One of the biggest drawbacks of Mozilla / Firebird is that I can't see Shockwave. I have tried installing the Netscape plugin several times, and it hasn't worked. This is a problem because I am much more familiar with development in Director Lingo, rather than Flash ASP. Does anyone else have this problem?
There already is exactly what you are describing, "Interstate 76," multiplayer, single-player, car-mounted weapons. Unfortunately it is old. I had a friend who beta tested the sequel, and the development team totally ruined it.
Although I agree with other posters that say that this sounds like the rant of a spoiled little boy with too many toys, I do have one exception.
My car stereo came with a big triangular blue LED on the power button. It stays on whether the power is on or off. Although I have gotten used to it, everyone who gets in the car remarks on how distracting it is.
Worse is that the light reflects of the windshield exactly where the mirror is. So if I am looking the mirror just right, one eye is seeing a blue reflection, and the other eye is seeing the image in the mirror. More than once I've done a double take, thinking I've got a cop on my tail. Really annoying.
What will the slashdot effect do to this?
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What will the slashdot effect do to this?
We (members of the slashdot community) send servers into screaming oblivion on a daily basis. We have even inundated a spammer with snail mail. Now we have the chance to slashdot a pinata! Rise up my brethren and embrace this challenge!
By the way, can you imagine a beowulf cluster of these?
While I was reading this article I noticed Norton Internet Security was flashing a little icon. Guess what? A site called techreview.127.2o7.net (216.52.17.116)
screenshot here was sending packages that appeared to be a Perl script overflow. Although I'm pretty sure this was a false hit (a few minutes later I got the same warning of an attack from 127.0.0.1), it's still ironic that this would happen when I was looking at an article about computer security.
It was 150 years ago that George Boole published his literary classic The Laws of Thought, wherein he devised a mathematical language for dealing with mental machinations of logic. It was a symbolic language of thought -- an algebra of logic (algebra is the branch of mathematics that uses letters and other general symbols to represent numbers and quantities in formulas and equations).
It's a sad day when the editors of Science feel they need to define what algebra is to their audience.
When I first read this, I thought, "What a great idea!" and I started trying to figure out how to actually go about it. Then I asked myself, how would I get names and addresses of military employees? More importantly, how did Microsoft know who to send these discs too?
I started working as a computer teacher for a Catholic middle school in September. When I got there every computer had spyware. On one computer Ad-Aware identified almost 400 items! Needless to say, every class got a lecture about internet security. Most of them took it to heart, and now mostly we just get unwanted cookies.
Unfortunately this address you gave is the email for website issues only. Does anyone have an address where we can contact a real person inside of Lucas Arts?
Wow, not a lot of replies got modded up on this one. I guess old monitors aren't very sexy, even to geeks.
Just to stay on topic, I have an old Amiga monitor that I still use. Because it has video ports I can hook it to the VCR or DVD and have another video setup in a spare room.
I think a lot of people are missing the point here. People aren't becoming "nerds" because it is cool. People always were nerds, but now expressing yourself is more acceptable. If you remember the end of "Revenge of the Nerds," the point was that everybody feels awkward and unpopular, but now we have the internet. No, I don't mean that just being on the internet makes you technically proficient enough to claim to be a nerd, but it means that you can find a support network no matter how "different" you are.
Let's assume that there are 1 billion people on the internet (I know I could look up the exact number, I just don't feel like it.), and that your particular obsession only appeals to 0.00001% of the population. That still means that there are ten thousand others out there that you can relate to!
Now, the things that define a stereotypical nerd are actually much more mainstream: Computers, math, science, engineering, science-fiction, fantasy, comics, animation, books, obsession with sex, etc. So, now that people can go out on the internet and find millions of like minded people, they don't feel so bad expressing themselves publicly by buying the toys and wearing the t-shirts. The nerds have been here all along, but now they don't mind being labeled.
From what I can tell from the pictures all those individual arms leave the car without any clearance. You would have be drving the car on a perfectly smooth road. A pothole or debris in the road would cause major problems.
This may seem like a great idea now, but wait until a large number of libraries catch on. With a flood of books, prices will inevitably fall, making this less profitable. Sure, rare books will still have value, but all the crap out there will go back to yard sale prices.
Slashdot Mirror
One of the biggest drawbacks of Mozilla / Firebird is that I can't see Shockwave. I have tried installing the Netscape plugin several times, and it hasn't worked. This is a problem because I am much more familiar with development in Director Lingo, rather than Flash ASP. Does anyone else have this problem?
