I wish Lucas & Co. would get the thing going a little faster.
I can't really imagine waiting until 1997 to see all nine parts
of the Star Wars series.
--circa 1982
Instead of whining, I've decided to merely let someone else do it for me.
Personally, I dont hear too many new comments on/. anymore. I think that instead of writing everything out, we should recycle electrons and just use links to what someone else already said (especially if they got +karma on theirs, then you can karma whore while not being original!)
Now mind you every store in town seems to have plenty of Gamecubes in stock, but if you want an X-Box, you have to kill for it.
Goldman Sachs did a survey among U.S. retailers in big cities, and so far 73% had sold out of the Xbox and 47% out of the Gamecube. Microsoft shipped an estimated 300,000 Xbox consoles around the nation, while Nintendo delivered some 700,000.
[from Shacknews]
Granted, this was a bit farther back in November, but the numbers seem plausible.
And as always: "There are lies, damn lies, and marketing!" (or somethin like that)
OMG...I did the same thing. I found a 1.3M text file with ~3500 CC#s, names, expiry dates, et al. Heck, its a comma delimited file with email addresses and even comments on 'how did you hear about our site?' (to which one person responded: My friend at school told me about it and then i heard it with my ears.)
Actually, it seems as if it was obtained from PimpIT.com, so I suggest to anyone who has bought anything from them online to look into it.
(thankfully my name isnt in there)
Yup..and to make things a bit more convenient:
apt-get install curl
curl -O -e http://starwars.apple.com/ep2/forbidden/forbiddenl ove_lg.html \
http://starwars.apple.com/ep2/forbidden/media/640/ ep2_forbidden.love_m640.mov
[fix the/. spacing]
Frankly, they look a lot like... previous KDE desktops:) That by itself says a lot about how mature KDE has become.
Windows 95 looks just like Windows 98. Theres nothing really different, aside from supporting USB. Windows sucks.
Heard Tori Amos on the radio this morning. She had a geat quote: Perspective changes whenever you move. Things always look different from another viewpoint.
Some of the linux zealots need to move around a bit. The view never changes unless you're in front.
Ok, mostly OT, but its an apple thread, right?:) Anyhoo, was talkin to one of the girls I work with last night, and she mentioned that MS Office for OSX comes out today (I think). It dawned on me that OSX has a BSD core. Does anyone know if/what possibilities exist for Office to run on a unix core (ala *BSD/Linux)? The thought crossed my mind, and I had to ask. Anyone got any links or anything of valuable info regarding this topic?
Other creative ideas
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I was just too stoked to see this. Those wacky kids over at sCary's carved pumpkins the other night. The best, hands down, is the middle one here. I dont ever think I've ever seen a Thundercats logo in a pumpkin. Even better: shugaMom was the one who carved it.
Anyone find the irony in having an app called NotGNU Emacs on a 'Tiny App' page? I wonder if there's any GPL issues, as the source is not free (from what I can tell.)
Tho it is mostly windows software, there's a link to google's directory on floppy disk based linux distro's.
For Example: I'd personally like to assign a -2 penalty on any comment rated 'funny' because most of them frankly just aren't funny at all. But humor is far too subjective to say that the moderation is unfair.
It's funny because it's Microsoft. Get it? It's... oh never mind.
Did anyone else get a really odd mental picture of pluggin in a 25pin serial cable to the side of the watch, and then remember we have infrared these days?
Yea..like installing bulletproof glass? If you'd like to pay for it, I'm all for stopping those bastards. Oh, and on the wear/tear/scratching thing...yea, they're only 10 years old, I should be more careful.
It just dawned on me, even tho its more than blatent: I cant make copies of these CDs! Not for pirating, not for making MP3s (for myself only), but for the sheer fact of having backups. After losing my CD collection to theft and losing some CDs to wear/tear/scratching, I started making backups of all my cds, and only playing the backups. My plan has proved itself, cause I just had all my CDs stolen once again, but this time, aside from the $5 loss of the carrying case, and the $10 pack of 50 CD-Rs, I'll be back to playin my tunes as soon as I find time to burn.
Dear SaintTaco:
PLEASE FIX SLASHDOT. I've been a good geek this year. I dont deserve this! Under my preferences, I have the option selected:
Display Link Domains? (shows the actual domain of any link in brackets)
[ ] Never show link domains
[X] Show the links domain only in recommended situations
[ ] Always show link domains
For the love of Pete, you'd think that the "conspiracy theories here" link above to goatse.cx would be considered a 'recommended situation' and put a lil [www.goatse.cx] next to it...I luckily am weary enough from previous coffee spitting exercises to mouse over my links still, regardless of preferences.
But PLEASE fix this, or dont have it at all.
