On the other hand, when they call with a problem their description of the error message is vague at best and could be applied to just about anything.
They must be running Windows. I bet they're just quoting the error message verbatum. Trying to debug applications in Windows (even for stuff you can fix like permissions problems) is a colossal pain in the rear because the messages almost never say: Error accessing c:\winnt\system32\foobar.dll: Permission Denied, it's always Cannot initalize runtime. or some other equally useless error message. And don't get me started on the system logging, I can't remember a time when those messages have ever been useful.
Strangely, Erols was the only one that didn't work for me. I set up an account and got all of the information I needed, but every time I connected, the connection would drop exactly (down to the second) two minutes later. Their tech support was stumped and eventually I had to drop them and choose another ISP (it's not like dial-up ISPs are hard to find). I've never had the problem since (although I've also since dumped my modem for a cable modem).
Heck, my old Anime club used to do that with Fansubs to get around the "no sale or rent" clause. You paid a fee each semester that allowed you to rent N tapes (the N was based off which membership you got), you could keep the tapes as long as you wanted, although you did have to turn them back in at the end of the semester and you could not have more than N tapes out at once. The fees went into blank tapes and shipping from Japan, the fansubbers did the actual translating and timing for free though.
I remember those "Audiogames". The ones that come out around Halloween time and have ads on TV. Call mumble-mumble and play a game, only $2.99 a minute, get your parent's permission, etc... There is a picture of what looks like an 8 bit NES game in the background with a character going between levels of some side scroller and a voice over about fighting ghosts and stuff. I don't know if they're still around or not, it sounded pretty lame to me (and I was 8 at the time).
"And consumers of natural gas -- already the primary source of hydrogen for everything from hydrogenated foods to NASA rockets -- learned this week that natural-gas supplies are at their lowest levels in 25 years."
As a nonrenuable resource, isn't this always true? That's a fairly alarmist statement, but it doesn't seem to amount to anything.
Hybrid technology is not built for cross country trips. Current gasoline engines are already fairly efficent for cross country travel, so you're not going to save much with the hybrid system (especially with it's added weight). Where you save a lot of gas in a hybrid is in the city, in stop and go traffic. Regular gasoline engines have to expend energy to accelrate adn to brake (power assited breaking). Hybrids on the other hand store the braking energy to help you accelerate, which can be a huge gain. That's why the milage differences between city and highway are so much smaller on Hybrids than they are on conventional vehicles.
Um, unless you're spraying the oil directly on the cylinder walls, this isn't going to help. The problem is that the oil runs down the sides of the walls back into the crankcase when the engine is off, but you can't just design the engine to keep the oil on the sides of the cylinder, because it will "bake" on and destroy the engine.
Ford and its dealerships/repair shops would probably also make less over the life of the vehicle, since a well-designed hybrid with an integrated electric motor (not those gas engines that GM proposed with the oversized 42 volt alternator) will likely have a longer service life - meaning less wear and less maintainence. After all, you are burning less fuel.
Wow, that's the only time I've ever heard someone suggest that a far more complicated, untested, and cutting edge technology should reduce repair and maintenance time in a consumer application. Hybrids have a lot of advantages, but their inherent complexity and relative newness prevents low maintenance from being one of them.
Honestly, I don't have much of a problem with this use of the black box. It is just a more accurate way of determining exactly how fast someone was going when they got in a wreck. It's not like it can be used to spy on you (yet), or report your destinations to the "proper authorities" or anything scary like that. I know people hate it when they get the extra fine on top of the vehicular manslaughter charge, but it's not Orwellian yet.
I thought old age still got more people than cars or cigarettes, this must be a more dangerous time than I know. I bet you won't be appreciating that governer when you're doing 50 on the interstate, nor will you appreciate it when trying to rush to the hospital with a dying person or a wife in labor down empty streets.
Actually, the West Virginia Turnpike used to do exactly that. If you managed to get between two booths in less than X minutes, then they would hand you a ticket when you paid the toll at the other end.
