Just to be certain that I get my fair share in before I can't, I will, and I have, just now. Thanks Douglas, I appreciate what you've done, and I can't wait to see what you've got planned for us next. In the next life, or in this one, emblazoned in large bright letters on the side of a mountain.
Hey crackers, according to the chick, these registry boxes are centrally linked to the WWW(!!)
-just thought you should know.
I wouldn't be surprised...and heck, that'd make it a lot easier if we could hack in and delete/add/view stuff from the web.
Was this the computer chick or the salesgirl who said it was on the WWW? if it was the saleschick, take it with a grain of salt...to her, everything remotely "internet" is probably "www" in her mind.
I hope will never be free. Health records, bank information, dirty letters to my girlfriend, etc. If these things can't be protected somehow, that's a problem.
well i think the dirty letter thing is something you should either 1) stick to email or 2) stick with paper....and make sure you trust your girl enough not to share them:)
Although nowadays with the internet, "confidential" juicy bits of fun are now finding their way to everyone....for example, check out all the college girl stripping webcam movies on gnutella;p
I mean for an introductory physics student, how much can be said about gravitation? I would imagine that too much creativity would actually be a problem.
Obviously you must not be a very creative person.:p
By the way, check the story, it says this is a "Physics for Jocks/Laymen/Morons" type class. So you might be able to write something like . ..
Along with several other forces, gravity is one force that causes particles to attract.
Gravity pulls me down to the ground.
As Newton demonstrated, gravity kicks ass! Go Badgers!
So I'm guessing there's plenty of room for creativity.
Who the heck modded you up? Sure, the information wants to be Free*, but this is speech, not beer. And even if it was beer, should Budweiser be dumping Miller Lite into Bud Light cans? I dont think so! Not unless they give Miller credit for the beer:p
* this point is debatable....people sure want information to be Free though!
This really doesn't surprise me. I've got about 60% or so of the papers I've written online, from middle school through college. Check it out, Adam's Homework Page, but be gentle, it's a on Geocities.:-p
I get emailed a few times a month by people who are either a) thanking me for putting it up because they referenced my paper in their own, b) thanking me for putting it up because they copied it (presumably) or c) asking me for permission to use it. Heck, someone asked me if they could use my graduation speech at their own graduation. Talk about lazy (you know who you are).
My fiance and I registered at 3 different stores, and whenever you want to add something new to your list, you've got to print out a bar code from one of their touch screen gift registry kiosks. I don't even want to talk about how many times I had to hit the Backspace "key" on the screen to fix errors.
If I have this much trouble typing in the first three letters of my last name and first two of my first name...I can just imagine how bad these things would be in Point of Sale applications.
Stick with a keyboard!
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forget all the blah-blah-blah about how patents and copyrights are supposed to promote arts and science, and focus here on the fact that Magnesuck's patents all expire in a couple years, and they're just now going after people for infringing. How long have people been using Nd-F-B magnets, that Magnesuck is just noticing now? Gimme a break.
MagneSTANK has claimed ownership of the vowels "I" and "E" (they claim to have purchased them from a company named Wheel of Fortune) and is suing Apple, and Compaq among other companies for the use of the terms "I"-MAC and "I"-PAQ. They have also filed several lawsuits to college students who are using something called "E-Mail".
Just wait till they find out that Microsoft is giving away Internet Explorer...
Check out the Slackware website and scroll down...you'll see that Slackware has added a -current for SPARC boxes....while Red Hat has dropped SPARC, Slackware has just added it! Go Pat!
So waaaaait.... you want a recorder/computer, but you're complaining that "Palms and Pocket Computers" fizz out when you pour coffee on them?
Duh, whatta ya think your "finger"'s gonna do then?;).
Make The Finger waterproof . . . Then you can use your The Finger to stir some cream into your coffee! Ah, technology at work.
I dont know how things work in Norway...maybe you have different kinds of pigeons, but in America our pigeons don't swim! I hope you at least outfit them with little snorkels.
quake provides many of the same/similar functions as irc...for instance, you can chat with quake (ah, that brings back the memories), and instead of "/me hits you with a trout" you tear them a new one with your rocket launcher.
It likes to barf on huge directories . . . But the Ximian desktop is super solid and great for beginners
ok wait now...huge directories...like...huge directories of mp3s? isn't that the stuff "beginners" have, all their mp3s lumped into one place? So it's gonna barf for the new users, so maybe that's not so great, and if it's barfing, is it really super solid? You've got me confused!
It took a hella lotta trouble, but i did find Weird Al's "Velvet Elvis" using gnutella. Had no luck finding it on Napster.
Gnutella seems to be pretty good for finding porn though.:p
yeah...i dont like the idea of my computer being turned into an RIAA anti-piracy device anyway.
And I still think i should be able to get those mp3s for cds/cassettes i own from somewhere, in the event that my cd gets scratched, or if my tape...well, i dont even have a tape deck anymore.
Hmm...it would have to be client side, wouldnt it? So this leaves open for them to either 1) break all existing clients (their own and open source ones), or 2) show some more stupid "filtering" to the judge the next time the RIAA pulls them into court and says they're doing a half-assed job of filtering songs.
Wait, I've got a way around it....we set up a 10 second single tone sound, add that to the beginning of every mp3 file, then that'll give it a new acoustic signature, then we can just hack the tone off when we download the file...
Or then again, maybe it's time to stop using napster now. It was fun while it lasted. Except for all those ppl sucking up @ Home's bandwidth in my neighborhood.
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I wouldn't be surprised...and heck, that'd make it a lot easier if we could hack in and delete/add/view stuff from the web.
Was this the computer chick or the salesgirl who said it was on the WWW? if it was the saleschick, take it with a grain of salt...to her, everything remotely "internet" is probably "www" in her mind.
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well i think the dirty letter thing is something you should either 1) stick to email or 2) stick with paper....and make sure you trust your girl enough not to share them :)
Although nowadays with the internet, "confidential" juicy bits of fun are now finding their way to everyone....for example, check out all the college girl stripping webcam movies on gnutella ;p
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Obviously you must not be a very creative person. :p
By the way, check the story, it says this is a "Physics for Jocks/Laymen/Morons" type class. So you might be able to write something like . . .
- Along with several other forces, gravity is one force that causes particles to attract.
- Gravity pulls me down to the ground.
- As Newton demonstrated, gravity kicks ass! Go Badgers!
So I'm guessing there's plenty of room for creativity.. . .
* this point is debatable....people sure want information to be Free though!
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I get emailed a few times a month by people who are either a) thanking me for putting it up because they referenced my paper in their own, b) thanking me for putting it up because they copied it (presumably) or c) asking me for permission to use it. Heck, someone asked me if they could use my graduation speech at their own graduation. Talk about lazy (you know who you are).
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If I have this much trouble typing in the first three letters of my last name and first two of my first name...I can just imagine how bad these things would be in Point of Sale applications.
Stick with a keyboard!
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Make The Finger waterproof . . . Then you can use your The Finger to stir some cream into your coffee! Ah, technology at work.
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ok wait now...huge directories...like...huge directories of mp3s? isn't that the stuff "beginners" have, all their mp3s lumped into one place? So it's gonna barf for the new users, so maybe that's not so great, and if it's barfing, is it really super solid? You've got me confused!
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And I still think i should be able to get those mp3s for cds/cassettes i own from somewhere, in the event that my cd gets scratched, or if my tape...well, i dont even have a tape deck anymore.
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Or then again, maybe it's time to stop using napster now. It was fun while it lasted. Except for all those ppl sucking up @ Home's bandwidth in my neighborhood.
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