And it is ultimately why my pet WaterDragon loves the computer so much. Particularly lounging around on the monitor.
Which begs the question - since we're "stuck" with today's technology, why not reclaim the heat for a usable purpose? Perhaps I can duct-tape on lots and lots of thin wires to the bottom of the CPU and run them all the way back to my PC.
I mean, if I've got to run a ceramic heater anyway, wouldn't it be more efficient? And I might be able to justify the need for a new dual Athlon box!
I was a "character witless" in an attempted murder case a handful of years ago, where the perpetrator (I can call him that now - he was convicted!) got a suspended sentence...
He drove 40+ Km on an unregistered motorbike, disqualified license, a Blood Alcohol Concentration of 0.18 (0.05 is the legal limit), with a pump action shotgun slewn across his back, went to his estranged-defacto's house (in violation of a restraining order), discharged his firearm within city limits & with intent of causing death before getting back on the bike and riding home (to get picked up on the way, smoking gun, totally pissed (drunk) etc).
Fortunately, he was so pissed he completely missed and took out her fridge. (Made funnier by the fact that he is/was a fridge mechanic. What better way of saying "I hate Fisher & Paykel?!")
Now, I'll let you count on your fingers and toes (unless you're Tasmanian) how many offenses were committed there...
His "charges?" Attempted Murder only. Plead "Not Guilty," and was convicted on evidence. 3 years suspended sentence.
So let that be a lesson to all of you Uni students. It's better to blow the crap out of whitegood appliances, than robbing some poor unfortunate multi-millionaire of the 2c he gets out of those record sales. Shame, ARIA, Shame.
Bitter? Me?! You bet. While I was waiting patiently for hours, just to spend 2.5 minutes in a slightly more comfy chair in a courthouse, I missed out one some damned fine frag-fests! Justice? I think not!
Does some Queen's Counsel honestly expect me to believe that music piracy and "open source software" are the only things that they can book these guys for?
(If yes, they must be some of those "boring" geeks that I resemble^h^h^h^h^h^had about so much!)
If I was really that bothered by the two sets of traffic lights, I'd take one of the other 6 roads without them.
Now, if someone invented something faster than these you-beaut 1200/75 modems - perhaps something fast that doesn't need telephone lines, like a "wireless internet connection" or something - then I'd be on that quicker than you could say AyeEssDeeEnn!
Just when I thought that I would see my wife and kids for the first time since I discovered Falcon's Eye. (I'm a reformed NetHack-a-holic from my Atari ST daze^h^hys)
I agree with the above AC. My 7 year old Step-son has Aspergers, yet is above average in his mathematical skills.
He does "misuse his vocabulary" to a very large extent (we are constantly called on to "translate"), his social skills are poor and he refuses to learn to read or write.
But he can do maths and other forms of logic-intensive work.
(If only I could get him to learn to read, I'd have a kernel-hacker on my hands!)
So if you don't have a phone number because you're one of the few people on the planet that doesn't have a phone, would you be unknown to the Australian government?
There are much easier ways to be unknown to the Australian Government.
It's called "Living in South Australia, Western Australia or the Northern Territory." Commonly abbreviated to "West of the Blue Mountains.
After all, two-thirds of the continent (enough to house two-thirds of continental US, or M10^9999 Rhode Islands) deserves the same area code.
Hell, they'd probably give us "08-8555-5555.null.au"
Of course, that just completely shatters my illusions of reality* and self-importance. But thank you ever so much, for your finely thought out response.
Just the fact that you spent so much time generating a response means so much to me.
I can just envisage you now, hunched over your computer in a darkened room, sweat pouring from your brow as you punch out your extraordinary wit and vitriolic response. I bet all three of your brain cells were reeling at the strain, as your one free hand hunted for those elusive letters on the keyboard as you giggled and cackled with glee, finding one letter after another. Truly a triumph over your genetics.
And the coup de grace? The master stroke? How you utterly and impressively posted as "Anonymous Coward."
What a truly wonderful example of human evolution you are. Your mother must be proud!
* Of course, I don't really give two thirds of three fifths of a fuck what you think, so that kind of renders the whole thing null and void, no?
After all, the computer industry has so many different "standards" for the same thing; It necessarily follows that a "United" project will become segmented.
