AOLiens suck. There are a few people using AOL who are nice, but mostly they are people that drive the SUVs of the Internet. Over-hyped, wasting of resources, and likely to tip over if it is used for what it claims to do.
Jokeaday.com has been showing the true nature of the AOLien for many years now. I have encountered AOLiens both in person, and on the Interent, and I can tell you that what they seem to be in real life is in no way a reflection of the mosters they transform into on the "Internet".
If AOL dies a horrible corporate death, then I can only imagine what chaos it could cause. All the biggest freaks of the "Internet" will scatter, and we will not be able to discern an AOLien by a quick glance at email extensions, or the URL of a webpage. We must save AOL, even though we may be better off without it!
I suspect that when the port shaping routine fails, and they start to filter by packet contents, then they will simply use IP tunnelling like is used to send IPv6 over IP4, that can be built into P2P programs.
I, along with most others in residence at the University of Regina received a letter asking us to cease to use P2P programs on the campus network. Actually they told us to stop sharing copyrighted works, but that is about the same thing. Anyway, this was precipitated by a letter from Sony to the UofR. [rumour]
I even heard that some students were "called into the principal's office" over file sharing, and had their wrists slapped.
This year, the bandwidth in one residence has been awful. It takes up to 30 seconds to load a webpage at peak hours! I complained to the helpdesk, because I'm paying for HIGH speed LAN, not 14.4 dialup! I haven't even been sharing files this year, although last year I'd upload about 4 GB a day. I figure now that I've got most of the mp3s I need, the UofR should install a packet shaper so I'll be the first to respond to/. "first posters". I still need to be able to download Enterprise, so I hope they don't choke us off too much.
Did anyone else notice the dark, erie website design that the RIAA uses? Kinda makes you wonder who is pulling their strings... the Devil?
I wooed my now exGirlfriend with video games. Carmageddon to be exact. She loved running over those cows and pedestrians. Once she yelled out, "Die Die Die!" and a neighbour walking by was concerned until she saw a computer game was involved.
C64, CoCo II, Apple IIe, 8086? What was your's?
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I have all 4 of these systems now, and the Apple is still my favourite, with the Color Computer a close second. The games for Apple, despite being on disk were easy to load, some were slightly educational, and almost all of them kicked butt. The Commodore 64 was good, but I didn't get one until the mid 90s, and it was sooooo slow loading any game from disk.
I got a CoCo II for Christmas around 1985, and nearly played it into the ground. About the last game I bought for it was Tetris in the early 1990s.
The 8086 with CGA was the start of a new trend in computer based games. No more floppies/cartridges needed, and a much wider variety of nearly free games. Sopwith for instance is an absolute joy to play, but my copy doesn't seem to work with a competitor over serial connection anymore:-(. The graphics may be crude, but the memories are still there, and so are the motor-memories for winning.
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Yeah, that poor wuss who was playing for only 86 hours, in Korea, died just the other day. Makes you wonder where these gamers get their stamina from? Powerups? Did they find secret locations that have eluded the rest of us? Are they just camping?
Canadian Fireballs... and other Astronomy information can be had from this website. It is part of my Astronomy professor's site, and he specializes in fireballs.
I thought Wyndam was quite insightful. He was only wrong about the USSR unleashing a blinding satellite on us all. He nailed the genetically modified plants. Heck, one of them was mentioned on/. today, as a "mining plant" for toxic chemicals.
Great, now I have to go stock up on triffid guns and toilet paper.
I'll get the Triffid guns, and you find a truck load of toilet paper, and some hot Blind Chicks. Then we should retreat, and repopulate the Earth. Damn Fireballs.
Request for Comments doc: This document updates and merges "Uniform Resource Locators"
[RFC1738] and "Relative Uniform Resource Locators" [RFC1808] in order
to define a single, generic syntax for all URI.
To pose a more important question, "Why recharge slowly, when you can refill directly and with less waste?" You want to wait for electricity being generated hundreds of kms away to slowly reorganized the chemistry in your battery, or just readd the needed chemistry parts, right there instantly?
What about situations in public where you are trying to take a picture of your family in front of the Statue of Liberty, and some bozo walks infront of them? What are we going to do? Make a law that it illegal to spoil people's pictures, or a law that gets you in trouble for accidentally taking the bozo's picture?
I hope you are not suggesting that people would choose a product based on looks over functionality? I think even another 3 pounds added weight would be chosen over having to carry a battery charger, extra battery, and still only getting enough hours out of all that to frustrate a saint.
