The rapid-fire mouse ball changer/co-worker annoyer.
Here it is. We all know that mouse balls get worn out after time. Imagine this. You're sitting there in your cube, and you realize your mouse ball is worn out. You flip up the saftey cover (for OSHA compliance) take aim at your PHB and press the button. The worn out mouse ball is discarded at a fairly high rate of speed while another is loaded into the chamber for immediate continuation of reading/., userfriendly or what not. This ejected mouse ball continues on it's path, at a decent rate of speed, and if your aim was good enough, thunking your boss in the back of the head.
I've thought of doing this with several game designs I have. But the question is - Where would I find people willing to work on this project and would they be able to commit enough hours so that a playable demo is finished in a reasonable amount of time? I'm not trying to play devils advocate, I'm really interested in doing this.
So... let me get this right. The government is so up in arms about not knowing what the majority of the population is doing, that it feels the need to watch us on the net. Personally, I think that they would be bored stiff. Hmm let me see GIHM went to the following sites today: slashdot.org, gamestorm.com yahoo.com, egroups.com, zdnet.com oh wait here's something, yes, yes, oh never mind, it was just his horoscope.
This really makes me wonder how much a small little island costs and what it would take for me to just up and move there. I think I through this idea out a few months ago, but I'm to lazy to go looking for the link. I wonder what's next on the "Stupid Government Ideas" list.
I'll admit it, I watched just to see if I could see Scully in a skimpy leather outfit. Sorry, I have a thing for her.
But it's leading me to wonder what's going on over @ Fox. Did anyone see the episode a week before done in a "Cops" format? Now that was cheesy.
The the missus and I did have a interesting conversation after the show. Me being an avid gamer, not so much FPS, she asked why do I enjoy playing these games when they do nothing but contribute to a persons violent urges. I said not really. Most people who play FPS or any other type of game realize it's not real and that using a rocket launcher to frag your friend to lil itty bitty bits is, in most cases, not a good thing to do. But there are some people who will and do take it a step to far. I mean, if you look at almost anything in our society, there will be a small group of people who will take it to far, whether it be the idea, or the actually action itself. Then she brought out the dead horse question: "Well what about Columbine?" To which I replied "Well where were the parents?" But she seemed to think that all games are FPS and frag fests. To show her that that was a false generalization, I logged on and jumped to an Unreal server. She started going on about how bad it was that all there was to the game was frag frag frag. Then I logged onto a Rainbow Six server and found a friend of mine and we did a few co-op missions. From there we went to Gamestorm.com and dropped into MultiPlayer BattleTech: Solaris. From there I took her to a C&C:TS server. ALl of this to show here that not all games are frag frag frag. And what she got out of it, which I was hoping she would catch, is that it's just not teens playing these games, but a lot of adults as well, many well educated with good jobs.
I think it's starting to dawn on her that she's been a victim of media hype;)
But I generally do it in games where fragging isn't the only part of the game. I tend to Role Play a female. The major reason is I'm an evil person and I love to watch the reactions of male players as I let them hit on me for a day or so, and then tell them I'm actually a male. That's always good for a laugh. Another reason is that I just enjoy role playing in a gaming environment. I enjoy hanging up my "self" and acting out the life of another person who is for the most part totally different than I am. It a stress relief for me. Yes I know that I'm just ducking reality. But I think we all indulge in some sort of escapism, be it the movies, fraggin, reading a book or what not. I just choose to fsck up other peoples escapism when I practice mine.
I really do. Most of the reason is because I never learned to type correctly, so my reaches are all messed up. So the split just kills me. I prefer the older non windoze 9x keyboards, and if you want to get specific, the compaq keyboards. They keys are just right for me, and I find that the way the space them has really increased my ability to circle strafe. That's the other thing with the ergo keyboards, it kills my circle strafe. But unlike Cmdr. Taco, I don't type for hours at a time. I'm a networking geek, so most of my typing is in short burst of command line phrases and moving around with my arrow keys.
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If, and I don't know if this is true, that there are a corps of people combing the web looking for the DeCSS link, mirror, source code and such, I think it would be funny as hell to watch them present their results to the higher ups and watch them proceed to contact the owners of the OTHER Decss proggie. Nice job.
