I mentioned the idea of a "WebTorrent" in my/. journal a few days back, there already is a way to make a torrent of the contents of a directory, it is even possible to modify a client to place a priority on specific files inside of a torrent (i.e. index.html). One drawback my roommate thought of though is: How do you "update" a WebTorrent? Once the file is out in the swarm, there is no way you can update the file. You would have to make a completely new torrent for any new version of your webpage.
What I would like to be able to see is the ability to use a large directory of files as a stenographic "filesystem" of sorts. For example: Mount the pictures of your roadtrip to Antarctica as a loopback device.
Ideally the software would only need to be pointed to a directory or a wildcard, given a passphrase and be able to just "mount" those files. I.E.
I work at a hotel, my job is to tell irate people no. The amount of money involved us usually a few hundred dollars that I'm telling them they will not be able get back, never less than $40. I know what it is like to be on the other end of the line, and subsequently, I refuse to raise my tone or be unreasonable over the phone with the first person I talk to.
I never let managers blame problems on the low end people either, when I'm asked who I spoke to, I say that I forgot, or be as vauge as possible. I don't want somebody to loose a job over something that is not their fault.
I always ask to speak to a manager or supervisor before I speak my mind. Sadly, in the case of AT&T Wireless, I can't even get that far.
I've asked to speak to managers, and they don't let me. I asked after the crazy lady went nuts on me, and she gave me some lame reason why she could (would) not connect me to a supervisor. I called back again and asked to speak to a supervisor, but they wouldn't connect me, again because of some dumb reason. I think the reasons were because I didn't know the "password to my account". This is amusing, because I have no memory of ever setting a password on the account.
It's the new Customer Service Droids. In all seriousness, that comic is 100% true. I was yelled at by a lady from Customer Service, I had to move the phone away from my ear because of how loud she got.
I abhor AT&T wireless, they have been a constant source of grief for me. Recently they have placed their own towers in the San Luis Obispo, Californa area that can not handle the load of their customers. It usually takes about 8 attempts to make a call before I can get out. Calls to AT&T Wireless resulted in the Customer Service representative yelling at me and treating me with a complete lack of respect. Once I re-finance my car, I'm going to cancel my 2-year contract and tell them to go to hell when they try to collect the early termination fee. If I wasn't a college student, I would love to be involved in a lawsuit against them.
Only recently have I been able to get decent service. This was only after I mentioned to the rep that I has just submited a complaint to the FCC.
I have so many good memories of that game, we'd always get into fights because somebody got the pipe before the other person did, or a power up. Stuff like that. The final boss was lots of fun too.
I'd still like to find some games other than Diablo that have good co-op "missions". I've been playing a lot of tower defense maps on Warcraft III lately, and that has been fun. Any other ideas?
I clerk at a hotel, we get a fax to our main number every now and then, I just put the fax calls on hold. They are the ones paying for the call, we have 5 lines in so I'm not blocking incoming cals, let them spend a little more money on the call than usual. The fax machines try to connect for about 2-10 minutes and hang up.
What would be cool is a getty hack that would keep re-handshaking on the fax, so you are in a perpetual handshake state with the fax on the other end. Get one of those boxes that will split out the fax calls, put a box with this getty on the other end, cron the getty to run at night, or off hours, and let them rack up the long distance charges.
Somebody needs to make a javascript type thing like the one they had for the New York Times Registration page. Just have it fill in random crap that looks real.
One tool I have not been able to find, but would really like, would be a sort of packet creation/packet sniffer hybrid where you could inject arbitrary packets into a TCP/IP stream. Does anything like this exist?
Sure, I was a little reluctant to do so, because the Ayn Rand topic seems to be risque around here. But hey, you asked for it.
Your post freaked me out, because it reads like a page from an updated version of the book.
The book is fiction, it reads a such, it has intresting points. When I read your post and others like it, the ones that talk about ineptitude at such a grand scale, and when I read about you being self-taught. My first thoughts are of this book and the two classes of people that Rand highlights: "second-handers" and "creators". I can't help but see that hack with the masters in CS as a parallel of the character in the book who attained fame, power and money, but could not create anything himself. The protagonist in the book was a self made man, he did what he loved, because he loved it.
They seem to have removed the episodes for now, because of bandwith issues... but google searches for nj_chapter0X (where X is a number greater than 2) turn up some of the episodes that are hidden on other servers. I really like what I have seen of this so far.
Anything you can think of goes faster if you implement it in hardware. 3D graphics is a great example: most cards today consist of a bunch of matrix multipliers plus some memory for the framebuffer, and a bunch of convenience operations that you do in hardware as well (like textures and lighting and so on.) Because it's in hardware, it's way faster than anything you could do on a general purpose processor.
Not only that, but with game makers able to define their own hardware. There would not be any of this Direct3D / OpenGL / Glide nonsense, each game could have its very own special core, custom made for the game engine.
Boondock Saints is exelent but if you are going to watch it. Watch the Canadian version, they had to cut out lots of the American version to keep it from getting an NC-17 for violence.
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David Fincher is in all his movies.
