When did Slashdot become Martha Stewart Living? FFS, most people can figure out how to store game cartridges, and those that can't probably don't know how to find this site anyway. Sheesh.
I have a dream, that one day, man will frag and snipe without hearing the crys of WALLHACK, OMG HAXOR!!!!
that one day right down in UT2K4 little Red boys and Red girls will be able to join hands with little Blue boys and Blue girls as sisters and brothers...I have a dream today!
In IN at my cottage, we call those japanese beetles.
Japanese beetles are smaller, shinier and have ridges on their wing covers. The ones I'm talking about have a dusty appearance and a small horn on their head (we also used to call them "unicorn beetles").
Who here thinks that June Bugs are, in fact, these things? [mayflies]
Nope. These are what we called june bugs when I was growing up in Mississippi. I used to catch them all summer and store them in a jar, then release them all at once in August. Quite a sight to an elementary school kid.
We also used to amuse ourselves by tying a long thread to one of their back legs and letting them fly in circles.
Heh. A couple of years ago I bought a cheap digital watch that syncs to the WWV time signal. My son asked "What else does it do?", and I replied "Besides telling the exactly correct time, which is what a watch should do?"
This site advertises clocks for the hearing-impared that register up to 113 decibels
I got one of the Sonic Boom alarms for my wife, who manages to sleep through just about anything. It does the trick. Fortunately, I usually get up before her, but on days when she has to get up early I nearly fall out of bed when the damn thing goes off. She refers to it as the "Wake The Dead Alarm Clock".
In MY DAY, we'd plug wires into a wall of vaccuum tubes.
Reminds me of the classic Dilbert:
Programmer 1: "Back in my day, we didn't have high-level languages. I had to write my first database using ones and zeroes." Programmer 2: "You had zeroes? I had to use the letter 'O'".
Not strictly a board game, but Apples To Apples is really, really fun with five players or more. Nothing to do with the computer manufacturer. Alcohol is sufficient but not necessary.
...an AOL user here at work got her computer upgraded from 98 to 2k...From a user standpoint there is almost no difference...when you open explorer in 98 it goes to the C drive, in 2k it goes to your home directory.
Hmm, that seems like a rather significant difference from the "user standpoint". You forget that most "users" are highly task-oriented, and any little glitch throws them off. 2K/XP is a vastly different experience for most folks. Mainly, it doesn't crash several times a day. WTF are they gonna do with all that free time they used to have while waiting for the computer to reboot?
...or at least pretend to. When I was growing up as an Air Force brat, we were allowed to take ONE BOX of stuff when my Dad got transferred. Cut way down on the clutter.
Our software makes your daily work more interesting
In the sense of the old Chinese curse: "May you live in interesting times."
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this falls into the category of sci-fi author who feels the need to throw strange terminology out there to make it feel "different".
Not at all. The "strange terminology" is used mainly to refer to alien species. The rest of the language is ornate, but based on English and Latin derivations for the most part. The milieu of Perdido Street Station is so odd and wonderful that the author could refer to the various races by numbers and still the city of New Crobuzon would dazzle readers.
I was a bit disappointed by The Scar, mainly because it didn't give me the same Shock Of The New that PSS did[1], but it's a far better work than most of the stuff in bookstores.
[1] I experienced the same let-down when I read Gibson's Count Zero, because Neuromancer was a hard act to follow. When I re-read his cyberspace triology, however, I realized that the other two books were every bit as good as the first.
I thought owning a geocities web page and having an HTML Writers Guild badge made you an official web developer.
Dang, I wish I had mod points right now. "Web Development" is at the same stage that "Desktop Publishing" was in the 80s: any wally with a computer and an "HTML Editor Program" can hang out a shingle. I knew I should have become a male prostitute instead of a Web consultant...
The official position is that Panther requires a machine with built-in USB. Of course, the official position on Jaguar was that CPU upgrade cards weren't supported, but it's running just fine on my wife's beige G3 with a G4 upgrade.
Panther might run on hers, but I'm going to let braver souls try installing it on a similar machine before I risk Spousal Wrath.
Sucks to not have a Windows-like taskbar and be forced to use these lame workarounds.
