when i was running an Telegard BBS on multinode 9600bs on a 33 mhz packbell, i was reminiecing about the times of old.. stuck keeping 5 1/4 floppies with my text games save files (dos 4.something), staring into a green tinted monochrome screen, hoping for a harddrive.. now i had everything, it seemed.. communication with the WORLD (!).. err.. about 500 people in my state a month.. but man, could we exchange files, and posts.. oh my lord, and i even started / joined a few post groups.. amazing. And the online games, even! Wow.. the future must be in VGA.. why.. when the VGA BBS's come round, we'll chat in virtual bars that mimick local joints.. we might startfight in galaxies and co-draw masterpiece illustrations. We'd share photos and speak to each other as if in a playground again.. wow.. i'll defintely upgrade to a Pentium-90. THAT will be the perfect machine. *1 yr later* Dang. This machine takes 2 days to render a colored cone. Man.. but those svga/xga BBS's, well they.. well.. they suck. Darn. Hmm.. but when those 500 Mhz cpu's come out.. we'll be racing in cars next to each other on mimicks of REAL race tracks.. with small video cameras and voice chat. Maybe we'll even be able to share music across the software, through a car stereo interface! I bet by then all the components will be at best buy to hook up every device in my house, so vacation will be that much closer, and my home under surveilance. This will be GREAT! Not to mention I will finally be able to get rid of my land line and cell phone and simply use Voice over IP.. wow.. i can't wait. *2 years later* dang!! these stupid friggin.. hmm.. well.. when those 2 ghz come out we will burn our home video's, and be able to churn out media masterpieces by the day. I bet the computers will be so multifuctional as to seem integrated into almost every facet of our lives.. seemlessly! And information control / processing will be totally controlled at user end. Wow.. can't wait. *the here and now* Umm.. we might get Windows and Linux stable one day.. i hope to run across a beta word processor that is simple and functional enough to let me type my book. Maybe there will be a gaming theme programming revolution, but I'm becoming very fond of thumb wrestling, and am not hopeful. Maybe once the U.S. goes through a techonological black tuesday, software / patent / copyright controls / sales issues will be resolved for progressive integrations of ideas so as not to limit the actual reach of research dollars by having to reinvent the wheel with every company. I like Finding Nemo.. maybe there will be more pixar movies that make me not want to become a vagrant.
you can tell from how well the bruises on his hips were healed.. among other injuries, and also, he died slowly.. he ritualistically placed a few items in a pattern below his chest.. they remained there perfectly until he was moved for study
with his leathered 5000 yr old skin, his bronze axe, knife, quiver, his grass cloak (usually worn by heardsmen until the last century) and series of wounds (did I mention self-ritualized death?).. Otzi reminds us that life in the alps is cold, dangerous, and just not worth it. (for it, see *MURDER*)
btw.. i think it's great that they used the pollen (which various form found are only released in Autumn) to figure out what things were like when he died. Harsh, autumn is in the alps.. he was fighting many men for days at a time in dead brutal conditions.. RAD.. go otzi
You never tried, obviously.. i wrote four albums, did 4 years worth of work (semi-high dollar work) AND found 2 long term girlfriends via windows 95. Yes.. real live women. (see *breathing*)
Re:5 megs.. that actually means a lot of things..
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i might as well add *that my Grandmother can use* (yes, she can use windows) to that statement.
umm.. pass the butter
5 megs.. that actually means a lot of things..
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soo.. . why exactly DID they leave all the cabs, secondary software, unused images, back pad programs never intended for public use on a public cd commercial release (150 av megs for those who never tried)? Bigger is better.. lots of extra stuff for control, included room to grow. That means lots will be pruned, so anyone who is suprised by this, go to asm 04 after taking a few machine level programming classes. What I'm really interested in is seeing how small we can get a bootable linux with an independantly and fully function hack *W*ine type program so i can load all my needs onto the newer 128 meg hardrive keychains.. along with my *ORIGINAL* mp3's, artwork, photos, scripts / resumes, etc.. so i might have a bootable navicable computing environment that might be used anywhere near a modern computer.. regardless of resources.. think about it.
okay here's the skinny on a few southern towns from an American who travels city to city a few years at a time:
Oklahoma - Route 66 (old dusty cross country road that holds mystique for car buffs who love gas gussling classics) runs through Oklahoma City, home of the Shopping Cart, and the Parking Meter. Also, AWACS, Seagate (CHEAP HUGE HARDDRIVES!!!), fossils GALORE in the eastern mountain ranges, and more astronauts come from Oklahoma, so I suppose you could go see their graves or something..
