And this would absolutely destroy your cassettes after a while (and not a long while, at that). Basically, you're rewinding/fast-forwarding WITH THE TAPE HEAD ENGAGED. As the deck slowed down to play the next track you were looking for, it stretched the tape itself slightly - this lead to some pretty amazing popping sounds on a lot of my old cassettes. There's a reason this technology didn't become more widespread:)
Personally I'm glad to be rid of my cassette tapes - I had over 300 at one point, and shudder to think of actually having to use one again (like the odd time I'm in an older model car). I'm darn close to that same feeling with CDs - just imagine only having 10 songs to choose form before changing the actual media! What kind of stone age is this?:)
If you're gonna be a complete jackass, why not ask: why not just buy an original c64? You can pick them up for $5 at the local junk shop here. Disk drive, another $2. I'm pretty sure your mini-itx boards cost more than $7.
Yeesh, why is it that every time someone does something neat/cool/original, we have to moderate up the 'BUT THERE'S ALREADY ANOTHER WAY TO DO IT' trolls?
Ok, stupid canuck here: Why would the academy send out subtitled films for whatever it is they do to decide who wins? Aren't the Oscars pretty much an American thing (hence any non-US movie being classified as 'foreign')? If so, why would they need to subtitle them?
Computer-simulated pictures of orbiting space debris suffer from the same problem that images of our solar system do:
Each individual 'thing' (piece of debris/planet) is incredibly tiny compared to the size of the background object (Earth/the solar system). If they showed an actual scale model of the solar system on your (for example) 1600x1200 screen, even jupiter would be well under a pixel wide (in fact, Jupiter's diamater is about 1/40,000th the size of the mean distance from Pluto to the Sun).
Same thing for Earth orbit space debris - sure, there are tens of thousands of objects up there - but the biggest thing we've ever sent into space is only a few hundred yards long, and the vast majority of these things measure in the inches. The Earth is more than 12 MILLION yards wide.
Point is, you wouldn't see anything on any real scale model of either the Earth or the solar system. They artificially blow up the little things so it has some relevance to us feeble humans. Not that this lessens the danger from space debris, mind you - it's just nowhere near as bad as it looks from the pretty pictures.
Not sure if you've heard of this, but Id released a wonderful win32 port of Doom a few years back (Doom95 or some such). It runs just prefectly in NT and 2000, so I assume the DOS issues are non-existent. Then again, with some of what I've heard about XP, who knows.
Plus of course, what's really on topic here: whenever the Univeristy goes into exam time, then the break afterwards. The 75 changes its schedule at least a dozen times during the year as a result (makes for annoying waits if you go to campus on the weekend).
For everyone out there saying this guy should take a bike, it's no big deal waiting for a bus, etc...
Let me just tell you what it's like up here in Winnipeg.
Tonight, for example, it's going down to -35C. That's damn near -35F for you yank types (ie: DAMN COLD). Cycling to work here is almost impossible, because in addition to the cold we have almost no bicycle lanes, and driving on the road is a joke - ice and snow cover the roads for 4-6 months a year.
In short, busses are absolutely essential, and seeing as how our schedules change every couple of months, staying on top of it is one big pain. Kudos to this guy for coming up with something clever!
Especially notable in the 1980's, where every damned sitcom family suddenly had a baby (already having several teenaged children), television is notorious for introducing new characters just to prop up sagging ratings. Often, the new character is somehow considered 'hip' or 'with it', or, in the case of the 80's, just oh so gosh-darned cute.
Seeing as how virtually every other Simpsons episode is a complete satire of modern pop culture, I'm amazed someone could miss that entirely.
Notice the 'Roy' character they suddenly introduced into the Simpson household (Yo, Mr. S!)?
As about the only longtime Simpsons fan left who doesn't seem to want to do nothing but bitch about the new episodes, it still surprises me how people will completely misinterpret the jokes in an attempt to find fault with the show.
Yeah, as much as I try not to be too cynical about the news, it still disgusted me to see CNN tonight.
