to take other bugs apart, for raw material to build other bugs, which are also seek-and-destroy bugs to bite bad bugs back and beat them to bits. But what if the seek-and-destroy bugs have programming bugs that causes them to break out of their methods and go completely bugfuck?
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So any Quake style twitch gamers we send up to remote-control our battle borgs are gonna be righteously pissed after they find out they are no longer LPBs?
"But... but... my 802.11b lan works GREAT at home. WTF is wrong with you stupid NASA engineers?!?!"
One thing you forgot, though, is the stereo *can* be removed without the car failing to start. You don't install a new stereo and keep the old one in there. You take it out and it functions properly.
If you replace the seats, you don't install them on top of the old ones. You remove the old ones and put in new ones.
Have you ever noticed how ANY case mode that gets posted here at/. sucks to high heaven?
Like that x-box "mod" where they made it bigger AND uglier?
Where is all the cool shit like the Millenium Falcon mod where the guy took the time to FUCKING LIGHT UP THE HYPERDRIVE! And did it so it looks like the hyperdrive? And cut a hole into the top of the hard drive and put a LED inside the HD bezel.
Or the Aircraft Carrier Mod? Or the god-damned G4 Cube PC, where it still actually LOOKS like a G4, complete with top loading DVD drive?
I mean, if they're going to post an UGLY Mac case mod, they might want to post this one, which is probably the worst case mod I've EVER seen.
Yeesh. I get so hopeful every time I see this kind of thing pop up it completely shuts my brain down to the drivel I've seen before. I need to filter "Case mod" out of stories in the RSS feed I get.
Actually, he was just as whiney and annoying as young Luke Skywalker. As much as I hated him, he was actually perfect for the role in regards to being Luke's father.:D
My worst boss was a... female that had a Quake 3 tattoo on the back of her neck. (And here's where all the geeks go "Oooooo, hawt!")
Well, not really. Anyone remember Zanshin from Zanshin's gl dojo? She married him about the time I started working there, and a few months later started going through a messy divorce.
He would call up, with a bad accent, and be like "This is Habib Jamaal. I must speak Mariah, is very important!" Me: " Yeah, sure David. I'll see if she's willing to yell at you today." He was fucking psycho. They'd have huge screaming matches. Not very fun. David/Zanshin was a pretty big guy, would have been a biker if computers didn't exist. Listened to music that sounded like a missle strike because of the coolness factor or something.
She was embezzling money from the company. Got away with about $20k. She actually would take out company checks and buy stuff and not fill out the stubs. She used them to pay for her divorce. Actually, I'm kind of jealous about that part, really. Never hooked me up with anything but drove a goddamned Jetta. *grumble grumble*
After the divorce, she started dating some big biker dude. A friend of mine was dating her roomate (still is, actually)... and some drama broke out at their house and my friend, 5'10" or so, not over 150 lbs, got his ass kicked by the biker.
I quit and got a better job. Sure, playing video games all night while watching a phone that almost no-one calls in pretty cush, but I could do without the batshit crazy people around there.
Used to be about $148.00, still is close to there but you have to factor in shipping & the like. As well as the cost of a translator to tell you exactly what you are buying so you don't end up with the wrong product.:)
Thank you sir, for your refreshing sanity check. I was hoping I wasn't the only one out there who knew what VoodooPC had been doing. I found out about their laptops the first day I heard about the A64s going on sale.
Actually, I think you're making a smidge of a mistake with design == usability. But that's only looking at it from the point of designer anything, where look is king. Personally, I hate the design of Slashdot and Yahoo, but that's a personal preference thing. But seriously, if everything looked the same, what would the point be? Everyone might as well use Frontpage templates and be done with it.
The web was intended as a means to convey and search for information. But as everyone likes to point out, hackers are famous for mis-using things in new and interesting ways. Whether they are hacking graphics or code or ancient hackers re-purposing giant slabs of stone to form buildings.
