That's a lot like what watiers/ waitresses do. My friend's GF got fired for rounding people's bills up. Everyone in the place did it, she got caught.
Their reasoning for doing that was that if the bill was 29.82$, the tip would be significanly less (for people who are cheap/ can't do math) than if it was $30.02.
It seems to me that this is the start of something...
Jesse's life savings have almost been replentished by donations from everyone else. Concidering that most of those donations are coming from "pirates," anyway, this is probibly making the RIAA happy. They'll continue seeking higher and higher retribution fees and the masses will pay their "swap tax;" and WILLINGLY.
...Not that I'm saying not to donate, I'm just pointing out that this could be setting a precident. As more kids get caught up in the unfair suits that the RIAA it throwing at people, more kids will follow Jesse's lead. Right now, it may seem like you can get hit with a lawsuit without conciquence, but eventually, everyone will be fed up with donating.
Jump on the bandwagon while people still wanna help out the little guy!
For starters, there's an entire underground GBA programming initiative. I've muddled around with it a bit. Wrote a little etch-a-sketch app. Ported my "Life simulator" code. Made partical fire based on the routines at LongbowDigitalArts. It's great.
In fact, being able to do that is great, if you get a large enough cartrage (about 300$ for 1GB), you can fit 32 of your GBA games into one cart so you don't have to constantly switch them and fumble around with games and worry about losing them.
And, for the record, I've had gamegear games go bad on me. But that's because I had a magnet in the drawer with them.;)
I haven't looked in repair shops for logic boards, but I think that $800 is a little high.
Look on ebay, you can get G4 Logic Boards (gigabit ethernet ones, even!) for about $200. I had purchased one back when I was gonna build my own mac, since I had a lot of extra parts laying around from upgrading my old one, but I decided to get a CoreCrib, instead. It was quite nice, but the case is a little flimsy. I've already stripped all of the screw holes. Damn cheap aluminum...
Don't yell at mea about my messy room, people bitched enough when I posted the first time. My room's clean now (new apartment, bigger room, less stuff).;)
I've been working on a program like this for the last 2 weeks or so. currently, it's a terminal-only program, written in C and only works with NES games. It works for Linux and OSX as well as many flavours of *nix/ BSD, and *should* work for DOS, however I have not been able to get VisualStudio to compile my code. arg.
The next stage of developement is to be Cocoa for OSX. It's all opensource as well. Check out the sourceforge project. Also the project page.
I feel kinda de-motivated now that this has been released, but I've still got some ideas for my app that they didn't seem to incorperate. Also, theirs, being java and all, is a bit slow to launch.
Sadly, I also posted a little announcement to slashdot, here, the night that I put my first release online, and it was accepted, however has not yet been posted.
I started developement on NESRomTool when NAPIT was announced on here, since that thing took damn near 5 minutes to extract all of the graphics from ninja gaiden. My app does it in seconds.
Oh well, maybe this blurb will bring exposure to my excellent ROM hacking tool. NESRomTool, the NES ROM hacker that beats them all.
I'd assume that this could possibly be caused by a rapid encoder they created specially for this purpose. I'd hate to think how long it took them to encode the entire iTMS library....or maybe they're not encoded from the actual distributed CD, but rather files/ recordings from the record label themselves?
Or this may even be a way of identifying the files as coming from the iTMS in addition to the embeded info in the AAC files.
Sirs, I don't live with mom and dad, been moved out since I was 17 (4 years, going on 5, now).
Yes, I've got some major disposable income. Comes from having a nicely paying job and not spending all my money on clothes/car and stuff.
When you shop at wal*mart for your clothes, get yer shirt at concerts and work 3 jobs (1 real one plus freelance art and sell screenprinting/embroidery) you find yourself having extra disposable income.
I also have a habbit of aquiring computer parts and computers.
