Why make a big stink out of it?! Why, it's the American way!!!...now if you'll excuse me I just got cancer from smoking three packs of cigarettes a day and I'm off to sue Marlboro because the Marlboro man looked so cool smoking and I wanted to be like him.
Every other car was just going unusually slow?:) At first I just attributed it all to the stop-motion-like of the video, but once he hit traffic it was more apparent. There wasn't one car he overtook without ease.
(Moreso to the OG post:) I wouldn't say he did anything "road-rage-worthy" though I only did skim through the 19meg video.
I don't really consider a bike changing lanes in front of me when I'm in my car "cutting me off" as they aren't the ones that try and squeeze their car in between you and the car in front of you, then when they finally get over slam on their breaks because they're too close to the car in front of them. Usually when they get over they're way ahead of you a few seconds later.
There's truely some a-hole motorcycle drivers out there but I doubt this qualifies as one of them. And this is coming from someone who's had some pretty bad 'road rage'.
No, really. I bought a computer for $110 from Computer Renaisance that runs linux with no problem. Installing apache with perl was nothing using apt-get, and Greymatter took probably like an hour to get working. And that was my first time ever doing anything outside of "THIS IS MY COOL HOMEPAGE! THIS IS A TREE (picture of a tree) IF YOU CLICK IT YOU CAN EMAIL ME!!!" websites really. And most of the bloggers are ultra cool anti-microsoft people aren't they?
And if you have a blog thats popular enough for you to get enough traffic for your cable provider to get mad, wouldn't you already be on a paid host anyway?
takes a song and converts it into the nokia ring tone thing that you can text message to yourself for at most 10cents? It's late and I'm TLTG to find out what it was called.
I don't know, I haven't used my Nokia in a long time. I upgraded to a T616 and have been in happy FREE ringtone heaven sending midi's over bluetooth.
Is bluetooth expensive to implement or something? I'm suprised most cellphones on the market don't have it yet.
But then again my friend who has a Motorola camera phone with Verizon just got a $132 bill, which was pretty much just from him mms'ing the pictures he took to his email account... So I can kind of understand why they're resistant to the tooth.
I work at a restaurant, and at the counter/bar part near the windows in the front I get incredible service. When I go in the back (40ft away) to the prep area I get no service. Funny thing is, in the front I'm on "Cingular Extend" which is just being on t-mobile's network, and in the back I'm on plain "Cingular". When I was shopping for a new phone I was going to get a t-mobile phone but I opted for cingular with family talk and roll over instead. Verizon get's horrible service all over the building, and I think Sprint has bad service too. The worst, worst part, is Nextel phones work fine. And the entire immediate surrounding area is filled with construction and landscaping companies, as well as a few factories. Come lunch time it's a big fun fest of that freakin Nextel walkietalkie beeping noise and people yelling at their phones.
Didn't they have something for their powerpad? I swear I've seen it before. Semi related, we still bust out the powerpad sometimes at family get togethers. I forget the name of the game we usually play, but it's team based and has weird competitions (six legged race, pump up a bubble and run inside it) It used to wear out the whole family by the end of the night.
What if someone a long time ago made a little rock sculpture, and people in Europe was like woah that's kind've cool, we should do that. And so they did. The original one is gone now, but the one in Europe still stands (but isn't it starting to fall down or something?) So now we build a new one, the 2nd falls, and the people in the future look back and wonder what the hell this thing the people in 2004 built is for, then decide to make their own. And it just goes on and on.
Random bits from a conversation we're still having:
User: I'm gonna punch you in the nose. Jabberwacky: I want typos. User: Sory is ths beter? Jabberwacky: Are you being sarcastic?
Jabberwacky: The internet is a construction of human civilization designed to facilitate communication. User: Your mother is a construction of her parents designed to facilitate my manhood. Jabberwacky: My mother died of cancer last year. User: I'm sorry.:(. Jabberwacky: Damn straight you are. User: Straight up, no diggity. Jabberwacky: A'ight then, bye.
Jabberwacky: What is the meaning of life? User: To procreate. Jabberwacky: Are you male?