I bet there were some heated discussions back in those days: "Why Ogg got to fuck up perfectly fine natural rock?" "Ogg make new cave! Vor can stay in the hills if Vor likes, but animals leave!" (bad example, but, whatever)
Er, um, anyway. As I was saying, design for your market. If your market is ultra-hip post-cyberpunk *insert god damn stupid adjective here* that appreciates some weird, fucked up hyper-techno *insert descriptive here* interface, then giving them something that looks like Yahoo is gonna make 'em go to sleep. Conversely, if you're peddling information to people with remarkable lack of imagination (think stock market investors or the people so afraid of the Inter-Net that they type URLs into Yahoo's search box because it's all they know) you want your interface to be as simple and straightforward as possible.
Design for your market. Some people care about usablity over looks, some people are the other way around. And yes, I realize that a lot of people that are into the old-skool techno are also anal retentive and don't want anything to be different from their comfortable routines, but that's why there is choice.
Except, of course, only the AAC+Fairplay you purchase from iTMS has "noxious" DRM, the rest you encode on your own is MPEG-4 standard based audio, completely unencumbered.
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Ummm, I'd say exactly the opposite! SUN and Microsoft happen to be two companies that benefit the most from SCO FUD (makers of the most predominant UNIX and "other" operating systems, respectively). They are cheering SCO on in their battle against Linux. Why would they submit "licencing" fees to SCO for UNIX when: (1)SUN owns a perpetual claim to Solaris UNIX (claims they are the only ones who do) and (2)Microsoft has no need for one!
Did you read the poster you replied to? He said that if SCO had not engaged in any of this Linux slander there is No Way Sun or Microsoft would have paid SCO any money. Exactly what you reiterated.:D
He said SCO said they would be profitable without having to pay the laywers. But because they had the lawsuit going, SUN + MS paid them the money they paid the lawyers. Had they no lawsuit, SUN + MS would have given no money, and thus they would still have had no profits.
Air Traffic Control Software: Automated Radar Terminal System (ARTS). The Plain View displays (by Raytheon) in the early '70s had an anticipated lifetime of
1015 years; those in the centers today are now at least 10 years past this estimate. [emphasis mine]
Wow, that's awesome. I had no idea that software that was programmed in the dark ages was still in use. I wonder how many of the original programmers had their lives cut tragically short by the Bubonic Plague, which seems to have run rampant in the 900s. Hats off to Raytheon, which makes Microsofts 3 year EOLs pale in comparison. Could you imagine using a current MS product circa 3000CE? By then, your computer would be advanced enough to cry when you approached it with the installation cd.:D
Bulk mail (junk mail) rates are SIGNIFIGANTLY cheaper than you or I sending a first class letter.
Go look at the what the metered postage on it says sometime. Those little postcards cost just a few cents to send. Except, they're now moving from human readable to weird scancode only, so you'll never be able to bitch that your junkmail cost them less to send to you than you have to pay.
Solution: Write return to sender on everything you don't want. Then go dump it in a post box somewhere across town. Pretty soon the post office will hopefully be pissed enough to raise bulk rates (but more likely we'll just have 45 cent stamps)
This is absolutely not true. The US created many chemical weapons which it did not use (I don't know if we used chem weapons in WW-I, but we enver used them since then).
Actually, it kinda sucks right now, but used to work better. He probably got lazy and didn't finish. But, he removed all the activex last I heard and replaced it so it was 100% cross-compatable between browsers.
Anyway, it has (or had) an mp3 player, a web browers, and some other stuff. Then again, this guy is just crazy.:)
Slashdot Mirror
A while ago, according to this article.
No, I didn't RTFA, too much NyQuil.
You meant "against firms like that."
to take other bugs apart, for raw material to build other bugs, which are also seek-and-destroy bugs to bite bad bugs back and beat them to bits. But what if the seek-and-destroy bugs have programming bugs that causes them to break out of their methods and go completely bugfuck?
