I read this link at work about two weeks ago. On the way home, during a typical NH-I93 traffic jam, traffic was moving around 10 mph. I stayed in the right lane and kept about 8 car spaces ahead of me. The guy behind me was FURIOUS (cause he wasn't fast?..ouch) He was flashing his high beams (still light out) and flicking his car horn in 1/8 second bursts. It was extremely entertaining at 10 mph. Everyone around me was going the same exact speed, I just had about enough space for 8 cars in front of me. Granted for about 8 miles I had to actually stop about 4 times, which when having a standard transmission is very nice to avoid. Anyways, the guy put his blinker on after about fifteen minutes or so of this, and of course the person in the left lane let him right in... he went in for the psych-out bumper clip on my car, and then he slowed Waaaaaay down, flipped off his review mirror (ow you got me pal!) and then he TORE OFF. For 8 car lengths. I swear to God with the bell curve as steep as it is I can't figure out why I'm not a greedy polititian making ubermillion dollars a year. Oh wait- I am not old enough yet. Buwahahahaaaa
Some day when opensource is big enough, we'll be able to take down companies just by accusing them that they stole open source code. "We won't shut ya down if you tell us where the other Cappie bastards are! Admit it, they're all stealing source!"
All of the Emperor's feudal lands? Fifty million yen?! Gomen, gomen- surely they could instead invest in a royal fleet and merely conquer those foreign lands that oppose?!
A geek friendly ISP, that is, one that would want customers that utilize their connections, would be more than happy to sell them all full T1 service for about 400 to 1200 dollars a month, depending on where you happen to live:)
I think in general (not aimed at you, Anonvmous) people tend to not realize that everybody has to share when it comes down to it. Sure, most ISPs cover that fact with a healthy dose of greed, but in the end, a 50 dollar price point is what you get after you trim the 1% of us, the power users. They dont like us and there's a good reason- we cost them money when we use more than the normal user! And I dont blame an ISP for enforcing; it's not a matter of being fair as they are just doing this to make money.. a geek friendly ISP would last all of 10 minutes with similarly priced services as what is regularly available. Oh well. I got my plan all worked out. Another 40 a month and I can have business dsl- full servers, whatever i want, nat, all perfectly cool with the ISP. ah, but i lose cause i gave up the 40 extra a month? not when they make a policy change to the residentials and I'm the only one left with a working web and mail server:D
Wow crazy. I thought you just made that number up, but if I make a text file with "xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx" in it, find out how big that is, and multiply times the number of hosts in ipv4, I get 268.4 gigabytes. Very interesting. ipv6 is gonna keep that dream a dream.
I must be the only person in New England who is glad it's -2F outside right now. I'm in downtown Big City NH, in a room 22x18 feet- there's 22 terminal servers (pun not intended, you'll see), 2 7000 series cisco routers, 6 dell 2450s each with add on RAID, a 6450, two something called "VA Linux" servers, and about 15 x86 boxes. Of course theres a bunch of switches and UPS units, as well as a forced hot water pipe. There's a dead 60,000 BTU A/C in the corner, and 2 48 inch windows on the same side of the room. I've got a 36 inch industrial fan sucking the air in from outside (-2F mind you), and yesterday, it took 18 minutes of that to get the temperature in here from 102F to 72F.
Most annoying part about getting your AC fixed when it's -2F? Getting your provider to stop laughing and hanging up on you before you can get the service department. Yeesh.
Maybe. I dunno. As a kid who had an snes, and knew kids with nes, I can tell you that, given our generation spent about 20 to 36 hours a week playing the damned things, that Mario, Link, and Fox McCloud are our modern day mythos. How many 10 to 14 year old kids would contemplate "What if Mario was with Link at the end of..."? Granted other consoles have their contributions to psychological moldings, but as a Nintendoid I can tell ya- those characters are staple- To me, Miyamoto might as well have invented sliced bread, or handi-snacks. It's all in the core culture, and Miyamoto put them there, at least for a Nintendoid's realm. His characters won't get old with me, ever, unless Mario starts wearing a Pepsi T-shirt.
