maybe not little hitlers - but how bout a million little portman's?
actually I want a clone of my self for spare parts. Is that ethical? what if I want to clone my liver and kidneys and heart - just so i can have an extra if I need it.
"majority of Microsoft SQL servers have administrator passwords."
I think the point is her - to show that there is so much you can do with Microsoft's Open Scripting Language - provided you set no passwords - the options are boundless (AND I AM NOT TRYING TO BE A TROLL)
What I am saying is that maybe M$ should learn from all the virii out there that use their products as food - the virii writers have shown a lot more talent at exploiting other's code than the several thousands in redmond - and if MS could take advantage of the "inter-op-ability" (e.g. how eaasily viriii gets ms code to do what they want) - then maybe they would have some *true* innovation - which is all they have really wanted in the last decade...
I mean seriously - wouldnt it be good for MS to actually use virii in their products as learning tools and incorporate the generally *small* (as in comparison to every bloat-app that ms writes) code base of/features/ that virus' usually have in them - into the MS code base... and I mean the good aspects - I mean, if you think about it - some virus' out there offer a great deal of functionality with a really limited code base...
(doesnt mean that those features are what you wan - but that is not the point).
We should learn from this electro-bio-organism that is computer virii and see that you can take advantage of a core architecture and get many things accompllished (which is a whole other topic) - anyway.. I can see long term benifits... too many to list in this state of drunkeness....
welp if we're gunna blame anyone for addicting us to windows it should be the game industry. Thats right Carmack - its all your fault. If you hadnt released them games, I wouldnt have had to have spent all my money on new computer parts and games. And most of us may have had a chance at a social life - instead we spend many many hours sitting in dark little rooms staring into the screen shouting "WTF!! I HAD YOU!!!"
Oh - I have seen this one several times - my FAVORITE. The first two times I had seen it I pissed myself. literally - I really did piss myself... however the lawsuit was thrown out.:(
why not get an iopener - and make a custom case for it. and get it to run on a battery. they run linux - and theres plenty of info on how they are put together... for 50 bucks you get pretty much the whole machine (screen, mem, linux, etc) then all you need is the following:
a case - you can make one yourself.. or check the other people I linked to (ruggednotebooks.com)
spend some more money and get a solid state HDD
get one of those little foldable palm keyboards and get it to run with the iopener: or even better get one of those flexible plastic ones that are fully water proof..
get ruggednotebooks.com to waterproof the whole thing for you (prolly expensive but they might like the project?)
and go and actually do this and make sure you tell us when its done - so this isnt just some pointless ask/.
"cost of the molds to make the case alone would run a good 200K"
there was a company in seattle a few years back that a friend of a friend worked for - they specialized in making really rugged and water proof laptops. i mean like throw the thing at the ground and it wont break (the case that is... your HDD is another issue.) plus you could submerge them and they were fine... (liquid cooling anyone?:)
anyway - I will keep looking to see if I can find em - but maybe a co like this who is already doing cool things with laptops could take care of the case for you - maybe other things as well... hopefully they are still in business... will reply if I find em.
that reminds me; anyone know the details behind/. infrastructure? what are they running, who they colo with, what type of bandwidth they require to handle the load etc...?
as far as advertising it, why not try it on craigslist.org - maybe we can talk to craig and get a NAN category or something - then you can look up all the NANs in your area...
and since NANs and CL are community based "grassroots" types of connecting... it would seem appropriate.
unless/. wants to put up a NAN arena for people to have an ongoing open discussion about the NANs they run - or know about... and have info for people on how to secure/share/setup.
like that article that ran some time ago about the guy who turned his primestar dish and a coffee can into a long range wireless antenae.
I have thought about this as well. When I was at Intel - I was thinking it would be great to have levels that are designed exactly as the physical environ that you are in - and that you view it from a visor so that you can see all the effect etc, plus have the walls have much more awesome detail.
but there are a couple of problems:
1. death. when you die in Qx - you return to a spawn spot, but if you get fragged in a meat-space-quake - you would still be standing in the same physical loc that you perished in. So you would have to have your visor turned off for 5 seconds or so so that you cant see the play field - and you would disappear from other peoples display so taht they knew that you were fragged - but this brings us to problem 2.
2. COLLISION DETECTION! you would have to wear a helmet and football pads to play this - as you get fragged and disappear off the playfield for a short time, somebody might run into you - and hard. The other thing is that all players would be used to the fact that you can run through other players - and may forget that in this version you cannot. Maybe when a char gets fragged the system would place a false wall around them - that all other players would see - and try to avoid running into?
3. terrain: sadly most geeks cant run for more than 10 feet at top speed - and let alone the jumping factor that was already mentioned.... so the levels might end up being rather bland. No falling into lava pits, hyper jumping between platforms suspended in nothing etc...
