If the US flag itself could be used as a device to circumvent an access control then it would technically become illegal.
Personally, I suspect you'd have more luck with an ASCII Constitution but that's the principle. Can't see it happening (it's too artificial and would get laughed out of court) but it would be entertaining...
(sorry, meant to post this last night, tried and got told to slow down, cowboy!)
Why doesn't Slash warn me that I'd moderated in this thread before posting? I'm well aware of the moderation rules, but had completely forgotten that I'd modded the thread. The only notification I was given was text coming on screen stating that mods were being undone AS I POSTED.
Really, would be helpful if I was warned by comments.pl that I'd already modded...
This was doing the rounds a while back. Whether it's at all true I don't know but hey, it's funny;-)
--------------
Many colleges and business's tend to strip the last name down to 6 characters and add the first and last initial to either the beginning or end to make up an e-mail address. For example, Mary L. Ferguson = mlfergus or fergusml. They are just now beginning to realize the problems that may happen when you have a large and diverse pool of people to choose from. Add to that a large database of company/college Acronyms and you have some very funny addresses. Probably not funny to the individual involved, however:
TOP TEN Actual E-mail Addresses 10. Helen Thomas Eatons (Duke University) - eatonsht (at) dku.edu 9. Mary Ellen Dickinson (Indiana University of Pennsylvania) - dickinme (at) iup.edu 8. Francis Kevin Kissinger (Las Verdes University) - kissinfk (at) lvu.edu 7. Amanda Sue Pickering (Purdue University) - aspicker (at) pu.edu 6. Ida Beatrice Ballinger (Ball State University) - ibballin (at) bsu.edu 5. Bradley Thomas Kissering (Brady Electrical, Northern Division, Overton Canada) - btkisser (at) bendover.com 4. Isabelle Haydon Adcock (Toys "R" Us) - ihadcock (at) tru.com 3. Martha Elizibeth Cummins (Fresno University) - cumminme (at) fu.edu 2. George David Blowmer (Drop Front Drawers & Cabinets Inc.) - blowmegd (at) dropdrawers.com
..but at No 1, it had to be...
1. Barbara Joan Beeranger (Myplace Home Decorating) - beeranbj (at) myplace.com
Re:He should have picked a better acronym
on
The Stallman Factor
·
· Score: 2
Isn't Ogg the overall project and Vorbis their audio codec, though? Hence Ogg Tarkin?
In which case surely you're vorbising your music, which is rather less euphonious...
I've seen how they did the stunt - well, how they generated the fotage to composite for the stunt - and IIRC they're using a piperamp. And it's not jumping that high or that far, either.
One day I'll get a DVD player (but, to stick it to the man I'll get it multiregion modded and buy a Macrovision blocker, then only buy import DVDs;-) and play through that scene in proper slomo to check:-) Somehow it doesn't seem likely to work with my current, grainy VHS copy...
Didn't last time I tried, or did I tick the wrong option?
I _loved_ popup blocking - totally forgot that some sites did it - but it stopped some stuff from working so I had to turn it off. How can I get this wonderful option to work?
The first worms out there (as I recall) were autonomously helping computers - fixing problems, tuning them and so on. All beautiful, the computers fixed themselves.
Until someone came in one morning and found the machines jammed on 100% CPU and playing up. The worm had a bug in it. At which point, research stopped quickly because it was shown just how destructive this sort of thing could be.
Please, nobody try and piggyback helpful code onto an e-mail virus. How sure are you that there isn't a single bug on any possible client platform?
But Bond and the plane falling at the same trajectory to allow him to fall straight into the cockpit? Even assuming that drag from the wings means that a plane under power could be outdived by am unpropelled human?
Cliff height does seem to be the more significant problem, I agree, but the whole scene was pretty dodgy:-)
The bus jumping over the gap in the freeway? Bucking up like that from a flat piece of road?
Last time I watched that film (good fun, bad science) I did some quick mental maths. Memory says that, assuming no air resistance and no invisible ramp to make it kick up like that;-) it would have dropped 7-8m in that gap.
Cool film, but anyone remember the intro sequence? How Bond escapes from the base?
Essentially, to get away from a fight, he tries to take off in a light aircraft but has to jump out. Plane keeps on going down the runway and off the end and over a cliff into a pretty fast vertical dive. Meanwhile, Bond has stopped the problem, jumped onto a motorbike, charged down the runway after the plane and gone over the end. He then skydives at the plane, climbs into it, pulls it out of a vertical dive and flys off to safety.
