I used to program in LOGO in elementary school, and the version we used was in Spanish. Might have been translated to other languages as well. So what if it was interpreted rather than compiled, and it was a very limited program made for children, it was a programming language, so stop laughing, all of you.
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No need to do that. Nobody understands Chinese anyhow. Even less the hyeroglyphs they try to call "writing". They're a practical joke they've been playing on Westerners all along.
I think I figured out the trolls' new game: 1)submit stories that have already been posted, so that they will be accepted and re-posted. 2)Sit back and watch all the "dupe" posts and laugh. 3) Profit?
> The canonical placeholder string should be "kwyjibo", obviously.
Yeah, you substitute an 8-letter word with a 7-letter one in a binary executable/library and see what happens. I don't think the Simpsons reference is worth losing your web browser.
Or if you want a fast, easy, geeky way of dealing with the "onload" and "onunload" tags in browsers that have no built-in support, do what I did:
1 Find which file contains the words (grep in Linux, in Windows use the search files or folders option). 2 Edit that file with a binary editor and change it to something else (same length). For example, change "onunload" to "bsyjgwpo". 3 Profit!!! (from the good browsing experience)
I'm talking about the binary for the browser, not a particular web page, of course. The file will be a.dll, or.exe in Windows, and you must be careful not to change it in any other way (you do so at your own risk, I'm not resposible, etc).
The idea behind this is that every time your browser parses a document that contains the word, it will execute it at the apropriate moment. With the modification, it will do it every time it parses the word "bsyjgwpo". How likely is that?
(note: for this to work, every geek must use a different string and not tell anybody what it is. Do not give your protective string to strangers. We will never e-mail you asking you for your protective string. If you feel your string has been compromised, panic).
Okay, I've heard this many times, and I don't doubt it's true. But are there any simple elegant proofs of this (like the one for proving that the square root of 2 is irrational), or are the proofs very involved, or are there no proofs at all except "well, nobody has found the end yet"?
Yeah, but Slackware increases version numbers by leaps and bounds. Ever heard of Slackware 5? Neither have I. And I've been using the distro since the time when it was a bunch of floppies (some of which ended up suffereing a most painful death when some toddlers I'm related to decided to use them as bath toys...)
Well, it *may* be true, and it certainly seems to hold true for small strings of digits, for pi. But it's not a fundamental property of non-repeating infinite-digit sequences. Consider the number:
0.101001000100001000001 (etc).
As you see, it's not periodic. Neither is it rational. But it is predictable. So you won't find the simple string "2" in there (or 3, 4, 5,... 9).
I'm assuming this is sold as a top-of-the-line full-featured motherboard. With RAID, USB2, 10/100 LAN, etc, and now also Bluetooth. Then why on freaking earth do they put a shitty AC'97 sound system into it? CMI8738 wasn't too expensive, last time I checked, and even if it's not perfect, it's way ahead of AC. AC'97 was designed for cheap stuff. That's not what I want in a good mobo.
I had that sort of thing integrated in mine, and got so fed with it I bought a real sound card (not a very expensive one, but one that didn't need to re-sample everything to 48 kHz).
Hmmm...not as far as I know. Whether UKians still use it is a different matter, but in the continent, we use Million=10^6, Billion=10^12, Trillion=12^18 (NOT 10^24), etc. Basically, -illions have a number of 0's that can be evenly divided by 6. You get to the next one by multiplying by a million.
Quite true, but you forgot a small point: if the DVDs sold for $10 in the poor countries without region encoding are only released in the local language (I assume most of them have their own language, and that most poor countries have mostly people who don't speak other languages), you won't be seeing it in rich countries anytime soon. I mean, would an American buy LOTR in Swahili just to save a couple of bucks?
I have the kernel (2.4.19) and haven't been able to find the file you say (drm/pvr_drm_vm.h). Are you talking about the same kernel? Or is it in some patch (-ac, etc)?
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I used to program in LOGO in elementary school, and the version we used was in Spanish. Might have been translated to other languages as well.
So what if it was interpreted rather than compiled, and it was a very limited program made for children, it was a programming language, so stop laughing, all of you.
No need to do that. Nobody understands Chinese anyhow. Even less the hyeroglyphs they try to call "writing". They're a practical joke they've been playing on Westerners all along.
Ever since /. published this story, German DNS servers inform that slashdot.org points to the aol server.
