I want webpages to be designed like they currently are. For people that use 800x600 or 1024x768 (like they should) there is little need to scroll horizontally.
A properly-designed webpage should flow the text in usable form in a browser window of nearly any size. If it needs the browser window to be at least a certain larger-than-usual width, it's broken.
I remember most games loaded a splash screen off tape and you can watch the image building up in a rather bizzare way - top row of pixels, then a row a third of the way down and then a row 2/3rd way down, then back to the 2nd row at the top... all very strange...
Hmm...sounds like the effect of a hack Steve Wozniak used to cut one chip from the design of the Apple II.
(Hi-Res graphics on the Apple II loaded in a similar manner. With images loading from disk, it was fast enough that it was often called the "venetian-blind" effect. I've never tried it with tape...borrowed the recorder from my 99/4A to sample sounds into my IIe back in the day, but I never did more with the built-in tape-write/read routines than try them once or twice to see if they worked. When you have a couple of floppy drives available (and a SCSI hard drive later on), you tend to not want to bother with tape.)
I could say the same about Howard Dean...it'd be about as useful, and would arguably be more truthful. Argumentum ad hominem is poor style. It's a logical fallacy; didn't they teach you that in college? Besides, if Rush (right) and the Guardian (left) are basically saying the same thing, what are the odds that what they're saying is inaccurate?
Fortunately back then... we didn't go try and prove Iraq had an Al Qaeda link which didn't exist. I mean, Afghanistan's was pretty obvious. But Iraq's was nonexistent.
I'm guessing you've never heard of Salman Pak, a training camp 20-25 miles southeast of Baghdad that sources ranging from Rush Limbaugh to the Guardian report as having been a likely al-Qaeda training site. So much for "no connection between Iraq and al-Qaeda"...
And everyone named "Scott" now owes SCO $99 for embedded use of their name.
I'll just countersue them for <voice style="dr-evil">ONE HUNDRED BILLION DOLLARS!!!</voice> on grounds of my name being prior art. Let Darl put that in his crack-pipe and smoke it...I'm pretty sure his pathetic little organization wasn't around back in '72.
http://www.sco.com/company/feedback/index.html visit their webpage and tell them were they can stick their license fees.
An ASCII goatse.cx guy would be perfect material to drop into this webform a few thousand times, and would be a fine suggestion as to where $CO can put its license fees...
(Yes, it's the ASCII version and not the normal nastiness...link courtesy of Wikipedia.)
Isn't 2.1.x a development branch? I thought 2.0.x and 2.2.x were the stable branches... oh well.
It seems strange that TiVo would've gone with 2.1 instead of 2.2, but that's what they did...
bash-2.02# cat/proc/version
Linux version 2.1.24-TiVo-2.5 (build@buildmaster12) (gcc version 2.8.1) #8 Wed May 8 15:38:27 PDT 2002
bash-2.02#
According to this page, TiVo switched to 2.4 for Series 2. They most likely did this for the USB support (plug a USB Ethernet dongle into a Series 2 and it'll "phone home" over your broadband connection).
Read the article. They're demanding $32 a copy from the OEM; in this case, the TiVo company themselves. Individual users are NOT liable for this, they cannot demand this and they won't get it. If TiVo ships code it shouldn't have, then they are liable, not their customers.
Last time I checked, TiVo used one of the 2.1.something kernels. The underlying hardware (in a Series 1, anyway) is a single PowerPC 403GCX running at (IIRC) 53 MHz...less power than an old PowerMac 6100. Out of the box, it's equipped with 16 megs of RAM (but you can bump that to 32 if you're good with a soldering iron).
I strongly doubt that TiVo used any of the technologies that $CO claims it owns (no SMP, no RCU, etc). Then again, $CO doesn't seem to be constrained too much by the truth.
The chip in the doll was pretty much unusable, so we bypassed it (I prefer the word upgrade) to be able to do the new sounds. The bonus was having it so we retained the original Bob personality for when the PHB wanted it, and making it turn Evil when the rest of us had him.
Now you just need to make it switch automatically...maybe RFC 3514 support would be useful here.
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Bush has spent more money in these 4 years than Clinton did in 8
Last time I checked, Clinton didn't have a war going against terrorists. Wars tend to be expensive. Given the advanced law-fu he whipped out to get out of one scandal after another, I'm sure he could've come up with some legal pretext with which to detain Osama bin Laden when Sudan offered him up on a platter. That would've saved us the expenses we're racking up now. Because he was too busy getting BJs in the Oval Office, though, we're stuck with the present situation.
Clinton balanced the budget
s/Clinton/The Republican-controlled Congress/
From 1993 to 1995, non-defense spending was accelerating out of control. There was even a pie-in-the-sky plan (never fully implemented, fortunately) to socialize one-seventh of the economy by having the government provide womb-to-the-tomb health care.
