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Get real, RadioShack (well it used to be) a great place to get parts from.

That establishment is just like 7-11, it's late at night and you're desperate, Best Buy and Circuit City is closed and you need that darn DB gender bender so you'll pay the 26 bucks for it. We've all been in the situation. I miss the days of living in Sacramento and being able to go to HSC and purchase a needed part out of a bulk bin. But they we're put out of business by bad management and old, bearded, child molesters.

I know we've all seen em, the geeky, computer type, bbs surfin for child porn, lookin' like Charles Manson, stains up and down their two sizes too small grey sweat pants pulling up in the green ford F-100. Perhaps, Radio Shack should go back and employ these guys at least they have a clue about electronics. The last experience I had there was when I was looking for a replacement RCA type cable to go in between my PC speakers (because I lost the original in a move). Damn clueless kid tried to sell me a set of gold-plated RCA cable interconnect with a noise filter. I said Are you stupid? He said Stupid is as stupid does, Mister

The only thing keeping me from jumping over the counter and thumping this kid was the hope that I'd make it home and be able to relieve some stress and visit Cliff's I hate you site! Cliff 's I hate you

there is only so many times in a day you can "go make coffee" or "check your email".

Geek Slack List

• http://www.subgenius.com/
• http://www.slackersguild.com/
• BBC News
• http://www.memepool.com/
• http://www.plastic.com/
• http://www.arstechnica.com/
• http://www.metafilter.com/
• http://www.techdirt.com/
• http://www.bottomquark.com/ (Science News)
• http://newsforge.com/
• http://www.theregister.co.uk/
• http://www.anandtech.com/
• http://www.bjorn3d.com/
• http://cellar.org - Image of the Day
• http://www.collegehumor.com/
• http://www.everything2.com/
• http://www.kuro5hin.org/
• http://www.theonion.com/
• NASA - Astronomy Picutre of the Day
• http://www.majorgeeks.com - Windows Shareware / Freeware
• http://www.advogato.org/
• http://www.sweetcode.org/
• http://www.disinfo.com/ - Disinformation
• http://www.somethingawful.com/
• http://www.astronomynow.com/ - Astronomy News
• http://www.aip.org/ - American Institue of Physics - News
• http://www.adequacy.org/

• The Effects of Moore's Law and Slacking 1 on Large Computations

Hope this helps =)

you know him too? what a nice guy too! he sends me mail all the time and keeps me up to date on his troubles. i hope all is well with his situation. :p

Maybe it'll be a sequel to this.

~Philly

Rich Kyanka, one of the Something Awful gang, pulled a hilarious series of pranks on the Nigerian money launderers. Some of their other pranks on spammers (scroll down to email section) are pretty damn funny as well.

Rich Kyanka, one of the Something Awful gang, pulled a hilarious series of pranks on the Nigerian money launderers. Some of their other pranks on spammers (scroll down to email section) are pretty damn funny as well.

Somethingawful.com featured a Photoshopped French stamp bearing Fermat's likeness. Someone had changed the text to read "I have discovered a truly remarkable joke that this stamp is too small to contain."

(I wish I could find the link to the original, but I dare not bring up that site here at work!)

Yeah, but between 103.3 (thanks AC), 90.1, 89.7, 91.1 (sometimes some real nice jazz; sometimes "smooth jazz" ugh), and 88.5 (KQED, NPR affiliate), it's not often I have to listen to crap. I haven't even fixed my CD player that's been broken for a few years. Also, maybe they've boosted their signal or maybe your antenna was bad or something, but I don't lose KZSU until I pass SFO.

It kicks ass that I have tons of people going out and finding good music for me. It's telling, though, that with those great stations out there, most people still listen to the big commercial radio stations so they can hear the latest Insane Clown Posse over and over again. It's okay, though-- obviously, I'm just a better person than all of them.

thes man uses lunix! Note he si fat as a slummy slug and he smells liek a trash bin

I tried the something awful search at alta vista. Guess which page was first, right after the clearly marked sponsored link? That's right! somethingawful.com. Hmmm. Maybe it's time to switch search engines. I'm gonna try some more phrases! Whee this is soooo fun!

Also, Google will never get flashvertisements or anything of that sort. They know one of the main reasons people use their site is the clean interface with no annoying ads. They won't abandon that. They're making a very good profit just the way it is.

Maybe. But then again, they also knew one of the main reason people use their site is the good quality of search results it gets, but that hasn't stopped them from making major changes to their ranking algorithms which have, in many cases, turned the results given to absolute garbage.

