Isn't it strange how Darth Vader always went for the throat? Just once I'd like to see him make the squeeze gesture, and see an Imperial flunky's eyes and legs cross. (Probably far more effective at enforcing discipline, and without the replacement costs.)
"Apology accepted Capt. Needa"
".. thank you.. lord vader.."
Hot damn! I can just imagine the perplexed looks down at the Quiky-Part used computer store, "Sashi, I do not understand why this old junk is selling. There is even a fight breaking out in the parking lot."
Mind you, I haven't bought any CDs in over a year (and I don't pirate them either), so it's kind of moot. And the thought of ripping from my 486/66 burlar alarm machine, well, as they said on Galaxy Quest last night, "That's just not right".
That's the impression that I got after reading further. Still, I wonder how smart my old SoundBlaster/2x drive combo is? It might just be dumb enough to bypass the protection. (Bleh, I'd rather just not buy their non-CDs.)
But is really a biggy to bypass? As I understand it, they put extra indexes on the disc which confuse computer players. Simple audio CD players don't look for them, and work fine.
How hard would it be to have a driver that doesn't check for the extra indexes? (And has a simple toggle.)
Of course, they'll launch waves of strike lawyers against anyone who publishes such a driver (Piracy!), and I'd rather that they get a serious ass-kicking in the wallet to insure that they don't do it again.
What's the problem, are they tempting you too much? If not, then they're just wallpaper at the top of the screen. If they bug you that much, there's plenty of ways to kill all ads.
I don't because those ads help support Slashdot. (I do kill DoubleClick ads, but that's over privacy issues.)
In the first story mentioned, "Twenty Two Buttons", a Catholic would laugh. Sorry, you can't get a consecrated host over the Net, a priest has to perform the miracle of Transubstiation, and you must get the host in person, after saying the secret Catholic password. So, Catholics would still need face to face meeting, sorry d00d.
Maybe the church was Reformatted Geek Orthodox?Times change. (Perhaps a consecrated cookie?)
This has been one thing that IE on Windows has shafted me many times with.
I hate when it not only steals the focus, but the whole damned window! A number of times I've been typing a brillant Slashdot post, get an email with a link, click on the link, and rather than popping up a new IE window, it steals my Slashdot one, scrubbing the post. This doesn't happen all the time, which is worse than it always happening.
Whilst the author makes some good points, there are plenty of flaws in his reasoning.
Also: apps that find files no matter what you rename them to. If I renamed the file, I probably don't want apps to find it as the old file. This feature sounds about as helpful as "Your plastic pal for who's fun to be with", a talking toaster or (to be completely off the wall) a super helpful animated paperclip.
(Microsoft Agent tech is actually loads of fun to play with, but I've never found an app that I'd actually want to use it in. Okay, maybe my home burglar alarm, but only because it's cute and might annoy burglars.)
The article references Vernor Vinge's A Fire Upon the Deep, which is a "You must read this book!", but doesn't mention his related A Deepness in the Sky which carries software archeology even further as a major twist of the story. (What happens after many thousands of years of cruft if one of the original developers shows up?)
But wait, there's more! Alien invasion by net takeover! Qeng Ho! Spiders! Trancendent artifacts! You must read this book, it was better than Cats...
*sigh* PC-GEOS was a nice thing in its day, and would run fine on a machine far less powerful than Win 3.0. The trouble was, you needed a Sun workstation and very expensive tools to develop the applications. Idiots!
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In the eighties, I worked for an arcade game company. One of their biggest sidelines were "Joker Poker" clone bar-top machines. (Strictly for amusement, no actual gambling, ha ha.)
I remember running one on an emulator and freezing it frame by frame during the card-flip routine. For one frame it would show the winning card flipped, and then immediately adjusting it to lose depending on its payout stats.
Arcade game operators tended to be incredibly greedy, and bar operators running illegal gambling machines were the worst of the lot. I assume that casino operators are more mellow and tightly regulated..
.. but there's no way I'd put my money in one of those things!
As for home gambling, Game Cheaters vs Vegas should be an interesting match up. (Except if you get caught, they don't just cancel your account!)
And you'll need something to run the beer from the fridge to your command centre. This Dinosaur home robot might do the trick. But count your small kids and family pets early and often!
