Some places are just too sparsely populated to wire up for anything. It's a matter of (ugh) cost-effectiveness. Rural areas of New Brunswick, Canada area good example. 56k is literally the only option. At least it's pretty cheap: CAN$24.95 for unlimited 56k access with NBTel.
Did you actually log off, or just click "Post Anonymously"? You can mod up your own posts if you post anonymously. Why you would want to is beyond me, because a normal score of 1 is the same as an AC getting modded up by 1...
Actually, I was making a comment on how it's good policy for AOL never to give out information like that over the phone. I thought I was advocating for more protection of privacy, rather than the latter.
Holy dogshit! Texas! Only steers and queers come from Texas, Private Cowboy! And you don't look much like a steer to me, so that kinda narrows it down!
This election reminds me of Kim Campbell's federal Conservatives going into that last fateful vote. I've got this sense of morbid glee at seeing a political party totally destroyed before my very eyes. It really is a rare event, so it's all the nicer to see when voters get truly pissed off.
Ten bucks on the BC NDP having 3 ridings at the end of it all.
This might encourage people to respect copyrights a little more. You won't get the compensation money if it's an unregistered copy.
But it'll never happen anyway. Can you honestly expect a certain large purveyor of desktop operating systems to let this kind of law pass in the US Congress?
For those who are even more paranoid about disk space, one can use the Slackware Zipslack installation. It fits in under a hundred megs. It doesn't come with much beyond a basic Linux installation, but it's nice to start with something small and efficient, and add only what one needs.
AMEN from the highest fucking rooftops, especially about Sierra. They pissed off a whooooooooole lot of us Babylon 5 fans. I was actually going to *buy* that game, and I'm the kind of cheapskate bastard that the SPA hates.
This may be slightly off-topic, but could someone point me in the direction of a relatively cheap PDA that can store at least a meg of text files both from a pen-like device and from a desktop computer? I don't need an address book or, I just need a cheap portable text editor. Does anyone know of a gadget that fits the bill?
>P.S. I place this idea under the GPL. Take it,
>use it, extend it, print it out and use it for
>toilet paper. Hopefully this way, no one will
>patent it as a "business process.:-)
Too late. Former Prime Minister Brian Mulroney beat you to it in Canada a decade ago with the wildly unpopular national "Goods and Services Tax", a national 7% sales tax. Within a few years, his Conservative Party (which he no longer led) went from being a majority government to being two members out of more than 300 in Parliament.
The GST has resulted in more red tape than ever imagined. It costs more to collect the tax than it brings in as revenue, and we only have to deal with 10 provinces and 3 territories. Trying to set up the beaurocracy to collect it from 50 states and then to distribute it fairly is insane.
>I'm not surprised to find this opinion from a
>newly opened account...
Oh please. The previous user posted their honest opinion. Are you just mad that they didn't tow the slashdot groupthink line? Account number doesn't mean a damn thing when it comes to quality of posts.
Everyone knows that the best way to get porn nowadays isn't on the web with credit cards, it's on Usenet with Agent or Free Agent and the magical tab, shift-end, control-D combination.
Unstable? Infrequently updated? What are you smoking? I've used the last release for a month without it crashing. And it's a port of 1.2. I'd say that's pretty recent.
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Welcome to the world of file permissions, love bug.
Some places are just too sparsely populated to wire up for anything. It's a matter of (ugh) cost-effectiveness. Rural areas of New Brunswick, Canada area good example. 56k is literally the only option. At least it's pretty cheap: CAN$24.95 for unlimited 56k access with NBTel.
Well, both. It's been awhile since I've dealt with either.
Reminds me of that movie "The Andromeda Strain".
You're so silly. Famous Americans are never convicted of anything. Haven't you learned that by now?
Wasn't that the Yorktown, an Aegis cruiser?
Did you actually log off, or just click "Post Anonymously"? You can mod up your own posts if you post anonymously. Why you would want to is beyond me, because a normal score of 1 is the same as an AC getting modded up by 1...
Actually, I was making a comment on how it's good policy for AOL never to give out information like that over the phone. I thought I was advocating for more protection of privacy, rather than the latter.
Holy dogshit! Texas! Only steers and queers come from Texas, Private Cowboy! And you don't look much like a steer to me, so that kinda narrows it down!
Uh-huh. And what would have happened if the poor, distraught woman who demanded the information had turned out to be a stalker herself?
I don't know about AOL buildings, but in the call center where I used to work a pod was a single room full of cubicle.
Oh, and anyone in atlantic Canada, never work for Pollara. Trust me.
This election reminds me of Kim Campbell's federal Conservatives going into that last fateful vote. I've got this sense of morbid glee at seeing a political party totally destroyed before my very eyes. It really is a rare event, so it's all the nicer to see when voters get truly pissed off.
Ten bucks on the BC NDP having 3 ridings at the end of it all.
This might encourage people to respect copyrights a little more. You won't get the compensation money if it's an unregistered copy.
But it'll never happen anyway. Can you honestly expect a certain large purveyor of desktop operating systems to let this kind of law pass in the US Congress?
For those who are even more paranoid about disk space, one can use the Slackware Zipslack installation. It fits in under a hundred megs. It doesn't come with much beyond a basic Linux installation, but it's nice to start with something small and efficient, and add only what one needs.
Stilproject satisfies all those requirements, except for stories involving the Slashdot staff.
AMEN from the highest fucking rooftops, especially about Sierra. They pissed off a whooooooooole lot of us Babylon 5 fans. I was actually going to *buy* that game, and I'm the kind of cheapskate bastard that the SPA hates.
Am I the only human being alive who enjoyed the Wing Commander movie?
This may be slightly off-topic, but could someone point me in the direction of a relatively cheap PDA that can store at least a meg of text files both from a pen-like device and from a desktop computer? I don't need an address book or, I just need a cheap portable text editor. Does anyone know of a gadget that fits the bill?
Hmm, maybe CTV's numbers are a little biased... thanks for the info.
>P.S. I place this idea under the GPL. Take it, :-)
>use it, extend it, print it out and use it for
>toilet paper. Hopefully this way, no one will
>patent it as a "business process.
Too late. Former Prime Minister Brian Mulroney beat you to it in Canada a decade ago with the wildly unpopular national "Goods and Services Tax", a national 7% sales tax. Within a few years, his Conservative Party (which he no longer led) went from being a majority government to being two members out of more than 300 in Parliament.
The GST has resulted in more red tape than ever imagined. It costs more to collect the tax than it brings in as revenue, and we only have to deal with 10 provinces and 3 territories. Trying to set up the beaurocracy to collect it from 50 states and then to distribute it fairly is insane.
>I'm not surprised to find this opinion from a
>newly opened account...
Oh please. The previous user posted their honest opinion. Are you just mad that they didn't tow the slashdot groupthink line? Account number doesn't mean a damn thing when it comes to quality of posts.
Everyone knows that the best way to get porn nowadays isn't on the web with credit cards, it's on Usenet with Agent or Free Agent and the magical tab, shift-end, control-D combination.
It wasn't an aircraft carrier, it was the Aegis cruiser USS Yorktown.
No, the way to get up-to-date applications is to run Slackware and compile the source yourself.
Unstable? Infrequently updated? What are you smoking? I've used the last release for a month without it crashing. And it's a port of 1.2. I'd say that's pretty recent.