I flew over the New River Gorge, several years ago, with an aviation pioneer who kept a small airfield in Fayetteville, WV, going. He's got a small museum and a couple books out "It Is This Way With Men Who Fly" and "State Of Confusion: West Virginia", both interesting reads as he's jotted down many things over the years and accumulated them in very fascinating notes and stories, including training WWII flyers and the crash which took the lives of most of the Marshall football team.
Frank used to (I don't know if he still is able) give flights over the gorge and Fayetteville for $5 (hence he was known as Five-Dollar-Frank), for $7 he'd take you up the river to Thurmond. A rare treasure to be seized while it's available.
It'll be interesting to see if the game can attract the blood thirsty gamers aroud today.
It's all fun and games until some lamer kicks sand in the face of your mummy.
This brings to mind countless Far Side cartoons...
There is no killing in this game.
on
A Tale in the Desert
·
· Score: 5, Informative
It is all about
cooperation to unlock the knowledge of Egypt.
Shows the developers know nothing about what motivated explorers. Early egyptology was a cutthroat business, funded by people with huge egos (not to unlike how much of North America was explored by botonists seeking to bring back exciting new specimens for their patrons in the old world.)
A well. Should be fun, after all, you can have lots of fun with Settlers of Catan and it doesn't involve (much) killing.
I notice the problems of Valentine's Day. Single folk use it as a day to be miserable, and coupled folk have to spend a lot of money so that their SO will still think they love them (which had been taken for granted
the past weeks/months).
Perhaps I'm being pessimistic. A better way to look at it is that it makes every other day of the year look that
much better.
Perhaps what would make the lonely geek feel much better, to go out to a restaurant this evening
and overhear a couple having an spat. "Whew! Good thing I'm on my own!" Then again, a mind receptive to another frequency might think thus: "Ah, how unfortunate I am, not to have an antagonist. Sigh."
That's funny because I am thinking how this damn holiday makes me $200 poorer than I was two days ago. Not sure that I wouldn't be willing to trade with you so that I can play some AOM online tonight.
Oh no you don't! You're not getting out of it that easy, get in there and take your lumps for having a successful social life and finding that special someone. I'll dedicate a game of SoC to you, tonight.
Dont feel bad. If you are lonely you can just build one of these
Toys have been the answer, to counter loneliness, and man, I've got a _lot_ of toys. It's just these days (valentines, sweetest, Christmas) come along and put me into a funk. I'll be back to the usual with my toys in a couple days.
Just don't try to get it drunk and
make out with it.
Unfortunately, I can't have alcohol for a few months yet, must.. cope.. without.
There's definitely a link missing there somewhere. The dot-com millions are a thing of the past, geeks are no longer 'hot', girls are no longer willing to overlook our obsessions with technology for the loads of cash we get. Who's hot now? Bio-tech researchers?
It's bad enough that it's Valentine's day, but why torment me by reminding me I haven't got a date, I ain't likely to get a date and I'm most likely to just go home tonight, eat a bowl of porridge and have those damn spirits visit me again...
the companies have teamed to get Linux evaluated under the Common Criteria
If Outlook, SQL Server, IIS or any other Microsoft product which has been riddled with holes have been certified, I'd say this isn't much of an endorsement. If Microsoft hasn't achieved any such ceritification, for products listed above, than you have a point about it opening doors.
For good and for bad (for Microsoft in particular) they are the benchmark for software as a commodity. Expect some writhing in the vicinity of Redmond.
Bought a Plextor, myself. In some damn big hurry, too, and still haven't got around to burning a thing, two months later. I almost bought a Yamaha, but reviews of Plextor were most convincing. Reviews of Sony, however, suggested an experience similar to yours.
On an offtopic tangent...
In a nutshell, I bought a Yamaha SCSI CD-RW drive about 3 or 4 years ago for about $300. Within 2
months it died. For over a year Yamaha Tech Support (including Phone, Fax, & Email) absolutely,
stubbornly insisted the problems were software-related, in spite of the fact that I had tried the drive with
multiple software packages, on 3 different PCs running 3 different OSes.
This recount somehow put me in mind of taking a tech support call 16 or so years ago. A user in a college lab insisted a diskette drive on an Apple][ worked just fine a few hours earlier. They indicated turning the computer on would turn on a light on the drive and it made sounds like it usually did, so something must be wrong with the computer. I wasn't normally Apple support, but I took it as nobody else was available. Someone had dictated each computer and peripheral be secured against theft, thoughout the building. There sat the diskette drive, with a 1/4" bolt, about 8" long, right through the top of the drive and table, secured by some locked nut apparatus beneath. Amazingly, the guy who drilled a hole through the drive missed all the delicate parts, so a diskette fit about 50% of the way in, but no further. The user, nor guy who put in the bolt, could figure out why it wouldn't go in further.
