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they keep electing Orrin Hatch. That alone speaks volumes. Among other things, he's the proud author of the DMCA, the INDUCE act, the PIRATE act (Porno Is Really Awesome To Endorse, apparently), he advocated the destruction of PCs belonging to software pirates with some vaporware virus, and then was caught red handed using pirated software. He claimed that was a mistake made by his staff. When he was caught with stolen Democratic party memos, he claimed that (you guessed it) it was a mistake made by his staff. At best, he's a clueless old grandpa that has no business writing copyright legislation.

Joe Job

For those wondering.

There was a brief and dubious flirtation with caddy-loading CD drives in the early 1990s. CDs were placed in protective caddies, which could be inserted into slot-loading drives designed for them.

People hated them, and the world moved to tray-loading drives.http://www.everything2.com/index.pl?node_id =1729388&lastnode_id=523351

...and some of us are so old as to forget who got kicked out of where.

Your point is valid, and I prefer BSD myself; but Mr. De Raadt did not write it all himself. Though his quotes were likely taken out of context, Theo would do himself a service to tone down the rhetoric and focus on the merits of OpenBSD and its development model; rather than relating why he thinks Linux is so poor.

I hate it when people on IM accuse me of ignoring them when I don't respond within 15 seconds... and I hated trying to use a qwerty after using nothing but dvorak for 6 months... but the Model M is a great keyboard to turn to dvorak because the key caps pop off so easily.

"Graduates of Yale University, I apologize if you have endured this type of prologue before, but I want you to do something for me. Please, take a good look around you. Look at the classmate on your left. Look at the classmate on your right. Now, consider this: five years from now, 10 years from now, even 30 years from now, odds are the person on your left is going to be a loser. The person on your right, meanwhile, will also be a loser. And you, in the middle? What can you expect? Loser. Loserhood. Loser Cum Laude.

"In fact, as I look out before me today, I don't see a thousand hopes for a bright tomorrow. I don't see a thousand future leaders in a thousand industries. I see a thousand losers."

I have a PowerPC Mac right here running Windows NT 4.0. MS stopped selling it in 1999 and it's all but obsolete now. However, it's still around if you look for it, as is the Alpha version.

http://www.everything2.com/index.pl?node=ed

Of course we're better lovers.. it's because (among other things):

- we don't sleep around
- we're generally good at the things we try
- we can concentrate, dammit!
- we have *excellent* finger dexterity :-D
- and most importantly, we have imagination!

more here >>

Frankly, Registered Mail, as offered by the US Postal Snail, would have been the way to go.

...8 years ago, as this article will show you.

When the Koreans find out the western world is using PC's now instead of the Amiga 500's they got off the black-market, they will surely shiver when they realize their X-Copy Pro skills are useless.

Are you kidding? This has been shipping with the default load of MovieOS for YEARS!

> 1. Give us A.I. that will actually outsmart us now and then.

they did in the privateer remake. some enemy ships shoot just as well as the player does, use the full capabilities of their ships, and fly in this really annoying sort of tight corkscrew that ruins autoleading.

of course, these are wing commander players, so they're masochists who enjoy reflying a mission 20+ times. (kurasawa 2, anyone?)

>6. All of the new consoles will have hard drives. Use them.

(in short - save points bad. quicksave good.)

this i disagree with. quicksave leads to people playing the game like this: take two steps forward, save, see enemy, restore, take one step forward, ambush enemy, take 2% damage in ensuing fight, restore, take five steps back and launch rockets at enemy's general position.

i watched a friend of mine play through half-life like this - he said it was boring, too tedious, and never challenging. gee, i wonder why.

