This is alot like story that the guest speaker at my sisters' graduation last year used.
He compared life to a set of five juggling balls. These balls represent self, love, family, friends and work. Your entire life you are responsible for juggling all five but there is one catch: all of them are made of glass except for work... it's made of rubber and will always bounce back.
At that point work was dragging on me and this helped me put what matters into perspective. Since then I've changed jobs and I'm much happier now.
When you do a search for such a domain (fuckedcompany.com for example) they give the following rules:
- Use only letters, numbers, or hyphen ("-")
- Cannot begin or end with a hyphen
-.com,.net and.org domain names cannot exceed 67 characters total
- Other domain names cannot exceed 22 characters, not including the extension
- Domain names are not case sensitive
- Domain names cannot include spaces
There doesn't seem to be anything there about 4 letter words.
You are correct. Sometimes they also use cookies but all that really matters is the uni-pixel image. I got confused between this and something else I'm working on involving cookies.
Most of the comments are in pretty poor taste. The/. editors should know by now that posting obituaries just brings out the weirdos because it happens every time. Actually to be honest the weirdos are always here.
Examples can be found here, here and here.
You don't need a browser that doesn't read HTML to stop this. Most (all?) current email programs allow you to not accept cookies (or have a box that asks you) when you are viewing HTML pages. Or better yet, get a program like CookiePal that lets you control every aspect of the cookies that are trying to reach your system.
...the little antennae that keep popping out of the top of my computer on a regular basis. Now I know that it's just my computer signalling the BSA about any illegal software I may be running:)
This was an analogy I heard a while ago at one of my sisters' graduation. I don't remember if it was attributed to anyone.
The basic idea is that life is five balls: family, friends, self, love, and work. In life you must juggle all five but he work ball is made of ruber... if you drop it, it will bounce right back. The other four are made of glass and you must be very careful to balance them as they will take a long time to repair if you drop one of them.
It sounds corny but at the time it helped me make a few difficult decisions about work and now I'm more successful yet happier in all other aspects of my life.
I had an opportunity this weekend to perform a similiar test using my Sony WEGA XBR and a Playstation 2. I was unimpressed by the playback quality when compared to my reference player (also a Sony).
My friends and I could all see and hear differences using the Matrix and Toy Story 2. There was a couple of spots in the Matrix where it almost seemed liked the player couldn't 'keep up'. Sounds weird but I don't know how else to explain it.
Though I must say we had a blast playing those games... that is an impressive game machine and will be really interesting to play in a year or so when they nail down how to program for it:)
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I get this when I type DnD into IE5... it leads me to think this movie is some sort of plot by the Canadian Armed Forces to dominate the minds of geeks everywhere.
People, please don't get upset at CmdrTaco and Hemos as it is obviously not them that is posting the same stories over and over (and over) again. It is the evil hackers who cracked their security and installed a bot that takes an earlier story and reposts it. It's nothing but an elaborate version of the many trollbots.
Ok so now not only do we have troll bots posting random messages to the various threads but it appears that Hemos has also been replaced by one that reposts earlier stories.
I hope CmdrTaco gets a handle on this thing before it picks up on the Katz stories and goes into a recursive loop posting nothing but Katz all day!
Will neither of these places have a preorder plan don't expect there to be any of these out on the floor for more than a few seconds as most toy scalpers are heavily connected at both WalMart and Target. There contacts will inform them of a new box before bringing it out onto the floor to make sure they can buy them up and sell them for the above mentioned crazy markups.
At some local stores the inside contact is actually a manager so the stuff just comes into the store and then leaves again through the loading dock. If this sounds like a conspiracy check out the boards frequented by toy collectors (Hot Wheels, Beanie Babies, etc...)
Actually from what I understand they wanted to use One Click but as covered extensively on Slashdot that has been taken by Amazon. My sources at Microsoft say that they are looking into patenting Multiple Click.
That's exactly what we have with Bell Canada. They manage everything from the router out and all we had to do was setup our firewall. The tech support is also amazing but from what I understand that is only for the business service... the personal service still gets you on the line with a drone reading through a problem solving manual -- "Ok, open your browser and click the tools button by pressing your finger on the left mouse button. A grey rectangle will open up now click the tab..."
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You just have to get the fire hot enough :)
kc.
This is alot like story that the guest speaker at my sisters' graduation last year used.
He compared life to a set of five juggling balls. These balls represent self, love, family, friends and work. Your entire life you are responsible for juggling all five but there is one catch: all of them are made of glass except for work... it's made of rubber and will always bounce back.
At that point work was dragging on me and this helped me put what matters into perspective. Since then I've changed jobs and I'm much happier now.
kc.
Microbucks or Starsoft? :)
kc.
