Talking with people from across the globe.
Various sorts of technical challenges involved making a radio contact with somebody very far away.
Off the globe too. The ISS and many, many shuttle missions carry amateur gear. What's geekier than talking to astronauts live? And doing so from your basement/backyard? Extra geeky and share that enthusiasm with a local school.
(It's not hard - the ISS isn't that far away...)
The difficulties with contacting the ISS are timing and whether they actually feel like chatting though. On the other hand, even non-hams are impressed when I pull out an ISS QSL card.
Sorry, I've been waiting something like 10 years for this moment...
Don't feel bad. Most people go their entire lives without accomplishing something like what you pulled off in what I can only assume was a drunken stupor.;)
content? No, this is abuse by trolls under sensationalized headlines and duped stories...for content, you want wired.com or geek.com just down the net. stupid git.
I want to create a free movie lending library that streams to Roku boxes and only allows one person to watch a movie at a time per disc owned but legalities make it difficult. It's probably legal to do but to do it would require removing the DRM, to transcode the content into the right format, which is illegal.:p
The scenario you're describing is only illegal in the US, this article is about Canada. Format shifting is legal up here.
Fuck that. The better choice is not using the product at all. When users are driven to piracy it proves there's still demand for the product, which creates incentive to forcibly convert the pirates into paying customers. When users don't want anything to do with their product, that's when companies see the real problem.
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For the uninitiated...
Yes, I do realise where I am. I also realise that some here may be mechanical engineers, physicists, or work in medicine etc. and may not be aware of Bash.
...hanging around the water cooler, bitching about management, sexually harassing other co-workers, having non-work-related discussions... in short, we'll end up with Bender.
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Off the globe too. The ISS and many, many shuttle missions carry amateur gear. What's geekier than talking to astronauts live? And doing so from your basement/backyard? Extra geeky and share that enthusiasm with a local school.
(It's not hard - the ISS isn't that far away...)
The difficulties with contacting the ISS are timing and whether they actually feel like chatting though. On the other hand, even non-hams are impressed when I pull out an ISS QSL card.
I'm waiting till they start to allow acronyms, so that we geeks can win with our multitude of TLAs.
If this ever happened my first TLA would be WTF.
You're is correct.
You are correct
"You're" is correct. You're wrong.
Wait, I did WHAT?
Sorry, I've been waiting something like 10 years for this moment...
Don't feel bad. Most people go their entire lives without accomplishing something like what you pulled off in what I can only assume was a drunken stupor. ;)
content? No, this is abuse by trolls under sensationalized headlines and duped stories...for content, you want wired.com or geek.com just down the net. stupid git.
Whoops, I thought I was in room 12A!
It's good you explained that joke, I might have missed it otherwise.
The 1st Matrix movie was good. I don't see the analogy.
There was more than one Matrix Movie?
I want to create a free movie lending library that streams to Roku boxes and only allows one person to watch a movie at a time per disc owned but legalities make it difficult. It's probably legal to do but to do it would require removing the DRM, to transcode the content into the right format, which is illegal. :p
The scenario you're describing is only illegal in the US, this article is about Canada. Format shifting is legal up here.
Fuck that. The better choice is not using the product at all. When users are driven to piracy it proves there's still demand for the product, which creates incentive to forcibly convert the pirates into paying customers. When users don't want anything to do with their product, that's when companies see the real problem.
Like this?
More like this is what I had in mind. ;)
I guess the quality of the scan is too poor and the language/typography too complex for decent OCR recognition.
Wouldn't it be possible to do distributed proofreading of the OCRd text like they do for Project Gutenberg?
Then they came for Windows ME...
Whoever "they" are, I doubt they want to get their hands that dirty.
Or to turn it off when it's already on... BULLET TIME
I always used it for the burger assembly mini-game in Space Quest IV.
I have no strong feelings one way or the other.
How very neutral of you!
So, if someone had a brain slug & then faced Hypnotoad, what would happen?
My theory is that the Hypnotoad would control the brain slug as well.
She likes to read over your shoulder too eh? ;)
But in all seriousness, great post.
For the uninitiated... Yes, I do realise where I am. I also realise that some here may be mechanical engineers, physicists, or work in medicine etc. and may not be aware of Bash.
Do you also realize that it predates Bash?
Anatomy class, for example. Play doctor and get credit.
Oh, I was thinking "bring me three frog livers for a reward".
That's nothing! In my day we had to listen to the town crier describe web pages to us!
It's still faster than dial-up. /cry
...hanging around the water cooler, bitching about management, sexually harassing other co-workers, having non-work-related discussions... in short, we'll end up with Bender.
Not if you teach it to hang out on /. first!
One?! I'm thinking most of 'em already get the kind of "laid" where it only happens to one.. ;)
And then there are some that wouldn't get laid if they tripped and fell in an orgy.
If we're going to abandon reality, why don't we just add wizard units and inter-dimensional portals too?
Yes, please.
Truly epic post. One of the most stupid things I have ever read on here. Ever.
I'd go so far as to say it's one of the most stupid things I've ever read anywhere. The sad thing is there's a good chance it was an attempt at humor.
directly affected by placing a TV in the child's room
Immediate mental image: the child's weight changing instantly as the TV comes and goes.
It begs two questions: how big does your television have to be to cause a local increase in gravity and where can I buy one?
this is like the third time this week I have seen this. Moot point. M-O-O-T. "Mute" has something to do with the absence of audio
Getting a little hot under the colander eh? ;)