SHHHHHH!!! for f*cks sake, don't let anyone find out that theres something better!
This is the philosophy behind almost everything - DVDs, Oparating Systems, Web-Standards, Music, Love. Its what allows people to be lazy and still get what they want. In the DVD industry for example, no-one as realised that there could be far better formats for the same or less cost, so DVDs are the major standard, everyone buys them. Ok, granted there are cost issues in upgrading a cinema, but why should the owners bother when they're on a nice little ledge.
Are the advertising agencies on crack? or are the/. admins? probably both. Is this a fake? damn right.
1. how many people visit a grave yard each day? 2. how many of those people will actually _see_ the grave stone with the advert on it? 3. out of those, how many will notice the advert, unless its very colourful and not just engraved in the stone? (I dont think they'd get away with that) 4. out of the people that notice the advert how many will a) give a f*ck, b) actually play video games, c) not be pissed off enough at the capitalist marketing technique to buy it, d) will have already seen it possibly because its on their relatives gravestone, or e) will have seen it already on a bill-board on the way to the graveyard.
Can someone tell me just how a mouse can be as dangerous as a bullet or a bomb?? The only things i can think if are situations where someone had interfaced the controls to some thing important with a computer - i.e a life support machine, an air traffic control system, a gun mounted on a robotic platform aimed at a busy street, a bomb, a nuclear bomb, or some sort of switch that transmitted hear'says music on every tv and radio channel in the world. For this to be utilised by a hacker in a way that would make them responsible would require that the interface was then connected to a publicly accessable network system (eg, the internet). Since its a mouse were talking about, it would have to be done through some sort of graphical interface. Lets bring everything together here:
If i clicked a submit button on a form in a browser at a certain website that would activate an interface and do one of the things previously mentioned, i would be liable? WOULDNT THE STUPID IDIOT WHO SET THIS SYSTEM UP BE LIABLE?? lol
Whats the point? everyone has to pay some kind of raod tax to drive a car - you dont have cameras all over the place scanning plates for that - you jut make everyone put a tax disc in the window! most lawabiding citizens wont try to get away without paying if they have to show a permit in their window. Lets look at the costs:
Installing 100's of cameras around london, connecting them to a central computer with the proccessing power to analyse 100's of number plates per second and compare them to a database - allot of f*cking money.
Issuing peices of paper and those little plastic sleave things to put them in - f*cking jack.
All this because the dumb politicians/mayors have no idea whats going on. They no nothing about the tecnology around, they no nothing about its cost, and they no nothing about designing a system to do a job - why not just hire people with a clue.
Thats because there never was a British Airways Concorde crash - companies always tell the truth when its in their favour. The concordes they are talking about are only the British Airways ones.
Is it just me, or is the fact that there is a country called sealand of the coast of britain thats fired warning shots on the navy, held prisoners of war, and has its own currency just a little stange? data havens are one thing, but this is one of the strangest things ive heard of:)
and those table often result in an equally bloated site. To me, table != slick
I thought you ment slick as in sexy, not slick as in use of html - according to the w3c, tables arn't for placing elements on a page, although slashdot and 500000 other sites would say otherwise
Man, stop hassling me. Ok ok, 10 more minutes then i'll go. Look, im on the last level ok, i _have_ to see the end - look, look at the timer - see it says 3 minutes, ok, when its finished im dead anyway, so just leave me alone for 3 minutes. Ahh comon! thats not fair. Ok i don't care im doing that level again, no, you were distracting me. _Screw_ her, ok, shes not as important. I need to see the ending. just 1 minute. Shut up.
Ok, i'm really sorry, i forgot ok? i can go tomorrow. i promise. look i wrote it down. No im busy. Don't open the curtain the sun is glaring on my screen!! close it close it!. Awwwwh f*ck! i got killed. I don't care, no! im not going, its _my_ life. Yeah, and its more interesting than real life. Im not addicted. at least i don't do drugs and stuff like other people! yeah? well they're all dumb too. Its not fair.
Sure, a lot of customers will probably just visit to find warranty info or whatnot, but you also want to grab hold of prospective customers
I don't know about you, but i often buy things based on specs, reviews, and other peoples experiences, not because the company had a sexy web site.
