Uhhh... you do realize that rotary phones are all pulse dial type and will screw with your DSL, don't you?
Even picking that phone up will cause problems on DSL. Dialing it can damage your DSL modem, since a "pulse" is just a quick short in the line.
I was quite annoyed when I had to track down a new DSL modem at Best Buy because the freaking ancient phone on the kitchen counter was dialed while I was online. And don't tease about Best Buy, either, 'cause that's where the SBC guys told me to go. It was either $75 to Best Buy or $200 to SBC for a new modem. Bastards.
Heh... I found in my area that getting DSL was the same price as getting dialup.
Here's the breakdown:
DSL: $50/month. Period.
Dialup: ISP Fees: $20/month. Phone line: $23/month, plus additional line taxes (usually totals near $30/month).
Now, sure, I could just tie up my phone line when I want to surf, but there are plenty of times when I sit and look things up for people while I talk to them on the phone. That's worth the approximate $5/month more for DSL. And I don't have the slowest, cheapest DSL package out there. Mine's a 1.5/384 PPPoE setup. For $30/month (the usual price of a second phone line with taxes added) you can get one that's 384/128 PPPoE and is still way faster than dialup.
Give me one good reason to keep dialup if I can get broadband.
---OBLIGATORY RANT FOLLOWS--- By the way, I really hate the term "broadband" when it's applied to high-speed connections. A 56k modem is also technically broadband. Hell, a 300 baud modem is broadband. The opposite of broadband is baseband, as in 10baseT. Broadband is an analog transmission. Baseband is a digital transmission with a baseline.
I think geeks everywhere should rise up and crush the evil marketing overlords. I do not welcome them.
I hate to break it to you, but you're missing something.
If you have outstanding parking tickets, you've repeatedly violated traffic laws. Therefore, since you cannot properly operate a vehicle within the bounds of the law, you lose your license. Think of it as an ongoing test.
If you owe back taxes, you haven't paid for your share of the road repairs. Think of this as an ongoing license fee.
Driving is a privelege, not a right. Secular rights are enumerated in the first ten amendments to the constitution. Natural rights deal only with things you are born with. Cars, and the privelege of operating one, don't fall into either category.
Perhaps those who have been fighting, since they're not following Christ's example and command, aren't really Christians at all.
I can claim to be a black man, but my appearance tells you that I'm lying. Others claim to be Christian, but their actions tell you they're lying. Find the people that are doing exactly as the Bible commands, and you'll have found true Christians.
Perhaps to make these more machine friendly, they could simply be kept in stacks and instead of symbols, they use a grid-type system of holes. The machine would use the pattern of holes, while humans could read by noting which symbols were by the holes.
It would make databases hellishly simple, since a single sheet could contain a single record, making record retrieval an automatic OR manual process, just in case you're not near a machine that could read these newfangled punched paper card things.
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A few boxen on the party-end of a T1 would be $8k/yr. each, and I doubt anyone would yank your line. Only morons that try this stunt on a home DSL connection would get cut off. With the extra $$$ flowing in (a T1 costs about $500/mo around these parts), you could buy another T1 and some nice gear. Maybe even a $1m house.
You'd still be evil, though. It's so hard to wash away the stains spam leaves on your hands.
The N64 controller remains to this day as the only console controller reasonably suitable for playing an FPS. Gamecube's sucks for it (Metroid Prime confirms it). Xbox's sucks for it (Time Splitters 2 confirms it, and that's based on the Goldeneye engine!). And PS2's is the same as PS1's, so it's no better now than it was when it was packed with a system competing with the N64 itself.
No, no other console controller has the unique arrangement of digital "movement" buttons and an analog stick for "looking" that the N64 had. Combined with the Z-button in its proper position on the bottom of the controller, that controller was perfect for FPS games. And Madden football games. And those 16-bit-era fighting games like MK and SFII.
The controller was the high point of the N64's design. 4 ports, plenty of buttons, innovative design, and the expansion pak port... it was perfect. Much of the rest of the system could've used such attention to detail.