But during the day, I'm at work a half hour early at the least. That let's take care of some of the important stuff, coffee, breakfast, a quick smoke. Then the 6:30 am official time (I have to work around wall street hours which is an hour ahead of me) hits and we start up. Market closes @ 3 pm here, I'm SUPPOSE to be out @ 3:30. I generally leave closer to 5 or so. A quick stop @ a small company I do side work for for about 2-3 hours, and then online working as a sys op for gamestorm for about 3 hours and that puts me right around the 15 hour mark. Now I know why I didn't think about it before. This is depressing.
to purchase a used laptop, generally a low end pentium machine. Yeah, I'm not gonna frag on it, but for sending/recieving email, and transmitting alot of the reports I need to, it works well.
As I travel across the midwest and East coast, I found ATT worldnet service works quite well. Case in point, one of my stays was in Ft. Lauderdale, Fl, and I had worked at a dance club in Philly, well this club is a chain, and they had one, as luck would have it, next to my hotel room. After a quick trip to radio shack, I broke out the laptop, dialed into the internet, and hit tucows.com. At the time, I was running a Thinkpad 770ed. So I grabbed some audio recording software, and proceeded to record about 45 hours of live dance mix from the dj. The wav file was about 2 gigs, but it was awesome stuff.
I've also found that most of the bigger hotels, holiday inns, sheratons, marriots etc have phone ports in their phones, bring your own phone line tho.
ATT can set you up for about 10 usd per month. Just give them a credit card and a po box, should do the trick. Sneaky yes, but hey, sometimes you just need to get the job done.
News for most americans: The rest of the world don't care about your laws
I agree. I would love to see how the courts enforce the issue when the server is overseas. I could just imagine the lawyers calling up a webmaster in another country demanding they remove the file/web page etc. I would imagine that the response would amount to a hardy laugh and a comment of "go frag yourself."
On the side note: Could this be actually a decent for spam? It would be neat to watch the lil lawyers try to track all the emails etc. I get the picture of lil boys running around trying to plug the crumbling dike with thier fingers.
I'll do the same. I suspend my company domain (I own the company, I can do that) and post the program and the source code. I'll even give them a nice html letter so that when they look at it and want to send me one of those letters, it'll give them my reply, so they can save the paper.
While it does sound plausible...it's a really really long reach. There are just to many variables to the rock launching scenerio. I think I have to put this one in the "Umm Ok,Next theory" box. But I do love a good theory of origin
then how come in in an article on the AFA site, he has introduced a bill that would help put filters in place in schools and libraries? Methinks a rat I smell.
But unlike you I have never posted as an AC. I stand behind what I say. Sure, I may be off mark, off color, or just plain stupid, but I always have and always will own up to what I say. How about you?
WTF is wrong with you? You saw the headline, you saw that he said tha that it isn't for most of the/. masses. Did you just move on? Noooo had to click the link didn't you, couldn't be a intelligent person and realize that this held no interest for you, and ignore it. Just had to post. Got news for you.. there are other things that people are interested in that you have no interest in that fall under the/. area. Get used to it, stop being a lil whiney baby, and move on.
I've been watching with keen interest both Linux and the open source movement with great interest for the past few years. Now with anything Linux being the darling of Wall Street, it would seem all one has to do is mention Linux and watch the rush of money.
My question is this: How do you, personally, view your fellow Linux distributors? Do you see them as competition to be toppled? Or do you view them as competitors in a worthwhile cause?
OK - first of all UF and AN ARE funny as hell. I don't care what this yutz says. We all have our "special" users who we would love to club over the head, take away thier machine and remand them to doing work on a etch-a-sketch, with a poloriod camera to print with.
Sorry buddy boy - I don't know what you're talking about but it takes a bit more than memorization to make it in the IT industry. Despite what you said, you DO have to have intelligence if you ever want to make it past phone drone level. I don't know about the rest of the/. readers, but I hate phone droning, just slightly more than I hate desktop support.
May this guy should come out of his house and be in the real world again. Yutz.
I have found it easier to relate what I'm learning to the OS I'm most comfortable with. For me, I feel most comfortable with Netware, for the simple reason that I learned that as my first networking OS. I know that Linux isn't just a networking OS, but a desktop OS, but I found it easier to relate a lot of what linux was doing to things in Netware.