> points 9-11: immersion, immersion, immersion.

not being able to jump an obstacle - bad. invisible walls - bad. but they're both conventions to aid in two things. a) so you have some fucking clue where to go and b) so the game designers don't have to map every nook and cranny and can concentrate on the parts of the level you're actually supposed to play. as far as heads up displays and such overlays, again, the amount of immersion they break is directly compensated for by the gameplay benefits, as long as they're done well. a giant floating hand telling you where to go? bad. car radar in the 1930s (as in mafia)? good, because it compensates for not having mirrors or a realistic field of view. iff in crosshairs, hell, crosshairs themselves in FPSes (or even disabling the trigger when your gun is aimed at a friendly)
- good, compensating for the expertise and eyesight your character is supposed to have.

> 19. NO MORE JUMPING PUZZLES IN FPS GAMES

agreed. if i wanted jumping puzzles, i'd play mario. or i'd play a third person game that lets me see what the fuck i'm DOING - ie oni, jedi outcast/academy, prince of persia:sands of time...

for more, video game design cliches and video game design flaws [although that has more to do with the classic ones, like being killed by falling off the bottom of the screen to a place you just came from.]

> 1. Give us A.I. that will actually outsmart us now and then.

they did in the privateer remake. some enemy ships shoot just as well as the player does, use the full capabilities of their ships, and fly in this really annoying sort of tight corkscrew that ruins autoleading.

of course, these are wing commander players, so they're masochists who enjoy reflying a mission 20+ times. (kurasawa 2, anyone?)

>6. All of the new consoles will have hard drives. Use them.

(in short - save points bad. quicksave good.)

this i disagree with. quicksave leads to people playing the game like this: take two steps forward, save, see enemy, restore, take one step forward, ambush enemy, take 2% damage in ensuing fight, restore, take five steps back and launch rockets at enemy's general position.

i watched a friend of mine play through half-life like this - he said it was boring, too tedious, and never challenging. gee, i wonder why.

> points 9-11: immersion, immersion, immersion.

not being able to jump an obstacle - bad. invisible walls - bad. but they're both conventions to aid in two things. a) so you have some fucking clue where to go and b) so the game designers don't have to map every nook and cranny and can concentrate on the parts of the level you're actually supposed to play. as far as heads up displays and such overlays, again, the amount of immersion they break is directly compensated for by the gameplay benefits, as long as they're done well. a giant floating hand telling you where to go? bad. car radar in the 1930s (as in mafia)? good, because it compensates for not having mirrors or a realistic field of view. iff in crosshairs, hell, crosshairs themselves in FPSes (or even disabling the trigger when your gun is aimed at a friendly)
- good, compensating for the expertise and eyesight your character is supposed to have.

> 19. NO MORE JUMPING PUZZLES IN FPS GAMES

agreed. if i wanted jumping puzzles, i'd play mario. or i'd play a third person game that lets me see what the fuck i'm DOING - ie oni, jedi outcast/academy, prince of persia:sands of time...

for more, video game design cliches and video game design flaws [although that has more to do with the classic ones, like being killed by falling off the bottom of the screen to a place you just came from.]

There's already a lot of discussion in this thread about privacy "rights", etc. I couldn't care less about those implications-- I just want a low power GPS receiver that I can unobtrusively carry around with me. That would rock.

I'd totally go for being a gargoyle in a minute. If there were practical technologies to let me record audio, video, and position data during all my waking hours, I'd strap 'em on in a second. Instrumenting my body for transmission of vitals would also rock. I'd be very interested in running an MRTG-like report of my blood pressure, heart rate, brain activity... That'd be sweet.

I was totally floored when I heard about the blood-powered fuel cells a few weeks ago. Gimmie some of those, some bluetooth-enabled sensors to poll my vitals, and a data logger that I can wear around on my belt w/ enough battery life and storage capacity to go a few days, and I'm set. Add in some GPS-enabled sneakers, and I'm thrilled.

What you immediately need to do is go the nearest video store, grab copies of "Star Wars", "Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back", "Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi", "Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace", and "Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones", and watch them in that order. Skip the last two, maybe. Then, hurry to the nearest theatre showing "Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith", and watch it. Only then will your life be complete. You cannot escape your destiny and all that.
After you're done with that, read this. And you will know why everyone hates the new Lucas so much.

