The idea appears to be that you want to fill up CDs with past sessions. The author suggests that you would write the current date on a disc when starting it the first time, and then a closing date when it is full (you are automatically prompted), and put in a new disc. The reasoning being that you can have a whack of CDs that let you go back in time to particular configurations you were working with at the time, and a complete audit trail of all activity on the system over a period of time, however many discs that may take. You can also of course, use the hdd of the machine to save larger files that you want to keep around all the time, like a music collection.
Well, I was driving home, later than I had expected because of an earlier whim, which put me in the right (?) place at the right time, to be flagged down by a rather attractive blonde in some sort of distress. I stopped and rolled down my window, and she asked me if I had a cellphone. I don't have one, and told her so, but offered to drive her up the street to a convenience store where she could use a phone there. When I was trying to let her into the car, my door locks suddenly weren't working. As I tried to unlock the doors, they would immediately lock again, and my interior lights started flashing on and off. I had to put the car in park to actually get the locks to stay open, and it's normally not like that, I can lock and unlock the doors at will regardless of where the transmission is. She got in, I expressed some puzzlement about the odd behavior of my car, which she soothingly told me not to worry about as though I was embarrased about it or something. I wasn't, I was just puzzled, as the electrical systems in my car have always been fine. We got to the store, and I went to let her out, and once again, same problem, I had to put it in park to let her out. I agreed to wait for her to make her call so I could take her back home, and she was overjoyed, though it was only a couple of blocks and not cold out. While she was in the store (away from the car), I tested my door locks, and they were now working fine regardless of where the transmission was, just like always. But when she came back out, the locks were acting up again, and my interior lights were flashing again. Again she assured me, "It's ok honey, don't worry about it," but like I said, I wasn't embarrassed, just puzzled. As I drove her back to her place, she asked if I had a girlfriend and was very relieved when I said I didn't, so she asked if she could have my phone number. She seemed a little flaky, but I thought hey what the hell, sure. She had gotten into a car with a strange man at 3 am but I've known crazy women before that weren't all that bad... I dropped her off at her house (same problem with the door locks to let her out) and she ran in to get something to write on and with, came back out (same door lock problem again) and took my number, gave me a brief hug and a kiss, and was gone. As I drove home, I tested my locks, they have been working perfectly ever since she has not been in proximity to my car. That's the story I told, that made gmail think I was telling a ghost story. As I had continued home, I even wondered if it had actually all happened, but I still had her magic marker that she'd left in the car from writing down my phone number. "Keep that for later," she had said. Wha??
When I told another buddy about it on the phone yesterday, he stated that she was most likely an alien android, that's why she initially asked if I had a cell-phone, to make sure I didn't have one, because it would interfere with her transmission to the mother ship. He went on further to say that she probably needed a land-line to make contact, so the phonecall she made in the store wasn't just a cover. I remarked to him, that if I was Dale Gribble I'd be hiding under the couch right about now, trying to remember if she touched the back of my neck when she kissed me.
I still haven't heard from her, but she had mentioned that she was about to leave on a trip for three weeks, which we are about halfway through now. If I go back to that house to look for her and it's all boarded up or something, well then I'll really have a killer story.;)
I dunno, the context-related ads can be amusing sometimes. I had a weird incident happen to me a couple weeks ago, long story short, I met a strange woman under strange circumstances, and when I wrote to a friend about it, gmail thought I was telling them a ghost story. It was cute, because I did half-expect to go back to that house finding it all boarded up, with the neighbors telling me nobody had lived there in years, "Ever since the murders". It didn't end that way, but a buddy of mine instead insists I actually had met an alien android.
It appears to be exactly what the bill is about, the article was saying that they would be required to offer their customers the ability to disable sites deemed offensive. It didn't say anything about requiring them to unilaterally disallow access to such material. The trouble seems to be in the wording of the bill, which might allow it to be applied against search engines as well, as they could be interpreted as being content providers. This makes it too broad in scope.
I agree with everyting you say, I just wanted to suggest that if we ever do get a warp drive, that will help things immensely. If we could cross great distances and take measurements from different points of view, we would be able to build a very accurate picture of where things really are at a given time. A key factor would be in being able to dart all around very quickly, so that all data from one point of view is as fresh as possible when being checked against data from a different point of view. Might still be impossible of course given the speeds required, I'm just saying that if we could go fast enough, we could really know.
