You are under arrest for crimes against profit. You have the right to... well, nothing. A summary hearing by the corporate tribunal followed by execution shall follow shortly.
I recall reading somewhere that lawyers originated in ancient Rome because plebians were not entitled to any form of justice, so they had to hire a member of the nobility (ie someone with money) if they were so ungrateful as to demand redress against some other noblemann that raped and pillaged everything they held dear.
Fortunately though this guy is a nutjob with no influence of policy, of which there is no short supply either in the modern or ancient world. Too many people seem to get a stainless steel boner thinking of a world like this for it to bode well for any of us though.
Two mathematicians are in a bar. One argues that commoners know nothing of mathematics these days. The other disagrees, whereupon the first challenges him to find someone in the bar who can answer a simple calculus question. The second agrees then excuses himself to go to the toilet. On his way there, he orders some more drinks from a pretty blonde waitress, and tells her there's a handsome tip in it if she'll do him a quick favour
"Look, when you deliver the drink I'm going to ask you a question and I'd like you to answer 'one third x cubed'"
"... one thirdux cube? huh?"
"Yeah sure, that'll do"
So anyway, the mathematician returns to his friend, the drink is delivered and he asks the waitress "Now my dear, do you know what the integral of x squared dx is?"
She gives him a funny look and says "Uh, one third x cubed", then begins to walk off.
"Thank you". He then turns to his companion and says "See, told you!". At which point the waitress turns around and adds "Oh, plus a constant of integration".
If you look at my comment history I sound like a complete broken record on this, but one thing that's really good at least for burning fat is to get yourself a nice healthy addiction to DDR. Start stepping to say Max 300 regularly and you'll burn quite a few calories doing so (573 precisely executed steps in a minute and a half...)
Just don't play it where many people can smell you... (ie get a good METAL pad and play in the basement or something). Then again I'm already skinny to begin with but apparently it's helped a lot for a fair few people.
Wow, with that much money and effort I'd have just built a replica DDR machine (or found one on eBay and cored it).
I've just bought almost $400 worth of buttons for a Beatmania IIDX arcadestyle controller. Then I'm going to have to engineer a pair of turntables, which should be... fun (I'm currently going with a ghetto dynamo circuit).
Now if I had $20000 spare I'd just buy the real deal though. That is actually the most gorgeous arcade cabinet ever made. (for the uninitiated, that metal stage is one giant rumble pack)
'course, I'd make a deal to put it in a nearby arcade and charge something piddling like 50p to play on it, seeing as it would be the only IIDX machine in the entire UK. Oh well, I can dream. Maybe if I win the lottery.
They're a UK bank that works soley over the telephone and, lately, over the internet (they're partnered with HSBC for brick-and-mortar operations such as paying in cheques). Over the phone they ask you for random letters out of your password, and they've taken the same approach with online passwords, eg:
if my password is "spaghetti bolognese", it might request three letters out of that, say "pgg". It's still vulnerable to man-in-the-middle but keylogging alone is of limited use.
Which makes me wonder why they don't just do man in the middle trojans which trigger off against known online banking domains...
You mean like the Emotion Engine that was supposed to be equivalent to a few thousand supercooled Crays, be powerful enough to completely obsolete prerendered FMVs and still have enough CPU left over to suck your dick while you play?
I sense that your post was supposed to be sarcastic. The irony is that you don't seem to know Sony's marketing BS and engineering history very well.
Five buttons arranged like a piece of piano keyboard and a turntable (like a button but you prod it as opposed to pushing it). Stuff scrolls down the screen, press the curresponding button/tt exactly when it hits the bottom and noises are made. Play accurately enough and the noises combine with the background track to form music.
The TWENTIETH release of this game (Beatmania IIDX 12th style) is coming out in Juneish and the series is still going strong, and although IIDX added two extra buttons and the most gorgeous looking and sounding arcade cabinet you'll ever lay eyes on, it's still basically exactly the same game, just that the range of difficulty is much (much much much MUCH) wider; the songs are all about two minutes long and one of the new ones has about 1800 notes to press in that space of time.
That and it spawned DDR and all its knockoffs, and the similar Popn music series (nine huge domed buttons and no turntable, different music style. Popn is currently on its 13th iteration I think)
It's definitely quite... interesting how Konami can sell essentially the same game 20 times but with different music and have it continue to be successful.
To be fair, your fountain pen probably can't get quite as many dots per inch as a printer can. Small dots means small ink channels.
