Supposedly, most people play Quake with a keyboard and mouse, keyboards with integrated pointers and mouse buttons are available, why not an integrated digital pad?
Console games that are more thinking than button mashing (all NONE of them), or where words are useful (ever play Jeopardy on the original Nintendo?) would be much improved by that sort of controller.
that answers "If this is a personal call, please press "1". If you are a telemarketer, or this is a commercial or unsolicited call, please hang up now and add this number to your "Do Not Call" list." When you press 1 it rings a speaker on the answerer a few times and then takes voicemail if no answer. Apparently the operator of many predictive dialing systems can't manually dial numbers (like "1") so they don't get through.
The optical bridges I'm familiar with (which I think have gotten cheap, $1000US per or so) are good for 60 kilometers over single-mode, which is fairly close to 45 miles, I think. Single-mode fiber in quantities around 60,000 meters should be available for less than $1/meter delivered, so say $50,000US for fiber. If you had a place to trench (say a government or utility right-of-way) and experienced volunteers to trench and splice, you'd have a very fat pipe under budget.
If there is a railway between the school and the city in question, there may very well be bandwidth there that could be bought or donated (a great deal of the "dark fiber" in the US isn't just in empty office buildings, it's buried next to railroad tracks).
National defense begins with your home. If police are responding to terrorist acts, you owe it to yourself to be able to defend yourself and your property and not rely on someone else to save you.
They can be more efficient than piston engines, and unfortunately research on rotary diesels seems to have stalled years ago, but there's many advantages over pistons for engines that aren't required to change RPM often, such as generators.
I used to have an Arctic Cat snowmobile with a Wankel engine when I was much younger. We couldn't find anybody to service it when it started to die, but it was fun to take it apart, it's extremely different from the tiny chainsaw two-strokes and four-stroke lawnmower engines I had torn down before.
It's unfortunate that while many are slowly cluing in to the erosion of the 1st and 4th amendments, the same many have already let the 2nd be shredded by the same legislators who have no love for liberty, only lust for power.
The role of law enforcement has never been crime prevention, but rather prosecution and evidence gathering. If your family is murdered, you can't sue any law enforcement agency for failing to respond, let alone for not having prevented it.
Here's how to fix the Patriot act and friends: make them specifically not apply to American citizens, just foreign nationals. I think guests of this country should be subject to much more surveillance, THAT could have prevented the terrorist attacks, not reading law-abiding Americans' email. None of the hijackers were American citizens, and some were even here illegally and should have been deported months before the attacks.
Census Officer: What's all this then? You've put down bleedin' "Jedi Knight" as religion, you bloody well can't do that. I could give you a whopping big fine for that. Let's see some flippin' identification, mate, or it's off to clink for you faster than you can say "Bob's your uncle."
Jedi: You don't need to see my identification.
Officer: I don't need to see your identification.
Jedi: You can't fine me for anything.
Officer: I can't fine you for anything.
Jedi: I can go about my business.
Officer: You can go about your business.
Jedi: Move along.
Officer: Move along. Move along now.
What bug in PowerPoint changed the "we should stop thinking that Linux servers will sell themselves" slide to a "we should get out of the hardware business" slide in a certain somewhat recent VA Linux presentation?
One technical hurdle the recumbent bike manufacturers of the world haven't overcome is how not to look like a total jackass while riding one. The few I've seen look like they were designed by people who really enjoy pelvic exams.
They mobilized technicians from all over the country, and knowing that cell phones are a critical component of emergency communications, deployed many COWs (Cellular on Wheels) units in and around Manhattan within hours of the towers going down. It's a little unfortunate that companies are complaining about Verizon not getting data services back up quickly, Verizon lost millions of dollars worth of real estate and infrastructure and dedicated resources at major expense to restoring the basics like dialtone.
Why isn't there fingertip sensors that can detect where you would be typing if you were typing on a keyboard? I can type a hell of a lot faster on a real keyboard than I can a cellphone keypad.
Pure enough to write Perl like it is an acronym? (for something it isn't? a double negative doesn't make a positive in the acronym in question)
Now, see if you can think about what I just typed before you reply or moderate. Hint, there's 3 puns and 2 (fairly obvious) "hidden messages" and 2 bonus hidden messages you'll get if you think about it in the context of one of the less obvious puns.
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Supposedly, most people play Quake with a keyboard and mouse, keyboards with integrated pointers and mouse buttons are available, why not an integrated digital pad?
Console games that are more thinking than button mashing (all NONE of them), or where words are useful (ever play Jeopardy on the original Nintendo?) would be much improved by that sort of controller.
Babbage's had the best deals on videogames and M$ software back in the day. It's too bad they went belly-up.
