ALL roadsigns adapt to current conditions. (Detours, construction, accidents, the Fair, the Fair!)
Change the appearance of large items at will - make your house 'look' scary on Halloween, Waving flags and fireworks on the 4th. Give your house a stone wall, garden, or 'trees'. Make your house 'transparent' or 'invisible' for parties, exhibitionism or to get 'away'! (Screens on both inside and coutside of course.) Change 'wallpaper' at whim, decorate by era, place, or fetish. Make your apartment look like its huge! Play a 'real' game of quake, or nethack!
Your car could be a different color every day, or adapt 'styling features' (camo trucks for hunters or the army) 'fake' turbo for all the Rice-Boys out there.
Put 'windows' to the outside world or made up world in your office or cube. Your 'desktop' could be your desktop! Video conferencing could be far more personal, and body language would become useful.
A VR Holodeck of sorts could be be possible, embed into all surfaces in a room.
One *real book - any book contained within!
Graffitti could become an accepted artform. Leave it there a week and then *poof*
Learn to dance with the 'magic' footprints appearing at the proper times and positions.
The Hoover dam could be the biggest theater in the world!
Of course, by the time this comes to pass, the **AAs will probably have legislated that a user cannot view these screens without pervasive advertising. The Hoover dam will play McDonalds and Disney commercials 7 out of 8 hours, some 'Avatar' will follow you around offering product suggestions every two minutes, and someone will get pissed at you for something and hack your house, car and t-shirt to show goatse.cx at random intervals.
First I buy Windows, then I pay taxes so the Government can write software that points out the patches I need and configuration changes I need to make?
If MS is really serious about security (ahem), why don't they do this themselves? It would certainly help their reputation, and would fall in line with the *new* corp. responsibillity that good 'ol GW is talking about.
If you scroll down the list to NatureTech, you will find that their notebook's SPARC chips are not only powerful enough for Solaris, but good for you too!
This sucks for one main reason. As soon as that info is sold, there is no getting it 'back'. It will be resold, repackaged, sorted, sold, crosslinked, sold, and sold again. This info does not belong in the hands of companies who "do buisiness" with a telecom company.
With that, here are the other post headers.
First Post FROst PisT
In other news Imagine the privacy concerns No way in hell! BOYCOTT TELEPHONES NOW I don't Care, I use VOIP They can have my Pizza numbers if they want Workarounds? OT: your sig What we really need Solution is Simple: use the TeleGRAPH! Idiots should not be allowed computers What are they going to do with this?
Eschelon and you Use a repeater node and bannana peel Wireless Networks? My uncle works for AT&T TIme to Move to Canada What do you Expect? Micro$oft and Telecoms I did this...
and finally...
In this day and age. Thanks, I'll be here all week.
A $100, 10 MB Ram, networking Postscript laser printer? So I live in the twilight zone now?
The point I am making is: I have a perfectly good Oki sitting here, and can't use it, because Apple decided to not include SOFTWARE support for it. Not hardware; I have the harware nessasary, and use it when I am forever booting into OS 9.
Software. Jeez. I'd be happy if it was available and unsupported, but it isn't even an option. Ironically, BSD supports localtalk; Apple the inventor doesn't.
I don't mourn the loss of the floppy drive. I'm stuck with some 10 cent floppies. Localtalk removal to drive hardware sales makes me jump though hoops to use this printer, because of Apple's innovative move to a new OS. "We remove functionallity so you don't have to!"
I'm glad to hear you got a good deal, but the whole thing leaves a bad taste.
Agreed on the Adobe problem; they have been 'upgrading' Pagemaker with templates and clipart which are of no use to me, and ignoring problems concerning basic usabillity, and a nasty bug that corrupts your pages (type a delete in a blank text box = uh no.)
I have to use Pagemaker, because of office politics and the fact that the other 'Mac' in the office is an old, slow UMAX clone and won't run OS X. (I did manage to get OS 9 going on it - what an improvement! Faster and more stable than 8.x And unsupported:)
The other 'Mac' is my bosses and she won't/can't learn a new program - sort of the "if it aint broke for me, don't fix it for you" syndrome.
