Although it has been repealed, CT was one of very few states with a no-radar-detector law. They also have some of the nastiest and sneakiest gestapo^h^h^h^h^h^h^h troopers to be found on u.s. highways. It's like a northern version of VA.
I never thought i'd see the day when i thought that IBM == cool. Reminds me a bit of logo turtles, except that today logo is emulated in java
More on topic, the promise of Java (write once, run anywhere) is a worthwhile goal for CS in general. I guess we have Mr. Wirth (of Pascal fame) and his p-code system to thank for the idea. If not Java, Perl/gtk, or Tcl/tk will do just fine thank you.
And can someone tell me wtf is visual basic?
I keep hearing about pirate music? When's the last time you heard a pirate song anyway? I hear a lot of rock, jazz, and even some disco, but hardly any pirate music.
And why shouldn't pirates have music too? Don't they have it tough enough already with their vision problems, wooden legs and hooks for hands? Now they can't sing about storms, and fish and rum?
I'm sorry, i just can't imagine a bunch of smelly old sea bandits sitting around singing Britney Spears songs.
There have always been households which "abuse" the flat-rate pricing of local phone service. Imagine if the telcos tried to limit phone usage to 1hr/day.
The cable co.s OWE us a FAIR DEAL, they should be required by law to play fair.
If THEY don't like OUR rules, they are free to finish up their existing municipal contracts, take down their ugly poles/wires and GET THE HELL OUT.
I don't like the monolith approach. I think all of these features could be provided by:
1. Extended desktop session management so that we can save the state of a group of apps, and restore it all in one click. Galeon's session management is pretty close to what i'm thinking of.
2. more pervasive drag and drop and mime handlers.
3. app "connectors". For example, when an email containing an appointment is opened, it is automatically directed to the calendar app via a conduit the user placed between two connectors. The calendar also has an output connector to which is attached a filter that forwards (or blocks) certain information to my wife's calendar.
Personally, i think it should be implemented with http gets and posts of mime data. Now i can make a web form where people can submit meeting attendance info straight into my calendar application. The web form could be posted on an server, or emailed. The calendar app can run in daemon mode as well as gui mode.
the open cockpit doors, this wouldn't have happened. But it did. So now the cockpit doors are locked and airport security digs thru our wallets to make sure we're not carrying anything sharper than their own common sense.
If they're watching us from outer space, they must be laughing their alien asses off.
When I pick up my phone and order a pizza, i don't expect the telco to redirect me to a "closer" pizza shop.
99% of ISP's customers have no idea what goes on when they click a link, so the ISP gets away with this bogus routing (proxying, whatever).
I'd like to see a good definition of what an "ISP" is. I have a feeling a lot of so called ISPs would fail the test.
Transparent? No way. There are two sides to a tcp connection, and the server side is completely blind to what's going on.
Call their tech support, waste their time til they figure out that you expect them to send your packets to their intended destination. It sucks that clueful helpdesk people get stuck in the middle of this, but it's the most effective thing a customer can do about it.
I have a speedometer that i grabbed from a junkyard for exactly this purpose. It's labelled up to 110 which i thought was almost like "goes to eleven".
It's just a voltmeter. 0-3 vdc moves it thru it's complete range.
I figured i'd write a daemon to poll the cpu usage and drive the speedo via the parallel port and a dac. Alas, i never found good plans to build such a circuit and I'm no EE.
About 5 this morning, i was surfing the tv and came across a channel that seemed to be trasferring tivo information.
The screen had vertical black bars on the left. The right was divided vertically into 2 frames which were filled with black and white square, surely a binary stream. Between the data frames, was a band with a text message something like "this channel is part of the tivo service".
Has anyone else seen this? Is it an alternative to dialup? Does using it eliminate the need to transmit anything back to tivo? Is it free?
tvguide.com doesn't even have the correct channel lineup for the ATT cable system in my 'hood even though it's linked to from the att website.
