How many of us here havne't been to cnn.com? notice the "An AOL Time Warner Company. All Rights Reserved." line in the footer?
Not at all since they got taken over by AOHell. Even before that, I usually went elsewhere for news (typically MSNBC, NYT, and/or Fox) because Ted Turner is a pinko bastard. About the only time I ever went to CNN was if/. linked to it. Now I don't even do that (gotta check those links to make sure you're not being sent to CNN or to goatse.cx).
Actually, I noticed that with IE 5.5, if I type in a a wrong URL, it automatically goes to a MS search site. Maybe it's just me. Try this, though, if you're using IE 5.5: type in www.slash and press enter. Watch the stuff that goes on in the bottom left hand corner (the status bar). You'll see it get confused, and then call home to MS.
Mine came back with Squid's 404 page.
You can deactivate this (mis-)feature under Internet_Options -> Advanced -> Search from the Address bar -> (Radio Button) "Do not search from the Address bar".
It would appear that using a proxy server also bypasses this misfeature, as when I checked my settings, nothing was selected.
IIRC, the Shkval (sp?) isn't supersonic. It's much faster than any conventional torpedo (somewhere on the order of 150-200 knots), but considering that Mach 1 underwater is considerably higher than Mach 1 in the air, it's not there just yet.
What I'd really like to know is if 4.1.0 works any better with a Radeon on an AMD 761 northbridge. Ever since I upgraded from a 450-MHz K6-III on a VA-503+ to a 1.0-GHz Athlon on an M7MIA, X hasn't worked. I had a 32MB DDR Radeon working on the VA-503+, so it's not a problem with the card. Apparently there's some interaction with the Radeon and the 761 (751 too, FWIW) that keeps it from working. They say you can get it to work if you kill acceleration, but that would suck colon as far as performance goes. None of the READMEs say what's different between 4.1.0 and 4.0.x, and I'd rather not download the source tarballs unless I know I can get the new version to work with my hardware. (I run an LFS system, so building from source is no big deal.)
Meanwhile, back in the present, I've probably spent more than a thousand bucks on software and PC documentation over the last 10 years without ever getting anything that resembles a complete description of the hardware.
A complete description of a modern computer in all its complexity would likely fill a bookshelf. Just the latest draft of the ATA specification is about the same thickness, when printed double-sided, as the Apple IIe Technical Reference Manual I got back in 1987, which provided complete schematics, specifications, and even source code for the ROMs (except for the BASIC interpreter, and if Apple hadn't gotten that from M$, it probably would've been published too).
Given that we do not have enough evidence left from this fiasco to determine what the voters intended, the outcome is necessarilly decided by an arbitrary choice. Neither side has any justifcation for claiming that the election was "stolen". The real victor is as unknowable as Heisenburg's cat's health in a sealed box.
Wasn't that Schrödinger's cat, not Heisenberg's? Besides, statistical sampling doesn't apply in an election. There is no margin of error; you count the votes and the winner is whoever ends up with the most.
The problem was that Florida's definition of "vote" was somewhat flexible and wasn't even consistent from one county to the next. Algore didn't like the results from the first count, so he got together some lawyers, judges, and election-department officials who were willing to impose increasingly loose standards. The funny part is that even after three (or was it four?) recounts with increasingly loose standards, the end result never changed. The only thing to come out of the endless recounts has been the shrill bleating of a bunch of sore losers, who complain that they were "robbed" of that which was never theirs.
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Claranews. It's a good server with an annual fee.
You get what you pay for.
Supernews is pretty decent, too. It's a bit more expensive now than when I last subscribed to it (used to be $10/month), but my cable-modem service provider outsources Usenet to Supernews so it's part of what I pay for that.
I've seen diesel Suburbans before; I think they were built up to sometime in the 80s or (maybe) early 90s. The three engines that are currently available are all gas-fueled, though.
The Hummer is available with a 6.5L turbodiesel, but you'll pay through the nose for one (and if you never take it off-road, you shouldn't be allowed to own one:-) ).