I'm not claiming that Bush or the current Congress are perfect. (Putting you and me on the hook for Bill Gates' prescription meds once he passes a certain age is a dimwitted idea I would've expected from card-carrying Democrats.) I shudder to think how much worse off we'd be if Al Gore had won in 2000...the Democrat party is enough of an impediment to progress as it is, even as the minority party.
If things got so bad in America that the people really had to organize, use the internet (or any other form of speech) to inform eachother on how to overthrow the government and then coordinate their efforts, would it still be right for the government to try to stop them? who would decide?
Whoever wins the war would decide. If things got bad enough (as they did in the late 18th century and again in the middle of the 19th century) that a large-enough group of people start acting together to overthrow the government, they're hardly going to lock themselves up for advocating a violent overthrow of the government. OTOH, the odd crank or two (like the subject of this article) isn't likely to draw anywhere near the numbers of people needed for anything approximating a successful "revolution." He would've been better advised to work within the system. (He probably wouldn't have found adequate support for his radical views even that way, but at least he wouldn't be moldering away at Club Fed for the next year.)
Take a look at fs/udf/crc.c or net/khttpd/make_times_h.c, to name just two files where int main (void) appears. There are even more files in the Linux source tree where main() is declared with parameters, but naming those is an exercise left for the reader.
(They're most likely diagnostic functions used for exercising bits and pieces of the kernel...looking at the aforementioned crc.c, for instance, main() gets built only if TEST is defined.)
Where did you find it? I one of the casinos' bars? Or an actual importer in town? I live in Las Vegas (sorta) and I'm always looking for new and unusual ways of getting pissed.
Lee's Discount Liquor...you want to go to the one on Lake Mead (between Tenaya and Buffalo), as it has a wider beer selection than the others. If Lee's doesn't have a beer, you probably can't get it in Las Vegas.
Paul Theakston set up Black Sheep Brewery in Masham, so you might want to check that out.
Look for Black Sheep Ale and Monty Python's Holy Grail Ale ("tempered over burning witches")...they're good stuff, and they are exporting it (found it in Vegas, at least, and I think I saw them in a store while I was up in Portland last weekend).
Trippel, (bottled by New Belgium Brewing Co. out of Colorado) is more than 9%, and I have yet to see any beer stronger than that one.
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This year's Sam Adams Utopia is 25%. You're not going to get much stronger than that without distillation (at which point you're no longer making beer). Double Bastard Ale usually runs about 10%, while Samichlaus (highest-alcohol import I know of) gets about 14%. </voice>
Haven't had New Belgium's tripel yet, but the ones from Chimay and Val-Dieu are pretty decent. On the domestic tripel front, I have a bottle of MacTarnahan's Gran Luxe Tripel that I haven't opened yet...their other stuff has been pretty good.
[Bud|Miller|Coors] != American beer. You'll get booed out of nearly any homebrew club meeting just for mentioning one of those.
We have plenty of real beer here...it's just not advertised with multi-million-dollar ad campaigns that try to convince you that their products will make you more attractive to the opposite sex. You probably have some brewpubs in your town that'll have the freshest beer you can get. You more than likely have one or two liquor stores in town that stock a wide variety of local and regional microbrews. You probably haven't heard of most of them, and most of them aren't pilsner-like light lagers...but most of them are pretty decent.
(My drinking preferences lean toward pale ale, amber ale, porter, stout, and trippel...but some Arrogant Bastard Ale is also good once in a while, too. (In fact, I just bottled a Bastard clone this morning.) If you can track down some Sam Adams Utopia, that stuff kicks ass...it's kinda like scotch, but smoother.)
Many automakers in europe already do this. Their dealership is little more then a few cubicles and one or two floor models to ooh and aah at. There are no "in stock" vehicles.
The insane cost of real estate over in Europe would make keeping a large stock of ready-to-sell vehicles prohibitively expensive. They're not going to pave over a few acres of land so they can keep a couple hundred or so new cars in stock (along with the space needed for a sizable selection of used cars). Land isn't nearly as expensive here, so the average American dealer can keep a couple dozen or so of every model on the lot, with a mix of different engines/colors/options.
They were optional from some manufacturers as far back as the mid-70s or so. There's a timeline here that says the first airbag-equipped car to roll off a production line was a '73 Oldsmobile Toronado (with dual airbags, no less). They were available in certain models from Olds, Buick, and Cadillac until 1977...in the years they were available, only about 10000 cars were ordered with airbags. It's true that they didn't become common until the early '90s (and I'd just as soon have the choice to buy a vehicle without them), but they were available farther back than most people would guess.
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Of course, I'm dismayed to see the STS be put out to pasture (to be replaced with a RWD model built on the same basic platform as the Cadillac CTS, SRX, and the next-generation Opel/Vauxhall Omega).
