I've called this process "taking a crap" and any American wishing to produce a bowel movement will shortly be in breach of my patent.
Would just calling it something different such as deploying the troops or dropping the kids off at the pool be a way around your patent?
Also, you could probably get this patent passed easier if you make it "Taking a crap on the Internet." Then again, there's some prior art for that (spammers, AOL, and Internet Explorer, for example).;)
I don't know if the auction is capped at the fixed price though. I'd assume so.
No. The auction is not capped at the BIN price. Once a bid has been placed (provided the reserve price, if there is a reserve has been met or exceeded), the Buy It Now option goes away, and the item goes to the regular auction format with no upper limits.
I myself have been pleasantly surprised the few times I have had items end up going for higher than what the Buy It Now was. And in a few instances, I have been amused to discover that the winning bidder in those instances ended up being the one who initially bid and popped the Buy It Now, paying more in the end than what he would have paid had he just made the purchase with BIN.
If I install software on my machine, I expect it to behave itself, providing I believe that the company itself is reputable.
And even more importantly, if you put what you were led to believe is an audio CD in your computer's CD-ROM drive, you should expect it to behave itself by simply playing the music encoded on it and nothing more.
I only hope that his time around, the probe will finally send back high resolution images of some of those hot Martian babes, like Dejah Thoris or Tara.
I sincerely hope the title in the above link does actually become a reality on the big screen. And I hope that whatever studio is doing it doesn't completely fuck it up.
This is something I've been waiting to see made into a movie (or series of movies) since I read the books back around 1980 or 1981.
(And I hope whoever they cast as Dejah Thoris is just as hot as Burroughs described her in the first book.)
In any case all it takes is one person to borrow/buy/steal/download a track and serve it up.
And in many cases, I'm sure, that really does result in a significant loss of CD sales. People download that one track, listen to it, decide it's crap, and choose not to buy the CD with that crap track on it, figuring all the other tracks are crap as well. Of course, in an ideal situation, they would indeed delete the track from their hard drives and not download any more tracks from that particular CD.
After every single one of their CDC agents vanished without a trace, Senators Lieberman and Clinton took it upon themselves to investigate matters.
They were quite surprised to find themselves standing in the most surreal world imaginable, and clad in strange snug-fitting white uniforms and helmets with shiny blue neon trim.
They were even more surprised when a number of goons in similar outfits (only with shiny red neon trim instead of blue) hustled them into an arena of sorts, where they were made to fling highly energized flying discs at each other in a Frisbee match to the death.
Eventually, Senator Lieberman struck Senator Clinton with a critical hit, and she disintegrated, or as their guards termed it, de-rezzed. Just before he was hauled off to participate in the light cycle game, victorious Lieberman faced his captors, saluted, and shouted "END OF LINE."
Analysts are now puzzling over the meanings those three words may hold.
I don't own a laser pointer myself, but a flashlight beam is just as effective. My cat will chase it all over the place. However, since she will get frustrated after a while, being unable to catch the light, I make it up to her by dragging a string around for her to chase, catch, and teach a lesson or two. Then after she has had enough, it's lap time while I do stuff online.
Not to mention, 98 has no support for multiple users
Is it possible to have more than one user logged in on an XP box? Just a couple nights ago, I had a call from someone across the base here who was having troubles getting his computer's sound to work.
I fired up Remote Desktop and connected to his computer to install the drivers, since he didn't have admin rights. When I tried to log in, I was informed that there was another user already connected, and if I proceeded, he would be disconnected.
So if only one user can be logged in at a time, how can that be considered a multi-user system? Or am I misinterpreting your use of the phrase "multiple users"?
From my experience, that quality of active OSS support (in terms of forums, email, IRC) is very much related to the number of users. I bet I don't get the same level of support for Slackare 3.4 (hay days..), as I do for the latest release.
But unlike Windows, a Slackware or other Linux upgrade normally doesn't require a hardware upgrade as well. Hell, I remember when I upgraded my Debian system from a 2.4 to a 2.6 kernel. It seemed to me that I actually had a boost in performance, which to me is one major benefit one should expect when doing a software upgrade. This probably isn't much of an issue for the big megacorps, but for small-scale users (home and small businesses), this does become rather significant.
