I only recently finished convincing all my non-technie friends that the Internet is not a series of tubes; now I have to start explaining to them that bandwidth does not actually come in buckets. Do you realize how many pounds of email I'll have to write about this? Fuck it, I quit.
They're called hybrid words
Just a few favorites from their list of fifty...
Automobile - a wheeled passenger vehicle, from Greek _ (autos) "self" and Latin mobilis "moveable"
Biathlon - from the Latin bis meaning "twice" and the Greek _ (athlon) meaning "contest"
Claustrophobia - from the Latin claustrum meaning _confined space_ and Greek _ (phobos) meaning "fear"
Dysfunction - from the Greek _- (dys-) meaning "bad" and the Latin functio
Genocide - From the Greek _ (genos) meaning "race, people" and the Latin c_dere meaning "to kill"
Geostationary - From the Greek _ (g_) meaning "Earth" and the Latin stationarius, from statio, from stare meaning "to stand"
Hexadecimal - from Greek _ (hex), meaning "six", and Latin decimus meaning "tenth"
Metadata - from the Greek _ (meta) and the Latin data meaning "given" from dare
Monoculture - from the Greek _ (monos) meaning _one, single_ and the Latin cultura
Nonagon - from the Latin nonus meaning "ninth" and the Greek _ (g_nia) meaning "angle"
Quadriplegia - from the Latin quattuor meaning "four" and the Greek _ (pl_g_) "stroke", _ (pl_ssein) meaning "to strike";
Sociology - from the Latin socius, "comrade", and the Greek _ (logos) meaning "word", "reason", "discourse"
Television - from the Greek _ (t_le) meaning "far" and the Latin visio meaning "seeing"
... but I agree, "starivore" is right up (down?) there with "staycation".
(All Greek characters replaced with '_' so Slashdot won't shit all over itself. Unicode? WTF is that? It's only 2015!)
Finally, a bold visionary at the head of MS who does not believe that 640k ought to be enough for anybody!
Totally agree. It continues to mystify me that Slashdot thinks it's a newspaper.
So, tell me again how I text a message to your company's phone number, extension 3007...?
>most voice mail services allow call back
I've never seen one that does. Often times if someone's calling from a smaller provider, the voicemail states the number as "an outside caller". A lot of good that's going to do
Bell Canada - Call Display $10.95
Link (click on "full details". Yes they have bundles but not everyone wants that.)
> I also didn't know that you could have a phone without caller ID
Unless you use a VOIP line or a burner (pay-as-you-go) cell phone caller ID is always an extra for both landlines and cellphones. For cellphones it's often bundled with voicemail or some other feature so you'll usually end up getting it
Liquid nitrogen for your RAM then...?
... that he did this back then. Imagine if the industry were founded recently. They'd sue anyone who tried to make a refrigerator or air conditioner to protect their outdated business. And they'd win, because they'd pay off -- excuse me, "support the campaigns of" -- all the right politicians.
It's UC-fucking-LA. It's not in the middle of a freeway, and I doubt she lives on a freeway either.
Looks pretty walkable to me. It may be a windy route, but in that case, bikes can ride anywhere cars can, except for highways, and even though it's near a mountain, I don't see anywhere that's 100% cut off from the outside world except for freeways. Zoom in anywhere and there are little roads there.
Hell, if I lived there and were faced with that option, I'd ride my bike on the freeway every day until I got a ticket for doing so.
I've been using this hosts file for about 10 years. http://winhelp2002.mvps.org/ho...
> See also #3.
Sorry, you wanted the numbers rendered on your ordered list? Wrong site.
Yeah, I can't imagine why they did that, either.
TOO easy. Idiots do it accidentally every day.
One possible reason that things aren't going according to plan is that there never was a plan in the first place.
