Just curious. A few months ago the trash folder on my Yahoo mail stopped being automatically emptied. Yahoo support only replies 'your mail account is working correctly'.
I wondered if it was a push for the paid extra space because it increases the likelyhood of someone seeing the 'Your mailbox is almost full' message.
In general, I think the Yahoo free stuff is a pretty good service.
I took an instant liking to domes when I first saw one some years ago. I also became interested in Bucky's work.
A few years ago I met a guy called John Rich who is a very well respected dome builder in New Zealand with a long list of successful stories and an informative site at http://www.geocities.com/geodesicsnz
He has told a funny story relating to ventilation in a dome he built. It goes something like this:
Building inspector arrives to do final inspection of newly built dome. All is well except that he insists that a ceiling fan be installed at the top of the dome. John argues that the natural ventilation makes this unnecessary but the inspector refuses to sign off unless this is done. Fan is reluctantly installed and the inspector is called back. He sees the fan rotating nicely and happily signs the certificate. As he is leaving, John shows him the fan's power cord, not plugged in:-)
About two years ago I moved from Auckland, New Zealand to southern New Hampshire. I'm still appalled by typical driving behaviour here. Speeding, red light running and not stopping at stop signs is VERY MUCH more noticeable than at home in NZ.
I don't consider myself a particularly slow driver or someone who always has to painfully follow the letter of the law but my morning commute to work usually goes like this:
Between my house and the highway: limit 35, no lights. I do just over 40. There is a queue of impatient drivers behind me when I get to the onramp. Several will squeeze past me near the top of the ramp to get onto the highway in front of me.
Two lane highway at 55 and then 50 not really a problem because its too busy to go much faster.
Limit becomes 40 about a mile before a light controlled intersection. Car in front of me carries on with no speed change. I slow down to about 48 (still fast enough for a speed camera fine in NZ). Traffic builds up behind me, drivers probably wondering why I am going so slow.
Road becomes four lane, limit still 40, the drivers behind me, fuming with frustration by now, finally get their chance and pass me doing about 55 towards the intersection often resulting in several running the first few seconds of red light. The trip continues with more of the same.
Stop signs and right turn on red light are routinely treated the same as a yield (ie just slow down and look) by everyone, including police cars. Someone ran into the back of me because I actually stopped before turning right on a red. His first question was 'Why did you stop?'.
I guess my frustration is mainly about the rather wide and undefined 'allowed margin of error' on speed limits, offical or otherwise that the cops won't book you for. I never know whether to go with the flow or be a pain to others and slow down to at least somewhere near the speed limit. The speed limits should either by enforced or if they are unreasonably slow then they should be raised.
Off topic somewhat but I was stopped by a cop for having a brake light out. No problem with that but then he expressed concern that I was driving in bare feet! He was about to say more about this when I interrupted and asked if it was illegal and he said he didn't know. I've since learned that there are no laws in NH (and most other states) about driving in bare feet. NH doesn't even require adults to wear seat belts so why he should have an interest in my feet is still a mystery.
Hearing talk of speeding up audio and video reminds me of my dad's story of when he was a projectionist in a small movie theatre in New Zealand in the 1950s when electricity was in short supply (why the shortage I'm not sure). The movies were timed to end before 10 pm when there was always a planned power cut. Things didn't always go to plan. If it became clear that they weren't going to make it in time then the only options were to increase the projector speed or miss the end of the movie. Some movies ended at double normal speed:-)
I remember someone telling me that internally the Z8000 had hardcoded logic whereas the 68000 had programmable microcode (as I guess most processors do these days). This made it very much easier for Motorola to fix bugs in the 68000 by changing the internal microcode rom than it was for Zilog to fix things by 'rewiring'.
This may be complete nonsense. Can anyone confirm?
In New Zealand the dials on rotary phones went 0123456789 clockwise generating 10 - N pulses when dialing N. I believe this was to get around some copyright. It always seemed to me to be more natural to use than the wierd back to front 0987654321 that the rest of the world used.
It irritates me that in the USA, driving licenses seem to be used as a default id card. Most (all?) states will issue a non driving 'driver license' for people who don't drive.
When I first moved to the USA I had a problem in a big store using a credit card from home. I don't know what the problem was but they called their credit card processor who I think called Mastercard or the bank in my home country. They insisted on seeing my foreign driving license number. They looked at me as if I had two heads when I explained that back home a driving license is used to prove you are qualified to drive and banks are for keeping money and the two don't intersect.
Slashdot Mirror
Sounds like back to the days when I started using the net.
i nk . o.nz/costs.html
http://web.archive.org/web/19961018082318/iprol
Scroll down for data costs.