Unfortunately the budget doen't allow for a new Mac, a Localtalk adapter, more memory for the UMAX or anything that would be of use to me.
I'm sure I'm not the only one in this situation, but being the only one who has to deal with these issues and relating them to computer illiterate bosses and co-workers is similar to beating your head with a rotten fish. It kind of hurts, but you really hope someone will notice the smell and take it away.
If I don't need to see that damn thing again like Apple says, I will gladly pay up. OS X is swell, although Classic blows. Adobe Ragemaker in Classic always crashes.
The finder needs more features that made OS 9 and under great. Now with OS X, I can't color code files, I can't change the icon as easily, I can't sort by date or anything other than name when I'm saving files.
The finder also won't tell you if the file you are replacing is newer than the one you are replacing it with. You can't answer 'yes to all' or 'no to all' either. Grrrrr.
Sure there are free/share/bloat-ware products to do all these things, but why am I forced to resort to these when the 'old' os had them built in?
BTW Apple: If you are reading this - your heads on a stake for removing the abillity to print to a localtalk printer. Yeah, I'm going to get my work to shell for a new laser printer. Nope, boot to OS 9. I think your punishment should be this: Every time you want to update Apple.com, you must quit OS X, boot to OS 9, make the change, quit OS 9, boot to OS X, check the results. Repeat 'til you kill yourselves.
I know that I can get an adapter to fix this, but damnit, what happened to 'Works out of the Box' ?
I spent HOURS+ making a multitude of pinball games with that software for the Apple 2.
You could wire flippers, bumpers, everything with your own point system. PBCS would also let you 'paint' your selected parts any of 5± colors including 'erasing' the part. Using 'invisible' bumpers was quite entertaining.
It was also possible to adjust gravity, bounce, and friction of the ball, IIRC.
The coolest feature of all is that you could take your finished game and 'compile' it to run stand-alone! Trading pinball games was great...ah, Apple 2 memories....I also had a program for the Apple 2 called Gamemaker. It let you create simple games like 2600 Pitfall clones and the like. Never got the hang of it....
The best 'Constructon Set' in recent memory was the level editor in Crack Dot Com's sidescroller, 'Abuse'. It used a lisp driven engine to allow you to make levels easier than anything I recall at the time. Just like wiring a simple circuit. (Much like PBCS!)
10 A$="U.S.A";B$="Rest Of World" 20 Input "Where are you from?",IP$ 30 If IP$ = A$ Then Print "Due to Copyright Resrictions you are not allowed to listen to or view this Liquid Audio Media!": GOTO 50 40 If IP$ = B$ Then Print "WTF? Only Patent Office fearing Americans may listen to or view this Liquid Audio Media! Not some godless pirates the likes of you! Away foul beasts!":GOTO 50 50 Print "Your Name has been entered into our database of repeat offenders. An agency ending in 'AA' should be visiting you shortly. Thank you." 60 End
Sorry I didn't comment the code very well...
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due to the newfound explosive nature of mice, I'm going to skip out on buying hardware for the time being.
Nasa has announced a lawsuit naming the two elements as accomplices in aiding the rouge Moon Rock's escape from this country. Further news can be found on "http://www.nasa.gov/moonrockgonebad.html". This page may have been removed due to the pending lawsuit.
1. Courtney Cox 2. That guy from "Whose Line Is It Anyway? (BBC Version) or alternately, the Lost Ghostbuster. 3. Victoria Jackson fron SNL 4. That doctor from E.R.
I expect to see 'Elvez' saying he switched pretty soon.
The less choices for the 'average' consumer the better. 'They' don't want to make a decision like what ver. of Linux to install, they want to email Gramma, and play Deer Hunter 3D.
BeOS tried it. MS would not allow any link on the desktop, bootloader, or documentation with any PC that had BeOS installed on the hardrive. BeOS got to include a boot floppy, IIRC, on some Toshibias and that's it.
That situation was partially responsible for the death of BeOS. OpenBeos will not have those problems!
