This problem has been in existence forever - how can it be that C compilers can be written in C? (Hint: the first one wasn't)
Reminds me of a rather lame movie whose single redeeming value is the following exchange (cut/pasted from IMDB):
[Anson and Garrad have explained they must go and calculate the height.] Thomas Twp Too: And how d'you know later? Reginald Anson: Well, w-we've made, um, we've made measurements with those two hills, and w-we already know the height of Newton Beacon and Whitchurch Hill... Thomas Twp: But how were they measured? Reginald Anson: The same way, by comparing them with other hills. Thomas Twp Too: But who measured the first hill? Rev. Robert Jones: [whispering] God. God, my boy. God.
Sounds like you *do* want to be offended. Actually, the quote didn't imply that all Canada was left without power or was otherwise affected, only that some of the 50 million people were in located in Canada.
Most "foreigners" -- whatever that means given the global nature of a message board like slashdot -- probably write better English than most Americans
Speaking from personal experience, this is due mostly to self-consciousness. Our english tends to be the one we learn at school, at work and thru works of literature and Hollywood. So we usually take extra care when writing in a foreign language as not to commit a gaffe when doing so.
If it was in our native language, we'd simply write what comes naturally to us, complete with grammar and spelling errors. The levels of literacy vary, just like everywhere else in the world.
I don't much collect books. I love paperback books. They are so convenient. Extremely portable and cheap enough not to matter much if it gets lost or damaged. You can read them in bed, while commuting (unless you are driving), in the bathroom, in a hammock, etc.
An electronic edition's only advantage (imho) is that I can read at the office and, unless someone comes over to look over my shoulder, nobody finds out.
Jeez... you fellows lack imagination. Imagine all the money you could have saved on toilet paper (just watch out for paper cuts). But the cake is: imagine running into your proffesor and letting him/her know what the book he/she wrote was good for.
"Yes, prof. I still use it. In fact, sometimes I refer to it twice a day. It's been a real life saver a couple of times".
Where does the independent hoster look for guidance on something such as this?
Not Slashdot, hopefully. *My* advice to you is, talk to your lawyer before proceeding.
You probably have a contract with the company that your are providing hosting for, not the employee. But you (and your lawyer) will probably need to go over your TOS before granting or refusing access.
When you are a small provider, word of mouth counts for a lot. And getting on your customer's bad side will probably cost you.
Once again, talk to a lawyer before taking action.
Sidenote: Do you think anything in your relative's mailbox might harm him? Have you talked to him? Could they forge emails so it looks like he's the one sending them?
Always keep your personal and business email accounts separate. If you can have them on different domains, better. Even if you own the business, that might not be the case tomorrow.
I stopped using it back when it was still called Phoenix. It would work perfectly until it crashed randomly and without warning (didn't get slower or anything like that). I switched over to Opera and fell in love with it. Nowadays, I use IE only for Windowsupdate.
I'll give it another shot when it gets to 1.0.
Mozilla (on XP and Win2k )doesn't like heavy pages. It handles them even slower than IE. On FreeBSD it seems to work fine, tho.
You know the routine. Uninstalling all the crap that people have downloaded.
Oh, boy... do I know it. And the *worst* part is, next time I get to see the computer again (usually next time idiot/user repeats the same mistakes), every single piece of spyware that you removed is back with re-inforcements.
I have a particular friend that seems to be collecting IE search toolbars, and his system tray area goes for about half the length of the talk bar. And of course, he uninstalled Zone Alarm, because the first time his provider went dead, he assumed it was it's fault.
Don't you need a similar set-up on the other end of the link? That is, another modem rack at the ISP?
Why would the ISP hate him? He'd be paying for 10 connections instead of one... unless the ISP doesn't restrict simultaneous logins.... yes, I realize your post was in the spirit of humor... I suck at this.
But does it actually look into the files or simply based on the file extension? Whenever I have to send an.exe, I simply rename it to ".foo" or ".ex_" and instruct the recipient as to what to rename it to.
eh? Hate? I can't say that I love MS Office. Like you say, "I use it because I have to" but I don't like it any less that I would any other Office Suite. I can honestly say that none pretty much all my co-workers feel the same way.
In this case, I think it would be better left to contract law and the market place.
It's an electronic gated village. Private property. eMall cops and everything.
Indeed! The only laws that apply in the virtual world are those in the "Term of Service" that the "virtual citizen" agrees to upon signup. Yes, you are paying for a service (presence in the virtual world), but you'll find out that the monthly fee doesn't entitle you to much in the way of rights. And those terms are subject to change without prior notice.
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This problem has been in existence forever - how can it be that C compilers can be written in C? (Hint: the first one wasn't)
Reminds me of a rather lame movie whose single redeeming value is the following exchange (cut/pasted from IMDB):
[Anson and Garrad have explained they must go and calculate the height.]
Thomas Twp Too: And how d'you know later?
Reginald Anson: Well, w-we've made, um, we've made measurements with those two hills, and w-we already know the height of Newton Beacon and Whitchurch Hill...
Thomas Twp: But how were they measured?
Reginald Anson: The same way, by comparing them with other hills.
Thomas Twp Too: But who measured the first hill?
Rev. Robert Jones: [whispering] God. God, my boy. God.
Sounds like you *do* want to be offended. Actually, the quote didn't imply that all Canada was left without power or was otherwise affected, only that some of the 50 million people were in located in Canada.
