Yeah, I know. Nobody said it because it was obvious. But honestly, you are the first person here that I've seen claiming not to be male.
As for the topic, I have no idea what I'd tell myself. I don't even remember what was happening back then, 7 years ago. Too depressed from lack of any friends / hobbies. It would probably be along the lines of "Get an x-ray of that hip. It's broken and your doctor is a moron who will let it go for three more years."
Although ot out yet for windows, there is a screenshot of the early version here.
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Note in the bottom right corner? atiTray. Yeah. Real geeks don't go with nVidia in mission critical assignments. Even if that mission is taking out the terrorists.
</sarcasm>
I believe you are talking about The Really Big Button That Doesn't Do Anything.
A novel concept in its time, it was a strangely addictive big red button on a website. Established in 1994, and linking back to itsef, it was more repetitive than Taco's story postings.
As interest in it waned, though, they added a message board-ish thing that let people comment on the button. As it was quickly misused, the best comments were left and the worst deleted.
There, the very first MS bashing in large amounts began with comments like, "Huh? A button that does nothing? Must be a new Microsoft product..."
"I know something you don't, and won't know. It's about how to extract a helpful agent from a potentially volatile poison. Said agent will ten, when mixed with other medicines, prove to be 100 times more effective than if the medicine were by itself."
I seems a bit odd that is published instead of a helpful article, but when you look at the original:
"Get yourself some botulism, refine it, and extract chemical n from it. Take care not to retrieve any of chemicle h from it though, as that is several levels of magnitude more dangerous than botulism itself. Now take that extracted n and..."
it seems like it needs a bit of "self censorship".
Yes! Not only am I a doctor, but I also made something so cool that it doesn't even have a coherent name!
we just sopport those who censor as we wish
Projects that are truly important and helpful get money / promotion from not only the governemnt, but colleges, investors, and other groups that want to reap the rewards (money/promotion) of the finished product. Wouldn't you want your business' / college's name attached to said "bio-whatever-mechanism"?
Plus, if you get your name out there as being on the bleeding edge (no pun intended) of the business, (common sense tells me) it would be much easier to get funding from agencies other than the government.
Note: I'm not a scientist, nor have I had to get funding for anything other than a car, so I may be wrong in that area, but as the old marketing slogan goes, "There's no such thing as bad publicity."
Speaking of canned air, you ever see those cans of presurized air for cleaning keyboards and stuff, theres the typical warning on the back, "deliberate concentration and inhalation of contents may cause illness or even death", its air for christsake!
If it was simply air, there would not be a probem with this. The issue occurs when they wat the air to some out of the can. They can't just pressurize regular air, as it would depressurize to fast.
So they add isopropyl. It's a form of rubbing alcohol. That's the stuff that'll kill you, if you inhale enough.
Also, if you are stupid enough to spray the stuff into your mouth through the little straw, it might expand your lungs, causing tearing of tissue, internal bleeding in lungs, collapsed lungs, or an adema-like condition where your blood causes you to drown. Remember, people are that stpid.
On a related note, it also shouldn't always be used in closed areas. Some computers have way too much dust inside the towers. That stuff isn't too good for you either.
According to the article, it's the editors of the science journals that wat to censor their content. Not the government or some other organization wanting to censor it for them.
This isn't as big an issue as it sounds. People censor themselves all the time: it's called being polite ("Don't have anything nice to say? Then don't say anything at all." Yeah, right).
It's not MS saying they want to censor 2600 from ppublishing content that might expose vulnrabilities in their software.
It's not the government saying they want to censor Slashdot because most people here think Bush is a confused muppet.
Let them censor themselves. They might just do it so much that they don't have any readers left.
That's what talking face to face is for. If you really want something to be kept secret between you and another person, why even consider using something as open and easily hackable as a telephone or the internet?
you boring people have to support these privacy issues that affect people like me
Ok, do ya know how many things you got wrong in this statement? Well, two.
1. You say everybody has to suport these no matter how boring they are. That's not exactly a good way to get people to support something. That gets them defensive. If you need something supported, get down from your high horse and show people how it affects them, boring or not.
2. I never said that *I* was a boring person. I just said my phone conversations aren't the most interesting things to listen to.
I want to say I sense a bit of sarcasm in your statements, but you are coming off as serious. If you really have that much to hide, perhaps it's time to start cleaning out your closet?
excuse me for being, well, not exactly the brightest one here, but here goes:
If the speed of light is constant, then why does it vary as it goes through different things? For example: when light goes through glass, it slows through the glass then speeds back up again.
And with black holes, the gravity is so intense that not even light can escape.
It would seem that these two things (the first being the most obvious of all) prove that the speed of light does vary. Or maybe everybody I learned from was full of it.
I'm among those who doesn't want strangers flipping through any data about me without a convincing reason
I agree with you on this point, but then I sit back and think about it: Am I really that interesting?
