The Konami code (used for extra lives and such in many of their games) is actually: Up, up, down, down, left, right, left, right, B, A, start.
Wasn't it "select, start"?
Actually, it's neither. Start or Select, start are not actually part of the code. But if you don't hit them, nothing happens. A good way to tell if someone has friends is to ask them what the Contra code was. If they don't say select, then they were playing it alone-- no friends. If they don't know the code, then I suggest killing them, they're probably an evil alien.
I think my heart just blew up from the thought of how great those features are. Now I'm simply staying alive on willpower so that I can live to enjoy them. Man I love tivo.
I doubt that a product like this will work out in the States with all our anti-copyright legislation. I do believe, however, that a small hacker community will pop up, with modded japanese models, pirate US guide sites, and the like. It's gonna have to slip under the radar, and if it does, I hope I'm part of it. This thing sounds great. However, tivo is only as good as it is because the software is so good, one false move and this product will suck.
Biologists like to think they are chemists. Chemists like to think they are physicists. Physicists like to think they are mathematicians. And mathematicians like to think they are god.
And god likes to think he's a biologist.
or
Computer scientists like to think they killed god.
Oh I forgot to mention, once you have the.swf file on your computer, you have more control over it. You can resize it, use the playback commands, change the quality, and whatever else flash normally allows of you. It's a lot better then the reduced command set you have on some sites. Full screen trogdor is even better =).
Ok, so I understand that this technology is more then just offline flash, but still- flash is capable of being executed offline.
The problem is usually in getting the flash files. If you know their names already, it's easy. If not, it's still not hard. Load up the file from the internet, then check your cache. The.swf file will be the one you want. In some cases it will be obvious which.swf you want (Strong bad email = sbemail##.swf), but in other cases, you can just clear you cache before you load the page. Then it will be the only one in the directory.
My computer doesn't know what to do with a.swf file once I get it, but once I tell it to load with browser-of-choice it works fine. Trogdor is now a perminate resident of my computer.
Pentagon officials have confirmed that this is "A-day" for war.
Just in case anyone is mislead. The term A-day has no relation to the term D-day. D-day actually stands for "day day", which is just part of silly military terminology. H-Hour and M-Minute are also terms sometimes used.
I don't get it, why are people so in love with LCDs? It seems to me, that one in ten people would actually benefit from them in any serious way (mobility or desk-space saver). My computer moves maybe once every two years, and I have a big desk... why the hell do I need an LCD? I think most people are in the same boat.
The advantages to CRT are screen size, price, resolution, contrast, and refresh rate. LCD is mobility and depth? Seems like the clear winner in most cases is CRT. I wouldn't trade my 21" Sony or my 19" Iiyama for any consumer LCD.
Whether it is legal or not, I do not feel that it is ethical, and may leave the company if I am pushed to do this.
well, if you like your job, don't leave the company, just refuse to do it (make it clear that you are not doing it no matter what). They may not fire you just to avoid the embarassment, and if they do, you may have grounds to sue if you want (assuming it turns out to be illegal). My guess is they'll hire someone else to do that and you'll not have to touch it, but keep you on for everything else.
I was in a similar situation once, except they were just demanding that I work 60+ hrs a week. I refused and they gave me a severance package I wouldn't have gotten had I quit.
All too often our first reaction to something that we don't approve of is to distance ourselves from it, and by doing so we relinquish any opportunity to effect change.
I dunno, sometimes the best way to incite change is to show your own disagreement. And sometimes the best way to do that is to distance yourself. By leaving the company he is telling everyone just how much he is against it, which is perhaps more powerful then staying on the board and trying to limit the damage.
"Higher beings from outer space may not want to tell us the secrets of life, because we're not ready. But maybe they'll change their tune after a little torture."
-Jack Handey
(from the article) "Our chances right now [of finding something] are small," SETI@home chief scientist Dan Werthimer said in a telephone interview. "But you have to plan for success"
He continued: "and in this case, success would mean an intergalactic war that would result in the destruction of entire galaxies. We have already begun training our astrosoldiers in the art of zero-G warfare, but chances of defeating the alien menace is slim. I for one welcome our new alien overlords... Hail ants."
If the TV networks can't adapt to the new style of TV, then they deserve to go out of business.