My "favorite", as in most memorable threat, was the Michelangelo virus. I remember hearing so much about this, most of which was entirely untrue. It was the Y2K bug, in many ways... a real threat, with real damage, but way overblown.

http://www.vmyths.com/fas/fas_inc/inc1.cfm
http://www.everything2.com/index.pl?node=Michelang elo%20virus

I believe I even heard this virus credited with the then -very- scary task that, if you viewed an infected file while you had the virus, it would then be wiped out. Of course, that's not the case. Not sure if this was simply confusion for another real virus, or just some made up tale.

Verbing weirds language

You should print this out and mail it to yourself certified so you can prove your "I told you so" points.

I don't have quite such a dire view as you do, though. Of course, the thing with economics is when we realize the worst that could happen, we can prevent it from happening. The fact that the government knows that Weimar inflation is possible, makes it improbable.

However, the current government, to say the least,
seems to have the habit of ignoring reality. The thing is, the American economy actually can survive quite high trade and budget deficits for a while...but not forever. I believe that if we are lucky, as the American dollar gets weaker, imports will get more expensive and manufactring will be cost-feasible in this country. Thats the good version. The bad version is some type of shock hits the global economy, people panic, people pull money out of the economy, the US can't find a way to fianance its debt...and general badness follows.
For my own "I told you so" points, I wrote about this happening in May of 2003:
The Two Tiered Economy

piloted, perhaps, by kittens...

1954, The Game of Rat and Dragon, Cordwainer Smith

http://www.everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=124920 0

If anything like this ever passes, whether or not it's art (or speech) is a matter that the courts will have to decide on.

Which has already happened. Interesting factoid: In Missouri, some district judge named Limbaugh (ha!) said that video games are not protected speech, but the appellate court responded basically by pointing out that believing that opinion would be really stupid and/or ignorant. This all led to a St. Louis ordinance against violent video games being declared unconstitutional. Which, BTW, means that this will also likely be declared unconstitutional if it passes.

http://www.everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=132627 0

Rob

I can download Nesticle

Nesticle was good for its time, but compared to current emulators, it's an inaccurate P.O.S. In fact, an NES program can detect Nesticle with just four instructions. Use Nintendulator instead, especially if you're developing your own NES programs.

and a couple hundred ROMS

Now that Nintendo is renting ROMs online, the fair use argument for abandonware largely evaporates. Are you prepared to pay statutory damages if you're caught?

Interestingly the chapter was pulled in the 5th edition.. but the chapter was offered online at the time of publishing (it was in my OS class file).

acording to the preface from 5th "coverage of the Mach operating system (old chapter 20), which is a modern os.... is available on line."

Back into relevance? The new article doesn't mention MAC OSX which doesn't mean it completely out of date.

It should be noted that appe hired Avie Tevanian to modify the MACH kernal and boost its performace.

http://everything2.com/index.pl?node=Avie%20Tevani an

Ooooh, and this is even more interesting: http://www.everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=147838 5 - in which you talk of sharing everything from bukkake to child porn with your friends, and say at the end of your node that it's based on personal experience.

I think perhaps your trip is that you're some kind of libertarian or something. I think perhaps you've never had personal experience with someone who was molested, and others who went too far too soon with people old enough to know better. You seem to suggest at the end of yer node that computers will allow people to make safe kiddie porn.

As someone who regularly assists anti-kid-porn and survivors of child abuse groups, let me tell you this - the prime use of kiddie porn is for diddlers to convince other kids that it's OK to do what's being shown to them in the pictures. So kiddie porn per se is evidence of a crime, and computer generated porn something used to assist people in committing crimes. So I take a very dim view to your point of view. Perhaps this will enlighten you. But considering you're in that pit of holier than thou deviance called E2, I doubt it.

Well, well, well, isn't THIS interesting. A quick search of danila found you on everything2.

