Other things:
Caught her on:
> do you burn things for fun
How old are you?
I chat with people on the Web.
She also went from calling me bobo to calling me ben:
> do you like to sneeze
Hmm, Ben, I'm not sure if I'd like to sneeze that much. I like to collect gossip.
> why did you call me ben
Your name is Bc547 right?
Failed the ralph wiggum test:
> me fail english
YOU? Are you a man or a woman?
> thats umpossible
I'm glad we have that all cleared up.
Other questions:
> what's with the wierd haircut
It came with my programming.
and bad news CmdrTaco:
> would you let CmdrTaco pimp you on slashdot
I am not so sure if I would like to let cmdrtaco pimp I on slashdot.
Overall verdict... not really much smarter than eliza.
there is one (which I am part of) which is trying to find a cure for cancer. See http://members.ud.com/vypc/ for more details. It also gives a cool picture of what it is working on if you want that sort of thing. Bad side is it only runs on windows (so my firewall can't help out the fight).
This is how a vast number of cameras operate in the UK. There is a 48 hour period before the contents are deleted. Some cameras are watched, others (most) are not, and you need a warrant to see most cameras (though money will do if the camera is in a shopping centre or similiar *private* establishment). If you are a victim of a crime in a public place you have to act within 48 hours or the evidence will be removed.
well I live in the UK, and when my girlfriend was hit by a car those cameras came in very useful. They are only in PUBLIC places (and only high streets for that matter). If you want to do private stuff, do it in a private place, it's that simple. The paranoia against cameras seems unjustified to me but hey I live with them and have not been arrested or stopped yet:P
I have had no problem with these hard drives. I have 2 30 GB ones in a RAID-0 and 2 60 GB ones standalone partioned to 6 20 GB partitions. I also have a smaller one which I cant remember off the top of my head and I have never had any trouble with any of them. They are very quiet, and nice and fast. My friend also has a 60 GB one partitioned to 4 15GBs and he has had no trouble either. I have only seen people complain twice though dont know any people who had problems in person. Perhaps a particular batch of drives is buggy?
we should all have pedal powered airplanes... a full capacity 767 with everybody cycling the distance. Might have to get rid of those cosy bed-seat things though:)
ok, so maybe not, lets get giant birds like the flintstones then. Or a big catapult and a big baseball mit... and we could run Linux on them... (at this point author carted off for 'special' treatment)
I dont laugh at the DMCA as it is indeed real (though I dont care as I dont live in the US and dont plan on visiting any time soon). If I was going to do something that would violate the DMCA I would find another way around it if possible. The main difference however, between the DMCA and the new law proposed for hardware is that the DMCA is technically feasible. The proposed law is not nearly as simple. There will certainly be a mass exodus to non-US tech for people who it will affect (unless importing tech is made illegal as well). To others who it wouldnt affect much (non-power users) it would just be a slight raise in prices. To non-US countries, it is not going to be much concern for some time yet so I will panic when it starts to happen, until then I will enjoy listening to mp3s on my computer, burning them to CD and playing them in my mp3 CD player, recording my own music on my computer, watching DVDs under linux and indeed using linux.
With regards to taxing Internet traffic, (which incidently if you mean govnt taxing, was proposed and rejected under Clinton's first term to my memory), it will not happen everywhere in the world. It will most likely not affect me for some time. If it does, I will be able to use my wireless neighbourhood LAN to share with other people, direct BBS style connections, or whatever. With regards to blank media tax, CDRs are not the be all and end all of media. I do not use them for anything other than legit backups of my data aside from my mp3 cd player (and even then I only use about 3 a week at most, 1 every 2 months for mp3), so all I would personally do would be to shove stuff onto a spare hard drive as backup rather than using CDRs, or simply use whatever blank media was cheapest (and reliable) at the time.
But since this is not happening this very moment, we are just getting into a debate of what-ifs. What if we just ride the waves and see what happens before talking about ways to get round it, and counters to those theories.
