At first I was happy to be learning how to read, it seemed magical and wonderful. Then I read "Atlas Shrugged" by Ayn Rand. I read every word of this piece of garbage, and because of it, I'm never reading again!
--Officer Barbrady--
April Fool's Day is April first. At the moment, it is approximately 00:12 GMT, March 31. This was posted on March 30. As such, it is not an April Fool's Day joke.
Give this article a gander. Good luck, it sent me to a French news site the first time I accessed it, which immediately sent me back to the "Louisville Channel" home page. If that happens to you, search for "Dairy Queen", and you'll find it.
Crimes such as using a $200 bill with Dubya's face on it to pay a $1.50 tab at the Kwik-E-Mart? I about ran off the road laughing when I heard about that one.
The first half seems to deal with location. Could it be my location? Might it be part of a region check for DVD?
The rest is pretty Greek to me. Maybe someone with experience reading MS cookies might have an idea. It doesn't appear to refer to CDDB at all, to my untrained eye.
Since I am not at work, I can't confirm this now on my PC there. I'm out sick for who knows how long. I do have an observation for Cliff. The poster stated that he is using Windows 2000, and Cliff is using Win9x. Perhaps it only sets the cookie on Win2000 PCs. Anybody with a beta of Whistler that can check it out?
Why stop at that? The cell phone commercials are teeth-grindingly irritating. I'd love to smack that Sprint "Secret Agent" myself. Cut out any car commercial that imparts no useful information, but merely spotlights how only stupid people buy the car advertised, ie. the Toyota Tundra. Apparently Tundra drives are too stupid to drive in a straight line, at a moderate speed. If I never see another drug commercial, it'll be too soon.
At least he put caps in there;) Seriously, he needed it to be as confusing and arousingly exciting as possible, since spell-checked, well-reasoned, insightful story comments are generally chucked at first glance. Taco's criteria seems to be, "If the submitter thought about it long enough to write this much, of this quality, it's not sensational enough to post."
As I said. King had no financial risk riding on The Plant.
If it looked interesting, I would certainly consider it. I took a chance on David Eddings, and Weis & Hickman, and they turned out to be very enthralling. If you wrote a novel, in a genre that I found interesting, and charged $5 for it, I certainly would entertain the purchase. Put up a good synopsis, maybe a sample chapter or two, like Card has done for his last couple of "Ender" books, so I could get a feel for the novel. And for God's sake, distribute it in a standard format that is easily printable, either chapter by chapter, or all at once. You're absolutely correct about screen reading. Sometimes I can sit down and read for hours off the screen. Mostly, though, I like to sit on the couch, or in the La-Z-Boy to read.
King did this with The Plant, and it worked. You may wish to investigate what, when, where, why and how he did what he did. Of course, King was a hugely successful author prior to his experiment with The Plant, so YMMV.
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I still think digital watches are a pretty neat idea.
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What is an MSCE?
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Boot to the head.
Whoosh-thump!
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At first I was happy to be learning how to read, it seemed magical and wonderful. Then I read "Atlas Shrugged" by Ayn Rand. I read every word of this piece of garbage, and because of it, I'm never reading again!
--Officer Barbrady--
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Ahhh. Thanks. I was wondering if it might be the time zone, since we are GMT -5 but we don't change our clocks.
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That's different than their servers, at least SMS. SMS codes "US" as 00000405, IIRC.
What does the "2D" stand for, do you know? Now that you pointed it out, I understand the "en" and the "us".
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April Fool's Day is April first. At the moment, it is approximately 00:12 GMT, March 31. This was posted on March 30. As such, it is not an April Fool's Day joke.
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Give this article a gander. Good luck, it sent me to a French news site the first time I accessed it, which immediately sent me back to the "Louisville Channel" home page. If that happens to you, search for "Dairy Queen", and you'll find it.
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Crimes such as using a $200 bill with Dubya's face on it to pay a $1.50 tab at the Kwik-E-Mart? I about ran off the road laughing when I heard about that one.