This was very unpopular (especially since there weren't any alternatives to the turnpike that don't add hours to your trip), and was eventually removed from the system. Instead, the turnpike is overflowing with traffic cops that have itchy ticket fingers.
I didn't know that anybody even made 3GB drives anymore. I have to admit, I was expecting a 10GB drive, as those are about as cheap a drive as you can get. Going down to 3GB can't be saving them much, since they're going to have to basically prop up some manufacturers old product line. That is some seriously painful cost cutting IMHO.
Personally, I never liked the look of the Concorde. It looked like a plane designed by a committee.
I don't think we're going to see many supersonic airliners anytime soon. The Concorde has shown us just how much people hate daily sonic booms, plus the tickets were generally far more expensive than ones for more conventional craft, which is death in the highly competitive airliner industry.
Let me guess, you live in an exceptionally sunny, but yet not overly hot (or it is just bearable dry heat) part of the world. You also have extremely modest power requirements (I'm guessing natural gas appliances, no A/C, few power consuming appliances.
Solar power is nice, but it's just not very practical for 90% of the population. It doesn't even pay for itself in most parts of the world (given the lifecycle and cost of the solar cells, not to mention the support equipment like the batteries). So it's pretty much just for the people who live in the right climate and are willing to do without some modern luxuries.
I also note that we had 28 days of rain (and 31 overcast days) in May. I assume you don't live near me (or have learned how to live without lights for 3+ weeks at a time).
AIM grew because AOL got on the internet, and when all of your friends are on AOL (and use AIM because it comes bundled with their internet service) what are you going to do?
I once heard a statistic that almost 100% of AIM users are Americans, where ICQ has a far more international mix. ICQ users are also considerably more technically proficent than AIM users as a whole. Personally, I can't stand having windows appear in front of me at inopportune times, so I never use AIM.
I think the biggest issue people have with the Architect scene is that he uses a lot of vocabulary words. If you don't have a strong vocabulary it will be easy to get lost on his scene. On the other hand, if you know what he's saying, then the meaning is quite clear.
Unfortunatly it's not very useful to download that on Win2k/XP, as most of the applications in there just spit out "Incorrect DOS Version" and quit. Apparently most of the applications are not NTFS aware.
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Strangely, Erols was the only one that didn't work for me. I set up an account and got all of the information I needed, but every time I connected, the connection would drop exactly (down to the second) two minutes later. Their tech support was stumped and eventually I had to drop them and choose another ISP (it's not like dial-up ISPs are hard to find). I've never had the problem since (although I've also since dumped my modem for a cable modem).
Your perl example is far too complicated. Why not just say something like: m#(/\*.*?\*/)#s; to grab the comment?
Heck, my old Anime club used to do that with Fansubs to get around the "no sale or rent" clause. You paid a fee each semester that allowed you to rent N tapes (the N was based off which membership you got), you could keep the tapes as long as you wanted, although you did have to turn them back in at the end of the semester and you could not have more than N tapes out at once. The fees went into blank tapes and shipping from Japan, the fansubbers did the actual translating and timing for free though.
I remember those "Audiogames". The ones that come out around Halloween time and have ads on TV. Call mumble-mumble and play a game, only $2.99 a minute, get your parent's permission, etc... There is a picture of what looks like an 8 bit NES game in the background with a character going between levels of some side scroller and a voice over about fighting ghosts and stuff. I don't know if they're still around or not, it sounded pretty lame to me (and I was 8 at the time).
"And consumers of natural gas -- already the primary source of hydrogen for everything from hydrogenated foods to NASA rockets -- learned this week that natural-gas supplies are at their lowest levels in 25 years."
As a nonrenuable resource, isn't this always true? That's a fairly alarmist statement, but it doesn't seem to amount to anything.
Oh no! Is the XBox2 going to include Microsoft Bob as well?
Hybrid technology is not built for cross country trips. Current gasoline engines are already fairly efficent for cross country travel, so you're not going to save much with the hybrid system (especially with it's added weight). Where you save a lot of gas in a hybrid is in the city, in stop and go traffic. Regular gasoline engines have to expend energy to accelrate adn to brake (power assited breaking). Hybrids on the other hand store the braking energy to help you accelerate, which can be a huge gain. That's why the milage differences between city and highway are so much smaller on Hybrids than they are on conventional vehicles.
