Well, I could tell you, but then I'd have to kill you all.
I find that line funny, because for those of us who do classified research, which I don't (although I'm beginning the process of starting to look at possibly getting the investigation started to permit me to obtain a clearance, so I've been looking into the legalese you agree to with one), it's more like:
Well, I could tell you, but then I'd have to kill myself.
Of course, that isn't even really true - you wouldn't be responsible for killing yourself, you leave that up to the Federal penitentiary system after you've been found guilty of treason based on the testimony from those you talked to. So I guess it's really:
Well, I could tell, but then you'd have to kill me.
Oh, and since Slashdot seems to have a lot of people who can't detect sarcasm, this is a joke. Don't try and take it seriously, because it won't take you anywhere useful. Although, if you do manage to take it far enough, you might meet big burly men with Colt carbines. Who will take you to meet other big burly men with a different interest in you.
Nah, it's easy to get out of Boston. Just follow all the other cars that aren't going anywhere, either.
Grumble...grumble... Freshpond Parkway is right...
Then there's the fun trip on Mass Ave, where it suddenly becomes a one-way street past Harvard (Univ). Plus the "guess which lane is the x turn only lane" games that seems popular...
Oh, yeah, and what does Brown do for me? Block the right hand lane with their stupid delivery trucks! Thanks a lot!
Of course, driving in Boston is not the problem. The problem is parking in Boston...
Ever read the CSS spec, where it clearly states that px is designed to be rescaled?
My specific complaint is that Mozilla will resize the meaning of "px" with respect to fonts, but nowhere else. So you can have huge text in a very small box.
Try this in Mozilla:
<div style="font-size: 12px; width: 200px; height: 100px; border: solid 1px black; font-family: Verdana">This is a test.</div>
Scale the font size up and down. Watch the black box stay exactly the same size - my complaint is that the Right Thing to do would either be to leave the pixel-sized font alone, or to scale the pixel-size everywhere, proportionally scaling along with the text. Including scaling up images, preferably.
Stylesheets are nice for simple text styling, but can't even be depended on for font sizes! (Don't believe me? Set up a web page with a style
BODY { font-size: medium }
And see how it shows up on IE, IE for Mac, Netscape, and Netscape for Mac. They'll all be different sizes, last time I checked.)
Yeah, well, try these:
BODY { font-size: 14px; }
BODY { font-size: 12pt; }
I'll bet you'll find that those will display similarly on all browsers on all platforms. This of course assumes the same font, and that all the platforms have similar DPI settings. However, there are plenty of people who need the text to be larger than many sites provide (OK, Sprint?! 10px Verdana? *squint squint*) and get quite understandably annoyed when you've confined the text into a little bitty group of pixels.
If you want overly-anal control of the exact font size, you should be specifying it in pixels or, preferably, points. IE doesn't "magnify" fonts set with either, but Mozilla will magnify both. I consider both behaviors to be wrong, I think the Right Thing would be to scale up the points-to-pixels conversion as text is magnified, and leave things specified in pixels alone. Or, if pixel-sized font is scaled, then the "virtual pixel" to "real pixel" conversion should be scaled everywhere, including with <img>s.
Bottom line: "medium" is a browser-based setting. It's supposed to change from browser-to-browser (well, it should be expected to change - it doesn't have to). So complaining that the browsers don't have a uniform definition of "medium" when there isn't one is kind of silly.
Also in WarCraft III, one of the Undead Acolyte's "pissed" sayings is "My life for Auir - er, I mean, Ner'Zhul." I think it's the same voice actor who plays both units.
Hey, I am a USian (or whatever - I'm fine with USian), and I thought that's what they meant too. Until I remembered a story about "Googling" on NPR'sWait Wait -- Don't Tell Me! quiz show, then I was able to piece it together.
Although it could be that I'm just unfamiliar with the whole "dating" thing altogether, I hear it involves someone of the opposite sex or something?:)
(And if you don't wanna follow the links, NPR = National Public Radio, a fairly liberal radio network that is mostly funded by donations from listeners. Wait Wait -- Don't Tell Me! is a "news quiz show" that usually focuses on the weirder and more obscure news items - it's rather humorous, generally.)
That's what I used on my brother, who asked the question (even though he claims he was "reading the books") after the ending of "Fellowship of the Rings."
Except he caught that I was mincing words and then asked "what about Gandalf?" So... oh well.
