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Medium Rare Quickies
Let's start this off with some Microsoft parodies:
Polo pointed us to a version of office2000 that many Slashdotters might prefer to the Microsoft version.
Lexie (ask out CowboyNeal!) sent us a Microsoft Monopoly
that you probably won't see in stores.
G. Crisp sent us a Lego Penguin: proof that someone has both too much spare time, and too many legos.
An anonymous reader noted that you can get
AccuWeather®5-Day
Forecast for AREA 51. Forecast calls for black helecopters and Gillian Anderson.
witten sent us a random Jon Katz story generator called (not surprisingly)
Katzdot.
While we're on the subject of Slashdot, it's worth nothing that
ThinkGeek is now carrying new Slashdot T-Shirts. Of course personally I'd prefer the 'Kernel Panic' shot glasses, but then again, I've had a pretty long week.
dayeight sent us something that is pretty indescribible. It involves video games, but presumably it also involved some sort of illegal substances too. I think its a metaphor for something.
How about a few 'True Stories' to brighten up your day (no I'm not talking about zany Talking Heads movies). First
zentropy sent us what seems to be a true story about why sports and Taco Bell just don't mix.
An anonymous reader showed us a woman who is trying to get workers comp from her employer since she got
carpal tunnel... her job involves phones, but it wasn't dialing them that caused the *ahem* injury.
Actually, the T-Shirts are pretty nice. I was going to pick up one of the fleeces, but according to ThinkGeek, there is No back on this one".
Now, maybe it's just me, but if it doesn't COME with a back, then I'd like the option to be able to purchase one seperately, or at least bundled.
Sheesh, as bad as I felt when I bought my HP DeskJet and it didn't come with a printer cable, I'm glad I saw this one early. Or I'd be REALLY pissed.
I was going to make a very snide remark about why does this story constitute news for nerds. But, then I thought about it and realized that I guess CmdrTaco thought that it was something that we could relate to.:-) I also why this was posted up Quickies?
Is that hair gel?
Heh - you checking often enough? (me too..:)
BTW, just so you can't reply and pretend that you don't know I made a mistake in saying "two things" then use that as an excuse to attempt to look intelligent by a post consisting of entirely that, let me eliminate your possibilities of a meaningful reply (if one at all):
I meant "three things." I originally was going to have two points, but decided to inform you of your fucking idiocy and lack of education in the spelling world.
Good day, dumbfuck.
The Techno-Hellmouth Effect: First Blood
I made my whole office look at me when I laughed...
May contain traces of nut.
About the pronunciation, Linus has the definitive word on that, I'm sure.
Unrelated, I, too, have from time to time a mild form of RSI, which I always attributed to my work, combined with hobbying at home behind my own computer. Now I'm getting afraid, that would it come to real harm, I'll have to answer slightly embarrassing questions about my imaginary love-life. Pictures in my mind: "And, sir, how often would you say you resort to take matters in your own hand, eh?" and then getting my claim revoked. That does not bear thinking about.
Mazur
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Only in our dreams are we free. The rest of the time we need wages. -- Terry Pratchett in "Wyrd Sisters".
The truth shall make you fret. (Ankh-Morpork tImes motto)
How the HELL can he have the cajones to plead innocent?
In Spain we say 'cojones'.
I'm afraid that 'Legos' is the common usage in the US, and so universal that I see no chance of it changing.
Strangely, this was the linguistic difference that I found most disturbing whilest living in America, although the crisps/chips/fries and tram/trolley/shopping-cart contortions were more confusing.
thanks! I'll use that one on new years
Berto
"It's Time For Virtual Society and Digital Anonymous Cowards"
Nuff said!
I like how the X-forecast has other locations in the US, one of them being MARS, PA.. That's about 8 miles from where I live.
