Whoops, my mistake - the Portable Monopoly hack is actually a frontlight, not a backlight. It uses something called monoreflective diode fabrics:
"I then asked him about another technology we have been considering for this project - something called Monoreflective diode fabrics. MRD's are very thin, flat, optically clear sheets that have the miraculous capability of emitting light in one direction and allowing light to pass back through in the other."
I was pleased to receive a GBA this year for Christmas. Obviously I haven't been THAT good a boy this year, or Santa would've brought me one with a better screen...
If you want to play it when you're not sitting right next to a lamp, there is a solution. Portable Monopoly has details of a backlight hack for the GBA, and so far it's working extremely well. It uses white LEDs, can be switched on and off as you like, and consumes very little power.
Thank you, Anonymous Coward, for your incredible insight. Obviously, we should lock up anyone who downloads Atari 2600 ROMs, smokes pot or tears the tags from matresses.
I can understand why you might want to block the file sharing ports if you're low on bandwidth... but I can't say I'd agree with the decision to prevent a users from running a server of any kind.
Banning webservers, I could understand, but what happens if the user wants to do some one-on-one online gaming? I can imagine that the inability to run a game server for an hour would cause major problems with my regular Quake 2 matches with mah buddy, DigiGnome...
There is an easy way to fix your problem with what you refer to as "the little spinny icon that is animated when a page is loading". Jayenkai's site has a piece of software which you can use to edit the Spinning Internet Explorer Logo Thingy, or SIELT for short. (I'm assuming here that you're using IE.)
I remember changing the 'provided by whoever' on Internet Explorer and Outlook Express to a more personalised "Provided by JonnySoft", though I can't for the life of me tell you what registry entries I changed. It's been a long time since I used OE...;)
My personal preference is to use the Opera browser with Windows, instead of Netscape or IE. Although there is a fee if you want to use it without the banner ads, this is no big deal. It's got none of this 'provided by ComCast' crap, and it has no spinny thing, so to speak, for them to change.
As for the 'spyware' support tool, I suggest that you start logging everything that it sends out, if that's possible. I'm pretty sure that something like that could be illegal.
Finally, if you're still annoyed at Comcast taking over your Windows box... use Linux instead, man. It's good for you;)
> turn dial to 1 > shoot floyd with laser A red beam shoots forth from the laser and strikes Floyd. He shrieks and curls into a ball in the corner.
> turn dial to 0.5 > shoot floyd with laser A near-invisible infrared beam shoots forth from the laser and strikes Floyd in the eyes. Floyd blinks, and trundles out of the room.
Many years later, Floyd begins to see dark floaty bits in his vision. Floyd looks confused, and trundles off to play hider-seeker.
A professor a a university in England (I think it was Cambridge) somehow accidentally looked directly into an extremely powerful laser that just happened to be in one of the labs. The laser struck him in the eye, blinding him instantly. That wasn't the nasty part, though.
No, just when you were wondering how it could be any worse, the laser somehow reflected back from his eye and struck him in the other eye, blinding him in that eye too.
Sounds like one of those anecdotes your Physics teacher used to make up so that you'd be extra careful around lasers, but there you have it. Physics teachers are always the best when it comes to making up anecdotes...;)
Ted, I appreciate your opinion, but there is a real difference between physical property and a computer system.
A couple of years ago in newsgroups such as comp.sys.amiga.games and alt.emulators.uae we used to get frequent requests for ADFs (the Amiga equivalent of console 'ROMs') of old Amiga games. While some people (including myself) saw no harm in effectively 'pirating' a ten-year-old game which is no longer on sale, a few of the more fanatic Amigans would argue that theft is theft, regardless of the circumstances. "After all," they would argue, "Would you like it if I walked into your house, drank your beer and drove off with your car?"
A little logical reasoning can see the flaw in this argument. The point is that while accessing a computer system without authorisation is indeed as much of a crime as any other, it's not the exact same thing as physical tresspassing or theft, and can't be treated exactly as such.
