You guys are very quick-to-judge, and think that by a person's look and smile and profession that you can judge them.
If you're hot, there is nothing wrong with making some money off of it. Please leave america and go to a more puritanical state like Iran, where your value system is more closely inline with your peers.
First off, Why has no one posted the link to BBSMates? It is http://www.bbsmates.com. It is NOT slashdotted anymore; the new servers can hold up. Those of you who tried going to it when slashdot posted a story about bbsmates a few months ago should ALL TRY AGAIN.
Anyway.. One of my fondest memories was this poser (703/202/301) user called "Batman" who liked to post about how 3133T he was. I was a level-255 cosysop on the BBS at the time, running WWIV 4.xx.
I changed his colors to black-on-black for all 8 text colors.
I created a message base that everyone BUT him had access to.
I then posted the logfiles of him calling up, trying to figure out what the hell was going on.
Another user created an ANSI showing me ("Satan") hitting Batman with my pitchfork, generally making fun of the whole situation. I still have the ANSI. Good times.
Uh, wrong. All WWIV 4.X was in C. I learned C by modding C WWIV code in 1992. My story is identical to the parent author's story. You are wrong. WWIV was only pascal (and before that, basic) in earlier versions.
Yes, the VT rolmphones ruled in many ways. Though the fact that you couldn't use a traditional analog modem with them sucked. There was no pipe to the outside world, other than telnet. Warez had to be piped in on an analog 14.4k modem that could only be hooked up using an unauthorized device designed and created by engineering students to bring warez on campus, or so I hear. It was also cool getting to check out the VaTech BBS scene before ever stepping foot on campus. I ran one too. Snapshots here.
I really doubt that Vint would have ever said that.
*SEVEN* years ago, Vint Cert was my boss's boss's boss at the MCI Internet Engineering Department. Considering that the internet had been around since the 1970s, and we all knew this, I am not so sure that Vint would ever say something so stupid.
In case anyone is wondering, Vint's personal presence is pretty much identical to Timothy Leary, who I've seen speak (but not met). And his license plate says "CERFS UP".
What you established europeans don't realize is that in america, there is not really public transportation. If you cannot drive, in many places, it means you cannot work or put food on your table. In the few places where there are public transportation, it is expensive. Plus, who wants to ride with all the poor people?
In my case, my AverTV card displayed annoying vertical stripes across all of the captured video.
Background: I've captured over 300G (compressed) of video -- some 1000+ tv shows -- using mostly ATI Radeon cards. My drivers broke and I bought an AverTV for $54. NOT WORTH IT. Now I've bought a Hauppauge and I'm going to try it out.
Personally, I think *.quest were some of the worst games ever made in the history of the planet. I'd rather play Mary Kate & Ashley's Sweet 16 And Licensed To Drive!
My father, in the 1970s, owned a 'box' that made Christmas lights go to music. In the late 1990s, I spent hours investigating how to get one of these. The best I could find was a guy who would custom-make a one-off unit that would do this -- for $350.
I have christmas lights in multiple rooms in my house. All year round. They are turned on daily. I don't like white lights. I like blacklight, colored lights, christmas lights, and (the best) CRT-light.
I'd REALLY like them to go to music. And not the lame way, but by-color. That is, use FFTs to isolate bass, mid-range, treble, and affect a different color. I invision red being bass, but it really wouldn't matter.
Now I know this is possible. The cheap way is to just take scissors, cut the plug off your christmas lights, and put that in the back of your stereo. This works, but does not separate the separate frequencies per color. They all just go on. And if they are 90 watt lights and you have a 100 watt stereo..... Turning it all the way up makes them explode. Neat. (Don't try this at home.)
But c'mon... There's GOTTA be an easy way to do this....... I would be sooooo happy...
But elderly people don't perceive temperature as well. Or think as fast as us.:)
And remember... 50% of people have a below-100 I.Q.
But on a more serious note, a burger doesn't have a heat-insulating cup around it... So I now realize, in that arena at least, my analogy failed. Coffee has a heat-insulating cup around it, "designed" to keep the heat internalized. Therefore, you cannot [as] accurately perceive the temperature of what is inside it. Until you come in contact with you. At which point you [apparantly] have 2 seconds to get it off before 3rd degree burns.
I myself have stuck my finger in boiling water just to prove that if you do it quick enough it doesn't hurt you [much]. So arguably, I am a moron, and I'm sure some would say there's no argument about it. I'm also a negative karma whore so fuck you and fuck linux!
I had a nice response here, then fell on my mouse and lost it. Damn I wish textarea inputs would remain filled in when hitting the back button.
