Wow, I am happy to see that so many other people enjoyed that show. I only was able to catch the last 3 or 4 episodes over break, but even my parents were entertained by it. I'm glad that it is being picked up again by TLC. Smart move.
What I want to see is a list of shows in a similar vien to Junkyard Wars, Robot Wars, Battlebots, etc. Post your list of the best wacky shows that are CURRENTLY on TV (or at least get re-run now and then). Hopefully we'll all benefit by finding out about a show or two that we missed out on.
I can't wait for my Tivo to arrive now...just taping Robot Wars from my local PBS station last semester was bad enough...
So lets see those lists! (Feel free to include non-tech wacky shows like Lumberjack Challenge, etc)
Sigh. I guess this is another informal check of who doesn't pay a measly $12/year for Wired magazine. Once again we get a 3-month-old story posted as new...
So basically we move ever-closer to the day of perfection. Simply motify this unit to fit into a padded swivel chair. Then add a food and beverage replication system and an "elimination" chamber, and we're all set.
Heck, we should also add an auto-exercise mode that prevents chair-sores. Don't fret though, it would come with a sedative to be applied before each workout begins. Nanobots could even be trained to clean us and give the occasional haircut...
since the Batman role is usually played by someone who was rececently famous but is slowly declining each time a movie is made, there is only one logical pick for the next Batman.
Richard Hatch from Survivor.
I can hear him taunting a 3rd-rate supervillan already...and he'll finally get those muscles he has always wanted (albiet they'll be part of the suit).
Who's ready to hear Batman yell "Let's get naked and walk around on the beach, Robin?"
It's only "common" for the people who waited too long to apply. Regardless of the average wait time, they have 6 years and I am sure that at some point a friend, coworker, official, etc etc informed them of the wait time for a green card. If they didn't already know it coming in, that is...
I am now on Napster with the intent PURPOSE of trying to find some of these psuedo-songs, just because I know how funny BNL can be and I am interested in hearing what they did with the ads.
Bonus points to the person who links a few of the mp3 commercials for us!
I will echo the statements that BNL is incredibly wonderful to listen to, and despite the fact that I snagged the mp3s from the new album because I didn't have a chance to head to the record store yet, but I can assure you that I will be buying Maroon this week. It will be my first purchased album in nearly two years, and I'm happy that it is BNL.
Then you do the same thing you do when faced with any stalling process in the US: You call, write, and/or visit enough times until they just get sick of it and take the 5 minutes to help you out...
I doubt we can REALLY have a 3+ year backlog though. Even with our paperwork nightmares, we can't possibly be THAT bad off.
Okay, so you come over on a 6-year pass. One would think that around the 4-year mark you'd say "Hey, I kinda like it here" and get your ass moving on doing whatever it takes to get a green card. Six years is a lot of time to sit idlely by, just to freak when the period ends, no?
Am I being sucked back to late 1999? This is Slashdot. We're nerds. Who doesn't know about DIVX yet? Seriously, why is this news to anyone in our genre? This is like announcing that someone JUST found a way to emulate NES games...
Oh, and you forgot to mention the stunningly simple and infomative infographics in Newsweek and Time. You know the ones that can turn rocket booster technology into an easy three-step design, or tell you how to install a replacement hip in 4 steps...
Now if only they would print a "How Napster is going to win the lawsuit" graphic...
Does no one else remember an article posted just last month dealing with this? AMD has already announced that its future chips will DECLARE ON BOOTUP what speed they are made for and what speed they currently are. This will make it blatantly obvious for any users who buy an OC'd processor w/o knowing it. So with this technology being implemented, why hurt the OC niche market? I imagine that AMD gets a TON of great word-of-mouth advertising from AMD fanatics (myself included), so why shoot themselves in the foot on this one? I don't get it...
Now we have a very interesting debate to consider.
Many people have already posted the idea of just editting the code to contain something extra like "removethistomakeitwork." But what is that really saying? If such edits were allowed, then isn't every hack of a PC application )to remove password checks, etc) a "new program" by following that logic?