Texas - If you can just transport yourself to Austin Texas, somehow, it is well worth it. There you will find plenty of cyber cafes, vineyards, water sports (either variety), climbing, great food, wi-fi hot spots galore, a surviving tech industry, independent arts, the first known photograph and a gutenburg bible (univ. texas), live music, a large hacker community, and 6th street. I don't think there's much else in the rest of Texas.;)
Louisiana - Skip the rest of it and go straight to New Orleans. There you find beer. I can't remember much else of wh.. oh yes, history, jazz, culture, archaic rules and venues, colorful plants, smelly smells and.. wow.. just about a bit of everything. One can truly escape in New Orleans. Beware, as equipment tends to get wet and pots tend to get dirty in NO. Also, check out Grand Isle State Park.. it looks and smells like the garden of eden. its just an hour or so south of new orleans. The beach is beautful, you can camp there, and there's even lots of porpoise swimming about.
California - Skip everything and go straight to San Diego. Hit the 5 north or south to the 8.. head west to the beaches.. follow it into Ocean Beach via the Sunset cliffs blvd exit. Ocean Beach is the only place in san diego that time forgot. There is a mixed demographic makeup, rich in home owning ex and current hippies, along with every other facet of live available, including street life. There's even a wi-fi star bucks a block from the beach. just beware, ob'ceans HATE starbucks. You might get dirty looks on your way to the surf. Try the Hoodads for burger and a beer, and then head downtown to the San Diego Computer History museum. After that get some cheap wine (it's california) and settle into a fireworks show from Sea World.
while I'm aware you're being (crossing my fingers) facetious, for those who read this and agree with parent, remember this: those criminals out there that need your supposed cameras, they are there because of human nature.. what can be done, some will do. So, with that in mind, think for a gosh darn minute about the situation- cameras go *up*, some people initially get caught, criminals adapt and/or a new breed is born, criminals make use of cameras now as well as avoiding them while commiting crimes, and now there's loads of data to make all movements more predictable to any old criminal who may steal said data or *gaspshreakhorror* who may WORK with the data. So while it may sound like a dandy idea that will protect you forever and ever, it won't, or it would have been implemented by some culture previously in another form. Replace camera with peoples eyes, and then think of situations where this has already been tried and failed.
NO.. NO ONE EVER ABUSES THEIR POSITION OF WORK. oh wait.. that's what got us in this problem in the first place.
ahem. hi, my name is p*something*, and i, too, was once addicted to video games. I started at the age of 6 when i got my hands on an early version of nintendo, 8 bits. i stood ground on every platform available to my mid-western-@ss, learning to program, hack, fix my gear.. i, because of a shear love for games, learned to program various languages, navigate and manipulate in serveral platforms, then versions, then chip set variants.. then came the short wave, then radio anten, wifi, war-driving, and all the meanwhile, i was enployed by companies who hired me due to knowledge of the technical world. -.. a world which will never leave us, so as long as the economy resides in modern western hands. (barring a miracle) so.. i should say from my experience, gaming can definitely lead one child to a situation of progessive learning curves, only mimited by his or her own imagination. please, mod parent down for bogaRTING.
so what you're saying is.. and stop me if I'm wrong here, is that if we can amass a very VERY big exposition, we might blow a hole into the corona, dropping an improved version of these probes onto the surface of the sun, and create a beowolf cluster.. where we can cause siesmic dusiturbances which will (previosuly worked out) distribute photons in a pattern out of the corona (sun spots, flare distribution) which we will be able to reduce back into a readable data stream for data collection of the suns various environmental variables, and anonymously share not proman nudies.
but this absolutely would be percieved as the first step towards a public controlled public broadcast venue for news.. and seeing as how the beiggest complaint in politics amongst the general public is the lack of interconnectedness between the east political environment and the west coast equivalent, I would see this as a milestone towards an ultimate goal of broadcasting bills, propositions, votes, general news, as well as the future forms of blogs.. i see this as not friv, but profoundly progressive and long due.
seems to have died out? have you considered how many cds would need to be replaced vs. not replaced in a situation where they were all protected vs. not? It's economics.. they changed their product into something you'll replace several times over if you're an average joe. They DID initially promote CDs as indestructable. *AHEM* we all know that is very very much bs.
well thats a fine idea.. let's just leave 5 or 6 states worth of the most fertile soil and large biodiversity uninhabited because the wind picks up a little every year.. okay.. 120 mph 20 times a spring. i grew up in Oklahoma City, lived in texas, louisianna, and now california. Oklahoma has lots of things to offer.. oil.. fossil records that would blow your mind.. mega renewable resources and the space to up production of those if necessary.. not to mention the PEOPLE that live there. Are you going to relocate them? Where exactly?