Jabberwacky: Do not be rude. User: I'm not being rude. Jabberwacky: I never said you were. User: You just said it. Jabberwacky: What did I say? User: You said don't be rude. Jabberwacky: What planet are you from
i remember reading somewhere on the x-plane or one of his other sites about he was working on a car thing... like x-car or x-racing or something like that but theres also Drivers Education, which you can get off certain abandonware websites with a quick google search you shouldn't have trouble finding it it's a bit restricted in terms of you can only go so fast or run so many redlights before it stops you plus you have to do all the "hit this button for seatbelt, this button to check your blind spot, this button to check your makeup in the rearview" crap too before you can even leave the parking spot but you can pretty much cruise around it's city i havent really seen how big it is since i usually get throttle happy before i get too far it's not a simulation at all but as far as learning goes it doesn't seem to bad it's actually a educational thing that teaches you all the driving laws and crap of your favorite state and pretty much just has the 3d driving thing in there so people dont get totally bored of it
well my band's playing with national acts next month and we're looking to have a few hundred cds printed up. lets just pick 400 for the sake i'm not good at math and it'll be easy to work with assuming the quality of the cd-r on diskfaktory is good, and good cds cost 25 cents each in big bulk packs (which they may be more or less but i havent bought blank cds in a while) thats $100 right there excluding taxes then theres front and back printing of the paper inserts which aside from being time consuming as a mothereffer would probably run my printer dry at least once, which is another $40 for the ink cartridge then theres also the issue of printing on the cd, which we'd have to get a cd printer for another $300-400 or however much they are but i saw 350 mentioned earlier so im using that plus they'd be shrinkwrapped which isnt a huge thing but it'd make the cds look pretty and we could also get them sold at local mom and pop shops around here, no idea on the price of that so ill leave that out essentially it's the same price but i'd assume their product would come out a lot more professional looking than if we did it ourselves itd save us from buying a $300 machine we'd probably never use again after that (assuming we do sign with an interested local label) um now that i typed this up basically i agree with you but didnt realize it til after i typed it up and since i spent all the effort typing it up i dont feel like deleting it now:)
this seems like its $40 for online distribution where people have to pay to get the mp3s? Great idea and all but who's gonna do that? I go to a lot of concerts and if an artist tells me to go to www.buymycdsonmp3.com or whatever and pay to download their mp3s I'm gonna forget by the time I get home... Now if they have cd's at their show for $5, well here's my money. And I got a nice shiny disc to do what I please with. diskfaktory will print up as little as 50 cds with text printing for $50... A $1 per cd that a band can sell for $5 and make $4 a cd. Or for 100 cd's or something like that with FULL COLOR ARTWORK on the cd and I believe a four page booklet for $3 a cd. Seem's like a really fair deal to me. I'm working on doing local compilation albums with a few other bands, as well as a cd for my band, and we're not gonna need huge runs of 1000s of cds so this is perfect for us. The only downside is they're on CD-R's but even so, they still sound exactly the same.
I have a Lyra2 player, it uses CompactFlash... I got it for Christmas, and I'm still running off the original batteries, and I probably used it an average of 30 mins a day since I got it. It's about the size of a pack of cigarettes I guess but thinner, which isn't that big. It's the only mp3 player I've ever used, but I'd recommend it. The only problem is the headphones it comes with aren't that great.
Don't forget that the packets should also mention how if they choose Linux they won't be able to play that way cool game their neighbor's Windows machine runs... Or how they're going to more than likely not be able to buy that brand new piece of hardware they bought unless they recompile the kernel... Or how all those cool websites aren't going to be useable since they're all written for MSIE
Sorry but Linux is definately not the choice for this. Just because the majority of slashdot users on here get a hard-on at writing code and tweaking the kernel doesn't mean the average person is. The average person wants to browse the net with no hitches, play games, and do some productivity work.
Put a camera on these things, they'd render mirrors on the shoes completely useless. Call me crazy but this is a voyeur site's dream. A miniature robot with a camera, that could probably fit under a lot of doors and move fairly undetectable...
Come to think of it, I want one now.
