>they had a website in the US (a.com, which falls under US jurisdiction)
Their server was in the US? Or somehow.COM is sovereign US territory?
*boggles*
I havent watched enough battlebots to know about that programme but I know this robot made of PVC tubing wouldnt last long against any decent robot (i.e some of the ones in Robot Wars) - onboard computer or not.
Actually the phone system in pakistan is digital (the exchanges that is) and you can get connected at over 50kbps on a 56k modem, something that I suspect most slashdotters (myself included) have never managed anywhere else in the world.
You will notice I generalised, i'm sure most of the country dont have a phone, but since you were generalising I thought I would too:-)
The warnings are after three people died with heart trouble sometime after drinking it, equally many people die sometime after drinking water yet we still risk our lives drinking water:-)
I'm not saying that they are wrong just that it can be misleading to jump to conclusions. As a regular drinker of red bull I shall watch with interest..
People have mentioned gnutella and gnutella clients such as limewire, which I have tried but these are slow and you have a good chance that you will never actually download what you want.
I can recommend Kazaa which, apart from having an awful name and being windows only has a LOT of files, including movies/audio etc - it also has the killer feature in that if you find (e.g) 5 people who have the file you want you can d/l it from all 5 simultaneously, like some "download accelerator" programs do, it means you can use all your bandwidth more effectively. It also resumes so when someone shuts down just as you get to 99% of a 800MB file you dont pull your hair out.
One thing to watch out for, I think they have a search function on the web page - it doesnt have the features of the client software (and its lame downloading but not sharing!) so get the client software instead.
Sounds like some confusion there, NTL have two ways of supplying cable modems :
Option 1 - you buy the modem for £150 - it is yours.
Option 2 - they let you rent the modem for £5 extra on top of your package per month. They will want it back when you cancel your contract.
May I humby suggest you have misunderstood the fact that you didnt have to actually buy the cable modem - or of course that the sales people didn't make it clear.
You forgot the bit where they got John Dawgit (spelling?) and he just reads all the lines that were normally scripted for Scully and Scully reads the lines normally written for Mulder.
Amazing how Scully suddenly believes everything and John wont believe anything even though he sees things with his own eyes.
Coupled with that the stories dont even make sense any more, its like the writers forget what they wrote half way through an episode and just leave things unexplained.
As someone who regularly codes in VB (and perl) I can say yes VB is not even in the same league as perl, IDE or not. My misfortune is I still use VB for GUI applications and pull my hair out because it doesnt offer the power i'm used to in perl.
Anyway what i'm here for is to say: It doesnt mattter a lot what language you program in, what matters is being able to creatively solve problems , how do I solve this - how do I make this run faster, easier to use. Spending hundreds of pounds on VB (or not spending hundreds of pounds on perl) will not give you a magical ability to solve things you can't otherwise. The skill that as a programmer you will take from language to language is the way you can think through a problem to achieve what you want. This is the reason that elitist views about programming languages are flawed.
Chinese servers are notoriously insecure, it is more likely that the hackers are from elsewhere and used compromised chinese servers as an extra hop to help obscure their true identity.
I am thoroughly sick of normal radio stations because they play the same crap over and over again, i'm guessing one of the reasons is "incentives" as mentioned here.
The other reason is that brain dead DJ's talk over as much of the song as they can - either because of ego or record companies ask them to so that it reduces the appeal of recording songs off the radio.
I've recently looked at the kind of radio stations you can get on the internet and if you want to listen to decent music they are the way to go.
If I want to listen to "rock/heavy metal" music our main radio station has (as far as I can tell) a massive 2 hours a week where they play it - the rest of the week is spent playing the same songs every hour.
I wish moderators would spot trolls, come on the post doesnt even make sense in itself.
If you look at simple stone age peoples, they do not hanker after privacy - they have no idea what it is. It is a western concept, and one we are forcing on the rest of the world, as we make the thrird world adopt our values.
It doesnt even makes sense - you cant look at stone age people because nobody knows if they liked privacy or not. Privacy a western concept - pure crap, if anything eastern cultures are MORE interested in privacy. The whole post doesnt make any sense
The irony is I used my mod points up this morning or I would have given a -1 troll instead of getting steamed up:-) --
Mozilla is great because you can run it on windows/linux/macos etc... As someone using multiple Operating Systems (like many of my fellow geeks out there) being able to start up the same browser in each is a real bonus.
