I don't know if I speak for many, but a year ago I sold my entire hi-fi separates system and my $300 speakers (good by MY standards). The space I'm now living in is WAY too small for these loud luxuries.
So I got a new soundcard, some small high-quality Cambridge Soundworks PC speakers, and started to convert all of my CDs to MP3.
My CD player/hi-fi IS my computer. I even listen to the radio over the Internet now, because I don't have a tuner! For those of us who live in very small spaces/apartments, it's a good idea.
So what do we do when we want to buy CDs? We can't play them on our PCs, so hey.. the ONLY OPTION is to download them! The record companies haven't got their full catalogs onto their digital download sites yet, so what, legally, can I do? Not get the music? That's stupid.
So, they're shooting themselves in the foot when it comes to me. If a CD is protected, I can't buy it even if I wanted to since my CD player IS my PC!
I did a lot of programming between age 13 and 16. In fact, I was a much better programmer *then* than now, and even edited and contributed to a few online programming journals and Web sites.
No-one knew my age. So how did Apple find out here? If you're a youngster, mentioning your age can be mucho bad (like with this).. and if you do mention your age, and you're particularly young.. well.. no-one likes a smartass.
I've often thought about things like this. I'd really like to know what the world record for Tetris on the Gameboy is (hey, it's a classic and almost everyone has played it).. the game doesn't end, does it?
Other than that, I've been playing a lot of Freecell and Hearts lately. Some geeks on the net have been logging which Freecell games are hardest to complete, but it seems like only game '11982' is impossible.
Anyone ever shot the moon four times in a row in Hearts?:-)
Time to start our own bombs
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Oh, thanks BBC for ruining the fun we webloggers try to have.
Anyway, it's time to start our own bombs.. repeat after me..
Bah, just be lucky you can actually GET broadband in your area. Where I am, deepest parts of Lincolnshire, no ADSL till at least 2008 (according to BT), and it's too remote for cable to make it within the next few years.
Good thing that I'm planning to move within the next couple of years to someone with broadband;-)
I constantly hear from friends and family that NTLWorld is one of the best unmetered providers out there right now. Not quite as reliable as AOL, but at least you have access to SMTP.. and can control it through Dial-Up Networking!
I'm using Freeserve, and it's not bad at all, but engaged at about 8pm every night for a while.
In the article there's constant bleating about how a Linux client wouldn't be 'economical' blah blah etc.. well, aren't they going to save a stack of money by using Linux on the back-end?
It seems to me like they're taking all of the benefits of Linux and open-source and giving NOTHING back whatsoever.
What a wonderful community spirit.
(I know it's bad form to reply more than once to a topic, but hey..)
As far as an AOL client for Linux, one Linux-using AOL employee says, "How many Linux people do you know personally who would sign up for AOL if we had a Linux client? I don't know a single one, myself. I have an account with another ISP I use at home with my Linux box, and probably wouldn't use AOL from home even if I could."
'Linux people'? It's no surprise that Linux won't make it onto the average desktop with that sort of attitude.
Their reckoning is that.. all Linux users are nerds so they don't need to use such a crappy ISP. That might be true now but if AOL doesn't offer a Linux client then they're implying that they think Linux will continue to remain a nerd interest.
With support like that from the biggest companies in the world, who needs enemies?
To cut a long story short.. Kuwait asked Iraq to fight on its behalf against Iran, resulting in the 80s Iraq-Iran war. In return, Kuwait promised a number of oil fields in payment.
War ended, Iraq came to collect. Kuwait said 'No.' So Hussein invaded to take back what he thought was rightfully his. Of course, he just ended up setting them on fire instead so that no-one could have them.
XS4ALL have said that they have no legal obligation to deliver all mail that their customers are sent. While true, using this as a reason to ban certain e-mail from their system is a little worrying.
Why? Because it means that screening e-mail will become commonplace and ethically acceptable in future.
Take a less essential system such as IRC. Large channels often have ridiculous bans in place.. for example, kick/ban all those with French hosts, AOL users, people from Asia, people with nicknames they don't like.. and so on and so forth. E-mail could become a similarly uncontrolled system.
