Okay, I'm in Australia, not working and don't have any friends with broadband. Perth barely has broadband at all.
What I thought I might do is find a secure older browser on a magazine cover CD and install it. Does anyone know which versions of Netscape are "safe" (no bugs, no holes, no need to upgrade)
All I want is a browser, I have a separate email package (Eudora) and a separate news reader (Free Agent). I already kill a lot of Javascript with Proxomitron (which can also alter user-agent) and I don't have flash or shockwave installed, so I won't miss them -- perhaps someone could suggest a simple, fast, small, stable, secure browser other than the Big 2.
...Is only available to IE 5.5SP1 and 6. I have 5.5 and a 56k modem. It will take me about 5 hours and a version upgrade to fix a small security hole. I've already tried once and inital crapplet that is required to start the download of IE5.5SP1 failed to complete its 400k-ish download. I'm seriously considering swapping to another browser.
One of the dirty dozen was a K'Nex version of a Mech Warrior mech. Like, official ones from the RPG. A bit more digging and you can find that K'Nex has other Mech Warrior mechs. This Mad Cat would go well next to my Lego R2-D2.
That sounds like a great regular game. Use a Random Geocities URL Generator and then post that link to as many weblog-esq places as possible to see how long it takes before they've exceeded their download limit.
My link to start the game is; Nirvana MIDIs. Post a reply once it's nuked.
I've been using PayPal for 6 months. I sell lots of retro video gaming bits on eBay. PayPal lets me accept international payments (I'm in Australia) cheaply and easily. Occasionally domestic buyers use it for speed -- it's very fast. I haven't connected a bank account to it, mainly because of US$ v A$ currency issues, so I spend the money on interesting, wait for it, retro video gaming stuff (mostly Atari2600-related). It all works perfectly and I haven't had any problems. If you're outside of Australia and you don't support PayPal I'm unlikely to purchase anything from you -- at least until I get a job and start using my credit card again.
(Meanwhile, Lik-sang have recently denied a credit card payment because of some peice of information that Australian banks don't give out.)
This reminds me of Star Trek where they arrive at a planet and decide to wait so they can beam down "at night". The show makes it sound like planets only have a single time zone, or that the whole globe goes dark at once. It all sounds very Flat Earth, but then most of the recent tech legislation sounds like it comes from the Dark Ages.
"They didn't call it the Dark Ages because it was dark." -- Daniel Jackson, Stargate SG-1.
Are any of these meteor showers visible from approx 32 degrees south? (Not only are most times in one of the many US standards, but there's little or no mention of what people in The Rest of the World can see...
People in Australia with Teletext (Austext, broadcast on Channel 7) can get live info on lightning strikes in Queensland. It even has a map, of sorts. Page 179.
Your phone number is only a string of numbers. They don't look it up, they just generate it. I'll bet that secret service numbers get called by telespamarketers all the time.
Yes music. I do some of my best and fastest work when I'm listening to a nice thumping bit of club music. Something Tribal or Jungle with no lyrics. Real House stuff that's played in real clubs, not the Top 50 dance crap. A good rhythm helps me focus.
Games have always been violent. Heck, the Atari 2600 had specific hardware/instructions to draw players and missiles. But it becomes an issue for most people when it looks realistic. The problem first arose in a big way when Full Motion Video (FMV) games came out -- back in the days of the Sega Mega CD. Night Trap's horror footage prompted something like a US Senate enquiry into violent video games. So did Mortal Kombat with it's photographic sprites. FMV mostly died for other reasons and while MK has stayed around it's had a lower profile.
Doom skirted the edges. It was violent, but it wasn't realistic. You were obviously killing monsters, not people.
Now that 3D technology has gotten to the point where the graphics leave nothing to the imagination the issue has arisen again. At the core, these are the same games that have been played since the beginning of computer games. But on the surface the games look real. What this means is that with a single glance a non-gamer can be exposed to violence -- while previously you had to get into the gameplay and use your imagination to feel/see the same thing. Violent computer games used to hide behind graphical limitations. Whenever the technology catches up with the designer's imagination we have problems like this.
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I think you've answered the question above; "Is this the Palm or the Newton?"
