I taught my son how to do that. He does it every time he wants to play the Genesis or N64. It gives him something to do before he plays the video game.
Ah yeah, well if he is good enough until his birthday I might buy him an XBox with those emulator disks for Genesis, SNES, NES, SMS, N64, PSX, and MAME. After I hack the XBox to a 120Gig hard drive and Xenium chip.;)
The Pirate Party of the USA. We are like the Democratic or Republican party, only we don't lie about our motives. If we invade another country, it will be over the loot and plundering. We won't lie about WMDs, etc. Yeah it is all about the oil, after that pipeline is build, booty for all with cheaper oil! Make Saddam walk the plank into a shark infested water.:)
Floppies are undead! Ever try to shuffle stuff to college and back and use college owned desktops with monitor projectors? College uses older systems, without USB support, and you need to write to them and they only have CD-ROMs. The floppy is your only option unless they have Internet support, even then, better hope their Internet connection doesn't fail.
A classmate of mine got a floppyless laptop. One of her team members made a Powerpoint presentation on a floppy, and gave it to her to use on her laptop. The only CD writer was on her laptop. Then someone got smart and saved it to a Yahoo briefcase on a college machine with Internet access, and then used her wireless access to get it. Without the Internet, they couldn't get it to work.
The a team member of mine uses floppies, but they are the Immation/3M crappy ones that lose the data and come up with errors. Yeah lifetime warranty, but how much is your data worth? She didn't save to the hard drive, just the floppy. No machine at college could use it, and chkdsk and scandisk found no errors on it, yet it said it had problems reading the disk when trying to access the files on it.
The floppy disk has survived:
#1 The Zip Disk
#2 The LS-120 floppy replacement
#3 The null modem cable
#4 The tape backup (Those 120M floppy interface backups anyway)
My laptop is floppyless, but I got a USB floppy drive to read/write floppy disks.
Hmmm, just remove the floppy controller and free up an interupt. Use USB for your floppy drive, or install a ZIP or LS-120 drive and boot off of that.
I'm still waiting for the holocube storage to be invented.:)
I just don't like the fact that every time I upgrade Firefox to a new version, I lose all my extensions and I have to download them all over again. Fbog!
Will it kill them to have a feature to download the latest version of extensions during an upgrade?
Just remember that Wikipedia is like any other site on the Internet and that you should keep these things in mind:
#1 Wikipedia is a Wiki that anyone can edit. You may find almost anything in it.
#2 Don't believe anything you read on the Internet, even this post.
#3 Some people may Astroturf Wikipedia.
#4 Don't rely on Wikipedia for 100% accuracy, use other sources as well.
#5 Wikipedia usually has links to other sources at the end of each article, so you can use it like a search engine to find out other web sites related to the Wikipedia subject.
#6 Slashdot is just as accurate as Wikipedia.
#7 Unlike an Encyclopedia, if you find an error in Wikipedia, you can become an editor and change/fix it. I wonder why the people who complain about Wikipedia don't try and do this?
#8 Anything written by humans will be inaccurate and not authoritive, esp if too many humans have a chance to add to or edit it.
#9 Some people edit the Wikipedia articles and then reference them from a forum to prove their points in a debate. If the mistakes or errors are found later, the Wikipedia article is changed, if not, well the astroturfer wins.
#10 Wikipedia generally gives you an idea of what other people think about the subject. It may or may not be accurate, but at least it gives you a general idea.
#1 It is 0.2, very early in development, don't expect much until it gets closer to 1.0, pluuueesseee!
#2 Of course it looks like Outlook Calendar, until MS Sues and then it will look like something else.
#3 No Synch, yet, see #1.
#4 It is a basic calendar app, no frills, see #1.
#5 Some day, the Mozilla development teams, will find a way to Integrate Thunderbird, Firefox, and Sunbird into something more productive. Just not today.
That depends, are you talking about those ASCII p0rn pictures?
