The apple is spelled McIntosh. A Mackintosh is either a rain coat or a producer of musical theatre depending on whom you ask. I'm sure Apple Computer used neither spelling in the effort to make something trademarkably misspelled, after the manner of the Prevue Channel, E-Z whatever, and other such tripe.
I can't tell whether this guy is a fool or a troll, honestly. Personally, I'd love to see the state government steal everyone's cars and cut them up into scrap. Sure, force everyone to walk! Not only would we be a less polluted nation, we'd be a less coronary-prone one as well. The possibility of maybe not slurping up quite so much electric power has already been addressed by others so I won't repeat after them.
The following notice remains appended to each copy:
The Usenet Oldnews Archive: Compilation CopyrightC 1981, 1996
Bruce Jones, Henry Spencer, David Wiseman.
-- is bull? If you're copying single articles then the copyright on the compilation doesn't apply, only the individual author's copyright on it, no? C'mon, one of you anonymous lawyer-cowards help me out here...
I tried to visit CNN.com, but it promptly reloaded and overrode the frames...
Pray, have you disabled javascript? That usually is enough to put the smack down on web "designers" who think they know what my browser should look like better than I do.
I think it constitutes some kind of value when I can use deja.com's Usenet archive to find answers to my problems... I also highly value this as a Usenet reader who can look up almost every article by Message-ID, no matter when or where it was posted....
"Almost every article"? What a laugh! Deja's been a joke ever since they started playing the Let's-Pretend-We're-Yet-Another-Portal game, and it was only adding insult to injury when messages older than a year or two were removed from their archive. They say they're going to reinstate the missing chunks Real Soon Now, but then they start pulling this crap instead? I reiterate, what a laugh. Deja is a pathetic joke nowadays, no two ways about it.
Sorry, my foul-mouthed chum, but Drug Wars really is an important hit^H^H^Hbit of software to be discussing. Now go put on some Bob Marley, smoke a joint, and relax.
I think we're talking about people who presumably won't tolerate EITHER here, actually! Especially since the re-encode is not necessary (unless ads really are recorded over the music proper, in which case, ah well, back to cdparanoia with me...)
Yuck. Re-encode just to remove a bit? C'mon, that's disgusting!
Go forth and find out how to use mp3asm to cut up MPEGs and re-assemble them frame by frame, since I suspect any record company with an eye toward expediency would use a similar tool (albeit nice and cute and graphical, I'm sure!) to tack ads on. Jeez, the way some people casually toss around re-encodes you'd think MPEG was totally lossless.
Because people are lazy and careless and use Microsoft's nonstandard high ASCII characters instead of the proper character entities (the &foo; stuff), or just forget to turn off the accursed "auto-correction", that's why.
Too clueless to use MPEG, or too clueful? MPEG is still caught up in patents, licenses, and lawsuits! Where were you when all the previous stories about Ogg Vorbis were being posted?
Admittedly, the lack of a good range of audio/video formats is irksome, but there is an.au feed which humble ol' sox can handle easily, no questions asked.
Nope, not anymore. Dopes yakking about the 'egg' have outstripped the 'egg' itself. Kind of sad, really, but I suspect most anybody could see it coming, given how Microsoft-bashing is a national pastime and all.
That's because every idiot on the Network put up a page alerting people to this 'Easter egg'! (Which really isn't one, it's just a side effect of how Google works. Other pages say Microsoft is evil, so "evil" points to Microsoft, to put it simply.) Inevitably, the alerts have outstripped Microsoft for high scoring on the 'evil' line. Now that's the power of the people.
Except that they did a crap job of coding the hidden version of Maniac Mansion, so it has the same awful internal-speaker noise as the first IBM PC port of Maniac Mansion. Better to get an emulator and play the original.
"With all due respect" yourself, doubting Thomas. Remember, someone had to chance upon the transmolecular dot by themselves, or at least get the goony idea to use the ladder to get at places where they aren't supposed to go, before the rest of the world could know; and if someone could find it, it stands to reason that more than one person could find it.
And what's so strange or unlikely about that? I know that when playing games, I for one am always doing whatever the game world's local equivalent is of banging on doors and windows, testing every doorknob, trying to jump to seemingly unreachable levels, et cetera. It's part of the hacker nature, and it's not something that has suddenly come about in the past decade, even if games like Mortal Kombat and its spawn, the ones that articficially inflate replay value by including lots of "hidden" codes, have.
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The apple is spelled McIntosh. A Mackintosh is either a rain coat or a producer of musical theatre depending on whom you ask. I'm sure Apple Computer used neither spelling in the effort to make something trademarkably misspelled, after the manner of the Prevue Channel, E-Z whatever, and other such tripe.
