Your comment about having to be a resident is not true in many cities. I know for a fact that the San Jose, Santa Clara and Los Angeles public library systems have no city/county residency requirements. Most libraries will let you get a card as long as you live in the state. Others will loan you a small number of items if you are just visiting.
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Yes, it probably is a transportation device, requring cities and campuses to install some kind of track, providing power and/or guidance.
"DC just doesn't seem to understand that they can't control hardware that's given away for free..."
Apparently they do understand.
Today, I got this response from Charles Richardson of DC.
Dear Wallace,
The Cat is yours to do with as you please. I would suggest that you give it
to a friend if you do not want this for yourself. I'm sorry but we have no
way for you to conveniently return this to us.
At 06:00 PM 9/28/00, you wrote:
>Submitted: 09/28/00 at 06:00 pm:
>====================
>Name: Wallace Lee
>Regarding: tech
>Email: koala@koalaweb.net
>Heard from: magazine
>Which one:
>Comments: Hello,
>I recently received a ":Cue:Cat" device with a magazine subscription.
>I do not agree with your EULA, and I would like to return it to your
>company. Please provide me with shipping instructions, and a prepaid
>shipping container or label. If you can supply me with such an item,
>please e-mail me koala@koalaweb.net. Otherwise, I will destroy the
>:Cue:Cat device or play around with it as I am considering it an
>unsolicited gift.
>
>Thank you,
>WL
>====================
>Browser & Operating System: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows 98)
>Remote Host: adsl-63-198-207-97.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net (63.198.207.97)
>
>eMphormed(tm) email system v2.0.3 by eMphasys technologies, inc.
> Copyright 1998-2000, All Rights Reserved. For authorized use only.
> http://www.emphasys.net
The more recent version has a revised section: LEAP YEAR FAQ (Frequently Argued Question) version 3, 9/18/1998
blah...blah...blah
Q: Bollocks to that. The NIST isn't _my_ National Institute. As one of Her Majesty's loyal subjects I bloody well know that 1700 was too a leap year in England, so why should I believe any of this bumf, you sod? A: In the Gregorian calendar, 1700 was not a leap year. Neither Great Britain nor her colonies adopted the Gregorian calendar until 1752, making it possible to win properly phrased bets about the date of George Washington's birthday. Anyway we're all on the Gregorian calendar now, or as your Limey parliament put it in 1752, in British Act of Parliament 24 Geo. 2. c. 23;
Be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid,
That the several Years of our Lord, 1800, 1900, 2100, 2200, 2300, or any other hundredth Years of our Lord, which shall happen in Time to come, except only every fourth hundredth Year of our Lord, whereof the Year of our Lord 2000 shall be the first, shall not be esteemed or taken to be Bissextile or Leap Years, but shall be taken to be common Years, consisting of 365 Days, and no more;
And your very own Royal Greenwich Observatory, Information Leaflet No. 48: `Leap Years' says:
The change from the Julian calendar to the Gregorian involved the change of the simple rule for leap-years to the more complex one in which century years should only be leap-years if they were divisible by 400. For example, 1700, 1800 and 1900 are not leap-years whereas 2000 will be.
You can go to Space Imaging's web site at http://www.spaceimaging.com You can get some archived low-res satellite images from http://origin.eosat.com (registration required)
Slashdot Mirror
Just in case you're not reading this article on April 4th, you can access the picture at http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap010404.html
Your comment about having to be a resident is not true in many cities. I know for a fact that the San Jose, Santa Clara and Los Angeles public library systems have no city/county residency requirements. Most libraries will let you get a card as long as you live in the state. Others will loan you a small number of items if you are just visiting.
Yes, it probably is a transportation device, requring cities and campuses to install some kind of track, providing power and/or guidance.
"DC just doesn't seem to understand that they can't control hardware that's given away for free..."
Apparently they do understand.
Today, I got this response from Charles Richardson of DC.
Dear Wallace,
The Cat is yours to do with as you please. I would suggest that you give it
to a friend if you do not want this for yourself. I'm sorry but we have no
way for you to conveniently return this to us.
At 06:00 PM 9/28/00, you wrote:
>Submitted: 09/28/00 at 06:00 pm:
>====================
>Name: Wallace Lee
>Regarding: tech
>Email: koala@koalaweb.net
>Heard from: magazine
>Which one:
>Comments: Hello,
>I recently received a ":Cue:Cat" device with a magazine subscription.
>I do not agree with your EULA, and I would like to return it to your
>company. Please provide me with shipping instructions, and a prepaid
>shipping container or label. If you can supply me with such an item,
>please e-mail me koala@koalaweb.net. Otherwise, I will destroy the
>:Cue:Cat device or play around with it as I am considering it an
>unsolicited gift.
>
>Thank you,
>WL
>====================
>Browser & Operating System: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows 98)
>Remote Host: adsl-63-198-207-97.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net (63.198.207.97)
>
>eMphormed(tm) email system v2.0.3 by eMphasys technologies, inc.
> Copyright 1998-2000, All Rights Reserved. For authorized use only.
> http://www.emphasys.net
The company putting up the banner ads get money just for making you load the image. That's why crooked sites show you so many at a time.
Why not just call it first.gov instead of firstgov.gov?
ftp.cdrom.com is much faster than the ZDNet FTP server.
I'm getting 25K/sec instead of the 2K/sec from ZDNet.
ftp.cdrom.com/pub/3dfiles/games/dk demo.exe
You don't need to read the raw logs. Think about it... do you read your raw web logs or do you put them through an analyzer?
SWBell Internet is not regulated because it is not a telephone company. They run as an entirely seperate company owned by SBC.
The more recent version has a revised section:
e apyear.html)
LEAP YEAR FAQ (Frequently Argued Question)
version 3, 9/18/1998
blah...blah...blah
Q: Bollocks to that. The NIST isn't _my_ National Institute.
As one of Her Majesty's loyal subjects I bloody well know
that 1700 was too a leap year in England, so why
should I believe any of this bumf, you sod?
A: In the Gregorian calendar, 1700 was not a leap year. Neither
Great Britain nor her colonies adopted the Gregorian calendar
until 1752, making it possible to win properly phrased bets
about the date of George Washington's birthday. Anyway we're
all on the Gregorian calendar now, or as your Limey parliament
put it in 1752, in British Act of Parliament 24 Geo. 2. c. 23;
Be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid,
That the several Years of our Lord, 1800, 1900, 2100, 2200,
2300, or any other hundredth Years of our Lord, which shall
happen in Time to come, except only every fourth hundredth Year
of our Lord, whereof the Year of our Lord 2000 shall be the
first, shall not be esteemed or taken to be Bissextile or Leap
Years, but shall be taken to be common Years, consisting of 365
Days, and no more;
And your very own Royal Greenwich Observatory, Information
Leaflet No. 48: `Leap Years' says:
(http://www.ast.cam.ac.uk/RGO/leaflets/leapyear/l
The change from the Julian calendar to the Gregorian involved
the change of the simple rule for leap-years to the more complex
one in which century years should only be leap-years if they
were divisible by 400. For example, 1700, 1800 and 1900 are not
leap-years whereas 2000 will be.
blah...blah...blah...
You can go to Space Imaging's web site at http://www.spaceimaging.com
You can get some archived low-res satellite images from http://origin.eosat.com (registration required)