We have a 3 burner model at our place. It uses the regular 10-cup drip filters, but has its own water line attached to the plumbing, no need to fill the resevoir. We also get our coffee pre-packed (Maxwell House), in sealed containers, one potful per packet. Pretty damn easy: Place filter in drip-bowl, open and pour coffee into filter, put drip-bowl in maker, turn on burner and put pot on. Push a button, and in 3-4 minutes, a pot of coffee. Chimpanzee easy, and still the moronic chair-warmers in the front office can't be bothered with filling the fucking pots up. Of course, these are the same idiots who kept a half-empty jug of milk in the fridge for 3 monthes.
I seem to remeber the old 8-bit NES had an "action mat" type controller. I think it looked kind of like a Twister mat, with contacts under the dots. Perhaps with a little work someone could get it rewired to talk over a serial port? I am pretty sure they had "fight ring" that was a big circle of plastic and sensors you laid on the floor and stood inside. It supposedly sensed your actions, and you could actually control fighting games more realistically, or some such. Perhaps that could be modified to work as well. Hmmm. What action could be mapped to scratching your nuts?
While I agree with many of the other posters concerning the age of "web bugs," not following spam URLs and the like, I can't help but hope that this sort of thing will add impetus to making spammers get what coming to them.
Rather than saying, "Spam is like getting postage due mail that can't be refused," perhaps now we can point to some, hopefully many, instances od spam and say, "This spam is extremely likely to be a virus carrier that could wipe out millions of Windows maghines worldwide simply by being received." Maybe THAT could jumpstart some law-making and prosecution.
Although, as we all know, in the US, while lawmaking is easy, actually following through on the part of the government is rare.
Kinda, but not too bad. With a new baby, a need for a new dishwasher and a teetery furnace, I have enough to occupy myself and my money. (Mostly diapers and dirty dishes.) At least I didn't join he mob at Best Buy after they announced they had about 30 just come in. I felt sorry for that poor schmoe in electronics, though.
Try upgrading to Win95. Then download 2.4, rename it to "kernel.dll", make sure it's not read-only, and copy it to the C:\windows\system directory. You should be set!
Well, at least they are providing, at least RSN, internet access for you. Although, Starbucks may object even more strenuously than your employer (with cops) to nakedness in their place of business.
After the huge success of the Top Ten Vaporware Projects of 2000 list, Wired has begun compiling their Top Ten Vaporware Projects of 2001 list.
Topping that list today, 4 January, 2001, is the 2.5 version of the Linux kernel. After people "played with it," Linux 2.4 has been de-vaporised, but now the "Open Source Community" is reportedly talking about version 2.5! They are looking to the future, they claim.
Well, as we here at Wired well know, "looking to the future" is just an euphemism for "some future version of our product that doesn't really exist will be perfect," unless it is paid advertising by a large corporation.
Exactly. What is needed is the appearance of an old circa 1969 terminal displaying various encouraging messages, in a light-green text on a dark green background,
"Powering up computer.....
Spinning drives......
Atomic batteries to power.....
Turbines to speed......."
accompanied by the sound of a dot-matrix printer emitted from the PC speaker, so they can identify with their favorite hi-tech movies and TV shows, ie. "Eraser."
And I remember the "fun" I had running an end-around Mandrake 6.1 removing that fuckin' thing after install using rpm. Why in the hell is that cartoonish Tux soooooooo essential to the proper functioning of my server? Hmmmm?
That's an AWFUL idea! My last apartment had asshole neighbors, and the circuit, any circuit I hooked it to, would blow every time I ran the microwave. The phone wires were in such bad shape that I was lucky to get connected to my ISP at all. Risking arrest just to move away from that dump? Even the Democrats aren't that dumb. (Well, maybe in Palm Beach.)
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We have a 3 burner model at our place. It uses the regular 10-cup drip filters, but has its own water line attached to the plumbing, no need to fill the resevoir. We also get our coffee pre-packed (Maxwell House), in sealed containers, one potful per packet. Pretty damn easy: Place filter in drip-bowl, open and pour coffee into filter, put drip-bowl in maker, turn on burner and put pot on. Push a button, and in 3-4 minutes, a pot of coffee. Chimpanzee easy, and still the moronic chair-warmers in the front office can't be bothered with filling the fucking pots up. Of course, these are the same idiots who kept a half-empty jug of milk in the fridge for 3 monthes.