We already allow people to accidentally carry on more dangerous materials such as containers under pressure, pocket knives, knitting needles, and illegal MP3s. What is the harm with someone finally having enough battery power to operate their laptop for the duration of a flight from LA to Hong Kong? Nothing.
Hydrogen is much less dangerous than everyone in the pro-oil community is saying. It wasn't even the cause of the Hindenburg fire, as the mythical tale of why hydrogen is bad says. If we are going to fly on planes with tonnes of flammable material under our butts, then what is the harm of having some flammable material in a much smaller quantity on our laps? If we outlaw everything that might catch fire, then we shouldn't allow fat people on planes, because their fat may liquify, and they would spontaneously combust.
I think this would be one of the best investments a person could make.
Too bad it will be all of rich people, which will skew the results of any statistics that could pop out of the research.
All super rich people must have a gene or two that supplies an aggressive desire to spend money, and aquire stupid gold digging mates.
I would mod this entire thread as funny, because of the sheer fact that anitvirus software is so incapable of not only stopping viruses, but also of protecting it's own code.
This whole virus "incident" is laughable. Why do we support non-heuristic AV software, when lots of people are using 1.4GHz systems that have more horsepower for typing Word documents, than at any other time in our history?
Here is a clue Antivirus Companies: If code is trying to disable your.dll file, you might want to block it, and then notify the user of a possible virus attack.
Many film cameras I know are still battery dependant. You need a pretty low end camera to actually have to crank it to the next frame, and rewind by hand.
I would mod this as funny, because of the sheer fact that anitvirus software is so incapable of not only stopping viruses, but also of protecting it's own code. This is laughable. Why do we support non-heuristic AV software, when lots of people are using 1.4GHz systems that have more horsepower for typing Word documents, than at any other time in our history?
Here is a clue Antivirus Companies: If code is trying to disable your.dll file, you might want to block it, and then notify the user of a possible virus attack.
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No? I didn't think so either.
AOLiens suck. There are a few people using AOL who are nice, but mostly they are people that drive the SUVs of the Internet. Over-hyped, wasting of resources, and likely to tip over if it is used for what it claims to do.
Jokeaday.com has been showing the true nature of the AOLien for many years now. I have encountered AOLiens both in person, and on the Interent, and I can tell you that what they seem to be in real life is in no way a reflection of the mosters they transform into on the "Internet".
If AOL dies a horrible corporate death, then I can only imagine what chaos it could cause. All the biggest freaks of the "Internet" will scatter, and we will not be able to discern an AOLien by a quick glance at email extensions, or the URL of a webpage. We must save AOL, even though we may be better off without it!
I suspect that when the port shaping routine fails, and they start to filter by packet contents, then they will simply use IP tunnelling like is used to send IPv6 over IP4, that can be built into P2P programs.
I, along with most others in residence at the University of Regina received a letter asking us to cease to use P2P programs on the campus network. Actually they told us to stop sharing copyrighted works, but that is about the same thing. Anyway, this was precipitated by a letter from Sony to the UofR. [rumour] /. "first posters". I still need to be able to download Enterprise, so I hope they don't choke us off too much.
I even heard that some students were "called into the principal's office" over file sharing, and had their wrists slapped.
This year, the bandwidth in one residence has been awful. It takes up to 30 seconds to load a webpage at peak hours! I complained to the helpdesk, because I'm paying for HIGH speed LAN, not 14.4 dialup! I haven't even been sharing files this year, although last year I'd upload about 4 GB a day. I figure now that I've got most of the mp3s I need, the UofR should install a packet shaper so I'll be the first to respond to
Did anyone else notice the dark, erie website design that the RIAA uses? Kinda makes you wonder who is pulling their strings... the Devil?
My code would say:
"Stop feeding this shit to the compiler. It already has to take a oversized stack dump."
I couldn't resist. This article is practically begging everyone to post their worst coding humor.
Is this some sort of trick question?
If it is, I would wager on, "How are you today sir?"
I wooed my now exGirlfriend with video games. Carmageddon to be exact. She loved running over those cows and pedestrians. Once she yelled out, "Die Die Die!" and a neighbour walking by was concerned until she saw a computer game was involved.
I have all 4 of these systems now, and the Apple is still my favourite, with the Color Computer a close second. The games for Apple, despite being on disk were easy to load, some were slightly educational, and almost all of them kicked butt. The Commodore 64 was good, but I didn't get one until the mid 90s, and it was sooooo slow loading any game from disk.