Besides, if I lived at home, I'd have a MUCH bigger room, but screw their rules, I can't stand that. Never live at home, it isn't worth it. You can't get away with anything, and you can't stay up all night fucking around with your computers with the music blaring.;)
btw, now that I actually have time to write something (it's been a hectic-ass day at work).
The whole thing cost me about 600$ in the longrun. I had a regular sawtooth G4 that I have slowly been upgrading. Current specs of the machine:
800mhz G4 (pulled from my old g4 that is now back to 450mhz) 1GB RAM (spent 120$) RADON 9000 (pulled from old g4- that machine now has the AGP Rage 128 again) RAGE 128 (pulled my my g3 so I can do dual monitors) 60GB HD (70$ at compUSA after rebate) 40GB HD (I had laying around) SCSI card (that I had laying around) 52x burner- Pacific Digital (20$ at office depot after rebate) 32x burner (pulled from G3 because it has spin problems, but works well enough)
I was planning on building a g4 because I had all those extra parts kicking around, so I had picked up a Gigabit G4 logicboard on ebay a couple weeks ago, so I have that extra now. Maybe I'll just sell it on ebay again.
I wouldn't have built this machine had it not been for the fact that I had all those lose parts kicking around, it would have been too expensive. But this worked great.
Hey, wasn't there a similar invention discovered in the mediterranian that was linked to ancient Greeks?
I remember watching some show where they discovered a compass that was powered by a piece of copper submerged in grapejuice and, on this show, was touted as being the world's first electric battery.
The dang arabs prolly stole that thing from them Greeks!
maybe the addressbook app will be killed and the drawer added as a system service to apps that need to use the address book? I'd say that that sounds like apple's style to me.
If some of these revived microbes were to escape into the wild could that pose a threat? I mean much like the epidemics of introducing insects to other continents and nearly wiping out other species, could these microbes attack helpful ones?
What if they cause disease?
I guess that this isn't as much of an issue as say, 100,000 year old microbes, but still...
Time to fetch the bio suit and build a shelter to preserve life as we know it. =)
It wasn't that long ago that I used to get all of my CDs for 11$ a piece at CD world, but they jacked up the prices to anywhere from 13.99 to 18.99. Even the disks that I used to get for 9$ (the lesser known bands) are up that high.
now I just go to half.com and get all my CDs for a nice low price. I barely downlaod any music unless it's something that I don't think is worth paying for (disturbed, for instance).
I don't think they're denying the fact that people traveled over the land bridge to get to north america; I think they're saying that those weren't the FIRST people in north america (or at least that far south in north america), but rather that island hoppers had set foot on land down in mexico.
that's just my interpretation.
I don't see why they don't make a LinuxDX library for doing the same thing. for linux/PPC, it should only require recompiling the libraries (unless MacDX utilises mac-specific services such as DrawSprockets, Quickdraw, or Quartz).
Why don't some of you OSS fanatics start a LinuxDX project over at sf? Seems that all you'd really need to do is create OpenGL equivilants of the DirectX functions. right?
I guess it's simple, in theory, but complex in practice. oh well. too bad I'm so damned lazy or I'd do it.
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Yeah, and a little more after actually reading that article...
whoever wrote that article is an idiot. It discusses how Linux/Unix is just as prone to trojan horse attacks as Windows and MacOSX, well, any OS will always be prone to trojan horse attacks. At least until the program can be controlled through strict md5 hashing (or the like) to be verified to be sure that it is, indeed, the program that the user wishes to be running.
I dunno if I'm getting pissed because the author was an idiot or because it's biased towards windows. Prolly a little of both. Wtf?
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But the reason it's so easy to find security holes in linux is because of the fact that it's open source. You can look at the source and, though having an understanding of the flow, figure out ways to exploit anything that the programmers forgot.
Windows is a lot more difficult to find holes in that you need to use brute force or examine byte-code. Correct?
Actually, I am not Spike, I am spike or spike666 (note the capitalization), depending on the software/website I am using.
