they are bags made out of lead to protect film in x-ray machines
they work a treat as a shoplifting tool - my CD shelf groans for the strain
As Plover says: Trust me, being caught using one while shoplifting provides very convincing evidence in a courtroom.
More than that, in the UK it's an offence it itself 'going equipped to steal' and will turn your police caution for a first offence into a possible jail term. (from the anecdotal grape-vine)
paying an interest in my lad's online activities I got into Neopets in exatly the same way. I spent hours finding which games could be played by html alone (they have a lot of flash games) and ran a bot to monitor the stock market and pick up the free stuff from the donations tree.
likewise once I'd written the code and ran it for a few weeks I took it out of the cron as my interested faded.
I sit in irc all day (while @ work) and used to sit in everquest all night (waiting for SWG).
The single mighty difference is that it provides something to talk about that has novelty and can hold your interest AND it's nothing to do with your actual daily life.
It has the stuff that gives you your strokes - gossip, rumour, truth & lies, cooperation, boredom, achievement, anticipation, surprise, disappointment & elation and humour.
Some people will say "get a life" and I'm saying "S'ok, I buy my life from Sony, you go back to watching Coronation Street"
I got better value from the hundreds of hours of EQ time than I ever got from many other activities.
By necessity the genre will get depth as time goes on. I'm looking forward to what I'll be drolling my way through in 20 years time (should I make it).
s'funny eh how capitalists love market forces when they support profitability.
mp3 trading is a supreme example of market forces in action, cd's are overpriced in anyone's eyes. If they were $5 (us) then it wouldn't be worth copying them.
Keeping them at $15-20 is an insult, it's no wonder people don't want to pay up.
shame about the aussies, they arfe so laid back in many other ways. How did they get such a dumb govt. Probably to pissed @ the beach to care.
I know I am (I'm in Aus on holiday 8)
drool at the touchscreens - no thanks
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I've got an 800x600 touchscreen and before too long I'd plugged a mouse into it. There are a few inherent problems with it:
Applications are made for a WIMP paradigm When you are trying to navigate with your finger around your desktop it obscures the image underneath, user interfaces assume you can see it all and that your hot spot is on one pixel. Double clicking becomes challenging and clicking with anything but the left button becomes annoyingly over complicated.
Of course, a bit of hacking could probably overcome such restrictions. I did a web site targetted at a vendor's touch screen which proved usable (apart from them moaning "the buttons are too big" when they tested it via mouse).
The next downside is the gorilla's forearm syndrome. Repeatedly pushing the screen becomes tiring on the forearm. If the screen is in front of you then you are holding your arm off the desk which involves more of the shoulder too. Putting the screen horizontal helps but then it's harder to read.
As input devices mouses are pretty hard to beat. Especially in non-windows environments where cut & paste comes as a standard feature rather than a proprietry mouse extension.
Soooo - HP and Sun Microsystems dropped out because the organisers decided that they wanted to open the show and Bruce spits out his dummy in parallel with his old paymasters.
Funny, on one hand "why don't we own the desktop" and when somebody tries to bridge the gap with an excellent business model that might bring plenty of non-Windows PCs into the world. I bet they sell more Linux machines than VA-Linux.
So you expect manufacturers to add all the logic to provide hot swappable components for the price of a standard home PC? Why would they want to do that or why would I need to spend cash on 100% uptime for the computer I use at home?
The simple way is to hack uptime to show some time since the epoch!
I know I've cried a few tears after restoring and finding the backup was incomplete. The stress of the situatuion can be quite unbearable.
I remember reading a story of an Australian guy who spent the night doing his company accounts and then somehow deleting them. He threw the computer out of the window and it fatally struck a passer by. I wish I could find a reference to it right now, it could well be an urban myth.
The 9p protocol is designed to be simple and robust. No piping required and all the things mentioned are possible.
You did forget something:
Binary interfaces cannot be [easily] interpreted by humans.
Which is a curse when you are debugging.
