Calling Tom Ferris a "Security Researcher" is like calling Bill Gates a programmer...
Why don't you sit down and code a BASIC interpreter for the MITS Altair on punch tape, asshat. Bill may be many things but he's busted out enough hardcore coding in years past to never lost the title of skilled coder.
"Um, I'm more impressed that the GP sent in for the reunion scene and didn't bother to notice what he got back was a page of boilerplate. Or that somehow he and his wife are the only two recipients of the actual reunion scene. All the rest of us got a form letter."
Indeed, it was the form letter that we both got, along with anyone else who went to the trouble. As I was typing the original post I intended to explain what the whole mail-in-for-omitted-Reunion-Scene scenario was all about, but forgot.
After some googling, I found a on-line copy of the letter that Ballantine Books sends out to those who request the reunion scene. (Or at least they used to - I requested mine back in 1990 or so - I hope they still send it.)
Long story short I met my wife in a fairly chance encounter when going to have a beer with a friend of a friend (and her roommate) at a bar in Williamsburg, VA where I lived. I was most taken by her roommate, and she seemed rather to be enjyoing my company as the evening began. However, the roommate had been broken up with less than 12 hours before our meeting. The last thing on her mind was getting into a new relationship.
So the conversation turned to "favorite movies." I mentioned that The Princss Bride was mine. She was amazed and admitted it was hers, as well. I then revealed that I had read and enjoyed the book and she confessed to the same. I then took it even farther by pointing out that I sent in a letter to the publisher asking to receive the "missing" Reunion Scene, which I did receive a few weeks later. She did the same thing! So what was mild interest at first on her part, was now in her mind a situation with a flashing "Hey This Might Be Fate" light attached.
Two months later I quit my job and moved to Charlottesville, VA where she was attending law school. Four months after that, we were engaged. We just had our seventh wedding anniversary and have been together almost nine years now.
Boo hoooo booo hoooblubber. Google has drained the market of talent! -snif- Mean, mean Google. Why must thou pull talent from the world like so many Hoover vacuum cleaners?! Oh lament!!
The browser has been kicking around for a few weeks, right? I've not seen one photo or screenshot of it. Is it worth flashing my first gen (in the US) PSP and losing the ability to boot "homebrew" games to use this browser? What sort of keyboard metaphor does it have? Does it support JS? SSL? Flash?
Touch sensitive technology is used to determine whether the mechanical click was intended to be a left or right mouse button click. Did you read the specs on the mouse??
"Audio Feedback: Apple points out on their website that the mouse features a built in speaker to provide audio feedback. This speaker is used when using the scroll ball and the side button. The click noise for the side buttons is perfect. Not too loud, yet not too quite. The scrollball on the other hand is too loud for my liking. It makes a click noise similar to a typical scroll wheel, but it clicked too much. The mouse preference pane does not allow you to adjust the volume or mute this feature. I never thought I would say this, but can we get a volume control for our mice?!? "...so what's ArsTechnica talking about with the no speaker business? Broken MightyMouse??
A team of famed mathematicians have make the breakthrough discovery that the integer 2, when added to another integer of the same value (2), results in a sum total of the integer 4. Early speculation that the resultant integer would be 5 or 3 has been shattered. Stay tuned for further details on this revelation.
Very sad news. SGI always represented the bleeding edge. I suppoes that was before a pimped out Mac or Dell could come pretty close in the visualization workstation niche.
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I thought this was a post about NeXT systems...
My machines bring all the boys to the yard.
:-)
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But it is capable of running an operating system that doesn't smell like something that rhymes with "fit."
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All these worlds are yours except Mars
Attempt no polar landing there
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Indeed, it was the form letter that we both got, along with anyone else who went to the trouble. As I was typing the original post I intended to explain what the whole mail-in-for-omitted-Reunion-Scene scenario was all about, but forgot.
After some googling, I found a on-line copy of the letter that Ballantine Books sends out to those who request the reunion scene. (Or at least they used to - I requested mine back in 1990 or so - I hope they still send it.)
See it here.
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That, of course, is where we were.
I closed that place down most nights when I lived in an apt. not far from there between March and December 1996.
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So the conversation turned to "favorite movies." I mentioned that The Princss Bride was mine. She was amazed and admitted it was hers, as well. I then revealed that I had read and enjoyed the book and she confessed to the same. I then took it even farther by pointing out that I sent in a letter to the publisher asking to receive the "missing" Reunion Scene, which I did receive a few weeks later. She did the same thing! So what was mild interest at first on her part, was now in her mind a situation with a flashing "Hey This Might Be Fate" light attached.
Two months later I quit my job and moved to Charlottesville, VA where she was attending law school. Four months after that, we were engaged. We just had our seventh wedding anniversary and have been together almost nine years now.
I guess I was her Man In Black. :-)
(And it is nicer than an M.L.T.)
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It was actually a very dark shade of grey. It was called "black" thought:
Sparyon Paint
Omni-Packblend
4Next-Black (icon black)
LAV-16
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Actually very dark grey. You could order this paint for touch-ups.
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I have both the PSP and the DS. The only good game for either playform is Super Mario 64 DS. Go figure.
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The market / analysts - what a bunch of asshats.
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Yes - email them to me at blake [at] blakespot[dot]com and I will post them and provide link. Thanks.
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The browser has been kicking around for a few weeks, right? I've not seen one photo or screenshot of it. Is it worth flashing my first gen (in the US) PSP and losing the ability to boot "homebrew" games to use this browser? What sort of keyboard metaphor does it have? Does it support JS? SSL? Flash?
Thanks.
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Bad weather on landing day... When NASA finds out about this, the shit's gonna hit the fan.
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http://detroitmac.com/index.php?content=mightymou
"Audio Feedback:
Apple points out on their website that the mouse features a built in speaker to provide audio feedback. This speaker is used when using the scroll ball and the side button. The click noise for the side buttons is perfect. Not too loud, yet not too quite. The scrollball on the other hand is too loud for my liking. It makes a click noise similar to a typical scroll wheel, but it clicked too much. The mouse preference pane does not allow you to adjust the volume or mute this feature. I never thought I would say this, but can we get a volume control for our mice?!?
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http://www.ipaqlinux.com/
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http://www.maconintel.com/news.php?article=29 ( MacOnIntel link )
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http://cch.loria.fr/documentation/O2000/slides/To
to an utterly bland, vanilla logo:
http://truegrid.com/images/SGI_logo.gif
Well...they had it coming. [ shakes head ]
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My SGI O2 system sheds a tear of abandonment...
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I forgot this one:
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http://hometown.aol.com/__121b_/gbyW1ZzOAcb1xKlks
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