Would that be Oxford Books? I moved away from Atlanta, and came back a year later, and it was gone! How could you Atlanta-eans allow that to happen? That was the coolest bookstore ever...
Didn't you know that's what you and everyone was really doing when you were 'playing' Asteroids on all those consoles? It is a little known fact that, during the 80's, the Earth was passing through a mini asteroid belt, and rather than training 1000s of astronauts to operate the particle weapons, they simply decided to take advantage of the natural twitchiness of kids.
Don't want to do a "Me, too", but I must say Amen to your comment. If someone thinks it's okay to use a piece of equipment without learning anything about it, they need to support the morons that real working people have to support.
>Not being able to spell does not make someone stupid you fucking dumbfuck.
In my mind, "not being able to spell" is a misnomer. The original writer was sitting at a computer, for God's sake. If they had any desire to spell something correctly, all they had to do was check their comment in a word processor before posting. Poor spelling is a choice, or a habit, not an affliction. In my mind, the mindset that someone takes on to allow themselves to be a poor speller is closely related to general laziness, so don't be surprised when someone looks down on a 'poor speller'. It is a good indicator of work habits, and personal habits as well.
Did you get the little green one with the screen border that looks like a stadium? The one with the three rows of flashing red blip "players"? I got one of those when I was six or eight years old (I'm 31 now), and I still have it. Works too! Sorry, just thought I'd share.
Point taken, but it's just different. Yes, libraries can be great fun to browse through, but I just get a completely different feeling when I step into a used bookstore. I guess the feeling of 'potentiality' is just higher/better/different. All I know is that I enjoy going to libraries and I enjoy going to used bookstores, but I get that tingly feeling only at the latter. I dunno, maybe it's just a misdirected or unacknowledged desire to possess, but I know that if I find something at a used bookstore I get to take it home and keep it on my shelf, but if I find something at a library I eventually have to take it back.
Aw, man...anyone that says that doesn't understand that it is the pursuit, not the end result, that is the magical thing! I agree with Thornae up a little higher...the thrill of used books is not because of the acquisition itself, but rather it is the hunt that makes the thing irresistible. I buy a lot (I mean a LOT) of books online, but I don't buy novels that way. I enjoy finding a small, out of the way place where I can browse for hours, never having anything particular in mind, but still being amazed at what I find. Other people can seal up their book collections in shrinkwrap, and I admit I've got certain prized volumes that I treat that carefully, but don't discount the fun of hunting in used bookstores...it isn't all about perfection.
I've run into this as well. Recently I started having a jones to acquire an old Everex Step Megacube (486 circa 1991 or 1992). To my amazement, there were NO auctions on Ebay for one. What's worse, I went to every auction site I could think of and found nothing. I should have known, however, because the other sites (ubid, Amazon auctions, Yahoo auctions) have probably 1/10th of the auctions that Ebay has combined. Oh well, I'll find one eventually.
Actually, if this is what he said, he wasn't checking his figures very well. Here's the problem:
- There are about 1,273 million people in China, according to www.prb.org.
- If they walk 10 abreast, that's 127.3 million rows.
- If you count five feet between people as a reasonable margin (measuring from center of person to center of person), that means your line would take up 636,500,000 feet approx.
- That's 120,550 miles approx., so if you assume a 5mph marching speed, it would take 24,110 hours to get them past a given spot. That's about 1005 days, or 2 years and maybe nine months.
You can, of course, massage these numbers to make it take longer, but it appears that no matter what your assumption was it would only take about 2.75-4.00 years for them to pass a given spot. This doesn't allow for the fact that the line would wrap around the earth maybe five times. If Cerf implied that it wouldn't end because of this, then he is right. Otherwise, those Chinese folks don't live very long.
Small piece of business advice...if you are working on a beach where the nearest 'other' locksmith is 40 minutes away, you need to be charging TWICE what they do, not half. Supply and demand is a harsh bitch sometimes.
The BETTER METHOD for cancelling AOL is to call the number above, but then tell the person you talk to "I don't want to be sent to the SAVE QUEUE". That is AOL-speak for those people whose sole job is to talk you out of qutting, or making it so difficult you give up (like Brian). Telling them you don't want the save queue will tell the person you know what's up and they'll go ahead and cancel your account.
You don't really want to do that. Haven't you noticed how it seems slimmer one day, then bloats up overnight? Or that once it starts working well for you, it wants to take over the whole computer for itself?
This was well explained in a "Terminator Universe" book I just got through reading. If you think about it really carefully, there is another source for the future-technology that made the Terminator possible. Can you think of it? No? Most people forget it (I did until I read the book). Remember when Arnie and the T-1000 are fighting and Arnie's arm gets caught up in the big gears? What does he do? He wrenches it off and leaves it there. Nuff said.
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"now-extinct bookstore..."
Would that be Oxford Books? I moved away from Atlanta, and came back a year later, and it was gone! How could you Atlanta-eans allow that to happen? That was the coolest bookstore ever...
Oh God, someone else that feels the way I do. Doncha just hate the 'Let's just be friends' crap? Um...not that I'd know anything about that...ah crap.
"nice big red button on the wall. no labels, no "DO NOT PUSH" signs"
It didn't say 'Do not push'...that above quote is directly from the poster's message.
"nice big red button on the wall. no labels, no "DO NOT PUSH" signs"
Didn't say 'Do not push'...that above quote is directly from the poster's message.
I just flashed to Ben Stein in "Ferris Bueller":
"Okay class, I'm going to call the roll now. Euler? Euler?"
