Re:Tripping for a week? I call bull.
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Death by Coffee?
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I know people who used to take 3-4 hits of acid just to wake up in the morning. You can trip for a week, or longer. The tolerance builds up, you can then take more, you don't feel the same feelings you do when you stay away from it for a while; it just gets weird and starts to feel like tripping is your normal state of affairs. But yes you can eat acid for weeks if you really care to. I remember a story about somebody who did this for a while and wound up holding up a beauty salon with a pellet gun; said he wanted aluminum siding right away to build a machine for god or something. He let the cops in when they said they had the aluminum siding, and of course they dragged his ass out of there. Who knows, maybe it's true.
Now where's my damn lithium? The bats are driving me crazy here....
I didn't have aol very much but a lot of people I knew did and I had heard about the rampant warez trading. I remember once being at a friend's house who had AOL and I wanted to mess around with it, we joined a couple of chat rooms and stuff, and I was like, I wonder if there's a huge private chatroom called "warez"? So I typed in warez and tried to join a chat, and was in the room for all of 2 seconds before I was kicked out of the room and the computer disconnected. When my friend went to reconnect it wouldn't let him, and it cited TOS violations as the reason. He had no idea what warez meant, but he thought it was hilarious that I got him locked out of his AOL account for abusing the system within seconds by typing a single word.
revolutionary for whom? Advertisers? I can search through gigs of email now using Eudora and I also have the peace of mind from knowing that my searchable database of old email is on my own hard drive, not on the internet.
Couldn't a prank like this get them in trouble with the SEC if it was widely believed in the media?
Re:I had completely forgotten about HyperCard.
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HyperCard Gone for Good
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I miss it too. I used to stay up all night making things with HyperCard. When I was just learning it I made my first stack -- it had a line drawing of a naked girl and when you pushed invisible buttons on her body it made noises and played screen effects. Really dumb. But it got me into it, and I made stacks that were really useful, including a database application that helped me manage information about students in my classes (I was a grad instructor at the tim) including grade information, which would be automatically calculated....
It was a great program. Apple should really open source it so someone can make an OS X version.
A long time ago High Times had a great article about somebody growing weed in a warehouse and controlling everything via a HyperCard program. The cameras in the warehouse let him see what was going on, he could turn water on and off remotely, change the light settings, etc., so he rarely had to actually visit the warehouse until harvest time. I think he connected to his mac with Timbuktu or somesuch and then everything was controlled through his HyperCard interface.
Anybody look at Netcraft to see if they confirm this, or count the number of usenet posts about HyperCard over the years? It's fine to have your assertion about its death but I want some real data.
Actually, according to what people say here in America, I was under the impression that if the French government thought he was a terrorist they would send him cheese and croissants, not sue him.
Yeah this is FUD, but how long before it's not because of people who read about it in the paper? There's a great book subtitled _Mugging, the State, and Law and Order_ (I don't remember the rest of the info) that looks at how mugging became popular in England during the 1970s (when it was still primarily an American phenomenon); the authors argue that the media frenzy about mugging preceded any actual mugging epidemic. It might not occur to some people until they read this article that a good way to target victims is looking out for the white headphones.
But really the overall point of the article is just banal -- crooks are not just out looking for iPods; they'll likely settle for any relatively expensive item that is small, easy to carry/conceal, and easy to pawn. I had an ipod stolen once (at aiport security at LAX) because I wasn't paying attention to it (yes, this is moronic on my part, but I didn't think about the fact that airport security might rip me off, so I didn't notice it missing until I was mid-flight). But I don't think the crooks were just gunning for my ipod; I think any expensive small item I had would have satisfied them.
Now that you've told AppleCare you have an iPod, they're going to mug you.
Re:And the point of this is?
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PC In An XP Box
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I thought that was pretty cool too; the box boots the right OS depending on which box it's in. But as far as I can tell, the sensor just tells whether there is an outer box at all, not what box it is. So someone could easily defeat the system by putting it in a larger Windows box or even a Panther box. It would be cooler if he had put in a UPC or RFID reader that determined what kind of box it was and acted appropriately...
One question though, what does he do after someone sits on his redhat box or otherwise mashes it, as happens to every such box I have ever owned?
Perhaps, but it is nonetheless a pain in the ass for those who would become "power users" of the tool in question. It is one thing to design things to be intuitive; it is another to handicap those who want to go beyond mere intuition in learning a tool. I think the company should at the very least have online manuals available for those who want more documentation. It doesn't have to come in the box, but there should be something available. I still remember looking up things in the manual for Microsoft Word 4.0 and Hypercard 2.0, both of which came with my first Macintosh. It's not that either of these programs was difficult to use without a manual but the manual made the experience much richer.
Then you must not live in America, in which it really isn't something for you to get so worked up about. But the USA was basically built by slaves; it would be difficult to find anybody living here -- immigrant or not, and no matter what race (yes, including black) -- who hasn't benefited indirectly from slavery.
Now, that said, I am no advocate of reparations. But I think it is silly and naive to pretend that slavery had no lasting impact on the country.