Don't worry- by the time Miyamoto retires, you'll be able to download a binary Miyamoto rom and emulate it on your Pentium 9. Prolly be the last Nintendo product- it'll put em out of business. "New for the Nintendo- MiyamotoBrain! Watch are your carts increase exponentially in complexity real time! How much fun is Nintendo MiyamotoBrain? Let's ask Miyamoto: "AM I THE PERSON OR JUST A ROM?! LET ME OUT!!!" There you have it, only available on the Super Nintendo Entertainment System- Now you're playing with power, SUPER POWER" BUWEAHAHAAAA
Yeah no kidding, dumping THE ALL NEW TNN onto my 100 mbit lan can have 15% of my bandwidth, instead of just 1%- Captain Picard will look slightly less bald! w00t! Is there a free encoder yet?
"To: John Doe From: ABC Networks Subject: Your computer has a virus
Dear John Doe, according to our records, at 01/10/2002 modem XYZ was--"
[DELETE] John Doe: Damned spammers.
You really do have to make the call to make sure it gets fixed. It used to be that most people just cannot read well enough to understand a virus warning (well, once the Internet wasn't a snobby elitist club anymore, at least). Now there's the spam goggles everyone wears that filter it before they have a chance to not understand it.
If you call them, you can do one of two things: Get someone who goes "Oh, OK. I will fix it tonight." (Then you check up on them.) Or, you get someone who goes "Oh my God oh my God what do I do, did I hurt anything this is horrible!" You have to send that person to a shop, but which is worse karma- sending a person to a shop where they're gonna get whacked 150 bucks, or not doing anything about it at all?
We have about 800 domains, and we crank the TTL down to 15 minutes. A week is horrid. In fact I've noticed that some ISPs, like AOL, override our TTL! The machine has no trouble at all handling it, and the bandwidth is less than a mail server. Ever since we started doing it, I have to admit it's been very nice not dealing with the complaints that no one can see a change yet- just take 15 minutes waiting to tell them that it's done! IE seems to have it's own caching system independant of the system IP cache, too. Actually I just made what could very well be a very incorrect presumption. Could one of you MCSEs please explain how a Windows box caches an IP in its head? Does it at all? And does Internet Explorer do something different than the rest of the system? I've been able to ping a website that had an IP change, and in IE still pull up the old site.
Even if they did, anyone with half a brain has a private LAN they can dial in to that has a node at each public machine on it. Actually, SSH would be one of those instances where you could tell it to stop accepting requests quite easily- get more than 10 connect requests in 5 minutes, then it gets blacklisted for n(minutes).
And how long do you figure it'd take to make another 2D mario, given they keep making the 3D ones? Heck one of my backburner (okay... reaaaaly far in the back) projects is to do my own Marioworld level in Flash. 96 levels? Why can't I get a cube disc with about 512 instead? Eventually fan written tribute games are going to start getting popular, once it's easy enough. I figure it'll be able the same time Poser 7 or 8 is out and all people will do is scan any random photo of people they know, and then sit at the machine like zombies watching autogenerated porn of it. I'll be downstairs playing as Princess Peach trying to save Lenny Koopa from the environmentally-unsafe Mario and Luigi Koopa Kanning Kompany. I guess the answer is that art imitates life, cause only a game about popping mushrooms could be made by a room full of programmers popping mushrooms. Oh! and new Mariokart levels. And in that set I want playable, full scale models of real life cities. Whoa!- wouldnt it be cool if there was a method of getting current City maps, down to the weather and maybe traffic congestion, ambient lighting, et cetera, and hotdog vendors in the street, such that any game that employed it could tap into an online db and get real time city driving? Ok I'll stop rambling now. Sometimes I just like to type these things in so that they get archived and some bored game developer, looking to save his job with a cool idea, steals it and I end up with something I want 10 years after I wanted it!
