The plastic is all yellow, and there are many blank lines on the screen, but it still works well enough to play my original copies of Tetris and Excitebike. I still suck at Excitebike.
If it were just those two sites, maybe I could put together something like that. But every time GM comes out with a new program, idea, model, or sales incentive, that's another new domain they create and email to everyone. If it were not for the constant stream of new IE-only sites from GM (and other auto manufacturers, GM is hardly the only guilty party here) I could work around it but at this point, frankly, it's just not worth the effort.
GM's web sites are monstrosities in themselves, too... they break if you don't allow cookies from domains other than the one you're on, for example. In other words, they break under the default WinXP/SP2 internet security configuration. You have to either add tons of exceptions to the list OR (GM actually recommends this) just accept all cookies at all times regardless of source.
Bingo. I work for a couple of car dealerships that sell GMs. ALL of GM's web-based stuff is IE-only. Furthermore, it's IE6-only. IE7 won't render the GM Dealerworld site correctly, and GM won't provide support for you if you're using it.
Likewise, Toyota's "Dealer Daily" site (which is pretty much the only web-based toolset provided by Toyota and is used pretty much constantly by salespeople) doesn't work worth a damn under anything but IE.
I'd love to implement Firefox across the dealerships. I even found some GPOs to control it and force it to use the in-house filtering proxy. But I simply can't set it as the default browser when half the sites that the salespeople use are IE-only.
But if God is not a supernatural being, but merely a 5-dimensional mortal adolescent with a penchant for programming 4d universes in his spare time, is it still a religion?
The possibility is there. To me, the logical places to look are in the very small and the very large, coincidentally the two areas where our current understanding of science breaks down. I'm not advocating simulation theory, but I'm saying that our best bet is probably to continue investigating the areas we're already investigating. If there are inconsistencies, we'll find them eventually. The LHC seems like a good tool to start probing the basic fabric of reality.
But can they explain why knots form in your hair after laying still for as little as an hour? My wife blames gnomes, and I'm inclined to agree with her.
Unfortunately, that's not just how they see it... as the law is currently written, that's pretty much the way it is. Remember this is the same marvelous piece of legislation that criminalizes ownership of a pencil and paper if you use them to decode something.
Everyone has heard a similar story, or has a friend of a friend that this happened "personally" to. Problem is, it's all complete bullshit. Show me one credible source that documents someone being labelled as a sex offender for having consentual sex with a younger girlfriend (and before someone bothers quoting statute, yes I am aware that there are laws against such things in most states; I'm asking for a instance where someone has been prosecuted and than placed on a sex offender registry solely for that crime).
Prosecuted for posting nude pictures of her 15-year-old self. Charged with sexual abuse of children, possession of child pornography and dissemination of child pornography. I think the court's rationale was that they were prosecuting her on behalf of her older self, whose life she potentially ruined.
Furthermore, there was a well-publicized story not long ago about a man who has to register as a sex offender now after getting drunk and taking a leak in a public park. They got him on indecent exposure, and now he can't drop his own kids off at school (or use the internet in NJ, apparently).
At least i instinctively avoid the ebay links that have whatever i searched for...even when they don't:/
Gotta love those.
"Click HERE for your NUMBER 1 source for blue screen 0x800ccc0e!" "Click HERE for your NUMBER 1 source for exchange 2003 pop3 retrieval!" "Click HERE for your NUMBER 1 source for fetchmail!"
Who knew you could find all that stuff in one place?
Mercifully those sorts of results seem to be on the decline...
More than just a little. The veins on it were... nasty. I wasn't too surprised by how the Advisors feed, though, they reminded me of the "brain bug" in Starship Troopers. Actually I was a bit disappointed by that. It's like Valve went out of the way to say "Look! It's a HORRIBLE MONSTER! It is EVIL!" as if that weren't already pretty clear.
If we ARE in a simulation, then let's start bug-testing it. The LHC should go a long way toward that...
Simulations usually break down at the largest and smallest extremes of whatever they are simulating. Quantum physics and cosmology seem the most logical places to look for inconsistencies in our universe, although I'm sure it's just happenstance that those fields are where most of our unsolved scientific mysteries lie. Yeah. Gotta be a coincidence.
Hopefully a universal bugfix doesn't need to involve a reboot.
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Small-timer here, 29G-H, 20G-L and 10G. Mind you, I'd have more and larger ones if I had room and a floor that wouldn't collapse under the weight...
THIS is a transparent fish. I have five of these, and they never cease to amaze me.
The plastic is all yellow, and there are many blank lines on the screen, but it still works well enough to play my original copies of Tetris and Excitebike. I still suck at Excitebike.
Thanks for those links. Cleared up a lot of misapprehensions I had about Vista.
He also played Paladin in Wing Commander 3 (and 4, I believe, though I never played that one). Mind you, Mark Hamill played the hero...