I think I was lucky. I had a person who was kind enough, and patient enough to sit down with me and show me some of the basics of Linux. Then I started fumbling around myself, learning what to do and what not to do. But when I do get stuck, and the man's, faq's etc fail me, he's also kind enough to let me call upon him to help out.
That person, is probably the main reason I keep trying to learn Linux. He's become my Linux mentor. I wish every Linxu newbie had someone like that to help them out.
Before I say who I would love to see run for president on the Geek Ticket, I gotta do a bit of a rant, so skip it if you want.
First of all, I think that the real problem with the current crop of politicians and law makers is that they wouldn't know a SIMM from DIMM if it bit them in the ass. Now I'm not saying they should be techs, but at least have a decent idea of how things working when talking about the web, and computers in general. Second - I don't care what the intention is, there is NO reason to invade anyones privacy for the sake of trying get a select few criminals. Example - There is no reason to look at everyones hard drive to catch child porn collectors. That would equate to the cops being able to pull you over because you look like a drug dealer/rapist/murder etc. Get the point?
Ok here's my ideal candidate - and I know I'm gonna catch hell for this but:
Dr. Eric Schmidt, CEO of Novell. Putting aside his career at Sun, let's just look at what he's done for Novell:
Took a company that almost everyone wrote off for dead (their stock was trading at about 7 USD a share in Mid 97)and pulled what could be one of the biggest turn arounds of the decade. He straightened out Ray Norda's mess, got the company out of finacial trouble (today Novell was trading around 33 3/8 USD), but managed to get new products out, redesign company focus, and now (some say) he is ready to grab the Directory war away from MS with NDS. all this in 2 years? I would love to see him run the country.
Slashdot Mirror
The rapid-fire mouse ball changer/co-worker annoyer.
/., userfriendly or what not. This ejected mouse ball continues on it's path, at a decent rate of speed, and if your aim was good enough, thunking your boss in the back of the head.
Here it is. We all know that mouse balls get worn out after time. Imagine this. You're sitting there in your cube, and you realize your mouse ball is worn out. You flip up the saftey cover (for OSHA compliance) take aim at your PHB and press the button. The worn out mouse ball is discarded at a fairly high rate of speed while another is loaded into the chamber for immediate continuation of reading
I've thought of doing this with several game designs I have. But the question is - Where would I find people willing to work on this project and would they be able to commit enough hours so that a playable demo is finished in a reasonable amount of time?
I'm not trying to play devils advocate, I'm really interested in doing this.
I've always liked the Dune series of books, I haven't gotten the new one yet, but I'm working on it.
After the fish translated the page, I was left with one question: On which network would this mini series air on? Sci-Fi?
So... let me get this right. The government is so up in arms about not knowing what the majority of the population is doing, that it feels the need to watch us on the net. Personally, I think that they would be bored stiff. Hmm let me see GIHM went to the following sites today: slashdot.org, gamestorm.com yahoo.com, egroups.com, zdnet.com oh wait here's something, yes, yes, oh never mind, it was just his horoscope.
This really makes me wonder how much a small little island costs and what it would take for me to just up and move there. I think I through this idea out a few months ago, but I'm to lazy to go looking for the link. I wonder what's next on the "Stupid Government Ideas" list.
I'll admit it, I watched just to see if I could see Scully in a skimpy leather outfit. Sorry, I have a thing for her.
;)
But it's leading me to wonder what's going on over @ Fox. Did anyone see the episode a week before done in a "Cops" format? Now that was cheesy.
The the missus and I did have a interesting conversation after the show. Me being an avid gamer, not so much FPS, she asked why do I enjoy playing these games when they do nothing but contribute to a persons violent urges. I said not really. Most people who play FPS or any other type of game realize it's not real and that using a rocket launcher to frag your friend to lil itty bitty bits is, in most cases, not a good thing to do. But there are some people who will and do take it a step to far. I mean, if you look at almost anything in our society, there will be a small group of people who will take it to far, whether it be the idea, or the actually action itself.
Then she brought out the dead horse question: "Well what about Columbine?" To which I replied "Well where were the parents?"