This Cyborg's one of the older gameport models, not USB. Besides, I've had it work with this Cyborg on other machines before, it's just something peculiar to my setup (possibly the no name sound card) which mucks up the joystick for both Freespace games but nothing else.
Hence my suggestion - it's an odd, apparently pretty specific bug but I can reliably reproduce it and am willing to test possible fixes if anyone's working on this sort of thing.
No, that's saying you'll share but only if they then play by your abitrary rules. I'm not saying that you aren't still better off, but that's not pure sharing, which is saying that it's yours to do with as you wish.
OK, now the source is out, let's see if anyone can help me here:-) (Or direct me to the better people to talk to)
Neither Freespace game works on my PC. This sucks, because they've always seemed really cool when playing them elsewhere. However, it misreads my joystick. Despite nominally taking its config from Windows, it puts the centre quite some distance off meaning the hands off attitude is a spin and I have a very low possible turn angle in one direction.
This, as you can imagine, is irritating, especially as tech support, once I'd confirmed latest DX, took the 'oh, it does that sometimes' position.
I already own a legal but useless copy of Freespace 2 and a Cyborg 3D, so can test it pretty extensively. I like this sort of game and want to be able to play it. If anyone wishes to debug this problem I will gladly assist with playtesting any fixes produced, debug info from my PC as required, whatever is needed beyond actual code because I'm not too hot at C++:-)
I remember someone a while ago saying something to the effect of 'If I give you apples but then force you to give away any pies you make with them, I'm not really sharing'.
I know why people like GPL but it's not the pinnacle of freedom by any means.
So if Cliff posted an Ask Slashdot topic on, say, what was declarable on a tax return, or how to solve a problem we'd been set in an assignment, you'd find that OK?
Ask Slashdot has always seemed to be about problems that afflict the Slashdot community as a whole and so where we may be able to offer advice. This often includes 'is something legal?' type questions.
But look, this guy wants a businessplan writing via Slashdot. He's not asking a single question (which Ask Slashdot seems to normally be), or posting reeally techy stuff.
Look, it's been said before, Cliff may not be the sharpest editor. He posts lots of daft questions and tends to post in fits and starts. He may well be doing this as a hobby, I honestly don't know - but the fact is, Slashdot is now a commercial site and could do with better quality contributions than this. It shouldn't have been published, bluntly, and we can't just say that Cliff's word is gospel.
Asking for information on how to best complete a task is one thing - asking for answers for every significant question relating to setting up a business is quite another.
If he'd asked what sort of connection the hardcore gamers preferred (and why), or what services made people come back, or what games people liked, what drinks people bought, that sort of thing I wouldn't have a problem. But he's looking for all that and then some, plus pricing information on competitors' relationships with suppliers! Clearly, he hasn't thought through a lot of the basics or done the maths.
He's almost asking us to write his businessplan. Sorry, but that's not what Ask Slashdot is for.
I've no doubt this is interesting. I've no doubt people here can provide insight.
But this poster is asking people to give details of their market research, business experience and supplier contracts, for free, in a public forum! I'm sorry, but that's daft. If you want to set up in business you have to be prepared to do some research yourself, not just expect others to give you everything, giftwrapped, on a plate.
Someone at my office set up an infinite loop sending out e-mail earlier today... In the space of a few seconds, sent out nearly a thousand. Lucky they were to his internal mailbox:-)
Anyway, I saw that and thought 'Oh good, those admins are going to be delighted that they set up their machines to send them an e-mail whenever this happened' - I mean, they'll be drowned. Way worse than my colleague's unfortunate accident...
Still, it'll be pretty obvious to them that something's wrong:-)
Slashdot Mirror
If the US flag itself could be used as a device to circumvent an access control then it would technically become illegal.
Personally, I suspect you'd have more luck with an ASCII Constitution but that's the principle. Can't see it happening (it's too artificial and would get laughed out of court) but it would be entertaining...
No, I knew I'd moderated, just not in that thread and I wasn't warned before posting.
Borealis? This is legit, I've had long discussions with one of their staff about this. Well done for them pulling this one off.
No, he's not one of the techies building it so I can't milk him for details but I'd trust him that this isn't snake oil.
(sorry, meant to post this last night, tried and got told to slow down, cowboy!)
