I was going to get my silver futuristic-looking suit dry cleaned before I came back from the future, due to getting Slurm all over it at the last United States of South America vs New Zealand ruled Australia Ultraball game, but I just didn't have time.
"Use the time machine" I hear you cry. Well, to be honest I didn't want to risk it. Travelling back in time and meeting yourself is so embarrassing....
Here's a few events I can see happening in the near future:
1000 monkeys at 1000 type writers code perfect operating system: 2010
CowboyNeal becomes world president due to Slashdot poll becoming legally binding: 2014
Mozilla 1.0 released: 2018
Timelines of the Future proven inaccurate: 1823
99% of Slashdot comment submitters use "Preview" button before submitting: 2793
This guy is taking the piss. I mean, how can anyone take these seriously:
Orgasmatron: 2012
Creation of The Matrix: 2025
Full Direct Brain Link: 2030 (yet, the matrix is created 5 years earlier?)
Possible Rise of global machine dictator: 2020
Politcal correctness creates new dark age: 2050
Whole generation effectively unable to read, write, think and work: 2050
Time travel invented: 2075
Faster than light travel: 2100
There's no way any of that can really be taken seriously.
Especially the part about artificial kidneys in 2015 and artificial livers in 2020. I guess I no longer have to worry about drinking all that beer and coke, science will solve my over-indulgence releated medical problems.
Don't forget the caffine. Ever since I replaced water with caffinated beverages, my creativity had dropped through the floor (I also blame the internet and video games, low drinking ages and easy access to guns, just to cover all the bases ; )
Not ashamed, more relieved that the truth is finally out there. It's a weight off my chest.
Trust me, when I heard of this occurance, I shed a tear for those poor, defenseless CRTs, being dumped in an umarked, undignified grave when there where thousands who would have given them the love they needed.
I often wake screaming with guilt (or it could be caffine induced insanity, same diff I suppose).
There's a bank I worked for a little while ago which recieved 40 17" monitors that it had since decided it didn't want.
Since the supplier wouldn't take them back and the bank had a stupid "destroy all obsolete computer equipment" policy, the brand, spanking new monitors, still in their unopened boxes, where taken to the landfill where a large hole was dug, the monitors dumped into and run over with a bulldozer.
In the words of one of my university going friends: "The university computer department would have killed for those"
I would have taken those monitors off their hands, for free. A 40 monitor wall display would have been cool.
It's not just the actual ability to change channels, it's the mute button too.
How many of you out there use the mute button when the ads come on? Screw listening to the ads, flick it to mute and then flick through the channels, I'm sure there is a large percentage of TV watchers that partake in such behaviour.
So the question should be, where's the lawsuit against the mute button and the ability of remotes to allow you to change the channel more than once every 6 seconds?
I too, was wondering how someone could burn through 401 thousand dollars in 8 months. With that much cash I could survive for nigh on 20 years with my current lifestyle (I guess having kids would suck a lot of cash away, but still....)
You guys have some pretty out-of-date information right there.
Checking my up to date encylopedia, I am informed that the Moon is, in fact, at a distance of 28 billion feet, 12 horse's heads and 3 grandmas from the Earth. while the Sun's orbit around the Earth is at the slightly greater distance of 54 billion feet, 6 Grandmas and a duck.
And for all of you who are interested in my adaptation of Rime of the Ancient Mariner, here it is:
RIME OF THE ANCIENT SPAMMER
by Yorrike
It is an ancient spammer
And he spamith one in three
By thy lies and undisclosed recipiants
Now wherefore spam'st thou me ?
The open relays are opened wide,
And payest I the toll;
The conditions are met, the filter set,
May'st ye >/dev/null.
He sends to me html e-mail,
'Briteny Naked!' quoth he.
'Hold off! Unsubcribe me, spamming loon!'
Eftsoons more he sends me.
He sends to all, his wiley claims
In bulk, CPUs stand still
And grindith away like a 386
The spammer hath his will
The spammed net user sat in his chair
He cannot choose but ignore;
And thus rants on the ancient spam
That cursed old spammer
'The mail was wrote, the bandwidth chocked,
Merrily did we send
Open relay dost fit the bill,
one million, e-mail then end.
The spam dost went over the web
Through smtp went he!
And sat in all those pop3 queues
Waiting to be seen.
Higher and higher the spam count rose
Till overflowed inboxes--'
The spammed net user here pressed delete,
To rid those error boxes.
The hard disk drive was running hot
Though by a fan was cool;
Shaking his head the user speakith
'Damn this spammed mail spool!'
The spammed user hath pressed delete
Yet the inbox still was full
And thus ranted on and on the spam
That cursed old spammer
'Click here to get your new credit card
With up to $1,000 limit:
Hot teen babes are waiting for you'
But the user right clickith and bin it.