Now we enter the field of "How much code can we steal w/o paying for it and not getting sued for it because we can claim it is different?"
I bet more than a few of us used to use AOL to gather "trial copies" of our favorite apps, games, and music before we used IRC. People had automated servers, chatroom search engines, the works, and AOL didn't care. They literally made one token "bust" every year just to show off. The room names were simple (server1, server2, games1, mp31, etc etc) and anyone with half a clue working for AOL knew about them, but AOL was more than happy to provide its users with a 500-email inbox limit and some ungodly large limit of 15 megs per message attachment in exchange for all those monthly fees it billed everyone. They just made their little token bust every now and then, closing down a room only to open it up again in 2 days...probably just to use as evidence that they weren't "H4x0r Phreindly" if anyone like Adobe or MS sued them in a Napster-esqe lawsuit...
"AMD have announced to us that they will be introducing a special Fab of Athlon with performance enhancing cache that will be multiplier unlocked. Award and AMI have also told us that they will be helping with a new BIOS code that will prevent remarking of the unlocked Athlon with performance enhancing cache. Also we have heard that Award and Ami will be introducing a scheme to prevent resellers relabelling the CPU. According to the information received, Award will introduce a feature that will read the AMD Athlon CPUID code and will display the actual CPU's designated Speed and the overclocked speed. Eg. If you have a Athlon 2 700Mhz and have it clocked at 900Mhz on boot up the motherboard will bios will show up as: AMD Athlon 700 at 900MHz. This will prevent resellers from relabelling the 700Mhz CPU as a 900MHz for example."
I didn't think it was possible to love AMD any more than I already do. Then AMD comes out with a way to solve their problems (reseller fraud) AND keep the fringe users happy. All it took was a little extra effort by AMD, and it WILL pay off for them when it comes to PR. Kudos AMD.
True, some people will try to take the "But it's cheaper this way" angle, but you're right - many times you need to buy extra stuff like fans, grease, etc, and it turns out costing nearly the same as a faster chip. If people disagree with that, then factor in the value of your time tweaking it to make up the difference. Why do they REALLY do it? For the same reason people do nearly everything - they enjoy it. They enjoy how changing the direction of a fan can shave off another 2 degrees of heat, and they enjoy the feeling of a successful tweak. Me? I won't do it. My chips run hot enough as it is, and in the long run it just isn't worth the hassle. A roommate of mine OC'd his K6-2 500 to 550 and got nothing but problems. Not obvious problems, mind you, but the oh-so-fun oddball problems like after 3 hours his video card would flicker or his system would reset. Or quake would crash on a certain level. Stuff like that. I set his chip back to 500 and it solved everything. Seeing the problems it can cause, an extra 50mhz just isn't worth it to me...but hey, if some people enjoy it, more power to them. Then again, I'm not the kind of person who would pay thousands of dollars to trick out a lousy car with a stereo system and 18 racing stripes... -GS
Gee, I hope they hold a lottery for those dozen chips. It would be my dream come true to buy a non-field-tested superfad for about 20x the price that it will cost in 4 months! Where do I sign up?
Don't forget that Open Source people work for FREE and that the "closed source" guys are PAID. Who do you think is going to be on the cutting edge? The guys that are PAID to do it, since they don't have to cut into their free time just to get things done. That's the way society works...
Didn't you hear? They got so caught up in the "Eat the pizza backwards" campaign that they installed the boosters on the wrong side. Oh well, one more free water well for Russia...
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Wow, I am happy to see that so many other people enjoyed that show. I only was able to catch the last 3 or 4 episodes over break, but even my parents were entertained by it. I'm glad that it is being picked up again by TLC. Smart move.
What I want to see is a list of shows in a similar vien to Junkyard Wars, Robot Wars, Battlebots, etc. Post your list of the best wacky shows that are CURRENTLY on TV (or at least get re-run now and then). Hopefully we'll all benefit by finding out about a show or two that we missed out on.
I can't wait for my Tivo to arrive now...just taping Robot Wars from my local PBS station last semester was bad enough...
