Maybe the intent isn't quite as sinister as you think. People's domains often expire because their bill got lost somewhere. NSI customers have some interest in NSI holding on to their expired domain names for a while.
I must disagree. I'm trying to register a domain name that's been expired since July 2000 -- almost a year and a half -- and NSI is still holding on to it with a kung-fu grip.
I keep asking them for a fax or phone number of someone who can fix it, but I just keep getting a form letter back. It tells me to either contact the original registrant to have him transfer it, or to sign up with SnapNames to get first choice when they finally get around to deleting the record. I can't contact the original registrant because the contact info has been invalid for months, and I'm unsure about paying an NSI affiliate $50 when I don't even know when I'll get the domain.
Has anyone else gotten out of this situation? What's the trick?
When I was building my computer, I ordered all the parts off of Price Watch. Finally, everything had arrived except my case and hard drive. I looked up the tracking number on UPS's web site, and they were due to arrive the next day at 11 AM.
I waited and waited, but no UPS truck showed up. A few hours later, I checked the web site again - and it said the package had been delivered! I called UPS and they said "yes, the driver's log said it was delivered to 3610 South [My Street] at 11 AM this morning." "No, I was here all day and it never came."
Finally I walked down the street, looking at my neighbors' houses. I found the package inside the front door of 3800 South [My Street]. The driver didn't come anywhere near my house, but he was more than happy to deliver it to a house with a different address where nobody was home.
You don't have to be 18 to open a checking account, and any decent bank will give you a free checking account with a debit card that works exactly like a real credit card. When I was younger I used mine to get onto sites that required a CC as proof of age.
Three separate reviewers on Rotten Tomatoes called Moulin Rouge "weird" and "compelling", so I figured they must be on to something. (OK, one of them said "bizarre" instead of "weird", but close enough.)
Now, I know weird, but I don't know compelling. So I did a quick web search, which revealed:
Computer-generated movies are not compelling.
Medical thrillers are compelling.
Medical dramas are compelling.
Sharon Stone holding a cigarette is sexually compelling.
Therefore, without even seeing the movie, I know that Moulin Rouge is not computer-generated, has a medical aspect, and may involve cigarettes. But what kind of review is that? Today's movie fans demand absolute certainty.. so I dug a little deeper.
I realized I'd been concentrating too much on "compelling". I had to look at the whole picture, and that meant bringing "weird" back into focus. X-Files is weird. It's also live-action (which means compelling), and a major character smokes a lot of cigarettes.
In fact, I have seen Moulin Rouge, because Moulin Rouge is X-Files. Now that I've seen it, I can give a proper review:
Moulin Rouge has been through its ups and downs. It was starting to degenerate into silliness, but the addition of Agent T-1000 has spiced it up a little. I'd have to say that my favorite Moulin Rouge was the one where the guy turned himself invisible, got hit by a truck, and became an invisible corpse.
RPM is a dastardly language, and it's essentially write-only. The code in my signature reverses a string. You'll find the necessary information and binaries at the above URL (binaries are for Windows, sorry... though they're probably portable with Kylix).
The evidence for evolution is not just a couple "jokes". All the evidence we have encountered points to evolution. We have long since reached the point where there is no scientific debate about evolution; asking scientists whether they accept evolution is like asking whether they accept gravity.
And yes, it has been "proved" as much as any other modern scientific theory - gravity, heliocentricity, relativity, etc. It explains past events and makes predictions, with no evidence against it.
Nonsense. The only thing safer than paying by credit card is paying with cash.
If you pay with a check or debit card, the money goes straight out of your account into the merchant's pocket. Want to dispute the charge? Talk to your bank and see if you can convince them to a) give you a credit, and b) investigate the claim on their own to try to get their money back.
Every time you write a check, you're giving someone all the information they need to draft more checks on your account. At work we take orders with 'check by phone' all the time, with no signature required.
But when you use your credit card, not only are you protected by law from fraudulent charges, but the credit card company is happy to cancel charges - it means less money they have to pay out.
Last year I decided I was sick of connecting with a modem, so I checked out www.home.com. It said I could get service here, so I filled out the form with all my personal information, credit card, etc. They said they'd call back within a week.
A few weeks later, still no response. So I called @Home and they said "sorry, we don't have service in your area yet, try back in a couple weeks."
Of course, in a couple weeks, they still didn't have service here. And they don't now, months later. We have no problem getting AT&T cable, and we could probably even get that worthless "digital cable" if we wanted. But although the rest of the city has cable internet service, we still don't.
I haven't used AutoCAD 2000, but I believe R15 requires either a hardware lock (dongle) or a license server. And of course the license server doesn't run on Linux, just NT.:/
The simple fact is that there is no evidence for intelligent design. Every single scientific justification has been disproven. See the www.talkorigins.org archives.. or to see some interesting debates, do a search for evolution at the Straight Dope message board.
