Talk to Sony. I'm sure they will be VERY open to changing the abbreviation for you. Personally, I always wondered where PSX came from. As for the PS2 being closer to the PS/2, show me a PS/2 that will run Gran Turismo 2.
#21 - Someone Actually Punches the Monkey and Wins!
Does anyone else think that #3- Collapse of the Vacuum (Sounds like a good PlayStation Game) was just put in to make the list a nice, even 20? I was going to make a Don Ho / Tiny Bubbles joke, but it was too much of a groaner.
I was going to post something similar, but I figured someone else had said it before me. Anyone have any reference material on the radiation of (looks around) my monitor, my mouse (which I can hear on AM radio), my headphones (which are directly on my head 8+ hours a day), the fluorescent lights in the cube, a 900 mhz cordless phone, or the sun? 1.49 gigawatzits sounds like a lot more than.79 but is it really worth worrying about?
OT, a SAR in my TLA dictionary maps to "Submit and Report," an official bug report process at my old job. How did they get that abbreviation from W/kg?
They are a convenience when you need them, like, say your car breaks down or you get lost looking for someone's house. My solution is usually: buy one, don't give out the number, don't have it on unless you are making a call. So your boss doesn't know you can be reached all the time or at least your phone is probably going to be off for a while.
I'm quite depressed that the truely humorous stuff never gets moderated appropriately. Even your email address is funny. Do you think it could get the "First Post" out before Bil Dwyer says "It's robot fightin' time?"
As a public service, please get a stronger PGP key. I broke it in 2 seconds including starting the VM. Seeing what the factors are I should have broken it in, oh,.002 seconds. I could give you your N', but knowing what the factors are makes me hope that it is a joke. If it is, please disregard. Then you are actually funny. But judging by your website it is probably not. 40 bit public key encryption is a joke.
It's amazing what you can do with the first half million prime numbers. (Or the first 100 million primes if you let your computer run overnight)
So they found it in 1994 and have been keeping it in the refrigerator since then? I've had the same experience with old Chinese food found in the back of the fridge. That was nowhere NEAR 6 years old. And I won't make any jokes about Disco island.
parthenogenesis (pärth-n-jn-ss) n. A form of reproduction in which an unfertilized egg develops into a new individual, occurring commonly among insects and certain other arthropods. Anybody want to explain how that works? The egg is unfertilized?
Why wouldn't the existance of a P time algorithm simply show that this particular problem was misgrouped? Your statement is like saying if A implies B, then B implies C. The P = NP problem is discusses on Stas Busygin's NP-Completeness Page. He has good links to his research and published papers. Good resource if you want to know about any of this.
It's a good thing AT&T got their monopoly broken up. Otherwise think about how much power they would have. Oh, wait. Can they be broken up again? And smacked around for being anti-competition, kind of like the 3 strikes policy?
Not to be too picky, but White Star Lines is planning to build a new Titanic. See this link for more info. And they expect to have it ready by 2002 for the 90th anniversary. $500 million doesn't even seem that expensive. Isn't that what a B2 goes for on Ebay? There are also 4 other projects going on to build replicas.
Now, if we can only get Leonardo DiCaprio on board... Oh, wait, he could just float around on Kate Winslet.
With the java 1.3 release, Sun added this functionality with the java.awt.Robot class. From the API:
This class is used to generate native system input events for the purposes of test automation, self-running demos, and other applications where control of the mouse and keyboard is needed. The primary purpose of Robot is to facilitate automated testing of Java platform implementations.
Using the class to generate input events differs from posting events to the AWT event queue or AWT components in that the events are generated in the platform's native input queue. For example, Robot.mouseMove will actually move the mouse cursor instead of just generating mouse move events.
Note that some platforms require special privileges or extensions to access low-level input control. If the current platform configuration does not allow input control, an AWTException will be thrown when trying to construct Robot objects. For example, X-Window systems will throw the exception if the XTEST 2.2 standard extension is not supported (or not enabled) by the X server.
So basically you can create a test class with an instance of Robot and give it all the commands you need to do. It will mimic keyboard and mouse input, and will also perform screen captures if you want. I wish they had this for my last project using 1.2. It would have made life a lot easier.
