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Won't The Real Quickies Please Stand Up?
Let's get back into the quickie
portege00 sent in linkage to
Robot Store where you can buy parts
to build a Battlebot. Maybe after
I finish my MAME cabinet ;) Speaking of MAME, Martin Hock claims that it
makes in appearance in Godzilla 2000,
check it out.
Ever through of using a beverage as a weapon?
Innominate sent in a weapon
that uses pop cans
as ammo. I'll just stick to coffee:
Matador sent in the TCP/IP
equipped Espresso Machine,
but I'd tend to rather go
the other way (thanks again Ant).
matth sent in a cool page that
has Dr Seuss Art
for sale- the man did some really excellent work.
If Seuss is to arty for ya, maybe SkippyVision can help; he sent us to
the Etch-a-sketch
art Gallery.
If you need something to wear to the gallery, foondog
sent us hats made of meat.
If you think dandruff is an unhealthy food risk,
Boolean sent us what might be
the greatest meal ever. How can you resist a bowl of soup that morphs into
a Ninja Asassin.
While we're talking about Japanese stuff,
Ant continues to submit quickies
at a frenzied pace, like Mathematical Origami.
webword sent in a site that explains how
to make lightsaber
effects with basic video editing tools.
And it just wouldn't be quickies without rampant Microsoft Bashing:
List knows what happens when you combine
WinCE, WinME, and WinNT: Coming soon to a frys near you.
Khan showed us where Microsoft got the
inspiration for XBox's Controller, and
Ron Harwood sent us linkage to the
best MCSE Trainer around.
they do this shit on purpose. Generates more ad hits with all the flame, redundant posts...
For:
:^)
1) Comes up with Slashdot
2) 133t graphic art skills
3) original alias
4) rich as all fuck
5) gets to screw around on Slashdot all day long and GETS PAID FOR IT!
Against:
1) created Slashdot in _perl_ for god's sake!
2) amazingly bad grammar
3) even worse spelling
4) can't even create simple HTML to save his friggin' life (see the link for the word 'ant' in the above, you'll see what happened.)
5) doesn't understand how to use the PREVIEW option ON HIS OWN SITE
6) doesn't understand the concept of 'check your links before submitting' - ON HIS OWN SITE
Hmm...seems the scales tip in favour of...CODE IDIOT!
Not that that's a bad thing...
Don't worry, Taco, we still wubs ya...but DAMN!
I'm considering starting an online petition for this. Do you think that'd work?
Alex Bischoff
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At the time of /.'s creation, I'm pretty sure Perl was the only Open Source language with sufficiently mature support for that sort of thing. I suspect that complaint was just a troll.
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Although this may be a fake, it is possible.
My friends and I have done it.
We built a basic varriant of a spud gun with a 4 ft PVC barrel that was just big enough to hold cans.
So we tried it. And did it ever work.
We blew bark off of trees, we lost several cans as well. We had no way to guage how fast it was going, but we were launching it with ~80 psi from a pressure tank that was over twice the diamater but only 2 feet long.
We would fire at about a 75 degree angle and the can would go over 100 yards. It was a fun time.
Ah, the fun you can have in the country.
-I just work here... how am I supposed to know?
How lax our society is when people have time to complain about grammar. Worse to actually imply that it causes pain.
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got a 5/5 on my birthday...
/. Nothing could make my golden birthday better -- except maybe getting laid ;)
ahh, the joys of life. Making fun of MS *and* getting a 5/5 on
Microsoft would make this out to be a good thing, "It is a rock solid OS" :( I think it crashes harder than a rock ;-)
Looks like somebody forgot to close a quote in that HTML there. Take a look at
http://minidisco.com/minispecs/lunchbots.html
To see the ninja soup bowl things.
Since slashdot is now part of a company that is traded on the public market... can't the shareholders demand that that Rob either get fired or take a class or two in remedial English?
Maybe he is just drunk or high when he posts this crap?
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I must be a bit of a girly then - I had lots of fun with my toy soldiers (kind of like very small dolls, that get knocked over a lot to simulate death), my playmobile (again, doll-like figures - they even had clothes, armour, etc and the dollhouses were fantastic - castles, bakeries, prisons, complex villages, etc), my action man (who under my tutelage performed acts of stunning heroism) and so on.