If you want to believe in creation, that's fine. But don't pretend it's science.
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If you're up against opponents powerful enough that the encryption available in your IRC client or script isn't good enough, maybe you should be using PGP and email instead.
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Even though there seems to be nothing on the SourceForge site, I'm still much more interested in the redundant-link IRCD than the encryption.
I don't need encryption on IRC. I'm not a tinfoil-hat-wearing psycho, afraid that THE MAN is going to snoop on my takeovers and age/sex checks. However, I'm a big-time EFnet user, and one sure way to stop the recent EFnet problems - huge splits - is with redundant links.
The current network is laid out with hub servers and leaf servers. The IRC protocol forbids any link that would provide more than one path for a message between two given servers (a redundant link). That means that if big hub irc.exodus.net loses its connection to big hub irc.best.net, the network is split into two sub-networks of roughly equal size.. the worst kind of split.
If redundant links were allowed, each big hub could link to every other big hub, and smaller hubs could link to more than one big hub. When a hub connection dies, there's already another connection in place. The result? No split.
Ofcourse the beauty of a format is that it isn't copyable, replicable to a certain extent perhaps, but a format can change slightly with just a little tweaking and ofocourse there's always the content supply. That's why McDonalds serves Coke and Burger King Pepsi (granted, there're are many forces at work there, but you get the point.)
Huh? I've never seen Pepsi served at a BK. I've always thought of that as one of Coke's victories; they've worked their way into both of the top two burger chains. How can we trust this guy on music if he doesn't even know fast food?;)
I would prefer to have an enviro topic... so I can ignore it. I consider it just as much a waste of my time to see an environmentalist story under the Linux heading as I would to see a Star Wars story there. Why bother having customizable headings at all if you're going to do this?
Being able to assign the get/set accessors for properties is a real plus. I always liked that about Delphi, and wished Java had a better way of doing that. The indexers are also neat. Nothing really revolutionary, but very useful.
This defines a Width property which has a write accessor, but when the value of Width is needed, it can be taken directly from the fWidth field (which is presumably set by SetWidth). You could also have a property that simply mirrors a field (read fWidth write fWidth). In C#, you need to write accessor functions instead of using efficient direct memory access.
This defines two indexed properties: ColumnNames and ColumnWidths. ColumnNames is the default property, so writing MyInstance[5] is equivalent to writing MyInstance.ColumnNames[5]. C# only allows one indexed property per class -- the class's "indexer", which behaves like a default indexed property in Delphi.
The whole LCD and battery idea is a nice one. Type all you want, then go back to a computer, and hit a button that dumps the buffer as normal keystrokes.
This product exists - it's called AlphaSmart. The one I saw was a device a little smaller than a TRS-80 Model 100 with a 3-line screen, but it looks like the style has changed since then (in addition to adding new features like applet support and a spell checker).
You can type out a 100-page masterpiece on it, then connect it to your keyboard port and hit send. These were given to kids at my high school so that they could type reports at home, even if they didn't own a computer, then transfer them to the computers at school to print.
Who would rip MP3s from a cassette or record? I'm willing to bet that if it weren't possible to create perfect copies from a CD, there would be a lot fewer MP3s around, and a lot less demand for them. That's what the music industry wants.
The Foremen wrote a song about him called "Russian Limbaugh" with lyrics like:
I'm ready now to cash in
On the people's will All done up in the latent fascist -- uh, latest fashion Overdressed to overkill
You can order the album, "Folk Heroes", from Pentagon or Snazzy. Unfortunately CDnow doesn't have it, so I can't give links to audio clips, and I haven't been able to find lyrics online.. but trust me, it's a great album for any liberal.;)
If there's no privating in this world, every sofeware/dvd movie/book will be five times cheaper than the current price. Just like those "buy one get 12 free" BMG music CDs.
No.. if piracy stopped, the prices would stay the same, but the record companies would find another excuse for keeping them there. CDs cost $12-$15 not because that's how much it costs to cover losses due to piracy, but because they know that people will keep paying that much if they have no choice.
Also, there is no book piracy to speak of. Ever try finding the text of a novel on the net? Ripping and encoding audio from a CD is easy, but no one wants to type in an entire novel by hand, or tear apart his copy of the book and scan each page.
Using free (as in open) software means the government isn't at the mercy of a private software company, which is at least as important as the money that will be saved.
Imagine if Microsoft refused to provide the U.S. Government with licenses or support for any of its software, or planted back doors in the software ir provided. The government would only have three choices: cave in to Microsoft's demands, seize whatever it needed, or spend the time and money converting and retraining to another system.
Slashdot isn't encouraging anyone to try to affect this decision, only to show the representative that they agree. It's a friendly gesture to tell him "hey, even though this decision doesn't affect me as a non-Brazilian, I think it's a good idea and I wish our government was this clever."
