Well I've never had a "TV Dinner" even now living away from home for several years. The closest would be using Fantasic Noodles as a snack between larger meals (although my favourite is Suimin Red Curry Beef). Living in a share-house we usually share the cooking and cook most nights - a lot of spaghetti bolognase or encheladas or hour-before-the-supermarket-closes $4 chicken.:)
Reading the article there are quite a few differences noted. An "entree" is meant to precede the main meal, so if all these dinners are entrees then I'd feel ripped off! They also all look very good on the packaging, but you wouldn't expect the food within to look that apetising!
The only brands I recognise are Hot Pockets and Healthy Choice (although some of the images aren't loading) and these are both from the ads on TV. ("Nice Buns" - "Hot Pockets actually!" - don't seem to exist anymore and "Heathly choice is looking after yourself" - by McCain)
And I've only heard of ramen on anime (mostly Ranma 1/2), I thought it was disc-shaped rice-based pasta (about 4cm diameter), but today I found out its just normal 2-minute noodles! Feh.
The only reason I have cable is for The Daily Show,
That show is on FTA here in Australia. (SBS):)
The seven tuners would be wasted, there are only five FTA stations and it would be incompatible with all the pay TV options (which is satellite for me, the cable roll-out stopped 100km from here) so that would mean programmable set-top boxes, and modulators to put them on different channels...
It's still false advertising; "A Monster of Mass Destruction - Coming soon to your city!" - well my city isn't on that list, nor any city I can get to.:-P
But most people don't live on campus, and so it's dialup to their crappy servers, it's much better to get Dodo "unlimited hours" for $10/month.
I have been using ADSL for years, really only use the USQconnect if I need to (eg their wireless network - one of Australia's biggest mirror sites (mirror.aarnet.edu.au) is not counted in the quota - this is even faster than my 1.5Mbit ADSL.)
Oh, and they are increasing fees (HECS) next year for new students, by 20%.
There was also the episode where Lister turned into a 3000-series robot (predating the 4000-series Kryten) for a few minutes. The earlier model was too life-like and was shunned; Kryten looked like a ill-shapen blob of plastic and was wildly popular. (Doh it's almost 3am so my brain isn't working to produce quotes etc)
Hey there are wireless meshes starting up everywhere. I am running one in my city of 100k people - there are already 10 nodes after a few months. The uni here has always blocked all "external" traffic and has only 3MB/day allowance for the proxy server.
Wouldn't it be easier to climb up a tree outside her house and do some "birdwatching" and fall out just as her father comes home landing in front of his car so he think he ran you over?:)
Have you tried reapplying today? Telstra just extended the distance allowable for ADSL just the other day. Now the most common copper can be over 4km instead of 3.5km.
Did you link the wrong film? The one you linked features the seven-and-a-half-th floor. And I don't remember any 29th of February in it. LOL. (Thank google for that one)
Shouldnt that be something like "cd ~/accountnumber/accounttype".:)
My card has been swallowed once because the machine ran out of cash. Calling the 1800 number (this was like 2am on a Saturday night) got a new card ordered, but it was annoying not able to get cash that time.:-(
Hey I remember those old ATMs, here in Australia (And I'm only 23...). The Westpac bank ATM had a single line, and the Commonwealth had two (!) lines of text. This was in my (then) small town of ~15k. (Commonwealth and Westpac had their ATM networks linked from early on, its really only been the last few years when you can put any ATM card into any ATM machine - if you want to pay the fee that is)
My father used to work there. The "everything's OK" output was COCO, which I now think is some sort of hexidecimal.
I personally own 5 (and recommended others buy them so that theres about 40 of them in this city I know about) of these units and they are very good, if a little buggy in some parts.
(Curses for the one day I don't check/. and something interesting comes along - although I already found out this news directly from the minitar forums)
I'm on dialup and lord knows if I had to sit through every frikkin image loading I'd go insane.
I first used Opera in version 3.21. it was great on my 486 with 4MB RAM and Windows 3.1 (16 colour VGA mode on a 8.5" passive-matrix LCD screen:) it just "felt" better than the alternatives of the day. I also remember upgrading from 2400bps to 33kbps (and then that phone line didn't support v90, so the next modem upgrade was useless)
I'm on broadband now and Opera still feel better, has better support for standards, etc. It had always been MDI, so tabbed browsing is more natural for Opera. It was a great joy when the tabs plugin became an official part or the browser. My favourite part is the cache, going "back" actually goes "back"!
I just click a button (twice) to load them all.
Yes, G, many times I have hit that when using the little rubber mouse in my Thinkpad... If I wasn't so lazy I'd learn all the keyboard shortcuts though.:)
Has mozilla incorporated this feature yet?