Only on earth could it be hotly debated: life on other worlds, no life on other worlds, over a meteorite.
On thing seems abundantly clear: There's no life left on the world it came from. I hope ours doesn't pose a base for such a heated debate on some other world species some day.
The first game to bring hand animation, laserdisks, and alternative paths together in a single game. The
technology was really advanced for the time, and it grossed 34,000,000 in the first year, thats a lot of quarters.
Well the animation (Don Bluth?) was pretty good and the sound (many arcade machines had the full sound our lame TV's and entertainment centers of the 80's lacked) was great, but for me it was a follow the leader type game. Navigate a set order of events to see a cartoon and pay a lot for it. It's success was short lived, $34M wasn't actually a lot, considering these machines likely cost $10K at the time, so the local arcade wanted two tokens per play (effectively 50 cents)
Compare that to NBA Jam, which was the first arcade machine to gross $1B, and it's kinda sick. Most people's familiarity with Dragon's Lair would likely stem from Saturday morning fare, which I only remember briefly.
I preferred to chuck my $20+, per day, into games where I could turn left or right if I felt like it without dying because the game dictated I must go straight or die.
These days I spend more money on board games, wanting to thrash human opponents face to face (utterly failing much of the time, but still having lots of fun:-) How did this ever come about...
Run by North Koreans. (note: not a Troll! It is well known that most Pachinko parlors in Japan are run by North Korean families (think: mafia), for the purpose of exporting cash to
North Korea.
That sounds like an urban legend intended to get Japanese to stop playing Pachinko.
Whatever, try doing some research before next post, ok?
Supported by debt backed up by Microsoft (This in regards to speculation on what japanese entity is benefitting from $590 million insured by Microsoft in their last quarterly statement.)
Run by North Koreans. (note: not a Troll! It is well known that most Pachinko parlors in Japan are run by North Korean families (think: mafia), for the purpose of exporting cash to North Korea.
"Pachinko for the XBox, great, what shall we call it?"
Would be disabling javascript on selected pages. I.e. the ability to right-click->open-page-in-new-window/tab-with-java -disabled
I think I could love that. Oh, and the ability to disable page reloads on back.
One of the worse offenders IMHO is Google when opening cached copies or a failed search, but automatic search on something it thinks is like the search item. I'd rather a failure and leave it at that, perhaps with the hint of other possibilies, but the auto thing is a bastard.
Most users are too clueless to realize it's really not coming from that address.
I've given up on most of it. The best way to figure out where junk is coming from is to just view the contents as ASCII, which The Bat does very nicely. (Show kludges shows headers) Most of the time there's a phone number or website and doing a whois on many will reveal the villain.
There are urls which are use just the IP address and those which look like HTTP://434328432849, the number being an IP address, not in the form 127.0.0.1, but the sum of 1+0*2^8+0*2^16+127*2^24, a neat way of masking sites.
Other news... I was just checkin a website I've had for 4+ years and never checked the mailbox that came with it. It filled up Mar 23, 2002 and has 1,669 pieces of mail, mostly spam. Looks like I'll be cleaning it out on Saturday. It would be an interesting project to archive it all and see how many violate California's anti-spam law and see if I can Make $$$$ At Home!
I heard about something similar on the BBC a couple days ago, apparently a dose of hair spray on the license plate fouls up the reflectivity of plates, foiling the cameras.
There was some cartoon, ages ago, where a girl always seemed to fix car problems with a can of hair spray. That cartoon was visionary.
everytime people try to go to your website they are going to type it in wrong until they remember
your strange extension.
You got that right. I've fallen into squatter servers (or parasites as I refer to them) which parallel a site I'm looking for, too often. Even though my own site mainly consists of a bunch of cycling and vacation pictures (and one or two of Bill the Cat) I've got me a.com
Maybe I'll have something to sell one of these days (other than a few odd items on eBay, for which I do my own photo hosting thankyewveramuch), but I'm not ruling it in or out. So, for the moment I'm just a fraud:-)
You fool! (and I mean this in a nice, constructive way)
maybe it's just me, but i saw a bunch of marketing from my registrar (register.com) for the.name
tld.
so much, in fact, that i went ahead and registered mine.
You know you're not to give in to spam, it just perpetuates it! Here I have to wade through piles of it, like I'm in hell, up to my neck in feces. Thanks.
BTW, mine is probably one of the 100 most common name combinations in the USA & Britain & Australia & New Zeeland & The Falklands & Gibraltar & Canada , so mine was probably taken on the first day by (a) someone with the same name OR (b) some speculator. I lose no sleep over it. Besides, if I had a fairly unique name, which could be found on 411, I'd probably want to keep my anonymity. I'm not fond of my phone ringing with calls from strangers.
On another note:
I guess that will put a damper on
any plans to introduce more new TLDs."