Lowmag.net
Sure, this tux may have a pixelized, robotic stare; but have you ever noticed the one-true-tux has a disoriented (perhaps substance induced) look in his eyes?
women probably would be affected more... considering that men do that more... and.... uhm. there's a bit more "finger" movement with women.. and ... uhm.. arm movement with men... err
That Katzdot headline generator is good for a laugh, but I was hoping it would actually write an article. You know, like Pakin's automatic complaint letter generator. Oh well.
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grappler
Vidi, Vici, Veni
Where can i get a Kernel Panic shot glass?
Berto
Hmm, I'm wandering exactly how this is physically possible? I mean, he'd have to have the damn thing jammed between the seat and the bowl to start with, wouldn't he? Now I'm curious - I'll have to try this out for myself when I get home...
Lego my penguin!
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Once you hit the power button, you just can't stop hitting it... :)
Why would anybody want so much of this blowhard?
You may think that it is much to early to think about it. It is impossible that 20th century programs would be used in the year 10000, right? Just like programs from the 70's would not be used in the year 2000...
Now do you see what I mean? We have to learn from our bidigit mistakes and make sure that 8000 years from now it will not happen again.
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I don't get it. It all looks pretty confusing. Like a giant mish-mesh to me!
Tuxelized pixels or pixelized tuxels? An open source answer to Godzilla? Lots of free time?
The truth is surely out there. Way, way out there.
hey.
/. talk to each other?
not to be an ass or anything, but the ms-monopoly thing was posted a little over a week ago: http://slashdot.org/a rticle.pl?sid=99/11/23/0045255&mode=thread
do you guys at
john
john
-- john
Is it just me, or is that site just asking to be hammered? Fortunately the pages are small, but come on.. Once you click, you just can't stop reloading the pages.. A virtually unlimited supply of Katz. Who could ask for more?
--- Where's my X.400 protocol decoder?
There really is no such thing as bad press.
Her company probably paid her to sue them.
Geeks everywhere: "See they really do masturbate at the thought of being tied up in 10Base2 and flogged with keyboards. Where is my credit card."
That story is too funny.
dayeight's site is the greatest I love it. smashing absolutely outstanding bravo
Actually, the Y10K bug has already been solved; read RFC2550 for details.
SOA had those problems since a year after the Genesis came out. But so many stupid consumers probably influenced their decisions (the hint books). I think SOA had a policy to stop releasing games in less popular genres and concentrate on sports and action games (Phantasy Star 4)
Is there a real 'Dion Rayford of the Taco Bell incident'? I know that another poster said they know Dion the Hungry, but I seem to remember hearing something similar except that it was a burger joint in Florida. Wow, the birth of a new urban legend... Of course, maybe Dion was just inspired by the earlier story. Or maybe there's a wave of drive-through assaults at fast food places coming and this is Just The Beginning...
"Bugger this, I want a better world." - Jenny Sparks
Another good one: Can MP3s feel pain?
I know, most people will say there's nothing wrong with the joke since it's about video games, but when you know someone who's been raped, anything that mentions it loses all humor.
http://billy.j.mabray/
human://billy.j.mabray/
"Every good system has a backup." -- Dale Hanchey
For some unknown reason, I'm kinda interested in seeing what it looks like, and the site is already gone. Too bad. If anyone grabbed a copy of the picture and can post it somewhere, please do.
Zen
High Schools: An Idea Whose Time Has Come
Can Post-Columbine TV Stop The Virtual 21st Century?
Can Students Learn?
OK, enough... now go read it yourself.
--Milton L. Hankins
Hmmm, they live east of the Mississippi, and I've personally seen them here (Cali) west of it on several occasions, so unless you have an incredibly fortuitous travel schedule, you have indeed been on the same side of that great river as them at some point! (All in good fun, I know what you meant...)
I'd take carpal-tunnels ANY day.
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"They misunderestimated me." --George W Bush, Nov. 6, 2000
Wow, I'm amazed to hear about that carpal tunnel case. I'm happy to hear there's at least one paid phone sex operator that (apparently) gets off for real!