But she seemed to think that all games are FPS and frag fests. To show her that that was a false generalization, I logged on and jumped to an Unreal server. She started going on about how bad it was that all there was to the game was frag frag frag. Then I logged onto a Rainbow Six server and found a friend of mine and we did a few co-op missions. From there we went to Gamestorm.com and dropped into MultiPlayer BattleTech: Solaris. From there I took her to a C&C:TS server. ALl of this to show here that not all games are frag frag frag. And what she got out of it, which I was hoping she would catch, is that it's just not teens playing these games, but a lot of adults as well, many well educated with good jobs.
I think it's starting to dawn on her that she's been a victim of media hype
But I generally do it in games where fragging isn't the only part of the game. I tend to Role Play a female. The major reason is I'm an evil person and I love to watch the reactions of male players as I let them hit on me for a day or so, and then tell them I'm actually a male. That's always good for a laugh. Another reason is that I just enjoy role playing in a gaming environment. I enjoy hanging up my "self" and acting out the life of another person who is for the most part totally different than I am. It a stress relief for me. Yes I know that I'm just ducking reality. But I think we all indulge in some sort of escapism, be it the movies, fraggin, reading a book or what not. I just choose to fsck up other peoples escapism when I practice mine.
I really do. Most of the reason is because I never learned to type correctly, so my reaches are all messed up. So the split just kills me. I prefer the older non windoze 9x keyboards, and if you want to get specific, the compaq keyboards. They keys are just right for me, and I find that the way the space them has really increased my ability to circle strafe. That's the other thing with the ergo keyboards, it kills my circle strafe. But unlike Cmdr. Taco, I don't type for hours at a time. I'm a networking geek, so most of my typing is in short burst of command line phrases and moving around with my arrow keys.
If, and I don't know if this is true, that there are a corps of people combing the web looking for the DeCSS link, mirror, source code and such, I think it would be funny as hell to watch them present their results to the higher ups and watch them proceed to contact the owners of the OTHER Decss proggie. Nice job.
But during the day, I'm at work a half hour early at the least. That let's take care of some of the important stuff, coffee, breakfast, a quick smoke. Then the 6:30 am official time (I have to work around wall street hours which is an hour ahead of me) hits and we start up. Market closes @ 3 pm here, I'm SUPPOSE to be out @ 3:30. I generally leave closer to 5 or so. A quick stop @ a small company I do side work for for about 2-3 hours, and then online working as a sys op for gamestorm for about 3 hours and that puts me right around the 15 hour mark. Now I know why I didn't think about it before. This is depressing.
to purchase a used laptop, generally a low end pentium machine. Yeah, I'm not gonna frag on it, but for sending/recieving email, and transmitting alot of the reports I need to, it works well.
As I travel across the midwest and East coast, I found ATT worldnet service works quite well. Case in point, one of my stays was in Ft. Lauderdale, Fl, and I had worked at a dance club in Philly, well this club is a chain, and they had one, as luck would have it, next to my hotel room. After a quick trip to radio shack, I broke out the laptop, dialed into the internet, and hit tucows.com. At the time, I was running a Thinkpad 770ed. So I grabbed some audio recording software, and proceeded to record about 45 hours of live dance mix from the dj. The wav file was about 2 gigs, but it was awesome stuff.
I've also found that most of the bigger hotels, holiday inns, sheratons, marriots etc have phone ports in their phones, bring your own phone line tho.
ATT can set you up for about 10 usd per month. Just give them a credit card and a po box, should do the trick. Sneaky yes, but hey, sometimes you just need to get the job done.
Now that should be moderated up and marked as Funny.
err that should have read "a decent use for spam"
Screw it, it's time for a beer or 12.
News for most americans: The rest of the world don't care about your laws
I agree. I would love to see how the courts enforce the issue when the server is overseas.
I could just imagine the lawyers calling up a webmaster in another country demanding they remove the file/web page etc. I would imagine that the response would amount to a hardy laugh and a comment of "go frag yourself."
On the side note: Could this be actually a decent for spam? It would be neat to watch the lil lawyers try to track all the emails etc. I get the picture of lil boys running around trying to plug the crumbling dike with thier fingers.
