I also love these people that buy the latest and greatest 2.5GHz computer with a DVD burner and half a gig of RAM only to bring it home and plug a phone line into it. Ugh! What a shame.
Blame Intel for that...they're the goons who got the unwashed masses to think "those Pentenium Four chips make the Intarnet go faster."
Mozilla's fighting a losing battle when they should instead be working on a working browser that the public can use.
Hmm...when the only pages I've run across that don't work mostly fall under *.microsoft.com (and even then, it's only a handful of them, like Windows Update), just what would you consider a "working browser?"
IE renders everything, but it's "stupid"? I'd call Mozilla "stupid" for being so damn strict. The only fans you're gonna win with only rendering pages *exactly* correctly are uber-geeks and W3C fanatics. All that does is piss off the vast majority of their potential user base: end users and site developers.
What makes you think an end user running Mozilla isn't likely to attribute a site that renders improperly to its webmaster? If 99% of the other sites he visits show up properly, why would the 1% of the sites that don't suddenly become the browser's fault? The average user has run across enough sh*tty websites that the incompetence of a site developer isn't regarded as an impossibility.
As for site developers, the only site developers Mozilla is likely to piss off are the lazy fscks who can't be bothered to create clean HTML and CSS. They're the l4m3rz who read Teach Yourself FrontPage in 24 Hours (or something similar) and think that makes them "HTML programmers" (as if HTML were a programming language). I doubt the Mozilla developers are losing too much sleep over them.
They block Mozilla, but they accept most versions of Nutscrape 4.x...strange. If there's a way to change the user-agent string in Mozilla (it's not exposed anywhere in preferences...ideas, anyone?), maybe you could access their site that way. I was able to use Wells Fargo's online-banking site with Lynx (!) by telling it to send an IE user-agent string. (Wells Fargo used to be much more anal about browsers than it is now. Back when I upgraded from IE 4 to IE 5, I had to wait a couple or three weeks before they decided to allow usage of IE 5. Nowadays, you could use the latest bleeding-edge Mozilla build to log in.)
A few ISP's are $9.95 a month for dialup. You might give up the ability to travel with it and always have an access # handy...
Prepaid services (such as MaGlobe) typically have access numbers all over the place. They're not as cheap ($15 for 16 hours) as flat-rate dial-up ISPs, but since my primary Internet access is via cable modem, I only need dial-up when I'm out of town. Before going someplace, I'll see what phone numbers I need to use at the destination and plug those into the dial-up networking settings. (I still need to get Squid set up on my notebook so it'll filter ads...)
DVD is no where near as popular as VHS! It will take years before VHS is even considered to be dropped.
Hmm...why, then, has Circuit City already dropped prerecorded tapes from its inventory? Other retailers are cutting back on their VHS offerings, but the move toward eliminating VHS has already started.
Yeah, but she's a retard. "I mean, who wants to sit and download Windows drivers on Christmas?" Nobody, you dope, that's why they give you a CD with the camera. Stick that in your drinkholder and you're good to go.
If it needs a driver to work, I'd rather download the latest driver than install the one that might've been sitting in the box for a few months. (As for digital cameras, all I did was plug in my Nikon Coolpix 995 and it showed up as another disk drive...no driver needed. I suspect other cameras are similar.)
I'm disturbed you have a list of Conservative Christians on your freaks list and are so quick to share it.
Umm...if I'm not mistaken, you don't put anybody on your freaks list. The freaks list is a list of everybody who's marked you as a foe. The poster is calling himself a religious conservative and is calling out those who disagree with him. (Personally, I'd prefer the label "charter member of the vast right-wing conspiracy.":-) )
It will take HOW long to download, and compile? yeah right..
I built a minimal Gentoo system on a P5MMMX-233 for use as a firewall. I started it before going home, and it was mostly done by the next morning. It does take a while, but it's doable as long as you don't plan on trying to run KDE (for instance) on it.
...$3.00 for a coke, and $4.50 for a box of popcorn
What, you don't smuggle food in under your coat?