[for the humor impaired: its a joke, but it does have a kernel of truth to it]
We'll go to a National ID card. Then people will get sick of carrying three+ cards, so we'll consolidate to one card with your personal info and your financial info. After a while, it'll be found out that this makes identity theft WAY too easy, so we'll start implanting them into our skin. From there, I dunno. Retna scanning? My question to the/. crowd is this: how long will it take to implement all of this (well, up to the implanted-int-skin part)?
One of the most interesting reads I've ever come across was the PC Week crack. Just cool to see what he went through, his thoughts/ideas, and especially his thought process.
So who's gonna write a version of the CR/CR2 perl script that Kryptolus wrote? I would like to, but I'm not quite enough of a perl hacker to pull off something worth running on the logs that this worm is generating.
Yup, thats the name alright, according to Symantec who has a preliminary write-up on it. Not much info now, but I'm sure it'll have more as the day progresses.
How much of a market is there? I am in the very early stages of creating a video game as part of a class (gotta love liberal arts colleges...) and I keep hoping that we can create something along the lines of the Myst series- interactive, engaging, immersive and fun. But look at the market right now. There is nothing that does not have an emphasis on violence.
It seems to me to be a bit nearsighted to say that all the games out have an emphasis on violence. When, in fact, some of the top selling games of ALL TIME have been those with the least violence. Myst was #1 for something like 2 years, even though DOOM, Quake, and others came and went. Then Roller Coaster Tycoon came around, and it camped out on the top of the list for quite some time. Now, I'm no game expert, but I know there's almost always one or two games that are in the top 10 of the month that are not based around violence. Even to the extent of something like Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 1/2, or even Gran Tourismo. Granted, they aren't quite what you're talking about (I'm much more inclined to play mind games than coordination games - thats why I play sports in Real LifeTM), but they're non-violent alternatives.
By the way - PLEASE continue to develop your game. We need more Mystish games. Don't let numbers discourage you! Where would we be if Linus looked at the market share of MS/Novell (10 years ago), and said, "Screw it - whats the point? It'll never be that widely used."
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I wish Lucas & Co. would get the thing going a little faster. I can't really imagine waiting until 1997 to see all nine parts of the Star Wars series.
--circa 1982
Instead of whining, I've decided to merely let someone else do it for me.
/. anymore. I think that instead of writing everything out, we should recycle electrons and just use links to what someone else already said (especially if they got +karma on theirs, then you can karma whore while not being original!)
Personally, I dont hear too many new comments on
Now mind you every store in town seems to have plenty of Gamecubes in stock, but if you want an X-Box, you have to kill for it.
Goldman Sachs did a survey among U.S. retailers in big cities, and so far 73% had sold out of the Xbox and 47% out of the Gamecube. Microsoft shipped an estimated 300,000 Xbox consoles around the nation, while Nintendo delivered some 700,000.
[from Shacknews]
Granted, this was a bit farther back in November, but the numbers seem plausible.
And as always: "There are lies, damn lies, and marketing!" (or somethin like that)
Simple materials like aluminum foil, thin wires, pine needles -- even dry or frizzy hair -- can intercept and respond to a VLF field.
I bet Weird Al was having the multimedia show of a lifetime!
OMG...I did the same thing. I found a 1.3M text file with ~3500 CC#s, names, expiry dates, et al. Heck, its a comma delimited file with email addresses and even comments on 'how did you hear about our site?' (to which one person responded: My friend at school told me about it and then i heard it with my ears.)
Actually, it seems as if it was obtained from PimpIT.com, so I suggest to anyone who has bought anything from them online to look into it.
(thankfully my name isnt in there)
Yup..and to make things a bit more convenient:l ove_lg.html \/ ep2_forbidden.love_m640.mov /. spacing]
apt-get install curl
curl -O -e http://starwars.apple.com/ep2/forbidden/forbidden
http://starwars.apple.com/ep2/forbidden/media/640
[fix the
heh..and you thought linux zealots were bad? You ever hear of the Anti-Mac guys that have ties to UPS? I guess you didnt hear about them.
Frankly, they look a lot like ... previous KDE desktops :) That by itself says a lot about how mature KDE has become.
Windows 95 looks just like Windows 98. Theres nothing really different, aside from supporting USB. Windows sucks.
Heard Tori Amos on the radio this morning. She had a geat quote: Perspective changes whenever you move. Things always look different from another viewpoint.
Some of the linux zealots need to move around a bit. The view never changes unless you're in front.
Ok, mostly OT, but its an apple thread, right? :) Anyhoo, was talkin to one of the girls I work with last night, and she mentioned that MS Office for OSX comes out today (I think). It dawned on me that OSX has a BSD core. Does anyone know if/what possibilities exist for Office to run on a unix core (ala *BSD/Linux)? The thought crossed my mind, and I had to ask. Anyone got any links or anything of valuable info regarding this topic?
