Earlier today Netscape crashed on me. Again. No big shock really...it happens a few times a day.
The semi-shocking part? I actually looked for the details in Crashguard. It was Netscape's 571st crash, and it has been only a month since I re-installed it.
There go the hopes and dreams of 1000 Internet Humorists out there. Just imagine the wealth of one-liners and skits we could have written if this had only been delayed long enough for the RIAA to spam the news media with tons of chest-thumping propiganda.
All of those clever tainted "watermark" jokes are a moot point now!
Day of the Tenticle...
Sam and Max Hit the Road...
Absolute bliss when I played those games. I would love to see a low-tech Sam and Max sequel. That style of wacky gameplay was so much fun that I am considering digging out the floppies and playing it again.
Let's just dissect a few of those "Canadians" and figure out how they survive up there, doing nothing but tirelessly toiling in their massive lichen fields and exporting tons of precious algae to fishtanks worldwide.
If anyone up there is living without the need for oxygen, my bet would be on those wacky French-Canadians!
You can read that article for a glimpse of the future of Distributed Computiing, or you could just save time and ask me.
------------ "John, what is the future of Distributed computing?"
I'm glad you asked. Coming up soon is three more business schemes and companies who will take applications for future testing and promise you to make $$Big Bucks$$ for using your spare CPU cycles. The companies will then stop updating their new page about a month before disappearing all together.
Next up: Slashdot re-runs an article from June's Issue of Wired!;)
Man it's a scary world we live in when consumers can't tweak products that they own to make them work better. Can you imagine where technology would be today under this premise? How many decades of progress would we miss?
I bet that PC makers would love it though. We'd get a big 2-inch thick steel-cased box and would have to throw it in the trash every two years to upgrade it...
I for one am happy to see this. I think it is a crime for sites like Versity (who is bankrupt last I heard) to list the well-written notes of a professor. The whole reason the school hires a professor is for his or her ability to teach, and lecture notes play a decent role in that. Granted, notes aren't everything, but if you worked hard to create a great set of teaching tools, tweaked them every year, and relied on them as a sizable part of your job worth, you probably wouldn't enjoy your notes being posted on the web for free viewing so some punks can make $$$ on selling ad space around them.
(Yes, I have had a few prof's here at college speak out against note posting, and they won me over with their arguements)
Okay, so we're reached the point where the mere mention of Linux or its theme animal make something worthy of posting?
There are a TON of free games and free game demos out on the net. It must be nice for this one's author to get so mnay free hits just for tossing in a penguin...
A use for old satellites, eh? Now if only we had some unused satellites that covered a large percentage of the planet and were planned to be deorbitted just to waste about a billion dollars of technology for fun......but we don't have anything like that, right?
I am running Win98 and I like to open 5+ windows in Netscape when I use it. Of course that also means that I have Netscape crash on me an average of 7-10 times a day. Would downloading this new PR copy help in this case?
I love Netscape but it seems to be the reason I have to reboot 90% of the time...due to my own crazy multitasking of course, but still...
I guess you guys missed the hidden part of Hawking's Plan. #45 states clearly that "A giant robot suit shall be built for our supreme commander of the evacuation vehicle. That man shall be Steven Hawking."
Then of course there is also rule #45e, which states that "The supreme commander gets first pick of all the space babes."
This will run in Wired, which then means that stores will sell out of it quickly.
Remind me again why I would want to submit anything that -I- was hoping to get? It makes more sense to just leech off of other people's ideas and hope that your new techie-nerd gear DOESN'T catch on (we all like being the guy with the cool stuff that no one else has)...
At least you had feet. Back in my day we didn't have feet. We walked on our hands.
And books. We didn't have books. We had tree bark with carvings on it. And we had to use our teeth to move the pages, since our hands were frostbitten from walking in the snow.
And snow. We didn't have snow. We had giant hunks of ice that dropped randomly from the sky. That crazy Sky Ice killed 1 out of every 3 kids I knew.
You little ruffians have it too easy these days. Damn that Al Gore and his cursed Internet Machine!
Ah...once again the makers of that lousy little device get some more free press. Judging by the amount of talk they churn up everytime they make a press release or send out a letter, one could imagine that it would make sense to plant a "hacker" or two just to stir up trouble.
GUYS! It's a BARCODE READER! If we really wanted one, how much would it cost to make? Yeah, so maybe we can use it in the future to keep a K-rad list of mp3's for our car mp3 player, or we can check out that price for Mac N' Cheese right there in Aisle 12 using our $500 palm pilot.
"Woah, they want 3 more cents than that otehr store! I can't afford this among all of my PC purchases!"
It's just a lame device. Yes it's free. Yes, it can be hacked. But isn't it about time we stopped caring? This isn't even a court issue...they couldn't even tread water in court claiming that a consumer isn't allowed to modify something they own...
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Earlier today Netscape crashed on me. Again. No big shock really...it happens a few times a day.
The semi-shocking part? I actually looked for the details in Crashguard. It was Netscape's 571st crash, and it has been only a month since I re-installed it.
In the words of the "Comic Store Guy" from the Simpsons:
"Best...slashdot...headline...EVER."
There go the hopes and dreams of 1000 Internet Humorists out there. Just imagine the wealth of one-liners and skits we could have written if this had only been delayed long enough for the RIAA to spam the news media with tons of chest-thumping propiganda.
All of those clever tainted "watermark" jokes are a moot point now!
Day of the Tenticle...
Sam and Max Hit the Road...
Absolute bliss when I played those games. I would love to see a low-tech Sam and Max sequel. That style of wacky gameplay was so much fun that I am considering digging out the floppies and playing it again.