Here's mine. Sorry about not having the domain transferred yet. But this will do I suppose.
ENJOY!
I'll do the same. I suspend my company domain (I own the company, I can do that) and post the program and the source code. I'll even give them a nice html letter so that when they look at it and want to send me one of those letters, it'll give them my reply, so they can save the paper.
While it does sound plausible...it's a really really long reach. There are just to many variables to the rock launching scenerio. I think I have to put this one in the "Umm Ok,Next theory" box. But I do love a good theory of origin
then how come in in an article on the AFA site, he has introduced a bill that would help put filters in place in schools and libraries? Methinks a rat I smell.
But unlike you I have never posted as an AC. I stand behind what I say. Sure, I may be off mark, off color, or just plain stupid, but I always have and always will own up to what I say. How about you?
I think that says it all about you.
WTF is wrong with you? You saw the headline, you saw that he said tha that it isn't for most of the /. masses. Did you just move on? Noooo had to click the link didn't you, couldn't be a intelligent person and realize that this held no interest for you, and ignore it. Just had to post. Got news for you.. there are other things that people are interested in that you have no interest in that fall under the /. area. Get used to it, stop being a lil whiney baby, and move on.
Jesus H. Christ on a crutch I hate stupid people.
I've been watching with keen interest both Linux and the open source movement with great interest for the past few years. Now with anything Linux being the darling of Wall Street, it would seem all one has to do is mention Linux and watch the rush of money.
My question is this:
How do you, personally, view your fellow Linux distributors? Do you see them as competition to be toppled? Or do you view them as competitors in a worthwhile cause?
OK - first of all UF and AN ARE funny as hell. I don't care what this yutz says. We all have our "special" users who we would love to club over the head, take away thier machine and remand them to doing work on a etch-a-sketch, with a poloriod camera to print with.
/. readers, but I hate phone droning, just slightly more than I hate desktop support.
Sorry buddy boy - I don't know what you're talking about but it takes a bit more than memorization to make it in the IT industry. Despite what you said, you DO have to have intelligence if you ever want to make it past phone drone level. I don't know about the rest of the
May this guy should come out of his house and be in the real world again. Yutz.
I have found it easier to relate what I'm learning to the OS I'm most comfortable with. For me, I feel most comfortable with Netware, for the simple reason that I learned that as my first networking OS. I know that Linux isn't just a networking OS, but a desktop OS, but I found it easier to relate a lot of what linux was doing to things in Netware.
I think I was lucky. I had a person who was kind enough, and patient enough to sit down with me and show me some of the basics of Linux. Then I started fumbling around myself, learning what to do and what not to do. But when I do get stuck, and the man's, faq's etc fail me, he's also kind enough to let me call upon him to help out.
That person, is probably the main reason I keep trying to learn Linux. He's become my Linux mentor. I wish every Linxu newbie had someone like that to help them out.
Eric Schmidt didn't take any Microsoft money. ;P
Before I say who I would love to see run for president on the Geek Ticket, I gotta do a bit of a rant, so skip it if you want.
First of all, I think that the real problem with the current crop of politicians and law makers is that they wouldn't know a SIMM from DIMM if it bit them in the ass. Now I'm not saying they should be techs, but at least have a decent idea of how things working when talking about the web, and computers in general.
Second - I don't care what the intention is, there is NO reason to invade anyones privacy for the sake of trying get a select few criminals. Example - There is no reason to look at everyones hard drive to catch child porn collectors. That would equate to the cops being able to pull you over because you look like a drug dealer/rapist/murder etc. Get the point?
Ok here's my ideal candidate - and I know I'm gonna catch hell for this but:
Dr. Eric Schmidt, CEO of Novell.
Putting aside his career at Sun, let's just look at what he's done for Novell:
Took a company that almost everyone wrote off for dead (their stock was trading at about 7 USD a share in Mid 97)and pulled what could be one of the biggest turn arounds of the decade. He straightened out Ray Norda's mess, got the company out of finacial trouble (today Novell was trading around 33 3/8 USD), but managed to get new products out, redesign company focus, and now (some say) he is ready to grab the Directory war away from MS with NDS. all this in 2 years? I would love to see him run the country.
But I could be nuts.
Where's my prozac?