3) Begin closing the legacy Post Offices around the country and opening these Post Offices in strip shopping malls with lots of parking. So I take it you have been to the 24 hour post office at the Minneapolis/St. paul international airport? Parking there is hurrendous(look out for the swarm of Semis), and no matter how late you go there, it always has a long line of customers. Plus, the place wouldn't let me use my debit card since I put "SEE ID" on the signature part, so they made me write a check. Uh, okay. The place needs to be revitalized. Yet I go there for all my postal needs since its 24 hours, since the post office closer to me(with awful parking conditions too) has inconvenient horus, and the place looks like it hasn't changed since 1962.
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I always had an idea to make a program that perfectly "mimics" other peoples writing styles just from the spelling of the words:
1. Get as much writing samples from your victims as possible.
2. have the program find all the words spelled incorrectly and remember them.
3. You write whatever you want the victim to say.
4. Program parses it and then spells all the words you spell correctly the victim spells incorrectly, and vise versa.
A lot of those web pages unfortunately are those cheap-o templates made by Angelfire users(the shopping list,etc) and have absolutely no original content whatsoever, and are never updated. I say we get rid of 'em
That's what I like about IE 4/5. In the need to have as much desktop real estate as possible(or in this case, free window space), I'm able to stick the toolbar and URL window next to each other, ditch the links, and make the icons real small. For frequently used toolbar functions, I just use hotkeys. Real nice.
IE on its native platform (Win, of course) is slow, buggy, crashy, and annoying. Netscape4 may not be much better, but it at least supports CSS passably.
Funny, I've never had any problems with IE 4 or 5. You see, you just justified a version of IE for Linux. You said its slow,buggy and crashy on Windows. Personally I've only had IE crash only a few times(and one was from ThirdVoice). If one was to port IE over to Linux, woulnd't that make it better? Hell, it's avialable for the Mac Platform, so I wouldn't see MS saying no to it. They could proudly put their name on it, and everybody'd be happy.
Well, except for the Anti-MS zealots that would accuse them of finally putting the last nail in the coffin for Mozilla. oh well
Same episode the comic book guy is trying to download naked pictures of captain janeway. hehe.
Any episode with the COllector in it is hilarious. TWICE(I think) he mentions Doctor Who, where he buys 100 burritos for the Doctor Who marathon, and then he steals Tom Baker(the 4th doctor) in the Halloween episode. The halloween episode with him was by far the best. Strange considering that only geeks would recognize Doctor Who, who was in a nice plastic bag hung on the wall, not too far from Xena.
The funniest part of the Aussie episode was when they were in the courtroom, and Homer steals the huge boot, and then points it at everyone, like it was a gun, proceeds to kick the window out with ease, and they all escape.
Will this movie be, I dunno, mostly "talky" like British sci-fi? Will this be as talky as Lars Ulrich in a Metallica Interview? Or will it be a modern day 21st century tale of Chicken Little(from "The Digital Sky is Falling") and The Open Source Boy who cried Capitalist Wolf? We may never know. Reminds me, what ever did happen to that Takedown movie that Skeet Ulrich was going to star in that Emmanuel Goldstien screamed and yelled about to stop?
I wasn't really impressed with the Thirteenth floor. Quickly it came to me they were trying to cash in on the Matrix craze, and simply re-used a "holodeck within a holodeck" episode of ST:TNG(the one where Moriarty fools the crew into thinking he could step out of it)
There was an episode of Max Headroom(go figure, a show about TV) that covered this. Some network bigwig that didn't want blanks to be released, suddenly advocates the release of them. He actually didn't say it, but went along with it since a "digital rescan" of him saying so was done by Brice(I think). Wow, once again stuff done on Max Headroom comes true 14 years later.
You just came up with a great idea here. Let's think about this. What happened if AOL was UDPed for just ONE day? I'd love to see the stats on how much spam DOESN'T come out. hmm..
