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Environmental Group Fears Growing Problem of Digital Waste

I bet making shitty music is their new plan to stop people from sharing it.

You mean like this?

Actually they meant this.

Well, it can't be all gamers, becuase those who camp are also gamers, right? But most gamers hate campers. See?

Where's the reboot button on this ship ??? and where's that blue screen??? Blue screen of death

so many links are good !

Haven't you heard? The latest craze is UNDER clocking. People with older Athlons are ahead of the curve.

Underclocking Becomes Latest Computer Craze

It should work well with the ATI Radeon 9500 ASC!

Foolish cowards! Think your Nethack ascii is pretty cool, eh? Well, Angband has supported the Radeon 9500 ASC since it's initial release! Seriously, Angband is a MUCH better game, especially if you can hunt down a copy of AngbandTk. AngbandTK has the same INCREDIBLE gameplay, just with almost real graphics. Angband is based on Tolkien's books.

Finally a worthy application for my Radeon 9500 ASC.

...and here they are, the two *must post* references whenever you see "ASCII"..... nethack and if ATI can do this I don't see what's so strange with an ASCII X11 is....;o))))

http://www.bbspot.com/News/2001/08/keyboard.html

Personally, I could care less if a game uses all the fancy features of a graphics card... if the game isn't fun, all the graphics in the world won't help it. At least ATI has a card with ASCII accelleration, heheh.

Seriously though, I used to have an ATI a while back, and eventually bought a GeForce2 MX mostly because it was supported in Linux. I completely expect this card to still be in my system 4 years from now, since I hardly ever use 3D acceleration. If I want video games, I have my Dreamcast.

Find out.

I guess Microsoft has made good on this earlier announcement?

Here's another article on it. Apparently Microsoft will be introducing a competing product soon.

Unfortunately, they've hardly taken advantage of the SCO comedy: SCO, the New Disease. I expected more.

Unfortunately, they've hardly taken advantage of the SCO comedy: SCO, the New Disease. I expected more.

"ActiveDeath" actually kills the player when their on-screen character dies through a lethal injection carefully hidden inside the large green circle on the controller surface.

"There's been a lot of investigation on how to involve the player in the game on a physical level," said Microsoft Research Director Greg Thorton, "We've seen vibrating controllers, controllers that administer a small electric shock, and so on. We thought, 'why not take this to the next level and go all the way?'"

Microsoft has taken this to the next level with ActiveDeath Technology.

Xbox Features Active Death Technology

Thank you BBSPOT!

My web host runs IIS, but I got them to switch me to a server with PHP support quite easily. I felt learning a cross-platform tool instead of ASP was more beneficial for me, since I also have an apache server. Can I do ASP on apache? I'm not sure I care to try to find out. I also found PHP easier to pick up than perl for some odd reason. Then again, if I couldn't read perl in high school, should I be surprised?

Feel free to actually link back to bbspot (http://bbspot.com/) next time

you can't fix the people who are morons, which is where the real problem lies.

That's all well and good but I'm waiting for this PDA to be released in color.

Topeka, KS -- Student Suspended Over Suspected Use of PHP

...remind me of This

It's not as profitable as you think...

Like apple users are doing.

http://www.bbspot.com/News/2003/01/jaromir.html

I didn't see any glimpse of the new character in there so it must not be the trailer I've seen.

The heck with the Xbox PC, I'm getting me some Xbox Sized fries!

Test Shows 99.99% of High School Seniors Can't Read Perl
San Francisco, CA - Recent results from the standardized Perl Fluency Test showed that 99.99% of US high school seniors can't read Perl. This disturbing statistic shows that American students are painfully unprepared for life after graduation.

"This shows that there is a real need for a Perl Monk in every classroom," said Perl Monk Kelly Adrity. "We've got computers in every classroom, now we need our kids to be able to use them, and what better way to learn about computers than to learn how to read and write in Perl. I'm glad the budget proposed by President Bush sets aside millions for Perl Monks. America will lead the way in Perl literacy."

The four hour test had 2 sections, a simple translation section and a project section. The first part asked students to translate easy Perl phrases into their standard English equivalent, and the second section required students to produce a simple MP3 player in Perl. "I didn't know what the hell any of it meant," said one Senior, "it had lots of slashes and periods and brackets. It was so confusing. I'm feeling rather nauseous."

Perl experts were astounded by the results. "I was amazed that none of the students were able to read this simple sentence:

$_='while(read+STDIN,$_,2048){$a=29;$c=142;if((@ a=unx"C*",$_)
[20]&48){$h=5;$_=unxb24,join"",@b=m ap{xB8,unxb8,ch r($_^$a[--$h+84])}
@ARGV;s/...$/1$&/;$d=unxV,xb25 ,$_;$b=73;$e=256|(or d$b[4])>8^($f=($t=255)&($d>>12^$d>>4^$d^$d/8))>8^( $t&
($g=($q=$e>>14&7^$e)^$q*8^$q>=8)+=$f+(~$g&$t) )for@ a[128..$#a]}print+x"C*",@a}';s/x/pack+/g;eval

I mean, come on, that's so easy," said Paul Chen, Chairman of the Learn Perl or Die Association, which administered the test nationwide. "Teachers need to start with simple phrases like $RF=~tr/A-Z/a-z/; and work up from there. We really need to start teaching this in first grade if kids are ever going to understand this by high school."

Not everyone shared Mr. Chen's view about the necessity of adding Perl to early elementary curricula. Programmers Against Perl (PAP) spokesperson, Keith Willingham said, "There's no better way to scare students away from computers than exposing them to Perl. Even experienced programmers are frightened and confused by it. The Perl lobby is just getting too powerful, and they need to be stopped."

I'm not impressed with the Radeon 9800 Pro. What I really want is the Radeon 9500 ASC [bbspot.com]. The price is steadily coming down. Mmmmm, I can't wait to play Nethack in full 3D :-)

Had you read the article you're kind enough to quote there. The 9500 ASC does _NOT_ contain 3D accelerator, it contains an ASCII accelerator.

What this means is that Nethack on that baby will look good as ever and then some and thankfully no 3D.

I'm not impressed with the Radeon 9800 Pro. What I really want is the Radeon 9500 ASC. The price is steadily coming down. Mmmmm, I can't wait to play Nethack in full 3D :-)

Apparently underage access to porn is a Very Serious Problem.

duh.

what did you expect them to come up with? An operating system kernel?!

When they port it to the X-BOX, you just might have your wish come true.

I thought it was just because Mac users will overpay for anything.

There's a (IMHO) humorous poke at this (and Mac users) at BBSpot.

Maybe its not
that cheap

Cupertino, CA - Apple's recent announcement that over 1 million songs had been purchased in the first week of its new music store's existence presents undeniable proof that Apple users will overpay for anything.

More at BBSpot

Idiotic or loyal?
What's the difference? ;-)

it may very well be that fragmentation of the user base is necessary to keep the virus epidemic away from the Linux platform. Unfortunately, that's also what keeps users from Linux. Too much choice, too little information, and too much inaccurate or overly biased information (eg. "KDE is better than GNOME") also further divides the potential Linux converts into two camps: those who look further, and eventually find out what they want to know, and subsequently replace Windows (ie, about .01% of people who "check Linux out") and the people who give up after trying to decide which distro to use - after all, there are more Linux distros than users now.

Maybe with this card.

You can also have a Flash-Powered house:

Here...

As usual, ATI beat 'em to it.

Actually, I belive this would be the better link on this topic.

after the RIAA completed their task in Afghanistan.