So lets see those lists! (Feel free to include non-tech wacky shows like Lumberjack Challenge, etc)
Sigh. I guess this is another informal check of who doesn't pay a measly $12/year for Wired magazine. Once again we get a 3-month-old story posted as new...
So basically we move ever-closer to the day of perfection. Simply motify this unit to fit into a padded swivel chair. Then add a food and beverage replication system and an "elimination" chamber, and we're all set.
Heck, we should also add an auto-exercise mode that prevents chair-sores. Don't fret though, it would come with a sedative to be applied before each workout begins. Nanobots could even be trained to clean us and give the occasional haircut...
The future? Bring it on!
since the Batman role is usually played by someone who was rececently famous but is slowly declining each time a movie is made, there is only one logical pick for the next Batman.
Richard Hatch from Survivor.
I can hear him taunting a 3rd-rate supervillan already...and he'll finally get those muscles he has always wanted (albiet they'll be part of the suit).
Who's ready to hear Batman yell "Let's get naked and walk around on the beach, Robin?"
It's only "common" for the people who waited too long to apply. Regardless of the average wait time, they have 6 years and I am sure that at some point a friend, coworker, official, etc etc informed them of the wait time for a green card. If they didn't already know it coming in, that is...
I am now on Napster with the intent PURPOSE of trying to find some of these psuedo-songs, just because I know how funny BNL can be and I am interested in hearing what they did with the ads.
Bonus points to the person who links a few of the mp3 commercials for us!
I will echo the statements that BNL is incredibly wonderful to listen to, and despite the fact that I snagged the mp3s from the new album because I didn't have a chance to head to the record store yet, but I can assure you that I will be buying Maroon this week. It will be my first purchased album in nearly two years, and I'm happy that it is BNL.
Then you do the same thing you do when faced with any stalling process in the US: You call, write, and/or visit enough times until they just get sick of it and take the 5 minutes to help you out...
I doubt we can REALLY have a 3+ year backlog though. Even with our paperwork nightmares, we can't possibly be THAT bad off.
"The green card process takes time and money. It is common to be sent home without the application process having reached any kind of conclusion."
Time - 6 years.
Money - An IT salary (sure beats a Burger King salary)
2 strikes on your arguement so far...
Okay, so you come over on a 6-year pass. One would think that around the 4-year mark you'd say "Hey, I kinda like it here" and get your ass moving on doing whatever it takes to get a green card. Six years is a lot of time to sit idlely by, just to freak when the period ends, no?
Am I being sucked back to late 1999? This is Slashdot. We're nerds. Who doesn't know about DIVX yet? Seriously, why is this news to anyone in our genre? This is like announcing that someone JUST found a way to emulate NES games...
Oh, and you forgot to mention the stunningly simple and infomative infographics in Newsweek and Time. You know the ones that can turn rocket booster technology into an easy three-step design, or tell you how to install a replacement hip in 4 steps...
Now if only they would print a "How Napster is going to win the lawsuit" graphic...
Does no one else remember an article posted just last month dealing with this? AMD has already announced that its future chips will DECLARE ON BOOTUP what speed they are made for and what speed they currently are. This will make it blatantly obvious for any users who buy an OC'd processor w/o knowing it. So with this technology being implemented, why hurt the OC niche market? I imagine that AMD gets a TON of great word-of-mouth advertising from AMD fanatics (myself included), so why shoot themselves in the foot on this one? I don't get it...
He is hiding behind the refrigerator in #b3eblebr0x.
Now if only I could find his missing hat in the picture...
Now we have a very interesting debate to consider.
Many people have already posted the idea of just editting the code to contain something extra like "removethistomakeitwork." But what is that really saying? If such edits were allowed, then isn't every hack of a PC application )to remove password checks, etc) a "new program" by following that logic?
Now we enter the field of "How much code can we steal w/o paying for it and not getting sued for it because we can claim it is different?"
You want a grey area? That's a grey continent.
Now THAT is a handy idea that could really benefit us... ...if only someone took the time and effort to write the code for it. Here's hoping.
-GS
No...
script kiddie = "Hey, I don't know what this thing on my head is, or even how to wear it properly, but I bet it really looks cool!"
