Mine is one digit away from a "drive thru" beer store (ass backwards, eh? gotta love Texas) so people call ordering kegs and I just say "yeah we'll have that ready for ya in 'bout 20 minutes I reckon"
PS they also do drive thru tattoos and body piercings...while you sit in your car.
The TI-86 was my first programming experience and it was definitely a plus to be able to see results with 1 or 2 minutes of coding. I wouldn't mind trying to use a console to program my own game. This guy has a really good point here. I wouldn't mind programming on a gamecube, sure you couldn't just all of the sudden use the 3d engine in a week but people would eventually approach it with confidence.
Could you somehow develop a sharing network for console-created programs? So people can debug their or others' programs, and look at useful code that has been (for lack of a better description) GPLed? I don't neccessarily mean a network IN the console, just a dev network.
You're right, cell phones were never designed to work at that altitude with so many towers in sight. Three towers is basically the magic number (the least number of points to make a cell). Also, the cell phones were designed for day-to-day activity, such as walking or driving around. The sheer number of cells within the phone's sight in a plane coupled with the speed at which you are traveling makes it pretty difficult for the phone to behave.
This has no bearing on whether or not it's OK for a phone to operate on a plane. Shit, the old planes may not have shielding for transmissions of that frequency (old ones at least), but I've been asked to put a four-function calculator away during the middle of the flight at cruising altitude... they just don't want to worry about technical problems like that I guess.
It sounds like a nice idea to move caches, but...what about the GPS coordinates? They would be different. What about the coordinates of the cache on the web? So, maybe tell the "installer" of the cache to move it annually, but you really can't regulate that either. I can't hit the website right now but from the three caches I've created I do not remember a change or delete option...it's been a year though, it may just be my short circuiting melon.
I am definitely not flaming Dominic the poster, but if all the moderators that read this post understood it then I'd be real freakin' suprised. "Oh look! symbols! [+1 Informative]
Well, it's official Netscape is dead, I guess. And its sad, with so many other great alternatives out there based on their original source, Mozilla, Safari, etc
I'm pretty sure you didn't mean to make it sound like Safari is based on Netscape's code, but it's based on KHTML for anyone who's unsure.
"There isn't anyone else in the browser market..."
I was gonna say, over my ass! AOL now gets the "priviledge" to use IE for free? It sounds like a plan being laid out by MS...you sort of like when you're really nice to your parents to get something you want. That definitely doesn't seem like the end of the story. I do hope they stick with a gecko-based browser, though.
extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence...If some claims required more proof, science wouldn't be very scientific...
Think of proof or evidence as "effort expended to present sufficient evidence." It makes sense. Like the mouse/elephant guy said, I could very easily make you believe that the woman who raised you is your biological mother, but if I presented you with a random woman whom you'd never met, it might be harder. On the other hand, my mother is adopted, so if I went and got grandma and I managed to find her real mom, for which woman would it be harder to prove?
...I would like to see, say, a button on the card you have to press at the same time.
I had the pleasure of seeing a prototype credit card that had that feature. It was geared toward online purchases and basically worked like this:
You had to have a small signal receptor at the time...this was over three years ago and they were trying to get rid of that piece of equipment.
When you enter your card info on a website, instead of typing it, you press an area on the card, and it emits a sonic signal that tells the receptor that
You've actually got the card and
It's you using it. The info (name, billing address, etc) is all in the card.
To prevent someone from stealing your card and using it at their convenience you needed to enter a PIN once you pressed the button to make it work. In the end it auto-filled your forms for you, and I thought as a concept it looked promising.
The button is an excellent idea because you save transmitter life, although I'm sure there's a power supply that can live the life of a credit card. It also controls when the info is sent out. I wouldn't mind throwing a PIN on there either. Hell, I don't even have a credit card, just a check card, so I'm fine with PINs
Slashdot Mirror
Or (duh) Mozil.la
"What's Next?" you asked... IPv6 is next.
LA College? I think they have whole Universities there.