I remember Netscape 3.0 had a button on the toolbar for the purpose of turning images on/off, I remember thinking IE was so backwards for not having one!
but I don't like to think that webmasters will look at logs and think that everyone still uses IE.
When Opera is set to "identify as MSIE" You can still tell it's Opera:
Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1) Opera 7.11 [en]
(Yeah I'm too lazy to upgrade to the latest version) But usually I leave it to identify as Opera, unless a site gets uppitty at me, then it usually works properly.
My own sites work and look the best in Opera than Mozilla or IE, and that's without me doing anything purposefully browser-specific.
My uni's club (and I'm sure many others too) has a yearly nut and bolt party: they give every guy a bolt and every girl a nut. You have to see if your bolt matches any girls' nut. I suppose it's a way to meet people... (very few of them actually appear to match)
Even though they are bolts (not screws) you still get them saying "wanna screw?"
"2) Just try to get DSL in a rural village, or even a smaller town almost anywhere in France, Portugal, Spain, or Greece..."
Hehe even here in Australia there are plenty of towns with ADSL access! I know of dozens of towns around 10k people with DSL access. My city is around 100k people and we have four exchanges, all enabled. I can't believe they'd stick a city of 50k people on an exchange that isn't located near its CBD.
The only problem is Telstra which keeps the prices fairly high and the plans limited (eg their idea was 3GB/month for ~$80/month and ~14c/MB after your allowance on a 512/128kbps ADSL link ($AU1 =~ 74USc ATM). There are plenty of ISPs that give better deals than that, but they are still limited by Telstra wrt speeds and the amount it costs them for a port on the DSLAM.
How are people going to know they are calling the mobile phone? I thought there was going to be a move to Calling Party Pays (like everywhere else in the world) and this will make it impossible.
Slashdot Mirror
Heh I've got a circuit that does this - featured in the May 1997 issue of Silicon Chip (which is now Australia's only electronics magazine). :)
(No real references online anymore, except a highlight of articles and the software to program it available at that site)
Well I've never had a "TV Dinner" even now living away from home for several years. The closest would be using Fantasic Noodles as a snack between larger meals (although my favourite is Suimin Red Curry Beef). Living in a share-house we usually share the cooking and cook most nights - a lot of spaghetti bolognase or encheladas or hour-before-the-supermarket-closes $4 chicken. :)
Reading the article there are quite a few differences noted. An "entree" is meant to precede the main meal, so if all these dinners are entrees then I'd feel ripped off! They also all look very good on the packaging, but you wouldn't expect the food within to look that apetising!
The only brands I recognise are Hot Pockets and Healthy Choice (although some of the images aren't loading) and these are both from the ads on TV. ("Nice Buns" - "Hot Pockets actually!" - don't seem to exist anymore and "Heathly choice is looking after yourself" - by McCain)
And I've only heard of ramen on anime (mostly Ranma 1/2), I thought it was disc-shaped rice-based pasta (about 4cm diameter), but today I found out its just normal 2-minute noodles! Feh.
The only reason I have cable is for The Daily Show,
:)
That show is on FTA here in Australia. (SBS)
The seven tuners would be wasted, there are only five FTA stations and it would be incompatible with all the pay TV options (which is satellite for me, the cable roll-out stopped 100km from here) so that would mean programmable set-top boxes, and modulators to put them on different channels...
It's still false advertising; "A Monster of Mass Destruction - Coming soon to your city!" - well my city isn't on that list, nor any city I can get to. :-P
OK I haven't used it in a while, it's now 15MB every Monday and Friday, rolling over to a maximum of 50MB. (So effectively 30MB/week)
clicky
But most people don't live on campus, and so it's dialup to their crappy servers, it's much better to get Dodo "unlimited hours" for $10/month.
I have been using ADSL for years, really only use the USQconnect if I need to (eg their wireless network - one of Australia's biggest mirror sites (mirror.aarnet.edu.au) is not counted in the quota - this is even faster than my 1.5Mbit ADSL.)
Oh, and they are increasing fees (HECS) next year for new students, by 20%.
There was also the episode where Lister turned into a 3000-series robot (predating the 4000-series Kryten) for a few minutes. The earlier model was too life-like and was shunned; Kryten looked like a ill-shapen blob of plastic and was wildly popular. (Doh it's almost 3am so my brain isn't working to produce quotes etc)
Hey there are wireless meshes starting up everywhere. I am running one in my city of 100k people - there are already 10 nodes after a few months. The uni here has always blocked all "external" traffic and has only 3MB/day allowance for the proxy server.
What do you mean, Doc, all the best stuff is made in Japan.
Wouldn't it be easier to climb up a tree outside her house and do some "birdwatching" and fall out just as her father comes home landing in front of his car so he think he ran you over? :)
Omniscience Protocol
:)
Posted by michael on 01:43 AM -- Friday April 02 2004
from the axis-of-evil dept.