Some of these are pretty classic though. I love that office 2000 parody! And the story about the woman sueing her employer for carpel because of mastubating too much actually says a LOT more about this society than most social commentaries.
"The 21st Century: Model For Androids",
"Can Dying Babies Learn?",
and "The Stock Market Demands Flamers".
Next On Heraldo!
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Kernel panic Shot Glass
Thanks CmdrTaco, this is the perfect place for me to put this.
The Black, X-Large, high quality T-shirts with 'Potentially Dangerous' on the front and 'Mostly Harmless' on the back in white letters are now available. E-mail sleffer@home.com to order one, they will cost 15$ and they won't be ordered until I have either 50 orders or it is dec 20th, so the more people want one the faster we'll all get them. It should take about 4 weeks after the orders come in for everyone to get their shirt. Make sure you include mailing information with your order, all shirts will be shipped COD.
Kintanon
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Having never even been on the same side of the Mississippi as Rob and Jeff, I'd pay for it... :)
Hah! I mock you! I live about an hour away from them, I could visit the compound any time, if I could only FIND it....
Kintanon
(That is assuming the live where I think they do, ie the Baltimore-Washington area)
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I love my slashdot shirt, I got one at Comdex, and wore it on the last day of working my booth in the LBE. (bravely defying company policy) :)
Keep the cool designs coming.
"and no, im not the spot working for Transmeta, although i wish i was..." -- ~spot "i'm the epitome of public enemy..."
..Tuxaibo or Lego Mindstorm Tux.
Donte Alistair Anderson Roberts - hi son!
Karma: Chameleon
wonder who's head is going to be rolling on the floor for that one?
kitchen
I was talking, not thinking. -D. Franz
I don't know if its for real, but the Apple Newton Message pad has an easter egg where you can supposedly find the lat and long of A51.
According to mine, they're at 3714'N 11549'W
Better not use a cell phone any time soon.
"When you take a big guy and put him through a small space, something's got to give," Wheeler said.
From the Taco Bell and Sports quickie..
All the staff are having a collection for him - apparently he was quite popular after having left a rather large 'tip'
-- I'm drinking myself to sleep again...
The Geek Compound is in Holland, MI.
first pornopgraphic mosaics of Ms. Tombraider, now video game rape scenes. I think there is a niche for me. How about it Rob?
--Dayeight
--Waiting to get moderated into oblivion.
when Push Comes to Shove
PS: Bill Gates seems to be $10G compliant
PPS: A similar problem is the B100B problem. Right now McDonalds has "Over 99 Billion Served". What would happen when they reach 100 Billion? Their signs just can't handle it! They'll go out of business!
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I'm sure we all pull out the defibrilators when our TV "dies".
Pablo Nevares, "the freshmaker".
Pablo Nevares, "the freshmaker".
I know someone who's been doing "erotic massage"
for a living who says that repetetive stress
disorders are a real fear. This story doesn't
strike me as *completely* ridiculous.
What I don't understand is why this woman never
learned to fake orgasm. What are mother's
teaching young women these days, anyway?
Of course, there's no reason to assume that
the facts have been reported anywhere near
accurately. We're talking ABC news here.
What??? You're talking about a phone sex worker. You know, the ones that Oral Roberts and others claim are "Satans mistresses."
You're just facilitating the return of the anti-christ when you suggest that we actually give those in cahoots with the devil a chance to make the Y2K problem worse.
Sheesh! It's rough defending our nation's borders against the spawn of hell with just a shotgun and a chainsaw.
If tits were wings it'd be flying around.
I think Lunix was for the C64, actually.
:)
Definitely a different Unix.
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pb Reply or e-mail; don't vaguely moderate.
Heh, silly me then, I something to do with them is in the Baltimore-Washington area... Just can't remember what it is.>:)
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I am not disputing you on this (because you say you have seen a picture, and I haven't), but I have to wonder about this guy, personally.