OTOH, it has to be a Good Thing that GM is getting back into the RWD business. I don't think there's much that'd convince me to again buy into the added complexity of your average wrong-wheel drive vehicle. I had to have the driveaxles replaced on a 15-year-old wrong-wheel drive car...lots of noise from the CV joints and wheel bearings. You almost never need to do anything to the driveaxle of a rear-wheel drive vehicle, other than checking the oil every once in a while. You can go 30 years, 40 years, or more without having to open the "pumpkin."
(I probably won't be back in the market for a good long time, though...bought my first new vehicle (an '02 S10) last year. Between that and a '77 Cutlass Supreme (purchased from the original owner 3.5 years ago) that only gets driven once a week now, I most likely won't be back for at least 10-15 years...or possibly even longer. Some people change cars seemingly as often as they change underwear, but I like to hang onto a vehicle a little bit longer.)
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A properly-designed webpage should flow the text in usable form in a browser window of nearly any size. If it needs the browser window to be at least a certain larger-than-usual width, it's broken.
Hmm...sounds like the effect of a hack Steve Wozniak used to cut one chip from the design of the Apple II.
(Hi-Res graphics on the Apple II loaded in a similar manner. With images loading from disk, it was fast enough that it was often called the "venetian-blind" effect. I've never tried it with tape...borrowed the recorder from my 99/4A to sample sounds into my IIe back in the day, but I never did more with the built-in tape-write/read routines than try them once or twice to see if they worked. When you have a couple of floppy drives available (and a SCSI hard drive later on), you tend to not want to bother with tape.)
Maybe...but I don't think you can extrapolate behavior from AOLers to people who have a clue.
I could say the same about Howard Dean...it'd be about as useful, and would arguably be more truthful. Argumentum ad hominem is poor style. It's a logical fallacy; didn't they teach you that in college? Besides, if Rush (right) and the Guardian (left) are basically saying the same thing, what are the odds that what they're saying is inaccurate?
I'm guessing you've never heard of Salman Pak, a training camp 20-25 miles southeast of Baghdad that sources ranging from Rush Limbaugh to the Guardian report as having been a likely al-Qaeda training site. So much for "no connection between Iraq and al-Qaeda"...
From the article:
It's amazing what you run across when you RTFA...then again, you wouldn't have been able to get in a gratuitous jab at Fox News if you had done that.
I'll just countersue them for <voice style="dr-evil"> ONE HUNDRED BILLION DOLLARS!!! </voice> on grounds of my name being prior art. Let Darl put that in his crack-pipe and smoke it...I'm pretty sure his pathetic little organization wasn't around back in '72.
(Yes, it's the ASCII version and not the normal nastiness...link courtesy of Wikipedia.)
It seems strange that TiVo would've gone with 2.1 instead of 2.2, but that's what they did...
bash-2.02# cat /proc/version
Linux version 2.1.24-TiVo-2.5 (build@buildmaster12) (gcc version 2.8.1) #8 Wed May 8 15:38:27 PDT 2002
bash-2.02#
According to this page, TiVo switched to 2.4 for Series 2. They most likely did this for the USB support (plug a USB Ethernet dongle into a Series 2 and it'll "phone home" over your broadband connection).
Last time I checked, TiVo used one of the 2.1.something kernels. The underlying hardware (in a Series 1, anyway) is a single PowerPC 403GCX running at (IIRC) 53 MHz...less power than an old PowerMac 6100. Out of the box, it's equipped with 16 megs of RAM (but you can bump that to 32 if you're good with a soldering iron).
I strongly doubt that TiVo used any of the technologies that $CO claims it owns (no SMP, no RCU, etc). Then again, $CO doesn't seem to be constrained too much by the truth.
Now you just need to make it switch automatically...maybe RFC 3514 support would be useful here.
Last time I checked, Clinton didn't have a war going against terrorists. Wars tend to be expensive. Given the advanced law-fu he whipped out to get out of one scandal after another, I'm sure he could've come up with some legal pretext with which to detain Osama bin Laden when Sudan offered him up on a platter. That would've saved us the expenses we're racking up now. Because he was too busy getting BJs in the Oval Office, though, we're stuck with the present situation.
s/Clinton/The Republican-controlled Congress/
From 1993 to 1995, non-defense spending was accelerating out of control. There was even a pie-in-the-sky plan (never fully implemented, fortunately) to socialize one-seventh of the economy by having the government provide womb-to-the-tomb health care.
I'm not claiming that Bush or the current Congress are perfect. (Putting you and me on the hook for Bill Gates' prescription meds once he passes a certain age is a dimwitted idea I would've expected from card-carrying Democrats.) I shudder to think how much worse off we'd be if Al Gore had won in 2000...the Democrat party is enough of an impediment to progress as it is, even as the minority party.
