What I don't get is if '0' means 'none', then how did we evolve to use base-10 (10 digits), and not base-11? We count 10 fingers. But 0 is no fingers. Shouldn't it have been 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 $digity, while still having a 0?
to advance their game to the point where the public recognizes it as a true sport.
Uh. what? As an endurance athlete who participates in 24 hour mountain bike races as a focus, I take offense at your dream.
Sports are things that require physical training, body dexterity, endurance, proper diet, and mentally pushing far beyond the threshold of pain. There is no way in hell that playing a computer game can even remotely be thought of as a sport. I feel the same way about golf and to a lesser extent baseball.
...at my last job I would use it a lot to lookup the full range of netblocks for mail servers that did not behave well with greylisting. Mail farms with greylisting when the other end treats 4xx's like 5xx's is annoying.
It's also the method I used to stop abusive networks (usually in china) from hitting ours. You know one address, you can find the full range assigned to them using whois.
Likewise, we don't need a politican leading this country. We need LEADERS not politicians. AFAICT, none of those running show the signs of being competent leaders.
I think the main distinction is team sports. Football, Basketball, Baseball. When I was in high school, those are where I saw the jocks as described in these definitions. Not even the wrestlers acted like that (and our school was big into wrestling, with several of our guys wrestling at the state and national level). Nor did the track, or cross country athletes (of which I was one, as well as being a 'band fag').
Of course not all football/baseball/basketball players were like that, but I didn't see that behavior at all in any other sport.
Fast forward to today. Those adults playing team sports still strike me as dumb jocks vs. those who are runners, triathletes, cyclists, endurance athletes.
Just my observations in the central pennsylvania area. I realize it's likely different elsewhere.
The GPSs that I have used do not triangulate for elevation for their distance and speed calculations, so are usually showing a speed and distance lower than actual. Not sure how that affects the car, but it certainly shows a difference between my bicycle computer and what the GPS says.
While I agree with everything being said here, the woman did name the video "Let's Go Crazy". If I were an artist, and somebody named a video after one of my songs, I'd be a little upset too. I wouldn't demand the video itself be taken down, however. I would just ask the person to change the title of their video, as it has the potential to misrepresent my own work.
The video itself, leave it up. But please change the name. Maybe this is the real problem the purple one has with this?
Good advice. But what about those who would steal from your mailbox? There was a story on/. not so long ago about exactly that happening (guy made a copy of the mailbox key, and idiot bank was sending account info in the mail!).
Well, it's hard to teach this old dog new tricks. I shall continue to use two spaces after each sentence end, and also after my state and before my zip code in address blocks. Neener!
no mod points today, but this pretty much sums up my feelings on the matter.
There is no right to being rich just because you sing or are in a band. Play local shows, get paid for doing it. Use CDs and downloads to *PROMOTE* your music. If you become popular enough, play bigger shows.
On a somewhat related topic: Why anybody would actually pay for lossy downloads not encoded, tagged, or named the way you keep your own collection is beyond me. How about either providing in FLAC or sell CDs for $5?
Note to self: E-mail samzenpus about keeping consistant between writing numbers out ('hundred') versus using the number ('50') in articles. Bitch obsessively for three paragraphs in grammar nazi stylings designed to take him down a peg. Who does he think he is? Offering me aggregated news at no cost!? The very nerve!
Just use at least 100 or over 9000. I don't remember the right number, but I read something about it last thursday.
Is there a common standard term for them yet? People I know call them variously "USB drive", "USB key", "Key drive", "Pen Drive", "Memory Stick", "USB stick", "USB..um..memory..thing", or "You know, that thing that goes in the USB slot that you keep stuff on". I personally call mine 'Steve' to avoid the confusion.
You forgot jump drive, key disk, and thumb drive.
IBM had one of the first (actually made by Kanga?). 8 whole meg!