With constant sound, right cliking now
Annoyed the user with down sloped brow
Spam hath become his one true foe
Towards the keybord he wackith his head
The beeps came fast, loud roared the blast
Away from the PC he fled.
But still in the spam came high and fast
And tales of fortune it told
And bollocks knee-high, came flooding in
All in caps and bold.
And through the traps, the header caps
Did sendmail leave uncleaned
Nor shapes of mail sent by his friends
The spam was all between
The spam was here, the spam was there,
The spam was all around
The hard drive growled, and roared and howled,
Like Quake2 deathmatch sounds!
At length the spammed net user return
The battle was not lost
Selected he spam, up and down
Into the trash then tossed
He cleared the trash he ne'er had cleared
And did cycle the CPU
The spam did split with thunder-fit;
All moved to/dev/null !
The user smiled, if for a while
his inbox cleared to ground
But to his now utter distaste
The message bell did sound
Yell he loud at his filter shroud
He nay had slayne his foe
With might and fury, kick his box
and stubbith his big toe
'Death to thee, cursed spammer !
This toe bound pain shall pass!--
And then shall I find where you live;
And come to kick your arse.'
Netscape on linux, and mozilla on linux crashes more than anything on win2k for me. But I'm talking to closed minds here.
If Mozilla and Netscape are crashing there's something wrong with your setup. Firstly, don't use Netscape, because it sucks, secondly, try running Mozilla from bash with debug flags on, it may tell you what's going wrong.
Sure, XP has bugs (all new OS's do. Try and tell me that Linux 1.0 didn't crash or have bugs.)
Windows XP is NOT a new operating system it is merely the latest VERSION of Windows. You'd think that after a decade or more of programming operating systems, Microsoft could get something right. A default install of XP leaves it's associated PC fully open to remote attack. From a company with as much experience and money to throw around as Microsoft, this is inexcusable.
But I digress. Microsoft will have as hard a time grappling the Handheld market away from Nintendo as Nintendo would have grappling the Operating System market away from Microsoft. Not even the video-game-kingdom-stealing likes of Sony could out do Nintendo in the handheld market. From what the article says, though, the device mentioned doesn't even sound like a direct competitor.
Originally, Peter Jackson was asking for funds in order to create two films out of the trilogy (apparantly he was dubious as to whether he could secure enough funding), but New Line suggested he make three (much to Jackson's delight) and as such, we have 3 movies.
If you want more Tolkien based movies, Jackson has been rumored to be looking at making The Hobbit (mind you, he also wants to remake King Kong).
If anyone out there is interested in more of Peter Jackson's work, look out for the following movies:
Braindead
Bad Taste
Meet the Feebles
The Frighteners
Heavenly Creatures
It's amazing the number of films you can make in on New Zealand town.
Can you suggest anywhere online that sells them? Because I'm sick of having to get up out of bed and turn the light out after I decide to end my nightly Golden Sun playing spree.
But, curing those with life threating problems such as Diabetes would only increase the gene variation.
For example, though I'm a Diabetic, I have a REALLY strong immune system. I hardly ever get sick. Wouldn't it be preferble to get rid of the Diabetes but leave those super-immune genes floating around?
I don't think gene convergence will occur. If anything, the variation in our genes would spread as more and more genetic disorders are solved and the benfits from the genes of those who would have otherwise died,
I don't think anyone is suggesting we're gunning to all have the same DNA. That'd just be dumb, anyone can tell you that. Research like this, however, will allow us to make great advances in treating problems that not everyone has.
You're not going to take a perfectly healthy person and give them gene therapy for Diabetes or Heart Disease if they don't have either of those problems (both of which can be hereditary).
The end result will not be eveyone having the same DNA, it will be the elimination of the DNA that causes problems.
I've had Diabetes for 18 years now (since I was 3) and I've only just started getting my blood sugars to an almost perfect state. Though I'm sure that most of the problems I've had can be directly traced to my laziness, there have been some fantastic developments in control schemes in the last few years (super fast acting insulin that works only 5 minutes after taking rather than the previous half hour has to be my favourite).
Things are moving along at a rather rapid pace, and I'm confident there'll be a semi-cure within the next decade.
If only the human body were open source, I'd be recompiling my kernel right now.
Reminds me of that photo of a message board outside a church that reads:
"Don't let worries kill you, let the church help".
I do expect that such cloning will help in eliminating syndromes such as diabetes. With the ability to observe cloned pancreatic material in a cloned model body (I'll gladly donate DNA if it's needed). I imagine watching things happen will help us understand WHY they happen.
Also, think for a moment about the possibility of splicing Shark DNA with Human DNA. We could not only have a super shark-man like creature, but may also find a way in which to eliminate cancer in future generations.
