I had a guy here who could explain just how this stuff worked, but he just couldn't handle using the mouse, and his accent was just too bad for my voice recognization software to handle.
You'd need to reduce Linux's total footprint to 1024 instructions+data with no swapping, no hard disk, no networking, and all I/O through punched tape, but within those limitations it should run just fine.
Now they need to be able to ask the question, instead of the answer. Maybe they could make it available on the internet. Call it something like a "search engine", and give it a goofy name, like "google", and sell advertising. They could make hundreds!
Just buy some of those "how to win the lottery" books, and program in those rules. You should be able to win every single one. Once you determine the winnig number, make sure you buy hundreds of winning tickets! Mortgage your house so you can buy as many as possible!
Until, that is, you dial your bank's customer service number from a noisy restaurant, and try to talk to Watson to ask him why your Visa was denied.
Don't worry, they will program it with their best indian accent, using the latest translations: Think "my hovercraft is full of eels" in a heavy Indian accent.
Does Santa live at the magnetic North Pole? Seems like it would be a pain to keep moving your workship around all the time. Maybe he has it mounted on rails?
Seems like I remember a book like that. 1984? Just change the language and make politically incorrect words illegal.Rewrite history books. Shouldn't make anybody unhappy, right Winston?
Imagine the new ways people would live, and be shown on TV...
You come home from vacation, only to find out that your house has already gone south for the winter?
Your wife gets mad at you, and instead of throwing your clothes out in the front yard, moves the house without telling you.
Two neighbors start fueding, and instead of a fistfight, start bashing their houses into each other.
Survivor (what's it up to now, 856?), when you get voted off, they send you away in your house, pathetically waving "bye" from your bathroom window.
Demolition derby, using houses instead of cars.
House racing. Imagine the high octane flames spewing out the back and sides of a house during a drag race. Or the crashes (which is the main reason most of us even bother watching NASCAR).
You hit the mid-life crisis, sell your old house and buy a high powered two wheel house, and a toupee.
These are relatively boring things for a PC to do,
However, a PC can be bought for just a few dollars at a thrift store that is already capable of doing all these things without needing to hack the hardware, develop/modify an OS to run on it, modify programs to run under that OS,...
It might be fun for someone to hack on, but when you can already get reliable machines (for less), that are easily maintained (you don't need to mail the system to China to get it fixed), well supported (how many PC's vs PS3's does Linux run on),...
The PS3 is OK as a hobby, or for something that needs the extra CPU's, but I wouldn't want to have to rely on it for production use.
how about an ap that delivers an electric shock whenever someone uses "like" or "you know" at random places in their speech.
It's like, you know, really irritating when, like, you know, someone constantly stuffs them in, like, you know, multiple times in, like you know, every sentence.
Should really come out as the more satisfying
It's OUCH OUCH really irritating when OUCH OUCH someone constantly stuffs them in OUCH OUCH multiple times in OUCH OUCH every sentence.
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I had a guy here who could explain just how this stuff worked, but he just couldn't handle using the mouse, and his accent was just too bad for my voice recognization software to handle.
You'd need to reduce Linux's total footprint to 1024 instructions+data with no swapping, no hard disk, no networking, and all I/O through punched tape, but within those limitations it should run just fine.
Now they need to be able to ask the question, instead of the answer. Maybe they could make it available on the internet. Call it something like a "search engine", and give it a goofy name, like "google", and sell advertising. They could make hundreds!
Just buy some of those "how to win the lottery" books, and program in those rules. You should be able to win every single one. Once you determine the winnig number, make sure you buy hundreds of winning tickets! Mortgage your house so you can buy as many as possible!
Until, that is, you dial your bank's customer service number from a noisy restaurant, and try to talk to Watson to ask him why your Visa was denied.
Don't worry, they will program it with their best indian accent, using the latest translations: Think "my hovercraft is full of eels" in a heavy Indian accent.
I'd completely agree with you, but these idiots aren't hurting themselves. They're hurting their (very young, infant) children.
Think of it as evolution in action. Stupid parents have stupid children, so this is just a thinning of the herd.
This is obvious to anyone who has ever been around kids. A large green blob, it's obviously snot.
I have a large pile of old PC's and parts. I wonder it there would be enough room to store it all?
Maybe WikiLeaks could buy it to hide all their stuff in.
Can we get enough money from people who just want to use it to microwave burrito's, or blow things up?
How much of an explosion could you get out of it, anyway? I'd donate a buck to see something explode.
Think of all the fights it will solve over who gets a drumstick during Thanksgiving Dinner. There should be enough drumsticks for everyone!
Does it taste like chicken?
Obviously, it will toast your host machine. Haven't you watched Star Trek? All computers will explode if they are given a problem they cannot solve!
Does Santa live at the magnetic North Pole? Seems like it would be a pain to keep moving your workship around all the time. Maybe he has it mounted on rails?
Are blackbird OS's written in PHP? Also fishes?
Slave is bad too. The correct word is "Voluntary worker".
non-compensated laborer
Seems like I remember a book like that. 1984? Just change the language and make politically incorrect words illegal.Rewrite history books. Shouldn't make anybody unhappy, right Winston?
And you thought it was bad when people went "camping" with those huge campers.
Now, when you "get away from it all", you can really "take it all with you".
Honey, did you turn off the stove before you left? Hold on a second, let me check.
Imagine the new ways people would live, and be shown on TV...
You come home from vacation, only to find out that your house has already gone south for the winter?
Your wife gets mad at you, and instead of throwing your clothes out in the front yard, moves the house without telling you.
Two neighbors start fueding, and instead of a fistfight, start bashing their houses into each other.
Survivor (what's it up to now, 856?), when you get voted off, they send you away in your house, pathetically waving "bye" from your bathroom window.
Demolition derby, using houses instead of cars.
House racing. Imagine the high octane flames spewing out the back and sides of a house during a drag race. Or the crashes (which is the main reason most of us even bother watching NASCAR).
You hit the mid-life crisis, sell your old house and buy a high powered two wheel house, and a toupee.
Brings a whole new meaning to "Home Theft".
These are relatively boring things for a PC to do,
However, a PC can be bought for just a few dollars at a thrift store that is already capable of doing all these things without needing to hack the hardware, develop/modify an OS to run on it, modify programs to run under that OS, ...
It might be fun for someone to hack on, but when you can already get reliable machines (for less), that are easily maintained (you don't need to mail the system to China to get it fixed), well supported (how many PC's vs PS3's does Linux run on), ...
The PS3 is OK as a hobby, or for something that needs the extra CPU's, but I wouldn't want to have to rely on it for production use.
Are you sure this isn't just a picture of his butt after he sat on one of his Star Wars action figures? (Don't call them DOLLS)
Hey, that's the same combination that I have on my luggage!
how about an ap that delivers an electric shock whenever someone uses "like" or "you know" at random places in their speech.
It's like, you know, really irritating when, like, you know, someone constantly stuffs them in, like, you know, multiple times in, like you know, every sentence.
Should really come out as the more satisfying
It's OUCH OUCH really irritating when OUCH OUCH someone constantly stuffs them in OUCH OUCH multiple times in OUCH OUCH every sentence.
maybe they weren'r Y2K+10 complient
The real thing comes in a fancy bottle, with a fancy hard to pronounce name, like Pabst