Why don't they make listings easy to get?
If i were the president of Acme Fishing Tackle, spending big money for an ad on "Bass-O-Rama", i'd sure want the folks near Lake Tittikaka to be aware of the program. Well distributed listings would get me a bigger bang for my $.
The ad guys don't try to maximize bang/buck. They go for buck/bang. Maybe they don't want the viewer to actually see the program. I wonder what kind of listing info Nielsen households get.
The Pay/View business should benefit from open listings, no? Will we see a nicely designed XML format for pay/view only?
the tv industry is (choose one):
A. Lame
B. Lazy
C. Devious
D. All of the above
Waste precious time at the music store checkout trying to determine if the cd will play on your generic player.
Fumble around looking for your supermarket discount card until they just cave and punch in the "store number" so you can buy chuck steak at $2.49 instead of $5.99.
Ridicule customer service reps for enforcing policies THEY KNOW SUCK.
Don't even get me started on telemarketers.
Be creative, have fun, fuck with *them* every chance you get, and BE COUNTED!
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Yeah, but isn't MS part owner of Apple?
CT is a weird state.
Although it has been repealed, CT was one of very few states with a no-radar-detector law. They also have some of the nastiest and sneakiest gestapo^h^h^h^h^h^h^h troopers to be found on u.s. highways. It's like a northern version of VA.
You be the judge.
http://home.attbi.com/~beef.jerky/xmosaic.bin
I never thought i'd see the day when i thought that IBM == cool. Reminds me a bit of logo turtles, except that today logo is emulated in java More on topic, the promise of Java (write once, run anywhere) is a worthwhile goal for CS in general. I guess we have Mr. Wirth (of Pascal fame) and his p-code system to thank for the idea. If not Java, Perl/gtk, or Tcl/tk will do just fine thank you. And can someone tell me wtf is visual basic?
I keep hearing about pirate music? When's the last time you heard a pirate song anyway? I hear a lot of rock, jazz, and even some disco, but hardly any pirate music.
And why shouldn't pirates have music too? Don't they have it tough enough already with their vision problems, wooden legs and hooks for hands? Now they can't sing about storms, and fish and rum?
I'm sorry, i just can't imagine a bunch of smelly old sea bandits sitting around singing Britney Spears songs.
There have always been households which "abuse" the flat-rate pricing of local phone service. Imagine if the telcos tried to limit phone usage to 1hr/day.
The cable co.s OWE us a FAIR DEAL, they should be required by law to play fair.
If THEY don't like OUR rules, they are free to finish up their existing municipal contracts, take down their ugly poles/wires and GET THE HELL OUT.
Of course Unix isn't dead, it's snake oil. For the definition of 'dead' see VMS.
I don't like the monolith approach. I think all of these features could be provided by:
1. Extended desktop session management so that we can save the state of a group of apps, and restore it all in one click. Galeon's session management is pretty close to what i'm thinking of.
2. more pervasive drag and drop and mime handlers.
3. app "connectors". For example, when an email containing an appointment is opened, it is automatically directed to the calendar app via a conduit the user placed between two connectors. The calendar also has an output connector to which is attached a filter that forwards (or blocks) certain information to my wife's calendar.
Personally, i think it should be implemented with http gets and posts of mime data. Now i can make a web form where people can submit meeting attendance info straight into my calendar application. The web form could be posted on an server, or emailed. The calendar app can run in daemon mode as well as gui mode.
Is this just a pipe dream (pun intended)?
http://geraldholmes.freeyellow.com/
People will need these things so they can avoid paying a 100% surcharge on groceries when the food vendors make them mandatory.
Jolt Cola:
with the chip: $1.29
regular price: $2.59
YOU SAVE : $1.30 WOW!!!
Year-to-date saving $1700 DOUBLE-WOW!!!
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Notice from your health insurance provider. "Our records" indicate that your diet...
Estimated surcharge...