(probably too late to post this, but here goes)
I'm in a couse (Cisco Networking) working for the CCNA, and we deal mostly in WinNT. We're also probably going to get MCSE before the years end. However even though the course is mainly Cisco/MS, and the course description in the Course Description Guide (original name, huh?) mentions only Win95/98/2k/NT and Cisco, we're still going to learn how to setup Linux/Unix boxes and take care of them too. Uh, oh yeah, a point, um. I guess just cuz they use MS stuff doesn't necessarily mean they're learning solely to use MS stuff. And if they are, so what? A lot of non-geek people could care less if their OS was free or not, as the jobs they can get with their certifications and experience and all that jibbajabba will probably provide them with all the software they need anyways. And no, I'm not against open source, just to me it seems too many people are elitists and preachers that anything that isn't free and open sucks. And lastly, I do have Linux on my laptop... And I have Win98 too.
And Comanche 3 runs splendidly on a Pentium 166.
Warning: Some Rambling follows;)
C3 run's decent on my P75 laptop with a 2 meg video card too, of course with detail turned down. I purchased Commanche 3, Armored Fist 2 (another nice game using the same graphics engine) and F-22 Lightnight II (which used the graphics engine too) for like $30 in a package called "The Art of War" I believe. This turned me on to Novalogic (www.novalogic.com as someoen pointed out earlier I believe). That prompted me to buy Delta Force, which again used the graphics engine. DF came bundled with F-22 Raptor, which I'm not completely sure if it's the same graphics engine or not. Anyways, multiplayer on DF is really decent, the distance the terrain can get mapped too makes it really nice for long-range combat. If only it didn't lack weapons. I played F-22 Raptor multiplayer on the net a couple times too, although most of the time I was flying a parachute. The original three games, AF2, C3, F22 Lightning, I played them all over my home network (two or three people at a time depending on which computers were working:) and they were all pretty fun, C3 probably the most, because of the afore-mentioned "popping up out of canyons and blasting off a couple hellfires" or whatever. Uh, oh, anyways, Novalogic really comes out with some decent games. If I only had a newer computer... Deltaforce 2 doesn't really run well on my computer:\
What do you think would be a bigger security problem: 60 bullet holes in my front door, or one cannonball hole? I'd say your front door is the biggest security problem, since if you're in an environment that you're going to get shot at with cannonballs, you should obviously have some type of reinforced door that would withstand the impact.
amp3.net, when they were still themselves and not iuma.com or whatever they are now, would place a 5 second ad at the beginning of every mp3 downloaded... It would add the ad each time someone downloaded it, so the ad's were in constant rotation. This also generated revenue for the artists, as they got 5 or 10 cents for each download because of the ads. I made about $6 while it was still going on. Unfortunately they sooner or later ran into trouble with the company the liscensed the ad adding stuff from. I'm not really educated on the whole situation, but that's the best I can explain it. Oh, and the people that downloaded my stuff that I talked to didn't really mind the ads, as they weren't anything majorly annoying.
I dunno bout where you're from, but up here in NY VoTec has a program I believe that's sponsored by Cisco. I know it's affiliated with Cisco somehow. But anyways, VoTec isn't really the greatest place to learn, but it beats going to highschool and taking cooking and childcare and like 2 or 3 art classes so I have enough credits and can graduate next year. Anyways, when we went up for some interview for it, the guy was talking to me, telling me how you learn everything over the 'net pretty much (showed us teh webpages with the cirriculum too, things had Cisco's name all over th em... wish I could remember the URL) And anyways as I get sidetracked again:) they teach you what you need to know to get certified, towards the end of the year they get you an internship doing network admin stuff, then you have an option of taking the Cisco Certification test. Then they help you find a job.
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A hug?! Sounds like what you need is the new Dashboard Confessional cd and a LiveJournal :)
Why make a big stink out of it?! Why, it's the American way!!! ...now if you'll excuse me I just got cancer from smoking three packs of cigarettes a day and I'm off to sue Marlboro because the Marlboro man looked so cool smoking and I wanted to be like him.
"He didn't seem to be speeding"
:) At first I just attributed it all to the stop-motion-like of the video, but once he hit traffic it was more apparent. There wasn't one car he overtook without ease.
Every other car was just going unusually slow?