Think of it this way: The law in America, I believe, says that if a guy walks onto your property without permission, it's a crime, period. What happens if my dog runs into your garden, and I run in to remove my dog from your property before he runs all over your prize flowerbed? The law says I've committed a crime, when I've actually done you a favour.
Now, what happens when a guy accesses some data on your computer via a security flaw in your system, which you didn't intend to give him access to? Yes, it's a crime... but does that necessarily mean it's a bad thing? On one hand, he could destroy valuable data on your computer if he wanted. On the other, he might simply e-mail you and advise you to download a security patch for your operating system.
In any case like this, the most important thing is not whether a person commits a crime - it's whether they actually do anything wrong.
If you live in Europe, you might like to check out the Italian Game Network channel - http://www.game-network.net. Details on how to point your satellite dish at it are given on the site.
I could have sworn that this article was a merely a joke. At first I thought it was just stupid, but no person could get things THIS wrong and not be comedy!
On the plus side, you don't have to pay quite as much to keep the place heated.
Wait, wait... that's a LAN MEET?
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The first time I saw that picture, I thought there was nothing unusual about it. Until I realised that it was infact a LAN party, and not a small city. Way to go, Dreamhack!
x136 asked, "IBM has been fined again for spraypainting their blue "Peace, Love & Linux" logo, this time on the streets of San Francisco. The bill? $120,000... Who thought this was a good idea in the first place?"
Rumours abound that it was a Microsoft idea, in the first place. While we can't be sure if Microsoft thought up the idea before anyone else - I believe EasyJet tried a similar thing in Belfast, Northern Ireland with chalk drawings on the pavement, and were sued accordingly - it's been rumoured that Microsoft was forced to get their checkbook out after hiring spraypaint artists to advertise the X-Box in a number of cities.
So, if it makes you feel any better... it's not just the Penguins who are causing all that pollution.:)
Nielsen writes:Of the homepages in our sample, 60% used the traditional standard for link colors: blue.
Since half of the Internet at any one time are newbies - who probably don't know HOW to change the traditional link colour - does this mean that only 10% of homepages still use blue?;)
I'm proud to say that I'm one of that sixty (or was it ten?) percent... check out my homepage, http://www.jonnydigital.com to see why I stick to good old blue unvisited links. (Site also here if the first page won't work.)
Of course, my visited links aren't purple... they're blue, too - but a darker blue. Purple wouldn't fit into my colour scheme...
It's just like I always say - "If links are blue, users know what to do!";)
I registered the domain jonnydigital.co.uk over two years ago with FreeNetName, a company who figured they could make money by giving out free domains. The only catch was that you had to dial into their ISP at least once every 90 days or you lose the domain - not a problem, since I was careful to dial in every few months - and they charge £95 (about US $135) to buy back the domain or transfer it to a different domain.
Unfortunately, I slipped up and lost the domain. I didn't mind because by that stage I had moved my site to jonnydigital.com, and the domain was going to expire in two weeks anyway so I was pretty confident that I could buy it back dirt-cheap with another company when it expired.
It would seem that they've renewed my domain and they're now squatting it. It's been registered by Freenetname again under a different name. I know it can't have been registered by another freenetname user because the company has stopped giving out free domains.
At least some businesses will use the.biz domains. Who's honestly gonna want to buy a.name?
I'm currently the proud owner of JonnyDigital.com - it's named so because I go by the nick of JonnyDigital online, and so many individuals have registered the dot-com domain for a personal homepage that it no longer stands for 'commercial organisation'.
There's no way I'd buy jonnydigital.name, though. For one, JonnyDigital isn't my name - it's my online nick. For two, there are a bunch of sites out there that are neither for a person or an organisation... what are they supposed to use?