So.. um... Fuck you. You're wrong. I hope you die of cancer, but only after you watch your mother and children die first. And I hope your children die of 3rd degree burns. And something with a greased yoda doll.
Myself.. When I get the burger, I put it in my mouth. I don't run feasibility studies on it to see in advance if it will give me third degree burns. I assume if I am paying someone to furnish me with something to put in my body, that it wont hurt me and I don't have to conduct a study on it first.
How about I adjust the water heater at my local wal-mart to dispense 200 degree water out of the hot water faucents in the bathrooms?
Hey, if you are too stupid to mix the cold water in with your hot water properly, you deserve to have 3rd-degree burns all over your hands. Ha ha.
What if McDonalds served you a BURGER that burned your lips "off"? "If you're not smart enough to eat a burger, which is supposed to be hot, without burning yourslef, your DNA should be removed from the gene pool.
Read the facts about the case. If they serve coffee 20 degrees hotter than everyone else, that is a big problem.
The DDR games (And amplitude, for that matter) are all very fun to play with people. In fact, I almost never play single player unless everyone else is sweaty and exhausted from dancing. Get a room of about 6 drunks and there is always someone to call "I got next", and always at least 2 people completely out of breath/recovering.
Plus, doing something that "looks stupid" in front of other people is a good icebreaker. I've only managed to find 3 people that outright refused to play. We even broke it out at a party, with some weird looks from the roommate's friends (i.e. people-i'd-never-met).
And I've been trying to get my hands on Kareoke Revolution for weeks and weeks. Hopefully I'll be getting it soon. I can't wait to see my friends drunk and trying to sing "Like A Virgin". My parents have gone as far as to purchase a $500 *real* Kareoke machine that scores multiple people simultaneously; Kareoke Revolution is just a small niche thing that is basically copying an already-popular idea.
If asians are such conformists, how come they don't mind dancing and making fools out of themselves as much? Not trying to be racist here, but these rhythm/dance type games ARE more popular in Asia. Are americans just stupid? (Wait, don't answer that..)
It does, and i've experienced it first hand. Could not uninstall package because the package database said it was not installed. Could not REinstall database because the package database said it was already installed. (Yes, it contradicted itself). Rebuilding install database didn't fix it. At least with regedit I can manually search for keys.
The machine became a windows box again within a week, and has been happily running ever sense, with the standard windows problems, but at least they are easier to deal with.
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You guys are very quick-to-judge, and think that by a person's look and smile and profession that you can judge them.
If you're hot, there is nothing wrong with making some money off of it. Please leave america and go to a more puritanical state like Iran, where your value system is more closely inline with your peers.
Anyway.. One of my fondest memories was this poser (703/202/301) user called "Batman" who liked to post about how 3133T he was. I was a level-255 cosysop on the BBS at the time, running WWIV 4.xx.
I changed his colors to black-on-black for all 8 text colors.
I created a message base that everyone BUT him had access to.
I then posted the logfiles of him calling up, trying to figure out what the hell was going on.
Another user created an ANSI showing me ("Satan") hitting Batman with my pitchfork, generally making fun of the whole situation. I still have the ANSI. Good times.
Uh, wrong. All WWIV 4.X was in C. I learned C by modding C WWIV code in 1992. My story is identical to the parent author's story. You are wrong. WWIV was only pascal (and before that, basic) in earlier versions.
Yes, the VT rolmphones ruled in many ways. Though the fact that you couldn't use a traditional analog modem with them sucked. There was no pipe to the outside world, other than telnet. Warez had to be piped in on an analog 14.4k modem that could only be hooked up using an unauthorized device designed and created by engineering students to bring warez on campus, or so I hear. It was also cool getting to check out the VaTech BBS scene before ever stepping foot on campus. I ran one too. Snapshots here.
*SEVEN* years ago, Vint Cert was my boss's boss's boss at the MCI Internet Engineering Department. Considering that the internet had been around since the 1970s, and we all knew this, I am not so sure that Vint would ever say something so stupid.
In case anyone is wondering, Vint's personal presence is pretty much identical to Timothy Leary, who I've seen speak (but not met). And his license plate says "CERFS UP".
What you established europeans don't realize is that in america, there is not really public transportation. If you cannot drive, in many places, it means you cannot work or put food on your table. In the few places where there are public transportation, it is expensive. Plus, who wants to ride with all the poor people?
Background: I've captured over 300G (compressed) of video -- some 1000+ tv shows -- using mostly ATI Radeon cards. My drivers broke and I bought an AverTV for $54. NOT WORTH IT. Now I've bought a Hauppauge and I'm going to try it out.
