Amnesiac aliens are monitoring my every move from the 10th planet and beaming them to DrZooms brain.
I stumbled over this page last nite for the first time ever, after clicking through Yahoo in boredom(Science/Astronomy/Humour).
A few hours later, its on/.
"Just because they're out to get you doesnt mean you're not paranoid"
Also fun is the Countries "Sorted by Most CPU Time per capita": Link
USA at number 12 behinda Antarctica, Pitcairn Islands, Tokelau, Niue (wtf?) and other assorted specs of fly-shit on the world map
Zero is a function of NULL which returns type Pointer-to-Void?
I guess you can argue about it.
As usual with C-Pointers, I've probably put the '*' in the wrong place and the function is pointing at Nihilism, thus depressing my Stack to breaking point.
- Take 1024 9-year old prodigies,
- fit them all with this helmet,
- sit them in front of Saddams 2000 PlayStationS2's,
- boot the consoles with Linux,
- wire them together in a Beowolf cluster,
all of this to play the perfect game of Pitfall 2.
It was a simple 2D shooter, although in a rectangular Pac-Man Style Maze. You had four keys for moving, and 4 keys for directional shooting, Monsters coming from all directions.
The music was an endless loop of a simplified "Peter Gunn Theme".
Since the difficulty reset after 4 or 5 levels, one could get into an endless playing loop, with the music enhancing the hypnotic effect.
Shutting the game down after 2-3 hours was kinda like coming down off
- Even with dedicated internet satellites, delays up to the 500ms range severely limit some of the funkier recent Internet applications. Nice bandwidth though.
- Iridium is managing to double its data rate to *gasp* 19200 Bits/per second. This means 100 Units or something to get to DSL/Cable speeds (Cellphones have the same problem)
One main focus of Voice Regulations is "Call Intercept" a.k.a. phone-tapping.
Usually, a voice carrier gets his license on the condition that he will provide such a tapping functionality to the local authorities (cops/narcs/etc.)
In many countries, the same rules apply in theory to all data and hence internet communications, although this is rarely enforced (technology moving too fast for the lawmakers, and the carriers can use the lack of common standards as an excuse not to implement).
A big fear of regulators is that as more people get non-telephone access to the internet (DSL, Cable, Fiber to the desk, anyone?), and then use internet telephony, that they can bypass the tapping mechanisms.
On the other hand, there is a lot of political pressure on the regulators to keep their cotton-pickin fingers off the internet (y'all know the new economy is gonna save the planet... NOT!), and especially to refrain from unilaterally setting down rules, since this is places the country in a handicapped position vs. unregulated neighbours.
This battle is still ongoing.
The above applies to Internet-to-Internet telephony. VoIP can also be just a transport protocol like any other inside a telco-carrier's network, in which case he must provide Intercept function at the gateway to the PSTN (Public Switched Telephone Network).
One classic 80's arcade game ruined my enjoyment of Windoze et. al. for life: CENTIPEDE
Just because Apple came out with the mouse, followed by Microsoft who gave it a second tit, it is impossible to find decent, large (2 to 3" diameter) trackballs at affordable prices, even though they beat mice for comfort, footprint and especially coolness (slide your hand across for a quick fast spin, brake in a controlled fashion with the heel of your hand).
Incidentally, my mother (60 years old) chewed me out last year for NOT installing MAME on her new computer - This from the woman who was a card-carrying member of the you-are-wasting-your-time-with-those-stupid-games- go-out-and-play-in-the-fresh-air brigade.
Her reasoning? "Pacman was fine. I could handle Pacman. It was all those goddam fire buttons which made me dislike the other games.
My next long holiday visit to her will be spent building two full upright cabinets, with the option of playing either independently, or of wiring both together to play Gauntlet with 4 people, 2 on each machine.
Problem is, I may never come back....
An oscilloscope (and any CRT) uses an electron beam, easily deflected by a magnetic field.
