I switched from AT&T because of a disagreement with a bill. But that's another story.
I called MCI and signed up with them. An intermediate agency called me one night and asked if I really wanted to switch my long distance. I said yes.
So I get a letter: "Welcome to Sprint!"
Now, what I suspect is that Sprint saw a customer had dropped AT&T, called me and asked if I was ready to switch to them, and figured that I wouldn't remember who I had switched to. Maybe. Who knows? But I had to pay another 5 bucks to get MCI and called PacBell to lock MCI in. Only I can make these changes now.
This is the same kind of mentality that causes people to, say, accept free Christmas cards from Amnesty International and never make a donation.
In the US, one is not obligated to pay for anything you get in the mail that you did not explicitly ask for. They don't include postage to send the damn things back.
After all, they paid money to read the story; denying them a conclusion because other people didn't pay reeks of discrimination.
In the US, those that are deprived of their RIGHT to read the 3rd book can join a class-action lawsuit against King, the publisher, and the whole damn internet for discriminatory distribution of scary stuff.
To quote the article at gamepc : "VIA's dual processor solution is still quite a while away"
Don't tell that to Tyan. They've got the dual coppermine mobo with a VIA chipset ready to go.
This is supposed to ship within days, and there are a dozen vendors which are set to have it. I was quoted a date of May 20, but that may have slipped. Egghead says they have 1000 on order.
140 bucks for an SMP mobo?! The only question is how do you get a Tyan to overclock. The answer usually is, "you don't". But they are usually extremely stable, so it's amazing they are using VIA!
A 12-year old kid plops 'LG sux ballz' on the USENET. You are trying to tell me that he is now an author, with thousands of publishers (ISPs) around the world?
I'm callin bullshit on you, AC guy/gal. Whatever you are. Getting published is a big deal, these people are basically publishing their own work, having paid a fee with an ISP. 19.95 a month and you have bought a publishing mechanism, but that does not make every ISP in the world your 'publisher'
Yeah, Tony Blair is a disaster. He's as bad as our disaster on the other side of the drink. And we have at least 4 more years of guaranteed disaster coming up.
I'm serving 100 Meg of legal videos. I guess I am not doing this thing right?
If some dork wants a 50 second clip of the Superfriends saying WASSUP!, he/she can search yahoo, for a link to someone's page, with a broken link to a nonexistent FTP server.
OR they can type superfriends wassup into the Gnutella search engine and pick.mov,.avi, or.mpg. It's easy now.
It's really cool, man. Why don't you get it and try it yourself instead of pontificating? Then you can download all the legal material you can find, which will be quite a bit.
I'm not sharing mp3s at all, but 30-90 second video clips. Uhh, I guess I am really going against the spirit of gnutella, huh? But people are uploading like nuts. And I'm happy with that.
Sometime here I'll add my download directory to the gnutella path with my ill-gotten mp3s. Gotta do my part. But I'm not going to link whole albums. Singles. So what.
Search for carrey, carvey or xmen and get some cool vids!
Losing billions? You mean spending billions on things in which you see no profit motive.
There are plenty of private sector competitors to NASA in several arenas. One Texas billionaire is hiring like nuts to build a launcher that has a bigger payload specs than the shuttle. Don't have a link right now, read the article last week...
"There is NO reason to send spacecraft to Jupiter, it will never be profitable, so why do it? Let's just orbit a huge Pizza Hut sign."
"Bernstein says that Napster is "absolutely" illegal "
OK, is it posession of the file which is illegal? Or maybe it's just illegal to install it. Is it illegal to do a search in Napster? Or is it only illegal if you download mp3s.
Maybe the protocol is illegal. Because the protocol certainly promotes piracy.
People like this who paint things with such broad strokes make me yack. They are a danger to society; they don't care what crazy definition of illegal they apply to you and what you do, as long as it fits into their business model.
I think I care less after reading that article. So WHAT if I uploaded 99 Luftballoons and a Bauhaus track this AM. These people are on to other things (or dead), and if I don't provide the tracks, you'll end up buying some shit 80s compilation for one song.
I don't like uploading whole albums and make an effort to not keep those laying around in my uploads dir. Just doin' my part.
In San Antonio, no way they'd move some Legend of the Alamo shows to make room for 'F2K'. Just checked the schedule. Not that seeing a cartoon is THAT cultured, but, showing the same Alamo show 10 times a day for 3 years betrays a complete lack thereof.
Hey, we got smacked a few hours ago. Yep, we're gettin rammed pretty good. Crosspolar potential ~150kV, Goes Hp taking the dive...yeah if you are in Wisconsin, go outside tonight (I know, that is asking quite a bit). You are bound to get a look at some aurora. Look North for starters:)
I see some of the space weather sites going down hard tonight. The biggest effect of this storm will be that a LOT of university sites will have to upgrade their systems.