It's so 14 hours ago!
due to distance from the exchange
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Have you tried reapplying today? Telstra just extended the distance allowable for ADSL just the other day. Now the most common copper can be over 4km instead of 3.5km.
http://forums.whirlpool.net.au/forum-replies.cf
Did you link the wrong film? The one you linked features the seven-and-a-half-th floor. And I don't remember any 29th of February in it. LOL. (Thank google for that one)
New South Wales, Australia
:)
Hehe, did you listen to Hack on TripleJ the other day as well?
Shouldnt that be something like "cd ~/accountnumber/accounttype". :)
:-(
My card has been swallowed once because the machine ran out of cash. Calling the 1800 number (this was like 2am on a Saturday night) got a new card ordered, but it was annoying not able to get cash that time.
Hey I remember those old ATMs, here in Australia (And I'm only 23...). The Westpac bank ATM had a single line, and the Commonwealth had two (!) lines of text. This was in my (then) small town of ~15k. (Commonwealth and Westpac had their ATM networks linked from early on, its really only been the last few years when you can put any ATM card into any ATM machine - if you want to pay the fee that is)
My father used to work there. The "everything's OK" output was COCO, which I now think is some sort of hexidecimal.
I personally own 5 (and recommended others buy them so that theres about 40 of them in this city I know about) of these units and they are very good, if a little buggy in some parts.
/. and something interesting comes along - although I already found out this news directly from the minitar forums)
(Curses for the one day I don't check
I'm on dialup and lord knows if I had to sit through every frikkin image loading I'd go insane.
:) it just "felt" better than the alternatives of the day. I also remember upgrading from 2400bps to 33kbps (and then that phone line didn't support v90, so the next modem upgrade was useless)
:)
I first used Opera in version 3.21. it was great on my 486 with 4MB RAM and Windows 3.1 (16 colour VGA mode on a 8.5" passive-matrix LCD screen
I'm on broadband now and Opera still feel better, has better support for standards, etc. It had always been MDI, so tabbed browsing is more natural for Opera. It was a great joy when the tabs plugin became an official part or the browser. My favourite part is the cache, going "back" actually goes "back"!
I just click a button (twice) to load them all.
Yes, G, many times I have hit that when using the little rubber mouse in my Thinkpad... If I wasn't so lazy I'd learn all the keyboard shortcuts though.
Has mozilla incorporated this feature yet?
I remember Netscape 3.0 had a button on the toolbar for the purpose of turning images on/off, I remember thinking IE was so backwards for not having one!
but I don't like to think that webmasters will look at logs and think that everyone still uses IE.
When Opera is set to "identify as MSIE" You can still tell it's Opera:
Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1) Opera 7.11 [en]
(Yeah I'm too lazy to upgrade to the latest version) But usually I leave it to identify as Opera, unless a site gets uppitty at me, then it usually works properly.
My own sites work and look the best in Opera than Mozilla or IE, and that's without me doing anything purposefully browser-specific.
I'm using Opera right now, you insensitive clods!
My uni's club (and I'm sure many others too) has a yearly nut and bolt party: they give every guy a bolt and every girl a nut. You have to see if your bolt matches any girls' nut. I suppose it's a way to meet people... (very few of them actually appear to match)
Even though they are bolts (not screws) you still get them saying "wanna screw?"
But if your name is Michael Donald (and go by Mick) or Walt Mart then you should be able to do that with your own name.
"2) Just try to get DSL in a rural village, or even a smaller town almost anywhere in France, Portugal, Spain, or Greece ..."
Hehe even here in Australia there are plenty of towns with ADSL access! I know of dozens of towns around 10k people with DSL access. My city is around 100k people and we have four exchanges, all enabled. I can't believe they'd stick a city of 50k people on an exchange that isn't located near its CBD.
The only problem is Telstra which keeps the prices fairly high and the plans limited (eg their idea was 3GB/month for ~$80/month and ~14c/MB after your allowance on a 512/128kbps ADSL link ($AU1 =~ 74USc ATM). There are plenty of ISPs that give better deals than that, but they are still limited by Telstra wrt speeds and the amount it costs them for a port on the DSLAM.
:)
:(
Too bad the site is already Slashdotted.
How are people going to know they are calling the mobile phone? I thought there was going to be a move to Calling Party Pays (like everywhere else in the world) and this will make it impossible.
But it means having to actually look at the note and read, instead of just glancing at the colour.
Would you like traffic lights to be a LED matrix that could display the words "STOP", "CAUTION" and "GO" instead of red, amber and green?
Of course the notes have numbers on them too. So if you are colour-blind you can still know what they are!