Still, there is only *so* far the RIAA can go before civil liberties groups will take a large interest and show people what they are going to be losing out on. I can't help but feel that you are being a bit overly-paranoid ("what operating systems and applications!?" Intel, IBM and antitrust cases might have a disagreement with you there) but at the end of the day it all depends upon the regular joe's use of technology. Though this may happen in the US (unlikely but possible), it would be very unlikeley to happen in, say, singapore, china, thailand, etc. Just look at the example of DVD... though they control your hardware and your software... suprise! people have gotten round it and it is even encouraged in some countries (australia for one). The RIAA will not win the proverbial war, but will cause a lot of inconvenience for people in the short term. Cases like kazaa et al. just make it simpler for people to get around the RIAA telling them what to listen to and how to listen to it. So I will continue to laugh at them:D
I cant wait to see:
1. The moment when the industry realises how good they could have had it before they fscked up the server model of napster compared to a distributed self organising network
2. The moment when some dumb exec decides the only way to stop it is to take out EVERY supernode
3. The RIAA resort to hiring hundreds of consultants to try and fix the unfixable problem
4. The RIAA eventually succeed in closing down the big three and just as it happens, giFT is finished and goes mainstream, or even better fasttrak release the source (I can dream cant I:))
where I used to work we would play games on the projector every night, from MAME classics like Donkey Kong, to NES mario, all the way through to dreamcast games (soul caliber is much more fun when they are the same height as you are), and unreal tournament (though this we did not play much as we all got motion sickness from playing it on such a large scale). The volume was so loud (thanks to some very nice speakers) that you had to shout to the person next to you... I dont think that it will be easy to top those gaming evenings:)
I bought an mp3/cd player today and it supports WMA... the instructions are hilarious... it says 'if a wma file is copy protected, then "PROTECTED" will be displayed and the player will skip to the next song'... hmmm, to use free mp3 or restricted wma, damn thats a tough choice:)
ok, have looked at the file now... it is a simple emulation of unix, though I can't get past the login prompt (seems to have a built in password/username). A 'virtual' keyboard pops up (and can be hidden by pressing select I think)
I doubt it is a genuine unix - just something to look cool. There is no init stuff, just straight into the login prompt. Bet it can't even run apache:)
(btw; I know, I know - I should have done this before posting the original message:P)
someone has already written an emulator (windows only which is why it is not in mame) which converts all the calls from the dragons lair LD to the DVD scenes. Very fast and supposed to be quite good. Check out the WIP archive on www.mame.net to try and find it (alternately, use the news archive at retrogames.com)
Slashdot Mirror
since it might be /.ed now (and for you lazy people)
> How high is the sky
Taller than the World Trade Center.
Other things:
Caught her on:
> do you burn things for fun
How old are you?
I chat with people on the Web.
She also went from calling me bobo to calling me ben:
> do you like to sneeze
Hmm, Ben, I'm not sure if I'd like to sneeze that much. I like to collect gossip.
> why did you call me ben
Your name is Bc547 right?
Failed the ralph wiggum test:
> me fail english
YOU? Are you a man or a woman?
> thats umpossible
I'm glad we have that all cleared up.
Other questions:
> what's with the wierd haircut
It came with my programming.
and bad news CmdrTaco:
> would you let CmdrTaco pimp you on slashdot
I am not so sure if I would like to let cmdrtaco pimp I on slashdot.
Overall verdict... not really much smarter than eliza.
> are you smarter than eliza
Of course I am more intelligent than eliza.
from a quick 'conversation' with her I just had.
there is one (which I am part of) which is trying to find a cure for cancer. See http://members.ud.com/vypc/ for more details. It also gives a cool picture of what it is working on if you want that sort of thing. Bad side is it only runs on windows (so my firewall can't help out the fight).
This is how a vast number of cameras operate in the UK. There is a 48 hour period before the contents are deleted. Some cameras are watched, others (most) are not, and you need a warrant to see most cameras (though money will do if the camera is in a shopping centre or similiar *private* establishment). If you are a victim of a crime in a public place you have to act within 48 hours or the evidence will be removed.
well I live in the UK, and when my girlfriend was hit by a car those cameras came in very useful. They are only in PUBLIC places (and only high streets for that matter). If you want to do private stuff, do it in a private place, it's that simple. The paranoia against cameras seems unjustified to me but hey I live with them and have not been arrested or stopped yet :P
I have had no problem with these hard drives. I have 2 30 GB ones in a RAID-0 and 2 60 GB ones standalone partioned to 6 20 GB partitions. I also have a smaller one which I cant remember off the top of my head and I have never had any trouble with any of them. They are very quiet, and nice and fast. My friend also has a 60 GB one partitioned to 4 15GBs and he has had no trouble either. I have only seen people complain twice though dont know any people who had problems in person. Perhaps a particular batch of drives is buggy?