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Back to the rock pile...
Here is the contents of the cookie it set on my PC (Win2000 SP1, Media Player 7.00.00.1954:
LocaleInfo %7C%7C%7C%7Cen%2Dus windowsmedia.com/ 0 3172904448 29774887 2413349536 29407559 * MC1 V=2&GUID=2AE3D4AE6AAC47569458766F42438213 windowsmedia.com/ 0 3049388032 29592233 2413649536 29407559 *
This is all on one line. The following is the cookie broken out into its separate fields.
LocaleInfo
%7C%7C%7C%7Cen%2Dus
windowsmedia.com/
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3172904448
29774887
2413349536
29407559
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V=2&GUID=2AE3D4AE6AAC47569458766F42438213
windowsmedia.com/
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3049388032
29592233
2413649536
29407559
*
The first half seems to deal with location. Could it be my location? Might it be part of a region check for DVD?
The rest is pretty Greek to me. Maybe someone with experience reading MS cookies might have an idea. It doesn't appear to refer to CDDB at all, to my untrained eye.
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What about Huckster?...
That's the name of the holding corporation that MS will use to sell Hackster.
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I didn't say anything about the Sprint chick, now did I? I was talking about the Maxwell Smart wannbe.
Eva IS a hottie, ain't she? Still not as funny as Al Bundy was at that, though.
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Since I am not at work, I can't confirm this now on my PC there. I'm out sick for who knows how long. I do have an observation for Cliff. The poster stated that he is using Windows 2000, and Cliff is using Win9x. Perhaps it only sets the cookie on Win2000 PCs. Anybody with a beta of Whistler that can check it out?
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Why stop at that? The cell phone commercials are teeth-grindingly irritating. I'd love to smack that Sprint "Secret Agent" myself. Cut out any car commercial that imparts no useful information, but merely spotlights how only stupid people buy the car advertised, ie. the Toyota Tundra. Apparently Tundra drives are too stupid to drive in a straight line, at a moderate speed. If I never see another drug commercial, it'll be too soon.
Just a few suggestions to start out.
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Found out her name was Rosie Palms. The date was cut short because the Five Blister Sisters were being abrasive.
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Yes, but it brings to mind a South American gentleman, wearing a white Panama hat, drinking a ZIMA.
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Yes. Xenu won't stay put forever, you know.
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At least he put caps in there;) Seriously, he needed it to be as confusing and arousingly exciting as possible, since spell-checked, well-reasoned, insightful story comments are generally chucked at first glance. Taco's criteria seems to be, "If the submitter thought about it long enough to write this much, of this quality, it's not sensational enough to post."
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As I said. King had no financial risk riding on The Plant.
If it looked interesting, I would certainly consider it. I took a chance on David Eddings, and Weis & Hickman, and they turned out to be very enthralling. If you wrote a novel, in a genre that I found interesting, and charged $5 for it, I certainly would entertain the purchase. Put up a good synopsis, maybe a sample chapter or two, like Card has done for his last couple of "Ender" books, so I could get a feel for the novel. And for God's sake, distribute it in a standard format that is easily printable, either chapter by chapter, or all at once. You're absolutely correct about screen reading. Sometimes I can sit down and read for hours off the screen. Mostly, though, I like to sit on the couch, or in the La-Z-Boy to read.
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Probably not the algorists, as they tend to punch the wrong dots.
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It depends. Is it one of the spidergoats, that lactate a product that can be spun into silk?
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King did this with The Plant, and it worked. You may wish to investigate what, when, where, why and how he did what he did. Of course, King was a hugely successful author prior to his experiment with The Plant, so YMMV.
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Boy, you ain't kidding about the Model M. I recently managed to snag one and it is wonderful. You forgot to mention the removeable keycaps, though.
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Actually, in his farewell speech after his second term as President, it was Washington who urged a policy of isolationism, IIRC.
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