So any Quake style twitch gamers we send up to remote-control our battle borgs are gonna be righteously pissed after they find out they are no longer LPBs?
"But... but... my 802.11b lan works GREAT at home. WTF is wrong with you stupid NASA engineers?!?!"
I just wanted to say, thank you for knowning how to spell lose. That's annoyed me since back in the BBS days.
:D
On the other hand, when they mistakenly call the goatse guy a "looser," they may be on to something.
Well, www.sco.com may not come up, but this search and this one show exactly what google thought of their attempt at the big C. :D
One thing you forgot, though, is the stereo *can* be removed without the car failing to start. You don't install a new stereo and keep the old one in there. You take it out and it functions properly.
If you replace the seats, you don't install them on top of the old ones. You remove the old ones and put in new ones.
You can't do that with IE or Media Player.
Have you ever noticed how ANY case mode that gets posted here at /. sucks to high heaven?
Like that x-box "mod" where they made it bigger AND uglier?
Where is all the cool shit like the Millenium Falcon mod where the guy took the time to FUCKING LIGHT UP THE HYPERDRIVE! And did it so it looks like the hyperdrive? And cut a hole into the top of the hard drive and put a LED inside the HD bezel.
Or the Aircraft Carrier Mod? Or the god-damned G4 Cube PC, where it still actually LOOKS like a G4, complete with top loading DVD drive?
I mean, if they're going to post an UGLY Mac case mod, they might want to post this one, which is probably the worst case mod I've EVER seen.
Yeesh. I get so hopeful every time I see this kind of thing pop up it completely shuts my brain down to the drivel I've seen before. I need to filter "Case mod" out of stories in the RSS feed I get.
Actually, he was just as whiney and annoying as young Luke Skywalker. As much as I hated him, he was actually perfect for the role in regards to being Luke's father. :D
My worst boss was a ... female that had a Quake 3 tattoo on the back of her neck. (And here's where all the geeks go "Oooooo, hawt!")
:D
Well, not really. Anyone remember Zanshin from Zanshin's gl dojo? She married him about the time I started working there, and a few months later started going through a messy divorce.
He would call up, with a bad accent, and be like "This is Habib Jamaal. I must speak Mariah, is very important!" Me: " Yeah, sure David. I'll see if she's willing to yell at you today." He was fucking psycho. They'd have huge screaming matches. Not very fun. David/Zanshin was a pretty big guy, would have been a biker if computers didn't exist. Listened to music that sounded like a missle strike because of the coolness factor or something.
She was embezzling money from the company. Got away with about $20k. She actually would take out company checks and buy stuff and not fill out the stubs. She used them to pay for her divorce. Actually, I'm kind of jealous about that part, really. Never hooked me up with anything but drove a goddamned Jetta. *grumble grumble*
After the divorce, she started dating some big biker dude. A friend of mine was dating her roomate (still is, actually)... and some drama broke out at their house and my friend, 5'10" or so, not over 150 lbs, got his ass kicked by the biker.
I quit and got a better job. Sure, playing video games all night while watching a phone that almost no-one calls in pretty cush, but I could do without the batshit crazy people around there.
I win.
Is there any way to make circumventing a pop-up blocker subject to the DMCA Anti-circumvention clause?
Used to be about $148.00, still is close to there but you have to factor in shipping & the like. As well as the cost of a translator to tell you exactly what you are buying so you don't end up with the wrong product. :)
Thank you sir, for your refreshing sanity check. I was hoping I wasn't the only one out there who knew what VoodooPC had been doing. I found out about their laptops the first day I heard about the A64s going on sale.
Design for your market segment.
Actually, I think you're making a smidge of a mistake with design == usability. But that's only looking at it from the point of designer anything, where look is king. Personally, I hate the design of Slashdot and Yahoo, but that's a personal preference thing. But seriously, if everything looked the same, what would the point be? Everyone might as well use Frontpage templates and be done with it.
