"and heck, why not a temperature gauge with a probe attached to the CPU for all you overclockers out there?"
You think you're kidding - a mate of mine has an LCD on the front of his box that does just this. This is the guy with water cooling, etc. I'm trying to pursuade him to put goldfish in the pipes, but he says the coolant would kill them. Not to mention the pump problem...
Yes, Live action Dragonball will almost certainly suck big-time. It would be denounced by fans everywhere, and would be laughed out of the cinema by any non-anime fans that went to see it by accident.
But go on - how many anime fans out there wouldn't kill for a chance to appear on the big screen as a super saiyajin, complete with spiky blond hair, glowing aura and throwing ki blasts around? I for one would love an opportunity like that ^_^
Why has this made the Slashdot front page? Let's see...
Star Wars related. Therefore all geeks must be interested. Because we know everyone here loves Star Wars. Just like everyone here loves anime.
Computer controlled. So someone hooked a PC up to a printer? Gross oversimplification, I know. I haven't read the article, so I can't comment on how revolutionary the process is, but still...
If I trace a Star Wars logo onto my car (no, I wouldn't) would I make the front page? What if I traced it from a "revolutionary" print (eg actually using the high quality mode on my printer)?
Are we going to get stories on the front page when Jedi Knight 2 gets released in a few weeks? I doubt it. Despite the fact that it's gaming and Star Wars related.
And before anyone says "Oh, you can just turn off the Star Wars news in your preferences" - I am a reasonably massive SW fan. I want Star Wars news. But not to the point of drooling over some tacky merchandise. Think gas-giant massive, rather than 5-month-queuing black hole massive ^_^
Yeah, but then you get some wag at the manufacturer who programs the LEDs to make it seem as if you spend your entire time looking at porn, downloading strange software and sharing your semi-legal files with other geeks.
"I think a Palm uses much mroe energy than a clock, so you'd be shaking it every 15 minutes."
Yes, but that's ok for a Windows laptop - finally an excuse to vent your frustrations on it. The "Come on you bas***d! WORK!" annoyed-shake suddenly becomes effective when you provide the CPU with more juice ^_^
So, you're using paypal for charging? Is this hypocrisy, or just stupidity?
Also, how big are these "large ads"? On my 19" monitors (home and work), the current ads are nice and easy to ignore. How much larger are the new ones?
If the technology was sufficently advanced, it could warn you of traffic. As for wearing in the car, have it know when you're driving, and switch to "drive" mode - Map on HUD (small and discrete, obviously), Light amplification or IR display for night driving, speedometer, rear-view display, highlighting of pedestrians, cyclists and other potential hazards...
IMHO, the possibilities for in-car alone are staggering.
"It would probably be pretty hard to kill someone with a candle if you think about it."
Oh, I don't know... Melt it over their nose and mouth so they can't breath, thus suffocating them. Use it to set light to them. Make them eat it (I'm sure there's something toxic in them if digested)... Loads of ways.
"Someone who gets wet because they weren't wearing a long coat when a truck splashed them doesn't expect to sue the truck driver, do they?"
Under UK law, the truck driver could be arrested and charged with "Driving without due care and attention". It was mentioned while I was at school, in "Citizenship" class, or whatever it was called at the time. It's one of these laws that isn't realistic to enforce. Just as it's illegal to board public transport while people are disembarking (So people that get on buses, trains or the Underground while people are still getting off are criminals). It would just be a waste of police time to arrest everyone.
"I dunno... when I'm in a mall, I usually swing by Waldenbooks"
Like he said - Entirely devoid of any useful information about anything. Or have Waldenbooks improved since I was last state-side (about 2 years ago, admittedly)?
Maybe we could collect up all this junk equipment and make a series of Junkyard Wars (aka Scrapheap Challenge here in the UK) for those of us who don't feel confident in our welding or engine maintenance skills? I can see it now...
"You have ten hours from when the ball reaches the bottom of the Scrapheap clock to bulid... a working firewall!"
"W00t! I found a dual processor mobo!"
"Excellent! DDR Memory!"
"I know we wanted a 10Gb hdd, but all I could find is these 200Mb paperweights."
"so, what kind of event could have happened 10M years ago, leaving traces of unusual water floods on two planets?
Perhaps an alien expedition taking samples?"
Perhaps an alien expedition taking a leak?
I bet you get a lot of "Last gas for 100 light-years" signs in deep space. Then you've got to put up with the kids crying "Are we nearly there yet?!" every time you go past some insignificant little main-sequence star. Not to mention us men hate asking directions, so before you know it, you're in completely the wrong constellation.