Why doesn't Slash warn me that I'd moderated in this thread before posting? I'm well aware of the moderation rules, but had completely forgotten that I'd modded the thread. The only notification I was given was text coming on screen stating that mods were being undone AS I POSTED.
Really, would be helpful if I was warned by comments.pl that I'd already modded...
This was doing the rounds a while back. Whether it's at all true I don't know but hey, it's funny ;-)
--------------
Many colleges and business's tend to strip the last name down to 6 characters and add the first and last initial to either the beginning or end
to make up an e-mail address. For example, Mary L. Ferguson = mlfergus or fergusml. They are just now
beginning to realize the problems that may happen when you have a large and diverse pool of people to choose from. Add to that a large database of
company/college Acronyms and you have some very funny addresses. Probably not funny to the individual involved, however:
TOP TEN Actual E-mail Addresses
10. Helen Thomas Eatons (Duke University) - eatonsht (at) dku.edu
9. Mary Ellen Dickinson (Indiana University of Pennsylvania) - dickinme (at) iup.edu
8. Francis Kevin Kissinger (Las Verdes University) - kissinfk (at) lvu.edu
7. Amanda Sue Pickering (Purdue University) - aspicker (at) pu.edu
6. Ida Beatrice Ballinger (Ball State University) - ibballin (at) bsu.edu
5. Bradley Thomas Kissering (Brady Electrical, Northern Division, Overton
Canada) - btkisser (at) bendover.com
4. Isabelle Haydon Adcock (Toys "R" Us) - ihadcock (at) tru.com
3. Martha Elizibeth Cummins (Fresno University) - cumminme (at) fu.edu
2. George David Blowmer (Drop Front Drawers & Cabinets Inc.) - blowmegd (at) dropdrawers.com
..but at No 1, it had to be...
1. Barbara Joan Beeranger (Myplace Home Decorating) - beeranbj (at) myplace.com
Isn't Ogg the overall project and Vorbis their audio codec, though? Hence Ogg Tarkin?
In which case surely you're vorbising your music, which is rather less euphonious...
You're kidding me? Really? If so, wow.
I'd love to see how hard a time they had finding a stuntman to do it, though... Can't see that being an easy hire.
t.p.'d? Sorry to be British here and not get this one but what exactly did you do?
I've seen how they did the stunt - well, how they generated the fotage to composite for the stunt - and IIRC they're using a piperamp. And it's not jumping that high or that far, either.
;-) and play through that scene in proper slomo to check :-) Somehow it doesn't seem likely to work with my current, grainy VHS copy...
One day I'll get a DVD player (but, to stick it to the man I'll get it multiregion modded and buy a Macrovision blocker, then only buy import DVDs
Didn't last time I tried, or did I tick the wrong option?
I _loved_ popup blocking - totally forgot that some sites did it - but it stopped some stuff from working so I had to turn it off. How can I get this wonderful option to work?
Wow, rather him than me and I'd love to see an explanation of that. Doesn't sound at all possible but hey, if they did it...
No.
The first worms out there (as I recall) were autonomously helping computers - fixing problems, tuning them and so on. All beautiful, the computers fixed themselves.
Until someone came in one morning and found the machines jammed on 100% CPU and playing up. The worm had a bug in it. At which point, research stopped quickly because it was shown just how destructive this sort of thing could be.
Please, nobody try and piggyback helpful code onto an e-mail virus. How sure are you that there isn't a single bug on any possible client platform?
But Bond and the plane falling at the same trajectory to allow him to fall straight into the cockpit? Even assuming that drag from the wings means that a plane under power could be outdived by am unpropelled human?
:-)
Cliff height does seem to be the more significant problem, I agree, but the whole scene was pretty dodgy
The bus jumping over the gap in the freeway? Bucking up like that from a flat piece of road?
;-) it would have dropped 7-8m in that gap.
Last time I watched that film (good fun, bad science) I did some quick mental maths. Memory says that, assuming no air resistance and no invisible ramp to make it kick up like that
Cool film, but anyone remember the intro sequence? How Bond escapes from the base?
:-)
Essentially, to get away from a fight, he tries to take off in a light aircraft but has to jump out. Plane keeps on going down the runway and off the end and over a cliff into a pretty fast vertical dive. Meanwhile, Bond has stopped the problem, jumped onto a motorbike, charged down the runway after the plane and gone over the end. He then skydives at the plane, climbs into it, pulls it out of a vertical dive and flys off to safety.
