In the drop-down list of posting types, choose "Plain Old Text" instead of "HTML Formatted". The misnamed "Plain Old Text" actually accepts and processes HTML as well. The only difference (that I can tell) between the two is that "Plain Old Text" turns newlines into "<br>"s. For example, in this reply (which is done in "Plain Old Text"), I have used "<blockquote>", "<i>", and "<tt>", and, as you can see, they were accepted (and produced the correct HTML formatting) with no problem. I have also terminated each sentence with a newline (CRLF), which has been turned into a "<br>". You can set your default reply style to "Plain Old Text" somewhere in your preferences.
what do you do with all the nano-chads that result from punching out the card?
When I was in college (1970s), we used to tape a strip of line printer paper across the RA's door and door frame (about head-high), then fill the space between with punch card and paper tape chads collected during the prior month or so. When the RA opened his/her door, the paper would rip, and the draft would cause the chads to disburse throughout his/her dorm room. This type of thing was what passed for amusement when I was in school.
Pulling a similar stunt today using nanochads would probably be non-productive, because a) nanochads are not visible to the naked eye, and therefore their visual effect would be reduced; b) nanochads are microscopic particles, and some microscopic particles can, when inhaled, lead to lung cancer and/or other respiratory ailments, which means that pulling a similar stunt these days may be considered criminal, or even terroristic; and c) nanochads don't actually exist, which would make using them in any fashion somewhat problematic.
If you need to watch two buildings collapse and half your life pass by to realize that you should be appreciating it more, congratulations, you've been wasting your life.
You have totally misinterpreted what I wrote.
1. The 9/11 attack didn't affect me at all, except for making me annoyed with the networks for pre-empting my normal TV shows for weeks with endless repeats of the same footage with nothing new to add, and with the FAA for the even longer lines at airports. Oh, and I'm also annoyed with congress and Bush for using it as an excuse for ramming through all of that unconstitutional civil rights-robbing legislation, and the war in Iraq, and,... OK, 9/11 did affect me, but not in the "life-affirming" sense. I mean, more people die each year on our nation's highways than did in the 9/11 attack.
2. I have always wanted to live a good life. It's just that, when I was younger, I thought that 100 years or so would be enough. Now that I am closer to 100, I believe otherwise.
When I was 18, I didn't expect to live past age 30. I fully expected that the USA and USSR would eventually have their nuclear war, and that almost everyone would die. I was quite surprised, pleasantly so, that I made it to 50.
And when it is my time, whether it be tomorrow or if by some miracle I live to the ripe old age of 50, I will accept that and go without regrets and not be clamouring for an extension.
If medical science discovered a cure for your condition, wouldn't you like to live longer? There's so much to see, so much to do. But, if you want to give up at 50, then fine for you, if that's really what you want. As for me, I'm not going without a fight.
First of all, if my life span were thousands of years, I could wait around the Solar System doing other things until ships got fast enough that they would't take thousands of years to get from star to star.
Alternatively, I could move out to the Mars/Jupiter Asteroid belt, then to the Kuiper Belt, then to the Oort cloud, which some astronomers believe extends from star to star. By moving from comet to comet, I would eventually, after thousands of years, make it to another star system. (Although, by that time, I might not be human any more.)
Finally, I could get on a near-future (2300-2500) slow-moving colony ship, which would take thousands of years to get to the nearest star (other than our sun), but which would be large enough (or, better yet, part of a fleet large enough) that the trip wouldn't be boring.
As to my returning to Earth, well, maybe someday, but my intent is not to go to another star and then come right home, but to go to another star, and then another, and then another...
And as far as apes ruling the Earth, I think that it would be a good idea if humans, once they had the technology to live in space, were to leave the Earth and let another species evolve to dominance. Once that species achieved space flight, they could do the same thing, and eventually the galaxy would be populated by many diverse species (if it isn't already).
For myself, I think a century in good health would be more than enough.
Wait'll you hit 50. I found it very enlightening to be on the other side of "half my life". The older I get, the more I think that, no, one century will probably not be enough. A millenium, maybe, but even then... I want to see the future. I want to go to the stars. There are four ways to do this:
Build a time machine and go to the future that way (highly unlikely).
Build a spacecraft whose velocity approaches that of the speed of light, so that time within it slows down, and ride that to the stars, like Ender Wiggin and his siblings (unlikely in my lifetime, if my lifetime extends only another 50-75 years).
Freeze myself, like Fry in Futurama (possibly).
Undergo medical procedures and live a lifestyle designed to increase my lifespan (most likely).