(Moreso to the OG post:)
I wouldn't say he did anything "road-rage-worthy" though I only did skim through the 19meg video.
I don't really consider a bike changing lanes in front of me when I'm in my car "cutting me off" as they aren't the ones that try and squeeze their car in between you and the car in front of you, then when they finally get over slam on their breaks because they're too close to the car in front of them. Usually when they get over they're way ahead of you a few seconds later.
There's truely some a-hole motorcycle drivers out there but I doubt this qualifies as one of them. And this is coming from someone who's had some pretty bad 'road rage'.
isnt 9 pounds like $5 american? I thought computer geeks were supposed to be rich?! :)
and this is just filler text so i can post balbhalbhalbhalbha
No, really. I bought a computer for $110 from Computer Renaisance that runs linux with no problem. Installing apache with perl was nothing using apt-get, and Greymatter took probably like an hour to get working. And that was my first time ever doing anything outside of "THIS IS MY COOL HOMEPAGE! THIS IS A TREE (picture of a tree) IF YOU CLICK IT YOU CAN EMAIL ME!!!" websites really. And most of the bloggers are ultra cool anti-microsoft people aren't they?
And if you have a blog thats popular enough for you to get enough traffic for your cable provider to get mad, wouldn't you already be on a paid host anyway?
These aren't "interesting"? Or these?
Granted I'd rather drive an exotic then a GM no questions asked, but I love my 93 Grand Prix.
But BMW?!?! granted the roadsters are nice but BMWs at least around here are just as common as any run of the mill domestic
There's some people out there that have swapped in 5-speed trannys (pre 97 i believe though).
The newer ones are uugggggglyy though.
Shouldn't have that gotten modded offtopic though? It's not really flamebait... but then again that's slashdot for you.
Mods please mod me offtopic, thank you.
takes a song and converts it into the nokia ring tone thing that you can text message to yourself for at most 10cents? It's late and I'm TLTG to find out what it was called.
I don't know, I haven't used my Nokia in a long time. I upgraded to a T616 and have been in happy FREE ringtone heaven sending midi's over bluetooth.
Is bluetooth expensive to implement or something? I'm suprised most cellphones on the market don't have it yet.
But then again my friend who has a Motorola camera phone with Verizon just got a $132 bill, which was pretty much just from him mms'ing the pictures he took to his email account... So I can kind of understand why they're resistant to the tooth.
I work at a restaurant, and at the counter/bar part near the windows in the front I get incredible service.
When I go in the back (40ft away) to the prep area I get no service.
Funny thing is, in the front I'm on "Cingular Extend" which is just being on t-mobile's network, and in the back I'm on plain "Cingular".
When I was shopping for a new phone I was going to get a t-mobile phone but I opted for cingular with family talk and roll over instead.
Verizon get's horrible service all over the building, and I think Sprint has bad service too.
The worst, worst part, is Nextel phones work fine.
And the entire immediate surrounding area is filled with construction and landscaping companies, as well as a few factories.
Come lunch time it's a big fun fest of that freakin Nextel walkietalkie beeping noise and people yelling at their phones.
Didn't they have something for their powerpad? I swear I've seen it before.
Semi related, we still bust out the powerpad sometimes at family get togethers. I forget the name of the game we usually play, but it's team based and has weird competitions (six legged race, pump up a bubble and run inside it) It used to wear out the whole family by the end of the night.
What if someone a long time ago made a little rock sculpture, and people in Europe was like woah that's kind've cool, we should do that. And so they did. The original one is gone now, but the one in Europe still stands (but isn't it starting to fall down or something?) So now we build a new one, the 2nd falls, and the people in the future look back and wonder what the hell this thing the people in 2004 built is for, then decide to make their own. And it just goes on and on.
Random bits from a conversation we're still having:
:(.
User: I'm gonna punch you in the nose.
Jabberwacky: I want typos.
User: Sory is ths beter?
Jabberwacky: Are you being sarcastic?
Jabberwacky: The internet is a construction of human civilization designed to facilitate communication.
User: Your mother is a construction of her parents designed to facilitate my manhood.
Jabberwacky: My mother died of cancer last year.