Do you really want to use a provider who, yes, blocks spam.. but, if the administrator doesn't like the French.. oh well, that means no-one using that ISP will receive any e-mail sent from French ISPs? Or, say, mail from Middle Eastern countries?
So, yeah, blocking spam is good.. but making this screening behavior morally acceptable simply means that a lot more mail is going to be screened in the future.. and you might not be getting all of the e-mails you are due.
Why do you all hate this?
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All I read here are negative comments! What's so bad about this? In the arcades in the UK, we have a stupid game where you hold a metal bars with your hand, you put the money in, and hold onto them for as long as possible. What they do is vibrate extremely quickly and ends up getting your hands hot, and then it feels like your whole arm has gone numb. Whoever holds longest wins. Same thing.
Now this is one step further, it's not just psychological, it's actually inflicting pain. This is extremely cool! But then again, I always beat everyone at Pong, so I guess I would say that.
I think this would encourage people to play better. Think Quake 3. If you got a kick in the ass everytime you got fragged, I think you'd get better.
You're right. If you look at the demonstrations in that article, many of them don't look *that* menacing.
Take the Pyramids.. they could have been filled with radioactive waste or anything. The pyramids look imposing enough, but it didn't stop us going and opening them up.
This goes through all of the technicalities of signposting things so that people in the future will stay away from them or be aware of dangers into the future.. even if they can't understand English.
There are a lot of diagrams there.. most of the ideas revolve around using imposing spikes.. or 'universal' pictures, such as that of someone dying.
So there should be a BBC Master hooked up to a laserdisc player in almost every school ?
BBC Masters? The state schools in the UK are so poor they can only afford Acorn Electrons or RM Nimbus 186's.:-( Laserdisc? Isn't that kinda like a bigger version of the 8 inch floppies we use here at the school I work at?
And I don't see a significant number of people in the UK or USA with cellphones that have color displays and digital cameras built in. They have some crazy stuff in Japan. You can take a picture of yourself, and send it to a friend via the phone. They might even have cellphones in general circulation that can send live video back and forth too, but I'm not so sure on that one.
As the USA and UK are generally heralded as technological equals to Japan, this is pretty lame.
I agree with 'gif' and 'jif.' I say 'gif' myself.. mainly because when I started using the term, I also used a file format called.JIF.. so the confusion is obvious..
The best way to describe spam is to call it UE (unsolicited email) or UBE (unsolicited bulk email). This will cover religious and political spam. Actually UE is a catch-all, as it does not have to be sent in 'bulk'. FYI.
But surely classifying -any- mail you did not ask to receive as spam is a little overkill? What about people who are e-mailing you because they saw your posting on/.? Or people who are looking for someone with the same name as you? Or, heck, anyone with any of 101 reasons to get in touch with you?
You must suffer from word blindness, that page says:
Although Perl is an acronym (Practical Report and Extraction Language), Perl is definitely not spelled PERL.
So, we are both incorrect. Perl -is- an acronym, but it is not spelled 'PERL.'
Either way, your method seems robotic to me. You must pronounce every letter of an acronym? Most people say them as words if it sounds nice.. like SETI (setty), GIF (gif or jif), JPEG (jay-peg not J.P.E.G.).
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I don't know if I speak for many, but a year ago I sold my entire hi-fi separates system and my $300 speakers (good by MY standards). The space I'm now living in is WAY too small for these loud luxuries.
So I got a new soundcard, some small high-quality Cambridge Soundworks PC speakers, and started to convert all of my CDs to MP3.
My CD player/hi-fi IS my computer. I even listen to the radio over the Internet now, because I don't have a tuner! For those of us who live in very small spaces/apartments, it's a good idea.
So what do we do when we want to buy CDs? We can't play them on our PCs, so hey.. the ONLY OPTION is to download them! The record companies haven't got their full catalogs onto their digital download sites yet, so what, legally, can I do? Not get the music? That's stupid.