No matter. The Germans or the French will come up with a mod shortly that'll either allow you to get 32-bit True Colour via either a software patch or the installation of a 2K resistor!
I can still remember the smart arse who did the impossible on the old Atari ST (not STe). It could display a maximum of 16 colours at a time, and had a pallette of 512 colours. (Not a typo).
Yet, someone got it to display 65,536 colours through software hacks - at the same time that those 37337 PC Owners were bragging about their 256 colour SVGA!
Yup - a mod that costs about 5c to boost the Palm to 32-bit colour sounds wonderful. And then the next week, we'll see one that will play high-res DivX;-), and expand the on-board RAM to 5 GigaBytes for the price of a coldie down at the pub.
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He points out that pirates 'can drive a cart and horses through these holes in the release schedule.'
A horse and cart?! What freaky pirate movies have the people at Blockbuster been watching?!
Luxury!
I had to get up half an hour before I went to bed and start punching holes in pieces of toilet paper to run through my punch card machine.
ZX-81 with basic ASCII? Luxury!
And am I the only one that likes to play around with Emacs, just for fun?
And it is ultimately why my pet WaterDragon loves the computer so much. Particularly lounging around on the monitor.
Which begs the question - since we're "stuck" with today's technology, why not reclaim the heat for a usable purpose? Perhaps I can duct-tape on lots and lots of thin wires to the bottom of the CPU and run them all the way back to my PC.
I mean, if I've got to run a ceramic heater anyway, wouldn't it be more efficient? And I might be able to justify the need for a new dual Athlon box!
Hmmm... Documents written on October 31.
Am I the only one who doesn't take Halloween documents seriously anymore?
Ha! It gets better.
I was a "character witless" in an attempted murder case a handful of years ago, where the perpetrator (I can call him that now - he was convicted!) got a suspended sentence...
He drove 40+ Km on an unregistered motorbike, disqualified license, a Blood Alcohol Concentration of 0.18 (0.05 is the legal limit), with a pump action shotgun slewn across his back, went to his estranged-defacto's house (in violation of a restraining order), discharged his firearm within city limits & with intent of causing death before getting back on the bike and riding home (to get picked up on the way, smoking gun, totally pissed (drunk) etc).
Fortunately, he was so pissed he completely missed and took out her fridge. (Made funnier by the fact that he is/was a fridge mechanic. What better way of saying "I hate Fisher & Paykel?!")
Now, I'll let you count on your fingers and toes (unless you're Tasmanian) how many offenses were committed there...
His "charges?" Attempted Murder only. Plead "Not Guilty," and was convicted on evidence. 3 years suspended sentence.
So let that be a lesson to all of you Uni students. It's better to blow the crap out of whitegood appliances, than robbing some poor unfortunate multi-millionaire of the 2c he gets out of those record sales. Shame, ARIA, Shame.
Bitter? Me?! You bet. While I was waiting patiently for hours, just to spend 2.5 minutes in a slightly more comfy chair in a courthouse, I missed out one some damned fine frag-fests! Justice? I think not!
I've done my time in an Australian Uni.
Does some Queen's Counsel honestly expect me to believe that music piracy and "open source software" are the only things that they can book these guys for?
(If yes, they must be some of those "boring" geeks that I resemble^h^h^h^h^h^had about so much!)
to donkey-dragoness porn?
No "pointers" from experience, but...
It does seem that there is some fetish to do with donkeys. Ever since watching Shrek, my wife keeps calling me a donkey.
Well... A Donkey Hole, anyway. Pretty Similar.
Am I the only one who noticed how much "Farquad" sounds like "fuckwad" when spoken with a Scottish accent?
Not just with a Scottish accent; my 2 year old son (who loves Shrek, btw) has taken a liking to going around and shouting "Farquad" at people.)
With a young Australian accent, still trying to get used to this "talking" thing, it has much the same result.
Strangely, I've been called in to have a meeting with the co-ordinator of his daycare centre next week...
I note that John Lithgow (Lord Farquad) is in the credits for Shrek 2. Is he going to be the antagonist? How, as a steaming pile of dragon-shit?
I heard that his role was excremental to the storyline...
