Nothing like a good meteor shower to brighten your evening. I usually don't have a lot of luck with the Lyrids, but I have spotted a few over the past few nights (in FL).
My best luck is with the Perseids shower which is in August, IIRC. Nothing like seeing that from the top of a mountain in Colorado a few years ago.
I've always wanted to watch the night in Australia and watch the Moon go across the sky upside down and backwards.
To hell with watching which way the toilet flushes!
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Tish! If you want fun, take an infrared laser (or high-power IR laser diode), modulate it with the control codes for most TV/CD/VCR/stereo remotes for on, play and max volume, then spray the side of a handy apartment building.
Judge the results by the number of lights that turn on at 3am.
Don't try this at home -- try it on someone else's home.
Is there a feature to zoom in on GPS coordinates?
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It always causes a recto-cranial spasm in the Cthurch of $cientology when satellite photos of their compound in Hemet, CA are published.
Co$ has a case (through a puppet/stupid DA) ongoing against Keith Henson to charge him with terrorism, because some people took GPS coordinates of locations in Hemet, and someone made a joke about targeting on alt.religion.scientology. So members of Co$ were "afraid" that Keith had a cruise missle in his pocket when he peacefully picketed Hemet. (He was just happy to see them.)
That sounds like fun! We could catapult them back over the U.S. border -- add some rules for scoring, get a league together, and there might be big TV bucks available.
It would certainly beat those pansy "reality" shows.
And we could brand the "ball" with a UPC code, and scan him with a Cuecat to keep it on topic.:^)
If you want evil, you don't even need a Cuecat. Just write a program to simulate one, and send bogus scans to DC. If enough people did that, their db would be useless.
This, of course, would probably be illegal, so don't try this at home kids.
It may not have been the safest setup, but I know the danger involved and nobody else pokes around inside my computers.
I hope so. The sound and smell of chips exploding and blowing divots outwards in the epoxy of every chip is quite memorable. (A loose dangling 125v wire from an arcade game harness, and a tricked-out Apple ][ Z80 emulator and arcade board, and it wasn't me! Ah well, it was long ago and far away, and besides, the computer is dead-dead.)
I used to faith-heal my Atari ST floppy drive by laying hands on the eject button. Just enough faith and pressure would read an iffy diskette.
The main message of that site (besides dissing Clippy) seemed to be how great Office XP is going to be. (No Clippy for starters.)
Losing Clippy is good, but gaining the registration system is bad.
It turns software I buy into "Degradeware". What happens 5-10 years down the road when I try to reinstall, and the registration site is gone? Or Microsoft:^)
Something like this has already happened to me. I reinstalled StarCraft and tried to network connect to get the patches for the latest version. No luck. Degradeware will only last as long as the company, or until they stop supporting it. I expect the software I buy to last until the CDROM wears out!
It would never work anyway. I mean, why steal canadian money? It's not like it's worth anything:-)
Maybe he meant Canadian Tire money?
For non-Canadians, this is a company which uses an actual bank-note company to print store money. 3% return on anything you buy.
This must drive their accountants absolutely bat-shit crazy because every bill that they've printed must still be counted on the books. (In case every Canadian suddenly pulled out the $50+ of Canadian Tire money stashed away and bought a tire or an ice-scraper.)
And you can't get rid of the stuff, because you get 3% more of it even if you use their stuff.
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Could you park it near at least one of the idiots who keep doing 111 scans on my machine, thanks!
Nothing like a good meteor shower to brighten your evening. I usually don't have a lot of luck with the Lyrids, but I have spotted a few over the past few nights (in FL).
My best luck is with the Perseids shower which is in August, IIRC. Nothing like seeing that from the top of a mountain in Colorado a few years ago.
I've always wanted to watch the night in Australia and watch the Moon go across the sky upside down and backwards.
To hell with watching which way the toilet flushes!