Despite my love of Tivo, I am a little worried about how the networks will adapt. I mean, for now (and prior), Tivo is in it's golden age (people own it, but the networks haven't punished us for not watching their commercials). Soon enough however, one of four things will happen.
1. Tivo will be crushed and go out of buisness.
2. Tivo will remain a small enough % of the population to be ignroed by networks.
3. Networks will start inserting advertisements into television (like they did in old timey radio). This could do a lot of damage to television content and quality (more so then already).
4. We will start having to pay for regular broadcasting tv (either through Tivo, or directly).
I think a world with tivo is better then without, but people need to understand that everyone can't have free, ad-free tv all the time.
I think not. The whole point of TiVo is that it lets users reschedule shows and skip commercials to their ***own*** liking.
First of all, let me say I've been a tivo owner since 2000 and I will remain one until their service is destroyed by networks and us users with our pirate guide-info sites are hunted in the streets for sport.
That said, after reading a dozen comments like this, I think people are missing the point. AOL is not trying to make a better consumer product. They are trying to create a network friendly version of Tivo (with far less consumer goodness as a side effect) that they can get the networks backing.
If it's built into your digital cable box and all you have to do is press a button to activate it, people will buy it. If they aren't afraid that it will go belly up next year and lose it's service, people will buy it. If it costs $200 instead of $500 because the networks are subsidizing it with built in commercials, people will buy it. If it's easy to use and user friendly, people will buy it (Tivo IS easy to use and user friendly, but you won't get that impression from the general media).
It is a sorry state of affairs when something made to server corperations may defeate the ultimate in TV addons, but how many people in the world still don't own Tivos who could afford them?
It is the job of the ISP to properly communicate to its customers the dangers of being on the web.
On one hand, if the ISP says that it is not accountable for attacks and internet slowdowns that it has no control over, then the people shouldn't expect anything when they happen. On the other hand, if the ISP uses this communication as an excuse not to protect itself properly against such attacks, then the customer should take his buisness elsewhere or be properly reimbursed for their losses.
I think a lot of it (the reason I'd consider such a deal) would be convieniance. Half the time I buy a CD, I go home and burn it to mp3 so that I can put it on my portable or listen to it more easily.
Also you have all the pieces of music listed by artist (or whatever else you want them listed by) and you can select a big group of them. It's easier then hunting for the CD that happens to have the songs you like. This is a lot more useful for people who buy from authors who have released 20+ albumbs and can't afford to buy everything they've ever made.
It may not replace the new big popular CD that comes out, but for those of us who sometimes buy things other then mainstream pop, this could be very nice.
Seems a little short sighted... I mean, when you buy a good $18 jazz CD you often get four 15 minute songs. When you buy a "best of" cd, you get more like twenty 3 minute songs. Seems like they should charge by length or at least have a ranged cost.
And the Linux kernel mailing list will be no more, along with thousands of other free mailing lists.
Good point, perhaps having the ability to allow someone to e-mail you without charge (a whitelist) for receivers, and the ability to send only to people who are free for senders (spammers can do this if they want, but nobody will put them on their list).
All of a sudden this is getting too complicated =(. I'm guessing that if somone took the time to write out a spec, they could solve a lot of these issues. But until someone acutally does that (and solves things from a technical standpoint too), we're just spinning our tires.
I'm not so sure I trust this idea. Who are we paying? If the sender pays, then I want the receiver to get paid. Either by everyone getting reduced ISP rates, or just getting to send a free email for each one they receive.
Then, for someone to spam 50,000 people, they'll want to find away to get 50,000 e-mails sent to them, probably from other spammers, and spammer will be fighting spammer in the arena of the web, while us "innocent bystandards" will be making money. More likely, spam will just stop and everyone will send about as many emails as they receive.
This type of morality, it's OK to do X to Y beacuse they are Z, just sickens me. I personally think that anyone who subscribes to this kind of slipperly slope logic should get a punch in the mouth.
So what you're saying is, that it's OK to punch a person in the mouth because they subscribes to that kind of logic. I hope you've got an irony mouth guard.
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A book that lists future inventions. I call it "Billy and the future inventionasaurus".
The Konami code (used for extra lives and such in many of their games) is actually: Up, up, down, down, left, right, left, right, B, A, start.
Wasn't it "select, start"?