In the US you can buy a Brand Spankin New VW TDIGolf for $16K, half the price of Most SUV's
$16K is twice the price I paid for my '89 Suburban. Just a data point.
...it's 8x what my '77 Cutlass Supreme cost me. OTOH, $30-$35 every week to fill up kinda sucks right now.
(I could've gotten an '80 Eldorado with a 350 diesel for about $3000, but I wanted rear-wheel drive. Besides, while both cars are powered by 350-ci (5.7L for the rest of you) Oldsmobile engines, the gas engine is good for at least a third more power than the diesel engine (that's just for a mid-70s smogger, not the higher-performance engines of the late 60s and early 70s), and it weighs less. Also, even a mid-70s A-body weighs less than any E-body ever did, AFAIK. The salesman said that the previous owner had been getting pretty good mileage out of the Eldo, though...)
And this means that a liter of petrol is around 1,16 euro a liter for euro unleaded.
Diesel is around 0,73 euro a liter.
And biodiesel around 0,59 euro a liter.
With €1=86, that's $3.78/gallon for unleaded (what grade--premium or the cheap stuff?), $2.38/gallon for diesel, and $1.92/gallon for biodiesel (you sell that out of gas stations over there?). Even with recent price hikes here, you're still getting bent over by comparison. It does explain why diesels are much more common in Europe than here in the States. (The cheapest I've seen locally (Las Vegas) in the past week is $1.63 for 87-octane (the cheap stuff), and we usually have higher prices here than most other parts of the country. I don't look at diesel prices much as I don't drive trucks, but the few times I've noticed them, they usually run about the same as premium, give or take a bit.)
But, 100KM is about, what, 65 maybe 70 miles? And 3 litres is slightly more than a gallon. That gives your VW about 60MPG, maybe 65MPG at most.
sorry.. but your maths is a bit out there....
1 gallon is nearer to 4.5l, which would work this out to significantly MORE than 65mpg...
He should've specified U.S. gallon, which would be 3.785 L. With about 1.6 km per mile, you get (100 km/1.6)/(3 L/3.785)=78.8 mpg, which is still more than 65.
(The first time through, I forgot to do the kilometers-to-miles conversion and came up with "~126 mpg" (really 126 km/gallon, which makes no sense). Remind me not to go to work for NASA.:-) )
I don't even proof for Netscape anymore. Our pages work in Netscape 6, Mozilla, IE and Lynx.
If someone is still using Netscape 4.x, that's fine, but I'm not going to write two fifty-page web sites, one of which is a hacked, broken, non-standard monstrosity just so those people can see our site without a bunch of errors.
..and I'm *certainly* not going to waste time on two sets of stylesheets, Javascripts, etc. Every minor update to the site would take days.
Server-side includes and shell/sed/awk scripts are your friends.:-) You can structure a site so that it spits out standards-compliant code for real browsers, yet is able to hack a page on-the-fly to deal with Nutscrape's borkenness.
If it were entirely up to me, I'd tell the Nutscrape users to bugger off, but I had to put together a corporate website that had to be viewable with the widest range of browsers. I've since adapted the code to my homepage as well. View it with IE/Mozilla/Opera/Lynx/iCab/whatever and you get standard HTML 4.01 and CSS 2 (or is it 1?). View it with Nutscrape and you get a hack job that looks more or less like what real browsers produce with standard code.
(As an aside, iCab renders the page incorrectly. The funny thing is that it doesn't complain about invalid HTML or CSS. Given that it's a beta, it's more than likely a bug that'll get worked out. IE and Opera render the page correctly. Last time I checked it (which was some time ago), Mozilla worked OK as well.)
For instance, the system could use a Diffie-Hellman key exchange by giving the PC side a transmitter and the keyboard side a receiver.
If you consider where Logitech makes most of its stuff, there's a fair chance they wouldn't have been allowed to put in such features. Encryption makes life difficult for Big Brother.