The great advantage of option 4 is that I will be able to perceive and experience the intervening years. I think that it will be fun, for the most part.
Other than music or graphic art, what good is a computer? [blah blah blah] The only real productive things done on computers are makeing music, making great visual art and coding new tools to make music and great visual art.
You're forgetting one other thing -- computers are babe magnets. Tell a chick that you spend all day sitting in front of a computer and she'll want to Lewinsky you right there.
My parents can by [sic] handwaved because they're over 50
I'm 50, and can easily tell the difference between the two colors (if one is painted directly on the other). In fact, if I look really closely, I can tell the difference between #305050 and #304E4C on my monitor. This may be partly due to brightness and contrast settings, but I think (like some others) that different monitors may display different characteristics.
Its physically impossible to go wall-eyed enough to look at pictures much bigger than this without distress to your eyes
I can go wall-eyed on my 19-inch monitor from about 2-3 feet away (my normal viewing distance) without any problems whatsoever. When I try to look at cross-eyed 3D images, I have difficulty focussing and maintaining the lock, plus my eyes get tired rather quickly. In fact, I usually look at cross-eyed 3D wall-eyed, and, for some reason, the 3D illusion works, even though it's backwards (although the illusion doesn't work as well as if the images are laid out for wall-eyed viewing). Different people have different capabilities. A site posting 3D images would serve everyone better if it posted both kinds, or an LRL (or RLR) tri-picture, so that people could view it in whatever way is more comfortable for them.
Unfortunately the phrase the FSF has come up with to meet this exact situation is "libre", which has the same problems as "GNU" and then some, i.e., no one knows what it means until you explain it to them, and no one can pronounce it.
It's pronounced "LEE-bray", as in the original Klingon or Romulan or something, from whence it comes. It means "You can say what you want, and I won't put this Bat'leth through your skull". The meaning in regards to "free software" is that using such a piece of "free software" is unlikely to result in your violent death.
Most Americans have no idea how to get along with anyone but Americans
We Americans get along fine with everyone, except for Arabs, the French, most of Europe, Asia, Africa, and South America, parts of North America and Australia, various island states, Klingons (at times), Vulcans (at times), Romulans, Cylons, People who worship Gods other than Yahweh, ET, the Goa'uld, bugs, and the Strogg. Americans also get along fine with each other, except for Blacks vs Whites, Blacks vs Koreans, Whites vs Persons of pre-Columbian American Ancestry (I refuse to use the term "Native Americans", as I consider myself to be 100% native American. I was born in New Jersey; you can't get much more native than that), Whites vs Hispanics, White Supremesist Militia vs everybody, Libertarians vs Communists, Fundamentalist Christians vs Jews, Fundamentalist Christians vs Muslims, Fundamentalist Christians vs Mormons, Fundamentalist Christians vs Catholics, Fundamentalist Christians vs pedophiles (priest, pop star, and otherwise; and, yes, it's spelled "pedophiles" here in America. I don't know from where Brits get that extra "a" (probably the same place that they get the extra "u" in "color")), Fundamentalist Christians vs Foreigners, Fundamentalist Christians vs Evolutionists, Fundamentalist Christians vs Homosexuals, and the federal government vs its citizens.
their realizations of foreign events are generally limited to some English news they get off some BBC programming
I get most of my news from the Daily Show with John Stuart. The remainder comes from some homeless guy that I see downtown from time to time pushing around a shopping cart while talking on a hands-free cellphone so small that it appears as if he is talking to thin air. (Just yesterday, I learned that "Charlie" is out to get us.)
It's not just TV, either. Look at all of the sequels for written science fiction (e.g., Ringworld, etc.). Hell, people were writing sequels 100 years ago. Huck Finn was a sequel to Tom Sawyer. Doyle wrote many Shelock Holmes stories. Even the Bible repeats itself (OT: people sin, God smites them, people sin, God smites them, etc., etc.; NT: the four gospels contain mostly the same material).
Buy one or two 200GB HDDs, backup everything (two or more copies just to be sure:) ), then store/archive the HDDs.
The problem with this method is that hard drives don't have write-protect switches any more. This means that an errant or malicious program can overwrite files on your backup disk. (Even with multiple copies of your backup, what happens when a trojan serruptitiously writes garbage to your older files on all of your copies while you are backing up your files?) This can't happen with CD-Rs and CD-RWs (except to files that are currently being backed up), as long as you use a CD-ROM drive (instead of a CD-RW drive) to read them.
I was just watching the movie "Over the Edge" the other day, and wondered whatever happened to Matt Dillon.