This node, http://www.everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=149432 9, speaks volumes. Not only are you aware of different child porn sites, but you argue that there's a fine line between kiddie porn and art. You even go on to suggest that thanks to computer generated porn kiddie porn as acceptable public content will be here to stay. That is sick. If you need me to argue exactly why then that goes to show me how far gone you've gone.

Other nodes on that site you wrote include instructions on hiding pornography stashes.

Hey, man, rather than lecturing me on my own psychology, which is firmly rooted in people of legal age of consent, or making suggestions I would molest my own kids, you should go see a shrink.

Perhaps it would work to use the trick I mentioned in the RSOD article (more info here) to set the BSOD to black on black, which would have the same effect.

Actually, it isn't in the registry, it's in system.ini. I haven't been able to verify whether this works, as the computer I'm on hasn't had a BSOD since I got it. I take good care of it.

I haven't tried this, but apparently you can. Try this page or google for some others. Now I just need a way of inducing a BSOD so I can test it.

If Microsoft is really smart [...], they would allow admins to change the color of the Screen Of Death anyway they like.

You do of course, know, that they will claim to be right....:-|

I see it as a draw regarding the multiple forms needed to emulate links as actions, since it limits my choices.

I think you misunderstood why I think IE buttons work bad with very long button texts.(font-family:Arial;) There is extra space left and right. In addition it sux graphically because IE has a single image for the buttons, so that the corners are stretched as well, looking very ugly and pixelated.

You are of course right with the "width:10em" but I just don't feel happy diving into technical complications that may or may not break with some browser version. Handcrafting every single CSS for every element is such a complication.

It is nice that you protect your clients from data loss, but somehow I feel a client should not let an Accelerator crawl a web site that is protected by a login. Just imagine what this accelerator would do to http://www.everything2.com/s softlinking feature. I know, you would have worked around the problem, but I guess you get paid well by the minute and don't have to invest essentially free time into this like other people.

Unless, of course, you're talking about that Model M keyboard it came with!

Name calling too eh?

Someone ought to mod YOU as troll, unless that's simply your standard behavior.

It's basically inexcusable for slashdotters to refer to Lego Bricks as "Legos" because they are supposedly not of the same mentality level for such topics as the general public, which is traditionally ignorant to such things.

is this you?

(to the tune of George of the Jungle)
Bono, Bono, Bono of the Ski slopes
WATCH OUT FOR THAT TREE!!

When they found Sonny Bono, he was wearing a Douglas fir.

What does the deaths of Farley, Bono & Kennedy have in common?
A white powdery substance.

Who really killed Michael Kennedy and Sonny Bono?
Tree Harvey Oswald!

How do we know Sonny was a politician at heart?
At the very end, he was stumping.

Why is Al Gore going to Sonny's funeral?
For all we know, he's the tree Sonny ran into.

What preceded Sonny Bono's senseless copyright extension?
Sonny Bono's senseless death.

Yes, it's normally spelt 'Tao' in the Western Alphabet, and technically, the movie is called 'Tao... ,' but at least in Mandarin the word begins with a sort of sharp 'D' sound so the GP is fair in what he says.

a la "Osama" vs. "Usama", "Gadaffi" vs. "Qadaffi", I guess.

Guess this is not dissimilar to the Japanese use of the (supposed) 'r' sound, which is meant to be more like a cross between a western 'l' and western 'r'. In a reversal of the mistake many English-speaking Japanese make (mixing up ls and rs), a (supposed) stereotypical 'gaijin' mistake in Japanese is making the 'r' sound too hard (see here and here).

Yes, it's normally spelt 'Tao' in the Western Alphabet, and technically, the movie is called 'Tao... ,' but at least in Mandarin the word begins with a sort of sharp 'D' sound so the GP is fair in what he says.

a la "Osama" vs. "Usama", "Gadaffi" vs. "Qadaffi", I guess.