If it were just those two sites, maybe I could put together something like that. But every time GM comes out with a new program, idea, model, or sales incentive, that's another new domain they create and email to everyone. If it were not for the constant stream of new IE-only sites from GM (and other auto manufacturers, GM is hardly the only guilty party here) I could work around it but at this point, frankly, it's just not worth the effort.
GM's web sites are monstrosities in themselves, too... they break if you don't allow cookies from domains other than the one you're on, for example. In other words, they break under the default WinXP/SP2 internet security configuration. You have to either add tons of exceptions to the list OR (GM actually recommends this) just accept all cookies at all times regardless of source.
Sorry, getting off-topic here... </rant>
Bingo. I work for a couple of car dealerships that sell GMs. ALL of GM's web-based stuff is IE-only. Furthermore, it's IE6-only. IE7 won't render the GM Dealerworld site correctly, and GM won't provide support for you if you're using it.
Likewise, Toyota's "Dealer Daily" site (which is pretty much the only web-based toolset provided by Toyota and is used pretty much constantly by salespeople) doesn't work worth a damn under anything but IE.
I'd love to implement Firefox across the dealerships. I even found some GPOs to control it and force it to use the in-house filtering proxy. But I simply can't set it as the default browser when half the sites that the salespeople use are IE-only.
I suspect I'm not alone in this problem.
It's probably sad that when I saw "Crazy Eddie" my first thought was of Moties.
Chaos theory is the result of rounding errors in the simulation.
But if God is not a supernatural being, but merely a 5-dimensional mortal adolescent with a penchant for programming 4d universes in his spare time, is it still a religion?
The possibility is there. To me, the logical places to look are in the very small and the very large, coincidentally the two areas where our current understanding of science breaks down. I'm not advocating simulation theory, but I'm saying that our best bet is probably to continue investigating the areas we're already investigating. If there are inconsistencies, we'll find them eventually. The LHC seems like a good tool to start probing the basic fabric of reality.
Obviously gnautical gnot gnomes.
But can they explain why knots form in your hair after laying still for as little as an hour? My wife blames gnomes, and I'm inclined to agree with her.
Unfortunately, that's not just how they see it... as the law is currently written, that's pretty much the way it is. Remember this is the same marvelous piece of legislation that criminalizes ownership of a pencil and paper if you use them to decode something.
Yeah. If that's not the definition of irony, it should be.
Know what depressed me most about your story?
The fact that you felt you had to post this disclaimer. The witch hunt mentality against sex offenders is truly getting out of hand.
Everyone has heard a similar story, or has a friend of a friend that this happened "personally" to. Problem is, it's all complete bullshit. Show me one credible source that documents someone being labelled as a sex offender for having consentual sex with a younger girlfriend (and before someone bothers quoting statute, yes I am aware that there are laws against such things in most states; I'm asking for a instance where someone has been prosecuted and than placed on a sex offender registry solely for that crime).
I'll do you one better.
Prosecuted for posting nude pictures of her 15-year-old self. Charged with sexual abuse of children, possession of child pornography and dissemination of child pornography. I think the court's rationale was that they were prosecuting her on behalf of her older self, whose life she potentially ruined.
Furthermore, there was a well-publicized story not long ago about a man who has to register as a sex offender now after getting drunk and taking a leak in a public park. They got him on indecent exposure, and now he can't drop his own kids off at school (or use the internet in NJ, apparently).
At least i instinctively avoid the ebay links that have whatever i searched for...even when they don't :/
Gotta love those.
"Click HERE for your NUMBER 1 source for blue screen 0x800ccc0e!"
"Click HERE for your NUMBER 1 source for exchange 2003 pop3 retrieval!"
"Click HERE for your NUMBER 1 source for fetchmail!"
Who knew you could find all that stuff in one place?
Mercifully those sorts of results seem to be on the decline...
Wouldn't that be "threaths theriothly"?
More than just a little. The veins on it were... nasty. I wasn't too surprised by how the Advisors feed, though, they reminded me of the "brain bug" in Starship Troopers. Actually I was a bit disappointed by that. It's like Valve went out of the way to say "Look! It's a HORRIBLE MONSTER! It is EVIL!" as if that weren't already pretty clear.
If we ARE in a simulation, then let's start bug-testing it. The LHC should go a long way toward that...
Simulations usually break down at the largest and smallest extremes of whatever they are simulating. Quantum physics and cosmology seem the most logical places to look for inconsistencies in our universe, although I'm sure it's just happenstance that those fields are where most of our unsolved scientific mysteries lie. Yeah. Gotta be a coincidence.
Hopefully a universal bugfix doesn't need to involve a reboot.
Damn it, and I'd almost gotten that song out of my head after seeing that video 3 years ago.
I thought it was Snowball.
Obviously we need the Outsiders' reactionless, inertialess drive. It's only a trillion stars, we can pay in installments...