Sometimes there's a certain... feeling... that you want to convey to the reader, that would make it so much easier to understand the code but cannot be expressed in words. I always use nonsense words, with a tone and rhythm carefully designed to put the reader in the right frame of mind.
Sure, some of your stuffy cow-orkers may challenge this practice, but it's all for a good cause.
Why can't I have one with _ALL_ the commercially released games? Connected to some compactflash card or whatever? Think about how much space your old atari carts are taking up. And those 5 million E.T. carts in the landfill.
Same goes for NES, SNES, SMS, Genesis, and PCE and I'm set for life.
as long as they also restrict the distribution of other forms of media, like books or movies that that feature decapitation, amputation, killing of humans with lethal weapons or through hand-to-hand combat, rape, car-jackings, aggravated assault and other violent felonies.
Hey, doesn't the Bible feature almost all of these? (I don't specifically remember a car-jacking in the Bible, but I'm pretty sure the rest is there).
And I wouldn't hold my breathe for the new Mario (Mario walks around with a water cannon trying to remove graffiti (??))
Is that what it is? Then I want a multiplayer version with Mario against the gang from Jet Grind Radio (Dreamcast) or Jet Set Radio Future (xbox). For the uninitiated, it's a Sega game that lets you control a gang of graffiti-sprayin', cop-avoiding' inline skaters. Think of the possibilities!
Max Headroom world is closer than you think...
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I can't provide a link to this one, but a certain religious radio station gave away three radios as a promotion in a very low-income area - radios that were locked into the station's frequency, with no way to change it.
An ATM tried to show me a commercial for something today.
Does it seem to anybody else that we're in a handbasket going you know where?
Sorry, you're right - the page had updates since I last checked it. Good news for those who already have a DC, but it's still tricky to find a new one.
Anyway, get a Dreamcast. They're cheap and you can run Linux on them!
Yeah, except that you can't get them new any more (by all means, let me know if I'm wrong - but just me. We don't want a repeat of last week when somebody bought all 304 copies of crazy taxi 2 off kbtoys.com to ebay them later).
And buyer beware: a small percentage of Dreamcasts cannot run Linux or any CD-R software for that matter. Check the compatibility list.
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Music filesystems? Image filesystems? Movie filesystems? Document filesystems?
And please, please, at least store the file's mime type, don't play the extension guessing game.
Web server: let's guess what the file's mime type is based on the extension, and send it. Browser: Let's guess what this file is, given the extension AND the mime type. Stupid computers!
There's a story about Dani that I know contains an element of slander, but it's too good to pass up: (I'll try to correct the slander afterwards)
At one point Dani was negotiating to do a new version of M.U.L.E. At the same time, she was also in the middle of her transformation, which, of course, included the surgery, and everyone who knew her well was secretly wondering about it. Soon afterwards, at some industry function or another, Russell Sipe, then publisher of Computer Gaming World, came up to her. "Well?" he asked. "Did you go through with it?" "No," Dani said. "I decided not to."
Russell was taken aback. "Really! Why not?"
"Well, they wanted to put guns and bombs in there, and I just didn't want that."
"WHAT??!!!!!" said Russell, utterly flabbergasted.
Of course it was all straightened out a moment later. Russell had been thinking about the life- changing, utterly irrevocable business of losing one's genitals.
Dani, characteristically, had been thinking about game design.
It's a silly icon, an image of just one product from a great company - and while it may be the coolest one at the moment, especially if you like music, it doesn't represent the company even as well as their logo.
It's kinda like using an all-blue icon for the 'microsoft' topic.
Back to topic, since this software is not available for Our Favorite Operating System (hereafter known as OFOS), what similar software packages are available?
They're just porting some software they've used for the DC originally. Big deal - many companies port applications from one platform to another. It's probably just a communication library - and not a very large one, at that.
...again dupe consumers into purchasing a wholly inferior product
This is the same "person" who (can anybody find the link)) whined that protection is necessary because with DVDs the pirates can make perfect copies for the first time.
A tribute to Resident Evil's Barry Burton - if you can play realaudio and have played the first game, you need to see this, especially the link at #10.
(Is there a site/whatever where people with ideas suggest what software is missing and people with time may choose to implement them?)
What I want is a kernel module to defeat port scanning. Whenever a remote tries to connect to a port that isn't bound, the module kicks in, accepts the connections, and doesn't do anything, or echos the incoming data, or sends random data, or behaves like a web/ftp/etc server, or a combination of the above.
If most computers used this, wouldn't port scanning become impractical?
Um, you're not using Opera, are you? Opera has an integrated search box so you never have to go to your favorite search engine to query it. A life saver for me, because with my memory by the time the page loads over a dial-up I've already forgotten what I was searching for.
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Sure, some of your stuffy cow-orkers may challenge this practice, but it's all for a good cause.
Just pop in Celine Dion's "copycally-challenged" CD before you turn off the iMac.
Yeah, the toymax unit I mentioned earlier comes with 10 activision games, one of which is pitfall. You may find it for $20, maybe even less.
