I find your whole post interesting, and a cogent reply.
I especially like: >I'm only concerned with those crawlers going mad and sucking the bandwidth out of a site which hosts plenty of media files. Or dumbly downloading everything (zips, executables) and you having to foot the bill for the spent traffic in the end.
That's a concern of mine, too.
I wanted in my post to get people thinking about the contradiction between how well protected industry's intellectual properties are protected as opposed to ours.
If I had substituted 'bandwidth' for 'copyrighted information' I suspect the results would have been better.
I once wrote a routine which applied the principle of Schrödinger's Cat to a dialog box: It prompted - "You won't know what happens when you select this until afterwards" and displayed - ?
My instructor told me, "Now you're just being a jerk."
Soon the options will be:
* Signs point to yes.
* Yes.
* Most likely.
* Without a doubt.
* Yes - definitely.
* As I see it, yes.
* You may rely on it.
* Chances are good.
* It is certain.
* It is decidedly so.
* Reply hazy, try again.
* Better not tell you now.
* Ask again later.
* Concentrate and ask again.
* Cannot predict now.
* My sources say no.
* Very doubtful.
* My reply is no.
* Chances not so good.
* Don't count on it.
You flash freeze them, I suppose, and then mechanically merge them with the fudge ice cream at a temperature just above freezing, then rapidly drop the temp of the mixture.
Although I did not mention it in my post, I did ask the company that places the recycling bins how they handled various hazardous material (batteries, household chemicals, CFLs), and they mailed me a list. I also talked briefly with the fellow on the truck who rapid-sorts the bins when they come down the alley, and checked their website.
California has lots of really strict laws about environmental contaminents. They're not perfect, and sometimes silly, but they're moving in waht is probably the right direction.
In California, the power companies subsidize the CFLs and there are huge displays in the major stores - six bulbs for a dollar. They don't want to build more generating capacity.
I've replaced all mine. Cheap. The instructions on the box say to put them in the recycle bin when used up. Easy.
I almost hate to reply to such an illiterate post, but about Y2K...
(copied and pasted from another post I made today)
Where I worked, we had a lot of old but reliable systems. We tested our mainframes, minicomputers, PCs, and network systems - they failed in varying and catastrophic ways.
We spent millions of dollars for all new systems, and thousands of hours in planning, procurement, implementation, and testing. We literally pushed all the boxes on the datacenter floor to the wall and built anew.
It was a horrendous chore, and I didn't get to spend New Year's with my family.
Perhaps we should have let you all freeze in the dark.
Where I worked, we had a lot of old but reliable systems. We tested our mainframes, minicomputers, PCs, and network systems - they failed in varying and catastrophic ways.
We spent millions of dollars for all new systems, and thousands of hours in planning, procurement, implementation, and testing. We literally pushed all the boxes on the datacenter floor to the wall and built anew.
It was a horrendous chore, and I didn't get to spend New Year's with my family.
Perhaps we should have let you all freeze in the dark.
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*Warning*
Operating systems may appear more compatible then they are...
I find your whole post interesting, and a cogent reply.
I especially like:
>I'm only concerned with those crawlers going mad and sucking the bandwidth out of a site which hosts plenty of media files. Or dumbly downloading everything (zips, executables) and you having to foot the bill for the spent traffic in the end.
That's a concern of mine, too.
I wanted in my post to get people thinking about the contradiction between how well protected industry's intellectual properties are protected as opposed to ours.
If I had substituted 'bandwidth' for 'copyrighted information' I suspect the results would have been better.
Time to examine how this works, and how to block it from your website.
You are allowed to protect unwanted use and access of your copyrighted information, after all!
Sometimes you don't ask a question to find an answer...
Sometimes you ask a question to make people think about the issue.
I once wrote a routine which applied the principle of Schrödinger's Cat to a dialog box:
It prompted - "You won't know what happens when you select this until afterwards" and displayed - ?
My instructor told me, "Now you're just being a jerk."
Congratulations!
You caught the interior joke.
Soon the options will be:
* Signs point to yes.
* Yes.
* Most likely.
* Without a doubt.
* Yes - definitely.
* As I see it, yes.
* You may rely on it.
* Chances are good.
