First of all, how does this story claim "the rights after the fact"? It just reports what happened. Not that the tone of the story ("over 12k", "only 5.5MPH"!) helps, if this is the style the previous stories were submitted in, I'm not too sorry they weren't accepted. And did Taco really say that about this story? I recall it being their policy not to comment on why stories are/aren't accepted.
Personally, I'm not too interested in shelling out money for a tiny, barely visible picture of a fat penguin to be placed on a car nobody would be paying any attention anyway. But then, I don't particularly care for Linux. Still, having a blimp with a huge Linux logo hover over the track would do much more good IMO.
Anyway, I find something funny in the fact that they chose to associate Linux with driving in circles over and over. Next lap will be the lap of Linux on deskto^W^W^W where we get to the point scoring position!
> How about a law demanding that goods may not be imported, if they were manufactured under conditions that would not be acceptable in the destination country?
How about a law that would ban US imports in France (and other european countries) because the poor American workers have to work for more than 35 hours a week?
Dude, your whole calculation is completely pointless.
Sure, if you calculate the bandwidth requirements, messages cost much, much more than 1KB of date would cost you with. But then you even used the soda example... ever noticed how a glass of coke in a restaurant can costs more than a two litre bottle in a store? Same thing. This happens either when the seller can, or need to sell at that price. Many restaurants/clubs/bars rely on this to get themselves some profit. I don't know if that's the case with phone companies, it's possible messages cost as much as they do simply because they can, or maybe there's been little demand (quite possible considering that SMS usage managed to double in one year) so they priced them for highest profit (see elasticity).
I don't know about Verizon, but around here Vodafone lets you see and control what your children/employees (for small business accounts) do with the subscriptions you're paying.
Shortly after beginning his term, Lincoln would invade the states that declined to implement the Real-ID act and play ball on the speed limit/drinking age issue. He'd also re-hire Alberto Gonzales based on ideological agreements. Finally, he'd declare that all lab animals should be free, but wouldn't actually much about it, instead creating a new breathing tax and reestablishing the draft.
Speaking of reanimating famous world leaders, what would the world look now if Hitler had been saved by modern medicine?
Nope, fans will happily rescue the same fucking princess over and over again, especially since now it's done with a weeemote so it's ok to recycle everything a few more times.
Now, while all the routers would probably remain turned on had Turn-X Alphonse decided not to post, I'm sure the routers use more energy when there's more traffic they need to take care of. Not to mention all the electrons his network card and/or modem had to send across the wires to get to those routers.
Sure, some of them are a little redundant (the blue "ON" LED on my monitor, for example), but mostly they're very useful in telling me what's going on. Just a quick glance around the room reveals that the..
ADSL modem is connected and there's very little traffic flowing
There are four active devices connected to the network via the switch, all in 100MB mode
Laser printer is in power-save mode, and there isn't much toner left
Inkjet printer is off
PDA has finished recharging
surge protection is online and healthy
sound amp is on the PC channel
computer is on but idle
NumLock is on
Very useful info that I couldn't live without. How would you feel if the whole post was typed with CAPS LOCK on because there was no LED indicator? Besides, I do like the "busy cockpit" look my room has in the dark.
It's just that the hippies are insecure about their penis size.
Girl [looks down] - "Hey, is it.. is it supposed to be so small?" Hippie - "Huh...? Did I tell you about my neighbour who drives a Hummer? H - "It probably only uses 10 gallons per mile! Har har. He's obviously compensating for something. Yeah..."
More like WAPP and not exactly LAMP, but I wrote my own gallery in Perl. Runs on Win2003, Apache, PostgreSQL, and Perl 5.8.8, but should work fine on BSD or, if you must, Linux.
The first version just made the thumbnails with ImageMagick for images in specified folders and spewed out a table with the thumbnails and links. It didn't even use the database. Now you add an album through an admin page and at this point the script adds the album and individual images to the DB, then it makes the thumbnails with PerlMagick. The user accessible part just fetches the rows and prints them out in individual divs, which are then nicely arranged in CSS. Ta-da!
The whole thing is less than 200 lines including a good deal of comments (or maybe just commented-out code). Had fun writing it, would do it again. A+++.
Ah, so now we know it's actually the Russians behind this whole thing again. Oh well, they probably feel threatened by the new western IPv6 ideology, so it's understandable.
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First of all, how does this story claim "the rights after the fact"? It just reports what happened. Not that the tone of the story ("over 12k", "only 5.5MPH"!) helps, if this is the style the previous stories were submitted in, I'm not too sorry they weren't accepted. And did Taco really say that about this story? I recall it being their policy not to comment on why stories are/aren't accepted.
Personally, I'm not too interested in shelling out money for a tiny, barely visible picture of a fat penguin to be placed on a car nobody would be paying any attention anyway. But then, I don't particularly care for Linux. Still, having a blimp with a huge Linux logo hover over the track would do much more good IMO.
