User: SirPhobos

David R Foley

On: Arcade Kit Seller Applies for MAME Trademark [updated]

I'd just like to point out his personal website, which contains his resume with his email address (david@davidrfoley.com or david@hyperware.com) and phone number attached. Don't be too mean. ;-)

Re:Your vote is Dubya's Vote?

On: Ask Green Party Presidential Candidate David Cobb

People who vote for third party candidates are people who don't give a shit who will run the country.

Untrue, and very unfair. First, it sends a message to the major parties they they're not what we want. If we just keep voting blindly on party lines they'll think they have the carte blanche to do whatever they want and still get our votes. Second, it gives those of us not living in a 'swing state' (oh, how I have come to loathe that term) a chance to have our voices count for something. I live in Indiana; it has about as much of a chance of going Kerry as I do of waking up tomorrow and owning Apple. Voting third party gives me the chance to tell both parties that I don't support their policies. If enough people vote third party, the politicians will listen. It's the people who simply vote on partisan lines that don't give a shit who runs the country, just as long as they have that R or D beside their name.

Re:Japan

On: Copy-Protected CDs Going Mainstream

I really don't know much about the format itself, it just popped up a QT plugin install box when I put the CD in. The version.txt on my Sasayakana Inori single just says

CDS200.0.4
3.0 build 16a

Searching for it just turns up this URL
http://members.tripod.com/cds200/
It sounds like crap, either way. ISOBuster lets me get those nice .ape files, so it doesn't really bother me much, though. :)

Re:Japan

On: Copy-Protected CDs Going Mainstream

All of Avex's CDs are DRMed now. They use some crapy QT formar, it seems. For all these protected CDs, let me just say that ISOBuster is your friend. It shows session data and lets you rip the raw WAVs from the CD. Encode from there to your codec of choice.

Re:Texas has a history in wireless

On: America's First WCDMA Call

Texas is a huge flat land mass located in the southern portion of the united states. It borders the carribean and has fairly nice weather (except for the occasional tornado)

Carribean? Try the Gulf of Mexico. And don't forget to mention the near annual floods and the occasional hurricane.

Re:What keeps me on windows

On: What's Keeping You On Windows?

My Win2k workstation has 31 days 7 hours 33mins of uptime as of this point. Would have been 53days except for that damn power outage. A solid month and Morrowind. What more can I ask for? :)

Just like a real woman!

On: N.Y. Times Magazine Chats With ALICE Bot Creator

Alison: Hi, I'm Alison.What's your name?
SirPhobos: SirPhobos
Alison: Nice to meet you SirPhobos
SirPhobos: what up, bitch
Alison: Hmm. That kind of attitude won't get you far in relationships.
SirPhobos: oh well
Alison: That's about it.
SirPhobos: so you wanna come back to my place
Alison: Interesting deduction. OK, I will come back to your place.
SirPhobos: why don't you take off that shirt
Alison: Don't you know? Yes I take off that shirt.
SirPhobos: you wanna get naked
Alison: OK, I will get naked.
SirPhobos: let's get freaky
Alison: OK let's do it.
SirPhobos: uNF
Alison: What are you wearing?
SirPhobos: you
Alison: "What are you wearing"? Me, SirPhobos ?
SirPhobos: omg yes
Alison: Why don't you check out Jester the joke bot?

Leads you on and then turns you down. ;_;

Re:Gave up on PDA. Stick with Cell phone

On: Ideal PDA Feature Wishlist?

PalmOS: forget it. I can not learn graffiti. the screen is too small, the system is obviously for geeks. No wireless, why do I need a cell phone + this thing.

Actually you can do wireless with a Handspring. And it has a cellphone module, too. It's up to you if you want to buy a module that costs more than the actual PDA though. :)

Re:Small correction- palm m100 has 2MB

On: Palm m100s - A Pattern of Defects?

Handspring makes nice handhelds. I have a Visor Edge, ran me about $160 before tax. 8MB of memory, PalmOS, the nifty expansion slots and it actually works. What more could you ask for? :)