The only real difference between the binary and textual is that binary encoding is unreadable, eveything else is implementation dependent. Binary interfaces in and of themselves don't guarantee events or exceptions.
Which would you rather have %cat/dev/mouse 801 600
or %cat/dev/mouse ^C^U ^BZ
[that was the best I could manage for the binary output i took it from what vi reported, in hex it would be 0x0321 0x0258 and ASCII 0x03, 0x02 & 0x21 are somewhat difficult to represent in HTML]
I wa sone of the million or so people marching through London. It was inspiring to see so many people but saddening that people don't use their energy for other stuff too. I've been on some lonely protests, even outnumbered by the police.
Still, maybe some will become radicalised by it, that usually happens.
Personally, I blame it on Flouridation. Nothing like mass administering a depressive without consent.
Don't be blinkered that it's Sep 11th that started the crackdown. It's my Parliament's responsibility to restrict freedom, that's why it exists: to administer power to the rich. The best trick is that these days they have a mandate from the poor.
Mind you, I'd rather not go back to the days when you would be hung for stealing one of the King's rabbits.
Slashdot Mirror
'beg the question' is not synonymous with 'raise the question'
or any other mechanism for fooling the DNS
remember - real geeks route around such things
for t-shirt, underpants, 2 socks & two shoes & my baseball cap !
they are bags made out of lead to protect film in x-ray machines
:
they work a treat as a shoplifting tool - my CD shelf groans for the strain
As Plover says
Trust me, being caught using one while shoplifting provides very convincing evidence in a courtroom.
More than that, in the UK it's an offence it itself 'going equipped to steal' and will turn your police caution for a first offence into a possible jail term. (from the anecdotal grape-vine)
paying an interest in my lad's online activities I got into Neopets in exatly the same way. I spent hours finding which games could be played by html alone (they have a lot of flash games) and ran a bot to monitor the stock market and pick up the free stuff from the donations tree.
likewise once I'd written the code and ran it for a few weeks I took it out of the cron as my interested faded.
I think my pets have starved to death by now
the screenshots are from an 800x600 screen grab
how well does that translate to a 240x320 screen?
also what's the battery life like. I can only play PDA Everquest for maybe 2 hours before all the juice is gone.
I've thought it might be good to use wireless iPaqs to play a multi user game in a city but that's about as far as I got 8)
iPaq mah boy, iPaq
as in Compaq
who's logo looked much better on a Formula 1 car than HP's ever does
I sit in irc all day (while @ work) and used to sit in everquest all night (waiting for SWG).
The single mighty difference is that it provides something to talk about that has novelty and can hold your interest AND it's nothing to do with your actual daily life.
It has the stuff that gives you your strokes - gossip, rumour, truth & lies, cooperation, boredom, achievement, anticipation, surprise, disappointment & elation and humour.
Some people will say "get a life" and I'm saying "S'ok, I buy my life from Sony, you go back to watching Coronation Street"
I got better value from the hundreds of hours of EQ time than I ever got from many other activities.
By necessity the genre will get depth as time goes on. I'm looking forward to what I'll be drolling my way through in 20 years time (should I make it).
s'funny eh how capitalists love market forces when they support profitability.
mp3 trading is a supreme example of market forces in action, cd's are overpriced in anyone's eyes. If they were $5 (us) then it wouldn't be worth copying them.
Keeping them at $15-20 is an insult, it's no wonder people don't want to pay up.
shame about the aussies, they arfe so laid back in many other ways. How did they get such a dumb govt. Probably to pissed @ the beach to care.
I know I am (I'm in Aus on holiday 8)
I've got an 800x600 touchscreen and before too long I'd plugged a mouse into it. There are a few inherent problems with it :
Applications are made for a WIMP paradigm
When you are trying to navigate with your finger around your desktop it obscures the image underneath, user interfaces assume you can see it all and that your hot spot is on one pixel. Double clicking becomes challenging and clicking with anything but the left button becomes annoyingly over complicated.