Let's just dissect a few of those "Canadians" and figure out how they survive up there, doing nothing but tirelessly toiling in their massive lichen fields and exporting tons of precious algae to fishtanks worldwide.
If anyone up there is living without the need for oxygen, my bet would be on those wacky French-Canadians!
You can read that article for a glimpse of the future of Distributed Computiing, or you could just save time and ask me.
;)
------------
"John, what is the future of Distributed computing?"
I'm glad you asked. Coming up soon is three more business schemes and companies who will take applications for future testing and promise you to make $$Big Bucks$$ for using your spare CPU cycles. The companies will then stop updating their new page about a month before disappearing all together.
Next up: Slashdot re-runs an article from June's Issue of Wired!
Man it's a scary world we live in when consumers can't tweak products that they own to make them work better. Can you imagine where technology would be today under this premise? How many decades of progress would we miss?
I bet that PC makers would love it though. We'd get a big 2-inch thick steel-cased box and would have to throw it in the trash every two years to upgrade it...
Maybe CueCat will use that wonderful "Oh we knew it was there but we told the engineers to turn it off but they forgot to" excuse like Intel did...
You think that optical switching is neat? You should see me do it. I just take some crack and hold onto a light switch...
I for one am happy to see this. I think it is a crime for sites like Versity (who is bankrupt last I heard) to list the well-written notes of a professor. The whole reason the school hires a professor is for his or her ability to teach, and lecture notes play a decent role in that. Granted, notes aren't everything, but if you worked hard to create a great set of teaching tools, tweaked them every year, and relied on them as a sizable part of your job worth, you probably wouldn't enjoy your notes being posted on the web for free viewing so some punks can make $$$ on selling ad space around them.
(Yes, I have had a few prof's here at college speak out against note posting, and they won me over with their arguements)
Okay, so we're reached the point where the mere mention of Linux or its theme animal make something worthy of posting?
There are a TON of free games and free game demos out on the net. It must be nice for this one's author to get so mnay free hits just for tossing in a penguin...
All I can say is...
"Smithers! Release the robotic Richard Simmons!"
Why pay for an ethernet card when you can just import it into your PC via Svideo or video cables? Yes, it can be done and it's simple.
I misread the title to be "Testicle Baby" and figured it was news on that wacky new method of making babies with 2 men...
Thanks. But I was using sarcasm to convey that point, Mr. Master of the Obvious.
A use for old satellites, eh? Now if only we had some unused satellites that covered a large percentage of the planet and were planned to be deorbitted just to waste about a billion dollars of technology for fun... ...but we don't have anything like that, right?
I am running Win98 and I like to open 5+ windows in Netscape when I use it. Of course that also means that I have Netscape crash on me an average of 7-10 times a day. Would downloading this new PR copy help in this case?
I love Netscape but it seems to be the reason I have to reboot 90% of the time...due to my own crazy multitasking of course, but still...
I guess you guys missed the hidden part of Hawking's Plan. #45 states clearly that "A giant robot suit shall be built for our supreme commander of the evacuation vehicle. That man shall be Steven Hawking."
Then of course there is also rule #45e, which states that "The supreme commander gets first pick of all the space babes."
Episode 17 of that NBC show...
The winner is enjoying his days on MIR, eating stale freeze-dried sardines and tang.
Suddenly a face appears in the port on the door.
The door opens...
A gigantic fat man in a space suit enters. He removes his mask. And with a fake smile and a weary attempt at emphasis, the man yells:
"Boom! Tough-Actin' Tinactin!" followed by "Hey, are those sardines I smell?"
Eventually someone opens an air lock just to end it all in peace.
Fade to black.
"Oh no! Carrottop...Rush Limbaugh...this rocket isn't going to a new planet, it's being shot directly into the sun!"
Further proof that a good plan for life can be copied from The Simpsons.
So basically, the Napster server logs would show that the two paying guys from Nevada are currently logged in from over 10,000 IP addresses worldwide.
Paying for access to a device created to transport pirated material...yeah, THAT'LL happen in real life!
This will run in Wired, which then means that stores will sell out of it quickly.
Remind me again why I would want to submit anything that -I- was hoping to get? It makes more sense to just leech off of other people's ideas and hope that your new techie-nerd gear DOESN'T catch on (we all like being the guy with the cool stuff that no one else has)...
At least you had feet. Back in my day we didn't have feet. We walked on our hands.
And books. We didn't have books. We had tree bark with carvings on it. And we had to use our teeth to move the pages, since our hands were frostbitten from walking in the snow.
And snow. We didn't have snow. We had giant hunks of ice that dropped randomly from the sky. That crazy Sky Ice killed 1 out of every 3 kids I knew.
You little ruffians have it too easy these days. Damn that Al Gore and his cursed Internet Machine!
I bet it must have been cool to get the first copy of AOL Beta Platinum 0.4 on punch-card tape in the mail.
But it got old quick when they started getting them three times a week. Laster the scientists decided to paper the wall with them.
"If only they were shint and round," they imagined..."
Ah...once again the makers of that lousy little device get some more free press. Judging by the amount of talk they churn up everytime they make a press release or send out a letter, one could imagine that it would make sense to plant a "hacker" or two just to stir up trouble.
GUYS! It's a BARCODE READER! If we really wanted one, how much would it cost to make? Yeah, so maybe we can use it in the future to keep a K-rad list of mp3's for our car mp3 player, or we can check out that price for Mac N' Cheese right there in Aisle 12 using our $500 palm pilot.
"Woah, they want 3 more cents than that otehr store! I can't afford this among all of my PC purchases!"
It's just a lame device. Yes it's free. Yes, it can be hacked. But isn't it about time we stopped caring? This isn't even a court issue...they couldn't even tread water in court claiming that a consumer isn't allowed to modify something they own...