Hey there! This is Crazy Ernie from Crazy Ernie's used cars!! We got white cars, green cars, we got enough cars to choke a camel! If no one comes down and buys a car from me in the next 15 minutes, I'm gonna club this baby seal! That's right! I'm gonna club a seal to make a better deal, because I'm CRRRRRAAAAAAZY!
Well, google and other search engine bots don't go portscanning arbitary IP's in search of web servers - they traverse a tangled network of links and such to find new pages.
It's pretty safe to assume that if there's a link on the web somewhere pointing to http://www.blah.net/ that blah.net is actually running a web server.
Hi, I run a milk bar. I refuse to stock curry powder simply because of the fact that it gives me stomach pains. If you don't like it, get the fuck out of my shop.
The fact that I can discern individual pixels on my monitor is a problem. What we need is smooth curves without anti-aliasing - let our eyes blur the lines for us.
When these things go consumer level, I'll be the first to pay up (Even if it's up to $10k) - I don't think you really understand how fucking incredible this would look.
I think that since the Iridium satellites are closer to the earth's surface, it's much easier to pick up a signal. Judging by the look of the phones themselves, I don't think there'll be any dishes or cruft to cart around.
In any case, I want one - but I don't want to pay the bills. A cool toy, but it's pretty useless for 99% of the population because it'd be cheaper to call a normal ISP over a usual cellphone. (which, if you're outside the USA, will work in almost any other country)
Other than that, this is a great move forward. I can't wait until we all have a shitload of wireless high bandwidth connectivity, a la Snowcrash and many other thought provoking novels.
""For the gamer, the game world is much more attractive than reality," he writes, based partly on his own experience. "Reality is only a space in which he makes a small amount of necessary money for continuing the game." "
This reminds me very much of William Gibson's 'All Tomorrow's Parties', in which one of the main characters lives his life inside a cardboard box in a Tokyo train station. How long until wireless is so pervasive and cheap that even the homeless are playing massively-multiplayer rpg's?
I never knew you were an old school slashdot addict;)
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I was going to say that maybe they could've sprinkled metal filings throughout the plastic, but then I realised that in order to shield from any magnetic fields there'd need to be some sort of circuit.
Are there any plastics that conduct? Any plastic/metal compounds?
I'm actually interested now... Oh well, there goes my homework.
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Yes, I'd be forced to GPL it. While I don't find that to be a terrible thing, it's clear that that is not freedom.
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Pfft, nice troll.
Imagine:
I want to write an application whose base code has been done before in an open-source product. It works well, and is pretty much bug free. (yes, this is a stretch) I'd like to use it in my project.
If the original code was under the GPL, I'd be able to use it in my project, but then I couldn't sell it to anyone! Doesn't sound very free to me.
If the original code was under the BSD liscense, I could use it in my project and then be able to sell it off. In fact, I could do absolutely anything I wanted with that code. That is what I call freedom.
Probably because Hemos in his infinite wisdom linked to the README file on their ftp server, causing thousands of people to try and connect to it using their web browsers, some of which hold onto idle connections until the browser is closed down.
You'd think that, having been around for so long, he'd know better.
Funny thing, though: My Information Systems teacher (not that he does any teaching) always gives me this speil about how his most brilliant programmers have always been completely lacking in the English department. As if he's trying to scare me into doing more work.
My response: "The only thing I do better than code is English."
I've never seen a PC from a large manufacturer whose price I couldn't beat by going down to my local distributor or swap-meet and buying the parts myself.
"Why dont you go ahead and think about the whole situation a little bit more. It amazes me when people like you write in... you just seem to be mindless at best. Tito? The guys a doof."
A doof that just happens to be a former NASA rocket scientist. Maybe you should be doing a little bit more thinking before you go condemning someone you know little to nothing about.
Really? Usually when I'm watching a film with subtitles they tend to disappear after a while. I forget they're there, and read them subconsciously. You've gotta make sure that you've got a good view of the screen for this to work, though.
"Based on NCSA Mosaic. NCSA Mosaic(TM); was developed at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign."
Yeah, let's hold a fucking "No More Forcing Kids To Suicide By Threatening Them With Jail Time" march!
What the hell can we do? It's the people who are ignorant of the geek/hacker mindset that need work, not us. And don't think that we can do much to educate them, either, because they're equally afraid of us as they are anything new or different.
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If you remove every reference to race in your post, it gains weight. What the hell is the point in mentioning the race of the people living there? Why not just say:
"there is a lot of stuff going on with the police and the people. It is not a bad city, don't get me wrong, but I would stay away from Balch Springs (My car got stolen from there).
Also, I understand that the officer that worked with me to get the car recovered lives in Mesquite and some people tried to break in to his car. If you are staying with friends in that area, or staying in a Hotel close to it, watch out. There might be somebody lurking behind the bushes. Also, there aren't many hotels in the area that I am aware of, and traffic is awful. It is more of what is called East Dallas. North Dallas is the "fancy" part of Dallas, then South Dallas is the ghetto. SouthEast Dallas (Balch Springs) is almost as bad as South Dallas, except there aren't drug dealers on every corner. etc..."
It makes just as much sense, and you wouldn't look like such a bigot.
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"a nice alternative than sitting in a cubicle all day."
Out of the cubicle and into the cramped, uncomfortable, weirdly-pressurised, and anger-inducing airplane? No thanks.
"so long as you don't mind not being to hear Quake save the CD audio"
Err, well scrap that then. How can anyone play an FPS without sound? It almost equivalent to playing with a blindfold.