The poster above's color laser story is interesting though; if you really use that much on jet printer ink, that'd probably be a sound bet. My main concern with printing these days is why hasn't anyone managed to make CUPS work properly without needing to be reconfigured every single time the printer is turned on. Ugh.. beats me why I don't just use LPRng and save myself this HTTP-obsessed boondoggle.
but I remember seeing a Google application form somewhere with "What's the coolest hack you've ever done?" on it. Can you imagine putting "Dumping an 64k firmware chip through a piezo sounder" on that?
Who cares if it's not that useful, it's lateral thinking for you...
I am on Bemanistyle... unfortunately I can never be bothered finishing my simfiles:( I can never be arsed to draw bg graphics or do Light/Standard steps (although for Light I suppose one can just splat random 1/4ths down and for Standard add an 1/8th in every now and again)
It's called PROM. There's an array of fuses and you write data to it by selectively blowing some of them out. After this point you can't write it again. EEPROMs are a much newer concept.
Yeah, take someone's hard work and pass it around, then tell them to go fuck themselves when they demand compensation for it. You sure showed them, go Sweden!
Guy does work which you benefit from (ie entertaining you), guy expects reward for benefitting you, you decide to be a freeloader instead. This whole "make a copy and the original person still has a copy" red herring is utter bull shit, if a device existed for copying matter, I build tables for a living and some dickhead clones 1000 tables from my work shop, a bunch of people now have tables and I DON'T HAVE ANY FOOD ON MY PLATE.
Jesus christ have any of you actually WORKED for a living as opposed to just sitting around on daddy's internet connection and moaning about how corporate fascism sucks all day? This specious hippy argument was tired in the 60s for crying out loud.
Music and video doesn't necessarily have to be expensive either, just as long as it isn't the very latest and greatest. Prices for stuff not currently on the charts seems quite reasonable, although albums are admittedly stuffed with junk filler most of the time. I think Apple's iTunes music store is the way to go here, minus the usual My Way Or The Highway attitude towards client platforms and file formats (this is why despite all this raving fanboying I don't use Apple either. Despite their remarkable ability to make people spout Apple promotional literature everywhere for free and convince everyone that hey we're the cool pro-consumer underdog here, they're just like everyone's favourite software megacorp down where the short hairs grow)
Having said that, while DRM is a nice idea in theory, in practice if it were really implemented in earnest, we'd experience a price gouging in fucking technicolour compared to what we have now. Can you say "pay-per-play"?
I remember saying this like three years ago. Can someone with a subscription find it in my comment history for me? (Extended comment history was the only reason I bothered to subscribe way back when, and I'm not sure I can be arsed now on account of just one lookup)
Hm... actually strange as it might sound Kanji is one of the main reasons I like the language. It can be a pain in the ass at times, but a pack of Kanji cards helps the process a lot and gives you an absorbing and interesting activity whenever you have five minutes spare during the day, which is really often. I carry about 20 with me in my coat pocket at any given time and drill a few while on the bus to and from campus, between lectures, while waiting for a compile job or for food to cook... I'm rarely bored for more than a few minutes as a result.
If you think about it, we've all had to do something like learning Kanji anyway for English: learning the incredibly convoluted spelling system. Yes there are rules and you can often intuit your way through regular words, but there's so many special cases that the way a word is written down must seem completely arbitrary at times. I'm sure learning our spelling is about as dreaded for the Japanese as learning their Kanji is for us. That and you can often guess at the meaning of a Kanji by looking at its radicals (the most important subsymbols)... or so I'm told. I haven't progressed that far yet. Yeah it requires a significant investment of time and effort to learn, but I'd find the language much more boring if they just used Hiragana for everything.
Even if the fact that there's two ways of saying each number still drives me up the wall...
Nukes my foot, I'm sure when the day actually rolls round the asteroid will be destroyed by a teenage girl piloting a giant space mech with a really fkking big gun
(okay so there's no supernova wave involved here but you get the idea. Cookie goes to whoever gets the reference)
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You are under arrest for crimes against profit. You have the right to ... well, nothing. A summary hearing by the corporate tribunal followed by execution shall follow shortly.
I recall reading somewhere that lawyers originated in ancient Rome because plebians were not entitled to any form of justice, so they had to hire a member of the nobility (ie someone with money) if they were so ungrateful as to demand redress against some other noblemann that raped and pillaged everything they held dear.
Fortunately though this guy is a nutjob with no influence of policy, of which there is no short supply either in the modern or ancient world. Too many people seem to get a stainless steel boner thinking of a world like this for it to bode well for any of us though.
