Our local school district has perhaps 100 of these stashed in a disused room at one of the local highschool. I know someone on their technical staff, and they mentioned all the trouble they'd had with them. One of the local idjits broke into the room they were stored in, and brought it to my shop to be fixed (we all had a great laugh over that one) and you could see the caps swollen and oozing. I used to wonder why they were holding on to them; now I think I know...
It seems pretty broken, at least here in Eastern Oregon.
We have 2 ISP's here in our area offering broadband, wireless of course, since we haven't got the copper anywhere in this place to support DSL (I have town customers doing 14.4 dialup). What broadband we have here is fairly well tapped out, since everything comes into our area via microwave. We have been waiting for the fiber replacement for the microwave to be finished for the past few years... it may be another year before that comes online. Our Cable is analog, and I know of no plans to upgrade it. Buildout costs and ROI dictate that due to our lack of population in ratio to the amount of space, any privately funded project to improve service here will fail, since it will never be able to make a profit. The only solution I can see is for the government to fund and oversee improvements. It worked for REA, and for rural telephone service some generations ago. The price of copper and other materials may prove to be an obstacle, though, along with the lack of funds available now having been diverted to Iraq.
Population density in any part of NC is much higher than here or nearly any rural area in the Western US, making the ROI nut easier to crack.
Absolutely.
I'm a builder in far NE Oregon, 70 miles from the nearest traffic light, and ASI has never failed me. I've actually had my rep go down to the warehouse to walk an order through.
Search capability sucks... and it crashes when I walk into the other room for a cup of coffee!
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Here's what I did:
The release notes I read last night said to deactivate all extensions. I did so, and the install went off rather smoothly. As the new upgraded browser started for the first time, a dialogue popped up stating that one of my extensions and my Noia theme had new versions and they would be downloaded. All others would be disabled until compatible versions were installed. Once this was done, the browser launched. There were glitches, such as the downloaded theme having to be installed again. I also had to uninstall the extensions that were deemed to be incompatible, and reinstall them (Diggler, Compact Menu, BugMeNot, and SmoothWheel) , but all is working perfectly as of this morning. This is the first time I have felt comfortable not nuking the old profile, and I am glad it worked out so well.
I have been using Firefox since 0.3 as my primary browser, and it is really shaping up to be a great piece of software.
My ex wife (big tolkien fan) always kept bugging me to read LOTR. I tried once... but I had already found a copy of "Bored Of The Rings", and read it when I was still in high school.
I couldn't stop laughing...
I am very glad to have been able to finally know the story in a context that didn't produce the giggles every time, so I am SO glad they made the movie!
If only I could have gotten Opera to act like this. I can open any link or bookmark with the middle mouse button. It loads in the background while I am reading something else... Great for my dial-up. especially elegant and simple in F11 full screen mode.
I really like Phoenix, it seems to have a ton of potential. I just have to figure out how to make it work with Flash now.
Go to the website:
http://www.bulova.com
Accutrons still available for sale, and you can download one for your desktop as well. (link on their home page)
Yes, they are indeed an old line company in many ways still; I thought they had gone out of business, but apparently not. Good for them! There is a lot to be said in this day and age for a watch that has hands and gears and works well.
I am sick and tired of people yammering about the "free market"...
Hitler! did something that some people mind, and some don't.
Hitler! competed in a fierce marketplace full of alternatives. (Yes, he was elected)
The people who didn't like Hitler!'s actions left the country (those that could).
Look around... There's a hell of a lot in this country that doesn't work, and people who only look out for themselves are making it more difficult to fix what can be fixed.
I guess I see part of the point you intended. It isn't a big deal, just a free e-mail account. But they kept on changing the rules, and eventually went too far for anyone who cares about their identity being bought and sold like... used cars, or something. And a great deal of what passes for business in this country has that same sort of stench about it.
I have studied economics, and learned that a successful free market involves free information, free access, freedom to organize, and a commitment to at least level the playing field at the start. (That's free as in software, not beer) Most large companies, such as Yahoo, and even a lot of the smaller ones won't do any more than pay lip service to ideas like that. More often they hide behind the ideas, and do what they like anyway.