Click here for the Space Environment Center's daily forecast and current conditions. Nice plots, basically of the Sun and Earth conditions. No solar wind, though.
Also the SOHO spacecraft has a really awesome monitor, results from which are shown at this page . Be the first on your block to detect the CME shock front!:)
The M class flares DID happen with astronauts in space. Feb 17, those guys are up mapping the Earth right now! There was, of course, no danger to the astronauts, because that is NOT a big flare. The fact that the CME is coming our way means there will be enhancements in currents in the ionosphere and magnetosphere (if it does hit us, and this looks like a good halo CME to me).
It's a proton event which is associated with an big X class flare (they are always categorized by X-ray flux, with M a factor of 10 less powerful than X) which one would worry about. And there's no avoiding it because the particles are relativistic. ~15 minutes after the Xrays are detected comes the blast of protons. You could bring people home, but by that time they would have received a pretty good dose. Our magnetic field does protect us some, the moon is not a real safe place though. '68 moon shots, we were on a solar downcycle. Guess that makes sense.
Astronauts (and especially Cosmonauts) have been up for some big ones. Russians have reported seeing lights flashing while they were trying to sleep. Thats' Cerenkov radiation of particles exceeding c in their eyeballs! Party!
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Except, like, y'know, when they were like, *inferior*.
But the dual Athlon will be a fun toy, no doubt.
kabloie
They have different calling plans.
MCI-Worldcom != Sprint
www.wcom.com
www.sprint.com
look for yourself, dickweeeed
I switched from AT&T because of a disagreement with a bill. But that's another story.
I called MCI and signed up with them. An intermediate agency called me one night and asked if I really wanted to switch my long distance. I said yes.
So I get a letter: "Welcome to Sprint!"
Now, what I suspect is that Sprint saw a customer had dropped AT&T, called me and asked if I was ready to switch to them, and figured that I wouldn't remember who I had switched to. Maybe. Who knows? But I had to pay another 5 bucks to get MCI and called PacBell to lock MCI in. Only I can make these changes now.
Anyway, dat's my story!
-kabloie
In the US, one is not obligated to pay for anything you get in the mail that you did not explicitly ask for. They don't include postage to send the damn things back.
After all, they paid money to read the story; denying them a conclusion because other people didn't pay reeks of discrimination.
In the US, those that are deprived of their RIGHT to read the 3rd book can join a class-action lawsuit against King, the publisher, and the whole damn internet for discriminatory distribution of scary stuff.
kabloie
To quote the article at gamepc : "VIA's dual processor solution is still quite a while away"
Don't tell that to Tyan. They've got the dual coppermine mobo with a VIA chipset ready to go.
This is supposed to ship within days, and there are a dozen vendors which are set to have it. I was quoted a date of May 20, but that may have slipped. Egghead says they have 1000 on order.
140 bucks for an SMP mobo?! The only question is how do you get a Tyan to overclock. The answer usually is, "you don't". But they are usually extremely stable, so it's amazing they are using VIA!
kabloie
If I download Dr. Dre and I find it offensive and delete it and resolve never to listen to that freak again, was I stealing?
kabloie
The V3 is fully capable of displaying 2D in True Color. Fix your XF86config.
kabloie
A 12-year old kid plops 'LG sux ballz' on the USENET. You are trying to tell me that he is now an author, with thousands of publishers (ISPs) around the world?
I'm callin bullshit on you, AC guy/gal. Whatever you are. Getting published is a big deal, these people are basically publishing their own work, having paid a fee with an ISP. 19.95 a month and you have bought a publishing mechanism, but that does not make every ISP in the world your 'publisher'
Yeah, Tony Blair is a disaster. He's as bad as our disaster on the other side of the drink. And we have at least 4 more years of guaranteed disaster coming up.
kabloie
Trolling wee will go!
kabloie
I'm serving 100 Meg of legal videos. I guess I am not doing this thing right?
.mov, .avi, or .mpg. It's easy now.
If some dork wants a 50 second clip of the Superfriends saying WASSUP!, he/she can search yahoo, for a link to someone's page, with a broken link to a nonexistent FTP server.
OR they can type superfriends wassup into the Gnutella search engine and pick
It's really cool, man. Why don't you get it and try it yourself instead of pontificating? Then you can download all the legal material you can find, which will be quite a bit.
kabloie
I'm not sharing mp3s at all, but 30-90 second video clips. Uhh, I guess I am really going against the spirit of gnutella, huh? But people are uploading like nuts. And I'm happy with that.
Sometime here I'll add my download directory to the gnutella path with my ill-gotten mp3s. Gotta do my part. But I'm not going to link whole albums. Singles. So what.
Search for carrey, carvey or xmen and get some cool vids!
kabloie
Uhhh, you spelled sufficiently wrong in your sig? :P
Or is this a limey spelling.