Great! Admiral Kirk and crew grab two whales (and baby) to save the planet, they release them.. and the whales get chewed to sushi by the turbines. Probe shakes planet to bits shouting "Hello whales, wakey-wakey!" Ferengi sell souvenir Earth rocks. Profit!
But seriously, there's a lot of power in tides. Nice to see someone actually trying it out.
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"Apology accepted Capt. Needa" .. lord vader .."
".. thank you
(You know what I'm going to say, so I won't bother.)
Ahh, this explains why the 70's keep retro-appearing. Obviously the preserved stuff escapes from the landfill ever now and then.
Mind you, I haven't bought any CDs in over a year (and I don't pirate them either), so it's kind of moot. And the thought of ripping from my 486/66 burlar alarm machine, well, as they said on Galaxy Quest last night, "That's just not right".
That's the impression that I got after reading further. Still, I wonder how smart my old SoundBlaster/2x drive combo is? It might just be dumb enough to bypass the protection. (Bleh, I'd rather just not buy their non-CDs.)
Eeeeuugh! Don't do that, you don't know where those lips have been!
But is really a biggy to bypass? As I understand it, they put extra indexes on the disc which confuse computer players. Simple audio CD players don't look for them, and work fine.
How hard would it be to have a driver that doesn't check for the extra indexes? (And has a simple toggle.)
Of course, they'll launch waves of strike lawyers against anyone who publishes such a driver (Piracy!), and I'd rather that they get a serious ass-kicking in the wallet to insure that they don't do it again.
Hmm... No, not really. And is fun to read along with a few history books of the period.
I don't because those ads help support Slashdot. (I do kill DoubleClick ads, but that's over privacy issues.)
At least this is an alternative to $cientology's Writers of the Future for new authors to get published. (Now there's 'false flag' deployment!)
Maybe the church was Reformatted Geek Orthodox?Times change. (Perhaps a consecrated cookie?)
I hate when it not only steals the focus, but the whole damned window! A number of times I've been typing a brillant Slashdot post, get an email with a link, click on the link, and rather than popping up a new IE window, it steals my Slashdot one, scrubbing the post. This doesn't happen all the time, which is worse than it always happening.
Also: apps that find files no matter what you rename them to. If I renamed the file, I probably don't want apps to find it as the old file. This feature sounds about as helpful as "Your plastic pal for who's fun to be with", a talking toaster or (to be completely off the wall) a super helpful animated paperclip.
(Microsoft Agent tech is actually loads of fun to play with, but I've never found an app that I'd actually want to use it in. Okay, maybe my home burglar alarm, but only because it's cute and might annoy burglars.)
But wait, there's more! Alien invasion by net takeover! Qeng Ho! Spiders! Trancendent artifacts! You must read this book, it was better than Cats...
*sigh* PC-GEOS was a nice thing in its day, and would run fine on a machine far less powerful than Win 3.0. The trouble was, you needed a Sun workstation and very expensive tools to develop the applications. Idiots!
I remember running one on an emulator and freezing it frame by frame during the card-flip routine. For one frame it would show the winning card flipped, and then immediately adjusting it to lose depending on its payout stats.
Arcade game operators tended to be incredibly greedy, and bar operators running illegal gambling machines were the worst of the lot. I assume that casino operators are more mellow and tightly regulated ..
As for home gambling, Game Cheaters vs Vegas should be an interesting match up. (Except if you get caught, they don't just cancel your account!)
And you'll need something to run the beer from the fridge to your command centre. This Dinosaur home robot might do the trick. But count your small kids and family pets early and often!
Was joke. DoubleClick is in my hosts file -- at IPA 127.0.0.1.
Where's Sherkaner Underhill when you need him?
If they can't get in the front door...
Great! Admiral Kirk and crew grab two whales (and baby) to save the planet, they release them .. and the whales get chewed to sushi by the turbines. Probe shakes planet to bits shouting "Hello whales, wakey-wakey!" Ferengi sell souvenir Earth rocks. Profit!
But seriously, there's a lot of power in tides. Nice to see someone actually trying it out.
On second thought, let's not go there...
Ah, so you have seen the the cover the latest O'Reilly book?
And he's got all the sekret scientology stuff on it: 127.0.0.1