http://www.htc.net/~nbehnken/freemware.html would lead me to beleive that BeOS works as a host platform as well, or is at least underway. I think that'd be a good thing, as Be's a pretty darned nice workstation OS with stuff that Just Works (not that it'll be replacing my linux server boxes anytime soon)...
6 months? You should either stop walking on your mouse or eating on the mousepad. I use my computer for several hours every day, and I've changed computers more often that I've changed mice... 'Course, since they're so cheap - maybe I should start abusing mine more instead.:)
129K would have bought 2 or 3 decent admins who could've burned a few CDs and helped oversee the conversion precess too. I don't beleive that everyone over there is so incompetent that they couldn't follow the lead of an admin with a little experience. After that, they'd save money due to the increased stability and likely increased productivity aftter a couple of months of acclimating to the new system.
I would've taken the job. I'd still take the job if they asked...:)
Why simple machine guns, when you can use electricity? Lightning on demand and portable HERF guns can be found right here on slashdot... I'm personally trying to figure out how I can build that HERF to fit in my trunk to disable tailgators (or anyone that I can out accelerate, which is most cars on the road).
Does anyone elses' intellevision still work?? I had I, II, and III and all of them quit working, with I being the last one to continue running until the RF connection broke. I tried soldering it, but no luck. I have about 90 games which I'd like to play again. Though the side buttons on my controllers are pretty well mashed too.
Radio shack used to sell the RF interface things. Try part number 15-1269 or 15-1267. They're both under $10 USA. As far as the controllers go, mine never really did work well (on my intellivision I), so I'm not sure if they work worse now, or if I'm just used to responsive controllers on other computers/consoles...:)
He claims to have an original sega master system "that came with alex kidd". That's a bunch of crap. I *have* an original Sega Master system, and it came with "Hang On/Safari Hunt - the combo cartridge". It also came with a light phaser. There was another non-light phaser version that may have come with something else, but the Alex Kidd series wasn't released until the Master System had been around for a while, IIRC... Also, the second-generation system that he describes didn't have the hidden built-in snail maze game that the original master system had.
I really wanted a lynx though. Portable color! I ended up with a Game Gear (and the master gear converter) though, 'cause I liked Sega's hardware. I wonder why there's no lynx listed there (let alone the Atari's and the Intellivision) in his wonderful collection.
Remember? Hell, I *have* one hooked up in my living room right now, with a fair amount of games. I don't have pitfall, but I've got night stalker... Almost all of the little slide-in cover things too!
Pretty much every OS I care about has support for USB, and USB expansion cards are cheap (like, $20 and less), so why not get a KVM with USB and video (I like the iogear switches I use) and just add a USB card to the machines that don't already have it?
BTW, I'd go with active PS/2 switching if possible. You don't get as many devices, but you *do* get immediate keyboard-n-mouse control of the newly swiched-to machine. With the USB switches, you've gotta wait for the OS to recognize that there were new USB components plugged in, which takes a few seconds.
You might also look into the conyx "surfer mp"http://www.conyx.com/surfermp.htm. I dunno if it'll work or not, but it suports a bunch of stuff...
Yup, right in the middle of IL, near springfield, bloomington, peoria, *and* decatur, all without being too far from Champaign but not quite far enough from Chicago at the same time.
For one thing, those people voted for Nader. I could just as easily claim that the people who voted for gore *would've* voted for Bush if gore hadn't run - but that would be equally stupid. They *did* run, and the people voted for the person they wanted to be president. If they'd wanted gore, they would've voted gore. Damn it.
In addition, if you'll look real close, *neither* cantidate has a majority of the popular vote. So, at least you got that part right...
Cool - I also got the application twice, and got rejected both time because of "bad charachter". Strange, because I got along with pretty much everyone. Must've been that "what the hell conribution do english teachers really make to a society that doesn't give a damn about usage" attitude I carried towards the english teachers (who were also the sponsors of the NHS chapter). Somehow I managed to get real good grades despite the teacher's dislike of my attitude, and get accepted into all three of the major engineering colleges I applied to before the second time I was "rejected" from NHS.
Oh, and I played basketball until my knee was ruined (grrr) and recently tore down and rebuilt the 380 HP 350 in my car, and have a good job suporting an on-line learning company - helping others to learn, despite never getting into NHS. Too bad I'm not as useful to society as those english teachers...:) Note that I didn't "win", but my situation was close enough to everyone else's that I figured I'd relate it...
Man, I'd rather have that rapist taking to my sister from across the country than have him outside her window though...:)
I dislike talking for anything other than basic friendship on-line anyway. The whole idea of cybersex bugs me... "Oh yeah, that makes me hot." Bah. Say it to my face (or wherever), and maybe I'll believe you...