As soon as the "next gen" windows cam out (Windows XP) support for 95 halted. When that happened, the most common response to support answer wasn't "do this..." but "Upgrade!"
And I suspect that many many users, who didn't want to upgrade their hardware just to run the new OS and do the same activities as before gave Redmond the finger and said "Screw you!" These then went on to either upgrade to alternative operating systems, or just stayed with the 9x line and found their support from the 9x user community or the obligatory family geek.
And a bunch of black-suited Secret Service agents come flying out of AC's monitor, yelling and screaming unintelligibly as they haul him (or her) off to who knows where for safe keeping.
Jeez! Didn't you learn anything from that SNL skit that taught everyone the dangers of threatening the prez?
Matt Groening needs to start an episode with this opening to make one of the best couch gags ever!
I thought that was what this little clip was supposed to be. Or were you thinking something more along the lines of the animated family rushing into the livingroom and finding the live action family already on the couch?
Indeed. You might end up with a Lisa on your hands...
That wouldn't be a bad thing, considering how much collectors pay for Lisas. I can't access eBay from the base network here, so I don't know what the current going rate for these machines are, but over the past few years, Lisas have typically sold in the four and sometimes five digit ranges (and that's with all four or five of those digits to the left of the decimal point.)
I know, all of my data stored on my Commodore 128 can't be ported to my Linux machine since it doesn't have drivers for the 1571
See if you can find this nifty little freeware utility for the 128 called Little Red Reader (a free alternative to Big Blue Reader). That allows you to read and write with MS-DOS formatted disks on a 1571 or 1581. Or alternatively, you can put a modem in your Linux box (if you don't have one already) and connect a modem to your 128 and do a direct modem to modem connection between the two to transfer your files.
It's been ages since I've done this type of transfer, but I seem to recall that the key commands in your term program are:
ATX3 (on both computers) ATDT on one computer ATA on the other
Then you can just use X/Y/or ZModem to transfer your files over.
In fact, that was how I initially got Little Red Reader transfered over onto a Commodore disk.
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So instead of having 2 Venuses in the solar system, does this mean we will need to rename the second rock from the Sun?
If so, how about Aphrodite, Ishtar, Ashtoreth, or Inanna? (Those last two have a nice ring to them.)
Would just calling it something different such as deploying the troops or dropping the kids off at the pool be a way around your patent?
Also, you could probably get this patent passed easier if you make it "Taking a crap on the Internet." Then again, there's some prior art for that (spammers, AOL, and Internet Explorer, for example).
No. The auction is not capped at the BIN price. Once a bid has been placed (provided the reserve price, if there is a reserve has been met or exceeded), the Buy It Now option goes away, and the item goes to the regular auction format with no upper limits.
I myself have been pleasantly surprised the few times I have had items end up going for higher than what the Buy It Now was. And in a few instances, I have been amused to discover that the winning bidder in those instances ended up being the one who initially bid and popped the Buy It Now, paying more in the end than what he would have paid had he just made the purchase with BIN.
And even more importantly, if you put what you were led to believe is an audio CD in your computer's CD-ROM drive, you should expect it to behave itself by simply playing the music encoded on it and nothing more.
And ironically, at the top of my screen while I was looking at that article, my browser notified me that a pop-up was blocked.
I only hope that his time around, the probe will finally send back high resolution images of some of those hot Martian babes, like Dejah Thoris or Tara.
And some of the studios do still draw on PD material.
http://imdb.com/title/tt0401729/
I sincerely hope the title in the above link does actually become a reality on the big screen. And I hope that whatever studio is doing it doesn't completely fuck it up.
This is something I've been waiting to see made into a movie (or series of movies) since I read the books back around 1980 or 1981.
(And I hope whoever they cast as Dejah Thoris is just as hot as Burroughs described her in the first book.)
And in many cases, I'm sure, that really does result in a significant loss of CD sales. People download that one track, listen to it, decide it's crap, and choose not to buy the CD with that crap track on it, figuring all the other tracks are crap as well. Of course, in an ideal situation, they would indeed delete the track from their hard drives and not download any more tracks from that particular CD.
But how expensive would it be to design and build a skyscraper in the shape of a 20 point star?
