My favorite quest in World of Warcraft was "Leap of Faith". Sure, it wasn't difficult, didn't take long, and didn't have a great reward, but it was probably the most unique one I encountered in the game. It was a random discovery while I was exploring a new zone, and made the exploration well worth it.
Or, just maybe, all of the "quit" responses were assuming the OP is rational enough to understand what it really means: start looking for a new job where you will be happier, and then quit.
Obviously none of the posters here are seriously suggesting the OP just quit immediately over this issue.
I thought it was interesting that in England TVs have a true off setting as well. Basically a real switch on the front of the TV that turns it totally off. I got caught quite a few times by turning the TV off by the switch on the front - and then the remotes wouldn't turn it back on.
Did you try doing that? I'm guessing that you didn't.
Don't you know that assuming is extremely rude?
Yes, I tried that. And it resulted in the proper search results page, otherwise I wouldn't have posted it. I should have mentioned this is on the latest beta, so it appears that "g" was added recently.
On my other firefox (latest stable) and this one, google keyword works the same as g keyword does on the Beta.
Did you by any chance try searching using the keywords I provided? They provided instructions for doing just what you wanted to.
Maybe I'm mistaken, but doesn't Google index PDFs? If that's the case, you can just upload it to a website and wait for it to be crawled for later searching.
The OCR process still has to be performed. I seriously doubt Google's PDF indexer is actually OCRing the PDFs. The majority of the PDFs out there are generated from digital text - and as such have easily indexed content.
Scanned documents would simply be images until OCR was applied (or manual transcribing).
My biggest problem finding free internet access is in airports. It just doesn't seem to exist. That, and all of the airports use different networks - and few of the pay networks are compatible with each other.
It would be sweet to have this as an extension to the search bar in firefox. Other than that, I don't think I'd ever use it - too likely to forget it exists in the future...
It's a shame that more MUD owners don't realize it's the people and the environment that make a good MUD, NOT the special features (for the most part).
Back when I developed for a MUD, I shared as much of the code as I could. There was no real easy way to do so and have the results go back into the main code base, though. Most of the contributions consisted of "snippets" sent to a collection. The end result was a lot of buggy untested code (not mine!) that newbies tried to incorporate all at once into the parent code base. Chaos...
Plus, the more established MUDs don't want to share code because they want to hang on to whatever advantage they have over every other MUD.
It's too easy to start up a new MUD (unzip, compile, run), so each MUD wants to hold on tight to whatever advantage they have. It's a shame that more MUD owners don't realize it's the people and the environment that make a good MUD, NOT the special features (for the most part).
I had one of those scroll point mice at work, and I totally hated it. I found it impossible to scroll with any amount of precision - it was always either too fast (the end of the document already!), or too slow (are we moving?).
This was an older balled mouse, so maybe it's gotten better...
I'm not sure if it's just me (I'm red/green color blind), but I can't read the nav-links on the side when I hover over them. Give it a little more contrast.
My user number is less than 80,000. I have been active at/. since I arrived (not TOO many postings, but I have had 2 stories on the front page, and metamod almost every day. Guess how manay times I have become a moderator.
3 times.
Almost 2 years, I believe. Don't expect too much unless you post and get modded up a _lot_.
That's strange. I've posted, maybe, 5 posts the entire time I've been registered. I didn't have any karma until they introduced Meta-Moderation (I jumped up 12 karma points for M2ing 13 times), yet I've had moderation privledges at least 3 times in the past 3 months.
I rarely have time enough to do more than quickly skim through the articles, so moderation points are mostly wasted on me. I find it interesting that I rarely post, but seem to get moderation the day after any post, yet you're active and haven't had as many moderation chances as I have. (Talk about a runon sentence)
get through our firewall undetected and then retrieve the page
Keyword _direct_. Ie, give directions. I don't have an access pass into a local gated community, and so, by your logic, I shouldn't be able to give someone the address of another person who does live in that community.
All a server would have to do is process the input, and output a line like:
I do, but I rarely encounter them. I dunno about other parts of the world, but here (Aiken, SC, USA), full (or even partial) service gas stations just don't exist. About the only place that I tend to see them is down around the coast, in the expensive resort areas.
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My favorite quest in World of Warcraft was "Leap of Faith". Sure, it wasn't difficult, didn't take long, and didn't have a great reward, but it was probably the most unique one I encountered in the game. It was a random discovery while I was exploring a new zone, and made the exploration well worth it.
Or, just maybe, all of the "quit" responses were assuming the OP is rational enough to understand what it really means: start looking for a new job where you will be happier, and then quit.
