This one time the phone rang. So I picked it up and the neighbor from across the street was talking. To somebody else!! Apparently the phone company just rang me up and tapped me into their conversation. And not, this was not a party line.
Also this one time (no joke) I took a Zelda 1 cartridge out of the NES and put in the Mario 3. The Zelda title screen appeared. Although there was no sound and it was broken, and no input was accepted and it kept blinking with an alternating solid color screen. Some blowing and a reset put Mario back up there.
Also once I was playing Mega Man 2. I was fighting Bubble Man and I touched the entry gate. It opened and let me go backwards! I went back forwards into Bubbleman. The boss music was still playing. THe room was all messed up. There were some invisible ladders and invisible platforms. Bubble Man wasn't there. I had no choice but to kill myself. It was fscked up!
Also the tv in our house right now makes a high pitched ringing noise. Hitting the tv stops the noise. It's my roomates old tv from the 70's (it's color and has a remote control and coax in and auto-program!). He said that it once made ball lightning. I don't know to believe him or not.
Slashdot is supposed to be a serious news source. How can it be when it participates in April fool's day by putting up LOTS of silly articles. I mean one is ok, but all of them?
But slashdot isn't a serious news source, and that's its mistake. It should and could be.
Anyway, I'm even more po'd because none of the joke articles are funny! They are all obviously false and didn't even get a grin out of me because of their lame-ness. Especially this one. Hack-back software? please.
Of course I can't just blame/. for the un-funniness. The whole internet doesn't seem to get the april fool's day thing. Everyone does the same thing. WebComics switching artists. One-day site re-designs. Fake news. Fake articles. Pages that look true, but are fake.
It's April fool's day, not stupid ass fake shit day. You're supposed to fool somebody. A lot of people if you can. Here are some good April Fools day things/. could have done.
Announce the release of cockatrice(phoenix).6. It seems true, and you'll get a thousand screaming geeks heading to www.mozilla.org/projects/phoenix/ and finding nothing there. Fooled ya!
Announce that some open source group has bought up Duke Nukem Forever and has set a release date. Then set up a really really convincing site and a real sourceforge behind it. It's believable. In fact, someone could probably actually do that for real.
It's ideas like that that would be funny. You just have to mix them in with real articles, you know, to fool people. It would at least save the sliver of serious news reputation that/. has left. If it has any. And it would fool everyone and actually be funny.
A pre-wired house isn't worth much, to a geek like me. To someone else it's probably worth a lot.
The reason? Well, being a geek I would want my wires in a very specific configuration just for me. I would be pissed off about having the jack in the wrong part of the wall. I wouldn't like having to modify my computing to match the house. I want the house to match the way I like to do things. Ideally I would have one room of the house with many computers in it and many cables. I would have an office with one computer in it, wired. Every other room in the house woul be accomodated by a single WAP.
If it's expensive fiber or a configuration I have to adapt to, rather than one that adapts to me I wont like it.
Non geek people would love it though, if they can get it to work.
Ok, while Microsoft can certaintly afford to support their old OSs like NT4, and they probably should considering a lot of people use them. It's hard to blame them for not doing so. I mean, it's like people have this obsession with uptime. It wont destroy your company if you turn all the servers off for maybe an hour while you upgrade to 2k or now 2k3, or linux even.
I see it like this.
company: My computer is insecure, patch it.
MS: Your using an OS from years and years ago. Get a new one.
company: no.
is the same as
company: My house is insecure, upgrade the locks on my doors.
locksmith: You're using locks from the victorian era. There is no way to "upgrade" that. You just have to get modern locks, you know, ones that work. We've learned a lot about locks since then, and the ones we make now are actually useful.
company: no.
While there are tons of issues like having to pay MS for licenses, etc. etc. But when it all comes down to it its a matter of a company that can't stand to have their system down for a little bit of time. Sure, there are indeed some mission critical things that shouldn't go down, but its not like people will die. And if someone breaks in you'll lose a lot more than that little downtime would cost you. The only computers that can never go down are in a hospital, and even then only if they are keeping people alive. And those shouldn't be running Windows.
There is a reason why Microsoft doesn't go open source that a lot of people don't realize, or at least they don't think about it. Sure Microsoft made the code for the NT Kernel, Office, VS.NET, etc. So they can legally release all that code. But there are a lot of things within Windows and Office that Microsoft can't legally release the code for. Like the defragger that is made by some German company. A lot of device drivers written by hardware people also. Windows now technically also includes Sun Java, which they can't release the source for.
