I found it odd that Verizon's pre-qualify check requires a phone number, even though the FAQ states no less than six times that availability "is based on your service address not on your telephone number." There doesn't seem to be a pre-qualify where you can type in a street address.
Burns me a little, because I don't have a land-line (that's half the point of your own fiber link...who needs copper when you've got VoIP and 2MBit upstream?)
Am I the only one who read the headline too quickly and envisioned the next generation of mail servers having native support for embedded video in some proprietary Microsoft format?
In some areas the cops do little/nothing about loud car stereos, but in others noise ordinances are enforced vigilantly. Unfortunately, in some of the latter areas they're only enfored below about 160Hz. I appreciate that this enforcement keeps ghetto blasters from shaking me out of bed, but it seems kind of arbitrary and even discriminatory that the car stereo at n db @ 15 ft. gets ticketed with vigor, while the
a) neighbor's car alarm ALWAYS blaring at 3am b) guy using a Folger's can and some chicken wire as a 'muffler' c) bullhorn-equipped van blaring anti-gay-marriage rhetoric d) band of unmuffled Harleys screaming through town e) all of the above
spewing forth n*exp(n) db @ 15 ft. are untouchable.
As one of my blow-off electives in highschool I took a small engines course. It was mostly a fun, hands-on course, but at some point during the semester, the class was treated to an incredibly boring video on oil--production, refining, yadda yadda. Anyway, a clever individual somewhere in the middle of the room decided to make things more entertaining by causing the VCR to act up with one of those watch-remotes. Mr. G. put the video on, and a few minutes later, *click* it stops playing. He walks over to the A/V cart and restarts it, and within 30 seconds, it's begun randomly fast-forwarding itself. Etc.
The perfect actor, Mr. G. would walk up to the cart with a puzzled look, declare "Gee, the VCR appears to be malfunctioning again..." and begin fiddling with the buttons. Ultimately he cut the video short, explaining that the VCR was obviously broken, and there weren't any more that weren't already checked out. Little snickers from all around the room, as this old engines teacher is eluded by all this new-fangled technology.
All snickering stopped abruptly the next day: "Since we've been having so much trouble with these VCRs, I won't be showing the remainder of the video. Instead, to learn the material you'll all be writing a research paper..."
My buddy's 486DX4/100 in college played them without any problems. There was occasional skippage at first due to playing them from Windows in WinAmp (while the Nimda virus was hammering his netcard with infection attempts, etc.), but then he got smart and lef the computer running in DOS (playing the files with OpenCP, I think), and that took care of the skipping without having to e.g. downsample. It even displayed realtime spectra on the screen while playing.
"They say they're gonna, like, save the environment and stuff, but all they do is smoke pot and smell bad...." (not-so-obligatory South Park reference)
Seriously, couldn't they think of a better name for something they're trying to market to teenagers? OTOH, the marketdroids are no doubt marketing to the *parents* of teenagers, those far-out hep cats what can actually afford such a groovy PC (unlike many actual teenagers)
(Well, at least it's much thinner than my old favorite, the Monorail)
Then technically, didn't the httpd process (not the owner of the physical server) become bound to the license?
After it completely ignores the terms of your agreement, by the time your EULA-violation lawsuit wends its way to court, that httpd process will probably be long dead (say, after it has served 100 requests on a default Apache installation...)...in any event, getting it to actually pay you will be a b*tch.
Whoosh, there went my entire point (at least to the insightful induhvidual who modded this as a troll). What kind of system is it where a third-party candidate has to get arrested before the average cititzen even hears of their existance? Oh, wait, that didn'tdo it either.
In my experience though, most also know better than to dissect something while it's still plugged in, turned on and lit. (Unlike CRTs, none of the CCFL inverters I've seen retain any significant amounts of charge when not powered. Poin-n-shoot 35mm cameras on the other hand...wish I knew that when I was 10, youch!)
but I think most of what happened in this case can be directly faulted to him.....
Wow, when I RTFA'ed, it almost sounded like this is the guy who discovered and reported the bug to the Mozilla devteam in the first place; and if not for that, it could still be in the wild... Silly me.
Have a look at the Proxomitron HTML filter (Windows / WINE) - killing embedded background clips/MIDIs at the HTML level is one of my favorite features, but you can also remap fonts/sizes, filter banners, Flash, popups, unnecessary Java applets (or convert these to clickable links, if you actually wanted to view them). Or much more advanced stuff if you want to go beyond the filter rules it comes with write your own.