On the other hand, that scene you described would make a fine collage.
Now wait, if "all things in the universe are now a part of Unix" does that make it the Unixverse?
Keep in mind though, that this new freeness does not affect the price.
Mine is one digit away from a "drive thru" beer store (ass backwards, eh? gotta love Texas) so people call ordering kegs and I just say "yeah we'll have that ready for ya in 'bout 20 minutes I reckon"
PS they also do drive thru tattoos and body piercings...while you sit in your car.
The TI-86 was my first programming experience and it was definitely a plus to be able to see results with 1 or 2 minutes of coding. I wouldn't mind trying to use a console to program my own game. This guy has a really good point here. I wouldn't mind programming on a gamecube, sure you couldn't just all of the sudden use the 3d engine in a week but people would eventually approach it with confidence.
Could you somehow develop a sharing network for console-created programs? So people can debug their or others' programs, and look at useful code that has been (for lack of a better description) GPLed? I don't neccessarily mean a network IN the console, just a dev network.
And then they'll be behind again in a few months... Built for Mac OS X Jaguar
You're right, cell phones were never designed to work at that altitude with so many towers in sight. Three towers is basically the magic number (the least number of points to make a cell). Also, the cell phones were designed for day-to-day activity, such as walking or driving around. The sheer number of cells within the phone's sight in a plane coupled with the speed at which you are traveling makes it pretty difficult for the phone to behave.
This has no bearing on whether or not it's OK for a phone to operate on a plane. Shit, the old planes may not have shielding for transmissions of that frequency (old ones at least), but I've been asked to put a four-function calculator away during the middle of the flight at cruising altitude... they just don't want to worry about technical problems like that I guess.
It sounds like a nice idea to move caches, but...what about the GPS coordinates? They would be different. What about the coordinates of the cache on the web? So, maybe tell the "installer" of the cache to move it annually, but you really can't regulate that either. I can't hit the website right now but from the three caches I've created I do not remember a change or delete option...it's been a year though, it may just be my short circuiting melon.
HTML Version of the PDF.
No, this is what Guinness should always come out of. =)
that was a long week...
...you read fark too. sorry, i beat ya by one minute
Search for "search engine" at Google...hmmm maybe they should sue themselves?
read what he typed again
100 x 200 * 70 > 14,000he wrote an inequality
I am definitely not flaming Dominic the poster, but if all the moderators that read this post understood it then I'd be real freakin' suprised. "Oh look! symbols! [+1 Informative]
Now now now, we don't want to be harvesting babies...the machines will do that in due time, after we scorch the sky.
I use Bank One's site very frequently. I can't remember but I don't think I've ever used IE to access it, just Mozilla.
2001 has come and gone. Still , watch out for large black rectangular prisms once you start building.
They are...they're written to render properly in IE.
or trillian!
I'm pretty sure you didn't mean to make it sound like Safari is based on Netscape's code, but it's based on KHTML for anyone who's unsure.
I was gonna say, over my ass! AOL now gets the "priviledge" to use IE for free? It sounds like a plan being laid out by MS...you sort of like when you're really nice to your parents to get something you want. That definitely doesn't seem like the end of the story. I do hope they stick with a gecko-based browser, though.
Think of proof or evidence as "effort expended to present sufficient evidence." It makes sense. Like the mouse/elephant guy said, I could very easily make you believe that the woman who raised you is your biological mother, but if I presented you with a random woman whom you'd never met, it might be harder. On the other hand, my mother is adopted, so if I went and got grandma and I managed to find her real mom, for which woman would it be harder to prove?
my TI-86 plays foosball???
I had the pleasure of seeing a prototype credit card that had that feature. It was geared toward online purchases and basically worked like this:
The button is an excellent idea because you save transmitter life, although I'm sure there's a power supply that can live the life of a credit card. It also controls when the info is sent out. I wouldn't mind throwing a PIN on there either. Hell, I don't even have a credit card, just a check card, so I'm fine with PINs
Damn I like ordered lists!