It's the short comment penalty. One-word comments are automagically moderated down a point to prevent people from flooding the system with tiny comments (although repeatedly pasting things in circumvents this quite nicely).
You can muck around on Netcraft all day compiling lists of.com,.net, and.org domains, but there's no guarantee that they're all American domains. The only truly American TLD is.us, which is used chiefly for government-entity web sites, such as The State of New York and my school district's pathetic attempt at a web page. Due to its modular nature, the difficulty in getting even a response from the.us domain people (took me several months last time I tried) and the overall ugliness of the resultant URL's,.us is a very unpopular domain.
On the other hand, just about every web site in.de is a German organization.
No, they're not. When you open a file in Microsoft Office 97, you get the Office 97 file requester, even if you're running Windows 2000. When you open a file in Office 2000, you get the Office 2000 file requester, even if you're running Windows NT 4 or Windows 95.
The situation you have described is the UI guideline that Microsoft expects you to follow, so that a well-behaved app written for Windows 3.1 could look and feel more like a Windows 95 (or 98, or NT, or 2000) app. Microsoft Office does not obey this guideline. Try it.
Of course I play music because I like it, not to strike rich to quit my job so I can go to an award show and sit next to Britney Spears and Christina Aguilera.
Would you rather sit next to Carson Daly and Fred Durst, so you can talk about the guy Christina gave head to first?
Microsoft doesn't even follow its own UI standards, though. In every version of Office, for example, the file open/save dialog box works like the one in the next version of Windows. I do NOT need nonstandard rollout menus, menus that "pull down" from the left side of the screen (vertical menu bars are IMPOSSIBLE to read), and so forth and so on. Just click on the system menu (the top-left "e" page icon) in Internet Explorer. Notice how the system menu in IE doesn't pull down; it pops out like you right-clicked an icon. It's facts like these that make me suspect that Microsoft's UI guidelines don't apply to its own internal products.
I get enough calls from people complaining that they accidentally moved their taskbar to the left side of the screen because they clicked and dragged just a teensy bit next to the Start button. That's a largely undocumented feature, one that's discovered by accident. Other features, like the "Quick Launch" toolbar (which looks surprisingly similar to the tray, and can even be accidentally moved next to the tray) confuse users into needing to learn too much about the OS. Sometimes I wish that computers still shipped with a launcher like AtEase for the Mac, that completely hides the underpinnings of the system to all users except the administrator. Want to open an app? Click on it. End of story.
I'm using kernel 2.4.0-test6 as my primary kernel on my home machine (Athlon 700, originally Mandrake 7.1). It's pretty stable for me, much better than the "inode count wrapped" errors that would fill my screen and prevent me from booting most of the time. It even has built-in support for USB (haven't tested it) and the Sound Blaster Live! card I use. Compiled in under six minutes, too.:)
Oh, and about the flutes, they're only playing by themselves because their backup hasn't arrived yet.:)
I usually limit myself to two connections on a dial-up, although it can sometimes still take some time to get those two. Even the gnet[2..5].ath.cx servers sometimes get backlogged and won't connect me. Fewer connections also often mean longer, less efficient searches.
Repeat until you can get four good connections. (This can take several minutes on a bad day, on a dial-up connection.)
Enter the words you are looking for.
Wait.
Wait.
Wait.
Wait.
Download the files.
Realize that they're pr0n, ads, or VB script. (Newbies don't know the difference between a.mp3 and a.mp3.vbs file.)
Repeat the process until you've retrieved the file you're looking for.
Gnutella is a nice start, but it's really a curiosity more than a practical replacement for Napster. On a dial-up connection with 4 gnet connections, more than half of your bandwidth goes to (trying to) routing packets.
...or does that CD-looking angel look like it could fit neatly into a (not yet written) Shockwave game at NewGrounds where you throw pirated CD's at Metallica?;)
I'm pretty sure that NTFS can handle such filenames as well. However, because so many programs are written for both NT and Win9x, the system directories are riddled with ugly 8.3 files (DLGCTRLS.DLL instead of DialogControls.DLL, for example). That's why I said "preferably," at least in the parlance of Microsoft "cross-platform" apps.
Couple that with Explorer's insistence on determining a filename by the extension, and hiding the extension by default. That way, a file like ".signature" appears as "" (blank) unless you change your settings.
So yes, you're right in that NTFS will let you create such a file, but the UI will effectively discourage you from doing so.
Beavis and Butthead was already gone from TV (well, in reruns, not like MTV viewers would notice) when the movie came out. South Park was already on a downswing when its movie came out, as its initial popularity was due to shock value. How can you get any more shocking than an animated movie that was nearly rated NC-17?
South Park was controversial because of all of its shock value when it first came out. Parents and (more importantly) schools were so angry, they started to ban the t-shirts. This led to the "forbidden fruit" effect, so the shirts became incredibly popular. I remember the same thing happening with the Bart Simpson "Eat My Shorts" and "Underachiever and Proud of it" shirts when the Simpsons were in their infancy. The Simpsons sold out long ago; they've even spoofed this in a recent Halloween special. ("A Simpson on a t-shirt? Well, I never.")
