>>An easy way out would be to put two account numbers with every card
>Do you realize how difficult this would be to implement?
Uhh... only slightly harder than one account number? The db record for that card would have two fields for the card number. Hell, if you want to make it really easy to do, make the numbers start differently, then you know right away which db field to look in.
Unless you have access to blank cards, in which case you just punch the number into the plastic, put some bogus data on the stripe and have the clerk type the number in thinking it's a "bad card".
>"... because I reformatted and defragmented..."
>Um. Don't you think that's more than a bit redundant?:)
Nope! reformat, install win, config, update, change virtual memory from dynamic to fixed, then defrag to move the swap file to the beginning of the disk. Much faster when the swap file isn't fragmented, which is why dynamic swap files suck so much.
Every new and evil 'feature' of IE is a big deal if it's the browser that most people (probably even most people on/.) who use the web use... And it is. Netscape is dropping out of the browser market, Mozilla isn't even a blip on most 'normal' user's radar, and Opera costs $ or makes you use screen area for ads, so IE is pretty much the only game in town for 90% of users these days
It's never going to stop... advertisers are going to try idea after idea looking for one that will make money... Eventually we'll have to read the lines of content between the ads. The good news is there is a new branch of the software industry popping up to combat the flood of ads. (junkbuster, norton internet firewall (best windows firewall, zonealarm is crap) and most new browsers not owned by companies that make money off ads)
I can see the point of them, content has to be paid for... but just the same way as I like to tape things so I can fast forward through the ads, I'm going to do everything I can do to avoid advertising on the internet.
I've been waiting for something like this for a long time, now maybe it'll be easier to port SNES/NES/SMS/Genesis/TG-16/Atari/Coleco/etc.. emulators to playstation. Throw 650mb of ROMs on a CD and your PSX is all of a sudden so many more systems! I've seen info about other PSX console emulators float by on the net, but none of them ever led me to any real meaty products... Anyone seen any emulator projects that actually work on PSX?
183 minutes? That's over 3 hours! They should release an abridged version with just the part where the US gets the crap blown out of them, that's all people want to see anyway.
How come people who believe in the whole jesus/god thing are "normal" but the people who believe in aliens are "crackpots"? Seems to me aliens are a far more plausable idea than some omnipotent diety running everything.
Sounds like it was alot more interesting than the Comdex here in Vancouver BC. Every year Comdex comes to town and every year it sucks more and more, with less interesting exhibitors and less of them. I always go hoping it will "be better this year", but it never is. This year took it took us 20 minutes to check out the whole floor. Good thing we had free passes (everyone does... "a $50 value!")
Or you could download the whole album and burn it onto a $0.99 CD-R... Here in Canada there is a levy on CD-R's that goes to pay artists for piracy, so the music has already been paid for when the CD-Rs were bought
I picked up a KCPro multitool at Home Depot here in VanBC for CDN$20 and looks to be a cheap ripoff of the Leatherman Wave. Good deal, and when I break it I can buy 2 or 3 more for what a Leatherman would have cost me
Oh man... Cass games took even longer to load than disk games! I didn't get a disk drive when I got my C64 for xmas, so I had to take the cassette drive out of my old PET.. worked as well as an official C64 deck. Eventually I got a 1541 though, so it's all good.
I gotta get a dreamcast now so I can run MAME and SNES9X on it. Play 1000's of arcade and console games at home on 1 console. Uhh... If you legally own the roms... yeah....;)
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And to top it all off, it's more boring to watch than golf!
I bet he's thrilled to be able to go back to simple tile-based games after dealing with the pain in the ass of 3d engines (not the ferrari ones)
I bet they'll shift that pricing structure to all the TLDs
Yeah, but you'll end up paying 20% more than "hot" price
Just because junk mail is on paper doesn't make it not spam
>>An easy way out would be to put two account numbers with every card
>Do you realize how difficult this would be to implement?
