Why not attach the gameboy viewscreen to sit in front of one eye and aim the camera forwards, attach some high-output IR LEDs to project out and run as a hacked/cheap nightvision?
Just imagine it - due to the wild success of the SETI@home and protein folding efforts, the FBI has decided that they too can distribute the loads of finding nefarious people in the world.
And, with the MPAA and RIAA @home supplemental modules, your MP3s will be reported directly to the master FBI server...
A truly Open Source version of Monopoly would be neatoh to play. I mean - I've played the ASCII versions, the BBS versions, some version for Windows, but one for my Linux box would be fun to play...
Oh wait - you're not talking about the game are you?
How selective would the speech recognition be? If I was playing musing on that computer, would the computer pick up the tones coming in and start "doing stuff(tm)" on my computer? What about background noises? My friend's Jello Biafra spoken word CDs?
I won't even go there with my Saturday Morning Cartoon CD - Eep Opp Ork Ah-Ah (This means mail all of my friends a copy of my resume)...
Usually the ones who 'fess up and say that they don't know are the best pick of the litter. The other ones that try to fake their way through have proven to be pretty bad choices.
Yup - hired all sorts, and overall, the best picks are the honest ones.
I interview a lot of co-op students for job placements in the company that I work for now, and for large company in the past. Sometimes, I get some really cocky student who comes in with a smug attitude that he knows it all.
Sure enough, he can answer the technical questions flawlessly just as if he had read it from a textbook. He could show ingenuity for coming up with solutions on the fly as well... And usually when they get that look in their eye: "I know you want to hire me - make me a REALLY good offer, and I might consider working for you." I then ask the killer question:
"Who is Charles Babbage?"
The blank look on their face is priceless. It's a simple curveball. I've received answers ranging from: "I'm not sure - wasn't he featured in PC Magazine last month?" to "Oh - he's the founder of IBM." and "I... I... Don't know..."
I then answer the question with a short history lesson. They of course often recall it - yes, but didn't think that it was important.
I'm amazed at how much computing history has been forgotten from introductory courses in High School. There was an incredible amount of effort and ingenuity required to get us to the place we are today: information available within seconds, toys to entertain, tools to teach and make life easier (mine is easier now because of them), communication barriers broken down, etc... It's caused other problems too, but man - what doesn't. I'll take the benefits over the problems any day.
Hanging up in my office is a picture of Charles Babbage, and one of Ada.
What would be interesting would be to see if the digital image on all of these were the same song, or if each were used to generate MP3 files (or ogg vorbis), they would create unique signatures which the nefarious fiends could use.
Use for what? They could count found instances on the net of the US version, UK version, and of course the German version... It would be interesting to guess that there won't be many of the German, and a healthy, proportional mix between the US and UK versions...
Hey kids - you know that stealing and breaking the law is a bad thing? I thought you did. So, here's how you can do the right thing and win a prize. If you tell M*ck*y what movies, music, or game your parents have copied, we'll send you a prize!
How about Ritalin or some other drug to improve concentration skills. What about some kind of coolness-under-fire drugs to block out the pressure? Are there drugs that won't 'zombify' a person, but keep them focused?
Just asking...
Just an obvious question or two...
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Has anybody in this forum had a machine in their universe infected by the Code Red worm? (any variant) You can reply as AC if you wish...
Secondly, when Code Red was on your machine, was net access notably slower? Basic machine performance slower?
I'm just curious as I would figure that an infected machine with several threads of code running would slow my machine down to the point that even if I had no knowledge if IIS were on my machine, I would at least notice a difference...
I personally think hearing of people's experiences, getting some message out to the press might help. (ie - cable modem and other users running Windows NT or 2000 might have noticed a performance degradation - check for this patch to download) (as if the press coverage wasn't enough to warn people...
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So, the ancients were right - there are no new things under the sun!
All messages in PI exist as the ultimate expression of prior art...
A perfect batting machine would be cool too for pitchers who need some practice! Also, use it to train the whole team - you could have perfect pops and setups for the team to practice with.
As for the Klingons - I have a feeling that the baddies of the series (some group bent on genetic modifications) will modify the Klingons to be more human-like (explaining TOS) and then at some time in the future, they will revert
back to bumps and ridges...
I hate advertising like most people around here, but to be honest, if you are wishing to have an online game make money without charging users a fee, then advertise.
