Oh wow, you and I have similar tastes indeed. I think the ultimate barely-any-plot and all-fighting movie was Bloodsport. I mean, its based around the idea of a tournament...so you get to see fight after fight after fight, and of course the scenes that show van damme training were pretty cool too. Based on a true story too, so every so often plot gets in the way of the fighting, but for the most part its just pure carnage. -Stype
I go to the school he spent a lot of time at (Worcester Polytech) and when I went to my first class today I noticed a large (10 feet?) tall snow-rocket had been built on the fountain right in the middle of campus. "75" and "Goddard" were painted onto the snow too, it was pretty cool, I wish I had a picture. -Stype
I'll tell you why its ok. Because using napster isn't a right, walking down the street is. If napster wants to block a million users from using their service, they can. You can bitch all you want, its their service, they can do what they want with it. Banning someone from napster is not a legal punishment, its just a way of stopping them from possibly doing it again. And if they ban someone who wasn't doing anything wrong, well tough. If you don't like napster, stop using it. -Stype
Well I don't think you would call it turn based technically. Its real time but unlike other games, its not scaled down so you can play it and be done in half an hour. When something takes 24 hours, it literally takes 24 hours, but the turns happen whether you want them to or not...they are scheduled on the hour. I suppose you could look at it either way. I think it feels turn based because you get a whole hour to choose what you want to do, and if you don't log in, it just doesn't do anything new.
you're right on about it being addictive tho 8) The game has some pretty major flaws in it that a lot of people don't like, but everybody still keeps playing it just cuz its so darn fun. -Stype
Ah well this image is so good, I'll mirror it for anyone who wants it. Of course I have to mirror it on the weakest piece of machinery I can find, for fun, so here it is on my sparcstation ipc, 25mhz, with 24 megs of ram running debian and apache. If I can find batteries for my palm I can setup a web server there too but that might take some time. Here it is. -Stype
It looks like Kinesis (makers of the best ergo keyboard on earth) have a new model out similar to this (only much more practical I think). Check out the Kinesis Evolution Keyboard. It can be adjusted to any size/shape person and even has a trackpad (or two) built in. -Stype
I second this. My father has an epson printer also and if you print on the right kind of glossy paper, you can't tell them from photos. We have pictures hanging on our walls that were printed from this camera, and you can't tell the difference from a real photo unless you're an inch away.
Of course, this only pays off if you're printing a lot of pictures. -Stype
I'm sure they have some good reasons from a code point of view, but didn't they just change to C++ a couple of years ago? I mean, when they changed to C++, my high school CS teacher had to learn C++ well enough to teach it, and now she's stuck having to learn java just as she's getting the hang of C++? I wouldn't be surprised if schools drop their cs programs just because they don't want to train anyone. -Stype
If I recall correctly, the first text ever sent over the internet was "lo" because it crashed before they could finish typing "login". not much has changed I guess 8) -Stype
It doesn't have a ball, it appears to use a directional pad type thingy to control the cursor, so I wouldn't really call it a mouse. Its more of a fancy indestructable nintendo controller. -Stype
Everybody puts in money on who they think will get hit by an iridium satellite. Everyone who bets correctly gets to split the money from the pool. Ok I'll start off, I'm putting in 5 dollars on cmdrtaco.
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Am I the only person who thinks this is bad?
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Don't say I didn't warn you when this thing starts acting on its own and killing everyone!
...or you download free music. I personally have about 30 gigs of mp3s and the majority of these are free shows by bands that allow and encourage taping and trading of their shows. You can get just about every grateful dead and phish show ever done somewhere online if you look (and my 30 gigs includes none of their shows). I bet all those could possibly hit a few hundred gigs.
I don't like people pirating mp3s either but don't assume just cuz someone has lots of mp3s they are breaking the law, its this sort of thinking that gets me in trouble. -Stype
This has certainly happened to me. I don't know if I can attribute it to NSI stealing it, but what are the chances of it? So my online name is stype. stype.com is taken legitimately, so I figure stype.net is the next best thing. I check with NSI, stype.net is open. I buy it...a few days later I get an email saying that its no longer for sale and its been bought by some random person. I ended up getting stype.org but I was pissed for a while.
