My first car was an '81 Caprice. The thing was a tank. I took it into a guardrail once and it got a tiny scratch. I got hit in the quarterpanel by some jackass who thought he could turn right on red without watching for the vehicle going through the intersection and it knocked off a piece of molding. A tank, I tell ya!
Having actually been in several brand new Pacers back in the late 70s (my dad once sold them), I can honestly say: yes, they are as bad as people say they are.
When the CEO at the company I work at came to talk to us about some milestone the company had reached, his speech was punctuated by a pre-recorded sound of applause. Kind of sad, when you think about it.
Denethor, Steward of Gondor was set to burn himself and his son, Faramir, on a funeral pyre. While Pippin ran to get help from Gandalf, Beregond, a Guard of Gondor, prevented Denethor's servants (killed 1, wounded 2 I believe) from giving him a torch to set himself and his son ablaze. When Gandalf arrived, he pulled Faramir from the pile of oil-soaked wood. Denethor then revealed a palantir, grabbed a torch and set himself afire. The palantir would then only show two aged, burning hands to anyone who would use it.
Yeah, I read the books a time or two. Or 14.
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This is an actual, unedited file dialog I received on my Windows system. Tell me, what would you do?
Win98SE + Geoshell on a P166 with 96 megs EDO RAM and a 1 meg video card + many, many, many programs run (including multiple sessions of MSIEvil 5.x, Mozilla 1.x, Photoshop 4.0, etc etc etc) = rock solid stable for over 7 weeks. I finally had to reboot because my dialup connection would no longer connect (something about no available something or other, it's been a while, I don't recall exactly what it was). Win98 not stable? Maybe if you use the standard Windows shell. Not the way I used it.
AGREED! Mostly. Aside from the few errors in the actual post.
DVDs are dessert. The movie production companies have already made their money back via the theaters (unless it was a bomb, in which case DVD sales won't matter much, anyway). There is nothing comparable for the recording industry.
So, if someone pays for and downloads an MP3 from iTunes and then shares it, that would be a first-generation recording, wouldn't it? Simply allowing a copy of the purchased recording.
OK, don't shoot them, but maybe conduct a poll. Find out why they are stupid enough to purchase anything offered through an unsolicited commercial e-mail. Find out if they actually believe that anything purchased through an e-mail will increase their penis/breast size, allow them to lose a ridiculous amount of weight, make an impossible amount of money or get the best mortgage rate around.
"I can remember when these were only fifteen cents. But I'm really dating myself now . .."
"Well, it's not as if anybody else would date you."
-Dilbert and Dogbert, Scott Adams, Always Postpone Meetings With Time-Wasting Morons ("Dilbert," 1992)
Let them opt in. I'd have no problem with spam if it was opt in. I have not acquiescenced. It's been forced upon me. If they'd like to pay my monthly ISP bill, they can send me whatever they want. While I pay for it, I do not want it.
I've used geOshell for over a year and a half. Before I installed it, my old primary desktop system (P166, 96 megs EDO RAM, Win98SE) would have to be rebooted after no more than 3 or 4 days under constant use. With geOshell, I actually went over 6 weeks without rebooting. So, for stability, nothing beats geOshell (on a Win32 machine).
It uses a very small amout of system resources (I booted the above mentioned desktop system to 99% free resources) and is quite unobtrusive. Hitting Winkey + Z fades the user definable bars out of the way (mighty nice when you're playing a full screen game). The geObars are configurable with the use of plugins and are skinnable.
The only difficulty some people may have is that it does require some registry editing. Keep in mind, however, that editing is only done in geOshell's registry key and will not affect anything else in the OS or other applications.
Try it out. If you don't like it, all you need to do is change the shell from =geoshell.exe to =exploder.exe (or just double click the provided bat file to have it done for you).
I've still got my copy of the Billy and the Boingers hits* "I'm A Boinger" and "U Stink But I (heart) U" from the Bloom County book "Billy and the Boingers Bootleg".
And the bad news, http://www.eva-tone.com/about_news.asp?Action=Read &NewsID=26
Occasionally, I use a little program called SurfTabs. It's not fancy. It just lets you use MSIE 5.x or above in a tabbed-style interface. And it's Open Source.
There are other programs I've seen in the past that do the same thing with the MSIE engine.
splorp!
Evil Bastard
"And since the stench of death will always attract flies and vermin, the arrival of Geraldo was perhaps inevitable. " -Garry Trudeau
While using the Keyword: MARKETING PREFERENCES will allow you to opt out, it is only a temporary fix. After either 6 months or a year (I can't remember which), the marketing preferences CAN spontaneously reset themselves. Sometimes they don't, but they can. I haven't had to reset mine in quite some time.
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I'm pretty sure the article was talking about the web browsers, not third-party add-on programs.
Don't forget the icons.
I believe I posted a solution to the spam problem a while back...
My first car was an '81 Caprice. The thing was a tank. I took it into a guardrail once and it got a tiny scratch. I got hit in the quarterpanel by some jackass who thought he could turn right on red without watching for the vehicle going through the intersection and it knocked off a piece of molding. A tank, I tell ya!