How about the black and white p0rn pics using the Macintosh picture format that started circulating after the Macintosh was invented? I remember there was a DOS reader for those, so the Hercules and CGA displays could see them and scroll in them too. Nothing like seeing dithered p0rn pictures, and if you squinted, you just might see the colors if you also crossed your eyes. Then you also got fooled, like you might download a Nagel picture, or one that zonked you with a picture of a gorilla instead of p0rn. You didn't know until you downloaded it and looked at it.
but when a child is 5 years old, they do tend to get into things even if you do discipline them. I use spankings, and some people tell me that spanking is wrong. When time-outs fail, I use spanking.
I had a telescope in the top shelf of my closet, I had it for 25 years. My nephews came over, aged 6 and 7. The 6 year-old somehow got the telescope and went outside and dropped it and broke it in half. There was four adults in the house watching the kids, and nobody saw the 6 year-old get out of the room he had a time-out in and grab the telescope. Yes he was disciplined for it.
Let me clue you into some Child Psychology, as you've obviously not read any. Children have impulses, and they act on them. It is not as if they can control those impulses yet, but we have to teach them how. A 3 year-old has such an impulse control problem that if a mother told her to calm down and not bang a spoon on the high-chair that the 3 year-old would hold her breath and turn blue trying to control the impulse to bang the spoon on the high-chair. In other words, they are ill-equiped to control their impulses like an adult would.
Thinking that a child can behave like an adult is unrealistic. You've obviously watched too many "Barney" shows where the children are well behaved and so much not like typical children because they were taught to act that way for the show.
I haven't talked about killing myself since 2003, obviously you have not been reading recent posts on K5 or elsewhere.
If you want me dead so badly, do it yourself. I have moved on with my life and decided to live, and try and get better. I admit to making mistakes and I am trying to avoid making the same mistakes.
to check my Gmail and then I found I was locked out of my account, and I tried the forgot password option and it told me I did not have a secondary email set (but I did, my Yahoo one).
I emailed Google's Gmail abuse address to ask them if my account was hijacked and if I can get back in, but they have not yet responded.
I had set my Yahoo Groups to send messages to my Gmail account. So I can better read and search the messages. Is this some sort of violation of the ToS, because if it is, I've missed that.
Google still has not contacted me back, and I find that very rude.
Reference "PHB" at Dilbert.com for what a Classical Manager is like.;)
Anyway Classical Managers can only see the Windows market. Now Organizational Managers, can see the potential for other markets that the Classical Managers overlook, and how it can bring in money for their organization. Organizational Managers love OSS, alternatives, and other things that can potentially save their organization money.;)
If it won't work with WINE, it isn't worth buying now is it?
Write a WINE compatable version that removes copy protection after it is installed, and maybe we can talk about buying a copy. Better yet, write a Linux native version if you really cared about the rest of the market.
All the latest copy protection games will do for people like me is make me avoid buying them. I'd rather run them in WINE than on Windows. I am making my pollitical statement now!
someone who does not live with a significant other or have children who can walk off with CD's and key licenses or put them in another part of the house were you cannot find them. Unless, of course, you store the originals in a lock box somewhere and use backup copies for your everyday use?
Nothing like having a child get into your CD case and scratch a disk or break one while you are busy in the bathroom or taking a shower. Locks? Hah, they can break open the plastic of a CD case by throwing it onto the ground, all it takes is 15 seconds. There goes your whole CD collection, hope it didn't get smashed up too while you where blasting a dookie or washing yourself.
So unless you can afford a safe to put the CD's in, and live alone, you might want the ability to get a replacement CD or CD key.
they shovel money to both Democratic and Republican canidates, so no matter who wins, the people lose.
Microsoft shoveled enough money to get the DOJ off their backs.
40 Wall street companies shoveled money to Bush, the same 40 companies also shoveled money to Kerry. Our government is already 0wned!:)
Oh, so it is a profit motivator!
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Let me see if I get this straight.
You pay money for the Virtual Girlfriend program. There is no sex involved, no nudity, no dirty talk, no physical contact, not even a kiss.
Ok, now, in order to have her talk to you, she requires virtual gifts. Lucky you, for the company that makes Virtual Girlfriend can sell them to you FOR REAL MONEY, yet she will keep requiring more and more from you, otherwise she won't speak to you.
