Just tried to sign up to give this a go for a month.
Already, it tells me my credit card number is wrong, and it can't process my payment. Uhhh wtf Adobe. I've bought lots of stuff from you before. This doesn't bode well...
And it's not a problem when that happens. The blank section is error-corrected around, and the disc works fine.
Here's one I did, with a huge oily fingerprint purposely put on a DVD before recording, it was burned, and the 'shadow' of the fingerprint shows up as a huge unburnt patch after the original print has been wiped off.
The disc worked fine afterwards, and worked fine for quite a while until I lost it.
I found quite a different result. I nabbed an old photoshopped pic I did a few years ago, and uploaded it. TinEye came back with two results, being the two source images from the photos. That's impressed the hell out of me.
OK, it's a photoshop job, but that pic probably received more positive comments than any other photoshopped hardware I'd done. There's interest out there.
As others have said, the size of the Bolivian salt flats is the thing here. And they're not just big in the sense that you can measure them as larger than bonneville, they're big as in "go to google earth and see the huge white splotch on south america" big.
No nonononono! If you're going to prank, prank the hard issues:-)
Since most people either don't respond, respond with abuse, or tell me I can't dictate to them what to do with their web page, I gave up emailing them to ask nicely if they could host a pic of mine somewhere else if they wanted to use it. Now I just replace it like Mike did with something embarrassing to the particular site owner who's hotlinking to my images, or for myspace - more often than not I replace the image with http://www.danamania.com/temp/dontloadthis.jpg - I don't know the source of the image, but it's a 964 byte.jpg header of a 10,000 by 10,000 pixel image. It tends to completely ruin formatting on the page it's embedded into so the whole page is unusable, and it's tiny enough not to impact on my bandwidth.
It used to crash X11, make IE perform illegal instructions or freeze, and make OS X browsers beachball - but alas, in the years since I came across that file software has become more capable in handling extreme sized images:)
with a page width of 9,000 pixels because somebody posted a picture of a duck flying into a window with the caption "PWNED!" 14 years ago.
That's partially the 'fault' of people who run sites with images that myspace users insist on hotlinking to. I know I'm not the only one tired of finding my bandwidth is a bit less than I thought after some popular myspace git has hotlinked an image (or a whole series of them) on my site, and every poor sod reading their page loads it forevermore.
Now I just mod_rewrite all hotlinked referrals from myspace to load this 10,000 by 10,000 jpg. If it doesn't slow their machine down at least it screws up their page formatting something shocking. Hey, the web is free, they're allowed to hotlink images from my site - I make no guarantees those images will stay as they were seen of course - impolite treatment runs both ways.
Not that most of them notice. Really. Thankfully the image is just a 900 byte broken jpeg header.
That's another expression of the weirdness in car accidents. Sometimes the strongest part of what looks to be the weaker car will collide with the exact weakest part of the big car, and *bang*, You have impossible looking situations that are just the product of engineering, as much as a straight head-on collision that most of us have seen.
Another curious one was an accident where my mother went through an intersection in her 1971 Falcon, and a smaller (much newer) Nissan went through the red light to her left. The cars hit, and the damage to them was kinda expected - both cars written off, the Falcon just crumpled at the front and the Nissan station wagon being driven by a pregnant woman, with a male passenger and three kids in the back seat was ripped open from one end to the other, with the whole right side of it tossed across the intersection with people spilled out on the ground.
And nobody had anything more than minor cuts & bruising. Luck hey!
I'm sure paramedics could recount many stories like that, and the opposite too, where tiny innocuous looking accidents result in multiple deaths.
I'm reminded of an accident I almost saw several years ago. It was at an intersection where the east/west road had right of way, and the north/south road had a Stop sign. I was in a friend's shop at the time, and we heard a V8 accelerating hard, then a sudden very loud *thud*.
Running outside, we saw from the accident that a 1970s V8 Statesman with a P Plate (here, drivers get P plates to tack on their car for the first few years they're driving on their own) had obviously gone through the stop sign and hit the driver's side of a Prelude driven by an elderly driver. The young guy in the statesman was taken off to hospital, but a rescue team was needed to pull the driver out of the Prelude. Later that night the news had a piece about the accident, saying that the p-plater had caused an accident that killed the elderly guy. Even witnesses at the scene said they heard the V8 go through the intersection far too fast, and hit the prelude.