Enron's trashing of the California power system and the subsequent damage done to the national economy is a great example of what can happen in a "free economy". Free as in "free" to loot.
I live in Albuquerque, a city of 500,000 with a municipal budget problem brought on by not just a fair amount of general overspending, but a lot of police overtime. In fact, the situation was so bad that the highest paid official here last year was a police sergeant. The city has put a lot of projects on hold, laid off a few employees, but most notably reduced police overtime. Of course, the biggest line item in the city budget is the police department.
Last week it was announced that several of these cameras would be bought and installed at major intersections. Where will all the money go from the camera fines? Straight to the police budget, so their comfortable overtime levels can be continued while the rest of the city suffers. It is worth noting that driving here is a blood sport with little or no regard for any laws let alone yellow lights. These cameras are gonna generate a hell of a lot of money.
Not that all this overtime they are putting in is helping matters... Ours is a pretty crime infested city, with one of the highest murder rates per capita of any city in the U.S. Many major property crimes such as breakins are not investigated with any degree of vigilance. Most of my friends that have had contact with the police report that they have been treated shabbily, as if they had robbed a bank or something. This is not an exaggeration - the conduct of the police here has become legendary for its disdain of civil rights. Their first question if you take issue with their version of things is "Do you want to go to jail?"
Looks like they just found a way to make things even worse...
I have done these... and set my profiles to show my name as Yahoo, and hobby as "spam merchant".
My secondary email is now my account at a vendor which blocks yahoo. Tonight I will be sending a message to all my online groups that I will no longer be using Yahoo for anything. Ever. Again.
A friend and I had a co worker (sales department) who was very pretentious. After we tired of booby trapping his desk, we re did some of his business cards to read: Wile E. Coyote, Super Genius. He just loved that...
A friend of mine and I have been trying for the last hour or so to figure out how to turn off the internal client in AOL 7.0. Haven't figured it out. I d/l'd Trillian, and can't use it. I can't log out of the server without disconnecting from AOL. All we can do is disable access [to my box] to others. I hate not being able to control my own box.
The funny thing is, this is the first problem I have ever had with AOL in any form. But I don't like the way they have handled this.
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Just listen to any one of Marvin's laments; there's plenty of regret there to go around.
Our local school district has perhaps 100 of these stashed in a disused room at one of the local highschool. I know someone on their technical staff, and they mentioned all the trouble they'd had with them. One of the local idjits broke into the room they were stored in, and brought it to my shop to be fixed (we all had a great laugh over that one) and you could see the caps swollen and oozing. I used to wonder why they were holding on to them; now I think I know...
"I'm not so sure how 'broken' it is in the US."
It seems pretty broken, at least here in Eastern Oregon.
We have 2 ISP's here in our area offering broadband, wireless of course, since we haven't got the copper anywhere in this place to support DSL (I have town customers doing 14.4 dialup). What broadband we have here is fairly well tapped out, since everything comes into our area via microwave. We have been waiting for the fiber replacement for the microwave to be finished for the past few years... it may be another year before that comes online. Our Cable is analog, and I know of no plans to upgrade it. Buildout costs and ROI dictate that due to our lack of population in ratio to the amount of space, any privately funded project to improve service here will fail, since it will never be able to make a profit. The only solution I can see is for the government to fund and oversee improvements. It worked for REA, and for rural telephone service some generations ago. The price of copper and other materials may prove to be an obstacle, though, along with the lack of funds available now having been diverted to Iraq.
Population density in any part of NC is much higher than here or nearly any rural area in the Western US, making the ROI nut easier to crack.
"Cement Teddy Bears" http://www.cultdeadcow.com/cDc_files/cDc-0368.php My favorite Christmas story of all time!
Absolutely. I'm a builder in far NE Oregon, 70 miles from the nearest traffic light, and ASI has never failed me. I've actually had my rep go down to the warehouse to walk an order through.
Search capability sucks... and it crashes when I walk into the other room for a cup of coffee!
Here's what I did :
The release notes I read last night said to deactivate all extensions. I did so, and the install went off rather smoothly.
As the new upgraded browser started for the first time, a dialogue popped up stating that one of my extensions and my Noia theme had new versions and they would be downloaded. All others would be disabled until compatible versions were installed. Once this was done, the browser launched.