Don't you just want to replace their fabric softener with used toilet paper and smash a plaster bust of Einstein over their heads?
that answers "If this is a personal call, please press "1". If you are a telemarketer, or this is a commercial or unsolicited call, please hang up now and add this number to your "Do Not Call" list." When you press 1 it rings a speaker on the answerer a few times and then takes voicemail if no answer. Apparently the operator of many predictive dialing systems can't manually dial numbers (like "1") so they don't get through.
The optical bridges I'm familiar with (which I think have gotten cheap, $1000US per or so) are good for 60 kilometers over single-mode, which is fairly close to 45 miles, I think. Single-mode fiber in quantities around 60,000 meters should be available for less than $1/meter delivered, so say $50,000US for fiber. If you had a place to trench (say a government or utility right-of-way) and experienced volunteers to trench and splice, you'd have a very fat pipe under budget.
If there is a railway between the school and the city in question, there may very well be bandwidth there that could be bought or donated (a great deal of the "dark fiber" in the US isn't just in empty office buildings, it's buried next to railroad tracks).
Which look better, PNG or GIF files?
I'd like to X-press my X-treme X-huberance at another X-game for X-windows. I'm in X-stacy!
I just hope it's as good as X-pilot!
Signed,
X-bill
BUY GUNS.
National defense begins with your home. If police are responding to terrorist acts, you owe it to yourself to be able to defend yourself and your property and not rely on someone else to save you.
They can be more efficient than piston engines, and unfortunately research on rotary diesels seems to have stalled years ago, but there's many advantages over pistons for engines that aren't required to change RPM often, such as generators.
I used to have an Arctic Cat snowmobile with a Wankel engine when I was much younger. We couldn't find anybody to service it when it started to die, but it was fun to take it apart, it's extremely different from the tiny chainsaw two-strokes and four-stroke lawnmower engines I had torn down before.
They better bring along some ants that are trained to pick up lego blocks and tiny screws. And a carbon rod.
It's unfortunate that while many are slowly cluing in to the erosion of the 1st and 4th amendments, the same many have already let the 2nd be shredded by the same legislators who have no love for liberty, only lust for power.
The role of law enforcement has never been crime prevention, but rather prosecution and evidence gathering. If your family is murdered, you can't sue any law enforcement agency for failing to respond, let alone for not having prevented it.
Here's how to fix the Patriot act and friends: make them specifically not apply to American citizens, just foreign nationals. I think guests of this country should be subject to much more surveillance, THAT could have prevented the terrorist attacks, not reading law-abiding Americans' email. None of the hijackers were American citizens, and some were even here illegally and should have been deported months before the attacks.
Wouldn't it be "cyber Perl Harbor" after all some of the 1337357 sploitz have been implemented in Perl.
MySQL is very usable without these highly abused features:
- procedures
- triggers
- views
They're selling a Holosuite but delivering a View-Master.
Census Officer: What's all this then? You've put down bleedin' "Jedi Knight" as religion, you bloody well can't do that. I could give you a whopping big fine for that. Let's see some flippin' identification, mate, or it's off to clink for you faster than you can say "Bob's your uncle."
Jedi: You don't need to see my identification.
Officer: I don't need to see your identification.
Jedi: You can't fine me for anything.
Officer: I can't fine you for anything.
Jedi: I can go about my business.
Officer: You can go about your business.
Jedi: Move along.
Officer: Move along. Move along now.
What bug in PowerPoint changed the "we should stop thinking that Linux servers will sell themselves" slide to a "we should get out of the hardware business" slide in a certain somewhat recent VA Linux presentation?
One technical hurdle the recumbent bike manufacturers of the world haven't overcome is how not to look like a total jackass while riding one. The few I've seen look like they were designed by people who really enjoy pelvic exams.
I believe that lead the Scorpions to update their song to "Rock You Like My Mother-in-Law's Virtual Shower Simulator"
You know, if everything that got a +5 on Slashdot came true (or even was true) this would be an even more fucked-up world than it already is.
Does that guy who talks really fast still sell them? He said they're smaller than a nut ("this one or that one").
They mobilized technicians from all over the country, and knowing that cell phones are a critical component of emergency communications, deployed many COWs (Cellular on Wheels) units in and around Manhattan within hours of the towers going down. It's a little unfortunate that companies are complaining about Verizon not getting data services back up quickly, Verizon lost millions of dollars worth of real estate and infrastructure and dedicated resources at major expense to restoring the basics like dialtone.
Why isn't there fingertip sensors that can detect where you would be typing if you were typing on a keyboard? I can type a hell of a lot faster on a real keyboard than I can a cellphone keypad.
And all who dwell within the rockethouse
Remeber what I said about thinking? You just demonstrated you don't actually read posts.
Pure enough to write Perl like it is an acronym? (for something it isn't? a double negative doesn't make a positive in the acronym in question)
Now, see if you can think about what I just typed before you reply or moderate. Hint, there's 3 puns and 2 (fairly obvious) "hidden messages" and 2 bonus hidden messages you'll get if you think about it in the context of one of the less obvious puns.