Aren't you supposed to turn your car off for those carwashes? It's not like the wipers are going to run when your car is off.
Isn't this the same thing they said about Lasers in the 50s?
Not enough boobs. Darn those media censors.
Um, unless you're spraying the oil directly on the cylinder walls, this isn't going to help. The problem is that the oil runs down the sides of the walls back into the crankcase when the engine is off, but you can't just design the engine to keep the oil on the sides of the cylinder, because it will "bake" on and destroy the engine.
Honestly, I don't have much of a problem with this use of the black box. It is just a more accurate way of determining exactly how fast someone was going when they got in a wreck. It's not like it can be used to spy on you (yet), or report your destinations to the "proper authorities" or anything scary like that. I know people hate it when they get the extra fine on top of the vehicular manslaughter charge, but it's not Orwellian yet.
I thought old age still got more people than cars or cigarettes, this must be a more dangerous time than I know. I bet you won't be appreciating that governer when you're doing 50 on the interstate, nor will you appreciate it when trying to rush to the hospital with a dying person or a wife in labor down empty streets.
Actually, the West Virginia Turnpike used to do exactly that. If you managed to get between two booths in less than X minutes, then they would hand you a ticket when you paid the toll at the other end.
This was very unpopular (especially since there weren't any alternatives to the turnpike that don't add hours to your trip), and was eventually removed from the system. Instead, the turnpike is overflowing with traffic cops that have itchy ticket fingers.
I didn't know that anybody even made 3GB drives anymore. I have to admit, I was expecting a 10GB drive, as those are about as cheap a drive as you can get. Going down to 3GB can't be saving them much, since they're going to have to basically prop up some manufacturers old product line. That is some seriously painful cost cutting IMHO.
Personally, I never liked the look of the Concorde. It looked like a plane designed by a committee.
I don't think we're going to see many supersonic airliners anytime soon. The Concorde has shown us just how much people hate daily sonic booms, plus the tickets were generally far more expensive than ones for more conventional craft, which is death in the highly competitive airliner industry.
Let me guess, you live in an exceptionally sunny, but yet not overly hot (or it is just bearable dry heat) part of the world. You also have extremely modest power requirements (I'm guessing natural gas appliances, no A/C, few power consuming appliances.
Solar power is nice, but it's just not very practical for 90% of the population. It doesn't even pay for itself in most parts of the world (given the lifecycle and cost of the solar cells, not to mention the support equipment like the batteries). So it's pretty much just for the people who live in the right climate and are willing to do without some modern luxuries.
I also note that we had 28 days of rain (and 31 overcast days) in May. I assume you don't live near me (or have learned how to live without lights for 3+ weeks at a time).
Sounds like Darwin in action to me, I count that as a "win" for humanity.
AIM grew because AOL got on the internet, and when all of your friends are on AOL (and use AIM because it comes bundled with their internet service) what are you going to do?
I once heard a statistic that almost 100% of AIM users are Americans, where ICQ has a far more international mix. ICQ users are also considerably more technically proficent than AIM users as a whole. Personally, I can't stand having windows appear in front of me at inopportune times, so I never use AIM.
I think the biggest issue people have with the Architect scene is that he uses a lot of vocabulary words. If you don't have a strong vocabulary it will be easy to get lost on his scene. On the other hand, if you know what he's saying, then the meaning is quite clear.
Mostly stuff like pkgdb and the pkgtools. pkg_version is very handy for keeping a system up to date, especially when combined with portupgrade.
Unfortunatly it's not very useful to download that on Win2k/XP, as most of the applications in there just spit out "Incorrect DOS Version" and quit. Apparently most of the applications are not NTFS aware.
Microsoft Windows 2000 [Version 5.00.2195]
(C) Copyright 1985-2000 Microsoft Corp.
C:\>qbasic
'qbasic' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.
Apparently not by default.