I haven't used any myself but I've heard reasonably good reports about 2checkout.com and revecom.com
Just curious. A few months ago the trash folder on my Yahoo mail stopped being automatically emptied. Yahoo support only replies 'your mail account is working correctly'.
I wondered if it was a push for the paid extra space because it increases the likelyhood of someone seeing the 'Your mailbox is almost full' message.
In general, I think the Yahoo free stuff is a pretty good service.
I took an instant liking to domes when I first saw one some years ago. I also became interested in Bucky's work.
:-)
A few years ago I met a guy called John Rich who is a very well respected dome builder in New Zealand with a long list of successful stories and an informative site at http://www.geocities.com/geodesicsnz
He has told a funny story relating to ventilation in a dome he built. It goes something like this:
Building inspector arrives to do final inspection of newly built dome. All is well except that he insists that a ceiling fan be installed at the top of the dome. John argues that the natural ventilation makes this unnecessary but the inspector refuses to sign off unless this is done. Fan is reluctantly installed and the inspector is called back. He sees the fan rotating nicely and happily signs the certificate. As he is leaving, John shows him the fan's power cord, not plugged in
About two years ago I moved from Auckland, New Zealand to southern New Hampshire. I'm still appalled by typical driving behaviour here. Speeding, red light running and not stopping at stop signs is VERY MUCH more noticeable than at home in NZ.
I don't consider myself a particularly slow driver or someone who always has to painfully follow the letter of the law but my morning commute to work usually goes like this:
Between my house and the highway: limit 35, no lights. I do just over 40. There is a queue of impatient drivers behind me when I get to the onramp. Several will squeeze past me near the top of the ramp to get onto the highway in front of me.
Two lane highway at 55 and then 50 not really a problem because its too busy to go much faster.
Limit becomes 40 about a mile before a light controlled intersection. Car in front of me carries on with no speed change. I slow down to about 48 (still fast enough for a speed camera fine in NZ). Traffic builds up behind me, drivers probably wondering why I am going so slow.
Road becomes four lane, limit still 40, the drivers behind me, fuming with frustration by now, finally get their chance and pass me doing about 55 towards the intersection often resulting in several running the first few seconds of red light. The trip continues with more of the same.
Stop signs and right turn on red light are routinely treated the same as a yield (ie just slow down and look) by everyone, including police cars. Someone ran into the back of me because I actually stopped before turning right on a red. His first question was 'Why did you stop?'.
I guess my frustration is mainly about the rather wide and undefined 'allowed margin of error' on speed limits, offical or otherwise that the cops won't book you for. I never know whether to go with the flow or be a pain to others and slow down to at least somewhere near the speed limit. The speed limits should either by enforced or if they are unreasonably slow then they should be raised.
Off topic somewhat but I was stopped by a cop for having a brake light out. No problem with that but then he expressed concern that I was driving in bare feet! He was about to say more about this when I interrupted and asked if it was illegal and he said he didn't know. I've since learned that there are no laws in NH (and most other states) about driving in bare feet. NH doesn't even require adults to wear seat belts so why he should have an interest in my feet is still a mystery.
Ross
Hearing talk of speeding up audio and video reminds me of my dad's story of when he was a projectionist in a small movie theatre in New Zealand in the 1950s when electricity was in short supply (why the shortage I'm not sure). The movies were timed to end before 10 pm when there was always a planned power cut. Things didn't always go to plan. If it became clear that they weren't going to make it in time then the only options were to increase the projector speed or miss the end of the movie. Some movies ended at double normal speed :-)
I remember someone telling me that internally the Z8000 had hardcoded logic whereas the 68000 had programmable microcode (as I guess most processors do these days). This made it very much easier for Motorola to fix bugs in the 68000 by changing the internal microcode rom than it was for Zilog to fix things by 'rewiring'.
This may be complete nonsense. Can anyone confirm?
In New Zealand the dials on rotary phones went 0123456789 clockwise generating 10 - N pulses when dialing N. I believe this was to get around some copyright. It always seemed to me to be more natural to use than the wierd back to front 0987654321 that the rest of the world used.
It irritates me that in the USA, driving licenses seem to be used as a default id card. Most (all?) states will issue a non driving 'driver license' for people who don't drive. When I first moved to the USA I had a problem in a big store using a credit card from home. I don't know what the problem was but they called their credit card processor who I think called Mastercard or the bank in my home country. They insisted on seeing my foreign driving license number. They looked at me as if I had two heads when I explained that back home a driving license is used to prove you are qualified to drive and banks are for keeping money and the two don't intersect.