Now, of course, those same kids who got their kicks with "South Park" have "The Tom Green Show" to fuel their ADD. Ah, what a wonderful time to have cable...
In the US, we have 900 numbers -- anywhere from 50 cents up to $10 per minute. However, many homes (especially homes with curious young children) put blocks on 900-number calls, and fraud is so widespread that phone companies will usually remove a 900-number charge without too much of a fight. If TiVo called such a number, there would be an immense public outcry, and maybe even a class-action lawsuit.
Most large ISP's go through services like SprintNet to get local access numbers to most of the country. As a result, most customers won't pay more than 10 cents for the call, regardless of how long it lasts.
Preferably Linux (2.4.0-test6 is my current kernel of choice) or Win98. I know the latter one would be a bit of a stretch -- the AFS client on WinNT cluster machines is sometimes kind of buggy. But it manages, considering that NT normally doesn't let you have files with names like.signature (it'd have to be "my.signature" or preferably "JWEILL.SIG").
I hate to be cynical like this, but don't trust public opinion polls to be a sign of declining public racism. When someone calls you up on the phone and asks, "Would you vote for a competent Jew for President?" you don't want to sound like a raging anti-Semite so you say yes. "Would you consider Colin Powell to be the same as any white candidate if he were to run for President?" You definitely don't want to sound like a racist or a bigot, so you say yes.
Prejudices come out in other ways, too. Personally, I find it curious when people segregate themselves into little race-pride groups. If you're all for equality, then why separate yourself into a different homogenized group of friends?
CMU itself uses AFS as its file system. Maybe now that AFS is open sourced, there will be better clients to use on campus for it (read: any clients at all).
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It's the short comment penalty. One-word comments are automagically moderated down a point to prevent people from flooding the system with tiny comments (although repeatedly pasting things in circumvents this quite nicely).
You can muck around on Netcraft all day compiling lists of .com, .net, and .org domains, but there's no guarantee that they're all American domains. The only truly American TLD is .us, which is used chiefly for government-entity web sites, such as The State of New York and my school district's pathetic attempt at a web page. Due to its modular nature, the difficulty in getting even a response from the .us domain people (took me several months last time I tried) and the overall ugliness of the resultant URL's, .us is a very unpopular domain.
.de is a German organization.
On the other hand, just about every web site in
No, they're not. When you open a file in Microsoft Office 97, you get the Office 97 file requester, even if you're running Windows 2000. When you open a file in Office 2000, you get the Office 2000 file requester, even if you're running Windows NT 4 or Windows 95.
The situation you have described is the UI guideline that Microsoft expects you to follow, so that a well-behaved app written for Windows 3.1 could look and feel more like a Windows 95 (or 98, or NT, or 2000) app. Microsoft Office does not obey this guideline. Try it.
Of course I play music because I like it, not to strike rich to quit my job so I can go to an award show and sit next to Britney Spears and Christina Aguilera.
Would you rather sit next to Carson Daly and Fred Durst, so you can talk about the guy Christina gave head to first?
(sorry, I'm not an Eminem fan myself actually)
It's all relative. From what I've heard from friends overseas, to see a movie in Japan costs over $18.
$100 to $150?! I could buy a CD _player_ for that much. What country charges that much for a CD?
Actually, Slashdot had an article about a bunch of guys who videotaped doing just that. They used "cheesy MS-DOS software," not AOL CD's.
Microsoft doesn't even follow its own UI standards, though. In every version of Office, for example, the file open/save dialog box works like the one in the next version of Windows. I do NOT need nonstandard rollout menus, menus that "pull down" from the left side of the screen (vertical menu bars are IMPOSSIBLE to read), and so forth and so on. Just click on the system menu (the top-left "e" page icon) in Internet Explorer. Notice how the system menu in IE doesn't pull down; it pops out like you right-clicked an icon. It's facts like these that make me suspect that Microsoft's UI guidelines don't apply to its own internal products.
I get enough calls from people complaining that they accidentally moved their taskbar to the left side of the screen because they clicked and dragged just a teensy bit next to the Start button. That's a largely undocumented feature, one that's discovered by accident. Other features, like the "Quick Launch" toolbar (which looks surprisingly similar to the tray, and can even be accidentally moved next to the tray) confuse users into needing to learn too much about the OS. Sometimes I wish that computers still shipped with a launcher like AtEase for the Mac, that completely hides the underpinnings of the system to all users except the administrator. Want to open an app? Click on it. End of story.
I'm using kernel 2.4.0-test6 as my primary kernel on my home machine (Athlon 700, originally Mandrake 7.1). It's pretty stable for me, much better than the "inode count wrapped" errors that would fill my screen and prevent me from booting most of the time. It even has built-in support for USB (haven't tested it) and the Sound Blaster Live! card I use. Compiled in under six minutes, too. :)
:)
Oh, and about the flutes, they're only playing by themselves because their backup hasn't arrived yet.