After AOL is banned from USENET for one day, let's ban anonymous coward posting for one day on here. Let's see one article where we hear a variation on a TV theme and 2000 other ACs(probably the same person) giving props to him/her/it. It would be like browsing at a threshold of 2.
Let's gather some data from these rash actions for just one day. Imagine the interesting Slashdot articles that could come from that.
I think the funniest bot I ever saw at these competitions(on TV) was the doll riding around on a big wheel. Of course, the champion bot, Biohazard(the platform one) is a work of art.
I dunno. I haven't been too impressed with superheroes on the big screen.
The superman movies weren't all that great, and the Quest for Peace was just awful. I wasn't too impressed with the latter half of the batman movies(then again, nobody was impressed with Arnie's entry as Mr. Freeze), and don't get me started with The Punisher or that awful remake of Captain America. Hmm, bad guy can still kick ass after 50 years? He must have found the fountain of youth somewhere in Italy.
On the old TI-994/A units, there was a surface just to the right of the keyboard and in front of the cartridge slot that used to get REAL hot after about 30 minutes. You could of easily fried an egg on it. Eventually I put a cool-it fan behind the unit, and it helped a bit.
My idea was to buy some cheap compressed cardboard wood, and some black sheet metal, and fashion the case after an old cheap 1980s arcade game cabinet. You could make your own marquee at the top. Never got around to it.
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3) Begin closing the legacy Post Offices around the country and opening these Post Offices in strip shopping malls with lots of parking.
So I take it you have been to the 24 hour post office at the Minneapolis/St. paul international airport? Parking there is hurrendous(look out for the swarm of Semis), and no matter how late you go there, it always has a long line of customers. Plus, the place wouldn't let me use my debit card since I put "SEE ID" on the signature part, so they made me write a check. Uh, okay. The place needs to be revitalized. Yet I go there for all my postal needs since its 24 hours, since the post office closer to me(with awful parking conditions too) has inconvenient horus, and the place looks like it hasn't changed since 1962.
I always had an idea to make a program that perfectly "mimics" other peoples writing styles just from the spelling of the words:
1. Get as much writing samples from your victims as possible.
2. have the program find all the words spelled incorrectly and remember them.
3. You write whatever you want the victim to say.
4. Program parses it and then spells all the words you spell correctly the victim spells incorrectly, and vise versa.
Evil? Perhaps.
How about royalty fees on obscure acronyms? That's where the big bucks are.
A lot of those web pages unfortunately are those cheap-o templates made by Angelfire users(the shopping list,etc) and have absolutely no original content whatsoever, and are never updated. I say we get rid of 'em
Yeah I wish they'd hurry up and quit STALIN on getting that tomb for sale!
Sorry, couldn't resist.
Obviously they used the Dilbert "Mission Statement Creator".
That's what I like about IE 4/5. In the need to have as much desktop real estate as possible(or in this case, free window space), I'm able to stick the toolbar and URL window next to each other, ditch the links, and make the icons real small. For frequently used toolbar functions, I just use hotkeys. Real nice.
I think articles are searched for the word "linux" in it, whether it's relevant to Linux or not, and boom, instant slashdot article. :)
insist on describing standalone PNGs as "unknown or unsupported image format," and refuse to view them.
I found a way around this if you JUST want to view a PNG all its own in IE:
about: I think that's how it works. Basically, you can stick HTML after about:. enjoy
IE on its native platform (Win, of course) is slow, buggy, crashy, and annoying. Netscape4 may not be much better, but it at least supports CSS passably.
Funny, I've never had any problems with IE 4 or 5. You see, you just justified a version of IE for Linux. You said its slow,buggy and crashy on Windows. Personally I've only had IE crash only a few times(and one was from ThirdVoice). If one was to port IE over to Linux, woulnd't that make it better? Hell, it's avialable for the Mac Platform, so I wouldn't see MS saying no to it. They could proudly put their name on it, and everybody'd be happy.
Well, except for the Anti-MS zealots that would accuse them of finally putting the last nail in the coffin for Mozilla. oh well
Same episode the comic book guy is trying to download naked pictures of captain janeway. hehe.