Or maybe my current enjoyment of UT, CM3 and Zangband is down to owning a computer as a kid, which I played with almost as much as the above.
Face it, the 80s were a great decade for toys, and if anything, the current selection of high-tech automated electronic devices are substituting features for the childrens' imaginations - kids can make up stories about two rocks if they want to, modern toys merely appeal by being flashier, not necessarily better.
~Cederic
or at least let someone else post? or at least stop smoking crack?
"If you think dandruff is an unhealthy food risk, Boolean sent us what might be the greatest meal ever. How can you resist a bowl of soup that morphs into a Ant is back with Mathamatical Oragami."
um, yeah.
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Some people have rotoscoped light sabers in Blender as well. Once the initial setup is done, it's probably easier than the Photoshop method. I can't find the first link that I'd seen it on, but here is another.
Sheesh, enough whining already. So, he left out one little ". Big deal, I'm sure someone will fix it in a few minutes anyway. And maybe there are a few spelling mistakes, but as Mark Twain said, "I don't give a damn for a man that can only spell a word one way." It's a poor mind that has nothing to do other than pick apart the work of others.
_A note to the editor_
Holy shit, Taco.
In 3 years of Slashdot I've grudgingly tolerated your atrocious spelling, but you just don't change.
You're illiterate. You can't even spell.
Mathamatical? Damn, aren't you ashamed of this?
That, added to your regular trolling and clueless comments pisses me off.
I'm outta here.
Flavio
Taco screwed up the link, here's the right one:
Ninja Assassin
compound? hell, I need that kind of firepower to defend my dorm room. You never know when terrorists will take the building, requiring the use of force to save life and limb.
;)
The stuff from birdman looks like just the thing I'll need.
-Smitty the Paranoid
± 29 dB
If you don't believe me, look at this "product" on the same site.
It's really just a joke, okay?
-Smitty the Not-So-Gullible
± 29 dB
This stuff is quite innappropriate for this forum.
Mathmatical Origami is in there twice i think. Or it might just be this great cough medicine I've been drinking all day. Now only if I had a cough.
Is it just me or are some of the links broken?
Or not there at all in the quickies? And I'm seeing double! AHHH! hehehe
I still don't know whether to take this site seriously. It's a weird world we live in.
.22 full automatics? At 5 feet tall you should be able to fit a thousand rounds. Talk about the ultimate 'heads-down' weapon...
BTW, how many rounds per minute does an UZI fire? Be nice to know how long you could spray with that 5 foot tall, 300 round UZI clip.
I wonder if they make one of those for
These guys are either serious (in which case, I'm frightened), or they have quite the sense of humor.
War is Peace. Freedom is Slavery. Ignorance is Strength. - George Orwell or George Bush?
From the origami math site:
:). Who comes up with these things? And I want their job if they have that much free time.
:P
Anyone who has practiced origami has probably, at one time or another, unfolded an origami model and marveled at the intricate crease pattern which forms the "blueprint" of the fold.
I dunno about all of you guys, but the last time I unfolded a origami art paper, I never got it back together, unless crumpling it up after being frustrated counts
FreeBSD? Is that some sort of company? -- Some guy at work today, heh.
now what, kind of drugs could have done this...
how could Taco, repeat, hats of meat, bowl of ants, and math oragmi....
nmarshall
The law is that which it boldly asserted and plausibly maintained..
nmarshall
The law is that which it boldly asserted and plausibly maintained..
--Colonel Burr 1783
I bet after this, Mountain Dew is going to open a can of whoopass on them for using their name in a way "other than intended". Look out guys!
Those soup bowl toys reminded me of all the cheap gobot and Transformer knockoffs during the transformer craze of the mid-80s. Even Coke had a can that transformed into a robot(search for it on www.x-entertainment.com). I personally had a knockoff toy that was a little camera that turned into a robot, that shot little plastic bullets out of its "flash". No, it was not the ultra-rare Decepticon Reflector.
I miss those kinda toys. I guess I should scour the asian supermarkets to find any remnants of cheap asian knockoff toys. Forget Beast Wars.
I didn't even think of looking at that site/article, but after what you just described, I am now!
You obviously didn't look at the OTHER use for the cordless phone gun, cold-blooded murder:
...problem solved!"