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Change the appearance of large items at will - make your house 'look' scary on Halloween, Waving flags and fireworks on the 4th. Give your house a stone wall, garden, or 'trees'. Make your house 'transparent' or 'invisible' for parties, exhibitionism or to get 'away'! (Screens on both inside and coutside of course.) Change 'wallpaper' at whim, decorate by era, place, or fetish. Make your apartment look like its huge! Play a 'real' game of quake, or nethack!
Your car could be a different color every day, or adapt 'styling features' (camo trucks for hunters or the army) 'fake' turbo for all the Rice-Boys out there.
Put 'windows' to the outside world or made up world in your office or cube. Your 'desktop' could be your desktop! Video conferencing could be far more personal, and body language would become useful.
A VR Holodeck of sorts could be be possible, embed into all surfaces in a room.
One *real book - any book contained within!
Graffitti could become an accepted artform. Leave it there a week and then *poof*
Learn to dance with the 'magic' footprints appearing at the proper times and positions.
The Hoover dam could be the biggest theater in the world!
Of course, by the time this comes to pass, the **AAs will probably have legislated that a user cannot view these screens without pervasive advertising. The Hoover dam will play McDonalds and Disney commercials 7 out of 8 hours, some 'Avatar' will follow you around offering product suggestions every two minutes, and someone will get pissed at you for something and hack your house, car and t-shirt to show goatse.cx at random intervals.
Don't want to think about that on the Hoover dam
It's the same one used for years by many police departments.
Do I need to do this like, once an hour, day or will once a week do?
You're right. But there is no +1 Important.
If MS is really serious about security (ahem), why don't they do this themselves? It would certainly help their reputation, and would fall in line with the *new* corp. responsibillity that good 'ol GW is talking about.
And then I woke up!
If you scroll down the list to NatureTech, you will find that their notebook's SPARC chips are not only powerful enough for Solaris, but good for you too!
This sucks for one main reason. As soon as that info is sold, there is no getting it 'back'. It will be resold, repackaged, sorted, sold, crosslinked, sold, and sold again. This info does not belong in the hands of companies who "do buisiness" with a telecom company.
With that, here are the other post headers.
First Post
FROst PisT In other news
Imagine the privacy concerns
No way in hell!
BOYCOTT TELEPHONES NOW
I don't Care, I use VOIP
They can have my Pizza numbers if they want
Workarounds?
OT: your sig
What we really need
Solution is Simple: use the TeleGRAPH!
Idiots should not be allowed computers
What are they going to do with this? Eschelon and you
Use a repeater node and bannana peel
Wireless Networks?
My uncle works for AT&T
TIme to Move to Canada
What do you Expect?
Micro$oft and Telecoms
I did this...
and finally...
In this day and age.
Thanks, I'll be here all week.
Do you even know what I am talking about? You sound like someone who just likes to post contrary things. Oh well, have fun with your little pastime.
The point I am making is: I have a perfectly good Oki sitting here, and can't use it, because Apple decided to not include SOFTWARE support for it. Not hardware; I have the harware nessasary, and use it when I am forever booting into OS 9.
Software. Jeez. I'd be happy if it was available and unsupported, but it isn't even an option. Ironically, BSD supports localtalk; Apple the inventor doesn't.
I don't mourn the loss of the floppy drive. I'm stuck with some 10 cent floppies. Localtalk removal to drive hardware sales makes me jump though hoops to use this printer, because of Apple's innovative move to a new OS. "We remove functionallity so you don't have to!"
I'm glad to hear you got a good deal, but the whole thing leaves a bad taste.
I have to use Pagemaker, because of office politics and the fact that the other 'Mac' in the office is an old, slow UMAX clone and won't run OS X. (I did manage to get OS 9 going on it - what an improvement! Faster and more stable than 8.x And unsupported :)
The other 'Mac' is my bosses and she won't/can't learn a new program - sort of the "if it aint broke for me, don't fix it for you" syndrome.
Unfortunately the budget doen't allow for a new Mac, a Localtalk adapter, more memory for the UMAX or anything that would be of use to me.
