Wake me when people start using AJAX properly. Don't use it to make 50 requests for 50 variables. Get the server to return HTML, fuckwads.
I remember when my P3 450 used to render pages in less than a second! Wait, it still does on static pages, and gmail and Google Maps and the BBC and a few other decent sites.
William Hill and Slashdot 2.00 , I'm looking at you first. Well, at least I can get plain-Jane HTML here - for the moment.
They got mine from an Uncle's friend who was infected with a nasty email harvester... The thing that annoys my most is that I have warned him ten times about sending emails like this. BCC uncle FFS!!!
To: Inda, some.friend@aol.com, another.friend@aol.com, one.more@aol.com...
All carriers [in the UK] will send you a PAYG SIM for nothing. Check their websites. I have a small envelope at home with a collection of PAYG SIMs. Some of them even have free minutes or free SMS texts.
In your IM client set your status to "Away" or "Busy" and never touch it again. An auto-reply saying something like "I'll reply when I'm free" also works well.
This is why I still like Slashdot. Sometimes, just sometimes, you'll find someone who actually has some real experience in the topic and posts an interesting few paragraphs.
Who says I should watch it on my desktop? That has to be one of the worse places to watch the tele.
What if a non-evil company makes a nice set-top for me to use? Cost-a-plenty because of Microsoft tax, I bet.
What if I refuse to use Windows Media Player or iPlayer, which is bound to be fancy skin, or just embedded, with all the security issues that come with it?
What if I want to watch it through XBMC?...
It's that old chestnut 'choice' again.
So, to the BBC,
Please don't force me to use crappy software. I'm quite capable of choosing my own software. Get rid of that Real Player crap while you're at it.
Don't worry about DRM either. You'll still sell your Little Britain DVD Box Set at Christmas. You'll still get to place your *cough* DVD adverts at the start and end of your programs. And we'll still moan at you when you do. We'll even burn them to DVDR like we do now, and share them, and store them for longer than 30 days. We'll archive for you. You do know that we do this already? On-demand and Catch Up TV both let me do this if you didn't know. It's just like a VCR with DVDs. Fancy that....and then I ended up replied to a troll because I typed too much.
"Not sure about cable - I think that's 10Mb - it was when I used to be Blueyonder."
It's 20Mb now. Or it will be when they finish swapping everyone else over. I switched yesterday and, apart from the the modem crashing a couple of times, things have been good. 94kB/s upload is nice for sending huge email attachments.
It's a shame my LAN can't handle those sorts of download speeds. Damn my old, old equipment.
You can even stop the spam if the spammer finds your spamgourmet alias. You just pick a keyword that must form a part of every address. If the spammer works out your keyword (unlikely) then you just change it.
I love the service. I've loved it for years. It has blocked thousands of spam emails that have havested my address from slashdot.:)
For the record this is not a pilot in the UK because I have voted online before. It was very easy; maybe a little too easy.
This time they wanted me to fill out a paper form, send it back, wait for a PIN, jump through six hoops and say my name backwards ten times before being allowed to vote online. Hmm, no thanks.
I'll walk to the booth this time. Now, which one of the eight shall I vote for...?
"ever try to put up a 100 foot long, 12 foot high cinder block wall using just your eye?"
Well, I used to build models to an accuracy of 0.04mm and we had a saying in the workshop: "Your eyes are the straightest tool in the shop" and that we true 99% of the time.
Slashdot Mirror
Wake me when people start using AJAX properly. Don't use it to make 50 requests for 50 variables. Get the server to return HTML, fuckwads.
I remember when my P3 450 used to render pages in less than a second! Wait, it still does on static pages, and gmail and Google Maps and the BBC and a few other decent sites.
William Hill and Slashdot 2.00 , I'm looking at you first. Well, at least I can get plain-Jane HTML here - for the moment.
This is the second time I've mentioned this - I wish I could remember the correct answer...
There is a greasemonkey or Firefox extension to filter Roland's stories.
>> There should be a warning system ("Plug-in 'MemHog2' is using 500MB of ram, close/ignore/disable?").
Excellent idea! Someone should write a plug-in (extension) to do this!
They got mine from an Uncle's friend who was infected with a nasty email harvester... The thing that annoys my most is that I have warned him ten times about sending emails like this. BCC uncle FFS!!!
To: Inda, some.friend@aol.com, another.friend@aol.com, one.more@aol.com...
Hi everyone,
My new email address is uncle@aol.com
regards,
Uncle
All carriers [in the UK] will send you a PAYG SIM for nothing. Check their websites. I have a small envelope at home with a collection of PAYG SIMs. Some of them even have free minutes or free SMS texts.
And yet I get free wi-fi in my house with no problems.
My two next-door neighbours do not even own a computer.
Five doors away has wi-fi - I helped set it up - and I can see that on my Wii. Minimum of five walls. (shame it's password protected).