Also, who says there are no Brazilian Slashdot readers?
Cecil Adams has covered this
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See part one, part two, and part three of his answer to the question "Has anyone ever had sex in space?"
Cecil Adams is, of course, the world's smartest human and the author of the weelky column The Straight Dope.
The Duck Hunt system is fairly different from others.. for example, with Sega's Menacer gun or many arcade guns, there's a cursor on screen that constantly shows where you're aiming, so the gun has to be able to get a reading all the time without a flashing screen.
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Maybe the intent isn't quite as sinister as you think. People's domains often expire because their bill got lost somewhere. NSI customers have some interest in NSI holding on to their expired domain names for a while.
I must disagree. I'm trying to register a domain name that's been expired since July 2000 -- almost a year and a half -- and NSI is still holding on to it with a kung-fu grip.
I keep asking them for a fax or phone number of someone who can fix it, but I just keep getting a form letter back. It tells me to either contact the original registrant to have him transfer it, or to sign up with SnapNames to get first choice when they finally get around to deleting the record. I can't contact the original registrant because the contact info has been invalid for months, and I'm unsure about paying an NSI affiliate $50 when I don't even know when I'll get the domain.
Has anyone else gotten out of this situation? What's the trick?
When I was building my computer, I ordered all the parts off of Price Watch. Finally, everything had arrived except my case and hard drive. I looked up the tracking number on UPS's web site, and they were due to arrive the next day at 11 AM.
I waited and waited, but no UPS truck showed up. A few hours later, I checked the web site again - and it said the package had been delivered! I called UPS and they said "yes, the driver's log said it was delivered to 3610 South [My Street] at 11 AM this morning." "No, I was here all day and it never came."
Finally I walked down the street, looking at my neighbors' houses. I found the package inside the front door of 3800 South [My Street]. The driver didn't come anywhere near my house, but he was more than happy to deliver it to a house with a different address where nobody was home.
Now I'm sticking with FedEx.
]$`};L(;/proc);[I(;];<C{;};1S[;`\/while=1E1L[`\p roc{>=
Now, I know weird, but I don't know compelling. So I did a quick web search, which revealed:
- Computer-generated movies are not compelling.
- Medical thrillers are compelling.
- Medical dramas are compelling.
- Sharon Stone holding a cigarette is sexually compelling.
Therefore, without even seeing the movie, I know that Moulin Rouge is not computer-generated, has a medical aspect, and may involve cigarettes. But what kind of review is that? Today's movie fans demand absolute certainty.. so I dug a little deeper.I realized I'd been concentrating too much on "compelling". I had to look at the whole picture, and that meant bringing "weird" back into focus. X-Files is weird. It's also live-action (which means compelling), and a major character smokes a lot of cigarettes.
In fact, I have seen Moulin Rouge, because Moulin Rouge is X-Files. Now that I've seen it, I can give a proper review:
Moulin Rouge has been through its ups and downs. It was starting to degenerate into silliness, but the addition of Agent T-1000 has spiced it up a little. I'd have to say that my favorite Moulin Rouge was the one where the guy turned himself invisible, got hit by a truck, and became an invisible corpse.
The verdict: **** (4/5 stars)
]$`};L(;/proc);[I(;];<C{;};1S[;`\/while=1E1L[`\p roc{>=
RPM is a dastardly language, and it's essentially write-only. The code in my signature reverses a string. You'll find the necessary information and binaries at the above URL (binaries are for Windows, sorry... though they're probably portable with Kylix).
]$`};L(;/proc);[I(;];<C{;};1S[;`\/while=1E1L[`\p roc{>=
]$`};L(;/proc);[I(;];<C{;};1S[;`\/while=1E1L[`\p roc{>=
And yes, it has been "proved" as much as any other modern scientific theory - gravity, heliocentricity, relativity, etc. It explains past events and makes predictions, with no evidence against it.
Sounds like you need to check out talkorigins.org.
]$`};L(;/proc);[I(;];<C{;};1S[;`\/while=1E1L[`\p roc{>=
If you pay with a check or debit card, the money goes straight out of your account into the merchant's pocket. Want to dispute the charge? Talk to your bank and see if you can convince them to a) give you a credit, and b) investigate the claim on their own to try to get their money back.
Every time you write a check, you're giving someone all the information they need to draft more checks on your account. At work we take orders with 'check by phone' all the time, with no signature required.
But when you use your credit card, not only are you protected by law from fraudulent charges, but the credit card company is happy to cancel charges - it means less money they have to pay out.
]$`};L(;/proc);[I(;];<C{;};1S[;`\/while=1E1L[`\p roc{>=
]$`};L(;/proc);[I(;];<C{;};1S[;`\/while=1E1L[`\p roc{>=
Last year I decided I was sick of connecting with a modem, so I checked out www.home.com. It said I could get service here, so I filled out the form with all my personal information, credit card, etc. They said they'd call back within a week.
