Haha...I pay between $20 and $35 per month, for 4mbit/384kbit cable internet, and extended basic tv. The internet's cheap, because they always have some promotion or other, and when it runs out, just cancel and sign up for another promotion. The free tv, because they don't know how to give me internet but no tv. I've heard there's supposed to be some kind of filter installed, but it's been 2 years now, and they haven't done it.
Ah yes...the 'espionage' mode. I had a Sony with a special mode that would convert the image to a b/w GIF, so you could store like 10,000 pages on a memory stick.
Check osflash.org for some nice tutorials on getting the compiler set up (as well as other useful tools). They show you how to use Eclipse, but personally I'm not a big fan of it.
Flash 8 has gone into beta, and will be released in a couple weeks...But with mtasc, you can already compile flash apps that use the new features! (A few new features: realtime effects like blur, shadow, convolve, displacement. Pixel-level control of bitmap data.)
ActionScript (the language of the flash player) is fully OOP, with classes, inheritance, interfaces, and error throwing/catching. It is similar to java, in that it is compiled into bytecode which is run by the Flash VM. In fact, if you wanted to, you could write code that looks a lot like java.
Sony has made a string of bad decisions on the PSP, and now they're paying the price. They were too arrogant in thinking that people would put up with higher prices and silly restrictions.
Dude, that describes most of Sony's electronics... higher prices with silly restrictions. But they usually look cool.
they started recording a couple minutes before it started, but i was able to skip past the wait music just fine...your media player must suck or something? in mplayer just press right-arrow to skip forward.
I used irate radio a while back, and it worked pretty well, I burned a couple CD's of free, legal music. It gives you some songs, you rate them on a scale of 1 to 5, and it recommends some more based on those ratings. See the link: http://www.irateradio.com/
Here's a tip for getting lower prices from comcast (at least where I live, in northern california):
1. Look for ads promising Internet for new customers for 19.99 to 29.99, for 3 to 6 months only (it varies). 2. Call up comcast and say you want to cancel your internet. 3. When they ask why, say it's too expensive, and you want to cancel unless there is any way to lower the bill 4. They will offer you the promotional rate 5. When promotional rate runs out (after 3 to 6 months, you'll know because your bill increases), go back to step one (they take the higher charges off, don't worry) 6. ??? 7. Profit!
I've been doing this for the last two years, and it works great. If they stop doing it, i guess i'll get the slower DSL (you can get 768/128 sbc dsl around here for 29.99 a month), or leech off a neighbor's wireless, heh
Heh, I traveled to China last month, and was advised by a friend that a good price to buy DVDs was 5-7 CNY (Approximately 0.60 to 0.90 USD). I picked up a couple for souveniers. The quality is hit or miss. Some looked like dvd rips. Some had shadows of people sitting in front of the screen. Most of them had hilarious english on the back of the 'case'.
* Easy way to target new URLs, either through reading a text file or command line
* Automatic recognition of the form fields: I don't want to have to look through HTML code to find out "loanamountdesired", "fname", etc
* Randomly generated, real-looking data. Maybe just come up with a nice long list of first & last names, street names, cities, and states, and then put in random numbers for the fields that take numeric input. If all you do is put in 10000 entries where fname=="Spammedme", they could easily filter those out.
If something like this were written, I would keep in running 24/7, and I know many other people would be gratefull too. This would work not only for nigerian scammers, but any spammer website that sells things.
That doesn't make sense. Following your logic, you could say: "So I don't see Sony offering tape recorders anytime soon," and yet they do sell tape recorders, which could potentially be used to illegaly record converstations?
I don't think Skype would be liable if someone did tape a conversation without consent and got in trouble.
I was curious about the bandwidth of the ripped off site, so I decided to benchmark it's connection. I used the wonderful apache benchmark tool, 'ab':
ab -n 100000 -c 100 http://www.toniarts.com/
The -n is number of request to make total, the -c is the number of request to make at a time. This is all just to test the connection between my server and theirs, of course. Right now i'm getting 300KB/sec, so it's doing pretty well. hehe
Yeah, you would do a lot of good to hand out the code for this. If you are worried, post it annonymously on P2P or something, or get a friend to post it. But a lot of/.ers would use this to good effect.
War of the Worlds (Fullscreen QT) - I can't get through to their site, after clicking 'Fullscreen' it just sits there, Contacting phobes.apple.com. ah well. too lazy to wait.
Here's an overview of the program, fairly simple. Sorry about the wierd interface, I just copied it off their site and the owner has some wierd windows theme hack:
I don't know about windows, but linux does this automatically at the OS level. Type 'free' at the command line, and you can see how much disk is currently cached into memory. (Under cached at the far right).
Data in cached is automatically emptied if applications request more ram, so it doesn't slow anything down if it's not needed.
To expand your cache, all you need to do is add more RAM to your box!
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Someone made a homebrew game somewhat like what you are thinking...
game info
screenshot 1
screenshot 2
fake game box
Haha...I pay between $20 and $35 per month, for 4mbit/384kbit cable internet, and extended basic tv. The internet's cheap, because they always have some promotion or other, and when it runs out, just cancel and sign up for another promotion. The free tv, because they don't know how to give me internet but no tv. I've heard there's supposed to be some kind of filter installed, but it's been 2 years now, and they haven't done it.
why does everyone tell me to edit .js files hidden on my hard drive, when i can just go to about:config and change it there??