Whoever wins the war would decide. If things got bad enough (as they did in the late 18th century and again in the middle of the 19th century) that a large-enough group of people start acting together to overthrow the government, they're hardly going to lock themselves up for advocating a violent overthrow of the government. OTOH, the odd crank or two (like the subject of this article) isn't likely to draw anywhere near the numbers of people needed for anything approximating a successful "revolution." He would've been better advised to work within the system. (He probably wouldn't have found adequate support for his radical views even that way, but at least he wouldn't be moldering away at Club Fed for the next year.)
Take a look at fs/udf/crc.c or net/khttpd/make_times_h.c, to name just two files where int main (void) appears. There are even more files in the Linux source tree where main() is declared with parameters, but naming those is an exercise left for the reader.
(They're most likely diagnostic functions used for exercising bits and pieces of the kernel...looking at the aforementioned crc.c, for instance, main() gets built only if TEST is defined.)
int main (void)
I think a fair reimbursement for infringement of my IP would be...<voice style="dr-evil"> one MILLION dollars!!! </voice> per installation.
(Hey, if $CO can make outrageous claims, why can't I?)
My car gets forty rods to the hogshead, and that's the way I like it!
(OK, so it's mileage instead of speed...)
Lee's Discount Liquor...you want to go to the one on Lake Mead (between Tenaya and Buffalo), as it has a wider beer selection than the others. If Lee's doesn't have a beer, you probably can't get it in Las Vegas.
Look for Black Sheep Ale and Monty Python's Holy Grail Ale ("tempered over burning witches")...they're good stuff, and they are exporting it (found it in Vegas, at least, and I think I saw them in a store while I was up in Portland last weekend).
<voice style="comic-book-guy">
This year's Sam Adams Utopia is 25%. You're not going to get much stronger than that without distillation (at which point you're no longer making beer). Double Bastard Ale usually runs about 10%, while Samichlaus (highest-alcohol import I know of) gets about 14%.
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Haven't had New Belgium's tripel yet, but the ones from Chimay and Val-Dieu are pretty decent. On the domestic tripel front, I have a bottle of MacTarnahan's Gran Luxe Tripel that I haven't opened yet...their other stuff has been pretty good.
[Bud|Miller|Coors] != American beer. You'll get booed out of nearly any homebrew club meeting just for mentioning one of those.
We have plenty of real beer here...it's just not advertised with multi-million-dollar ad campaigns that try to convince you that their products will make you more attractive to the opposite sex. You probably have some brewpubs in your town that'll have the freshest beer you can get. You more than likely have one or two liquor stores in town that stock a wide variety of local and regional microbrews. You probably haven't heard of most of them, and most of them aren't pilsner-like light lagers...but most of them are pretty decent.
(My drinking preferences lean toward pale ale, amber ale, porter, stout, and trippel...but some Arrogant Bastard Ale is also good once in a while, too. (In fact, I just bottled a Bastard clone this morning.) If you can track down some Sam Adams Utopia, that stuff kicks ass...it's kinda like scotch, but smoother.)
No...it's 473 mL. (1 qt=946 mL.)
The insane cost of real estate over in Europe would make keeping a large stock of ready-to-sell vehicles prohibitively expensive. They're not going to pave over a few acres of land so they can keep a couple hundred or so new cars in stock (along with the space needed for a sizable selection of used cars). Land isn't nearly as expensive here, so the average American dealer can keep a couple dozen or so of every model on the lot, with a mix of different engines/colors/options.
They were optional from some manufacturers as far back as the mid-70s or so. There's a timeline here that says the first airbag-equipped car to roll off a production line was a '73 Oldsmobile Toronado (with dual airbags, no less). They were available in certain models from Olds, Buick, and Cadillac until 1977...in the years they were available, only about 10000 cars were ordered with airbags. It's true that they didn't become common until the early '90s (and I'd just as soon have the choice to buy a vehicle without them), but they were available farther back than most people would guess.
OTOH, it has to be a Good Thing that GM is getting back into the RWD business. I don't think there's much that'd convince me to again buy into the added complexity of your average wrong-wheel drive vehicle. I had to have the driveaxles replaced on a 15-year-old wrong-wheel drive car...lots of noise from the CV joints and wheel bearings. You almost never need to do anything to the driveaxle of a rear-wheel drive vehicle, other than checking the oil every once in a while. You can go 30 years, 40 years, or more without having to open the "pumpkin."
(I probably won't be back in the market for a good long time, though...bought my first new vehicle (an '02 S10) last year. Between that and a '77 Cutlass Supreme (purchased from the original owner 3.5 years ago) that only gets driven once a week now, I most likely won't be back for at least 10-15 years...or possibly even longer. Some people change cars seemingly as often as they change underwear, but I like to hang onto a vehicle a little bit longer.)
As if Al Franken has any room to talk about idiots. As for the "big fat" part, go to rushlimbaugh.com and judge for yourself.