That Jeri Ellsworth chick is already selling exactly such a device through the home shopping channel. It's got Impossible Mission and Summer Games and other old chestnuts built in, and looks quite hackable too.
It was on slashdot a couple weeks ago.
More likely, this Yeahanomorinono Media Venture Concern (is that REALLY a US company?!) will sue her ass into a hole.
Anyone know whats up with her or Commodore One? Is she using the Commodore name legally?
Too bad this company has no vision. To hell with mp3 players and re-selling old games, I'd love to see them update the Amiga, a la the G4 Mac and OS/X.
You can, however, put yourself into a diabetic coma by eating too much sweet stuff - though that's not the same as having diabetes.
I heard once that it used to be commonplace to "punish" kids who stole candy by making them eat a bowl of sugar, kind of like the "im going to watch you smoke every one of these!" ploy. More than one kid was put into a coma, or died as a result.
The DoD is currently testing a patch-type nutrient system for soldiers in the field, no actual eating required. Just like a nicotine patch, it keeps you "fed" intravenously for up to 24 hours.
EA and UbiSoft are both mainly publishers, not developers. They do some in-house development, but their bread and butter is much like any RIAA or MPAA member, they produce and publish other peoples games, and pocket a few bucks.
Now slashdot is going to try and convince me EA=bad, UbiSoft=good, just like MS=bad, IBM=good.
It's 100% pure bullshit, and you'd have to be pretty simple-minded to think any corporate entity has your best interest as a gamer/consumer at heart.
As an aside, EA's employment practices aren't far off from anyone else in the industry, including UbiSoft.
Phishing is really just a form of social engineering. It's old as hell too, people have been making cold calls claiming to be from the bank, mortgage co, etc.
Ob. Simpsons: "Whatcha do is, see, you give them all your credit card numbers... And if one of them is lucky, you win!"
The right way to fix it is to invent a new breed of human who can't be fooled.
You can't just open and close your posts with a relevant phrase, and fill the middle of your msg. with non-related helpdesk questions....
I can, and I did.
Did you know that in Halo 2, if you snipe the ghost right in that little round thing down by the riders foot, you can blow it up in one shot? And despite what people say, you can snipe people driving tanks, you just have to be above them to do it.
You can't just open and close your posts with a relevant phrase, and fill the middle of your msg. with non-related helpdesk questions....
I just got an Epson R320 inkjet photo printer, and have been messing with it's ability to print on DVDs.
I love the look, but the ink is not water resistant, and even after a week, smudges easily if you touch it with even slightly sweaty fingers.
I've been thinking about the discs out back and hitting them with a quick clear coat of spray laquer, though that seems a bit of a hassle. I've seen laminating machines online, but they cost 1200 bucks and up, not worth it when I burn 3 or 4 discs a week.
Anyone got any suggestions?
Once again, phishing sucks. And iPods are really cool.
IMO, it's stupid to try and multitask
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It leads to wasted effort and stress, which leads to sloppy work.
Work hard, play hard, but not simultaneously.
When I'm working, coding or debugging or whatever, I'm like a dog with a bone, and I don't leave the task at hand until it's done. If anyone comes into my office and asks me for something, I tell them "when I'm done".
I accomplish a whole lot more this way, the code I write is better, so I spend less time debugging and testing, and in turn spend less time supporting it in the field (small company, we all wear lots of different hats).
One of my colleagues is the opposite, he tries to do 100 things at once. He's always stressed out, one of those "the sky is falling!" idiots. The work he does is invariably half-assed.
Also, since I'm always focused on one aspect of a system at a time, I wind up with a much, much better understanding of the ins and outs of our software than he has. I pretty much know the name, scope, and purpose of every variable, class, function, constant or subroutine in the code.
The other guy wastes tons of time looking up the same thing over and over again. He constantly pesters me with the same questions. "What does the AddressParse class do?" And I have to say: "it parses addresses you fucking chimp".
The rub is, he always looks like he's really busy because he's so stressed out, which is why he's still here. Whereas I'm generally pretty relaxed and laid back, and don't get upset about anything that happens at work, it just isn't worth it.
I get more work done, and of a better quality, but to a couple dopes around here, the fact that I'm not yanking my hair out with stress equates to me being lazy or slacking off, or whatever.