Apparently, as I understand it, not only does it waste your time, it also wastes your real money, and only rich people can afford to keep her talking to them. The amount you have to spend has not yet been determined, yet I got a funny feeling that they can change the setting on you to make her require more "gifts" that end up costing you more money. You might, oh, start by spending $20 a week on her, and then they send an instant message to your phone that turns on the golddigger routines to make you pay $200 a week. That is what I think will happen.
If you want to waste your time and money, find a webcam whore, cell phones have amazing web browsers now and the Internet fees and webcam fees can potentionally be less than the Virtual Girlfriend. I used that link because Maddox explains how to be a Web Cam Whore so well, that you'll know what to expect. At least you might be able to see some female body parts for your money, and be able to get some bad poetry, which should be better than the Engrish responses the Virtual Girlfriend would give you. I think Virtual Girlfriend is targeted towards the guys who visit Web Cam Whores anyway, both the Web Cam Whores and Virtual Girlfriends seem to have the same intelligence anyway, and the same low intelligence audience that cannot get a date even if they were the last man in town, with $1 million USD in a suitcase, a 2004 BMW, and used phermones to attract women.
The whole business idea of Virtual Girlfriend is to get the sad lonely loser hooked, until he is paying more money than a crack addict for a fix.
I hope that someone like Maddox writes a sarcastic review on it, besides me.;)
I have relatives with Windows 98 who want to use iTunes, but the iTunes software says it won't install on their operating system. That they need at least Windows 2000 to install it.
ourTunes won't help, as it limits connections to a local network, and they are the only ones on their local network.
Apple refuses to answer their questions as to why their operating system is not supported.
They want to pay for music files, but both iTunes and Napster 2.0 require Windows 2000 or above. So should they use P2P file sharing network programs that run on their Windows, and write the RIAA a check for $1.30 for each song they download?
Why are the older Windows systems shut out of the legal music sharing deals? Are their money no good because they use an older operating system?
If ourTunes accessed the iTMS network like iTunes does, it could be their solution to buy songs via ourTunes. Yet nobody sees this as a possibility, and older Windows users are shafted by the legal music download industry.
They cannot afford to buy a new system to run Windows 2000 or above, and yet, they can afford 99 cents to $1.30 per song over the Internet. So who is going to help them?
wether you want them or not. Bonus! Or not, considering that they eat your CPU cycles, available memory, and Internet bandwidth, and thus cost you more to run with them. Hence my statement that Windows has a higher TCOM.
They had a button that said "100% Legal" on the signup screen. Yet required your real information to be entered into a forum before you can download their software. Also, trust them, they tell you it has no spyware or adware, just like Morpheus said as well as other P2P programs said. Heh!
Ok maybe downloading the program and installing it is 100% Legal, but what they don't tell you is that if you download MP3 files, you are subject to the RIAA suing you. It also may be 100% legal in, oh say, China, or someplace else the web site is based in, but not in the US or other countries with copyright laws?
TCOM = Total Cost Of Malware. Just don't install a service pack from a network, hard drive, or CD ROM and try to get to Windows Update before malware gets installed on your system. Chances are the malware will get on your system before the service pack.
Typically a scam artist in another country like Nigeria that tries to scam an unsuspecting person in the United States, into giving them money, or installing malware, or the US person giving them information by tricking them.
Hey when you are in a sh*thole of a country, and you have a tin pot dictator running your country, and the economy is poor, you try to find creative ways to trick other people in richer economies into giving you money or info that will get you money, or malware that will do it for you.
Taking OSS programs and selling them on eBay under a different name, or bundling malware with them are just two new scams that are being pulled.
For example, there Chinese companies that make a fortune in identity theft by tricking US citizens into giving them account information by sending them a faked email pretending to be from another Internet service, yet the HTML of the email has a link in a spoofed URL that goes to their corporate website to a fake version of the Internet service the email is pretending to be. Usually an email stating that "your account has gone inactive", "please verify your account", or "fraud was detected on your account, please verify" scam mail. A variation of the 419 scam, but using a web site to collect the information. It is called Phishing, and people are dumb enough to fall for it.
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I taught my son how to do that. He does it every time he wants to play the Genesis or N64. It gives him something to do before he plays the video game.