The domain name system kinda sucks... still, at least.net domains are only a dollar apiece, if the seventy spam per week my Hotmail address gets are anything to go by...;)
"Other useless trivia, the first song played in space was Fly Me to the Moon - Frank Sinatra"
Actually, radio waves broadcasted from Earth can reach the planet's upper atmosphere, and no doubt space itself. Technically, the first song in space was probably whatever Marconi first played when he was testing his new-fangled 'wireless' contraption of his;)
You probably couldn't hear much of that radio signal in space, though - if Master of Orion 2 has taught me anything it's that such things as laser cannons and radio waves dissapate with range. You're probably right anyway... ^_^
If I remember correctly, it's estimate that it costs something's own weight in gold to send it up in the Shuttle. Perhaps that's why you see all those satellites with gold foil all over them - NASA is just trying to get its money's worth out of the launch.;)
Maybe that's why they don't send fat guys into space, too.
> >...but wouldn't it.. explode?
> Oh, _that's_ why we haven't been using gasoline and natural gas for energy!
I'm sorry... I'm just getting this mental images of cars (you yanks call them automobiles) driving down the road (you yanks call it a street) and just exploding for no reason (you yanks call it prime time television);)
Seriously though, I'd rather have a trail of petrol (yanks gasoline blah blah blah) leaking from my vehicle than an invisible cloud of highly explosive Hydrogen gas. Pentathol (I believe that's what's used in cars, right?) and Methane (that's natural gas, folks) are still flammable but a great deal safer when it comes to filling your gas tank with the stuff and keeping your home warm.
If hydrogen was used as a fuel in its own right, I'd imagine it would have an artificial smell and perhaps colour added to it to make it easier to detect a leak.
A hundred pebbybytes or whatever you call it might seem like a lot, but if I remember correctly from my tagline collection, Hard Drive Myth #1 is "You'll never use all that space." Here are a few suggestions as to what you might like to fill those spare terabytes with...
Keeping an archive of Slashdot. As the solar system's population grows and grows, it won't be long before every little news story gets a thousand comments per minute. There will be so many moderators that law of averages suggests that every comment will be modded up to 5, and in an ironic twist Slashdot will be flooded. Still, it's Slashdot, and no self-respecting high-bandwidth nerd will be without an up-to-date archive of Slashdot.
Leeching Aminet. By the time we actually have these monster size drives, processors will finally be fast enough to properly emulate an Amiga, WinUAE will have been perfected and bandwidth will be so plentiful that we can all enjoy the latest Amiga software, whether we want it or not.
Freaking out newbies. Remember your scriptkiddie days when you would h4x0r some dude's Windows machine and pop up something resembling the Matrix? Simply add a little matter-to-energy technology, and you can download the newbie onto his computer, FTP him along (resumable downloading, now, we don't want him to materialise with missing parts!) and rematerialise him in your fridge. He'll think he's been transported to some crazy ice planet. Just like in sci-fi, eh folks!
You'll finally have enough diskspace to install Windows 2024. Naturally, you'll be using Linux instead, but it's nice to brag that you could, if you wanted.
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I get an average framerate of a couple of thousand running Quake III.
If you want to play it when you're not sitting right next to a lamp, there is a solution. Portable Monopoly has details of a backlight hack for the GBA, and so far it's working extremely well. It uses white LEDs, can be switched on and off as you like, and consumes very little power.
For Quake 2?
Are you MAD?
(some people can be so close-minded...)
Banning webservers, I could understand, but what happens if the user wants to do some one-on-one online gaming? I can imagine that the inability to run a game server for an hour would cause major problems with my regular Quake 2 matches with mah buddy, DigiGnome...
Port 25 is the mail server port.
There is an easy way to fix your problem with what you refer to as "the little spinny icon that is animated when a page is loading". Jayenkai's site has a piece of software which you can use to edit the Spinning Internet Explorer Logo Thingy, or SIELT for short. (I'm assuming here that you're using IE.)
I remember changing the 'provided by whoever' on Internet Explorer and Outlook Express to a more personalised "Provided by JonnySoft", though I can't for the life of me tell you what registry entries I changed. It's been a long time since I used OE... ;)
My personal preference is to use the Opera browser with Windows, instead of Netscape or IE. Although there is a fee if you want to use it without the banner ads, this is no big deal. It's got none of this 'provided by ComCast' crap, and it has no spinny thing, so to speak, for them to change.
