Yes, Microsoft having to clean up after you, and releasing the 360 before the PS3(okay, the jury's out on that one), MS is surely doing a Nelson Muntz "HA HA!" to Sony here.
Using the same game engine the Scott Adams text adventures had, there was an editor you could get for the TI-99/4A to make your own text adventures.
I remember using it to look through the source code of some impossibly-hard(or broken) text adventure games made in shareware land. One of them was based off of Fast Times at Ridgemount High, complete with Mr. Hand.
Ah, fun times. Never made anything useful out of it, but it was a nice entry into programming.
Remember in the days before spyware existed, where those who used your computer was YOU? It seems we now have hundreds of seedy companies trying to eat up our precious processor time and trying to sell you stuff.
And now this company has the balls to come up with this in a EULA?
I say unleash the white hat hackers. The joy of computing must not be ruined by sony's rootkit, or spyware or stupid legal hassles.
That struck me too. It seems that IRC is the communication wavelength of choice where the malware can interact with bots or with the man behind the curtain.
If it's just a handful of IRC server hosts, yes I agree, kill them. Sever the connection between worm and caretaker, and suddenly your operation just got harder. I doubt blocking IRC ports will work, since it can just go through another port.
The thing is, even if you could do that, OS X drivers are not going to be available for 95% of your periphrials. What good is running the OS with no network, sound, or perhaps even video?
Yes, yes, a t-shirt representing computer software. It gets you into the "I'm not going to get laid wearing this" special club. Yes, wearing the shirt shows your love for penetration, ie only the browser market share kind. This is why I wear my WinZip shirt to the gym, and not for a night out on the town.:)
MTV has been sitting on a mountain of music videos for ages that haven't been played.
VH1 Classic sure seems to have a lot of videos. Why don't you encode & sell them? I would have been more than happy to have paid for Josie Cotton's "Jimmy loves marianne" instead of requesting it & waiting to tape it(I eventually got it from p2p networks).
Let me guess, tied up in royalties and such?
Fine then, I'll just scoot around it by going back to Soulseek.
Yes, anything you write about more than once on the internet, and OMG suddenly it's a Blog!
blog this! blog that! blogs about blogs! It's not a webcam, it's a still image blog! Hey look, it's not a directory, it's a file blog! Apache logs, nope, they are web blogs!(get it?).
Yes, 2005's the year where suddenly EVERYTHING is redefined as a freakin' blog. Maybe 2006 is the year we go outside.
They just released a game about one of the worst movies in the 70's (The Warriors). If that's not difficult, I don't know what is.
Can't you Dig it!?!?!??
Spike TV played The Warriors in anticipation of the game 2 weekends ago. It really is a good, nostalgic movie. While video game to movie conversions might be a step below the opposite(ie the doom movie), The Warriors as a video game just minght work.
OO is pretty usuable, as long as you have a very large amount of RAM. I upgraded my thinkpad from 256M to 1G and openoffice load times went way down ( probably ~5x under some circumstances).
So instead of paying X dollars for MS Office with a faster startup time, you are instead paying X dollars for open office to start up equivical to Office's.
Perhaps everything isn't cheaper in Linux land. Instead of paying X dollars for a closed-source product with a nice printed manual, you get an open-source version with no printed documentation, but instead buy an O'Reilley book with a cute animal on the cover. So you have to pay either way. And here comes a hundred technical workaround reasons why OO is slower from OSS advocates.....
I wonder what would happen if IP addresses were posted on EVERY comment. Yes, EVERY comment. Gave a bigger site like blogger.com have a record of each IP address that comments. If people start reporting spam comments and enough of them are tied to one IP address, block that IP address out from anything in the future.
Abuse on the internet has to come in from somewhere. Why not cast a net, find out which blocks it is, and choke it from there, forever? Don't ask nicely, don't give a 24 hour warning. Just block it forever.
When I see the Gizmondo(didn't know about the advertising interruptiosn), GP32, Zodiac, and the other handheld consoles as of recent, I think of one thing: collectability. Heck, throw in the Wonderswan too.
These suckers probably will lay waste to Nintendo's handheld offerings, and not sell well at all. But I bet within several years these puppies will go for big bucks on eBay. So, to summarize:
1. Buy these handhelds the minute they are available, or go on clearance. 2. 3. eBay Profit!
Because looking at Gizmondo's game offerings(isn't there some game about mowing grass? That sounds like some penny arcade comic come to life), there isn't much enjoyment to be derived from these.
