Lately, I've purposely been visiting lots of sites that send me SPAM, pop-up ads, and other annoyances. Usually, these sites want information from you and have a form to fill out. Simply fill out the form with junk data and submit it a couple times. If the company wasted some of your time, you are entitled to waste some of their time (not to mention diskpace).
Some sites might have a threatening message that says, "We have your IP and we'll contact you if you mess with us." If that's the case, simply connect through a free proxy server.
I recommend everyone try this. You'll feel better afterwards.
ROTT was a good game. It had significant multiplayer abilities for it's time. Also, the game was one of the first to allow "hallways over hallways". In wasn't as 3D as Quake, but IIRC, it came out BEFORE Quake. It was more technically advanced that Doom.
Imagine if we got to the 200 billionth digit and it was like 'So now connect the red wire to the.' and you'd be hitting yourself for not decoding a few more digits.
We're an order of magnitude above the 200 billionth digit. Still no message from aliens. Sorry to disappoint you.
Well, if you read the article, you would know why. Mapping out a very large number like that is useful for testing the accuracy of supercomputers. Also, the research process spins off lots of discoveries. Someone who mapped out pi to 1.24 trillion decimal places probably learned a couple neat tricks along the way.
This is a good idea, and I've done it myself on a couple occasions. Y'know, I'm surprised the malicious hacker community hasn't given spammers a hard time. Not that I'm advocating anything here...
My cable company itemizes the bill out to charging for the remote. That takes balls...
Same here. I returned the remote and am now saving $0.21 a month. There is also an "Other Fees" charge of $0.16 on my bill. I have no idea what that's from. Maybe it's for stealing photons when I look at the cable trucks or something...
This is completely true. I've been reading Peopleware these past couple days. Besides the fact that the authors flat-out say that there are very few new problems in software-engineering (this was in 1987!!!), the real difficulties are often due to bad management and work environment. If you're creating something new "almost every time", you are doing something terribly wrong.
hmm my cablemodem costs $100.00 in the stores. my rental fee is $5.00 a month....
what's the advantage of owning your cable equipment again?
I paid $50 for my LinkSys cable modem at CompUsa after rebates. It will pay for itself in less than a year. If the cable company ever requires a change in the near future (doubtful) I can always sell my modem on ebay.
However, I believe things are slightly better than the days when Trip Hawkins' (EA's co-founder founder) Harvard professor told him to stop wasting time with games."
Gamers have been begging Trip Hawkins to stop wasting time with games for years. I guess Hawkins' prof was just ahead of his time.
You could always go to the Leaning Tower of Piza, as you'd be foreverafter be able to belittle other people's whack-ass engineering ideas with "Bah! That'll just end up just as broken as the Leaning Tower of Piza, and have you even seen it??"
If you want to really be amazed by the Leaning Tower of Pisa, read about the measures they've taken to prevent it from totally falling over.
I agree. I really think MS needs to offer radically different versions of Windows. I don't need/want the majority of stuff windows comes with. I'd really like a stripped down windows and just add things as I want.
I saw Ballmer on C-SPAN recently, and he was talking about "Junior" products. They almost always fail, because people don't like to think they are getting anything less than the full product.
I think with an OS, you can succesfully release 2 versions commercially: one with full blown server support, and one without (trust me, my grandmother isn't going to be running a Quake3 server anytime soon). If you start differentiating more than that, you get into trouble....
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Lately, I've purposely been visiting lots of sites that send me SPAM, pop-up ads, and other annoyances. Usually, these sites want information from you and have a form to fill out. Simply fill out the form with junk data and submit it a couple times. If the company wasted some of your time, you are entitled to waste some of their time (not to mention diskpace).
Some sites might have a threatening message that says, "We have your IP and we'll contact you if you mess with us." If that's the case, simply connect through a free proxy server.
I recommend everyone try this. You'll feel better afterwards.
ROTT was a good game. It had significant multiplayer abilities for it's time. Also, the game was one of the first to allow "hallways over hallways". In wasn't as 3D as Quake, but IIRC, it came out BEFORE Quake. It was more technically advanced that Doom.
Did the guy discover Object Oriented Programming, too?
Imagine if we got to the 200 billionth digit and it was like 'So now connect the red wire to the.' and you'd be hitting yourself for not decoding a few more digits.
We're an order of magnitude above the 200 billionth digit. Still no message from aliens. Sorry to disappoint you.
Why?
Well, if you read the article, you would know why. Mapping out a very large number like that is useful for testing the accuracy of supercomputers. Also, the research process spins off lots of discoveries. Someone who mapped out pi to 1.24 trillion decimal places probably learned a couple neat tricks along the way.
This is a good idea, and I've done it myself on a couple occasions. Y'know, I'm surprised the malicious hacker community hasn't given spammers a hard time. Not that I'm advocating anything here...
My cable company itemizes the bill out to charging for the remote. That takes balls...
Same here. I returned the remote and am now saving $0.21 a month. There is also an "Other Fees" charge of $0.16 on my bill. I have no idea what that's from. Maybe it's for stealing photons when I look at the cable trucks or something...
This is completely true. I've been reading Peopleware these past couple days. Besides the fact that the authors flat-out say that there are very few new problems in software-engineering (this was in 1987!!!), the real difficulties are often due to bad management and work environment. If you're creating something new "almost every time", you are doing something terribly wrong.
hmm my cablemodem costs $100.00 in the stores. my rental fee is $5.00 a month.... what's the advantage of owning your cable equipment again?
I paid $50 for my LinkSys cable modem at CompUsa after rebates. It will pay for itself in less than a year. If the cable company ever requires a change in the near future (doubtful) I can always sell my modem on ebay.
However, I believe things are slightly better than the days when Trip Hawkins' (EA's co-founder founder) Harvard professor told him to stop wasting time with games."
Gamers have been begging Trip Hawkins to stop wasting time with games for years. I guess Hawkins' prof was just ahead of his time.
You could always go to the Leaning Tower of Piza, as you'd be foreverafter be able to belittle other people's whack-ass engineering ideas with "Bah! That'll just end up just as broken as the Leaning Tower of Piza, and have you even seen it??"
If you want to really be amazed by the Leaning Tower of Pisa, read about the measures they've taken to prevent it from totally falling over.
Give me liberty or give me something else. I'm cool with either, really.
I agree. I really think MS needs to offer radically different versions of Windows. I don't need/want the majority of stuff windows comes with. I'd really like a stripped down windows and just add things as I want.
I saw Ballmer on C-SPAN recently, and he was talking about "Junior" products. They almost always fail, because people don't like to think they are getting anything less than the full product. I think with an OS, you can succesfully release 2 versions commercially: one with full blown server support, and one without (trust me, my grandmother isn't going to be running a Quake3 server anytime soon). If you start differentiating more than that, you get into trouble....