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Let me guess. You were so tired of hearing so many people saying that Jar-Jar was the most annoying character ever that you decided to prove them wrong?
I've got my prefs set for plain text posting but I can post links, do line breaks,
paragraphs,
add emphasis, italics, bold, and a couple of other tricks, as long as I do the thing with the birdmouths (less than and greater than symbols) and use uppercase letters inside 'em.
I would have cheerfully accepted (hey, it's only karma) any downward moderation ( troll, flamebait, etc) on the above comment except "redundant" (which it isn't, as nobady else at the time had pointed out that computer RTC's are notorious for being about as accurate as the old mechanical automobile clocks, and even worse if there's an operating system playing around with the settings) or "off-topic", which it isn't because the original question was about getting a noise made at a particular time or times, which requires using something that can actually keep time accurately.
"...if you don't know the difference between a master and a slave IDE drive, you probably shouldn't be installing them."
And if not having Master/Slave properly set isn't one of the first things that you suspect when a customer has installed a new drive and things go wrong, you probably aren't yet knowledgeable enough to be working tech support.
I believe that what you are referring to is that which caused the press to come to be known as "the fifth estate", but the First World is the Old World (Europe, basically, and perhaps the European colonies in Africa and Asia), the Second World is the New World (the more industrialized parts of the Americas and perhaps Australia-New Zealand), and the Third World is all the parts of Central and South America, Africa, and Asia where practically everybody is dirt poor and uneducated.
His (or her) mistake was to use a lowercase letter between the less-than and greater than signs. Slashdot (or Slashcode, or whatever) wants it to be an uppercase letter.
If you're going to do something as pointless as posting song lyrics that have nothing to do with the story to be discussed, then at least get the lyrics right (at least you chose a good song, although perhaps in your case you should remember that other Tremeloes' song, "Silence Is Golden").
I think it looks pretty cool too, but it really needs to have been brought out 'back then' in time to go on stuff like '57 T-birds and 58 Caddys back when they were new.
Actually it says "...observer of times...", not time, which gets me off the hook for all the instances of my giving the current time during my radio days, but all the newspaper editorial writers and columnists and television pontificators are headed for eternal damnation (which is a shame in the case of Molly Ivans, but perfectly reasonable in the case of Allen Keyes and Bill O'Reilly:-)
The Hobbit was written for Tolkien's three (count 'em, 3) children (sons, to be specific).
I've only read the first Potter book so far, but my only complaint is that it isn't set in the same "somewhere before WWII" England as Christie, Sayers, Allingham, A.C. Doyle, "Watership Down", and et cetera.
Yeah, I'm getting on towards geezerhood too. Maybe they'll do a special posthumous award for Damon Knight, author of "To Serve Mankind", among many other accomplishments, who passed away a day or two ago.
Wouldn't it be nice if it were possible to make these superlong copyrights retroactive so that Disney suddenly owed massive royalties to the descendants of H.C. Andersen, the Brothers Grimm, and others and AOL Time-Warner had to pay up for all that public domain classical music used in the Looney Tunes cartoons?
I use a VISA debit card with PayPal that draws from a checking account. The money transfers instantly. If I let PayPal take the money straight from that same checking account it can take a day or three for the transaction to clear.
Apparently the original idea behind PayPal was that they would make their money from the "float", the interest on the money between the time it gets transferred to them and the time they transfer it to whoever you're paying it to. So the longer they can hold on to the money the more they make. Apparently bypassing the credit card companies and accessing your bank account directly lets them drag out the transfer process and pick up a few more shekels.
If they're waiting for me to inconvenience myself and those from whom I buy in order to increase their profit margin, they should be urged not to hold their breath until it happens.
Apparently the easiest way to get a phone number for PayPal that actually puts you in touch with a human is from one of the "PayPal sucks" sites. PayPal hasn't screwed me over yet (although I've only given them access to a debit card that I keep empty until I move money into it for a specific purpose), but this doesn't exactly fill me with confidence in them.
If I was able to manually find and edit out the above post so that I could view the entire page, including -1 comments (except for that particular one) without having to spread it out horizontally over 57 monitors, why can't Slashdot come up with an automated way to detect and fix these "page widening" posts?
If they're running some version of Windows then the eval package shouldn't have any trouble sending the software company an email that says "The company this email was sent from is illegally using your software beyond the evaluation period."
