>>In Out In Out In Out...
>we know what's really on your mind
yep... he's doing the 'hokey kokey'
"you put your left arm in, your left arm out,
in, out, in out, shake it all about,
you do the hokey kokey and you turn around,
that's what it's all about.
ooooooh the hokey kokey,
ooooooh the hokey kokey,
ooooooh the hokey kokey,
knees bend, arms stretch, ra, ra ra!'
(recycle ad infinitum)
there's more, but it's been years since I was at a kid's party...
The rules that he applied to Melbourne IT meant that Australia has never had a cybersquatting problem like the United States has.
"There is almost no litigation in that area... But we feel the time has come to move on."
Oh, just peachy, there's nothing wrong with the current system other than the fact that they don't control it, so they want to come along and mess with it.
I though the saying If it isn't broken, don't bugger about with it still held?
wait 'till they sell you the later series of robot wars. The 'obstacle course' from the beginning is gone, and the whole thing's knockout tournament beginning with a 3-way match at the start. Althought I thought that the course was a good thing 'cos it god rid of 'novelty'(diotor not included) and just plain crap bots that didn't have a chance of getting through.(cybersprout anyone?)
Plenty of people take on the house robots all the time. panic attack IIRC is quite fond of it, ditto razer with that nifty crush attack. I can't remember who, but recently(UK recently that is,) someone almost dismantled mathilda(hypnodisk was it?), a few of the housebots get flipped often enough, and bash has been de-flamed before (cannister knocked off, and tubes severed).
It doesn't necessarily cost a lot to build a bot. 101 is aptly named, costing only one pound and a penny to build, and it's a pretty successful bot too
I *SO* agree with you about the announcer though. I've wanted to garotte him ever since the first episode aired.
and for those who say that we don't have any decent/deadly bots, how about razer and hypnodisk? 1 ton/sqin crushing force was it? I've seen a few battlebots episodes, and there's *far* more innovation and difference in design than the bots on there, which seem to be either a flywheel-esque cutter or a mace/axe design.
Oh, and since I'm ragging on battlebots, what about their arena? No flame, no pit, no flippers, given the chunkiness of the average 'bot design, about the only way to (normally) take another bot out is to shove 'em over those saws.
TBH, although robot wars is also aimed at a mass market, at least they give a (slight) technical nod towards the robots and their construction instead of a cutsey "mom&pop&the kids" video. Is the censorship getting that bad that they can only show "Violence against objects" by showing some sort of well-integrated family unit as well?
http://www.3dwm.org/frameset.html perhaps for those for a linuxular nature, and
http://floach.pimpin.net/dimension.shtml for those with windows.
Yes, I know that this has been mentioned here before (http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=99/11/03/09172 16&mode=thread), but hopefully enough people can be persuaded to do something, that this'll go somewhere and not get lost in the "development ran out of steam at 0.1.1" jungle.
I'd personlly be fascinated in seeing what 3dwm could do for the cause of making 'nix graphical interfaces more...uh..nicer, and Dimension? I'll give it a go sometime during the weekend.
Perhaps hell may freeze over and I might even write a review (yeah, right!).
but,people will crap on you, if you let them do it. Okay, so coming from a middle class, white, UK home, I didn't have to deal with quite so much trouble as some of the folk who've posted here, but in senior/high school, I still got the crap beat out of me a couple of times for being "too bloody smart", and not understanding why freezing my arse off on a cold december morn out on the field having balls kicked at me - allegedly football/soccer was the most fun you could have with your clothes on.
But, I never stopped resisting. I fought back, when sitting in registration, I absorbed myself in my books, instead of listening to the whispers of "weird" "'ain't normal".
But, there's always hope. During the last two years there, I had almost the entirety of every class I was in eating out of my hand because I could make computers so easy for them to understand, and I was always there. So, just play them right, and life can be bearable.
--
"I turned a minor act of scrumping into the fall of mankind! - The Devil
perhaps I should force them to let me install my copy of linux that I downloaded and burned to a cd(ooooh! net piracy) in the shop?
