... and then if Microsoft acts as a charitable organization, they're free to ignore the national do-not-call list, and interrupt my dinner to try to sell me Frontpage 2004!!!
This surprised me... Last week, I've converted two of my not-so-savvy neighbors up the block to Mozilla. They never want to use IE again.
Popup blocking was their #1 concern. They were amazed how mozilla handled this. "Why doesn't IE do this?".. Ugh
Once I showed them tabbed browsing, they were in love.
Couple things, tho, that could help:
1) First guy I installed Phoenix for, upgraded to Mozilla 1.4rc3 because of the friendly reminder he was running an old build. Umm.. Don't tell my non-savvy neighbors they need to switch product lines when their home page comes up.
2) Would be nice if there was a bundle build you could grab with flash, java, etc - installed. Or at least something that goes and looks for the java plugin on your system and registers with that, instead of having to reinstall the java plugin to set the hooks that way.. (Is this possible?)
Yea, it really sucks that I can develop and test code on my Windows laptop and just copy the compiled files over to an AIX box, or Intel/Linux box, and everything works perfectly.
Methinks you're a disgruntled C programmer feeling the world's leaving you behind.
Get with it - there's tools for every job - pick the one that works best.
My original point was made in humor partly - but the main point was that normal security exploits attacking buffer overflows, for example, are a non-issue in my 'interpereted language'.
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* If an item's correct price is lower than our stated price, we charge the lower amount and ship you the item.
* If an item's correct price is higher than our stated price, we will, at our discretion, either contact you for instructions before shipping or cancel your order and notify you of such cancellation.
Please note that this policy applies only to products sold and shipped by Amazon.com. Your purchases from third-party sellers using Amazon.com Payments are charged at the time you place your order, and third-party sellers may follow different policies in the event of a mispriced item.
They've done this before, so this isn't big news. About 9 months ago, they had the new RCA/Xbox TVs, 36", MSRP of about $1200, on sale for $99! (It was funny, it said "YOU SAVE 92%" or whatever the number was)
It circulated pretty fast. I ordered 6 of them.
I did find their policy posted, tho - which stated that the could at any time increase the price of an ordered item and then notify you for your approval.. Or, if the price posted was too high and you ordered, they'd drop the price - and this wouldn't take your approval to push it through.
Needless to say, about 3 days later a bunch of us got emails stating that there was an error, and if we'd like to order them at $999, then we could re-confirm our order.. Hah
I'm sorry, but the 3DO was an AWESOME gaming system. It was the first system I ever played that had a pretty decent fighting game backed by WHITE ZOMBIE.. No, not synth music - THE REAL STUFF. This amazed me.
Return Fire was an awesome - awesome - awesome game as well. One of the best soundtracks I've ever heard in a game to date, and the strategy between 2 players in this game was amazing.
There was also that game-show-ish "Twisted", I believe it was. The presentation in that was excellent.
The 3DO was INNOVATIVE, not one of the biggest failures. Geeeze..
The Heroes of Might and Magic Series (3DO) is a damn good PC game now.. They are a great software house as well.
I know this story says *computer* games, but it appears some of the posters here haven't been to an arcade in a while..
There is a downhill bike game now, which is way fun. You get done, you're hurting.
Anyone ever see that two-person rafting game?.. That hurt too.
The horse-racing game?.. 8 of those horses side by side... Way fun.
The new motion-cap (I guess this is what you'd call them) games are WILD too -- there's this one that you stand in this one place and hold a gun - and to duck around corners to fire, well, you duck around a corner. If you need to drop to the floor to avoid gunfire, you drop to the floor. I didn't think it would be that much of exercise, but wow.
At home - I've fallen in love with DDRMax on the PS2. I have two of the hard dance platforms now -- it's the most exercise (aerobic) I've gotten in a long time. When my friends come over - it's turned on automatically - huge party hit. Mix beer with it, it gets really fun.
.. Mostly if you have a turbo. Or, in my case, two.
My S4 has gone from about 250hp to 330hp. And I can feel it all. Before and after - the change was amazing.
Sure, I need to be a bit more careful warming up and cooling down the car. I can live with that. And actually, ever since I've gotten the increase in performance, I put the pedal down LESS. That's weird.
There's also some other very cool tuning.. I have a Vag-Tool which allows me to hook my laptop up to the car and monitor (and change) settings/data in realtime.
Since I've had that, I've made the following changes:
- Holding down lock on my keyfob for about 3 seconds will roll up all windows, close the moonroof, *and* lock the car
- The other way around - holding down unlock for a while opens up all the windows, etc.
- My tiptronic transmission now will not automatically shift out of first gear. (VERY NICE)
- My tiptronic transmission now lives in a non-stop "sports mode"
Now, only if this company that makes the interface/tool would provide hooks into the data collection portion of their app - I could write some realtime graphing utilities..