Having actually been in several brand new Pacers back in the late 70s (my dad once sold them), I can honestly say: yes, they are as bad as people say they are.
When the CEO at the company I work at came to talk to us about some milestone the company had reached, his speech was punctuated by a pre-recorded sound of applause. Kind of sad, when you think about it.
Denethor, Steward of Gondor was set to burn himself and his son, Faramir, on a funeral pyre. While Pippin ran to get help from Gandalf, Beregond, a Guard of Gondor, prevented Denethor's servants (killed 1, wounded 2 I believe) from giving him a torch to set himself and his son ablaze. When Gandalf arrived, he pulled Faramir from the pile of oil-soaked wood. Denethor then revealed a palantir, grabbed a torch and set himself afire. The palantir would then only show two aged, burning hands to anyone who would use it.
Yeah, I read the books a time or two. Or 14.This is an actual, unedited file dialog I received on my Windows system. Tell me, what would you do?
Win98SE + Geoshell on a P166 with 96 megs EDO RAM and a 1 meg video card + many, many, many programs run (including multiple sessions of MSIEvil 5.x, Mozilla 1.x, Photoshop 4.0, etc etc etc) = rock solid stable for over 7 weeks. I finally had to reboot because my dialup connection would no longer connect (something about no available something or other, it's been a while, I don't recall exactly what it was). Win98 not stable? Maybe if you use the standard Windows shell. Not the way I used it.
Yes.
Bernard Shifman
AGREED! Mostly. Aside from the few errors in the actual post.
DVDs are dessert. The movie production companies have already made their money back via the theaters (unless it was a bomb, in which case DVD sales won't matter much, anyway). There is nothing comparable for the recording industry.
You're a self-proclaimed "huge Beatles fan" and you don't already have all their music and movies?
/me is thinking out loud
So, if someone pays for and downloads an MP3 from iTunes and then shares it, that would be a first-generation recording, wouldn't it? Simply allowing a copy of the purchased recording.
This may help.
Agreed.
The Beast and Son of Beast (looped wooden coaster with only a lap bar) are two of my favorite coasters of all time.
OK, don't shoot them, but maybe conduct a poll. Find out why they are stupid enough to purchase anything offered through an unsolicited commercial e-mail. Find out if they actually believe that anything purchased through an e-mail will increase their penis/breast size, allow them to lose a ridiculous amount of weight, make an impossible amount of money or get the best mortgage rate around.
And then shoot them. A lot.
"I can remember when these were only fifteen cents. But I'm really dating myself now . . ."
;)
"Well, it's not as if anybody else would date you."
-Dilbert and Dogbert, Scott Adams, Always Postpone Meetings With Time-Wasting Morons ("Dilbert," 1992)
Sorry, couldn't help it.
Let them opt in. I'd have no problem with spam if it was opt in. I have not acquiescenced. It's been forced upon me. If they'd like to pay my monthly ISP bill, they can send me whatever they want. While I pay for it, I do not want it.
"a pop musician will be performing in the center of each circle"? Don't you mean Bryan Adams, Sting and Elton John?
I've used geOshell for over a year and a half. Before I installed it, my old primary desktop system (P166, 96 megs EDO RAM, Win98SE) would have to be rebooted after no more than 3 or 4 days under constant use. With geOshell, I actually went over 6 weeks without rebooting. So, for stability, nothing beats geOshell (on a Win32 machine).
It uses a very small amout of system resources (I booted the above mentioned desktop system to 99% free resources) and is quite unobtrusive. Hitting Winkey + Z fades the user definable bars out of the way (mighty nice when you're playing a full screen game). The geObars are configurable with the use of plugins and are skinnable.
The only difficulty some people may have is that it does require some registry editing. Keep in mind, however, that editing is only done in geOshell's registry key and will not affect anything else in the OS or other applications.
Try it out. If you don't like it, all you need to do is change the shell from =geoshell.exe to =exploder.exe (or just double click the provided bat file to have it done for you).
That sounds more like a hardware issue. Besides, why use Microsoft Flush® when there's probably an open source version that is free?
I've still got my copy of the Billy and the Boingers hits* "I'm A Boinger" and "U Stink But I (heart) U" from the Bloom County book "Billy and the Boingers Bootleg".
d &NewsID=26
;)
And the bad news, http://www.eva-tone.com/about_news.asp?Action=Rea
Long live Deathtöngue!
*according to the cover of the book
Occasionally, I use a little program called SurfTabs. It's not fancy. It just lets you use MSIE 5.x or above in a tabbed-style interface. And it's Open Source. There are other programs I've seen in the past that do the same thing with the MSIE engine. splorp! Evil Bastard "And since the stench of death will always attract flies and vermin, the arrival of Geraldo was perhaps inevitable. " -Garry Trudeau
While using the Keyword: MARKETING PREFERENCES will allow you to opt out, it is only a temporary fix. After either 6 months or a year (I can't remember which), the marketing preferences CAN spontaneously reset themselves. Sometimes they don't, but they can. I haven't had to reset mine in quite some time.