C'mon? Who hasn't spent hours on a 300 baud ( 0.3KBps?) connection to the BBS up the street? The battle to get the one phone line going into the board was as grueling as any of the fights inside the game!
Or, for the more recent, telnetting in and running your SST or SDT scripts. Planet drops, fig triggers, ship capture scripts. Coding an efficient script is half the game.
Of course, in South Carolina, US, anyway, killing an intruder in your house is just fine. The AG a few years back declared "open season"... heh heh heh
Has anyone tried the DirecWay service offered in N.A. from DirectTV? They advertise $600 for 2 way satellite comm's, and $60 per month subscription. As a representative of the 'last mile' (BellSouth and Charter cable both suck!) I have no other options for broadband.
The $5000 quote in the parent makes me curious about DTV's $600 hardware. This is definitely 2-way satellite, not a cheesy dial up plus fast DL system.
The gravity of the UFO pulls things toward it. This slightly reduces the gravity of the earth beneath it pulling things towards the Earth. Enhance this effect, and make sure the the UFO has damn strong engines so as to not get pulled into the planet itself.
If you are floating in your UFO, generating some sort of thrust to keep yourself in the air, and then turn on your 'gravo-matic 9000' beam, your going to end up pulling your silly rear end into the ground. You will still need a compensatory increase in your lift or the only affect you're going to have on enemy troops is maybe hitting a few when you plummet to the earth!
Whenever possible turn off fluorescent lighting.
Try and use a desk lamp with a plain old light bulb or a halogen bulb if you can.
Also dim the place a bit down if you can; my eyes get very tired if I'm exposed to much lighting for extended periods of time.
As long as you're not working as a graphics designer try and eliminate the colour white from your colour scheme, try reversing it for a change, white to black and vice versa, personally I don't code unless the editor I'm using has a black background with white letters. If you think about it staring at a monitor all day long with the colour white as a default background colour on most applications isn't all that different from staring at a brightly lit white cloth or white wall, your eyes _will_ get tired and that leads discomfort.
Especially if you work at night, and people refer to you as "The Count"....
A good reason to live in South Carolina. The Attorney General recently announced "Open Season" on home invaders. If someone breaks into your house, he says, shoot them dead. He has specifically instructed all prosecutors in the state to *NOT* charge anyone with shooting a home invader.
...we, as individuals have to deal with this pest.
Nowhere in the constitution nor in the Bill of Rights does it say that you have the right to never be irritated. That is the price of freedom, and one that too many people are trying to legislate away. If we are to have true freedom of speech, you might actually hear something that could in some way be slightly unpleasant, disagreeable, or (horror of horrors) offensive to you.
Suck it up and get on with your life. I am not a spammer, I do not send out spam, I do not like spam. That is why I have this new little thing called a spam filter. Funny how the people of the world can take care of a problem without including the (any) government. I know that in this day and age, correcting a problem without crying to your legislator seems difficult, as it would actually involve some effort on your part, but try it some time. It is surprisingly refreshing to fix your own problem, turn the TV channel away from what you disagree with, and actually take care of yourself for a change.
No Doubt!
I believe the transfer rate was somewhere around 2 bytes per second as shipped. I remember that Epyx came out with the "Fast Load" cartridge, and everyone I knew had one, including me. Among other things, it allowed direct hex manipulation of the data on the disk. Good for removing the aforementioned copy protection schemes. QuickCopy was another "gotta-have" for the C-64 gamer.
And of course, anyone who had more than 1 drive remembers the method for changing the device number of the second drive. "Open the case and use a screwdriver to scratch off such-and-such a trace on the circuit board..." Ugh!!
Those were indeed the days....
So let's all send a nice little email to:
mdougherty@referee.com
And let them know of our concern about this. If they threaten legal action against a boycott, for crying out loud, they are obviously out of touch with the real world.
We just need to help them see the truth.
First, he spends much time talking about how OSS is going to bring about the end of The American Way, and cause armageddon in the world if it is not stopped.
Then he gives the standard MS dismissive wave-of-the-hand about how Linux poses no threat to Windows whatsoever.
So if it isn't a threat, why is he worried?
Although I agree that it is more relevant, I can't help feeling that this has crossed a line somehow. Planting cookies on my machine, watching what sites I come from and leave to, and all that is a passive monitoring of activity. I am doing things, and they watch. This doesn't bother me, because I can reject cookies, etc.
What is bothersome about this is that they are now actively searching through my hard drive to see what I have done. It is like they just broke into my house and went through my drawers, and now Hanes (C) is going to send me some coupons to buy new underwear. Yes, it is relevant, but STAY THE HELL OUT OF MY STUFF!!!
At the very least this needs to be made an opt-in technology, if not just abandoned altogether.
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C'mon? Who hasn't spent hours on a 300 baud ( 0.3KBps?) connection to the BBS up the street? The battle to get the one phone line going into the board was as grueling as any of the fights inside the game!