I've been spike since about september 1981, so it's perfectly possible that I was spike before this Spike that you speak of.
Unfortunatly, I was not hungover. I had work the next day. I had many drinks, drank a lot of water, drank a lot of coffee in the AM. Now I just have to go to AC and gamble and win millions of dollars and take over the world.
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Their reasoning for doing that was that if the bill was 29.82$, the tip would be significanly less (for people who are cheap/ can't do math) than if it was $30.02.
Jesse's life savings have almost been replentished by donations from everyone else. Concidering that most of those donations are coming from "pirates," anyway, this is probibly making the RIAA happy. They'll continue seeking higher and higher retribution fees and the masses will pay their "swap tax;" and WILLINGLY.
Jump on the bandwagon while people still wanna help out the little guy!
although, I'd have to say that it helps that the game is based on an anime and manga.
Try a google search for images.
As for characters designed specifically for videogames, I'd say Mario is by far the coolest character ever.
In fact, being able to do that is great, if you get a large enough cartrage (about 300$ for 1GB), you can fit 32 of your GBA games into one cart so you don't have to constantly switch them and fumble around with games and worry about losing them.
And, for the record, I've had gamegear games go bad on me. But that's because I had a magnet in the drawer with them. ;)
Look on ebay, you can get G4 Logic Boards (gigabit ethernet ones, even!) for about $200. I had purchased one back when I was gonna build my own mac, since I had a lot of extra parts laying around from upgrading my old one, but I decided to get a CoreCrib, instead. It was quite nice, but the case is a little flimsy. I've already stripped all of the screw holes. Damn cheap aluminum...
Pictures of my CoreCrib from the night I assembled it
Don't yell at mea about my messy room, people bitched enough when I posted the first time. My room's clean now (new apartment, bigger room, less stuff). ;)
The next stage of developement is to be Cocoa for OSX. It's all opensource as well. Check out the sourceforge project. Also the project page.
I feel kinda de-motivated now that this has been released, but I've still got some ideas for my app that they didn't seem to incorperate. Also, theirs, being java and all, is a bit slow to launch.
Sadly, I also posted a little announcement to slashdot, here, the night that I put my first release online, and it was accepted, however has not yet been posted.
I started developement on NESRomTool when NAPIT was announced on here, since that thing took damn near 5 minutes to extract all of the graphics from ninja gaiden. My app does it in seconds.
Oh well, maybe this blurb will bring exposure to my excellent ROM hacking tool. NESRomTool, the NES ROM hacker that beats them all.
I'd assume that this could possibly be caused by a rapid encoder they created specially for this purpose. I'd hate to think how long it took them to encode the entire iTMS library. ...or maybe they're not encoded from the actual distributed CD, but rather files/ recordings from the record label themselves?
Or this may even be a way of identifying the files as coming from the iTMS in addition to the embeded info in the AAC files.
i dunno, just talkin' out my ass. =P
Sirs, I don't live with mom and dad, been moved out since I was 17 (4 years, going on 5, now).
;)
Yes, I've got some major disposable income. Comes from having a nicely paying job and not spending all my money on clothes/car and stuff.
When you shop at wal*mart for your clothes, get yer shirt at concerts and work 3 jobs (1 real one plus freelance art and sell screenprinting/embroidery) you find yourself having extra disposable income.
I also have a habbit of aquiring computer parts and computers.
Besides, if I lived at home, I'd have a MUCH bigger room, but screw their rules, I can't stand that. Never live at home, it isn't worth it. You can't get away with anything, and you can't stay up all night fucking around with your computers with the music blaring.
btw, now that I actually have time to write something (it's been a hectic-ass day at work).
