daffy: rabbit season bugs: duck season daffy: rabbit season bugs: duck season daffy: rabbit season bugs: duck season daffy: rabbit season bugs: rabbit season daffy: all right, thats it.. it is duck season *bang* (from hunters)
i was a vivid fan of Wile E. Coyote and his always failing attempts to grab RoadRunner *meep meep* using A.C.M.E products. long live A.C.M.E - it has scared us for life (in a good way). his cartoons are very special, designed for both kids and adults alike!
i watched a discovery show once explaining how the moon controls the earths rotation. without the earth, researches suggested that the earth would spin very fast, making life nearly impossible on earth. to add an extra piece of info to the puzzle, they brought up the theory of how the moon was created - by the collision with another planet, and that the moon is actually moving away from us at a few centimeters per year. the further away the moon, the faster the earth will spin. maybe the moon is in the right range for human life forms right now? which could explain why man has only been here a small time in comparison to the earths date line - but, could it also mean our time here is limited? their theory was the earth will spin faster, and, this article has other effects? which one to believe?:)
i am sure a search on www.discovery.com should bring up something on this topic - its why i ordered cable in the first place:)
you hear about the i-love-you, mellisa virus etc etc and the authors being arrested and so forth.. can i call the FBI to chase the FBI once this sucker is on the loose?
Actually there is no significant difference between JDK118 and J2ME. Minor security classes.
you sure about this?:) J2ME is a subset of the standard Java API's that has been specifically designed to suit embedded systems such as PDA's, mobile phones yada yada.. - you can dig up more information at http://java.sun.com/j2me/ - if you have ever messed with J2ME, you'll be familiar with a concept known as MIDlets - yep, try http://www.midlet.org/ or http://www.midletcentral.com/ - and, you'll see exactly what they are. they are nothing but applets really, with a very limited subset of API calls so it is possible to squeeze such applications/applets into embedded systems.
as for the zaurus, i have not played with the unit myself - and, i am not exactly sure if it is capable of executing MIDlets (but, shouldn't take long to set this up). i doubt it is strictly J2ME. sure, a Java virtual machine may have been written - but you'll find it along the lines of KVM or similar, providing a small subset of the Java language (as another poster mentioned - no Swing et al):P Java can get big, but, if you trim it down, the virtual machine and base classes can be as little as 256k - ideal for a PDA environment.
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Jonkoping
its actually "Jönköping" - and, like the rest of sweden, it has its own website (the town) being
www.jonkoping.se [sweden is very connected]
nearly every town in sweden has its own website.. try it:) its sad, but, very true..
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Frankly, I don't. For me, the fun of a LAN party is being there pulling an all-nighter with my buddies, spilling drinks, making a mess, watching pr0n, and laughing it up all over the place...
have you ever been to a swedish party? this is pretty much what we do all the time! *g* the scandanavians surely know how to party.. but, unfortunately, wont be any strippers there.. that kinda stuff aint looked upon nicely here (in sweden)..
Going to these hangar Lans with thousands of people just doesn't have that kind of intimacy... it's more geared toward people that just don't have broadband access and wanna get a couple of days of some lag-free gaming in.
um.. most people in Sweden HAVE decent internet connections. and, if you have ever had gaming parties over the sunet.se backbone - you wont complain about lag:) most people run at least 512kbps from their HOME (either cable or ADSL). i dont have many friends who use dial-up..
and, when ADSL (2.5Mbit) is provide for a measly $25 a month (www.bonet.se)? who would be stupid enough to use a modem?
Not in Germany. In the U.S., when you buy software, you actually buy a license to use that software, which allows the software company to impose all kinds of restrictions. In Germany, buying software is no different from buying a loaf of bread (from a legal point of view), so you can do with it anything you like. maybe true, but, you dont go giving your loaf of bread to everyone in the world now? you normally eat it by yourself or your family. they probably shouldn't have released it for public consumption (as i originally said)
i dont see how you can help in this situation. doing binary modifications is not considered "a good thing" by anyone (how would you like it if someone modified your apps - and, put idiotic phrases instead of instructions)? infogrames does want to release a german version by the looks of it, and, something like this "in the wild" will cause conflicts with users at a later date. could you imagine having to go through support with a user who had an translated german version (as opposed to the official german version)??