Just wanted to take the time to say thanks. I love little snippets of information like that.
THANK YOU VERY MUCH (oh yeah, the caps thing...sorry)
I bet more than a few of us used to use AOL to gather "trial copies" of our favorite apps, games, and music before we used IRC. People had automated servers, chatroom search engines, the works, and AOL didn't care. They literally made one token "bust" every year just to show off. The room names were simple (server1, server2, games1, mp31, etc etc) and anyone with half a clue working for AOL knew about them, but AOL was more than happy to provide its users with a 500-email inbox limit and some ungodly large limit of 15 megs per message attachment in exchange for all those monthly fees it billed everyone. They just made their little token bust every now and then, closing down a room only to open it up again in 2 days...probably just to use as evidence that they weren't "H4x0r Phreindly" if anyone like Adobe or MS sued them in a Napster-esqe lawsuit...
From Tweaktown:
"AMD have announced to us that they will be introducing a special Fab of Athlon with performance enhancing cache that will be multiplier unlocked. Award and AMI have also told us that they will be helping with a new BIOS code that will prevent remarking of the unlocked Athlon with performance enhancing cache. Also we have heard that Award and Ami will be introducing a scheme to prevent resellers relabelling the CPU. According to the information received, Award will introduce a feature that will read the AMD Athlon CPUID code and will display the actual CPU's designated Speed and the overclocked speed. Eg. If you have a Athlon 2 700Mhz and have it clocked at 900Mhz on boot up the motherboard will bios will show up as: AMD Athlon 700 at 900MHz. This will prevent resellers from relabelling the 700Mhz CPU as a 900MHz for example."
I didn't think it was possible to love AMD any more than I already do. Then AMD comes out with a way to solve their problems (reseller fraud) AND keep the fringe users happy. All it took was a little extra effort by AMD, and it WILL pay off for them when it comes to PR. Kudos AMD.
-GS
True, some people will try to take the "But it's cheaper this way" angle, but you're right - many times you need to buy extra stuff like fans, grease, etc, and it turns out costing nearly the same as a faster chip. If people disagree with that, then factor in the value of your time tweaking it to make up the difference. Why do they REALLY do it? For the same reason people do nearly everything - they enjoy it. They enjoy how changing the direction of a fan can shave off another 2 degrees of heat, and they enjoy the feeling of a successful tweak. Me? I won't do it. My chips run hot enough as it is, and in the long run it just isn't worth the hassle. A roommate of mine OC'd his K6-2 500 to 550 and got nothing but problems. Not obvious problems, mind you, but the oh-so-fun oddball problems like after 3 hours his video card would flicker or his system would reset. Or quake would crash on a certain level. Stuff like that. I set his chip back to 500 and it solved everything. Seeing the problems it can cause, an extra 50mhz just isn't worth it to me...but hey, if some people enjoy it, more power to them. Then again, I'm not the kind of person who would pay thousands of dollars to trick out a lousy car with a stereo system and 18 racing stripes... -GS
Gee, I hope they hold a lottery for those dozen chips. It would be my dream come true to buy a non-field-tested superfad for about 20x the price that it will cost in 4 months! Where do I sign up?
www.niftyness.com
Will they "allow" it? Get back to reality...
Don't forget that Open Source people work for FREE and that the "closed source" guys are PAID. Who do you think is going to be on the cutting edge? The guys that are PAID to do it, since they don't have to cut into their free time just to get things done. That's the way society works...
www.niftyness.com
Didn't you hear? They got so caught up in the "Eat the pizza backwards" campaign that they installed the boosters on the wrong side. Oh well, one more free water well for Russia...
www.niftyness.com
At this rate they'll have to start rating the classics...
Frogger: Player can crush frogs under trucks, drop them into the mouths of aligators, and drown them just for the heck of it
Pacman: Innocent fruit is eaten in a single cruel bite. Also contains anti-ghost sentiment and derogatory representations. Googly eyes?
And don't even mention COMBAT or BurgetTime...
www.niftyness.com is as tasty as walrus feet.