A country has the guts (and yes, I'm not surprised it's Japan), to go about ignoring the stupid religious morals set by the US in regard to cloning animals/humans with the specific end of using them for organ harvesting.
I'm one step closer to being able to have a genetically perfect pancreas transplant, which means I'm a step closer to being able cease these stupid insulin injections 4-8 times a day.
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I was going to get my silver futuristic-looking suit dry cleaned before I came back from the future, due to getting Slurm all over it at the last United States of South America vs New Zealand ruled Australia Ultraball game, but I just didn't have time.
"Use the time machine" I hear you cry. Well, to be honest I didn't want to risk it. Travelling back in time and meeting yourself is so embarrassing....
1000 monkeys at 1000 type writers code perfect operating system: 2010
CowboyNeal becomes world president due to Slashdot poll becoming legally binding: 2014
Mozilla 1.0 released: 2018
Timelines of the Future proven inaccurate: 1823
99% of Slashdot comment submitters use "Preview" button before submitting: 2793
Orgasmatron: 2012
Creation of The Matrix: 2025
Full Direct Brain Link: 2030 (yet, the matrix is created 5 years earlier?)
Possible Rise of global machine dictator: 2020
Politcal correctness creates new dark age: 2050
Whole generation effectively unable to read, write, think and work: 2050
Time travel invented: 2075
Faster than light travel: 2100
There's no way any of that can really be taken seriously.
I know there's some nutters out there, but planes zorbing? C'MON!
Well, at least 85% of them.
shooting yore mowth, stupid weasel.
Don't forget the caffine. Ever since I replaced water with caffinated beverages, my creativity had dropped through the floor (I also blame the internet and video games, low drinking ages and easy access to guns, just to cover all the bases ; )
I'd prefer not to identify the bank, but I do not reside in the United States, so your environmental policies do not apply.
Trust me, when I heard of this occurance, I shed a tear for those poor, defenseless CRTs, being dumped in an umarked, undignified grave when there where thousands who would have given them the love they needed.
I often wake screaming with guilt (or it could be caffine induced insanity, same diff I suppose).
There's a bank I worked for a little while ago which recieved 40 17" monitors that it had since decided it didn't want.
Since the supplier wouldn't take them back and the bank had a stupid "destroy all obsolete computer equipment" policy, the brand, spanking new monitors, still in their unopened boxes, where taken to the landfill where a large hole was dug, the monitors dumped into and run over with a bulldozer.
In the words of one of my university going friends: "The university computer department would have killed for those"
I would have taken those monitors off their hands, for free. A 40 monitor wall display would have been cool.
How many of you out there use the mute button when the ads come on? Screw listening to the ads, flick it to mute and then flick through the channels, I'm sure there is a large percentage of TV watchers that partake in such behaviour.
So the question should be, where's the lawsuit against the mute button and the ability of remotes to allow you to change the channel more than once every 6 seconds?
I too, was wondering how someone could burn through 401 thousand dollars in 8 months. With that much cash I could survive for nigh on 20 years with my current lifestyle (I guess having kids would suck a lot of cash away, but still....)
The Moon. For several years she has fascinated Mankind
And the Monty Burns classic:
For centuries, man has wanted to destroy the Sun
Checking my up to date encylopedia, I am informed that the Moon is, in fact, at a distance of 28 billion feet, 12 horse's heads and 3 grandmas from the Earth. while the Sun's orbit around the Earth is at the slightly greater distance of 54 billion feet, 6 Grandmas and a duck.
Coleridge, of course. I posted it here
RIME OF THE ANCIENT SPAMMER
by Yorrike
It is an ancient spammer
And he spamith one in three
By thy lies and undisclosed recipiants
Now wherefore spam'st thou me ?
The open relays are opened wide, /dev/null.
And payest I the toll;
The conditions are met, the filter set,
May'st ye >
He sends to me html e-mail,
'Briteny Naked!' quoth he.
'Hold off! Unsubcribe me, spamming loon!'
Eftsoons more he sends me.
He sends to all, his wiley claims
In bulk, CPUs stand still
And grindith away like a 386
The spammer hath his will
The spammed net user sat in his chair
He cannot choose but ignore;
And thus rants on the ancient spam
That cursed old spammer
'The mail was wrote, the bandwidth chocked,
Merrily did we send
Open relay dost fit the bill,
one million, e-mail then end.
The spam dost went over the web
Through smtp went he!
And sat in all those pop3 queues
Waiting to be seen.
Higher and higher the spam count rose
Till overflowed inboxes--'
The spammed net user here pressed delete,
To rid those error boxes.
The hard disk drive was running hot
Though by a fan was cool;
Shaking his head the user speakith
'Damn this spammed mail spool!'