As for the 'spyware' support tool, I suggest that you start logging everything that it sends out, if that's possible. I'm pretty sure that something like that could be illegal. Finally, if you're still annoyed at Comcast taking over your Windows box... use Linux instead, man. It's good for you ;)
> shoot floyd with laser
A red beam shoots forth from the laser and strikes Floyd. He shrieks and curls into a ball in the corner.
> turn dial to 0.5
> shoot floyd with laser
A near-invisible infrared beam shoots forth from the laser and strikes Floyd in the eyes. Floyd blinks, and trundles out of the room.
Many years later, Floyd begins to see dark floaty bits in his vision. Floyd looks confused, and trundles off to play hider-seeker.
A professor a a university in England (I think it was Cambridge) somehow accidentally looked directly into an extremely powerful laser that just happened to be in one of the labs. The laser struck him in the eye, blinding him instantly. That wasn't the nasty part, though.
No, just when you were wondering how it could be any worse, the laser somehow reflected back from his eye and struck him in the other eye, blinding him in that eye too.
Sounds like one of those anecdotes your Physics teacher used to make up so that you'd be extra careful around lasers, but there you have it. Physics teachers are always the best when it comes to making up anecdotes... ;)
A couple of years ago in newsgroups such as comp.sys.amiga.games and alt.emulators.uae we used to get frequent requests for ADFs (the Amiga equivalent of console 'ROMs') of old Amiga games. While some people (including myself) saw no harm in effectively 'pirating' a ten-year-old game which is no longer on sale, a few of the more fanatic Amigans would argue that theft is theft, regardless of the circumstances. "After all," they would argue, "Would you like it if I walked into your house, drank your beer and drove off with your car?"
A little logical reasoning can see the flaw in this argument. The point is that while accessing a computer system without authorisation is indeed as much of a crime as any other, it's not the exact same thing as physical tresspassing or theft, and can't be treated exactly as such.
Think of it this way: The law in America, I believe, says that if a guy walks onto your property without permission, it's a crime, period. What happens if my dog runs into your garden, and I run in to remove my dog from your property before he runs all over your prize flowerbed? The law says I've committed a crime, when I've actually done you a favour.
Now, what happens when a guy accesses some data on your computer via a security flaw in your system, which you didn't intend to give him access to? Yes, it's a crime... but does that necessarily mean it's a bad thing? On one hand, he could destroy valuable data on your computer if he wanted. On the other, he might simply e-mail you and advise you to download a security patch for your operating system.
In any case like this, the most important thing is not whether a person commits a crime - it's whether they actually do anything wrong.
If you live in Europe, you might like to check out the Italian Game Network channel - http://www.game-network.net. Details on how to point your satellite dish at it are given on the site.
I could have sworn that this article was a merely a joke. At first I thought it was just stupid, but no person could get things THIS wrong and not be comedy!
On the plus side, you don't have to pay quite as much to keep the place heated.
The first time I saw that picture, I thought there was nothing unusual about it. Until I realised that it was infact a LAN party, and not a small city. Way to go, Dreamhack!
I wonder if it could be connected to a keyboard, monitor, or mobile phone...
Rumours abound that it was a Microsoft idea, in the first place. While we can't be sure if Microsoft thought up the idea before anyone else - I believe EasyJet tried a similar thing in Belfast, Northern Ireland with chalk drawings on the pavement, and were sued accordingly - it's been rumoured that Microsoft was forced to get their checkbook out after hiring spraypaint artists to advertise the X-Box in a number of cities.
So, if it makes you feel any better... it's not just the Penguins who are causing all that pollution. :)
Since half of the Internet at any one time are newbies - who probably don't know HOW to change the traditional link colour - does this mean that only 10% of homepages still use blue? ;)
I'm proud to say that I'm one of that sixty (or was it ten?) percent... check out my homepage, http://www.jonnydigital.com to see why I stick to good old blue unvisited links. (Site also here if the first page won't work.)