In addition they've recently begun exercising what appears to be editorial control over the sites in their index. A Google search for "something awful" doesn't bring up the popular site www.somethingawful.com anywhere in the results. Google unilaterally decided that the site shouldn't exist anymore, so they don't list it. And to this date, they haven't given a reason why.

So never say that Google won't do something because they know better; it's becoming more and more obvious every day that they're picking up the same bad habits that every other search engine company has picked up.

This guy might be illegal.

Great. First of all, porrasturvat was attacked by the forum goons on somethingawful, forcing them to redo the rules slightly (there was a great "cheat" where you could make the guy fall on his leg and stick there, racking up hundreds of thousands of points). Now they're going to get the slashdot readers going at it too?

They could make a lot if they put this game up for sale. It's sooo much fun! :D

I cannot
respect free speech

I should be:
an attourney General

see more here

That you don't buy the pusher bot model.

It might like to shove grandma down the stairs and light things of fire.

Even if it will help with the terrible secret of space, it's just not worth the risk.

If U want too bees liek teh JeffK yuo have much more too work on.

Get some lunix skillz!

for maximum humorous effect.

No no, not cannabalism [sic], but half-lives. We know that the half-life of an astronaut is equal to the round trip of a mars expedition. It's something that NASA has been hiding for years, also known as the Terrible Secret of Space.

Be careful you don't end up like this poor user of Kitchen based computer-appliances.

See here

I also love these people that buy the latest and greatest 2.5GHz computer with a DVD burner and half a gig of RAM only to bring it home and plug a phone line into it. Ugh! What a shame.

Blame Intel for that...they're the goons who got the unwashed masses to think "those Pentenium Four chips make the Intarnet go faster."

Let me put it this way: most guys would not jump at the chance to beta test a video game in which the main character was an incredibly ripped half-naked man with thong underwear and an incredibly unrealistic buldge in his crotch clearly outlining every detail of his oversized genitals as they freely bounced around in ancient tombs.

Maybe you mean this game?

I guess that could have been a joke, but just in case it wasnt...
I am kind of tired of people just getting on a box and shouting down our government and corporate evils and not offering up a fricking solution. If you have a better idea on how to run this country, please offer it up. If not, people will not be taking you seriously when you shout generalized, subjective opinions in ANY forum. (And then you get made fun of in every medium from "something awful" to Saturday Night Live.

If you anywhere between the ages of 19 and 25, you're still just a damned upstart kid!

NOW GET OUTA MY DAMNED BUSHES!

--
Seriously, how old are you?
Cheers!

Every 'java' is replaced by:

"Java(TM) Syllabus Calendar Lecture Notes Assignments Exams Required Readings Related Resources Labs Sections/Recitations Tools Projects"

http://ocw.mit.edu/6/6.170/f01/tools/index.html

adds a little TM symbol to every 'java'.

Results in pages that read like Scientology Fan Fiction

Hopefully this isn't designed by the guy who designed those damn Shover robots.

DOCTOR: "Robot nurse, scalpel-- WARRRRRGH" *lands face first in entrails*
ROBOT NURSE: "PAK CHOOIE UNF. DATA - TO PUSH. TARGET = DOCTOR>>..."


But SERIOUSLY, folks...

"yes, i was planning on sitting here listening to emo and crying all day, thank you very much"

emo sucks.

Which is probably why I won't be watching it tonight, but maybe I'll download it later.

No, you probably will catch it when it runs, because FOX pre-empted it with FUCKING BASEBALL.

Fox comes through for us yet again.

They poked fun at Blizzard a few months ago.

Excerpt:

Warcraft I: Play as humans fighting the Orcs, or fight as Orcs playing the humans, or as a human playing the humans playing the Orcs fighting the humans. Either way it will just end up with you building a really long highway until your serial connection gets yanked out by your college roommate's ugly girlfriend.

Diablo I: Point and click your way through a world full of monsters... monsters that want to KILL YOU but you must KILL THEM FIRST! Although your character's strength, intelligence, and dexterity stats will increase based on the number of times you repeatedly smash the left mouse button, you will personally experience a decrease in your own strength, intelligence, and hygiene stats based on the number of hours you play.

Starcraft: It's not at all like Warcraft in space! It's something different! For example, can you perform peon rushes in Warcraft? Yeah, that's what I thought! Also there are no trees or lumber to harvest in space because that would just be silly. Make sure you have a lot of Space Supply Barns because the only way to colonize small square sections of the galaxy is by constructing countless Space Supply Barns. In addition to playing as humans, you can either choose to play as the Zerg (gross aliens) or the Protoss (Egyptian poop-shaped guys who somehow launched themselves into space).