Oh, well that's where I use "postmaster@their.comain", or abuse, or webmaster. The NYtimes is the only site so far that disallows that - although stuff like "reprints@nytimes.com" seemed to get through. Oh, and I *always* sign up for all of the info I can to get sent there. It makes me feel good, and makes them get almost as annoyed as me.
I create a new e-mail alias every time I sign up for sites that require an e-mail, and amke sure to click all of the "don't contact me" buttons. For example, I'd use X10@mydomain.com to buy stuff from x10.com. That way I can keep track of who's misusing my address and complain to the right place, and I can disable/enable the aliases whenever I need to.
It's just as easy to register a domain and have all of the mail forwarded to you, then you don't have to set up new aliases - you can jsut set up your mail software to filter out messages addressed to the bogus addresses when you're done with them, and you've got the log files ot check and see if what addresses are being rejected. It's fun, and you get the joy of rejecting mail.
While that is a well-written article, the author is clearly biased toward the electoral college. The points raised compare the elctoral college to a ball game, where winning the most games is more important than getting the most total runs.
That's irrelevant in this case, because the federal governement is a government "of the people, by the people", not "of the clumps of people, by the states' sizes".
The electoral college essentially gives a weight to each state based on the population. That's almost right, except it rounds the weight to a whole number, effectively screwing 1/2 of the states out of 1/2 a vote, and giving the other half of the states an additional 1/2 vote (on average). Honestly, I wouldn't have so much of a problem if it was done based on the states, if it were done like this:
Everyone votes. Then, a winner is chosen for each state based on the absolute number of votes in that state. Each state contributes to the total descision in a wieght equivelent to the percentage of the nation's registered voteres resident in that state. Essentially a more precise electoral college that doesn't give the electorate the power to make up for the "stupid public" electing the "wrong" person.
Or we could have a popular vote and let that be the end of it, since even though my vote has the potential to be more effective with electoral votes, everyone else *also* has more effective potential, thus increasing the ease at which I'll be outvoted.
*I* would've voted for McCain. Even if he was crazy, he sure seemed like a nice guy. He may have screwed up our country too, but they'll all do that in some way. McCain would've at least made it look fun...:)
create
To produce through imaginative or artistic effort.
invent
To produce or contrive (somthing previously unknown) by the use of ingenuity or imagination.
Hey, know what? create and invent mean damn near the same thing. Must mean Gore was stretching the truth, eh?
Either way, I'll be darned if I'm gonna make my voting descision based on *one out-of-context sentence* from a single presidential debate.:) (Especially when the other guy doesn't even seem like a real person - I don't want our country taken over by robots!)
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http://www.htc.net/~nbehnken/freemware.html would lead me to beleive that BeOS works as a host platform as well, or is at least underway. I think that'd be a good thing, as Be's a pretty darned nice workstation OS with stuff that Just Works (not that it'll be replacing my linux server boxes anytime soon)...
6 months? You should either stop walking on your mouse or eating on the mousepad. I use my computer for several hours every day, and I've changed computers more often that I've changed mice... 'Course, since they're so cheap - maybe I should start abusing mine more instead. :)
129K would have bought 2 or 3 decent admins who could've burned a few CDs and helped oversee the conversion precess too. I don't beleive that everyone over there is so incompetent that they couldn't follow the lead of an admin with a little experience. After that, they'd save money due to the increased stability and likely increased productivity aftter a couple of months of acclimating to the new system. I would've taken the job. I'd still take the job if they asked... :)
Why simple machine guns, when you can use electricity? Lightning on demand and portable HERF guns can be found right here on slashdot... I'm personally trying to figure out how I can build that HERF to fit in my trunk to disable tailgators (or anyone that I can out accelerate, which is most cars on the road).
Radio shack used to sell the RF interface things. Try part number 15-1269 or 15-1267. They're both under $10 USA. As far as the controllers go, mine never really did work well (on my intellivision I), so I'm not sure if they work worse now, or if I'm just used to responsive controllers on other computers/consoles... :)
If that solution is implemented, lemme know. I wanna work there. :)
What the hell was I thinking? chop off the "www" part, not the "partners" part. Gotta stop smoking crack someday...
Nope. Partners link doesn't work for me either... Chop off the "partners" part and it's fine.T .html
http://www.nytimes.com/2000/11/27/technology/27NE
The other original bundled game I was trying to think of was Hang On / Astro Warrior. Still not Alex Kidd.
