I'm in the UK, and I tend to find that spending any substantial amount of time under strong fluorescent lighting gives me a headache, presumably due to the flicker.. though these days I'm not quite as sensitive to it as I used to be. I notice the same effect if I use a CRT monitor at very low refresh rates (i.e. 60 Hz)
Calm down, dear. This is Slashdot. Quality of humour has no meaning here. In fact, in Soviet Slashdot all our old jokes are belong to-.. oh god, I can't go on. I just can't.
There is no night on the sun. Day and night are just effects caused by the rotation of the sun relative to planets. What we see as "night" is simply when the dark side of the sun is facing our way.
Yeah, I know.. it really sucks. I'm sure I'm not alone in having been ostracised in my formative years for my love of computer games (now called "videogames" ubiqutously)..
Now here we are, a few years down the line, gaming has been completely hijacked by the likes of Sony, and it's the cool thing now to come home from the pub with your mates and spend an evening on the Playstation. Much like the net, really. Developed by geeks who get no respect from the rest of the world, then taken over by the great unwashed, who proceed to bugger it all up (in the case of gaming - who do you think buys all the damn EA football games.. and in the case of the 'net.. banner ads and spam)
Never fear though, there IS still underground gaming - and the aforementioned Dreamcast is a fine example. Because it doesn't need a modchip to run copies or homebrew there's a pretty good development community for it.
Sure, but you're missing an important point <echo>"Humans... On other plaaaaaaaannnnneeeettttttssss"</echo> just doesn't sound as good as <echo>"Humans... iiiiiin spaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaace!"</echo>
Heh... You should see what they're doing here in the UK now. There's this new show on telly (at least, I think it's new.. I hardly ever watch TV) called "Hit Me Baby One More Time" Basically, from the little bit I could stomach watching, it seems they're digging up all the washed out pop hasbeens from years past (anybody remember Chesney Hawkes? Bananarama?.. Yeah, I tried to forget them too) and giving them a "second chance", Pop Star/Song Idol style.
This basically consists of a reality type talent show... and doubtless just the fact that a few of these hasbeens have been regurgitated onto the TV screen for 5 minutes will be enough to fill the charts with their rehashed.. sorry.. "Recontextualised" shite for months to come.
Oh well. It's not so long back there was all that hoohah about Peter Andre making a comeback.. and where's he now? I just hope the others join him soon.
For what it's worth, I've at times deliberately attempted to destroy or damage components with my body's static electricity (y'know.. dancing around on nylon carpet while holding a stick of RAM in each hand, that kind of thing), and I've never yet managed it.
Sounds a bit like my research into anti-gravity by using parachute jumps.
Y'see, I started with a full size parachute, and each time I make a jump I use a slightly smaller chute than last time. Eventually I won't need a parachute at all!
You don't need any new technology to do that. In fact, something very similar was run a few years back under the name of EDOS (Electronic Distribution Of Software)
The basic idea is the same - bring your own blank (floppy, CD, DVD, harddrive, whatever.. it's just a way of storing bits) and the store writes a copy of the data onto it.
Over here (UK) the EDOS system ran for a couple of years at least, and I bought several Atari ST games through that method. I guess it couldn't have been all that successful because after a while it disappeared without a trace. But anyways, my point is, why would you need high density hard drives for this? You could do exactly the same right now with a regular hard drive or even a blank DVD - either have plenty of space for a movie.
When I was a kid, we also had something called "spanking".
It's still around these days, just a bit harder to find.. and kinda pricey. Usually costs me about $10 to $20 a time, depending on quality, avaliability, etc..
1.1. Watch all "Charmed" episodes 1.2. Delete all "Charmed" episodes
After all, by far the most time consuming part of the whole process is actually sitting down and watching the shows you've recorded.. so why not get the device to do that part for you too? Leaving you with lots of extra time, able to get on with your life happy in the knowledge you'll never miss an episode of your favourite show.
I hereby propose the following catchy new slogan for Slashdot:
Slashdot. News for Nerds, Stuff That Matters, April The First Driven Into The Fucking Ground, Then Dug Up, Then Nailed Into A Coffin Then Driven Back Into The Fucking Ground Again, Rinse, Repeat Until Everyone's Sick Of It Then Do It A Bunch More Times Just In Case The Joke Isn't Old Yet.
Good code doesn't require variable names - the memory addresses should tell you everything you need to know about the program. And remember kids, GOTO is the one true flow manipulator. Accept no substitutes.
y'know you can get adapters to hook the old SNES pads up to USB on your PC? In fact, you can get something like that for just about every old console out there.
Here y'go.. a quick google turned up a SNES one here at Lik Sang
Wow, these guys suck! They also have an 892k JPG on one of their pages (christ knows why, it's only 230x143).. a slashdotting on that page would be pretty painful, no? Go on.. click the link, you know you want to:) For those who don't trust any links given on Slashdot, just go to their site and follow the "awards" link.
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I'm in the UK, and I tend to find that spending any substantial amount of time under strong fluorescent lighting gives me a headache, presumably due to the flicker.. though these days I'm not quite as sensitive to it as I used to be.
I notice the same effect if I use a CRT monitor at very low refresh rates (i.e. 60 Hz)
You have. You just quoted part of a message he wrote.
Don't be silly. God just set it up this way to test our faith.. Like when he buried all those dinosaur bones. What a prankster!
Actually, it is
Calm down, dear.
This is Slashdot. Quality of humour has no meaning here.