Anyway, I find something funny in the fact that they chose to associate Linux with driving in circles over and over. Next lap will be the lap of Linux on deskto^W^W^W where we get to the point scoring position!
> How about a law demanding that goods may not be imported, if they were manufactured under conditions that would not be acceptable in the destination country?
How about a law that would ban US imports in France (and other european countries) because the poor American workers have to work for more than 35 hours a week?
Dude, your whole calculation is completely pointless.
Sure, if you calculate the bandwidth requirements, messages cost much, much more than 1KB of date would cost you with. But then you even used the soda example... ever noticed how a glass of coke in a restaurant can costs more than a two litre bottle in a store? Same thing. This happens either when the seller can, or need to sell at that price. Many restaurants/clubs/bars rely on this to get themselves some profit. I don't know if that's the case with phone companies, it's possible messages cost as much as they do simply because they can, or maybe there's been little demand (quite possible considering that SMS usage managed to double in one year) so they priced them for highest profit (see elasticity).
> But what if you're a good parent and your child is just plain evil?
I heard somewhere that Dr. Evil is looking for children to adopt, he's apparently not quite satisfied with "one calorie" Scott.
Online account management.
I don't know about Verizon, but around here Vodafone lets you see and control what your children/employees (for small business accounts) do with the subscriptions you're paying.
I'd spend it all on hookers and blow. And maybe blackjack.
blah'; UPDATE users SET uid = '1' WHERE uid = '668092';
Say that again after you memorize this and this (zipped pdf) layout, and then maybe I'll change my mind and agree with you.
The US would certainly not be the same.
Shortly after beginning his term, Lincoln would invade the states that declined to implement the Real-ID act and play ball on the speed limit/drinking age issue. He'd also re-hire Alberto Gonzales based on ideological agreements. Finally, he'd declare that all lab animals should be free, but wouldn't actually much about it, instead creating a new breathing tax and reestablishing the draft.
Speaking of reanimating famous world leaders, what would the world look now if Hitler had been saved by modern medicine?
Lincoln is overrated anyway.
Is that you, Dennis Miller?
Nope, fans will happily rescue the same fucking princess over and over again, especially since now it's done with a weeemote so it's ok to recycle everything a few more times.
- Send out fake email which will result in a good price drop
- Buy stock!
- Send out official email which denies everything
- Stock bounces back up within 1-2 days
- Sell stock!
They'll never catch me!Props to whoever modded the parent Informative.
the original, rental model, of DRM!*
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*Yes I know what the D stands for.
Now, while all the routers would probably remain turned on had Turn-X Alphonse decided not to post, I'm sure the routers use more energy when there's more traffic they need to take care of. Not to mention all the electrons his network card and/or modem had to send across the wires to get to those routers.
- ADSL modem is connected and there's very little traffic flowing
- There are four active devices connected to the network via the switch, all in 100MB mode
- Laser printer is in power-save mode, and there isn't much toner left
- Inkjet printer is off
- PDA has finished recharging
- surge protection is online and healthy
- sound amp is on the PC channel
- computer is on but idle
- NumLock is on
Very useful info that I couldn't live without. How would you feel if the whole post was typed with CAPS LOCK on because there was no LED indicator? Besides, I do like the "busy cockpit" look my room has in the dark.It's just that the hippies are insecure about their penis size.
Girl [looks down] - "Hey, is it.. is it supposed to be so small?"
Hippie - "Huh...? Did I tell you about my neighbour who drives a Hummer?
H - "It probably only uses 10 gallons per mile! Har har. He's obviously compensating for something. Yeah..."
> Depends how you define an "improvement."
How about "Higher standards of living and increased economic growth and efficiency"?
3-D model of breasts
Yo mamma so fat, she can press the whole WASD key block with one finger!
I wouldn't tag it.
More like WAPP and not exactly LAMP, but I wrote my own gallery in Perl. Runs on Win2003, Apache, PostgreSQL, and Perl 5.8.8, but should work fine on BSD or, if you must, Linux.
The first version just made the thumbnails with ImageMagick for images in specified folders and spewed out a table with the thumbnails and links. It didn't even use the database. Now you add an album through an admin page and at this point the script adds the album and individual images to the DB, then it makes the thumbnails with PerlMagick. The user accessible part just fetches the rows and prints them out in individual divs, which are then nicely arranged in CSS. Ta-da!
The whole thing is less than 200 lines including a good deal of comments (or maybe just commented-out code). Had fun writing it, would do it again. A+++.
Ah, so now we know it's actually the Russians behind this whole thing again. Oh well, they probably feel threatened by the new western IPv6 ideology, so it's understandable.
And who isn't pursuing kidde porn in Second Life or, for that matter, in the first one?
Do not want.
Well, it was supposed to be one word.