It could be possible to include ads in text RPG scenarios:
You enter the orc lair kitchen. There are various cooking implements strewn about the walls. A can of cool, refreshing Fizzy(tm) soda.
HP: 13 % drink can
Ah, that cool, refreshing Fizzy(tm) soda has restored some of your endurance and has given you courage to attract many females of your race.
HP: 14 % go north
... and so on...
Graphic based games could incorporate logos, etc... Yes, it's sick, vile, and evil, but it does sometimes pay in the real world.
Actually, it might - although you may live in a country which does not have the DMCA, the multinationals which are based in the USA can extend their philosophies outside of the US laws to pressure ISPs (which may be partially owned by the Forces Of Evil (FOE)) to drop your page.
They do have lovely legal forces in their Branch Offices (BO) which can make use of local
laws to make your life difficult.
It is scary though, that the BO of the FOE can render you out of commission...
Rogers @HOME service with respect to Linux has been great here - I get the "non-supported" statement, but the last few times that I've called, the support person asked what values I had in my/etc/hosts, etc... files!
I was quite pleased to hear that coming from technical support. Turned out that there wasn't any problems with my machine, it was just some vandalism taking out the lines somewhere else.
Get some exercise. If you don't like gyms - get a treadmill - a decent one which can tilt. Doing 5km a day walking on a treadmill can work wonders. At lunchtime, have a light meal, and go for a 20-30 minute walk and clear the cobwebs out.
As for food - breakfast is important - moreso if you do that 5km a day in the morning. Lunch? Easy - small portions of leftovers from the dinner the night before or soup or a small garden salad. Dinner? Eat what you would normally eat, just don't eat the whole pizza - have 2 slices - don't forget that pizzas do have a bunch of goodness in them. Save the rest of the pizza for future dinners or for lunches. Always make dinner and plan for saving leftovers - cutting down on eating out of a restaurant or company cafeteria saves me $25 CDN a week.
Beer? Drinks? I personally don't drink soda (unless it was made from barley) so I have a can of apple juice (200% daily recommended vitamin C). Oh yeah - take supplementals just in case you do something silly like try skimping on some food group or other. But yeah, don't drink the whole 12 pack in one sitting - share and save for later.
For me, that formula has worked to allow me to lose 5kg this past month. So far I feel great.
But yeah, just like on slashdot, moderation is the key...
Since Time/Warner owns AOL, would the Home Gardening Channel be the only one who could broadcast this without misrepresenting either side?
Seriously though - I know of seniors who boot up their computer, connect to the internet via AOL and don't even know that there's anything else on their computer.
AOL provides them with chatrooms, discussion groups, web-surfing, email, and they can even send pictures. When I showed a neighbour of mine how to use their CD burning software, they practically freaked! I was running something that she'd never seen before - she even claimed to a friend of hers that I was "hacking" something on her computer.
If there is fear and loathing in the AOL/M$ land, it's going to be interesting...
Personally, I use neither - although those AOL CDs make lovely, and attractive shiny objects for my inlaws to play with.
You see, it's this type of exploration of the strange that results in something quite useful...
What I am curious about is the size of the chips and board and case required for the transmitter and receiver. The article mentions using this to find lost keys (by attaching a transmitter I assume) so I take it that it would be quite small.
Either way, it's hats off to the dude - I always hated it when my teachers told me something was impossible - time to dust off that old time machine in the basement...
Doing my best Bob Newhart, I imagine that a conversation over the phone between Einstein and PhysicsX Inc product managers:
Ah, good morning Albert - how are the wife, the kids? Did you catch the game last night?
Oh - you don't watch football - well, that's just swell there. Say, we here in Product Management want to talk to you about that project you've been working on.
Uhuh - yeah - that whole grand unification project and all that. Yeah, we need to know if we can patent any of this stuff?
Oh - it's really prior art then eh? Okay - listen, we've put a lot of money your way and Susan from Marketing would like to know what would people get from moving near the speed of light...
More mass, length shortened? Wow - listen Al, we've got idea down - we'd just like you to downplay the more mass thing. We're kind of looking towards changing some of the text such as shortened length to "slimming".
I can see how you're upset about this one Al, I'd be too, but heck, they're just words, and we are trying to sell this stuff...
Okay I'll talk to Susan about that. Listen, packaging is wondering how we could fit this whole Theory of Relativity thing for home use...
