This is actually kind of funny, if it hadn't scared the shit out of me and my brother when it happened...
We were the only ones in the house, and I was standing behind my brother who was showing me some level he had built for Unreal Tournament, when suddenly something jerked sharply down on the back of my pants. All the way to the ground! Naturally, I jumped about 3 feet straight up. I turned around, thinking maybe one of our cats had performed a sneak attack, but there was nothing there. I had seen the cats asleep in another room, so I went to look. Both cats were exactly where I remembered them, so I ruled that out.
I swear this really happened, I don't believe in ghosts, but I can't explain what happened.
Did anyone ever see "Overdrawn at the Memory Bank" produced, IIRC by public TV station WGBH and starring Raul Julia? Hot 'n' fancy computer graphics by a hacked Intellivision from what I can tell.
"FIIINGALLL!!! You shall set up a big buffet!"
This was from when MST3K ripped this movie =). It is soooo bad it's good.
Why would "It's the End of the World As We Know it (And I feel fine)" be a better choice than "START Me up"? Sounds like an urban legend devised by apocolyptic MS haters.
It isn't. I remeber hearing it caused a minor fuss at Microsoft before 95 came out, as in "We want this song, we'll pay big money for it!" REM didn't play ball. The Stones did (for an insane amount of money).
Man, I never thought someone would write a programming language that would be harder to read than straight opcodes...I understand why they call it Brainfuck =P. That code is just painful to look at.
It was reported today on the geek news forum Slashdot that a joint venture between software giant Microsoft and beloved toy maker LEGO to create a new web server out of LEGO bricks.
Hey, maybe it would help the stability of IIS =P
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I remember back in High School at a State Beta club convention I wrote Hewood Djablomi on my name tag. When someone would ask my name, I would spit it out real fast in a thick accent (arabic would have been nice, but I don't think people would have believed it coming from a pasty white Irish-German looking person =).
It was hilarious for about 30 minutes, until our chaperone caught me. He made me change it, but he was laughing his ass off.
Same as on Win2k - you can login as a non-admin user and do everything you need to and the 'bug' wont be so big.
True, but since win2k doesn't have the equivalent of sudo or su, it can be a serious pain in the ass, especially for some luser who can't figure out why they can't do something unless they log out and log back in as admin, not a quick operation.
I would say that windows security (I know, an oxymoron) has improved since the bad old days of DOS, but it leaves much to be desired.
It seem everyone here has had bad experiences with Western Digital and love Maxtor, but my experiences have been the exact opposite. I have had two Maxtors (a 20 GB and a 40 GB, both at 5400 RPM) crap out on me for no reason whatsoever. My Western Digital has never given me problems.
One of the towers has collapsed, and they have it on film. The pentagon was hit, and has been evacuated. This hasn't been confirmed, but there was supposedly an explosion at the Capitol Building.
This is probably the sickest example of human hatred I have ever seen...I'll never forget watching that tower fall.
I know the reasoning behind the no-transporter theory due to the Uncertainty Priciple, but I've always wondered if it really precludes it.
Take this for example. Due to wave/particle duality, there is a finite possibility of all the atoms in my body instantly moving to the surface of mars(the probability is incredibly low, but it could happen).
What if one could change the probability that the atoms in a certain volume of space would exist in another part of space (say, increase it from next to nothing to 99.9999999%). That would not violate the uncertainty principle since we are dealing on a macroscopic scale and not trying to find exact posistions of atoms.
Now, I'm not saying that this is actually doable for real (how would one change the probability of space itself?), but just giving an example of teleportation that doesn't violate quantum mechanics (at least my limited understanding of it).
Reminds me of the time when my grandfather (a doctor) had an 800 number. Apparently, back in the early-mid 90's, Dell computer accidently put his 800 number on a bazillion of their business cards. My grandfather was not (and I am being VERY lenient) the most even-tempered man in the world, and knew next to nothing about computers. You can just imagine the results of him receving hundreds of calls meant for Dell tech support...not pretty. Dell corrected the screwup, but even up until he died last year, he would still get calls to Dell tech support.