You are aware that they've already tried this? If you read the 'blog, you'd see that Remedy indicates that the lumber company currently has an injunction against their continued cutting in the area she's treesitting in. That apparently hasn't stopped them. (Granted, she says that the injunction was imposed two months ago November, so a little math gives us five months being little more than annoying, but...)
She also says:
That MAXXAM/Pacific Lumber is allowed to proceed with their destruction-as-usual, after over 300 violations connected to the Clean Water Act, the Endangered Species Act, and the Forest Practices Act, is nothing short of criminal.
In short, it sounds like negotiation and criminal and civil litigation have already been attempted and have failed. Their demands do not indicate that they want the lumber industry to stop cutting altogether - she lists four things she'd like to see:
STOP CUTTING THE OLD GROWTH!
Put an immediate end to clear-cutting
Stop spraying herbicides! We can not live with poisoned water.
Stop cutting on steep and unstable slopes.
I'm not sure I agree with the first "demand" - I'd have to be given better reasoning than just "it's bad" - so I'll leave that one as being perhaps a little overboard. But I dunno.
I'd hope we can all agree that simple clear-cutting is bad and irresponsible. The lumber industry would actually be better off replanting or leaving enough trees so that the forest can grow back. However, MAXXAM/PL is apparently taking an incredibly short-sited view of things and is going for as much profit short-term as possible, instead of attempting to ensure that they will be able to continue with a source of lumber into the future.
As for herbicides, I'd love to know why a logging company would be spraying herbicides. It would seem to increase the damage from any wildfires (as it would cause there to be more deadwood). I would guess they do it to help clear the underbrush to be able to pull trees out easily? Seems unnecessary and quite possible to be worked around. Not being a logger, I don't know.
The last one again should be just common sense. You know what prevents a large sloped mass of dirt from being a large flowing mass of mud? Roots, be they tree roots or other undergrowth. Remove the trees, the roots die, and then you get mudslides in rainy conditions. But anyone engaging in clear-cutting probably doesn't really care about the land after they've finished exploiting it, so they probably feel fine about letting the area turn into a deathtrap once they've got their wood out. At the very least, one would hope that on slopes with the danger of landslides, lumber companies would either be forced to leave most of the trees and immediately replant around the trees they have removed a new tree and probably grass as a stop-gap measure until the tree matures enough to hold the ground in place.
The solution probably is in the middle, but if you actually read the 'blog, it seems that the logging company is intent on maximizing immediate profits with no concern for what will happen as a consequence.
Actually, yeah, I know they still work. I just think that the Mac key-combos make far more sense - they work out to Ctrl-Z though Ctrl-V, and mean that I can copy and paste without having to do the reach for the rather strange cut/copy/paste combos that OS/2 used. Granted the Z and V only make sense because they're close to the X and the C, (X = Cut, C = Copy), so they work out being nice and easy to reach.
Where as you kinda have to stretch your hand or use both hands for the modifier keys to activate the more esoteric OS/2 combos. They've been "obsoleted" by the Mac combos. I guess that wasn't really made clear - about the only "standard" OS/2 combos that live today are F1 for help, and ALT-F4 to close windows. All the other combos have been replaced by things that make sense:)
After installing and using Windows 2000 for a while, I found myself thinking "Wow. This is almost exactly like OS/2 was back in 1992 [1]." I miss OS/2. It was the first real OS I used (since I'm not going to count DOS). It had a really nice scripting environment built in (REXX), the UI was extremely customizable, and it allowed long file names on FAT drives. (It created a meta-data file in the root of all FAT drives.) So you could call a file "PROJECT.HTM" for DOS apps and "My Project.html" for OS/2 apps - you wouldn't have to call it "MYPROJ~1.HTM" as you do in Windows.
The desktop UI was very customizable too: you could customize the background in every folder - which was pointless, but cool. You could create custom icons for every folder, or use predefined ones. The keybindings were a bit... strange (remember CTRL-INSERT for COPY, SHIFT-INSERT for paste?) - although ALT-F4 lives on to this day in Windows.
OS/2 supported true preemptive multitasking (unless I am mis-remembering, and it only supported multitasking without preemption for high priority tasks) back when Windows was only at version 3. OS/2 had complete virtual memory support back when Windows had none - meaning that if an application crashed, it wouldn't hose the entire system. (Except when it did, of course. But I only used OS/2 2.1 before "upgrading" to Windows 3.11 - or more specifically, buying a new computer and not bothering to install OS/2, so I hear things improved in Warp.)