:-(. The graphics may be crude, but the memories are still there, and so are the motor-memories for winning.
I got a CoCo II for Christmas around 1985, and nearly played it into the ground. About the last game I bought for it was Tetris in the early 1990s.
The 8086 with CGA was the start of a new trend in computer based games. No more floppies/cartridges needed, and a much wider variety of nearly free games. Sopwith for instance is an absolute joy to play, but my copy doesn't seem to work with a competitor over serial connection anymore
Yeah, that poor wuss who was playing for only 86 hours, in Korea, died just the other day. Makes you wonder where these gamers get their stamina from? Powerups? Did they find secret locations that have eluded the rest of us? Are they just camping?
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I like the person who moderated this insightful. For an urban legend like this article, it is certainly so.
Canadian Fireballs ... and other Astronomy information can be had from this website. It is part of my Astronomy professor's site, and he specializes in fireballs.
I thought Wyndam was quite insightful. He was only wrong about the USSR unleashing a blinding satellite on us all. He nailed the genetically modified plants. Heck, one of them was mentioned on /. today, as a "mining plant" for toxic chemicals.
Great, now I have to go stock up on triffid guns and toilet paper.
Mine reads 37 degrees. Must be because I'm in Canada?
I'll get the Triffid guns, and you find a truck load of toilet paper, and some hot Blind Chicks. Then we should retreat, and repopulate the Earth.
Damn Fireballs.
Request for Comments doc:
This document updates and merges "Uniform Resource Locators"
[RFC1738] and "Relative Uniform Resource Locators" [RFC1808] in order
to define a single, generic syntax for all URI.
Universal Resource Inibitor?
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Thanks.
Did I miss something in the article?
To pose a more important question, "Why recharge slowly, when you can refill directly and with less waste?" You want to wait for electricity being generated hundreds of kms away to slowly reorganized the chemistry in your battery, or just readd the needed chemistry parts, right there instantly?
What about situations in public where you are trying to take a picture of your family in front of the Statue of Liberty, and some bozo walks infront of them? What are we going to do? Make a law that it illegal to spoil people's pictures, or a law that gets you in trouble for accidentally taking the bozo's picture?
I hope you are not suggesting that people would choose a product based on looks over functionality? I think even another 3 pounds added weight would be chosen over having to carry a battery charger, extra battery, and still only getting enough hours out of all that to frustrate a saint.
We already allow people to accidentally carry on more dangerous materials such as containers under pressure, pocket knives, knitting needles, and illegal MP3s. What is the harm with someone finally having enough battery power to operate their laptop for the duration of a flight from LA to Hong Kong? Nothing.
Hydrogen is much less dangerous than everyone in the pro-oil community is saying. It wasn't even the cause of the Hindenburg fire, as the mythical tale of why hydrogen is bad says. If we are going to fly on planes with tonnes of flammable material under our butts, then what is the harm of having some flammable material in a much smaller quantity on our laps? If we outlaw everything that might catch fire, then we shouldn't allow fat people on planes, because their fat may liquify, and they would spontaneously combust.
I think this would be one of the best investments a person could make.
Too bad it will be all of rich people, which will skew the results of any statistics that could pop out of the research.
All super rich people must have a gene or two that supplies an aggressive desire to spend money, and aquire stupid gold digging mates.
I would mod this entire thread as funny, because of the sheer fact that anitvirus software is so incapable of not only stopping viruses, but also of protecting it's own code.
.dll file, you might want to block it, and then notify the user of a possible virus attack.
This whole virus "incident" is laughable. Why do we support non-heuristic AV software, when lots of people are using 1.4GHz systems that have more horsepower for typing Word documents, than at any other time in our history?
Here is a clue Antivirus Companies:
If code is trying to disable your
Many film cameras I know are still battery dependant. You need a pretty low end camera to actually have to crank it to the next frame, and rewind by hand.
I would mod this as funny, because of the sheer fact that anitvirus software is so incapable of not only stopping viruses, but also of protecting it's own code.
.dll file, you might want to block it, and then notify the user of a possible virus attack.
This is laughable. Why do we support non-heuristic AV software, when lots of people are using 1.4GHz systems that have more horsepower for typing Word documents, than at any other time in our history?
Here is a clue Antivirus Companies:
If code is trying to disable your
I simply say computer viruses, when referring to more than one virus. Regular people aren't going to know what virii means.