Two mathematicians are in a bar. One argues that commoners know nothing of mathematics these days. The other disagrees, whereupon the first challenges him to find someone in the bar who can answer a simple calculus question. The second agrees then excuses himself to go to the toilet. On his way there, he orders some more drinks from a pretty blonde waitress, and tells her there's a handsome tip in it if she'll do him a quick favour
"Look, when you deliver the drink I'm going to ask you a question and I'd like you to answer 'one third x cubed'"
"... one thirdux cube? huh?"
"Yeah sure, that'll do"
So anyway, the mathematician returns to his friend, the drink is delivered and he asks the waitress "Now my dear, do you know what the integral of x squared dx is?"
She gives him a funny look and says "Uh, one third x cubed", then begins to walk off.
"Thank you". He then turns to his companion and says "See, told you!". At which point the waitress turns around and adds "Oh, plus a constant of integration".
Indeed it is absolutely terrible....
But then again I laughed out loud at that (well, that shouldn't be surprising anyway, look at my username...)
Try ImageMagick. If you can work a command line and for automation purposes bash scripts it should do the trick.
If you look at my comment history I sound like a complete broken record on this, but one thing that's really good at least for burning fat is to get yourself a nice healthy addiction to DDR. Start stepping to say Max 300 regularly and you'll burn quite a few calories doing so (573 precisely executed steps in a minute and a half...)
Just don't play it where many people can smell you... (ie get a good METAL pad and play in the basement or something). Then again I'm already skinny to begin with but apparently it's helped a lot for a fair few people.
Wow, with that much money and effort I'd have just built a replica DDR machine (or found one on eBay and cored it).
... fun (I'm currently going with a ghetto dynamo circuit).
I've just bought almost $400 worth of buttons for a Beatmania IIDX arcadestyle controller. Then I'm going to have to engineer a pair of turntables, which should be
Now if I had $20000 spare I'd just buy the real deal though. That is actually the most gorgeous arcade cabinet ever made. (for the uninitiated, that metal stage is one giant rumble pack)
'course, I'd make a deal to put it in a nearby arcade and charge something piddling like 50p to play on it, seeing as it would be the only IIDX machine in the entire UK. Oh well, I can dream. Maybe if I win the lottery.
XP is what was left of MS' Cairo project, iirc, hence Cairo -> Chi Rho -> XP (read those letters as greek, not roman).
They're a UK bank that works soley over the telephone and, lately, over the internet (they're partnered with HSBC for brick-and-mortar operations such as paying in cheques). Over the phone they ask you for random letters out of your password, and they've taken the same approach with online passwords, eg:
if my password is "spaghetti bolognese", it might request three letters out of that, say "pgg". It's still vulnerable to man-in-the-middle but keylogging alone is of limited use.
Which makes me wonder why they don't just do man in the middle trojans which trigger off against known online banking domains...
You mean like the Emotion Engine that was supposed to be equivalent to a few thousand supercooled Crays, be powerful enough to completely obsolete prerendered FMVs and still have enough CPU left over to suck your dick while you play?
I sense that your post was supposed to be sarcastic. The irony is that you don't seem to know Sony's marketing BS and engineering history very well.
I'm curious; how does this yield a visible advantage when the screen's refresh rate is 100Hz tops?
Can't the F/OSS community come up with ONE damn working media player? VLC is the closest I've seen but it's still got some minor niggles.
... interesting experience.
A while back I made a custom box with an MPlayer OSD. That was an
Five buttons arranged like a piece of piano keyboard and a turntable (like a button but you prod it as opposed to pushing it). Stuff scrolls down the screen, press the curresponding button/tt exactly when it hits the bottom and noises are made. Play accurately enough and the noises combine with the background track to form music.
... interesting how Konami can sell essentially the same game 20 times but with different music and have it continue to be successful.
The TWENTIETH release of this game (Beatmania IIDX 12th style) is coming out in Juneish and the series is still going strong, and although IIDX added two extra buttons and the most gorgeous looking and sounding arcade cabinet you'll ever lay eyes on, it's still basically exactly the same game, just that the range of difficulty is much (much much much MUCH) wider; the songs are all about two minutes long and one of the new ones has about 1800 notes to press in that space of time.
That and it spawned DDR and all its knockoffs, and the similar Popn music series (nine huge domed buttons and no turntable, different music style. Popn is currently on its 13th iteration I think)
It's definitely quite
To be fair, your fountain pen probably can't get quite as many dots per inch as a printer can. Small dots means small ink channels.