Warcraft II: This game is completely different from Warcraft I, except in the regard that it is exactly the same (without the road-building part). I think maybe the trees and goldmines look more realistic, but I don't remember. Oh, and there are turtle submarines.

Diablo II: Point and click your way through a world full of NEW monsters... NEW monsters that want to KILL YOU but you must KILL THEM FIRST! There are also a bunch of new character classes such as the Amazon, Barbarian, Necromancer, Neuromancer, Hamstermancer, and Haberdasher.

Your entire question, well, sucks. If you think you can test at the end of a product cycle, you're smoking the kind of crack cocain that leads to things like this.

When you write a function for your program, you need to write a test unit that is in the debug project. How it will work is that you write some tests in which you take an input, perform the operation, and test the output versus a contstant answer. Have one of these for each case that it handles in the unit. That way, you can always compile the test unit and examine its output versus the constant known-good value. That's good software engineering practice.

What you're asking, well, is a joke. Nothing's going to save your project if you've been just adding functionality without QAing at each step to verify correctness.

hellbunnia asks "I work with a team of developers who spend most of their time adding functionality to code. While we enjoy just cramming more code onto a source tree, we really never test anything. But even if we tested it, I think we'd miss a lot of bugs because we have no design policy. It's a lot to be tested, and it's all interrelated! So my question is, does anyone have a quick and easy solution that will save us from rewritting things with a proper design?"

"I've read a lot of freshmeat listings for testing, but I've always assumed that they were merely 'Hello, World' programs because nothing beats real testing by real humans. However, as the amount of code grows, I've begun to wish that we wrote a carefully designed set of unit tests as we added functionality, rather than trying to magically make it all work 2 weeks before our shipping deadline. I'm hoping we have some magic QA program which will do everything for us, except actually fix our squirrely code.

Does such a thing exist, or should I start updating my resume? How fucked am I?"

And for the kiddies...

The Baby Segway... (bottom image)

everyeone knows taht MACs haev no games excpet for loesrs like Mist!!! and open sores games are only for Lunix and they dont work becuase yuo download them and they are just a bunch of fiels for only in WordPad and say things like "maek install" that does not make any sense!!!!!

if these MAC open sorse games are liek LUnix games then MAC users cannot compiel them in WordPad either!!! all real h4x0rs no taht teh only real gaems are for Windoews or XBOX becuase they haev teh COUNTERSTRIEK and taht game w/golfing with SLUTS!!!!! and teh volleyball gaem with otyhyer SLUTS!!!! taht is whey nobody uses MAC or Lunix excpet f4gots!!!!! and MAC cannot even use teh real Interweb except AOL!!!! LOLOLOLOLOLOLOL!!!!!!!!

</JEFFK!!! MODE>

Seriously, the lack of "Mac games" is true to some extent but is in reality seriously overestimated. While Macs clearly lack the breadth of games available for the PC, there are plenty of top-notch Mac games available, from The Sims to Civ 3 to Warcraft 3 to Star Wars: Galactic Battlegrounds to Max Payne to Medal of Honor, etc. etc.

As to the poster's question, the unfortunate answer is "no, a game ported to Mac will probably use the Carbon API (a revised version of the old MacOS 1-9 API with the old memory/threading junk and Mac-only 3D API thrown out and new interface stuff thrown in) so it can run on non-MacOS X systems." Almost no commercial games are written to the MacOS X Unix APIs or to the OS X-only "Cocoa" API (which requires Objective-C or Java).

As a result - contrary to all those similar posts saying "Hey, MS Office is available for MacOS X - now it can be easily ported to *NIX," the real story is that games ported to Mac are largely Mac-specific because they're using a Mac-only API. And - pardon the rant here - the Mac-only Carbon API will be dominant until all those Mac luddites out there who are clinging to MacOS

The bottom line is that while MacOS X is a great step forward for *NIX marketshare on the desktop, don't expect it to translate into a step forward for *NIX games despite the fairly robust current Mac game market.

P.S. - If any moderators just read the first two paragraphs of my post and mod it down as flamebait, TEHY ARE TEH SUX0RS AND I WILL RAELGUN THEM!!!!

>"Use Linux! it makes your smart!"

YUO == RIIT!

The poster for Two Towers. You have to scroll to the bottom of the page.

I personally prefer David Crane's A Boy and His Blob

Oh yes, definitely the best David Crane game ever! :) Sadly though, 99% of my friends hated this game much like the Something Aweful author (who rated the game -48 out of 50.) I guess it takes all kinds.