Paraphrasing a quote from somewhere I can't remember:
"The purpose of an army is to kill people and break things. The idea is to kill enough of the enemy's people and break enough of his things that he realizes you'll kill and break the rest if he ever faces you again."
Really? I never knew this! I always make sure to do the opt-out on any forms or anything (checking whether it's "tick box to opt in" or "tick box to opt out" - sneaky gits) but I've never heard of these lists before.
That's reverse engineering proprietary code, which is illegal.
Besides, we know there's damaging code inside MS software. OK, so it's not intentional or an attempt to vote rig, but the mass of security flaws are still damaging.
If you're determined to avoid all potentially damaging code, quit using computers entirely, cos even open-source isn't going to stop all the problems.
"Why is it that when Ellison pushes stuff like this, everybody screams invasion of privacy, but when a German bar owner does it, the rabid/. paranoia doesn't show up?"
Dude, it's beer, so privacy doesn't matter. Everyone's too busy thinking of ways to hack it to get more beer, or to not pay for beer. That, or wondering if they could make a beowulf cluster of beer taps in order to perform distributed inebriation.
Maybe that's how the government'll get us to stop fighting ID cards - "Free beer for slashdotters carrying ID cards" outside every bar ^_^
Slashdot Mirror
"Try taping an episode, and watch it in slow-mo, to verify!"
Did this some years ago. It was just random squiggles (Yes, that's a perfectly cromulant word as well). I think they were making that up.
Maran
See Megatokyo for the reference.
Maran
"and heck, why not a temperature gauge with a probe attached to the CPU for all you overclockers out there?"
You think you're kidding - a mate of mine has an LCD on the front of his box that does just this. This is the guy with water cooling, etc. I'm trying to pursuade him to put goldfish in the pipes, but he says the coolant would kill them. Not to mention the pump problem...
Maran
"However you may moan and groan, they probably have a reasonable market for this kind of thing."
Something tells me a lot of the potential market involves plenty of moaning and groaning ^^;
I wonder which'll be the first pr0n magazine / site offering space-based images...
Maran
Yes, Live action Dragonball will almost certainly suck big-time. It would be denounced by fans everywhere, and would be laughed out of the cinema by any non-anime fans that went to see it by accident.
But go on - how many anime fans out there wouldn't kill for a chance to appear on the big screen as a super saiyajin, complete with spiky blond hair, glowing aura and throwing ki blasts around? I for one would love an opportunity like that ^_^
Maran
Star Wars related. Therefore all geeks must be interested. Because we know everyone here loves Star Wars. Just like everyone here loves anime.
Computer controlled. So someone hooked a PC up to a printer? Gross oversimplification, I know. I haven't read the article, so I can't comment on how revolutionary the process is, but still...
If I trace a Star Wars logo onto my car (no, I wouldn't) would I make the front page? What if I traced it from a "revolutionary" print (eg actually using the high quality mode on my printer)?
Are we going to get stories on the front page when Jedi Knight 2 gets released in a few weeks? I doubt it. Despite the fact that it's gaming and Star Wars related.
And before anyone says "Oh, you can just turn off the Star Wars news in your preferences" - I am a reasonably massive SW fan. I want Star Wars news. But not to the point of drooling over some tacky merchandise. Think gas-giant massive, rather than 5-month-queuing black hole massive ^_^
Maran
Yeah, but then you get some wag at the manufacturer who programs the LEDs to make it seem as if you spend your entire time looking at porn, downloading strange software and sharing your semi-legal files with other geeks.
(Remembers where he's posting)
Never mind!
Maran
"Pictures were stored on MO media for evidence, and the system could react on cars passing as fast as 490 km/h."
I'm guessing that at that sort of speed, the revenue collected goes to the police, in the form of a speeding fine.
Maran
"I think a Palm uses much mroe energy than a clock, so you'd be shaking it every 15 minutes."
Yes, but that's ok for a Windows laptop - finally an excuse to vent your frustrations on it. The "Come on you bas***d! WORK!" annoyed-shake suddenly becomes effective when you provide the CPU with more juice ^_^
Maran
So, you're using pay pal for charging? Is this hypocrisy, or just stupidity?
Also, how big are these "large ads"? On my 19" monitors (home and work), the current ads are nice and easy to ignore. How much larger are the new ones?