The poster above's color laser story is interesting though; if you really use that much on jet printer ink, that'd probably be a sound bet. My main concern with printing these days is why hasn't anyone managed to make CUPS work properly without needing to be reconfigured every single time the printer is turned on. Ugh.. beats me why I don't just use LPRng and save myself this HTTP-obsessed boondoggle.
but I remember seeing a Google application form somewhere with "What's the coolest hack you've ever done?" on it. Can you imagine putting "Dumping an 64k firmware chip through a piezo sounder" on that?
Who cares if it's not that useful, it's lateral thinking for you...
grep --count baby lyrics.txt
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can I have my $5200 licensing fee now?
I am on Bemanistyle... unfortunately I can never be bothered finishing my simfiles :( I can never be arsed to draw bg graphics or do Light/Standard steps (although for Light I suppose one can just splat random 1/4ths down and for Standard add an 1/8th in every now and again)
I'd say it's pretty bad when you hear a techno tune, close your eyes and you can just see the arrows...
It's called PROM. There's an array of fuses and you write data to it by selectively blowing some of them out. After this point you can't write it again. EEPROMs are a much newer concept.
By the way I don't build tables for a living. Should have previewed again.
Yeah, take someone's hard work and pass it around, then tell them to go fuck themselves when they demand compensation for it. You sure showed them, go Sweden!
Guy does work which you benefit from (ie entertaining you), guy expects reward for benefitting you, you decide to be a freeloader instead. This whole "make a copy and the original person still has a copy" red herring is utter bull shit, if a device existed for copying matter, I build tables for a living and some dickhead clones 1000 tables from my work shop, a bunch of people now have tables and I DON'T HAVE ANY FOOD ON MY PLATE.
Jesus christ have any of you actually WORKED for a living as opposed to just sitting around on daddy's internet connection and moaning about how corporate fascism sucks all day? This specious hippy argument was tired in the 60s for crying out loud.
Music and video doesn't necessarily have to be expensive either, just as long as it isn't the very latest and greatest. Prices for stuff not currently on the charts seems quite reasonable, although albums are admittedly stuffed with junk filler most of the time. I think Apple's iTunes music store is the way to go here, minus the usual My Way Or The Highway attitude towards client platforms and file formats (this is why despite all this raving fanboying I don't use Apple either. Despite their remarkable ability to make people spout Apple promotional literature everywhere for free and convince everyone that hey we're the cool pro-consumer underdog here, they're just like everyone's favourite software megacorp down where the short hairs grow)
Having said that, while DRM is a nice idea in theory, in practice if it were really implemented in earnest, we'd experience a price gouging in fucking technicolour compared to what we have now. Can you say "pay-per-play"?
Bleh, enough bile for now.
I remember saying this like three years ago. Can someone with a subscription find it in my comment history for me? (Extended comment history was the only reason I bothered to subscribe way back when, and I'm not sure I can be arsed now on account of just one lookup)
Hm... actually strange as it might sound Kanji is one of the main reasons I like the language. It can be a pain in the ass at times, but a pack of Kanji cards helps the process a lot and gives you an absorbing and interesting activity whenever you have five minutes spare during the day, which is really often. I carry about 20 with me in my coat pocket at any given time and drill a few while on the bus to and from campus, between lectures, while waiting for a compile job or for food to cook... I'm rarely bored for more than a few minutes as a result.
If you think about it, we've all had to do something like learning Kanji anyway for English: learning the incredibly convoluted spelling system. Yes there are rules and you can often intuit your way through regular words, but there's so many special cases that the way a word is written down must seem completely arbitrary at times. I'm sure learning our spelling is about as dreaded for the Japanese as learning their Kanji is for us. That and you can often guess at the meaning of a Kanji by looking at its radicals (the most important subsymbols)... or so I'm told. I haven't progressed that far yet. Yeah it requires a significant investment of time and effort to learn, but I'd find the language much more boring if they just used Hiragana for everything.
Even if the fact that there's two ways of saying each number still drives me up the wall...
Note that the entire line of the laser is somewhat visible with these things. That would make it kinda obvious where the operator is located.
Nukes my foot, I'm sure when the day actually rolls round the asteroid will be destroyed by a teenage girl piloting a giant space mech with a really fkking big gun
(okay so there's no supernova wave involved here but you get the idea. Cookie goes to whoever gets the reference)
.. That case looks absolutely fantastic. First case mod I've ever seen that really Doesn't Suck.
:{ but then again it's not the same if you haven't made it yourself.
:D (I'll be surprised if anyone here has heard of IIDX.)
Mad amount of effort put into it but damn that shit's gorgeous. I want one
Maybe this guy could help me build my IIDX ASC