Then there's towns out in the deserts of eastern Oregon and Washington which do not have speck one of cellular coverage on any network, but *does* have high speed wifi internet access covering every last square inch of the town.
The tree in Waldo Park alone is many times the size of Telegraph Park, which is 14" in diameter on the median of OR-43/Naito Parkway somewhere around Ash or Oak street (can't remember which).
So first you tell people not to move here and then you go on to extoll Portland's virtues...
No, tourists tend to be obnoxious bastards, and tourist attractions attract tourists. Anybody living in a touristy city (Victoria, BC; Portland, OR; Bonner's Ferry, ID; Banff, AB; etc) can tell you tourists aren't anything you want to live near in large quantity.
I don't think it's in Lake Oswego, otherwise how did he go to LHS and Ainsworth? It's in NW Portland.
I was thinking the wrong part of town because I spent too much time yesterday trying to find an address on Evergreen in Lake O, so that was where my mind went. Oops.
No sales tax. Great public transportation. More hybrid cars per-capita than anywhere. Kennedy School. Free wireless broadband covers the entire city. A damn good place to live and work.
Don't encourage people to move here. Oregon is full and unemployment is bad enough without more Californians moving up here and fucking it up that much worse.
And not a single tourist attraction.
Did you somehow miss:
The world's largest city park (Forest Park)
The world's smallest city park (Telegraph Park)
The world's only independently-raisable double-deck lift bridge (Steel Bridge)
The world's first lift bridge (Hawthorne Bridge)
Oaks Park
Saturday Market
Pioneer Courthouse Square
Riverplace Marina
OMSI
The Oregon Zoo
Hoyt Arboretum
The World Forestry Center
The International Rose Test Garden
732 Evergreen, Lake Oswego (Childhood home of Matt Groening, house was inspiration for The Simpsons house of the same address in Springfield
Ainsworth Elementary School (where Matt Groening went to school, building is Springfield Elementary in The Simpsons)
Lincoln High School (Matt Groening's alma mater, Groening defaced the sidewalk on SW 18th along the back fence of LHS halfway across the street from the Salmon Street blue line station; walk south from the crosswalk along the fence to find it)
The Oregon Trail goes from the east and turns south in Portland
The Lewis and Clark Trail winds through town
The Rose Festival has many televised events, most famously the Grand Floral Parade, which is televised in almost as many countries as the Super Bowl (Fuck Pasadena and it's wanna-be rose parade)
Much more that doesn't come immediately to mind
And if you want to include everything within an hour's drive of Portland...
Trojan Nuclear Power Plant (The now abandoned power plant was the inspiration for Springfield Nuclear Power Plant. The cooling ponds are in a public park owned by Portland General Electric)
Sauvie Island, the world's largest inland island (fantastic u-picks and farmer's markets, decent beaches)
Champoeg State Park, where Oregon became a US state instead of a Canadian province due to two Canadian fugatives illegally tipping the polls in favor of statehood (indeed, a sad day for Oregon).
The west end of the Oregon Trail in Oregon City
Government Camp, "The Highest Town in Oregon", the surrounding Mt. Hood National Forest, Mt Hood's peak and Timberline Lodge
The Columbia River Gorge, home to Multnomah Falls, the second tallest waterfall in the US
Which makes me wonder: Are you blind? The Metro region and vicinity is one gigantic tourist trap. Oregon's most famous governor, Tom McCall, even bragged about it. "Welcome to Oregon! Please, enjoy your stay, but remember to leave when you're done visiting."
Here's the difference, though: At least KFC properly cooks it by frying the crap out of everything. Jack in the Box has a very real record of not caring about cross-contamination or proper cooking procedure.
No kidding. As if Californian fast food chains didn't think it was bad enough to be the worst possible choice for American food, they have to be the worst possible choice for Tex-Mex food, too...
How to manage mailing lists is a good start. I suggest you use some mailing list software like Sympa or Listserv that is already set up to handle all the subscription/unsubscription confirmations automatically in a universally-accepted manner. Don't try to reinvent the wheel, and have your customers subscribe themselves.
Hey! Don't knock the haggis! Instead, knock something that really *is* shit stewed, like Jack in the Box. They've had 12 E. coli outbreaks that I can remember in 10 years, and that's only counting locations near me...
Exactly. You'd have a slightly different problem to overcome, but I imagine it would fall down to whoever gets best known if someone implements it for Jabber. Sort of like how each server probably has it's own JUD, but also likely operates a gateway to the Big One at Jabber.org.