I'm sure they'd get pretty sick even if it was just one geek a day. Especially if you took your time to do all those special little tweaks to get your system working at max.
shunned by the hardcore anime fans
perhaps it's got something to do with it being on around the same time as sailor moon and pokémon? (UK anyway)
Those cheesy repetitive plotlines might infect adjacant anime and spread!
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>>In Out In Out In Out...
>we know what's really on your mind
yep... he's doing the 'hokey kokey'
"you put your left arm in, your left arm out,
in, out, in out, shake it all about,
you do the hokey kokey and you turn around,
that's what it's all about.
ooooooh the hokey kokey,
ooooooh the hokey kokey,
ooooooh the hokey kokey,
knees bend, arms stretch, ra, ra ra!'
(recycle ad infinitum)
there's more, but it's been years since I was at a kid's party...
"There is almost no litigation in that area
Oh, just peachy, there's nothing wrong with the current system other than the fact that they don't control it, so they want to come along and mess with it.
I though the saying If it isn't broken, don't bugger about with it still held?
wait 'till they sell you the later series of robot wars. The 'obstacle course' from the beginning is gone, and the whole thing's knockout tournament beginning with a 3-way match at the start. Althought I thought that the course was a good thing 'cos it god rid of 'novelty'(diotor not included) and just plain crap bots that didn't have a chance of getting through.(cybersprout anyone?)
Plenty of people take on the house robots all the time. panic attack IIRC is quite fond of it, ditto razer with that nifty crush attack. I can't remember who, but recently(UK recently that is,) someone almost dismantled mathilda(hypnodisk was it?), a few of the housebots get flipped often enough, and bash has been de-flamed before (cannister knocked off, and tubes severed).
It doesn't necessarily cost a lot to build a bot. 101 is aptly named, costing only one pound and a penny to build, and it's a pretty successful bot too
I *SO* agree with you about the announcer though. I've wanted to garotte him ever since the first episode aired.
and for those who say that we don't have any decent/deadly bots, how about razer and hypnodisk? 1 ton/sqin crushing force was it? I've seen a few battlebots episodes, and there's *far* more innovation and difference in design than the bots on there, which seem to be either a flywheel-esque cutter or a mace/axe design.
Oh, and since I'm ragging on battlebots, what about their arena? No flame, no pit, no flippers, given the chunkiness of the average 'bot design, about the only way to (normally) take another bot out is to shove 'em over those saws.
TBH, although robot wars is also aimed at a mass market, at least they give a (slight) technical nod towards the robots and their construction instead of a cutsey "mom&pop&the kids" video. Is the censorship getting that bad that they can only show "Violence against objects" by showing some sort of well-integrated family unit as well?
the saniy de-enhaned amongst us may want to have a crack at pernmangband
http://www.3dwm.org/frameset.html perhaps for those for a linuxular nature, and2 16&mode=thread), but hopefully enough people can be persuaded to do something, that this'll go somewhere and not get lost in the "development ran out of steam at 0.1.1" jungle.
http://floach.pimpin.net/dimension.shtml for those with windows.
Yes, I know that this has been mentioned here before (http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=99/11/03/0917
I'd personlly be fascinated in seeing what 3dwm could do for the cause of making 'nix graphical interfaces more...uh..nicer, and Dimension? I'll give it a go sometime during the weekend.
Perhaps hell may freeze over and I might even write a review (yeah, right!).
But, I never stopped resisting. I fought back, when sitting in registration, I absorbed myself in my books, instead of listening to the whispers of "weird" "'ain't normal".
But, there's always hope. During the last two years there, I had almost the entirety of every class I was in eating out of my hand because I could make computers so easy for them to understand, and I was always there. So, just play them right, and life can be bearable.
-- "I turned a minor act of scrumping into the fall of mankind! - The Devil
perhaps I should force them to let me install my copy of linux that I downloaded and burned to a cd(ooooh! net piracy) in the shop?
I'm sure they'd get pretty sick even if it was just one geek a day. Especially if you took your time to do all those special little tweaks to get your system working at max.
shunned by the hardcore anime fans perhaps it's got something to do with it being on around the same time as sailor moon and pokémon? (UK anyway)
Those cheesy repetitive plotlines might infect adjacant anime and spread!
there was the book wasn't there?
Dean Koontz: Demon Seed
or something like that. ISTR a film called "electric dreams" too.