Do you know how big tornado alley is? hint.. it's caused by a mixing of the cool winds from a certain moutain range, and a certain body of water on the south. alllll the land between is at risk.
I'm not positive, but I believe they did it on a 'wafer' like board with special pits and loads of reactionary agents in those pits.. i believe the air was essentially forced onto and over the pits, and the wafers special properties allowed for transmition of a positive or negative. a portible lab. this is somewhat different in the way the positive signal is sent, and would probably allow for a more spatially compact device, thusly allowing for more tests to be run.
an AM radio micro computer fantasy gone profitable.. i remember making radios by hand as a kid and wondering what the fabs of the future would be producing with vibrating crystals and other solid-ish lattice structures..
Wow, I mean WOW. NOOOOW I can watch my old dos demos from Unreal and The Humble Crew in less time than my brain can percieve them. Just what topped last years christmas list.
anyone remember ANSi-Bombs? you could re-configure a victums keyboard layout with a hacked ansi.sys or other crafty config.sys tricks..
the enter key would equal c:\dos\format c:\|Y (blah blah) and then the 'n' key would be Enter, or any other variations.. normally the keys would just be remapped to cuss words.
Where do you get your information that the earth is "a mere speck in a speck of a galaxy in a far corner of the universe" from? Your analogy which seems to want to destroy any logic in using current models as a description for existance, however, it too relies on the very same information. What is to say that we aren't in a cave looking at a wall which is projected and changes the projections perspective as we try to "move". In which case, what leads you to believe anyone but yourself exists at all?
Sir, re-read the definition of science. It doesn't suppose itself to be an end all be all in the definition of the world. It is a method. So is palm reading.. and I have seen palm readers with a bucket load more logic than you show in your argument.
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when i was running an Telegard BBS on multinode 9600bs on a 33 mhz packbell, i was reminiecing about the times of old.. stuck keeping 5 1/4 floppies with my text games save files (dos 4.something), staring into a green tinted monochrome screen, hoping for a harddrive.. now i had everything, it seemed.. communication with the WORLD (!).. err.. about 500 people in my state a month.. but man, could we exchange files, and posts.. oh my lord, and i even started / joined a few post groups.. amazing. And the online games, even! Wow.. the future must be in VGA.. why.. when the VGA BBS's come round, we'll chat in virtual bars that mimick local joints.. we might startfight in galaxies and co-draw masterpiece illustrations. We'd share photos and speak to each other as if in a playground again.. wow.. i'll defintely upgrade to a Pentium-90. THAT will be the perfect machine.
*1 yr later*
Dang. This machine takes 2 days to render a colored cone. Man.. but those svga/xga BBS's, well they.. well.. they suck. Darn. Hmm.. but when those 500 Mhz cpu's come out.. we'll be racing in cars next to each other on mimicks of REAL race tracks.. with small video cameras and voice chat. Maybe we'll even be able to share music across the software, through a car stereo interface! I bet by then all the components will be at best buy to hook up every device in my house, so vacation will be that much closer, and my home under surveilance. This will be GREAT! Not to mention I will finally be able to get rid of my land line and cell phone and simply use Voice over IP.. wow.. i can't wait.
*2 years later*
dang!! these stupid friggin.. hmm.. well.. when those 2 ghz come out we will burn our home video's, and be able to churn out media masterpieces by the day. I bet the computers will be so multifuctional as to seem integrated into almost every facet of our lives.. seemlessly! And information control / processing will be totally controlled at user end. Wow.. can't wait.
*the here and now*
Umm.. we might get Windows and Linux stable one day.. i hope to run across a beta word processor that is simple and functional enough to let me type my book. Maybe there will be a gaming theme programming revolution, but I'm becoming very fond of thumb wrestling, and am not hopeful. Maybe once the U.S. goes through a techonological black tuesday, software / patent / copyright controls / sales issues will be resolved for progressive integrations of ideas so as not to limit the actual reach of research dollars by having to reinvent the wheel with every company. I like Finding Nemo.. maybe there will be more pixar movies that make me not want to become a vagrant.
p
you can tell from how well the bruises on his hips were healed.. among other injuries, and also, he died slowly.. he ritualistically placed a few items in a pattern below his chest.. they remained there perfectly until he was moved for study
p
with his leathered 5000 yr old skin, his bronze axe, knife, quiver, his grass cloak (usually worn by heardsmen until the last century) and series of wounds (did I mention self-ritualized death?).. Otzi reminds us that life in the alps is cold, dangerous, and just not worth it. (for it, see *MURDER*)
btw.. i think it's great that they used the pollen (which various form found are only released in Autumn) to figure out what things were like when he died. Harsh, autumn is in the alps.. he was fighting many men for days at a time in dead brutal conditions.. RAD.. go otzi
p
You never tried, obviously.. i wrote four albums, did 4 years worth of work (semi-high dollar work) AND found 2 long term girlfriends via windows 95. Yes.. real live women. (see *breathing*)
i might as well add *that my Grandmother can use* (yes, she can use windows) to that statement.