I usually limit myself to two connections on a dial-up, although it can sometimes still take some time to get those two. Even the gnet[2..5].ath.cx servers sometimes get backlogged and won't connect me. Fewer connections also often mean longer, less efficient searches.
Yes, but protesters shouted "It's our music, too!" Since when is it their music?
- Start client.
- Go to http://gnutella.wego.com to find a host.
- Try the host.
- Try another host.
- Repeat until you can get four good connections. (This can take several minutes on a bad day, on a dial-up connection.)
- Enter the words you are looking for.
- Wait.
- Wait.
- Wait.
- Wait.
- Download the files.
- Realize that they're pr0n, ads, or VB script. (Newbies don't know the difference between a
.mp3 and a .mp3.vbs file.)
- Repeat the process until you've retrieved the file you're looking for.
Gnutella is a nice start, but it's really a curiosity more than a practical replacement for Napster. On a dial-up connection with 4 gnet connections, more than half of your bandwidth goes to (trying to) routing packets.CD-throwing angel, of course. My bad.
...or does that CD-looking angel look like it could fit neatly into a (not yet written) Shockwave game at NewGrounds where you throw pirated CD's at Metallica? ;)
I'm pretty sure that NTFS can handle such filenames as well. However, because so many programs are written for both NT and Win9x, the system directories are riddled with ugly 8.3 files (DLGCTRLS.DLL instead of DialogControls.DLL, for example). That's why I said "preferably," at least in the parlance of Microsoft "cross-platform" apps.
Couple that with Explorer's insistence on determining a filename by the extension, and hiding the extension by default. That way, a file like ".signature" appears as "" (blank) unless you change your settings.
So yes, you're right in that NTFS will let you create such a file, but the UI will effectively discourage you from doing so.
Beavis and Butthead was already gone from TV (well, in reruns, not like MTV viewers would notice) when the movie came out. South Park was already on a downswing when its movie came out, as its initial popularity was due to shock value. How can you get any more shocking than an animated movie that was nearly rated NC-17?
South Park was controversial because of all of its shock value when it first came out. Parents and (more importantly) schools were so angry, they started to ban the t-shirts. This led to the "forbidden fruit" effect, so the shirts became incredibly popular. I remember the same thing happening with the Bart Simpson "Eat My Shorts" and "Underachiever and Proud of it" shirts when the Simpsons were in their infancy. The Simpsons sold out long ago; they've even spoofed this in a recent Halloween special. ("A Simpson on a t-shirt? Well, I never.")
Now, of course, those same kids who got their kicks with "South Park" have "The Tom Green Show" to fuel their ADD. Ah, what a wonderful time to have cable...
In the US, we have 900 numbers -- anywhere from 50 cents up to $10 per minute. However, many homes (especially homes with curious young children) put blocks on 900-number calls, and fraud is so widespread that phone companies will usually remove a 900-number charge without too much of a fight. If TiVo called such a number, there would be an immense public outcry, and maybe even a class-action lawsuit.
Most large ISP's go through services like SprintNet to get local access numbers to most of the country. As a result, most customers won't pay more than 10 cents for the call, regardless of how long it lasts.
That's the Golden Rule. Occam's Razor is "The simplest explanation is often the correct one." Jeez, that one was even on the Simpsons.
Preferably Linux (2.4.0-test6 is my current kernel of choice) or Win98. I know the latter one would be a bit of a stretch -- the AFS client on WinNT cluster machines is sometimes kind of buggy. But it manages, considering that NT normally doesn't let you have files with names like .signature (it'd have to be "my.signature" or preferably "JWEILL.SIG").
I hate to be cynical like this, but don't trust public opinion polls to be a sign of declining public racism. When someone calls you up on the phone and asks, "Would you vote for a competent Jew for President?" you don't want to sound like a raging anti-Semite so you say yes. "Would you consider Colin Powell to be the same as any white candidate if he were to run for President?" You definitely don't want to sound like a racist or a bigot, so you say yes.
Prejudices come out in other ways, too. Personally, I find it curious when people segregate themselves into little race-pride groups. If you're all for equality, then why separate yourself into a different homogenized group of friends?
CMU itself uses AFS as its file system. Maybe now that AFS is open sourced, there will be better clients to use on campus for it (read: any clients at all).
As soon as this comes out in 802.11 format, I would seriously consider buying it -- and a Handspring Visor to go with it. It's expected this fall.
No, you're not. I saw it recently on a promo for "Ally McBeal" when one of the characters was having an affair "on the computer."
"So was it a normal-sized computer, or.. you know, just a little Palm Pilot?"
And let's not forget the dozens of Slashdot posts we get every time there's a headline like "Play games on your Palm." Groan...