I'll miss OS/2 - it was the first real operating system I ever used, and probably one of the best desktop experiences I've had on the Intel platform. It's also were I first sunk my teeth into scripting (via REXX), and the first time I saw a true multitasking environment.
[1] Unless I'm wrong about the data. I'm guessing I used OS/2 back in 1992 since I remember using it on our first x86 computer, a 44MHz 386. We upgraded to a Pentium computer sometime later, but I think it was in 1994, since it came with Win 3.11 and Win95 hadn't been released yet. So if anyone wants to correct me on dates, let me point out that I would have been 11 - 14 in that time period, so I'm a little fuzzy on exact dates.
Result of the Test: FAIL
You entered the following word: lawyers
The possible words were: sharksharks
C'mon, same thing!
I've been trying to see if I can get the first page I got, when I wasn't being stupid, which was:
Result of the Test: FAIL
You entered the following word: dogs
The possible words were: pigpigs
I'm fairly sure that those were dogs I in fact saw on the images, but since I can't get the page to redisplay (and I've creamed the cached copy of the page by reloading), I could be wrong. (I managed to get your bikes example, though.)
Of course, this indicates another weakness in the system: it's a computer deciding if I'm a computer or not - it's only as good as the data it's given when it comes to making that decision. If the data entered is wrong (for example, dogs are mislabeled pigs, or forgetting "bike" as a common name abbreviation for "bicycle"), then it won't be able to determine human or computer successfully. Then there's of course typos...
And for my final picking appart of the system:
Result of the Test: FAIL
You entered the following word: nothing
The possible words were: monkeymonkeys
...Caused by the images not loading properly. I think they were 404's, but I'm not sure (as I didn't check at the time).
So, yeah, this system seems to have some flaws in it...
I've been playing around with creating a Moz chrome and was able to cause the same problem you described. (It's a Tetris game written in DHTML - worked without the DHTML fix, BTW.) It seems that it's possible for a newly added chrome to somehow cause the internal state to get all messed up, and prevent new windows from openning until the certain bits of the profile get reset (not necessarily just chrome.rdf, in my experience).
Bottom line is that I'm not going to try and get the game working as a chrome any time soon, but I might try and release it somewhere as an example of what can be done with Mozilla using JavaScript, the DOM, and CSS. (If anyone is willing to volunteer, that is - I don't have webhosting available anywhere.)
Over all, I've been quite happy with Mozilla since somewhere around the 0.9.6 release or so. It's grown into a very nice and useful browser.
While playing a game? Yeah, maybe in an online chat it might be better, but while playing any game where you can't pause good periods of time while chatting, it's nice to be able to actually speak to other teammates instead of having to find a corner to hide in while typing out your message. This applies to most games, where chatting means that you aren't controlling your onscreen character while other people are. Chatting can kill you...
Of course, with a console, maybe you could be typing your message while still moving around with your controller... who knows...
Get a PS2. Look at the lower left-hand corner of the box. See two USB ports and a firewire port. See USB keyboard/mouse. Plug them in.
Admittably, you'd have to find a game that supports such a style of control, but as PC-style games come out for consoles, if such a control is beneficial, you'll likely see it offered. Consoles are becoming more like specilized gaming-specific PCs daily. So it's quite likely that in the future, you might be able to play a game like Dark Age of Camelot from your couch on your PS2, typing to chat with others and using a mouse to move around.
I don't know about the other consoles (since there's no Final Fantasy out for them yet:)), but I'd imagine that the X-Box has USB ports as well and that the GameCube has the ability to have a Nintendo-specific keyboard be plugged into it. (What, me have something against Nintendo - never.) So yeah - being able to type on a keyboard through a gaming console to others across the world isn't so far fetched.
I expect that it'll take until the next generation of consoles before such features become well fleshed-out (mostly online play), but a console is becoming more like a PC in the capabilities it offers to gamers.
Although why you'd rather type than just use the voice-chat features that the X-Box Live service offers is beyond me... (The PS2 might offer something similar, I don't know...)