So while MS could open lots of source, there would be quite a few holes in it, and all the geeks who bothered to look would be wondering what was up with the swiss cheese.
I like bash. It's common, fairly standard. It has history and tab completion. That's all I really need or use. I have it in linux/solaris/cygwin so I'm rarely forced to use something else. Never really cared or needed to use something else.
If there's a coding job anywhere, I'm down. I'm a CS major at RIT, and in order to graduate I have to complete 4 co-ops. That means I have to work in the industry for 40 weeks, and get paid for it, before I get a degree. Do you have any idea how hard it is to get a coding job when you don't have the magic piece of paper on your wall? If there are jobs in Billings I just might go.
If anyone wants to hire me check my resume in multiple formats at
You are indeed wrong. Slightly. It's not a patent on all web advertising. Nor is it a patent on ebay style auctions.
It is a patent on web advertisements that take up real estate on a web page, which would exclude pop ups, and flash flyouts would be gray area. Specifically when selling those advertisements based on bids. So you will be able to sell ad space on your site for a fixed rate, or a scaled rate, but not to the highest bidder. If this goes through, then techically and legally Amazon will be the only site that can sell banner ads, text ads, etc. to the highest bidder.
I think you've got something a little confused. This isn't about alternative fuel or Hydrogen Fuel Cells as you are thinking. Because fuel cell cars are indeed what GM and Ford are looking to in the future. Fuel cells will eventually revolutionize the automobile.
This story isn't about fuel cells. It is about using Hydrogen, which is very combustible to enhance your engine's efficiency. Somehow you put hydrogen into your engine, it ignites, and thus you can use less fuel to get the same power. aka a Hydrogen Boost.
A Hybrid is the most practical choice if you want to buy a modern environmentally friendly car. This is talking about making normal cars better.
Cell phones, old ones, new ones, any phone whether it has service or not, whether anyone is paying for it or not, even the ones on demo in the store (if the batteries are charged) is required by law to be able to make 911 calls. Take old cell phones and cell them as "emergency only phones". Sell them as is or rewire them to have one button that just dials 911. The law says that it has to work.
wow, this dasher is really innovative and awesome. It's an especially fun toy as well. I like to put the mouse in one plae and see what words come out, its really neat.
Sure, first of all I use Eclipse. Which is made by sun and IBM. Also I use KDevelop which eliminates the need for me to write makefiles.
Other than those I use emacs/nedit and a bash shell. I guess all those things like documentation, intellisense, autocompletion and makefiles are a real pain. But I prefer to write my code in a standard text editor. I never really had a need for any of that stuff.
I guess the difference is that I have always coded using a text editor and a shell. You have spent years using Borland's tools, and you have come to rely on things like autocompletion. I usually use books to look up things I can't remember. And that's rare, because not having autocompletion forces me to remember.
I just feel that when I'm writing code I can do a lot more in linux than I can when I'm constrained by something like VS.NET. But when I'm doing anything else doing it in linux seems like too much effort.
the key word is "developers". I'm a win2k/Mandrake dual boot guy. You know when I reboot? When I have to CODE something. Developing in a windows environment, even with something like cygwin or Visual Studio.NET just plain sucks compared to actually being in linux. Linux is a developers OS and a server OS. It is still not a desktop OS. It could be made to be, but it just isn't happening anytime soon. Look at MS desktop market share, the only one chewing on that is Mac.
There was a recent version of Keen for the Game Boy Color. I heard it sucked, even though I didn't play it. But it means that someone out there is indeed legally allowed to make Keen games, and is doing so.
I'll definitely be re-acquiring the Keen games however. Need something to do when not playing MOO3. All I need to do is find a working Gravis Gamepad. I don't think the USB version I have will work with the old school dos keen.
If you want to learn new stuff, the teacher has to know it as well. If the professor doesn't know it, they very well can't teach it to you. If you go to a technical school, like RIT where I go, the professors are just as up to date as the students, usually moreso. I'm a CS major, and they teach us current technologies. Taking a class on XML right now actually. If you aren't in a technical major at a technical school you can't expect to be learning anything valuable. It's like being in an engineering class in liberal arts school. You aren't going to learn quality stuff.
Despite the bad economy these companies just keep making faster and faster computers. AMD, NVidia, Intel, ATI, they all just keep coming out with somethig newer and faster? I need a new PC really bad (running a P3450). I'm looking to get something that can play doom 3 well. When is going to be the right time to buy a computer? I've built a lot of computers, but non for me in many years. When is the time of year that's best? Right now I'm thinking April, since I'll have money then.
Here at RIT there isn't much of a firewall either, but there are a few things they do for security.