So, they're shooting themselves in the foot when it comes to me. If a CD is protected, I can't buy it even if I wanted to since my CD player IS my PC!
I did a lot of programming between age 13 and 16. In fact, I was a much better programmer *then* than now, and even edited and contributed to a few online programming journals and Web sites.
No-one knew my age. So how did Apple find out here? If you're a youngster, mentioning your age can be mucho bad (like with this).. and if you do mention your age, and you're particularly young.. well.. no-one likes a smartass.
Check out http://simh.trailing-edge.com/ too. There's some 1401 stuff there, although probably not as useful as that in my previous post.
Win9x actually does multi monitoring perfectly but it can hardly be considered a productive environment.
It's as productive as W2K as long as you don't need IIS or SQL Server on the local machine and as long as you treat it with respect.
Try http://www.piercefuller.com/oldibm-shadow/
There's *some* software there. There's also some diagnostics stuff, a simular, and a manual.
Hit Google. I found references to 1401 software at quite a few places.
Frankly, as an honorary Martian I find this offensive.
Is NASA trying to say that Mars can be compared to a dust bowl inhabited by stray dogs, unintelligent rednecks, Mormons and inbreeders?
I request that NASA moves this experiment to a place devoid of culture, such as Australia or Germany.
To be a numberist, take a look at the number of the guy you correct. It can be reasonably assumed that this was a 'joke.'
Why? Is intelligence proportional to how early on you were reading Slashdot? If so, why does Cowboy Neal have such a low user number?
I've often thought about things like this. I'd really like to know what the world record for Tetris on the Gameboy is (hey, it's a classic and almost everyone has played it).. the game doesn't end, does it?
:-)
Other than that, I've been playing a lot of Freecell and Hearts lately. Some geeks on the net have been logging which Freecell games are hardest to complete, but it seems like only game '11982' is impossible.
Anyone ever shot the moon four times in a row in Hearts?
Oh, thanks BBC for ruining the fun we webloggers try to have.
Anyway, it's time to start our own bombs.. repeat after me..
Idiot - troll forum - Evil empire - gay pr0n
Bah, just be lucky you can actually GET broadband in your area. Where I am, deepest parts of Lincolnshire, no ADSL till at least 2008 (according to BT), and it's too remote for cable to make it within the next few years.
;-)
Good thing that I'm planning to move within the next couple of years to someone with broadband
I constantly hear from friends and family that NTLWorld is one of the best unmetered providers out there right now. Not quite as reliable as AOL, but at least you have access to SMTP.. and can control it through Dial-Up Networking!
I'm using Freeserve, and it's not bad at all, but engaged at about 8pm every night for a while.
In the article there's constant bleating about how a Linux client wouldn't be 'economical' blah blah etc.. well, aren't they going to save a stack of money by using Linux on the back-end?
It seems to me like they're taking all of the benefits of Linux and open-source and giving NOTHING back whatsoever.
What a wonderful community spirit.
(I know it's bad form to reply more than once to a topic, but hey..)
As far as an AOL client for Linux, one Linux-using AOL employee says, "How many Linux people do you know personally who would sign up for AOL if we had a Linux client? I don't know a single one, myself. I have an account with another ISP I use at home with my Linux box, and probably wouldn't use AOL from home even if I could."
'Linux people'? It's no surprise that Linux won't make it onto the average desktop with that sort of attitude.
Their reckoning is that.. all Linux users are nerds so they don't need to use such a crappy ISP. That might be true now but if AOL doesn't offer a Linux client then they're implying that they think Linux will continue to remain a nerd interest.
With support like that from the biggest companies in the world, who needs enemies?
To cut a long story short.. Kuwait asked Iraq to fight on its behalf against Iran, resulting in the 80s Iraq-Iran war. In return, Kuwait promised a number of oil fields in payment.
War ended, Iraq came to collect. Kuwait said 'No.' So Hussein invaded to take back what he thought was rightfully his. Of course, he just ended up setting them on fire instead so that no-one could have them.
XS4ALL have said that they have no legal obligation to deliver all mail that their customers are sent. While true, using this as a reason to ban certain e-mail from their system is a little worrying.