I try to, but I've been with people who have not yet awoken to the fact that Wendy's is probably the pinacle of American fast-food burger joints. (As in, only fast-food joint that had someone recognizable as human at the front and better quality burgers than BK or McDs. Fries always suck. I'm sure they're evil too, but they're probably less evil. Or were.:))
I originally had a comment in my original post that eating a Big Mac was just like eating a can of dog food with iceburg lettuce, mayo, and ketchup - but I removed it, since enough other people were lambasting Mickey-Dees.
But I suppose there can never be enough people attacking the arches:)
Unless the Sims Online is adding a bunch of stats to the Sims that weren't in the original game that I admittedly don't play anymore, your stats are mostly things like exaustion, hunger, etc. Eating a Big Mac probably satisifies a Sim's "hunger" stat and maybe even makes the Sim happier.
Admittably, I don't know exactly what stats a Sims Online Sim has. So this is also half a question - what stats does it improve? I'd imagine that it isn't something stupid like eating a Big Mac improves your charisma, intelligence, and strength - it just satisfies a Sim's hunger (and increases the Bathroom need). Which makes an amount of sense - eating a Big Mac in real life is usually done to satisfy hunger. There are plenty of other people here to make fun of McD's crappy food, so I'll let 'em do it.
Does anyone else remember the What's Related feature that was in Netscape? It's still in Mozilla, but as a sidebar - pop open the sidebar, and there should be a tab labeled "What's Related." It's a list of links between the current page and webpages that people most frequently either leave from the site or use to arrive at the site (I think). Sounds very similar, but since it's already been Slashdotted, I can't compare the two. An interesting idea, but based on having played with What's Related, it isn't really all that useful - you wind up with a common set of sites, and the less well-known sites just get lost in the flood of popular ones.
Hey, don't forget, this is the Big New Thing out here in the great old USofA. The various cell phone providers (Sprint, Verizon, Cingular, AT&T...) been doing the grand rollout only over the past six months or so. It's brand new, and exciting... it's just like what Europe has had... how long now?
(You have to see the ad where the Sprint guy is extolling the virtues of "screen savers" on your cell phone. I own a "Vision" (read: 3G-ready) phone, and I still haven't figured out what that means, other than possibly the display that is shown on the screen while navigating the nifty features.)
Besides, in a country where Motorolla runs ads showing off the amazing Texting features and Verizon is trying to get people onto the idea of texting, it can't be that surprising that data services are something exciting here. (Yes, we have ads showing people texting each other as if it were something brand new that is only made possible through the innovative genius of Verizon.)
And don't forget, in the US cellphones are used to have an excuse for cutting people off in the lane while drinking coffee and reading your newspaper in your giant SUV instead of just taking the damned bus and being able to do that without risking the lives of everyone around you. Of course, I live in Massachusetts, and apparently we drive worse than practically anywhere else in the nation. From what I've seen, I'd hope so...
(Of course, maybe I'm just pissed because some asshole decided that the big red STOP sign didn't apply to him so he could jump in front of me in traffic. And bitching about it makes me feel better. That and I'm stuck with my normal Voice service until the end of November when I finally get the data service activated.)
And after I submit this I finally find the link to the agreement which does not require you to actually be signing up for a plan. Keep in mind they expect it to be popped up as a JavaScript popup, and the text really is that small, but:
And I quote from the Agreement for the very plan the story submitter is quoting (the plan I'm going to be switching to shortly for my phone):
Sprint may deny or terminate service without notice where use is in connection with server devices or host computer applications, other systems that drive continuous heavy traffic or data sessions, or as substitutes for private lines or frame relay connections. Unlimited PCS Vision offer for PCS Free & Clear Plans with Vision is: (a) only available with a Vision capable PCS Phone or PCS smart phone device; and (b) not available with Connection Cards, Aircards, or any other device used in connection with a computer or PDA - including phones, smart phones or other devices used with connection kits or similar phone-to-computer/PDA accessories. Sprint reserves the right to deny or to terminate service without notice for misuse.
The reality I got from that section is that basically if you try and use your phone as your primary Internet connection, they'll shut you down. But if you just use the phone occasionally as an alternate method of connecting to the Internet, then they'll probably leave you alone.
Basically, what this guy is doing does go against the agreement needed to receive the "Unlimited PCS Vision" option. But yes, you can get plans that are designed for use with laptops/PDAs, but at around $40/month for 20MB total and $100/month for unlimited access. And these plans do not come with voice calling, or any features related to it - they are purely for Internet access.