I was a business class customer of a local cable company that comcast bought out. Back then, I was pretty much forced to pay extra for that service because they blocked all inbound smtp and http (which I provided on my servers). But, the commercial service was actually nice, and when I had a problem, they were very responsive and I had a direct line to L2 techs who knew what they were doing.
Comcast then bought the company. I only found out when my bill arrived and it was now from comcast. They never told me I needed to change anything, and my service was still working and the bill amount was the same, so I didn't really care.
One weekend, I lost connectivity. My own end seemed fine, as I was seeing the typical stream of ARP requests flying by on comcast's network. It looked to me like my default gateway was down. I called and explained the symptoms.
The tech was confused and thought I should own a comcast router (I didn't...I run my own firewall with a regular linksys cablemodem). This would be a matter of contention for the next 2 months.
Anyway, the problem persisted intermittently. To their credit, I did finally get through to a support rep who actually discovered the real problem: My modem was being intermittently filtered for some reason. He did explain that comcast was moving to using their own routers for all business class customers (same service, they just give you a static IP address in a 'good' netblock). I continued to use my old ISP config, and it worked, so I didn't care.
Problem came back, but this time I knew the likely cause. This time the support lady was a total asshole demanding that I owned some form of comcast equipment, and that they would need to send a technician out (after explaining to her several times what was really going on) to remove that equipment and install their new solution. At this point, I was sick of paying extra for service I was not receiving so began the process of going back to residential service.
Long story short, I had to sign some form to give comcast permission to cut my commercial service and go back to residential. They mailed this form to me in such a way that my server dropped it (their server was on the spamhaus block/exploit list!). I finally got the form and filled it out.
2 days later, service is dead again. #$!@$#@!$. Again, they claim that I own some sort of comcast gear (b/c I was a commercial customer, and they have a certain way to do that...but I was transplanted from an ISP that they bought out...this is like the 20th time I've explained this to them). They will schedule a time to send a technician out. I agree, for now, and then call back to cancel the nonsense (hoping to speak to somebody with more clue)
When I complain about this, I finally get the rep to concede that they don't need to send anybody out, and that they will transfer me to residential class service. They *FINALLY* understand that I don't have any of their equipment. I continue to use my old static IP address, which still works (go figure), because they have not given me any connection information yet to change (this is for a change that they were definitely going to force on me...and I have yet to hear any official news of this, other than when I call to report problems with my service).
I did eventually get changed to residential service. Biggest hassle is that I have to smart relay through comcast's SMTP servers. Luckily they don't block inbound ports, so I can get away with paying less.
Here's the fun part. Last week there was a router from comcast sitting on my porch. Inside was a letter about them changing my commercial service (which I no longer have due to the frustrations with my connection and horrible customer service). This thing showed up about a month after I started having problems, and AFTER I changed to residential service! These people obviously have a serious lack of internal communication that rivals even that with their customers!
The issue with 1 click is not whether or not it was obvious to a web developer. It is whether or not business method patents that fundamentally simply map a practice in the non-online world ("put this on my account") to the online world ("1 click") should be permitted.
No business method or software patents should be allowed whether online or not. Problem solved.
Why rightly? Most of these things are trojans that the idiot user had to somewhow install themselves. Real worms aren't likely to nail users, if they are using windows update, and are behind a hardware firewall. If you are infected, you should be taken off the network until the problem is resolved. End of story.
No, it wasn't that they sent 600,000 messages. It is that they did it FRAUDULENTLY. I doubt they'd have any jail time at all if they had sent from their own domain, with valid return addresses, etc. It's still sleazy, but at least it isn't fraud then.
Extremeism in any form is bad. I have a bad feeling that If Gore were president, he'd have laws enstated that would be so draconian that it would keep those who are the best allies for conservation out. Like what has happened with trail access in Pennsylvania at the hands of the state game commission. What ultimately ends up happening is you alienate those who were helping, and the highest-bidder then comes in and wipes out everything you were supposedly 'protecting.'
