That's because we were all pissed that those "business majors" had nothing to do in college and went out to bars all the time while us geeks were actually working for our degrees!
We shunned economics because it reminded us of the free wheeling Business slackers and their happy hours!
who the fuck is going to buy an American luxury car
Hell... even back in the EIGHTIES (read: HORRIBLE American cars), people in Eastern Europe bought them because it was a status symbol (like German cars are here...). To have a 20 foot long Cadillac in countries where the cars are 10 feet long is the perfect demonstration of ludicrous excess... Turns a lot of heads when you drive a Cadillac by a bunch of Minis...
Yeah, but in the mean time, unless I'm mistaken about how these things work, you're pissing a way a bunch of bandwidth. What percentage of documents on the web with an extension of ".jpg" are NOT jpeg files? Is it really worth it to waste the bandwidth on both sides (crawler and server)? I don't think so.
Newbie! I remember being really excited when I discovered "trn".. that is a great news reader... I convinced my professor to install it on our DEC Ultrix machines... It kicked ass for news reading... was my default news reader until Outlook Express and Free Agent introduced me to bulk "download and decode" options..
I used to get my porn by downloading each UUENCODED (yes, UUENCODED) message and then reassembling them by manually editing the text files to remove the headers... Then, I'd run UUDECODE on them... then, I got to see that grainy 70s porn shot! (circa 1990)
Of course! I used to play lots of turn-based games on a Fidonet BBS... gotta love it when the turns are transmitted through a BBS-to-BBS dialup connection...
Person 1 takes a turn... BBS 1 dials up BBS 2 and transmits data... hangs up Person 2 takes a turn... BBS 2 dials up BBS 1 and transmits response... hangs up
Think: FPS with a REALLY REALLY ASTRONOMICALLY HIGH ping!
Back in the day (early 90s), I used archie, veronica, gopher, etc.
How cool was it that Arche searched "known sites"... hehe... Can you imagine... People would register their FTP sites with Archie so people could find their stuff (just like with search engines and web pages without the financial motives).
It was cool. It was fast. And my WHOLE college shared a 56K leased line baby! BitNet anyone? The _original_ relay (relay@VTVM2)?? (I helped to maintain the full-screen (*gasp*) Relay "program" written in DCL for VAX/VMS when I was a freshman in college... )
Well, I know that everyone "poo poo"s using file extensions, but it would be pretty easy to determine that the file ending in "jpg" is a jpeg file. I would expect the geniuses at Google to filter that kind of thing unless they wanted it for some reason.
In the US, credit card fraud is protected. You are not legally liable for more than $50! AND.. Both Visa and Mastercard waive that amount and I've never known American Express to charge it either.
So, put your credit card number on your T-shirt... who cares?
My friend's father found this out the hard way. He died from his flu shot. The flu shot was somehow read wrong by his brain so his immune system started to attack his spinal column. He deteriorated over the course of about 4 months and died.
I haven't had a flu shot since I was a child. Haven't had the flu since I was a child either... Coincidence? I don't give a crap. I'm not risking making myself sick or dying just to avoid getting the flu.
I am an Indian and currently working for Tata Consultancy Services Ltd...
I'm an American and I work for ta-tas, but more indirectly. Here's the process:
Short-term approach:
- I work for my paycheck.
- I take the paycheck and go to strip clubs to check out the ta-tas.
Long-term approach:
- I take some of that paycheck (that would normally go to strip clubs) and get hair cuts, buy shampoo, clean the crust out of my eyes and generally make myself more acceptable to society.
- I use my newfound cleanliness and try to get free ta-tas in the form of a girlfriend.
I've found that the short-term approach is much more fruitful and takes less effort...:)
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And then someone was obnoxious enough to mod me Overrated!!
Wow... you got modded Funny before I even saw the second post!!!
That's because we were all pissed that those "business majors" had nothing to do in college and went out to bars all the time while us geeks were actually working for our degrees!
We shunned economics because it reminded us of the free wheeling Business slackers and their happy hours!
who the fuck is going to buy an American luxury car
Hell... even back in the EIGHTIES (read: HORRIBLE American cars), people in Eastern Europe bought them because it was a status symbol (like German cars are here...). To have a 20 foot long Cadillac in countries where the cars are 10 feet long is the perfect demonstration of ludicrous excess... Turns a lot of heads when you drive a Cadillac by a bunch of Minis...