Oh, and if any of you reading ever reached an old man who screamed at you when you tried to reach Dell tech support, you have my apologies =)
I think that applies to the entire bathroom...I've never gone into my dorm's bathroom (even to take a shower) without a pair of sandals on. You could do some nifty experiments with some of the shit that grows on a dorm bathroom floor.
hell yes! All the zeldas are mine!! MUAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!
Domo, Ian_Bailey-san! (I know it's not correct japanese syntax, but bite me =)
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Sure do, I use to tape them all the time (me wonders whatever happened to all of those tapes...).
That animation was A LOT better on those shows than what the pictures show of the new game. That animation is just too pokemonish for my taste. South Park can get away with it because it's supposed to look like crap.
To those people who are shouting "YAY!!! the graphics look like crap, it must be a wonderful game!" need to hold on a second. That is a classic non sequitur. Just because the trend lately has been to put all the effort into pretty graphics and nothing into gameplay, it doesn't necessarily follow that good graphics==shit gameplay. There were lots of shitty games with shitty graphics on the NES.
Nintendo has made some of the best games around (zeldas, marios, etc.), so I don't really worry about the game sucking. I was just shocked seeing this after expecting something darker, more adult in the original shots. I was hoping that zelda was growing up (getting a more complex plot, not just gather the crystals (triforce pieces,stones,whatever and saving the princess). It's been noted a million times already on this board, but maybe it wouldn't be so bad if the animation didn't look so pokemon-like, it wouldn't be such of a shock.
And to you people who are gonna say I am just spoiled on pretty graphics, I was an old skool zelda playa back in tha day (80's), and I still fire up the emulator and beat it at least once a year.
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When I first saw it, I thought it was a joke...My dissapointment shot sky-high when I realized it wasn't. The original demo looked IMHO a million times better.
I hope I'm wrong, thogh. We have to remember that this is a very early demo, maybe the South Park look will go away in favor of something...I don't know, not South Park looking =).
Shigeru Miyamoto is a frigging genius, though, so maybe he knows something we don't.
I think the question here is this: Should we start by teaching an easier, higher level language (ie Java) to get programming concepts down, then move to lower level "closer to the machine" language for advanced topics, or should we start with the lower level language and then treat additional languages as extras?
My freshman year in college, we started in binary the first semester... in Introduction to Computers! The CSCE department decided to start from the bottom up... we used a simulator of a very simple machine (16 instructions =). The first half of the semester was all architecture (logic gates, etc.). Then we went to programming using straight opcodes, then we got the privledge of using assembly =)
You can imagine this blew some people's minds who had never programmed any before (and even some that had). The department's idea was that if you had an idea what was going on down low, learning C the next semester wouldn't be that hard. None of the material went too deep, but it was still beyond most of the class. Lot's of people dropped CS or CENG because of that class, but the ones who stuck through it were really aided by having to swim through the muck of ultra-low level CS before using any higher level language.
I'm just glad I had done some assembly coding before that class =)
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We were the only ones in the house, and I was standing behind my brother who was showing me some level he had built for Unreal Tournament, when suddenly something jerked sharply down on the back of my pants. All the way to the ground! Naturally, I jumped about 3 feet straight up. I turned around, thinking maybe one of our cats had performed a sneak attack, but there was nothing there. I had seen the cats asleep in another room, so I went to look. Both cats were exactly where I remembered them, so I ruled that out.
I swear this really happened, I don't believe in ghosts, but I can't explain what happened.
At least this ghost had a sense of humor =P
"FIIINGALLL!!! You shall set up a big buffet!"
This was from when MST3K ripped this movie =). It is soooo bad it's good.
It isn't. I remeber hearing it caused a minor fuss at Microsoft before 95 came out, as in "We want this song, we'll pay big money for it!" REM didn't play ball. The Stones did (for an insane amount of money).
Man, I never thought someone would write a programming language that would be harder to read than straight opcodes...I understand why they call it Brainfuck =P. That code is just painful to look at.
It was reported today on the geek news forum Slashdot that a joint venture between software giant Microsoft and beloved toy maker LEGO to create a new web server out of LEGO bricks.
Hey, maybe it would help the stability of IIS =P
To all moderators on crack - It's supposed to be funny. Laugh.