1) E-mail filtering. They wont prevent e-mails from getting to you, but if there is an e-mail that possibly has a trojan attatched, then that e-mail is sent to you as an attatchment to another e-mail that warns you "possibly a trojan here".
2)Registration. In order to get an IP address you have to visit a website start.rit.edu or somethign like that. You use your school name and password to get your static IP address. Each person is only allowed 2 or 3 addresses. If your IP is doing something, they just look up who you are. If you have an unregistered device taking up an IP address then they cut your connection, which will make your roomate kill you.
3)Free anti virus software, they give out anti-virus software to all users for free.
4)Prioritizing, they have made other traffic higher priority than file sharing traffic. And they have blocked windows file sharing over the net, but it still works internally.
5)School rules. The most effective security measure are the usage policies. If you are caught Hacking, you get in serious trouble. It would be almost like throwing your expensive years of college down the toilet. People who have insecure boxes full of viruses and trojans which are doing all kinds of things are discovered quickly by other users, who have personal firewalls, and are geeks. RESnet then "takes care" of them. Just port scanning another computer on the network can ruin you.
The Virgin Megastore is one. Even though it has the evil RIAA-ness and is the pinnacle of american consumerdom, the megastore lives up to its name. They have one of the largest foreign music sections I've seen.
Also, since most of the foreign music I listen to is Japanese I check out www.avexnet.or.jp. That is the site of Avex, the major recording label for the best j-pop music, like Ayumi Hamasaki. Also I head to www.cdjapan.co.jp. It is in english and it sells just about every japanese cd and dvd you can think of.
Also of course is WinMX, which many foreginers use. Especially Italian people it seems. Lots of german electronica available as well. www.cdbaby.com has some of that too.
And of course, you can fly to your country of choice and buy cds at a store.
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This one time the phone rang. So I picked it up and the neighbor from across the street was talking. To somebody else!! Apparently the phone company just rang me up and tapped me into their conversation. And not, this was not a party line.
Also this one time (no joke) I took a Zelda 1 cartridge out of the NES and put in the Mario 3. The Zelda title screen appeared. Although there was no sound and it was broken, and no input was accepted and it kept blinking with an alternating solid color screen. Some blowing and a reset put Mario back up there.
Also once I was playing Mega Man 2. I was fighting Bubble Man and I touched the entry gate. It opened and let me go backwards! I went back forwards into Bubbleman. The boss music was still playing. THe room was all messed up. There were some invisible ladders and invisible platforms. Bubble Man wasn't there. I had no choice but to kill myself. It was fscked up!
Also the tv in our house right now makes a high pitched ringing noise. Hitting the tv stops the noise. It's my roomates old tv from the 70's (it's color and has a remote control and coax in and auto-program!). He said that it once made ball lightning. I don't know to believe him or not.
Um, I'd say something like this...
/. for the un-funniness. The whole internet doesn't seem to get the april fool's day thing. Everyone does the same thing. WebComics switching artists. One-day site re-designs. Fake news. Fake articles. Pages that look true, but are fake.
/. could have done.
.6. It seems true, and you'll get a thousand screaming geeks heading to www.mozilla.org/projects/phoenix/ and finding nothing there. Fooled ya!
/. has left. If it has any. And it would fool everyone and actually be funny.
Slashdot is supposed to be a serious news source. How can it be when it participates in April fool's day by putting up LOTS of silly articles. I mean one is ok, but all of them?
But slashdot isn't a serious news source, and that's its mistake. It should and could be.
Anyway, I'm even more po'd because none of the joke articles are funny! They are all obviously false and didn't even get a grin out of me because of their lame-ness. Especially this one. Hack-back software? please.
Of course I can't just blame
It's April fool's day, not stupid ass fake shit day. You're supposed to fool somebody. A lot of people if you can. Here are some good April Fools day things
Announce the release of cockatrice(phoenix)
Announce that some open source group has bought up Duke Nukem Forever and has set a release date. Then set up a really really convincing site and a real sourceforge behind it. It's believable. In fact, someone could probably actually do that for real.
It's ideas like that that would be funny. You just have to mix them in with real articles, you know, to fool people. It would at least save the sliver of serious news reputation that
Great, they do this just AFTER I upgrade to Mandrake 9.1. If they would have done this before then it probably would have been included in the distro.
A pre-wired house isn't worth much, to a geek like me. To someone else it's probably worth a lot.