Because of their annoying use of Javascript to create a little intro page including apples that light up when you mouse over the image and the annoying fade effect on the actual index page once you're let in.
Wait, they're suing about what here? Oh, never mind, then.
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I find that line funny, because for those of us who do classified research, which I don't (although I'm beginning the process of starting to look at possibly getting the investigation started to permit me to obtain a clearance, so I've been looking into the legalese you agree to with one), it's more like:
Of course, that isn't even really true - you wouldn't be responsible for killing yourself, you leave that up to the Federal penitentiary system after you've been found guilty of treason based on the testimony from those you talked to. So I guess it's really:
Oh, and since Slashdot seems to have a lot of people who can't detect sarcasm, this is a joke. Don't try and take it seriously, because it won't take you anywhere useful. Although, if you do manage to take it far enough, you might meet big burly men with Colt carbines. Who will take you to meet other big burly men with a different interest in you.
Grumble...grumble... Freshpond Parkway is right...
Then there's the fun trip on Mass Ave, where it suddenly becomes a one-way street past Harvard (Univ). Plus the "guess which lane is the x turn only lane" games that seems popular...
Oh, yeah, and what does Brown do for me? Block the right hand lane with their stupid delivery trucks! Thanks a lot!
Of course, driving in Boston is not the problem. The problem is parking in Boston...
My specific complaint is that Mozilla will resize the meaning of "px" with respect to fonts, but nowhere else. So you can have huge text in a very small box.
Try this in Mozilla:
<div style="font-size: 12px; width: 200px; height: 100px; border: solid 1px black; font-family: Verdana">This is a test.</div>
Scale the font size up and down. Watch the black box stay exactly the same size - my complaint is that the Right Thing to do would either be to leave the pixel-sized font alone, or to scale the pixel-size everywhere, proportionally scaling along with the text. Including scaling up images, preferably.
Yeah, well, try these:
BODY { font-size: 14px; }
BODY { font-size: 12pt; }
I'll bet you'll find that those will display similarly on all browsers on all platforms. This of course assumes the same font, and that all the platforms have similar DPI settings. However, there are plenty of people who need the text to be larger than many sites provide (OK, Sprint?! 10px Verdana? *squint squint*) and get quite understandably annoyed when you've confined the text into a little bitty group of pixels.
If you want overly-anal control of the exact font size, you should be specifying it in pixels or, preferably, points. IE doesn't "magnify" fonts set with either, but Mozilla will magnify both. I consider both behaviors to be wrong, I think the Right Thing would be to scale up the points-to-pixels conversion as text is magnified, and leave things specified in pixels alone. Or, if pixel-sized font is scaled, then the "virtual pixel" to "real pixel" conversion should be scaled everywhere, including with <img>s.
Bottom line: "medium" is a browser-based setting. It's supposed to change from browser-to-browser (well, it should be expected to change - it doesn't have to). So complaining that the browsers don't have a uniform definition of "medium" when there isn't one is kind of silly.
Also in WarCraft III, one of the Undead Acolyte's "pissed" sayings is "My life for Auir - er, I mean, Ner'Zhul." I think it's the same voice actor who plays both units.
C'mon, CmdrTaco, you should know better than to post annonymously! You've been asking for .dot forever!
Although it could be that I'm just unfamiliar with the whole "dating" thing altogether, I hear it involves someone of the opposite sex or something? :)
(And if you don't wanna follow the links, NPR = National Public Radio, a fairly liberal radio network that is mostly funded by donations from listeners. Wait Wait -- Don't Tell Me! is a "news quiz show" that usually focuses on the weirder and more obscure news items - it's rather humorous, generally.)
Except he caught that I was mincing words and then asked "what about Gandalf?" So ... oh well.
She also says:
In short, it sounds like negotiation and criminal and civil litigation have already been attempted and have failed. Their demands do not indicate that they want the lumber industry to stop cutting altogether - she lists four things she'd like to see:
I'm not sure I agree with the first "demand" - I'd have to be given better reasoning than just "it's bad" - so I'll leave that one as being perhaps a little overboard. But I dunno.
I'd hope we can all agree that simple clear-cutting is bad and irresponsible. The lumber industry would actually be better off replanting or leaving enough trees so that the forest can grow back. However, MAXXAM/PL is apparently taking an incredibly short-sited view of things and is going for as much profit short-term as possible, instead of attempting to ensure that they will be able to continue with a source of lumber into the future.