Even the original Metroid game used elevators as a time for bankswitching. It loaded a new set of sprites and some new palettes to play with. All of those "secret areas" in the game are when you trick the scrolling mechanism into taking you somewhere else without going through the bankswitching sequence on the elevator.
Traffic laws are meant to be broken. Want proof? Look at how many times local law enforcement gets caught with their hand in the cookie jar, changing speed limits, moving stop signs, and in general, making traffic laws become a big fat cash cow instead of a safety precaution.
Want a real safety precaution? Scare people straight. Make all the roads' speed limits something like the "safe and prudent" stuff they use in remote rural areas. Then, impose a severe penalty for unsafe driving. If you cause an accident, you lose your license for a year. Cause another one, make it 5 years. Drive without a license? No license ever again, and 1 year in prison. Drunk driving? Go for it, but stay in your lane and don't wreck. Kill someone, and you get a minimum of 3rd-degree murder. I'd guess that'd be about 30-50 years in prison.
Basically, drive at your own risk, 'cause the government is done babysitting your cellphone-talking, makeup-applying, shaving, radio-retuning, newspaper-reading, kid-slapping, drowsy, drunk, high, and/or just-plain-stupid ass. You are responsible for your own actions, whether you like it or not.
Of course, this is America, land of the free, home of the brave, abode of the irresponsible. It'll never happen.
You're (at least in the US) usually billed in kilowatt-hours (kWh). I'm no expert, but I doubt most homes use more than 0.5kWh at anything other than peak times (weekday evenings and weekend afternoons).
Appliances (again, in the US) all come with a sticker saying how many kWh they use in a year. A refrigerator is usually around 1000. That's a little less than 3 kWh a day, or 0.125 kWh (period... in an hour). That's only 1/4th of your constant usage allowance. How many other household appliances run 24/7? Probably none.
A good storage mechanism would store that unused energy for use at peak times. A poorly designed system would just fail over to a traditional power grid at peak times. In any event, it still reduces the load on the main grid.
Of course, my experiences are from my house in the USA... maybe Scotland is full of wasteful, electricity-hungry, even-worse-than-American people... but I doubt it.
One of the early painintheass piggyback-install programs that would spontaneously reinstall... I fought long and hard to keep it off the machines at work. It seemed to migrate toward any new machine in the hands of a Kazaa user.
*** BEGIN KNEEJERK REACTION *** Terrorists could use spam to send messages! Declare war on Hotmail! Nuke MSN! Hunt down the CEO of Yahoo! and tickle him until he talks! *** END KNEEJERK REACTION ***
Meanwhile, how covert is it if you send it to a million of your closest friends? Heck, at that rate, you could use/. posts to send covert messages.
Dimple monkey twice the pudding octopi for tango man. Very blender shoe, cellular, scooter my daisy heads. Diddley day.
And all the rest of you can kiss your ass goodbye.
Of course there are people who use their computing power as status symbols, and there's nothing like an uber-powered laptop to have people oohing and aahing over...like a shiny piece of metal to someone with ADD.
Or one that has a Ferrari logo and makes revving noises on startup...
There was an old man in the town I grew up in named "Harold Dickensheets" and, oddly enough, still had a listed phone number. I doubt he ever had to order his own pizza.
I think you misunderstood me. "Normal" is normal as compared to how the human brain thinks of numbers. Maybe "traditional" would've been a better term.
"Chunked-up" meant that, when compared to a smooth-flowing number in our minds, the little-endian version is cut into chunks and screwed around.
Also, "incest" is another relative term.:) (*groan* BOOOO! HISSS!)
"Squeezebox" is a slang term for a small (usually octagonal or hexagonal) accordion. It has also been applied to a full size accordion at times. The definition at dictionary.reference.com simply states, "An accordion."
In light of this, it's easy to see why a squeezebox would be on her chest. Frequently, accordions (especially the bigger ones) would be supported by a strap worn around the neck (similar to a guitar) due to their size and weight coupled with the fact that your hands are not free to support the saggy center section.