Ah - yes Al, I did get that memo about impossibility of approaching the speed of light. Listen, I've got Frank from Advertising here - he's concerned that your paper has too much math - could you trim it back?
Al? Al? Funny - I seemed to have been disconnected.
Just off the top of my head, I agree - the business model of running r&d has proven itself to be a pain and a dinosaur. What we need to do is present an environment where more people would express what they know and come up with new discoveries. And these discoveries don't really have to come from scientists or researchers.
Have you ever had one of those neighbours who could fix anything? Go spend some time with them and see their workshop - inspiration beyond belief! No corporate sponsership, a true love of whatever it is they are working on.
It's only now that I'm really getting into
listening to internet broadcast radio stations
that something has happened: business weasels and
unions want another big chunk of the pie from
advertising to the now larger audience. And
now, stations are no longer broadcasting - or
even worse, turning into M*zak'd stations with
no DJs and no none of the flavour that made up
Is this sattelite broadcast technology going
to be broadcasting static after people have bought them and the legal world steps in? Certainly there are licensing issues here, and I'm just curious if everything has been worked out with the artists union, broadcasters, advertisers, et al...
Personally I'm going to wait a while before getting one of these beasts - just let the market play out before buying some piece of tech that will join its brothers in the pile.
I live in Canada - I typically work 50 hour weeks... I found a good 10 hour day beats out some of the fools who try to do 18 hour stints every other day. They look run-down, burned-out, and at generally, have made critical mistakes because of their fatigue. On a few occasions, a breakthrough has happened, but usually the code had to be reworked again to clean up really ugly hacks.
And to be honest, although I used to do some of those 18 hour stints, I listened to an older co-worker who asked, "So how productive are you now after working 18 hours?" I answered, "Not really I guess - stuck on a stupid problem." His response was simple and clear: "Go home!"
I did, got plenty of sleep, found a decent balance between work, sleep, homelife, hobbies, reading slashdot, and I found 10 hours to be great.
I take a.5 hr walk at now noon to really clear the cobwebs out of my head...
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Why not attach the gameboy viewscreen to sit in front of one eye and aim the camera forwards, attach some high-output IR LEDs to project out and run as a hacked/cheap nightvision?
Just imagine it - due to the wild success of the SETI@home and protein folding efforts, the FBI has decided that they too can distribute the loads of finding nefarious people in the world.
And, with the MPAA and RIAA @home supplemental modules, your MP3s will be reported directly to the master FBI server...
A truly Open Source version of Monopoly would be neatoh to play. I mean - I've played the ASCII versions, the BBS versions, some version for Windows, but one for my Linux box would be fun to play...
Oh wait - you're not talking about the game are you?
How selective would the speech recognition be? If I was playing musing on that computer, would the computer pick up the tones coming in and start "doing stuff(tm)" on my computer? What about background noises? My friend's Jello Biafra spoken word CDs?
I won't even go there with my Saturday Morning Cartoon CD - Eep Opp Ork Ah-Ah (This means mail all of my friends a copy of my resume)...
Usually the ones who 'fess up and say that they don't know are the best pick of the litter. The other ones that try to fake their way through have proven to be pretty bad choices.
Yup - hired all sorts, and overall, the best picks are the honest ones.
I interview a lot of co-op students for job placements in the company that I work for now, and for large company in the past. Sometimes, I get some really cocky student who comes in with a smug attitude that he knows it all.
Sure enough, he can answer the technical questions flawlessly just as if he had read it from a textbook. He could show ingenuity for coming up with solutions on the fly as well... And usually when they get that look in their eye: "I know you want to hire me - make me a REALLY good offer, and I might consider working for you." I then ask the killer question:
"Who is Charles Babbage?"
The blank look on their face is priceless. It's a simple curveball. I've received answers ranging from: "I'm not sure - wasn't he featured in PC Magazine last month?" to "Oh - he's the founder of IBM." and "I... I... Don't know..."
I then answer the question with a short history lesson. They of course often recall it - yes, but didn't think that it was important.
I'm amazed at how much computing history has been forgotten from introductory courses in High School. There was an incredible amount of effort and ingenuity required to get us to the place we are today: information available within seconds, toys to entertain, tools to teach and make life easier (mine is easier now because of them), communication barriers broken down, etc... It's caused other problems too, but man - what doesn't. I'll take the benefits over the problems any day.
