Re:Programmable? maybe by geeks...
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Furby Bounty Paid
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I assume that the guy who posed the challenge will assemble it for the kid and his mother. What i wonder is will the Furby still hold the same fascination for the kid when it has its guts bare to the breeze and hald a dozen circuit boards sticking out of it at odd angles. Im not very familiar with autism but it was probably the cute appearance of the furby that fascinated the kid (or maybe he somehow interpreted the furby gibberish as meaningful) but when you change these things he wont be interested anymore.
So the hack furby kit includes a Philips 89c51rd2 a 20Mhz 80c51 core, a RS232 port and whatever else. What they left out is the jackhammer you need to break through the resin core to get at the insides of your furby and use your hack furby kit:)
His protest while making him happy was extremely unfair to the majority of students who enjoy such events. There is a lot of talk on/. that such events (popularity/beauty contexts etc.)should be stopped to protect the nerds. Sorry but the thought of stopping a process that 90% of the people enjoy in order to appease the 10% of people who dont enjoy it doesnt seem very democratic to me
Yeah "pretty interesting guy, and had some interesting comments" struck me as being a bit generous to him. Course I have nothing whatsoever to say so I shouldn't criticise.
Dont know why im even bothering to reply but the sound is created by expelling air through their voicebox in a manner that causes the vocal cords to resonate, normal speech uses several other things to shape the sound, the tongue, the teeth the hard and soft pallet etc., whereas the tuvalans create the entire sound in their throat, hence throat singing
As covered in this story the compand DotTV bought the.tv top leved domain name from the country Tuvala for $50,000,000.
On another semi-related note if anyone ever gets the chance to listen to Tuvalan throat singing it is very eerie. They have a mothod of singing whereby they can sing 3 or 4 different notes at once in different harmonics and it sounds very weird and impressive.
On another semi-related note if anyone ever gets the chance to listen to Tuvalan throat singing it is very eerie. They have a mothod of singing whereby they can sing 3 or 4 different notes at once in different harmonics and it sounds very weird and impressive.
If i am thinking og the right puzzle (and how many 1mil prize jugsaws are out there) then you also had to trace out a map of your solution on a presupplied piece of paper and send it off to them. Now this always struck me as being a very tricky thing to do and even worse to validate, why a picture of the completed puzzle subject to verification wouldnt do i dont know
But basically the puzzle was lots of plain green plastic pieces (individually cast so you couldnt trace any flaws in the casting) that fit together. They had to fit into a hexagon shape. All you had to go on was the space where 1 of the pieces went was marked in the middle of the board and you had to start from there. All the normal jigsaw tricks like starting at corners and edges wouldnt work because about 2/3 of the pieces could fit into one of the 6 corners and every piece could have been an edge piece
Ive seen this puzzle, its a load of plastic polygons that you have to fit into a hexagon shape. All the pieces are the same plain featureless green and you can fit practically any piece up against any other. And why is it on here? because its funny and is a classic example of the little guy triumphing over the big guy which gives us all some hope. Also it is funny (in a twisted way) and a little humour never hurt anyone, heck one of the few reasons somethin can get modded up is because its funny so humour is obviously a big part of slashdot.
Well if this is an OS ...
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Is UNIX An OS?
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"An operating system," he writes, "is the software that comes with a computer (or OS distribution) that programmers and users need to make themselves productive."
Hmm lemme see i know a lot of business' that are fully productive with the Windows 2000 as it ships, the developers all use notepad and the DOS version of FTP and telnet while the sales departments type their invoices out manually using notepad and accounts use the powerful Calculator tool to work out the companys finances.
If only unix could provide such powerful facilities it would become an OS, does anyone have a few hours to spare to write them?
Of course by then whatever desk space you save with a tiny computer will be taken up by your 80 inch monitor. And you can perish the thought of sitting your monitor on top of one of those:)
That also raises another issue, I find it hard not to lose things like pens and cds off of my desk, when my pc is the size of a eunuchs prick i'll certainly waste a lot of money having to replace em:(
Seems the winner never thought to patent the read a highly moderated post and repost it as a reply to a post higher up the list so those moderators get to you first to get free mod points. Guess ill patent that one:)
Re:Why Console games outsell PC games
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Didn't you ever learn to keep your UI code seperate from the actual application? Any powerful tool can easily have a good UI placed in front of it. When you do the UI first you end up restricting future development because theres no place to put the checkbox for that spiffy new option that was just added. Once you have the application running then you can see what features are most used and then design the UI so that they get presented in the best places.