When you do a search for such a domain (fuckedcompany.com for example) they give the following rules:
.com, .net and .org domain names cannot exceed 67 characters total
- Use only letters, numbers, or hyphen ("-")
- Cannot begin or end with a hyphen
-
- Other domain names cannot exceed 22 characters, not including the extension
- Domain names are not case sensitive
- Domain names cannot include spaces
There doesn't seem to be anything there about 4 letter words.
kc.
You are correct. Sometimes they also use cookies but all that really matters is the uni-pixel image. I got confused between this and something else I'm working on involving cookies.
kc.
Most of the comments are in pretty poor taste. The /. editors should know by now that posting obituaries just brings out the weirdos because it happens every time. Actually to be honest the weirdos are always here.
Examples can be found here, here and here.
kc.
You don't need a browser that doesn't read HTML to stop this. Most (all?) current email programs allow you to not accept cookies (or have a box that asks you) when you are viewing HTML pages. Or better yet, get a program like CookiePal that lets you control every aspect of the cookies that are trying to reach your system.
kc.
Foreseeing the flod of Americans wanting to move to Canada we've created a form that you can fill in before you arrive.
It can be downloaded here.
kc.
That may be, but Sony's decision appears to be totally financial at this point. This is even mentioned in the intro paragraph.
kc.
...the little antennae that keep popping out of the top of my computer on a regular basis. Now I know that it's just my computer signalling the BSA about any illegal software I may be running :)
kc.
This was an analogy I heard a while ago at one of my sisters' graduation. I don't remember if it was attributed to anyone.
The basic idea is that life is five balls: family, friends, self, love, and work. In life you must juggle all five but he work ball is made of ruber... if you drop it, it will bounce right back. The other four are made of glass and you must be very careful to balance them as they will take a long time to repair if you drop one of them.
It sounds corny but at the time it helped me make a few difficult decisions about work and now I'm more successful yet happier in all other aspects of my life.
kc.
That's not what they were referring to. They were referring to th is ad campaign during the Superbowl.
kc.
I had an opportunity this weekend to perform a similiar test using my Sony WEGA XBR and a Playstation 2. I was unimpressed by the playback quality when compared to my reference player (also a Sony).
:)
My friends and I could all see and hear differences using the Matrix and Toy Story 2. There was a couple of spots in the Matrix where it almost seemed liked the player couldn't 'keep up'. Sounds weird but I don't know how else to explain it.
Though I must say we had a blast playing those games... that is an impressive game machine and will be really interesting to play in a year or so when they nail down how to program for it
kc.
Moderators? Anyone? Bueller?
kc.
I get this when I type DnD into IE5... it leads me to think this movie is some sort of plot by the Canadian Armed Forces to dominate the minds of geeks everywhere.
kc.
What do I do when I pee on my laptop?
kc.
People, please don't get upset at CmdrTaco and Hemos as it is obviously not them that is posting the same stories over and over (and over) again. It is the evil hackers who cracked their security and installed a bot that takes an earlier story and reposts it. It's nothing but an elaborate version of the many trollbots.
kc.
Doesn't everyone just use 'slashdot' for their password?
kc.
Now I can use this to print my very own Natalie Portman :)
(Moderate me down but if I hadn't said it someone else would have).
kc.
Ok so now not only do we have troll bots posting random messages to the various threads but it appears that Hemos has also been replaced by one that reposts earlier stories.
I hope CmdrTaco gets a handle on this thing before it picks up on the Katz stories and goes into a recursive loop posting nothing but Katz all day!
kc.
Will neither of these places have a preorder plan don't expect there to be any of these out on the floor for more than a few seconds as most toy scalpers are heavily connected at both WalMart and Target. There contacts will inform them of a new box before bringing it out onto the floor to make sure they can buy them up and sell them for the above mentioned crazy markups.
At some local stores the inside contact is actually a manager so the stuff just comes into the store and then leaves again through the loading dock. If this sounds like a conspiracy check out the boards frequented by toy collectors (Hot Wheels, Beanie Babies, etc...)
kc.
Actually from what I understand they wanted to use One Click but as covered extensively on Slashdot that has been taken by Amazon. My sources at Microsoft say that they are looking into patenting Multiple Click.
kc.
That's exactly what we have with Bell Canada. They manage everything from the router out and all we had to do was setup our firewall. The tech support is also amazing but from what I understand that is only for the business service... the personal service still gets you on the line with a drone reading through a problem solving manual -- "Ok, open your browser and click the tools button by pressing your finger on the left mouse button. A grey rectangle will open up now click the tab..."
kc.
Sounds pretty good to me but I say we make it the original 16 from the show Survivor and throw in a few junkyard dogs. That would be 'Must See TV' :)
kc.