If you enjoy the outdoors, and getting away from cities, an environmental extremeist likely isn't who you want running your country.
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What I don't get is if '0' means 'none', then how did we evolve to use base-10 (10 digits), and not base-11? We count 10 fingers. But 0 is no fingers. Shouldn't it have been 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 $digity, while still having a 0?
Oh well.
Uh. what? As an endurance athlete who participates in 24 hour mountain bike races as a focus, I take offense at your dream.
Sports are things that require physical training, body dexterity, endurance, proper diet, and mentally pushing far beyond the threshold of pain. There is no way in hell that playing a computer game can even remotely be thought of as a sport. I feel the same way about golf and to a lesser extent baseball.
...at my last job I would use it a lot to lookup the full range of netblocks for mail servers that did not behave well with greylisting. Mail farms with greylisting when the other end treats 4xx's like 5xx's is annoying.
It's also the method I used to stop abusive networks (usually in china) from hitting ours. You know one address, you can find the full range assigned to them using whois.
Likewise, we don't need a politican leading this country. We need LEADERS not politicians. AFAICT, none of those running show the signs of being competent leaders.
I think the main distinction is team sports. Football, Basketball, Baseball. When I was in high school, those are where I saw the jocks as described in these definitions. Not even the wrestlers acted like that (and our school was big into wrestling, with several of our guys wrestling at the state and national level). Nor did the track, or cross country athletes (of which I was one, as well as being a 'band fag').
Of course not all football/baseball/basketball players were like that, but I didn't see that behavior at all in any other sport.
Fast forward to today. Those adults playing team sports still strike me as dumb jocks vs. those who are runners, triathletes, cyclists, endurance athletes.
Just my observations in the central pennsylvania area. I realize it's likely different elsewhere.
The GPSs that I have used do not triangulate for elevation for their distance and speed calculations, so are usually showing a speed and distance lower than actual. Not sure how that affects the car, but it certainly shows a difference between my bicycle computer and what the GPS says.
BMI had youtube tear down all of the home movies people shot of the superbowl half time show too.
While I agree with everything being said here, the woman did name the video "Let's Go Crazy". If I were an artist, and somebody named a video after one of my songs, I'd be a little upset too. I wouldn't demand the video itself be taken down, however. I would just ask the person to change the title of their video, as it has the potential to misrepresent my own work.
The video itself, leave it up. But please change the name. Maybe this is the real problem the purple one has with this?
It was.
but the sandisk products are some of the least expensive on the market (the sansa series blows the ipod nano away)
The Matrix runs on windoze? Ick.
That explains the deja vu on changes, I guess.
Good advice. But what about those who would steal from your mailbox? There was a story on /. not so long ago about exactly that happening (guy made a copy of the mailbox key, and idiot bank was sending account info in the mail!).
Well, it's hard to teach this old dog new tricks. I shall continue to use two spaces after each sentence end, and also after my state and before my zip code in address blocks. Neener!
Giving away CDs and downloads as promotion for your live shows seems like a good idea to me.
no mod points today, but this pretty much sums up my feelings on the matter.
There is no right to being rich just because you sing or are in a band. Play local shows, get paid for doing it. Use CDs and downloads to *PROMOTE* your music. If you become popular enough, play bigger shows.
On a somewhat related topic: Why anybody would actually pay for lossy downloads not encoded, tagged, or named the way you keep your own collection is beyond me. How about either providing in FLAC or sell CDs for $5?
Just use at least 100 or over 9000. I don't remember the right number, but I read something about it last thursday.
You forgot jump drive, key disk, and thumb drive.
IBM had one of the first (actually made by Kanga?). 8 whole meg!
Comcast provides more than TV, and the lady's problems were with a lot of that stuff, as are most people's.
I might as well...