For those of us that loved the game, apparently there will be a version for the Gameboy Advance as this was my first google result for the title of the game: Boy and his Blob

Although David Crane is most famous for his Pitfall! creation, I personally prefer David Crane's A Boy and His Blob, which ran on the 8-bit NES system. The story line of a the boy's blob, and his jellybean consumption is unique. I'd recommend every reader check out the review at SA...I usually don't link to them but in this case I'll make an exception.

Sure, this might be a good sign for general programming evolution, but it didn't prevent the first Black & White from fizzling due to virtually zero replay value and plenty of bugs. PC Gamer gave it an Editor's Choice back in about May 2001, but that was mere weeks after the game was released; months later, player opinion of the game plunged. Black & White, Lionhead, and Peter Molyneux became the butt of many jokes. It wasn't like Id Software's games, where a great engine was held back by a vacuous storyline. The engine was buggy, the principle was weak, and even the AI had problems. People asked themselves whether the developers at Lionhead had played their own game through to the end. Personally, I've learned my lesson after purchasing stinkers like Red Faction purely on the speculations spewed out by "gaming sites", only to find out that the game wasn't worth 1/4th its release MSRP. And it seems that the good games are taking forever to develop since the developers are actually playtesting them and making sure they don't mess up during development. There's going to be a long stretch of time before the good games get released, while the discount devhouses pump out half-developed games by the truckload.

You did spell oppressive as "opressive" in CID;
http://ask.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=38792&cid= 4161583; but that will not derail your argument or distract me from reasonable discussion. That*s two "p's," not one.

I personally use my real account and meta-moderate with it. I make every effort to make anything modded down and mark these as "unfair" without looking at the moderated post. It's almost similar to how I vote in "real life." Since categorically all politicians are corrupted to some degree, I screw the incumbent out of office if I know no great love for him. I may be doing the public a disservice in both cases, but 9 times out of 10 I'm not. Moderators here classically are very aggressive to dole out points in a negative fashion. Humans by nature are like this. They would rather trample on others to "get up." I meta-moderate all positive moderations as "fair." This is because there is not enough love here. If "-1" was truly reserved for just crap (disgusting ascii art, offtopic, crap flooding), I would not feel this way. But I feel compelled to read comments, if at all, at -1, because most of the wittiest and acerbic humor and insights come from the bowels of the comments." +5", which I can obtain with almost certainty on my real account [but have now chosen not to be a boot-licking serf anymore and start expressing disgust], is awarded to extremely crafty humorous fast responses, which are rare. The rest of the "+5" high mods are generally doled out to linkers, story re-posters, or Katz like ranters who are pseudo intelligent, horribly deficient in geopolitical knowledge or world politics, ultra left wing idiots, SUV hating dip-shits (eg; those who don*t blame fossil fuels in general but just one vehicle that burns fossil fuels, but they would charge an electric car from a coal factory which is less efficient that an SUV) and other sorts of geek-socialist types. Lots of decent commentary in 3-4 range. Because most people can post at +2, there is a lot of crap in the 1-2 range. But "+5" to me always seems to have a major format-lick-ball-editor-sheeple-emulator feel to it. I'm rarely impressed.

All in all, I do visit Slashdot daily, with very low expectations, a grave hatred for that fucking Mega Tokyo anime shit, and annoyed at ads that my inline html proxy/editor doesn*t catch.

I might suggest Ars Technica: The PC enthusiast's resource,The Register * sure it can be crap, but I like it, * the Inquirer and Wired News. Also, for humor, I would strongly recommend Cliff [& Enoch] Yablonski and of course plain Something Awful.

Seriously, I believe a lot of the Slashdot visitation is by trolls, genuinely decent nerdy types (vast minority, even more minute are the ones who are both nerdy and informed/educated/intelligent), and horribly afflicted pre pubescent teens with raging online hormones due to frustrations in real life.

Its gone from bad to worse. The latest was 50 Karma being "Excellent." Is that like, totally, Bill and Ted's Bodacious EXCELLENT adventure or what dude. Lets go watch Anime before we graduate high school. Oh shit, My DBZ fetish got my grades suck, dude. Ill have to go for my GED over my Wind0Z3 XP machine now and pretend im using Linux, man.

You did spell oppressive as "opressive" in CID;
http://ask.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=38792&cid= 4161583; but that will not derail your argument or distract me from reasonable discussion. That*s two "p's," not one.

