My rep (Wolf/Virginia) says this on his contact page:
I participate in the "Write Your Representative" program of the House of Representatives so that I can more effectively respond to the needs and concerns of the people of the 10th District. A public e-mail address does not provide a way to ensure that 10th District residents get priority in reaching me over the Internet. Please click on the icon below to e-mail me through the "Write Your Representative" program.
Whatever. He has a link to a generic form that seems browser-agnostic and uses a numeric code instead of an email address in the hidden fields.
Those are completely useless. Yeah, they're case-hardened steel, but your steering wheel isn't. Thieves simply cut a chunk out of the wheel and remove the club.
A combination of "Jump the fuck off" and "dig in with an icepick" would probably work fine, once you got the technique right. Wear a hockey mask and lotsa padding while you hone your skills.
Since a near-vegan diet uses resources efficiently, that's what long-duration space travellers and colonists will be eating. Successfully growing soybeans in space is a big deal.
UT...makes absolutely no use of SMP or parallel execution whatsoever.
Just tried it under OS X on a dual 1GHz and top shows the CPU spiking at 112%. Something's letting it have part of the second processor (or maybe those guys at Westlake are really, really efficient programmers).
The release notes for an old version had a note that said something like "Tracking down [some error] was so exciting for my three-year-old daughter that she threw up."
Right, sorry. Somebody mod that down (-1, Poor Grasp of Chronology).
Fortuntately, I'm compatible with my wife. We have a VCR with "commercial advance", a feature that marks commercials after a show is recorded and automatically skips past them on replay. After viewing a few shows this way, we were watching live TV and a commercial came on. "Why are we watching this?", she says. "Can't you just fast forward through it?"
Get a TiVo (you know you want one anyway), start watching the game, pause for six seconds to fill its buffer, then resume watching, happily in sync with the radio.
Cautious civilizations don't broadcast out of fear of attracting attention. If we do hear something, it will from a species wiped out by the Killers long, long ago.
Right, I should have said NN4 has no persistent History. Yeah, it kept track of where you'd been in your current session, but flushed it when you quit. IE4 saved the history so you could look up a site you'd been to several days previously.
i remember netscape having a 'history' or whatever it was called before nn4
Really? I remember scouring the menus trying to find it when IE4 came out. If it was there, it was buried so deep that no reasonable user could be expected to locate it. Yet another reason NN4 should die a horrible death (speaking as a web designer).
the 'History' feature that Internet Explorer has. Has anybody ever heard of such a revolutionary concept...?
Well, it was revolutionary when it first came out. That's the main reason I switched from NN4 to IE 4 (Mac). I can't believe it took Netscape so long to implement it.
Mr. Gates himself related the story of reverse engineering MSDOS by dumpster diving for source code
That's theft of trade secrets, if true. "Reverse engineering" is treating the object in question (program or device) as a black box with inputs and outputs and reproducing its behavior exactly, without access to source documents.
A user's creativeness to mess things up never ceases to amaze.
Or as one of the corollaries to Murphy's Law states: "No matter how idiot-proof you make something, an ingenious idiot in the field will find a workaround."
Absolutely correct. Ninety-five percent of the hidden number calls are telemarketers.
I was an early adopter of this technique, and it used to annoy some of our acquaintances. When they asked why we used a machine to screen all our calls, I told them "Because we can't afford a butler."
take yourself back to when horse and buggies were the transportation of the day. Do you REALLY think people knew what to make of a car, with its steering wheel, brakes and gas pedal?
I've heard that the first steering mechanism for autos (or maybe it was tractors) was a set of reins. Interesting example of backwards-compatibility.
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I tried cutting those babies with a bolt cutter.. no luck.
If you read my post carefully, you'll note that the bolt cutters are to be used on the steering wheel, not the Club. Like I said, five seconds.
Still it slows them down
For the five seconds it takes them to snip the steering wheel with a bolt cutter.
My rep (Wolf/Virginia) says this on his contact page:
Whatever. He has a link to a generic form that seems browser-agnostic and uses a numeric code instead of an email address in the hidden fields.
buy a steering wheel lock, like the Club
Those are completely useless. Yeah, they're case-hardened steel, but your steering wheel isn't. Thieves simply cut a chunk out of the wheel and remove the club.