I've decided that although personal privacy and freedom are very important, if some weirdo (capitol or otherwise) really wants to see what kinda of pr0n I look at or wants to listen in on my phone conversations (which almost always consist of "So, Starbucks or cyber cafe first?"), let them. Maybe they will get some sort of insight that in general, people aren't worth listening to.
The heat isn't so much an issue in the winter, in fact, they have the employees brew their coffee on these.
But seriously, overheating is a problem with something this big unless it's spread out pretty well for proper airflow. I know first hand.. if I didn't have the grill removed from my car and it wasn't winter, it would have blown up long ago.
That store did have a UPS. It was for the emergency lights (that are required by law) and for the server in the back room. The original plan called for the registers to be powered by this as well, but they tend to draw a bit too much power for even the huge UPS (remember, they are lighting an entire store and keeping up the server).
So the registers had their power cut automagically by the UPS because they were going to use up all of the power too fast.
I happen to work at a store that uses an all-computerized POS system. It's a fairly big retail store, and I have watched the system go down and power go out before, while the store was open and there were customers in there.
What happened? Well, we pulled calculators off the shelves and found the prices manually, hand wrote reciepts, and anbody that had cash was able to pay and leave. Anybody that needed to use credit / debit had to wait until the power came back on (usually 30 min).
Good alternatives to credit cards. You won't get charged a fee for a lot of small transactions
Funny, that's what I use my debit card for. No transaction fees, no interest, and when I run out of money, it stops spending.
Now that I think about it, the etire account is free. I don't pay a dime. And my bank is open every day of the week (the real locations, not just online). I love Commerce Bank.
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wait a minute... there's women here?
Yeah, I know. Nobody said it because it was obvious. But honestly, you are the first person here that I've seen claiming not to be male.
As for the topic, I have no idea what I'd tell myself. I don't even remember what was happening back then, 7 years ago. Too depressed from lack of any friends / hobbies. It would probably be along the lines of "Get an x-ray of that hip. It's broken and your doctor is a moron who will let it go for three more years."
no, it really said "user's names"
and from the article, "35 million subscribers"
but even so, $115 million dollars is quite a bit to spend on cost.
35 million user's names
They have ~35 million users, and yet can't make a profit?
Let's see... ~35,000,000 * $22.99 = ~$804,650,000
They get that much money each month, and still posted a loss how?
slashdotted, 56k modem, what's the differece? takes about the same time to load.
Yeah. There's absolutely NOTHING available. Not even 1-way cable. Anybody got an (affordale) apartment for rent?
From the artice:
"a 12m-long, 30cmwide drainpipe cannon"
From the post:
"get one of those cannon thingies for next valentines day"
Hmm... you wouldn't be compensating for something, would you?
Please, log in next time you post something in reply to me. I'd really like to know who you are.
Although ot out yet for windows, there is a screenshot of the early version here.
<sarcasm>
Note in the bottom right corner? atiTray. Yeah. Real geeks don't go with nVidia in mission critical assignments. Even if that mission is taking out the terrorists.
</sarcasm>
No wonder the Valentine's advice didn't go over so well here
Yeah, basically. In fact, I even journalled my fun-filled Valentine's evening.
I believe you are talking about The Really Big Button That Doesn't Do Anything.
A novel concept in its time, it was a strangely addictive big red button on a website. Established in 1994, and linking back to itsef, it was more repetitive than Taco's story postings.
As interest in it waned, though, they added a message board-ish thing that let people comment on the button. As it was quickly misused, the best comments were left and the worst deleted.
There, the very first MS bashing in large amounts began with comments like, "Huh? A button that does nothing? Must be a new Microsoft product..."
Although dead at the age of 5, its final resting place is in its original home, Spatula City.
I can see the future "censored" articles now:
"I know something you don't, and won't know. It's about how to extract a helpful agent from a potentially volatile poison. Said agent will ten, when mixed with other medicines, prove to be 100 times more effective than if the medicine were by itself."
I seems a bit odd that is published instead of a helpful article, but when you look at the original:
"Get yourself some botulism, refine it, and extract chemical n from it. Take care not to retrieve any of chemicle h from it though, as that is several levels of magnitude more dangerous than botulism itself. Now take that extracted n and..."
it seems like it needs a bit of "self censorship".
your new bio-whatever-mechanism
Yes! Not only am I a doctor, but I also made something so cool that it doesn't even have a coherent name!
we just sopport those who censor as we wish
Projects that are truly important and helpful get money / promotion from not only the governemnt, but colleges, investors, and other groups that want to reap the rewards (money/promotion) of the finished product. Wouldn't you want your business' / college's name attached to said "bio-whatever-mechanism"?
Plus, if you get your name out there as being on the bleeding edge (no pun intended) of the business, (common sense tells me) it would be much easier to get funding from agencies other than the government.
Note: I'm not a scientist, nor have I had to get funding for anything other than a car, so I may be wrong in that area, but as the old marketing slogan goes, "There's no such thing as bad publicity."