From my experience, when the toilet paper is out, and I want to look around, I do one of two things:
1. I turn my head, then my torso - but not my ass - around to see behind me.
2. Otherwise, I would stand slightly up, to turn a bit more, if needed.
The last bit I would have to question is this:
Sit on a toilet and make sure your johnson is limp. Let it dangle into the toilet, if you want. Now turn your whole body to the side (just like the man said he did). Does it come close to the side of the bowl (and hence, lid)?
Now, perhaps this man was very well endowed, or maybe he was slightly hard, but I wonder how it could slide under the lid (and I wonder why, if he does this, does he not feel the cold plastic first and move it - the last part of my body I want to touch a public toilet bowl is my dick!)? Somehow, while I believe based on available info that this man got injured, I think that:
a. Something really wacked out was going on in that stall or,
b. He injured himself in another way (wife goes down on him and bends it wrong?)...
This whole thing is just too wierd...
Reason is the Path to God - Anon
An awful lot of DUMB moderation lately, I kinda suspect it's intentional.
Not true. There are a number of outlets of typewriter ribbons available. Including Underwood ribbons.
He plays sports, what kind of intelligence do you expect from him?
Totally!
Not to mention annoying for the rest of us ... oh big accident outside, bbl...
Err...mothers are teaching their daughters how to fake orgasms, now? I've got to get in on this...
If a corporation is a personhood, is owning stock slavery?
It has to be a publicity stunt.
Phone sex operators don't really get naked
and masturbate on the phone. And they're not
cute chicks either.
-fb Everything not expressly forbidden is now mandatory.
I've posted 5 of the pics at http://www.geocities.com/iguana2000/ Enjoy.
The Year Five Billion problem. By then, our sun should have gone nova and incinerated the planet. I don't care what kind of computer you have -- that is going to cause a malfunction.
dragonhawk@iname.microsoft.com
I do not like Microsoft. Remove them from my email address.
(blinks a couple times).. whoa.
Irritable, left-wing and possibly humorous bumper stickers and t-shirts
AccuWeather is in on the conspiracy. The radar image is from Roswell, NM and area 51 is in Nevada. What are they trying to hide? I sense another coverup. Just another post below my threshold.
"The Bill of Rights: A Whole New Chapter In The Stock Market"
That just made me laugh out loud.
I still don't know why...
OH my ghod, this is pure genius. I sweare some of these were real slashdot articles:
Is The Internet About To Transform The Internet War?
The Net Demands The Digital Website
I love it. This is very Onion-worthy
Prostitutes and their dextrous abilities come to mind, especially where it's legal like in Nevada. One of the biggest arguments is in favor of the legalization of prostitution is so that prostitutes can receive health care -- I suppose rsi is one of those injuries most never planned to receive.
"If one is really a superior person, the fact is likely to leak out without too much assistance" -- John Andrew Holmes
that looks more like tux's evil robot brother moe or something. look at the vacant look on his face. gonna hev to watch that one, hes out for blood. if katzdot included a few pages of random bullshit and blustering i wouldnt be able to tell the difference.
Actually, I'm pretty sure that you can never have too many Legos...one footlocker full and still counting!
Cinema: A Whole New Chapter In The Revolutionary World
Letters From Virtual Impeachment
The Web: A Whole New Chapter In Online Buffy
Giving Thanks For Virtual Cinema
The Power Of The Techno Stock Market And Interactive Dying Babies
Murder: A Whole New Chapter In Hidden Being Different
Is The Stock Market About To Transform Slashdot?
Can Hidden Anonymous Cowards Stop Post-Columbine Minimum Wage?
The scary part is, this _reeks_ of Markov Chaining. I suspect these are made up of actual genuine interactive dying baby Katz headlines, shredded and rearranged.
