The statement in the subject line is so absurd that it probably doesn't deserve a reply. Anyway...
It has to be, or it doesn't work at all.
Try yelling "fire" in a crowded theater. Report back to us what happens when you do.
Probably the only thing that's absolute is that there are no absolutes. For instance, just because I'm an advocate of the individual right to keep and bear arms as provided in the Second Amendment, that doesn't mean that I think convicted felons or the mentally incompetent should be able to possess firearms. Likewise, if you put up a website that advocates violence or armed revolt, you can expect to be bitchslapped by the authorities. Hard.
Yep. Cosco lost my business that way. Why go to a place that makes it inconvenient to pay them when there's something similar (BJ's) nearby that takes everything?
Costco (and Sam's, too) will do ATM-card transactions...since that's how I pay for nearly everything, it works out OK. The weird bit, though, is that the gas pumps in the Costco parking lot will take Visa and MasterCard...go figure.
and the few times i tried playing with the BASIC interpreter on the Apple IIe's (instead of playing Oregon trail like a good little boy) resulted in me getting yelled at. go figure..
In their ignorance, they probably figured they were keeping you from turning into a proto-1337-h4x0r or something. For that, I'd give them this:
CALL -151
300:A9 0 A2 0 2C 30 C0 CA D0 FD 3A D0 F5 60 N 300G
Yeah, but how many K-6 or -8 grade kids do you know who can program?
Has it become that uncommon? I was writing stuff in BASIC by fourth grade and started trying to pick up 6809 assembly language in sixth or seventh grade (didn't get to do much more than clear the graphics screen on a CoCo really fast). There are almost certainly other people (maybe they need to be over 25 or maybe even over 30) here who could say the same thing for themselves.
Then again, all the old 8-bit machines I grew up on had some sort of language (usually BASIC) built in. Where's the free (or nearly so) language today that's simple enough for kids to start it up and get the computer to do something useful? I don't think starting them on gcc would be a bright idea...hell, maybe the answer would be to get an Apple II or whatever from the nearest Goodwill for a couple or three days' burrito money (it's cheaper than VB, at least) and give that to some kid who might be interested.
Liebeck was not driving the car. Her grandson was. The car was stopped so she could add cream and sugar to her coffee. The contents spilled onto her lap while she was attempting to remove the lid.
So she's a klutz. I'm a bit fumble-fingered sometimes myself. I generally avoid doing things where that could end up being a problem.
There were more than 700 claims by people burned by McDonalds coffee between 1982 and 1992. Some of them involved third-degree burns. Note, these are CLAIMS, not INCIDENTS.
...and this proves what, exactly? Anybody can file a lawsuit; that doesn't imply that any of those suits have any merit.
Coffee served at home is generally 135 to 140 degrees. McDonalds actively enforced a requirement that their coffee be kept at 185 degrees +/- 5. The temperature at which it is poured is absolutely not fit for human consumption. It will burn.
This has already been addressed by another poster...proper extraction requires elevated temperatures. If it's too hot to drink right away, you let it cool down a bit. Again, this isn't rocket science.
Any food substance served at 140 degrees or above represents a burn hazard.
If true, that makes every food a burn waiting to happen as food served below that temperature presents a greater risk of food spoilage. As much as participants in the Litigation Lottery might hate to admit it, you can't completely eliminate risk. Simple risk analysis usually indicates the better course of action; personally, I'd rather not eat spoiled food.
Once again, I have to ask how this largely redundant comment got moderated as 2?
It wasn't.
Or is this some karma laden user who gets to post crap at an inflated level?
You're jealous, aren't you? Perhaps if you posted worthy comments instead of bitching about why others' posts are rated higher than yours, you might get +1 posting yourself.
Not until someone actually DOES and sues the manufacturer for millions of dollars. Remember McDonalds and the lawsuit that required them to put "Warning! Coffee is extremely hot! Drink with caution!" on their coffee cups?
Do you remember that the woman got third degree burns, needed skin grafts, spent a couple weeks in intensive care and offered to settle for ~$20K in hospital fees?
If she hadn't been a moron, she wouldn't have put herself in a situation where all that medical treatment was necessary. Coffee is hot; a hot liquid spilled on clothing that you're wearing is generally a Bad Thing. Most reasonable people would conclude from these facts that coffee should be handled carefully so that you don't spill it on yourself. In a car, it'd be a good idea to keep it in a cupholder when you're not drinking it, not between your legs where the cup can tip over or be crushed. This isn't exactly rocket science, folks.
