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How about an answer from someone more well-acquainted with basic human desires?

Intel sells Celerons on FPGAs now? Can I reconfigure it to dump unnecessary instructions? Or add more registers?

I Like to link everythingI rant about too.

Yes, the character we all love to hate, a shakespearean southern hick.

In fact, some claim that people living around the Globe Theatre in Shakespeare's time spoke with what sounds like an American southern accent.

I can realise how it might work, but I really have to wonder what was the motivation behind the guy who first discovered the procedure. "YOU STUPID CD, WORK OR I SHALL BOIL THEE!"

It was probably the work of this guy here, although it was probably devised as a method to get revenge on the DVD he thought was mocking him.

Agree with the comments about Rice Krispies, though...

Actually, it was from the Yellow Kid.

As everyone knows, this is Right Wing Maniac's and he did it much better (good try, though):

It amazes me that so many allegedly "educated" people have fallen so quickly and so hard for a fraudulent fabrication of such laughable proportions. The very idea that a gigantic ball of rock happens to orbit our planet, showing itself in neat, four-week cycles -- with the same side facing us all the time -- is ludicrous. Furthermore, it is an insult to common sense and a damnable affront to intellectual honesty and integrity. That people actually believe it is evidence that the liberals have wrested the last vestiges of control of our public school system from decent, God-fearing Americans (as if any further evidence was needed! Daddy's Roommate? God Almighty!)

Documentaries such as Enemy of the State have accurately portrayed the elaborate, byzantine network of surveillance satellites that the liberals have sent into space to spy on law-abiding Americans. Equipped with technology developed by Handgun Control, Inc., these satellites have the ability to detect firearms from hundreds of kilometers up. That's right, neighbors .. the next time you're out in the backyard exercising your Second Amendment rights, the liberals will see it! These satellites are sensitive enough to tell the difference between a Colt .45 and a .38 Special! And when they detect you with a firearm, their computers cross-reference the address to figure out your name, and then an enormous database housed at Berkeley is updated with information about you.

Of course, this all works fine during the day, but what about at night? Even the liberals can't control the rotation of the Earth to prevent nightfall from setting in (only Joshua was able to ask for that particular favor!) That's where the "moon" comes in. Powered by nuclear reactors, the "moon" is nothing more than an enormous balloon, emitting trillions of candlepower of gun-revealing light. Piloted by key members of the liberal community, the "moon" is strategically moved across the country, pointing out those who dare to make use of their God-given rights at night!

Yes, I know this probably sounds paranoid and preposterous, but consider this. Despite what the revisionist historians tell you, there is no mention of the "moon" anywhere in literature or historical documents -- anywhere -- before 1950. That is when it was initially launched. When President Josef Kennedy, at the State of the Union address, proclaimed "We choose to go to the moon", he may as well have said "We choose to go to the weather balloon." The subsequent faking of a "moon" landing on national TV was the first step in a long history of the erosion of our constitutional rights by leftists in this country. No longer can we hide from our government when the sun goes down.

• The Earth does not "rotate". If it did, we would all be blown around ten ways to Tuesday by the winds created.
  
• If the Earth did rotate, then one would expect to see tornadoes in the area at the centre of rotation. This would imply that Kansas is the centre of the Earth, a thought pleasing to my personal sympathies, but contradicted by scripture. There has never been a tornado in Jerusalem
  
• Joshua asked Our Lord to stop the Sun, you ignorant asshole, not the Earth. What possible good would it have done to stop the Earth from moving?
  
• Your blasphemous statement that the Moon "reflects" light from the Sun directly contradicts Genesis 3:16, in which it is made perfectly clear that "he created the moon, that the slimy crawling things by night might see". Which part of "he created", don't you understand? Your pathetic advocacy of the fraudulent theory (and it IS a THEORY, not some bourgeois, East-Coast elitist idea of a "fact") is sickening.

It's kind of a cool MIPS emulator

I had a problem with it. Its terminal did not allow the program to move the cursor up, and for this reason, it wasn't Tetris complete.

i'm just pointing out how easily CowboyNeal switches from trademarks, to copyrights, to patents. He is THAT smart!

Be careful with your blanket statement: IBM sold things to willing customers with lots of money - like 1944 Germany. Terrorists are willing customers with lots of money. Whether or not impoverished residents of third-world countries deceived by clever marketing can count as either willing customers or ones with any money is a question of numbers.

Be careful with your blanket statement: IBM sold things to willing customers with lots of money - like 1944 Germany. Terrorists are willing customers with lots of money. Whether or not impoverished residents of third-world countries deceived by clever marketing can count as either willing customers or ones with any money is a question of numbers.