My understanding is that he moved out West, became the Marshall of Dodge City, shot several bad guys each week, and was partly responsible for the cancellation of Gilligan's Island.
Perhaps I should expand. I have historically not used any revision control, but have kept old versions of the files around by extensive use of cp and ln.
The current version of what I'm working on will be in a directory called program-ddmmyy_rev_minorrev with a link from program -> the current revision.
So you are using version control of a sort; you just aren't using a version control utility to do it.
Used to take a room-full of equipment at the turn of the century
Uh, the turn of the century was just five years ago. Maybe you meant the turn of the last century? Using "turn of the century" to refer to 1900 is so last century.
P.S. I've used washboards and abacii (abacuses?), and I'm typing this on a P2/300 running MS-Windows 95. I have nothing against new technology, but if the old stuff works well enough, there is really no reason to upgrade. CDs are superior to vinyl, which is why I buy CDs now. P.P.S. I still have all of my vinyl records, though, and my first car was a Pinto. Somehow, I managed to avoid 8-track in favor of cassettes, but that was just luck.
Mine was going to be something to the effect of "The radiation storm was discharged by Sun's investors when they discovered that Sun was open-sourcing Solaris.".
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The misnamed "Plain Old Text" actually accepts and processes HTML as well.
The only difference (that I can tell) between the two is that "Plain Old Text" turns newlines into "<br>"s.
For example, in this reply (which is done in "Plain Old Text"), I have used "<blockquote>", "<i>", and "<tt>", and, as you can see, they were accepted (and produced the correct HTML formatting) with no problem.
I have also terminated each sentence with a newline (CRLF), which has been turned into a "<br>".
You can set your default reply style to "Plain Old Text" somewhere in your preferences.
When the RA opened his/her door, the paper would rip, and the draft would cause the chads to disburse throughout his/her dorm room.
This type of thing was what passed for amusement when I was in school.
Pulling a similar stunt today using nanochads would probably be non-productive, because
a) nanochads are not visible to the naked eye, and therefore their visual effect would be reduced;
b) nanochads are microscopic particles, and some microscopic particles can, when inhaled, lead to lung cancer and/or other respiratory ailments, which means that pulling a similar stunt these days may be considered criminal, or even terroristic; and
c) nanochads don't actually exist, which would make using them in any fashion somewhat problematic.
1. The 9/11 attack didn't affect me at all, except for making me annoyed with the networks for pre-empting my normal TV shows for weeks with endless repeats of the same footage with nothing new to add, and with the FAA for the even longer lines at airports.
Oh, and I'm also annoyed with congress and Bush for using it as an excuse for ramming through all of that unconstitutional civil rights-robbing legislation, and the war in Iraq, and,
OK, 9/11 did affect me, but not in the "life-affirming" sense.
I mean, more people die each year on our nation's highways than did in the 9/11 attack.
2. I have always wanted to live a good life.
It's just that, when I was younger, I thought that 100 years or so would be enough.
Now that I am closer to 100, I believe otherwise.
When I was 18, I didn't expect to live past age 30.
I fully expected that the USA and USSR would eventually have their nuclear war, and that almost everyone would die.
I was quite surprised, pleasantly so, that I made it to 50.If medical science discovered a cure for your condition, wouldn't you like to live longer?
There's so much to see, so much to do.
But, if you want to give up at 50, then fine for you, if that's really what you want.
As for me, I'm not going without a fight.
First of all, if my life span were thousands of years, I could wait around the Solar System doing other things until ships got fast enough that they would't take thousands of years to get from star to star.
...
Alternatively, I could move out to the Mars/Jupiter Asteroid belt, then to the Kuiper Belt, then to the Oort cloud, which some astronomers believe extends from star to star.
By moving from comet to comet, I would eventually, after thousands of years, make it to another star system.
(Although, by that time, I might not be human any more.)
Finally, I could get on a near-future (2300-2500) slow-moving colony ship, which would take thousands of years to get to the nearest star (other than our sun), but which would be large enough (or, better yet, part of a fleet large enough) that the trip wouldn't be boring.
As to my returning to Earth, well, maybe someday, but my intent is not to go to another star and then come right home, but to go to another star, and then another, and then another
And as far as apes ruling the Earth, I think that it would be a good idea if humans, once they had the technology to live in space, were to leave the Earth and let another species evolve to dominance.
Once that species achieved space flight, they could do the same thing, and eventually the galaxy would be populated by many diverse species (if it isn't already).
I found it very enlightening to be on the other side of "half my life".