Yes, it seems AimFight would be better as JabberFight, since Jabber will show not only your Jabber contacts, but your AIM, ICQ, Yahoo, MSN, IRC and Gadu-Gadu contacts as well. Nice idea very wrongly executed.
Seriously, two things immediately come to mind when I see this announcement: 1) When was the last time anybody had a Sony router that actually worked, and 2) If you need a router, why not just buy one?
No kidding. If they wanted the good things about DECnet, they should have been trying to get it in IPv6 when they had their chance. DECnet died for good reasons.
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Then there's towns out in the deserts of eastern Oregon and Washington which do not have speck one of cellular coverage on any network, but *does* have high speed wifi internet access covering every last square inch of the town.
And that stops man-in-the-middle attacks when some other moron decides to comply with the law how, exactly?
The tree in Waldo Park alone is many times the size of Telegraph Park, which is 14" in diameter on the median of OR-43/Naito Parkway somewhere around Ash or Oak street (can't remember which).
No, tourists tend to be obnoxious bastards, and tourist attractions attract tourists. Anybody living in a touristy city (Victoria, BC; Portland, OR; Bonner's Ferry, ID; Banff, AB; etc) can tell you tourists aren't anything you want to live near in large quantity.
I don't think it's in Lake Oswego, otherwise how did he go to LHS and Ainsworth? It's in NW Portland.
I was thinking the wrong part of town because I spent too much time yesterday trying to find an address on Evergreen in Lake O, so that was where my mind went. Oops.
Don't encourage people to move here. Oregon is full and unemployment is bad enough without more Californians moving up here and fucking it up that much worse.
And not a single tourist attraction.
Did you somehow miss:
And if you want to include everything within an hour's drive of Portland...
Which makes me wonder: Are you blind? The Metro region and vicinity is one gigantic tourist trap. Oregon's most famous governor, Tom McCall, even bragged about it. "Welcome to Oregon! Please, enjoy your stay, but remember to leave when you're done visiting."
The fact they weren't fired almost immediately after asking the question indicates that it may be time for you to find a smarter company.
Here's the difference, though: At least KFC properly cooks it by frying the crap out of everything. Jack in the Box has a very real record of not caring about cross-contamination or proper cooking procedure.
No kidding. As if Californian fast food chains didn't think it was bad enough to be the worst possible choice for American food, they have to be the worst possible choice for Tex-Mex food, too...
How to manage mailing lists is a good start. I suggest you use some mailing list software like Sympa or Listserv that is already set up to handle all the subscription/unsubscription confirmations automatically in a universally-accepted manner. Don't try to reinvent the wheel, and have your customers subscribe themselves.
Heheh, not my meal. I tend to avoid restaurants that dont have an Oregon Department of Health compliance notice attached to the door.
Hey! Don't knock the haggis! Instead, knock something that really *is* shit stewed, like Jack in the Box. They've had 12 E. coli outbreaks that I can remember in 10 years, and that's only counting locations near me...
crack? Your non-sequitur really gives it away.
Exactly. You'd have a slightly different problem to overcome, but I imagine it would fall down to whoever gets best known if someone implements it for Jabber. Sort of like how each server probably has it's own JUD, but also likely operates a gateway to the Big One at Jabber.org.
Yes, we can. For example, every person Microsoft hires in California puts a far more deserving Oregonian or Washingtonian out of work.
AIM and ICQ's interfunctionality is fickle and brittle at best. Jabber's AIM and ICQ interfunctionality Just Works(tm).
Yes, it seems AimFight would be better as JabberFight, since Jabber will show not only your Jabber contacts, but your AIM, ICQ, Yahoo, MSN, IRC and Gadu-Gadu contacts as well. Nice idea very wrongly executed.
Now if only MTV played videos...
So a duplicate of a duplicate...this makes this article a metaduplicate?
I'd still rather not have to take out a contact lens every time I need to authenticate...
Seriously, two things immediately come to mind when I see this announcement: 1) When was the last time anybody had a Sony router that actually worked, and 2) If you need a router, why not just buy one?
And the winner of the 2005 Ig Nobel prize in the field of psychology goes to...
No kidding. If they wanted the good things about DECnet, they should have been trying to get it in IPv6 when they had their chance. DECnet died for good reasons.
Somehow, I figure the number of people still using DECnet exactly matches the number of people still reading Datamation.
Don't you mean, Is 199* the year of the Linux on the desktop. The answer to both questions with some exception is yes, though. We already know this...