Now that I've seen some footage of the device in action I can say that it looks very promising. It's going to struggle because of the way the car has affected the lay of the land, but there will be many people just the right distance from work (or whatever) that could use this. The main advantage: no effort means you can wear a suit. A bike is great, if you don't mind showering and getting changed once you're at work.
Finally, those worried about the cost -- try doing some figures on how much your car costs you to run -- it'll probably pay for itself in 2 years. And for those worried about putting it somewhere -- how much does your car cost you to park all day? Sure, we'd need some locker-like infrastructure, but propertly prices are such that car bays are just becoming too expensive for what they are.
Don't worry, at about 6 months you break through a wall and mellow out. It doesn't start to hurt again until about 9 months (and then not as much). Applying for unemployment benefit helps, not just from the money but from the fact that the people working at the unemployment office look like their life is worse than yours -- having to deal with huge numbers of angry people all day, every day.
What is needs is for someone to setup free email accounts with "nospam" in the domain. myemail@nospam.com, or myemail@yahoo.nospam.com, etc -- then all these new harvest-bots that trim out "nospam" will either get it wrong or discount it completely.
Just a random thoughr early on a Sunday morning...
I've got a couple of working Atari 2600 game cartridges on the desk in front of me dated 1978. I'd say they're going up for auction in about 6 hours, but that would be advertising. *grin* (as such, I'll take off my Score +1 bonus)
I was under the impression that Australia at least used NTSC. I could be wrong. I know NTSC (or a form thereof) is used in Asian countries.
Nope, Australia uses PAL. Japan uses NTSC, but I have a feeling that Hong Kong and Singapore use PAL (lots of PAL stuff at lik-sang). There's a list here that claimes to have all NTSC countries. Vietnam, Korea and China are all listed, but some as dual-system.
or you must have some means of transporting the private key.
I keep a copy of my PGP key rings on the MMC card that I use in my portable MP3 player. Alternatively I could store it on my Palm/TRGpro. For a while the Swatch Access watches with their RF contactless smartcard technology looked promising, but I don't think the reader/writer mousepad was ever released. There are many ways to transport tiny amounts of digital data.
The document has forgotten to include the Saturn version of Doom -- levels from Doom and Doom 2, plus CD audio tracks. Also, the 32X section is just two screen shots and doesn't include any comment on the simplified maps or other technical restrictions.
It looks like one big cut and paste. And not even from many sources.
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The actual owners of all these arcade ROMs -- the companies that hold the oft passed-on copyright for all these classic games -- could simply clean up MAME and release their old games with little or no further effort. $19.95 for a set of a dozen old arcade games would be 90% profit.
If they wanted to be particularly nice they could dig up some old photos, scan promotional literature, etc and build a museum like Namco's.
I bought my next console system and portable gaming device yesterday. A Nintendo 64 (+ 2nd controller and game) for A$20 and a Sega Game Gear (+ 3 games) for A$10. I've now got a whole new couple of platforms to find interesting titles for. And heck, down here in Australia the N64 is Nintendo's current offering through to the first half of next year some time. (When I can start hitting the bargain bins.)
History is full of examples of very gifted and smart people making very simple but catastrophic mistakes, or totally failing to anticipate the consequences of their actions, this looks like another of them.
Just to clear things up, the reason why history isn't quite so full of ordinary people making stupid mistakes that that it's far more common and usually doesn't involve innovative projects -- thus rarely of historical note. Just thought I'd put that in to make the scientists feel a little less like everyone's favourite chew toy.
Site for which I have membership should start by telling me how much traffic I'm costing them. After a few months of decent stats, then they can tell me how much they're going to charge me. Meanwhile I can try and find some interesting ways to decrease the traffic I generate.
This would be great for promoting new effcient files formats. You use a plug-in to be able to serve up smaller files and when I also enable that plug-in my bill for visiting your site goes down.
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What I thought I might do is find a secure older browser on a magazine cover CD and install it. Does anyone know which versions of Netscape are "safe" (no bugs, no holes, no need to upgrade)
All I want is a browser, I have a separate email package (Eudora) and a separate news reader (Free Agent). I already kill a lot of Javascript with Proxomitron (which can also alter user-agent) and I don't have flash or shockwave installed, so I won't miss them -- perhaps someone could suggest a simple, fast, small, stable, secure browser other than the Big 2.
