So I take it you have seen the prices for most USB hubs?(70 from what I saw), and USB->printer(centronics) hookups? THAT is ridiculously expensive. Fortunately it's cheaper to just get the USB cables since most mobos(even my old mobo that housed my K5) have pins on them for the hookup. Sure, it's two ports, but better than nothing.
Let's face it. Realplayer is just an advertising vehicle that happens to have an audio player thrown in as a bonus. Oh, and it's(at least G2) really friggin' hard to uninstall.
In the Twin Cities, there's the Citizen Harold, made by a guy who(I think) turned down an offer to write for the Onion. It's simply not as funny nor original as the Onion. Oh well. Hopefuly the first thing the onion will do is get rid of the damned registration. I know ONE Onion employee reads slashdot. I'm surprised Slashdot hasn't been the butt of some Onion articles, yet suck.com's parody was dead on (article found with "red" and "hat" in the title)
Intersting. I just installed Corel linux today. The only real snag I ran into was after the install was complete(took less time than yesterday's 2000 installs at work), it wouldn't let me eject the CD out of the drive, and it gave me some cryptic error. rebooted manually, and I was on my way. Just wish i had pico so I could edit samba(wow, I only spent like 3 minutes on samba, and it for the most part works, just need to add permissions). Video didn't even puke. I was amazed. This seems to be a lot better than RH 6.1
I don't know how much Conan writes into his show, but he has some of THE most off the wall humor that sets it apart.
He showed two commercials that air in Houston. Now, mind you, his show airs at 2:10 am there and in between, have these two awful locally produced commercials. one was a wacko going nuts selling chainsaws, the other sold furniture for some company. They held a contest for best commercial, and chainsaw guy won.
Then here comes the magic. COnan said "here's the response we got when we told him that he won". Then they looped the chainsaw guy who was swingin' a saw around going "oh oh oh !" over and over. That simple video edit was hilarious. The losing contestant got a $500 GC to, the place he advertised for. heh.
and don't get me started with the infamous staring contests. too bad andy's leaving
Let's face it. In the dawn of the Windows 2000 release, this kernel update is a nerdy guy in a party going "hey look at me everybody! I just updated the kernel! let's party!@#"
I wore velcro shoes LONG after they went out of fashion. Consequently, after I wore velcro for so long, I had to re-familiarize myself with shoelaces. Gawsh i loved the early 1980s. Back when there actually WERE video games and video arcades.
I'm surprised nobody mentioned previous pranks to CNN. Captain Janks(made popular on Howard Stern) numerous times called CNN's newsdesk usually just after a breaking news story. He then socially engineered the poor lady at the phone posing as some news reporter from wherever the news is taking place. Several times he's been on TV when they cut "live" to him via the phone, and he typically mentioned something to praise Howard Stern. I forgot which prank he did that was so tasteless that even Stern yelled at him, but now the pranks seem to have reached the Internet. Yahoo!
The first Teen Age Mutant Ninja Turtles.... It was a, parody of Frank Millers: Ronin and daredevil. Ronin, was a realy cool comic, that Frank Miller did in the mid 80's. The parody was inspired, and almost as good as the original.
You mean before they watered it down and sugar coated it for kids? The original TMNT comics/etc were not at ALL suited for kids. Of course, I'm just going off of Pilladium RPG memory here.
Puddy was such a moron on Seinfeld, plus he has the beefcake voice and look on his face. Needless to say, he'd be perfect to play The Tick. Sure, superhero productions don't transfer well to live action, but then again this is the Tick we're talking about here.
on rec.games.video.classic the Atari failure is talked about over and over. You all talk about vaporware and such about Microsoft, but Atari towers them easily. There's still talk about a much-hyped game for the Atari Jaguar named Battlesphere for years and it STILL Hasn't been released! Atari screwed up in numerous ways which lead to their demise. I was amazed how popular the Commie 64 was, and how long it lasted in the home computer market.
Actually the about: thing in IE 4 is quite handy. You can view.PNG images all by themselves without having to make a web page about it. In the mean time, be on the lookout for any tags with NFL player names inside them.
With everybody and their custom IRC scripts, it's funny to see the chain reactions of kickbans,etc when someone rides in from a netsplit. Almost like the game of Life.
What bugs me is that every other word posted on slashdot is some obscure acronym you have to be a fifth year Computer science(ha, you thought I was gonna say CompSci didncha?) to know offhand. With the rate that this is going, we're going to see the trollers saying FP! IJPHGDMP(I just poured hot grits down my pants) and IADM, and NP(good 'ol Natalie)
What gets me is the excessive amount of computer graphics they use DURING the superbowl. Every player, every play has to have some shockwave like animation associated with it. I am totally surprised instant replays aren't done in some sort of Bullet-time animation a-la Matrix rip-offs. Imagine a player receiving a pass and the camera view rolls around him with the ball edging towards him. Expect to have 20000 cameras strategically placed inside stadiums to do this in the coming years.
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So I take it you have seen the prices for most USB hubs?(70 from what I saw), and USB->printer(centronics) hookups? THAT is ridiculously expensive. Fortunately it's cheaper to just get the USB cables since most mobos(even my old mobo that housed my K5) have pins on them for the hookup. Sure, it's two ports, but better than nothing.
Let's face it. Realplayer is just an advertising vehicle that happens to have an audio player thrown in as a bonus. Oh, and it's(at least G2) really friggin' hard to uninstall.
