Words in the English language that end with gres are rare
As opposed to words that end with "acle", which are fairly common, I suppose? (Let's see, "debacle", OK, uh, um, "monacle"? (No, that's "monocle".) "Cackle"? No. "Tackle"? No. "Oracle"? Yes!... Oh.)
For the people who pronounce SQL as sequel
People who pronounce "SQL" as "sequel" are pronouncing it incorrectly. The word pronounced "sequel" is spelled/spelt "SEQUEL", and is an actual (SQL database) product. "SQL" is pronounced "Ess Queue El". (Similarly, "URL" is pronouonced "Ewe Argh El", not "Earl"; "GUI" is pronounced "Gee You Eye", not "Gooey"; "UUID" is pronounced "Ewe You Aye Dee", not "Ee-eew Ihd"; and "OK" is pronounced "Oh Kay", not "Oh-Killy Dough-Killy".)
Do you have a means to destroy your drives if the government shows up with a warrant? If not, don't kid yourself: they'll get their grubby hands on your data anytime they choose to do so.
That's because environmentalists ARE wacky people who want to ruin entire industries and send mankind back to the stone age. Perhaps you don't feel that way, and I sympathize with you and other moderates of your movement who simply want reasonable conservation measure. But the "leaders" of the environmentalist movement, the ones getting on TV and running organizations like Greenpeace and PETA and so on, really DO want to eliminate entire industries, free all animals from any human involvement, ban the eating of meat and fish, etc. And so long as you keep supporting such extremeists in order to further your cause, you'll be ridiculed like the crazy whackjobs you are.
One hundred fifty years ago, people like you were painting abolitionist "wackos" the same way:
That's because abolitioniasts ARE wacky people who want to ruin entire industries and send mankind back to the stone age. Perhaps you don't feel that way, and I sympathize with you and other moderates of your movement who simply want reasonable slave rights. But the "leaders" of the abolitionist movement, the ones getting in newspapers and running organizations like the underground railroad and so on, really DO want to eliminate entire industries, free all slaves from any servile involvement, ban the slave trade, etc. And so long as you keep supporting such extremeists in order to further your cause, you'll be ridiculed like the crazy whackjobs you are.
What was "moral" yesterday may not be moral today, and what's "moral" today may not be moral tomorrow. There will come a time when people look back on meat-eaters, hunters, etc., in the present day with as much disapproval as we look back on slave-traders and slave-owners of the past.
There is only ONE word in common usage that pluralizes with 'ii' at the end: Radius - Radii.
Wrong. Julius Caesar and all of his clones are collectively known as Julii. Also, if a person is curious in many ways, he/she is curii. Yes, I'm serii.
There is no male equivalent to the entrapment that is "does my ass look fat in this" primarily because men don't generally care.
The proper response to that question is "Your ass doesn't look fat in anything, and the reason for that is that your ass isn't fat, has never been fat, never will be fat, and I really do like your mother, really.".
The GP was not comparing Clinton to Bush in any way that I can discern. Trying to excuse Bush's moral corruption and illegal behavior by claiming that he's not as bad as Clinton was is akin to saying that stabbing people isn't as bad as shooting them.
The reason that there is more Bush-bashing than Clinton-bashing these days is quite simple - Clinton is no longer in power. I'm sure that when the other Clinton wins in 2008, all of the Clinton apologists will be falling all over themselves saying that "she's not as bad as Bush was", and that "You Clinton haters are all alike, and you're united in your insanity." (although they will probably tack on "right-wing conspiracy" in there somewhere).
The sad fact is that the vast majority of presidents over the past 50 years have sucked, majorly sucked. Saying that one isn't as bad as another isn't saying much of anything at all.
Christians generally bury their dead, because Christians believe in the resurrection of the body.
If a person can be resurrected from a few bits of bone and (depending on environmental conditions and how long the person has been dead) some rotting or dessicated flesh, then why can't a person be resurrected from ash?
Set your default Comment Post Mode (near the bottom of the page) to "Plain Old Text". Then you no longer have to worry about adding <br> everywhere. (Despite the name, the only difference between "Plain Old Text" and "HTML Formatted" is that "Plain Old Text" inserts <br>s everywhere there's a newline. It takes other HTML just fine. For example, I am posting this reply using "Plain Old Text", and it contains <blockquote>, <i>, <a>, and <tt> tags, as well as <, >, and & character references.)