Uhh... only slightly harder than one account number? The db record for that card would have two fields for the card number. Hell, if you want to make it really easy to do, make the numbers start differently, then you know right away which db field to look in.
Unless you have access to blank cards, in which case you just punch the number into the plastic, put some bogus data on the stripe and have the clerk type the number in thinking it's a "bad card".
>"... because I reformatted and defragmented..." :)
>Um. Don't you think that's more than a bit redundant?
Nope! reformat, install win, config, update, change virtual memory from dynamic to fixed, then defrag to move the swap file to the beginning of the disk. Much faster when the swap file isn't fragmented, which is why dynamic swap files suck so much.
It only took 3 planes to throw the entire country into confusion and chaos, terrorism has certainly proven to be an extremely effective weapon here.
Every new and evil 'feature' of IE is a big deal if it's the browser that most people (probably even most people on /.) who use the web use... And it is. Netscape is dropping out of the browser market, Mozilla isn't even a blip on most 'normal' user's radar, and Opera costs $ or makes you use screen area for ads, so IE is pretty much the only game in town for 90% of users these days
It's never going to stop... advertisers are going to try idea after idea looking for one that will make money... Eventually we'll have to read the lines of content between the ads. The good news is there is a new branch of the software industry popping up to combat the flood of ads. (junkbuster, norton internet firewall (best windows firewall, zonealarm is crap) and most new browsers not owned by companies that make money off ads)
I can see the point of them, content has to be paid for... but just the same way as I like to tape things so I can fast forward through the ads, I'm going to do everything I can do to avoid advertising on the internet.
We have scientology in Canada too, hope they don't hassle him too much.
I've been waiting for something like this for a long time, now maybe it'll be easier to port SNES/NES/SMS/Genesis/TG-16/Atari/Coleco/etc.. emulators to playstation. Throw 650mb of ROMs on a CD and your PSX is all of a sudden so many more systems! I've seen info about other PSX console emulators float by on the net, but none of them ever led me to any real meaty products... Anyone seen any emulator projects that actually work on PSX?
183 minutes? That's over 3 hours! They should release an abridged version with just the part where the US gets the crap blown out of them, that's all people want to see anyway.
How come people who believe in the whole jesus/god thing are "normal" but the people who believe in aliens are "crackpots"? Seems to me aliens are a far more plausable idea than some omnipotent diety running everything.
>why not spend these billions and billions to perhaps stop kids from smoking, drinking, or trying marijuana?
they already spend billions on those and it doesn't work... may as well throw the money into space than down the toilet.
Sounds like it was alot more interesting than the Comdex here in Vancouver BC. Every year Comdex comes to town and every year it sucks more and more, with less interesting exhibitors and less of them. I always go hoping it will "be better this year", but it never is. This year took it took us 20 minutes to check out the whole floor. Good thing we had free passes (everyone does... "a $50 value!")
Or you could download the whole album and burn it onto a $0.99 CD-R... Here in Canada there is a levy on CD-R's that goes to pay artists for piracy, so the music has already been paid for when the CD-Rs were bought
>So you would swear about perl a bit and then you give up. That's how it goes pretty much isn't it?
No, then you grab perl-6.0-i386.rpm and rpm -U it... problem solved
Aww, no more Keanu movies? =(
> Where does rain come from?
The ocean maybe?
Always get a detailed feature list and make them stick to it, or the client will be thinking up "just one more little feature" over and over again
I picked up a KCPro multitool at Home Depot here in VanBC for CDN$20 and looks to be a cheap ripoff of the Leatherman Wave. Good deal, and when I break it I can buy 2 or 3 more for what a Leatherman would have cost me
Oh man... Cass games took even longer to load than disk games! I didn't get a disk drive when I got my C64 for xmas, so I had to take the cassette drive out of my old PET.. worked as well as an official C64 deck. Eventually I got a 1541 though, so it's all good.
I gotta get a dreamcast now so I can run MAME and SNES9X on it. Play 1000's of arcade and console games at home on 1 console. Uhh... If you legally own the roms... yeah.... ;)