We all know the Millenium Falcon can travel at (about?) the speed of light. Maybe the difference is caused by relativistic length contraction?
I think I figured out the trolls' new game:
1)submit stories that have already been posted, so that they will be accepted and re-posted.
2)Sit back and watch all the "dupe" posts and laugh.
3) Profit?
Otherwise, this is truly pathetic.
It was covered at /. so long ago, it's probably a rerun instead of a dupe.
Ok, who else thought this was about something in Spanish, reading "el material"?
> > For example, change "onunload" to "bsyjgwpo".
> The canonical placeholder string should be "kwyjibo", obviously.
Yeah, you substitute an 8-letter word with a 7-letter one in a binary executable/library and see what happens. I don't think the Simpsons reference is worth losing your web browser.
1 Find which file contains the words (grep in Linux, in Windows use the search files or folders option).
2 Edit that file with a binary editor and change it to something else (same length). For example, change "onunload" to "bsyjgwpo".
3 Profit!!! (from the good browsing experience)
I'm talking about the binary for the browser, not a particular web page, of course. The file will be a .dll, or .exe in Windows, and you must be careful not to change it in any other way (you do so at your own risk, I'm not resposible, etc).
The idea behind this is that every time your browser parses a document that contains the word, it will execute it at the apropriate moment. With the modification, it will do it every time it parses the word "bsyjgwpo". How likely is that?
(note: for this to work, every geek must use a different string and not tell anybody what it is. Do not give your protective string to strangers. We will never e-mail you asking you for your protective string. If you feel your string has been compromised, panic).
Okay, I've heard this many times, and I don't doubt it's true. But are there any simple elegant proofs of this (like the one for proving that the square root of 2 is irrational), or are the proofs very involved, or are there no proofs at all except "well, nobody has found the end yet"?
1024x768?
Whoa, who would have thought that *VGA resolutions and the 4:3 aspect ratio are that old!
Now that'd be something interesting:
The best 256-byte porn image file.
You do, if you're in one of the (many) countries where such cars are not sold.
Yeah, but Slackware increases version numbers by
leaps and bounds. Ever heard of Slackware 5?
Neither have I. And I've been using the distro since the time when it was a bunch of floppies (some of which ended up suffereing a most painful death when some toddlers I'm related to decided to use them as bath toys...)
Doable, I suppose. But what about the
(white in every board I know) silkscreen?
(Score:1, The Who Reference)
0.101001000100001000001 (etc).
As you see, it's not periodic. Neither is it rational. But it is predictable. So you won't find the simple string "2" in there (or 3, 4, 5, ... 9).
I'm assuming this is sold as a top-of-the-line full-featured motherboard. With RAID, USB2, 10/100 LAN, etc, and now also Bluetooth. Then why on freaking earth do they put a shitty AC'97 sound system into it? CMI8738 wasn't too expensive, last time I checked, and even if it's not perfect, it's way ahead of AC. AC'97 was designed for cheap stuff. That's not what I want in a good mobo.
I had that sort of thing integrated in mine, and got so fed with it I bought a real sound card (not a very expensive one, but one that didn't need to re-sample everything to 48 kHz).
Gets on my nerves.
Well, I think it may happen in just 7 months and a few days. In April the 1st of 2003 is the expected deployment date, to be exact.
Hmmm...not as far as I know. Whether UKians still use it is a different matter, but in the continent, we use Million=10^6, Billion=10^12, Trillion=12^18 (NOT 10^24), etc. Basically, -illions have a number of 0's that can be evenly divided by 6. You get to the next one by multiplying by a million.
Quite true, but you forgot a small point: if the DVDs sold for $10 in the poor countries without region encoding are only released in the local language (I assume most of them have their own language, and that most poor countries have mostly people who don't speak other languages), you won't be seeing it in rich countries anytime soon. I mean, would an American buy LOTR in Swahili just to save a couple of bucks?
I have the kernel (2.4.19) and haven't been able to find the file you say (drm/pvr_drm_vm.h). Are you talking about the same kernel? Or is it in some patch (-ac, etc)?
Whoa! He sure looks older than 4 in all those pictures... :-)
Maybe they're related?
No, can't be. They would have to be on crack, not pot.
(let the flame fest begin!)
"there is a red lable stuck across the case at the area where you can open it."
If it's a CD, many times you can open the other end (the hinges) without tearing the label. I've done that before...