A combination of "Jump the fuck off" and "dig in with an icepick" would probably work fine, once you got the technique right. Wear a hockey mask and lotsa padding while you hone your skills.
where I live, speed bumps are used to slow people down.
Heh. Although the term seems incongruous, it's shorthand for "bumps up the speed."
Lose weight, eat space burgers.
Don't laugh, that's actually what happened when Cornell University did a study of a proposed space colony diet.
Since a near-vegan diet uses resources efficiently, that's what long-duration space travellers and colonists will be eating. Successfully growing soybeans in space is a big deal.
An interesting project here: http://gimp-savvy.com/PHOTO-ARCHIVE/
is every page in the special notebook unique? And is each NOTEBOOK unique?
Yes. Here's a Wired story about the guys who invented the paper.
UT...makes absolutely no use of SMP or parallel execution whatsoever.
Just tried it under OS X on a dual 1GHz and top shows the CPU spiking at 112%. Something's letting it have part of the second processor (or maybe those guys at Westlake are really, really efficient programmers).
Eudora...developers had quite a sense of humor
The release notes for an old version had a note that said something like "Tracking down [some error] was so exciting for my three-year-old daughter that she threw up."
Actual message from an industrial control app, at least during beta:
"The error handler didn't."
I think you have it backwards.
Right, sorry. Somebody mod that down (-1, Poor Grasp of Chronology).
Fortuntately, I'm compatible with my wife. We have a VCR with "commercial advance", a feature that marks commercials after a show is recorded and automatically skips past them on replay. After viewing a few shows this way, we were watching live TV and a commercial came on. "Why are we watching this?", she says. "Can't you just fast forward through it?"
Get a TiVo (you know you want one anyway), start watching the game, pause for six seconds to fill its buffer, then resume watching, happily in sync with the radio.
Hasn't anyone read The Forge of God ?
Cautious civilizations don't broadcast out of fear of attracting attention. If we do hear something, it will from a species wiped out by the Killers long, long ago.
Right, I should have said NN4 has no persistent History. Yeah, it kept track of where you'd been in your current session, but flushed it when you quit. IE4 saved the history so you could look up a site you'd been to several days previously.
i remember netscape having a 'history' or whatever it was called before nn4
Really? I remember scouring the menus trying to find it when IE4 came out. If it was there, it was buried so deep that no reasonable user could be expected to locate it. Yet another reason NN4 should die a horrible death (speaking as a web designer).
the 'History' feature that Internet Explorer has. Has anybody ever heard of such a revolutionary concept...?
Well, it was revolutionary when it first came out. That's the main reason I switched from NN4 to IE 4 (Mac). I can't believe it took Netscape so long to implement it.
begins her "story" by ending a sentence with a preposition
This is the sort of English up with which I will not put. --Winston Churchill
Mr. Gates himself related the story of reverse engineering MSDOS by dumpster diving for source code
That's theft of trade secrets, if true. "Reverse engineering" is treating the object in question (program or device) as a black box with inputs and outputs and reproducing its behavior exactly, without access to source documents.
The Heisenberg uncertainty principle states that there will always be true statements within a system that cannot be proved within that system.
Um, no. That would be Goedel's Incompleteness Theorem. Not that it's any more applicable to the issue at hand.
A user's creativeness to mess things up never ceases to amaze.
Or as one of the corollaries to Murphy's Law states: "No matter how idiot-proof you make something, an ingenious idiot in the field will find a workaround."
screen every call. Period.
Absolutely correct. Ninety-five percent of the hidden number calls are telemarketers.
I was an early adopter of this technique, and it used to annoy some of our acquaintances. When they asked why we used a machine to screen all our calls, I told them "Because we can't afford a butler."
"Laugh-a while you can-a, Monkey Boy!"
take yourself back to when horse and buggies were the transportation of the day. Do you REALLY think people knew what to make of a car, with its steering wheel, brakes and gas pedal?
I've heard that the first steering mechanism for autos (or maybe it was tractors) was a set of reins. Interesting example of backwards-compatibility.