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Post by stuart alman on Feb 10, 2010 9:16:27 GMT
Thats why I'm not doing it anymore- there is no debate when one person is thoroughly and obnoxiously convinced of their own rightness about everything. I will concede on certain points or areas of legislation or that certain parts of their ideology aren't as corrupt as one thought. But i can't see how anyone could convince me gordon brown is a good prime minister. So yes I will concede in debate tim has suceeded at this numerous times.
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Post by Emily on Feb 10, 2010 12:22:47 GMT
I mildly dislike it when people steal bandwidth by using the image you host on your own website in their blog. Okay, 160 hits on that image isn't that bad. But I still am mildly irked. Wish I could block it. And I'm perturbed to find I have a pair of URLs (which I don't own) that are mirroring Tangents. Why would anyone pay for a URL only to point it at someone else's site? oO isn't there a way to to it? I'm sure you used to get a thing where hotlinked images would come up with a sign saying "get your own damn bandwidth" or somesuch?
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Post by stuart alman on Feb 10, 2010 12:24:58 GMT
how do u steal bandwidth?
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Post by stokerino on Feb 10, 2010 13:02:13 GMT
The images are hosted on the server owned/rented/paid for by the people running the original website. They get a certain amount of bandwidth for their money, which limits the amount of internet traffic they are able to cope with before the website's performance gets hindered and/or it breaks altogether, as it has "exceeded its bandwidth limitations".
Hotlinking pictures from the original website on a different one (like someone's blog) means that every time someone views that blog, the original website's bandwidth is being used to upload the picture for them. Hence they "steal" the original website's bandwidth instead of using their own.
It is akin to bypassing your ISP's download limit (if it's shit enough to have one) by hacking into someone else's Wireless Internet and using up their download limit instead.
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Post by tangent on Feb 10, 2010 13:42:16 GMT
Found out that the mirror URLs were the result of the hacked server several months back. Seems Tangents is the primary site on the IP, so the others defaulted to Tangents. Weird.
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Post by stokerino on Feb 10, 2010 17:01:33 GMT
I am soooo out of practice when it comes to writing with a pen. It barely takes 10 minutes of solid writing before my hand starts to hurt.
This is what happens when you're not scribbling down essays or lecture notes every day. ¬_¬
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Post by Ally on Feb 10, 2010 17:24:26 GMT
On achey hands, I hate shelving. I'm getting the ol' "librarian's wrist" the health and safety guy warned me about
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Post by Emily on Feb 11, 2010 8:41:57 GMT
I am developing stupid muscles on my left arm from working the cutter machine at the shop.
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Post by tangent on Feb 11, 2010 13:05:39 GMT
Take B-complex vitamins. They help reduce carpal tunnel and other repetitive strain injuries. Something about reducing protein buildup or the like... my biochemist aunt swears by it.
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Post by stokerino on Feb 22, 2010 22:29:28 GMT
Damned useless internet. Is working-but-being-inexplicably-slow worse than not-working-at-all?
Either way, I've consequently spent most of my evening playing a random Civ game, which leads me to another complaint: why won't the Koreans capitulate, the gits?! It's like they want to get completely wiped out instead...
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Post by stuart alman on Feb 23, 2010 13:30:35 GMT
we would rather die than surrender lol
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Post by stokerino on Feb 23, 2010 13:37:54 GMT
Incidentally, I confirmed that we had indeed forgotten to add AI civs the other night, leaving us the only two on a massive map.
Damn it, I thought I was being really good in managing to build Wonders before anyone else... >_>
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Post by Ally on Feb 23, 2010 13:42:04 GMT
I hate my computer, even though it's probably helping me be more productive. It won't let me play games! This week I have tried to play Fable (which I've played on this computer before) - it wouldn't load. I uninstalled and reinstalled it - still no luck.
I gave up on Fable and installed The Longest Journey, which, according to the box, should work on my machine. The install seemed to go fine, but when I tried to play the game, I got a white screen of death and had to switch my computer off and start it up again because I could do nothing at all.
Does anyone have any idea what the hell is going on?
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Post by stokerino on Feb 23, 2010 13:44:04 GMT
Not without being able to personally poke at it...
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Post by tangent on Feb 23, 2010 13:44:24 GMT
Which OS do you use?
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Post by Ally on Feb 23, 2010 14:22:43 GMT
Windows XP.
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Post by tangent on Feb 23, 2010 14:30:25 GMT
Off the top of my head I'd suspect it's a graphics driver issue. How up-to-date are the graphics drivers?
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Post by Ally on Feb 23, 2010 14:31:44 GMT
Not very, I should imagine. It's my brother's old computer.
Eh well, it'll stop me procrastinating so much.
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Yasha
Pirate
'I would not mind you in my head, if you were not so clearly mad.'
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Post by Yasha on Feb 23, 2010 14:53:36 GMT
i hate the coil. the coil is pain and evil. never never never never never get one. the pain is indescribable. i'm gonna go back to curling in a ball of pain now
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Post by Ally on Feb 23, 2010 15:26:59 GMT
*hug for Yash*
You may well have decided this already, judging by your post, but just in case - if it hurts that much, get it taken out, because it could mean nasty infections and the like.
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