Just tryin to help, I like that quote as well.
kabloie
That's great. So explain the quad Pentium Pro 200.
/. thread with so many people talking completely and anonymously out of their collective asses.
That's a pentium, thus the word Pentium.
Or a quad Xeon. Uhh, Xeon is a Pentium II/III with
hot cache.
I've never read a
All your information may be backed up on numerous sites, but it's wrong.
kabloie
Losing billions? You mean spending billions on things in which you see no profit motive.
There are plenty of private sector competitors to NASA in several arenas. One Texas billionaire is hiring like nuts to build a launcher that has a bigger payload specs than the shuttle. Don't have a link right now, read the article last week...
"There is NO reason to send spacecraft to Jupiter, it will never be profitable, so why do it? Let's just orbit a huge Pizza Hut sign."
kabloie
"Bernstein says that Napster is "absolutely" illegal "
OK, is it posession of the file which is illegal? Or maybe it's just illegal to install it. Is it illegal to do a search in Napster? Or is it only illegal if you download mp3s.
Maybe the protocol is illegal. Because the protocol certainly promotes piracy.
People like this who paint things with such broad strokes make me yack. They are a danger to society; they don't care what crazy definition of illegal they apply to you and what you do, as long as it fits into their business model.
I think I care less after reading that article. So WHAT if I uploaded 99 Luftballoons and a Bauhaus track this AM. These people are on to other things (or dead), and if I don't provide the tracks, you'll end up buying some shit 80s compilation for one song.
I don't like uploading whole albums and make an effort to not keep those laying around in my uploads dir. Just doin' my part.
kabloie
Dude, just spell atheist right next time, alright?
Listened to that whole hunk of garbage.
Same lies, same hype and propaganda. Choice excerpts:
"Illegal to copy a movie to your harddrive"
No it's not. It is specifically legal in the US anyway.
"Do YOU think you should be allowed to download movies and music from the internet?"
That's not what it's about you mealymouth-ABC-spoon-feeding-corporate-clones.
"Everyone is downloading music through the website 'napster.com'"
Idiots. Pure idiocy.
They probably had a great 1-hour interview with our friend in Norway. We get two sound bites.
But what did we expect.
kabloie
The picture of the thing shows what looks a lot like an RJ-45 jack. Guess the USB port got added recently. Like ethernet is obsolete. Gimme a break.
kabloie
How exactly am I supposed to get files onto this thing through a USB connector. Load Win98 on a machine around here? Are you nuts?
I guess Linux 2.4 will support USB, so maybe there is hope.
kabloie
In San Antonio, no way they'd move some Legend of the Alamo shows to make room for 'F2K'. Just checked the schedule. Not that seeing a cartoon is THAT cultured, but, showing the same Alamo show 10 times a day for 3 years betrays a complete lack thereof.
Oh velll,
kabloie
Took the words right out of my mouth.
I Hate Microsoft! I want my Win 2 K!
kabloie
Hey, we got smacked a few hours ago. Yep, we're gettin rammed pretty good. Crosspolar potential ~150kV, Goes Hp taking the dive...yeah if you are in Wisconsin, go outside tonight (I know, that is asking quite a bit). You are bound to get a look at some aurora. Look North for starters :)
-kabloie
The Chinese have counted up 5k years or so right? I wonder what they had invented up to the time that 'God' got around to creating the earth.
Just a thought.
kabloie
I see some of the space weather sites going down hard tonight. The biggest effect of this storm will be that a LOT of university sites will have to upgrade their systems.
:)
Click here for the Space Environment Center's daily forecast and current conditions. Nice plots, basically of the Sun and Earth conditions. No solar wind, though.
Also the SOHO spacecraft has a really awesome monitor, results from which are shown at this page .
Be the first on your block to detect the CME shock front!
kabloie
The M class flares DID happen with astronauts in space. Feb 17, those guys are up mapping the Earth right now! There was, of course, no danger to the astronauts, because that is NOT a big flare. The fact that the CME is coming our way means there will be enhancements in currents in the ionosphere and magnetosphere (if it does hit us, and this looks like a good halo CME to me).
It's a proton event which is associated with an big X class flare (they are always categorized by X-ray flux, with M a factor of 10 less powerful than X) which one would worry about. And there's no avoiding it because the particles are relativistic. ~15 minutes after the Xrays are detected comes the blast of protons. You could bring people home, but by that time they would have received a pretty good dose. Our magnetic field does protect us some, the moon is not a real
safe place though. '68 moon shots, we were on a solar downcycle. Guess that makes sense.
Astronauts (and especially Cosmonauts) have been up for some big ones. Russians have reported seeing lights flashing while they were trying to sleep. Thats' Cerenkov radiation of particles exceeding c in their eyeballs! Party!
kabloie