Why? Because it means that screening e-mail will become commonplace and ethically acceptable in future.
Take a less essential system such as IRC. Large channels often have ridiculous bans in place.. for example, kick/ban all those with French hosts, AOL users, people from Asia, people with nicknames they don't like.. and so on and so forth. E-mail could become a similarly uncontrolled system.
Do you really want to use a provider who, yes, blocks spam.. but, if the administrator doesn't like the French.. oh well, that means no-one using that ISP will receive any e-mail sent from French ISPs? Or, say, mail from Middle Eastern countries?
So, yeah, blocking spam is good.. but making this screening behavior morally acceptable simply means that a lot more mail is going to be screened in the future.. and you might not be getting all of the e-mails you are due.
All I read here are negative comments! What's so bad about this? In the arcades in the UK, we have a stupid game where you hold a metal bars with your hand, you put the money in, and hold onto them for as long as possible. What they do is vibrate extremely quickly and ends up getting your hands hot, and then it feels like your whole arm has gone numb. Whoever holds longest wins. Same thing.
Now this is one step further, it's not just psychological, it's actually inflicting pain. This is extremely cool! But then again, I always beat everyone at Pong, so I guess I would say that.
I think this would encourage people to play better. Think Quake 3. If you got a kick in the ass everytime you got fragged, I think you'd get better.
Sorry, you can't get away with that nowadays.
RFC 2549 updates RFC 1149 with added Quality of Service.
Southwest Research Institute (press release )developed a non-hazardous chemical spray system that spreads a highly slippery, viscous gel
Soccer mom returns home.
Husband: Why.. Have you been sleeping with another man!?
Wife (duly): No, I was protesting against computer games.
Husband: That's it. We're divorced.
You're right. If you look at the demonstrations in that article, many of them don't look *that* menacing.
Take the Pyramids.. they could have been filled with radioactive waste or anything. The pyramids look imposing enough, but it didn't stop us going and opening them up.
People have already thought of this.
WIPP Exhibit: Message to 12,000 A.D.
This goes through all of the technicalities of signposting things so that people in the future will stay away from them or be aware of dangers into the future.. even if they can't understand English.
There are a lot of diagrams there.. most of the ideas revolve around using imposing spikes.. or 'universal' pictures, such as that of someone dying.
So there should be a BBC Master hooked up to a laserdisc player in almost every school ?
:-( Laserdisc? Isn't that kinda like a bigger version of the 8 inch floppies we use here at the school I work at?
BBC Masters? The state schools in the UK are so poor they can only afford Acorn Electrons or RM Nimbus 186's.
And I don't see a significant number of people in the UK or USA with cellphones that have color displays and digital cameras built in. They have some crazy stuff in Japan. You can take a picture of yourself, and send it to a friend via the phone. They might even have cellphones in general circulation that can send live video back and forth too, but I'm not so sure on that one.
As the USA and UK are generally heralded as technological equals to Japan, this is pretty lame.
I agree with 'gif' and 'jif.' I say 'gif' myself.. mainly because when I started using the term, I also used a file format called .JIF.. so the confusion is obvious..
The best way to describe spam is to call it UE (unsolicited email) or UBE (unsolicited bulk email). This will cover religious and political spam. Actually UE is a catch-all, as it does not have to be sent in 'bulk'. FYI.
/.? Or people who are looking for someone with the same name as you? Or, heck, anyone with any of 101 reasons to get in touch with you?
But surely classifying -any- mail you did not ask to receive as spam is a little overkill? What about people who are e-mailing you because they saw your posting on
You must suffer from word blindness, that page says:
Although Perl is an acronym (Practical Report and Extraction Language), Perl is definitely not spelled PERL.
So, we are both incorrect. Perl -is- an acronym, but it is not spelled 'PERL.'
Either way, your method seems robotic to me. You must pronounce every letter of an acronym? Most people say them as words if it sounds nice.. like SETI (setty), GIF (gif or jif), JPEG (jay-peg not J.P.E.G.).