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what color was my car? :D
I read this link at work about two weeks ago. On the way home, during a typical NH-I93 traffic jam, traffic was moving around 10 mph. I stayed in the right lane and kept about 8 car spaces ahead of me. The guy behind me was FURIOUS (cause he wasn't fast? ..ouch) He was flashing his high beams (still light out) and flicking his car horn in 1/8 second bursts. It was extremely entertaining at 10 mph. Everyone around me was going the same exact speed, I just had about enough space for 8 cars in front of me. Granted for about 8 miles I had to actually stop about 4 times, which when having a standard transmission is very nice to avoid. Anyways, the guy put his blinker on after about fifteen minutes or so of this, and of course the person in the left lane let him right in... he went in for the psych-out bumper clip on my car, and then he slowed Waaaaaay down, flipped off his review mirror (ow you got me pal!) and then he TORE OFF. For 8 car lengths. I swear to God with the bell curve as steep as it is I can't figure out why I'm not a greedy polititian making ubermillion dollars a year. Oh wait- I am not old enough yet. Buwahahahaaaa
Some day when opensource is big enough, we'll be able to take down companies just by accusing them that they stole open source code. "We won't shut ya down if you tell us where the other Cappie bastards are! Admit it, they're all stealing source!"
Yeah, like letting me go to the bathroom during commercials!
All of the Emperor's feudal lands? Fifty million yen?! Gomen, gomen- surely they could instead invest in a royal fleet and merely conquer those foreign lands that oppose?!
which is worse... stealing non-free code, or selling free code?
A geek friendly ISP, that is, one that would want customers that utilize their connections, would be more than happy to sell them all full T1 service for about 400 to 1200 dollars a month, depending on where you happen to live :)
:D
I think in general (not aimed at you, Anonvmous) people tend to not realize that everybody has to share when it comes down to it. Sure, most ISPs cover that fact with a healthy dose of greed, but in the end, a 50 dollar price point is what you get after you trim the 1% of us, the power users. They dont like us and there's a good reason- we cost them money when we use more than the normal user! And I dont blame an ISP for enforcing; it's not a matter of being fair as they are just doing this to make money.. a geek friendly ISP would last all of 10 minutes with similarly priced services as what is regularly available. Oh well. I got my plan all worked out. Another 40 a month and I can have business dsl- full servers, whatever i want, nat, all perfectly cool with the ISP. ah, but i lose cause i gave up the 40 extra a month? not when they make a policy change to the residentials and I'm the only one left with a working web and mail server
great, so now i'm not even going to KNOW its a sales call.
Harry S Truman?
mooolti. pass. moolti pass!
oh my God she is so hot
Uh oh.
Wait up a sec...
What did the rest of you start programming open source for?
Wow crazy. I thought you just made that number up, but if I make a text file with "xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx" in it, find out how big that is, and multiply times the number of hosts in ipv4, I get 268.4 gigabytes. Very interesting. ipv6 is gonna keep that dream a dream.
I must be the only person in New England who is glad it's -2F outside right now. I'm in downtown Big City NH, in a room 22x18 feet- there's 22 terminal servers (pun not intended, you'll see), 2 7000 series cisco routers, 6 dell 2450s each with add on RAID, a 6450, two something called "VA Linux" servers, and about 15 x86 boxes. Of course theres a bunch of switches and UPS units, as well as a forced hot water pipe. There's a dead 60,000 BTU A/C in the corner, and 2 48 inch windows on the same side of the room. I've got a 36 inch industrial fan sucking the air in from outside (-2F mind you), and yesterday, it took 18 minutes of that to get the temperature in here from 102F to 72F.
Most annoying part about getting your AC fixed when it's -2F? Getting your provider to stop laughing and hanging up on you before you can get the service department. Yeesh.
Well, in about 15 years you should be able to see his maker thaw *from* death
Maybe. I dunno. As a kid who had an snes, and knew kids with nes, I can tell you that, given our generation spent about 20 to 36 hours a week playing the damned things, that Mario, Link, and Fox McCloud are our modern day mythos. How many 10 to 14 year old kids would contemplate "What if Mario was with Link at the end of..."? Granted other consoles have their contributions to psychological moldings, but as a Nintendoid I can tell ya- those characters are staple- To me, Miyamoto might as well have invented sliced bread, or handi-snacks. It's all in the core culture, and Miyamoto put them there, at least for a Nintendoid's realm. His characters won't get old with me, ever, unless Mario starts wearing a Pepsi T-shirt.
big? big ba da boom?
