Back in the days, I got an operator to talk to an answering machine. I recorded an outgoing message in advance on a different number.
Me: Operator, I'd like to third-party bill a long distance phone call please. op: The number? Me: (gives number) op: calling Answering machine: Hello?(my voice)....... Operator to answering machine: Will you accept the charges for blah blah blah? Answering machine:....... yes, I accept.
The operator patched the call through. She didn't realize she was talking to an answering machine(I put a long pause before "hello?" and "I accept") or the fact the outgoing message had the same voice as me. Heh.
This reminds me of newgrounds.com's the portal. Kids upload teasers of movies they are making in Flash, and leave it at the end saying "Vote for 3 or higher if you want to see the rest of this". Great, now well-respected authors are doing this. oh well.
I thought distributed.net's purpose was to see how much can be done with people's spare processor cycles and such. Building dedicated hardware for it somewhat defeats the purpose. I mean, if you were actually working for the SETI project, you'd love to buy a ton of these, but for the average joe, why bother? Just to get first place?
I think it would be more interesting if this card was dedicated to decrypt {-- CENSORED -- } {-- CENSORED -- }{-- CENSORED -- }
Same here. I heard the Golden Palominos(Dead Inside) in 1995 on Rev 105(an awesome but now dead station) and liked it. 4 years later I managed to snag 5 tracks off of alt.binaries.sounds.mp3 and eventually bought 2 copies of the CD(lost the first one). So, um, yay.
Better yet, stick it in a frame or new window that turns off the URL window and fool even more people.
I remember going to newgrounds.com(note spelling), and ended up getting a ton of pop-up ads wanting to steal the thundering popularity of newgrounds.com
There's also hanspring.com, but that's more of a joke.
More importantly, do you have to login with a username and password to use it? Does it run Xfree? Do you really have the option of recompiling the PDA's kernel?
I don't know. I think a linux-based PDA is as overkill as the zealots claim Windows CE(a desktop OS jammed in a PDA) is.
i'd rather see something more than 160x160 resolution than a smaller size. I mean, they do well with the resolution they got, but I'd like to see a bit more text on the Palm. I mean, look what software engineers did with 320x200 for years.
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I menat to say the anti-spammers do the corp thing and merge to be one Devasator/Predaking/Menasaur anti-spammer entity.
Now if the spammers formed one big entity, they would be much easier to wipe out, come to think of it. Lawsuits galore.
Are you referring to every single bleepin Special Interest Group USENET group, regardless of niche topic being littered with links to relevant Ebay auctions?
I can't go into rec.games.video.classic without seeing 99% of the postings begin with FA: ENDS IN 3 HOURS!
I'd be happy enough in Win98 if apps did not have the ability to switch on their own.
Scenario: I open up a web browser, and while I wait for the page to load, I go start > Run > (some other url). While THAT page loads, I go back to the first one, but the other one pops up TWICE to get my attention, even though the page hasn't finished loading yet.
If only the taskbar item would flash telling me something eventful is happening instead of alt-tabbing to it, I'd be more than happy.
You almost described a classic game called "Chiller". It was a simple shooting gallery game, but in one scene it takes place in a dungeon, where there happens to be about 3 people in stocks,etc.
If you accidentally shoot one of them in the right areas, you see rib cages, dismemberment, etc, and it's a bit on the bloody side.
Mind you, it was made in 1986 by Exidy, so the blood and guts are nowhere near as detailed as SoF or anything else.
Why is it I keep seeing posts regarding why MS, etc should open up their sources so people can grab the source code and make something better of their own? It seems that a lot of Linux zealots only want MS to open source everything for the benefit of their oh-so-wonderful Linux movement. That's 100 times more selfish than any closed-source software mentality.
Hey, why doesn't the US just open source our nukes and jet fighters? Then other countries could use them and make better nukes and jet fighters, and the whole world would benefit!
This reminds me of the episode of Max Headroom involving politics. You voted for your favorite candidate(represented by a TV network) by leaving your TV on for their network(ratings=votes) One network had this scam called "view doze" where you could watch TV in your sleep. Needless to say, their ballot stuffing scam worked.
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Back in the days, I got an operator to talk to an answering machine. I recorded an outgoing message in advance on a different number.
....... yes, I accept.
Me: Operator, I'd like to third-party bill a long distance phone call please.
op: The number?
Me: (gives number)
op: calling
Answering machine: Hello?(my voice).......
Operator to answering machine: Will you accept the charges for blah blah blah?
Answering machine:
The operator patched the call through. She didn't realize she was talking to an answering machine(I put a long pause before "hello?" and "I accept") or the fact the outgoing message had the same voice as me. Heh.
This reminds me of newgrounds.com's the portal. Kids upload teasers of movies they are making in Flash, and leave it at the end saying "Vote for 3 or higher if you want to see the rest of this". Great, now well-respected authors are doing this. oh well.