There already is exactly what you are describing, "Interstate 76," multiplayer, single-player, car-mounted weapons. Unfortunately it is old. I had a friend who beta tested the sequel, and the development team totally ruined it.
My middle name is Andrew. I know where it comes from.
Poor Andrea, now he is going to get slashdotted by a bunch of lonely geeks that didn't RTFA, and think that he is a she.
Dude, this is Greenwich Village, the police aren't even going to blink when they see this.
Wouldn't it be easier to take a photo of the nearest street sign?
Although I agree with other posters that say that this sounds like the rant of a spoiled little boy with too many toys, I do have one exception.
My car stereo came with a big triangular blue LED on the power button. It stays on whether the power is on or off. Although I have gotten used to it, everyone who gets in the car remarks on how distracting it is.
Worse is that the light reflects of the windshield exactly where the mirror is. So if I am looking the mirror just right, one eye is seeing a blue reflection, and the other eye is seeing the image in the mirror. More than once I've done a double take, thinking I've got a cop on my tail. Really annoying.
That would explaing that noise.
What will the slashdot effect do to this?
We (members of the slashdot community) send servers into screaming oblivion on a daily basis. We have even inundated a spammer with snail mail. Now we have the chance to slashdot a pinata! Rise up my brethren and embrace this challenge!
By the way, can you imagine a beowulf cluster of these?
Since you are an accountant, and you sign the tax return as well as your client. I don't think this will hold up as a valid defense.
Oh, the irony....
While I was reading this article I noticed Norton Internet Security was flashing a little icon. Guess what? A site called techreview.127.2o7.net (216.52.17.116) screenshot here was sending packages that appeared to be a Perl script overflow. Although I'm pretty sure this was a false hit (a few minutes later I got the same warning of an attack from 127.0.0.1), it's still ironic that this would happen when I was looking at an article about computer security.
Hey that's my joke!
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=99403&cid=8476 084
It's a sad day when the editors of Science feel they need to define what algebra is to their audience.
When I first read this, I thought, "What a great idea!" and I started trying to figure out how to actually go about it. Then I asked myself, how would I get names and addresses of military employees? More importantly, how did Microsoft know who to send these discs too?
I started working as a computer teacher for a Catholic middle school in September. When I got there every computer had spyware. On one computer Ad-Aware identified almost 400 items! Needless to say, every class got a lecture about internet security. Most of them took it to heart, and now mostly we just get unwanted cookies.
This thing takes 2000 pictures a day of what's in front of you, times five days. That's 10,000 pictures of you reloading slashdot!
...when are they going to create a Shockwave Player for Mozilla/Phoenix?
Unfortunately this address you gave is the email for website issues only. Does anyone have an address where we can contact a real person inside of Lucas Arts?
Why not piss off religious extremists and violate copyright at the same time by using the Tazmanian Devil as a logo?
Wow, not a lot of replies got modded up on this one. I guess old monitors aren't very sexy, even to geeks.
Just to stay on topic, I have an old Amiga monitor that I still use. Because it has video ports I can hook it to the VCR or DVD and have another video setup in a spare room.
I think a lot of people are missing the point here. People aren't becoming "nerds" because it is cool. People always were nerds, but now expressing yourself is more acceptable. If you remember the end of "Revenge of the Nerds," the point was that everybody feels awkward and unpopular, but now we have the internet. No, I don't mean that just being on the internet makes you technically proficient enough to claim to be a nerd, but it means that you can find a support network no matter how "different" you are.
Let's assume that there are 1 billion people on the internet (I know I could look up the exact number, I just don't feel like it.), and that your particular obsession only appeals to 0.00001% of the population. That still means that there are ten thousand others out there that you can relate to!
Now, the things that define a stereotypical nerd are actually much more mainstream: Computers, math, science, engineering, science-fiction, fantasy, comics, animation, books, obsession with sex, etc. So, now that people can go out on the internet and find millions of like minded people, they don't feel so bad expressing themselves publicly by buying the toys and wearing the t-shirts. The nerds have been here all along, but now they don't mind being labeled.
From what I can tell from the pictures all those individual arms leave the car without any clearance. You would have be drving the car on a perfectly smooth road. A pothole or debris in the road would cause major problems.
This may seem like a great idea now, but wait until a large number of libraries catch on. With a flood of books, prices will inevitably fall, making this less profitable. Sure, rare books will still have value, but all the crap out there will go back to yard sale prices.
The windows are supposed to be round also.