Ok, this story is eerily posted the same day I discovered what looks like a gem! (Please, someone, prove me wrong)
I'm currently paying $400/month for 50G of transfer ($2.50/G for extra) and 4U of space. 2 IPs. These are my own machines, so it's just colocation charge.
So, if anyone has seen what's been going on at newzbin.com, they had some illegal stuff posted, and their ISP (unitedcolo.com) gave them a couple options: term their contract, or rebuild the server (to wipe out the illegal stuff).
On their rant page (newzbin.com), they gave a link to their provider. (http://www.unitedcolo.com).. What do I see?
Dedicated Server.. Celeron 1.7GHz, 512M RAM, 80G HD, *500GB transfer*, for $99 a month with no setup!!! WTF?.. Towards the upper end, a P4 2.0GHz w/ 1G of ram and 120GB HD and 3 TERRABYTES of transfer for $299/month.
Cough.
Colocation?.. Sure, they do that too. $1/month. 500GB transfer. Zero setup fee. And $49/month per 1U.
They even go as far as saying you're free to host your own porn sites if you wish. They just don't want anything on their network that's infringement - because everyone has an upstream provider (even the big boys) who don't take kindly to it. So I understand why they're giving newzbin.com a hard time.
SO. What's the catch here?.. My current contract (OH, BTW, unitedcolo doesn't even require a contract! it's month 2 month!).. current contract expires in april, and you better believe I'm switching to these guys and pulling out my pogolinux-built linux boxen and having some fun toys for the home.
I'm going to be content with what I have. The only reason to upgrade PCs is for the games, but I'd rather spend $300 every 2 years or so to have my next-gen console.
Document Management?.. Plumtree has this, Jetspeed doesn't. I see this as being a pretty large effort to get this built in. Sure, I can arrange gadgets all over the place, but managing the content on these pages is another huge task I don't believe Jetspeed addresses.
My eyesight went a long time ago (I'd attribute that to long 132-character-column kermit sessions on a Commodore 64 hooked up to a 13" black and white TV set)... Last year I had lasik performed, now I'm 20/20. Cool.
Just started noticing, tho, my "mouse shoulder" - it's always hurting really bad. Most likely due to the fact I'm a "low sitter", and my arm is always pointing up when using the mouse..
Stiff joint there,.. hurts to raise it up past the normal mouse position...
So, now, uh -- time for shoulder replacement? Is there a surgery for this as well?.. I can keep abusing myself without feeling bad about it if there's surgeries to keep putting me back together. Heh.
Ford Motor Company has officially and unconditionally conceded its complete, utter, and perpetual loss on the merits of the FORD v. 2600 "FuckGeneralMotors.com" case. Ford has dismissed its appeal to the Sixth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals, meaning that Ford has completely given up all attempts to reverse the victory that 2600 Enterprises won on December 20, 2001. The mutually agreed dismissal papers were officially entered by the Sixth Circuit on June 27, 2002.
Set up some addresses in your host file, and make sure that takes precedance over DNS lookups.
[fords-ip] fordbites.com [fords-ip] fordsucks.com [fords-ip]... (you get the picture)
Then sit and write a shell script that grabs their home page using each of these names, say, once per hour.
They'll be looking at their logs, and see all these Hostname: headers coming through and be totally confused. They'll come after you for spreading these "trademark-tarnishing" domains to the world -- but little do they it's just some stupid script on your server.
Actually, what may even be a bit cooler but takes more time - write a script that generates random Hostname: headers for all requests to Ford's servers..
I read something in Popular Science a couple days ago -- quick blurb about the blue-laser DVDs which will be holding 27G, enough for a couple hours of high-definition video..
I can't WAIT for this technology to become available.. There's no way in hell I'd consider D-VHS, it's only selling point until this was the fact that a DVD couldn't hold high-def video due to storage capacity..
Hopefully we'll see a blue-laser DVD player with (PLEASE!!!) backwards compatibility and High-Def upconvert capabilities (even though most HD sets do this for you anyways)..
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In one answer...
...
We will never have a price lower than Linux
And in the immediate next answer
The idea is that we're in a competitive situation, that we're willing to provide a better price.
Umm.. What gives?
... and then if Microsoft acts as a charitable organization, they're free to ignore the national do-not-call list, and interrupt my dinner to try to sell me Frontpage 2004!!!
This surprised me... Last week, I've converted two of my not-so-savvy neighbors up the block to Mozilla. They never want to use IE again.
Popup blocking was their #1 concern. They were amazed how mozilla handled this. "Why doesn't IE do this?".. Ugh
Once I showed them tabbed browsing, they were in love.
Couple things, tho, that could help:
1) First guy I installed Phoenix for, upgraded to Mozilla 1.4rc3 because of the friendly reminder he was running an old build. Umm.. Don't tell my non-savvy neighbors they need to switch product lines when their home page comes up.