* It is certain.
* It is decidedly so.
* Reply hazy, try again.
* Better not tell you now.
* Ask again later.
* Concentrate and ask again.
* Cannot predict now.
* My sources say no.
* Very doubtful.
* My reply is no.
* Chances not so good.
* Don't count on it.
>How to Keep America Competitive
Break up cumbersome monopolies?
>Is there a box I can un-check somewhere in the preferences so I don't have to look at messages that contain the phrase "oh noes?"
It's right next to the "No Family Guy References" button.
Ah, the mysteries of manufactured food.
I don't support mandatory banning of incandescents. If nothing else, they're still used in Easy-Bake ovens.
I do support encouraging people to cut energy usage.
But not bans. Provide some price breaks, and educate.
CFLs don't bother me, so I use them. In my opinion, you don't have to.
Hmmm. Not currently - Ben & Jerry's Flavors
Ingredients: ENRICHED FLOUR (WHEAT FLOUR, NIACIN, REDUCED IRON, THIAMINE MONONITRATE {VITAMIN B1}, RIBOFLAVIN {VITAMIN B2}, FOLIC ACID), SUGAR, SOYBEAN OIL, HIGH FRUCTOSE CORN SYRUP, PARTIALLY HYDROGENATED COTTONSEED OIL, WHEY (FROM MILK), EGGS, NATURAL AND ARTIFICIAL FLAVOR, SALT, LEAVENING (BAKING SODA, CALCIUM PHOSPHATE), MONO- AND DIGLYCERIDES (EMULSIFIER).
The package used to say artificial vanilla flavor - indeed, that's why they weren't called VAnilla wafers (at least from childhood memory).
I still think it'd taste good... maybe I'll make some myself.
Only if you feed them.
You flash freeze them, I suppose, and then mechanically merge them with the fudge ice cream at a temperature just above freezing, then rapidly drop the temp of the mixture.
Least, that's how similar stuff is made.
C'est la vie, c'est la guerre, c'est la pommes de terre -"V'wallah!"
If there was justice in the world, Ben & Jerry would have made a Milli Vanilli flavor - fudge and Nilla wafers (which contain no vanilla at all).
Although I did not mention it in my post, I did ask the company that places the recycling bins how they handled various hazardous material (batteries, household chemicals, CFLs), and they mailed me a list. I also talked briefly with the fellow on the truck who rapid-sorts the bins when they come down the alley, and checked their website.
California has lots of really strict laws about environmental contaminents. They're not perfect, and sometimes silly, but they're moving in waht is probably the right direction.
In California, the power companies subsidize the CFLs and there are huge displays in the major stores - six bulbs for a dollar. They don't want to build more generating capacity.
I've replaced all mine. Cheap. The instructions on the box say to put them in the recycle bin when used up. Easy.
What was the problem again?
How come they don't invent useful, everyday conveniences like Patent Leather anymore?
When the machines in their lust for power exhaust the conventional sources... they will turn to the only source left... mankind.
Then we'll all have that inconvenient blue/red pill choice thingy.
I almost hate to reply to such an illiterate post, but about Y2K...
(copied and pasted from another post I made today)
Where I worked, we had a lot of old but reliable systems. We tested our mainframes, minicomputers, PCs, and network systems - they failed in varying and catastrophic ways.
We spent millions of dollars for all new systems, and thousands of hours in planning, procurement, implementation, and testing. We literally pushed all the boxes on the datacenter floor to the wall and built anew.
It was a horrendous chore, and I didn't get to spend New Year's with my family.
Perhaps we should have let you all freeze in the dark.
Where I worked, we had a lot of old but reliable systems. We tested our mainframes, minicomputers, PCs, and network systems - they failed in varying and catastrophic ways.
We spent millions of dollars for all new systems, and thousands of hours in planning, procurement, implementation, and testing. We literally pushed all the boxes on the datacenter floor to the wall and built anew.
It was a horrendous chore, and I didn't get to spend New Year's with my family.
Perhaps we should have let you all freeze in the dark.
1. On whether you learn from your mistakes and enjoy learning that way.
2. On whether that portion of gameplay is well depicted with interesting consequences.
I learned a lot from crashing in flight sim games, for example...