A slick site will grab more customers than a piece of bunk taped together with table tags.
A slick site _is_ a piece of bunk taped together with table tags:) or bloated flash, or dreamweaver/frontpage dodgy HTML. A good site uses CSS so it looks slick in CSS browsers, and looks like proper HTML in old browsers, (or the server generates different versions on the fly).
As for 1337 d00d's tribute to gothic teen angst...I couldn't care less what he's got to say. But if 1337 d00d can make his site resemble a piece of art, I just might stick around to read his latest diatribe on dumb jocks.
Man, 1337 d00d r0x! his tributes to gothic teen angst make me ROFL! Lots of sites are meant to be gimmicky art pieces, thats fine, they're fun to browse, but when i want to find some drivers or warranty information, or whatever, i want it quickly and without having to go through some dumb interface.
HTML is for presenting content, not style. Style sheets are only in their second generation, thats why they arn't perfect. The worst thing is, IE is the browser that _doesnt_ display elements to the right standards. but because assholes always win, it becomes the standard.
I feel violated when people suggest i should use tables for formatting.
[warning, the rest of this post is off topic]
Or flash for a whole site. I've honestly never seen a flash site where i didn't think "Thats some dumb pretentious flash animation by some dumb art-failure. Its getting old, fast, and its making navigation a pain."
Please, for all that is holy, someone give me the url to a site made with flash that is decent!
- From the bar/club/party - thats just going to be sad, and i'm not trying to troll here:)
- Help im being mugged - Not that its much help, since the police probably don't have a nokia to see you with and the mugger will have all the more reason to run off with it when he sees how expensive it is lol
- Hey, I miss you - More like, "hey, i miss you honey... whos that guy with his arm around you!?!"
Maybe nokia should concentrate on making phones that dont crash:)
We just need P2P protocals to include anti-terrorist devices (these people are terrorists). For example, voting systems for users/files like eBay, finger-prints, and clients that download a second or two of the file from several points inside it so you can check its quality (some clients spilt up the file and download from different peers - this is similar). Or, even better, why not just serve massive pirate sites from big ships in international waters using satellite:), or pay the ruler of some small 3rd world country to host it and keep it all safe:)?
The idea of putting the main proccessing power (or tuner in this case) in a separate box is good. Technically, all the watch is is a screen, surely you could connect almost anything to it - a camera, a dvd player or even a computer. If you designed something like this with a touch screen, then you're set. I want to see a cheap, thin LCD touch screen (on a watch or in a star-trek style pad) with some kind of wireless system (bluetooth, infra red etc) or atleast a cable. You could then use it to access other devices while they're in your pocket or briefcase, such as your mp3 player, dvd player, laptop, camcorder or tv tuner. You could even use a wireless base-station. Basically it would be a dumb terminal, but a very cheap, tiny, and portable one. Obviously you'd need to sort out compatability between products, but it would make life so much easier.
This is actually a ploy to pluck out people who the US government thinks are a security risk - what better way than with a video game? you can assess players tactical ability, skills, reflexes, and more importantly, what makes them tick. Also they are in league with microsoft:)
Im sure that infringes on the people who cough, and did he get permission from the police to use a 'trademark' sound in his production? Also, certain TV and radio stations might have been given exclusive rights. What if he copied it off the TV - thats rebroadcasting the signal.
On another note im interested to know how he managed to set the equipment for the full dynamic range - if he recorded it at the normal level, the samples on the cd would peak at a few percent or less! that would be a complete waste of data especially for the 16-bit depth. Although this level wouldn't allow him the end of the silence since normal wispering would just clip:)
My personal favorite is to fill in the email address as the domain your regestering on for example "webmaster@nytimes.com" or "support@nytimes.com". I figured early on that they would block these with filters, so then i started feeding each company an address from another company.
What really gets me is the verification systems. Obviously most of these programmers just left school and insist on varifying _every_ field. Who cares if my zip code is the wrong number of digits? since the only code i know is "90210" thats what im going to put if you ask me again!
I cant wait for the new Parabellum and SSSCA technologies to come out, then i can have my details burnt onto my motherboard and automatically sent to every site i vist. Also, it will be good news for the sites since i will have to have the correct information in by law, as it will be taken from my passport, and documents (required for purchasing a new machine in 2005) lol
If the sites really want my data so that it can help them tailor the site, then they should ask specific, impersonal questions and make it damn quick.
