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LED flashlight industry insiders have leaked that this whole story was designed to improve the sales on the thinkgeek site. Apparently they aren't selling as well as the bawls, chimp, and mp3 jukeboxes.
Like Oregon Trail had anything to do with the real progression of the frontier. I don't remember anything about stealing land, raping indians, and turning the land into shithole it became. Yet it was educational. I say dopewars is more educational than oregon trail.
Ok, I'll admit it. I saw the oregon trail thing and immediately thought of this game. It was intended as a joke, but the more I think about it the more it seems like a cool idea. Especially considering the newish ability to create AI players.
So why is it a good idea? Well for one thing, inner city kids are inevitably exposed to drug dealing. This game is about drug dealing. It teaches the basics of commerce and the dangers of dealing drugs by letting kids assume the role of the dealer. It can run on minimal hardware, and it's pretty fun. You can extend it too, so they can potentially learn how to hack on a relatively simple game.
I too played oregon trail, and for me at least, the only interesting thing about it was shooting the deer. This at least is in a context a little closer to home.
Did Microsoft purchase O'Reilly and Associates? If so, will they continue to use *TeX or switch to doing layouts using Word? Also, please leave the 18th century woodcuts alone, we like their distinctive look. Thank you.
OSx gets on the internet rigth when you turn it on.
which of course is total crap. I just put os x on my girlfriend's computer yesterday, and after installing it, the link light on a switch was dead for the mac (keep in mind that this is with the built in mac hardware). Now I'm going to have to figure out a way to h4x0r that piece of shit.
Of course all the documentation is online.
CEO: What happen ? Webmaster: Somebody set up us the bomb. Sysadmin: We get signal. CEO: What ! Sysadmin: Main screen turn on. CEO: It's You !! Gates: How are you gentlemen !! Gates: All your link are belong to us. Gates: You are on the way to destruction. CEO: What you say !! Gates: You have no chance to survive make your time. Gates: HA HA HA HA.... CEO: Take off every 'zig' !! CEO: You know what you doing. CEO: Move 'zig'. CEO: For great justice.
Note: Presumably 'zig' is a code name for Windows XP.
Data hidden in the vibration of strings may help the disabled lead
independent lives.
The vibration of a string, long a
symbol associated with guitars, violins, and other stringed instruments, may give
new freedom to the handicapped, thanks
to a low-tech startup that sees the
strings as the perfect transmitters.
Talking Strings, a Cambridge-based MIT
spinoff, is developing a local area
network that uses fluctuations in
thin strands of thread to transmit data.
Inventor, company founder and MIT
professor Steven Dweeb predicts the
technology will be a boon for the
disabled.
For example, he says, shoe strings could direct a blind person carrying a
special receiver-worn as a badge or held like a PDA-to the correct gate.
Thick metal "round wound" bass strings attached to a person's eardrum could broadcast enhanced audio to the hearing disabled, or
transcriptions to the deaf. And research published this month suggests that the
technology could greatly improve the rehabilitation of persons with traumatic
brain injury.
Hallelujah
In his MIT laboratory, Dweeb recently demonstrated his invention. First, he
pulled out a 2 foot strand of waxed mint dental floss. "See?" he asked. "A normal piece of floss. You
probably have some in your bathroom."
Next, he picked up his receiver--a black coffee can with a small hole poked in the end.
From a few feet away, he tightened the string and plucked it. Twangy music blared from
the can. Tinny, but clear, came the familiar chorus from Handel's Messiah.
I wonder if their patent deals only with certain types of lenses or whether it's sufficiently general enough to cover ALL lenses, or spherical reflections, or anything else that could produce a wide field of view. If not, that may be a way around this road apple patent.
No. The problem isn't PGP and it isn't the email
software either. It's the fact that the typical Joe Emailer either a)doesn't care, b)doesn't understand why it's useful, c)can't be bothered to learn how to use it, or d)finds it a pain in the ass. Making hooks to pgp in common mail clients will really only alleviate some of the pain-in-the-assness.