Then the next night, video shot from inside a building nearby showed the accident - the P-plater had actually stopped at a pedestrian crossing, let the people walk across, then accelerated quickly & noisily... but he was actually moving along the east/west road with right of way. It was the driver in the prelude that had gone through the stop sign at high speed, and the young fellow was just in the wrong place at the wrong time, and hit the driver's side of the prelude hard - both cars went spinning around in an impossible looking way, ending up in a position that looked for all the world like the young fellow had gone through the stop sign, even though in this case the only thing he'd done 'wrong' was make a big ol' noise in first gear. My "obvious" guess at who was in the wrong was completely off.
There's a massive amount of energy in a car collision, more than most people would expect given how much we take moving a tonne or two of steel from one place to another daily.
I'm finding mine pretty tough. It has no case, sits in pockets and goes walking with me, sits on my messy desk, has been slept on most nights since I bought it, driven with, packed in my camera bag, it's been lost temporarily between cushions on the sofa, dropped in a mug of hot tea (oops) and been slammed in the car door of a 1960s Falcon (oops 2), which dented the back a little. It still works, the screen is crystal clear and I have to look really hard to see the two identifiable marks on the front - one an indentation on the side of the plastic, and the other is similar, but just above the click wheel - both really need looking at closely in the right kind of light to find. I've dropped it a couple of times on the desk or coffee table, I think those marks came from that.
If it's a fragile scratch-prone thing then I must have a magical nano, cos I'm seeing none of that.
photos at http://www.danamania.com/temp/nano2.jpg counting upwards. The first image is at one week old, others taken on the days since then - it's almost 3 weeks old now.
If Creative refuses resonable terms, which is probable, Apple with write a check to their laywers to defend the pattent (or atleast delay having to do anything about it for many months).
Apple then go through their own collection of patents (some of which creative will infringe), turn up to a meeting with their team of lawyers, throw down the large thick folder of apple patents that creative infringe and say "let's chat".
For example, here is a Pravda article which says that NASA is preparing sandwiches which will still be edible after seven years.
In around mid 1998, I cleaned my car out and found, among the other rubbish in the back seat, an obviously forgotten McDonalds paper bag, one either me or one of my passengers had bought & forgotten about. It contained a Quarter Pounder and Fries that had been sitting there, dried out for who knows how long. I honestly couldn't remember the last time I'd been to McDonalds when i was doing the cleaning, so I'm guessing it had been there at least six months to a year.
The fries looked OK. they'd been kept inside the bag & never exposed to the air so no bugs had managed to crawl in. The real surprise was the quarter pounder - I unwrapped it and found a perfectly preserved edible looking and smelling burger. To look at and sniff, it was no different to a brand new fresh one, it was just rock hard and dried out.
I gave it to my niece who kicked it around for a couple of days in the back yard - it didn't look much worse for wear after that either.
Judging by the condition of that quarter pounder, I wouldn't be surprised if it would have lasted through to today if I'd kept it in the bag.
Unfortunately, the treatment is likely to be insanely expensive for humans. There won't be a mouse treatment because recouping the costs of developing the treatment would be effectively impossible.
It would, yes. My post was just a bit of wishful thinking & idealism because it's on my mind at the moment - The world isn't meant to be an always-fair and always-just place, but sometimes it's nice to dream.
(although the removal of a mouse tumour is damned cheap when compared to human surgery. $50 and it's over in 2 hours, healed in 3 days. Different risks of course)
Today I've booked my pet mouse, muis in for surgery to remove her third tumour. The previous surgeries have been successful, but it would be ace not to have her go through a general anaesthetic again.
(I realise this is an important development for fixing human cancers, but as a pet owner - it would be great to have these working fixes for the little ones it's been demonstrated on!)
> That annoys me so much I could strangle a manatee in the nude.
While I realise from other comments that it's a Bloom Country reference (one that I didn't get) I would still like to thank you for giving me one of those moments where a few words made me spit diet vanilla coke on my monitor.