My point was that the architecture of Unix was designed for a multi-user environment from the start
But that's not what you wrote. What you wrote was that "the *nix OSs were designed from the start for a network environment". That's just not true, not for the original UNIX, anyway. The original UNIX was designed to facilitate Ken Thompson playing Space War on a PDP-8. The networking stuff didn't come along until later, and didn't really take off until NFS on Berkeley's version of UNIX (BSD), ten years after UNIX was first created. Even then, the security for NFS was severely flawed, in that anyone with root access to any machine on the network could access pretty much any NFS-mounted file.
It does if you use the "Plain Old Text" setting. The mis-named "Plain Old Text" setting recognizes everything that "HTML Formatted" does, and in addition adds <br> to the ends of lines.
Also, the "Preview" button lets you preview your post before you actually submit it.
Thanks for the info. Reading their TOS, it appears that they restrict their low-end customers to files under 10 MB, and attempt to regulate how the bandwidth is used (HTML pages vs zip/bz2 files, etc.). Since I may eventually have archives and other files over 10 MB on my site, this makes globat.com unsuitable for my needs.
Since I made the GP post, I have signed up with nearlyFreeSpeech.net (mentioned elsewhere in these comments), which has an innovative payment scheme that charges you for what you think that you will use (disk space and bandwidth), paid for in advance. Their FAQ specifically mentions Slashdotting and how to limit financial liability when it occurs. They are missing some features (e.g., anonymous FTP, virtual servers, co-hosting, etc.), so they may not be suitable for everybody, but they look like they will meet my needs just fine. Also, they are in the process of revamping their "control panel" system to get rid of JavaScript, which is great for me, because I have all scripting disabled in my browsers due to my extreme paranoia.
The timing of this article was very fortuitous for me, as I recently switched from dialup to DSL, and have been looking for a web host provider to replace the miniscule free space that came with my dialup account. As soon as I finish getting my new nFS sites set up, it's bye-bye, Earthlink.
The main problem that I see with Cleverdot and most other hosting companies is that they charge extra for exceeding monthly bandwidth limits. This can be really, really expensive if your site ever gets Slashdotted. What I'd like to see is an option to redirect to a "bandwith exceeded' page when the bandwidth is exceeded, with no extra charges. The problem with this, of course, is that if your bandwidth limit is exceeded near the beginning of the month, your site is offline for the rest of the month. To avoid this, one company that I checked out had a 30-day "sliding window" bandwidth policy. This meant that if you exceeded your thirty-day bandwidth limit, your site would be shut down only for the rest of the day. (Unfortunately, I forgot to bookmark that company, and have been looking for it (or one like it) ever since.)
It would be really nice if sites that review web host providers would indicate which sites are pay-extra-when-bandwidth-is-exceeded, and which are shutdown-when-bandwidth-is-exceeded.
Hyppönen said the vulnerability is supposed to hit "every Windows operating system since 1990".
The official Microsoft bulletin says it affects systems going back to Windows 98. Since my computer is running MS-Windows 95 (when it runs MS-Windows), it's safe.
Actually, as this article describes it nicely, there are two different kinds of atheism: the "weak atheism" (which is, as I stated above, a lack of belief), and the "strong atheism", which can be equaled to what you think atheism is. [...] I somehow have a feeling, though, as if you'll still stick to whichever definition fits best what you heared last sunday in the church. Say, isn't it a SIN to argue with a godless immoral (according to dictionary.com) being like me in public?
Several things:
That page was written by someone that I don't know, and he states in his opening paragraph that it represents "only one viewpoint" -- his own. I prefer more authoritative sources, such as the ones at dictionary.com
The last time that I was in a church was sometime in the 1990s, and that was only to attend a wedding. In the 1980s, I went maybe 3 or 4 times, to weddings and funeral services. I've never been to a "Sunday service" in my entire life, that I can recall.
I'm agnostic (definition 1b) (or a "weak" atheist, to use your definition of atheist). Actually, to be more accurate, I'm an "agnostic apatheist", which is a term that I made up. An agnostic apatheist is a person who is skeptical (UK: sceptical) about the existence of a god or gods, and furthermore doesn't care whether or not a god or gods exist.