If Microsoft develops a screwdriver, it will be almost like a philips but with 5 points instead of 4, and will only tighten properly when turned counter-clockwise otherwise it gets stripped, requiring that you upgrade all screws to MS screws, coming soon after.
There are flatbed scanners that have a bulb in the lid so that you can scan photo slides. So if you were extremely patient, you could carefully scan your 8mm film one frame at a time, crop and align them all exactly the same, and then string them together. That would likely give the best possible quality for home use, but the problem here would be finishing the project before the film finishes degrading.:)
Why would all that be needed when the calling phone could just transmit its number instead of the receiving phone bothering with trying to guess a face? What if you know a set of twins for example, but you only want to let one of them call you?
I hate pop-ups and floaters as much as the next guy but c'mon, you're on their website!
It might be nice to just not go there, but because of the interlinked nature of the web, you are drawn to a site from another site by a link that appears to interest you, such as a story on Slashdot. You go to the page, ready to read up on it, and now have this big annoying floaty-thing hovering right over the article you're trying to read. You came here to read something of interest to you, do you just leave now in disgust, or wait for the thing to go away and carry on? Either way you've just had your chain yanked. It really blows.
Erm, by the definitions you quote, it is not blackmail. But it certainly is extortion. He wasn't threatening to reveal anything embarassing, disgraceful, or personal details about the owner of MySpace.com. 'Damaging facts' is referring to the perception of a person, not instructions to others on how to utilize an exploit. But the dissemination of an exploit that would let others also spim the service with impunity, would be the threat to harm a victim, vis a vis the signal-to-noise ratio of their service. That's extortion.
Morons. They deserve whatever they get. This is about as ethical as advertising $25 cars - with small print explaining that there is a $25,000 processing fee.
True it does smack of a lack of ethics. But who are the morons, Blockbuster or their customers? You do need to read the fine print, especially on anything that sounds too good to be true. When I first saw the 'No late fees' commercial, I immediately figured there had to be a catch, because it just didn't make sense the way it was presented. So I went straight to the blockbuster web site to actually read the policy, and there it was plain as day: if you keep it too long you've bought it. They say this is done as a convenience to the customer.
Anything that sounds too good to be true, is probably not really true. A lot of spyware gets installed on people's computers because nobody reads the EULAs on 'free' software. Greed shuts down people's brains.
No, but you mentioning him does give me an idea.. We could get the space program into ultra high-gear if someone could persuade Bush that the possible-mass-extinction-causing explosion out there is proof that there are Weapons of Mass Destruction 50,000 light years away and we need a warp drive to go find them.
Well sure, just like regular paper needs some light for you to see what's on it. You shouldn't be trying to read in the dark anyway, I don't know why some people are picking on that.
Huh? Anything you can achieve by pressing a button is easily achievable through software, isn't it?
What I got out of the line you quote was: The need to refresh a static page that is supposed to be able to stay that way *without power* for weeks at a time suggests that the technology is not yet where they are trying to get it. It is not as stable as needed for their claim to be true.
Keeping it constantly refreshed with software to get around this deficiency sort of goes against a major feature touted by the technology, doesn't it? Though maybe I missed your point, if so I appologize.
Nah, if you don't want to go float around in space for a week nobody is putting a gun to your head. If I can afford it, I'll be up there, without any complaints regardless of how horrible the amenities might be. It's space, man! I'll take your spot if you don't want it. If in some kind of lottery, I won a trip up to a barely-tested version 0.8 of this station, I'd prepare a will and start packing.
I can relate, I tried watching the clip pretending I had no idea what the books were, as though I was going into it cold. The question that formed in my head was, "What the fuck kind of movie is this??" Trailers usually give one a better idea of what to expect, this was just... off somehow. I'll still be there in the theatre, I just hope I don't have to be explaining everything to the people I go with who may be confused.
But Trillian's name IS Tricia, Tricia McMillan, she changed it to Trillian to 'space it up'.
Erm, I've had '42' thrown at me by plenty of people who haven't read the books, don't actually know what they're referring to, just that it's got something to do with the meaning of life and they want to appear clever in a serious conversation when they have nothing to say. They piss me off. It's never been a 'secret code' as far as I've been aware.
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I would definitely give an honest effort to get use out of a Mac if I had one, but you would have to give it to me for free.
The idea appears to be that you want to fill up CDs with past sessions. The author suggests that you would write the current date on a disc when starting it the first time, and then a closing date when it is full (you are automatically prompted), and put in a new disc. The reasoning being that you can have a whack of CDs that let you go back in time to particular configurations you were working with at the time, and a complete audit trail of all activity on the system over a period of time, however many discs that may take. You can also of course, use the hdd of the machine to save larger files that you want to keep around all the time, like a music collection.