But that only solves half the problem. One Chief Intellectual Property Officer gets to live. How about: cliffdiving races. They both jump off a cliff and the first (or last) one to hit the ground wins?
And, with applets, the VM depends on the user, but there is no way for a user to automatically download a new VM if his is uncompatable. And there's no way to check for compatability, either (one of the bigger flaws in Java, IMO). So you are stuck with Java PlugIns that have to be kept up to date and hope that deprecation hasn't removed anything you need to run an older applet.
As for just "broken applets," the problem is probably with developers giving up or just not testing them on all platforms. There is no reason an applet is less stable than an application for a given VM. I didn't know about the 22 VMs. Where did you learn that?
Don't feed him to a snowblower. It'll probably just jam. Stuff him into a woodchipper or something designed to rip up dense material. Or one of those road chewing machines. That would do it.
Masturbate with it? So that's what that hole in the cd is for, huh?
Yeah, if NBC really wanted ratings, why not shoot the cast of their worst new show of the fall into space and then de-orbit in the Mir? Or, to get Veronica's Closet off the air once and for all, their worst show of the season (by the ever-accurate Nielson ratings). Who the hell did Kirstie Alley sleep with to get the job-for-life at NBC?
Personally, I'd love to be stuck on an island with Jenna and Colleen. Although watching stuff hatch out of her legs was a bit of a turnoff.
Don't you think that's just what the RIAA wants? They want to make napster a pay product so they can release their "Every song ever written available all the time" (what is that an ad for? I forget) product and we all jump on it because it is a great product. Just like the old DivX. Oh, wait.
This gets to be an issue of big business wanting to make money versus individuals not caring about money. And anyway, shouldn't we only pay per download and they pay US for serving?
In the cheap class: Sifl n Olly box set from ebay. First and only show on MTV starring sock puppets. In the medium class: an aeron chair from Herman Miller. If you don't know, try one. Best $1000 chair in the country. In the unlimited, my own record label to screw with the RIAA. And in my own category, priceless, I want Stephen King to finish the Dark Tower series.
Hmm, you mean: "Automatically include your signature or attach electronic business card (vCard) to outgoing message." Outlook->Options->MailFormat. Not secure, but still really annoying. Especially getting asked "What's a.vcf?" No need to wait until 2005 (when Outlook 2003 will be released), I believe this "feature" has been there since Office 95, but I'm probably wrong.
Start reading it. Really carefully
Why don't you do this already? I know there are a lot of words in those things, but that is the End User License Agreement. By blindly clicking OK you are accepting their terms and they have the right to prosecute violations of it.
Watch for Microsoft's next version of its EULA, where you agree not to compete with the company for the next 5 years.
What? Never seen that one before. And so what if they do have it? Don't agree to it. There are always other alternatives (like that OS everyone around here talks about from that Swedish guy). I think this is actually a GOOD thing. Here's why: if we are legally bound to a click-through LA, they must be legally bound to honor it and not change it without our consent *cough*Cue:Cat*cough*. So we now have grounds for a lawsuit for an unfair (like your Microsoft example) or undocumented LA change.
Yup, just another example of bloatware. Why do so many fit onto a CD? Because IIRC, LSL&Land of the Lounge Lizards was half a dozen 5 1/4s. Kings Quest was the same way. And all this on a 286. In EGA (or VGA if you had the cash).
Responding to your post: do we really need to share these games? Aren't the old game disks only a couple bucks anyway? Rather than give them away, we should just educate the unaware as to what they are missing out on.
they had so much potential.
Not once I got a hold of them. They would spend their days (miliseconds?) in a Java semi-brute force RSA key cracking program. That's probably in violation of the Electronic Geneva convention or something. Oh, and in case anyone cares, it works like a champ for any values that can be calculated natively (>64 bits), but will hit a huge wall when using the BigInteger class, as would be expected.
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Talk to Sony. I'm sure they will be VERY open to changing the abbreviation for you. Personally, I always wondered where PSX came from. As for the PS2 being closer to the PS/2, show me a PS/2 that will run Gran Turismo 2.
#21 - Someone Actually Punches the Monkey and Wins!