Actually, it's neither. Start or Select, start are not actually part of the code. But if you don't hit them, nothing happens. A good way to tell if someone has friends is to ask them what the Contra code was. If they don't say select, then they were playing it alone-- no friends. If they don't know the code, then I suggest killing them, they're probably an evil alien.
I am willing to bet some /.ers have more computers than dates in the past 6 months.
so, one computer then.
I think my heart just blew up from the thought of how great those features are. Now I'm simply staying alive on willpower so that I can live to enjoy them. Man I love tivo.
I doubt that a product like this will work out in the States with all our anti-copyright legislation. I do believe, however, that a small hacker community will pop up, with modded japanese models, pirate US guide sites, and the like. It's gonna have to slip under the radar, and if it does, I hope I'm part of it. This thing sounds great. However, tivo is only as good as it is because the software is so good, one false move and this product will suck.
Biologists like to think they are chemists. Chemists like to think they are physicists. Physicists like to think they are mathematicians. And mathematicians like to think they are god.
And god likes to think he's a biologist.
or
Computer scientists like to think they killed god.
Oh I forgot to mention, once you have the .swf file on your computer, you have more control over it. You can resize it, use the playback commands, change the quality, and whatever else flash normally allows of you. It's a lot better then the reduced command set you have on some sites. Full screen trogdor is even better =).
Ok, so I understand that this technology is more then just offline flash, but still- flash is capable of being executed offline.
.swf file will be the one you want. In some cases it will be obvious which .swf you want (Strong bad email = sbemail##.swf), but in other cases, you can just clear you cache before you load the page. Then it will be the only one in the directory.
.swf file once I get it, but once I tell it to load with browser-of-choice it works fine. Trogdor is now a perminate resident of my computer.
The problem is usually in getting the flash files. If you know their names already, it's easy. If not, it's still not hard. Load up the file from the internet, then check your cache. The
My computer doesn't know what to do with a
Pentagon officials have confirmed that this is "A-day" for war.
Just in case anyone is mislead. The term A-day has no relation to the term D-day. D-day actually stands for "day day", which is just part of silly military terminology. H-Hour and M-Minute are also terms sometimes used.
I don't get it, why are people so in love with LCDs? It seems to me, that one in ten people would actually benefit from them in any serious way (mobility or desk-space saver). My computer moves maybe once every two years, and I have a big desk... why the hell do I need an LCD? I think most people are in the same boat.
The advantages to CRT are screen size, price, resolution, contrast, and refresh rate. LCD is mobility and depth? Seems like the clear winner in most cases is CRT. I wouldn't trade my 21" Sony or my 19" Iiyama for any consumer LCD.
Whether it is legal or not, I do not feel that it is ethical, and may leave the company if I am pushed to do this.
well, if you like your job, don't leave the company, just refuse to do it (make it clear that you are not doing it no matter what). They may not fire you just to avoid the embarassment, and if they do, you may have grounds to sue if you want (assuming it turns out to be illegal). My guess is they'll hire someone else to do that and you'll not have to touch it, but keep you on for everything else.
I was in a similar situation once, except they were just demanding that I work 60+ hrs a week. I refused and they gave me a severance package I wouldn't have gotten had I quit.
All too often our first reaction to something that we don't approve of is to distance ourselves from it, and by doing so we relinquish any opportunity to effect change.
I dunno, sometimes the best way to incite change is to show your own disagreement. And sometimes the best way to do that is to distance yourself. By leaving the company he is telling everyone just how much he is against it, which is perhaps more powerful then staying on the board and trying to limit the damage.
"Higher beings from outer space may not want to tell us the secrets of life, because we're not ready. But maybe they'll change their tune after a little torture." -Jack Handey
(from the article) "Our chances right now [of finding something] are small," SETI@home chief scientist Dan Werthimer said in a telephone interview. "But you have to plan for success"
He continued: "and in this case, success would mean an intergalactic war that would result in the destruction of entire galaxies. We have already begun training our astrosoldiers in the art of zero-G warfare, but chances of defeating the alien menace is slim. I for one welcome our new alien overlords... Hail ants."
If the TV networks can't adapt to the new style of TV, then they deserve to go out of business.