After every single one of their CDC agents vanished without a trace, Senators Lieberman and Clinton took it upon themselves to investigate matters.
They were quite surprised to find themselves standing in the most surreal world imaginable, and clad in strange snug-fitting white uniforms and helmets with shiny blue neon trim.
They were even more surprised when a number of goons in similar outfits (only with shiny red neon trim instead of blue) hustled them into an arena of sorts, where they were made to fling highly energized flying discs at each other in a Frisbee match to the death.
Eventually, Senator Lieberman struck Senator Clinton with a critical hit, and she disintegrated, or as their guards termed it, de-rezzed. Just before he was hauled off to participate in the light cycle game, victorious Lieberman faced his captors, saluted, and shouted "END OF LINE."
Analysts are now puzzling over the meanings those three words may hold.
More news to come as this story develops.
I don't own a laser pointer myself, but a flashlight beam is just as effective. My cat will chase it all over the place. However, since she will get frustrated after a while, being unable to catch the light, I make it up to her by dragging a string around for her to chase, catch, and teach a lesson or two. Then after she has had enough, it's lap time while I do stuff online.
Is it possible to have more than one user logged in on an XP box? Just a couple nights ago, I had a call from someone across the base here who was having troubles getting his computer's sound to work.
I fired up Remote Desktop and connected to his computer to install the drivers, since he didn't have admin rights. When I tried to log in, I was informed that there was another user already connected, and if I proceeded, he would be disconnected.
So if only one user can be logged in at a time, how can that be considered a multi-user system? Or am I misinterpreting your use of the phrase "multiple users"?
But unlike Windows, a Slackware or other Linux upgrade normally doesn't require a hardware upgrade as well. Hell, I remember when I upgraded my Debian system from a 2.4 to a 2.6 kernel. It seemed to me that I actually had a boost in performance, which to me is one major benefit one should expect when doing a software upgrade. This probably isn't much of an issue for the big megacorps, but for small-scale users (home and small businesses), this does become rather significant.
And I suspect that many many users, who didn't want to upgrade their hardware just to run the new OS and do the same activities as before gave Redmond the finger and said "Screw you!" These then went on to either upgrade to alternative operating systems, or just stayed with the 9x line and found their support from the 9x user community or the obligatory family geek.
And a bunch of black-suited Secret Service agents come flying out of AC's monitor, yelling and screaming unintelligibly as they haul him (or her) off to who knows where for safe keeping.
Jeez! Didn't you learn anything from that SNL skit that taught everyone the dangers of threatening the prez?
(Or was that MAD TV?)
Damn. I hope this doesn't mean I have to turn in my geek license.
I thought that was what this little clip was supposed to be. Or were you thinking something more along the lines of the animated family rushing into the livingroom and finding the live action family already on the couch?
By His Noodly Appendages! I believe you have cracked the code and unravelled the mystery. Well done. Well done indeed.
And even moreso if it turns out that Jupiter has been banging Pluto in Uranus.
This tip should completely blow away the used condom market once it is made public knowledge...
All they do is turn the condom inside-out and shake the fuck out of it.
That wouldn't be a bad thing, considering how much collectors pay for Lisas. I can't access eBay from the base network here, so I don't know what the current going rate for these machines are, but over the past few years, Lisas have typically sold in the four and sometimes five digit ranges (and that's with all four or five of those digits to the left of the decimal point.)
Disregard. Somehow I had my settings set to show no comments, and thought no one had posted any comments yet.
:)
Looks like someone else already did post the URL to osCommerce. Thanks.
This sounds pretty useful. However, the article only seems to give a link to a book. How about a link to the actual software please?
See if you can find this nifty little freeware utility for the 128 called Little Red Reader (a free alternative to Big Blue Reader). That allows you to read and write with MS-DOS formatted disks on a 1571 or 1581. Or alternatively, you can put a modem in your Linux box (if you don't have one already) and connect a modem to your 128 and do a direct modem to modem connection between the two to transfer your files.
It's been ages since I've done this type of transfer, but I seem to recall that the key commands in your term program are:
ATX3 (on both computers)
ATDT on one computer
ATA on the other
Then you can just use X/Y/or ZModem to transfer your files over.
In fact, that was how I initially got Little Red Reader transfered over onto a Commodore disk.