There were glitches, such as the downloaded theme having to be installed again. I also had to uninstall the extensions that were deemed to be incompatible, and reinstall them (Diggler, Compact Menu, BugMeNot, and SmoothWheel) , but all is working perfectly as of this morning. This is the first time I have felt comfortable not nuking the old profile, and I am glad it worked out so well.
I have been using Firefox since 0.3 as my primary browser, and it is really shaping up to be a great piece of software.
Too bad the mods didn't get it. I have friends that are in to that (s&m) and I know they would love the joke. Damned funny vignette!
I couldn't stop laughing...
I am very glad to have been able to finally know the story in a context that didn't produce the giggles every time, so I am SO glad they made the movie!
Perhaps a chemical attack?
(snare flourish)
I really like Phoenix, it seems to have a ton of potential. I just have to figure out how to make it work with Flash now.
Hope the Linux version is as good.
She has enough push to get phone calls from Hilary Rosen. That's more than either you or I have, I think.
Go to the website: http://www.bulova.com Accutrons still available for sale, and you can download one for your desktop as well. (link on their home page) Yes, they are indeed an old line company in many ways still; I thought they had gone out of business, but apparently not. Good for them! There is a lot to be said in this day and age for a watch that has hands and gears and works well.
Hitler! did something that some people mind, and some don't.
Hitler! competed in a fierce marketplace full of alternatives. (Yes, he was elected)
The people who didn't like Hitler!'s actions left the country (those that could).
Look around... There's a hell of a lot in this country that doesn't work, and people who only look out for themselves are making it more difficult to fix what can be fixed.
I guess I see part of the point you intended. It isn't a big deal, just a free e-mail account. But they kept on changing the rules, and eventually went too far for anyone who cares about their identity being bought and sold like... used cars, or something. And a great deal of what passes for business in this country has that same sort of stench about it.
I have studied economics, and learned that a successful free market involves free information, free access, freedom to organize, and a commitment to at least level the playing field at the start. (That's free as in software, not beer) Most large companies, such as Yahoo, and even a lot of the smaller ones won't do any more than pay lip service to ideas like that. More often they hide behind the ideas, and do what they like anyway.
Enron's trashing of the California power system and the subsequent damage done to the national economy is a great example of what can happen in a "free economy". Free as in "free" to loot.
And he got modded to 5?
Last week it was announced that several of these cameras would be bought and installed at major intersections. Where will all the money go from the camera fines? Straight to the police budget, so their comfortable overtime levels can be continued while the rest of the city suffers. It is worth noting that driving here is a blood sport with little or no regard for any laws let alone yellow lights. These cameras are gonna generate a hell of a lot of money.
Not that all this overtime they are putting in is helping matters... Ours is a pretty crime infested city, with one of the highest murder rates per capita of any city in the U.S. Many major property crimes such as breakins are not investigated with any degree of vigilance. Most of my friends that have had contact with the police report that they have been treated shabbily, as if they had robbed a bank or something. This is not an exaggeration - the conduct of the police here has become legendary for its disdain of civil rights. Their first question if you take issue with their version of things is "Do you want to go to jail?"
Looks like they just found a way to make things even worse...
LUNIX. That's got to be the funniest thing I ever read... especially the part about having to have the new HD installed.
I have done these... and set my profiles to show my name as Yahoo, and hobby as "spam merchant". My secondary email is now my account at a vendor which blocks yahoo. Tonight I will be sending a message to all my online groups that I will no longer be using Yahoo for anything. Ever. Again.
A friend and I had a co worker (sales department) who was very pretentious. After we tired of booby trapping his desk, we re did some of his business cards to read: Wile E. Coyote, Super Genius. He just loved that...
A friend of mine and I have been trying for the last hour or so to figure out how to turn off the internal client in AOL 7.0. Haven't figured it out. I d/l'd Trillian, and can't use it. I can't log out of the server without disconnecting from AOL. All we can do is disable access [to my box] to others. I hate not being able to control my own box. The funny thing is, this is the first problem I have ever had with AOL in any form. But I don't like the way they have handled this.
He's got a point...if the guy can code as it appears he can.
It sounds strange - but you know how much stranger truth is than fiction.