I think i've had a bunch of these things in my head for a long time. I never realized that my cluster headaches were of the beowulf variety.
I'm with you. The lesson to be learned from 9/11 is "Lock the fscking cockpit door".
oops, i meant "Carlin". See, mother's milk leads to misspellings too.
And as George Carling once said "Mother's milk leads to everything"
the open cockpit doors, this wouldn't have happened. But it did. So now the cockpit doors are locked and airport security digs thru our wallets to make sure we're not carrying anything sharper than their own common sense.
If they're watching us from outer space, they must be laughing their alien asses off.
Booting network troubleshooter...
Tux the penguin appears on the screen, wearing a toolbelt...
Tux casts a fishing line and reels in a fish (er, a webpage). The customer sees for himself that the problem isn't with the network.
Tux then offers to install a loopback linux distro.
chown -R gore /net
it wasn't supposed to be an Atomic Butt-holer?
And Pan's got it too. Tastes great, less filling!
I wonder if it's in CPAN yet...
Module Convert::yEnc (P/PN/PNE/Convert-yEnc-0.03.tar.gz)
Yep. Works for me!
When I pick up my phone and order a pizza, i don't expect the telco to redirect me to a "closer" pizza shop.
99% of ISP's customers have no idea what goes on when they click a link, so the ISP gets away with this bogus routing (proxying, whatever).
I'd like to see a good definition of what an "ISP" is. I have a feeling a lot of so called ISPs would fail the test.
Transparent? No way. There are two sides to a tcp connection, and the server side is completely blind to what's going on.
Call their tech support, waste their time til they figure out that you expect them to send your packets to their intended destination. It sucks that clueful helpdesk people get stuck in the middle of this, but it's the most effective thing a customer can do about it.
Try using -bgr332 on the vncviewer command. You'll only get 8-bit color, but it's probably a 2x or 3x speedup over the default.
I have a speedometer that i grabbed from a junkyard for exactly this purpose. It's labelled up to 110 which i thought was almost like "goes to eleven".
It's just a voltmeter. 0-3 vdc moves it thru it's complete range.
I figured i'd write a daemon to poll the cpu usage and drive the speedo via the parallel port and a dac. Alas, i never found good plans to build such a circuit and I'm no EE.
Anyone know how to do it?
About 5 this morning, i was surfing the tv and came across a channel that seemed to be trasferring tivo information.
The screen had vertical black bars on the left. The right was divided vertically into 2 frames which were filled with black and white square, surely a binary stream. Between the data frames, was a band with a text message something like "this channel is part of the tivo service".
Has anyone else seen this? Is it an alternative to dialup? Does using it eliminate the need to transmit anything back to tivo? Is it free?
a few thoughts...
tvguide.com doesn't even have the correct channel lineup for the ATT cable system in my 'hood even though it's linked to from the att website.
Why don't they make listings easy to get?
If i were the president of Acme Fishing Tackle, spending big money for an ad on "Bass-O-Rama", i'd sure want the folks near Lake Tittikaka to be aware of the program. Well distributed listings would get me a bigger bang for my $.
The ad guys don't try to maximize bang/buck. They go for buck/bang. Maybe they don't want the viewer to actually see the program. I wonder what kind of listing info Nielsen households get.
The Pay/View business should benefit from open listings, no? Will we see a nicely designed XML format for pay/view only?
the tv industry is (choose one):
A. Lame
B. Lazy
C. Devious
D. All of the above
Waste precious time at the music store checkout trying to determine if the cd will play on your generic player.
Fumble around looking for your supermarket discount card until they just cave and punch in the "store number" so you can buy chuck steak at $2.49 instead of $5.99.
Ridicule customer service reps for enforcing policies THEY KNOW SUCK.
Don't even get me started on telemarketers.
Be creative, have fun, fuck with *them* every chance you get, and BE COUNTED!
Are we not men? We are Devo! D-E-V-O