And emacs complexity is there to cover its incredible flexibility and power. With the C-x C-c keystrokes you can achieve pretty much any text editing task you want. When you find yourself doing the same task a lot then check the docs and there is the functionality you need with one more set of keystrokes to remember.
Its easy for him to be interesting, hes basically written a book review but cunningly disguised it as if it were his own insight.
If anyone else was to review this book on slashdot then Poole would get the credit for his authoring skills and insight but instead Katz has managed to take all of Pooles opinions and research and pass them off as his own. The least he could have done was include a link to buy the book that he has reduced to being a JonKatz article
So here is the important bit Katz left out, a link to buy the book at fatbrain.
We read earlier how the Code Book challenge took over a year to solve and that was just a puzzle set in a book being worked on by hundreds of enthusiasts the world over, Yet the best the SDMI can come up with is broken in under 1 month despite being bycotted by most of the capable programmers out there.
Well it seems the SDMI really know what they are at:)
O.K. so someone gave a full bug count for all products instead of taking the time to make sure they were Red Hat 7 bugs. Then slashdot posts about it giving plenty of fuel to the anti Red Hat brigade. So now that its known that it wasnt all Red Hat 7 bugs you would expect an Update: We jumped the gun on this one, the original poster got his query wrong. message to be added to the original message, but no slashdot just links back to it without updating.
Once you see a slashdot article was mistaken it should be updated so that even though the original article was wrong the archives contain the truth. It is never too late for journalistic integrity so please correct the original article.
Maybe I am wrong here but i don't think OpenTV are going to be going after amazon. They seem to be trying to get the patent on using a one click shopping technology in set top boxes. This means information is stored within the box for quick use on any site (I think) which is different to how amazon just store the info for their own site.
It just seems that OpenTV are trying to cover against amazon ever going after them for infringing a patent with technology theyve been using for years.
Of course I could have missed the point completely and be way off, it has been known to happen:)
One of the issues with Carnivores deployment is that ISPs do not want a box which they do not control interfering with their services.
Will your analysis include any investigations into the potentially detrimental effects this could have on an ISPs service, and if such are found can you use that as reason to prevent its deployment?
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I assume that the guy who posed the challenge will assemble it for the kid and his mother. What i wonder is will the Furby still hold the same fascination for the kid when it has its guts bare to the breeze and hald a dozen circuit boards sticking out of it at odd angles. Im not very familiar with autism but it was probably the cute appearance of the furby that fascinated the kid (or maybe he somehow interpreted the furby gibberish as meaningful) but when you change these things he wont be interested anymore.
So the hack furby kit includes a Philips 89c51rd2 a 20Mhz 80c51 core, a RS232 port and whatever else. What they left out is the jackhammer you need to break through the resin core to get at the insides of your furby and use your hack furby kit :)
Luckily both those articles were posted on slashdot a few days ago here and here
For the record that post was meant to read "back in july" after link :)
Congrats Hemos, you just stole the repost record from Taco. Here is a link
His protest while making him happy was extremely unfair to the majority of students who enjoy such events. There is a lot of talk on /. that such events (popularity/beauty contexts etc.)should be stopped to protect the nerds. Sorry but the thought of stopping a process that 90% of the people enjoy in order to appease the 10% of people who dont enjoy it doesnt seem very democratic to me
Yeah "pretty interesting guy, and had some interesting comments" struck me as being a bit generous to him. Course I have nothing whatsoever to say so I shouldn't criticise.
Woops, I stand corrected.
Dont know why im even bothering to reply but the sound is created by expelling air through their voicebox in a manner that causes the vocal cords to resonate, normal speech uses several other things to shape the sound, the tongue, the teeth the hard and soft pallet etc., whereas the tuvalans create the entire sound in their throat, hence throat singing
As covered in this story the compand DotTV bought the .tv top leved domain name from the country Tuvala for $50,000,000.
On another semi-related note if anyone ever gets the chance to listen to Tuvalan throat singing it is very eerie. They have a mothod of singing whereby they can sing 3 or 4 different notes at once in different harmonics and it sounds very weird and impressive.
As covered in this
On another semi-related note if anyone ever gets the chance to listen to Tuvalan throat singing it is very eerie. They have a mothod of singing whereby they can sing 3 or 4 different notes at once in different harmonics and it sounds very weird and impressive.