It's spelled "heard", not "heared", and "Sunday" should be capitalized.
I am a bit surprised that you seem to think that I am religious. Nowhere in my post did I indicate that I was religious, nor did my post advocate any religious viewpoint. The fact that I didn't capitalize the word "god" (except when quoting dictionary.com) should have clued you in that I'm not a religious person. Considering the current state of our universe, if a god or creator does exist, then I don't really have a very high opinion of him/her/it.
Note that only def 2 of the Wordnet definition states that atheism is a lack of belief. Other definitions clearly state that atheism is a doctrine or belief that there is no god. So you can take your pick which definition to use. The ones that I and others choose to use is that atheism is the belief that god does not exist (i.e., that there is no god).
The reason for the flash remains unexplained by theory
Two words: Dyson Sphere. That's the reason that the star's temperature appears to be so low now, because what is actually being seen is waste heat emitted from the surface of the Dyson Sphere surrounding the star, and not anything from the star itself. The flash had something to do with the intial construction of the sphere, but I don't know what that is, because I'm not familiar enough with technology that advanced.
Slashdot Mirror
- Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
- Star Wars V: The Empire Strikes Back
- Aliens
- LOTR: The Two Towers
- LOTR: The Return of the King
- Superman 3
- Biodome 2
- Plan 10 From Outer Space
- Stargate SG-2: Electronic Bugaloo
(O.K., those last four were just to see if you were paying attention.)(Let's see, "debacle", OK, uh, um, "monacle"? (No, that's "monocle".) "Cackle"? No. "Tackle"? No. "Oracle"? Yes!
The word pronounced "sequel" is spelled/spelt "SEQUEL", and is an actual (SQL database) product.
"SQL" is pronounced "Ess Queue El".
(Similarly, "URL" is pronouonced "Ewe Argh El", not "Earl"; "GUI" is pronounced "Gee You Eye", not "Gooey"; "UUID" is pronounced "Ewe You Aye Dee", not "Ee-eew Ihd"; and "OK" is pronounced "Oh Kay", not "Oh-Killy Dough-Killy".)
How about renaming it to "XxtraSqL"?
That would be much less awkward.
There will come a time when people look back on meat-eaters, hunters, etc., in the present day with as much disapproval as we look back on slave-traders and slave-owners of the past.
I have a patent on using darts to decide who to sue.
Julius Caesar and all of his clones are collectively known as Julii.
Also, if a person is curious in many ways, he/she is curii.
Yes, I'm serii.
Actually, the MPAA has now changed their name to "The Movie Pirates' Associateion of America".
The GP was not comparing Clinton to Bush in any way that I can discern.
Trying to excuse Bush's moral corruption and illegal behavior by claiming that he's not as bad as Clinton was is akin to saying that stabbing people isn't as bad as shooting them.
The reason that there is more Bush-bashing than Clinton-bashing these days is quite simple - Clinton is no longer in power.
I'm sure that when the other Clinton wins in 2008, all of the Clinton apologists will be falling all over themselves saying that "she's not as bad as Bush was", and that "You Clinton haters are all alike, and you're united in your insanity." (although they will probably tack on "right-wing conspiracy" in there somewhere).
The sad fact is that the vast majority of presidents over the past 50 years have sucked, majorly sucked.
Saying that one isn't as bad as another isn't saying much of anything at all.
Then you no longer have to worry about adding <br> everywhere.
(Despite the name, the only difference between "Plain Old Text" and "HTML Formatted" is that "Plain Old Text" inserts <br>s everywhere there's a newline.
It takes other HTML just fine.
For example, I am posting this reply using "Plain Old Text", and it contains <blockquote>, <i>, <a>, and <tt> tags, as well as <, >, and & character references.)
What you wrote was that "the *nix OSs were designed from the start for a network environment".
That's just not true, not for the original UNIX, anyway.
The original UNIX was designed to facilitate Ken Thompson playing Space War on a PDP-8.
The networking stuff didn't come along until later, and didn't really take off until NFS on Berkeley's version of UNIX (BSD), ten years after UNIX was first created.
Even then, the security for NFS was severely flawed, in that anyone with root access to any machine on the network could access pretty much any NFS-mounted file.
The mis-named "Plain Old Text" setting recognizes everything that "HTML Formatted" does, and in addition adds <br> to the ends of lines.