Aaron Brown: "Well, it just seems like the more we learn, the more we don't know". The entire story had a distinct undertone of 'how dare NASA change their mind'. It was almost as if the whole CNN crew was pissed off that the foam insulation cause they'd been touting all weekend just may not be what happened.
The segment ended on a rather dour note, sort of 'ah, what do scientists know anyway?'. Pretty fucking obnoxious if you ask me.
The biggest problem in developing new programs for MAME is that MAME isn't an emulator in the traditional sense. MAME is essentially a collection of emulators for hundreds of different hardware configurations.
Programming for traditional consoles is difficult enough - and very few had add-on hardware to worry about until relatively recently. Now imagine programming across the range of every single console ever made, and then some. People don't really bother, as it takes a lot of time just to learn one small subset of the available systems.
1. spyware (hint: IRC clients generally have none) 2. the RIAA/MPAA (hint: they've never successfully sued an IRC network, afaik) 3. XDCC (incredibly fast file transfers from multiple sources) 4. no requirement to share to others (helps if your ISP tracks this sort of thing) 5. dedicated servers for content. sure it may be slow, but you likely aren't going to have some idiot waiting until your movie is 99% done, then cut you off at the last 100 bytes - only to find no one else on Kazaa doesn't have the exact rip of that movie
Trivial: find any channel with > 1000 users. I've yet to see a non-warez channel with much over 200 users, for that matter.
Kick everyone out, and as they regroup and conglomerate, repeat as desired. Massive file trading and the assholes it brings onto IRC can't survive without channels being popular.
Sapphire/Slammer got around that by being small enough to fit into a single packet(!) so that it didn't have to wait for a return message, but that small size sharply limited its possible payload.
Slammer was under 400 bytes as it was. Now, won't most IP networks pass 1500 or so byte packets without fragmenting? That's a lot of extra room to toss in a nasty payload. Maybe all we need to do is convince MS to force their buffer overflows to require at least 1500 bytes:)
Well, most of the packets seen were 376 bytes, but apparently there was some slight variation as far as the worm went. As far as it not waiting for a response, no, it did *not* spoof source IP addresses - it didn't need to, the entire point of using UDP is that you don't need to wait for a response.
I'm rather amazed no one has really done something this before - what better way to flood networks than to use all available bandwidth, with seemingly legit traffic. We should be happy this ONLY infected MSSQL Server - just imagine an IIS bug like this (Code Red times what, a million??) Unfortunately, like as not we're gonna see something with a payload next time. Oh well, who needs sleep on the weekends?
If you hate popups, AND enjoy a fast browsing experience (esp load times!), it can't be said enough times: give Opera a whirl.
I know the concept of paying for decent software seems foreign to some here, and your favourite new Flash site of the week may not display 100%, but for everything you say you don't like about IE and Moz, Opera has them beat pants down.
It's gotten so bad at work that I'm regularly screaming at my machines every time I'm forced to surf the web (stupid default IE installs).
Up here in Canada perishable food products are required to have a 'best before' date on the packaging. It's generally a good indication of when something is about to go south, unless you leave the milk on the counter overnight or something equally silly.
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Only on Slashdot will you see someone using the words 'only' and '$2,612,000,000' in the same sentence. ;)
And this would absolutely destroy your cassettes after a while (and not a long while, at that). Basically, you're rewinding/fast-forwarding WITH THE TAPE HEAD ENGAGED. As the deck slowed down to play the next track you were looking for, it stretched the tape itself slightly - this lead to some pretty amazing popping sounds on a lot of my old cassettes. There's a reason this technology didn't become more widespread :)
:)
Personally I'm glad to be rid of my cassette tapes - I had over 300 at one point, and shudder to think of actually having to use one again (like the odd time I'm in an older model car). I'm darn close to that same feeling with CDs - just imagine only having 10 songs to choose form before changing the actual media! What kind of stone age is this?