When it's still 80-something outside, showing up at the theater in a trenchcoat looks suspicious. That assumes, of course, that you can get inside without roasting first.
It's all too easy to bring your own munchies to the drive-in, though...
In Las Vegas, I've picked up KCBS in San Francisco.
KCBS is only 20 kHz away from the local 50-kW blowtorch, KDWN. There's also a mountain range between here and there that the signal has to bounce over.
I did that with a 50-year-old RCA tabletop radio, a smallish plastic five-tube (!) radio with the antenna in the back cover. (The circuit design is what was called the "All-American Five.")
Analog radio can be received with the simplest of equipment...an antenna, a ground connection, a coil, a capacitor, a diode, and high-impedance headphones can pick up an AM signal. I doubt that you could pick up a digital signal with something anywhere near as simple.
See, you misunderstand the housing market in the SF Bay Area...
Sounds like you need to move. I know there are some markets where housing is ridiculously overpriced (my parents got soaked on a house they bought in northern Virginia while Dad was stationed at the Pentagon...compared to Las Vegas, they paid ~2.5x more for a house of about the same size that ended up needing a new roof before it could be resold), but those markets are the exception and not the rule.
With an apartment, you flush your money down the toilet. With a house, you get to keep the principal, and you get to deduct the interest on your taxes. With interest rates so low, your mortgage could even turn out to be lower than your rent.
Regardless of interest rate, it's almost guaranteed that buying will be cheaper than renting. Remember: a landlord will have all of the same expenses as a homeowner (because he is a homeowner), plus you'll need to factor in (1) rental properties don't have the same tax advantages as your primary residence, (2) I doubt that interest rates are as favorable for property that'll be rented out, and (3) a landlord will also need to collect more money to allow for maintenance of the property and some amount of profit. The one-bedroom condo that costs me $535/month (mortgage, taxes, HOA dues). An equivalent rental property would probably go for $650 or more. That's approximately $1400 per year, minimum. $1400 buys lots of toys...you can build a dual-Athlon rig and still have some change left over.:-)
You have a choice: you can pay your own mortgage, or you can pay someone else's mortgage (and help line someone else's wallet as well).
Wrong system - this is meant for the Commodore 64.
Figured it might've been a Commodore of some sort, but since I never had one, I couldn't have confirmed it...my mid-80s computer upgrade was from a TI-99/4A to an Apple IIe, and the schools (where I was, anyway) were stocked with Atari computers of various sorts. I knew a few people (including my grandfather) who had CoCos, and I ran across a few other machines here and there, but for as common as they supposedly were, I knew nobody who had a Commodore.
(Now watch this thread turn into a "my computer's better than yours" flamewar...:-) )
Make a product that the RIAA (Retarded Institute of Anti Anything) will be proud of or
Make a product that no one will want to buy
Aren't these the same thing? I'd think nobody would want to buy the crippled appliance that the **AAs would force on us (BTW, in the context of the article, I think you meant to say "MPAA" and not "RIAA"), while the **AAs don't want an easy-to-use, open device ever get shelf space in stores.
Sorry, but it doesn't work downloaded anymore either. At least it doesn't work off of my server.
It just worked for me. You need to change the ZIP code, as the one in the file gets blocked. (I use 09012, which is one of the APOs @ Ramstein AB, Germany...haven't gotten mail through there since 1988, but since everything else is generated randomly...)
May I also remind you that the ethanol you buy at the store is denatured with methanol anyway.
If you're talking about "rubbing alcohol," that's not ethanol...it's usually isopropanol. If you're talking about Everclear, it had better not be denatured.
And really, it's quite easy to make your web site screen reader or braille console friendly. Use ALT="" attributes in your IMG tags. Prefer CSS over HTML formatting. As a bonus, your web site will display better on all sorts of less capable software, including lynx, WebTV, wireless Palm VIIs, and cell phones. The only reason to not do the right thing is if your web designer is clueless or lazy.
