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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.
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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Alex Bischoff
HTML/CSS coder for hire
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?
Microsoft would make this out to be a good thing, "It is a rock solid OS" :( I think it crashes harder than a rock ;-)
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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_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
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
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?
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
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?
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});
In the future, please only post if you're going to rip on Slashdot's editors. Thank you.
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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.
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
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]
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
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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.
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!
That's a great idea for a song!
:)
Will the real Bruce Perens Please Stand Up
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.