Most "foreigners" -- whatever that means given the global nature of a message board like slashdot -- probably write better English than most Americans
Speaking from personal experience, this is due mostly to self-consciousness. Our english tends to be the one we learn at school, at work and thru works of literature and Hollywood. So we usually take extra care when writing in a foreign language as not to commit a gaffe when doing so.
If it was in our native language, we'd simply write what comes naturally to us, complete with grammar and spelling errors. The levels of literacy vary, just like everywhere else in the world.
Oh, man... and I just finished my mod points. Quick! Somebody mod this +5 Funny!
You just made my night (stupid graveyard shift).
I don't much collect books. I love paperback books. They are so convenient. Extremely portable and cheap enough not to matter much if it gets lost or damaged. You can read them in bed, while commuting (unless you are driving), in the bathroom, in a hammock, etc.
An electronic edition's only advantage (imho) is that I can read at the office and, unless someone comes over to look over my shoulder, nobody finds out.
I'd mod this -1, ignorant.
Actually, I'd believe the poster was going for a "+1 Funny" quoting yet another movie.
Actually, you'd be surprised. I know at leat one guy that had Office 97 running on Windows 98 who used to say that his OS was Office 98.
Of course, two thirds of America can't be that stupid, but still...
Stop SPAM by sending thousands of emails? That's funny. ;-)
How did that joke go? "Fighting for peace is like fscking for virginity"?
He jokingly adds a problem to the first section of the book that says "Prove that x^n + y^n = z^n has no real zeros for n>2." That was a joke in 1968.
So, maybe the reason why I suck at math is that I have no sense of humor. 'cause I don't get it.
Jeez... you fellows lack imagination. Imagine all the money you could have saved on toilet paper (just watch out for paper cuts). But the cake is: imagine running into your proffesor and letting him/her know what the book he/she wrote was good for.
"Yes, prof. I still use it. In fact, sometimes I refer to it twice a day. It's been a real life saver a couple of times".
I'm sure eventually appleworks will become a version of oo.org
Appleworks? As in "carefully saving this file"? I haven't heard that name in a while. Man, I wonder what are the Beagle brothers up to these days.
Where does the independent hoster look for guidance on something such as this?
Not Slashdot, hopefully. *My* advice to you is, talk to your lawyer before proceeding.
You probably have a contract with the company that your are providing hosting for, not the employee. But you (and your lawyer) will probably need to go over your TOS before granting or refusing access.
When you are a small provider, word of mouth counts for a lot. And getting on your customer's bad side will probably cost you.
Once again, talk to a lawyer before taking action.
Sidenote: Do you think anything in your relative's mailbox might harm him? Have you talked to him? Could they forge emails so it looks like he's the one sending them?
Always keep your personal and business email accounts separate. If you can have them on different domains, better. Even if you own the business, that might not be the case tomorrow.
but what's wrong with Firebird now?
I stopped using it back when it was still called Phoenix. It would work perfectly until it crashed randomly and without warning (didn't get slower or anything like that). I switched over to Opera and fell in love with it. Nowadays, I use IE only for Windowsupdate.
I'll give it another shot when it gets to 1.0.
Mozilla (on XP and Win2k )doesn't like heavy pages. It handles them even slower than IE. On FreeBSD it seems to work fine, tho.
Thank you, man. You just made my day with that pun. +5 Funny!
You know the routine. Uninstalling all the crap that people have downloaded.
Oh, boy... do I know it. And the *worst* part is, next time I get to see the computer again (usually next time idiot/user repeats the same mistakes), every single piece of spyware that you removed is back with re-inforcements.
I have a particular friend that seems to be collecting IE search toolbars, and his system tray area goes for about half the length of the talk bar. And of course, he uninstalled Zone Alarm, because the first time his provider went dead, he assumed it was it's fault.
Atlanta? You've been drinking too much coke.
Don't you need a similar set-up on the other end of the link? That is, another modem rack at the ISP?
... yes, I realize your post was in the spirit of humor... I suck at this.
Why would the ISP hate him? He'd be paying for 10 connections instead of one... unless the ISP doesn't restrict simultaneous logins.
But does it actually look into the files or simply based on the file extension? Whenever I have to send an .exe, I simply rename it to ".foo" or ".ex_" and instruct the recipient as to what to rename it to.
Pepsi is all about stickin it to 'da man'
Does it mean Coke is 'da man'?
and may not even if a friend invites me
If somebody would invite me, I would join, provided that it's free (cheap bastard that I am).
Chances are, I don't know anybody who got invited. I might someday, six degrees of separation and everything.
If nobody invites me... I ain't gonna lose sleep over it.
eh? Hate? I can't say that I love MS Office. Like you say, "I use it because I have to" but I don't like it any less that I would any other Office Suite. I can honestly say that none pretty much all my co-workers feel the same way.
Holy crap! Thank you man! The XP search interface is the single most anoying thing on the entire OS. I can now press "window-F" with confidence again.
In this case, I think it would be better left to contract law and the market place.
It's an electronic gated village. Private property. eMall cops and everything.
Indeed! The only laws that apply in the virtual world are those in the "Term of Service" that the "virtual citizen" agrees to upon signup. Yes, you are paying for a service (presence in the virtual world), but you'll find out that the monthly fee doesn't entitle you to much in the way of rights. And those terms are subject to change without prior notice.
This is a non-issue. And I didn't RTFA.
You just need to trump it with another one. Repeat with me: "Everybody was kung-fu fighting..."
Oh, crap!
or worse, mate
Aren't those fish sterile (on purpose)? I believe a read something like that when the news about them first came out.