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I guess we'll be seeing a lot more of this shirt.

Another of the plug-and-play multiple game controllers is the Power Joy III, which packs 84 NES games (though many were never released in America, and one is, unusually, marked as having been created in 2003), and also comes with one of those silly LCD foo-hundred in ones, which is really just a few games with different speeds/difficulties. ThinkGeek used to carry it (which is how I got it), but it seems to have vanished from their lineup.

Interesting to read about this guy. For one thing he's so damn French. For another, I was just in Melbourne, Australia a couple of months ago and I actually saw one of these big space invader symbols on a wall in an alleyway. I thought it was kinda cool at the time... the fact that there are apparently hundreds of them all over the world is also quite cool. I wonder how many will survive the passage of time.

You can replicate the Invader's feats with this stuff from ThinkGeek (with which I am in no way affiliated).

Geeks like toys too, you know!

*cough*

Invasion of privacy? ... Yes. However in this day in age when the "average joe/jane" prefers to not stand up for his/her rights others are somewhat painted into a corner. And as the famous Bugs Bunny said "If you can't beat them, join them"

And here's is how I do it. I have three spots I can toss a headless server running linux in a basement. (My Dad's basement - Cable, My Mother's basement - Cable, and My Grandmother's basement - DSL) Most ISP's don't block or legaly restrict port 22 for SSH access. So I set up some secure Linux boxes all with SSH and X tunneling. I toss PuTTY [www.chiark.greenend.org.uk] and TightVNC [www.tightvnc.com] on my Wrist Watch [www.thinkgeek.com] and I'm all set to abide by there arcaine rules and yet all MY stuff is safe secure and packaged away on secure Linux boxes and many layers of encryption. They can't legally invade that.

As for a Desktop; I would suggest an alternate OS. In the past 4 years I have been able to live without a windows based machine (Yeah I fix them all the time) but I personally never had the need for one (Except some games which I quickly satisfy using a PS2, Thanks to WA, Windows Anonymous)

Yes, I carry a handgun for those few ISP's that block port 22 (That would be a joke!)

If you promise it will help, I'll start floating a sign over my head.

Personally, I don't mind telling a single person "just looking" or whatever, but by the third in the same department one is driven to madness.

Everythinglinux.com.au , selling all things linux related.

Kind of like a Thinkgeek for Australia (and they accept BPAY!) :D

Everythinglinux.com.au, selling all things linux related.

Kind of like a Thinkgeek for Australia (and they accept BPAY!) :D

Is there a way to bypass the conference go right for the swag?

Yep:

• Here or
• Here.

Of course, you may have to actually pay for the stuff this time . . .

I'm hoping the red and green laser pointers will work on the screen, too. Otherwise it's back to the old fashioned cane!

...have a look Anything like that would be pretty cool as a work place

we couldn't help but bring along a lot of equipment and decided we'd hunt for open wireless spots, this friends- was "War Kayaking" we found a ton
You absolute nerds! Also, why didn't you just use the Smart ID Wifi detector? It's only $25, and therefore it trumps any pocket PC. Plus you don't risk as much if you get wet: something that tends to happen frequently when I Kayak. :-) (that and getting stuck in the damn thing, upside-down)

This is exactly the kind of shit that makes me glad I chose the HP-120 over an iPod. Currently convering all my CDs to Ogg. :)

It might be slightly off-topic, but I just CAN'T resist posing a like to THIS here. Heh heh.

Now, if only Swatch would come out with a metric time piece.

Psh. Real geeks use binary.

Don't just go wireless, try a nice deskless mouse. This $80 wireless gyroscopic mouse might work for you. The gyro feature allows you to use it in mid-air without the need for a desk/table/podium. Radio (no line of sight needed!) range is listed at 25 feet, but I've been able to use mine from futher than that. Works as a normal opical mouse when placed on a flat surface. Requires a simple USB port and any old generic mouse driver will do. Battery life for continual use is about 6-8 hours, rechargs in one hour. The antenna plugs into your USB port; the recharger is independant and just needs any old power plug. The mid-air gyroscopic control is a lot more sensitive than you could imagine. The first thing I thougt when I got mine was "I could game with this thing!"

