Not in the beginning. Though for me, Dialpad was the first time I saw some practical use for a Java applet. Even the cypherpunk username/password worked, they didn't check how many people were logging in at once or from different IPs. Them were the good ol' days.
Take my evil approach. Get whatever cheapo inkjet printer's on sale this week. Set the quality settings to the lowest it can go and still be readable. Print them out and watch as the Blockbuster clerks try scanning the coupon UPC 20 times before having to manually enter the numbers. Muahahahaa.
Most often, I just print them out at work and store them in my car. Whenever I feel like something specific, I go in and get the movies.
No late fees at Blockbuster stores these days. If you have it something like one week past when it was due, they charge you as buying the movie. Still, you can get some of the refunded if you return it, less some restocking fee or something. They have an automated system phone a few days before they charge you though.
I routinely use my free rentals and take several days late before I remember to return them without any problems.
The trouble with kids learning HTML isn't that it isn't a real programming language, it's that kids don't have anything worthwhile to say. All the recent crimes being picked up on MySpace and the like illustrate this. Back in the day, they loved to show us how much they liked ponies with Netscape's blinking tags. Now, they us show how they can smoke pot, or beat a homeless man to death or that they are plotting the next Columbine.
Great, I just bought X type product and now they come out with something newer to screw us into spending more money. Someone wake me when they stop this nonsense so I can buy one last product and die in peace!
Yes. If your server reaches some limit on the number of people, you get put into a waiting queue. The wait time of this queue varies it seems. A few months ago, it was an average of 15-25 minutes. In recent days, there hasn't been any wait times (though I don't play hardcore so it might vary day-to-day).
The MPAA and myself know the real reason movies fail to sell tickets is piracy. After all, the plots have been constant over the ages, never changing. Therefore, it must be the piracy!
Where have you been? Everything in the PC market is about offering rebates to make stuff the same prices as everyone else, basically.
I stopped by Techbargains.com this morning out of curiousity (I hadn't been there in a year or so). There was one deal for a 160gb hard drive from Tigerdirect for only $29 or so. The starting price of this thing was $144.95. Funny thing, I bought a 300gb drive from Newegg a month ago for like $105. Any way, there were three rebates for $30-45 each that got it down to that $29 pricepoint. Oh, but for two of the rebates you had to buy some etrust internet security app for $419.99 too. WTF? Buying the drive alone was the base $145 less a $30 or 40 rebate. It's all a crock.
I tried to find the link, but now I see a dozen Dell offers all over Techbargains.com. So I gave up on that.
Obviously you haven't watched enough hacking movies to know even the noobest hacking methods.
HACKING 101 - Entering system management ram: Sit at a computer desk with a minimum of 3 monitors in a darkly lit room, a lit cigarette is resting in an ashtray. Then type, "ENTER SYSTEM MANAGEMENT RAM" and press enter. The screen will flash "System Management RAM access granted" across the middle of the monitor.
HACKING 102 - Replacing the emergency-response software : Now, take that floppy that you carry with you at all times out of your back pocket. Put it into the computer. A window pops up in the center of the screen with a list of the files in a MSDOS dir style. This is when the cute pretend nerdy girl who's been tagging along throughout the movie pops in to offer you a Mountain Dew. There is an awkward moment when she sees your file list of PRON.GIF, XXXPASSWORDS.TXT and HACKED-EMERGENCY-RESPONSE-SOFTWARE.EXE. The first two are not needed at this time. Clck on the one that is named HACKED-EMERGENCY-RESPONSE-SOFTWARE.EXE. A big nifty progress meeter covers 75% of the screen with a headline, "Replacing Emergency Response Software."
Now, eject the floppy quickly and tell the girl, "Now we've got full administrative access. Come on, let's get out of here before the security guards make their patrol here." Then you run away together, taking her to your apartment where you show her some of those "administrative" access moves of yours.
Oh boy. What a day. I would never have guessed that of all the KDE/Gnome arguments from day one, that KDE would be referred to as the one for power users. From that first taste I had in KDE Beta 2 (I think, well before 1.0), I knew this was quite the desktop. The APIs for Qt and KDE were a humongous savings from pure X11/Xt, and the desktop was nice to use to boot.