2) Would be nice if there was a bundle build you could grab with flash, java, etc - installed. Or at least something that goes and looks for the java plugin on your system and registers with that, instead of having to reinstall the java plugin to set the hooks that way.. (Is this possible?)
The tide is turning, tho..
Very well put.
So well put, I just delivered it to Senator Hatch's office voicemail in DC.
I think I added something about him being "insane" at the end of it, demanding a retraction. But then again, I've been drinking.
Thanks for the articulation.
I have still refused all projects that call for Java programming.
.. Or, hmm, maybe you're a school-boy.
Did you stomp your feet when doing so?
If it cannot be programmed with a real language, I don't wanna do it.
Oh, that's brilliant. Do you tell your management that?
Yea, it really sucks that I can develop and test code on my Windows laptop and just copy the compiled files over to an AIX box, or Intel/Linux box, and everything works perfectly.
Methinks you're a disgruntled C programmer feeling the world's leaving you behind.
Get with it - there's tools for every job - pick the one that works best.
My original point was made in humor partly - but the main point was that normal security exploits attacking buffer overflows, for example, are a non-issue in my 'interpereted language'.
Port to Java! Problems solved!
Try walking into Best Buy with a pad of paper and a pen.. Walk through the isles..
I've done this before - and have been told to remove those items from the store..
With respect to items sold by Amazon.com, we cannot confirm the price of an item until you order; however, we do NOT charge your credit card until after your order has entered the shipping process. Despite our best efforts, a small number of the items in our catalog may be mispriced. Rest assured, however, that we verify prices of products sold and shipped by Amazon.com as part of our shipping procedures.
* If an item's correct price is lower than our stated price, we charge the lower amount and ship you the item.
* If an item's correct price is higher than our stated price, we will, at our discretion, either contact you for instructions before shipping or cancel your order and notify you of such cancellation.
Please note that this policy applies only to products sold and shipped by Amazon.com. Your purchases from third-party sellers using Amazon.com Payments are charged at the time you place your order, and third-party sellers may follow different policies in the event of a mispriced item.
They've done this before, so this isn't big news. About 9 months ago, they had the new RCA/Xbox TVs, 36", MSRP of about $1200, on sale for $99! (It was funny, it said "YOU SAVE 92%" or whatever the number was)
It circulated pretty fast. I ordered 6 of them.
I did find their policy posted, tho - which stated that the could at any time increase the price of an ordered item and then notify you for your approval.. Or, if the price posted was too high and you ordered, they'd drop the price - and this wouldn't take your approval to push it through.
Needless to say, about 3 days later a bunch of us got emails stating that there was an error, and if we'd like to order them at $999, then we could re-confirm our order.. Hah
It would be great^H^H^H^H^H a pity if the source got leaked onto usenet.
I'd like to quantify my appreciation for that AWESOME post with a reply. :-)
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I'm sorry, but the 3DO was an AWESOME gaming system. It was the first system I ever played that had a pretty decent fighting game backed by WHITE ZOMBIE.. No, not synth music - THE REAL STUFF. This amazed me.
Return Fire was an awesome - awesome - awesome game as well. One of the best soundtracks I've ever heard in a game to date, and the strategy between 2 players in this game was amazing.
There was also that game-show-ish "Twisted", I believe it was. The presentation in that was excellent.
The 3DO was INNOVATIVE, not one of the biggest failures. Geeeze..
The Heroes of Might and Magic Series (3DO) is a damn good PC game now.. They are a great software house as well.
Long live Trip!
I know this story says *computer* games, but it appears some of the posters here haven't been to an arcade in a while..
.. That hurt too.
.. 8 of those horses side by side... Way fun.
:)
There is a downhill bike game now, which is way fun. You get done, you're hurting.
Anyone ever see that two-person rafting game?
The horse-racing game?
The new motion-cap (I guess this is what you'd call them) games are WILD too -- there's this one that you stand in this one place and hold a gun - and to duck around corners to fire, well, you duck around a corner. If you need to drop to the floor to avoid gunfire, you drop to the floor. I didn't think it would be that much of exercise, but wow.
At home - I've fallen in love with DDRMax on the PS2. I have two of the hard dance platforms now -- it's the most exercise (aerobic) I've gotten in a long time. When my friends come over - it's turned on automatically - huge party hit. Mix beer with it, it gets really fun.
Ok - ramble stops now. I just love video games.
.. Mostly if you have a turbo. Or, in my case, two.
My S4 has gone from about 250hp to 330hp. And I can feel it all. Before and after - the change was amazing.
Sure, I need to be a bit more careful warming up and cooling down the car. I can live with that. And actually, ever since I've gotten the increase in performance, I put the pedal down LESS. That's weird.