I can't tell whether this guy is a fool or a troll, honestly. Personally, I'd love to see the state government steal everyone's cars and cut them up into scrap. Sure, force everyone to walk! Not only would we be a less polluted nation, we'd be a less coronary-prone one as well. The possibility of maybe not slurping up quite so much electric power has already been addressed by others so I won't repeat after them.
If it was that at any time, it certainly isn't now. I just checked and the front page is just a single period.
Mind you, that doesn't mean it won't be changed again...
I think so. I believe the four dimensions are:
I might be wrong though.
The Great Microprocessors of the Past and Present site is a good place to start.
Let this poor sad fool
With no sense of history
Choke on his own bile.
(And your last line is a syllable too long.)
Am I the only one who thinks this notice--
-- is bull? If you're copying single articles then the copyright on the compilation doesn't apply, only the individual author's copyright on it, no? C'mon, one of you anonymous lawyer-cowards help me out here...
Yes, Prince ditched the symbol earlier this year. I (and probably others) submitted this several times, and they were all rejected. (What, me bitter?)
Pray, have you disabled javascript? That usually is enough to put the smack down on web "designers" who think they know what my browser should look like better than I do.
That would be ash, AKA the Adventure Shell, the most convoluted bash script on the face of the planet.
"Almost every article"? What a laugh! Deja's been a joke ever since they started playing the Let's-Pretend-We're-Yet-Another-Portal game, and it was only adding insult to injury when messages older than a year or two were removed from their archive. They say they're going to reinstate the missing chunks Real Soon Now, but then they start pulling this crap instead? I reiterate, what a laugh. Deja is a pathetic joke nowadays, no two ways about it.
Sorry, my foul-mouthed chum, but Drug Wars really is an important hit^H^H^Hbit of software to be discussing. Now go put on some Bob Marley, smoke a joint, and relax.
I think we're talking about people who presumably won't tolerate EITHER here, actually! Especially since the re-encode is not necessary (unless ads really are recorded over the music proper, in which case, ah well, back to cdparanoia with me...)
Yuck. Re-encode just to remove a bit? C'mon, that's disgusting!
Go forth and find out how to use mp3asm to cut up MPEGs and re-assemble them frame by frame, since I suspect any record company with an eye toward expediency would use a similar tool (albeit nice and cute and graphical, I'm sure!) to tack ads on. Jeez, the way some people casually toss around re-encodes you'd think MPEG was totally lossless.
Because people are lazy and careless and use Microsoft's nonstandard high ASCII characters instead of the proper character entities (the &foo; stuff), or just forget to turn off the accursed "auto-correction", that's why.
Is there a canonical list of such gag addresses (like warez.slashdot.org) that resolve to 127.0.0.1? It'd come in handy, I bet.
What, never played Activision's game Hacker?
LOGON PLEASE: _
Too clueless to use MPEG, or too clueful? MPEG is still caught up in patents, licenses, and lawsuits! Where were you when all the previous stories about Ogg Vorbis were being posted?
Admittedly, the lack of a good range of audio/video formats is irksome, but there is an .au feed which humble ol' sox can handle easily, no questions asked.
Cafe Press is one. There're probably others.
I know what it makes me think of -- and I wonder whether the krazy KDE "koders" have a konvention to show a "krash" with a doby brick "ikon"...
Probably not, but then that's what humanity invented theme packages for.
This (the infamous "bill sux" chip) is an edited photo. The only hardware involved was some Photoshop addict's mouse.
Nope, not anymore. Dopes yakking about the 'egg' have outstripped the 'egg' itself. Kind of sad, really, but I suspect most anybody could see it coming, given how Microsoft-bashing is a national pastime and all.
That's because every idiot on the Network put up a page alerting people to this 'Easter egg'! (Which really isn't one, it's just a side effect of how Google works. Other pages say Microsoft is evil, so "evil" points to Microsoft, to put it simply.) Inevitably, the alerts have outstripped Microsoft for high scoring on the 'evil' line. Now that's the power of the people.
Except that they did a crap job of coding the hidden version of Maniac Mansion, so it has the same awful internal-speaker noise as the first IBM PC port of Maniac Mansion. Better to get an emulator and play the original.
"With all due respect" yourself, doubting Thomas. Remember, someone had to chance upon the transmolecular dot by themselves, or at least get the goony idea to use the ladder to get at places where they aren't supposed to go, before the rest of the world could know; and if someone could find it, it stands to reason that more than one person could find it.
And what's so strange or unlikely about that? I know that when playing games, I for one am always doing whatever the game world's local equivalent is of banging on doors and windows, testing every doorknob, trying to jump to seemingly unreachable levels, et cetera. It's part of the hacker nature, and it's not something that has suddenly come about in the past decade, even if games like Mortal Kombat and its spawn, the ones that articficially inflate replay value by including lots of "hidden" codes, have.