I'd never survive in a big corporate setting for that very reason. PHB's think that if you're not giving yourself an ulcer you aren't working hard enough. Fuck 'em, I'm not going to shorten my life for their bottom line.
Luckily it's a small company with common sense. I've unofficially become the lead developer, while he's unofficially been relegated to answering the phones and doing support.
We're paying to keep Russian and other sketchy nation's rocket scientists busy, so they won't go to the highest bidder, who just might be someone like Osama bin Laden. That's all.
If it keeps ICBMs away from rogue nations, that's not too bad of an ROI.
It's not the paster or stucco, but the metal lath to which the stucco and plaster are adhered to.
If you ever see it installed, they (usually) first staple up a thick metal mesh, which holds the plaster in place. Wood lath was the status quo in the really olden days, before steel became cheaper than hardwood strips.
Norm Abrahms goes wardriving in this weeks episode of This Old House!
I've read many times about a possible link between aluminum and alzheimers, primarily aluminum in cookware and canned foods.
Also, I don't know what timothy is on, but hanging wallpaper is easier and a whole lot less messy. It just looks like shit when it's done. Just my personal opinion though.
Lead doesn't give you cancer, it slowly accumulates until it causes dementia, Alzheimers, or death.
Check out the story of Sir John Franklin, who tried to lead an expedition in Canada to find the northwest passage, back in the olden days. They found the party dead, having abandoned their ship, but they took ridiculous items with them, like an old dresser, instead of food and supplies that could have kept them alive.
The story goes they all went insane from the lead used in the canned food they were eating.
Yep, it will block the rabbit ears on your TV and the antenna in your clock radio.
Not to mention your cell phone and your pager.
They're looking to con^H^H^H sell to businesses and government agencies too dense to secure their networks properly.
And at almost 70 bucks a gallon, it's three times more expensive than even the uppity Ralph Lauren paint HD sells. (Heh.. I get a kick out of seeing yuppies pay extra for the nametag on what truly is inferior paint to Behr or Dutch Boy.. I painted houses for a while to make beer money in Uni)
Convincing consumers to take wireless security seriously has been harder. "They see it like tinfoil on your head," Wray says. "They think it's kind of paranoid."
Uh, it is kind of paranoid.
And it's surely no substitute for a robust encryption scheme.
Since it's commercial in nature, how many modern offices can really do without cell phones and pagers?
Oh, and 64 bucks seems ridiculously expensive for latex paint with aluminum and copper filings mixed in.
This seems like one of those "theres a sucker born every minute" products, like monster cables, or green cd films to make your cds sound better.
Then again, who needs Old Glory Robot insurance if the robots cant detect you inside your house!
But the first to market with a 27" or higher HDTV for under 500 bucks will own the market. Whether it's flat or boxy, it doesn't matter.
I say 27" arbitrarily, that seems like a common minimum size for the set in most families' living rooms.
Why can't they just make a cheap high res CRT? A 15" VGA monitor can display HDTV resolutions, so just make one thats 27", and eliminate all the multi-syncing crap, 30fps is all it needs.
Seriously, what's the barrier in just scaling up a plain VGA monitor with a fixed refresh of 60hz? Would that not, in theory, be right around the price range of a standard CRT?
Plasmas, LCDs, OLEDs, LCoS, SED... None of that will be cheap in my lifetime, no matter what the developers of the tech say.
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That Jeri Ellsworth chick is already selling exactly such a device through the home shopping channel. It's got Impossible Mission and Summer Games and other old chestnuts built in, and looks quite hackable too.
It was on slashdot a couple weeks ago.
More likely, this Yeahanomorinono Media Venture Concern (is that REALLY a US company?!) will sue her ass into a hole.
Anyone know whats up with her or Commodore One? Is she using the Commodore name legally?
Too bad this company has no vision. To hell with mp3 players and re-selling old games, I'd love to see them update the Amiga, a la the G4 Mac and OS/X.
That I'd pay for.
You can, however, put yourself into a diabetic coma by eating too much sweet stuff - though that's not the same as having diabetes.
I heard once that it used to be commonplace to "punish" kids who stole candy by making them eat a bowl of sugar, kind of like the "im going to watch you smoke every one of these!" ploy. More than one kid was put into a coma, or died as a result.
Yeah, you can OD on sugar.