4. you would want some sort of feedback - so maybe paintballs would be the best method - so that you *knew* when you got hit... but you would have to wear a vest that was able to sense each hit and deduct the damage from your overall health. which relates to 5.
5. ammo - if you had to use paintball etc... then you would be required to physically reload the weapons. unless they were like 500 shots only - and when you ran out of ammo - you had to drop it off at an ammo station and pick up a new one - and there would be a gun-monkey behind the wall reloading the guns for everyone?
anyway - it would still be fun no matter what - but until we have direct synaptic interfaces, we will have to address the challenges of getting meat space fragging on par with what Q3 can offer. Or maybe we just have to drop the whole comparison altogether - and accept that they are two separate stimuli.
the other fact about very large "planet killer" meteors - is that some of them can actually penetrate the crust of the planet. This usually causes a large bulge in the surface on the exact opposite side of the planet.... as we have here (IIRC between the yucatan and the giza platau - no globe here so someone look whats on the opposite of the yucatan)
and the same is true with mars. however it is believed that the mars planet killer was much greater in size that the one that hit earth - as the "hemispherical" rift on mars would indicate that the entire crust moved after the impact and the many many mile high bulge on the opposite side of the planet.
also consider that the scattered craters can also be caused by ejection from a very large impact - and may not even be alien in origin. one other theory is that a largely water based planet such as earth has a greater chance of survival from large impacts as the areas hit can be quickly filled over - and therefore not spewing as much dust and smoke (given that the impact area can be filled by water after the impact)
I usually look at the keyboard when I see really bad mis-spellings to see how they could have been done through fast typing and just transposing or hitting keys that i right next to eachother - but this is clearly written by someone who started drinking early today...
I have been doing some thinkning - and came up with a way to make this device just a little bit larger than a palm III - when folded, and about A4 when opened. however, the primary problems are: pc-card slot, battery, and periferal slots.
so the solution seems to be: when folded the device is multiple layers, and is approx. 4" wide x 6" tall. It requires a battery and HDD from an iPOD (you can look up the article on/. your self) and requires LEPs for the screen as stated.
Here is how it folds out:
The top layer is the upper left corner of the "page" (1 & 2) and has a single cantelevered type arm that folds it up to that position. This peice has a layer that folds out from under it to the right - forming the upper right portion of the "page"
The next layer are the middle two portions (3 & 4) - they slide directly up - then the right half folds out from under in the same manner as the previous.
Both of these sections (consisting of four sections of screen) complete the screen portion of the machine.
The next is the keyboard (5 & 6)- and the right half folds out in the same way. The battery and the HDD are contained in section 5.
(7) is the "grafitti area or the machine and also contains the USB, FireWire and external expansions adapter (which is a cable that can run to a little belt mounted square box that you can but pcmcia cards into.
but it looks as though the whole thing when in "palm" mode will be about 1.5 inches thick...
WTF ever - it wont let me diagram it in text (too many junk chars)... so youll just hafta revert to the lowtek method of actually visualizing something in your head:P
Re:Not what I thought this review was about..
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B.S. since it wasnt reported here in the US: Tiger Woods (Mr. Nike - who is half black and half thai) was in thailand for a golf tournament - and rather to a "hero's welcome" there were hundreds of Nike laborers that were protesting violently against Nike, Woods, and the conditions they work in.
it is utter BS that they are "thankful" for the shitty wages and conditions that the "employees" of a company who continuously promotes "self empowerment, strength, and individuality" in their advertisments are subjected to - while here they pay a FSKING golfer millions.
I love to play golf - but I NEVER buy nike products.
so - labor protection laws are NEEDED. just take a look at the US before we had them. its not to say that the laws we have in place in the US are perfect - but they are better than none.
Nike execs should be hit in the face with a shovel.
thief and thief II were prolly some of the creepiest games I've played...
the undead hammers saying in a very goulish voice "join us, joooiiinnnn uuusssssssss"
after palying that for a while with headphones on at 3am - I decided that I would only play the game during daylight or early in the evening - and never, NEVER again while drinking heavily.
especially in the first thief when you had to stop that ritual by the devil - but you had to sit through and listen to his whole incantation first... I thought that Looking Glass Studios was trying to possess me
but all the creepy shit aside - they remain in my top 5 of all time.
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maybe not little hitlers - but how bout a million little portman's?
actually I want a clone of my self for spare parts. Is that ethical? what if I want to clone my liver and kidneys and heart - just so i can have an extra if I need it.
"majority of Microsoft SQL servers have administrator passwords."
/features/ that virus' usually have in them - into the MS code base... and I mean the good aspects - I mean, if you think about it - some virus' out there offer a great deal of functionality with a really limited code base...