If stupidity were fatal, it would cut back drastically on so-called "overpopulation"...
Talk to anyone that works in a bagel or donut shop and they will tell you that they throw away hundreds/thousands of units a week. Basically what isn't purchased is discarded. Surely we can think to give the units to the homeless/hungry/needy-cause, but there is apparently a legal reason not to do so.
My first job ever was at a franchise of a certain somewhat large fast-food chain, and it wasn't long before I asked why the food that was "QC'd" was pitched instead of held and shipped off to one of the local shelters. Liability was the primary reason...if some bum got sick off of a freebie burger, he could've contacted any of the hundreds of ambulance chasers in this town and sued the store into oblivion. It was hella wasteful...about the only thing you could do is keep an eye on production to minimize the waste, but it was nearly impossible to eliminate it completely.
To what extent, though, has this ever been a problem? I used a pair of VCRs for timeshifting long before....
Correct me if I'm wrong, but thought skipping commercials on a TIVO is significantly easier than a VCR
There's no commercial skip on a TiVo (not out-of-the-box, anyway), so fundamentally it isn't that much different. It is faster (three fast speeds in each direction up to 60x) and it has an overshoot correction for the two faster speeds, but you're still getting a bunch of blipverts as you skip the ads.
Notice that the Tivo boxes that get sold through AT&T Broadband don't have the "commercial skip" button on the remote?
TiVos in general (whether standalone or DirecTiVo) don't have a commercial-skip button. There's a backdoor code you can enter in some (most?) versions of the TiVo software that will change one of the remote buttons to a commercial-skip function, but you don't get that capability out-of-the-box.
I for one don't think that a commercial-free future in which all TV either costs money (via pay-per-view, channel subscription, and show subscription) or is publicly/privately supported is such a bad thing.
Out of the 70 or so channels on the local cable system, I watch maybe half-a-dozen on a regular basis. Add in the channels I watch occasionally and you can probably still count them on your fingers. If I could get those few channels ad-free for whatever I'm currently paying for cable, they could block off the other 60+ channels and I'd never miss them.
Instead, the cable company insists on providing a bunch of other crap that I'll never watch. For people with satellite systems, it's even worse...hundreds of channels of crap you'll never watch instead of mere dozens. If you could do "a la carte" ordering of just the stuff you want on a commercial-free basis, everybody wins. You get the TV you want without interruption; Hollywood gets (probably) much more money than it gets now.
I'm not sure I would define this as a consequence of being greedy (although I'm sure they are). Their problem is that the primary source of revenue is being threatened. It's not just a matter of making a little less money. It's more like making a whole lot less money if PVRs become as popular as VCRs.
To what extent, though, has this ever been a problem? I used a pair of VCRs for timeshifting long before I bought my TiVo (still use one along with the TiVo because Enterprise and That 80s Show are on at the same time). Do the mental midgets in Hollywood actually think people haven't been skipping commercials on taped content ever since wireless remotes became common in the mid-80s? Do you know anyone who rewinds last night's episode of $TV_SHOW, hits Play, and lets it run through to the end with no interruptions, no fast-forwarding, etc.?
(TiVos are much faster at skipping forward than any VCR I've run across...but that doesn't negate the fact that you can buzz right past the ads with a VCR.)
I'm gonna look for a fossil driver for Linux. Is FidoNet still around?
Why would you need a FOSSIL driver for Linux? They only provided a standard interface to serial devices, whether it was an ordinary COM? port or one of the intelligent serial cards that a larger multiline BBS might use. Back when I ran a Linux-based BBS that talked to FidoNet, all the software involved talked to ordinary/dev/ttyS? devices, which would've been set up by the kernel and by whatever getty you used (IIRC, I used mgetty).
Others would be better able to say if FidoNet is still around. I think it is, but I shut down my BBS toward the tail end of '94 and quit calling around to other BBSes sometime in '95 or '96.
When will people offer rentals of DivX (or similar) online?
You must've missed the recent story on Movie88. They stream Real instead of DivX, but it didn't take much work to save the streams to disk (you don't even need Streambox VCR...FlashGet and Muffin will do the job). Now if only Tinra would work for converting from Real to AVI...
Btw, I know there are single layers, double sided single layer, single sided dual layer, double sided dual layer DVDs. I have a couple movies that are double sided single layer (The Usual Suspects where one side is wide screen and the other 4:3 format). I was wondering if there were actually double sided dual layer movies being released.