The older I get, the more I think that, no, one century will probably not be enough.
A millenium, maybe, but even then
I want to see the future.
I want to go to the stars.
There are four ways to do this:
- Build a time machine and go to the future that way (highly unlikely).
- Build a spacecraft whose velocity approaches that of the speed of light, so that time within it slows down, and ride that to the stars, like Ender Wiggin and his siblings (unlikely in my lifetime, if my lifetime extends only another 50-75 years).
- Freeze myself, like Fry in Futurama (possibly).
- Undergo medical procedures and live a lifestyle designed to increase my lifespan (most likely).
The great advantage of option 4 is that I will be able to perceive and experience the intervening years.I think that it will be fun, for the most part.
Here is a slightly more updated version of the list.
I agree that it would be great if someone picked up the reins on this.
Tell a chick that you spend all day sitting in front of a computer and she'll want to Lewinsky you right there.
In fact, if I look really closely, I can tell the difference between #305050 and #304E4C on my monitor.
This may be partly due to brightness and contrast settings, but I think (like some others) that different monitors may display different characteristics.
When I try to look at cross-eyed 3D images, I have difficulty focussing and maintaining the lock, plus my eyes get tired rather quickly.
In fact, I usually look at cross-eyed 3D wall-eyed, and, for some reason, the 3D illusion works, even though it's backwards (although the illusion doesn't work as well as if the images are laid out for wall-eyed viewing).
Different people have different capabilities.
A site posting 3D images would serve everyone better if it posted both kinds, or an LRL (or RLR) tri-picture, so that people could view it in whatever way is more comfortable for them.
It means "You can say what you want, and I won't put this Bat'leth through your skull".
The meaning in regards to "free software" is that using such a piece of "free software" is unlikely to result in your violent death.
Americans also get along fine with each other, except for Blacks vs Whites, Blacks vs Koreans, Whites vs Persons of pre-Columbian American Ancestry (I refuse to use the term "Native Americans", as I consider myself to be 100% native American. I was born in New Jersey; you can't get much more native than that), Whites vs Hispanics, White Supremesist Militia vs everybody, Libertarians vs Communists, Fundamentalist Christians vs Jews, Fundamentalist Christians vs Muslims, Fundamentalist Christians vs Mormons, Fundamentalist Christians vs Catholics, Fundamentalist Christians vs pedophiles (priest, pop star, and otherwise; and, yes, it's spelled "pedophiles" here in America. I don't know from where Brits get that extra "a" (probably the same place that they get the extra "u" in "color")), Fundamentalist Christians vs Foreigners, Fundamentalist Christians vs Evolutionists, Fundamentalist Christians vs Homosexuals, and the federal government vs its citizens.I get most of my news from the Daily Show with John Stuart.
The remainder comes from some homeless guy that I see downtown from time to time pushing around a shopping cart while talking on a hands-free cellphone so small that it appears as if he is talking to thin air.
(Just yesterday, I learned that "Charlie" is out to get us.)
Cool sig :)
Arigato, dude; arigato gosaimasu.
Look at all of the sequels for written science fiction (e.g., Ringworld, etc.).
Hell, people were writing sequels 100 years ago.
Huck Finn was a sequel to Tom Sawyer.
Doyle wrote many Shelock Holmes stories.
Even the Bible repeats itself (OT: people sin, God smites them, people sin, God smites them, etc., etc.; NT: the four gospels contain mostly the same material).
This means that an errant or malicious program can overwrite files on your backup disk.
(Even with multiple copies of your backup, what happens when a trojan serruptitiously writes garbage to your older files on all of your copies while you are backing up your files?)
This can't happen with CD-Rs and CD-RWs (except to files that are currently being backed up), as long as you use a CD-ROM drive (instead of a CD-RW drive) to read them.
Please parse those (e.g., "(that (that is) is that (that is not) ...").
Thank you.
For example,(with "ec ode" replaced by "ecode") produces
Maybe you meant the turn of the last century?
Using "turn of the century" to refer to 1900 is so last century.
P.S. I've used washboards and abacii (abacuses?), and I'm typing this on a P2/300 running MS-Windows 95.
I have nothing against new technology, but if the old stuff works well enough, there is really no reason to upgrade.
CDs are superior to vinyl, which is why I buy CDs now.
P.P.S. I still have all of my vinyl records, though, and my first car was a Pinto.
Somehow, I managed to avoid 8-track in favor of cassettes, but that was just luck.
Mine was going to be something to the effect of "The radiation storm was discharged by Sun's investors when they discovered that Sun was open-sourcing Solaris.".