I mentioned the idea of a "WebTorrent" in my /. journal a few days back, there already is a way to make a torrent of the contents of a directory, it is even possible to modify a client to place a priority on specific files inside of a torrent (i.e. index.html). One drawback my roommate thought of though is: How do you "update" a WebTorrent? Once the file is out in the swarm, there is no way you can update the file. You would have to make a completely new torrent for any new version of your webpage.
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That picture made me recoil from my chair.
Ideally the software would only need to be pointed to a directory or a wildcard, given a passphrase and be able to just "mount" those files. I.E.
Have your filed a complaint with the FCC?
I work at a hotel, my job is to tell irate people no. The amount of money involved us usually a few hundred dollars that I'm telling them they will not be able get back, never less than $40. I know what it is like to be on the other end of the line, and subsequently, I refuse to raise my tone or be unreasonable over the phone with the first person I talk to.
I never let managers blame problems on the low end people either, when I'm asked who I spoke to, I say that I forgot, or be as vauge as possible. I don't want somebody to loose a job over something that is not their fault.
I always ask to speak to a manager or supervisor before I speak my mind. Sadly, in the case of AT&T Wireless, I can't even get that far.
I've asked to speak to managers, and they don't let me. I asked after the crazy lady went nuts on me, and she gave me some lame reason why she could (would) not connect me to a supervisor. I called back again and asked to speak to a supervisor, but they wouldn't connect me, again because of some dumb reason. I think the reasons were because I didn't know the "password to my account". This is amusing, because I have no memory of ever setting a password on the account.
It's the new Customer Service Droids. In all seriousness, that comic is 100% true. I was yelled at by a lady from Customer Service, I had to move the phone away from my ear because of how loud she got.
I abhor AT&T wireless, they have been a constant source of grief for me. Recently they have placed their own towers in the San Luis Obispo, Californa area that can not handle the load of their customers. It usually takes about 8 attempts to make a call before I can get out. Calls to AT&T Wireless resulted in the Customer Service representative yelling at me and treating me with a complete lack of respect. Once I re-finance my car, I'm going to cancel my 2-year contract and tell them to go to hell when they try to collect the early termination fee. If I wasn't a college student, I would love to be involved in a lawsuit against them.
Only recently have I been able to get decent service. This was only after I mentioned to the rep that I has just submited a complaint to the FCC.
I have so many good memories of that game, we'd always get into fights because somebody got the pipe before the other person did, or a power up. Stuff like that. The final boss was lots of fun too.
I'd still like to find some games other than Diablo that have good co-op "missions". I've been playing a lot of tower defense maps on Warcraft III lately, and that has been fun. Any other ideas?
No business will be sent to Olagam from me.
I clerk at a hotel, we get a fax to our main number every now and then, I just put the fax calls on hold. They are the ones paying for the call, we have 5 lines in so I'm not blocking incoming cals, let them spend a little more money on the call than usual. The fax machines try to connect for about 2-10 minutes and hang up.
What would be cool is a getty hack that would keep re-handshaking on the fax, so you are in a perpetual handshake state with the fax on the other end. Get one of those boxes that will split out the fax calls, put a box with this getty on the other end, cron the getty to run at night, or off hours, and let them rack up the long distance charges.
Somebody needs to make a javascript type thing like the one they had for the New York Times Registration page. Just have it fill in random crap that looks real.
Except for the fact College students tend to have lots of debt, this is a good idea!
One tool I have not been able to find, but would really like, would be a sort of packet creation/packet sniffer hybrid where you could inject arbitrary packets into a TCP/IP stream. Does anything like this exist?
Looks like you not only have to trade public keys with your friend, but somebody needs to have WASTE on a public IP with port 1337 open.
Sure, I was a little reluctant to do so, because the Ayn Rand topic seems to be risque around here. But hey, you asked for it.
Your post freaked me out, because it reads like a page from an updated version of the book.
The book is fiction, it reads a such, it has intresting points. When I read your post and others like it, the ones that talk about ineptitude at such a grand scale, and when I read about you being self-taught. My first thoughts are of this book and the two classes of people that Rand highlights: "second-handers" and "creators". I can't help but see that hack with the masters in CS as a parallel of the character in the book who attained fame, power and money, but could not create anything himself. The protagonist in the book was a self made man, he did what he loved, because he loved it.
The parallels are what bothered me.
Read the book, I'm guessing you will like it.
... I just finished The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand, I can't say that I agree with everything in the book, but man, this post freaks me out.
Every time I hear "A Hard Day's Night" by The Beatles I think of that skit...
They seem to have removed the episodes for now, because of bandwith issues... but google searches for nj_chapter0X (where X is a number greater than 2) turn up some of the episodes that are hidden on other servers. I really like what I have seen of this so far.
Anything you can think of goes faster if you implement it in hardware. 3D graphics is a great example: most cards today consist of a bunch of matrix multipliers plus some memory for the framebuffer, and a bunch of convenience operations that you do in hardware as well (like textures and lighting and so on.) Because it's in hardware, it's way faster than anything you could do on a general purpose processor.
Not only that, but with game makers able to define their own hardware. There would not be any of this Direct3D / OpenGL / Glide nonsense, each game could have its very own special core, custom made for the game engine.
Boondock Saints is exelent but if you are going to watch it. Watch the Canadian version, they had to cut out lots of the American version to keep it from getting an NC-17 for violence.
you put your weed in there.