To do this with a laser i.e. a photon beam - without all that messy and expensive mucking about with rotating mirrors and whatnot - would require a photon-deflection field...
Modulated gravity anyone?
Only other cheap approach I can think of offhand is hacking CD-drive laser mechanics *fear*:)
Let's hope that the implementation of this treaty follows the great success stories of previous prohibitions by international agreements, such as bans on child labour, land mines, arms sales, mary jane etc. etc. etc.
Following you deep off-topic.
Don't kill me on the following figures:
Germany today has ~1/3 the population of US (85:260 Million). Back in the days, the ratio was different, but not by that much.
Since the land mass ratio is ~1/30, Germany is 10 times as crowded, which leads to (a) urbanisation (b) industrialisation and (c) paranoia, all useful characteristics when going to war.
Enough to start a war, obviously not to win.
Toss in the central location within Europe (a continent with more politics per square inch than any other), that pretty much sums up the poli-sci thesis.
Oh yeah, all the above is true in a way for economic success:)
BTW, if that trolling accusation was directed at my original post, I stand by my claims (so maybe it's 10 signatures)
rgrds, AlbertNull=42
Aw, c'mon, don't be so sensitive.
I'd rather have it like in France (where my Grandfather's ashes spent 4 years on top of our bookcase, waiting for the garden to be finished before we buried him)
than like in Germany (where a burial at sea requires 14 signatures by officials, from the harbourmaster to the local mayor, including a map with 'X marks the spot' sent to some ministry or other in case they want to get the urn back).
Regards, A042
My Momma (59 years old PhD in Lit.) has been gently criticising my and my brothers taste for arcade and computer for gaming for over 15 years. "Waste of time, waste of money, read a good book". She is not generally technophobe, has used PC's at work for a decade, just doesn't dig computer games. She saw me playing the original Pacman on MAME (only just discovered it), and excaimed "I want that! Why didn't you put that on my PC?" I was stunned. When questioned about the turnaround in opinion, she said "Pacman was fine! It's all these fire buttons I could never get used to!" Better late than never, at least she will never want for entertainement in her retirement.(3 Million points...) P.S. Despite having been through all Windoze versions, MacOs and other GUIs, I hate using mice, because "Centipede" taught me as early as 1984 that a 3" trackball is the only true pointing device.
Intellectual property has a long history. Back in the middle ages, patents on inventions would be granted by a local lord, king or emperor.
Johannes Gutenberg (inventor of the printing press) was repeatedly pressured by friends and business partners to get his invention protected by a patent.
He always refused on moral grounds, saying that his invention was for all humanity, used amongst others to break the information monopoly of the clergy.
The printing press is often been called the starting point of the information age, but the Gutenberg spirit seems to have got lost along the way.
"Lead has changed the face of the world more than gold ever did. And the lead in the printing press changed it more than the lead in the rifle" (Lichtenberg)
The "community" behaviour - a hardwired instinct in humans as in most higher vertebrates - has been degenerating fast for at least half a century, due to things like the industrial revolution (read Marx on the worker being estranged from the product), Government social systems, and a general misinterpretation of "freedom of the individual" as meaning "freedom of the ego".
This trend has been (not necessarily on purpose) enhanced by modern free market economy, since you can sell more stuff (a TV in every room rather than one for the whole family).
It is utopic to expect people who couldn't socialize their way out of a wet paper bag in real life to be any better in the virtual arena.
How do you teach monkeys? With bananas and electric shocks, or equivalent carrots and sticks.
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Amnesiac aliens are monitoring my every move from the 10th planet and beaming them to DrZooms brain. /.
I stumbled over this page last nite for the first time ever, after clicking through Yahoo in boredom(Science/Astronomy/Humour).
A few hours later, its on
"Just because they're out to get you doesnt mean you're not paranoid"
imagine a Beowulf cluster of THEM.
"Tant qu'on nage dans l'incoherence..."