The whole thing cost me about 600$ in the longrun. I had a regular sawtooth G4 that I have slowly been upgrading. Current specs of the machine:
800mhz G4 (pulled from my old g4 that is now back to 450mhz)
1GB RAM (spent 120$)
RADON 9000 (pulled from old g4- that machine now has the AGP Rage 128 again)
RAGE 128 (pulled my my g3 so I can do dual monitors)
60GB HD (70$ at compUSA after rebate)
40GB HD (I had laying around)
SCSI card (that I had laying around)
52x burner- Pacific Digital (20$ at office depot after rebate)
32x burner (pulled from G3 because it has spin problems, but works well enough)
I was planning on building a g4 because I had all those extra parts kicking around, so I had picked up a Gigabit G4 logicboard on ebay a couple weeks ago, so I have that extra now. Maybe I'll just sell it on ebay again.
I wouldn't have built this machine had it not been for the fact that I had all those lose parts kicking around, it would have been too expensive. But this worked great.
http://www.sadistech.com/newbox/
I just updated and I'm restoring my mp3 archive from CDs and the copies keep stalling about 200mb into it.
I'm about to try to copy everything from the terminal...
anyone else having any problems like this?
I remember watching some show where they discovered a compass that was powered by a piece of copper submerged in grapejuice and, on this show, was touted as being the world's first electric battery.
The dang arabs prolly stole that thing from them Greeks!
All those time you do it when yer out of college- make sure you only do it with that chick, no one else.
Oh, and do more programming when yer in HS, it's the only time you ever really had to learn.
And read more books.
And when you fall in love with yer best friend, tell her soon, or prepare for a ruined life.
Any surprise that the inventor's name is "Cumming?"
maybe the addressbook app will be killed and the drawer added as a system service to apps that need to use the address book? I'd say that that sounds like apple's style to me.
There's an episode where someone is reading "Make left at fork in road..." to which the russian driver replies "IN SOVIET RUSSIA, THE ROAD FORKS YOU!"
but I could be mistaken...
Should be simple enough with some simple serial software, a modem, and some low-end sound recording software?
yes/no? =)
But also, you never know... you just never know...
What if they cause disease?
I guess that this isn't as much of an issue as say, 100,000 year old microbes, but still...
Time to fetch the bio suit and build a shelter to preserve life as we know it. =)
now I just go to half.com and get all my CDs for a nice low price. I barely downlaod any music unless it's something that I don't think is worth paying for (disturbed, for instance).
I don't think they're denying the fact that people traveled over the land bridge to get to north america; I think they're saying that those weren't the FIRST people in north america (or at least that far south in north america), but rather that island hoppers had set foot on land down in mexico. that's just my interpretation.
I don't see why they don't make a LinuxDX library for doing the same thing. for linux/PPC, it should only require recompiling the libraries (unless MacDX utilises mac-specific services such as DrawSprockets, Quickdraw, or Quartz).
Why don't some of you OSS fanatics start a LinuxDX project over at sf? Seems that all you'd really need to do is create OpenGL equivilants of the DirectX functions. right?
I guess it's simple, in theory, but complex in practice. oh well. too bad I'm so damned lazy or I'd do it.
whoever wrote that article is an idiot. It discusses how Linux/Unix is just as prone to trojan horse attacks as Windows and MacOSX, well, any OS will always be prone to trojan horse attacks. At least until the program can be controlled through strict md5 hashing (or the like) to be verified to be sure that it is, indeed, the program that the user wishes to be running.
I dunno if I'm getting pissed because the author was an idiot or because it's biased towards windows. Prolly a little of both. Wtf?
Windows is a lot more difficult to find holes in that you need to use brute force or examine byte-code. Correct?
At least this is my theory.
Actually, I am not Spike, I am spike or spike666 (note the capitalization), depending on the software/website I am using.
I've been spike since about september 1981, so it's perfectly possible that I was spike before this Spike that you speak of.
Unfortunatly, I was not hungover. I had work the next day. I had many drinks, drank a lot of water, drank a lot of coffee in the AM. Now I just have to go to AC and gamble and win millions of dollars and take over the world.