Most programmers who are going to come across a "black box" have enough experience to be able code for the situation. Isn't that skill a trait of a good programmer?
I think it's more than a skill, it's an attitude. I've encountered a number of programmers (just out of school/training) who are oblivious to external concerns, including interface design (traditionally what users complain most about and programmers lack any standard to follow.) Generally it takes little effort to break programs written by very skilled programmers, but blind to anything outside their scope. I was probably as bad when I first started, but recently an analyst complained angrily why I went beyond the scope of the project by including an error/warning log (most likely because the errors/warnings accounted for any untrapped logic and revealed how incomplete the spec was and how little the analyst, and some of the higher-ups, knew of the business function) I felt there were too many things unaccounted for and added the log, when it produced 1,000+ entries things got a little heated. I stuck to my guns though and see a general lack of interest in review of why there are gaps in the spec or knowledge (by the very people who should know.
Slashdot Mirror
if !strcmp(vendor.name,"microsoft") {
int i,j;
while (ij = (2*i)/2+(3*i)/3+(4*i)/4+(5*i)/5+(6*i)/6
}
if (rand()}
Word Bursts? Back in my day we called these cliches, I guess that was the old craze.
Frank used to (I don't know if he still is able) give flights over the gorge and Fayetteville for $5 (hence he was known as Five-Dollar-Frank), for $7 he'd take you up the river to Thurmond. A rare treasure to be seized while it's available.
It's all fun and games until some lamer kicks sand in the face of your mummy.
This brings to mind countless Far Side cartoons...
Shows the developers know nothing about what motivated explorers. Early egyptology was a cutthroat business, funded by people with huge egos (not to unlike how much of North America was explored by botonists seeking to bring back exciting new specimens for their patrons in the old world.)
A well. Should be fun, after all, you can have lots of fun with Settlers of Catan and it doesn't involve (much) killing.
Perhaps I'm being pessimistic. A better way to look at it is that it makes every other day of the year look that much better.
Perhaps what would make the lonely geek feel much better, to go out to a restaurant this evening and overhear a couple having an spat. "Whew! Good thing I'm on my own!" Then again, a mind receptive to another frequency might think thus: "Ah, how unfortunate I am, not to have an antagonist. Sigh."
<Moe Voice>
"Aaahhhh! The Sun! It burns, it burns!"
</Moe Voice>
Oh no you don't! You're not getting out of it that easy, get in there and take your lumps for having a successful social life and finding that special someone. I'll dedicate a game of SoC to you, tonight.
Toys have been the answer, to counter loneliness, and man, I've got a _lot_ of toys. It's just these days (valentines, sweetest, Christmas) come along and put me into a funk. I'll be back to the usual with my toys in a couple days.
Just don't try to get it drunk and make out with it.
Unfortunately, I can't have alcohol for a few months yet, must .. cope .. without.
There's definitely a link missing there somewhere. The dot-com millions are a thing of the past, geeks are no longer 'hot', girls are no longer willing to overlook our obsessions with technology for the loads of cash we get. Who's hot now? Bio-tech researchers?
oh, wait, that's the other holiday.
If Outlook, SQL Server, IIS or any other Microsoft product which has been riddled with holes have been certified, I'd say this isn't much of an endorsement. If Microsoft hasn't achieved any such ceritification, for products listed above, than you have a point about it opening doors.
For good and for bad (for Microsoft in particular) they are the benchmark for software as a commodity. Expect some writhing in the vicinity of Redmond.
On an offtopic tangent...
In a nutshell, I bought a Yamaha SCSI CD-RW drive about 3 or 4 years ago for about $300. Within 2 months it died. For over a year Yamaha Tech Support (including Phone, Fax, & Email) absolutely, stubbornly insisted the problems were software-related, in spite of the fact that I had tried the drive with multiple software packages, on 3 different PCs running 3 different OSes.
This recount somehow put me in mind of taking a tech support call 16 or so years ago. A user in a college lab insisted a diskette drive on an Apple][ worked just fine a few hours earlier. They indicated turning the computer on would turn on a light on the drive and it made sounds like it usually did, so something must be wrong with the computer. I wasn't normally Apple support, but I took it as nobody else was available. Someone had dictated each computer and peripheral be secured against theft, thoughout the building. There sat the diskette drive, with a 1/4" bolt, about 8" long, right through the top of the drive and table, secured by some locked nut apparatus beneath. Amazingly, the guy who drilled a hole through the drive missed all the delicate parts, so a diskette fit about 50% of the way in, but no further. The user, nor guy who put in the bolt, could figure out why it wouldn't go in further.
On thing seems abundantly clear: There's no life left on the world it came from. I hope ours doesn't pose a base for such a heated debate on some other world species some day.