AFAIK, nobody's doing double-sided dual-layer just yet...but there are some double-sided DVDs that are dual-layer on one side and single-layer on the other. The first DVD I recall running across that was made that way was the special-edition release of The Terminator.
Absolutely, these HTML mails are dangerous with their 1x1 gifs with a custom URL so "they" know you've read the message.
I check the source and add the urls to junkbuster's list. If the filters don't get the mail, then the images still don't get requested.
For the past few months, I've used procmail to bounce HTML mail. I had it call a shell script whenever "Content-Type: text/html" appeared in incoming mail; it would generate a message to the sender from MAILER-DAEMON@mydomain. It still does that, but I've set things up now so that HTML only gets filtered. If the content type for the message is multipart/alternative, HTML chunks get blackholed while other stuff is let through.
If anyone's interested, I have the scripts up on my website. filter-html is an awk script that strips HTML out of a message. You can use it by itself as a filter for procmail. If you want to send a warning to lamers who send you HTML mail, you'll also want to get filter-html-mail, a shell script called by procmail to feed the message to filter-html and generate the warning message (note that it also assumes that you use qmail as your MTA).
On a side note, I'm sick of going to Amazon.com and seeing good books marked with one star because it was hard for beginners to understand. I wish these beginners would think ahead to the day that they might want more in depth information.
I don't know offhand if it changes the overall rating, but Amazon does have a scoring system for its reader reviews. You can tell them if you think a particular review is useful; that way, if some schmuck decides to give one star to K&R, the "0 out of 42 people found this review useful" notation that would eventually accumulate next to the rating would at least suggest that perhaps other customers ought to take the review with a huge lump of salt. If you run across such a stupid review, mod it into the basement!
Okay, this is a little offtopic, but which dolt came up with the brilliant idea that in IE, the web site should use tiny grey characters on a pure white background? Two paragraphs into this article and my eyes are about to bulge clean out of my skull...
OK, so you meant this page and not this page (be a bit more clear about it next time). That said, Palm's site is legible enough, even on an LCD. (I'm stuck with a couple of flat-panel displays at work...light shades tend to be washed out and color accuracy isn't as good as with CRTs.)
Okay, this is a little offtopic, but which dolt came up with the brilliant idea that in IE, the web site should use tiny grey characters on a pure white background? Two paragraphs into this article and my eyes are about to bulge clean out of my skull...
Your settings must be effed up, as I'm using IE under Win2K right now and/. is perfectly legible.
And in case you managed to miss the Britney Superbowl ad, or don't have a Tivo to lovingly watch it over and over again, you can just go read the Yahoo article about Tivo and the Pepsi ads and watch a fucking dancing Britney/Pepsi ad
right there.
Not quite so easy.
Once you've got the.RAM file, it contains a URL inside it (probably a pnm:// or rtsp://), and you will need a program that's
capable of saving these streams, and
capable of re-building the index block that required to view streaming RM video offline
and there's only one that I know of that's capable of doing this: Streambox VCR
Since Movie88 uses HTTP to stream its movies, you don't even need to go to the bother of getting Streambox VCR to work right. Once you have the URL for the stream, dump it into your favorite download manager (I use FlashGet). You won't have to filter/block the user-agent string like you might with IE or Nutscrape, and a decent download manager will use multiple streams to pull the movie in as quickly as possible. As I write this, I have tonight's freebie, Buckaroo Banzai, downloading in FlashGet at over 150 kBps. (Yes...150 kBps, not 150 kbps).
To assist in getting the URL, get Muffin and tell RealPlayer to use localhost port 51966 as its HTTP proxy. Muffin is a Java-based proxy server with some filtering capabilities; one of the things it'll do is display URLs for whatever connections it has open. Start a movie at Movie88, grab the HTTP URL out of the Muffin connection window, and paste it into FlashGet (or whatever you're using). If Movie88 doesn't like your download manager, tell your download manager to use Muffin as its HTTP proxy and enable user-agent filtering in Muffin (a null user-agent worked for me when RealPlayer was playing the stream).
10GB?? WTF am I supposed to do with 10GB? I already have nearly 60GB of music files (I encode nearly everything at 320).
Why? I use the most recent LAME to encode CDs at 160 kbps VBR (audiocassettes are sampled and then encoded at 128 kbps VBR) and can't tell the difference when I play the resulting MP3s in either of the hardware MP3 players I have. If you're using a crummy MP3 encoder (like Xing) that needs a high bitrate to get decent sound quality, maybe you should replace your MP3 encoder.