Fayetteville, AR (yes, there are computers in Arkansas, and geeks who hate anything having to do with country music to go with them).
It was hilarious for about 30 minutes, until our chaperone caught me. He made me change it, but he was laughing his ass off.
True, but since win2k doesn't have the equivalent of sudo or su, it can be a serious pain in the ass, especially for some luser who can't figure out why they can't do something unless they log out and log back in as admin, not a quick operation.
I would say that windows security (I know, an oxymoron) has improved since the bad old days of DOS, but it leaves much to be desired.
It seem everyone here has had bad experiences with Western Digital and love Maxtor, but my experiences have been the exact opposite. I have had two Maxtors (a 20 GB and a 40 GB, both at 5400 RPM) crap out on me for no reason whatsoever. My Western Digital has never given me problems.
This is probably the sickest example of human hatred I have ever seen...I'll never forget watching that tower fall.
Take this for example. Due to wave/particle duality, there is a finite possibility of all the atoms in my body instantly moving to the surface of mars(the probability is incredibly low, but it could happen).
What if one could change the probability that the atoms in a certain volume of space would exist in another part of space (say, increase it from next to nothing to 99.9999999%). That would not violate the uncertainty principle since we are dealing on a macroscopic scale and not trying to find exact posistions of atoms.
Now, I'm not saying that this is actually doable for real (how would one change the probability of space itself?), but just giving an example of teleportation that doesn't violate quantum mechanics (at least my limited understanding of it).
Oh, and if any of you reading ever reached an old man who screamed at you when you tried to reach Dell tech support, you have my apologies =)
I think that applies to the entire bathroom...I've never gone into my dorm's bathroom (even to take a shower) without a pair of sandals on. You could do some nifty experiments with some of the shit that grows on a dorm bathroom floor.
Domo, Ian_Bailey-san! (I know it's not correct japanese syntax, but bite me =)
That animation was A LOT better on those shows than what the pictures show of the new game. That animation is just too pokemonish for my taste. South Park can get away with it because it's supposed to look like crap.
To those people who are shouting "YAY!!! the graphics look like crap, it must be a wonderful game!" need to hold on a second. That is a classic non sequitur. Just because the trend lately has been to put all the effort into pretty graphics and nothing into gameplay, it doesn't necessarily follow that good graphics==shit gameplay. There were lots of shitty games with shitty graphics on the NES.
Nintendo has made some of the best games around (zeldas, marios, etc.), so I don't really worry about the game sucking. I was just shocked seeing this after expecting something darker, more adult in the original shots. I was hoping that zelda was growing up (getting a more complex plot, not just gather the crystals (triforce pieces,stones,whatever and saving the princess). It's been noted a million times already on this board, but maybe it wouldn't be so bad if the animation didn't look so pokemon-like, it wouldn't be such of a shock.
And to you people who are gonna say I am just spoiled on pretty graphics, I was an old skool zelda playa back in tha day (80's), and I still fire up the emulator and beat it at least once a year.
I hope I'm wrong, thogh. We have to remember that this is a very early demo, maybe the South Park look will go away in favor of something...I don't know, not South Park looking =).
Shigeru Miyamoto is a frigging genius, though, so maybe he knows something we don't.
I think the question here is this: Should we start by teaching an easier, higher level language (ie Java) to get programming concepts down, then move to lower level "closer to the machine" language for advanced topics, or should we start with the lower level language and then treat additional languages as extras?
My freshman year in college, we started in binary the first semester... in Introduction to Computers! The CSCE department decided to start from the bottom up... we used a simulator of a very simple machine (16 instructions =). The first half of the semester was all architecture (logic gates, etc.). Then we went to programming using straight opcodes, then we got the privledge of using assembly =)
You can imagine this blew some people's minds who had never programmed any before (and even some that had). The department's idea was that if you had an idea what was going on down low, learning C the next semester wouldn't be that hard. None of the material went too deep, but it was still beyond most of the class. Lot's of people dropped CS or CENG because of that class, but the ones who stuck through it were really aided by having to swim through the muck of ultra-low level CS before using any higher level language.
I'm just glad I had done some assembly coding before that class =)
that's not funny =P
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