As for herbicides, I'd love to know why a logging company would be spraying herbicides. It would seem to increase the damage from any wildfires (as it would cause there to be more deadwood). I would guess they do it to help clear the underbrush to be able to pull trees out easily? Seems unnecessary and quite possible to be worked around. Not being a logger, I don't know.
The last one again should be just common sense. You know what prevents a large sloped mass of dirt from being a large flowing mass of mud? Roots, be they tree roots or other undergrowth. Remove the trees, the roots die, and then you get mudslides in rainy conditions. But anyone engaging in clear-cutting probably doesn't really care about the land after they've finished exploiting it, so they probably feel fine about letting the area turn into a deathtrap once they've got their wood out. At the very least, one would hope that on slopes with the danger of landslides, lumber companies would either be forced to leave most of the trees and immediately replant around the trees they have removed a new tree and probably grass as a stop-gap measure until the tree matures enough to hold the ground in place.
The solution probably is in the middle, but if you actually read the 'blog, it seems that the logging company is intent on maximizing immediate profits with no concern for what will happen as a consequence.
Where as you kinda have to stretch your hand or use both hands for the modifier keys to activate the more esoteric OS/2 combos. They've been "obsoleted" by the Mac combos. I guess that wasn't really made clear - about the only "standard" OS/2 combos that live today are F1 for help, and ALT-F4 to close windows. All the other combos have been replaced by things that make sense :)
The desktop UI was very customizable too: you could customize the background in every folder - which was pointless, but cool. You could create custom icons for every folder, or use predefined ones. The keybindings were a bit... strange (remember CTRL-INSERT for COPY, SHIFT-INSERT for paste?) - although ALT-F4 lives on to this day in Windows.
OS/2 supported true preemptive multitasking (unless I am mis-remembering, and it only supported multitasking without preemption for high priority tasks) back when Windows was only at version 3. OS/2 had complete virtual memory support back when Windows had none - meaning that if an application crashed, it wouldn't hose the entire system. (Except when it did, of course. But I only used OS/2 2.1 before "upgrading" to Windows 3.11 - or more specifically, buying a new computer and not bothering to install OS/2, so I hear things improved in Warp.)
I'll miss OS/2 - it was the first real operating system I ever used, and probably one of the best desktop experiences I've had on the Intel platform. It's also were I first sunk my teeth into scripting (via REXX), and the first time I saw a true multitasking environment.
[1] Unless I'm wrong about the data. I'm guessing I used OS/2 back in 1992 since I remember using it on our first x86 computer, a 44MHz 386. We upgraded to a Pentium computer sometime later, but I think it was in 1994, since it came with Win 3.11 and Win95 hadn't been released yet. So if anyone wants to correct me on dates, let me point out that I would have been 11 - 14 in that time period, so I'm a little fuzzy on exact dates.
Result of the Test: FAIL
You entered the following word: lawyers
The possible words were: shark sharks
C'mon, same thing!
I've been trying to see if I can get the first page I got, when I wasn't being stupid, which was:
Result of the Test: FAIL
You entered the following word: dogs
The possible words were: pig pigs
I'm fairly sure that those were dogs I in fact saw on the images, but since I can't get the page to redisplay (and I've creamed the cached copy of the page by reloading), I could be wrong. (I managed to get your bikes example, though.)
Of course, this indicates another weakness in the system: it's a computer deciding if I'm a computer or not - it's only as good as the data it's given when it comes to making that decision. If the data entered is wrong (for example, dogs are mislabeled pigs, or forgetting "bike" as a common name abbreviation for "bicycle"), then it won't be able to determine human or computer successfully. Then there's of course typos...
And for my final picking appart of the system:
Result of the Test: FAIL
You entered the following word: nothing
The possible words were: monkey monkeys
So, yeah, this system seems to have some flaws in it...
Whenever I see "cheep" it makes me think of the little red fishes in Super Mario Bros...
cp /dev/urandom /path/to/smb/mounted/share/You\ Shouldn\'t\ Leave\ Your\ Drive\ World\ Writable.sys
So far, the fear of what the net admins would do to me have spared those poor fools from having their computers filled with random - stuff.
But don't forget the classics...
mkdir mp3s
cd mp3s
ln -s . Music
Browse that!