Does anyone else think that #3- Collapse of the Vacuum (Sounds like a good PlayStation Game) was just put in to make the list a nice, even 20? I was going to make a Don Ho / Tiny Bubbles joke, but it was too much of a groaner.
for(int i = 0; i < 20; i++)
{
It's the End of the World As We Know It
}
I don't think I can take that much R.E.M. I'll end the world myself before that.
I was going to post something similar, but I figured someone else had said it before me. Anyone have any reference material on the radiation of (looks around) my monitor, my mouse (which I can hear on AM radio), my headphones (which are directly on my head 8+ hours a day), the fluorescent lights in the cube, a 900 mhz cordless phone, or the sun? 1.49 gigawatzits sounds like a lot more than .79 but is it really worth worrying about?
OT, a SAR in my TLA dictionary maps to "Submit and Report," an official bug report process at my old job. How did they get that abbreviation from W/kg?
They are a convenience when you need them, like, say your car breaks down or you get lost looking for someone's house. My solution is usually: buy one, don't give out the number, don't have it on unless you are making a call. So your boss doesn't know you can be reached all the time or at least your phone is probably going to be off for a while.
I'm quite depressed that the truely humorous stuff never gets moderated appropriately. Even your email address is funny. Do you think it could get the "First Post" out before Bil Dwyer says "It's robot fightin' time?"
As a public service, please get a stronger PGP key. I broke it in 2 seconds including starting the VM. Seeing what the factors are I should have broken it in, oh, .002 seconds. I could give you your N', but knowing what the factors are makes me hope that it is a joke. If it is, please disregard. Then you are actually funny. But judging by your website it is probably not. 40 bit public key encryption is a joke.
It's amazing what you can do with the first half million prime numbers. (Or the first 100 million primes if you let your computer run overnight)
So did they get Holland, MI confused with Holland (aka Der Nedrlanded). That's one smart webserver.
So they found it in 1994 and have been keeping it in the refrigerator since then? I've had the same experience with old Chinese food found in the back of the fridge. That was nowhere NEAR 6 years old. And I won't make any jokes about Disco island.
parthenogenesis (pärth-n-jn-ss) n. A form of reproduction in which an unfertilized egg develops into a new individual, occurring commonly among insects and certain other arthropods. Anybody want to explain how that works? The egg is unfertilized?
Why wouldn't the existance of a P time algorithm simply show that this particular problem was misgrouped? Your statement is like saying if A implies B, then B implies C. The P = NP problem is discusses on Stas Busygin's NP-Completeness Page. He has good links to his research and published papers. Good resource if you want to know about any of this.
It's a good thing AT&T got their monopoly broken up. Otherwise think about how much power they would have. Oh, wait. Can they be broken up again? And smacked around for being anti-competition, kind of like the 3 strikes policy?
Too bad there is no moderation for ironic...
Not to be too picky, but White Star Lines is planning to build a new Titanic. See this link for more info. And they expect to have it ready by 2002 for the 90th anniversary. $500 million doesn't even seem that expensive. Isn't that what a B2 goes for on Ebay? There are also 4 other projects going on to build replicas.
Now, if we can only get Leonardo DiCaprio on board... Oh, wait, he could just float around on Kate Winslet.
With the java 1.3 release, Sun added this functionality with the java.awt.Robot class. From the API:
This class is used to generate native system input events for the purposes of test automation, self-running demos, and other applications where control of the mouse and keyboard is needed. The primary purpose of Robot is to facilitate automated testing of Java platform implementations.
Using the class to generate input events differs from posting events to the AWT event queue or AWT components in that the events are generated in the platform's native input queue. For example, Robot.mouseMove will actually move the mouse cursor instead of just generating mouse move events.
Note that some platforms require special privileges or extensions to access low-level input control. If the current platform configuration does not allow input control, an AWTException will be thrown when trying to construct Robot objects. For example, X-Window systems will throw the exception if the XTEST 2.2 standard extension is not supported (or not enabled) by the X server.
So basically you can create a test class with an instance of Robot and give it all the commands you need to do. It will mimic keyboard and mouse input, and will also perform screen captures if you want. I wish they had this for my last project using 1.2. It would have made life a lot easier.