Speaking of canned air, you ever see those cans of presurized air for cleaning keyboards and stuff, theres the typical warning on the back, "deliberate concentration and inhalation of contents may cause illness or even death", its air for christsake!
If it was simply air, there would not be a probem with this. The issue occurs when they wat the air to some out of the can. They can't just pressurize regular air, as it would depressurize to fast.
So they add isopropyl. It's a form of rubbing alcohol. That's the stuff that'll kill you, if you inhale enough.
Also, if you are stupid enough to spray the stuff into your mouth through the little straw, it might expand your lungs, causing tearing of tissue, internal bleeding in lungs, collapsed lungs, or an adema-like condition where your blood causes you to drown. Remember, people are that stpid.
On a related note, it also shouldn't always be used in closed areas. Some computers have way too much dust inside the towers. That stuff isn't too good for you either.
According to the article, it's the editors of the science journals that wat to censor their content. Not the government or some other organization wanting to censor it for them.
This isn't as big an issue as it sounds. People censor themselves all the time: it's called being polite ("Don't have anything nice to say? Then don't say anything at all." Yeah, right).
It's not MS saying they want to censor 2600 from ppublishing content that might expose vulnrabilities in their software.
It's not the government saying they want to censor Slashdot because most people here think Bush is a confused muppet.
Let them censor themselves. They might just do it so much that they don't have any readers left.
Sooner or later they'll have something to hide
That's what talking face to face is for. If you really want something to be kept secret between you and another person, why even consider using something as open and easily hackable as a telephone or the internet?
you boring people have to support these privacy issues that affect people like me
Ok, do ya know how many things you got wrong in this statement? Well, two.
1. You say everybody has to suport these no matter how boring they are. That's not exactly a good way to get people to support something. That gets them defensive. If you need something supported, get down from your high horse and show people how it affects them, boring or not.
2. I never said that *I* was a boring person. I just said my phone conversations aren't the most interesting things to listen to.
I want to say I sense a bit of sarcasm in your statements, but you are coming off as serious. If you really have that much to hide, perhaps it's time to start cleaning out your closet?
excuse me for being, well, not exactly the brightest one here, but here goes:
If the speed of light is constant, then why does it vary as it goes through different things? For example: when light goes through glass, it slows through the glass then speeds back up again.
And with black holes, the gravity is so intense that not even light can escape.
It would seem that these two things (the first being the most obvious of all) prove that the speed of light does vary. Or maybe everybody I learned from was full of it.
Either way, any clarification would help.
I'm among those who doesn't want strangers flipping through any data about me without a convincing reason
I agree with you on this point, but then I sit back and think about it: Am I really that interesting?
I've decided that although personal privacy and freedom are very important, if some weirdo (capitol or otherwise) really wants to see what kinda of pr0n I look at or wants to listen in on my phone conversations (which almost always consist of "So, Starbucks or cyber cafe first?"), let them. Maybe they will get some sort of insight that in general, people aren't worth listening to.
I read that and began to think for a minute.. then realized I'm not a verizon customer, and that I have no place on p2p: I'm on dialup.
Fair warning: I'm too lazy to have google translate that for me.
Looks beautiful, but just a bit too much like the new Gameboy.
Which begs the question: what gets the pocket real estate? The new Gameboy or the new Zaurus?
And therefore is still the coolest PDA to date.
By simply filtering out all e-mails that have the word "Nigeria" in them.
I remember hearing these "cashless society" arguments in 1980. I look in my wallet 23 years later, and I still have a wad of cash in there
Well, I wasn't around until '84, and my wallet is still just as empty.
The heat isn't so much an issue in the winter, in fact, they have the employees brew their coffee on these.
But seriously, overheating is a problem with something this big unless it's spread out pretty well for proper airflow. I know first hand.. if I didn't have the grill removed from my car and it wasn't winter, it would have blown up long ago.
That store did have a UPS. It was for the emergency lights (that are required by law) and for the server in the back room. The original plan called for the registers to be powered by this as well, but they tend to draw a bit too much power for even the huge UPS (remember, they are lighting an entire store and keeping up the server).
So the registers had their power cut automagically by the UPS because they were going to use up all of the power too fast.
Ok I'll bite.
I happen to work at a store that uses an all-computerized POS system. It's a fairly big retail store, and I have watched the system go down and power go out before, while the store was open and there were customers in there.
What happened? Well, we pulled calculators off the shelves and found the prices manually, hand wrote reciepts, and anbody that had cash was able to pay and leave. Anybody that needed to use credit / debit had to wait until the power came back on (usually 30 min).
Good alternatives to credit cards. You won't get charged a fee for a lot of small transactions
Funny, that's what I use my debit card for. No transaction fees, no interest, and when I run out of money, it stops spending.
Now that I think about it, the etire account is free. I don't pay a dime. And my bank is open every day of the week (the real locations, not just online). I love Commerce Bank.