Or, for the more recent, telnetting in and running your SST or SDT scripts. Planet drops, fig triggers, ship capture scripts. Coding an efficient script is half the game.
Someone back me up on this!
Of course, in South Carolina, US, anyway, killing an intruder in your house is just fine. The AG a few years back declared "open season"... heh heh heh
ref: http://www.packing.org/news/article.jsp/2955
HEH /.
Of course, after entering the workforce, you develop the Alt-Tab reflex to switch back to whatever you are pretending to work on while reading
Rescue Heroes!
Has anyone tried the DirecWay service offered in N.A. from DirectTV? They advertise $600 for 2 way satellite comm's, and $60 per month subscription. As a representative of the 'last mile' (BellSouth and Charter cable both suck!) I have no other options for broadband.
The $5000 quote in the parent makes me curious about DTV's $600 hardware. This is definitely 2-way satellite, not a cheesy dial up plus fast DL system.
Anyone tried it?
The gravity of the UFO pulls things toward it. This slightly reduces the gravity of the earth beneath it pulling things towards the Earth. Enhance this effect, and make sure the the UFO has damn strong engines so as to not get pulled into the planet itself.
If you are floating in your UFO, generating some sort of thrust to keep yourself in the air, and then turn on your 'gravo-matic 9000' beam, your going to end up pulling your silly rear end into the ground. You will still need a compensatory increase in your lift or the only affect you're going to have on enemy troops is maybe hitting a few when you plummet to the earth!
heh!
Whenever possible turn off fluorescent lighting.
Try and use a desk lamp with a plain old light bulb or a halogen bulb if you can.
Also dim the place a bit down if you can; my eyes get very tired if I'm exposed to much lighting for extended periods of time.
As long as you're not working as a graphics designer try and eliminate the colour white from your colour scheme, try reversing it for a change, white to black and vice versa, personally I don't code unless the editor I'm using has a black background with white letters. If you think about it staring at a monitor all day long with the colour white as a default background colour on most applications isn't all that different from staring at a brightly lit white cloth or white wall, your eyes _will_ get tired and that leads discomfort.
Especially if you work at night, and people refer to you as "The Count"....
A good reason to live in South Carolina. The Attorney General recently announced "Open Season" on home invaders. If someone breaks into your house, he says, shoot them dead. He has specifically instructed all prosecutors in the state to *NOT* charge anyone with shooting a home invader.
...we, as individuals have to deal with this pest.
Nowhere in the constitution nor in the Bill of Rights does it say that you have the right to never be irritated. That is the price of freedom, and one that too many people are trying to legislate away. If we are to have true freedom of speech, you might actually hear something that could in some way be slightly unpleasant, disagreeable, or (horror of horrors) offensive to you.
Suck it up and get on with your life. I am not a spammer, I do not send out spam, I do not like spam. That is why I have this new little thing called a spam filter. Funny how the people of the world can take care of a problem without including the (any) government. I know that in this day and age, correcting a problem without crying to your legislator seems difficult, as it would actually involve some effort on your part, but try it some time. It is surprisingly refreshing to fix your own problem, turn the TV channel away from what you disagree with, and actually take care of yourself for a change.
No Doubt!
I believe the transfer rate was somewhere around 2 bytes per second as shipped. I remember that Epyx came out with the "Fast Load" cartridge, and everyone I knew had one, including me. Among other things, it allowed direct hex manipulation of the data on the disk. Good for removing the aforementioned copy protection schemes. QuickCopy was another "gotta-have" for the C-64 gamer.
And of course, anyone who had more than 1 drive remembers the method for changing the device number of the second drive. "Open the case and use a screwdriver to scratch off such-and-such a trace on the circuit board..." Ugh!!
Those were indeed the days....
So let's all send a nice little email to:
mdougherty@referee.com
And let them know of our concern about this. If they threaten legal action against a boycott, for crying out loud, they are obviously out of touch with the real world.
We just need to help them see the truth.
First, he spends much time talking about how OSS is going to bring about the end of The American Way, and cause armageddon in the world if it is not stopped.
Then he gives the standard MS dismissive wave-of-the-hand about how Linux poses no threat to Windows whatsoever. So if it isn't a threat, why is he worried?
Although I agree that it is more relevant, I can't help feeling that this has crossed a line somehow. Planting cookies on my machine, watching what sites I come from and leave to, and all that is a passive monitoring of activity. I am doing things, and they watch. This doesn't bother me, because I can reject cookies, etc.
What is bothersome about this is that they are now actively searching through my hard drive to see what I have done. It is like they just broke into my house and went through my drawers, and now Hanes (C) is going to send me some coupons to buy new underwear. Yes, it is relevant, but STAY THE HELL OUT OF MY STUFF!!!
At the very least this needs to be made an opt-in technology, if not just abandoned altogether.