But then wouldn't he be seen climbing in and out of his own pocket? I'm sure that pushes the physics of the whole show just a bit far.
I love the little pointing nub/joystick thingies on some laptops. Someone really needs to come up with a catchy name.
I've heard it called a clit stick - because we all know what it's for but we'll be damned if we can get it to work properly.
Well, I was driving home, later than I had expected because of an earlier whim, which put me in the right (?) place at the right time, to be flagged down by a rather attractive blonde in some sort of distress. I stopped and rolled down my window, and she asked me if I had a cellphone. I don't have one, and told her so, but offered to drive her up the street to a convenience store where she could use a phone there. When I was trying to let her into the car, my door locks suddenly weren't working. As I tried to unlock the doors, they would immediately lock again, and my interior lights started flashing on and off. I had to put the car in park to actually get the locks to stay open, and it's normally not like that, I can lock and unlock the doors at will regardless of where the transmission is. She got in, I expressed some puzzlement about the odd behavior of my car, which she soothingly told me not to worry about as though I was embarrased about it or something. I wasn't, I was just puzzled, as the electrical systems in my car have always been fine. We got to the store, and I went to let her out, and once again, same problem, I had to put it in park to let her out. I agreed to wait for her to make her call so I could take her back home, and she was overjoyed, though it was only a couple of blocks and not cold out. While she was in the store (away from the car), I tested my door locks, and they were now working fine regardless of where the transmission was, just like always. But when she came back out, the locks were acting up again, and my interior lights were flashing again. Again she assured me, "It's ok honey, don't worry about it," but like I said, I wasn't embarrassed, just puzzled. As I drove her back to her place, she asked if I had a girlfriend and was very relieved when I said I didn't, so she asked if she could have my phone number. She seemed a little flaky, but I thought hey what the hell, sure. She had gotten into a car with a strange man at 3 am but I've known crazy women before that weren't all that bad... I dropped her off at her house (same problem with the door locks to let her out) and she ran in to get something to write on and with, came back out (same door lock problem again) and took my number, gave me a brief hug and a kiss, and was gone. As I drove home, I tested my locks, they have been working perfectly ever since she has not been in proximity to my car. That's the story I told, that made gmail think I was telling a ghost story. As I had continued home, I even wondered if it had actually all happened, but I still had her magic marker that she'd left in the car from writing down my phone number. "Keep that for later," she had said. Wha??
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When I told another buddy about it on the phone yesterday, he stated that she was most likely an alien android, that's why she initially asked if I had a cell-phone, to make sure I didn't have one, because it would interfere with her transmission to the mother ship. He went on further to say that she probably needed a land-line to make contact, so the phonecall she made in the store wasn't just a cover. I remarked to him, that if I was Dale Gribble I'd be hiding under the couch right about now, trying to remember if she touched the back of my neck when she kissed me.
I still haven't heard from her, but she had mentioned that she was about to leave on a trip for three weeks, which we are about halfway through now. If I go back to that house to look for her and it's all boarded up or something, well then I'll really have a killer story.
I dunno, the context-related ads can be amusing sometimes. I had a weird incident happen to me a couple weeks ago, long story short, I met a strange woman under strange circumstances, and when I wrote to a friend about it, gmail thought I was telling them a ghost story. It was cute, because I did half-expect to go back to that house finding it all boarded up, with the neighbors telling me nobody had lived there in years, "Ever since the murders". It didn't end that way, but a buddy of mine instead insists I actually had met an alien android.
It appears to be exactly what the bill is about, the article was saying that they would be required to offer their customers the ability to disable sites deemed offensive. It didn't say anything about requiring them to unilaterally disallow access to such material. The trouble seems to be in the wording of the bill, which might allow it to be applied against search engines as well, as they could be interpreted as being content providers. This makes it too broad in scope.
I agree with everyting you say, I just wanted to suggest that if we ever do get a warp drive, that will help things immensely. If we could cross great distances and take measurements from different points of view, we would be able to build a very accurate picture of where things really are at a given time. A key factor would be in being able to dart all around very quickly, so that all data from one point of view is as fresh as possible when being checked against data from a different point of view. Might still be impossible of course given the speeds required, I'm just saying that if we could go fast enough, we could really know.