I wouldn't disagree with that assessment at all...check out my site if you don't believe me. I don't think that abuse of the legal system (and make no mistake about it, the ADA has spurred numerous abuses) is the way to encourage writing to standards, though.
(One minor nit: rather than setting a null attribute for your ALT tags, I'd suggest using something that's at least somewhat descriptive.)
No he's not being denied access. It's more as if you were allowed into Target, but were physically unable to spend money, or something. He can have someone else read him the page too, I'm sure there's someone around him who can see.
Getting back to the plaintiff described in the article, I'd think an easier solution would be to call 1 800 555-1212, get Southwest's toll-free number from them, and then call that number. I'd think the same information is available that way as is available through their website (probably more info, in fact, such as information on what flights are on time/delayed/etc.). This has to be easier than filing yet another lawsuit. Then again, I suppose the ambulance chasers wouldn't make any money off of such a common-sense solution.
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Blame Intel for that...they're the goons who got the unwashed masses to think "those Pentenium Four chips make the Intarnet go faster."
Hmm...when the only pages I've run across that don't work mostly fall under *.microsoft.com (and even then, it's only a handful of them, like Windows Update), just what would you consider a "working browser?"
What makes you think an end user running Mozilla isn't likely to attribute a site that renders improperly to its webmaster? If 99% of the other sites he visits show up properly, why would the 1% of the sites that don't suddenly become the browser's fault? The average user has run across enough sh*tty websites that the incompetence of a site developer isn't regarded as an impossibility.
As for site developers, the only site developers Mozilla is likely to piss off are the lazy fscks who can't be bothered to create clean HTML and CSS. They're the l4m3rz who read Teach Yourself FrontPage in 24 Hours (or something similar) and think that makes them "HTML programmers" (as if HTML were a programming language). I doubt the Mozilla developers are losing too much sleep over them.
They block Mozilla, but they accept most versions of Nutscrape 4.x...strange. If there's a way to change the user-agent string in Mozilla (it's not exposed anywhere in preferences...ideas, anyone?), maybe you could access their site that way. I was able to use Wells Fargo's online-banking site with Lynx (!) by telling it to send an IE user-agent string. (Wells Fargo used to be much more anal about browsers than it is now. Back when I upgraded from IE 4 to IE 5, I had to wait a couple or three weeks before they decided to allow usage of IE 5. Nowadays, you could use the latest bleeding-edge Mozilla build to log in.)
Prepaid services (such as MaGlobe) typically have access numbers all over the place. They're not as cheap ($15 for 16 hours) as flat-rate dial-up ISPs, but since my primary Internet access is via cable modem, I only need dial-up when I'm out of town. Before going someplace, I'll see what phone numbers I need to use at the destination and plug those into the dial-up networking settings. (I still need to get Squid set up on my notebook so it'll filter ads...)
Hmm...why, then, has Circuit City already dropped prerecorded tapes from its inventory? Other retailers are cutting back on their VHS offerings, but the move toward eliminating VHS has already started.
The name under the picture is usually that of the photographer, not the subject/model/etc.
If it needs a driver to work, I'd rather download the latest driver than install the one that might've been sitting in the box for a few months. (As for digital cameras, all I did was plug in my Nikon Coolpix 995 and it showed up as another disk drive...no driver needed. I suspect other cameras are similar.)
I guess that makes me nobody, then. I suppose there are more nobodies out there as well.
Umm...if I'm not mistaken, you don't put anybody on your freaks list. The freaks list is a list of everybody who's marked you as a foe. The poster is calling himself a religious conservative and is calling out those who disagree with him. (Personally, I'd prefer the label "charter member of the vast right-wing conspiracy." :-) )
I built a minimal Gentoo system on a P5MMMX-233 for use as a firewall. I started it before going home, and it was mostly done by the next morning. It does take a while, but it's doable as long as you don't plan on trying to run KDE (for instance) on it.
When it's still 80-something outside, showing up at the theater in a trenchcoat looks suspicious. That assumes, of course, that you can get inside without roasting first.
It's all too easy to bring your own munchies to the drive-in, though...