Despite my love of Tivo, I am a little worried about how the networks will adapt. I mean, for now (and prior), Tivo is in it's golden age (people own it, but the networks haven't punished us for not watching their commercials). Soon enough however, one of four things will happen.
1. Tivo will be crushed and go out of buisness.
2. Tivo will remain a small enough % of the population to be ignroed by networks.
3. Networks will start inserting advertisements into television (like they did in old timey radio). This could do a lot of damage to television content and quality (more so then already).
4. We will start having to pay for regular broadcasting tv (either through Tivo, or directly).
I think a world with tivo is better then without, but people need to understand that everyone can't have free, ad-free tv all the time.
I think not. The whole point of TiVo is that it lets users reschedule shows and skip commercials to their ***own*** liking.
First of all, let me say I've been a tivo owner since 2000 and I will remain one until their service is destroyed by networks and us users with our pirate guide-info sites are hunted in the streets for sport.
That said, after reading a dozen comments like this, I think people are missing the point. AOL is not trying to make a better consumer product. They are trying to create a network friendly version of Tivo (with far less consumer goodness as a side effect) that they can get the networks backing.
If it's built into your digital cable box and all you have to do is press a button to activate it, people will buy it. If they aren't afraid that it will go belly up next year and lose it's service, people will buy it. If it costs $200 instead of $500 because the networks are subsidizing it with built in commercials, people will buy it. If it's easy to use and user friendly, people will buy it (Tivo IS easy to use and user friendly, but you won't get that impression from the general media).
It is a sorry state of affairs when something made to server corperations may defeate the ultimate in TV addons, but how many people in the world still don't own Tivos who could afford them?
I didn't know either, but if you click the link to the old slashdot story it has a link to more info about him.
It is the job of the ISP to properly communicate to its customers the dangers of being on the web.
On one hand, if the ISP says that it is not accountable for attacks and internet slowdowns that it has no control over, then the people shouldn't expect anything when they happen. On the other hand, if the ISP uses this communication as an excuse not to protect itself properly against such attacks, then the customer should take his buisness elsewhere or be properly reimbursed for their losses.
If anyone tries to stop me, I'll call the ACLU and sue the school district, the county it's in, the EFF, and YOU!
Is there a +1 flaimbait? Cause that's some damn good flaimbait.
Censorship doesn't fucking work.
I think a lot of it (the reason I'd consider such a deal) would be convieniance. Half the time I buy a CD, I go home and burn it to mp3 so that I can put it on my portable or listen to it more easily.
Also you have all the pieces of music listed by artist (or whatever else you want them listed by) and you can select a big group of them. It's easier then hunting for the CD that happens to have the songs you like. This is a lot more useful for people who buy from authors who have released 20+ albumbs and can't afford to buy everything they've ever made.
It may not replace the new big popular CD that comes out, but for those of us who sometimes buy things other then mainstream pop, this could be very nice.
Seems a little short sighted... I mean, when you buy a good $18 jazz CD you often get four 15 minute songs. When you buy a "best of" cd, you get more like twenty 3 minute songs. Seems like they should charge by length or at least have a ranged cost.
And the Linux kernel mailing list will be no more, along with thousands of other free mailing lists.
Good point, perhaps having the ability to allow someone to e-mail you without charge (a whitelist) for receivers, and the ability to send only to people who are free for senders (spammers can do this if they want, but nobody will put them on their list).
All of a sudden this is getting too complicated =(. I'm guessing that if somone took the time to write out a spec, they could solve a lot of these issues. But until someone acutally does that (and solves things from a technical standpoint too), we're just spinning our tires.
I'm not so sure I trust this idea. Who are we paying? If the sender pays, then I want the receiver to get paid. Either by everyone getting reduced ISP rates, or just getting to send a free email for each one they receive.
Then, for someone to spam 50,000 people, they'll want to find away to get 50,000 e-mails sent to them, probably from other spammers, and spammer will be fighting spammer in the arena of the web, while us "innocent bystandards" will be making money. More likely, spam will just stop and everyone will send about as many emails as they receive.
This type of morality, it's OK to do X to Y beacuse they are Z, just sickens me. I personally think that anyone who subscribes to this kind of slipperly slope logic should get a punch in the mouth.
So what you're saying is, that it's OK to punch a person in the mouth because they subscribes to that kind of logic. I hope you've got an irony mouth guard.