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Try yelling "fire" in a crowded theater. Report back to us what happens when you do.
Probably the only thing that's absolute is that there are no absolutes. For instance, just because I'm an advocate of the individual right to keep and bear arms as provided in the Second Amendment, that doesn't mean that I think convicted felons or the mentally incompetent should be able to possess firearms. Likewise, if you put up a website that advocates violence or armed revolt, you can expect to be bitchslapped by the authorities. Hard.
Costco (and Sam's, too) will do ATM-card transactions...since that's how I pay for nearly everything, it works out OK. The weird bit, though, is that the gas pumps in the Costco parking lot will take Visa and MasterCard...go figure.
Never heard of BJ's...what kind of store is that?
Not really. (They're the only one I've run across, though...)
In their ignorance, they probably figured they were keeping you from turning into a proto-1337-h4x0r or something. For that, I'd give them this:
CALL -151
300:A9 0 A2 0 2C 30 C0 CA D0 FD 3A D0 F5 60 N 300G
Has it become that uncommon? I was writing stuff in BASIC by fourth grade and started trying to pick up 6809 assembly language in sixth or seventh grade (didn't get to do much more than clear the graphics screen on a CoCo really fast). There are almost certainly other people (maybe they need to be over 25 or maybe even over 30) here who could say the same thing for themselves.
Then again, all the old 8-bit machines I grew up on had some sort of language (usually BASIC) built in. Where's the free (or nearly so) language today that's simple enough for kids to start it up and get the computer to do something useful? I don't think starting them on gcc would be a bright idea...hell, maybe the answer would be to get an Apple II or whatever from the nearest Goodwill for a couple or three days' burrito money (it's cheaper than VB, at least) and give that to some kid who might be interested.
So she's a klutz. I'm a bit fumble-fingered sometimes myself. I generally avoid doing things where that could end up being a problem.
This has already been addressed by another poster...proper extraction requires elevated temperatures. If it's too hot to drink right away, you let it cool down a bit. Again, this isn't rocket science.
If true, that makes every food a burn waiting to happen as food served below that temperature presents a greater risk of food spoilage. As much as participants in the Litigation Lottery might hate to admit it, you can't completely eliminate risk. Simple risk analysis usually indicates the better course of action; personally, I'd rather not eat spoiled food.
It wasn't.
You're jealous, aren't you? Perhaps if you posted worthy comments instead of bitching about why others' posts are rated higher than yours, you might get +1 posting yourself.
If she hadn't been a moron, she wouldn't have put herself in a situation where all that medical treatment was necessary. Coffee is hot; a hot liquid spilled on clothing that you're wearing is generally a Bad Thing. Most reasonable people would conclude from these facts that coffee should be handled carefully so that you don't spill it on yourself. In a car, it'd be a good idea to keep it in a cupholder when you're not drinking it, not between your legs where the cup can tip over or be crushed. This isn't exactly rocket science, folks.
If stupidity were fatal, it would cut back drastically on so-called "overpopulation"...
My first job ever was at a franchise of a certain somewhat large fast-food chain, and it wasn't long before I asked why the food that was "QC'd" was pitched instead of held and shipped off to one of the local shelters. Liability was the primary reason...if some bum got sick off of a freebie burger, he could've contacted any of the hundreds of ambulance chasers in this town and sued the store into oblivion. It was hella wasteful...about the only thing you could do is keep an eye on production to minimize the waste, but it was nearly impossible to eliminate it completely.
There's no commercial skip on a TiVo (not out-of-the-box, anyway), so fundamentally it isn't that much different. It is faster (three fast speeds in each direction up to 60x) and it has an overshoot correction for the two faster speeds, but you're still getting a bunch of blipverts as you skip the ads.
TiVos in general (whether standalone or DirecTiVo) don't have a commercial-skip button. There's a backdoor code you can enter in some (most?) versions of the TiVo software that will change one of the remote buttons to a commercial-skip function, but you don't get that capability out-of-the-box.
Out of the 70 or so channels on the local cable system, I watch maybe half-a-dozen on a regular basis. Add in the channels I watch occasionally and you can probably still count them on your fingers. If I could get those few channels ad-free for whatever I'm currently paying for cable, they could block off the other 60+ channels and I'd never miss them.
Instead, the cable company insists on providing a bunch of other crap that I'll never watch. For people with satellite systems, it's even worse...hundreds of channels of crap you'll never watch instead of mere dozens. If you could do "a la carte" ordering of just the stuff you want on a commercial-free basis, everybody wins. You get the TV you want without interruption; Hollywood gets (probably) much more money than it gets now.