In fact, in Soviet Slashdot all our old jokes are belong to-.. oh god, I can't go on. I just can't.
There is no night on the sun. Day and night are just effects caused by the rotation of the sun relative to planets.
What we see as "night" is simply when the dark side of the sun is facing our way.
Actually, MS have already released Microsoft Bob and they're trying very hard to forget about it...
Yeah, I know.. it really sucks.
I'm sure I'm not alone in having been ostracised in my formative years for my love of computer games (now called "videogames" ubiqutously)..
Now here we are, a few years down the line, gaming has been completely hijacked by the likes of Sony, and it's the cool thing now to come home from the pub with your mates and spend an evening on the Playstation. Much like the net, really. Developed by geeks who get no respect from the rest of the world, then taken over by the great unwashed, who proceed to bugger it all up (in the case of gaming - who do you think buys all the damn EA football games.. and in the case of the 'net.. banner ads and spam)
Never fear though, there IS still underground gaming - and the aforementioned Dreamcast is a fine example. Because it doesn't need a modchip to run copies or homebrew there's a pretty good development community for it.
Sure, but you're missing an important point
<echo>"Humans... On other plaaaaaaaannnnneeeettttttssss"</echo>
just doesn't sound as good as
<echo>"Humans... iiiiiin spaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaace!"</echo>
I believe it is arrogant of man to think he is capable of damaging the earth to the point of it being uninhabitable
Damn straight!
That's why I propose we cut straight to the chase, and blow up the sun.
Who's with me?
The plural of "MP3" is JAILTIME you criminal scum!
-- Your friendly RIAA grammar assistant.
Heh...
You should see what they're doing here in the UK now.
There's this new show on telly (at least, I think it's new.. I hardly ever watch TV) called "Hit Me Baby One More Time"
Basically, from the little bit I could stomach watching, it seems they're digging up all the washed out pop hasbeens from years past (anybody remember Chesney Hawkes? Bananarama?.. Yeah, I tried to forget them too) and giving them a "second chance", Pop Star/Song Idol style.
This basically consists of a reality type talent show... and doubtless just the fact that a few of these hasbeens have been regurgitated onto the TV screen for 5 minutes will be enough to fill the charts with their rehashed.. sorry.. "Recontextualised" shite for months to come.
Oh well. It's not so long back there was all that hoohah about Peter Andre making a comeback.. and where's he now?
I just hope the others join him soon.
Congratulations on writing the first music-to-non-music analogy I've ever seen on Slashdot that actually works. And it didn't even involve cars!
For what it's worth, I've at times deliberately attempted to destroy or damage components with my body's static electricity (y'know.. dancing around on nylon carpet while holding a stick of RAM in each hand, that kind of thing), and I've never yet managed it.
I live in hope though.
Sounds a bit like my research into anti-gravity by using parachute jumps.
Y'see, I started with a full size parachute, and each time I make a jump I use a slightly smaller chute than last time. Eventually I won't need a parachute at all!
I'm deaf, you insensitive clod! What's that in lumens?
You don't need any new technology to do that. In fact, something very similar was run a few years back under the name of EDOS (Electronic Distribution Of Software)
The basic idea is the same - bring your own blank (floppy, CD, DVD, harddrive, whatever.. it's just a way of storing bits) and the store writes a copy of the data onto it.
Over here (UK) the EDOS system ran for a couple of years at least, and I bought several Atari ST games through that method. I guess it couldn't have been all that successful because after a while it disappeared without a trace. But anyways, my point is, why would you need high density hard drives for this? You could do exactly the same right now with a regular hard drive or even a blank DVD - either have plenty of space for a movie.
When I was a kid, we also had something called "spanking".
It's still around these days, just a bit harder to find.. and kinda pricey.
Usually costs me about $10 to $20 a time, depending on quality, avaliability, etc..
You can save even more valuable time by adding
1.1. Watch all "Charmed" episodes
1.2. Delete all "Charmed" episodes
After all, by far the most time consuming part of the whole process is actually sitting down and watching the shows you've recorded.. so why not get the device to do that part for you too? Leaving you with lots of extra time, able to get on with your life happy in the knowledge you'll never miss an episode of your favourite show.
Ha! So you think.
The REAL April Fools gag is that we get them all back again tomorrow as dupes.
Roll on April 2nd.
Am I the only one who's had enough of this today?
I hereby propose the following catchy new slogan for Slashdot:
Slashdot. News for Nerds, Stuff That Matters, April The First Driven Into The Fucking Ground, Then Dug Up, Then Nailed Into A Coffin Then Driven Back Into The Fucking Ground Again, Rinse, Repeat Until Everyone's Sick Of It Then Do It A Bunch More Times Just In Case The Joke Isn't Old Yet.
Good code doesn't require variable names - the memory addresses should tell you everything you need to know about the program.
And remember kids, GOTO is the one true flow manipulator. Accept no substitutes.
y'know you can get adapters to hook the old SNES pads up to USB on your PC? In fact, you can get something like that for just about every old console out there.
Here y'go.. a quick google turned up a SNES one here at Lik Sang
Will you be able to listen to Eazy E on a fallen rapper Pez dispenser?
Wow, these guys suck! :)
They also have an 892k JPG on one of their pages (christ knows why, it's only 230x143).. a slashdotting on that page would be pretty painful, no?
Go on.. click the link, you know you want to
For those who don't trust any links given on Slashdot, just go to their site and follow the "awards" link.