There's also some other very cool tuning.. I have a Vag-Tool which allows me to hook my laptop up to the car and monitor (and change) settings/data in realtime.
Since I've had that, I've made the following changes:
- Holding down lock on my keyfob for about 3 seconds will roll up all windows, close the moonroof, *and* lock the car
- The other way around - holding down unlock for a while opens up all the windows, etc.
- My tiptronic transmission now will not automatically shift out of first gear. (VERY NICE)
- My tiptronic transmission now lives in a non-stop "sports mode"
Now, only if this company that makes the interface/tool would provide hooks into the data collection portion of their app - I could write some realtime graphing utilities..
Ok, this story is eerily posted the same day I discovered what looks like a gem! (Please, someone, prove me wrong)
.. Celeron 1.7GHz, 512M RAM, 80G HD, *500GB transfer*, for $99 a month with no setup!!! WTF? .. Towards the upper end, a P4 2.0GHz w/ 1G of ram and 120GB HD and 3 TERRABYTES of transfer for $299/month.
.. Sure, they do that too. $1/month. 500GB transfer. Zero setup fee. And $49/month per 1U.
.. My current contract (OH, BTW, unitedcolo doesn't even require a contract! it's month 2 month!) .. current contract expires in april, and you better believe I'm switching to these guys and pulling out my pogolinux-built linux boxen and having some fun toys for the home.
I'm currently paying $400/month for 50G of transfer ($2.50/G for extra) and 4U of space. 2 IPs. These are my own machines, so it's just colocation charge.
So, if anyone has seen what's been going on at newzbin.com, they had some illegal stuff posted, and their ISP (unitedcolo.com) gave them a couple options: term their contract, or rebuild the server (to wipe out the illegal stuff).
On their rant page (newzbin.com), they gave a link to their provider. (http://www.unitedcolo.com).. What do I see?
Dedicated Server
Cough.
Colocation?
They even go as far as saying you're free to host your own porn sites if you wish. They just don't want anything on their network that's infringement - because everyone has an upstream provider (even the big boys) who don't take kindly to it. So I understand why they're giving newzbin.com a hard time.
SO. What's the catch here?
I'm going to be content with what I have. The only reason to upgrade PCs is for the games, but I'd rather spend $300 every 2 years or so to have my next-gen console.
Ships on the 18th of this month. Great detective work, submitter.
Document Management? .. Plumtree has this, Jetspeed doesn't. I see this as being a pretty large effort to get this built in. Sure, I can arrange gadgets all over the place, but managing the content on these pages is another huge task I don't believe Jetspeed addresses.
My eyesight went a long time ago (I'd attribute that to long 132-character-column kermit sessions on a Commodore 64 hooked up to a 13" black and white TV set)... Last year I had lasik performed, now I'm 20/20. Cool.
.. hurts to raise it up past the normal mouse position...
.. I can keep abusing myself without feeling bad about it if there's surgeries to keep putting me back together. Heh.
Just started noticing, tho, my "mouse shoulder" - it's always hurting really bad. Most likely due to the fact I'm a "low sitter", and my arm is always pointing up when using the mouse..
Stiff joint there,
So, now, uh -- time for shoulder replacement? Is there a surgery for this as well?
Why does that guy's book cost so much?
/- from 2600 -/
Ford Motor Company has officially and unconditionally conceded its complete, utter, and perpetual loss on the merits of the FORD v. 2600 "FuckGeneralMotors.com" case. Ford has dismissed its appeal to the Sixth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals, meaning that Ford has completely given up all attempts to reverse the victory that 2600 Enterprises won on December 20, 2001. The mutually agreed dismissal papers were officially entered by the Sixth Circuit on June 27, 2002.
Set up some addresses in your host file, and make sure that takes precedance over DNS lookups.
... (you get the picture)
[fords-ip] fordbites.com
[fords-ip] fordsucks.com
[fords-ip]
Then sit and write a shell script that grabs their home page using each of these names, say, once per hour.
They'll be looking at their logs, and see all these Hostname: headers coming through and be totally confused. They'll come after you for spreading these "trademark-tarnishing" domains to the world -- but little do they it's just some stupid script on your server.
Actually, what may even be a bit cooler but takes more time - write a script that generates random Hostname: headers for all requests to Ford's servers..
Hmm.
I read something in Popular Science a couple days ago -- quick blurb about the blue-laser DVDs which will be holding 27G, enough for a couple hours of high-definition video..
I can't WAIT for this technology to become available.. There's no way in hell I'd consider D-VHS, it's only selling point until this was the fact that a DVD couldn't hold high-def video due to storage capacity..
Hopefully we'll see a blue-laser DVD player with (PLEASE!!!) backwards compatibility and High-Def upconvert capabilities (even though most HD sets do this for you anyways)..