At the Sequoia Station shopping center in Redwood City, CA, there is a Starbucks twenty feet away from a Safeway (grocery store) which has a Starbucks just inside the front door. The total distance between the two must be less than thirty or forty feet.
I went to the in-store location a few times because my club card would get me a free drink after I bought eight, but the employees were generally rude and the product was substandard. So I'm back to the outside location, where the baristas are cute and the grande sugar-free vanilla (or hazelnut) latte is good.
And yes, it brings Lewis Black to mind every time.
And somehow Starbucks always manages to hire the cutest girls. I think part of their job description is to be flirty.
I've probably ordered complicated drinks just so I have an excuse to stay there longer and hope that they'll pay more attention to me.
This is a widely-used practice... and is certainly the case at the one near my work.
The moral of the story is that I get to control who I talk to, whether by CID or call screening. If you choose not to (provide accurate CID | announce yourself on the answering machine) I simply won't accept your call. There are always alternatives to whatever you're selling.
That's good, but unfortunately Google Zeitgeist hasn't updated their browser categories lately. All Mozilla browsers are lumped under "Netscape 5.x", and Opera/Camino/Safari, etc, aren't shown at all except under the nebulous "other" category. I'd rather see a log analysis of a major site with appropriate categories broken out.
Scott Adams, of "Dilbert", has also written a serious "thought experiment" in which a UPS driver is introduced to the truth behind God and the Universe. The book is also available in Adobe and MS Reader formats. It will keep you thinking long after you finish it.
BTW, you don't want to be anywhere near a tense rope, steel cable, or chain. When it fails, the remaining pieces can whip around at speeds that will cause mortal damage.
See, for example, the Christmas Eve, 1998 incident at Disneyland.
It simply wasn't worth the "recovery cost" to send the "empty" back down. Especially when that time could be better spent sending the next payload up the elevator.
... and when the "empty", if properly designed, can be repurposed as a spaceship hull or part of one. It's already a strong, airtight cargo container. It doesn't need to be aerodynamic.
If I had to guess, I suppose Bush uses stock XP Home (unpatched, of course) with the default cartoony Luna theme, mounds of adware popups, Comet Cursor and that purple monkey thing. And AOL.
Which is not to say that Kerry is all that better, but I don't yet have an uninformed opinion of him based on five-second media clips.
I often see MBSA reporting "not up to date" because the key file it's looking for is newer than what it thinks is current! Amazing that it's checking "equal to" rather than "greater than or equal to"--or maybe not that amazing, since many installs (not mine but many) fail horribly when the OS is newer than the "minimum" required.
30 whole seconds, eh? What if I'm writing the document and took a moment to walk across the room to the bookcase or filing cabinet to consult a reference of some kind?
I know you're being facetious, but you could get into the habit of saving every time you get up. Many text editors/IDEs also have autosave options, which would at least let you come back to something fairly recent.
Hey wait a second... Hubble on the ISS! That sounds cool.
Why isn't this a good idea?
* Shuttle can't go to Hubble.
* Shuttle can go to ISS.
* Therefore, move Hubble to ISS (robotic booster attached to Hubble or somesuch).
Granted, I don't know what I'm talking about. So why not?
"It would promote vigilantism on the Net and it probably would not catch any bad guys," said Louis Mastria, spokesman for the Direct Mail Association
Assuming everything Mr Mastria says is a lie (except, yes, "I am lying"), we can guess that the DMA thinks this might work and is fairly scared it might happen.
Start printing the spam and sending it in to Congress, making use of the free postage when contacting your representative, and keep doing that for a few months.
That's two people so far who seem to have *.vbs associated with wscript.exe
You have a better way to run WSH scripts? Personally I have "Edit" as the default action for *.vbs, but with a decent AV product installed (one that does heuristic scanning and monitors executing scripts) you shouldn't have anything to worry about with the default association.
Windows Installer (MSI) packages use WSH scripts extensively. Disabling them completely will remove some fairly well-needed functionality from the OS.
Mine does. Switch to a different bank. Market forces will take care of the rest.
This works. Bitch and whine to your current bank for a while, but if it becomes clear that they simply aren't going to change, find a different bank--and ask to preview their Web-based banking before you move your account. USAA (a financial services co. for military families) provides Web-based banking and other services which work wonderfully with Opera and Mozilla.
nslookup has been part of NT since at least 4.0. It works as you'd expect: given a host, it returns the IP address. Given an IP address, it tries to return a host.
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At the Sequoia Station shopping center in Redwood City, CA, there is a Starbucks twenty feet away from a Safeway (grocery store) which has a Starbucks just inside the front door. The total distance between the two must be less than thirty or forty feet.
I went to the in-store location a few times because my club card would get me a free drink after I bought eight, but the employees were generally rude and the product was substandard. So I'm back to the outside location, where the baristas are cute and the grande sugar-free vanilla (or hazelnut) latte is good.
And yes, it brings Lewis Black to mind every time.
The moral of the story is that I get to control who I talk to, whether by CID or call screening. If you choose not to (provide accurate CID | announce yourself on the answering machine) I simply won't accept your call. There are always alternatives to whatever you're selling.
Worked in Opera 7.51 after I turned off Ad Muncher filtering--apparently it picked up "interference with mouse behavior". Very impressive demo.
That's good, but unfortunately Google Zeitgeist hasn't updated their browser categories lately. All Mozilla browsers are lumped under "Netscape 5.x", and Opera/Camino/Safari, etc, aren't shown at all except under the nebulous "other" category. I'd rather see a log analysis of a major site with appropriate categories broken out.
Scott Adams, of "Dilbert", has also written a serious "thought experiment" in which a UPS driver is introduced to the truth behind God and the Universe. The book is also available in Adobe and MS Reader formats. It will keep you thinking long after you finish it.
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If I had to guess, I suppose Bush uses stock XP Home (unpatched, of course) with the default cartoony Luna theme, mounds of adware popups, Comet Cursor and that purple monkey thing. And AOL.
Which is not to say that Kerry is all that better, but I don't yet have an uninformed opinion of him based on five-second media clips.
Only in America can someone go from "lost an election to a dead man" to Attorney General within a few short weeks!
* Shuttle can't go to Hubble.
* Shuttle can go to ISS.
* Therefore, move Hubble to ISS (robotic booster attached to Hubble or somesuch).
Granted, I don't know what I'm talking about. So why not?
Windows Installer (MSI) packages use WSH scripts extensively. Disabling them completely will remove some fairly well-needed functionality from the OS.
It is real. My wife lived in Swindon for a time and drove it every day. I showed her the photo and she recognised it right off.
Note that you'll still have to "End Task" wscript.exe to kill it, but at least it goes to sleep and doesn't use any CPU in between times.