And while on the subject, why is it that so many people precede any mention of encryption with little "it's not like I have anything to hide, 'cuz I don't" comments? Ugh.
And we must not forget about hierogliphics. Unicode certainly has forgotten about them. That
would be so cool to write perl code with little
cats, birds, ankhs, and various other squiggles.
Users of the LA Times website have noticed that
so called "pop up" advertisements appear when loading news stories. This has led some to believe that money is being made. LA Times editors could not be reached for immediate comment, but we spoke with MSNBC executives who assure us that these claims are unfounded. "The press is fair and unbiased. Moreover, we don't make money, we lose money--to bring the best news to the citizens of the world"
Several well known Perl icons are considering a legal challenge to Seattle software giant Microsoft over the use of Perl Culture in the new Office Enterprise Solution 2001 XP Enterprise XML.
Linguist, hacker, and perl father, Larry Wall, has written Microsoft asking for sales of the software to be suspended, saying Microsoft's use of perl and several modules like XML::Parser infringed upon the rights of perl hackers everywhere, specifically their rights to their language and culture. "See, the perl culture is like this onion [slices onion]. Microsoft is like this big rotten spot here. See, the onion was in a bag in my basement, and we had a leak a while back. I found this onion on the bottom. Microsoft is like that rot you see there," said Wall in front of a crowded perlmongers group. He then added, "praise Jesus."
Microsoft CEO, Steve Ballmer, replied, "These guys are idiots. They've got a horrible language that we would never even consider using. Their artistic license is like a tumor growing off that malignant GPL. But what would innovators like Microsoft expect from such amateurs? Keep in mind most of these perl people are fans of that substandard piece of crap called Linux. This Larry Wall guy is off his rocker."
How long have you been making these amazing devices? If fewer than 130 years, please describe how you *really* know they work? If >= 130 years, please prove you aren't one of those bouncing Chinese vampires by eating 5 "bundles" of sticky rice and posting the video on your website. Thank you.
On the other hand, the Japanese have been much into technologies. Just take a look at all the gadgets a Japanese kids have. This is because anything new
is viewed as good. Many think that they have to get that ``new'' stuff at any cost. Here New == Good.
It's a shame that isn't the case here in the US of A. The whole New == Good attitude pretty much fits my mind quite nicely (when it comes to gadgetry anyway). The typical American wants some damn thing with a 3 year warranty and crumb catchers...and because of that we're basically stuck with electronics that are 3-6 (or more!) years behind the times. It's pathetic.
I want more cool gadgets sooner, and I don't want to have to travel to Hong Kong or Taiwan every year to stock up on the latest and greatest Japanese technology.
Half a keyboard? Hold down the space bar to shift to the other half? I suppose it could come in handy for jerking off in chatrooms or renaming those annoying long filenames in the binary newsgroups (without losing a stroke!). But really it sounds awfully impractical for general use.
Yeah, plus these recommended restaurants/movies/etc will undoubtedly be based on which ones pay the most for advertising.
Ding! <chihuahua>"You are approaching a Taco Bell. Doesn't a delicious Cheesy Gordita Crunch sound good? Perhaps you'd like to wash it down with an ice cold Pepsi."</chihuahua>
Ding! "You are approaching a cineplex. Would you like a ticket for the blockbuster hit, Big Mama's House 4--a witty, lighthearted comedy ('The best movie of the decade' raves Microsoft-Turner-Warner-AOL-MGM-Disney-Sony critic, Jack Razzler). Perhaps you'd like an ice cold Pepsi, a Personal Pan Pizza and a tub of popcorn waiting for you when you arrive."
Just what the world needs. More fucking marketing and homogenization. No thanks.
This is so damn beautiful [tear rolls down cheek]. You've succinctly captured what I've been bitching about for years in 3 sentences. I'm putting it on my door at work. Thanks, crucini.
...educated enough to have some English skills, and can say "e-mail" (or some l-ish sounding ending).
Yeah. "emailo". That was a pretty common ending I'd hear in Hong Kong. Of course that's Cantonese, but I had some friends from Singapore and Taiwan and they said the same thing in Mandarin. Then again the Singaporeans tend to like to throw a "lah" sound at the end of sentences, so maybe they'd adopt emai-lahhhhh.