One envisions doing this to the whole Katz on Slashdot collection, thus getting not only terrific headlines, but entire articles. For anybody interested in doing this, Katz is a _very_ good subject for travesty as he is disjointed and covers the same subjects over and over. To markov chain this stuff it's best to work at the word level- pairs of words end up chaining very abstractedly, and word triples can sometimes spit out overlarge chunks of unaltered text (though I suspect with Katz the triples would work perfectly).
Here's a sample of this sort of travesty: Speak Roughly To Your Evidence, an edited Alice In Wonderland travesty.
Here is a link to the Lego Penguin images.
I've just grabbed the images, and not any of the text or anything, but have at it.
seriously.
SeaScum are you for real or just spamming your cheap ass casino?
/.'ers just had to smack this wanker.
Sorry to other
Sorry, I am a NES kinda person. What are those tiny little gameboy looking things that say Dreamcast? I thought that Dreamcast was like a next gen playstation.
Wait. I have a question. This football player guy who got stuck in the Taco Bell window... He pleaded innocent, verdad?.
How the HELL can he have the cajones to plead innocent? HE WAS IN THE WINDOW! "It wuddint me! I sweah!" Oh man. I can just see some pencil-neck lawyer "well yer honor, my client was actually impersonated by a crazed fan who just happens to have the exact same proportions. Notice that my client passed the lie detector test, and DNA results were inconclusive. The employees were hiding in the back the entire time, and never got a clear view of him."
Someone with more dedication than me and less of a life please tell me this doesn't fly. Please. My faith in the system is rattled enough as it is.
Oy chalupa.
- Rev.Buffy: Model For Geek Microsoft
You're thinking of Roblimo. He's a Charm City native (used to work for Shi... I mean.. City Paper).
-Chris
Yay Hopkins!
Less structurally sound versions are those where the little feet on the underside of the seat (the ones that raise the seat 0.25" or so off the surface of the porcelain, useful for being able to easily raise the seat amongst other features) are replaced with much taller versions -- those with a knowledge of physics will recognize that this isn't nearly as structurally sound as the solid described above, and lateral force (such as leaning sideways searching for toilet paper) would have a much better chance of breaking the feet off, with the attendant potential for injury.
Did you read that RFC? Its lame. Lets see if my comp it still used 8000+ years from now, or a program from now, then damn the future is pathetic or that code is fscking awesome.
My code is YAK compliant, is yours.
With spelling like that, I was expecting to see a gameboy up in the corner saying "Ferst Post!!!".
"If one is really a superior person, the fact is likely to leak out without too much assistance" -- John Andrew Holmes
I was browsing ThinkGeek and noticed they were putting Duvel in the glasses. Can you get that stuff in the US without hitting the specialty import stores?
Davo -- Free speech, free software, AND free beer.
...unless, of course, you can find antique typewriter ribbons.
Vovida, OS VoIP
Beer recipe: free! #Source
Cold pints: $2 #Product
accuweather is a joke, my friends... the only thing that's ever been spotted in Galien are cows, farmers, and rednecks. There are probably more cows in Galien than there are people. christ... i went to school in the little town next to galien that looks like a thriving metropolis comparitivly, yet only has 3000 people. yipes. galien shouldn't even be on the map.
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rant mode off.
--bc
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the amazing bc
latin/funk flugelhorn & trumpet
webnaut, music junkie, sysadmin from hell
the amazing bc
just another guy doing IT
webnaut, music junkie, holes-in-head
Is it just me, or are comments disappearing from this article? (And yes, I'm sure they weren't just scored below my threshold.)
Yeah sure the gag on office is funny, but I'm more amazed that the skill that was involved with the etche-Sketch. He was actually able to WRITE budget. and all I could draw was stairs.
"If all the world's a stage, then who is the audience?"
Vovida, OS VoIP
Beer recipe: free! #Source
Cold pints: $2 #Product
There's already a M$ Monopoly news article[1].
5 5&mode=thread
[1] http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=99/11/23/00452
I meant that. You see, I've been stalking them both for years, and in order to keep the police from getting suspicious by me following them around physically, I stalk them electronically and purposely travel afar when they leave home.