Also fun is the Countries "Sorted by Most CPU Time per capita":
Link
USA at number 12 behinda Antarctica, Pitcairn Islands, Tokelau, Niue (wtf?) and other assorted specs of fly-shit on the world map
Zero is a function of NULL which returns type Pointer-to-Void?
I guess you can argue about it.
As usual with C-Pointers, I've probably put the '*' in the wrong place and the function is pointing at Nihilism, thus depressing my Stack to breaking point.
- Take 1024 9-year old prodigies,
- fit them all with this helmet,
- sit them in front of Saddams 2000 PlayStationS2's,
- boot the consoles with Linux,
- wire them together in a Beowolf cluster,
all of this to play the perfect game of Pitfall 2.
This is a definite antique.
It was a simple 2D shooter, although in a rectangular Pac-Man Style Maze. You had four keys for moving, and 4 keys for directional shooting, Monsters coming from all directions.
The music was an endless loop of a simplified "Peter Gunn Theme".
Since the difficulty reset after 4 or 5 levels, one could get into an endless playing loop, with the music enhancing the hypnotic effect.
Shutting the game down after 2-3 hours was kinda like coming down off
The usual Problem with SatCom technology:
- Even with dedicated internet satellites, delays up to the 500ms range severely limit some of the funkier recent Internet applications. Nice bandwidth though.
- Iridium is managing to double its data rate to *gasp* 19200 Bits/per second. This means 100 Units or something to get to DSL/Cable speeds (Cellphones have the same problem)
"Zork or how I learned the meaning of Gazebo"
Infocom games rocked. They are responsible for my ongoing preference of Text-Muds over all other forms of internet Games.
Oh well.
Aaarrgh....must....fight...it....no.... The impulse is too strong.....
Imagine a Beowulf cluster of those.
Thanks dude
One main focus of Voice Regulations is "Call Intercept" a.k.a. phone-tapping.
Usually, a voice carrier gets his license on the condition that he will provide such a tapping functionality to the local authorities (cops/narcs/etc.)
In many countries, the same rules apply in theory to all data and hence internet communications, although this is rarely enforced (technology moving too fast for the lawmakers, and the carriers can use the lack of common standards as an excuse not to implement).
A big fear of regulators is that as more people get non-telephone access to the internet (DSL, Cable, Fiber to the desk, anyone?), and then use internet telephony, that they can bypass the tapping mechanisms.
On the other hand, there is a lot of political pressure on the regulators to keep their cotton-pickin fingers off the internet (y'all know the new economy is gonna save the planet... NOT!), and especially to refrain from unilaterally setting down rules, since this is places the country in a handicapped position vs. unregulated neighbours.
This battle is still ongoing.
The above applies to Internet-to-Internet telephony. VoIP can also be just a transport protocol like any other inside a telco-carrier's network, in which case he must provide Intercept function at the gateway to the PSTN (Public Switched Telephone Network).
One classic 80's arcade game ruined my enjoyment of Windoze et. al. for life: CENTIPEDE
- go-out-and-play-in-the-fresh-air brigade.
Just because Apple came out with the mouse, followed by Microsoft who gave it a second tit, it is impossible to find decent, large (2 to 3" diameter) trackballs at affordable prices, even though they beat mice for comfort, footprint and especially coolness (slide your hand across for a quick fast spin, brake in a controlled fashion with the heel of your hand).
Incidentally, my mother (60 years old) chewed me out last year for NOT installing MAME on her new computer - This from the woman who was a card-carrying member of the you-are-wasting-your-time-with-those-stupid-games
Her reasoning? "Pacman was fine. I could handle Pacman. It was all those goddam fire buttons which made me dislike the other games.
My next long holiday visit to her will be spent building two full upright cabinets, with the option of playing either independently, or of wiring both together to play Gauntlet with 4 people, 2 on each machine.
Problem is, I may never come back....