Don't worry- by the time Miyamoto retires, you'll be able to download a binary Miyamoto rom and emulate it on your Pentium 9. Prolly be the last Nintendo product- it'll put em out of business. "New for the Nintendo- MiyamotoBrain! Watch are your carts increase exponentially in complexity real time! How much fun is Nintendo MiyamotoBrain? Let's ask Miyamoto: "AM I THE PERSON OR JUST A ROM?! LET ME OUT!!!" There you have it, only available on the Super Nintendo Entertainment System- Now you're playing with power, SUPER POWER" BUWEAHAHAAAA
Yeah no kidding, dumping THE ALL NEW TNN onto my 100 mbit lan can have 15% of my bandwidth, instead of just 1%- Captain Picard will look slightly less bald! w00t! Is there a free encoder yet?
No seriously-- is this more insightful than it is funny? Would this *actually* work? How many seconds?
And sometimes it's just trashy.
This is prolly pretty duh but, jets use more fuel than rockets by like, a factor of 10,000 right?
Ah, but the human factor kills our success-
"To: John Doe
From: ABC Networks
Subject: Your computer has a virus
Dear John Doe, according to our records, at 01/10/2002 modem XYZ was--"
[DELETE]
John Doe: Damned spammers.
You really do have to make the call to make sure it gets fixed. It used to be that most people just cannot read well enough to understand a virus warning (well, once the Internet wasn't a snobby elitist club anymore, at least). Now there's the spam goggles everyone wears that filter it before they have a chance to not understand it.
If you call them, you can do one of two things: Get someone who goes "Oh, OK. I will fix it tonight." (Then you check up on them.) Or, you get someone who goes "Oh my God oh my God what do I do, did I hurt anything this is horrible!" You have to send that person to a shop, but which is worse karma- sending a person to a shop where they're gonna get whacked 150 bucks, or not doing anything about it at all?
We have about 800 domains, and we crank the TTL down to 15 minutes. A week is horrid. In fact I've noticed that some ISPs, like AOL, override our TTL! The machine has no trouble at all handling it, and the bandwidth is less than a mail server. Ever since we started doing it, I have to admit it's been very nice not dealing with the complaints that no one can see a change yet- just take 15 minutes waiting to tell them that it's done! IE seems to have it's own caching system independant of the system IP cache, too. Actually I just made what could very well be a very incorrect presumption. Could one of you MCSEs please explain how a Windows box caches an IP in its head? Does it at all? And does Internet Explorer do something different than the rest of the system? I've been able to ping a website that had an IP change, and in IE still pull up the old site.
Even if they did, anyone with half a brain has a private LAN they can dial in to that has a node at each public machine on it. Actually, SSH would be one of those instances where you could tell it to stop accepting requests quite easily- get more than 10 connect requests in 5 minutes, then it gets blacklisted for n(minutes).
And how long do you figure it'd take to make another 2D mario, given they keep making the 3D ones? Heck one of my backburner (okay... reaaaaly far in the back) projects is to do my own Marioworld level in Flash. 96 levels? Why can't I get a cube disc with about 512 instead? Eventually fan written tribute games are going to start getting popular, once it's easy enough. I figure it'll be able the same time Poser 7 or 8 is out and all people will do is scan any random photo of people they know, and then sit at the machine like zombies watching autogenerated porn of it. I'll be downstairs playing as Princess Peach trying to save Lenny Koopa from the environmentally-unsafe Mario and Luigi Koopa Kanning Kompany. I guess the answer is that art imitates life, cause only a game about popping mushrooms could be made by a room full of programmers popping mushrooms. Oh! and new Mariokart levels. And in that set I want playable, full scale models of real life cities. Whoa!- wouldnt it be cool if there was a method of getting current City maps, down to the weather and maybe traffic congestion, ambient lighting, et cetera, and hotdog vendors in the street, such that any game that employed it could tap into an online db and get real time city driving? Ok I'll stop rambling now. Sometimes I just like to type these things in so that they get archived and some bored game developer, looking to save his job with a cool idea, steals it and I end up with something I want 10 years after I wanted it!