;)
Ah yeah, well if he is good enough until his birthday I might buy him an XBox with those emulator disks for Genesis, SNES, NES, SMS, N64, PSX, and MAME. After I hack the XBox to a 120Gig hard drive and Xenium chip.
The Pirate Party of the USA. We are like the Democratic or Republican party, only we don't lie about our motives. If we invade another country, it will be over the loot and plundering. We won't lie about WMDs, etc. Yeah it is all about the oil, after that pipeline is build, booty for all with cheaper oil! Make Saddam walk the plank into a shark infested water. :)
Floppies are undead! Ever try to shuffle stuff to college and back and use college owned desktops with monitor projectors? College uses older systems, without USB support, and you need to write to them and they only have CD-ROMs. The floppy is your only option unless they have Internet support, even then, better hope their Internet connection doesn't fail.
:)
A classmate of mine got a floppyless laptop. One of her team members made a Powerpoint presentation on a floppy, and gave it to her to use on her laptop. The only CD writer was on her laptop. Then someone got smart and saved it to a Yahoo briefcase on a college machine with Internet access, and then used her wireless access to get it. Without the Internet, they couldn't get it to work.
The a team member of mine uses floppies, but they are the Immation/3M crappy ones that lose the data and come up with errors. Yeah lifetime warranty, but how much is your data worth? She didn't save to the hard drive, just the floppy. No machine at college could use it, and chkdsk and scandisk found no errors on it, yet it said it had problems reading the disk when trying to access the files on it.
The floppy disk has survived:
#1 The Zip Disk
#2 The LS-120 floppy replacement
#3 The null modem cable
#4 The tape backup (Those 120M floppy interface backups anyway)
My laptop is floppyless, but I got a USB floppy drive to read/write floppy disks.
Hmmm, just remove the floppy controller and free up an interupt. Use USB for your floppy drive, or install a ZIP or LS-120 drive and boot off of that.
I'm still waiting for the holocube storage to be invented.
I just don't like the fact that every time I upgrade Firefox to a new version, I lose all my extensions and I have to download them all over again. Fbog!
Will it kill them to have a feature to download the latest version of extensions during an upgrade?
Ok, I choose #7. Ignoring the fact that Wikipedia has editiors, yet still doesn't seem to be able to fix the inaccuracies.
Just remember that Wikipedia is like any other site on the Internet and that you should keep these things in mind:
#1 Wikipedia is a Wiki that anyone can edit. You may find almost anything in it.
#2 Don't believe anything you read on the Internet, even this post.
#3 Some people may Astroturf Wikipedia.
#4 Don't rely on Wikipedia for 100% accuracy, use other sources as well.
#5 Wikipedia usually has links to other sources at the end of each article, so you can use it like a search engine to find out other web sites related to the Wikipedia subject.
#6 Slashdot is just as accurate as Wikipedia.
#7 Unlike an Encyclopedia, if you find an error in Wikipedia, you can become an editor and change/fix it. I wonder why the people who complain about Wikipedia don't try and do this?
#8 Anything written by humans will be inaccurate and not authoritive, esp if too many humans have a chance to add to or edit it.
#9 Some people edit the Wikipedia articles and then reference them from a forum to prove their points in a debate. If the mistakes or errors are found later, the Wikipedia article is changed, if not, well the astroturfer wins.
#10 Wikipedia generally gives you an idea of what other people think about the subject. It may or may not be accurate, but at least it gives you a general idea.
#1 It is 0.2, very early in development, don't expect much until it gets closer to 1.0, pluuueesseee!
#2 Of course it looks like Outlook Calendar, until MS Sues and then it will look like something else.
#3 No Synch, yet, see #1.
#4 It is a basic calendar app, no frills, see #1.
#5 Some day, the Mozilla development teams, will find a way to Integrate Thunderbird, Firefox, and Sunbird into something more productive. Just not today.
http://www.geocities.com/orion_blastar/signs/punch coupon.html
Please feel free to read it and print it out and use it.
That depends, are you talking about those ASCII p0rn pictures?