Whether this would be a good thing or a bad thing I offer no opinion on.
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Let me guess. You were so tired of hearing so many people saying that Jar-Jar was the most annoying character ever that you decided to prove them wrong?
do line breaks,
paragraphs,
add emphasis, italics, bold, and a couple of other tricks, as long as I do the thing with the birdmouths (less than and greater than symbols) and use uppercase letters inside 'em.
THIS post, by the way, IS off-topic.
And if not having Master/Slave properly set isn't one of the first things that you suspect when a customer has installed a new drive and things go wrong, you probably aren't yet knowledgeable enough to be working tech support.
Shouldn't that be "Mexico is fundamentally different from the USA? Oh well, at least you didn't say "different than".
I believe that what you are referring to is that which caused the press to come to be known as "the fifth estate", but the First World is the Old World (Europe, basically, and perhaps the European colonies in Africa and Asia), the Second World is the New World (the more industrialized parts of the Americas and perhaps Australia-New Zealand), and the Third World is all the parts of Central and South America, Africa, and Asia where practically everybody is dirt poor and uneducated.
His (or her) mistake was to use a lowercase letter between the less-than and greater than signs. Slashdot (or Slashcode, or whatever) wants it to be an uppercase letter.
What, no "+1, Funny"?
So you're so happy with them that you're NOT going to give 'em some good word of mouth?
How do you know that "Hackers" didn't steal it from him? Or from someone else who did?
Well considering that Durham was the home of the old Criterion theater, that should give you plenty of leeway. :-)
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"...we will not host anything that is pornographic, lewd, or illegal in Durham, NC. "
Okay, so where will you be hosting it?
If you're going to do something as pointless as posting song lyrics that have nothing to do with the story to be discussed, then at least get the lyrics right (at least you chose a good song, although perhaps in your case you should remember that other Tremeloes' song, "Silence Is Golden").
As far as you know you're an owner? Waiting to see if your check clears or something?
I think it looks pretty cool too, but it really needs to have been brought out 'back then' in time to go on stuff like '57 T-birds and 58 Caddys back when they were new.
If you really want to know why they require registration, don't ask us, ask them.
If you post here, make it about the content of the story if you want to be considered on-topic.
Has Ron Goulart written anything lately?
Actually it says "...observer of times...", not time, which gets me off the hook for all the instances of my giving the current time during my radio days, but all the newspaper editorial writers and columnists and television pontificators are headed for eternal damnation (which is a shame in the case of Molly Ivans, but perfectly reasonable in the case of Allen Keyes and Bill O'Reilly :-)
Not the same person. Or perhaps you were going for a +1 "funny"?
I've only read the first Potter book so far, but my only complaint is that it isn't set in the same "somewhere before WWII" England as Christie, Sayers, Allingham, A.C. Doyle, "Watership Down", and et cetera.
Yeah, I'm getting on towards geezerhood too. Maybe they'll do a special posthumous award for Damon Knight, author of "To Serve Mankind", among many other accomplishments, who passed away a day or two ago.
Wouldn't it be nice if it were possible to make these superlong copyrights retroactive so that Disney suddenly owed massive royalties to the descendants of H.C. Andersen, the Brothers Grimm, and others and AOL Time-Warner had to pay up for all that public domain classical music used in the Looney Tunes cartoons?
Apparently the original idea behind PayPal was that they would make their money from the "float", the interest on the money between the time it gets transferred to them and the time they transfer it to whoever you're paying it to. So the longer they can hold on to the money the more they make. Apparently bypassing the credit card companies and accessing your bank account directly lets them drag out the transfer process and pick up a few more shekels.
If they're waiting for me to inconvenience myself and those from whom I buy in order to increase their profit margin, they should be urged not to hold their breath until it happens.
Apparently the easiest way to get a phone number for PayPal that actually puts you in touch with a human is from one of the "PayPal sucks" sites. PayPal hasn't screwed me over yet (although I've only given them access to a debit card that I keep empty until I move money into it for a specific purpose), but this doesn't exactly fill me with confidence in them.
If I was able to manually find and edit out the above post so that I could view the entire page, including -1 comments (except for that particular one) without having to spread it out horizontally over 57 monitors, why can't Slashdot come up with an automated way to detect and fix these "page widening" posts?
Whether this would be a good thing or a bad thing I offer no opinion on.