This idea could make a cool joystick-like device. I'm thinking an ergonomic pistol grip with 4 buttons -- one in each of the finger grooves. A small trackball sits on top and is manipulated with your thumb. Hmm...maybe a wheel mounted on the side.
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What are you getting at? Didn't you see "Stand and Deliver"? Everybody knows that kids going to school in East LA can do just as well on the AP calculus exam as those in the Beverly Hills schools, if not better. Of course people like you will claim they cheated.
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LED flashlight industry insiders have leaked that this whole story was designed to improve the sales on the thinkgeek site. Apparently they aren't selling as well as the bawls, chimp, and mp3 jukeboxes.
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Oh well.
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So why is it a good idea? Well for one thing, inner city kids are inevitably exposed to drug dealing. This game is about drug dealing. It teaches the basics of commerce and the dangers of dealing drugs by letting kids assume the role of the dealer. It can run on minimal hardware, and it's pretty fun. You can extend it too, so they can potentially learn how to hack on a relatively simple game.
I too played oregon trail, and for me at least, the only interesting thing about it was shooting the deer. This at least is in a context a little closer to home.
Just my 2 cents.
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Here's a perfect game. And it's open source.
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Did Microsoft purchase O'Reilly and Associates? If so, will they continue to use *TeX or switch to doing layouts using Word? Also, please leave the 18th century woodcuts alone, we like their distinctive look. Thank you.
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which of course is total crap. I just put os x on my girlfriend's computer yesterday, and after installing it, the link light on a switch was dead for the mac (keep in mind that this is with the built in mac hardware). Now I'm going to have to figure out a way to h4x0r that piece of shit. Of course all the documentation is online.
Fuck you apple.
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War was beginning.
CEO: What happen ? ....
Webmaster: Somebody set up us the bomb.
Sysadmin: We get signal.
CEO: What !
Sysadmin: Main screen turn on.
CEO: It's You !!
Gates: How are you gentlemen !!
Gates: All your link are belong to us.
Gates: You are on the way to destruction.
CEO: What you say !!
Gates: You have no chance to survive make your time.
Gates: HA HA HA HA
CEO: Take off every 'zig' !!
CEO: You know what you doing.
CEO: Move 'zig'.
CEO: For great justice.
Note: Presumably 'zig' is a code name for Windows XP.
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The vibration of a string, long a symbol associated with guitars, violins, and other stringed instruments, may give new freedom to the handicapped, thanks to a low-tech startup that sees the strings as the perfect transmitters.
Talking Strings, a Cambridge-based MIT spinoff, is developing a local area network that uses fluctuations in thin strands of thread to transmit data. Inventor, company founder and MIT professor Steven Dweeb predicts the technology will be a boon for the disabled.
For example, he says, shoe strings could direct a blind person carrying a special receiver-worn as a badge or held like a PDA-to the correct gate. Thick metal "round wound" bass strings attached to a person's eardrum could broadcast enhanced audio to the hearing disabled, or transcriptions to the deaf. And research published this month suggests that the technology could greatly improve the rehabilitation of persons with traumatic brain injury.
Hallelujah
In his MIT laboratory, Dweeb recently demonstrated his invention. First, he pulled out a 2 foot strand of waxed mint dental floss. "See?" he asked. "A normal piece of floss. You probably have some in your bathroom."
Next, he picked up his receiver--a black coffee can with a small hole poked in the end. From a few feet away, he tightened the string and plucked it. Twangy music blared from the can. Tinny, but clear, came the familiar chorus from Handel's Messiah.
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I wonder if their patent deals only with certain types of lenses or whether it's sufficiently general enough to cover ALL lenses, or spherical reflections, or anything else that could produce a wide field of view. If not, that may be a way around this road apple patent.
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What you say?
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And while on the subject, why is it that so many people precede any mention of encryption with little "it's not like I have anything to hide, 'cuz I don't" comments? Ugh.