Refutation, Sire, of Thine .sig ("Don't be obnoxious, or I'll replace you with a Perl script."):

'Tis hilarity-ensuing non pareil, in its stead, withe this right'ere "original" phrasing, agreest thou not?

Lo, fore 'tis in thar emphasized part:

"[...], or I will replace you with a very small shell script."

...is everyone loses
Highbred devices are the best example of this. Just as a swiss army knife is almost passable for everything (except, the knife) a cellphone pda with a camera allows you to take sub par pictures on a sub par cellphone on your barely functional pda while listening to mp3s on your 1 hour of battery life
And, while technology will improve in this area and allow for better hybredisation (everything is going to have an mp3 player built in. even toothbrushes, i'm sure of it) certain devices can only be so small and still be considered useable. The fact is, i have yet to see a PDA/cellphone that wasn't the smallest PDA/blukiest cellphone one could never quite use.
Hybredisation is just a natural symptom of companies lacking true inovation and trying to pretend other wise (hmmm... we have a toaster... we also have staplers... nobody has thought of making TOASTER STAPLERS BEFORE!!!)
Far more likely is the idea of several deviceses intercommunicating and specialising. Design devices like software! Lets call your cellcameraDA Mozilla. Now lets call your cellphone firefox and your camera thunderbird. Avoid the hardware bloat! no good can come of it.
All that aside, I still want a swiss army knife with a usb drive. Now that is the future!!!

That's old news. We already have such a knife.

television with caller id would be very useful... i'm already watching tv and my phone rings... i would love to see the number on the screen. it might take away some thinkgeek sales though.

And this is? It's been done before, and I haven't heard of any problems stemming from a clear case.

I wish they would do another tour in Flanders. I would know what to wear.
what to bring along.
And where to get someone to get me out of prison again.

Sounds like a fair assumption to me...</bad joke>

Why can't people on /. figure out that opening and closing tags should be balanced, like parentheses and square braces in C++ or Java? I could understand occasionally forgetting the closing tag if you've been wasting too many years editing HTML with Emacs (in which case you have my sympathy). But the opening tag...how could you?

Ninwa, should you happen to read this reply, I suggest that you imagine me wearing a black t-shirt with <geek> on the front and </geek> on the back. Naturally, it encloses content.

strap a helium baloon to it!

I imagine you would need quite a large volume of helium to lift something like that.

Did you ever try to hang something to that helium baloon you got for free at the fair? It can lift a piece of paper and not much more.

Check this flying saucer. This big bag of helium can lift only a small battery, receiver and an electric motor. Strap a PDA to it, and you would probably need twice the volume.

I guess you could do better if you used hydrogen, but then I don't think anyone would be confortable with a big bag of explosive gas automaticaly following him.

That's nothing. How about a cassette deck, cigarette lighter, and an aquarium?

That's nothing. How about a cassette deck, cigarette lighter, and an aquarium?

That's nothing. How about a cassette deck, cigarette lighter, and an aquarium?

Why are companies allowed to get away with this crap just because we pay them for their shoddy wares?

Because It Takes a Lot Less Time and Most People Won't Notice the Difference Until It's Too Late.

I was poking about on Thinkgeek just yesterday and saw a mouse that you might like here

After reading through the article not, I realized that all those drives are no match for the USB Devil Duckie Drive.

But I'm wondering if they reviewed anything that was inside of this little beastie.

And if what some of the above posters have put up about washer/dryer incidents is true, you can STILL take it into the bath with you!

This is so true. I'm afraid that his management does not understand this though. You just have to make them understand that computers products won't mater in the future... Knowledge will. Why? Because cost associated with copying data is next to none, so unless you force your customer to buy multiple copy, only a single copy is going to be bought.

If, on the contrary, you give away the product but charge for services, you will have a large customer, and, while you won't have the monopoly on services for your product, your will still control developpement done over the said product.