If you're gonna be a complete jackass, why not ask: why not just buy an original c64? You can pick them up for $5 at the local junk shop here. Disk drive, another $2. I'm pretty sure your mini-itx boards cost more than $7.
Yeesh, why is it that every time someone does something neat/cool/original, we have to moderate up the 'BUT THERE'S ALREADY ANOTHER WAY TO DO IT' trolls?
Ok, there's always telnet and netcat, but for the lazy:
http://grc.com/id/idserve.htm
Yeah, yeah, Steve's a bit of a tinfoiler, but his apps are always damn slick (anyone else remember Chromazone?)
I dunno, I count several hundred Slashdot posts already...
:)
Oh wait, you said *explained*...
Ok, stupid canuck here: Why would the academy send out subtitled films for whatever it is they do to decide who wins? Aren't the Oscars pretty much an American thing (hence any non-US movie being classified as 'foreign')? If so, why would they need to subtitle them?
Computer-simulated pictures of orbiting space debris suffer from the same problem that images of our solar system do:
Each individual 'thing' (piece of debris/planet) is incredibly tiny compared to the size of the background object (Earth/the solar system). If they showed an actual scale model of the solar system on your (for example) 1600x1200 screen, even jupiter would be well under a pixel wide (in fact, Jupiter's diamater is about 1/40,000th the size of the mean distance from Pluto to the Sun).
Same thing for Earth orbit space debris - sure, there are tens of thousands of objects up there - but the biggest thing we've ever sent into space is only a few hundred yards long, and the vast majority of these things measure in the inches. The Earth is more than 12 MILLION yards wide.
Point is, you wouldn't see anything on any real scale model of either the Earth or the solar system. They artificially blow up the little things so it has some relevance to us feeble humans. Not that this lessens the danger from space debris, mind you - it's just nowhere near as bad as it looks from the pretty pictures.
Not sure if you've heard of this, but Id released a wonderful win32 port of Doom a few years back (Doom95 or some such). It runs just prefectly in NT and 2000, so I assume the DOS issues are non-existent. Then again, with some of what I've heard about XP, who knows.
Check out what they're publishing now!
Plus of course, what's really on topic here: whenever the Univeristy goes into exam time, then the break afterwards. The 75 changes its schedule at least a dozen times during the year as a result (makes for annoying waits if you go to campus on the weekend).
For everyone out there saying this guy should take a bike, it's no big deal waiting for a bus, etc...
Let me just tell you what it's like up here in Winnipeg.
Tonight, for example, it's going down to -35C. That's damn near -35F for you yank types (ie: DAMN COLD). Cycling to work here is almost impossible, because in addition to the cold we have almost no bicycle lanes, and driving on the road is a joke - ice and snow cover the roads for 4-6 months a year.
In short, busses are absolutely essential, and seeing as how our schedules change every couple of months, staying on top of it is one big pain. Kudos to this guy for coming up with something clever!
Especially notable in the 1980's, where every damned sitcom family suddenly had a baby (already having several teenaged children), television is notorious for introducing new characters just to prop up sagging ratings. Often, the new character is somehow considered 'hip' or 'with it', or, in the case of the 80's, just oh so gosh-darned cute.
Seeing as how virtually every other Simpsons episode is a complete satire of modern pop culture, I'm amazed someone could miss that entirely.
Notice the 'Roy' character they suddenly introduced into the Simpson household (Yo, Mr. S!)?
As about the only longtime Simpsons fan left who doesn't seem to want to do nothing but bitch about the new episodes, it still surprises me how people will completely misinterpret the jokes in an attempt to find fault with the show.
Yeah, as much as I try not to be too cynical about the news, it still disgusted me to see CNN tonight.
Aaron Brown: "Well, it just seems like the more we learn, the more we don't know". The entire story had a distinct undertone of 'how dare NASA change their mind'. It was almost as if the whole CNN crew was pissed off that the foam insulation cause they'd been touting all weekend just may not be what happened.