1) The house has three, count 'em, three gardens located UNDERGROUND. I'd be curious to know what exactly he's growing down there. 2) The laundry room is located directly adjacent to the master bedroom. I can't be sure, but the washer/dryer could even be sharing a wall with it. (Man, the shit I would have caught from my old landlord if I were to start up a load of wash late at night...) 3) Similarly, the "Quiet Room" shares walls with the main entrance, kitchen and gym, and shares a floor with the playroom and possibly the basketball court(!). Hope Dilbert's company has a soundproofing division:-) 4) Her Master Bath is only accessible from inside by walking through His Master Bath (uggh), or through the closet. (I guess this could be a Good Thing, as it might keep Her Master Collection of Shoes off the closet floor if she's got to trip over them all the time.) 5) From one angle of the virtual walkthrough, it appears that the windows of the Dilbert Observatory face toward a stone wall. I'm sure you can still see a lot of stuff, but a lot of stone wall as well. Actually, a good geek-grade observatory would be detached from the house so as not to transmit all the vibration from the house and its equipment/occupants...or at the very least, not so close to the basketball court. 6) The cat's room: Should the lip of the kitty litter box really overhang the food bowl like that? (OTOH, maybe it's just MY cat that somehow manages to spread litter granules in a 3' radius around the box)
A whole-house surge protector sounds like a nice, easy, set-and-forget solution. But do you really need to surge protect your electric dryer and its 5000-watt appetite for juice? How about the washer, dishwasher, refrigerators and HVAC? Keep in mind of course that anything that claims to surge-protect your entire house for $100 is using MOVs, which give up some of their 'life' with every power spike they suppress, and would have to be replaced regularly.
...in a somewhat different form. Not so much unbreaking your own internal web site links (here's a free clue, don't break them in the first place!), but dealing with all these links that are not a "404" or similar error, but simply no longer what you originally linked to.
A BIG example: Domain buy-outs by porn sites, "portal potties" and shady marketing companies, resulting in links pointing to an undesired resource that is still a "valid" (non-error) document. Or links to a news site that eventually recycles the same URL for a new story. Your average "404 checker" is powerless to tell you this has happened.
My proposed solution makes a copy or digest of the linked document AT THE TIME IT IS LINKED (or very soon after), then compares aspects of the original with the 'current' version during subsequent link checks. The easiest way would be to simply alert the webmaster when the page contents have changed by x% (where x is user definable), or when a 'required' key word(s) or phrase(s) are no longer present. More advanced, future enhancements are possible of course; similarly to Google's ability to pick out related words, the link checker could eventually be able to understand the linked article is about the same topic (if this is all the webmaster is going for), even if the exact words have changed.
Nah, make 2 eyepatches, one for each eye. Instead of following your actual eyes, make them follow sound. Wear them to particularly long/boring office meetings, allowing you to use that time more ZzzZproductivelyZZzz.
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Do you really want that many geeks reading your email?
I found it odd that Verizon's pre-qualify check requires a phone number, even though the FAQ states no less than six times that availability "is based on your service address not on your telephone number." There doesn't seem to be a pre-qualify where you can type in a street address.
Burns me a little, because I don't have a land-line (that's half the point of your own fiber link...who needs copper when you've got VoIP and 2MBit upstream?)
Am I the only one who read the headline too quickly and envisioned the next generation of mail servers having native support for embedded video in some proprietary Microsoft format?
Shit happens. But it is seldom content to happen independently of other shit happening...
In some areas the cops do little/nothing about loud car stereos, but in others noise ordinances are enforced vigilantly. Unfortunately, in some of the latter areas they're only enfored below about 160Hz. I appreciate that this enforcement keeps ghetto blasters from shaking me out of bed, but it seems kind of arbitrary and even discriminatory that the car stereo at n db @ 15 ft. gets ticketed with vigor, while the
a) neighbor's car alarm ALWAYS blaring at 3am
b) guy using a Folger's can and some chicken wire as a 'muffler'
c) bullhorn-equipped van blaring anti-gay-marriage rhetoric
d) band of unmuffled Harleys screaming through town
e) all of the above
spewing forth n*exp(n) db @ 15 ft. are untouchable.
As one of my blow-off electives in highschool I took a small engines course. It was mostly a fun, hands-on course, but at some point during the semester, the class was treated to an incredibly boring video on oil--production, refining, yadda yadda. Anyway, a clever individual somewhere in the middle of the room decided to make things more entertaining by causing the VCR to act up with one of those watch-remotes. Mr. G. put the video on, and a few minutes later, *click* it stops playing. He walks over to the A/V cart and restarts it, and within 30 seconds, it's begun randomly fast-forwarding itself. Etc.
The perfect actor, Mr. G. would walk up to the cart with a puzzled look, declare "Gee, the VCR appears to be malfunctioning again..." and begin fiddling with the buttons. Ultimately he cut the video short, explaining that the VCR was obviously broken, and there weren't any more that weren't already checked out. Little snickers from all around the room, as this old engines teacher is eluded by all this new-fangled technology.
All snickering stopped abruptly the next day: "Since we've been having so much trouble with these VCRs, I won't be showing the remainder of the video. Instead, to learn the material you'll all be writing a research paper..."
My buddy's 486DX4/100 in college played them without any problems. There was occasional skippage at first due to playing them from Windows in WinAmp (while the Nimda virus was hammering his netcard with infection attempts, etc.), but then he got smart and lef the computer running in DOS (playing the files with OpenCP, I think), and that took care of the skipping without having to e.g. downsample. It even displayed realtime spectra on the screen while playing.