Personally, if I had been forced to say this stuff everyday in school, I would have told them where they could shove it:) Does it really take a court 50 years to figure out that this is unconstitutional ? Oh, yeah probably, since they're all backlogged with micro-soft anti-trust cases and people suing over hot-coffee lol.
Maybe thereâ(TM)s some sort of connection between the number of ufo sightings and the number of bases the US has managed to set-up in that particular area. But that would make the middle-eastern holey lands the greatest ufo hot spot. Oh well, maybe they've been confusing visions from the heavens with all the experimental American planes and weapons tests:)
"Microsoft announced today, that they plan to take over PCs, literally. Their new project, code-named 'Scrotum' is aimed at designing a complete built-in control system for PCs. Scrotum will scan data that passes through the computers processor and look for special 'skid-marks'. These skid-marks will tell the system what can and can't be done with a certain piece of data. For example, someone may send you an email advertising a product. Scrotum will detect that this email is âbullshitâ(TM), from the skid-marks it finds in the data stream. The computer will then delete this email automatically, saving the user time and effort. Bill Gates has coined this process 'mail filtering' and claims that it could revolutionise the email industry. But thatâ(TM)s not all, we spoke to a Beta tester with Scrotum: "The system is incredible, last night I was searching a file sharing network for the new Britney song, when suddenly Scrotum interrupted and deleted it, claiming it had detected 'bullshit' in the mp3 data- streams' skid-mark. I've since, stopped listening to Britney Spears!"
Microsoft expects Scrotum to ship as soon as the code compiles on an Intel processor - at the moment it keeps crashing stating a 'bullshit error'"
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SHHHHHH!!! for f*cks sake, don't let anyone find out that theres something better!
This is the philosophy behind almost everything - DVDs, Oparating Systems, Web-Standards, Music, Love. Its what allows people to be lazy and still get what they want. In the DVD industry for example, no-one as realised that there could be far better formats for the same or less cost, so DVDs are the major standard, everyone buys them. Ok, granted there are cost issues in upgrading a cinema, but why should the owners bother when they're on a nice little ledge.
Are the advertising agencies on crack? or are the /. admins? probably both. Is this a fake? damn right.
1. how many people visit a grave yard each day?
2. how many of those people will actually _see_ the grave stone with the advert on it?
3. out of those, how many will notice the advert, unless its very colourful and not just engraved in the stone? (I dont think they'd get away with that)
4. out of the people that notice the advert how many will a) give a f*ck, b) actually play video games, c) not be pissed off enough at the capitalist marketing technique to buy it, d) will have already seen it possibly because its on their relatives gravestone, or e) will have seen it already on a bill-board on the way to the graveyard.
Can someone tell me just how a mouse can be as dangerous as a bullet or a bomb?? The only things i can think if are situations where someone had interfaced the controls to some thing important with a computer - i.e a life support machine, an air traffic control system, a gun mounted on a robotic platform aimed at a busy street, a bomb, a nuclear bomb, or some sort of switch that transmitted hear'says music on every tv and radio channel in the world. For this to be utilised by a hacker in a way that would make them responsible would require that the interface was then connected to a publicly accessable network system (eg, the internet). Since its a mouse were talking about, it would have to be done through some sort of graphical interface. Lets bring everything together here:
If i clicked a submit button on a form in a browser at a certain website that would activate an interface and do one of the things previously mentioned, i would be liable? WOULDNT THE STUPID IDIOT WHO SET THIS SYSTEM UP BE LIABLE?? lol
Whats the point? everyone has to pay some kind of raod tax to drive a car - you dont have cameras all over the place scanning plates for that - you jut make everyone put a tax disc in the window! most lawabiding citizens wont try to get away without paying if they have to show a permit in their window. Lets look at the costs:
Installing 100's of cameras around london, connecting them to a central computer with the proccessing power to analyse 100's of number plates per second and compare them to a database - allot of f*cking money.
Issuing peices of paper and those little plastic sleave things to put them in - f*cking jack.
All this because the dumb politicians/mayors have no idea whats going on. They no nothing about the tecnology around, they no nothing about its cost, and they no nothing about designing a system to do a job - why not just hire people with a clue.