The spammed user hath pressed delete
Yet the inbox still was full
And thus ranted on and on the spam
That cursed old spammer
'Click here to get your new credit card :
With up to $1,000 limit
Hot teen babes are waiting for you'
But the user right clickith and bin it.
With constant sound, right cliking now
Annoyed the user with down sloped brow
Spam hath become his one true foe
Towards the keybord he wackith his head
The beeps came fast, loud roared the blast
Away from the PC he fled.
But still in the spam came high and fast
And tales of fortune it told
And bollocks knee-high, came flooding in
All in caps and bold.
And through the traps, the header caps
Did sendmail leave uncleaned
Nor shapes of mail sent by his friends
The spam was all between
The spam was here, the spam was there,
The spam was all around
The hard drive growled, and roared and howled,
Like Quake2 deathmatch sounds!
At length the spammed net user return
The battle was not lost
Selected he spam, up and down
Into the trash then tossed
He cleared the trash he ne'er had cleared /dev/null !
And did cycle the CPU
The spam did split with thunder-fit;
All moved to
The user smiled, if for a while
his inbox cleared to ground
But to his now utter distaste
The message bell did sound
Yell he loud at his filter shroud
He nay had slayne his foe
With might and fury, kick his box
and stubbith his big toe
'Death to thee, cursed spammer !
This toe bound pain shall pass!--
And then shall I find where you live;
And come to kick your arse.'
If Mozilla and Netscape are crashing there's something wrong with your setup. Firstly, don't use Netscape, because it sucks, secondly, try running Mozilla from bash with debug flags on, it may tell you what's going wrong.
Sure, XP has bugs (all new OS's do. Try and tell me that Linux 1.0 didn't crash or have bugs.)
Windows XP is NOT a new operating system it is merely the latest VERSION of Windows. You'd think that after a decade or more of programming operating systems, Microsoft could get something right. A default install of XP leaves it's associated PC fully open to remote attack. From a company with as much experience and money to throw around as Microsoft, this is inexcusable.
But I digress. Microsoft will have as hard a time grappling the Handheld market away from Nintendo as Nintendo would have grappling the Operating System market away from Microsoft. Not even the video-game-kingdom-stealing likes of Sony could out do Nintendo in the handheld market. From what the article says, though, the device mentioned doesn't even sound like a direct competitor.
If you want more Tolkien based movies, Jackson has been rumored to be looking at making The Hobbit (mind you, he also wants to remake King Kong).
If anyone out there is interested in more of Peter Jackson's work, look out for the following movies:
Braindead
Bad Taste
Meet the Feebles
The Frighteners
Heavenly Creatures
It's amazing the number of films you can make in on New Zealand town.
Can you suggest anywhere online that sells them? Because I'm sick of having to get up out of bed and turn the light out after I decide to end my nightly Golden Sun playing spree.
For example, though I'm a Diabetic, I have a REALLY strong immune system. I hardly ever get sick. Wouldn't it be preferble to get rid of the Diabetes but leave those super-immune genes floating around?
I don't think gene convergence will occur. If anything, the variation in our genes would spread as more and more genetic disorders are solved and the benfits from the genes of those who would have otherwise died,
Thanks for that. Another old wife's tale bites the dust, I suppose.
You're not going to take a perfectly healthy person and give them gene therapy for Diabetes or Heart Disease if they don't have either of those problems (both of which can be hereditary).
The end result will not be eveyone having the same DNA, it will be the elimination of the DNA that causes problems.
I've had Diabetes for 18 years now (since I was 3) and I've only just started getting my blood sugars to an almost perfect state. Though I'm sure that most of the problems I've had can be directly traced to my laziness, there have been some fantastic developments in control schemes in the last few years (super fast acting insulin that works only 5 minutes after taking rather than the previous half hour has to be my favourite).
Things are moving along at a rather rapid pace, and I'm confident there'll be a semi-cure within the next decade.
If only the human body were open source, I'd be recompiling my kernel right now.
"Don't let worries kill you, let the church help".
I do expect that such cloning will help in eliminating syndromes such as diabetes. With the ability to observe cloned pancreatic material in a cloned model body (I'll gladly donate DNA if it's needed). I imagine watching things happen will help us understand WHY they happen.
Also, think for a moment about the possibility of splicing Shark DNA with Human DNA. We could not only have a super shark-man like creature, but may also find a way in which to eliminate cancer in future generations.
A country has the guts (and yes, I'm not surprised it's Japan), to go about ignoring the stupid religious morals set by the US in regard to cloning animals/humans with the specific end of using them for organ harvesting.
I'm one step closer to being able to have a genetically perfect pancreas transplant, which means I'm a step closer to being able cease these stupid insulin injections 4-8 times a day.