If their software package requires Win2K or XP to run, does it run with Limited User support? And without any goofy preinstall-for-each-user nonsense? Does the Hotsync manager work with fast user switching? Last I checked, their software kit wouldn't work with either.

If their software package requires Win2K or XP to run, does it run with Limited User support? And without any goofy preinstall-for-each-user nonsense? Does the Hotsync manager work with fast user switching? Last I checked, their software kit wouldn't work with either.

Well,

the breast equation sounds pretty interesting.

Got to try to visualize it someday to see how well it corresponds with the reality.

You mean Sony!

Pokemon "evolution" is a mistranslation. Caterpie becomes Metapod becomes Butterfree. It's metamorphosis.

He reply was that to explain Enoch's purpose would be to destroy it.

Holy crap I suck at links - so much for a technical education here :/

If I were you, I wouldn't be proud of being Bobby Fischer.

There's unquestionably room in the market, especially in highly urbanised countries where fuel is expensive, for tiny funky city cars like these. I'd buy one. But the Smarts, despite being a Mercedes co-production (which would lead you to think it'd be nice but have lousy quality control...), are just lousy to drive and too expensive, according to all reports. The reviews (Review 1, Review 2) have been so lousy that I ruled out even ever test driving one; if the things cost $AU5000 then that'd be another matter, but they're really quite expensive here, and the US pricing would seem to be similarly inflated, compared with the lower pricing of regular cars in the States.

Here in Sydney, Australia, I see a Smart tooling around every now and then, but every single one I've seen has been a corporate promotional vehicle, not a private car. There's no reason at all for a private citizen to buy one of these expensive, annoying little things, when perfectly good four-seat Japanese subcompacts are available for the same money. Korean ones cost rather less.

I'll second this one. Find a book that has small pieces that can be read on the toilet, while there are many books constructed specifically for this purpose that's not the only kind that applies. Personally my current bathroom reading material is Humane Society, a book by one of my fellow E2 addicts that has me laughing and thinking, two of my favorite activities. They don't call it the thinking chair for nothing. As I sit on the throne and issue an edict I like to have something to take my mind off the biological process of excretion. To me it would be enough to bring my music into the bathroom. Anyone know of a system to spit an audio stream out over multiple sound cards and keep it synched?

Well, perhaps God has written fewer lines of code

...but at least comments it properly.

boy, his arms must have been tired! are you talking about the voyager? piloted by dick rutan and jeanna yeager?

I've always been interested in interactive storytelling. When I was a creative writing major over at San Francisco State University I was exploring such options, I purchased the excellent StorySpace software thinking that perhaps the web or a hypertext environment was the right way to go, only to be disappointed at the limitations. (The software is excellent for what it is capable of, even if it didn't fit the bill in my aspirations).

The conclusions that I drew are financially unreachable at this time. As well as the age-old problem that I think any interactive fiction will ever have: lack of interest. What I've always wanted to do is create locations much like Disneyland rides that tell a story interactively with a participant using computer projections and robotics, possibly with the interaction of psychedelic substances to help prime the "reader" for their experience.

Alas, I will probably never feel fufilled creatively as my ideas have no possibility for ever coming into fruition. (More on these ideas here).

It's a chicken/egg problem. Those of us who are but poor artists can't realize their dreams without heavy investment, and cannot get the heavy investment without an interested public to interact with. And an interest public cannot exist until the artistry is to be seen.

No, not 'cheap' as in value menu, 'cheap' as getting a new car for $10k would be. Nice cellphones go for about $130 these days. If these prices remain similar with the new resolution, let's say a VGA phone is like $200. Even if the screen is the most expensive, it can be reliably said that you could do a dual LCD HMD w/o headtracking for around $600. This is 'cheap' for an HMD that would seem to you to be >50" screen.

I have been thinking this would be perfect for laptops. I would much rather have a nice set of glasses, however dorky, that I can use on a plane with my laptop. Complete privacy, and no loss (but a gain!) of screen real estate. How about a laptop that doesn't even have a screen? Extreme? Yes, but that would be fine for 90% of my on-the-go type of work.

I even met a dork wanna-be yesterday, so let's face it, with cellphones, pda's, gbas and the like becoming ever more popular, it's become chic to be dork. :)

Although there are some inexpensive HMDs available, it seems like driver support has been the hugest issue. I don't even *want* 3D stuff, like two independent displays, just make it so I can get rid of these LCDs.