what infogrames should have done, is work with this guy. they have done the translation(s) - and, they are german.. who else is better to do translations to german? infogrames can win out of this if they play their cards right. and, the last thing we need is what happened with the "ALL YOUR BASE ARE BELONG TO US" episode when translations go wrong.. badly wrong...
i think its great that people are pushing forward on things like this (translating resources), however, under most EULA's - reverse engineering or modification is looked down upon.. its unfortunate for the german civ3 translation - but, maybe they should have kept it to themselves (or, setup a private group for obtaining the translated versions)
guess John posted it before me and mis-read the article:) oh well.. until next time *g* it happens:) maybe CmdrTaco should have verified the info by actually reading the article:)
wtf? article submission rejected and bad info
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2001-11-19 14:42:03 Nokia: the killer phone! (articles,news) (rejected)
i posted this article just as the infosync.no webmaster told me about the story - only to have it rejected (still pissed about my anti-quake comment)?:P however, that aside.. this is about ONE phone.. not TWO.. the 7650 is being announced yes, but, its just so natural for nokia to release a USA varient to, but, this was not announced on infosync's website. i dunno, reject a valid article and then reword it incorrectly. my submission was written and then verified via the infosync.no author (i dont like posting lies).
heh.. yeah, swedish humor is more "abstract":) one that took me a while to understand was:
"swede and a finn are talking in a bar.. finn interrupts swede and says
'are we here to drink, or here to talk'".
after living here for 3 years.. and, after many sweden to finland cruises... it makes sense..:) i guess swedes spend more time surfing to worry about jokes:)
yes, i can verify.. while working at Högskolan i Gävle (around 200kms north of stockholm) i was able to burn a cd while downloading it from ftp.sunet.se:) 100Mb/sec? pfft. thats for babies.. the swedish university network has a nasty network connection, only for the better tho:) *g*.. now, lets not talk about some of the ATM networks available in sweden and finland.. put the usa networks to shame.
first of all - this is no biggie. POSE (GNU GPL'd) exists and does run on many platforms (win32, linux, mac) however, it kinda does go about it all the wrong way. its great to have a ROM image if you want to specifically see a problem with a particular version of the palm os.. not, to just emualte it.
a real emulator would do as Palm Inc, did at the PalmSource 2000 converence last year. they had a palmos emulator running on an ARM palm device. all they needed to do was emulate the m68k assembler and then hook the traps to the native implementations on the device. thats what many of us know as HLE (high level emulation). dont step through, instruction by instruction in the rom images (legal issues with having the rom too) - you should say "hey, the app is calling WinEraseWindow()" and emulate it. they had m68k apps running 2x their normal speed on a 75Mhz ARM chip.. the ipaq could do much better than a wanna be POSE.
only problem is you'd have to trap every known API call, and handing it correctly - heck, its already been done in Java!! pimcity.com.
man, i must have really f*cked up. i was wrong about the chainsaw.. - the real problem is those/. moderators who feel that taking a poke at quake is an insult to their intelligence - could have put those moderation points to better use.:) i'd like to see a correlation chart between frag counts and humor respect when the word "quake" is mentioned.. that'll be a fun study..
Yeah, if video games really affect kids can you imagine the result of Pacman. We'd all be hanging out in dark places, eating pills, and listening to electronic music... =P
i was actually looking for this quote when i wrote the message.. but, it slipped my mind:) hehe.. the sad thing is, its so true!:P/me sighs.. need another renaissance ball - the one in perth, australia this year just rocked on.. judge jules, dave seaman and timo mass.. *thump*thump*thump*:(
"people who play games regularly seem to develop a mental state that we have seen before only in serious athletes or professionals such as astronauts, whose life depends on concentration and co-ordination...Their minds and bodies work together much better than those of most other people...They had more friends, were better adjusted and tended to read more."
hmm.. i can see how this would work based on the games from the mid-eighties (pacman, bubble bobble [classic], 1942 etc).. i guess, the basis for this study is on what the "leading professionals" did in the mid-eighties.. unfortunately, i dont see the average "quake" or "unreal" player ending up in such a position. if what they say is real - we're gonna have to watch our backs in ten years!