But that only solves half the problem. One Chief Intellectual Property Officer gets to live. How about: cliffdiving races. They both jump off a cliff and the first (or last) one to hit the ground wins?
And, with applets, the VM depends on the user, but there is no way for a user to automatically download a new VM if his is uncompatable. And there's no way to check for compatability, either (one of the bigger flaws in Java, IMO). So you are stuck with Java PlugIns that have to be kept up to date and hope that deprecation hasn't removed anything you need to run an older applet.
As for just "broken applets," the problem is probably with developers giving up or just not testing them on all platforms. There is no reason an applet is less stable than an application for a given VM. I didn't know about the 22 VMs. Where did you learn that?
WTF? The question gets modded up "insightful", the answer nothing? I'm assuming you posted with a +1. I may be drunk, but geez...
Don't feed him to a snowblower. It'll probably just jam. Stuff him into a woodchipper or something designed to rip up dense material. Or one of those road chewing machines. That would do it.
Masturbate with it? So that's what that hole in the cd is for, huh?
Yeah, if NBC really wanted ratings, why not shoot the cast of their worst new show of the fall into space and then de-orbit in the Mir? Or, to get Veronica's Closet off the air once and for all, their worst show of the season (by the ever-accurate Nielson ratings). Who the hell did Kirstie Alley sleep with to get the job-for-life at NBC?
Personally, I'd love to be stuck on an island with Jenna and Colleen. Although watching stuff hatch out of her legs was a bit of a turnoff.
It solves the issue of the RIAA not getting any money from napster. That's the only issue they really want resolved.
Don't you think that's just what the RIAA wants? They want to make napster a pay product so they can release their "Every song ever written available all the time" (what is that an ad for? I forget) product and we all jump on it because it is a great product. Just like the old DivX. Oh, wait.
This gets to be an issue of big business wanting to make money versus individuals not caring about money. And anyway, shouldn't we only pay per download and they pay US for serving?
In the cheap class: Sifl n Olly box set from ebay. First and only show on MTV starring sock puppets.
In the medium class: an aeron chair from Herman Miller. If you don't know, try one. Best $1000 chair in the country.
In the unlimited, my own record label to screw with the RIAA.
And in my own category, priceless, I want Stephen King to finish the Dark Tower series.
Hmm, you mean: "Automatically include your signature or attach electronic business card (vCard) to outgoing message." Outlook->Options->MailFormat. Not secure, but still really annoying. Especially getting asked "What's a .vcf?" No need to wait until 2005 (when Outlook 2003 will be released), I believe this "feature" has been there since Office 95, but I'm probably wrong.
Start reading it. Really carefully
Why don't you do this already? I know there are a lot of words in those things, but that is the End User License Agreement. By blindly clicking OK you are accepting their terms and they have the right to prosecute violations of it.
Watch for Microsoft's next version of its EULA, where you agree not to compete with the company for the next 5 years.
What? Never seen that one before. And so what if they do have it? Don't agree to it. There are always other alternatives (like that OS everyone around here talks about from that Swedish guy). I think this is actually a GOOD thing. Here's why: if we are legally bound to a click-through LA, they must be legally bound to honor it and not change it without our consent *cough*Cue:Cat*cough*. So we now have grounds for a lawsuit for an unfair (like your Microsoft example) or undocumented LA change.
Yup, just another example of bloatware. Why do so many fit onto a CD? Because IIRC, LSL&Land of the Lounge Lizards was half a dozen 5 1/4s. Kings Quest was the same way. And all this on a 286. In EGA (or VGA if you had the cash).
Responding to your post: do we really need to share these games? Aren't the old game disks only a couple bucks anyway? Rather than give them away, we should just educate the unaware as to what they are missing out on.
they had so much potential.
Not once I got a hold of them. They would spend their days (miliseconds?) in a Java semi-brute force RSA key cracking program. That's probably in violation of the Electronic Geneva convention or something. Oh, and in case anyone cares, it works like a champ for any values that can be calculated natively (>64 bits), but will hit a huge wall when using the BigInteger class, as would be expected.