I wouldn't mind a Domo Kun stuffed animal switch. You could have some sort of LCD readout in his mouth, or have him emit steam from his butt due to excessive packet collision.
They already have a flapping-arm Domo Kun that flaps its arms if you run an IR remote control to it.
Yep, that's the store. Has a best buy less than a mile away from it. The counter he works behind is to the left just as you enter. And I think he does work weekends.
100% factually correct news articles, which are just articles from other sources?(exception: Ask Slashdot)
Un-biased against MS and non-open source stories?
Pre-mirrored websites that can't take the slashdot effect? If someone's little page gets featured on here, and gets pummeled with hits, and possibly a much higher charge for the month from their hosting provider, do they still have to pick up the bill?
A "never randomly log you out" feature?
More than 5 moderator points every month?
Wow, the list can go on and on!
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Depending on the CompUSA you go to, you can get some free entertainment. In the one in Roseville, Minnesota, there's this older guy behind the "good stuff" counter(all the smaller merchandise that can be shoplifted, etc) this guy will berate any computer-clueless customer that dares to ask him a question day in, day out. Sometimes I just stood near him pretending to look at the PDAs and listen to this guy drill into ma and Pa kettle explaining the difference between USB and FireWire. This guy IS the comic book guy of computers.
Now only if they could take the stability of Slashdot with all the traffic it gets hammered with and apply it to LiveJournal, a "weblog" website that has over 100K userrs, and is generally inacessible after 9pm, plagued by DNS errors and.PL file errors(?).
I was debating with a friend on the problems Slashdot and livejournal share(server load).
Didn't Nintendo try to do this with preventing of "unauthorized" game makers making NES games? Didn't help much. There are tons upon tons of NES games that are horrible with the NES Seal of Approval, usually seen at the bottom-right of the box.
Blockbuster does the same thing too, and of course, when I was an employee, I got all sorts of neat free stuff, including a Virtual Boy in their little kiosk stand. Even got some free Star Trek:Voyager trading cards way back in '96.
Magazines? they just rip the cover off. Still a perfectly readable magazine. Heck, I had about a gazillion amarays(the black vhs tape boxes they always used).
What about taking 802.11 everywhere a bit further, and putting websites, FTP servers, P2P, etc on the 802.11 hubs? By doing that(within reason), you're not worried about metered access since there's no ISP involved.
How do you expect us to support arcades when they are virtually extinct, just like roller rinks? It's sad to see such great things from the early 1980s totally gone now.
Why can't people just stick to making crazy modifications for cars(paint rollers, ground effects, hydraulics) instead of shortening the life of a hard drive to impress your friends?
Laugh all you want, I partook in a small(and I do mean small) LAN party with regular ethernet at a coffee shop. We all shared a connection via someone's Ricochet modem hooked up. Wires were everywhere. The small corner we overtook looked partially assimilated.
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I wouldn't mind a Domo Kun stuffed animal switch. You could have some sort of LCD readout in his mouth, or have him emit steam from his butt due to excessive packet collision.
They already have a flapping-arm Domo Kun that flaps its arms if you run an IR remote control to it.
Yep, that's the store. Has a best buy less than a mile away from it. The counter he works behind is to the left just as you enter. And I think he does work weekends.
100% factually correct news articles, which are just articles from other sources?(exception: Ask Slashdot)
Un-biased against MS and non-open source stories?
Pre-mirrored websites that can't take the slashdot effect? If someone's little page gets featured on here, and gets pummeled with hits, and possibly a much higher charge for the month from their hosting provider, do they still have to pick up the bill?
A "never randomly log you out" feature?
More than 5 moderator points every month?
Wow, the list can go on and on!
Depending on the CompUSA you go to, you can get some free entertainment. In the one in Roseville, Minnesota, there's this older guy behind the "good stuff" counter(all the smaller merchandise that can be shoplifted, etc) this guy will berate any computer-clueless customer that dares to ask him a question day in, day out. Sometimes I just stood near him pretending to look at the PDAs and listen to this guy drill into ma and Pa kettle explaining the difference between USB and FireWire. This guy IS the comic book guy of computers.
Now only if they could take the stability of Slashdot with all the traffic it gets hammered with and apply it to LiveJournal, a "weblog" website that has over 100K userrs, and is generally inacessible after 9pm, plagued by DNS errors and .PL file errors(?).
I was debating with a friend on the problems Slashdot and livejournal share(server load).
Didn't they sell more copies of the Leisure Suit Larry hint books than actual copies of the program?
Future news:
Scientists at the University of the Balearic lose funding altogether
Sounds like you'd simply be happy with a VT100 terminal. Hello, and welcome to the 1970s!
Didn't Nintendo try to do this with preventing of "unauthorized" game makers making NES games? Didn't help much. There are tons upon tons of NES games that are horrible with the NES Seal of Approval, usually seen at the bottom-right of the box.
Blockbuster does the same thing too, and of course, when I was an employee, I got all sorts of neat free stuff, including a Virtual Boy in their little kiosk stand. Even got some free Star Trek:Voyager trading cards way back in '96.
Magazines? they just rip the cover off. Still a perfectly readable magazine. Heck, I had about a gazillion amarays(the black vhs tape boxes they always used).
What about taking 802.11 everywhere a bit further, and putting websites, FTP servers, P2P, etc on the 802.11 hubs? By doing that(within reason), you're not worried about metered access since there's no ISP involved.
How do you expect us to support arcades when they are virtually extinct, just like roller rinks? It's sad to see such great things from the early 1980s totally gone now.
They finally brought the Soda Constructor to life!
Why can't people just stick to making crazy modifications for cars(paint rollers, ground effects, hydraulics) instead of shortening the life of a hard drive to impress your friends?
If they brought back the video toaster, darn right this new Amiga would catch on. The VT was indeed a "killer app", to coin an overused phrase.
I am heavily into early 80s/late 70s nostalgia. I MORE than welcome women wearing feathered hair a la Farrah Fawcett. C'mon retro, catch up!
You ever notice most of the marquee artwork for Atari games in the late 70s to the early 80s have a red-orange-yellow stripe somewhere?
Could the exhaust gas heat be used to make a car heater that doesn't take so long to fire up?
WOw, seeing the C64 spit out bytes so slow reminds me of the BBS days. This is almost exactly like 2400 baud.
Laugh all you want, I partook in a small(and I do mean small) LAN party with regular ethernet at a coffee shop. We all shared a connection via someone's Ricochet modem hooked up. Wires were everywhere. The small corner we overtook looked partially assimilated.
"You got your Perl in my biology!"
"You got your biology in my perl!"
Two great interests that interest great together!
If you watch episodes of the Transformers with all the commercials cut(which it is if you get 'em online), they are about 20 minutes on the dot.
Micro-Lego Mindstorms
Remember, those denying the existence of nanorobots might actually be nanorobots themselves.
And what if they walked into a software store like good little consumers to buy a game/educational software/whatever for the family?