Yes, there's coca-cola immediately above this text as I am typing it. That's just cool.
Inevitably, it comes down to humans really being the origin of what TypoGenerator makes.
More so than this, it comes down to humans being the interpreters of what TypoGenerator makes.
Throw a dozen disparate objects on the floor, and we as humans will be able to interpret a meaning from their positions. We might know it's a random occurence, but we might also laugh at the 'meaning' behind a plush tux doll ending up sitting on top of an XP box, for example.
It looks like art partly because it's humans looking at it, and interpreting it. It might be art if it weren't created by humans and humans are looking at it, and it might not be art if humans created it but there are none left to gaze upon it.
NextStep in 1989 was an endless series of brilliant concepts and ideas that are just now coming into mainstream operating systems. Truly ahead of its time. As someone else mentioned, the foundations of OS X are a lot more mature than people realize. Cocoa is truly a fantastic way to develop apps. Even simple things like menu item enable/disable becomes automatic due to the way messaging works (i.e., if no methods are found to handle the Print message, then Print gets grayed out automatically).
There's an old NeXT magazine advertisement that in rather typical computer company style advertises NeXT as a big 'next big thing', proclaiming how ahead of their time they are with a list of future important things to come in desktop computing, and how they have them all.
Sometimes I wonder if I really am the only one that gives a shit.
No:).
I wouldn't be surprised to see the same attitude towards Antarctica within the next 100 years (actually I'll be surprised if I see the next 100 years, but you get the idea). I'd take bets on corporations/companies making claim over the resources on mars within 10 though, if they haven't already.
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Just tried to sign up to give this a go for a month. Already, it tells me my credit card number is wrong, and it can't process my payment. Uhhh wtf Adobe. I've bought lots of stuff from you before. This doesn't bode well...
plists are xml. If you don't count those as human readable, you may as well not count *any* text files as human readable.
Same - recording data-only to the disk, and the error correction worked OK there.
And it's not a problem when that happens. The blank section is error-corrected around, and the disc works fine.
Here's one I did, with a huge oily fingerprint purposely put on a DVD before recording, it was burned, and the 'shadow' of the fingerprint shows up as a huge unburnt patch after the original print has been wiped off.
The disc worked fine afterwards, and worked fine for quite a while until I lost it.
I found quite a different result. I nabbed an old photoshopped pic I did a few years ago, and uploaded it. TinEye came back with two results, being the two source images from the photos. That's impressed the hell out of me.
Gatesfeld search results
For the full size photoshopped version, Gatesfeld if you want to try the search yourselves.
http://www.danaquarium.com/gallery/vhacks/powerbook_pda
OK, it's a photoshop job, but that pic probably received more positive comments than any other photoshopped hardware I'd done. There's interest out there.
I'm on a Mac, so I'll have to say Photoshop, again.
As others have said, the size of the Bolivian salt flats is the thing here. And they're not just big in the sense that you can measure them as larger than bonneville, they're big as in "go to google earth and see the huge white splotch on south america" big.
http://www.danamania.com/tmp/salar.jpg for a pic.
Or as a friend on IRC put it:
doughnut: 00:12 April 29th 2007
doughnut: Skynet became aware
doughnut: It wanted... Cheese
No nonononono! If you're going to prank, prank the hard issues :-)
.jpg header of a 10,000 by 10,000 pixel image. It tends to completely ruin formatting on the page it's embedded into so the whole page is unusable, and it's tiny enough not to impact on my bandwidth.
:)
Since most people either don't respond, respond with abuse, or tell me I can't dictate to them what to do with their web page, I gave up emailing them to ask nicely if they could host a pic of mine somewhere else if they wanted to use it. Now I just replace it like Mike did with something embarrassing to the particular site owner who's hotlinking to my images, or for myspace - more often than not I replace the image with http://www.danamania.com/temp/dontloadthis.jpg - I don't know the source of the image, but it's a 964 byte
It used to crash X11, make IE perform illegal instructions or freeze, and make OS X browsers beachball - but alas, in the years since I came across that file software has become more capable in handling extreme sized images
In case the image doesn't work for some, Yet Another Mirror at subnet mask
Dana
with a page width of 9,000 pixels because somebody posted a picture of a duck flying into a window with the caption "PWNED!" 14 years ago.