Most accordion music is dance music, usually polka or creole styles. If "mama" plays the accordion all night and "daddy" dances to it, obviously, they're not going to be sleeping.
The music is just that... music... coming from the accordion.
Accordions can be quite loud, so the kids and even the neighbors might have trouble sleeping.
The motion necessary for getting sound from an accordion could be aptly described as "in and out." Additionally, the song says "She goes in and out," which seems a bit odd if they were describing sexual intercourse.
As for the "tease me" and "so in love" parts... all I can say is that maybe she's playing love songs to him.
Think of a poor, pre-industrial age family, here. It wouldn't be uncommon for this scene to play out from time to time. The kids don't have a Nintendo to play, so they dance, sing, play music, and find other ways of entertaining themselves for an evening. An accordion was a cheap (compared to something like a piano) instrument that even a poor family might have, and it was also a means of entertainment in an age where instantaneous entertainment wasn't really available.
Your explanation doesn't really seem to fit... unless you're just trying to find something sexual about the song.
On the other hand, if the government says, "Go ahead and become a drinking, gambling, pot smoking, hippie bum," they can also stipulate something like, "but if you do, we won't save you from yourself. Good luck."
Basically, they need to back off and let people ruin themselves. Once they stop protecting the stupid and all the Darwin awards have been handed out, we'll be left with a better overall society.
In this light, we can see that this is the only logical course of action (since the War on Drugs and the rest of the idiotic moral enforcement laws aren't working), and it's about eventually lowering taxes.
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Not if you use Linux. Penguins can't fly.
Perhaps this was an ill-named article.
Uhhh... you do realize that rotary phones are all pulse dial type and will screw with your DSL, don't you?
Even picking that phone up will cause problems on DSL. Dialing it can damage your DSL modem, since a "pulse" is just a quick short in the line.
I was quite annoyed when I had to track down a new DSL modem at Best Buy because the freaking ancient phone on the kitchen counter was dialed while I was online. And don't tease about Best Buy, either, 'cause that's where the SBC guys told me to go. It was either $75 to Best Buy or $200 to SBC for a new modem. Bastards.
Can you tell I'm bitter?
Heh... I found in my area that getting DSL was the same price as getting dialup.
Here's the breakdown:
DSL: $50/month. Period.
Dialup:
ISP Fees: $20/month.
Phone line: $23/month, plus additional line taxes (usually totals near $30/month).
Now, sure, I could just tie up my phone line when I want to surf, but there are plenty of times when I sit and look things up for people while I talk to them on the phone. That's worth the approximate $5/month more for DSL. And I don't have the slowest, cheapest DSL package out there. Mine's a 1.5/384 PPPoE setup. For $30/month (the usual price of a second phone line with taxes added) you can get one that's 384/128 PPPoE and is still way faster than dialup.
Give me one good reason to keep dialup if I can get broadband.
---OBLIGATORY RANT FOLLOWS---
By the way, I really hate the term "broadband" when it's applied to high-speed connections. A 56k modem is also technically broadband. Hell, a 300 baud modem is broadband. The opposite of broadband is baseband, as in 10baseT. Broadband is an analog transmission. Baseband is a digital transmission with a baseline.
I think geeks everywhere should rise up and crush the evil marketing overlords. I do not welcome them.
I hate to break it to you, but you're missing something.
If you have outstanding parking tickets, you've repeatedly violated traffic laws. Therefore, since you cannot properly operate a vehicle within the bounds of the law, you lose your license. Think of it as an ongoing test.
If you owe back taxes, you haven't paid for your share of the road repairs. Think of this as an ongoing license fee.
Driving is a privelege, not a right. Secular rights are enumerated in the first ten amendments to the constitution. Natural rights deal only with things you are born with. Cars, and the privelege of operating one, don't fall into either category.
Perhaps those who have been fighting, since they're not following Christ's example and command, aren't really Christians at all.
I can claim to be a black man, but my appearance tells you that I'm lying. Others claim to be Christian, but their actions tell you they're lying. Find the people that are doing exactly as the Bible commands, and you'll have found true Christians.