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:) Oh yeah! The king of wacky, terse, symbolic programming. You've gotta love it.
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And we must not forget about hierogliphics. Unicode certainly has forgotten about them. That would be so cool to write perl code with little cats, birds, ankhs, and various other squiggles.
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Users of the LA Times website have noticed that so called "pop up" advertisements appear when loading news stories. This has led some to believe that money is being made. LA Times editors could not be reached for immediate comment, but we spoke with MSNBC executives who assure us that these claims are unfounded. "The press is fair and unbiased. Moreover, we don't make money, we lose money--to bring the best news to the citizens of the world"
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Linguist, hacker, and perl father, Larry Wall, has written Microsoft asking for sales of the software to be suspended, saying Microsoft's use of perl and several modules like XML::Parser infringed upon the rights of perl hackers everywhere, specifically their rights to their language and culture. "See, the perl culture is like this onion [slices onion]. Microsoft is like this big rotten spot here. See, the onion was in a bag in my basement, and we had a leak a while back. I found this onion on the bottom. Microsoft is like that rot you see there," said Wall in front of a crowded perlmongers group. He then added, "praise Jesus."
Microsoft CEO, Steve Ballmer, replied, "These guys are idiots. They've got a horrible language that we would never even consider using. Their artistic license is like a tumor growing off that malignant GPL. But what would innovators like Microsoft expect from such amateurs? Keep in mind most of these perl people are fans of that substandard piece of crap called Linux. This Larry Wall guy is off his rocker."
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How long have you been making these amazing devices? If fewer than 130 years, please describe how you *really* know they work? If >= 130 years, please prove you aren't one of those bouncing Chinese vampires by eating 5 "bundles" of sticky rice and posting the video on your website. Thank you.
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It's a shame that isn't the case here in the US of A. The whole New == Good attitude pretty much fits my mind quite nicely (when it comes to gadgetry anyway). The typical American wants some damn thing with a 3 year warranty and crumb catchers...and because of that we're basically stuck with electronics that are 3-6 (or more!) years behind the times. It's pathetic.
I want more cool gadgets sooner, and I don't want to have to travel to Hong Kong or Taiwan every year to stock up on the latest and greatest Japanese technology.
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I don't trust a company that makes these puppies. Though I imagine the uptime will be amazing if they could run linux on it.
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Half a keyboard? Hold down the space bar to shift to the other half? I suppose it could come in handy for jerking off in chatrooms or renaming those annoying long filenames in the binary newsgroups (without losing a stroke!). But really it sounds awfully impractical for general use.
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Ding! <chihuahua>"You are approaching a Taco Bell. Doesn't a delicious Cheesy Gordita Crunch sound good? Perhaps you'd like to wash it down with an ice cold Pepsi."</chihuahua>
Ding! "You are approaching a cineplex. Would you like a ticket for the blockbuster hit, Big Mama's House 4--a witty, lighthearted comedy ('The best movie of the decade' raves Microsoft-Turner-Warner-AOL-MGM-Disney-Sony critic, Jack Razzler). Perhaps you'd like an ice cold Pepsi, a Personal Pan Pizza and a tub of popcorn waiting for you when you arrive."
Just what the world needs. More fucking marketing and homogenization. No thanks.
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This is so damn beautiful [tear rolls down cheek]. You've succinctly captured what I've been bitching about for years in 3 sentences. I'm putting it on my door at work. Thanks, crucini.
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Yeah. "emailo". That was a pretty common ending I'd hear in Hong Kong. Of course that's Cantonese, but I had some friends from Singapore and Taiwan and they said the same thing in Mandarin. Then again the Singaporeans tend to like to throw a "lah" sound at the end of sentences, so maybe they'd adopt emai-lahhhhh.
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This idea could make a cool joystick-like device. I'm thinking an ergonomic pistol grip with 4 buttons -- one in each of the finger grooves. A small trackball sits on top and is manipulated with your thumb. Hmm...maybe a wheel mounted on the side.
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*Thwack*
Take that Mr. socioracioeconomic profiler.
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"Fuck your mama."