Someone around here has an access point and it must travel through a minimum of two walls, unless they have it mounted outside.
*shrugs*
Thanks for the very informative link.
To summarise:
8 million writes before failure. Failure occurs during write or erase. Stored data does not get corrupted.
64gb would take 20 years to fill if the same byte was overwritten one million times.
I hope the rest of the Slashdot ill-informed take note.
Aye, I find the delete button handles most of my email related stress.
In your IM client set your status to "Away" or "Busy" and never touch it again. An auto-reply saying something like "I'll reply when I'm free" also works well.
I agree with everything else you've said.
You're in luck because you only have to use one hand, possibly one finger, and the key combinations are grouped quite close together.
pi()
It's a function because it returns something. Brackets and all that stuff. It returns the value of PI. Funny really. Who would have thought it?
This is why I still like Slashdot. Sometimes, just sometimes, you'll find someone who actually has some real experience in the topic and posts an interesting few paragraphs.
It is true, they only monitor traffic. You can sometimes see their output on local TV news programmes.
"Stay away from the M4 J15 this morning because the traffic is backed up for miles" says the lovely female presenter as she points to the screen.
They are privately owned too. By Trafficmaster, I believe.
Care to back that up?
Gaol is Jail is Prison. They are the same thing.
Now mod me up too.
Who says I should watch it on my desktop? That has to be one of the worse places to watch the tele.
...and then I ended up replied to a troll because I typed too much.
What if a non-evil company makes a nice set-top for me to use? Cost-a-plenty because of Microsoft tax, I bet.
What if I refuse to use Windows Media Player or iPlayer, which is bound to be fancy skin, or just embedded, with all the security issues that come with it?
What if I want to watch it through XBMC?...
It's that old chestnut 'choice' again.
So, to the BBC,
Please don't force me to use crappy software. I'm quite capable of choosing my own software. Get rid of that Real Player crap while you're at it.
Don't worry about DRM either. You'll still sell your Little Britain DVD Box Set at Christmas. You'll still get to place your *cough* DVD adverts at the start and end of your programs. And we'll still moan at you when you do. We'll even burn them to DVDR like we do now, and share them, and store them for longer than 30 days. We'll archive for you. You do know that we do this already? On-demand and Catch Up TV both let me do this if you didn't know. It's just like a VCR with DVDs. Fancy that.
Or worse. You find out that the postman (milkman, window cleaner, odd job man)is your father.
"Not sure about cable - I think that's 10Mb - it was when I used to be Blueyonder."
It's 20Mb now. Or it will be when they finish swapping everyone else over. I switched yesterday and, apart from the the modem crashing a couple of times, things have been good. 94kB/s upload is nice for sending huge email attachments.
It's a shame my LAN can't handle those sorts of download speeds. Damn my old, old equipment.
You can even stop the spam if the spammer finds your spamgourmet alias. You just pick a keyword that must form a part of every address. If the spammer works out your keyword (unlikely) then you just change it.
:)
I love the service. I've loved it for years. It has blocked thousands of spam emails that have havested my address from slashdot.
Hoodies? Stop reading The Sun matey.
It's called fashion. All the kids in the UK are fashion conscious.
In my days it was Doc Martins, skin heads and tight black jeans. I'm sure we looked just as intimidating.
Give them some 'respect' and they'll return the gesture. They are not all bad apples.
Ash is often sold as filler. Filler for roads in my area. Often filler for concrete.
Some of it is pulverised and reburnt.
Selling ash is a huge business.
Ash does not end up in landfills.
I hate coal.
Just give everyone an iPod and be done with it. It'll be cheaper in the long run.
Vote for me on May 3rd. I stop iPod crime.
For the record this is not a pilot in the UK because I have voted online before. It was very easy; maybe a little too easy.
This time they wanted me to fill out a paper form, send it back, wait for a PIN, jump through six hoops and say my name backwards ten times before being allowed to vote online. Hmm, no thanks.
I'll walk to the booth this time. Now, which one of the eight shall I vote for...?
I knew a little more than that. I forget the syntax but my first program went a bit like this:
:)
10 A = 1
20 B = 2
30 PRINT C
Why didn't the computer didn't know what "C" equalled? Surely that was obvious?
I was 10 years old. These day I write Visual Basic, so not a lot has improved in the last 25 years.
"...A prototype device is being introduced here [dezeen.com] to try and address those issues."
The videos on that site show some keen engineering. It all seems so simple.
"ever try to put up a 100 foot long, 12 foot high cinder block wall using just your eye?"
Well, I used to build models to an accuracy of 0.04mm and we had a saying in the workshop: "Your eyes are the straightest tool in the shop" and that we true 99% of the time.
Rip the warnings out. Burn to a DVDR. Send them back with a letter.
If I bought DVDs, that's what I'd do.