Spike: Lots of fuss over one girl. Other things to do around here--important things. Angel: You know that whoosh thing you do when you're suddenly not there anymore? I love that.

'Unleashed'


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§ ita § - Oct 24, 2005 12:12:18 pm PDT #5280 of 10003
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

What's the google web accelerator when it's at home, and why does it make signals v. noise so pissy?


Theodosia - Oct 24, 2005 2:47:50 pm PDT #5281 of 10003
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"

Does anybody here have experience with Mac-based VCD creating programs? I found one, iVCD, which looks pretty good, but it's $29.95, which seems a little pricey to me for something that I'm only going to use very occasionally.


DCJensen - Oct 24, 2005 2:59:53 pm PDT #5282 of 10003
All is well that ends in pizza.

MS invested $150 million in Apple, resulting in the renaissance of Apple.

That's a bit of a stretch.

There were a myriad of factors, but $150 Million is only a drop in the bucket of an (at the time) $3 Billion company (Apple).

By settling the mutual lawsuits between Apple and Microsoft, Microsoft gave the $150 million token amount as a good faith showing and promised to keep developing MS Office for the Mac.

The buying of NeXt (to replace the failed attempt at a similar OS) and bringing back Steve Jobs, who had gone on to get a bit more maturity over his ten-year hiatus (and not a little business accumen) were a far greater factor in the re-emergence of Apple to major-player status.

Apple was never mostly dead, despite what the news media loved to claim.


meara - Oct 24, 2005 5:10:26 pm PDT #5283 of 10003

Buyer's Guide: FireWire hard drives

Thank you Tom Scola! Yay. V. useful.

Though between buying the printer/scanner/fax-y thing (it was on sale, see!) and the planned purchase of the hard drive and a speaker-y thing for the iPod, I have completely blown the top off my tech budget for the year. Doh.


Typo Boy - Oct 25, 2005 6:48:29 am PDT #5284 of 10003
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.

Re: Laser printers. HP's do seem to be good printer, but the price for the cartridge given cartridge life seems outragous. Some of the competing brands seem to offer a better price per page, even if the printers last half as long, because the cartridges are so much cheaper and have higher capacities. Is my reasoning flawed? Am I missing a gotcha that means I should get a HP?


tommyrot - Oct 25, 2005 7:36:31 am PDT #5285 of 10003
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

Stoopid XML/Javascript question...

Say I have a web page with an xml document embedded in it called xmlJobList. I want to replace this document's xml using Javascript. Say that I have a variable called xmlRetrievedJobStruct that's just a string of the xml I want.

Can I go

xmlJobList.xml = xmlRetrievedJobStruct;

to replace the xml document in memory with the new xml?

Actually, I can't. I get

Microsoft JScript runtime error: Wrong number of arguments or invalid property assignment

Can I only do stuff like this for xml that's loaded separatly into a web page, not xml that's embedded in a page?


Typo Boy - Oct 25, 2005 7:40:03 am PDT #5286 of 10003
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.

OK - non-HPs have seperate imaging drums. HP is not so far off in per page cost. Sorry to obsess .


§ ita § - Oct 25, 2005 7:55:29 am PDT #5287 of 10003
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Oy.

Can you guys help me out with more QA? Can you get to http://skirts.provocateuse.com? http://bestof.provocateuse.com/? http://handson.provocateuse.com/?


DXMachina - Oct 25, 2005 8:01:02 am PDT #5288 of 10003
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.

I was able to get to handson. The other two timed out.


sumi - Oct 25, 2005 8:01:42 am PDT #5289 of 10003
Art Crawl!!!

Only "all hands" worked for me.