-Chris
I saw a picture of the toilet that was at fault in this incident. I've never seen a toilet like this before. The seat is raised about 2 inches above the actual bowl. What happened was that there was no TP in the dispenser, so he turned on the seat, reaching for TP on the toilet. His jimmerjammer slid under the seat (quite possible) and due to the force caused by his butt cheeks sliding on the seat, the seat failed, thus crushing his willy. He was in the ER for 10 hours, apperently. His johnson is no longer functional, with no hope of regaining the functionality. He is sueing for 2.2 million (CDN), with his wife asking for $750,000CAD for the loss of his services.
Would you crush your tinky winky for 2.2 mill Canadian? I doubt it.
Hey, under the Americans with Disabilities Act, I think her employer is required to buy her a vibrator.
I see that the source is available. This is cool.
All it takes is changing some directory names in index.cgi and dada, and it works.
If you don't want the whole web page, but just want a random headline on stdout:
Edit katz.pb and replace the huge line beginning with decorated_headline: with
decorated_headline: headline;
Then run it with 'dada katz.pb' instead of 'index.cgi'.
Think of the possibilities! JonKatz in shell scripts! JonKatz instead of fortune! JonKatz in xscreensaver/hacks/noseguy!
Actually, now that I think about it, that's scary.
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Win dain a lotica, en vai tu ri silota
I saw no mention of gender of the management or ownership of the phone sex company.
But whether she earned her $400 a week doing phone sex, data entry, as an entry level techie grunt, as a hair dresser or as a freakin' superhero, if she was sincerly injured on the job then the worker's comp insurance should cover her expenses. Or are only classy, intelectuals entitled to protection under the labor laws?
Note that I admit that I don't have any way of knowing whether her injuries are real, that's for the insurance company to debate. I still don't believe that they really mastrubate on the phone!
- bridgette
A thousand years ago, everybody was worried about all their abacuses crashing .. now this .. what's it? Y2K thing?! The sad thing is history *really* does repeat itself ;)
Well, partner, I guess you'll just have to mosy on down and load up on bourbon til ya really are the fastest draw.
My dad got me one of those Slashdot shirts over at Think Geek at Comdex, and got Rob and Jeff to sign it. It's pretty cool, and this being Slashdot, maybe I ought to start a bidding war on it at ebay....... : )
And speaking of shirts, thinkgeek also has some cool S lashdot Fleece's but for $60, I don't think I'll be buying it.
After a five hour period of no news stories, we finally get a set of quickies to rummage through?
Sounds like a slow news day to me...
At 20.17 Eastern, at the Republican Debate, Forbes referred to Linux as 'Loonix' while answering a question about why Microsoft should or shouldn't be broken up.
:)
Leenix or Lihnux, sure. But Loonux?
Am I just wrong, or is it unusual to have a neurosurgeon operate on your hands?
And they're not cute chicks either.
what?!?? but she said she was hot... why would a phone sex operator lie to me, uh, i mean, a friend of mine?
but with a voice like that I can pictuer any thing I want.
Just wanted to say thank you to whatever moderator realized that this post was NOT meant as troll, and moderated it back up.
Maybe it's my dim-witted brain, but I freaked out hardcore to find that a tongue in cheek jest had been moderated down to troll.
 
"While we're on the subject of Slashdot, it's worth nothing that ThinkGeek is now carrying new Slashdot T-Shirts." I think the intended word was "noting" and not "nothing". Or maybe it really is worth nothing? I hope not ;D
Voices From The Online Internet War War
The World Demands Interactive Kids
The Movie Line Demands The Music Industry
Spiritual Sexbots, The Post-Columbine Website and Pain
and my favorite....
Can Interactive Dying Babies Stop The Spiritual Movie Line?
