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mobiux wrote in about the
resurrection of Packard Bell PC's.
michael.creasy told us about Darth Vader's MBE.
An anonymous coward wrote in to tell us about the GameSpy interview of Martin Feldhausen, inventor of the 'extra life.' Thanks for helping me get through all those games!
mcryptic shared the link to an online gallery of mousepad art.
payneinthe told us that Randal Schwartz uploaded pictures from the Perl Whirl.
Another anonymous coward told us about someone's visual response to the loss of Paul Steed at id.
HerrNewton noted the symphony written primarily for dot matrix printers, and rasterbator told us about a web site for the distribution of free GNU and Open Source related artwork.
Ant sent in the link to Star Wars Origins, and illumina mentioned RSA en/decryption in JavaScript. Have a good weekend, everyone!
Why would anyone want to bring out a new line of PC's under the Packard Bell brand? You'd be better off starting at ground zero. I guess the only thing that can really kill a brand name is an airline crash (think ValuJet, now AirTran).
The first movement is slow and kind of ominous, with a deep continous sound, and various clicking ones layered overtop.
The tempo increases as this movement continues.
The second starts with a more familliar sound of a carriage moving abck and forth, and what might be a daisy-wheel printer tapping the rhythm. This is a continuous theme throughout this movement.
The third starts with a simple squeking sound with rhythm imposed by the carriages moving in unison.
It then has a few slashes, possibly black lines on the page, scraping aginst the ear.
The tempo rapidly increases after this, almost sounding like a klaxon before a final slash and ending.
I like it. Get a crossfading plugin for whatever soundplayer you use, it sounds better that way with all 3 mp3's fading nicely to each other.
"Clinton first signed the bill on paper, then did his own card-swiping and mouse-clicking, expressing apparent relief when it all worked.He inserted a card encoded with his signature into a computer and entered the code name 'Buddy' -- which happens to be the name of his dog. The presidential signature appeared on the screen. The president grinned."
-- Associated Press, 30-Jun-2000. Emphasis added.
OK, kids, now don't go ordering quad Xeons on the President's credit card ...
Corollary to Moore's Law: The IQ of new computer owners is declining.
The second starts with a more familliar sound of a carriage moving abck and forth, and what might be a daisy-wheel printer tapping the rhythm.
A daisy wheel printer in the symphony for dot matrix printers?! Thats harmonic sacrilige! Beethoven is probably turning over in his grave!
-- iCEBaLM
The caption on the picture of Vader says something about being voiced by James Earl Jones.
I know he did the voice in at least in ANH, (probably also ROTJ) but I thought he didn't for ESB (which the picture seems to be from). Does anyone else remember this or am I imagining things again? (Too lazy to dig out the VHS and look for myself -- DAMN Lucas for not releasing those on DVD!)
That's pretty cool that he got his MBE, but what is up with getting it now for something he had been doing from 76? Do they usually award these this far after the fact?
There is much cruelty in the universe, John.
Yeah, we seem to have the tour map.
You are missing something. That is, the joke.
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No more e-mail address game - see my user info. Time for revenge.
Win dain a lotica, en vai tu ri silota
I thought I'd seen this somewhere before.
Really. This is out of hand.
/.ians submitted the article based on this? And now we see it keep creeping up? Get real.
/. influences the mindset of geeks. I get geeks phoning me telling me about something a freind told a friend who told a friend.. who I *know* saw it on /..
One day someone posts it in one of their followup comments to another story.
2 days later, it appears as a frontpage link.
Seing as how the page has been there for ages.. could it be that a bunch of
It's funny how much
I guess the ressurection will not be televised?
Fist Prost
"We're talking about a planet of helpdesks."
-Jaron Lanier
The link for the Packard Bell news needs to end in .html not .htm
The Feldhausen story is amusing, but it has got to be a joke. My favourite quote is:
Very funny, /.
Hi!
NEC resurrects Packard Bell
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"HORSE."
"HORSE."
-Flaming Carrot
I've always wondered if mousepads would become a collectors stylepoint of the 90's. Like Pokemon, Magic or Garbage Pail Kids each have their timelines, we will be charting the progress of computer science by what mousepads we can pick up in the thrift store.
