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For some reason about 10 years ago I started using the name Karl Marx, and the address karl@mit.edu for such purposes. If there is a karl@mit.edu, I would like to take this opportunity to apologize for the pain and suffering I have caused you.
P.S. You can start expecting large amounts of German ass-porn next week.
the only other feature I think could be added to Mozilla involves the use of medical robotics, so I doubt it will ever be implemented.
Well that's the joy of open source software! Do it yourself or find some other, um, medical roboticist with the knowledge to do it. Then you can make an extension and voila...
Pooh pooh. 360c per minute to a couple of the countries involved is the highest rate there is, according to their own call calculator. As I mentioned in a previous post, this is not excessive. And if it bothers you that much, switch to Esat.
I work for a long distance provider, and our rates from the west coast of North America to Diego Garcia are $1.60/min, Tuvalu and Guineau Bisseau are $0.99/min. That's our rates. We charge the customer 2-3 times that much, which seems pretty much inline with Eircom.
I know how frustrating Eircom can be, having lived in Ireland for a couple of years (and having waited 10 weeks to get my phone line set up!) but I don't think they're ripping anyone off too badly with those rates.
Other providers with cheaper rates are probably using VOIP to lower costs (and call quality.)
Off-topic I know, but the site is using some Javascript code to check for Netscape 4 or Internet Explorer. It is then sending a browser-specific downloadable font to either of those browsers. The problem is that they are using a European character set, and just replacing the Latin characters with Telugu ones. This used to be acceptable practice, but now that all modern browsers support unicode and multiple character sets, it's really not necessary. You should contact the site owners and have them update the site. Who uses Netscape 4 any more?
they were the names of the town/borough where the central telephone office was located
Actually, Bell had a list of recommended exchange names. Of course, you could use whatever you wanted, but most exchange names came from that list. Here in Vancouver, for example, we have exchanges called Castle, Amherst, Cypress, Mutual, etc. which have no bearing on the real world at all. (Of course, these days nobody in the real world knows any exchange names anyway.)
Why not just get a different web browser? One that doesn't allow pop-ups/unders, one that can block adverts, and one that will prevent sites from resizing your window or removing your toolbars. Firefox comes to mind, but Mozilla and Opera will also do the trick.
No matter what when there are two seperate companies controlling the fate of your connections reliability or speed you will never get an honest answer from either.
But the only company that has anything to do with your connection's reliability or speed is most likely the phone company. I work for an ISP selling DSL, and there honestly isn't much that we have to do with the network. The phone lines are the telco's, the DSLAM is the telco's, the T3 lines leaving the DSLAMs are the telco's. We only get involved once traffic has gone all the way across the telco's network to our OC-3 gateways in the city. Probably 60% of the calls we get are a telco problem. Fortunately most can be corrected by rebooting the modem (eg "My connection's slowed down" or "My little green light has gone out.")
Paper of Record is a site run by a Canadian company showing off their digitisation software. It's a pay site, but I had a trial membership, and it's pretty cool. Lots of Canadian papers, but American and other foreign ones are plentiful too. All in PDF format, with fairly accurate searching.
Actually, I think Canada is the only country in the world whose citizens don't need a passport or visa to get into the US. A driver's license and birth certificate will do just fine. Of course, it can still take an hour to get in or out...
In many states, you need to photograph the face of the person driving in addition to the license plate.
Hmm, in Canada (or at least BC and Ontario) front-facing radar cameras were taken away shortly after they were introduced over privacy concerns. IIRC, the catalyst was some guy who was photographed with a prostitute in his car; his wife got the picture in the mail, and hijinks ensued.
Not sure if you were just being facetious, but a standard barcode is considered one dimensional because the data is only encoded in one direction. Height is irrelevant. But in a 2 dimensional code, data is encoded in both dimensions.
Actually, more of a problem is the people that use the proprietary extensions, and code their pages to take advantage of bugs in the browsers. Or people who learned HTML in 1995 and are still using the same code!
If everyone's code were valid (and I don't mean cutting-edge XHTML; valid HTML 3.2 would be fine!) the web would be a much friendlier place.
How long before people started posting spam stories? You think you're downloading a story about government corruption in Norway and end up with an ad for v!@gra or something.
That was actually my first response, but they do have a 'light' version that doesn't support all the extra doo-dads (video, 'new' skins, CD ripping) and is only a 650k download. It presumably requires much less of your system, and the minimal install is only 1.2 MB. How many modern software packages offer you that small a download and such a tiny footprint? I'm giving it a try now, upgrading from 2.81 on my 450 MHz PIII.
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In 2005, I'll still be happily running my legal copy of Windows 2000.
Chances are your tattooist used a 3 of 9 bar code, not a UPC code, so you shouldn't have to go through a removal and re-tattoo.
For some reason about 10 years ago I started using the name Karl Marx, and the address karl@mit.edu for such purposes. If there is a karl@mit.edu, I would like to take this opportunity to apologize for the pain and suffering I have caused you.