Of course, my visited links aren't purple... they're blue, too - but a darker blue. Purple wouldn't fit into my colour scheme...
It's just like I always say - "If links are blue, users know what to do!" ;)
I registered the domain jonnydigital.co.uk over two years ago with FreeNetName, a company who figured they could make money by giving out free domains. The only catch was that you had to dial into their ISP at least once every 90 days or you lose the domain - not a problem, since I was careful to dial in every few months - and they charge £95 (about US $135) to buy back the domain or transfer it to a different domain.
Unfortunately, I slipped up and lost the domain. I didn't mind because by that stage I had moved my site to jonnydigital.com, and the domain was going to expire in two weeks anyway so I was pretty confident that I could buy it back dirt-cheap with another company when it expired.
It would seem that they've renewed my domain and they're now squatting it. It's been registered by Freenetname again under a different name. I know it can't have been registered by another freenetname user because the company has stopped giving out free domains.
I'm currently the proud owner of JonnyDigital.com - it's named so because I go by the nick of JonnyDigital online, and so many individuals have registered the dot-com domain for a personal homepage that it no longer stands for 'commercial organisation'.
There's no way I'd buy jonnydigital.name, though. For one, JonnyDigital isn't my name - it's my online nick. For two, there are a bunch of sites out there that are neither for a person or an organisation... what are they supposed to use?
The domain name system kinda sucks... still, at least .net domains are only a dollar apiece, if the seventy spam per week my Hotmail address gets are anything to go by... ;)
Actually, radio waves broadcasted from Earth can reach the planet's upper atmosphere, and no doubt space itself. Technically, the first song in space was probably whatever Marconi first played when he was testing his new-fangled 'wireless' contraption of his ;)
You probably couldn't hear much of that radio signal in space, though - if Master of Orion 2 has taught me anything it's that such things as laser cannons and radio waves dissapate with range. You're probably right anyway... ^_^
Maybe that's why they don't send fat guys into space, too.
> Oh, _that's_ why we haven't been using gasoline and natural gas for energy!
I'm sorry... I'm just getting this mental images of cars (you yanks call them automobiles) driving down the road (you yanks call it a street) and just exploding for no reason (you yanks call it prime time television) ;)
Seriously though, I'd rather have a trail of petrol (yanks gasoline blah blah blah) leaking from my vehicle than an invisible cloud of highly explosive Hydrogen gas. Pentathol (I believe that's what's used in cars, right?) and Methane (that's natural gas, folks) are still flammable but a great deal safer when it comes to filling your gas tank with the stuff and keeping your home warm.
If hydrogen was used as a fuel in its own right, I'd imagine it would have an artificial smell and perhaps colour added to it to make it easier to detect a leak.
Keeping an archive of Slashdot. As the solar system's population grows and grows, it won't be long before every little news story gets a thousand comments per minute. There will be so many moderators that law of averages suggests that every comment will be modded up to 5, and in an ironic twist Slashdot will be flooded. Still, it's Slashdot, and no self-respecting high-bandwidth nerd will be without an up-to-date archive of Slashdot.
Leeching Aminet. By the time we actually have these monster size drives, processors will finally be fast enough to properly emulate an Amiga, WinUAE will have been perfected and bandwidth will be so plentiful that we can all enjoy the latest Amiga software, whether we want it or not.
Freaking out newbies. Remember your scriptkiddie days when you would h4x0r some dude's Windows machine and pop up something resembling the Matrix? Simply add a little matter-to-energy technology, and you can download the newbie onto his computer, FTP him along (resumable downloading, now, we don't want him to materialise with missing parts!) and rematerialise him in your fridge. He'll think he's been transported to some crazy ice planet. Just like in sci-fi, eh folks!
Somewhere to keep all your Pokémon hentai! Don't try and hide it, man. I've seen your sick pictures of Misty and Bulbasaur.
You'll finally have enough diskspace to install Windows 2024. Naturally, you'll be using Linux instead, but it's nice to brag that you could, if you wanted.