John Cleese is in the sequel? Cleese & Lightgow play very well against each other, so I'll be waiting to see how that pans out.
(I've often compared Lithgow in 3rd Rock to an "American John Cleese.")
But Lithgow's character is back? How, pray tell, do you come back after being swallowed whole by a whopping-great-dragon?
(Or do I *really* want to know?)
I live in "regional" South Oz.
If I was really that bothered by the two sets of traffic lights, I'd take one of the other 6 roads without them.
Now, if someone invented something faster than these you-beaut 1200/75 modems - perhaps something fast that doesn't need telephone lines, like a "wireless internet connection" or something - then I'd be on that quicker than you could say AyeEssDeeEnn!
Didn't you read the article properly?
;)
This guy made $1.5 mill! Who wouldn't want a piece of that action?!
I'll tell you what... Just email your bank details and I'll cut you in.
Rogue-like?
Just when I thought that I would see my wife and kids for the first time since I discovered Falcon's Eye. (I'm a reformed NetHack-a-holic from my Atari ST daze^h^hys)
Bastard!
An Austism Spectrum Disorder != Low IQ.
I agree with the above AC. My 7 year old Step-son has Aspergers, yet is above average in his mathematical skills.
He does "misuse his vocabulary" to a very large extent (we are constantly called on to "translate"), his social skills are poor and he refuses to learn to read or write.
But he can do maths and other forms of logic-intensive work.
(If only I could get him to learn to read, I'd have a kernel-hacker on my hands!)
What would be even better, is to get Windows running under Bochs, under X-Box Mandrake.
That way, it can create a never-before-seen game for the console: Something for aspiring script kiddies to hack!
(Wow! Look! I got root on my own console! I'm so l33t!)
So if you don't have a phone number because you're one of the few people on the planet that doesn't have a phone, would you be unknown to the Australian government?
There are much easier ways to be unknown to the Australian Government.
It's called "Living in South Australia, Western Australia or the Northern Territory." Commonly abbreviated to "West of the Blue Mountains.
After all, two-thirds of the continent (enough to house two-thirds of continental US, or M10^9999 Rhode Islands) deserves the same area code.
Hell, they'd probably give us "08-8555-5555.null.au"
Of course, that just completely shatters my illusions of reality* and self-importance. But thank you ever so much, for your finely thought out response.
Just the fact that you spent so much time generating a response means so much to me.
I can just envisage you now, hunched over your computer in a darkened room, sweat pouring from your brow as you punch out your extraordinary wit and vitriolic response. I bet all three of your brain cells were reeling at the strain, as your one free hand hunted for those elusive letters on the keyboard as you giggled and cackled with glee, finding one letter after another. Truly a triumph over your genetics.
And the coup de grace? The master stroke? How you utterly and impressively posted as "Anonymous Coward."
What a truly wonderful example of human evolution you are. Your mother must be proud!
* Of course, I don't really give two thirds of three fifths of a fuck what you think, so that kind of renders the whole thing null and void, no?
No thanks. Not before lunch...
I was impressed when I saw that people were using the X-Box to run a web server.
But to dig up one of Atari's old consoles? Wow!
What next? Someone trying to resurrect the Amiga platform?
It's just keeping with tradition.
After all, the computer industry has so many different "standards" for the same thing; It necessarily follows that a "United" project will become segmented.
So, it can only do 58K colours?
No matter. The Germans or the French will come up with a mod shortly that'll either allow you to get 32-bit True Colour via either a software patch or the installation of a 2K resistor!
I can still remember the smart arse who did the impossible on the old Atari ST (not STe). It could display a maximum of 16 colours at a time, and had a pallette of 512 colours. (Not a typo).
Yet, someone got it to display 65,536 colours through software hacks - at the same time that those 37337 PC Owners were bragging about their 256 colour SVGA!
Yup - a mod that costs about 5c to boost the Palm to 32-bit colour sounds wonderful. And then the next week, we'll see one that will play high-res DivX;-), and expand the on-board RAM to 5 GigaBytes for the price of a coldie down at the pub.
Quick! Someone mod this parent to (0, Cellphone User)
B-b-but this is Slashdot! Nobody has been asked to think here before. Ever!
Imagine a Beowulf Cluster of these!