Perhaps to make these more machine friendly, they could simply be kept in stacks and instead of symbols, they use a grid-type system of holes. The machine would use the pattern of holes, while humans could read by noting which symbols were by the holes.
It would make databases hellishly simple, since a single sheet could contain a single record, making record retrieval an automatic OR manual process, just in case you're not near a machine that could read these newfangled punched paper card things.
A few boxen on the party-end of a T1 would be $8k/yr. each, and I doubt anyone would yank your line. Only morons that try this stunt on a home DSL connection would get cut off. With the extra $$$ flowing in (a T1 costs about $500/mo around these parts), you could buy another T1 and some nice gear. Maybe even a $1m house.
You'd still be evil, though. It's so hard to wash away the stains spam leaves on your hands.
The N64 controller remains to this day as the only console controller reasonably suitable for playing an FPS. Gamecube's sucks for it (Metroid Prime confirms it). Xbox's sucks for it (Time Splitters 2 confirms it, and that's based on the Goldeneye engine!). And PS2's is the same as PS1's, so it's no better now than it was when it was packed with a system competing with the N64 itself.
No, no other console controller has the unique arrangement of digital "movement" buttons and an analog stick for "looking" that the N64 had. Combined with the Z-button in its proper position on the bottom of the controller, that controller was perfect for FPS games. And Madden football games. And those 16-bit-era fighting games like MK and SFII.
The controller was the high point of the N64's design. 4 ports, plenty of buttons, innovative design, and the expansion pak port... it was perfect. Much of the rest of the system could've used such attention to detail.
Even the original Metroid game used elevators as a time for bankswitching. It loaded a new set of sprites and some new palettes to play with. All of those "secret areas" in the game are when you trick the scrolling mechanism into taking you somewhere else without going through the bankswitching sequence on the elevator.
Traffic laws are meant to be broken. Want proof? Look at how many times local law enforcement gets caught with their hand in the cookie jar, changing speed limits, moving stop signs, and in general, making traffic laws become a big fat cash cow instead of a safety precaution.
Want a real safety precaution? Scare people straight. Make all the roads' speed limits something like the "safe and prudent" stuff they use in remote rural areas. Then, impose a severe penalty for unsafe driving. If you cause an accident, you lose your license for a year. Cause another one, make it 5 years. Drive without a license? No license ever again, and 1 year in prison. Drunk driving? Go for it, but stay in your lane and don't wreck. Kill someone, and you get a minimum of 3rd-degree murder. I'd guess that'd be about 30-50 years in prison.
Basically, drive at your own risk, 'cause the government is done babysitting your cellphone-talking, makeup-applying, shaving, radio-retuning, newspaper-reading, kid-slapping, drowsy, drunk, high, and/or just-plain-stupid ass. You are responsible for your own actions, whether you like it or not.
Of course, this is America, land of the free, home of the brave, abode of the irresponsible. It'll never happen.
It's called "thinning the herd." If you cause enough accidents, the number of people that speed in these areas WILL go down.
I bet it's the all-powerful casketmakers' lobby behind this... Get your tinfoil hat.
Over what period of time?
You're (at least in the US) usually billed in kilowatt-hours (kWh). I'm no expert, but I doubt most homes use more than 0.5kWh at anything other than peak times (weekday evenings and weekend afternoons).
Appliances (again, in the US) all come with a sticker saying how many kWh they use in a year. A refrigerator is usually around 1000. That's a little less than 3 kWh a day, or 0.125 kWh (period... in an hour). That's only 1/4th of your constant usage allowance. How many other household appliances run 24/7? Probably none.
A good storage mechanism would store that unused energy for use at peak times. A poorly designed system would just fail over to a traditional power grid at peak times. In any event, it still reduces the load on the main grid.
Of course, my experiences are from my house in the USA... maybe Scotland is full of wasteful, electricity-hungry, even-worse-than-American people... but I doubt it.