umm.. pass the butter
soo.. . why exactly DID they leave all the cabs, secondary software, unused images, back pad programs never intended for public use on a public cd commercial release (150 av megs for those who never tried)? Bigger is better.. lots of extra stuff for control, included room to grow. That means lots will be pruned, so anyone who is suprised by this, go to asm 04 after taking a few machine level programming classes. What I'm really interested in is seeing how small we can get a bootable linux with an independantly and fully function hack *W*ine type program so i can load all my needs onto the newer 128 meg hardrive keychains.. along with my *ORIGINAL* mp3's, artwork, photos, scripts / resumes, etc.. so i might have a bootable navicable computing environment that might be used anywhere near a modern computer.. regardless of resources.. think about it.
p
okay here's the skinny on a few southern towns from an American who travels city to city a few years at a time:
;)
Oklahoma - Route 66 (old dusty cross country road that holds mystique for car buffs who love gas gussling classics) runs through Oklahoma City, home of the Shopping Cart, and the Parking Meter. Also, AWACS, Seagate (CHEAP HUGE HARDDRIVES!!!), fossils GALORE in the eastern mountain ranges, and more astronauts come from Oklahoma, so I suppose you could go see their graves or something..
Texas - If you can just transport yourself to Austin Texas, somehow, it is well worth it. There you will find plenty of cyber cafes, vineyards, water sports (either variety), climbing, great food, wi-fi hot spots galore, a surviving tech industry, independent arts, the first known photograph and a gutenburg bible (univ. texas), live music, a large hacker community, and 6th street. I don't think there's much else in the rest of Texas.
Louisiana - Skip the rest of it and go straight to New Orleans. There you find beer. I can't remember much else of wh.. oh yes, history, jazz, culture, archaic rules and venues, colorful plants, smelly smells and.. wow.. just about a bit of everything. One can truly escape in New Orleans. Beware, as equipment tends to get wet and pots tend to get dirty in NO. Also, check out Grand Isle State Park.. it looks and smells like the garden of eden. its just an hour or so south of new orleans. The beach is beautful, you can camp there, and there's even lots of porpoise swimming about.
California - Skip everything and go straight to San Diego. Hit the 5 north or south to the 8.. head west to the beaches.. follow it into Ocean Beach via the Sunset cliffs blvd exit. Ocean Beach is the only place in san diego that time forgot. There is a mixed demographic makeup, rich in home owning ex and current hippies, along with every other facet of live available, including street life. There's even a wi-fi star bucks a block from the beach. just beware, ob'ceans HATE starbucks. You might get dirty looks on your way to the surf. Try the Hoodads for burger and a beer, and then head downtown to the San Diego Computer History museum. After that get some cheap wine (it's california) and settle into a fireworks show from Sea World.
-p
while I'm aware you're being (crossing my fingers) facetious, for those who read this and agree with parent, remember this: those criminals out there that need your supposed cameras, they are there because of human nature.. what can be done, some will do. So, with that in mind, think for a gosh darn minute about the situation- cameras go *up*, some people initially get caught, criminals adapt and/or a new breed is born, criminals make use of cameras now as well as avoiding them while commiting crimes, and now there's loads of data to make all movements more predictable to any old criminal who may steal said data or *gaspshreakhorror* who may WORK with the data.
So while it may sound like a dandy idea that will protect you forever and ever, it won't, or it would have been implemented by some culture previously in another form. Replace camera with peoples eyes, and then think of situations where this has already been tried and failed.
NO.. NO ONE EVER ABUSES THEIR POSITION OF WORK. oh wait.. that's what got us in this problem in the first place.
-p
ahem. hi, my name is p*something*, and i, too, was once addicted to video games. I started at the age of 6 when i got my hands on an early version of nintendo, 8 bits. i stood ground on every platform available to my mid-western-@ss, learning to program, hack, fix my gear.. i, because of a shear love for games, learned to program various languages, navigate and manipulate in serveral platforms, then versions, then chip set variants.. then came the short wave, then radio anten, wifi, war-driving, and all the meanwhile, i was enployed by companies who hired me due to knowledge of the technical world. - .. a world which will never leave us, so as long as the economy resides in modern western hands. (barring a miracle) so.. i should say from my experience, gaming can definitely lead one child to a situation of progessive learning curves, only mimited by his or her own imagination. please, mod parent down for bogaRTING.