Of course, a bit of hacking could probably overcome such restrictions. I did a web site targetted at a vendor's touch screen which proved usable (apart from them moaning "the buttons are too big" when they tested it via mouse).
The next downside is the gorilla's forearm syndrome. Repeatedly pushing the screen becomes tiring on the forearm. If the screen is in front of you then you are holding your arm off the desk which involves more of the shoulder too. Putting the screen horizontal helps but then it's harder to read.
As input devices mouses are pretty hard to beat. Especially in non-windows environments where cut & paste comes as a standard feature rather than a proprietry mouse extension.
The most common complaint I hear about Linux is ....
...
Now we hear complaints that
people talk because they can not because they should
I mean, I should know, I'm one of 'em
it's so confusing he can't type
Soooo - HP and Sun Microsystems dropped out because the organisers decided that they wanted to open the show and Bruce spits out his dummy in parallel with his old paymasters.
Funny, on one hand "why don't we own the desktop" and when somebody tries to bridge the gap with an excellent business model that might bring plenty of non-Windows PCs into the world. I bet they sell more Linux machines than VA-Linux.
is all you ever need
that's why GUIs suck
waste of good pixels
So you expect manufacturers to add all the logic to provide hot swappable components for the price of a standard home PC? Why would they want to do that or why would I need to spend cash on 100% uptime for the computer I use at home?
The simple way is to hack uptime to show some time since the epoch!
just wait until Miguel persuades enough people that configuring your users through CORBA is a great idea.
and here it is again for the hard of reading
Ein Zombie, Ein Undead, Ein BSD
I know I've cried a few tears after restoring and finding the backup was incomplete. The stress of the situatuion can be quite unbearable.
I remember reading a story of an Australian guy who spent the night doing his company accounts and then somehow deleting them. He threw the computer out of the window and it fatally struck a passer by. I wish I could find a reference to it right now, it could well be an urban myth.
The 9p protocol is designed to be simple and robust. No piping required and all the things mentioned are possible.
:
/dev/mouse
/dev/mouse
You did forget something
Binary interfaces cannot be [easily] interpreted by humans.
Which is a curse when you are debugging.
The only real difference between the binary and textual is that binary encoding is unreadable, eveything else is implementation dependent. Binary interfaces in and of themselves don't guarantee events or exceptions.
Which would you rather have
%cat
801 600
or
%cat
^C^U ^BZ
[that was the best I could manage for the binary output i took it from what vi reported, in hex it would be 0x0321 0x0258 and ASCII 0x03, 0x02 & 0x21 are somewhat difficult to represent in HTML]
along with the torture endured when some DJ puts on "Let's do the timewarp" or whatever that stupid song is called.
yeah, call me killjoy, I like it.
said oops up side your head, said oops upside your head
Although I agree.
I wa sone of the million or so people marching through London. It was inspiring to see so many people but saddening that people don't use their energy for other stuff too. I've been on some lonely protests, even outnumbered by the police.
Still, maybe some will become radicalised by it, that usually happens.
Personally, I blame it on Flouridation. Nothing like mass administering a depressive without consent.
Don't be blinkered that it's Sep 11th that started the crackdown. It's my Parliament's responsibility to restrict freedom, that's why it exists: to administer power to the rich. The best trick is that these days they have a mandate from the poor.
Mind you, I'd rather not go back to the days when you would be hung for stealing one of the King's rabbits.
Miguel argues that piping is not a very good compenent model to build applications or systems.
Miguel or Dennis Ritchie ?
I think Dennis gets my vote
$2,141,100,000 for last season's calendar
for 20 cars to race round 16 circuits
Thats $133,818,750 per race
or (very) approximately $3345 per mile.
Greenhouses could easily be built on the surface
for sufficiently large values of easy
Why oh why would ANYONE with a clue connect important work-a-day machines in a hospital to the internet?
If anyone died because AN INTERNET WORM did anything to a hospital then the hosptial administrators should be prosecuted for lack of due diligence.