For this reason I've also registered nsi.cansuckmyballs.com just because I'm pissed at NSI. -Stype
I know, no one wanted to be reminded of that movie, I never saw it, but thats one of the things I thought was cool about the book. There was a race somewhere that made circuitry that was uncopyable because the actual wires were embedded inside the circuit board and there were fake dummy wires on the outside. So people would look at it and try to make an exact copy, and they would look the same but it wouldn't work (because all the circuitry you could see was just BS). The real stuff was printed kind of like a watermark on the board. -Stype
I've used linux on my palm. It wasn't running on it, but I ran pppd on my computer then connected to it with the palm. Found a nice telnet app so I telnetted in and there I was trying to do command line stuff on a palm. In a few words, it was painful. -Stype
Well I just installed debian 2.2 on my sparcstation the other day and I must say it wasn't as easy as I had hoped. I found a few instances where the installation docs are just plain wrong and missing some steps and it also failed to setup SILO correctly. I think it won't setup SILO if you have a separate boot partition (which I shouldn't need but somehow the kernel ended up >1024 cylinders).
Oh well, its still really sweet. Their network install is so much better than anyone else's. Red hats is a joke and crashes if the site you are installing from is full.
If I had somethin nice like an ultrasparc I'd prolly keep solaris on there just cuz it works real nicely. Its a great OS. but unfortunately I have a sparcstation IPC (25 mhz). It came with solaris on it and it was slooooow. I threw red hat on (bad choice...too big) and it at least doubled in speed.
Does anyone else think its mean to have slashdot link to 90 minutes of real video? come on, we all know half a million people accessing that at once is gonna take down their server for sure. as a matter of fact I can't get into it right now but maybe thats just realplayer acting bitchy.
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...on getting those april fools jokes out. Can't wait to see the next one. 8)
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Oh wow, you and I have similar tastes indeed. I think the ultimate barely-any-plot and all-fighting movie was Bloodsport. I mean, its based around the idea of a tournament...so you get to see fight after fight after fight, and of course the scenes that show van damme training were pretty cool too. Based on a true story too, so every so often plot gets in the way of the fighting, but for the most part its just pure carnage.
-Stype
Heh, if you watch this movie for the plot, you'll be disappointed. saw it last night...2 hours of my life I'll never get back.
-Stype
I go to the school he spent a lot of time at (Worcester Polytech) and when I went to my first class today I noticed a large (10 feet?) tall snow-rocket had been built on the fountain right in the middle of campus. "75" and "Goddard" were painted onto the snow too, it was pretty cool, I wish I had a picture.
-Stype
I'll tell you why its ok. Because using napster isn't a right, walking down the street is. If napster wants to block a million users from using their service, they can. You can bitch all you want, its their service, they can do what they want with it. Banning someone from napster is not a legal punishment, its just a way of stopping them from possibly doing it again. And if they ban someone who wasn't doing anything wrong, well tough. If you don't like napster, stop using it.
-Stype
Well I don't think you would call it turn based technically. Its real time but unlike other games, its not scaled down so you can play it and be done in half an hour. When something takes 24 hours, it literally takes 24 hours, but the turns happen whether you want them to or not...they are scheduled on the hour. I suppose you could look at it either way. I think it feels turn based because you get a whole hour to choose what you want to do, and if you don't log in, it just doesn't do anything new.
you're right on about it being addictive tho 8) The game has some pretty major flaws in it that a lot of people don't like, but everybody still keeps playing it just cuz its so darn fun.
-Stype
Ah well this image is so good, I'll mirror it for anyone who wants it. Of course I have to mirror it on the weakest piece of machinery I can find, for fun, so here it is on my sparcstation ipc, 25mhz, with 24 megs of ram running debian and apache. If I can find batteries for my palm I can setup a web server there too but that might take some time.
Here it is.
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You might want to take a look over at CyberRebate. It all looks like a good deal, til you read stories like this and begin to wonder.
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It looks like Kinesis (makers of the best ergo keyboard on earth) have a new model out similar to this (only much more practical I think). Check out the Kinesis Evolution Keyboard. It can be adjusted to any size/shape person and even has a trackpad (or two) built in.