Hanging up in my office is a picture of Charles Babbage, and one of Ada.
"Who is Grace Hopper?" is my backup question.
Hehehehe...
What would be interesting would be to see if the digital image on all of these were the same song, or if each were used to generate MP3 files (or ogg vorbis), they would create unique signatures which the nefarious fiends could use.
Use for what? They could count found instances on the net of the US version, UK version, and of course the German version... It would be interesting to guess that there won't be many of the German, and a healthy, proportional mix between the US and UK versions...
Just something that might be up...
Hey kids - you know that stealing and breaking the law is a bad thing? I thought you did. So, here's how you can do the right thing and win a prize. If you tell M*ck*y what movies, music, or game your parents have copied, we'll send you a prize!
Hehehehe...
How about Ritalin or some other drug to improve concentration skills. What about some kind of coolness-under-fire drugs to block out the pressure? Are there drugs that won't 'zombify' a person, but keep them focused?
Just asking...
Has anybody in this forum had a machine in their universe infected by the Code Red worm? (any variant) You can reply as AC if you wish...
Secondly, when Code Red was on your machine, was net access notably slower? Basic machine performance slower?
I'm just curious as I would figure that an infected machine with several threads of code running would slow my machine down to the point that even if I had no knowledge if IIS were on my machine, I would at least notice a difference...
I personally think hearing of people's experiences, getting some message out to the press might help. (ie - cable modem and other users running Windows NT or 2000 might have noticed a performance degradation - check for this patch to download) (as if the press coverage wasn't enough to warn people...
So, the ancients were right - there are no new things under the sun!
All messages in PI exist as the ultimate expression of prior art...
Coolness...
Wasn't it 1.21 Jigawatts?
A perfect batting machine would be cool too for pitchers who need some practice! Also, use it to train the whole team - you could have perfect pops and setups for the team to practice with.
The machine could be height adjusted, etc...
As for the Klingons - I have a feeling that the baddies of the series (some group bent on genetic modifications) will modify the Klingons to be more human-like (explaining TOS) and then at some time in the future, they will revert back to bumps and ridges...
I hate advertising like most people around here, but to be honest, if you are wishing to have an online game make money without charging users a fee, then advertise.
It could be possible to include ads in text RPG scenarios:
You enter the orc lair kitchen. There are various cooking implements strewn about the walls. A can of cool, refreshing Fizzy(tm) soda.
HP: 13 % drink can
Ah, that cool, refreshing Fizzy(tm) soda has restored some of your endurance and has given you courage to attract many females of your race.
HP: 14 % go north
... and so on...
Graphic based games could incorporate logos, etc... Yes, it's sick, vile, and evil, but it does sometimes pay in the real world.
Actually, it might - although you may live in a country which does not have the DMCA, the multinationals which are based in the USA can extend their philosophies outside of the US laws to pressure ISPs (which may be partially owned by the Forces Of Evil (FOE)) to drop your page.
They do have lovely legal forces in their Branch Offices (BO) which can make use of local laws to make your life difficult.
It is scary though, that the BO of the FOE can render you out of commission...
What about calling it an orchard?
I had just finished learning "alphabet, pottery, writing, masonry" when the Russians wiped my civ off the map. Quickest game ever.
I hadn't even finished building city walls...
Rogers @HOME service with respect to Linux has been great here - I get the "non-supported" statement, but the last few times that I've called, the support person asked what values I had in my /etc/hosts, etc... files!
I was quite pleased to hear that coming from technical support. Turned out that there wasn't any problems with my machine, it was just some vandalism taking out the lines somewhere else.
Get some exercise. If you don't like gyms - get a treadmill - a decent one which can tilt. Doing 5km a day walking on a treadmill can work wonders. At lunchtime, have a light meal, and go for a 20-30 minute walk and clear the cobwebs out.
As for food - breakfast is important - moreso if you do that 5km a day in the morning. Lunch? Easy - small portions of leftovers from the dinner the night before or soup or a small garden salad. Dinner? Eat what you would normally eat, just don't eat the whole pizza - have 2 slices - don't forget that pizzas do have a bunch of goodness in them. Save the rest of the pizza for future dinners or for lunches. Always make dinner and plan for saving leftovers - cutting down on eating out of a restaurant or company cafeteria saves me $25 CDN a week.