Why can't I have one with _ALL_ the commercially released games? Connected to some compactflash card or whatever? Think about how much space your old atari carts are taking up. And those 5 million E.T. carts in the landfill.
Same goes for NES, SNES, SMS, Genesis, and PCE and I'm set for life.
Sorry, it's late/early and I'm rambling.
Hey, doesn't the Bible feature almost all of these? (I don't specifically remember a car-jacking in the Bible, but I'm pretty sure the rest is there).
Apologies. Link fixed.
This is, I believe, because new industries don't own any legislative assets like senators or judges, by the very virtue of their newness.
How much do you really know about the Falun Gong? This is from a site that seems legit - check out their page about the greatest pyramid scheme of all time.
And I wouldn't hold my breathe for the new Mario (Mario walks around with a water cannon trying to remove graffiti (??))
Is that what it is? Then I want a multiplayer version with Mario against the gang from Jet Grind Radio (Dreamcast) or Jet Set Radio Future (xbox). For the uninitiated, it's a Sega game that lets you control a gang of graffiti-sprayin', cop-avoiding' inline skaters. Think of the possibilities!
If somebody told me teen would be locked up after refusing to watch TV commercials in school, I'd think they were kidding.
I can't provide a link to this one, but a certain religious radio station gave away three radios as a promotion in a very low-income area - radios that were locked into the station's frequency, with no way to change it.
An ATM tried to show me a commercial for something today.
Does it seem to anybody else that we're in a handbasket going you know where?
Sorry, you're right - the page had updates since I last checked it. Good news for those who already have a DC, but it's still tricky to find a new one.
Anyway, get a Dreamcast. They're cheap and you can run Linux on them!
Yeah, except that you can't get them new any more (by all means, let me know if I'm wrong - but just me. We don't want a repeat of last week when somebody bought all 304 copies of crazy taxi 2 off kbtoys.com to ebay them later).
And buyer beware: a small percentage of Dreamcasts cannot run Linux or any CD-R software for that matter. Check the compatibility list.
Music filesystems? Image filesystems? Movie filesystems? Document filesystems?
And please, please, at least store the file's mime type, don't play the extension guessing game.
Web server: let's guess what the file's mime type is based on the extension, and send it.
Browser: Let's guess what this file is, given the extension AND the mime type.
Stupid computers!
There's a story about Dani that I know contains an element of slander, but it's too good to pass up: (I'll try to correct the slander afterwards)
At one point Dani was negotiating to do a new version of M.U.L.E. At the same time, she was also in the middle of her transformation, which, of course, included the surgery, and everyone who knew her well was secretly wondering about it. Soon afterwards, at some industry function or another, Russell Sipe, then publisher of Computer Gaming World, came up to her. "Well?" he asked. "Did you go through with it?" "No," Dani said. "I decided not to."
Russell was taken aback. "Really! Why not?"
"Well, they wanted to put guns and bombs in there, and I just didn't want that."
"WHAT??!!!!!" said Russell, utterly flabbergasted.
Of course it was all straightened out a moment later. Russell had been thinking about the life- changing, utterly irrevocable business of losing one's genitals.
Dani, characteristically, had been thinking about game design.
Then what _IS_ the solution to MPAA bad, please?
Is a good thing. Unfortunately, we're still at least several years away from this - this is how people interact with computers now. I just hope "we" get there first.
It's a silly icon, an image of just one product from a great company - and while it may be the coolest one at the moment, especially if you like music, it doesn't represent the company even as well as their logo.
It's kinda like using an all-blue icon for the 'microsoft' topic.
Back to topic, since this software is not available for Our Favorite Operating System (hereafter known as OFOS), what similar software packages are available?
They're just porting some software they've used for the DC originally. Big deal - many companies port applications from one platform to another. It's probably just a communication library - and not a very large one, at that.
Son, you haven't seen a poorly photoshopped image until you've seen the COMPUTER FAMILY GAME SUPER 3000 IN 1.
That's the whole point... cool little games. Can I play them? Can I write them? Has any of you?
This is the same "person" who (can anybody find the link)) whined that protection is necessary because with DVDs the pirates can make perfect copies for the first time.
Which one is it, Sony boy?
A tribute to Resident Evil's Barry Burton - if you can play realaudio and have played the first game, you need to see this, especially the link at #10.
Well, it's a shame the security personnel weren't cyborgs, they could have done a web search on the spot. Well, maybe in a few years.
(Is there a site/whatever where people with ideas suggest what software is missing and people with time may choose to implement them?)
What I want is a kernel module to defeat port scanning. Whenever a remote tries to connect to a port that isn't bound, the module kicks in, accepts the connections, and doesn't do anything, or echos the incoming data, or sends random data, or behaves like a web/ftp/etc server, or a combination of the above.
If most computers used this, wouldn't port scanning become impractical?
Would there by any harm in it?
Um, you're not using Opera, are you? Opera has an integrated search box so you never have to go to your favorite search engine to query it. A life saver for me, because with my memory by the time the page loads over a dial-up I've already forgotten what I was searching for.