Web designer Khoi Vinh, whose firm Behavior is responsible for the redesign of the Onion,
And what a horrible job you did:
1. Smearing ads all over the place. I remember seeing not one, but TWO banner ads toting NBC's "The Office" on the same page. you know, in case we didn't see the first one. It's IGN or *insert video game news site here* bad.
2. The oh-so-classic time-honored tradition of putting ALL the links humanly possible on the main page. If i have to hit Ctrl+F to find something obvious, there's something wrong.
3. Very little new content. A lot of the bottom of the main page is just links to older content, none of which is available to free users.
4. Inconsistent overall look compared to the older site.
I love GTA, etc, but I have a place in my heart for puzzle games. Gotta love 'em 1. Low system requirements. You can port it to a freakin' Atari 2600 depending on the game, or a cell phone. 2. Takes almost no time to learn. 3. Often many puzzle games have open-ended design to expand gameplay without making hit hideously complicated.
Every time I see one of those media players with a d-pad, I always wonder if it would be possible to port Tetris, Bejweled, etc on them. oh what fun it would be to port Bejeweled to as many portable systems as possible(cell phone(done), PSP, GBA, wonderswan, GP32, Tapwave Zodiac, Ipod(wow does it need more games), GP32X, digital cameras(mame was done) and anything else I haven't mentioned).
I had a problem with some teenybopper on livejournal, using a Blondie image from my web page as her LJ background.
I asked her politely, and even suggested she setup some web space and just copy the image off my site so she can use it(without bandwidth concerns). In true passive-aggressive fashion, she ignored me.
So I changed the image filename to tubgirl.
By some amazing coincidence, she changed the image to something else a day later.
1. Embedded music videos. Anyone have a host list of the music video providers? I'd like to resolve them to 127.0.0.1 2. Bogus accounts. There is a huge rash of "stripper" accounts, consisting of minimal user info, that messages out to single guys to get them to email them at their yahoo accounts. They typically have 4 or 5 risque pictures, making everyone think all women are whores. Bad bad bad. 3. Myspace needs a "safe mode" where the excessively bad(bells and whistles) profiles that sodomize any web browser can be avoided. 4. Why does clicking to one of your groups have to open in a new window? WHY? The top-bar navigation makes that un-neccessary.
But still, myspace is better than orkut. People actually use myspace.
There's a few options for the IPod in the MINI Cooper.
1.(cheapass). for $30, you can get a basic AUX port that works with any mp3 player 2. (not so cheapass) if you have the multi-function-steering-wheel(500 bucks) and the true "ipod adapter"(150 bucks), you can switch volume & tracks with the steering wheel buttons.
I just wish they would come out with an FM transmitter(or through the audio port if possible) that displays the currently playing track on the MINI's radio. It(along with other BMWs) tells you the track(RDS?) if the radio station supports it. Most around the twin cities do.
What bugs the crap out of me is GMail at work. It for some reason hangs(on the red "loading" label) when I choose certain emails(like ones in my spam folder), or try to set up new rules. Why would it do this at work, but not at home? I thought it was through port 80 all the way.
And if MS released Vista WITH the fixes, thus rendering antivirus sw/anti-malware sw obsolete, people on here would complain about "WHY do I have to pay for this upgrade to fix the problems they didn't in previous versions?!?". It seems with this situation, MS is damned if they do, damned if they dont. Damned if they do: Accused of trying to leverage out Symateic, damned if they dont: blasted for insecure OSes. Damned if they do pt 2: Put fixes in Vista software, and are accused of trying to gouge customers out of more money for an upgrade.
Orkut to me is dead. It was horribly maintained, the inerface wasn't that good, and the invite-only nature didn't bring many people on(*)
(*) Exception: Every single citizen of Brazil, who insisted on making at least one post in every community(whether it had nohting to do with Brazil) asking if there were other Brazilians on there. Mind you, Myspace is full of fake accounts and shirtless chavs, and breaks every 5 hours, but it's better than Orkut.
In the nicest way possible, Firefly reminded me a lot of Cowboy Bebop. Ie a live-action version with it done right. THe similiarities between the two are quite a bit. Of course, Serenity was a great movie, while the cowboy bebop movie was a 90-minute snorefest of ane episode.
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Yes, Microsoft having to clean up after you, and releasing the 360 before the PS3(okay, the jury's out on that one), MS is surely doing a Nelson Muntz "HA HA!" to Sony here.
Using the same game engine the Scott Adams text adventures had, there was an editor you could get for the TI-99/4A to make your own text adventures.
I remember using it to look through the source code of some impossibly-hard(or broken) text adventure games made in shareware land. One of them was based off of Fast Times at Ridgemount High, complete with Mr. Hand.