An oscilloscope (and any CRT) uses an electron beam, easily deflected by a magnetic field.
:)
To do this with a laser i.e. a photon beam - without all that messy and expensive mucking about with rotating mirrors and whatnot - would require a photon-deflection field...
Modulated gravity anyone?
Only other cheap approach I can think of offhand is hacking CD-drive laser mechanics *fear*
From the article:
"Toshiyuki Nakagaki of the Bio-Mimetic Control Research Centre, Nagoya, Japan,..."
Is it just me or does this sound like the first 5 minutes of a Manga movie?
Let's hope that the implementation of this treaty follows the great success stories of previous prohibitions by international agreements, such as bans on child labour, land mines, arms sales, mary jane etc. etc. etc.
Does this mean there is a chance MAME will be ported to Palm?
Yummeeeeee!
Following you deep off-topic. :)
Don't kill me on the following figures:
Germany today has ~1/3 the population of US (85:260 Million). Back in the days, the ratio was different, but not by that much.
Since the land mass ratio is ~1/30, Germany is 10 times as crowded, which leads to (a) urbanisation (b) industrialisation and (c) paranoia, all useful characteristics when going to war.
Enough to start a war, obviously not to win.
Toss in the central location within Europe (a continent with more politics per square inch than any other), that pretty much sums up the poli-sci thesis.
Oh yeah, all the above is true in a way for economic success
BTW, if that trolling accusation was directed at my original post, I stand by my claims (so maybe it's 10 signatures)
rgrds, AlbertNull=42
Aw, c'mon, don't be so sensitive. I'd rather have it like in France (where my Grandfather's ashes spent 4 years on top of our bookcase, waiting for the garden to be finished before we buried him) than like in Germany (where a burial at sea requires 14 signatures by officials, from the harbourmaster to the local mayor, including a map with 'X marks the spot' sent to some ministry or other in case they want to get the urn back). Regards, A042
My Momma (59 years old PhD in Lit.) has been gently criticising my and my brothers taste for arcade and computer for gaming for over 15 years. "Waste of time, waste of money, read a good book".
She is not generally technophobe, has used PC's at work for a decade, just doesn't dig computer games.
She saw me playing the original Pacman on MAME (only just discovered it), and excaimed "I want that! Why didn't you put that on my PC?" I was stunned. When questioned about the turnaround in opinion, she said "Pacman was fine! It's all these fire buttons I could never get used to!"
Better late than never, at least she will never want for entertainement in her retirement.(3 Million points...)
P.S. Despite having been through all Windoze versions, MacOs and other GUIs, I hate using mice, because "Centipede" taught me as early as 1984 that a 3" trackball is the only true pointing device.
Intellectual property has a long history. Back in the middle ages, patents on inventions would be granted by a local lord, king or emperor.
Johannes Gutenberg (inventor of the printing press) was repeatedly pressured by friends and business partners to get his invention protected by a patent.
He always refused on moral grounds, saying that his invention was for all humanity, used amongst others to break the information monopoly of the clergy.
The printing press is often been called the starting point of the information age, but the Gutenberg spirit seems to have got lost along the way.
"Lead has changed the face of the world more than gold ever did. And the lead in the printing press changed it more than the lead in the rifle"
(Lichtenberg)
A042
The "community" behaviour - a hardwired instinct in humans as in most higher vertebrates - has been degenerating fast for at least half a century, due to things like the industrial revolution (read Marx on the worker being estranged from the product), Government social systems, and a general misinterpretation of "freedom of the individual" as meaning "freedom of the ego".
This trend has been (not necessarily on purpose) enhanced by modern free market economy, since you can sell more stuff (a TV in every room rather than one for the whole family).
It is utopic to expect people who couldn't socialize their way out of a wet paper bag in real life to be any better in the virtual arena.
How do you teach monkeys? With bananas and electric shocks, or equivalent carrots and sticks.