Oh, and btw, can someone show me any HMDs on Linux? Any?

Where's the e-judge?

Wikipedia started out as the progeny of Nupedia, a very serious, peer-reviewed encyclopedia which managed to produce all of two dozen articles. If you look at the Wayback Machine in July 2001, you will find that Wikipedia early on was actually quite philosophy-centric (in part because the original, full-time chief editor, Larry Sanger, is a philsopher).

Of course we have Slashdot readers among our editors, including myself. But we also have credentialed experts and amateurs from many different fields. We try to make it as easy as possible to join in, and many people who know nothing about computers do. If you (the reader, not the parent poster) know a way to make Wikipedia easier to use, please do not hesitate to submit a feature request.

We don't go around deleting articles on geeky subjects if they're well-written and encyclopedic. But Wikipedia never aimed exclusively at a nerdy audience and its editors were never made up exclusively of members of that audience.

Well, first consider the cost of getting the building materials up into space, and the special requirements needed in building such a settlement. Personally, I think water is much more likely, as you don't have space-junk
(http://www.everything2.com/index.pl?node=space% 20junk)
whizzing about, ready to destroy your city. Also, lets not forget Space Radiation, and the like
(http://www.everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=101 6746&lastnode_id=49457)
Now on to Aquatic Habatits. These seem to be a bit more plausable, and already a few pioneering steps have been taken. Considering that Saturation Diving is allowing people to live underwater near indefinatly at lower depths, it makes sense. Though for a perm. settlement, having pressure inside at 1 atmosphere would the the ideal. On the seabed, there would be access to mining, as well as geothermal power perhaps.
Related aquatic stuff:
http://www.everything2.com/index.pl
http://www.everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=148665 0
Happy reading.

Well, first consider the cost of getting the building materials up into space, and the special requirements needed in building such a settlement. Personally, I think water is much more likely, as you don't have space-junk
(http://www.everything2.com/index.pl?node=space% 20junk)
whizzing about, ready to destroy your city. Also, lets not forget Space Radiation, and the like
(http://www.everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=101 6746&lastnode_id=49457)
Now on to Aquatic Habatits. These seem to be a bit more plausable, and already a few pioneering steps have been taken. Considering that Saturation Diving is allowing people to live underwater near indefinatly at lower depths, it makes sense. Though for a perm. settlement, having pressure inside at 1 atmosphere would the the ideal. On the seabed, there would be access to mining, as well as geothermal power perhaps.
Related aquatic stuff:
http://www.everything2.com/index.pl
http://www.everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=148665 0
Happy reading.

Well, first consider the cost of getting the building materials up into space, and the special requirements needed in building such a settlement. Personally, I think water is much more likely, as you don't have space-junk
(http://www.everything2.com/index.pl?node=space% 20junk)
whizzing about, ready to destroy your city. Also, lets not forget Space Radiation, and the like
(http://www.everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=101 6746&lastnode_id=49457)
Now on to Aquatic Habatits. These seem to be a bit more plausable, and already a few pioneering steps have been taken. Considering that Saturation Diving is allowing people to live underwater near indefinatly at lower depths, it makes sense. Though for a perm. settlement, having pressure inside at 1 atmosphere would the the ideal. On the seabed, there would be access to mining, as well as geothermal power perhaps.
Related aquatic stuff:
http://www.everything2.com/index.pl
http://www.everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=148665 0
Happy reading.

Well, first consider the cost of getting the building materials up into space, and the special requirements needed in building such a settlement. Personally, I think water is much more likely, as you don't have space-junk
(http://www.everything2.com/index.pl?node=space% 20junk)
whizzing about, ready to destroy your city. Also, lets not forget Space Radiation, and the like
(http://www.everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=101 6746&lastnode_id=49457)
Now on to Aquatic Habatits. These seem to be a bit more plausable, and already a few pioneering steps have been taken. Considering that Saturation Diving is allowing people to live underwater near indefinatly at lower depths, it makes sense. Though for a perm. settlement, having pressure inside at 1 atmosphere would the the ideal. On the seabed, there would be access to mining, as well as geothermal power perhaps.
Related aquatic stuff:
http://www.everything2.com/index.pl
http://www.everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=148665 0
Happy reading.

In short, "humanity towards others".

Two defintions:
Ubuntu on Wikipedia
And a shameless plug for my writeup on E2

yeah, was a bit shocked too to see that.
affect vs effect usage

And, alas, I just can't stand to read fantasy. Whenever there is a plot problem, BOOM! magic happens.