How about the black and white p0rn pics using the Macintosh picture format that started circulating after the Macintosh was invented? I remember there was a DOS reader for those, so the Hercules and CGA displays could see them and scroll in them too. Nothing like seeing dithered p0rn pictures, and if you squinted, you just might see the colors if you also crossed your eyes. Then you also got fooled, like you might download a Nagel picture, or one that zonked you with a picture of a gorilla instead of p0rn. You didn't know until you downloaded it and looked at it.
but when a child is 5 years old, they do tend to get into things even if you do discipline them. I use spankings, and some people tell me that spanking is wrong. When time-outs fail, I use spanking.
I had a telescope in the top shelf of my closet, I had it for 25 years. My nephews came over, aged 6 and 7. The 6 year-old somehow got the telescope and went outside and dropped it and broke it in half. There was four adults in the house watching the kids, and nobody saw the 6 year-old get out of the room he had a time-out in and grab the telescope. Yes he was disciplined for it.
Let me clue you into some Child Psychology, as you've obviously not read any. Children have impulses, and they act on them. It is not as if they can control those impulses yet, but we have to teach them how. A 3 year-old has such an impulse control problem that if a mother told her to calm down and not bang a spoon on the high-chair that the 3 year-old would hold her breath and turn blue trying to control the impulse to bang the spoon on the high-chair. In other words, they are ill-equiped to control their impulses like an adult would.
Thinking that a child can behave like an adult is unrealistic. You've obviously watched too many "Barney" shows where the children are well behaved and so much not like typical children because they were taught to act that way for the show.
I haven't talked about killing myself since 2003, obviously you have not been reading recent posts on K5 or elsewhere.
If you want me dead so badly, do it yourself. I have moved on with my life and decided to live, and try and get better. I admit to making mistakes and I am trying to avoid making the same mistakes.
to check my Gmail and then I found I was locked out of my account, and I tried the forgot password option and it told me I did not have a secondary email set (but I did, my Yahoo one).
I emailed Google's Gmail abuse address to ask them if my account was hijacked and if I can get back in, but they have not yet responded.
I had set my Yahoo Groups to send messages to my Gmail account. So I can better read and search the messages. Is this some sort of violation of the ToS, because if it is, I've missed that.
Google still has not contacted me back, and I find that very rude.
Reference "PHB" at Dilbert.com for what a Classical Manager is like. ;)
;)
Anyway Classical Managers can only see the Windows market. Now Organizational Managers, can see the potential for other markets that the Classical Managers overlook, and how it can bring in money for their organization. Organizational Managers love OSS, alternatives, and other things that can potentially save their organization money.
What is HF2? Half-Full? Why did I type that?
If it won't work with WINE, it isn't worth buying now is it?
Write a WINE compatable version that removes copy protection after it is installed, and maybe we can talk about buying a copy. Better yet, write a Linux native version if you really cared about the rest of the market.
All the latest copy protection games will do for people like me is make me avoid buying them. I'd rather run them in WINE than on Windows. I am making my pollitical statement now!
someone who does not live with a significant other or have children who can walk off with CD's and key licenses or put them in another part of the house were you cannot find them. Unless, of course, you store the originals in a lock box somewhere and use backup copies for your everyday use?
Nothing like having a child get into your CD case and scratch a disk or break one while you are busy in the bathroom or taking a shower. Locks? Hah, they can break open the plastic of a CD case by throwing it onto the ground, all it takes is 15 seconds. There goes your whole CD collection, hope it didn't get smashed up too while you where blasting a dookie or washing yourself.
So unless you can afford a safe to put the CD's in, and live alone, you might want the ability to get a replacement CD or CD key.
they shovel money to both Democratic and Republican canidates, so no matter who wins, the people lose.
:)
Microsoft shoveled enough money to get the DOJ off their backs.
40 Wall street companies shoveled money to Bush, the same 40 companies also shoveled money to Kerry. Our government is already 0wned!
You pay money for the Virtual Girlfriend program. There is no sex involved, no nudity, no dirty talk, no physical contact, not even a kiss.
Ok, now, in order to have her talk to you, she requires virtual gifts. Lucky you, for the company that makes Virtual Girlfriend can sell them to you FOR REAL MONEY, yet she will keep requiring more and more from you, otherwise she won't speak to you.