Guess this is not dissimilar to the Japanese use of the (supposed) 'r' sound, which is meant to be more like a cross between a western 'l' and western 'r'. In a reversal of the mistake many English-speaking Japanese make (mixing up ls and rs), a (supposed) stereotypical 'gaijin' mistake in Japanese is making the 'r' sound too hard (see here and here).

Try this for a 50mb Linux USB drive guide http://www.everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=171224 3&lastnode_id=124

I think you find "Britain" in fact means "United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland" (people with a [dangerously IMO] over inflated sense of national identity and bored people looking to pick fight aside), the specific meaning being context sensitive. Both the offical government appointed tourism agency and the Wikipedia entry seem quite happy with this short hand.

God forbid it should not be the complete title in it's entirity every single time, lest the IRA get over excited about it and decide to blowup some [more] children. Thanks but I'll stick with using 'Britain' (and 'UK' when I'm feeling like being particularly terse).

I think we've had enough disagreement and killing over it, and we could officialy rename the entire country Earwig , or 'nation fourty four' (after the country code) for all I care.

Ten fingers can count much higher than 10. I can count to 1,023 on ten fingers, but once I get to 4 it can look a bit indecent.

Interestingly enough, it's not actually either:

The word TWAIN is not an acronym. It comes from a quote from Rudyard Kipling's "The Ballad of East and West" - "...and never the twain shall meet...". It is meant to symbolise the problems of connecting scanners and PC's at the time. The upper case was used to make it more distinctive and this gives it the appearance of an acronym.

A contest was held to find a potential meaning for the acronym but eventually, none were used. "Technology Without An Interesting Name" was one of the entries and has been adopted by popular culture.

(Source: http://www.twain.org/ )

http://www.everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=938852

Sure, but what about Everything2?

I found that long before I found Wikipedia.

Latina -- lingua Amoris -- vivit in aeternum post hunc splendidum eventum.

Vita Immortalis est tua si habueris bounum karma.

AI soluta est (Q.E.D.) quod erat demonstrandum -- educatio classica est melior quam diploma in scientia!

Latina -- lingua Amoris -- vivit in aeternum post hunc splendidum eventum.

Vita Immortalis est tua si habueris bounum karma.

AI soluta est (Q.E.D.) quod erat demonstrandum -- educatio classica est melior quam diploma in scientia!

With nothing more than a "donate" button I have no way of judging whether my money will be well spent or not.

Therefore I only donate to sites that show a running total of how much money has been donated so far, to help me better judge whether or not I should donate money to the project. In addition, this total should be auditable so that I can know that it is not fictional. This means that there needs to be a list of donors (anonymous if they wish but with some means for self-identification) together with the date and amount donated, so that I can verify that I have been included in this list and they are not understating the money received.

For a good example of what I mean, see everything2 donation box

MIDI

Saying that MIDI sounds bad is like saying that ASCII has a bad font.

My full rant's on E2 if you'd like more detail on the matter.

i can eat glass, it does not hurt me

(adopted from the original which can be found on the wayback machine)

http://everything2.com/?node=one-way+rivalry

A situation where people in group A compete in their minds with people in group B, while the people in group B are barely aware group A exists and would laugh at the idea of competing with them if they thought about it. Examples: Harvard vs. MIT, CalTech vs. MIT, Linux vs. Microsoft.

Now, fast-forward a couple of centuries...

Prince Charles (a divorcee...) and Camilla Parker Bowles (another divorcee...) plan their wedding ceremony on April 8th. Unfortunately, the pope dies, and the cardinal decide that, out of 3 possible dates, they absolutely have to bury him on April 8th!

What happens next? Charles and Camilla, not wanting to compete for the media's attention with the pope discretely move their ceremony to the next day... thus acknowledging that Catholic Church carries more weight than the Church of England!

It should have been "Mandrake is dead, long live Mandriva!" rather than "Mandrake is dead, long life to Mandriva!". It's a reference to the phrase "The king is dead, long live the king"