"TERMINATED EMPLOYEE: Have you been fired recently by a idiotic boss? Mail him a ShotCaller2000 in a "plain brown wrapper" with a phone number attached. When your phone rings and it's your ex-boss on the other end saying, "What's this all about?" simply reply, "Your REALLY fired!" and punch in your pre-programmed 3-digit code and BLAM!
Who writes the spiel for this site, a bunch of 15 year olds?
and i quote... ...Summers in Rangoon, Luge lessons, In the spring we made MEAT HELMETS. When I was insolent I was placed in a burlap bag and beaten with reeds, pretty standard really...
http://www.livejournal.com/users/cixel
I'm not done deciphering the post yet...
Justin Dubs
Ah, but does the internet coffee machine comply with the relevant standards?
sub f{($f)=@_;print"$f(q{$f});";}f(q{sub f{($f)=@_;print"$f(q{$f});";}f});
and as for me, yes, I know. (score: -1, troll)
I used to bring my army men to er, life, by setting them on fire and blowing them up with firecrackers.
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Did anyone manage to save a copy of this article before it was fixed? If so, can you post the original text here? I missed it...
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>too bad we don't have Windows DE:) DEMENT
> would have been a great description!
Just a shame CE wasn't called CU. Then we could have left ME out altogether.
In the future, please only post if you're going to rip on Slashdot's editors. Thank you.
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It's rare that you're presented with a knob whose only two positions are Make History and Flee Your Glorious Destiny.
The title says it all.
brian
HA! This is going to be used as an excuse to wire bus stops so that adverts can then be sent by IP instead of paper. Couple this to a camera and you have a strange mix if Brave New World and 1984, mostly 1984.
Reality: You point your PDA or java ring at the bus stop. It lies to you and tells you that the bus will come in two minutes. The programer figured the schedule is never kept so he'd tell you what you wanted to hear. The advert, aware of your presence starts. The police, aware of your presence might have a peek. So might anyone else. The flouescent light flickers and fails.
Friends don't help friends install M$ junk.
Don't click on hatsofmeat.com while drinking something--it's bad for the keyboard. Seriously funny.
If god didn't want us to wear animal parts on our heads, he wouldn't have made them out of meat.
Sweet mother, Taco, have you no shame?
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"Every artist is a cannibal, every poet is a thief."
Somehow, the phrase "Drop em or I'll give you a 6 pack!" doesn't sound so threatening. . .
End if your wandering, thees will bi tha onlee messag noot to mek fon of CmdrTaco.
What manner of asshole needs a laser sight on a shotgun?
Note that he didn't come up with the idea of the game, though. He mentions its roots in this file.
Also note that I am proud to have addicted a large portion of my high school to it. It is a *schweet* game, in terms of its time-wasting abilities. I may not have survived my time in high school without it...
but I'd tend to rather go the other way (thanks again Ant)
Actually, I submitted this one a while back:
2000-12-05 20:45:50 Hardcore Programmer's Power Case (articles,quickies) (rejected)
Thanks, Rob.
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There's an art gallery just behind Ghirardelli Square in San Francisco that sells Dr Suess art. It's not too terribly expensive either (approx $750 a litho) compared to some of the stuff out there (Kinkade lithos average $1500 a pop and they're everywhere)
Paul
-pB
glasscode I believe it was called? Written in Java (JSP I think). Didn't do too well when it was slashdotted. It might have been his machine and his connection but...
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Peace,
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if only there were article moderation... if only there were article moderation... if only there were article moderation...
There's no place like Kuro5hin... There's no place like Kuro5hin... There's no place like Kuro5hin...
Like Tetris? Like drugs? Ever try combining them?
Will I retire or break 10K?
Martin Hock, who sent in the Godzilla MAME sighting, wrote a TI calculator game called Insane Game a while back. A(n unofficial) pixel-perfect PC port of Insane Game is available here (press the T key in game to turn off candy graphics and turn on pixel-perfect mode).
Like Tetris? Like drugs? Ever try combining them?
Will I retire or break 10K?
I sure hope they use the Hyper Text Coffee Pot Control Protocol (HTCPCP/1.0) (rfc2324) for that thingy. It is an RFC in the Informational stage.
We need open standards for coffee. If you don't grasp that, go read more Multatuli.
It's... It's...