.... argh.... i see you have a vast knowledge of human anatomy, now, please put that chainsaw down... i beg of you!...
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i was a vivid fan of Wile E. Coyote and his always failing attempts to grab RoadRunner *meep meep* using A.C.M.E products. long live A.C.M.E - it has scared us for life (in a good way). his cartoons are very special, designed for both kids and adults alike!
i watched a discovery show once explaining how the moon controls the earths rotation. without the earth, researches suggested that the earth would spin very fast, making life nearly impossible on earth. to add an extra piece of info to the puzzle, they brought up the theory of how the moon was created - by the collision with another planet, and that the moon is actually moving away from us at a few centimeters per year. the further away the moon, the faster the earth will spin. maybe the moon is in the right range for human life forms right now? which could explain why man has only been here a small time in comparison to the earths date line - but, could it also mean our time here is limited? their theory was the earth will spin faster, and, this article has other effects? which one to believe? :)
:)
i am sure a search on www.discovery.com should bring up something on this topic - its why i ordered cable in the first place
Imagine being able to pull up 2001: A Space Odyssey at 2:38 a.m..
:)
heck, i have done this... that is what DVD's are for
you hear about the i-love-you, mellisa virus etc etc and the authors being arrested and so forth.. can i call the FBI to chase the FBI once this sucker is on the loose?
eek.. just as scary as our goatse friends! any 20-30 year old pics of this woman :) that 70+ year old pic scared me :)
Actually there is no significant difference between JDK118 and J2ME. Minor security classes.
:) J2ME is a subset of the standard Java API's that has been specifically designed to suit embedded systems such as PDA's, mobile phones yada yada.. - you can dig up more information at http://java.sun.com/j2me/ - if you have ever messed with J2ME, you'll be familiar with a concept known as MIDlets - yep, try http://www.midlet.org/ or http://www.midletcentral.com/ - and, you'll see exactly what they are. they are nothing but applets really, with a very limited subset of API calls so it is possible to squeeze such applications/applets into embedded systems.
:P Java can get big, but, if you trim it down, the virtual machine and base classes can be as little as 256k - ideal for a PDA environment.
you sure about this?
as for the zaurus, i have not played with the unit myself - and, i am not exactly sure if it is capable of executing MIDlets (but, shouldn't take long to set this up). i doubt it is strictly J2ME. sure, a Java virtual machine may have been written - but you'll find it along the lines of KVM or similar, providing a small subset of the Java language (as another poster mentioned - no Swing et al)
Jonkoping
:) its sad, but, very true..
its actually "Jönköping" - and, like the rest of sweden, it has its own website (the town) being
www.jonkoping.se [sweden is very connected]
nearly every town in sweden has its own website.. try it
- Frankly, I don't. For me, the fun of a LAN party is being there pulling an all-nighter with my buddies, spilling drinks, making a mess, watching pr0n, and laughing it up all over the place...
have you ever been to a swedish party? this is pretty much what we do all the time! *g* the scandanavians surely know how to party.. but, unfortunately, wont be any strippers there.. that kinda stuff aint looked upon nicely here (in sweden)..- Going to these hangar Lans with thousands of people just doesn't have that kind of intimacy... it's more geared toward people that just don't have broadband access and wanna get a couple of days of some lag-free gaming in.
um.. most people in Sweden HAVE decent internet connections. and, if you have ever had gaming parties over the sunet.se backbone - you wont complain about lagand, when ADSL (2.5Mbit) is provide for a measly $25 a month (www.bonet.se)? who would be stupid enough to use a modem?
that it is not a Bin Laden embryo..