...Is only available to IE 5.5SP1 and 6. I have 5.5 and a 56k modem. It will take me about 5 hours and a version upgrade to fix a small security hole. I've already tried once and inital crapplet that is required to start the download of IE5.5SP1 failed to complete its 400k-ish download. I'm seriously considering swapping to another browser.
One of the dirty dozen was a K'Nex version of a Mech Warrior mech. Like, official ones from the RPG. A bit more digging and you can find that K'Nex has other Mech Warrior mechs. This Mad Cat would go well next to my Lego R2-D2.
My link to start the game is; Nirvana MIDIs. Post a reply once it's nuked.
(Meanwhile, Lik-sang have recently denied a credit card payment because of some peice of information that Australian banks don't give out.)
"They didn't call it the Dark Ages because it was dark." -- Daniel Jackson, Stargate SG-1.
Are any of these meteor showers visible from approx 32 degrees south? (Not only are most times in one of the many US standards, but there's little or no mention of what people in The Rest of the World can see...
Win98's USB support is also far more comprehensive than Win95bOSR2 or Win95c. HID is not supported under any version of Win95.
People in Australia with Teletext (Austext, broadcast on Channel 7) can get live info on lightning strikes in Queensland. It even has a map, of sorts. Page 179.
Your phone number is only a string of numbers. They don't look it up, they just generate it. I'll bet that secret service numbers get called by telespamarketers all the time.
Yes music. I do some of my best and fastest work when I'm listening to a nice thumping bit of club music. Something Tribal or Jungle with no lyrics. Real House stuff that's played in real clubs, not the Top 50 dance crap. A good rhythm helps me focus.
Doom skirted the edges. It was violent, but it wasn't realistic. You were obviously killing monsters, not people.
Now that 3D technology has gotten to the point where the graphics leave nothing to the imagination the issue has arisen again. At the core, these are the same games that have been played since the beginning of computer games. But on the surface the games look real. What this means is that with a single glance a non-gamer can be exposed to violence -- while previously you had to get into the gameplay and use your imagination to feel/see the same thing. Violent computer games used to hide behind graphical limitations. Whenever the technology catches up with the designer's imagination we have problems like this.
Now that I've seen some footage of the device in action I can say that it looks very promising. It's going to struggle because of the way the car has affected the lay of the land, but there will be many people just the right distance from work (or whatever) that could use this. The main advantage: no effort means you can wear a suit. A bike is great, if you don't mind showering and getting changed once you're at work.
Finally, those worried about the cost -- try doing some figures on how much your car costs you to run -- it'll probably pay for itself in 2 years. And for those worried about putting it somewhere -- how much does your car cost you to park all day? Sure, we'd need some locker-like infrastructure, but propertly prices are such that car bays are just becoming too expensive for what they are.
Don't worry, at about 6 months you break through a wall and mellow out. It doesn't start to hurt again until about 9 months (and then not as much). Applying for unemployment benefit helps, not just from the money but from the fact that the people working at the unemployment office look like their life is worse than yours -- having to deal with huge numbers of angry people all day, every day.
Just a random thoughr early on a Sunday morning...
I haven't seen a GC in the flesh so I didn't realise it had a fan. What's the noise level like?
I've got a couple of working Atari 2600 game cartridges on the desk in front of me dated 1978. I'd say they're going up for auction in about 6 hours, but that would be advertising. *grin* (as such, I'll take off my Score +1 bonus)
You're right -- the problem with encrypted email isn't about a lack of services, it's the fact that it's hard to convince anyone else to use it.
It looks like one big cut and paste. And not even from many sources.
If they wanted to be particularly nice they could dig up some old photos, scan promotional literature, etc and build a museum like Namco's.
I bought my next console system and portable gaming device yesterday. A Nintendo 64 (+ 2nd controller and game) for A$20 and a Sega Game Gear (+ 3 games) for A$10. I've now got a whole new couple of platforms to find interesting titles for. And heck, down here in Australia the N64 is Nintendo's current offering through to the first half of next year some time. (When I can start hitting the bargain bins.)
This would be great for promoting new effcient files formats. You use a plug-in to be able to serve up smaller files and when I also enable that plug-in my bill for visiting your site goes down.