"...sound like a clown farting through a kazoo"
That's one of the funniest analogies I've ever heard. I think I'm going to write a book just so I can have one of the characters say that..
You really want a computer built by a pothead? Nothing against the potheads on this forum, but geez...
Didn't you know that's what you and everyone was really doing when you were 'playing' Asteroids on all those consoles? It is a little known fact that, during the 80's, the Earth was passing through a mini asteroid belt, and rather than training 1000s of astronauts to operate the particle weapons, they simply decided to take advantage of the natural twitchiness of kids.
Don't want to do a "Me, too", but I must say Amen to your comment. If someone thinks it's okay to use a piece of equipment without learning anything about it, they need to support the morons that real working people have to support.
>Not being able to spell does not make someone stupid you fucking dumbfuck.
In my mind, "not being able to spell" is a misnomer. The original writer was sitting at a computer, for God's sake. If they had any desire to spell something correctly, all they had to do was check their comment in a word processor before posting. Poor spelling is a choice, or a habit, not an affliction. In my mind, the mindset that someone takes on to allow themselves to be a poor speller is closely related to general laziness, so don't be surprised when someone looks down on a 'poor speller'. It is a good indicator of work habits, and personal habits as well.
Did you get the little green one with the screen border that looks like a stadium? The one with the three rows of flashing red blip "players"? I got one of those when I was six or eight years old (I'm 31 now), and I still have it. Works too! Sorry, just thought I'd share.
Point taken, but it's just different. Yes, libraries can be great fun to browse through, but I just get a completely different feeling when I step into a used bookstore. I guess the feeling of 'potentiality' is just higher/better/different. All I know is that I enjoy going to libraries and I enjoy going to used bookstores, but I get that tingly feeling only at the latter. I dunno, maybe it's just a misdirected or unacknowledged desire to possess, but I know that if I find something at a used bookstore I get to take it home and keep it on my shelf, but if I find something at a library I eventually have to take it back.
Aw, man...anyone that says that doesn't understand that it is the pursuit, not the end result, that is the magical thing! I agree with Thornae up a little higher...the thrill of used books is not because of the acquisition itself, but rather it is the hunt that makes the thing irresistible. I buy a lot (I mean a LOT) of books online, but I don't buy novels that way. I enjoy finding a small, out of the way place where I can browse for hours, never having anything particular in mind, but still being amazed at what I find. Other people can seal up their book collections in shrinkwrap, and I admit I've got certain prized volumes that I treat that carefully, but don't discount the fun of hunting in used bookstores...it isn't all about perfection.
Hey, you know if that C-64 still works, they could sell it on Ebay!
I've run into this as well. Recently I started having a jones to acquire an old Everex Step Megacube (486 circa 1991 or 1992). To my amazement, there were NO auctions on Ebay for one. What's worse, I went to every auction site I could think of and found nothing. I should have known, however, because the other sites (ubid, Amazon auctions, Yahoo auctions) have probably 1/10th of the auctions that Ebay has combined. Oh well, I'll find one eventually.
Q: What's the white stuff in bird poop?
Astonishingly enough (or not), there is a website that answers these and other tough questions:
Scoop on poop
Scroll down to "Why is bird poop white?"
"Hey Jim! We hit the motherload, there's diapers from here all the way through! We're RICH!! RICH!!"
Mother-load? snicker...yep, that would be the load of all loads.
Actually, if this is what he said, he wasn't checking his figures very well. Here's the problem:
- There are about 1,273 million people in China, according to www.prb.org.
- If they walk 10 abreast, that's 127.3 million rows.
- If you count five feet between people as a reasonable margin (measuring from center of person to center of person), that means your line would take up 636,500,000 feet approx.
- That's 120,550 miles approx., so if you assume a 5mph marching speed, it would take 24,110 hours to get them past a given spot. That's about 1005 days, or 2 years and maybe nine months.
You can, of course, massage these numbers to make it take longer, but it appears that no matter what your assumption was it would only take about 2.75-4.00 years for them to pass a given spot. This doesn't allow for the fact that the line would wrap around the earth maybe five times. If Cerf implied that it wouldn't end because of this, then he is right. Otherwise, those Chinese folks don't live very long.
I don't know for sure, but would this work for your NetInfo needs?
NetInfo
Looks like it might do the trick, not that I've tried it or anything.
Small piece of business advice...if you are working on a beach where the nearest 'other' locksmith is 40 minutes away, you need to be charging TWICE what they do, not half. Supply and demand is a harsh bitch sometimes.
The BETTER METHOD for cancelling AOL is to call the number above, but then tell the person you talk to "I don't want to be sent to the SAVE QUEUE". That is AOL-speak for those people whose sole job is to talk you out of qutting, or making it so difficult you give up (like Brian). Telling them you don't want the save queue will tell the person you know what's up and they'll go ahead and cancel your account.
"Install Oprah browser"
You don't really want to do that. Haven't you noticed how it seems slimmer one day, then bloats up overnight? Or that once it starts working well for you, it wants to take over the whole computer for itself?
This was well explained in a "Terminator Universe" book I just got through reading. If you think about it really carefully, there is another source for the future-technology that made the Terminator possible. Can you think of it? No? Most people forget it (I did until I read the book). Remember when Arnie and the T-1000 are fighting and Arnie's arm gets caught up in the big gears? What does he do? He wrenches it off and leaves it there. Nuff said.
I just bought one on Ebay literally five minutes ago for $35. Not bad. Of course, shipping isn't on that.
Go to Ebay. There'sonlya fewthere. I don't know much about them, though, so these might not be good deals.