In fact, they also make great wall art. Accumulate a couple hundred and you have a mosaic of computer culture tiled on your wall or ceiling. I suppose the similarity of having soft padded walls might make you look a bit crazy though, eh?
Nice collection, though it might be easier to browse if their were thumbnails for each section.
"I have a cunning plan..."
- Stupid motherboard/case shapes prevented meaningful upgrades.
- Monitor lost sync at anything better than 640x480x256.
- Hard drive had an ever-increasing number of bad sectors.
- Single IDE port couldn't handle slave devices for some reason.
Nowadays I put together my own systems, but still... I don't like to see other people get burned.-- $SIGNATURE
Compaq => unnaturally-shaped cases (containing nonstandard components)
Packard Bell => cheap white plastic (containing absolutely the most shitty components available on Earth).
Contrary to the popular belief, there indeed is no God.
Excellent! When the score's above 10000, the lives just keep on incremementing!
How 'bout (in increasing order of obscenity):
if ((score % 10000 == 0) && (score > 0))
lives++;
or
lives += ((score % 10000 == 0) && (score > 0)) ? 1 : 0;
or
lives += (int) ((score % 10000 == 0) && (score > 0));
He still didn't need to fly over, though!
"Great Scott!"
"What... What the hell is a Quickiewatt?"
They made their little add thingie and had it printed on about 50 "pages" of mouse pad like material, had it bound
If one layer got dirty/trashed (they were almost as good as the el cheapo brand pads) then tyou'd just rip it off and have a fresh pad.
Cool 'eh? Mouse pad art in a different way
Aaron "PooF" Matthews
I wonder if anyone's tried to get /etc/passwd from whitehouse.gov released under the Freedom of Information Act?
FOIA has exceptions for national security, and I'm sure that's how they'd argue against releasing that information. Either that, or they'd give you a printout with lots of black rectangles where the sensitive data is. That's always fun.
#VRML V2.0 utf8
For all intensive purposes, "whom" is no longer a word. That begs the question, "who cares"?
Is this like slashdot's version of the "numbers" stations
No. All 3 of those stories that were posted in the last 1 day have only a 33% chance of containing hidden meanings for 7 specific individuals.
#VRML V2.0 utf8
For all intensive purposes, "whom" is no longer a word. That begs the question, "who cares"?
It certainly does not ignore that. To paraphrase the guy, how can you compare a steel ball to the infinite complexities of human life? There's no relationship :-)
* And remember, it's spelled N-e-t-s-c-a-p-e, but it's pronounced "Mozilla."
This posting by emmitt is in violation of the Quickie FAQ, which clearly states that quickies must contain at least two of the following:
* Something by Eric Raymond
* Something blasting Microsoft
* Something by Eric Raymond blasting Microsoft
* Something about Natalie Portman (close on the SW quickie)
* Something about hot grits (whatever.)
* Something blasting Metallica
* Something trumpeting (heh!) Napster
* Something by Natalie Portman blasting Metallica while eating hot grits
* The Furby Autopsy link that always always always get reposted
* My site, which has funny eBay auctions and only made the quickie list once, and that was a year ago.
* Something blasting Microsoft
* A bad argument about why Jon Katz is a giant giant loser
* A good argument about why Jon Katz is a giant giant loser
* CowboyNeal
I think what's really cool is that games are starting to take a turn for the more realistic.
:)
case in point: Counterstrike - the extraordinarily popular half-life mod that basically gives you one life. when you die, you're dead. No respawn (at least till the 5 minute or so match has ended).
Perhaps, in a addition to teaching our children about violence, games will begin to teach children about the consequences of violence. It may be a bit basic, but then again, so is the video game violence. - Maybe some of these "violent" video games will show kids that, while violence may seem fun on a TV screen, there are *real* consequences for our actions...people do get hurt, and some times, that person is you.
On one other note. I really want to say thank you to the guys over at Gamespy - that has got to be one of the biggest bang for your buck i've gotten out of any piece of software in a long time. (Linux anyone????) - Really good design, configurability without any learning curve. The only thing i could ask for is a linux port
FluX
After 16 years, MTV has finally completed its deevolution into the shiny things network
"It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once." -David Hume