I think the point is her - to show that there is so much you can do with Microsoft's Open Scripting Language - provided you set no passwords - the options are boundless (AND I AM NOT TRYING TO BE A TROLL)
What I am saying is that maybe M$ should learn from all the virii out there that use their products as food - the virii writers have shown a lot more talent at exploiting other's code than the several thousands in redmond - and if MS could take advantage of the "inter-op-ability" (e.g. how eaasily viriii gets ms code to do what they want) - then maybe they would have some *true* innovation - which is all they have really wanted in the last decade...
I mean seriously - wouldnt it be good for MS to actually use virii in their products as learning tools and incorporate the generally *small* (as in comparison to every bloat-app that ms writes) code base of
(doesnt mean that those features are what you wan - but that is not the point).
We should learn from this electro-bio-organism that is computer virii and see that you can take advantage of a core architecture and get many things accompllished (which is a whole other topic) - anyway.. I can see long term benifits... too many to list in this state of drunkeness....
reply please.
welp if we're gunna blame anyone for addicting us to windows it should be the game industry. Thats right Carmack - its all your fault. If you hadnt released them games, I wouldnt have had to have spent all my money on new computer parts and games. And most of us may have had a chance at a social life - instead we spend many many hours sitting in dark little rooms staring into the screen shouting "WTF!! I HAD YOU!!!"
Oh - I have seen this one several times - my FAVORITE. The first two times I had seen it I pissed myself. literally - I really did piss myself... however the lawsuit was thrown out. :(
tk421 why arent you at your post... tk421?
one of my favorite quotes!
welp microsoft has been spewing out the same old crap for almost 25 years...
sorry. had to.
why not get an iopener - and make a custom case for it. and get it to run on a battery. they run linux - and theres plenty of info on how they are put together... for 50 bucks you get pretty much the whole machine (screen, mem, linux, etc) then all you need is the following:
/.
a case - you can make one yourself.. or check the other people I linked to (ruggednotebooks.com)
spend some more money and get a solid state HDD
get one of those little foldable palm keyboards and get it to run with the iopener: or even better get one of those flexible plastic ones that are fully water proof..
get ruggednotebooks.com to waterproof the whole thing for you (prolly expensive but they might like the project?)
and go and actually do this and make sure you tell us when its done - so this isnt just some pointless ask
welp its not the same co - but here is one... with an easy to member url to boot (pun intended)
ruggednotebooks.com
"cost of the molds to make the case alone would run a good 200K"
there was a company in seattle a few years back that a friend of a friend worked for - they specialized in making really rugged and water proof laptops. i mean like throw the thing at the ground and it wont break (the case that is... your HDD is another issue.) plus you could submerge them and they were fine... (liquid cooling anyone?:)
anyway - I will keep looking to see if I can find em - but maybe a co like this who is already doing cool things with laptops could take care of the case for you - maybe other things as well... hopefully they are still in business... will reply if I find em.
that reminds me; anyone know the details behind /. infrastructure? what are they running, who they colo with, what type of bandwidth they require to handle the load etc...?
great - just what we need goatse.cx plastered all over my enitre wall.
as far as advertising it, why not try it on craigslist.org - maybe we can talk to craig and get a NAN category or something - then you can look up all the NANs in your area...
/. wants to put up a NAN arena for people to have an ongoing open discussion about the NANs they run - or know about... and have info for people on how to secure/share/setup.
and since NANs and CL are community based "grassroots" types of connecting... it would seem appropriate.
unless
like that article that ran some time ago about the guy who turned his primestar dish and a coffee can into a long range wireless antenae.
regarding your sig:
.gov fsck off - I am NOT your subject.
I was at the CA state capitol in sac yesterday - and posted on the door was a sign that said:
"to all subjects, these doors are accessable only by card holders. All entering will be subject to search."
and the doors were locked...
hey
I have thought about this as well. When I was at Intel - I was thinking it would be great to have levels that are designed exactly as the physical environ that you are in - and that you view it from a visor so that you can see all the effect etc, plus have the walls have much more awesome detail.
but there are a couple of problems:
1. death. when you die in Qx - you return to a spawn spot, but if you get fragged in a meat-space-quake - you would still be standing in the same physical loc that you perished in. So you would have to have your visor turned off for 5 seconds or so so that you cant see the play field - and you would disappear from other peoples display so taht they knew that you were fragged - but this brings us to problem 2.
2. COLLISION DETECTION! you would have to wear a helmet and football pads to play this - as you get fragged and disappear off the playfield for a short time, somebody might run into you - and hard. The other thing is that all players would be used to the fact that you can run through other players - and may forget that in this version you cannot. Maybe when a char gets fragged the system would place a false wall around them - that all other players would see - and try to avoid running into?
3. terrain: sadly most geeks cant run for more than 10 feet at top speed - and let alone the jumping factor that was already mentioned.... so the levels might end up being rather bland. No falling into lava pits, hyper jumping between platforms suspended in nothing etc...