The segment ended on a rather dour note, sort of 'ah, what do scientists know anyway?'. Pretty fucking obnoxious if you ask me.
You're a very, very patient user. Maybe you've never seen just how quick a real app can load...
Mozilla is slow as molasses on anything less than a Ghz+ machine.
IE is so full of holes, and no feasible way to kill popups short of crippling the browser.
Your point again was?
You mean like Centipede, Frogger, Asteroids, Defender, Pac-Man, Missle Command, Pong, etc, etc, etc?
They've been remaking classic Atari games for years now.
And to be redundant, Texas Chainsaw Massacre was most certainly not 'banned from the US for violence'.
How do posts like this get moderated up?
The biggest problem in developing new programs for MAME is that MAME isn't an emulator in the traditional sense. MAME is essentially a collection of emulators for hundreds of different hardware configurations.
Programming for traditional consoles is difficult enough - and very few had add-on hardware to worry about until relatively recently. Now imagine programming across the range of every single console ever made, and then some. People don't really bother, as it takes a lot of time just to learn one small subset of the available systems.
1. spyware (hint: IRC clients generally have none)
2. the RIAA/MPAA (hint: they've never successfully sued an IRC network, afaik)
3. XDCC (incredibly fast file transfers from multiple sources)
4. no requirement to share to others (helps if your ISP tracks this sort of thing)
5. dedicated servers for content. sure it may be slow, but you likely aren't going to have some idiot waiting until your movie is 99% done, then cut you off at the last 100 bytes - only to find no one else on Kazaa doesn't have the exact rip of that movie
anyone else?
Trivial: find any channel with > 1000 users. I've yet to see a non-warez channel with much over 200 users, for that matter.
Kick everyone out, and as they regroup and conglomerate, repeat as desired. Massive file trading and the assholes it brings onto IRC can't survive without channels being popular.
You would think those chans would produce a hell of a lot of vigalante DDos attacks so why don't they close those first?
Most of the degenerates participating in DDoS attacks aren't exactly soccer moms and grandmas (ie: those most upset by child porn).
(intentional hyperbole)
Sapphire/Slammer got around that by being small enough to fit into a single packet(!) so that it didn't have to wait for a return message, but that small size sharply limited its possible payload.
:)
Slammer was under 400 bytes as it was. Now, won't most IP networks pass 1500 or so byte packets without fragmenting? That's a lot of extra room to toss in a nasty payload. Maybe all we need to do is convince MS to force their buffer overflows to require at least 1500 bytes
Well, most of the packets seen were 376 bytes, but apparently there was some slight variation as far as the worm went. As far as it not waiting for a response, no, it did *not* spoof source IP addresses - it didn't need to, the entire point of using UDP is that you don't need to wait for a response.
I'm rather amazed no one has really done something this before - what better way to flood networks than to use all available bandwidth, with seemingly legit traffic. We should be happy this ONLY infected MSSQL Server - just imagine an IIS bug like this (Code Red times what, a million??) Unfortunately, like as not we're gonna see something with a payload next time. Oh well, who needs sleep on the weekends?
Opera, Opera, Opera, and the chant goes on.
If you hate popups, AND enjoy a fast browsing experience (esp load times!), it can't be said enough times: give Opera a whirl.
I know the concept of paying for decent software seems foreign to some here, and your favourite new Flash site of the week may not display 100%, but for everything you say you don't like about IE and Moz, Opera has them beat pants down.
It's gotten so bad at work that I'm regularly screaming at my machines every time I'm forced to surf the web (stupid default IE installs).
Really, what's the point in celebrating creating something whose only purpose is to make our well-evolved biological sensors and filters fail.
Nice troll. Guess you've never watched TV or seen a movie eh?
Or are you implying the bitter taste of coffee somehow makes it a dangerous substance?
Up here in Canada perishable food products are required to have a 'best before' date on the packaging. It's generally a good indication of when something is about to go south, unless you leave the milk on the counter overnight or something equally silly.