Ah yes...the 'espionage' mode. I had a Sony with a special mode that would convert the image to a b/w GIF, so you could store like 10,000 pages on a memory stick.
hey tepples - i know you from gbadev/dsdev
m ented:flash8
i am personally a flash developer (though not games, we do applications).
If you don't mid doing everything through code, without the nice macromedia gui, there is a free, opensource flash compiler:
http://mtasc.org/
Check osflash.org for some nice tutorials on getting the compiler set up (as well as other useful tools). They show you how to use Eclipse, but personally I'm not a big fan of it.
http://osflash.org/doku.php?id=tutorials
Flash 8 has gone into beta, and will be released in a couple weeks...But with mtasc, you can already compile flash apps that use the new features! (A few new features: realtime effects like blur, shadow, convolve, displacement. Pixel-level control of bitmap data.)
Info on flash 8: http://osflash.org/doku.php?id=flashcoders:undocu
Some random things I have written for flash: http://rorexrobots.com/flash
ActionScript (the language of the flash player) is fully OOP, with classes, inheritance, interfaces, and error throwing/catching. It is similar to java, in that it is compiled into bytecode which is run by the Flash VM. In fact, if you wanted to, you could write code that looks a lot like java.
Dude, that describes most of Sony's electronics... higher prices with silly restrictions. But they usually look cool.
I always find it funny, that the first thing people code after hacking the PSP, is an emulator to play NINTENDO games.
Really easy to use encryption for gaim, an opensource IM client which supports AIM, MSN, Yahoo etc
gaim:
http://gaim.sf.net/
encryption plugin:
http://gaim-encryption.sf.net/
they started recording a couple minutes before it started, but i was able to skip past the wait music just fine...your media player must suck or something? in mplayer just press right-arrow to skip forward.
http://rorexrobots.com/nin/Nintendo-E3.asf.torrent
nice fast 10mbit seed with nobody currently on it...get it while it's hot!
I used irate radio a while back, and it worked pretty well, I burned a couple CD's of free, legal music. It gives you some songs, you rate them on a scale of 1 to 5, and it recommends some more based on those ratings.
See the link: http://www.irateradio.com/
Here's a tip for getting lower prices from comcast (at least where I live, in northern california):
1. Look for ads promising Internet for new customers for 19.99 to 29.99, for 3 to 6 months only (it varies).
2. Call up comcast and say you want to cancel your internet.
3. When they ask why, say it's too expensive, and you want to cancel unless there is any way to lower the bill
4. They will offer you the promotional rate
5. When promotional rate runs out (after 3 to 6 months, you'll know because your bill increases), go back to step one (they take the higher charges off, don't worry)
6. ???
7. Profit!
I've been doing this for the last two years, and it works great. If they stop doing it, i guess i'll get the slower DSL (you can get 768/128 sbc dsl around here for 29.99 a month), or leech off a neighbor's wireless, heh
Heh, I traveled to China last month, and was advised by a friend that a good price to buy DVDs was 5-7 CNY (Approximately 0.60 to 0.90 USD). I picked up a couple for souveniers. The quality is hit or miss. Some looked like dvd rips. Some had shadows of people sitting in front of the screen. Most of them had hilarious english on the back of the 'case'.
It's a good start, but it needs:
* Easy way to target new URLs, either through reading a text file or command line
* Automatic recognition of the form fields: I don't want to have to look through HTML code to find out "loanamountdesired", "fname", etc
* Randomly generated, real-looking data. Maybe just come up with a nice long list of first & last names, street names, cities, and states, and then put in random numbers for the fields that take numeric input. If all you do is put in 10000 entries where fname=="Spammedme", they could easily filter those out.
If something like this were written, I would keep in running 24/7, and I know many other people would be gratefull too. This would work not only for nigerian scammers, but any spammer website that sells things.
Good luck!
I believe that's "one-point-twenty-one jigawatts"
That doesn't make sense. Following your logic, you could say:
"So I don't see Sony offering tape recorders anytime soon," and yet they do sell tape recorders, which could potentially be used to illegaly record converstations?
I don't think Skype would be liable if someone did tape a conversation without consent and got in trouble.
Yeah, you would do a lot of good to hand out the code for this. If you are worried, post it annonymously on P2P or something, or get a friend to post it. But a lot of /.ers would use this to good effect.
Oh they're bringing pokemon alright....that thing is a cash cow...and with wireless connection, the kids don't even need cables to play each other.
Here are the direct links to the trailers. For those of us using mplayer, or want to save a copy.
Charlie & Chocolate Factory (Fullscreen QT)
War of the Worlds (Fullscreen QT) - I can't get through to their site, after clicking 'Fullscreen' it just sits there, Contacting phobes.apple.com. ah well. too lazy to wait.
Here's an overview of the program, fairly simple.
Sorry about the wierd interface, I just copied it off their site and the owner has some wierd windows theme hack:
eXeem HOWTO
He said "Game Design"....not "SWF Animation Design".
I don't know about windows, but linux does this automatically at the OS level. Type 'free' at the command line, and you can see how much disk is currently cached into memory. (Under cached at the far right).
Data in cached is automatically emptied if applications request more ram, so it doesn't slow anything down if it's not needed.
To expand your cache, all you need to do is add more RAM to your box!
If you like comics, here are a few in RSS form:
Dilbert
Penny Arcade
Foxtrot
Search around for your favorites.
Syndic8.com is a good place to search for feeds.