Do yourself a favor and pick up A Game of Thrones by George R. R. Martin. It's fantasy, sure, but there's veeeery little magic, and what magic the guy did put in is done very well. It's also a highly character-driven story with twists and turns all over the place, and something of a disregard for certain informal rules of fiction writing (which is an intentionally vauge statement; someone who has read the book should know what I mean).

If that didn't convince you, I implore you to read this review, from which I stole a few words.

Pictures and movies not only take up huge amounts of dashes and dots, but it is extremely hard to visualise the result. Text pr0n may have been more suitable.

Commission on Presidential Debates

I found this a few months ago and I think it's an awesome little history of how the debates were wrestled from the control of the League of Women's voters. Please read this before complaining about third party candidates entering the debates.

There are more brief histories on Wikipedia and Disinfopedia. If you are at a university with access to bigger encyclopedia that cost money I suggest you poke through the history of the debates on one of those.

The overall lesson you'll learn is that the United States Commission on Presidential Debates is completely unfair to everyone but the two big parties... and how many of us completely agree with either or those?

For those of you who don't like Bush, check here and notice that all the midwestern states that support him are also the larger supporters of Nader. All those complaints that Nader is taking points from Kerry are self-defeating. Those complaints are just causing the conservatives who don't like Bush to vote for him anyway since they really don't like Kerry and they don't believe there's anyone else available since the other options get downplayed so heavily.

America needs debate reform, and that's a requirement before we'll get more parties.

--Matthew

Someone posted this in another story a while back. It's a guide to convert a SNES controller to work on a PC. Although it'd be easier to just buy a converter for it (although not near as geeky). Is there a company that sells a converter for it?

I'd really like a Gamecube -> USB converter myself (or Dreamcast). Both of those controllers are the most comfortable I've ever held!

I can confirm that gay men enjoy playing other games as well. After all I always see people on CounterStrike calling each other 'Faggots' and 'Totally Gay'. Infact I see that so much that I would go to estimate about 90% of CounterStrike players must have a homosexual sexual preference.

Or perhaps evil dictators with alien helpers.

You changed it [..]

That's one point why I don't like Wikipedia and it's also the cause of the problems mentioned in the article as well as in the comments in this thread - it looks too much like a real encyclopedia because there is only one article per keyword/topic, which is not (or shouldn't be) contradictory. You can't express a point of view differing from the opinion of the mass or the "average" opinion. Only one of the reasons why I prefer multiple articles per keyword as well as global moderation like on Everything2.. (Combining the two systems would be the best, but the user system of E2 is probably too oppositional to the open wiki concept (The user system being vital for useful and fair moderation is another point..))

I thought I was the only one! I'll get stuck on Wikipedia, Mathworld and Everything2 for hours on end, using Google as a sidebar for non-linked terms. By the time I'm done, I'll have like 20-25 different browser tabs open, detailing my trek from A to B.

I can see it now.. computer games, the next designer drug.

Well, they are addictive and fun.

"Next to Puyo Puyo, Heroine is just moreish"

- some web site I can't find right now. Damn.

Generally speaking, a Chapter 7 is forced by the creditors. The creditors who don't think the company will make it petition the court. The petitioning parties are most likely to receive money, along with those with preferred stock, if it's publicly held. Regardless, you'd send a petition to the court at this point, if you haven't already. The court will attempt to equitably divide the remaining assets, and potentially recover assets paid recently to creditors, so that a company doesn't pay off its chummy buddies, then go into bankrupcy with a pittance to pay off everyone else.

Full game walkthrough here.

RC5? My God you have your priorities distorted. Read this why don't you? What a waste of CPU-cycles. If you're going to use them, why not do something like Protein Folding, where you can contribute to the cure of diseases?

Sheesh...

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Seems like no-one takes the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis serious these days, but I always thought it makes sense. The idea of newspeak in 1984 was inspired by this theory: If you can't express it by words, it is harder to think and do too.

... until people start spamming using their competition's address to facilitate them getting thrown off their host?

They have been doing that for years. It's called a joe job, after the first victim of such a scam. These are generally quite easy to detect, though, so they do not generally lead to the victim's website being shut off. The main damage is in the annoyance and the bounces and responses received by the victim, which constitute something akin to a DDoS attack.

In any case, the existence of joe jobs is no reason to penalize actual spammers and stop them from profiting from their spam runs. The only way to do that is shutting off their websites.

You laugh, but German urinal-hating feminazis are a real problem, according to this report. Let's hear it for ultraleft!