Also, the "Preview" button lets you preview your post before you actually submit it.
Thanks for the info.
Reading their TOS, it appears that they restrict their low-end customers to files under 10 MB, and attempt to regulate how the bandwidth is used (HTML pages vs zip/bz2 files, etc.).
Since I may eventually have archives and other files over 10 MB on my site, this makes globat.com unsuitable for my needs.
Since I made the GP post, I have signed up with nearlyFreeSpeech.net (mentioned elsewhere in these comments), which has an innovative payment scheme that charges you for what you think that you will use (disk space and bandwidth), paid for in advance.
Their FAQ specifically mentions Slashdotting and how to limit financial liability when it occurs.
They are missing some features (e.g., anonymous FTP, virtual servers, co-hosting, etc.), so they may not be suitable for everybody, but they look like they will meet my needs just fine.
Also, they are in the process of revamping their "control panel" system to get rid of JavaScript, which is great for me, because I have all scripting disabled in my browsers due to my extreme paranoia.
The timing of this article was very fortuitous for me, as I recently switched from dialup to DSL, and have been looking for a web host provider to replace the miniscule free space that came with my dialup account.
As soon as I finish getting my new nFS sites set up, it's bye-bye, Earthlink.
Folk songs.
Medieval paintings and tapestries.
Organic vegetables.
Shaker furniture.
Janet Jackson's nipple.
Ordinary window glass.
Monica Lewinsky.
Cotton Towels.
The main problem that I see with Cleverdot and most other hosting companies is that they charge extra for exceeding monthly bandwidth limits.
This can be really, really expensive if your site ever gets Slashdotted.
What I'd like to see is an option to redirect to a "bandwith exceeded' page when the bandwidth is exceeded, with no extra charges.
The problem with this, of course, is that if your bandwidth limit is exceeded near the beginning of the month, your site is offline for the rest of the month.
To avoid this, one company that I checked out had a 30-day "sliding window" bandwidth policy.
This meant that if you exceeded your thirty-day bandwidth limit, your site would be shut down only for the rest of the day.
(Unfortunately, I forgot to bookmark that company, and have been looking for it (or one like it) ever since.)
It would be really nice if sites that review web host providers would indicate which sites are pay-extra-when-bandwidth-is-exceeded, and which are shutdown-when-bandwidth-is-exceeded.
Since my computer is running MS-Windows 95 (when it runs MS-Windows), it's safe.
- That page was written by someone that I don't know, and he states in his opening paragraph that it represents "only one viewpoint" -- his own.
- The last time that I was in a church was sometime in the 1990s, and that was only to attend a wedding.
- I'm agnostic (definition 1b) (or a "weak" atheist, to use your definition of atheist).
- It's spelled "heard", not "heared", and "Sunday" should be capitalized.
I am a bit surprised that you seem to think that I am religious.I prefer more authoritative sources, such as the ones at dictionary.com
In the 1980s, I went maybe 3 or 4 times, to weddings and funeral services.
I've never been to a "Sunday service" in my entire life, that I can recall.
Actually, to be more accurate, I'm an "agnostic apatheist", which is a term that I made up.
An agnostic apatheist is a person who is skeptical (UK: sceptical) about the existence of a god or gods, and furthermore doesn't care whether or not a god or gods exist.
Nowhere in my post did I indicate that I was religious, nor did my post advocate any religious viewpoint.
The fact that I didn't capitalize the word "god" (except when quoting dictionary.com) should have clued you in that I'm not a religious person.
Considering the current state of our universe, if a god or creator does exist, then I don't really have a very high opinion of him/her/it.
Other definitions clearly state that atheism is a doctrine or belief that there is no god.
So you can take your pick which definition to use.
The ones that I and others choose to use is that atheism is the belief that god does not exist (i.e., that there is no god).
Yes, I know; Whoosh!
Misspellings are frequently intentional, to bypass some spam filters.
That's the reason that the star's temperature appears to be so low now, because what is actually being seen is waste heat emitted from the surface of the Dyson Sphere surrounding the star, and not anything from the star itself.
The flash had something to do with the intial construction of the sphere, but I don't know what that is, because I'm not familiar enough with technology that advanced.
Definitely a Dyson Sphere, though.
Definitely.