That is the direction that IBM is heading: Consulting. Why? If You're Not A Part Of The Solution, There's Good Money To Made In Prolonging The Problem.

:)

My wife told me it was either her or the video games

God I'll miss her!

I have the perfect t-shirt to recommend to the guys at the Slashdot Spelling and Grammar Department.

You know... I never saw myself ever wanting to see this film, but now I have a reason. Oh yes, a very good reason. (Insert evil laugh here)

You know... I never saw myself ever wanting to see this film, but now I have a reason. Oh yes, a very good reason. (Insert evil laugh here)

There are a several demos with source on the website.

-Teidou

If this ain't enough to wake you up in the morning : Hardcore Java! The extra caffeine kick.

However, having everyone wear ties is obviously a bad idea. There are safety issues to be concerned with (the point of the article...I would argue maybe doctors should bypass the tie) and there are practicality issues. If someone is sitting at a desk answering phone calls all day or coding, there is no point in be dressed to the nines. However, someone involved with the public should be concerned about their appearance. You should practice good personal hygeine, clean your cloths and wear cloths appropriate to the situation.

Ties don't adorn rank, they don't say "I'm important". Ties are merely a reflection of your attitude about your workplace. If a tie is appropriate and you chose not to wear one, I think that says a lot about your attitude. There a tons of different ties out there. Find one that reflects your personality and have fun with it. No one ever said a tie had to be black and lifeless. Hell, you can even get ties at ThinkGeek that decry the use of ties. There ya go, the best of both worlds.

You should ask for this instead.

It just seems more appropriate.

I will fix your computer in return for one of these.

Get all the Caffeine you want

What's wrong with the metaverse? A utopia, perhaps.

Regarding the taking of binary input directly, are you referring to the bitmap/binary scroll that infected people with Snow crash? Hiro never suspected that anyone could read it or understand it directly. It was supposed to be pseudo-magical, somehow tickling the pathways in your brain that had opened due to your understanding of binary. It's part of the fiction.

Besides, there certainly are people who can read binary directly, just as there are people who speak fluent Klingon. Never underestimate the obsessive nature of a geek. Seems popular enough.

I'll second that one. Bawls is AWESOME stuff. I can slam a 10oz bottle and be wired for like the next 6 hours. Plus it tastes great (kinda like punch but w/o the vodka), and the bottles look damn nifty stacked ontop of my computer desk.
I've got a whole case of 24 sitting in my room right now... which reminds me, I need to go out and buy some more soon!

But yeah, for me... Bawls is the ONLY way to fly.

My question is, where is the legendary Bawls that ThinkGeek made so popular? It has a certain class being in a blue bottle with a simple label like that, that the canned beverages with all their pizzazz lack.

Real men drink Bawls...

"at $46,000"

I for one would like to know just how much benefit the extra $45,845.02 gets you after being able to get something similar with this ($39.99) and this ($114.99) and maybe some duct tape or super glue.

I understand that an infrared camera and a microphone will add a few extra hundred, but the thing, once again, will be defeated by stairs, and the extra bit of ruggedness can be overcome by getting a few dozen of the cheaper off the shelf things instead.

Not to make light of somebody's research, but this is just someone who is out for some grant money from the government considering the current administration's willingness to spend on all things military (well, tech in the military at least).

"at $46,000"

I for one would like to know just how much benefit the extra $45,845.02 gets you after being able to get something similar with this ($39.99) and this ($114.99) and maybe some duct tape or super glue.

I understand that an infrared camera and a microphone will add a few extra hundred, but the thing, once again, will be defeated by stairs, and the extra bit of ruggedness can be overcome by getting a few dozen of the cheaper off the shelf things instead.

Not to make light of somebody's research, but this is just someone who is out for some grant money from the government considering the current administration's willingness to spend on all things military (well, tech in the military at least).

PEBKAC--and it's on a T-shirt.

Just order some of these

I just purchased the one that says -
Confidential - read this and I'll have to kill you