"We can confirm that Debian does *not* ship the version with the trojan horse. Our version predates it." [CA-2002-28]
Do you live in europe? Do loud noises and fire scare you? How about potato guns? Just remember, the word 'weapon' is relative.
Only the State obtains its revenue by coercion. - Murray Rothbard
No way in hell are you going to hold a .50 cal BMG barrel down to a piece of wood with duct tape. Theres not even a chamber for the bullet! After the 300 round magazine I kind of got the joke. If you need that much firepower its time for something belt fed. Although a 300 round clip would be handy when those pesky UN troops invade my compound.
Only the State obtains its revenue by coercion. - Murray Rothbard
Like, I haven't read anyone suggest that people make mistakes, and if his post has a few, so what? I don't recall ever having paid a subscription fee to access this site.
slashdot: where everyone yells sarcastic metaphors to themselves to understand the issue
Um, methinks the Cmdr is slipping a bit:
If you need something to wear to the gallery, foondog sent us hats made of meat. If you think dandruff is an unhealthy food risk, Boolean sent us what might be the greatest meal ever. How can you resist a bowl of soup that morphs into a Ant is back with Mathamatical Oragami. If you need something to wear to the gallery, foondog sent us hats made of meat. If you think dandruff is an unhealthy food risk, Boolean sent us what might be the greatest meal ever. How can you resit a bowl of soup that morphs into a Ant continues to submit quickies at a frenzied pace, like Mathamatical Origami.
"If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there'd be a shortage of sand". -Milton F.
Click here to see another really interesting polyhedra site, The Encylopedia of Polyhedra. It has virtual reality polyhedra models, and a lot of other interesting polyhedra information.
"I have not failed. I've simply found 10,000 ways that won't work." --Thomas Edison
Mountain Dew shotgun: You guys do know its fake right?!
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TO BUY A NEW CAR WOULD MAKE YOU SEXUALLY ATTRACTIVE.
Lets all congratulate CmdrTaco on his acceptance into the "Department of Redundancy Department".
Skiers and Riders -- http://www.snowjournal.com
Now that would be entertaining.
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-Be a man. Insult me without using an AC.
- I don't care if they globalize against free speech. All my best free thoughts are done in my head.
The last thing the guy heard was when the head of the Massad called him, told him his name and to listen carefully. The phone was loaded with C4 and blew off his head when the # key was pressed.
science is a religion
sell your certainty and buy bewilderment
someone hit CTRL+V too many times
Actually, from watching police tv shows like COPS and other such sundry crap, the cops many times will throw a corded phone through the window of a house during a hostage-type situation, giving them a direct line to the guy with the gun. The movies are ALWAYS WRONG. WTF did you grow up? LA LA LAND???!
--Chris
Luge lessons...
In the summers we would make meat helmets!
Ah, how hats imitate art imitates life...
--hongpong.com
I know CmdrTaco has given his disclaimers about his inability to correctly spell simple words and form simple sentences, but good god. I invite you all to reread that quickie article. The same sentence is said 2 times, blah blah. DO YOU EVER USE PREVIEW YOURSELF CMDRTACO? It's carelessness, and it's painful to read. CmdrTaco, take some of that 50 mill and enroll yourself into the local primary school.
regards!
I can think of a lot of reasons why Godzilla 2000 would have been written up on Slashdot. After all, it was the first theatrical showing in America in fifteen years of one of the world's best loved science fiction movie series. It is also the first Godzilla to attempt a combination of suitmation and CGI, using the techniques developed in the Mothra series. The villain is none other than a personification of the Y2K bug: the Millenium Monster (later refered to as Orga -- short for Organizer G -- when it developed an organic body). Most of all, only in a Toho kaiju eiga will you have the pleasure of seeing a Windows user called an "imbecile" (while the dubbing made a running joke of it, the sentiment is there in the early part of the movie), not to mention the sole WinCE user being portrayed as the bad guy! ;) This is because Godzilla and Mothra are Mac loving monsters, and without a doubt, Apple's biggest fans (since the mid 1990's at least).
;) When the King of Monsters returned to Tokyo Bay in G2K, it was to an Apple dominated city, where Apple banners hung in the streets and iMacs and G4s waited for Godzilla to come and save them.