A few weeks later, still no response. So I called @Home and they said "sorry, we don't have service in your area yet, try back in a couple weeks."
Of course, in a couple weeks, they still didn't have service here. And they don't now, months later. We have no problem getting AT&T cable, and we could probably even get that worthless "digital cable" if we wanted. But although the rest of the city has cable internet service, we still don't.
]$`};L(;/proc);[I(;];<C{;};1S[;`\/while=1E1L[`\p roc{>=
]$`};L(;/proc);[I(;];<C{;};1S[;`\/while=1E1L[`\p roc{>=
If you want to believe in creation, that's fine. But don't pretend it's science.
]$`};L(;/proc);[I(;];<C{;};1S[;`\/while=1E1L[`\p roc{>=
]$`};L(;/proc);[I(;];<C{;};1S[;`\/while=1E1L[`\p roc{>=
I don't need encryption on IRC. I'm not a tinfoil-hat-wearing psycho, afraid that THE MAN is going to snoop on my takeovers and age/sex checks. However, I'm a big-time EFnet user, and one sure way to stop the recent EFnet problems - huge splits - is with redundant links.
The current network is laid out with hub servers and leaf servers. The IRC protocol forbids any link that would provide more than one path for a message between two given servers (a redundant link). That means that if big hub irc.exodus.net loses its connection to big hub irc.best.net, the network is split into two sub-networks of roughly equal size.. the worst kind of split.
If redundant links were allowed, each big hub could link to every other big hub, and smaller hubs could link to more than one big hub. When a hub connection dies, there's already another connection in place. The result? No split.
]$`};L(;/proc);[I(;];<C{;};1S[;`\/while=1E1L[`\p roc{>=
Huh? I've never seen Pepsi served at a BK. I've always thought of that as one of Coke's victories; they've worked their way into both of the top two burger chains. How can we trust this guy on music if he doesn't even know fast food? ;)
]$`};L(;/proc);[I(;];<C{;};1S[;`\/while=1E1L[`\p roc{>=
I would prefer to have an enviro topic... so I can ignore it. I consider it just as much a waste of my time to see an environmentalist story under the Linux heading as I would to see a Star Wars story there. Why bother having customizable headings at all if you're going to do this?
fWidth: Integer;
property Width read fWidth write SetWidth;
This defines a Width property which has a write accessor, but when the value of Width is needed, it can be taken directly from the fWidth field (which is presumably set by SetWidth). You could also have a property that simply mirrors a field (read fWidth write fWidth). In C#, you need to write accessor functions instead of using efficient direct memory access.
property ColumnWidths[Index: Integer]: Integer read GetColumnWidth write SetColumnWidth;
This defines two indexed properties: ColumnNames and ColumnWidths. ColumnNames is the default property, so writing MyInstance[5] is equivalent to writing MyInstance.ColumnNames[5]. C# only allows one indexed property per class -- the class's "indexer", which behaves like a default indexed property in Delphi.
You can type out a 100-page masterpiece on it, then connect it to your keyboard port and hit send. These were given to kids at my high school so that they could type reports at home, even if they didn't own a computer, then transfer them to the computers at school to print.
Who would rip MP3s from a cassette or record? I'm willing to bet that if it weren't possible to create perfect copies from a CD, there would be a lot fewer MP3s around, and a lot less demand for them. That's what the music industry wants.
No.. if piracy stopped, the prices would stay the same, but the record companies would find another excuse for keeping them there. CDs cost $12-$15 not because that's how much it costs to cover losses due to piracy, but because they know that people will keep paying that much if they have no choice.
Also, there is no book piracy to speak of. Ever try finding the text of a novel on the net? Ripping and encoding audio from a CD is easy, but no one wants to type in an entire novel by hand, or tear apart his copy of the book and scan each page.
Using free (as in open) software means the government isn't at the mercy of a private software company, which is at least as important as the money that will be saved.
Imagine if Microsoft refused to provide the U.S. Government with licenses or support for any of its software, or planted back doors in the software ir provided. The government would only have three choices: cave in to Microsoft's demands, seize whatever it needed, or spend the time and money converting and retraining to another system.
Slashdot isn't encouraging anyone to try to affect this decision, only to show the representative that they agree. It's a friendly gesture to tell him "hey, even though this decision doesn't affect me as a non-Brazilian, I think it's a good idea and I wish our government was this clever."
Also, who says there are no Brazilian Slashdot readers?
Cecil Adams is, of course, the world's smartest human and the author of the weelky column The Straight Dope.
The Duck Hunt system is fairly different from others.. for example, with Sega's Menacer gun or many arcade guns, there's a cursor on screen that constantly shows where you're aiming, so the gun has to be able to get a reading all the time without a flashing screen.