems to interpret this as having a much more far reaching effect than this one case:
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - In a decision that may affect millions of Americans, the U.S. Supreme Court (news - web sites) ruled on Tuesday that a landmark 1990 federal law protecting the disabled from discrimination only covered physical impairments that prevented them from carrying out tasks important to daily life.
The SC probably wouldn't get involved on the factual merits of an individual case, they are in the business of overseeing the interpretation of law, no?
Oh, that would be great if that worked! I got a Sony 30 hr tivo and added a second drive (IBM 75 GB) right away and was very pleased with the results, except for the noise.
My concern, of course, is if this is possible to make this change now that the drive is already installed. Anyone have any experience with this?
Well, I guess my question has been answered. AT&T @Home went cold about 9 this mornin in Chicago.
:-(
The message on their support line used to say 'go to help.broadband.att.com for details' (gee thanks, that helps a lot!) now they say we are sorry for the inconvenience, we will switch you to our new service within 7 days, but you get a credit worth two days' service for each day you are out. Whoopee
>So it sounds like you're safe. I hope so :)
No, this appears to not be the case. Lost my service around 9 central.
I'm able to get online through my company's ppp lines. AT&T CustSvc is little more than a busy signal right now. Looks like I am going to be limited to 28.8 up to my company and then out their http-only firewall for the time being.
cool, thanks for the info -
Has there been any shut-downs? Has a deal been struck? I'm an @Home customer and my service is still intact as of 7am central. I can't find any news anywhere (not even on my @Home startpage) to tell me what is going on.
I never got any letter or email from AT&T as some of my friends at work did. They all had @Home from when it was offered by TCI where I've only been recently converted from MediaOne when AT&T bought them out and switched us to @home. I'm wondering if I'm just in some lucky circumstance where the outage won't affect me, or if something has happened to stall off @home shutting down for now?
>att.net will be a nice email address
I wonder about that. when I was a worldnet customer it was @worldnet.att.net - pocketnet phones are something like pocketnet.att.net so I wonder if it would be bbi.att.net or something?
>He dug it out from under a chicken coop
I'm sorry, but that makes it all the more suspect. Maybe I'm just imagining the state of a cumputer that has been hidden under a chicken coop for a couple years.
I would probably have found it easier to believe that he was able to get a laptop from Pakistani black market smugglers. I would imagine there are all kinds of opportunities now that the Taliban are gone, although there probably isn't much cash to spend on things. Barter economy is probably in effect.
Here I have the latest American technology. In Pakistan it would sell for over 50,000 Drachmas. I can let you have it for, say, 3 goats.
How about 2 goats and 6 sacks of rice from that blown-up RedCross warehouse?
Ok, good!