Beer? Drinks? I personally don't drink soda (unless it was made from barley) so I have a can of apple juice (200% daily recommended vitamin C). Oh yeah - take supplementals just in case you do something silly like try skimping on some food group or other. But yeah, don't drink the whole 12 pack in one sitting - share and save for later.
For me, that formula has worked to allow me to lose 5kg this past month. So far I feel great.
But yeah, just like on slashdot, moderation is the key...
Since Time/Warner owns AOL, would the Home Gardening Channel be the only one who could broadcast this without misrepresenting either side?
Seriously though - I know of seniors who boot up their computer, connect to the internet via AOL and don't even know that there's anything else on their computer.
AOL provides them with chatrooms, discussion groups, web-surfing, email, and they can even send pictures. When I showed a neighbour of mine how to use their CD burning software, they practically freaked! I was running something that she'd never seen before - she even claimed to a friend of hers that I was "hacking" something on her computer.
If there is fear and loathing in the AOL/M$ land, it's going to be interesting...
Personally, I use neither - although those AOL CDs make lovely, and attractive shiny objects for my inlaws to play with.
You see, it's this type of exploration of the strange that results in something quite useful...
What I am curious about is the size of the chips and board and case required for the transmitter and receiver. The article mentions using this to find lost keys (by attaching a transmitter I assume) so I take it that it would be quite small.
Either way, it's hats off to the dude - I always hated it when my teachers told me something was impossible - time to dust off that old time machine in the basement...
Doing my best Bob Newhart, I imagine that a conversation over the phone between Einstein and PhysicsX Inc product managers:
Ah, good morning Albert - how are the wife, the kids? Did you catch the game last night?
Oh - you don't watch football - well, that's just swell there. Say, we here in Product Management want to talk to you about that project you've been working on.
Uhuh - yeah - that whole grand unification project and all that. Yeah, we need to know if we can patent any of this stuff?
Oh - it's really prior art then eh? Okay - listen, we've put a lot of money your way and Susan from Marketing would like to know what would people get from moving near the speed of light...
More mass, length shortened? Wow - listen Al, we've got idea down - we'd just like you to downplay the more mass thing. We're kind of looking towards changing some of the text such as shortened length to "slimming".
I can see how you're upset about this one Al, I'd be too, but heck, they're just words, and we are trying to sell this stuff...
Okay I'll talk to Susan about that. Listen, packaging is wondering how we could fit this whole Theory of Relativity thing for home use...
Ah - yes Al, I did get that memo about impossibility of approaching the speed of light. Listen, I've got Frank from Advertising here - he's concerned that your paper has too much math - could you trim it back?
Al? Al? Funny - I seemed to have been disconnected.
Just off the top of my head, I agree - the business model of running r&d has proven itself to be a pain and a dinosaur. What we need to do is present an environment where more people would express what they know and come up with new discoveries. And these discoveries don't really have to come from scientists or researchers.
Have you ever had one of those neighbours who could fix anything? Go spend some time with them and see their workshop - inspiration beyond belief! No corporate sponsership, a true love of whatever it is they are working on.
It's only now that I'm really getting into listening to internet broadcast radio stations that something has happened: business weasels and unions want another big chunk of the pie from advertising to the now larger audience. And now, stations are no longer broadcasting - or even worse, turning into M*zak'd stations with no DJs and no none of the flavour that made up
Is this sattelite broadcast technology going to be broadcasting static after people have bought them and the legal world steps in? Certainly there are licensing issues here, and I'm just curious if everything has been worked out with the artists union, broadcasters, advertisers, et al...
Personally I'm going to wait a while before getting one of these beasts - just let the market play out before buying some piece of tech that will join its brothers in the pile.
I live in Canada - I typically work 50 hour weeks... I found a good 10 hour day beats out some of the fools who try to do 18 hour stints every other day. They look run-down, burned-out, and at generally, have made critical mistakes because of their fatigue. On a few occasions, a breakthrough has happened, but usually the code had to be reworked again to clean up really ugly hacks.
And to be honest, although I used to do some of those 18 hour stints, I listened to an older co-worker who asked, "So how productive are you now after working 18 hours?" I answered, "Not really I guess - stuck on a stupid problem." His response was simple and clear: "Go home!"
I did, got plenty of sleep, found a decent balance between work, sleep, homelife, hobbies, reading slashdot, and I found 10 hours to be great.
I take a .5 hr walk at now noon to really clear the cobwebs out of my head...