Then there came all the complaints comparing it to Win95, it's just a mimic of Microsoft, only noobs would want it, it's not powerful/configurable/etc as *wm. We don't need Windoze losers getting Linux anyway. Blah blah blah.
The licensing issue has been closed since Qt became GPLed, but detractors still complain. By the way, why is libreadline still GPL? No closed source programs can use it either. What do we say about that? Oh well, remake it yourself if you want to do it and keep the source closed. Keeping it and other libraries GPLed keeps everything more open and released as GPL.
As the good RMS says at his site regarding readline: Releasing it under the GPL and limiting its use to free programs gives our community a real boost....If we amass a collection of powerful GPL-covered libraries that have no parallel available to proprietary software, they will provide a range of useful modules to serve as building blocks in new free programs. This will be a significant advantage for further free software development, and some projects will decide to make software free in order to use these libraries.
So quit bitching. Trolltech/Qt do more for the GNU community than Gnome does.
Anyway, it gives me a good chuckle to read that KDE is now only for power users.
Having just bought a DS a month ago, I can see just why Nintendo is making profits like this. The games are quite fun, and cheap. An advantage of coming into it 18 months after release, I have been able to buy a bunch of last year's games cheaply (about $10). If you haven't played it before, it's still new to you.
Nintendo provides reasonably priced fun over megaflipipolygons per nanosecond statistical jerk-offs. That's worth my money.
Hit the brakes, hit the brakes. But what about when I'm REALLY in a hurry and have figured out I can get out of the car then hit the auto-park button? Then just let the car park itself while I run into Starbucks and get my $5 cup of coffee. Then it's not my fault and I can sue the car makers. Yay!
Recently in Chicago, a city dump truck driver backed the truck into his personal car. He then had his wife sue the city (he tried to himself, but it wasn't allowed) for damaging their car.
Don't misunderestimate us Americans! We'll find a way to sue anyone.
I don't see too many "corporate" users going to gmail's hosting service, honestly. It is perfect though for simple family email types. Buy a domain for $10, point the MX record to gmail and voila, everyone in the house has decent email. Google also has simple blogging, pages, etc to compliment the domain. If they let you umbrella those into a domain, that'd be perfect for this type of person.
Those of us who want more "serious" stuff can set up a Linux box, manage a domain and all the services.
Sure, HDTVs are ONLY $1700 or so. That is exactly the difference between MS/Sony's market and Nintendo's. People who spend $1700 on a tv and $4-600 on a video game machine are the type of people who are either very heavy gamers, spending 4 or more hours a day at it, or they are ones who equate quality with dollars. They have their systems prominently displayed in the living room and brag about their setups with their friends (if any). These are exactly the ones Nintendo does NOT target.
Nintendo believes there is plenty more money in the kids, casual gamers, less hardcore types. A $200 system and a $80 19" tv can be dropped into the kids' room without a bother of how they'll end up spilling soda on it and need it replaced within the year. Besides, after spending $300 on this complete setup, guess how much money is left over to buy a few $40-50 games? So, you have $500 for hundreds of hours of fun playing, vs $500 for just a fancy box of hardware buzzwords.
I haven't played much in consoles since the SNES days, really. But I recently picked up a DS and I'm back in the groove. I'll likely be coming down with a couple days of "the flu" on Revolution release day.
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517? Bah, you new kids don't know what you're talkin bout. Back in my day, we only had a byte to describe our IDs.
Not in the beginning. Though for me, Dialpad was the first time I saw some practical use for a Java applet. Even the cypherpunk username/password worked, they didn't check how many people were logging in at once or from different IPs. Them were the good ol' days.
... bred for their skills in magic.
It must be 'cause of them rascally pirates!!
Take my evil approach. Get whatever cheapo inkjet printer's on sale this week. Set the quality settings to the lowest it can go and still be readable. Print them out and watch as the Blockbuster clerks try scanning the coupon UPC 20 times before having to manually enter the numbers. Muahahahaa.