Er, there's that Dock thingy. Windows users, habituated to running everything full-screen, just don't "get" Expose. "Huh? You mean I can see windows from more than one program on screen at the same time? And drag-and-drop stuff between them?"
There are plenty of companies that have affiliate programs with thousands of members. There's no way to keep track of how each of your members are advertising.
After one or two companies get nailed with horrendous fines, you can bet your ass that the rest will adopt policies specifically prohibiting their members from spamming. Besides, laws enabling that sort of punishment will get plenty of publicity before they actually take effect, giving legitimate operations time to clean house.
The only address you can always track down in a spam is the one that's selling the product or service. Go after them, and the flood of spam will stop. About the only downside is that some unscrupulous merchants might try to joe-job competitors, but that sort of thing can be handled fairly.
Ah, that brings back memories of the Good Old Days of DOS and Netware. Our accountant decided he was a manly enough geek to take on the network admin (me) and the head of R&D in a Prank Deathmatch. He was at an extreme disadvantage, though: all of us could lock down our computers while we were away, but I could tweak the Netware login script to load stuff despite his security measures.
I think the one that made him cry "Uncle!" was Cascade, a program that sat idle for a few minutes and then caused characters to fall to a pile at the bottom of the screen. Priceless.
A couple of people have reported to XLR8 Your Mac that their M-Audio Revolution 7.1 cards no longer work after the update. One mentions that M-Audio knows about it and is working on a fix.
...there were freakin' chaps, hats and covered wagons in this travesty. I think there were also revolvers too...
The show didn't take itself too seriously, unlike others I could name <cough>Enterprise</cough>. The western theme was tongue-in-cheek to a large extent. But as others have pointed out, 19th-century technology makes a lot of sense from a realism point of view. Projectile weapons are appropriate tech on a world where it's difficult to recharge your phaser. The covered wagon wheels probably had ball bearings, tho.
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I still get nausea and vertigo when I think about [Descent].
Oh yeah, but it wasn't as bad as Alien vs. Predator, playing as the alien. My wife couldn't even be in the same room as the monitor.
For OS X machines with a microphone, there's always Conan the Librarian.
When did Slashdot become Martha Stewart Living? FFS, most people can figure out how to store game cartridges, and those that can't probably don't know how to find this site anyway. Sheesh.
I have a dream, that one day, man will frag and snipe without hearing the crys of WALLHACK, OMG HAXOR!!!!
that one day right down in UT2K4 little Red boys and Red girls will be able to join hands with little Blue boys and Blue girls as sisters and brothers...I have a dream today!
In IN at my cottage, we call those japanese beetles.
Japanese beetles are smaller, shinier and have ridges on their wing covers. The ones I'm talking about have a dusty appearance and a small horn on their head (we also used to call them "unicorn beetles").
Who here thinks that June Bugs are, in fact, these things? [mayflies]
Nope. These are what we called june bugs when I was growing up in Mississippi. I used to catch them all summer and store them in a jar, then release them all at once in August. Quite a sight to an elementary school kid.
We also used to amuse ourselves by tying a long thread to one of their back legs and letting them fly in circles.
read the descriptions of a few of those turntables to realise these guys are as wacked out as alien abductees
You think that's insane? Take a look at this review of a freekin power cable .
BECAUSE THAT'S WHAT A WATCH IS FOR.
Heh. A couple of years ago I bought a cheap digital watch that syncs to the WWV time signal. My son asked "What else does it do?", and I replied "Besides telling the exactly correct time, which is what a watch should do?"
This site advertises clocks for the hearing-impared that register up to 113 decibels
I got one of the Sonic Boom alarms for my wife, who manages to sleep through just about anything. It does the trick. Fortunately, I usually get up before her, but on days when she has to get up early I nearly fall out of bed when the damn thing goes off. She refers to it as the "Wake The Dead Alarm Clock".
The type of weaponry protecting the White House is classified but AFIAK, it is there.
I live in the Washington, DC area and have seen the SAM batteries that are positioned in various places. No jets needed at all.
cost per page for inkjet printers vs. laser
This MacWorld article discusses the costs. Basically, lasers cost 3-4 cents per page, inkjets 5-10 cents (black only).
In MY DAY, we'd plug wires into a wall of vaccuum tubes.