The DoD is currently testing a patch-type nutrient system for soldiers in the field, no actual eating required. Just like a nicotine patch, it keeps you "fed" intravenously for up to 24 hours.
WHERE'S THE BEEF!?
Does the lameness filter not count as a restriction of free speech? Keep your opression to yourself, taco.
What the fuck are you talking about, stupid?
BTW, they teach and use metric in US schools, and metric is the system the US officially uses (go see nist.gov).
Imperial measure is just common in every day use, and not just in the US.
Next time you hear some limey ask for a pint of bitters, make sure you correct him, as it should be 0.473176475 litres.
EA and UbiSoft are both mainly publishers, not developers. They do some in-house development, but their bread and butter is much like any RIAA or MPAA member, they produce and publish other peoples games, and pocket a few bucks.
Now slashdot is going to try and convince me EA=bad, UbiSoft=good, just like MS=bad, IBM=good.
It's 100% pure bullshit, and you'd have to be pretty simple-minded to think any corporate entity has your best interest as a gamer/consumer at heart.
As an aside, EA's employment practices aren't far off from anyone else in the industry, including UbiSoft.
It's all about the bottom line.
Burnout 3 rocks, the SSX series is good as far as snowboarding games go.
Phishing is really just a form of social engineering. It's old as hell too, people have been making cold calls claiming to be from the bank, mortgage co, etc.
Ob. Simpsons: "Whatcha do is, see, you give them all your credit card numbers... And if one of them is lucky, you win!"
The right way to fix it is to invent a new breed of human who can't be fooled.
You can't just open and close your posts with a relevant phrase, and fill the middle of your msg. with non-related helpdesk questions....
I can, and I did.
Did you know that in Halo 2, if you snipe the ghost right in that little round thing down by the riders foot, you can blow it up in one shot? And despite what people say, you can snipe people driving tanks, you just have to be above them to do it.
You can't just open and close your posts with a relevant phrase, and fill the middle of your msg. with non-related helpdesk questions....
I can and I did.
Phishing sucks.
I just got an Epson R320 inkjet photo printer, and have been messing with it's ability to print on DVDs.
I love the look, but the ink is not water resistant, and even after a week, smudges easily if you touch it with even slightly sweaty fingers.
I've been thinking about the discs out back and hitting them with a quick clear coat of spray laquer, though that seems a bit of a hassle. I've seen laminating machines online, but they cost 1200 bucks and up, not worth it when I burn 3 or 4 discs a week.
Anyone got any suggestions?
Once again, phishing sucks. And iPods are really cool.
It leads to wasted effort and stress, which leads to sloppy work.
Work hard, play hard, but not simultaneously.
When I'm working, coding or debugging or whatever, I'm like a dog with a bone, and I don't leave the task at hand until it's done. If anyone comes into my office and asks me for something, I tell them "when I'm done".
I accomplish a whole lot more this way, the code I write is better, so I spend less time debugging and testing, and in turn spend less time supporting it in the field (small company, we all wear lots of different hats).
One of my colleagues is the opposite, he tries to do 100 things at once. He's always stressed out, one of those "the sky is falling!" idiots. The work he does is invariably half-assed.
Also, since I'm always focused on one aspect of a system at a time, I wind up with a much, much better understanding of the ins and outs of our software than he has. I pretty much know the name, scope, and purpose of every variable, class, function, constant or subroutine in the code.
The other guy wastes tons of time looking up the same thing over and over again. He constantly pesters me with the same questions. "What does the AddressParse class do?" And I have to say: "it parses addresses you fucking chimp".
The rub is, he always looks like he's really busy because he's so stressed out, which is why he's still here. Whereas I'm generally pretty relaxed and laid back, and don't get upset about anything that happens at work, it just isn't worth it.
I get more work done, and of a better quality, but to a couple dopes around here, the fact that I'm not yanking my hair out with stress equates to me being lazy or slacking off, or whatever.
I'd never survive in a big corporate setting for that very reason. PHB's think that if you're not giving yourself an ulcer you aren't working hard enough. Fuck 'em, I'm not going to shorten my life for their bottom line.
Luckily it's a small company with common sense. I've unofficially become the lead developer, while he's unofficially been relegated to answering the phones and doing support.
Is your state attached to Mexico?