Thats because there never was a British Airways Concorde crash - companies always tell the truth when its in their favour. The concordes they are talking about are only the British Airways ones.
Some people might not get it so i thought it spell it out
Fee-C's => Feaces (Shit)
"No new Towers"
:)
"Macworld Expo in New York"
Am i missing something here? Is this some kind of metaphore?
Is it just me, or is the fact that there is a country called sealand of the coast of britain thats fired warning shots on the navy, held prisoners of war, and has its own currency just a little stange? data havens are one thing, but this is one of the strangest things ive heard of :)
We'll fight them on the beaches...
:)
Anyay, Sealand is probably an undeclared nuclear power, they'll fight back. Or just get a tug boat to tow them out an extra 10 miles
and those table often result in an equally bloated site. To me, table != slick
I thought you ment slick as in sexy, not slick as in use of html - according to the w3c, tables arn't for placing elements on a page, although slashdot and 500000 other sites would say otherwise
Man, stop hassling me. Ok ok, 10 more minutes then i'll go. Look, im on the last level ok, i _have_ to see the end - look, look at the timer - see it says 3 minutes, ok, when its finished im dead anyway, so just leave me alone for 3 minutes. Ahh comon! thats not fair. Ok i don't care im doing that level again, no, you were distracting me. _Screw_ her, ok, shes not as important. I need to see the ending. just 1 minute. Shut up.
Ok, i'm really sorry, i forgot ok? i can go tomorrow. i promise. look i wrote it down. No im busy. Don't open the curtain the sun is glaring on my screen!! close it close it!. Awwwwh f*ck! i got killed. I don't care, no! im not going, its _my_ life. Yeah, and its more interesting than real life. Im not addicted. at least i don't do drugs and stuff like other people! yeah? well they're all dumb too. Its not fair.
Sure, a lot of customers will probably just visit to find warranty info or whatnot, but you also want to grab hold of prospective customers
:) or bloated flash, or dreamweaver/frontpage dodgy HTML. A good site uses CSS so it looks slick in CSS browsers, and looks like proper HTML in old browsers, (or the server generates different versions on the fly).
I don't know about you, but i often buy things based on specs, reviews, and other peoples experiences, not because the company had a sexy web site.
A slick site will grab more customers than a piece of bunk taped together with table tags.
A slick site _is_ a piece of bunk taped together with table tags
As for 1337 d00d's tribute to gothic teen angst...I couldn't care less what he's got to say. But if 1337 d00d can make his site resemble a piece of art, I just might stick around to read his latest diatribe on dumb jocks.
Man, 1337 d00d r0x! his tributes to gothic teen angst make me ROFL! Lots of sites are meant to be gimmicky art pieces, thats fine, they're fun to browse, but when i want to find some drivers or warranty information, or whatever, i want it quickly and without having to go through some dumb interface.
HTML is for presenting content, not style. Style sheets are only in their second generation, thats why they arn't perfect. The worst thing is, IE is the browser that _doesnt_ display elements to the right standards. but because assholes always win, it becomes the standard.
I feel violated when people suggest i should use tables for formatting.
[warning, the rest of this post is off topic]
Or flash for a whole site. I've honestly never seen a flash site where i didn't think "Thats some dumb pretentious flash animation by some dumb art-failure. Its getting old, fast, and its making navigation a pain."
Please, for all that is holy, someone give me the url to a site made with flash that is decent!
SVG? whats SVG? ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
Wow, and theres me thinking that HTML was for presenting content not style.
Ok, can anyone think of a use for this? lets see:
:)
:)
- From the bar/club/party - thats just going to be sad, and i'm not trying to troll here
- Help im being mugged - Not that its much help, since the police probably don't have a nokia to see you with and the mugger will have all the more reason to run off with it when he sees how expensive it is lol
- Hey, I miss you - More like, "hey, i miss you honey... whos that guy with his arm around you!?!"
Maybe nokia should concentrate on making phones that dont crash
We just need P2P protocals to include anti-terrorist devices (these people are terrorists). For example, voting systems for users/files like eBay, finger-prints, and clients that download a second or two of the file from several points inside it so you can check its quality (some clients spilt up the file and download from different peers - this is similar). Or, even better, why not just serve massive pirate sites from big ships in international waters using satellite :), or pay the ruler of some small 3rd world country to host it and keep it all safe :)?