Any episode with the COllector in it is hilarious. TWICE(I think) he mentions Doctor Who, where he buys 100 burritos for the Doctor Who marathon, and then he steals Tom Baker(the 4th doctor) in the Halloween episode. The halloween episode with him was by far the best. Strange considering that only geeks would recognize Doctor Who, who was in a nice plastic bag hung on the wall, not too far from Xena.
The funniest part of the Aussie episode was when they were in the courtroom, and Homer steals the huge boot, and then points it at everyone, like it was a gun, proceeds to kick the window out with ease, and they all escape.
Will this movie be, I dunno, mostly "talky" like British sci-fi? Will this be as talky as Lars Ulrich in a Metallica Interview? Or will it be a modern day 21st century tale of Chicken Little(from "The Digital Sky is Falling") and The Open Source Boy who cried Capitalist Wolf? We may never know. Reminds me, what ever did happen to that Takedown movie that Skeet Ulrich was going to star in that Emmanuel Goldstien screamed and yelled about to stop?
I wasn't really impressed with the Thirteenth floor. Quickly it came to me they were trying to cash in on the Matrix craze, and simply re-used a "holodeck within a holodeck" episode of ST:TNG(the one where Moriarty fools the crew into thinking he could step out of it)
There was an episode of Max Headroom(go figure, a show about TV) that covered this. Some network bigwig that didn't want blanks to be released, suddenly advocates the release of them. He actually didn't say it, but went along with it since a "digital rescan" of him saying so was done by Brice(I think). Wow, once again stuff done on Max Headroom comes true 14 years later.
Slashdot needs a dictionary of confusing acronyms on here. About half of all the words in the articles show acronyms I have never heard of before.
You just came up with a great idea here. Let's think about this. What happened if AOL was UDPed for just ONE day? I'd love to see the stats on how much spam DOESN'T come out. hmm..
After AOL is banned from USENET for one day, let's ban anonymous coward posting for one day on here. Let's see one article where we hear a variation on a TV theme and 2000 other ACs(probably the same person) giving props to him/her/it. It would be like browsing at a threshold of 2.
Let's gather some data from these rash actions for just one day. Imagine the interesting Slashdot articles that could come from that.
I think the funniest bot I ever saw at these competitions(on TV) was the doll riding around on a big wheel. Of course, the champion bot, Biohazard(the platform one) is a work of art.
This sounds more like a premise for a TV show more than anything.
"oh no! hackers are on the loose in the network!"
"No fear! CYBER-CRIME POWERS ACTIVATE!!"
OK Soda 40.5
I miss OK soda. It used to be avaliable in the twin cities around 1994, but the supply eventually dried out. Tasted like sunkist+Dr. Pepper.
I dunno. I haven't been too impressed with superheroes on the big screen.
The superman movies weren't all that great, and the Quest for Peace was just awful. I wasn't too impressed with the latter half of the batman movies(then again, nobody was impressed with Arnie's entry as Mr. Freeze), and don't get me started with The Punisher or that awful remake of Captain America. Hmm, bad guy can still kick ass after 50 years? He must have found the fountain of youth somewhere in Italy.
On the old TI-994/A units, there was a surface just to the right of the keyboard and in front of the cartridge slot that used to get REAL hot after about 30 minutes. You could of easily fried an egg on it. Eventually I put a cool-it fan behind the unit, and it helped a bit.
My idea was to buy some cheap compressed cardboard wood, and some black sheet metal, and fashion the case after an old cheap 1980s arcade game cabinet. You could make your own marquee at the top. Never got around to it.
Use a game boy pocket unit to control your lego mindstorms systems. Make a fully decked-out R2D2
Yes, the Turbo Express is a beaut of a portable system. It even had a TV hookup. Too bad you can't get one used for UNDER a hundred bucks.
Yes, the vectrex was a beautiful machine. I paid $100 for one, but I still need to get the multicart(all the released games on one cart)