Obligitory google cache link cause the site's hosed:w ww.reality.be/demo/sbac/+&hl=en
http://www.google.com/search?q=cache:IJYiCWaUCWc:
Course, pictures are slow if at all, but if you want to there's http://images.google.com/
I was just too stoked to see this. Those wacky kids over at sCary's carved pumpkins the other night. The best, hands down, is the middle one here. I dont ever think I've ever seen a Thundercats logo in a pumpkin. Even better: shugaMom was the one who carved it.
Anyone find the irony in having an app called NotGNU Emacs on a 'Tiny App' page? I wonder if there's any GPL issues, as the source is not free (from what I can tell.)
Tho it is mostly windows software, there's a link to google's directory on floppy disk based linux distro's.
Buy stock
For Example: I'd personally like to assign a -2 penalty on any comment rated 'funny' because most of them frankly just aren't funny at all. But humor is far too subjective to say that the moderation is unfair.
:)
It's funny because it's Microsoft. Get it? It's... oh never mind.
wow...self fullfilled prophesy?
Did anyone else get a really odd mental picture of pluggin in a 25pin serial cable to the side of the watch, and then remember we have infrared these days?
Must've been the coffee this mornin.
..would this be labeled as 'News' and not 'Its funny. Laugh'.
Yea..like installing bulletproof glass? If you'd like to pay for it, I'm all for stopping those bastards. Oh, and on the wear/tear/scratching thing...yea, they're only 10 years old, I should be more careful.
It just dawned on me, even tho its more than blatent: I cant make copies of these CDs! Not for pirating, not for making MP3s (for myself only), but for the sheer fact of having backups. After losing my CD collection to theft and losing some CDs to wear/tear/scratching, I started making backups of all my cds, and only playing the backups. My plan has proved itself, cause I just had all my CDs stolen once again, but this time, aside from the $5 loss of the carrying case, and the $10 pack of 50 CD-Rs, I'll be back to playin my tunes as soon as I find time to burn.
/me hops on the bandwagon to stop this movement.
Dear SaintTaco:
PLEASE FIX SLASHDOT. I've been a good geek this year. I dont deserve this! Under my preferences, I have the option selected:
Display Link Domains? (shows the actual domain of any link in brackets)
[ ] Never show link domains
[X] Show the links domain only in recommended situations
[ ] Always show link domains
For the love of Pete, you'd think that the "conspiracy theories here" link above to goatse.cx would be considered a 'recommended situation' and put a lil [www.goatse.cx] next to it...I luckily am weary enough from previous coffee spitting exercises to mouse over my links still, regardless of preferences.
But PLEASE fix this, or dont have it at all.
[for the humor impaired: its a joke, but it does have a kernel of truth to it]
We'll go to a National ID card. Then people will get sick of carrying three+ cards, so we'll consolidate to one card with your personal info and your financial info. After a while, it'll be found out that this makes identity theft WAY too easy, so we'll start implanting them into our skin. From there, I dunno. Retna scanning? My question to the /. crowd is this: how long will it take to implement all of this (well, up to the implanted-int-skin part)?
One of the most interesting reads I've ever come across was the PC Week crack. Just cool to see what he went through, his thoughts/ideas, and especially his thought process.
So who's gonna write a version of the CR/CR2 perl script that Kryptolus wrote? I would like to, but I'm not quite enough of a perl hacker to pull off something worth running on the logs that this worm is generating.
Yup, thats the name alright, according to Symantec who has a preliminary write-up on it. Not much info now, but I'm sure it'll have more as the day progresses.
http://msnbc.com/news/627064_asp.htm
How much of a market is there? I am in the very early stages of creating a video game as part of a class (gotta love liberal arts colleges...) and I keep hoping that we can create something along the lines of the Myst series- interactive, engaging, immersive and fun. But look at the market right now. There is nothing that does not have an emphasis on violence.
It seems to me to be a bit nearsighted to say that all the games out have an emphasis on violence. When, in fact, some of the top selling games of ALL TIME have been those with the least violence. Myst was #1 for something like 2 years, even though DOOM, Quake, and others came and went. Then Roller Coaster Tycoon came around, and it camped out on the top of the list for quite some time. Now, I'm no game expert, but I know there's almost always one or two games that are in the top 10 of the month that are not based around violence. Even to the extent of something like Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 1/2, or even Gran Tourismo. Granted, they aren't quite what you're talking about (I'm much more inclined to play mind games than coordination games - thats why I play sports in Real LifeTM), but they're non-violent alternatives.
By the way - PLEASE continue to develop your game. We need more Mystish games. Don't let numbers discourage you! Where would we be if Linus looked at the market share of MS/Novell (10 years ago), and said, "Screw it - whats the point? It'll never be that widely used."