I really wanted a lynx though. Portable color! I ended up with a Game Gear (and the master gear converter) though, 'cause I liked Sega's hardware. I wonder why there's no lynx listed there (let alone the Atari's and the Intellivision) in his wonderful collection.
Now there's a real classic system for you, when most people don't even remember it. But man, it rocked. Well, http://www.intellivisionlives.com/ someone remembers it, anyway. Check out the cable network interface it had http://www.makingit.com/bluesky/hardware/playcable _tech.html. Playstations don't even have stuff like that now.
BTW, I'd go with active PS/2 switching if possible. You don't get as many devices, but you *do* get immediate keyboard-n-mouse control of the newly swiched-to machine. With the USB switches, you've gotta wait for the OS to recognize that there were new USB components plugged in, which takes a few seconds.
You might also look into the conyx "surfer mp"http://www.conyx.com/surfermp.htm. I dunno if it'll work or not, but it suports a bunch of stuff...
I could've sworn you said "sites like these should be neutered". You know, "nurtured" makes a lot more sense...
Yup, right in the middle of IL, near springfield, bloomington, peoria, *and* decatur, all without being too far from Champaign but not quite far enough from Chicago at the same time.
Grand Old Party, HTH
In addition, if you'll look real close, *neither* cantidate has a majority of the popular vote. So, at least you got that part right...
This person's neighbors must be really annoyed, what with the frequency of his "Laugh out loud"ing. LOL. AHHHH!!!
Cool - I also got the application twice, and got rejected both time because of "bad charachter". Strange, because I got along with pretty much everyone. Must've been that "what the hell conribution do english teachers really make to a society that doesn't give a damn about usage" attitude I carried towards the english teachers (who were also the sponsors of the NHS chapter). Somehow I managed to get real good grades despite the teacher's dislike of my attitude, and get accepted into all three of the major engineering colleges I applied to before the second time I was "rejected" from NHS. Oh, and I played basketball until my knee was ruined (grrr) and recently tore down and rebuilt the 380 HP 350 in my car, and have a good job suporting an on-line learning company - helping others to learn, despite never getting into NHS. Too bad I'm not as useful to society as those english teachers... :) Note that I didn't "win", but my situation was close enough to everyone else's that I figured I'd relate it...
I dislike talking for anything other than basic friendship on-line anyway. The whole idea of cybersex bugs me... "Oh yeah, that makes me hot." Bah. Say it to my face (or wherever), and maybe I'll believe you...
Oh, well that's where I use "postmaster@their.comain", or abuse, or webmaster. The NYtimes is the only site so far that disallows that - although stuff like "reprints@nytimes.com" seemed to get through. Oh, and I *always* sign up for all of the info I can to get sent there. It makes me feel good, and makes them get almost as annoyed as me.
OH, c'mon. It's not like Lisa simpson taking a frog to australia...
It's just as easy to register a domain and have all of the mail forwarded to you, then you don't have to set up new aliases - you can jsut set up your mail software to filter out messages addressed to the bogus addresses when you're done with them, and you've got the log files ot check and see if what addresses are being rejected. It's fun, and you get the joy of rejecting mail.
That's irrelevant in this case, because the federal governement is a government "of the people, by the people", not "of the clumps of people, by the states' sizes".
The electoral college essentially gives a weight to each state based on the population. That's almost right, except it rounds the weight to a whole number, effectively screwing 1/2 of the states out of 1/2 a vote, and giving the other half of the states an additional 1/2 vote (on average). Honestly, I wouldn't have so much of a problem if it was done based on the states, if it were done like this:
Everyone votes. Then, a winner is chosen for each state based on the absolute number of votes in that state. Each state contributes to the total descision in a wieght equivelent to the percentage of the nation's registered voteres resident in that state. Essentially a more precise electoral college that doesn't give the electorate the power to make up for the "stupid public" electing the "wrong" person.
Or we could have a popular vote and let that be the end of it, since even though my vote has the potential to be more effective with electoral votes, everyone else *also* has more effective potential, thus increasing the ease at which I'll be outvoted.
--Cloudmaster, posting to an old, old article
Maybe he'll be around for the next election...
Let's take a trip to www.dictionary.com
:) (Especially when the other guy doesn't even seem like a real person - I don't want our country taken over by robots!)
create
To produce through imaginative or artistic effort.
invent
To produce or contrive (somthing previously unknown) by the use of ingenuity or imagination.
Hey, know what? create and invent mean damn near the same thing. Must mean Gore was stretching the truth, eh?
Either way, I'll be darned if I'm gonna make my voting descision based on *one out-of-context sentence* from a single presidential debate.