Yeah, but in the mean time, unless I'm mistaken about how these things work, you're pissing a way a bunch of bandwidth. What percentage of documents on the web with an extension of ".jpg" are NOT jpeg files? Is it really worth it to waste the bandwidth on both sides (crawler and server)? I don't think so.
Newbie! I remember being really excited when I discovered "trn".. that is a great news reader... I convinced my professor to install it on our DEC Ultrix machines... It kicked ass for news reading... was my default news reader until Outlook Express and Free Agent introduced me to bulk "download and decode" options..
I used to get my porn by downloading each UUENCODED (yes, UUENCODED) message and then reassembling them by manually editing the text files to remove the headers... Then, I'd run UUDECODE on them... then, I got to see that grainy 70s porn shot! (circa 1990)
Of course! I used to play lots of turn-based games on a Fidonet BBS... gotta love it when the turns are transmitted through a BBS-to-BBS dialup connection...
Person 1 takes a turn...
BBS 1 dials up BBS 2 and transmits data... hangs up
Person 2 takes a turn...
BBS 2 dials up BBS 1 and transmits response... hangs up
Think: FPS with a REALLY REALLY ASTRONOMICALLY HIGH ping!
Back in the day (early 90s), I used archie, veronica, gopher, etc.
How cool was it that Arche searched "known sites"... hehe... Can you imagine... People would register their FTP sites with Archie so people could find their stuff (just like with search engines and web pages without the financial motives).
It was cool. It was fast. And my WHOLE college shared a 56K leased line baby! BitNet anyone? The _original_ relay (relay@VTVM2)?? (I helped to maintain the full-screen (*gasp*) Relay "program" written in DCL for VAX/VMS when I was a freshman in college... )
Come on... I know you're out there!
God... how nostalgic...
Because the ethernet adapter is useless to an owner of a Series 1 Tivo, which he most likely is, because he wouldn't need the adapter otherwise...
No, broadband via sat does NOT require a phone line for uploads. That is so 5 years ago!
Yeah, but it doesn't have nearly the functionality of a Tivo, either...
Tivo also downloads its software updates over the phone line. Kinda important too :)
Well, I know that everyone "poo poo"s using file extensions, but it would be pretty easy to determine that the file ending in "jpg" is a jpeg file. I would expect the geniuses at Google to filter that kind of thing unless they wanted it for some reason.
Google and Janet Jackson's right boob are CLEARLY the causes of the deterioration of our society!!!!!!!!!
Don't you mean the left one for staying hidden??
1) So?
2) So?
3) So?
In the US, credit card fraud is protected. You are not legally liable for more than $50! AND.. Both Visa and Mastercard waive that amount and I've never known American Express to charge it either.
So, put your credit card number on your T-shirt... who cares?
OT/Flamebait/Overrated/Evil:
Bill CLinton's a tool and people haven't bad-mouthed him in a while...
Oh. I just did, didn't I?
So, it goes gets his JPG file to find out how to advertise to him??
Is google doing some sort of image recognition in order to determine what types of advertisement to send? I don't get it.
I think the feeling is that, since SCO's full of shit, it's all safe!
Somebody should tell Darl about Google
;)
Someone did... now he's going to sue them for all those Linux boxen...
Had to open your mouth, huh?
I sense a new business opportunity!! Grey computer boxes with big floppy ears on them!
Who's Enza?
Yeah right...
My friend's father found this out the hard way. He died from his flu shot. The flu shot was somehow read wrong by his brain so his immune system started to attack his spinal column. He deteriorated over the course of about 4 months and died.
I haven't had a flu shot since I was a child. Haven't had the flu since I was a child either... Coincidence? I don't give a crap. I'm not risking making myself sick or dying just to avoid getting the flu.
Cows are sacred for Hindus...
I am an Indian and currently working for Tata Consultancy Services Ltd...
:)
I'm an American and I work for ta-tas, but more indirectly. Here's the process:
Short-term approach:
- I work for my paycheck.
- I take the paycheck and go to strip clubs to check out the ta-tas.
Long-term approach:
- I take some of that paycheck (that would normally go to strip clubs) and get hair cuts, buy shampoo, clean the crust out of my eyes and generally make myself more acceptable to society.
- I use my newfound cleanliness and try to get free ta-tas in the form of a girlfriend.
I've found that the short-term approach is much more fruitful and takes less effort...
Weren't all your co-workers' jobs outsourced to India already? :)