And just for the record, it wasnt shown completed on the boxtop :P
If i am thinking og the right puzzle (and how many 1mil prize jugsaws are out there) then you also had to trace out a map of your solution on a presupplied piece of paper and send it off to them. Now this always struck me as being a very tricky thing to do and even worse to validate, why a picture of the completed puzzle subject to verification wouldnt do i dont know
But basically the puzzle was lots of plain green plastic pieces (individually cast so you couldnt trace any flaws in the casting) that fit together. They had to fit into a hexagon shape. All you had to go on was the space where 1 of the pieces went was marked in the middle of the board and you had to start from there. All the normal jigsaw tricks like starting at corners and edges wouldnt work because about 2/3 of the pieces could fit into one of the 6 corners and every piece could have been an edge piece
Ive seen this puzzle, its a load of plastic polygons that you have to fit into a hexagon shape. All the pieces are the same plain featureless green and you can fit practically any piece up against any other. And why is it on here? because its funny and is a classic example of the little guy triumphing over the big guy which gives us all some hope. Also it is funny (in a twisted way) and a little humour never hurt anyone, heck one of the few reasons somethin can get modded up is because its funny so humour is obviously a big part of slashdot.
"An operating system," he writes, "is the software that comes with a computer (or OS distribution) that programmers and users need to make themselves productive."
Hmm lemme see i know a lot of business' that are fully productive with the Windows 2000 as it ships, the developers all use notepad and the DOS version of FTP and telnet while the sales departments type their invoices out manually using notepad and accounts use the powerful Calculator tool to work out the companys finances.
If only unix could provide such powerful facilities it would become an OS, does anyone have a few hours to spare to write them?
Of course by then whatever desk space you save with a tiny computer will be taken up by your 80 inch monitor. And you can perish the thought of sitting your monitor on top of one of those :)
That also raises another issue, I find it hard not to lose things like pens and cds off of my desk, when my pc is the size of a eunuchs prick i'll certainly waste a lot of money having to replace em :(
"Well, if they are anything like me then they set their filters on high. So, your post would never be seen. My guess is that it's quite doubtful"
Just curious but if your filter is set so high how did you see his post? And here I was thinking there was no bugs in slashcode :)
Seems the winner never thought to patent the read a highly moderated post and repost it as a reply to a post higher up the list so those moderators get to you first to get free mod points. Guess ill patent that one :)
Didn't you ever learn to keep your UI code seperate from the actual application? Any powerful tool can easily have a good UI placed in front of it. When you do the UI first you end up restricting future development because theres no place to put the checkbox for that spiffy new option that was just added. Once you have the application running then you can see what features are most used and then design the UI so that they get presented in the best places.
And emacs complexity is there to cover its incredible flexibility and power. With the C-x C-c keystrokes you can achieve pretty much any text editing task you want. When you find yourself doing the same task a lot then check the docs and there is the functionality you need with one more set of keystrokes to remember.
Of course if you had mentioned vi"this guy would return games the next day... sometimes even the same night"
The words CD Burner spring to mind ...
Its easy for him to be interesting, hes basically written a book review but cunningly disguised it as if it were his own insight.
If anyone else was to review this book on slashdot then Poole would get the credit for his authoring skills and insight but instead Katz has managed to take all of Pooles opinions and research and pass them off as his own. The least he could have done was include a link to buy the book that he has reduced to being a JonKatz article
So here is the important bit Katz left out, a link to buy the book at fatbrain.
We read earlier how the Code Book challenge took over a year to solve and that was just a puzzle set in a book being worked on by hundreds of enthusiasts the world over, Yet the best the SDMI can come up with is broken in under 1 month despite being bycotted by most of the capable programmers out there.
Well it seems the SDMI really know what they are at :)
O.K. so someone gave a full bug count for all products instead of taking the time to make sure they were Red Hat 7 bugs. Then slashdot posts about it giving plenty of fuel to the anti Red Hat brigade. So now that its known that it wasnt all Red Hat 7 bugs you would expect an Update: We jumped the gun on this one, the original poster got his query wrong. message to be added to the original message, but no slashdot just links back to it without updating.
Once you see a slashdot article was mistaken it should be updated so that even though the original article was wrong the archives contain the truth. It is never too late for journalistic integrity so please correct the original article.
Maybe I am wrong here but i don't think OpenTV are going to be going after amazon. They seem to be trying to get the patent on using a one click shopping technology in set top boxes. This means information is stored within the box for quick use on any site (I think) which is different to how amazon just store the info for their own site.
It just seems that OpenTV are trying to cover against amazon ever going after them for infringing a patent with technology theyve been using for years.
Of course I could have missed the point completely and be way off, it has been known to happen :)
One of the issues with Carnivores deployment is that ISPs do not want a box which they do not control interfering with their services.
Will your analysis include any investigations into the potentially detrimental effects this could have on an ISPs service, and if such are found can you use that as reason to prevent its deployment?