User: I'm sorry.
Jabberwacky: Damn straight you are.
User: Straight up, no diggity.
Jabberwacky: A'ight then, bye.
Jabberwacky: What is the meaning of life?
User: To procreate.
Jabberwacky: Are you male?
Jabberwacky: Do not be rude.
User: I'm not being rude.
Jabberwacky: I never said you were.
User: You just said it.
Jabberwacky: What did I say?
User: You said don't be rude.
Jabberwacky: What planet are you from
i remember reading somewhere on the x-plane or one of his other sites about he was working on a car thing... like x-car or x-racing or something like that
but theres also Drivers Education, which you can get off certain abandonware websites with a quick google search you shouldn't have trouble finding it
it's a bit restricted in terms of you can only go so fast or run so many redlights before it stops you
plus you have to do all the "hit this button for seatbelt, this button to check your blind spot, this button to check your makeup in the rearview" crap too before you can even leave the parking spot
but you can pretty much cruise around it's city
i havent really seen how big it is since i usually get throttle happy before i get too far
it's not a simulation at all but as far as learning goes it doesn't seem to bad
it's actually a educational thing that teaches you all the driving laws and crap of your favorite state and pretty much just has the 3d driving thing in there so people dont get totally bored of it
well my band's playing with national acts next month and we're looking to have a few hundred cds printed up. :)
lets just pick 400 for the sake i'm not good at math and it'll be easy to work with
assuming the quality of the cd-r on diskfaktory is good, and good cds cost 25 cents each in big bulk packs (which they may be more or less but i havent bought blank cds in a while) thats $100 right there excluding taxes
then theres front and back printing of the paper inserts which aside from being time consuming as a mothereffer would probably run my printer dry at least once, which is another $40 for the ink cartridge
then theres also the issue of printing on the cd, which we'd have to get a cd printer for another $300-400 or however much they are but i saw 350 mentioned earlier so im using that
plus they'd be shrinkwrapped which isnt a huge thing but it'd make the cds look pretty and we could also get them sold at local mom and pop shops around here, no idea on the price of that so ill leave that out
essentially it's the same price
but i'd assume their product would come out a lot more professional looking than if we did it ourselves
itd save us from buying a $300 machine we'd probably never use again after that (assuming we do sign with an interested local label)
um now that i typed this up basically i agree with you but didnt realize it til after i typed it up and since i spent all the effort typing it up i dont feel like deleting it now
this seems like its $40 for online distribution where people have to pay to get the mp3s? Great idea and all but who's gonna do that? I go to a lot of concerts and if an artist tells me to go to www.buymycdsonmp3.com or whatever and pay to download their mp3s I'm gonna forget by the time I get home... Now if they have cd's at their show for $5, well here's my money. And I got a nice shiny disc to do what I please with.
diskfaktory will print up as little as 50 cds with text printing for $50... A $1 per cd that a band can sell for $5 and make $4 a cd. Or for 100 cd's or something like that with FULL COLOR ARTWORK on the cd and I believe a four page booklet for $3 a cd. Seem's like a really fair deal to me. I'm working on doing local compilation albums with a few other bands, as well as a cd for my band, and we're not gonna need huge runs of 1000s of cds so this is perfect for us. The only downside is they're on CD-R's but even so, they still sound exactly the same.
I have a Lyra2 player, it uses CompactFlash... I got it for Christmas, and I'm still running off the original batteries, and I probably used it an average of 30 mins a day since I got it. It's about the size of a pack of cigarettes I guess but thinner, which isn't that big. It's the only mp3 player I've ever used, but I'd recommend it. The only problem is the headphones it comes with aren't that great.
Don't forget that the packets should also mention how if they choose Linux they won't be able to play that way cool game their neighbor's Windows machine runs... Or how they're going to more than likely not be able to buy that brand new piece of hardware they bought unless they recompile the kernel... Or how all those cool websites aren't going to be useable since they're all written for MSIE
Sorry but Linux is definately not the choice for this. Just because the majority of slashdot users on here get a hard-on at writing code and tweaking the kernel doesn't mean the average person is. The average person wants to browse the net with no hitches, play games, and do some productivity work.
i have a xp75
bought it used from ebay probably in like 97
havent cleaned the trackball or keyboard either
both still work fine
Put a camera on these things, they'd render mirrors on the shoes completely useless. Call me crazy but this is a voyeur site's dream. A miniature robot with a camera, that could probably fit under a lot of doors and move fairly undetectable... Come to think of it, I want one now.