we should all have pedal powered airplanes... a full capacity 767 with everybody cycling the distance. Might have to get rid of those cosy bed-seat things though :)
ok, so maybe not, lets get giant birds like the flintstones then. Or a big catapult and a big baseball mit... and we could run Linux on them... (at this point author carted off for 'special' treatment)
yeah, like that piece of shit apache with it's 60% market share... that's why there are more IIS exploits than apache... oh wait
It would be a crime to forget the classic 'microsoft works'
I dont laugh at the DMCA as it is indeed real (though I dont care as I dont live in the US and dont plan on visiting any time soon). If I was going to do something that would violate the DMCA I would find another way around it if possible. The main difference however, between the DMCA and the new law proposed for hardware is that the DMCA is technically feasible. The proposed law is not nearly as simple. There will certainly be a mass exodus to non-US tech for people who it will affect (unless importing tech is made illegal as well). To others who it wouldnt affect much (non-power users) it would just be a slight raise in prices. To non-US countries, it is not going to be much concern for some time yet so I will panic when it starts to happen, until then I will enjoy listening to mp3s on my computer, burning them to CD and playing them in my mp3 CD player, recording my own music on my computer, watching DVDs under linux and indeed using linux.
With regards to taxing Internet traffic, (which incidently if you mean govnt taxing, was proposed and rejected under Clinton's first term to my memory), it will not happen everywhere in the world. It will most likely not affect me for some time. If it does, I will be able to use my wireless neighbourhood LAN to share with other people, direct BBS style connections, or whatever. With regards to blank media tax, CDRs are not the be all and end all of media. I do not use them for anything other than legit backups of my data aside from my mp3 cd player (and even then I only use about 3 a week at most, 1 every 2 months for mp3), so all I would personally do would be to shove stuff onto a spare hard drive as backup rather than using CDRs, or simply use whatever blank media was cheapest (and reliable) at the time.
But since this is not happening this very moment, we are just getting into a debate of what-ifs. What if we just ride the waves and see what happens before talking about ways to get round it, and counters to those theories.
Still, there is only *so* far the RIAA can go before civil liberties groups will take a large interest and show people what they are going to be losing out on. I can't help but feel that you are being a bit overly-paranoid ("what operating systems and applications!?" Intel, IBM and antitrust cases might have a disagreement with you there) but at the end of the day it all depends upon the regular joe's use of technology. Though this may happen in the US (unlikely but possible), it would be very unlikeley to happen in, say, singapore, china, thailand, etc. Just look at the example of DVD... though they control your hardware and your software... suprise! people have gotten round it and it is even encouraged in some countries (australia for one). The RIAA will not win the proverbial war, but will cause a lot of inconvenience for people in the short term. Cases like kazaa et al. just make it simpler for people to get around the RIAA telling them what to listen to and how to listen to it. So I will continue to laugh at them :D
I cant wait to see: :))
1. The moment when the industry realises how good they could have had it before they fscked up the server model of napster compared to a distributed self organising network
2. The moment when some dumb exec decides the only way to stop it is to take out EVERY supernode
3. The RIAA resort to hiring hundreds of consultants to try and fix the unfixable problem
4. The RIAA eventually succeed in closing down the big three and just as it happens, giFT is finished and goes mainstream, or even better fasttrak release the source (I can dream cant I
where I used to work we would play games on the projector every night, from MAME classics like Donkey Kong, to NES mario, all the way through to dreamcast games (soul caliber is much more fun when they are the same height as you are), and unreal tournament (though this we did not play much as we all got motion sickness from playing it on such a large scale). The volume was so loud (thanks to some very nice speakers) that you had to shout to the person next to you... I dont think that it will be easy to top those gaming evenings :)
I bought an mp3/cd player today and it supports WMA... the instructions are hilarious... it says 'if a wma file is copy protected, then "PROTECTED" will be displayed and the player will skip to the next song'... hmmm, to use free mp3 or restricted wma, damn thats a tough choice :)
kazaa/morpheus/gift
www.kazaa.com or www.morpheus.com (i think) for windows
search sourceforge for giFT for unix and java versions
ok, have looked at the file now... it is a simple emulation of unix, though I can't get past the login prompt (seems to have a built in password/username). A 'virtual' keyboard pops up (and can be hidden by pressing select I think)
:)
:P)
I doubt it is a genuine unix - just something to look cool. There is no init stuff, just straight into the login prompt. Bet it can't even run apache
(btw; I know, I know - I should have done this before posting the original message
have not tested this myself yet, but goodGBX lists (and I have) the following rom:
Unix (PD).gb
size 32KB
someone has already written an emulator (windows only which is why it is not in mame) which converts all the calls from the dragons lair LD to the DVD scenes. Very fast and supposed to be quite good. Check out the WIP archive on www.mame.net to try and find it (alternately, use the news archive at retrogames.com)
for the d00dz out there:
http://www.google.com/intl/xx-hacker/
I only noticed this one today