Ah, fun times. Never made anything useful out of it, but it was a nice entry into programming.
Remember in the days before spyware existed, where those who used your computer was YOU? It seems we now have hundreds of seedy companies trying to eat up our precious processor time and trying to sell you stuff.
And now this company has the balls to come up with this in a EULA?
I say unleash the white hat hackers. The joy of computing must not be ruined by sony's rootkit, or spyware or stupid legal hassles.
That struck me too. It seems that IRC is the communication wavelength of choice where the malware can interact with bots or with the man behind the curtain.
If it's just a handful of IRC server hosts, yes I agree, kill them. Sever the connection between worm and caretaker, and suddenly your operation just got harder. I doubt blocking IRC ports will work, since it can just go through another port.
The thing is, even if you could do that, OS X drivers are not going to be available for 95% of your periphrials. What good is running the OS with no network, sound, or perhaps even video?
Because it will make Linux look that much better!
Hey sony..
c:\My Wallet>Ren Disposableincome.$$$ $sys$Disposableincome.$$$
(ie I ain't buying your CDs with that kind of attitude)
Yes, yes, a t-shirt representing computer software. It gets you into the "I'm not going to get laid wearing this" special club. Yes, wearing the shirt shows your love for penetration, ie only the browser market share kind. This is why I wear my WinZip shirt to the gym, and not for a night out on the town. :)
So I take it their website is/was creditdauphine.com?
Well if they broke up I'll just get my warez from The Covenant.
MTV has been sitting on a mountain of music videos for ages that haven't been played.
VH1 Classic sure seems to have a lot of videos. Why don't you encode & sell them? I would have been more than happy to have paid for Josie Cotton's "Jimmy loves marianne" instead of requesting it & waiting to tape it(I eventually got it from p2p networks).
Let me guess, tied up in royalties and such?
Fine then, I'll just scoot around it by going back to Soulseek.
Yes, anything you write about more than once on the internet, and OMG suddenly it's a Blog!
blog this! blog that! blogs about blogs! It's not a webcam, it's a still image blog! Hey look, it's not a directory, it's a file blog! Apache logs, nope, they are web blogs!(get it?).
Yes, 2005's the year where suddenly EVERYTHING is redefined as a freakin' blog. Maybe 2006 is the year we go outside.
They just released a game about one of the worst movies in the 70's (The Warriors). If that's not difficult, I don't know what is.
Can't you Dig it!?!?!??
Spike TV played The Warriors in anticipation of the game 2 weekends ago. It really is a good, nostalgic movie. While video game to movie conversions might be a step below the opposite(ie the doom movie), The Warriors as a video game just minght work.
OO is pretty usuable, as long as you have a very large amount of RAM. I upgraded my thinkpad from 256M to 1G and openoffice load times went way down ( probably ~5x under some circumstances).
So instead of paying X dollars for MS Office with a faster startup time, you are instead paying X dollars for open office to start up equivical to Office's.
Perhaps everything isn't cheaper in Linux land. Instead of paying X dollars for a closed-source product with a nice printed manual, you get an open-source version with no printed documentation, but instead buy an O'Reilley book with a cute animal on the cover. So you have to pay either way. And here comes a hundred technical workaround reasons why OO is slower from OSS advocates.....
I wonder what would happen if IP addresses were posted on EVERY comment. Yes, EVERY comment.
Gave a bigger site like blogger.com have a record of each IP address that comments. If people start reporting spam comments and enough of them are tied to one IP address, block that IP address out from anything in the future.
Abuse on the internet has to come in from somewhere. Why not cast a net, find out which blocks it is, and choke it from there, forever? Don't ask nicely, don't give a 24 hour warning. Just block it forever.
Look on the site. It is 99% advertising to porn sites only semi-cleverly disguised as "blogger"-like content. The rest of the site is porn banners.
.wmv file actually redirects you to yet another porn site.
And of course he uses deceptive advertising. Clicking on the occasional link to a free
Of course, I can't even remember the last time it had any original written content. Just gross pictures.
When I see the Gizmondo(didn't know about the advertising interruptiosn), GP32, Zodiac, and the other handheld consoles as of recent, I think of one thing: collectability. Heck, throw in the Wonderswan too.
These suckers probably will lay waste to Nintendo's handheld offerings, and not sell well at all. But I bet within several years these puppies will go for big bucks on eBay. So, to summarize:
1. Buy these handhelds the minute they are available, or go on clearance.
2.
3. eBay Profit!