Something in that doesn't seem quite right
A colleague did that a while back here. A website he was developing sent out notification e-mails.
Unfortunately, it sent out one from within an infinite loop...
Have to say I'd be impressed by that. OE 6 is just sssssssllllooooooooooooooooooowwwwwwwww over here.
This Cyborg's one of the older gameport models, not USB. Besides, I've had it work with this Cyborg on other machines before, it's just something peculiar to my setup (possibly the no name sound card) which mucks up the joystick for both Freespace games but nothing else.
Hence my suggestion - it's an odd, apparently pretty specific bug but I can reliably reproduce it and am willing to test possible fixes if anyone's working on this sort of thing.
No, that's saying you'll share but only if they then play by your abitrary rules. I'm not saying that you aren't still better off, but that's not pure sharing, which is saying that it's yours to do with as you wish.
(Trolling?)
:-)
The eMac is a flat CRT, not an LCD, to save cost. Hence the shape surprisingly reminiscent of the iMac, TVs, heck, most consumer CRT devices
OK, now the source is out, let's see if anyone can help me here :-) (Or direct me to the better people to talk to)
:-)
Neither Freespace game works on my PC. This sucks, because they've always seemed really cool when playing them elsewhere. However, it misreads my joystick. Despite nominally taking its config from Windows, it puts the centre quite some distance off meaning the hands off attitude is a spin and I have a very low possible turn angle in one direction.
This, as you can imagine, is irritating, especially as tech support, once I'd confirmed latest DX, took the 'oh, it does that sometimes' position.
I already own a legal but useless copy of Freespace 2 and a Cyborg 3D, so can test it pretty extensively. I like this sort of game and want to be able to play it. If anyone wishes to debug this problem I will gladly assist with playtesting any fixes produced, debug info from my PC as required, whatever is needed beyond actual code because I'm not too hot at C++
Anyone?
Hang on, that sounds awfully GPL-like...
I remember someone a while ago saying something to the effect of 'If I give you apples but then force you to give away any pies you make with them, I'm not really sharing'.
I know why people like GPL but it's not the pinnacle of freedom by any means.
So if Cliff posted an Ask Slashdot topic on, say, what was declarable on a tax return, or how to solve a problem we'd been set in an assignment, you'd find that OK?
Ask Slashdot has always seemed to be about problems that afflict the Slashdot community as a whole and so where we may be able to offer advice. This often includes 'is something legal?' type questions.
But look, this guy wants a businessplan writing via Slashdot. He's not asking a single question (which Ask Slashdot seems to normally be), or posting reeally techy stuff.
Look, it's been said before, Cliff may not be the sharpest editor. He posts lots of daft questions and tends to post in fits and starts. He may well be doing this as a hobby, I honestly don't know - but the fact is, Slashdot is now a commercial site and could do with better quality contributions than this. It shouldn't have been published, bluntly, and we can't just say that Cliff's word is gospel.
No, it's not.
Asking for information on how to best complete a task is one thing - asking for answers for every significant question relating to setting up a business is quite another.
If he'd asked what sort of connection the hardcore gamers preferred (and why), or what services made people come back, or what games people liked, what drinks people bought, that sort of thing I wouldn't have a problem. But he's looking for all that and then some, plus pricing information on competitors' relationships with suppliers! Clearly, he hasn't thought through a lot of the basics or done the maths.
He's almost asking us to write his businessplan. Sorry, but that's not what Ask Slashdot is for.
Sigh, another poor Ask Slashdot...
I've no doubt this is interesting. I've no doubt people here can provide insight.
But this poster is asking people to give details of their market research, business experience and supplier contracts, for free, in a public forum! I'm sorry, but that's daft. If you want to set up in business you have to be prepared to do some research yourself, not just expect others to give you everything, giftwrapped, on a plate.
Someone at my office set up an infinite loop sending out e-mail earlier today... In the space of a few seconds, sent out nearly a thousand. Lucky they were to his internal mailbox :-)
:-)
Anyway, I saw that and thought 'Oh good, those admins are going to be delighted that they set up their machines to send them an e-mail whenever this happened' - I mean, they'll be drowned. Way worse than my colleague's unfortunate accident...
Still, it'll be pretty obvious to them that something's wrong