Most often, I just print them out at work and store them in my car. Whenever I feel like something specific, I go in and get the movies.
No late fees at Blockbuster stores these days. If you have it something like one week past when it was due, they charge you as buying the movie. Still, you can get some of the refunded if you return it, less some restocking fee or something. They have an automated system phone a few days before they charge you though.
I routinely use my free rentals and take several days late before I remember to return them without any problems.
The trouble with kids learning HTML isn't that it isn't a real programming language, it's that kids don't have anything worthwhile to say. All the recent crimes being picked up on MySpace and the like illustrate this. Back in the day, they loved to show us how much they liked ponies with Netscape's blinking tags. Now, they us show how they can smoke pot, or beat a homeless man to death or that they are plotting the next Columbine.
The ever obligatory...
Great, I just bought X type product and now they come out with something newer to screw us into spending more money. Someone wake me when they stop this nonsense so I can buy one last product and die in peace!
Yes. If your server reaches some limit on the number of people, you get put into a waiting queue. The wait time of this queue varies it seems. A few months ago, it was an average of 15-25 minutes. In recent days, there hasn't been any wait times (though I don't play hardcore so it might vary day-to-day).
The MPAA and myself know the real reason movies fail to sell tickets is piracy. After all, the plots have been constant over the ages, never changing. Therefore, it must be the piracy!
After all, you wouldn't steal a car...
The trouble with that is you need a lot of code to decipher the results of the boolean query as shown here.
Where have you been? Everything in the PC market is about offering rebates to make stuff the same prices as everyone else, basically.
I stopped by Techbargains.com this morning out of curiousity (I hadn't been there in a year or so). There was one deal for a 160gb hard drive from Tigerdirect for only $29 or so. The starting price of this thing was $144.95. Funny thing, I bought a 300gb drive from Newegg a month ago for like $105. Any way, there were three rebates for $30-45 each that got it down to that $29 pricepoint. Oh, but for two of the rebates you had to buy some etrust internet security app for $419.99 too. WTF? Buying the drive alone was the base $145 less a $30 or 40 rebate. It's all a crock.
I tried to find the link, but now I see a dozen Dell offers all over Techbargains.com. So I gave up on that.
As if the all-Flash web site didn't put me off enough, click on the "About" link.
"RoamDrive is a patent-pending application..."
Now automated logging into a webmail site is something to patent? stfu. There are plenty of other GMail virtual drives for Windows.
But with a moniker like "Live" then you know that the technology will never die out!
In fact, I'm renaming all my goldfish to LiveJoe, LiveSlimy, and LiveOMGPony this very instant.
Maybe I'm silly, but don't people who pirate movies skip the whole going-to-a-movie-theater thing? Damn goofy MPAA.
Obviously you haven't watched enough hacking movies to know even the noobest hacking methods.
HACKING 101 - Entering system management ram:
Sit at a computer desk with a minimum of 3 monitors in a darkly lit room, a lit cigarette is resting in an ashtray. Then type, "ENTER SYSTEM MANAGEMENT RAM" and press enter. The screen will flash "System Management RAM access granted" across the middle of the monitor.
HACKING 102 - Replacing the emergency-response software :
Now, take that floppy that you carry with you at all times out of your back pocket. Put it into the computer. A window pops up in the center of the screen with a list of the files in a MSDOS dir style. This is when the cute pretend nerdy girl who's been tagging along throughout the movie pops in to offer you a Mountain Dew. There is an awkward moment when she sees your file list of PRON.GIF, XXXPASSWORDS.TXT and HACKED-EMERGENCY-RESPONSE-SOFTWARE.EXE. The first two are not needed at this time. Clck on the one that is named HACKED-EMERGENCY-RESPONSE-SOFTWARE.EXE. A big nifty progress meeter covers 75% of the screen with a headline, "Replacing Emergency Response Software."
Now, eject the floppy quickly and tell the girl, "Now we've got full administrative access. Come on, let's get out of here before the security guards make their patrol here." Then you run away together, taking her to your apartment where you show her some of those "administrative" access moves of yours.