(Nearly everything Logitech that I've seen in the past few years has said "Made in China" on it. Think about it.)
Picked up an old mini-desktop case (about 14" on a side and 4" high, ie: size of a small stereo component), came with a p200, 64mb ram, small hard drive (easily upgraded), on-board tv-out (thank you ATI) and 10/100 ethernet.
For a while, I had something similar built up under the TV, only with a K6-200, 32 megs of RAM, and no hard drive. It net-booted off the server in my coat closet. The most expensive part of the system was an Acer IR wireless keyboard/thumbpad-pointing-thingy:-) that set me back about $55. Before I got a standalone DVD player, it had a hard drive, a DVD-ROM drive, and a Dxr2 so that I could play DVDs as well as MP3s on it (it was running Win95 at the time as there was no Linux support for the Dxr2).
This new development is letting the genie out of the bottle, so to speak, even if it is vapour. It lets the people who would otherwise hold off on such a product in favor of handhelds and portables realize that they're about to lose out on a new market. Who's going to be next to make a MP3 component? Diamond? The folks who brought you TIVO?
Sony may never come out with an MP3 component for your stereo system, but you can sure as hell bet that once a demand is evident, it will be met one way or the other.
You must not have heard of the Apex AD-600A and similar products. While it's primarily a DVD player (one that's easily made region-free and Macrovision-free), it also plays MP3 CDs. It looks like any other DVD player, so it blends in with the other stuff in your A/V stack.
What?!? So, back in the day, did your game have full-motion video clips? Support for 1600x1200 resolution? Speech clips? Support for force-feedback joysticks and mice?
Do you need those capabilities for Tetris, Lode Runner, or Arkanoid?:-) There's more to gaming than the flavor-of-the-month FPS.
(FWIW, the game I play most anymore is a Tetris clone called Block Party on my Palm III, and that's only to kill time. I have too much other stuff going on to waste time shooting at computer images; if I want to shoot things, I'll grab my Glock and go to the nearest target range.)
If Ford is so serious about 'protecting' their properties wtf don't they sue Microsoft over the Explorer trademark? MS is using Internet Explorer and Windows Explorer and Ford has trademarked long time ago Ford Explorer. Sure they are competing in different industris but Ford could bring it up under the trademark dilution clause.
It's usually not dilution if they're in different industries. Locally, there's a company called "Best Buy Furniture" that is in the furniture retail business. They even have a yellow-tag logo that bears a certain amount of resemblance to the logo of a certain consumer-electronics retailer. AFAIK, there's never been any litigation between the two companies...and there probably never will be any. If I'm in the market for a big-screen TV, I'm not likely to go looking in a furniture store for it.
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Well, Ford runs NT, so they are obviously idiots...
Actually, Netcraft says F*rd runs Win2K (with IIS 5, of course). FWIW, they also say the General runs Solaris (Nutscrape, though, not Apache).
Looking at the uptime info, GM is getting about two months out of Solaris between reboots. F*rd, OTOH, gets less than a month out of Win2K, which gives a whole new meaning to "Found On Road Dead.":-)
(In case I haven't made my vehicular preferences blatantly obvious, check out this link (no, it's not a goatse.cx link, and neither are the others in this post...that site is disgusting).)
Leaving aside for a moment the (questionable) IP claims on data that had been entered, gratis, by thousands of people around the world, there's also this consideration: What if Roxio dumped Gracenote because it had found a provider that offered a better service at a lower cost?
Consider this hypothetical situation. You go to one of the numerouselectronicsorcomputerretailers across the fruited plain and you buy a computer off the shelf. (Please...you can stop laughing now at the absurdity of this possibility.) The thing's preloaded with the latest bluescreen inducer. (We're also assuming that, for whatever reason, thinking different isn't an option.) You'd rather replace the preloaded software with something that's a little more reliable. You borrow a copy of $LINUX_DISTRO|$FREEBSD_DISTRO from a friend and blow away Win$YEAR when Billy sends some attack lawyers down from Redmond and slaps you with a lawsuit for depriving him of any future revenue when Win`expr $YEAR + 1` comes along.