Well I suspect Minnesota natives in 40 below weather in the dead of winter would be VERY fond of the technology, doncha know?
I thought distributed.net's purpose was to see how much can be done with people's spare processor cycles and such. Building dedicated hardware for it somewhat defeats the purpose. I mean, if you were actually working for the SETI project, you'd love to buy a ton of these, but for the average joe, why bother? Just to get first place?
I think it would be more interesting if this card was dedicated to decrypt {-- CENSORED -- } {-- CENSORED -- }{-- CENSORED -- }
Same here. I heard the Golden Palominos(Dead Inside) in 1995 on Rev 105(an awesome but now dead station) and liked it. 4 years later I managed to snag 5 tracks off of alt.binaries.sounds.mp3 and eventually bought 2 copies of the CD(lost the first one). So, um, yay.
I meant to type newgruonds.com
They need to bring back Denis Leary for their IBM/Linux commercials. He'd make the perfect outspoken Linux zealot
"Microsoft!?!? Fuckin' Bill Gates!@#!"
Better yet, stick it in a frame or new window that turns off the URL window and fool even more people.
I remember going to newgrounds.com(note spelling), and ended up getting a ton of pop-up ads wanting to steal the thundering popularity of newgrounds.com
There's also hanspring.com, but that's more of a joke.
More importantly, do you have to login with a username and password to use it? Does it run Xfree? Do you really have the option of recompiling the PDA's kernel?
I don't know. I think a linux-based PDA is as overkill as the zealots claim Windows CE(a desktop OS jammed in a PDA) is.
i'd rather see something more than 160x160 resolution than a smaller size. I mean, they do well with the resolution they got, but I'd like to see a bit more text on the Palm. I mean, look what software engineers did with 320x200 for years.
I menat to say the anti-spammers do the corp thing and merge to be one Devasator/Predaking/Menasaur anti-spammer entity.
Now if the spammers formed one big entity, they would be much easier to wipe out, come to think of it. Lawsuits galore.
I find it funny when there is such a great evil abound that is so evil that the good guys start fighting each other about it.
Really, the best people to benefit from this war arre going to be the spammers. Why don't they do the corporate thing and merge?
Are you referring to every single bleepin Special Interest Group USENET group, regardless of niche topic being littered with links to relevant Ebay auctions?
I can't go into rec.games.video.classic without seeing 99% of the postings begin with FA: ENDS IN 3 HOURS!
I'd be happy enough in Win98 if apps did not have the ability to switch on their own.
Scenario: I open up a web browser, and while I wait for the page to load, I go start > Run > (some other url). While THAT page loads, I go back to the first one, but the other one pops up TWICE to get my attention, even though the page hasn't finished loading yet.
If only the taskbar item would flash telling me something eventful is happening instead of alt-tabbing to it, I'd be more than happy.
I saw a news report where they nudged(smack in the middle of the rear bumper) a Saturn, a Hyundai and some other car into a cement pole.
Saturn got no damage(I've been rear ended twice without any costly damage).
The Hyundai repair was appraised at 1/3rd the value of the car. You could see the whole trunk crunch up.
Do you think Slut Puppy and Master Pimp had to register with the nytimes before defacing it?
The New York Times on the Web is free of charge for hackers worldwide.......
Not to mention they have to have several windows pop up when you click on anything, almost being as bad as a porn site.
Maybe the Linux spellchecking software is in beta still. Heh
To quote HHGTTG
"Well, it's better than an animal that DOESN'T want to be eaten!"
You almost described a classic game called "Chiller". It was a simple shooting gallery game, but in one scene it takes place in a dungeon, where there happens to be about 3 people in stocks,etc.
If you accidentally shoot one of them in the right areas, you see rib cages, dismemberment, etc, and it's a bit on the bloody side.
Mind you, it was made in 1986 by Exidy, so the blood and guts are nowhere near as detailed as SoF or anything else.
Why didn't they put that monitor on a more solid base? I'd be afraid of having it accidentally knocked over with its legs.
Why is it I keep seeing posts regarding why MS, etc should open up their sources so people can grab the source code and make something better of their own? It seems that a lot of Linux zealots only want MS to open source everything for the benefit of their oh-so-wonderful Linux movement. That's 100 times more selfish than any closed-source software mentality.
Hey, why doesn't the US just open source our nukes and jet fighters? Then other countries could use them and make better nukes and jet fighters, and the whole world would benefit!
This reminds me of the episode of Max Headroom involving politics. You voted for your favorite candidate(represented by a TV network) by leaving your TV on for their network(ratings=votes) One network had this scam called "view doze" where you could watch TV in your sleep. Needless to say, their ballot stuffing scam worked.