-Stype
I second this. My father has an epson printer also and if you print on the right kind of glossy paper, you can't tell them from photos. We have pictures hanging on our walls that were printed from this camera, and you can't tell the difference from a real photo unless you're an inch away.
Of course, this only pays off if you're printing a lot of pictures.
-Stype
I'm sure they have some good reasons from a code point of view, but didn't they just change to C++ a couple of years ago? I mean, when they changed to C++, my high school CS teacher had to learn C++ well enough to teach it, and now she's stuck having to learn java just as she's getting the hang of C++? I wouldn't be surprised if schools drop their cs programs just because they don't want to train anyone.
-Stype
If I recall correctly, the first text ever sent over the internet was "lo" because it crashed before they could finish typing "login". not much has changed I guess 8)
-Stype
It doesn't have a ball, it appears to use a directional pad type thingy to control the cursor, so I wouldn't really call it a mouse. Its more of a fancy indestructable nintendo controller.
-Stype
Everybody puts in money on who they think will get hit by an iridium satellite. Everyone who bets correctly gets to split the money from the pool. Ok I'll start off, I'm putting in 5 dollars on cmdrtaco.
-Stype
Don't say I didn't warn you when this thing starts acting on its own and killing everyone!
-Stype
Could someone mirror that announcement page? my school has completely blocked scour.net and scour.com so I can't even read that announcement.
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...or you download free music. I personally have about 30 gigs of mp3s and the majority of these are free shows by bands that allow and encourage taping and trading of their shows. You can get just about every grateful dead and phish show ever done somewhere online if you look (and my 30 gigs includes none of their shows). I bet all those could possibly hit a few hundred gigs.
I don't like people pirating mp3s either but don't assume just cuz someone has lots of mp3s they are breaking the law, its this sort of thinking that gets me in trouble.
-Stype
...and vote for bush.
sorry I'm still laughing from the SNL special two nights ago. oh and btw don't really vote for bush, I don't like him.
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Oh come on you HAD to use the microsoft quotes? ?Whistler?
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This has certainly happened to me. I don't know if I can attribute it to NSI stealing it, but what are the chances of it? So my online name is stype. stype.com is taken legitimately, so I figure stype.net is the next best thing. I check with NSI, stype.net is open. I buy it...a few days later I get an email saying that its no longer for sale and its been bought by some random person. I ended up getting stype.org but I was pissed for a while.
For this reason I've also registered nsi.cansuckmyballs.com just because I'm pissed at NSI.
-Stype
I know, no one wanted to be reminded of that movie, I never saw it, but thats one of the things I thought was cool about the book. There was a race somewhere that made circuitry that was uncopyable because the actual wires were embedded inside the circuit board and there were fake dummy wires on the outside. So people would look at it and try to make an exact copy, and they would look the same but it wouldn't work (because all the circuitry you could see was just BS). The real stuff was printed kind of like a watermark on the board.
-Stype
I've used linux on my palm. It wasn't running on it, but I ran pppd on my computer then connected to it with the palm. Found a nice telnet app so I telnetted in and there I was trying to do command line stuff on a palm. In a few words, it was painful.
-Stype
Well I just installed debian 2.2 on my sparcstation the other day and I must say it wasn't as easy as I had hoped. I found a few instances where the installation docs are just plain wrong and missing some steps and it also failed to setup SILO correctly. I think it won't setup SILO if you have a separate boot partition (which I shouldn't need but somehow the kernel ended up >1024 cylinders).
Oh well, its still really sweet. Their network install is so much better than anyone else's. Red hats is a joke and crashes if the site you are installing from is full.
If I had somethin nice like an ultrasparc I'd prolly keep solaris on there just cuz it works real nicely. Its a great OS. but unfortunately I have a sparcstation IPC (25 mhz). It came with solaris on it and it was slooooow. I threw red hat on (bad choice...too big) and it at least doubled in speed.
Does anyone else think its mean to have slashdot link to 90 minutes of real video? come on, we all know half a million people accessing that at once is gonna take down their server for sure. as a matter of fact I can't get into it right now but maybe thats just realplayer acting bitchy.