In the Twin Cities, there's the Citizen Harold, made by a guy who(I think) turned down an offer to write for the Onion. It's simply not as funny nor original as the Onion. Oh well. Hopefuly the first thing the onion will do is get rid of the damned registration. I know ONE Onion employee reads slashdot. I'm surprised Slashdot hasn't been the butt of some Onion articles, yet suck.com's parody was dead on (article found with "red" and "hat" in the title)
Intersting. I just installed Corel linux today. The only real snag I ran into was after the install was complete(took less time than yesterday's 2000 installs at work), it wouldn't let me eject the CD out of the drive, and it gave me some cryptic error. rebooted manually, and I was on my way. Just wish i had pico so I could edit samba(wow, I only spent like 3 minutes on samba, and it for the most part works, just need to add permissions). Video didn't even puke. I was amazed. This seems to be a lot better than RH 6.1
I don't know how much Conan writes into his show, but he has some of THE most off the wall humor that sets it apart.
He showed two commercials that air in Houston. Now, mind you, his show airs at 2:10 am there and in between, have these two awful locally produced commercials. one was a wacko going nuts selling chainsaws, the other sold furniture for some company. They held a contest for best commercial, and chainsaw guy won.
Then here comes the magic. COnan said "here's the response we got when we told him that he won". Then they looped the chainsaw guy who was swingin' a saw around going "oh oh oh !" over and over. That simple video edit was hilarious. The losing contestant got a $500 GC to, the place he advertised for. heh.
and don't get me started with the infamous staring contests. too bad andy's leaving
Let's face it. In the dawn of the Windows 2000 release, this kernel update is a nerdy guy in a party going "hey look at me everybody! I just updated the kernel! let's party!@#"
I wore velcro shoes LONG after they went out of fashion. Consequently, after I wore velcro for so long, I had to re-familiarize myself with shoelaces. Gawsh i loved the early 1980s. Back when there actually WERE video games and video arcades.
I'm surprised nobody mentioned previous pranks to CNN. Captain Janks(made popular on Howard Stern) numerous times called CNN's newsdesk usually just after a breaking news story. He then socially engineered the poor lady at the phone posing as some news reporter from wherever the news is taking place. Several times he's been on TV when they cut "live" to him via the phone, and he typically mentioned something to praise Howard Stern. I forgot which prank he did that was so tasteless that even Stern yelled at him, but now the pranks seem to have reached the Internet. Yahoo!
Heh. That was funny. "He's the DJ I'm the Hacker"
The first Teen Age Mutant Ninja Turtles.... It was a, parody of Frank Millers: Ronin and daredevil. Ronin, was a realy cool comic, that Frank Miller did in the mid 80's. The parody was inspired, and almost as good as the original.
You mean before they watered it down and sugar coated it for kids? The original TMNT comics/etc were not at ALL suited for kids. Of course, I'm just going off of Pilladium RPG memory here.
Puddy was such a moron on Seinfeld, plus he has the beefcake voice and look on his face. Needless to say, he'd be perfect to play The Tick. Sure, superhero productions don't transfer well to live action, but then again this is the Tick we're talking about here.
The best resolution you can get is from a Vectrex. :) Think of the Star Wars arcade game.
on rec.games.video.classic the Atari failure is talked about over and over. You all talk about vaporware and such about Microsoft, but Atari towers them easily. There's still talk about a much-hyped game for the Atari Jaguar named Battlesphere for years and it STILL Hasn't been released! Atari screwed up in numerous ways which lead to their demise. I was amazed how popular the Commie 64 was, and how long it lasted in the home computer market.
Today's political comic said: "northwest airlines, the only way to pry."
. If only because in the UK they know how to build cars...
Yeah, I mean those high quality LUCAS electronic components are oh-so-reliable. Noo, my Triumph NEVER breaks down! It's the linux of 2-seat roadsters!
Oh I get it now. Poor linux documentation = increased O'reilley book sales!
Actually the about: thing in IE 4 is quite handy. You can view .PNG images all by themselves without having to make a web page about it. In the mean time, be on the lookout for any tags with NFL player names inside them.
With everybody and their custom IRC scripts, it's funny to see the chain reactions of kickbans,etc when someone rides in from a netsplit. Almost like the game of Life.
What bugs me is that every other word posted on slashdot is some obscure acronym you have to be a fifth year Computer science(ha, you thought I was gonna say CompSci didncha?) to know offhand.
With the rate that this is going, we're going to see the trollers saying FP! IJPHGDMP(I just poured hot grits down my pants) and IADM, and NP(good 'ol Natalie)
I got one of their TI-994/A computers in late '82, and TI orphaned it in September of '83. Hmmm. They may be onto something here.
And soon, our desktops will really look like those fancy over-stylized desktops just like in the movies.
What gets me is the excessive amount of computer graphics they use DURING the superbowl. Every player, every play has to have some shockwave like animation associated with it.
I am totally surprised instant replays aren't done in some sort of Bullet-time animation a-la Matrix rip-offs. Imagine a player receiving a pass and the camera view rolls around him with the ball edging towards him. Expect to have 20000 cameras strategically placed inside stadiums to do this in the coming years.
The best ones were the singing dog from pets.com and the "show us your cans" from 7up. that was hilarious
Yes, one BILLION users!
Finally another kick in the pants to US West for not having DSL available in my area due to distance/red tape limitations.