Here's the link. The urban legend is the idea that there was a bill passed recently with this title that gave blacks credit on their income tax as a slavery reparation. The IRS claims to have gotten over 100k bogus tax returns claiming this refund (and apparently they mistakenly did send refunds to many of those). But the story of freed slaves being promised "40 Acres and a Mule" after the end of slavery is not really an urban legend, although the person promising had no authority to do so. And the phrase was used throughout the twentieth century as a symbol of America's failure to deal responsibly with the legacy of slavery.
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Now where's my damn lithium? The bats are driving me crazy here....
And it had better come with two mouse buttons too.
That should be modded "Insightful." It's the most insightful thing I've read on slashdot all day. Barkeep!
Oh, come on. What are the odds?
I didn't have aol very much but a lot of people I knew did and I had heard about the rampant warez trading. I remember once being at a friend's house who had AOL and I wanted to mess around with it, we joined a couple of chat rooms and stuff, and I was like, I wonder if there's a huge private chatroom called "warez"? So I typed in warez and tried to join a chat, and was in the room for all of 2 seconds before I was kicked out of the room and the computer disconnected. When my friend went to reconnect it wouldn't let him, and it cited TOS violations as the reason. He had no idea what warez meant, but he thought it was hilarious that I got him locked out of his AOL account for abusing the system within seconds by typing a single word.
revolutionary for whom? Advertisers? I can search through gigs of email now using Eudora and I also have the peace of mind from knowing that my searchable database of old email is on my own hard drive, not on the internet.
See, the way this works is you first change your email address to a google address, and then...
oh.
Couldn't a prank like this get them in trouble with the SEC if it was widely believed in the media?
It was a great program. Apple should really open source it so someone can make an OS X version.
A long time ago High Times had a great article about somebody growing weed in a warehouse and controlling everything via a HyperCard program. The cameras in the warehouse let him see what was going on, he could turn water on and off remotely, change the light settings, etc., so he rarely had to actually visit the warehouse until harvest time. I think he connected to his mac with Timbuktu or somesuch and then everything was controlled through his HyperCard interface.
Anybody look at Netcraft to see if they confirm this, or count the number of usenet posts about HyperCard over the years? It's fine to have your assertion about its death but I want some real data.
*blinks*
Oh. I thought you said "All the world, these transvestites are now in place."
Actually, according to what people say here in America, I was under the impression that if the French government thought he was a terrorist they would send him cheese and croissants, not sue him.
How is this different from what Trailblazer does?
But really the overall point of the article is just banal -- crooks are not just out looking for iPods; they'll likely settle for any relatively expensive item that is small, easy to carry/conceal, and easy to pawn. I had an ipod stolen once (at aiport security at LAX) because I wasn't paying attention to it (yes, this is moronic on my part, but I didn't think about the fact that airport security might rip me off, so I didn't notice it missing until I was mid-flight). But I don't think the crooks were just gunning for my ipod; I think any expensive small item I had would have satisfied them.
Well, you did just post again.
White earphones don't mug people; people who want white earphones mug people.
Now that you've told AppleCare you have an iPod, they're going to mug you.
I thought that was pretty cool too; the box boots the right OS depending on which box it's in. But as far as I can tell, the sensor just tells whether there is an outer box at all, not what box it is. So someone could easily defeat the system by putting it in a larger Windows box or even a Panther box. It would be cooler if he had put in a UPC or RFID reader that determined what kind of box it was and acted appropriately...
One question though, what does he do after someone sits on his redhat box or otherwise mashes it, as happens to every such box I have ever owned?
There's an insightful comment in here somewhere about the accessibility of Stravinsky's music and one's ability to find the joke but....
Perhaps, but it is nonetheless a pain in the ass for those who would become "power users" of the tool in question. It is one thing to design things to be intuitive; it is another to handicap those who want to go beyond mere intuition in learning a tool. I think the company should at the very least have online manuals available for those who want more documentation. It doesn't have to come in the box, but there should be something available. I still remember looking up things in the manual for Microsoft Word 4.0 and Hypercard 2.0, both of which came with my first Macintosh. It's not that either of these programs was difficult to use without a manual but the manual made the experience much richer.
You should also feel sorry for those stuck on non-Apple platforms, who will never taste the sweetness of an OSX-native DAW....
Or, you could, instead, feel superior, and point condescendingly like Nelson Muntz and shout...
Haw-haw!
Now, that said, I am no advocate of reparations. But I think it is silly and naive to pretend that slavery had no lasting impact on the country.
We'll get our broadband and our ponies. As soon as he figures out how to get them to Mars.
Here's the link. The urban legend is the idea that there was a bill passed recently with this title that gave blacks credit on their income tax as a slavery reparation. The IRS claims to have gotten over 100k bogus tax returns claiming this refund (and apparently they mistakenly did send refunds to many of those). But the story of freed slaves being promised "40 Acres and a Mule" after the end of slavery is not really an urban legend, although the person promising had no authority to do so. And the phrase was used throughout the twentieth century as a symbol of America's failure to deal responsibly with the legacy of slavery.