I was a business class customer of a local cable company that comcast bought out. Back then, I was pretty much forced to pay extra for that service because they blocked all inbound smtp and http (which I provided on my servers). But, the commercial service was actually nice, and when I had a problem, they were very responsive and I had a direct line to L2 techs who knew what they were doing.
Comcast then bought the company. I only found out when my bill arrived and it was now from comcast. They never told me I needed to change anything, and my service was still working and the bill amount was the same, so I didn't really care.
One weekend, I lost connectivity. My own end seemed fine, as I was seeing the typical stream of ARP requests flying by on comcast's network. It looked to me like my default gateway was down. I called and explained the symptoms.
The tech was confused and thought I should own a comcast router (I didn't...I run my own firewall with a regular linksys cablemodem). This would be a matter of contention for the next 2 months.
Anyway, the problem persisted intermittently. To their credit, I did finally get through to a support rep who actually discovered the real problem: My modem was being intermittently filtered for some reason. He did explain that comcast was moving to using their own routers for all business class customers (same service, they just give you a static IP address in a 'good' netblock). I continued to use my old ISP config, and it worked, so I didn't care.
Problem came back, but this time I knew the likely cause. This time the support lady was a total asshole demanding that I owned some form of comcast equipment, and that they would need to send a technician out (after explaining to her several times what was really going on) to remove that equipment and install their new solution. At this point, I was sick of paying extra for service I was not receiving so began the process of going back to residential service.
Long story short, I had to sign some form to give comcast permission to cut my commercial service and go back to residential. They mailed this form to me in such a way that my server dropped it (their server was on the spamhaus block/exploit list!). I finally got the form and filled it out.
2 days later, service is dead again. #$!@$#@!$. Again, they claim that I own some sort of comcast gear (b/c I was a commercial customer, and they have a certain way to do that...but I was transplanted from an ISP that they bought out...this is like the 20th time I've explained this to them). They will schedule a time to send a technician out. I agree, for now, and then call back to cancel the nonsense (hoping to speak to somebody with more clue)
When I complain about this, I finally get the rep to concede that they don't need to send anybody out, and that they will transfer me to residential class service. They *FINALLY* understand that I don't have any of their equipment. I continue to use my old static IP address, which still works (go figure), because they have not given me any connection information yet to change (this is for a change that they were definitely going to force on me...and I have yet to hear any official news of this, other than when I call to report problems with my service).
I did eventually get changed to residential service. Biggest hassle is that I have to smart relay through comcast's SMTP servers. Luckily they don't block inbound ports, so I can get away with paying less.
Here's the fun part. Last week there was a router from comcast sitting on my porch. Inside was a letter about them changing my commercial service (which I no longer have due to the frustrations with my connection and horrible customer service). This thing showed up about a month after I started having problems, and AFTER I changed to residential service! These people obviously have a serious lack of internal communication that rivals even that with their customers!
If they ha
No business method or software patents should be allowed whether online or not. Problem solved.
Why rightly? Most of these things are trojans that the idiot user had to somewhow install themselves. Real worms aren't likely to nail users, if they are using windows update, and are behind a hardware firewall. If you are infected, you should be taken off the network until the problem is resolved. End of story.
No, it wasn't that they sent 600,000 messages. It is that they did it FRAUDULENTLY. I doubt they'd have any jail time at all if they had sent from their own domain, with valid return addresses, etc. It's still sleazy, but at least it isn't fraud then.
Ha! Wish I had mod points :)
It's a south park reference: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manbearpig
Extremeism in any form is bad. I have a bad feeling that If Gore were president, he'd have laws enstated that would be so draconian that it would keep those who are the best allies for conservation out. Like what has happened with trail access in Pennsylvania at the hands of the state game commission. What ultimately ends up happening is you alienate those who were helping, and the highest-bidder then comes in and wipes out everything you were supposedly 'protecting.'
If you enjoy the outdoors, and getting away from cities, an environmental extremeist likely isn't who you want running your country.