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I seem to remeber the old 8-bit NES had an "action mat" type controller. I think it looked kind of like a Twister mat, with contacts under the dots. Perhaps with a little work someone could get it rewired to talk over a serial port? I am pretty sure they had "fight ring" that was a big circle of plastic and sensors you laid on the floor and stood inside. It supposedly sensed your actions, and you could actually control fighting games more realistically, or some such. Perhaps that could be modified to work as well. Hmmm. What action could be mapped to scratching your nuts?
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Forget Limbo, send me straight to the Elysium Fields!
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Particularly if it concerns little green pieces of paper, and/or digital wristwatches, which, as we all know, are pretty neat.
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While I agree with many of the other posters concerning the age of "web bugs," not following spam URLs and the like, I can't help but hope that this sort of thing will add impetus to making spammers get what coming to them.
Rather than saying, "Spam is like getting postage due mail that can't be refused," perhaps now we can point to some, hopefully many, instances od spam and say, "This spam is extremely likely to be a virus carrier that could wipe out millions of Windows maghines worldwide simply by being received." Maybe THAT could jumpstart some law-making and prosecution.
Although, as we all know, in the US, while lawmaking is easy, actually following through on the part of the government is rare.
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Kinda, but not too bad. With a new baby, a need for a new dishwasher and a teetery furnace, I have enough to occupy myself and my money. (Mostly diapers and dirty dishes.) At least I didn't join he mob at Best Buy after they announced they had about 30 just come in. I felt sorry for that poor schmoe in electronics, though.
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Friends don't let friends buy Compaq's.
Mothers, don't let your babies grow up to run Compaqs!
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But is it center rack, or top rack? GCC or KGCC?
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Try upgrading to Win95. Then download 2.4, rename it to "kernel.dll", make sure it's not read-only, and copy it to the C:\windows\system directory. You should be set!
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Thank you very, very much! Now I can do what I planned to do first tommorrow at work.
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This is about as exciting as getting a new PS2 - and playing it.
More, since you can actually get kernel 2.4.
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...not to mention kernel parameters mumbled through a mouthful of pizza and beer.
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At least you're not making designer jeans for Kathie Lee.
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Well, at least they are providing, at least RSN, internet access for you. Although, Starbucks may object even more strenuously than your employer (with cops) to nakedness in their place of business.
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After the huge success of the Top Ten Vaporware Projects of 2000 list, Wired has begun compiling their Top Ten Vaporware Projects of 2001 list.
Topping that list today, 4 January, 2001, is the 2.5 version of the Linux kernel. After people "played with it," Linux 2.4 has been de-vaporised, but now the "Open Source Community" is reportedly talking about version 2.5! They are looking to the future, they claim.
Well, as we here at Wired well know, "looking to the future" is just an euphemism for "some future version of our product that doesn't really exist will be perfect," unless it is paid advertising by a large corporation.
Harry Neebiter, Staff choadalist, reporting
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Possibly the same way Taco knew that Apple was suing Freetype.
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Actually, it's probably about $50,000 per person, and $4,999,650,000 in legal fees. Those Lexuses outside aren't free, you know.
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Exactly. What is needed is the appearance of an old circa 1969 terminal displaying various encouraging messages, in a light-green text on a dark green background,
"Powering up computer.....
Spinning drives......
Atomic batteries to power.....
Turbines to speed......."
accompanied by the sound of a dot-matrix printer emitted from the PC speaker, so they can identify with their favorite hi-tech movies and TV shows, ie. "Eraser."
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And I remember the "fun" I had running an end-around Mandrake 6.1 removing that fuckin' thing after install using rpm. Why in the hell is that cartoonish Tux soooooooo essential to the proper functioning of my server? Hmmmm?
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See, Linux is vapourware! Foul, stinky, slimey vapour-emitting fishy-ware!
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Is it Honda or Toyota that makes the CRV?
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AND...
Offers for deviant, homosexual rape web sites.
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That's an AWFUL idea! My last apartment had asshole neighbors, and the circuit, any circuit I hooked it to, would blow every time I ran the microwave. The phone wires were in such bad shape that I was lucky to get connected to my ISP at all. Risking arrest just to move away from that dump? Even the Democrats aren't that dumb. (Well, maybe in Palm Beach.)
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Definitely better than the, "You make a grown man cry!" theme for Windows95.
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