Obviously none of the posters here are seriously suggesting the OP just quit immediately over this issue.
I thought it was interesting that in England TVs have a true off setting as well. Basically a real switch on the front of the TV that turns it totally off. I got caught quite a few times by turning the TV off by the switch on the front - and then the remotes wouldn't turn it back on.
Totally unlike how American TVs tend to work.
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Don't you know that assuming is extremely rude?
Yes, I tried that. And it resulted in the proper search results page, otherwise I wouldn't have posted it. I should have mentioned this is on the latest beta, so it appears that "g" was added recently.
On my other firefox (latest stable) and this one, google keyword works the same as g keyword does on the Beta.
Did you by any chance try searching using the keywords I provided? They provided instructions for doing just what you wanted to.
Whoops - wrong parent.
http://uncyclopedia.org.nyud.net:8090/wiki/Wil_Whe aton
Scanned documents would simply be images until OCR was applied (or manual transcribing).
Didn't crash the second time (with a fairly new session).
Same with my version (1.0.2).
My biggest problem finding free internet access is in airports. It just doesn't seem to exist. That, and all of the airports use different networks - and few of the pay networks are compatible with each other.
It would be sweet to have this as an extension to the search bar in firefox. Other than that, I don't think I'd ever use it - too likely to forget it exists in the future...
I did send an envelope to myself with just
name
aptnumber
zip-four
And it arrived just fine.
I agree, that's why I wrote:
It's a shame that more MUD owners don't realize it's the people and the environment that make a good MUD, NOT the special features (for the most part).
Back when I developed for a MUD, I shared as much of the code as I could. There was no real easy way to do so and have the results go back into the main code base, though. Most of the contributions consisted of "snippets" sent to a collection. The end result was a lot of buggy untested code (not mine!) that newbies tried to incorporate all at once into the parent code base. Chaos...
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Plus, the more established MUDs don't want to share code because they want to hang on to whatever advantage they have over every other MUD.
It's too easy to start up a new MUD (unzip, compile, run), so each MUD wants to hold on tight to whatever advantage they have. It's a shame that more MUD owners don't realize it's the people and the environment that make a good MUD, NOT the special features (for the most part).
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Ugh.
I had one of those scroll point mice at work, and I totally hated it. I found it impossible to scroll with any amount of precision - it was always either too fast (the end of the document already!), or too slow (are we moving?).
This was an older balled mouse, so maybe it's gotten better...
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> By going OSS, you no longer have to waste [...]
actually, from what I've heard it doesn;t do that at all. not having any copyright software at all is [...]
Almost all Open Source software is very much copyrighted.
Free != Public Domain.
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I'm not sure if it's just me (I'm red/green color blind), but I can't read the nav-links on the side when I hover over them. Give it a little more contrast.
Other than that, it looks fine.
Using Mozilla.
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> I filtered on [a-z]*[0-9]{3,}@.* ...).
You do realize that this blocks out more valid email addresses than just the example [a-z]@domain you gave, correct?
For example, *@domain is a perfectly valid email address, as is fred&barney@domain.
--Matthew
3 times.
Almost 2 years, I believe. Don't expect too much unless you post and get modded up a _lot_.
That's strange. I've posted, maybe, 5 posts the entire time I've been registered. I didn't have any karma until they introduced Meta-Moderation (I jumped up 12 karma points for M2ing 13 times), yet I've had moderation privledges at least 3 times in the past 3 months.
I rarely have time enough to do more than quickly skim through the articles, so moderation points are mostly wasted on me. I find it interesting that I rarely post, but seem to get moderation the day after any post, yet you're active and haven't had as many moderation chances as I have. (Talk about a runon sentence)
--Matthew
IE will direct you
get through our firewall undetected and then retrieve the page
Keyword _direct_. Ie, give directions. I don't have an access pass into a local gated community, and so, by your logic, I shouldn't be able to give someone the address of another person who does live in that community.
All a server would have to do is process the input, and output a line like:
Location: http://yourprivatehost/%7Ecoldgrits/
--Matthew
Does everyone else but me tip gas jockeys too?
I do, but I rarely encounter them. I dunno about other parts of the world, but here (Aiken, SC, USA), full (or even partial) service gas stations just don't exist. About the only place that I tend to see them is down around the coast, in the expensive resort areas.
--Matthew
You can already save your Real Audio with Streambox Ripper so I suppose you can say it has already been 'rev-enged' :)
Except Streambox Ripper doesn't know much about the Real Audio protocol. It just hitches a ride using the DLLs that the Real's player uses.
HTH,
--Matthew