The idea of putting the main proccessing power (or tuner in this case) in a separate box is good. Technically, all the watch is is a screen, surely you could connect almost anything to it - a camera, a dvd player or even a computer. If you designed something like this with a touch screen, then you're set. I want to see a cheap, thin LCD touch screen (on a watch or in a star-trek style pad) with some kind of wireless system (bluetooth, infra red etc) or atleast a cable. You could then use it to access other devices while they're in your pocket or briefcase, such as your mp3 player, dvd player, laptop, camcorder or tv tuner. You could even use a wireless base-station. Basically it would be a dumb terminal, but a very cheap, tiny, and portable one. Obviously you'd need to sort out compatability between products, but it would make life so much easier.
This is actually a ploy to pluck out people who the US government thinks are a security risk - what better way than with a video game? you can assess players tactical ability, skills, reflexes, and more importantly, what makes them tick. Also they are in league with microsoft :)
Im sure that infringes on the people who cough, and did he get permission from the police to use a 'trademark' sound in his production? Also, certain TV and radio stations might have been given exclusive rights. What if he copied it off the TV - thats rebroadcasting the signal.
:)
On another note im interested to know how he managed to set the equipment for the full dynamic range - if he recorded it at the normal level, the samples on the cd would peak at a few percent or less! that would be a complete waste of data especially for the 16-bit depth. Although this level wouldn't allow him the end of the silence since normal wispering would just clip
Copyright law is messed up
My personal favorite is to fill in the email address as the domain your regestering on for example "webmaster@nytimes.com" or "support@nytimes.com". I figured early on that they would block these with filters, so then i started feeding each company an address from another company.
What really gets me is the verification systems. Obviously most of these programmers just left school and insist on varifying _every_ field. Who cares if my zip code is the wrong number of digits? since the only code i know is "90210" thats what im going to put if you ask me again!
I cant wait for the new Parabellum and SSSCA technologies to come out, then i can have my details burnt onto my motherboard and automatically sent to every site i vist. Also, it will be good news for the sites since i will have to have the correct information in by law, as it will be taken from my passport, and documents (required for purchasing a new machine in 2005) lol
If the sites really want my data so that it can help them tailor the site, then they should ask specific, impersonal questions and make it damn quick.
Hollings wanted the industry to come up with a drm system - is this it?
Damn, ran out of mod-points or i would have got you up.
:)
& My ass cheeks - Standing together for peace and justice
Personally, if I had been forced to say this stuff everyday in school, I would have told them where they could shove it :) Does it really take a court 50 years to figure out that this is unconstitutional ? Oh, yeah probably, since they're all backlogged with micro-soft anti-trust cases and people suing over hot-coffee lol.
Maybe thereâ(TM)s some sort of connection between the number of ufo sightings and the number of bases the US has managed to set-up in that particular area. But that would make the middle-eastern holey lands the greatest ufo hot spot. Oh well, maybe they've been confusing visions from the heavens with all the experimental American planes and weapons tests :)
"Microsoft announced today, that they plan to take over PCs, literally. Their new project, code-named 'Scrotum' is aimed at designing a complete built-in control system for PCs. Scrotum will scan data that passes through the computers processor and look for special 'skid-marks'. These skid-marks will tell the system what can and can't be done with a certain piece of data. For example, someone may send you an email advertising a product. Scrotum will detect that this email is âbullshitâ(TM), from the skid-marks it finds in the data stream. The computer will then delete this email automatically, saving the user time and effort. Bill Gates has coined this process 'mail filtering' and claims that it could revolutionise the email industry. But thatâ(TM)s not all, we spoke to a Beta tester with Scrotum: "The system is incredible, last night I was searching a file sharing network for the new Britney song, when suddenly Scrotum interrupted and deleted it, claiming it had detected 'bullshit' in the mp3 data- streams' skid-mark. I've since, stopped listening to Britney Spears!"
Microsoft expects Scrotum to ship as soon as the code compiles on an Intel processor - at the moment it keeps crashing stating a 'bullshit error'"