Hey there! This is Crazy Ernie from Crazy Ernie's used cars!! We got white cars, green cars, we got enough cars to choke a camel! If no one comes down and buys a car from me in the next 15 minutes, I'm gonna club this baby seal! That's right! I'm gonna club a seal to make a better deal, because I'm CRRRRRAAAAAAZY!
My god, that film rocked.
Well, google and other search engine bots don't go portscanning arbitary IP's in search of web servers - they traverse a tangled network of links and such to find new pages.
It's pretty safe to assume that if there's a link on the web somewhere pointing to http://www.blah.net/ that blah.net is actually running a web server.
Hi, I run a milk bar. I refuse to stock curry powder simply because of the fact that it gives me stomach pains. If you don't like it, get the fuck out of my shop.
The fact that I can discern individual pixels on my monitor is a problem. What we need is smooth curves without anti-aliasing - let our eyes blur the lines for us.
When these things go consumer level, I'll be the first to pay up (Even if it's up to $10k) - I don't think you really understand how fucking incredible this would look.
I picked that book up for the first time in a while today... what a weird coincidence.
I think that since the Iridium satellites are closer to the earth's surface, it's much easier to pick up a signal. Judging by the look of the phones themselves, I don't think there'll be any dishes or cruft to cart around.
In any case, I want one - but I don't want to pay the bills. A cool toy, but it's pretty useless for 99% of the population because it'd be cheaper to call a normal ISP over a usual cellphone. (which, if you're outside the USA, will work in almost any other country)
Other than that, this is a great move forward. I can't wait until we all have a shitload of wireless high bandwidth connectivity, a la Snowcrash and many other thought provoking novels.
""For the gamer, the game world is much more attractive than reality," he writes, based partly on his own experience. "Reality is only a space in which he makes a small amount of necessary money for continuing the game." "
This reminds me very much of William Gibson's 'All Tomorrow's Parties', in which one of the main characters lives his life inside a cardboard box in a Tokyo train station. How long until wireless is so pervasive and cheap that even the homeless are playing massively-multiplayer rpg's?
It makes my skin crawl.
Shogun you old devil.
;)
I never knew you were an old school slashdot addict
I was going to say that maybe they could've sprinkled metal filings throughout the plastic, but then I realised that in order to shield from any magnetic fields there'd need to be some sort of circuit.
Are there any plastics that conduct? Any plastic/metal compounds?
I'm actually interested now... Oh well, there goes my homework.
Yes, I'd be forced to GPL it. While I don't find that to be a terrible thing, it's clear that that is not freedom.
Pfft, nice troll.
Imagine:
I want to write an application whose base code has been done before in an open-source product. It works well, and is pretty much bug free. (yes, this is a stretch) I'd like to use it in my project.
If the original code was under the GPL, I'd be able to use it in my project, but then I couldn't sell it to anyone! Doesn't sound very free to me.
If the original code was under the BSD liscense, I could use it in my project and then be able to sell it off. In fact, I could do absolutely anything I wanted with that code. That is what I call freedom.
You'd think that, having been around for so long, he'd know better.
Exactly.
;)
Funny thing, though: My Information Systems teacher (not that he does any teaching) always gives me this speil about how his most brilliant programmers have always been completely lacking in the English department. As if he's trying to scare me into doing more work.
My response: "The only thing I do better than code is English."
He's lost for words every time
That is such a load of crap.
I've never seen a PC from a large manufacturer whose price I couldn't beat by going down to my local distributor or swap-meet and buying the parts myself.
"Why dont you go ahead and think about the whole situation a little bit more. It amazes me when people like you write in... you just seem to be mindless at best. Tito? The guys a doof."
A doof that just happens to be a former NASA rocket scientist. Maybe you should be doing a little bit more thinking before you go condemning someone you know little to nothing about.
Really? Usually when I'm watching a film with subtitles they tend to disappear after a while. I forget they're there, and read them subconsciously. You've gotta make sure that you've got a good view of the screen for this to work, though.
"Based on NCSA Mosaic. NCSA Mosaic(TM); was developed at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign."
From the Help/About box in IE 5.5...
Ditto for Australia.
I'd settle for an apology.
"XBox Goes Down in Public"
Am I the only one that thought unsavoury thoughts when I read that?
Likewise,
:P
My watch broke earlier this year so I just started using my mobile instead.
I've never felt so liberated!
"Not until we do somehting about it"
Yeah, let's hold a fucking "No More Forcing Kids To Suicide By Threatening Them With Jail Time" march!
What the hell can we do? It's the people who are ignorant of the geek/hacker mindset that need work, not us. And don't think that we can do much to educate them, either, because they're equally afraid of us as they are anything new or different.
If you remove every reference to race in your post, it gains weight. What the hell is the point in mentioning the race of the people living there? Why not just say:
"there is a lot of stuff going on with the police and the people. It is not a bad city, don't get me wrong, but I would stay away from Balch Springs (My car got stolen from there).
Also, I understand that the officer that worked with me to get the car recovered lives in Mesquite and some people tried to break in to his car. If you are staying with friends in that area, or staying in a Hotel close to it, watch out. There might be somebody lurking behind the bushes. Also, there aren't many hotels in the area that I am aware of, and traffic is awful. It is more of what is called East Dallas. North Dallas is the "fancy" part of Dallas, then South Dallas is the ghetto. SouthEast Dallas (Balch Springs) is almost as bad as South Dallas, except there aren't drug dealers on every corner. etc..."
It makes just as much sense, and you wouldn't look like such a bigot.