Reminds me of the classic Dilbert:
Not strictly a board game, but Apples To Apples is really, really fun with five players or more. Nothing to do with the computer manufacturer. Alcohol is sufficient but not necessary.
Hmm, that seems like a rather significant difference from the "user standpoint". You forget that most "users" are highly task-oriented, and any little glitch throws them off. 2K/XP is a vastly different experience for most folks. Mainly, it doesn't crash several times a day. WTF are they gonna do with all that free time they used to have while waiting for the computer to reboot?
I still feel strange that I haven't moved in the last five years
Dude, I've been in the same place for the last 27 years. I feel like I've been frozen in amber. It just ain't natural...
...or at least pretend to. When I was growing up as an Air Force brat, we were allowed to take ONE BOX of stuff when my Dad got transferred. Cut way down on the clutter.
Our software makes your daily work more interesting
In the sense of the old Chinese curse: "May you live in interesting times."
this falls into the category of sci-fi author who feels the need to throw strange terminology out there to make it feel "different".
Not at all. The "strange terminology" is used mainly to refer to alien species. The rest of the language is ornate, but based on English and Latin derivations for the most part. The milieu of Perdido Street Station is so odd and wonderful that the author could refer to the various races by numbers and still the city of New Crobuzon would dazzle readers.
I was a bit disappointed by The Scar, mainly because it didn't give me the same Shock Of The New that PSS did[1], but it's a far better work than most of the stuff in bookstores.
[1] I experienced the same let-down when I read Gibson's Count Zero, because Neuromancer was a hard act to follow. When I re-read his cyberspace triology, however, I realized that the other two books were every bit as good as the first.
I thought owning a geocities web page and having an HTML Writers Guild badge made you an official web developer.
Dang, I wish I had mod points right now. "Web Development" is at the same stage that "Desktop Publishing" was in the 80s: any wally with a computer and an "HTML Editor Program" can hang out a shingle. I knew I should have become a male prostitute instead of a Web consultant...
does Panther not work on all Beige G3s?
The official position is that Panther requires a machine with built-in USB. Of course, the official position on Jaguar was that CPU upgrade cards weren't supported, but it's running just fine on my wife's beige G3 with a G4 upgrade.
Panther might run on hers, but I'm going to let braver souls try installing it on a similar machine before I risk Spousal Wrath.
Sucks to not have a Windows-like taskbar and be forced to use these lame workarounds.
Er, there's that Dock thingy. Windows users, habituated to running everything full-screen, just don't "get" Expose. "Huh? You mean I can see windows from more than one program on screen at the same time? And drag-and-drop stuff between them?"
There are plenty of companies that have affiliate programs with thousands of members. There's no way to keep track of how each of your members are advertising.
After one or two companies get nailed with horrendous fines, you can bet your ass that the rest will adopt policies specifically prohibiting their members from spamming. Besides, laws enabling that sort of punishment will get plenty of publicity before they actually take effect, giving legitimate operations time to clean house.
The only address you can always track down in a spam is the one that's selling the product or service. Go after them, and the flood of spam will stop. About the only downside is that some unscrupulous merchants might try to joe-job competitors, but that sort of thing can be handled fairly.
Ah, that brings back memories of the Good Old Days of DOS and Netware. Our accountant decided he was a manly enough geek to take on the network admin (me) and the head of R&D in a Prank Deathmatch. He was at an extreme disadvantage, though: all of us could lock down our computers while we were away, but I could tweak the Netware login script to load stuff despite his security measures.
I think the one that made him cry "Uncle!" was Cascade, a program that sat idle for a few minutes and then caused characters to fall to a pile at the bottom of the screen. Priceless.
A couple of people have reported to XLR8 Your Mac that their M-Audio Revolution 7.1 cards no longer work after the update. One mentions that M-Audio knows about it and is working on a fix.
The show didn't take itself too seriously, unlike others I could name <cough>Enterprise</cough>. The western theme was tongue-in-cheek to a large extent. But as others have pointed out, 19th-century technology makes a lot of sense from a realism point of view. Projectile weapons are appropriate tech on a world where it's difficult to recharge your phaser. The covered wagon wheels probably had ball bearings, tho.