KCBS is only 20 kHz away from the local 50-kW blowtorch, KDWN. There's also a mountain range between here and there that the signal has to bounce over.
I did that with a 50-year-old RCA tabletop radio, a smallish plastic five-tube (!) radio with the antenna in the back cover. (The circuit design is what was called the "All-American Five.")
Analog radio can be received with the simplest of equipment...an antenna, a ground connection, a coil, a capacitor, a diode, and high-impedance headphones can pick up an AM signal. I doubt that you could pick up a digital signal with something anywhere near as simple.
4. To Senate Democrats' way of thinking, it's what happens only when a Republican caves in and gives them everything they want.
Sounds like you need to move. I know there are some markets where housing is ridiculously overpriced (my parents got soaked on a house they bought in northern Virginia while Dad was stationed at the Pentagon...compared to Las Vegas, they paid ~2.5x more for a house of about the same size that ended up needing a new roof before it could be resold), but those markets are the exception and not the rule.
Regardless of interest rate, it's almost guaranteed that buying will be cheaper than renting. Remember: a landlord will have all of the same expenses as a homeowner (because he is a homeowner), plus you'll need to factor in (1) rental properties don't have the same tax advantages as your primary residence, (2) I doubt that interest rates are as favorable for property that'll be rented out, and (3) a landlord will also need to collect more money to allow for maintenance of the property and some amount of profit. The one-bedroom condo that costs me $535/month (mortgage, taxes, HOA dues). An equivalent rental property would probably go for $650 or more. That's approximately $1400 per year, minimum. $1400 buys lots of toys...you can build a dual-Athlon rig and still have some change left over. :-)
You have a choice: you can pay your own mortgage, or you can pay someone else's mortgage (and help line someone else's wallet as well).
Figured it might've been a Commodore of some sort, but since I never had one, I couldn't have confirmed it...my mid-80s computer upgrade was from a TI-99/4A to an Apple IIe, and the schools (where I was, anyway) were stocked with Atari computers of various sorts. I knew a few people (including my grandfather) who had CoCos, and I ran across a few other machines here and there, but for as common as they supposedly were, I knew nobody who had a Commodore.
(Now watch this thread turn into a "my computer's better than yours" flamewar...:-) )
Aren't these the same thing? I'd think nobody would want to buy the crippled appliance that the **AAs would force on us (BTW, in the context of the article, I think you meant to say "MPAA" and not "RIAA"), while the **AAs don't want an easy-to-use, open device ever get shelf space in stores.
Hmm...
]POKE 53280,0
]POKE 53281,0
]POKE 646,1
]PRINT "GOING BYE BYE"
GOING BYE BYE
]SYS 64738
?SYNTAX ERROR
]
POKEing stuff into ROM or into the keyboard-input buffer tends to not do much...
It just worked for me. You need to change the ZIP code, as the one in the file gets blocked. (I use 09012, which is one of the APOs @ Ramstein AB, Germany...haven't gotten mail through there since 1988, but since everything else is generated randomly...)
If you're talking about "rubbing alcohol," that's not ethanol...it's usually isopropanol. If you're talking about Everclear, it had better not be denatured.
No, the People's Front of Judea. Judean People's Front...wankers.
Last time I checked, directory assistance for toll-free numbers was itself toll-free (note the "1 800" at the beginning).
I wouldn't disagree with that assessment at all...check out my site if you don't believe me. I don't think that abuse of the legal system (and make no mistake about it, the ADA has spurred numerous abuses) is the way to encourage writing to standards, though.
(One minor nit: rather than setting a null attribute for your ALT tags, I'd suggest using something that's at least somewhat descriptive.)
Getting back to the plaintiff described in the article, I'd think an easier solution would be to call 1 800 555-1212, get Southwest's toll-free number from them, and then call that number. I'd think the same information is available that way as is available through their website (probably more info, in fact, such as information on what flights are on time/delayed/etc.). This has to be easier than filing yet another lawsuit. Then again, I suppose the ambulance chasers wouldn't make any money off of such a common-sense solution.