Because looking at Gizmondo's game offerings(isn't there some game about mowing grass? That sounds like some penny arcade comic come to life), there isn't much enjoyment to be derived from these.
Web designer Khoi Vinh, whose firm Behavior is responsible for the redesign of the Onion,
And what a horrible job you did:
1. Smearing ads all over the place. I remember seeing not one, but TWO banner ads toting NBC's "The Office" on the same page. you know, in case we didn't see the first one. It's IGN or *insert video game news site here* bad.
2. The oh-so-classic time-honored tradition of putting ALL the links humanly possible on the main page. If i have to hit Ctrl+F to find something obvious, there's something wrong.
3. Very little new content. A lot of the bottom of the main page is just links to older content, none of which is available to free users.
4. Inconsistent overall look compared to the older site.
Can websites jump the shark?
I love GTA, etc, but I have a place in my heart for puzzle games. Gotta love 'em
1. Low system requirements. You can port it to a freakin' Atari 2600 depending on the game, or a cell phone.
2. Takes almost no time to learn.
3. Often many puzzle games have open-ended design to expand gameplay without making hit hideously complicated.
Every time I see one of those media players with a d-pad, I always wonder if it would be possible to port Tetris, Bejweled, etc on them. oh what fun it would be to port Bejeweled to as many portable systems as possible(cell phone(done), PSP, GBA, wonderswan, GP32, Tapwave Zodiac, Ipod(wow does it need more games), GP32X, digital cameras(mame was done) and anything else I haven't mentioned).
Bejeweled for everyone!
I had a problem with some teenybopper on livejournal, using a Blondie image from my web page as her LJ background.
I asked her politely, and even suggested she setup some web space and just copy the image off my site so she can use it(without bandwidth concerns). In true passive-aggressive fashion, she ignored me.
So I changed the image filename to tubgirl.
By some amazing coincidence, she changed the image to something else a day later.
1. Embedded music videos. Anyone have a host list of the music video providers? I'd like to resolve them to 127.0.0.1
2. Bogus accounts. There is a huge rash of "stripper" accounts, consisting of minimal user info, that messages out to single guys to get them to email them at their yahoo accounts. They typically have 4 or 5 risque pictures, making everyone think all women are whores. Bad bad bad.
3. Myspace needs a "safe mode" where the excessively bad(bells and whistles) profiles that sodomize any web browser can be avoided.
4. Why does clicking to one of your groups have to open in a new window? WHY? The top-bar navigation makes that un-neccessary.
But still, myspace is better than orkut. People actually use myspace.
Forget the age restriction, how about a weight restriction? "As long as they ain't over 250" - The Ladies Man(Leon Phelps)
There's a few options for the IPod in the MINI Cooper.
1.(cheapass). for $30, you can get a basic AUX port that works with any mp3 player
2. (not so cheapass) if you have the multi-function-steering-wheel(500 bucks) and the true "ipod adapter"(150 bucks), you can switch volume & tracks with the steering wheel buttons.
I just wish they would come out with an FM transmitter(or through the audio port if possible) that displays the currently playing track on the MINI's radio. It(along with other BMWs) tells you the track(RDS?) if the radio station supports it. Most around the twin cities do.
What bugs the crap out of me is GMail at work. It for some reason hangs(on the red "loading" label) when I choose certain emails(like ones in my spam folder), or try to set up new rules. Why would it do this at work, but not at home? I thought it was through port 80 all the way.
And if MS released Vista WITH the fixes, thus rendering antivirus sw/anti-malware sw obsolete, people on here would complain about "WHY do I have to pay for this upgrade to fix the problems they didn't in previous versions?!?". It seems with this situation, MS is damned if they do, damned if they dont. Damned if they do: Accused of trying to leverage out Symateic, damned if they dont: blasted for insecure OSes. Damned if they do pt 2: Put fixes in Vista software, and are accused of trying to gouge customers out of more money for an upgrade.
Orkut to me is dead. It was horribly maintained, the inerface wasn't that good, and the invite-only nature didn't bring many people on(*)
(*) Exception: Every single citizen of Brazil, who insisted on making at least one post in every community(whether it had nohting to do with Brazil) asking if there were other Brazilians on there. Mind you, Myspace is full of fake accounts and shirtless chavs, and breaks every 5 hours, but it's better than Orkut.
In the nicest way possible, Firefly reminded me a lot of Cowboy Bebop. Ie a live-action version with it done right. THe similiarities between the two are quite a bit. Of course, Serenity was a great movie, while the cowboy bebop movie was a 90-minute snorefest of ane episode.