Video card with tv-out? As cheap as $30, the cost of a video card anyway.
Watching a divx on your 36 tv and being able to wind to any point in the movie instantly? Priceless.
You just assume if they did this, they would do it while you were watching?
Personally, I think *.quest were some of the worst games ever made in the history of the planet. I'd rather play Mary Kate & Ashley's Sweet 16 And Licensed To Drive!
Lightspeed is THE SHIT. And it's only $3.95 from funagain.com (vs $5 from cheapass).
I have christmas lights in multiple rooms in my house. All year round. They are turned on daily. I don't like white lights. I like blacklight, colored lights, christmas lights, and (the best) CRT-light.
I'd REALLY like them to go to music. And not the lame way, but by-color. That is, use FFTs to isolate bass, mid-range, treble, and affect a different color. I invision red being bass, but it really wouldn't matter.
Now I know this is possible. The cheap way is to just take scissors, cut the plug off your christmas lights, and put that in the back of your stereo. This works, but does not separate the separate frequencies per color. They all just go on. And if they are 90 watt lights and you have a 100 watt stereo..... Turning it all the way up makes them explode. Neat. (Don't try this at home.)
But c'mon... There's GOTTA be an easy way to do this....... I would be sooooo happy...
(abruptly ending my post with no conclusion was an homage to Space Ghost Coast To Coast...cop out, cop out!)
But elderly people don't perceive temperature as well. Or think as fast as us. :)
And remember... 50% of people have a below-100 I.Q.
But on a more serious note, a burger doesn't have a heat-insulating cup around it... So I now realize, in that arena at least, my analogy failed. Coffee has a heat-insulating cup around it, "designed" to keep the heat internalized. Therefore, you cannot [as] accurately perceive the temperature of what is inside it. Until you come in contact with you. At which point you [apparantly] have 2 seconds to get it off before 3rd degree burns.
I myself have stuck my finger in boiling water just to prove that if you do it quick enough it doesn't hurt you [much]. So arguably, I am a moron, and I'm sure some would say there's no argument about it. I'm also a negative karma whore so fuck you and fuck linux!
So.. um... Fuck you. You're wrong. I hope you die of cancer, but only after you watch your mother and children die first. And I hope your children die of 3rd degree burns. And something with a greased yoda doll.
(Exploding dildos, anyone?)
When they drank it, it was not 185 degrees.
I, for one, welcome our new steel-throated overlords.
(in soviet russia, you burn COFFEE)
How about I adjust the water heater at my local wal-mart to dispense 200 degree water out of the hot water faucents in the bathrooms?
Hey, if you are too stupid to mix the cold water in with your hot water properly, you deserve to have 3rd-degree burns all over your hands. Ha ha.
What if McDonalds served you a BURGER that burned your lips "off"? "If you're not smart enough to eat a burger, which is supposed to be hot, without burning yourslef, your DNA should be removed from the gene pool.
Read the facts about the case. If they serve coffee 20 degrees hotter than everyone else, that is a big problem.
I do get junk mail now.. But it took quite awhile to build up, and I don't think I'm up to "pre anthrax" levels.
Still, I would love to be rid of snail mail entirely.
Yes, but was this submitted to an English teacher or a scientific community?
It actually took me 2 or 3 days of consecutive phone calls to the post office to get my mail started again.
Plus, doing something that "looks stupid" in front of other people is a good icebreaker. I've only managed to find 3 people that outright refused to play. We even broke it out at a party, with some weird looks from the roommate's friends (i.e. people-i'd-never-met).
And I've been trying to get my hands on Kareoke Revolution for weeks and weeks. Hopefully I'll be getting it soon. I can't wait to see my friends drunk and trying to sing "Like A Virgin". My parents have gone as far as to purchase a $500 *real* Kareoke machine that scores multiple people simultaneously; Kareoke Revolution is just a small niche thing that is basically copying an already-popular idea.
If asians are such conformists, how come they don't mind dancing and making fools out of themselves as much? Not trying to be racist here, but these rhythm/dance type games ARE more popular in Asia. Are americans just stupid? (Wait, don't answer that..)
It does, and i've experienced it first hand. Could not uninstall package because the package database said it was not installed. Could not REinstall database because the package database said it was already installed. (Yes, it contradicted itself). Rebuilding install database didn't fix it. At least with regedit I can manually search for keys.
The machine became a windows box again within a week, and has been happily running ever sense, with the standard windows problems, but at least they are easier to deal with.
I'm a negative karma whore.