-P
so what you're saying is.. and stop me if I'm wrong here, is that if we can amass a very VERY big exposition, we might blow a hole into the corona, dropping an improved version of these probes onto the surface of the sun, and create a beowolf cluster.. where we can cause siesmic dusiturbances which will (previosuly worked out) distribute photons in a pattern out of the corona (sun spots, flare distribution) which we will be able to reduce back into a readable data stream for data collection of the suns various environmental variables, and anonymously share not proman nudies.
is that what you ewre suggesting?
pm
but this absolutely would be percieved as the first step towards a public controlled public broadcast venue for news.. and seeing as how the beiggest complaint in politics amongst the general public is the lack of interconnectedness between the east political environment and the west coast equivalent, I would see this as a milestone towards an ultimate goal of broadcasting bills, propositions, votes, general news, as well as the future forms of blogs.. i see this as not friv, but profoundly progressive and long due.
pm
seems to have died out? have you considered how many cds would need to be replaced vs. not replaced in a situation where they were all protected vs. not? It's economics.. they changed their product into something you'll replace several times over if you're an average joe. They DID initially promote CDs as indestructable. *AHEM* we all know that is very very much bs.
when is someone going to post how to exchange the amber/yellow led on front for a blue/red led?
Whoops. I was a bad fast boy on preview. Those would be WARM winds from that certain body VERY near texas. ahem
well thats a fine idea.. let's just leave 5 or 6 states worth of the most fertile soil and large biodiversity uninhabited because the wind picks up a little every year.. okay.. 120 mph 20 times a spring. i grew up in Oklahoma City, lived in texas, louisianna, and now california. Oklahoma has lots of things to offer.. oil.. fossil records that would blow your mind.. mega renewable resources and the space to up production of those if necessary.. not to mention the PEOPLE that live there. Are you going to relocate them? Where exactly?
Do you know how big tornado alley is? hint.. it's caused by a mixing of the cool winds from a certain moutain range, and a certain body of water on the south. alllll the land between is at risk.
great idea.
lets get to it
pm
by the husk, or maybe you might tie a string
I'm not positive, but I believe they did it on a 'wafer' like board with special pits and loads of reactionary agents in those pits.. i believe the air was essentially forced onto and over the pits, and the wafers special properties allowed for transmition of a positive or negative. a portible lab. this is somewhat different in the way the positive signal is sent, and would probably allow for a more spatially compact device, thusly allowing for more tests to be run.
but i can't remember really..
pm
an AM radio micro computer fantasy gone profitable.. i remember making radios by hand as a kid and wondering what the fabs of the future would be producing with vibrating crystals and other solid-ish lattice structures..
now i know
damn straight
Wow, I mean WOW.
NOOOOW I can watch my old dos demos from Unreal and The Humble Crew in less time than my brain can percieve them. Just what topped last years christmas list.
pm
anyone remember ANSi-Bombs? you could re-configure a victums keyboard layout with a hacked ansi.sys or other crafty config.sys tricks..
the enter key would equal c:\dos\format c:\|Y (blah blah) and then the 'n' key would be Enter, or any other variations.. normally the keys would just be remapped to cuss words.
pm
Already happens here [MIDS IWR, internetweather.com]
-former employee
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Where do you get your information that the earth is "a mere speck in a speck of a galaxy in a far corner of the universe" from? Your analogy which seems to want to destroy any logic in using current models as a description for existance, however, it too relies on the very same information. What is to say that we aren't in a cave looking at a wall which is projected and changes the projections perspective as we try to "move". In which case, what leads you to believe anyone but yourself exists at all?
Sir, re-read the definition of science. It doesn't suppose itself to be an end all be all in the definition of the world. It is a method. So is palm reading.. and I have seen palm readers with a bucket load more logic than you show in your argument.
pm
I mean remove the two SPACES in the provided URL (CAUSE SLASHDOT URL POST HANDLING ROUTINES SUCK) and you get to play the games in your browser..
p pLogic+FTCo ntentServer?pagename=FutureTense/Apps/Xcelerate/Mi dway/Play
again..
http://www.midway.com/cgi-bin/gx.cgi/A
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Midway's list of free games include:
T Co ntentServer?pagename=FutureTense/Apps/Xcelerate/Mi dway/Play
- Defender
- Joust
- Rampage
- Spy Hunter
- Robotron 2084
- Tapper
- Defender II
- Bubbles
- Satan's Hollow
- Sinistar
http://www.midway.com/cgi-bin/gx.cgi/AppLogic+F
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