"Prince had copies of the Musciology CD handed out at the door"
musciology
1. the scientific study of mice.
[Middle English, from Old French, from Latin musculus, diminutive of ms, mouse. See ms- in Indo-European Roots.]
Maybe this means that a new version of Visicalc is just around the corner!
Bright-orange witch hats
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Robocones
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· Score: 4, Funny
"In Australia we refer to them as "cones" too. In some parts they are still known as "Witches Hats"."
They are known by this name in northern Minnesota, too. In parts of the country where deer hunting is a real big deal, there were problems with witches being shot out of the sky by accident during Halloween, which occurs during bow-hunting season. The state government forced all witches to wear bright hunter's-orange hats.
The witches got angry about this, just like the Amish who objected to having orange triangles on their buggies. In fact, in 1999, one angry witch known to most as "Bemidji Bertha" passed a curse on St. Paul. It is believed that the election of Jesse Ventura was a fulfillment of the curse.
"That will be interesting, I live in a semi-artic area of Minnesota and I have noticed that it is much warmer now then it was when I was a kid."
I know. The snow used to be a lot deeper. When I was a 5 year old, snowbanks sometimes came up to the top of my head. Years later, it is hard to find snowbanks much more than knee-deep.
Dr Crane: "Why is do you think you have such low self esteem?"
B9: "Dr Smith calls me a bubble-heady booby all the time. Just this morning, he called me an addle-pated armorbearer."
It's really too bad that this company seems to be doing everything the wrong way. It could be a great way to bring OSS-related computing power to the masses, especially with the Wal-Mart machines.
However, they goad Microsoft with the Lindows name (Hint: if Baba Wawa pronounces the names of both softwares in an identical fashion, you blew it) and then changed to a name that is Lame in everything but the name itself. And now this...
When you use their "Licrosoft Lord" program, Lippy (an animated pair of lips) says "You appear to be plagiarizing a document. Would you like some help?".
Lawsuits from both The Rolling Stones and Microsoft are pending.
Outfit them all with giant sewing-machine size Compaq luggables for portable computers. Everything's bigger in Texas, so why not have the biggest portable computers around? The former governor also told me that the bigger a disk is, the more data it holds too!
That's practically a selling point.
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The War Of The Word
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· Score: 4, Insightful
"and missing such simple functionality as embedding multimedia or animations into your documents."
Until printers can print animated printouts, I'll be happy with word processor programs that don't embed movies or music in documents. (in fact, after the fiasco of Clippy, I don't want ANYTHING animated in the presence of my word processor documents!)
Bonzi Buddy's pretty high on my list; not only that, I don't even have to ask to install it! Friendly lil thing ends up there on its own.
Mike Oldfield's Music VR project
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Videogames as Art
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· Score: 2, Interesting
This is a good place to bring up Mike Oldfield's Music VR (Maestro) project, a game in which you explore a landscape of often-beautiful often-abstract imagery, with Oldfield's music in the background.
This will eventually be used for web surfing, and after that, it is only a matter of time before web advertisers abuse a feature of "eyeJavaScript" which greatly increases the power of the laser, so you end up looking at that blasted X10 peeping-tom camera advertisement for 18 weeks, every waking hour.
Does this work for everyone who has vision? Or will it only work for some, like traditional 3D, or those few who could actually play the Nintendo Virtual Boy without getting a headache?
Slashdot Mirror
musciology
1. the scientific study of mice.
[Middle English, from Old French, from Latin musculus, diminutive of ms, mouse. See ms- in Indo-European Roots.]
Maybe this means that a new version of Visicalc is just around the corner!
They are known by this name in northern Minnesota, too. In parts of the country where deer hunting is a real big deal, there were problems with witches being shot out of the sky by accident during Halloween, which occurs during bow-hunting season. The state government forced all witches to wear bright hunter's-orange hats.
The witches got angry about this, just like the Amish who objected to having orange triangles on their buggies. In fact, in 1999, one angry witch known to most as "Bemidji Bertha" passed a curse on St. Paul. It is believed that the election of Jesse Ventura was a fulfillment of the curse.
I know. The snow used to be a lot deeper. When I was a 5 year old, snowbanks sometimes came up to the top of my head. Years later, it is hard to find snowbanks much more than knee-deep.
Don't worry. Just an advance publicity stunt for the new Indiana Jones movie.
The Tech: If you type that in, it'll let you watch movies.
Jack Valenti: You designed this? [eats sandwich]
The Tech: Yes.
Jack Valenti: Un-fucking-believable. [shoots The Tech, and leaves room]
Anyone hear of plans for an Atari 400/800 game device like this?
Dr Crane: "Why is do you think you have such low self esteem?"
B9: "Dr Smith calls me a bubble-heady booby all the time. Just this morning, he called me an addle-pated armorbearer."
However, they goad Microsoft with the Lindows name (Hint: if Baba Wawa pronounces the names of both softwares in an identical fashion, you blew it) and then changed to a name that is Lame in everything but the name itself. And now this...
Lawsuits from both The Rolling Stones and Microsoft are pending.
Before you touch your joystick again, please pay $699.
If this news item had SCO in the title, there'd be at least 67 messages by now.
At ~ 30 frames per second, you could print out a 20 minute video on a mere 36,000 sheets of paper.
Outfit them all with giant sewing-machine size Compaq luggables for portable computers. Everything's bigger in Texas, so why not have the biggest portable computers around? The former governor also told me that the bigger a disk is, the more data it holds too!
Until printers can print animated printouts, I'll be happy with word processor programs that don't embed movies or music in documents. (in fact, after the fiasco of Clippy, I don't want ANYTHING animated in the presence of my word processor documents!)
Bonzi Buddy's pretty high on my list; not only that, I don't even have to ask to install it! Friendly lil thing ends up there on its own.
This is a good place to bring up Mike Oldfield's Music VR (Maestro) project, a game in which you explore a landscape of often-beautiful often-abstract imagery, with Oldfield's music in the background.
This will eventually be used for web surfing, and after that, it is only a matter of time before web advertisers abuse a feature of "eyeJavaScript" which greatly increases the power of the laser, so you end up looking at that blasted X10 peeping-tom camera advertisement for 18 weeks, every waking hour.
"friggin' sharks with friggin' laser-beams attached to their heads projecting re-runs of `Jaws 2` onto the backs of our retinas."
Too late. You posted your message after several blindless-related postings had been made.
Does this work for everyone who has vision? Or will it only work for some, like traditional 3D, or those few who could actually play the Nintendo Virtual Boy without getting a headache?
Blissful are those who think that "Mary Kate and Ashley" is 3 girls when they first hear the names.
That'll teach 'em to host it on a free Geocities account!
Ahhh. So the real purpose of this interview is to try and get free plane tickets to Mumbai....