(probably too late to post this, but here goes) I'm in a couse (Cisco Networking) working for the CCNA, and we deal mostly in WinNT. We're also probably going to get MCSE before the years end. However even though the course is mainly Cisco/MS, and the course description in the Course Description Guide (original name, huh?) mentions only Win95/98/2k/NT and Cisco, we're still going to learn how to setup Linux/Unix boxes and take care of them too. Uh, oh yeah, a point, um. I guess just cuz they use MS stuff doesn't necessarily mean they're learning solely to use MS stuff. And if they are, so what? A lot of non-geek people could care less if their OS was free or not, as the jobs they can get with their certifications and experience and all that jibbajabba will probably provide them with all the software they need anyways. And no, I'm not against open source, just to me it seems too many people are elitists and preachers that anything that isn't free and open sucks. And lastly, I do have Linux on my laptop... And I have Win98 too.
whats the point? What exactly does this allow you to accomplish with your TiVo?
And Comanche 3 runs splendidly on a Pentium 166. ;) :) and they were all pretty fun, C3 probably the most, because of the afore-mentioned "popping up out of canyons and blasting off a couple hellfires" or whatever. Uh, oh, anyways, Novalogic really comes out with some decent games. If I only had a newer computer... Deltaforce 2 doesn't really run well on my computer :\
Warning: Some Rambling follows
C3 run's decent on my P75 laptop with a 2 meg video card too, of course with detail turned down. I purchased Commanche 3, Armored Fist 2 (another nice game using the same graphics engine) and F-22 Lightnight II (which used the graphics engine too) for like $30 in a package called "The Art of War" I believe. This turned me on to Novalogic (www.novalogic.com as someoen pointed out earlier I believe). That prompted me to buy Delta Force, which again used the graphics engine. DF came bundled with F-22 Raptor, which I'm not completely sure if it's the same graphics engine or not. Anyways, multiplayer on DF is really decent, the distance the terrain can get mapped too makes it really nice for long-range combat. If only it didn't lack weapons. I played F-22 Raptor multiplayer on the net a couple times too, although most of the time I was flying a parachute. The original three games, AF2, C3, F22 Lightning, I played them all over my home network (two or three people at a time depending on which computers were working
What do you think would be a bigger security problem: 60 bullet holes in my front door, or one cannonball hole? I'd say your front door is the biggest security problem, since if you're in an environment that you're going to get shot at with cannonballs, you should obviously have some type of reinforced door that would withstand the impact.
amp3.net, when they were still themselves and not iuma.com or whatever they are now, would place a 5 second ad at the beginning of every mp3 downloaded... It would add the ad each time someone downloaded it, so the ad's were in constant rotation. This also generated revenue for the artists, as they got 5 or 10 cents for each download because of the ads. I made about $6 while it was still going on. Unfortunately they sooner or later ran into trouble with the company the liscensed the ad adding stuff from. I'm not really educated on the whole situation, but that's the best I can explain it. Oh, and the people that downloaded my stuff that I talked to didn't really mind the ads, as they weren't anything majorly annoying.
I dunno bout where you're from, but up here in NY VoTec has a program I believe that's sponsored by Cisco. I know it's affiliated with Cisco somehow. But anyways, VoTec isn't really the greatest place to learn, but it beats going to highschool and taking cooking and childcare and like 2 or 3 art classes so I have enough credits and can graduate next year. Anyways, when we went up for some interview for it, the guy was talking to me, telling me how you learn everything over the 'net pretty much (showed us teh webpages with the cirriculum too, things had Cisco's name all over th em... wish I could remember the URL) And anyways as I get sidetracked again :) they teach you what you need to know to get certified, towards the end of the year they get you an internship doing network admin stuff, then you have an option of taking the Cisco Certification test. Then they help you find a job.