Well the animation (Don Bluth?) was pretty good and the sound (many arcade machines had the full sound our lame TV's and entertainment centers of the 80's lacked) was great, but for me it was a follow the leader type game. Navigate a set order of events to see a cartoon and pay a lot for it. It's success was short lived, $34M wasn't actually a lot, considering these machines likely cost $10K at the time, so the local arcade wanted two tokens per play (effectively 50 cents)
Compare that to NBA Jam, which was the first arcade machine to gross $1B, and it's kinda sick. Most people's familiarity with Dragon's Lair would likely stem from Saturday morning fare, which I only remember briefly.
I preferred to chuck my $20+, per day, into games where I could turn left or right if I felt like it without dying because the game dictated I must go straight or die.
These days I spend more money on board games, wanting to thrash human opponents face to face (utterly failing much of the time, but still having lots of fun :-) How did this ever come about...
That sounds like an urban legend intended to get Japanese to stop playing Pachinko.
Whatever, try doing some research before next post, ok?
You certainly could have provided a couple links, but noooo..
Here's a couple:
Sega, Sammy to Combine Operations
UPDATE 3-Sega to merge with Sammy, slashes 02/03 forecast
Sega joins Sammy:
Or just follow this crummy link for the whole pile of poop.
I wonder what percentage of Sammy is:
Supported by debt backed up by Microsoft (This in regards to speculation on what japanese entity is benefitting from $590 million insured by Microsoft in their last quarterly statement.)
Run by North Koreans. (note: not a Troll! It is well known that most Pachinko parlors in Japan are run by North Korean families (think: mafia), for the purpose of exporting cash to North Korea.
"Pachinko for the XBox, great, what shall we call it?"
"How about AI Pachinko."
"We'll get sued, but I like it..."
I think I could love that. Oh, and the ability to disable page reloads on back.
One of the worse offenders IMHO is Google when opening cached copies or a failed search, but automatic search on something it thinks is like the search item. I'd rather a failure and leave it at that, perhaps with the hint of other possibilies, but the auto thing is a bastard.
I've given up on most of it. The best way to figure out where junk is coming from is to just view the contents as ASCII, which The Bat does very nicely. (Show kludges shows headers) Most of the time there's a phone number or website and doing a whois on many will reveal the villain.
There are urls which are use just the IP address and those which look like HTTP://434328432849, the number being an IP address, not in the form 127.0.0.1, but the sum of 1+0*2^8+0*2^16+127*2^24, a neat way of masking sites.
Other news... I was just checkin a website I've had for 4+ years and never checked the mailbox that came with it. It filled up Mar 23, 2002 and has 1,669 pieces of mail, mostly spam. Looks like I'll be cleaning it out on Saturday. It would be an interesting project to archive it all and see how many violate California's anti-spam law and see if I can Make $$$$ At Home!
There was some cartoon, ages ago, where a girl always seemed to fix car problems with a can of hair spray. That cartoon was visionary.
You got that right. I've fallen into squatter servers (or parasites as I refer to them) which parallel a site I'm looking for, too often. Even though my own site mainly consists of a bunch of cycling and vacation pictures (and one or two of Bill the Cat) I've got me a .com
Maybe I'll have something to sell one of these days (other than a few odd items on eBay, for which I do my own photo hosting thankyewveramuch), but I'm not ruling it in or out. So, for the moment I'm just a fraud :-)
so much, in fact, that i went ahead and registered mine.
You know you're not to give in to spam, it just perpetuates it! Here I have to wade through piles of it, like I'm in hell, up to my neck in feces. Thanks.
BTW, mine is probably one of the 100 most common name combinations in the USA & Britain & Australia & New Zeeland & The Falklands & Gibraltar & Canada , so mine was probably taken on the first day by (a) someone with the same name OR (b) some speculator. I lose no sleep over it. Besides, if I had a fairly unique name, which could be found on 411, I'd probably want to keep my anonymity. I'm not fond of my phone ringing with calls from strangers.
On another note:
I guess this means .pr0n is dead.
I can't see how that could ever happen here.
<Simpson's Comic Store Guy Voice>
I trump you with my mighty karma, "Worst post, ever!"
</Simpson's Comic Store Guy Voice>
I think it's more than a skill, it's an attitude. I've encountered a number of programmers (just out of school/training) who are oblivious to external concerns, including interface design (traditionally what users complain most about and programmers lack any standard to follow.) Generally it takes little effort to break programs written by very skilled programmers, but blind to anything outside their scope. I was probably as bad when I first started, but recently an analyst complained angrily why I went beyond the scope of the project by including an error/warning log (most likely because the errors/warnings accounted for any untrapped logic and revealed how incomplete the spec was and how little the analyst, and some of the higher-ups, knew of the business function) I felt there were too many things unaccounted for and added the log, when it produced 1,000+ entries things got a little heated. I stuck to my guns though and see a general lack of interest in review of why there are gaps in the spec or knowledge (by the very people who should know.