This is all about finding a way to get all those cheap NAFTA goods into the country, not about shaving a few minutes off your morning commute.
What about the inanimate carbon rod.
We're paying to keep Russian and other sketchy nation's rocket scientists busy, so they won't go to the highest bidder, who just might be someone like Osama bin Laden. That's all.
If it keeps ICBMs away from rogue nations, that's not too bad of an ROI.
Everyone in prison is innocent and/or framed by the cops, didn't you know that?
The US has bankrolled the whole project.
Maybe the line item didn't read "payment for taking us to ISS", but our tax dollars have been funding the whole shebang.
International my ass. We should be going it alone, not bankrolling other nations science programs.
It's not the paster or stucco, but the metal lath to which the stucco and plaster are adhered to.
If you ever see it installed, they (usually) first staple up a thick metal mesh, which holds the plaster in place. Wood lath was the status quo in the really olden days, before steel became cheaper than hardwood strips.
Norm Abrahms goes wardriving in this weeks episode of This Old House!
Is all the work of repainting, refitting the windows and doors with special "anti-RF" films, really easier than snaking a few hundred yards of Cat 6?
If your shit is that sensitive, you shouldn't be broadcasting it at all.
Then again, "WiFi" is required for complete buzzword compliance.
I've read many times about a possible link between aluminum and alzheimers, primarily aluminum in cookware and canned foods.
Also, I don't know what timothy is on, but hanging wallpaper is easier and a whole lot less messy. It just looks like shit when it's done. Just my personal opinion though.
Lead doesn't give you cancer, it slowly accumulates until it causes dementia, Alzheimers, or death.
Check out the story of Sir John Franklin, who tried to lead an expedition in Canada to find the northwest passage, back in the olden days. They found the party dead, having abandoned their ship, but they took ridiculous items with them, like an old dresser, instead of food and supplies that could have kept them alive.
The story goes they all went insane from the lead used in the canned food they were eating.
Yep, it will block the rabbit ears on your TV and the antenna in your clock radio.
Not to mention your cell phone and your pager.
They're looking to con^H^H^H sell to businesses and government agencies too dense to secure their networks properly.
And at almost 70 bucks a gallon, it's three times more expensive than even the uppity Ralph Lauren paint HD sells. (Heh.. I get a kick out of seeing yuppies pay extra for the nametag on what truly is inferior paint to Behr or Dutch Boy.. I painted houses for a while to make beer money in Uni)
Convincing consumers to take wireless security seriously has been harder. "They see it like tinfoil on your head," Wray says. "They think it's kind of paranoid."
Uh, it is kind of paranoid.
And it's surely no substitute for a robust encryption scheme.
Since it's commercial in nature, how many modern offices can really do without cell phones and pagers?
Oh, and 64 bucks seems ridiculously expensive for latex paint with aluminum and copper filings mixed in.
This seems like one of those "theres a sucker born every minute" products, like monster cables, or green cd films to make your cds sound better.
Then again, who needs Old Glory Robot insurance if the robots cant detect you inside your house!
I've said it before, even in this thread..
But the first to market with a 27" or higher HDTV for under 500 bucks will own the market. Whether it's flat or boxy, it doesn't matter.
I say 27" arbitrarily, that seems like a common minimum size for the set in most families' living rooms.
Why can't they just make a cheap high res CRT? A 15" VGA monitor can display HDTV resolutions, so just make one thats 27", and eliminate all the multi-syncing crap, 30fps is all it needs.
Seriously, what's the barrier in just scaling up a plain VGA monitor with a fixed refresh of 60hz? Would that not, in theory, be right around the price range of a standard CRT?
Plasmas, LCDs, OLEDs, LCoS, SED... None of that will be cheap in my lifetime, no matter what the developers of the tech say.
I was promised by our corporate masters that by now an LCD computer monitor would be less than a CRT.
To hell with all of 'em. A team of PhD's working around the clock to invent a more expensive replacement to current tech.
Bah
The tech really does sound promising, the picture quality of a high end CRT with the footprint of a plasma.
But what of price? It does me no good if they list at 10,000+.
Where are these roll-up OLED TV's that we will hang on our walls and just toss and replace when they wear out, because they're so cheap?
Footprint or not, if HDTV is to take off, someone needs to get a 27" or larger HDTV set out there for less than 500 bucks.