How is the above hypothetical any different than what Gracenote is trying to pull off here? They seem to be under the impression that once you use their service in your software, you're stuck with them forever.
(Does anybody have a tool and/or a project (probably of a distributed nature) going to brute-force CDDB for all possible data and pass the info along to one of the free (as in speech) alternatives?)
our TV contains many educational and informative programmes not 24/7 runs of Cops or WWF.
Right now at prime 21.20 I'm watching a programme about the archeology of Ealy Cathederal.
Point taken. (FWIW, when my parents returned from an overseas assignment last summer, they picked up digital cable so that they could get BBC America. They developed a liking for EastEnders while we were all in England in the mid-80s. I was never able to get into it much myself, though.)
Ever hear of newspapers? With most TV "news" organizations' left-wing slant, their "news" offering usually isn't worth the electrons used to transmit it.
or education?
Hit the books again, or the Internet.
I'm not saying that TV is completely useless...it does an OK job of entertainment. I don't know if I would trust it with much more than that, though.
Actually, the reason that the hack worked was because all (or at least the vast majority) of manufactured 5 1/4" were actually double-sided. It was cheaper to manufacture only double-sided disks and just test one side for errors. This is the reason the hack worked so well.
Another consideration was that, after a while, single-sided disks disappeared from the market. With only certified double-density disks available, you might as well have punched them into "flippies" as you were wasting half the available space if you didn't.
The first box of disks we bought in 1985 for our then-new IIe was a ten-pack of double-sided TDKs (for about $27, if I recall...$2.70/disk for 280K if you punched them, 140K otherwise). I still have some of those disks, and they're still readable. By comparison, I've had 3.5" floppies go bad just days after they were written.
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Not at all since they got taken over by AOHell. Even before that, I usually went elsewhere for news (typically MSNBC, NYT, and/or Fox) because Ted Turner is a pinko bastard. About the only time I ever went to CNN was if /. linked to it. Now I don't even do that (gotta check those links to make sure you're not being sent to CNN or to goatse.cx).
Sounds like a surefire way to cut into their luser count...
Mine came back with Squid's 404 page.
It would appear that using a proxy server also bypasses this misfeature, as when I checked my settings, nothing was selected.
Why bother with a jet when you can get a Rocket under the hood? :-)
IIRC, the Shkval (sp?) isn't supersonic. It's much faster than any conventional torpedo (somewhere on the order of 150-200 knots), but considering that Mach 1 underwater is considerably higher than Mach 1 in the air, it's not there just yet.
SourceForge is responding to requests, at least.
What I'd really like to know is if 4.1.0 works any better with a Radeon on an AMD 761 northbridge. Ever since I upgraded from a 450-MHz K6-III on a VA-503+ to a 1.0-GHz Athlon on an M7MIA, X hasn't worked. I had a 32MB DDR Radeon working on the VA-503+, so it's not a problem with the card. Apparently there's some interaction with the Radeon and the 761 (751 too, FWIW) that keeps it from working. They say you can get it to work if you kill acceleration, but that would suck colon as far as performance goes. None of the READMEs say what's different between 4.1.0 and 4.0.x, and I'd rather not download the source tarballs unless I know I can get the new version to work with my hardware. (I run an LFS system, so building from source is no big deal.)
A complete description of a modern computer in all its complexity would likely fill a bookshelf. Just the latest draft of the ATA specification is about the same thickness, when printed double-sided, as the Apple IIe Technical Reference Manual I got back in 1987, which provided complete schematics, specifications, and even source code for the ROMs (except for the BASIC interpreter, and if Apple hadn't gotten that from M$, it probably would've been published too).