Good so far? Well no - I find myself using Opera now, it runs on OSes from Linux to Epoc, is lightnening fast and has a LOT of useful options (yes I even use the gestures sometimes). I had great feelings about Mozilla, but you cant render web pages with great feelings you need a browser that is ready to use now, is fast and usable.
I try a nightly mozilla build every week or two (to test web pages i've designed) and I'm sorry but its not finished yet and by the time it is it will allready be lagging behind its competition. The only downside - it costs money, but it costs about the same as a computer game and I spend a lot of time on the web.
I'm not commenting on stability (to be honest my windows 2000 box has only crashed twice, both due to driver problems// allthough my linux box has never crashed) - i'm just saying that you are calling people anti-MS bigots but then posting a pro MS article from a MS site - hardly impartial either are you!
You know we probably wouldnt need any new TLD's if something was done about squatters - Sometimes I think more domains are held by squatters than are actually being used.
I am sick of looking for a free domain and finding its taken by "Dirty Domain Squatters Inc"
(for anyone surfing at a higher number this is in response to an AC post:-)
Why should perl be easy to understand for you? Thats what BASIC is for, no hold on if you want it to be easy and effortless don't program at all! You can't expect the rest of society to lower themselves down to your level just because you personally can't understand something..
The great thing about open source, the linux community and programming in general is choice - if you like and understand perl you can use it, if you dont look for an alternative (python, ruby,C++,va'raq...), it would be more productive than complaining.
Now the greatest thing about Perl is there is more than one way to do things and that is also (I think) what confuses some people, they expect less flexibility and power from a programming language.
The example looks fine to me, perhaps you're confusing your inability to understand the language with whether or not its a good programming language.
If you like C++ or BASIC then use them instead, I really believe people should choose the language that fits their way of thinking, I enjoy using perl and find it makes sense, you may prefer C++ - that doesnt make either of them better or worse than the other.
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>they had a website in the US (a .com, which falls under US jurisdiction) .COM is sovereign US territory?
Their server was in the US? Or somehow
*boggles*
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I havent watched enough battlebots to know about that programme but I know this robot made of PVC tubing wouldnt last long against any decent robot (i.e some of the ones in Robot Wars) - onboard computer or not.
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Yeah its like closing down Napster but allowing people to have guns...
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Actually the phone system in pakistan is digital (the exchanges that is) and you can get connected at over 50kbps on a 56k modem, something that I suspect most slashdotters (myself included) have never managed anywhere else in the world. :-)
You will notice I generalised, i'm sure most of the country dont have a phone, but since you were generalising I thought I would too
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The warnings are after three people died with heart trouble sometime after drinking it, equally many people die sometime after drinking water yet we still risk our lives drinking water :-)
I'm not saying that they are wrong just that it can be misleading to jump to conclusions.
As a regular drinker of red bull I shall watch with interest..
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People have mentioned gnutella and gnutella clients such as limewire, which I have tried but these are slow and you have a good chance that you will never actually download what you want.
I can recommend Kazaa which, apart from having an awful name and being windows only has a LOT of files, including movies/audio etc - it also has the killer feature in that if you find (e.g) 5 people who have the file you want you can d/l it from all 5 simultaneously, like some "download accelerator" programs do, it means you can use all your bandwidth more effectively. It also resumes so when someone shuts down just as you get to 99% of a 800MB file you dont pull your hair out.
One thing to watch out for, I think they have a search function on the web page - it doesnt have the features of the client software (and its lame downloading but not sharing!) so get the client software instead.
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- Option 1 - you buy the modem for £150 - it is yours.
- Option 2 - they let you rent the modem for £5 extra on top of your package per month. They will want it back when you cancel your contract.
May I humby suggest you have misunderstood the fact that you didnt have to actually buy the cable modem - or of course that the sales people didn't make it clear.--
Israel doesn't negotiate with terrorists, and they have some darn good reasons.
Yes, thats because they are Terrorists.
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You forgot the bit where they got John Dawgit (spelling?) and he just reads all the lines that were normally scripted for Scully and Scully reads the lines normally written for Mulder.
Amazing how Scully suddenly believes everything and John wont believe anything even though he sees things with his own eyes.
Coupled with that the stories dont even make sense any more, its like the writers forget what they wrote half way through an episode and just leave things unexplained.
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What next, are you going to explain away people writing "athalon" :)
The primary usage of "looser" in my experience is by poorly spelling American pre-teens playing FPS games.