If Microsoft develops a screwdriver, it will be almost like a philips but with 5 points instead of 4, and will only tighten properly when turned counter-clockwise otherwise it gets stripped, requiring that you upgrade all screws to MS screws, coming soon after.
There are flatbed scanners that have a bulb in the lid so that you can scan photo slides. So if you were extremely patient, you could carefully scan your 8mm film one frame at a time, crop and align them all exactly the same, and then string them together. That would likely give the best possible quality for home use, but the problem here would be finishing the project before the film finishes degrading. :)
Yawho?
Why would all that be needed when the calling phone could just transmit its number instead of the receiving phone bothering with trying to guess a face? What if you know a set of twins for example, but you only want to let one of them call you?
Okay, that's just freakin' scary.
I hate pop-ups and floaters as much as the next guy but c'mon, you're on their website!
It might be nice to just not go there, but because of the interlinked nature of the web, you are drawn to a site from another site by a link that appears to interest you, such as a story on Slashdot. You go to the page, ready to read up on it, and now have this big annoying floaty-thing hovering right over the article you're trying to read. You came here to read something of interest to you, do you just leave now in disgust, or wait for the thing to go away and carry on? Either way you've just had your chain yanked. It really blows.
Erm, by the definitions you quote, it is not blackmail. But it certainly is extortion. He wasn't threatening to reveal anything embarassing, disgraceful, or personal details about the owner of MySpace.com. 'Damaging facts' is referring to the perception of a person, not instructions to others on how to utilize an exploit. But the dissemination of an exploit that would let others also spim the service with impunity, would be the threat to harm a victim, vis a vis the signal-to-noise ratio of their service. That's extortion.
There was actually a burgeoning hairy-midget porn industry on Endor. Wookiees and Hutts got premium pay to work there.
Morons. They deserve whatever they get. This is about as ethical as advertising $25 cars - with small print explaining that there is a $25,000 processing fee.
True it does smack of a lack of ethics. But who are the morons, Blockbuster or their customers? You do need to read the fine print, especially on anything that sounds too good to be true. When I first saw the 'No late fees' commercial, I immediately figured there had to be a catch, because it just didn't make sense the way it was presented. So I went straight to the blockbuster web site to actually read the policy, and there it was plain as day: if you keep it too long you've bought it. They say this is done as a convenience to the customer.
Anything that sounds too good to be true, is probably not really true. A lot of spyware gets installed on people's computers because nobody reads the EULAs on 'free' software. Greed shuts down people's brains.
No, but you mentioning him does give me an idea.. We could get the space program into ultra high-gear if someone could persuade Bush that the possible-mass-extinction-causing explosion out there is proof that there are Weapons of Mass Destruction 50,000 light years away and we need a warp drive to go find them.
I read the Bible once, and it made me want to dump loads of frogs on people and kill all their first-born male children.
Well sure, just like regular paper needs some light for you to see what's on it. You shouldn't be trying to read in the dark anyway, I don't know why some people are picking on that.
Huh? Anything you can achieve by pressing a button is easily achievable through software, isn't it?
What I got out of the line you quote was: The need to refresh a static page that is supposed to be able to stay that way *without power* for weeks at a time suggests that the technology is not yet where they are trying to get it. It is not as stable as needed for their claim to be true.
Keeping it constantly refreshed with software to get around this deficiency sort of goes against a major feature touted by the technology, doesn't it? Though maybe I missed your point, if so I appologize.
Nah, if you don't want to go float around in space for a week nobody is putting a gun to your head. If I can afford it, I'll be up there, without any complaints regardless of how horrible the amenities might be. It's space, man! I'll take your spot if you don't want it. If in some kind of lottery, I won a trip up to a barely-tested version 0.8 of this station, I'd prepare a will and start packing.
If the second head could be disguised as a covered bird cage sitting on his shoulder, then I would say yes, the heads were side by side.
I can relate, I tried watching the clip pretending I had no idea what the books were, as though I was going into it cold. The question that formed in my head was, "What the fuck kind of movie is this??" Trailers usually give one a better idea of what to expect, this was just... off somehow. I'll still be there in the theatre, I just hope I don't have to be explaining everything to the people I go with who may be confused.
But Trillian's name IS Tricia, Tricia McMillan, she changed it to Trillian to 'space it up'.
Erm, I've had '42' thrown at me by plenty of people who haven't read the books, don't actually know what they're referring to, just that it's got something to do with the meaning of life and they want to appear clever in a serious conversation when they have nothing to say. They piss me off. It's never been a 'secret code' as far as I've been aware.