Wasn't that Schrödinger's cat, not Heisenberg's? Besides, statistical sampling doesn't apply in an election. There is no margin of error; you count the votes and the winner is whoever ends up with the most.
The problem was that Florida's definition of "vote" was somewhat flexible and wasn't even consistent from one county to the next. Algore didn't like the results from the first count, so he got together some lawyers, judges, and election-department officials who were willing to impose increasingly loose standards. The funny part is that even after three (or was it four?) recounts with increasingly loose standards, the end result never changed. The only thing to come out of the endless recounts has been the shrill bleating of a bunch of sore losers, who complain that they were "robbed" of that which was never theirs.
The third hit was this address:
www.spamfreebulkemail.com
"Spam-free bulk email"...that's rich. Isn't that like "dehydrated water" or "Christians Against Christ?"
Supernews is pretty decent, too. It's a bit more expensive now than when I last subscribed to it (used to be $10/month), but my cable-modem service provider outsources Usenet to Supernews so it's part of what I pay for that.
I've seen diesel Suburbans before; I think they were built up to sometime in the 80s or (maybe) early 90s. The three engines that are currently available are all gas-fueled, though.
The Hummer is available with a 6.5L turbodiesel, but you'll pay through the nose for one (and if you never take it off-road, you shouldn't be allowed to own one :-) ).
(I could've gotten an '80 Eldorado with a 350 diesel for about $3000, but I wanted rear-wheel drive. Besides, while both cars are powered by 350-ci (5.7L for the rest of you) Oldsmobile engines, the gas engine is good for at least a third more power than the diesel engine (that's just for a mid-70s smogger, not the higher-performance engines of the late 60s and early 70s), and it weighs less. Also, even a mid-70s A-body weighs less than any E-body ever did, AFAIK. The salesman said that the previous owner had been getting pretty good mileage out of the Eldo, though...)
With €1=86, that's $3.78/gallon for unleaded (what grade--premium or the cheap stuff?), $2.38/gallon for diesel, and $1.92/gallon for biodiesel (you sell that out of gas stations over there?). Even with recent price hikes here, you're still getting bent over by comparison. It does explain why diesels are much more common in Europe than here in the States. (The cheapest I've seen locally (Las Vegas) in the past week is $1.63 for 87-octane (the cheap stuff), and we usually have higher prices here than most other parts of the country. I don't look at diesel prices much as I don't drive trucks, but the few times I've noticed them, they usually run about the same as premium, give or take a bit.)
He should've specified U.S. gallon, which would be 3.785 L. With about 1.6 km per mile, you get (100 km/1.6)/(3 L/3.785)=78.8 mpg, which is still more than 65.
(The first time through, I forgot to do the kilometers-to-miles conversion and came up with "~126 mpg" (really 126 km/gallon, which makes no sense). Remind me not to go to work for NASA. :-) )
Server-side includes and shell/sed/awk scripts are your friends. :-) You can structure a site so that it spits out standards-compliant code for real browsers, yet is able to hack a page on-the-fly to deal with Nutscrape's borkenness.
If it were entirely up to me, I'd tell the Nutscrape users to bugger off, but I had to put together a corporate website that had to be viewable with the widest range of browsers. I've since adapted the code to my homepage as well. View it with IE/Mozilla/Opera/Lynx/iCab/whatever and you get standard HTML 4.01 and CSS 2 (or is it 1?). View it with Nutscrape and you get a hack job that looks more or less like what real browsers produce with standard code.
(As an aside, iCab renders the page incorrectly. The funny thing is that it doesn't complain about invalid HTML or CSS. Given that it's a beta, it's more than likely a bug that'll get worked out. IE and Opera render the page correctly. Last time I checked it (which was some time ago), Mozilla worked OK as well.)
If you consider where Logitech makes most of its stuff, there's a fair chance they wouldn't have been allowed to put in such features. Encryption makes life difficult for Big Brother.
(Nearly everything Logitech that I've seen in the past few years has said "Made in China" on it. Think about it.)