Not in Germany. In the U.S., when you buy software, you actually buy a license to use that software, which allows the software company to impose all kinds of restrictions. In Germany, buying software is no different from buying a loaf of bread (from a legal point of view), so you can do with it anything you like.
maybe true, but, you dont go giving your loaf of bread to everyone in the world now? you normally eat it by yourself or your family. they probably shouldn't have released it for public consumption (as i originally said)
i dont see how you can help in this situation. doing binary modifications is not considered "a good thing" by anyone (how would you like it if someone modified your apps - and, put idiotic phrases instead of instructions)? infogrames does want to release a german version by the looks of it, and, something like this "in the wild" will cause conflicts with users at a later date. could you imagine having to go through support with a user who had an translated german version (as opposed to the official german version)??
what infogrames should have done, is work with this guy. they have done the translation(s) - and, they are german.. who else is better to do translations to german? infogrames can win out of this if they play their cards right. and, the last thing we need is what happened with the "ALL YOUR BASE ARE BELONG TO US" episode when translations go wrong.. badly wrong...
i think its great that people are pushing forward on things like this (translating resources), however, under most EULA's - reverse engineering or modification is looked down upon.. its unfortunate for the german civ3 translation - but, maybe they should have kept it to themselves (or, setup a private group for obtaining the translated versions)
guess John posted it before me and mis-read the article :) oh well.. until next time *g* it happens :) maybe CmdrTaco should have verified the info by actually reading the article :)
2001-11-19 14:42:03 Nokia: the killer phone! (articles,news) (rejected)
:P however, that aside.. this is about ONE phone.. not TWO.. the 7650 is being announced yes, but, its just so natural for nokia to release a USA varient to, but, this was not announced on infosync's website. i dunno, reject a valid article and then reword it incorrectly. my submission was written and then verified via the infosync.no author (i dont like posting lies).
;)
i posted this article just as the infosync.no webmaster told me about the story - only to have it rejected (still pissed about my anti-quake comment)?
so much for kharma
There might be isolated incidents of that, it's not difficult to believe. But employees who do that should be utterly ashamed of themselves.
why? they get paid what.. a whole $5 an hour? like they care? but, that box sure got a beating *g*
mother nature was off by about 4000 years and missed by about 2000 miles (aim for afganistan) - would make it easier than war right?
heh.. yeah, swedish humor is more "abstract"
'are we here to drink, or here to talk'".
after living here for 3 years.. and, after many sweden to finland cruises... it makes sense..
... live longer in Borlänge :P [swedish joke]
yes, i can verify.. while working at Högskolan i Gävle (around 200kms north of stockholm) i was able to burn a cd while downloading it from ftp.sunet.se :) 100Mb/sec? pfft. thats for babies.. the swedish university network has a nasty network connection, only for the better tho :) *g*.. now, lets not talk about some of the ATM networks available in sweden and finland.. put the usa networks to shame.
- Then, I tried DJGPP [delorie.com]. DJGPP is a port of GCC to DOS platforms. It cames with a free DOS4GW-like called PMode.
actually, if i recall correctly, it was called 'go32.exe'a real emulator would do as Palm Inc, did at the PalmSource 2000 converence last year. they had a palmos emulator running on an ARM palm device. all they needed to do was emulate the m68k assembler and then hook the traps to the native implementations on the device. thats what many of us know as HLE (high level emulation). dont step through, instruction by instruction in the rom images (legal issues with having the rom too) - you should say "hey, the app is calling WinEraseWindow()" and emulate it. they had m68k apps running 2x their normal speed on a 75Mhz ARM chip.. the ipaq could do much better than a wanna be POSE.
only problem is you'd have to trap every known API call, and handing it correctly - heck, its already been done in Java!! pimcity.com.
man, i must have really f*cked up. i was wrong about the chainsaw.. - the real problem is those /. moderators who feel that taking a poke at quake is an insult to their intelligence - could have put those moderation points to better use. :) i'd like to see a correlation chart between frag counts and humor respect when the word "quake" is mentioned.. that'll be a fun study..
i was actually looking for this quote when i wrote the message.. but, it slipped my mind :) hehe.. the sad thing is, its so true! :P /me sighs.. need another renaissance ball - the one in perth, australia this year just rocked on.. judge jules, dave seaman and timo mass.. *thump*thump*thump* :(
hmm.. i can see how this would work based on the games from the mid-eighties (pacman, bubble bobble [classic], 1942 etc).. i guess, the basis for this study is on what the "leading professionals" did in the mid-eighties.. unfortunately, i dont see the average "quake" or "unreal" player ending up in such a position. if what they say is real - we're gonna have to watch our backs in ten years!