Maran
If the technology was sufficently advanced, it could warn you of traffic. As for wearing in the car, have it know when you're driving, and switch to "drive" mode - Map on HUD (small and discrete, obviously), Light amplification or IR display for night driving, speedometer, rear-view display, highlighting of pedestrians, cyclists and other potential hazards...
IMHO, the possibilities for in-car alone are staggering.
Maran
"I have also been suspicious about those little mini-cameras. My paranoia says that 25% are probably ending up in places noone would ever want them."
Yeah, like in the damn popup and popunder adverts!
Maran
"It would probably be pretty hard to kill someone with a candle if you think about it."
Oh, I don't know... Melt it over their nose and mouth so they can't breath, thus suffocating them. Use it to set light to them. Make them eat it (I'm sure there's something toxic in them if digested)... Loads of ways.
Maran
It was Emperor Palp-AT&Tne, using the power of his fully operational Death-Logo ^_^
Maran
"Someone who gets wet because they weren't wearing a long coat when a truck splashed them doesn't expect to sue the truck driver, do they?"
Under UK law, the truck driver could be arrested and charged with "Driving without due care and attention". It was mentioned while I was at school, in "Citizenship" class, or whatever it was called at the time. It's one of these laws that isn't realistic to enforce. Just as it's illegal to board public transport while people are disembarking (So people that get on buses, trains or the Underground while people are still getting off are criminals). It would just be a waste of police time to arrest everyone.
Maran
"I dunno... when I'm in a mall, I usually swing by Waldenbooks"
Like he said - Entirely devoid of any useful information about anything. Or have Waldenbooks improved since I was last state-side (about 2 years ago, admittedly)?
Maran
Maybe we could collect up all this junk equipment and make a series of Junkyard Wars (aka Scrapheap Challenge here in the UK) for those of us who don't feel confident in our welding or engine maintenance skills? I can see it now...
"You have ten hours from when the ball reaches the bottom of the Scrapheap clock to bulid... a working firewall!"
"W00t! I found a dual processor mobo!"
"Excellent! DDR Memory!"
"I know we wanted a 10Gb hdd, but all I could find is these 200Mb paperweights."
"Jackpot! Linux distro!"
Maran
"Europa, one of Jupiter's moons, is also thought to be one of the prime candidates for life in our solar system."
Yes, but we can attempt no landing there (as we'll be told in another 8 years, apparently).
(-1, redundant)
Oh come on, what's a "Life in space" story without a few 2001 / 2010 references?
Maran
"so, what kind of event could have happened 10M years ago, leaving traces of unusual water floods on two planets?
Perhaps an alien expedition taking samples?"
Perhaps an alien expedition taking a leak?
I bet you get a lot of "Last gas for 100 light-years" signs in deep space. Then you've got to put up with the kids crying "Are we nearly there yet?!" every time you go past some insignificant little main-sequence star. Not to mention us men hate asking directions, so before you know it, you're in completely the wrong constellation.
Maran
Can we make anti-beer? And would it give you an anti-hangover, thus canceling out the effects of over indulgence?
Maran
Paraphrasing a quote from somewhere I can't remember:
"The purpose of an army is to kill people and break things. The idea is to kill enough of the enemy's people and break enough of his things that he realizes you'll kill and break the rest if he ever faces you again."
Maran
Ok, given the number of "Congratulations" posts we're getting, I think everything's been said, but here we go anyway:
Omedeto Gozaimasu!
Maran
Really? I never knew this! I always make sure to do the opt-out on any forms or anything (checking whether it's "tick box to opt in" or "tick box to opt out" - sneaky gits) but I've never heard of these lists before.
How do I get myself on them?
Maran
That's reverse engineering proprietary code, which is illegal.
Besides, we know there's damaging code inside MS software. OK, so it's not intentional or an attempt to vote rig, but the mass of security flaws are still damaging.
If you're determined to avoid all potentially damaging code, quit using computers entirely, cos even open-source isn't going to stop all the problems.
Maran
"Why is it that when Ellison pushes stuff like this, everybody screams invasion of privacy, but when a German bar owner does it, the rabid /. paranoia doesn't show up?"
Dude, it's beer, so privacy doesn't matter. Everyone's too busy thinking of ways to hack it to get more beer, or to not pay for beer. That, or wondering if they could make a beowulf cluster of beer taps in order to perform distributed inebriation.
Maybe that's how the government'll get us to stop fighting ID cards - "Free beer for slashdotters carrying ID cards" outside every bar ^_^
Maran