The web was intended as a means to convey and search for information. But as everyone likes to point out, hackers are famous for mis-using things in new and interesting ways. Whether they are hacking graphics or code or ancient hackers re-purposing giant slabs of stone to form buildings.
I bet there were some heated discussions back in those days: "Why Ogg got to fuck up perfectly fine natural rock?" "Ogg make new cave! Vor can stay in the hills if Vor likes, but animals leave!" (bad example, but, whatever)
Er, um, anyway. As I was saying, design for your market. If your market is ultra-hip post-cyberpunk *insert god damn stupid adjective here* that appreciates some weird, fucked up hyper-techno *insert descriptive here* interface, then giving them something that looks like Yahoo is gonna make 'em go to sleep. Conversely, if you're peddling information to people with remarkable lack of imagination (think stock market investors or the people so afraid of the Inter-Net that they type URLs into Yahoo's search box because it's all they know) you want your interface to be as simple and straightforward as possible.
Design for your market. Some people care about usablity over looks, some people are the other way around. And yes, I realize that a lot of people that are into the old-skool techno are also anal retentive and don't want anything to be different from their comfortable routines, but that's why there is choice.
Neko (apologies for being supercillous and rude)
Except, of course, only the AAC+Fairplay you purchase from iTMS has "noxious" DRM, the rest you encode on your own is MPEG-4 standard based audio, completely unencumbered.
Please check your facts.
Did you read the poster you replied to? He said that if SCO had not engaged in any of this Linux slander there is No Way Sun or Microsoft would have paid SCO any money. Exactly what you reiterated.
He said SCO said they would be profitable without having to pay the laywers. But because they had the lawsuit going, SUN + MS paid them the money they paid the lawyers. Had they no lawsuit, SUN + MS would have given no money, and thus they would still have had no profits.
I thought they were just used because they looked like stylized snow-covered houses.
Here's a Couple Geeks setting up a fund to buy presents for the Childrens Hospital of Seattle.
Last count over $130k donated by gamers around the world.
We're not just maniacs with guns anymore. Now we're maniacs with guns, and heart.
Wow, that's awesome. I had no idea that software that was programmed in the dark ages was still in use. I wonder how many of the original programmers had their lives cut tragically short by the Bubonic Plague, which seems to have run rampant in the 900s. Hats off to Raytheon, which makes Microsofts 3 year EOLs pale in comparison. Could you imagine using a current MS product circa 3000CE? By then, your computer would be advanced enough to cry when you approached it with the installation cd.
Re: your sig
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You forgot scofflaw.com
Because I, for one, welcome our new robotic overlords.
Or was that too obvious?
Bulk mail (junk mail) rates are SIGNIFIGANTLY cheaper than you or I sending a first class letter.
Go look at the what the metered postage on it says sometime. Those little postcards cost just a few cents to send. Except, they're now moving from human readable to weird scancode only, so you'll never be able to bitch that your junkmail cost them less to send to you than you have to pay.
Solution: Write return to sender on everything you don't want. Then go dump it in a post box somewhere across town. Pretty soon the post office will hopefully be pissed enough to raise bulk rates (but more likely we'll just have 45 cent stamps)
Agent Orange?
Interestingly enough, SCOX Went public at a bit over 100$ according to this . It immediately plummeted over the next year to just under 5$, and has been there right up until this lawsuit was announced, after which it shot up over a few months to about $20 and has been trying to dip back down but keeps trying to repeak. I wonder who keeps trying to save it?
A guy I know built an OS in flash.
:)
Actually, it kinda sucks right now, but used to work better. He probably got lazy and didn't finish. But, he removed all the activex last I heard and replaced it so it was 100% cross-compatable between browsers.
Anyway, it has (or had) an mp3 player, a web browers, and some other stuff. Then again, this guy is just crazy.