I'm more worried about the actual pervs that will try to activate the system while they're driving just to get off. Think about it... It's a vibrator.
Ezula Toptext.
One of the early painintheass piggyback-install programs that would spontaneously reinstall... I fought long and hard to keep it off the machines at work. It seemed to migrate toward any new machine in the hands of a Kazaa user.
*** BEGIN KNEEJERK REACTION ***
/. posts to send covert messages.
Terrorists could use spam to send messages! Declare war on Hotmail! Nuke MSN! Hunt down the CEO of Yahoo! and tickle him until he talks!
*** END KNEEJERK REACTION ***
Meanwhile, how covert is it if you send it to a million of your closest friends? Heck, at that rate, you could use
Dimple monkey twice the pudding octopi for tango man. Very blender shoe, cellular, scooter my daisy heads. Diddley day.
And all the rest of you can kiss your ass goodbye.
Or perhaps Metroid Metal
Or try NARPAS SWORD0 000000 000000
Really. It works. You can go from beginning to end in about 25 minutes, even without a decent controller.
I propose a new solution:
:P
The spammer will be shot in all body parts with a full clip from the submachine gun of your choice.
Of course, you'll just ignore this...
Or one that has a Ferrari logo and makes revving noises on startup...
There was an old man in the town I grew up in named "Harold Dickensheets" and, oddly enough, still had a listed phone number. I doubt he ever had to order his own pizza.
The phonebook there also listed "Large, Guy."
I think you misunderstood me. "Normal" is normal as compared to how the human brain thinks of numbers. Maybe "traditional" would've been a better term.
:) (*groan* BOOOO! HISSS!)
"Chunked-up" meant that, when compared to a smooth-flowing number in our minds, the little-endian version is cut into chunks and screwed around.
Also, "incest" is another relative term.
PPC is big endian, which is normal.
X86 is little endian, which is chunked-up and backwards.
Example:
View the stored number 0x12345678.
Big endian: 12 34 56 78
Little endian: 78 56 34 12
Clear as mud?
"Squeezebox" is a slang term for a small (usually octagonal or hexagonal) accordion. It has also been applied to a full size accordion at times. The definition at dictionary.reference.com simply states, "An accordion."
In light of this, it's easy to see why a squeezebox would be on her chest. Frequently, accordions (especially the bigger ones) would be supported by a strap worn around the neck (similar to a guitar) due to their size and weight coupled with the fact that your hands are not free to support the saggy center section.
Most accordion music is dance music, usually polka or creole styles. If "mama" plays the accordion all night and "daddy" dances to it, obviously, they're not going to be sleeping.
The music is just that... music... coming from the accordion.
Accordions can be quite loud, so the kids and even the neighbors might have trouble sleeping.
The motion necessary for getting sound from an accordion could be aptly described as "in and out." Additionally, the song says "She goes in and out," which seems a bit odd if they were describing sexual intercourse.
As for the "tease me" and "so in love" parts... all I can say is that maybe she's playing love songs to him.
Think of a poor, pre-industrial age family, here. It wouldn't be uncommon for this scene to play out from time to time. The kids don't have a Nintendo to play, so they dance, sing, play music, and find other ways of entertaining themselves for an evening. An accordion was a cheap (compared to something like a piano) instrument that even a poor family might have, and it was also a means of entertainment in an age where instantaneous entertainment wasn't really available.
Your explanation doesn't really seem to fit... unless you're just trying to find something sexual about the song.
On the other hand, if the government says, "Go ahead and become a drinking, gambling, pot smoking, hippie bum," they can also stipulate something like, "but if you do, we won't save you from yourself. Good luck."
Basically, they need to back off and let people ruin themselves. Once they stop protecting the stupid and all the Darwin awards have been handed out, we'll be left with a better overall society.
In this light, we can see that this is the only logical course of action (since the War on Drugs and the rest of the idiotic moral enforcement laws aren't working), and it's about eventually lowering taxes.
Ummm... Social networking? Pumping? Joining a site? Making money? Am I the only one thinking about pr0n here?