Oh yeah. Cue sexy music.
Anyone notice the very top of the article (of those that read it), "Category: Articles > Editorial "?
... /sign up for bloger.
It's a freaking blog. Nothing more. Only on Slashdot is a blog editorial considered "news."
That gives me some ideas
Oh boy. What a day. I would never have guessed that of all the KDE/Gnome arguments from day one, that KDE would be referred to as the one for power users. From that first taste I had in KDE Beta 2 (I think, well before 1.0), I knew this was quite the desktop. The APIs for Qt and KDE were a humongous savings from pure X11/Xt, and the desktop was nice to use to boot.
...If we amass a collection of powerful GPL-covered libraries that have no parallel available to proprietary software, they will provide a range of useful modules to serve as building blocks in new free programs. This will be a significant advantage for further free software development, and some projects will decide to make software free in order to use these libraries.
Then there came all the complaints comparing it to Win95, it's just a mimic of Microsoft, only noobs would want it, it's not powerful/configurable/etc as *wm. We don't need Windoze losers getting Linux anyway. Blah blah blah.
The licensing issue has been closed since Qt became GPLed, but detractors still complain. By the way, why is libreadline still GPL? No closed source programs can use it either. What do we say about that? Oh well, remake it yourself if you want to do it and keep the source closed. Keeping it and other libraries GPLed keeps everything more open and released as GPL.
As the good RMS says at his site regarding readline:
Releasing it under the GPL and limiting its use to free programs gives our community a real boost.
So quit bitching. Trolltech/Qt do more for the GNU community than Gnome does.
Anyway, it gives me a good chuckle to read that KDE is now only for power users.
Wonder what a 3-digit account id would go for...
Having just bought a DS a month ago, I can see just why Nintendo is making profits like this. The games are quite fun, and cheap. An advantage of coming into it 18 months after release, I have been able to buy a bunch of last year's games cheaply (about $10). If you haven't played it before, it's still new to you.
Nintendo provides reasonably priced fun over megaflipipolygons per nanosecond statistical jerk-offs. That's worth my money.
Hit the brakes, hit the brakes. But what about when I'm REALLY in a hurry and have figured out I can get out of the car then hit the auto-park button? Then just let the car park itself while I run into Starbucks and get my $5 cup of coffee. Then it's not my fault and I can sue the car makers. Yay!
Recently in Chicago, a city dump truck driver backed the truck into his personal car. He then had his wife sue the city (he tried to himself, but it wasn't allowed) for damaging their car.
Don't misunderestimate us Americans! We'll find a way to sue anyone.
'Tis sad that we must wait until April 2 to be fooled.
Ponies ruul!!
I don't see too many "corporate" users going to gmail's hosting service, honestly. It is perfect though for simple family email types. Buy a domain for $10, point the MX record to gmail and voila, everyone in the house has decent email. Google also has simple blogging, pages, etc to compliment the domain. If they let you umbrella those into a domain, that'd be perfect for this type of person.
Those of us who want more "serious" stuff can set up a Linux box, manage a domain and all the services.
Sure, HDTVs are ONLY $1700 or so. That is exactly the difference between MS/Sony's market and Nintendo's. People who spend $1700 on a tv and $4-600 on a video game machine are the type of people who are either very heavy gamers, spending 4 or more hours a day at it, or they are ones who equate quality with dollars. They have their systems prominently displayed in the living room and brag about their setups with their friends (if any). These are exactly the ones Nintendo does NOT target.
Nintendo believes there is plenty more money in the kids, casual gamers, less hardcore types. A $200 system and a $80 19" tv can be dropped into the kids' room without a bother of how they'll end up spilling soda on it and need it replaced within the year. Besides, after spending $300 on this complete setup, guess how much money is left over to buy a few $40-50 games? So, you have $500 for hundreds of hours of fun playing, vs $500 for just a fancy box of hardware buzzwords.
I haven't played much in consoles since the SNES days, really. But I recently picked up a DS and I'm back in the groove. I'll likely be coming down with a couple days of "the flu" on Revolution release day.