Bottom line is that I'm not going to try and get the game working as a chrome any time soon, but I might try and release it somewhere as an example of what can be done with Mozilla using JavaScript, the DOM, and CSS. (If anyone is willing to volunteer, that is - I don't have webhosting available anywhere.)
Over all, I've been quite happy with Mozilla since somewhere around the 0.9.6 release or so. It's grown into a very nice and useful browser.
Of course, with a console, maybe you could be typing your message while still moving around with your controller... who knows...
Admittably, you'd have to find a game that supports such a style of control, but as PC-style games come out for consoles, if such a control is beneficial, you'll likely see it offered. Consoles are becoming more like specilized gaming-specific PCs daily. So it's quite likely that in the future, you might be able to play a game like Dark Age of Camelot from your couch on your PS2, typing to chat with others and using a mouse to move around.
I don't know about the other consoles (since there's no Final Fantasy out for them yet :)), but I'd imagine that the X-Box has USB ports as well and that the GameCube has the ability to have a Nintendo-specific keyboard be plugged into it. (What, me have something against Nintendo - never.) So yeah - being able to type on a keyboard through a gaming console to others across the world isn't so far fetched.
I expect that it'll take until the next generation of consoles before such features become well fleshed-out (mostly online play), but a console is becoming more like a PC in the capabilities it offers to gamers.
Although why you'd rather type than just use the voice-chat features that the X-Box Live service offers is beyond me... (The PS2 might offer something similar, I don't know...)
I originally had a comment in my original post that eating a Big Mac was just like eating a can of dog food with iceburg lettuce, mayo, and ketchup - but I removed it, since enough other people were lambasting Mickey-Dees.
But I suppose there can never be enough people attacking the arches :)
Admittably, I don't know exactly what stats a Sims Online Sim has. So this is also half a question - what stats does it improve? I'd imagine that it isn't something stupid like eating a Big Mac improves your charisma, intelligence, and strength - it just satisfies a Sim's hunger (and increases the Bathroom need). Which makes an amount of sense - eating a Big Mac in real life is usually done to satisfy hunger. There are plenty of other people here to make fun of McD's crappy food, so I'll let 'em do it.
(Anyone else think McDonalds fries are crap? America's favorite fries? I'd hope not...)
Microsoft Windows 2000 [Version 5.00.2195]
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Does anyone else remember the What's Related feature that was in Netscape? It's still in Mozilla, but as a sidebar - pop open the sidebar, and there should be a tab labeled "What's Related." It's a list of links between the current page and webpages that people most frequently either leave from the site or use to arrive at the site (I think). Sounds very similar, but since it's already been Slashdotted, I can't compare the two. An interesting idea, but based on having played with What's Related, it isn't really all that useful - you wind up with a common set of sites, and the less well-known sites just get lost in the flood of popular ones.
(You have to see the ad where the Sprint guy is extolling the virtues of "screen savers" on your cell phone. I own a "Vision" (read: 3G-ready) phone, and I still haven't figured out what that means, other than possibly the display that is shown on the screen while navigating the nifty features.)
Besides, in a country where Motorolla runs ads showing off the amazing Texting features and Verizon is trying to get people onto the idea of texting, it can't be that surprising that data services are something exciting here. (Yes, we have ads showing people texting each other as if it were something brand new that is only made possible through the innovative genius of Verizon.)
And don't forget, in the US cellphones are used to have an excuse for cutting people off in the lane while drinking coffee and reading your newspaper in your giant SUV instead of just taking the damned bus and being able to do that without risking the lives of everyone around you. Of course, I live in Massachusetts, and apparently we drive worse than practically anywhere else in the nation. From what I've seen, I'd hope so...
(Of course, maybe I'm just pissed because some asshole decided that the big red STOP sign didn't apply to him so he could jump in front of me in traffic. And bitching about it makes me feel better. That and I'm stuck with my normal Voice service until the end of November when I finally get the data service activated.)
zaurus+gprs phone==pr0n everywhere
Aren't you close enough to Sweden...
PCS Vision Advantage Agreement
View the plans themselves here: PCS Plans
Basically, what this guy is doing does go against the agreement needed to receive the "Unlimited PCS Vision" option. But yes, you can get plans that are designed for use with laptops/PDAs, but at around $40/month for 20MB total and $100/month for unlimited access. And these plans do not come with voice calling, or any features related to it - they are purely for Internet access.
Wait, they're suing about what here? Oh, never mind, then.