.1 million over what would cause TriStar to consider releasing the next G film in theaters. It is now out on DVD. The next G film is currently running in Japan, and in about fifth place, which is considered good for a G film. G2K is now out on DVD to buy and on VHS to rent. If you want to see G back on the big screen again, vote with your wallets at your favorite video place.
In Godzilla vs. Destroyah, Dr. Yamane's grandson proudly displayed an Apple poster in his dorm room. In the 1996 Mothra, Apple was in serious trouble, and Toho was reduced to using Windows. But they blurred the telling parts of the screen so you have to look very carefully to recognize it. At the end of the movie, Mothra resurrects the badly scorched forests of Hokkaido, and apparently there must have been an apple tree in there somewhere. By the next year, with a bit of help from Steve Jobs (okay, lots of help from Jobs), Apple was strong enough again that Toho perched Fairy atop a Performa to celebrate. (I wonder when Apple is going to reintroduce that experimental telepathic feature into their modern lineup?
Speaking of miracles, G2K had almost no advertising, and yet managed to rank somewhere around 84/300 this past summer, and 26th during its second run this past December. It made 10.1 million in the box office, which is
Homage to Mothra, Goddess of Peace and peerless Queen of the Monsters, on the occasion of her 40th aniversary year!
Mary Leibach
That's a great idea for a song!
:)
Will the real Bruce Perens Please Stand Up
too bad we don't have Windows DE:) DEMENT would have been a great description!
i once saw an episode of thats incredible where a guy did art on toast using a weird tinfoil technique..he produced a portrait of john lennon...
in another episode there was a painter who did 5 metre tall paintings in about 5 minutes using both hands at once - he also produced a lennon portrait
the guy's face must lend itself to unusual mediums..
http://199.34.53.67/ramgen/geeks1_112.rm
Please watch this video,
for all you people out their who complain about the quality of Slashdot.
In this video (122 kbs Realplayer) Cmdr Taco explecitly says "I put on there what I like"
Not what you like!!!!!!!
So quit complaining, and if your still not happy, move the Kuro5hin.
Does non-interactive necessarily mean non-stimulating? Sure, GI Joes or their predecessors, lead army men, were static "dolls", but they still inspired children to use their imagination and bring those toys to life. I don't see anything bad about that.
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too bad. that would have been fun.
My other
Anyone else a bit creeped out by this whole thing? I live in "peaceful" neighborhood, but imagine walking down a dark alley and noticing that it is littered with Mountain Dew cans... And then being told the phone is for you...
BTW, one quick logistics thing. When was the last time that you saw a hostage situation on TV and the cops walked in and said "Here. Talk to us on this phone."??! I have no firsthand experience (nor do I expect many people to), but in the movies the cops always call the "badguy" from a cell phone. The "badguy" answers the phone inside. Unless they're suggesting that this replace *all* phones in any building likely to be in a hostage situation?
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suwain_2
Hey, you're good. I couldn't even tell what was written! ;-)
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suwain_2
It no longer talks about soup morphing into "a Ant"...
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suwain_2
I'm just waiting for the news report when one of those spike-swinging behemoths comes down on the head of an 8-year-old who went into his daddy's garage.
I am for the complete Trantorization of Earth.
And this after he rejected my Playstation 3 article...
--Blair
"Yo quiero ESL."
Sure there isn't, I'm just saying that most boys find that boring. I know I did. It is good to use your imagination and create imaginative worlds, but when you are stuck with a piece of plastic for company it gets boring fast, IMO. What you need is an outward looking, non-static interactive toy that you can play with and be imaginative with. Thats what I preferred when I was a child. Childhood is all about varience and imagination untied by sober reality; interactive toys enhance that more than any other kind.
You know exactly what to do-
Your kiss, your fingers on my thigh-
I think of little else but you.
Now though, with modern toys, we are at last getting properly interactive, stimulating and outward looking toys, of the sort that both adults and children enjoy. It seems to me that the 80's were just a bad time for toys (except, perhaps, lego).
You know exactly what to do-
Your kiss, your fingers on my thigh-
I think of little else but you.
wlel since i cant tyep im just gona go fidn hemos and suck on his peenis for a whiel cuz itrs all im good at,,and his pensi tsastes so so gooddd.....
-- CmdrTaco
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-- CmdrTaco
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-- CmdrTaco
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-- CmdrTaco