"They say they're gonna, like, save the environment and stuff, but all they do is smoke pot and smell bad...." (not-so-obligatory South Park reference)
Seriously, couldn't they think of a better name for something they're trying to market to teenagers? OTOH, the marketdroids are no doubt marketing to the *parents* of teenagers, those far-out hep cats what can actually afford such a groovy PC (unlike many actual teenagers)
(Well, at least it's much thinner than my old favorite, the Monorail)
Hey, what's so funny?
Then technically, didn't the httpd process (not the owner of the physical server) become bound to the license?
After it completely ignores the terms of your agreement, by the time your EULA-violation lawsuit wends its way to court, that httpd process will probably be long dead (say, after it has served 100 requests on a default Apache installation...)...in any event, getting it to actually pay you will be a b*tch.
Whoosh, there went my entire point (at least to the insightful induhvidual who modded this as a troll). What kind of system is it where a third-party candidate has to get arrested before the average cititzen even hears of their existance? Oh, wait, that didn't do it either.
Adjust the query thusly, and it will give directions and a street map to them... Clicky
Adjust for actual location/district/beat, of course.
Who??
Except for all the malwares that have learned of the correct Registry incantation (thanks, MS!) to let them load at start-up in Safe Mode too.
How do you get her to produce milk? (the only method I know of produces some rather annoying side effects...)
In my experience though, most also know better than to dissect something while it's still plugged in, turned on and lit. (Unlike CRTs, none of the CCFL inverters I've seen retain any significant amounts of charge when not powered. Poin-n-shoot 35mm cameras on the other hand...wish I knew that when I was 10, youch!)
but I think most of what happened in this case can be directly faulted to him.....
Wow, when I RTFA'ed, it almost sounded like this is the guy who discovered and reported the bug to the Mozilla devteam in the first place; and if not for that, it could still be in the wild... Silly me.
Have a look at the Proxomitron HTML filter (Windows / WINE) - killing embedded background clips/MIDIs at the HTML level is one of my favorite features, but you can also remap fonts/sizes, filter banners, Flash, popups, unnecessary Java applets (or convert these to clickable links, if you actually wanted to view them). Or much more advanced stuff if you want to go beyond the filter rules it comes with write your own.
Let's see...
:-)
1) The house has three, count 'em, three gardens located UNDERGROUND. I'd be curious to know what exactly he's growing down there.
2) The laundry room is located directly adjacent to the master bedroom. I can't be sure, but the washer/dryer could even be sharing a wall with it. (Man, the shit I would have caught from my old landlord if I were to start up a load of wash late at night...)
3) Similarly, the "Quiet Room" shares walls with the main entrance, kitchen and gym, and shares a floor with the playroom and possibly the basketball court(!). Hope Dilbert's company has a soundproofing division
4) Her Master Bath is only accessible from inside by walking through His Master Bath (uggh), or through the closet. (I guess this could be a Good Thing, as it might keep Her Master Collection of Shoes off the closet floor if she's got to trip over them all the time.)
5) From one angle of the virtual walkthrough, it appears that the windows of the Dilbert Observatory face toward a stone wall. I'm sure you can still see a lot of stuff, but a lot of stone wall as well. Actually, a good geek-grade observatory would be detached from the house so as not to transmit all the vibration from the house and its equipment/occupants...or at the very least, not so close to the basketball court.
6) The cat's room: Should the lip of the kitty litter box really overhang the food bowl like that? (OTOH, maybe it's just MY cat that somehow manages to spread litter granules in a 3' radius around the box)
A whole-house surge protector sounds like a nice, easy, set-and-forget solution. But do you really need to surge protect your electric dryer and its 5000-watt appetite for juice? How about the washer, dishwasher, refrigerators and HVAC? Keep in mind of course that anything that claims to surge-protect your entire house for $100 is using MOVs, which give up some of their 'life' with every power spike they suppress, and would have to be replaced regularly.
So, the gym then...
And don't forget, inhalation of dihydrogen monoxide for even a few minutes...
Except the insurance company.
...in a somewhat different form. Not so much unbreaking your own internal web site links (here's a free clue, don't break them in the first place!), but dealing with all these links that are not a "404" or similar error, but simply no longer what you originally linked to.
A BIG example: Domain buy-outs by porn sites, "portal potties" and shady marketing companies, resulting in links pointing to an undesired resource that is still a "valid" (non-error) document. Or links to a news site that eventually recycles the same URL for a new story. Your average "404 checker" is powerless to tell you this has happened.
My proposed solution makes a copy or digest of the linked document AT THE TIME IT IS LINKED (or very soon after), then compares aspects of the original with the 'current' version during subsequent link checks. The easiest way would be to simply alert the webmaster when the page contents have changed by x% (where x is user definable), or when a 'required' key word(s) or phrase(s) are no longer present. More advanced, future enhancements are possible of course; similarly to Google's ability to pick out related words, the link checker could eventually be able to understand the linked article is about the same topic (if this is all the webmaster is going for), even if the exact words have changed.
Nah, make 2 eyepatches, one for each eye. Instead of following your actual eyes, make them follow sound. Wear them to particularly long/boring office meetings, allowing you to use that time more ZzzZproductivelyZZzz.