I'm sure I'm not the only one in this situation, but being the only one who has to deal with these issues and relating them to computer illiterate bosses and co-workers is similar to beating your head with a rotten fish. It kind of hurts, but you really hope someone will notice the smell and take it away.
The finder needs more features that made OS 9 and under great. Now with OS X, I can't color code files, I can't change the icon as easily, I can't sort by date or anything other than name when I'm saving files.
The finder also won't tell you if the file you are replacing is newer than the one you are replacing it with. You can't answer 'yes to all' or 'no to all' either. Grrrrr. Sure there are free/share/bloat-ware products to do all these things, but why am I forced to resort to these when the 'old' os had them built in?
BTW Apple: If you are reading this - your heads on a stake for removing the abillity to print to a localtalk printer. Yeah, I'm going to get my work to shell for a new laser printer. Nope, boot to OS 9. I think your punishment should be this: Every time you want to update Apple.com, you must quit OS X, boot to OS 9, make the change, quit OS 9, boot to OS X, check the results. Repeat 'til you kill yourselves.
I know that I can get an adapter to fix this, but damnit, what happened to 'Works out of the Box' ?
I hate to love Apple, I love to hate M$.
Back to work, Slashders!
I think I used that same argument to get my copy too. IIRC it was $50± back then... :)
OMG-far too fun and addictive! Replay value forever! I can't recommend them enough, and they'll fit on a floppy. Windows only tho... :(
You could wire flippers, bumpers, everything with your own point system. PBCS would also let you 'paint' your selected parts any of 5± colors including 'erasing' the part. Using 'invisible' bumpers was quite entertaining.
It was also possible to adjust gravity, bounce, and friction of the ball, IIRC.
The coolest feature of all is that you could take your finished game and 'compile' it to run stand-alone! Trading pinball games was great...ah, Apple 2 memories....I also had a program for the Apple 2 called Gamemaker. It let you create simple games like 2600 Pitfall clones and the like. Never got the hang of it....
The best 'Constructon Set' in recent memory was the level editor in Crack Dot Com's sidescroller, 'Abuse'. It used a lisp driven engine to allow you to make levels easier than anything I recall at the time. Just like wiring a simple circuit. (Much like PBCS!)
What's Bill Budge doing these days?
10 A$="U.S.A";B$="Rest Of World"
20 Input "Where are you from?",IP$
30 If IP$ = A$ Then Print "Due to Copyright Resrictions you are not allowed to listen to or view this Liquid Audio Media!": GOTO 50
40 If IP$ = B$ Then Print "WTF? Only Patent Office fearing Americans may listen to or view this Liquid Audio Media! Not some godless pirates the likes of you! Away foul beasts!":GOTO 50
50 Print "Your Name has been entered into our database of repeat offenders. An agency ending in 'AA' should be visiting you shortly. Thank you."
60 End
Sorry I didn't comment the code very well...
due to the newfound explosive nature of mice, I'm going to skip out on buying hardware for the time being.
Unfortunately it's hard to find on /. :P
Nasa has announced a lawsuit naming the two elements as accomplices in aiding the rouge Moon Rock's escape from this country. Further news can be found on "http://www.nasa.gov/moonrockgonebad.html". This page may have been removed due to the pending lawsuit.
Here is the /. story.
1. Courtney Cox
2. That guy from "Whose Line Is It Anyway? (BBC Version) or alternately, the Lost Ghostbuster.
3. Victoria Jackson fron SNL
4. That doctor from E.R.
I expect to see 'Elvez' saying he switched pretty soon.
One Degree of Separation!
Call it the Dale Earnhardt OS and you got yerself a sale! That man was a saint!
The less choices for the 'average' consumer the better. 'They' don't want to make a decision like what ver. of Linux to install, they want to email Gramma, and play Deer Hunter 3D.
I thought OS X (in it's Jaguar incarnation) would be a good choice for Piers. Just avoid Classic.
That situation was partially responsible for the death of BeOS. OpenBeos will not have those problems!