...who found the trivalization of rape in the video game post disgusting? Rob, someone posted a link to some sort of Laura Croft rape scene earlier and you censored it, but you let this story have a place on Slashdot? I don't care if its just game consoles, the depiction of gang rape doesn't belong here, or anywhere. The brutalization and abuse of someone by no means an amusing comedic device.
"Nobody owns the fucking words man." - James Dean
Wait a minute...
Chimps aren't monkeys!
What are these guys at ThinkGeek trying to pull?
But one of those little guys would be kind of cool to have around.
--It burns! --It's loaded with wasabi.
I got this one after several (I'm not even going to tell you how many) reloads:
Can Revolutionary MP3s Stop Online Minimum Wage?
For some reason, I laughed quite a bit and even woke up a roommate... Now that's gotta be worth something :)
Culture is more than commerce
>We're talking ABC news here
Well no, we're talking Reuters. ABC news just bought the rights to the story along with all the other Reuters subscribers.
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The ends are ape-chosen, only the means are man's. -- Aldous Huxley
Rob, it's 'too much Lego', not 'too many legos'....
Those are Dreamcast VMUs, Visual Memory Units. They're much like the Playstation memory cards, except that VMUs have a small display screen and controls. You can use them like a Tamagotchi, a Game Boy, or as a private screen--they plug into the Dreamcast controller, so you effectively have a small LCD screen for information. They can also plug into each other to share save files(and can even download patch and extension files from the 'Net, for even more after-market fun).
:/
And in an off-topic rant that probably nobody on Slashdot will read, when do I get a nickel for when Yet Another game person/reviewer/"guru" blatantly states "the Saturn never had any good games"? Penny-Arcade's done it, Gamcenter's done it, and PlanetDreamcast still has that flavor about them. Bollocks. Even though Sega of America(and especially a certain former Sega employee who's initials are BS) did their best to ignore the Saturn, there was still a massive flood of good titles--BUT NOT IN THE UNITED STATES! Thanks to SOA, great titles like Radiant Silvergun, Soukyugurentai, many fighers and all the KoF ports to the Saturn(which the quickie got wrong as well, since KoF '99 Millenium Battle is hardly the first KoF title to appear on a Sega console), and a smattering of RPGs(including both versions of Lunar long before Working Designs rereleased Lunar: Silver Star Story) never appeared over here. Why? Because they felt the need to push the Saturn, which was never designed to be the 3D workhorse that the PSX is, to lousy graphical heights by employing every white trash genre ever conceived. Y'want graphical splendor on the Saturn? Look at Radiant Silvergun or Lunar: Eternal Blue. But look outside your own country once in a while.
Ah well. The tesosterone living-on-the-edge gamers will probably mark this down because they can't stand the thought of playing something that isn't an FPS or RTS.
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Yikes, the nurse at school said it wouldn't hurt me!
Society, The Post-Columbine World and The Music Industry
The Truth About Lo-Tech Sexbots
Hidden Microsoft To Behold
Why Do Lurkers Kill?
The Music Industry, Hidden Sexbots and Hope
*sigh* You know it's near the end of the term when...
Droit devant soi on ne peut pas aller bien loin...
Droit devant soi on ne peut pas aller bien loin...
Straight ahead of him, nobody can go very far... -- Le P
I'm surprised nobody submitted the one where a man is suing Starbucks because the toilet in their restroom crushed his penis.
Hey, that doesn't sound like such a bad deal to me. Get your 1.5 million bucks, then go on a vaction to Australia. While you're their, stop by the local cosmetic surgeon and pay a small fee to have your penis reconstructed. Afterwards, you're good as new, and you have an extra million bucks in the bank account.
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How to piss off dumb office workers....
state that all calculators need to be Y2K compliant. This can be easily checked by entering '99 + 1 ='
Any answer other than 2000 will show that the calculator is non Y2K compliant, and the manufacturer must be contacted to rectify this immediately.
who knows, it might work.....
Only LINUX can save us now!!!
my wrists are killing me...