I personally use my real account and meta-moderate with it. I make every effort to make anything modded down and mark these as "unfair" without looking at the moderated post. It's almost similar to how I vote in "real life." Since categorically all politicians are corrupted to some degree, I screw the incumbent out of office if I know no great love for him. I may be doing the public a disservice in both cases, but 9 times out of 10 I'm not. Moderators here classically are very aggressive to dole out points in a negative fashion. Humans by nature are like this. They would rather trample on others to "get up." I meta-moderate all positive moderations as "fair." This is because there is not enough love here. If "-1" was truly reserved for just crap (disgusting ascii art, offtopic, crap flooding), I would not feel this way. But I feel compelled to read comments, if at all, at -1, because most of the wittiest and acerbic humor and insights come from the bowels of the comments." +5", which I can obtain with almost certainty on my real account [but have now chosen not to be a boot-licking serf anymore and start expressing disgust], is awarded to extremely crafty humorous fast responses, which are rare. The rest of the "+5" high mods are generally doled out to linkers, story re-posters, or Katz like ranters who are pseudo intelligent, horribly deficient in geopolitical knowledge or world politics, ultra left wing idiots, SUV hating dip-shits (eg; those who don*t blame fossil fuels in general but just one vehicle that burns fossil fuels, but they would charge an electric car from a coal factory which is less efficient that an SUV) and other sorts of geek-socialist types. Lots of decent commentary in 3-4 range. Because most people can post at +2, there is a lot of crap in the 1-2 range. But "+5" to me always seems to have a major format-lick-ball-editor-sheeple-emulator feel to it. I'm rarely impressed.

All in all, I do visit Slashdot daily, with very low expectations, a grave hatred for that fucking Mega Tokyo anime shit, and annoyed at ads that my inline html proxy/editor doesn*t catch.

I might suggest Ars Technica: The PC enthusiast's resource,The Register * sure it can be crap, but I like it, * the Inquirer and Wired News. Also, for humor, I would strongly recommend Cliff [& Enoch] Yablonski and of course plain Something Awful.

Seriously, I believe a lot of the Slashdot visitation is by trolls, genuinely decent nerdy types (vast minority, even more minute are the ones who are both nerdy and informed/educated/intelligent), and horribly afflicted pre pubescent teens with raging online hormones due to frustrations in real life.

Its gone from bad to worse. The latest was 50 Karma being "Excellent." Is that like, totally, Bill and Ted's Bodacious EXCELLENT adventure or what dude. Lets go watch Anime before we graduate high school. Oh shit, My DBZ fetish got my grades suck, dude. Ill have to go for my GED over my Wind0Z3 XP machine now and pretend im using Linux, man.

Be sure to try Rich "Lowtax" Kayanka's take on DDR:

http://www.somethingawful.com/article.php?id=142

It's quite fun, with two action-packed levels of flash goodness.

A must read. Hopefully doesn't get redir'ed. ;)

http://www.somethingawful.com/article.php?id=378

The last entry is no joke. The kids you'll find in Hawaiian and Californian arcades (in my experience) just don't mess around.

I guess every generation needs its killer app arcade game. Back in my day (said the ancient 20-something), it was 2-D fighters like Street Fighter II et al. Seeing my nieces and nephews dominate the DDR machines reminds me of when _I_ was the little Asian punk keeping everyone else off the SF2 machine. =P I guess the difference (actual non-violent physical activity vs. non-physical fantasy violence) is a good one, but I'm too set in my fuddy-duddy fighter ways ever to give DDR a shot.

I'll take a joystick or Ascii Pad FT over a dance mat/platform any day.

< tofuhead >

This topic wouldn't be complete without a link to this.

That is all.

If you place a link in a comment that you write, please check that the server is alive first, or at least click on the links in the comment preview.

Are you a Top Hacker?

Lowtax and Penny Arcade said it. Best. Fark 'um.

It'd be the most unfunny thing in the universe

Seriously, I really don't get what the fuss is about UF.
btw, the entire content of that article can be summed up as: http://www.somethingawful.com/guides/comics/comic- uf-after.gif

VRML is the future!

Flash back to 1998, before the Y2k bug ended civilization and killed us all and all that stuff... VRML was going to be the "next big thing, honestly, trust us on this".

Imagine what knocking good fun Biff would have with this 3D hoo-hah.

Or JeffK, for that matter.

According to the guys at Something Awful, they've already hacked the Xbox (it's big, LOL!), and have successfully gotten Lunix to run. They also claim that they've won $200,000 from an anonymous doner (cough Nintendo). Is this total BS?

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