For a while, I had something similar built up under the TV, only with a K6-200, 32 megs of RAM, and no hard drive. It net-booted off the server in my coat closet. The most expensive part of the system was an Acer IR wireless keyboard/thumbpad-pointing-thingy :-) that set me back about $55. Before I got a standalone DVD player, it had a hard drive, a DVD-ROM drive, and a Dxr2 so that I could play DVDs as well as MP3s on it (it was running Win95 at the time as there was no Linux support for the Dxr2).
You must not have heard of the Apex AD-600A and similar products. While it's primarily a DVD player (one that's easily made region-free and Macrovision-free), it also plays MP3 CDs. It looks like any other DVD player, so it blends in with the other stuff in your A/V stack.
Do you need those capabilities for Tetris, Lode Runner, or Arkanoid? :-) There's more to gaming than the flavor-of-the-month FPS.
(FWIW, the game I play most anymore is a Tetris clone called Block Party on my Palm III, and that's only to kill time. I have too much other stuff going on to waste time shooting at computer images; if I want to shoot things, I'll grab my Glock and go to the nearest target range.)
It's usually not dilution if they're in different industries. Locally, there's a company called "Best Buy Furniture" that is in the furniture retail business. They even have a yellow-tag logo that bears a certain amount of resemblance to the logo of a certain consumer-electronics retailer. AFAIK, there's never been any litigation between the two companies...and there probably never will be any. If I'm in the market for a big-screen TV, I'm not likely to go looking in a furniture store for it.
Actually, Netcraft says F*rd runs Win2K (with IIS 5, of course). FWIW, they also say the General runs Solaris (Nutscrape, though, not Apache).
Looking at the uptime info, GM is getting about two months out of Solaris between reboots. F*rd, OTOH, gets less than a month out of Win2K, which gives a whole new meaning to "Found On Road Dead." :-)
(In case I haven't made my vehicular preferences blatantly obvious, check out this link (no, it's not a goatse.cx link, and neither are the others in this post...that site is disgusting).)
Consider this hypothetical situation. You go to one of the numerous electronics or computer retailers across the fruited plain and you buy a computer off the shelf. (Please...you can stop laughing now at the absurdity of this possibility.) The thing's preloaded with the latest bluescreen inducer. (We're also assuming that, for whatever reason, thinking different isn't an option.) You'd rather replace the preloaded software with something that's a little more reliable. You borrow a copy of $LINUX_DISTRO|$FREEBSD_DISTRO from a friend and blow away Win$YEAR when Billy sends some attack lawyers down from Redmond and slaps you with a lawsuit for depriving him of any future revenue when Win`expr $YEAR + 1` comes along.
How is the above hypothetical any different than what Gracenote is trying to pull off here? They seem to be under the impression that once you use their service in your software, you're stuck with them forever.
(Does anybody have a tool and/or a project (probably of a distributed nature) going to brute-force CDDB for all possible data and pass the info along to one of the free (as in speech) alternatives?)
Point taken. (FWIW, when my parents returned from an overseas assignment last summer, they picked up digital cable so that they could get BBC America. They developed a liking for EastEnders while we were all in England in the mid-80s. I was never able to get into it much myself, though.)
Ever hear of newspapers? With most TV "news" organizations' left-wing slant, their "news" offering usually isn't worth the electrons used to transmit it.
Hit the books again, or the Internet.
I'm not saying that TV is completely useless...it does an OK job of entertainment. I don't know if I would trust it with much more than that, though.
Another consideration was that, after a while, single-sided disks disappeared from the market. With only certified double-density disks available, you might as well have punched them into "flippies" as you were wasting half the available space if you didn't.
The first box of disks we bought in 1985 for our then-new IIe was a ten-pack of double-sided TDKs (for about $27, if I recall...$2.70/disk for 280K if you punched them, 140K otherwise). I still have some of those disks, and they're still readable. By comparison, I've had 3.5" floppies go bad just days after they were written.