The reason? Well, being a geek I would want my wires in a very specific configuration just for me. I would be pissed off about having the jack in the wrong part of the wall. I wouldn't like having to modify my computing to match the house. I want the house to match the way I like to do things. Ideally I would have one room of the house with many computers in it and many cables. I would have an office with one computer in it, wired. Every other room in the house woul be accomodated by a single WAP.
If it's expensive fiber or a configuration I have to adapt to, rather than one that adapts to me I wont like it.
Non geek people would love it though, if they can get it to work.
Freshmeat has lots of little open source projects.
Lots.
Ok, while Microsoft can certaintly afford to support their old OSs like NT4, and they probably should considering a lot of people use them. It's hard to blame them for not doing so. I mean, it's like people have this obsession with uptime. It wont destroy your company if you turn all the servers off for maybe an hour while you upgrade to 2k or now 2k3, or linux even.
I see it like this.
company: My computer is insecure, patch it.
MS: Your using an OS from years and years ago. Get a new one.
company: no.
is the same as
company: My house is insecure, upgrade the locks on my doors.
locksmith: You're using locks from the victorian era. There is no way to "upgrade" that. You just have to get modern locks, you know, ones that work. We've learned a lot about locks since then, and the ones we make now are actually useful.
company: no.
While there are tons of issues like having to pay MS for licenses, etc. etc. But when it all comes down to it its a matter of a company that can't stand to have their system down for a little bit of time. Sure, there are indeed some mission critical things that shouldn't go down, but its not like people will die. And if someone breaks in you'll lose a lot more than that little downtime would cost you. The only computers that can never go down are in a hospital, and even then only if they are keeping people alive. And those shouldn't be running Windows.
Anyone care to decrypt the last question for us lazy folk?
.NET?
ooooooh, a ferrari.... aaaahhhhh. 360 spyder, car of dreams....
There is a reason why Microsoft doesn't go open source that a lot of people don't realize, or at least they don't think about it. Sure Microsoft made the code for the NT Kernel, Office, VS.NET, etc. So they can legally release all that code. But there are a lot of things within Windows and Office that Microsoft can't legally release the code for. Like the defragger that is made by some German company. A lot of device drivers written by hardware people also. Windows now technically also includes Sun Java, which they can't release the source for.
So while MS could open lots of source, there would be quite a few holes in it, and all the geeks who bothered to look would be wondering what was up with the swiss cheese.
I like bash. It's common, fairly standard. It has history and tab completion. That's all I really need or use. I have it in linux/solaris/cygwin so I'm rarely forced to use something else. Never really cared or needed to use something else.
Oh crap busted copy paste. here's the real link
http://www.rit.edu/~slr2777/resumes/
Like anyone is going to hire a guy who can't even get a link straight. My Karma is excellent however, and that shows a lot.
If there's a coding job anywhere, I'm down. I'm a CS major at RIT, and in order to graduate I have to complete 4 co-ops. That means I have to work in the industry for 40 weeks, and get paid for it, before I get a degree. Do you have any idea how hard it is to get a coding job when you don't have the magic piece of paper on your wall? If there are jobs in Billings I just might go.
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If anyone wants to hire me check my resume in multiple formats at
http://www.internetwk.com/breakingNews/showArticl
I don't know what this guy is saying, but if the industry was in good shape, I wouldn't have to pimp myself on slashdot.
You are indeed wrong. Slightly. It's not a patent on all web advertising. Nor is it a patent on ebay style auctions.
It is a patent on web advertisements that take up real estate on a web page, which would exclude pop ups, and flash flyouts would be gray area. Specifically when selling those advertisements based on bids. So you will be able to sell ad space on your site for a fixed rate, or a scaled rate, but not to the highest bidder. If this goes through, then techically and legally Amazon will be the only site that can sell banner ads, text ads, etc. to the highest bidder.
I think you've got something a little confused. This isn't about alternative fuel or Hydrogen Fuel Cells as you are thinking. Because fuel cell cars are indeed what GM and Ford are looking to in the future. Fuel cells will eventually revolutionize the automobile.
This story isn't about fuel cells. It is about using Hydrogen, which is very combustible to enhance your engine's efficiency. Somehow you put hydrogen into your engine, it ignites, and thus you can use less fuel to get the same power. aka a Hydrogen Boost.
A Hybrid is the most practical choice if you want to buy a modern environmentally friendly car. This is talking about making normal cars better.
Cell phones, old ones, new ones, any phone whether it has service or not, whether anyone is paying for it or not, even the ones on demo in the store (if the batteries are charged) is required by law to be able to make 911 calls. Take old cell phones and cell them as "emergency only phones". Sell them as is or rewire them to have one button that just dials 911. The law says that it has to work.
wow, this dasher is really innovative and awesome. It's an especially fun toy as well. I like to put the mouse in one plae and see what words come out, its really neat.