Tish! If you want fun, take an infrared laser (or high-power IR laser diode), modulate it with the control codes for most TV/CD/VCR/stereo remotes for on, play and max volume, then spray the side of a handy apartment building.
Judge the results by the number of lights that turn on at 3am.
Don't try this at home -- try it on someone else's home.
It always causes a recto-cranial spasm in the Cthurch of $cientology when satellite photos of their compound in Hemet, CA are published.
Co$ has a case (through a puppet/stupid DA) ongoing against Keith Henson to charge him with terrorism, because some people took GPS coordinates of locations in Hemet, and someone made a joke about targeting on alt.religion.scientology. So members of Co$ were "afraid" that Keith had a cruise missle in his pocket when he peacefully picketed Hemet. (He was just happy to see them.)
Now there's a class act!
Hip hip horay for Hormel!
Piffle! Proving prior art would be easy enough. If anyone wants to patent/copyright my DNA, they'll have to deal with me mom and dad!
That sounds like fun! We could catapult them back over the U.S. border -- add some rules for scoring, get a league together, and there might be big TV bucks available.
:^)
It would certainly beat those pansy "reality" shows.
And we could brand the "ball" with a UPC code, and scan him with a Cuecat to keep it on topic.
If you want evil, you don't even need a Cuecat. Just write a program to simulate one, and send bogus scans to DC. If enough people did that, their db would be useless.
:^)
This, of course, would probably be illegal, so don't try this at home kids.
Do munitions have UPC barcodes?
*click* *click* *click*
"You need a grave-yard to bury dead drives..."
It may not have been the safest setup, but I know the danger involved and nobody else pokes around inside my computers.
I hope so. The sound and smell of chips exploding and blowing divots outwards in the epoxy of every chip is quite memorable. (A loose dangling 125v wire from an arcade game harness, and a tricked-out Apple ][ Z80 emulator and arcade board, and it wasn't me! Ah well, it was long ago and far away, and besides, the computer is dead-dead.)
I used to faith-heal my Atari ST floppy drive by laying hands on the eject button. Just enough faith and pressure would read an iffy diskette.
A combined cpu and cooler that produces heat *and* water. I see a possiblity here: A Pentium Coffee maker! Now that's an Internet appliance!
"Damn fine coffee, and overclocked!"
Surely it must use StrongArm chips...
The main message of that site (besides dissing Clippy) seemed to be how great Office XP is going to be. (No Clippy for starters.)
:^)
Losing Clippy is good, but gaining the registration system is bad.
It turns software I buy into "Degradeware". What happens 5-10 years down the road when I try to reinstall, and the registration site is gone? Or Microsoft
Something like this has already happened to me. I reinstalled StarCraft and tried to network connect to get the patches for the latest version. No luck. Degradeware will only last as long as the company, or until they stop supporting it. I expect the software I buy to last until the CDROM wears out!
Perhaps Microsoft feels that many people would pay $$$ to have the removed?
That's a pretty sneaky way to get people to buy an upgrade every two years.
It isn't dark matter at all, it's just behind God's drywall!
All your mod points are belong to us!
Well, someone had to say it -- after all, you can't Beowulf cluster them.
Aha! That might explain the odd feeling I got when I went to an interview with them 9 months-year ago.
And I don't think that their jobs page has changed in all that time. *whew*, dodged a bullet.
And later picked up one somewhere else, but that's the developer business for you!
Ron of that ilk.
It would never work anyway. I mean, why steal canadian money? It's not like it's worth anything :-)
Maybe he meant Canadian Tire money?
For non-Canadians, this is a company which uses an actual bank-note company to print store money. 3% return on anything you buy.
This must drive their accountants absolutely bat-shit crazy because every bill that they've printed must still be counted on the books. (In case every Canadian suddenly pulled out the $50+ of Canadian Tire money stashed away and bought a tire or an ice-scraper.)
And you can't get rid of the stuff, because you get 3% more of it even if you use their stuff.
I'm not so sure that it's their chest that they're thumping. :^)