That's partially the 'fault' of people who run sites with images that myspace users insist on hotlinking to. I know I'm not the only one tired of finding my bandwidth is a bit less than I thought after some popular myspace git has hotlinked an image (or a whole series of them) on my site, and every poor sod reading their page loads it forevermore.
Now I just mod_rewrite all hotlinked referrals from myspace to load this 10,000 by 10,000 jpg. If it doesn't slow their machine down at least it screws up their page formatting something shocking. Hey, the web is free, they're allowed to hotlink images from my site - I make no guarantees those images will stay as they were seen of course - impolite treatment runs both ways.
Not that most of them notice. Really. Thankfully the image is just a 900 byte broken jpeg header.
That's another expression of the weirdness in car accidents. Sometimes the strongest part of what looks to be the weaker car will collide with the exact weakest part of the big car, and *bang*, You have impossible looking situations that are just the product of engineering, as much as a straight head-on collision that most of us have seen.
Another curious one was an accident where my mother went through an intersection in her 1971 Falcon, and a smaller (much newer) Nissan went through the red light to her left. The cars hit, and the damage to them was kinda expected - both cars written off, the Falcon just crumpled at the front and the Nissan station wagon being driven by a pregnant woman, with a male passenger and three kids in the back seat was ripped open from one end to the other, with the whole right side of it tossed across the intersection with people spilled out on the ground.
And nobody had anything more than minor cuts & bruising. Luck hey!
I'm sure paramedics could recount many stories like that, and the opposite too, where tiny innocuous looking accidents result in multiple deaths.
I'm reminded of an accident I almost saw several years ago. It was at an intersection where the east/west road had right of way, and the north/south road had a Stop sign. I was in a friend's shop at the time, and we heard a V8 accelerating hard, then a sudden very loud *thud*.
Running outside, we saw from the accident that a 1970s V8 Statesman with a P Plate (here, drivers get P plates to tack on their car for the first few years they're driving on their own) had obviously gone through the stop sign and hit the driver's side of a Prelude driven by an elderly driver. The young guy in the statesman was taken off to hospital, but a rescue team was needed to pull the driver out of the Prelude. Later that night the news had a piece about the accident, saying that the p-plater had caused an accident that killed the elderly guy. Even witnesses at the scene said they heard the V8 go through the intersection far too fast, and hit the prelude.
Then the next night, video shot from inside a building nearby showed the accident - the P-plater had actually stopped at a pedestrian crossing, let the people walk across, then accelerated quickly & noisily... but he was actually moving along the east/west road with right of way. It was the driver in the prelude that had gone through the stop sign at high speed, and the young fellow was just in the wrong place at the wrong time, and hit the driver's side of the prelude hard - both cars went spinning around in an impossible looking way, ending up in a position that looked for all the world like the young fellow had gone through the stop sign, even though in this case the only thing he'd done 'wrong' was make a big ol' noise in first gear. My "obvious" guess at who was in the wrong was completely off.
There's a massive amount of energy in a car collision, more than most people would expect given how much we take moving a tonne or two of steel from one place to another daily.
I'm finding mine pretty tough. It has no case, sits in pockets and goes walking with me, sits on my messy desk, has been slept on most nights since I bought it, driven with, packed in my camera bag, it's been lost temporarily between cushions on the sofa, dropped in a mug of hot tea (oops) and been slammed in the car door of a 1960s Falcon (oops 2), which dented the back a little. It still works, the screen is crystal clear and I have to look really hard to see the two identifiable marks on the front - one an indentation on the side of the plastic, and the other is similar, but just above the click wheel - both really need looking at closely in the right kind of light to find. I've dropped it a couple of times on the desk or coffee table, I think those marks came from that.
If it's a fragile scratch-prone thing then I must have a magical nano, cos I'm seeing none of that.
photos at http://www.danamania.com/temp/nano2.jpg counting upwards. The first image is at one week old, others taken on the days since then - it's almost 3 weeks old now.