Sure, first of all I use Eclipse. Which is made by sun and IBM. Also I use KDevelop which eliminates the need for me to write makefiles.
Other than those I use emacs/nedit and a bash shell. I guess all those things like documentation, intellisense, autocompletion and makefiles are a real pain. But I prefer to write my code in a standard text editor. I never really had a need for any of that stuff.
I guess the difference is that I have always coded using a text editor and a shell. You have spent years using Borland's tools, and you have come to rely on things like autocompletion. I usually use books to look up things I can't remember. And that's rare, because not having autocompletion forces me to remember.
I just feel that when I'm writing code I can do a lot more in linux than I can when I'm constrained by something like VS.NET. But when I'm doing anything else doing it in linux seems like too much effort.
the key word is "developers". I'm a win2k/Mandrake dual boot guy. You know when I reboot? When I have to CODE something. Developing in a windows environment, even with something like cygwin or Visual Studio.NET just plain sucks compared to actually being in linux. Linux is a developers OS and a server OS. It is still not a desktop OS. It could be made to be, but it just isn't happening anytime soon. Look at MS desktop market share, the only one chewing on that is Mac.
There was a recent version of Keen for the Game Boy Color. I heard it sucked, even though I didn't play it. But it means that someone out there is indeed legally allowed to make Keen games, and is doing so.
I'll definitely be re-acquiring the Keen games however. Need something to do when not playing MOO3. All I need to do is find a working Gravis Gamepad. I don't think the USB version I have will work with the old school dos keen.
Since I can interface it easily with my PC, can I transfer DivX and other digital video files to it? If so, can it play them on the television?
If this box is capable of doing this it just may be the PVR of choice for me, when I get enough money.
If you want to learn new stuff, the teacher has to know it as well. If the professor doesn't know it, they very well can't teach it to you. If you go to a technical school, like RIT where I go, the professors are just as up to date as the students, usually moreso. I'm a CS major, and they teach us current technologies. Taking a class on XML right now actually. If you aren't in a technical major at a technical school you can't expect to be learning anything valuable. It's like being in an engineering class in liberal arts school. You aren't going to learn quality stuff.
Despite the bad economy these companies just keep making faster and faster computers. AMD, NVidia, Intel, ATI, they all just keep coming out with somethig newer and faster? I need a new PC really bad (running a P3450). I'm looking to get something that can play doom 3 well. When is going to be the right time to buy a computer? I've built a lot of computers, but non for me in many years. When is the time of year that's best? Right now I'm thinking April, since I'll have money then.
Here at RIT there isn't much of a firewall either, but there are a few things they do for security.
1) E-mail filtering. They wont prevent e-mails from getting to you, but if there is an e-mail that possibly has a trojan attatched, then that e-mail is sent to you as an attatchment to another e-mail that warns you "possibly a trojan here".
2)Registration. In order to get an IP address you have to visit a website start.rit.edu or somethign like that. You use your school name and password to get your static IP address. Each person is only allowed 2 or 3 addresses. If your IP is doing something, they just look up who you are. If you have an unregistered device taking up an IP address then they cut your connection, which will make your roomate kill you.
3)Free anti virus software, they give out anti-virus software to all users for free.
4)Prioritizing, they have made other traffic higher priority than file sharing traffic. And they have blocked windows file sharing over the net, but it still works internally.
5)School rules. The most effective security measure are the usage policies. If you are caught Hacking, you get in serious trouble. It would be almost like throwing your expensive years of college down the toilet. People who have insecure boxes full of viruses and trojans which are doing all kinds of things are discovered quickly by other users, who have personal firewalls, and are geeks. RESnet then "takes care" of them. Just port scanning another computer on the network can ruin you.
The Virgin Megastore is one. Even though it has the evil RIAA-ness and is the pinnacle of american consumerdom, the megastore lives up to its name. They have one of the largest foreign music sections I've seen.
Also, since most of the foreign music I listen to is Japanese I check out www.avexnet.or.jp. That is the site of Avex, the major recording label for the best j-pop music, like Ayumi Hamasaki. Also I head to www.cdjapan.co.jp. It is in english and it sells just about every japanese cd and dvd you can think of.
Also of course is WinMX, which many foreginers use. Especially Italian people it seems. Lots of german electronica available as well. www.cdbaby.com has some of that too.
And of course, you can fly to your country of choice and buy cds at a store.