"better ways of doing things eventually just replace the inferior things" - Linus Torvalds 09-08-07
My favourite Jon Katz story title from the generator:
Interactive Buffy and The Open Source WB: The Morning After
Jon - Please, please, please write this!
Yellow tigers crouched in jungles in her dark eyes.
She's just dressing, goodbye windows, tired starlings.
Actually, Lego (the company) would prefer that you say "too many Lego bricks". I read this in an official Lego brochure way back in the 70s.
Rob, please stop trying to play Matchmaker, that is just not your game... I'm fully convinced CowboyNeal can deal with his private life himself. (a smiley added here: :-) - because I'm not upset, I just think this is kindof.. pointless? :) ) Thanks, Lexie
Thats a guess, on the basis that the four-foot Alice in Wonderland by the same guy is quoted at $600-800.
:)
I'm wondering if I can figure out the design from the pics. My artistic talents don't run to doing it from scratch. I'm sure I can find some children who wouldn't mind an big box of red and blue bricks for Christmas. (Or can someone build a BSD deamon?)
Of course the true geek approach is to grab the 3-d model from Tux:AQFH and pixelise it.
Was fucking STUPID.
Learn to fucking SPELL!
Also, it was dumb. Very dumb. Very very Very very Very very Very very Very very Very very Very very Very very Very very Very very Very very Very very Very very Very very Very very Very very Very very Very very Very very Very very Very very Very very Very very Very very Very very Very very Very very Very very Very very Very very Very very Very very Very very Very very Very very Very very Very very Very very Very very Very very Very very Very very Very very Very very Very very Very very Very very Very very Very very Very very Very very Very very Very very Very very Very very Very very Very very Very very Very very Very very Very very Very very Very very Very very Very very Very very Very very Very very Very very Very very Very very Very very Very very Very very Very very Very very Very very Very very Very very Very very Very very Very very Very very Very very Very very Very very Very very Very very Very very Very very Very very Very very Very very Very very Very very Very very Very very Very very Very very Very very Very very Very very Very very Very very Very very Very very Very very Very very Very very Very very Very very Very very Very very Very very Very very Very very Very very Very very Very very Very very Very very Very very Very very Very very Very very Very very Very very Very very Very very Very very Very very Very very Very very Very very Very very Very very Very very Very very Very very Very very Very very Very very Very very Very very Very very Very very Very very Very very Very very Very very Very very Very very Very very Very very Very very Very very Very very Very very Very very Very very Very very Very very Very very Very very Very very Very very Very very Very very Very very Very very Very very Very very Very very Very very Very very Very very Very very Very very Very very Very very Very very Very very Very very Very very Very very Very very Very very Very very Very very Very very Very very Very very Very very Very very vERY DUMB!!!!!!!!!!!
I wonder if that Office 2000 super counter thingy doesn't GPF on me. Being an accountant, I really need the latest software!
(I was trying to say something funny, but anything I tried just flat out sucked. I'm just trying to make fun of microsoft and this Office 2000 page on xoom.com. I suck)
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-PovRayMan
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It's nothing like CTS. I have a very rare disease in which large pieces of furniture, broken bottles, old syringes, rusted razor blades, old lead acid batteries, and Microsoft software blow out of my ass.
I went to several doctors and they eventually they had me see a physicist. His theory is that my ass is somehow linked via a wormhole to a trash dump. I wouldn't have guessed it to be a trash dump, but then the presence of Microsoft software proved that it indeed was a trash dump.
If *anyone* knows what I can do to 'cure' this dilemma my sphincter is in please let me know. I hang out here on slashdot when my sphincter allows and I go by the name 'Anonymous Coward.'
"Giving Thanks For The Internet Warfare"
"Descent into Post-Columbine Flamers"
"Beware the Online Net"
I thought women in the 90's were just a little too obsessed with men providing everything for them. Suing your male managers for compensation on a masturbation job is too much. Why don't they just get the damn technical degree, get a real job and heaven forbid, win the bread.