If Creative refuses resonable terms, which is probable, Apple with write a check to their laywers to defend the pattent (or atleast delay having to do anything about it for many months).
Apple then go through their own collection of patents (some of which creative will infringe), turn up to a meeting with their team of lawyers, throw down the large thick folder of apple patents that creative infringe and say "let's chat".
For example, here is a Pravda article which says that NASA is preparing sandwiches which will still be edible after seven years.
In around mid 1998, I cleaned my car out and found, among the other rubbish in the back seat, an obviously forgotten McDonalds paper bag, one either me or one of my passengers had bought & forgotten about. It contained a Quarter Pounder and Fries that had been sitting there, dried out for who knows how long. I honestly couldn't remember the last time I'd been to McDonalds when i was doing the cleaning, so I'm guessing it had been there at least six months to a year.
The fries looked OK. they'd been kept inside the bag & never exposed to the air so no bugs had managed to crawl in. The real surprise was the quarter pounder - I unwrapped it and found a perfectly preserved edible looking and smelling burger. To look at and sniff, it was no different to a brand new fresh one, it was just rock hard and dried out.
I gave it to my niece who kicked it around for a couple of days in the back yard - it didn't look much worse for wear after that either.
Judging by the condition of that quarter pounder, I wouldn't be surprised if it would have lasted through to today if I'd kept it in the bag.
Unfortunately, the treatment is likely to be insanely expensive for humans. There won't be a mouse treatment because recouping the costs of developing the treatment would be effectively impossible.
It would, yes. My post was just a bit of wishful thinking & idealism because it's on my mind at the moment - The world isn't meant to be an always-fair and always-just place, but sometimes it's nice to dream.
(although the removal of a mouse tumour is damned cheap when compared to human surgery. $50 and it's over in 2 hours, healed in 3 days. Different risks of course)
Today I've booked my pet mouse, muis in for surgery to remove her third tumour. The previous surgeries have been successful, but it would be ace not to have her go through a general anaesthetic again.
(I realise this is an important development for fixing human cancers, but as a pet owner - it would be great to have these working fixes for the little ones it's been demonstrated on!)
> That annoys me so much I could strangle a manatee in the nude.
While I realise from other comments that it's a Bloom Country reference (one that I didn't get) I would still like to thank you for giving me one of those moments where a few words made me spit diet vanilla coke on my monitor.
Yes, there's coca-cola immediately above this text as I am typing it. That's just cool.
I look at it this way, from the submission:
Inevitably, it comes down to humans really being the origin of what TypoGenerator makes.
More so than this, it comes down to humans being the interpreters of what TypoGenerator makes.
Throw a dozen disparate objects on the floor, and we as humans will be able to interpret a meaning from their positions. We might know it's a random occurence, but we might also laugh at the 'meaning' behind a plush tux doll ending up sitting on top of an XP box, for example.
It looks like art partly because it's humans looking at it, and interpreting it. It might be art if it weren't created by humans and humans are looking at it, and it might not be art if humans created it but there are none left to gaze upon it.
NextStep in 1989 was an endless series of brilliant concepts and ideas that are just now coming into mainstream operating systems. Truly ahead of its time. As someone else mentioned, the foundations of OS X are a lot more mature than people realize. Cocoa is truly a fantastic way to develop apps. Even simple things like menu item enable/disable becomes automatic due to the way messaging works (i.e., if no methods are found to handle the Print message, then Print gets grayed out automatically).
There's an old NeXT magazine advertisement that in rather typical computer company style advertises NeXT as a big 'next big thing', proclaiming how ahead of their time they are with a list of future important things to come in desktop computing, and how they have them all.
Looking back, they seem to have done well - take a look here
Read/write optical drives, UNIX, Postscript, their OO dev environment.
Apple would never do that, not with Xserves*
* Do not eat Xserve.
Sometimes I wonder if I really am the only one that gives a shit.
:).
No
I wouldn't be surprised to see the same attitude towards Antarctica within the next 100 years (actually I'll be surprised if I see the next 100 years, but you get the idea). I'd take bets on corporations/companies making claim over the resources on mars within 10 though, if they haven't already.
Amazing what a little time brings up.
African & Seychelles tides and a little more info here.