To what extent, though, has this ever been a problem? I used a pair of VCRs for timeshifting long before I bought my TiVo (still use one along with the TiVo because Enterprise and That 80s Show are on at the same time). Do the mental midgets in Hollywood actually think people haven't been skipping commercials on taped content ever since wireless remotes became common in the mid-80s? Do you know anyone who rewinds last night's episode of $TV_SHOW, hits Play, and lets it run through to the end with no interruptions, no fast-forwarding, etc.?
(TiVos are much faster at skipping forward than any VCR I've run across...but that doesn't negate the fact that you can buzz right past the ads with a VCR.)
Why would you need a FOSSIL driver for Linux? They only provided a standard interface to serial devices, whether it was an ordinary COM? port or one of the intelligent serial cards that a larger multiline BBS might use. Back when I ran a Linux-based BBS that talked to FidoNet, all the software involved talked to ordinary /dev/ttyS? devices, which would've been set up by the kernel and by whatever getty you used (IIRC, I used mgetty).
Others would be better able to say if FidoNet is still around. I think it is, but I shut down my BBS toward the tail end of '94 and quit calling around to other BBSes sometime in '95 or '96.
You must've missed the recent story on Movie88. They stream Real instead of DivX, but it didn't take much work to save the streams to disk (you don't even need Streambox VCR...FlashGet and Muffin will do the job). Now if only Tinra would work for converting from Real to AVI...
AFAIK, nobody's doing double-sided dual-layer just yet...but there are some double-sided DVDs that are dual-layer on one side and single-layer on the other. The first DVD I recall running across that was made that way was the special-edition release of The Terminator.
If anyone's interested, I have the scripts up on my website. filter-html is an awk script that strips HTML out of a message. You can use it by itself as a filter for procmail. If you want to send a warning to lamers who send you HTML mail, you'll also want to get filter-html-mail, a shell script called by procmail to feed the message to filter-html and generate the warning message (note that it also assumes that you use qmail as your MTA).
If the numbers come up right, maybe you could call it "Six Degrees of Pr0n"...
I don't know offhand if it changes the overall rating, but Amazon does have a scoring system for its reader reviews. You can tell them if you think a particular review is useful; that way, if some schmuck decides to give one star to K&R, the "0 out of 42 people found this review useful" notation that would eventually accumulate next to the rating would at least suggest that perhaps other customers ought to take the review with a huge lump of salt. If you run across such a stupid review, mod it into the basement!
The B-52 has two seats that eject downward; everyone else goes out the top.
OK, so you meant this page and not this page (be a bit more clear about it next time). That said, Palm's site is legible enough, even on an LCD. (I'm stuck with a couple of flat-panel displays at work...light shades tend to be washed out and color accuracy isn't as good as with CRTs.)
Your settings must be effed up, as I'm using IE under Win2K right now and /. is perfectly legible.
What ad? I didn't see any ad. (Ad filtering proxies are your friends. :-) )
Since Movie88 uses HTTP to stream its movies, you don't even need to go to the bother of getting Streambox VCR to work right. Once you have the URL for the stream, dump it into your favorite download manager (I use FlashGet). You won't have to filter/block the user-agent string like you might with IE or Nutscrape, and a decent download manager will use multiple streams to pull the movie in as quickly as possible. As I write this, I have tonight's freebie, Buckaroo Banzai, downloading in FlashGet at over 150 kBps. (Yes...150 kBps, not 150 kbps).
To assist in getting the URL, get Muffin and tell RealPlayer to use localhost port 51966 as its HTTP proxy. Muffin is a Java-based proxy server with some filtering capabilities; one of the things it'll do is display URLs for whatever connections it has open. Start a movie at Movie88, grab the HTTP URL out of the Muffin connection window, and paste it into FlashGet (or whatever you're using). If Movie88 doesn't like your download manager, tell your download manager to use Muffin as its HTTP proxy and enable user-agent filtering in Muffin (a null user-agent worked for me when RealPlayer was playing the stream).
Why? I use the most recent LAME to encode CDs at 160 kbps VBR (audiocassettes are sampled and then encoded at 128 kbps VBR) and can't tell the difference when I play the resulting MP3s in either of the hardware MP3 players I have. If you're using a crummy MP3 encoder (like Xing) that needs a high bitrate to get decent sound quality, maybe you should replace your MP3 encoder.