P.S. You can start expecting large amounts of German ass-porn next week.
hell, it won't even print a pound sign for the poor british folks. and look, it stripped all the capital letters out of my post!
the only other feature I think could be added to Mozilla involves the use of medical robotics, so I doubt it will ever be implemented.
Well that's the joy of open source software! Do it yourself or find some other, um, medical roboticist with the knowledge to do it. Then you can make an extension and voila...
Valid points perhaps, but we're talking about web browsers here, not mail programs.
Ahem, I believe you mean a Venti® CD. No really, I'm not joking. Check their website.
Pooh pooh. 360c per minute to a couple of the countries involved is the highest rate there is, according to their own call calculator. As I mentioned in a previous post, this is not excessive. And if it bothers you that much, switch to Esat.
I work for a long distance provider, and our rates from the west coast of North America to Diego Garcia are $1.60/min, Tuvalu and Guineau Bisseau are $0.99/min. That's our rates. We charge the customer 2-3 times that much, which seems pretty much inline with Eircom.
I know how frustrating Eircom can be, having lived in Ireland for a couple of years (and having waited 10 weeks to get my phone line set up!) but I don't think they're ripping anyone off too badly with those rates.
Other providers with cheaper rates are probably using VOIP to lower costs (and call quality.)
Off-topic I know, but the site is using some Javascript code to check for Netscape 4 or Internet Explorer. It is then sending a browser-specific downloadable font to either of those browsers.
The problem is that they are using a European character set, and just replacing the Latin characters with Telugu ones. This used to be acceptable practice, but now that all modern browsers support unicode and multiple character sets, it's really not necessary.
You should contact the site owners and have them update the site. Who uses Netscape 4 any more?
they were the names of the town/borough where the central telephone office was located
Actually, Bell had a list of recommended exchange names. Of course, you could use whatever you wanted, but most exchange names came from that list.
Here in Vancouver, for example, we have exchanges called Castle, Amherst, Cypress, Mutual, etc. which have no bearing on the real world at all. (Of course, these days nobody in the real world knows any exchange names anyway.)
Why not just get a different web browser? One that doesn't allow pop-ups/unders, one that can block adverts, and one that will prevent sites from resizing your window or removing your toolbars. Firefox comes to mind, but Mozilla and Opera will also do the trick.
Have you used the Bitstream Vera fonts? They are truly brilliant. I use the monospace for all my terminal windows.
No matter what when there are two seperate companies controlling the fate of your connections reliability or speed you will never get an honest answer from either.
But the only company that has anything to do with your connection's reliability or speed is most likely the phone company.
I work for an ISP selling DSL, and there honestly isn't much that we have to do with the network. The phone lines are the telco's, the DSLAM is the telco's, the T3 lines leaving the DSLAMs are the telco's. We only get involved once traffic has gone all the way across the telco's network to our OC-3 gateways in the city.
Probably 60% of the calls we get are a telco problem. Fortunately most can be corrected by rebooting the modem (eg "My connection's slowed down" or "My little green light has gone out.")
Paper of Record is a site run by a Canadian company showing off their digitisation software. It's a pay site, but I had a trial membership, and it's pretty cool. Lots of Canadian papers, but American and other foreign ones are plentiful too. All in PDF format, with fairly accurate searching.
Actually, I think Canada is the only country in the world whose citizens don't need a passport or visa to get into the US. A driver's license and birth certificate will do just fine. Of course, it can still take an hour to get in or out...
In many states, you need to photograph the face of the person driving in addition to the license plate.
Hmm, in Canada (or at least BC and Ontario) front-facing radar cameras were taken away shortly after they were introduced over privacy concerns. IIRC, the catalyst was some guy who was photographed with a prostitute in his car; his wife got the picture in the mail, and hijinks ensued.
all barcodes are 2D, they have height and width
Not sure if you were just being facetious, but a standard barcode is considered one dimensional because the data is only encoded in one direction. Height is irrelevant. But in a 2 dimensional code, data is encoded in both dimensions.
Actually, more of a problem is the people that use the proprietary extensions, and code their pages to take advantage of bugs in the browsers. Or people who learned HTML in 1995 and are still using the same code!
If everyone's code were valid (and I don't mean cutting-edge XHTML; valid HTML 3.2 would be fine!) the web would be a much friendlier place.
More effective is entering 'shutdown -a' at the cmd prompt.
Not only did we /. his web server, but his DNS server too! Probably the same box....
not to mention headlines from the /. crowd: "Man stretches anus to record size!"
How long before people started posting spam stories? You think you're downloading a story about government corruption in Norway and end up with an ad for v!@gra or something.
That was actually my first response, but they do have a 'light' version that doesn't support all the extra doo-dads (video, 'new' skins, CD ripping) and is only a 650k download.
It presumably requires much less of your system, and the minimal install is only 1.2 MB. How many modern software packages offer you that small a download and such a tiny footprint?
I'm giving it a try now, upgrading from 2.81 on my 450 MHz PIII.