4. you would want some sort of feedback - so maybe paintballs would be the best method - so that you *knew* when you got hit... but you would have to wear a vest that was able to sense each hit and deduct the damage from your overall health. which relates to 5.
5. ammo - if you had to use paintball etc... then you would be required to physically reload the weapons. unless they were like 500 shots only - and when you ran out of ammo - you had to drop it off at an ammo station and pick up a new one - and there would be a gun-monkey behind the wall reloading the guns for everyone?
anyway - it would still be fun no matter what - but until we have direct synaptic interfaces, we will have to address the challenges of getting meat space fragging on par with what Q3 can offer. Or maybe we just have to drop the whole comparison altogether - and accept that they are two separate stimuli.
welp Wyoming is where it would have the least "impact" :P
the other thing that can wipe out an african tribe is not being able to pull your weight in a challenge and getting voted out...
the other fact about very large "planet killer" meteors - is that some of them can actually penetrate the crust of the planet. This usually causes a large bulge in the surface on the exact opposite side of the planet.... as we have here (IIRC between the yucatan and the giza platau - no globe here so someone look whats on the opposite of the yucatan)
and the same is true with mars. however it is believed that the mars planet killer was much greater in size that the one that hit earth - as the "hemispherical" rift on mars would indicate that the entire crust moved after the impact and the many many mile high bulge on the opposite side of the planet.
also consider that the scattered craters can also be caused by ejection from a very large impact - and may not even be alien in origin. one other theory is that a largely water based planet such as earth has a greater chance of survival from large impacts as the areas hit can be quickly filled over - and therefore not spewing as much dust and smoke (given that the impact area can be filled by water after the impact)
if you remove any hebrew letter from any word you get mis-labeled as a typist for discriminating against their letters.
It is also a known fact that carl sagan was a devout NASA debunker...
"nobody would write "today, a meteor struck my town".
you are right - today we would see such titles as:
The great extinction of 2001
America in craters
The great impact of 2001
Catastrophe in Wyoming
and other such dramatic headlines cleverly written by todays elite media.
"ledgeds"
I usually look at the keyboard when I see really bad mis-spellings to see how they could have been done through fast typing and just transposing or hitting keys that i right next to eachother - but this is clearly written by someone who started drinking early today...
I have been doing some thinkning - and came up with a way to make this device just a little bit larger than a palm III - when folded, and about A4 when opened. however, the primary problems are: pc-card slot, battery, and periferal slots.
/. your self) and requires LEPs for the screen as stated.
:P
so the solution seems to be: when folded the device is multiple layers, and is approx. 4" wide x 6" tall. It requires a battery and HDD from an iPOD (you can look up the article on
Here is how it folds out:
The top layer is the upper left corner of the "page" (1 & 2) and has a single cantelevered type arm that folds it up to that position. This peice has a layer that folds out from under it to the right - forming the upper right portion of the "page"
The next layer are the middle two portions (3 & 4) - they slide directly up - then the right half folds out from under in the same manner as the previous.
Both of these sections (consisting of four sections of screen) complete the screen portion of the machine.
The next is the keyboard (5 & 6)- and the right half folds out in the same way. The battery and the HDD are contained in section 5.
(7) is the "grafitti area or the machine and also contains the USB, FireWire and external expansions adapter (which is a cable that can run to a little belt mounted square box that you can but pcmcia cards into.
but it looks as though the whole thing when in "palm" mode will be about 1.5 inches thick...
WTF ever - it wont let me diagram it in text (too many junk chars)... so youll just hafta revert to the lowtek method of actually visualizing something in your head
C:\WINDOWS>
B.S. since it wasnt reported here in the US: Tiger Woods (Mr. Nike - who is half black and half thai) was in thailand for a golf tournament - and rather to a "hero's welcome" there were hundreds of Nike laborers that were protesting violently against Nike, Woods, and the conditions they work in.
it is utter BS that they are "thankful" for the shitty wages and conditions that the "employees" of a company who continuously promotes "self empowerment, strength, and individuality" in their advertisments are subjected to - while here they pay a FSKING golfer millions.
I love to play golf - but I NEVER buy nike products.
so - labor protection laws are NEEDED. just take a look at the US before we had them. its not to say that the laws we have in place in the US are perfect - but they are better than none.
Nike execs should be hit in the face with a shovel.
thief and thief II were prolly some of the creepiest games I've played...
the undead hammers saying in a very goulish voice "join us, joooiiinnnn uuusssssssss"
after palying that for a while with headphones on at 3am - I decided that I would only play the game during daylight or early in the evening - and never, NEVER again while drinking heavily.
especially in the first thief when you had to stop that ritual by the devil - but you had to sit through and listen to his whole incantation first... I thought that Looking Glass Studios was trying to possess me
but all the creepy shit aside - they remain in my top 5 of all time.