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As someone who regularly codes in VB (and perl) I can say yes VB is not even in the same league as perl, IDE or not. My misfortune is I still use VB for GUI applications and pull my hair out because it doesnt offer the power i'm used to in perl.
Anyway what i'm here for is to say: It doesnt mattter a lot what language you program in, what matters is being able to creatively solve problems , how do I solve this - how do I make this run faster, easier to use. Spending hundreds of pounds on VB (or not spending hundreds of pounds on perl) will not give you a magical ability to solve things you can't otherwise. The skill that as a programmer you will take from language to language is the way you can think through a problem to achieve what you want. This is the reason that elitist views about programming languages are flawed.
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Chinese servers are notoriously insecure, it is more likely that the hackers are from elsewhere and used compromised chinese servers as an extra hop to help obscure their true identity.
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The Gimp could do with a "quad" menu similar to that of 3D studio max 4, it would make selecting menu options much quicker.
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Come on, which moderator gave -1 overrated to my post that hadnt had any positive moderation!
I assume someone that doesnt understand what "overrated" means, gah.
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I am thoroughly sick of normal radio stations because they play the same crap over and over again, i'm guessing one of the reasons is "incentives" as mentioned here.
The other reason is that brain dead DJ's talk over as much of the song as they can - either because of ego or record companies ask them to so that it reduces the appeal of recording songs off the radio.
I've recently looked at the kind of radio stations you can get on the internet and if you want to listen to decent music they are the way to go.
If I want to listen to "rock/heavy metal" music our main radio station has (as far as I can tell) a massive 2 hours a week where they play it - the rest of the week is spent playing the same songs every hour.
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Could be something to do with the fact that BMW gave cars to key people involved in the film...
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Lol
But knowing steve he probably handcoded his web server in assembly and its only 28k in size..
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It doesnt even makes sense - you cant look at stone age people because nobody knows if they liked privacy or not. Privacy a western concept - pure crap, if anything eastern cultures are MORE interested in privacy. The whole post doesnt make any sense
The irony is I used my mod points up this morning or I would have given a -1 troll instead of getting steamed up
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Mozilla is great because you can run it on windows/linux/macos etc... As someone using multiple Operating Systems (like many of my fellow geeks out there) being able to start up the same browser in each is a real bonus.
Good so far? Well no - I find myself using Opera now, it runs on OSes from Linux to Epoc, is lightnening fast and has a LOT of useful options (yes I even use the gestures sometimes). I had great feelings about Mozilla, but you cant render web pages with great feelings you need a browser that is ready to use now, is fast and usable.
I try a nightly mozilla build every week or two (to test web pages i've designed) and I'm sorry but its not finished yet and by the time it is it will allready be lagging behind its competition. The only downside - it costs money, but it costs about the same as a computer game and I spend a lot of time on the web.
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Thats because they are trolling - successfully too given the +5 insightful they've got..
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A more accurate story about the crash...
// allthough my linux box has never crashed) - i'm just saying that you are calling people anti-MS bigots but then posting a pro MS article from a MS site - hardly impartial either are you!
More accurate? Er.. it says "©2000-2001 Microsoft Corporation. " at the bottom of the page.
I'm not commenting on stability (to be honest my windows 2000 box has only crashed twice, both due to driver problems
You know we probably wouldnt need any new TLD's if something was done about squatters - Sometimes I think more domains are held by squatters than are actually being used.
I am sick of looking for a free domain and finding its taken by "Dirty Domain Squatters Inc"
(for anyone surfing at a higher number this is in response to an AC post :-)
Why should perl be easy to understand for you? Thats what BASIC is for, no hold on if you want it to be easy and effortless don't program at all!
You can't expect the rest of society to lower themselves down to your level just because you personally can't understand something..
The great thing about open source, the linux community and programming in general is choice - if you like and understand perl you can use it, if you dont look for an alternative (python, ruby,C++,va'raq...), it would be more productive than complaining.
Now the greatest thing about Perl is there is more than one way to do things and that is also (I think) what confuses some people, they expect less flexibility and power from a programming language.
The example looks fine to me, perhaps you're confusing your inability to understand the language with whether or not its a good programming language.
If you like C++ or BASIC then use them instead, I really believe people should choose the language that fits their way of thinking, I enjoy using perl and find it makes sense, you may prefer C++ - that doesnt make either of them better or worse than the other.
Thanks for the link, I must stay on the lookout for "script kitties," scratch0ring my sofa :-)