Apparently, as I understand it, not only does it waste your time, it also wastes your real money, and only rich people can afford to keep her talking to them. The amount you have to spend has not yet been determined, yet I got a funny feeling that they can change the setting on you to make her require more "gifts" that end up costing you more money. You might, oh, start by spending $20 a week on her, and then they send an instant message to your phone that turns on the golddigger routines to make you pay $200 a week. That is what I think will happen.
If you want to waste your time and money, find a webcam whore, cell phones have amazing web browsers now and the Internet fees and webcam fees can potentionally be less than the Virtual Girlfriend. I used that link because Maddox explains how to be a Web Cam Whore so well, that you'll know what to expect. At least you might be able to see some female body parts for your money, and be able to get some bad poetry, which should be better than the Engrish responses the Virtual Girlfriend would give you. I think Virtual Girlfriend is targeted towards the guys who visit Web Cam Whores anyway, both the Web Cam Whores and Virtual Girlfriends seem to have the same intelligence anyway, and the same low intelligence audience that cannot get a date even if they were the last man in town, with $1 million USD in a suitcase, a 2004 BMW, and used phermones to attract women.
The whole business idea of Virtual Girlfriend is to get the sad lonely loser hooked, until he is paying more money than a crack addict for a fix.
I hope that someone like Maddox writes a sarcastic review on it, besides me. ;)
I have relatives with Windows 98 who want to use iTunes, but the iTunes software says it won't install on their operating system. That they need at least Windows 2000 to install it.
ourTunes won't help, as it limits connections to a local network, and they are the only ones on their local network.
Apple refuses to answer their questions as to why their operating system is not supported.
They want to pay for music files, but both iTunes and Napster 2.0 require Windows 2000 or above. So should they use P2P file sharing network programs that run on their Windows, and write the RIAA a check for $1.30 for each song they download?
Why are the older Windows systems shut out of the legal music sharing deals? Are their money no good because they use an older operating system?
If ourTunes accessed the iTMS network like iTunes does, it could be their solution to buy songs via ourTunes. Yet nobody sees this as a possibility, and older Windows users are shafted by the legal music download industry.
They cannot afford to buy a new system to run Windows 2000 or above, and yet, they can afford 99 cents to $1.30 per song over the Internet. So who is going to help them?
Look here and the ones marked with a skull are really really really bad!
Which was reviewed here?
wether you want them or not. Bonus! Or not, considering that they eat your CPU cycles, available memory, and Internet bandwidth, and thus cost you more to run with them. Hence my statement that Windows has a higher TCOM.
They had a button that said "100% Legal" on the signup screen. Yet required your real information to be entered into a forum before you can download their software. Also, trust them, they tell you it has no spyware or adware, just like Morpheus said as well as other P2P programs said. Heh!
Ok maybe downloading the program and installing it is 100% Legal, but what they don't tell you is that if you download MP3 files, you are subject to the RIAA suing you. It also may be 100% legal in, oh say, China, or someplace else the web site is based in, but not in the US or other countries with copyright laws?
TCOM = Total Cost Of Malware. Just don't install a service pack from a network, hard drive, or CD ROM and try to get to Windows Update before malware gets installed on your system. Chances are the malware will get on your system before the service pack.
Typically a scam artist in another country like Nigeria that tries to scam an unsuspecting person in the United States, into giving them money, or installing malware, or the US person giving them information by tricking them.
Hey when you are in a sh*thole of a country, and you have a tin pot dictator running your country, and the economy is poor, you try to find creative ways to trick other people in richer economies into giving you money or info that will get you money, or malware that will do it for you.
Taking OSS programs and selling them on eBay under a different name, or bundling malware with them are just two new scams that are being pulled.
For example, there Chinese companies that make a fortune in identity theft by tricking US citizens into giving them account information by sending them a faked email pretending to be from another Internet service, yet the HTML of the email has a link in a spoofed URL that goes to their corporate website to a fake version of the Internet service the email is pretending to be. Usually an email stating that "your account has gone inactive", "please verify your account", or "fraud was detected on your account, please verify" scam mail. A variation of the 419 scam, but using a web site to collect the information. It is called Phishing, and people are dumb enough to fall for it.