Thanks for the responses! It sounds like the "break" key is what stopped the program. I still wonder what that key looked like on an Atari keyboard. Anyone have pictures of Atari keyboards, for that matter?
I understand that we want to define planets as orbiting stars, but I think there will need to be exceptions. For example, what if a planet is pulled out of a star's orbit (due to a galaxy-wide catastrophe, maybe)? Would the planet be called a "former planet" ? Or "rogue planet" ? In either case, it still has the word planet in its name...
They currently have Pacman, Space Invaders and Galaxian implemented in FPGAs.
This'll be useless until they can get Centipede working. Good thing that Mame already has that covered, right now I just use my old IMac as a mini-Mame arcade;-)
Back when I was in college, I bought a relatively expensive 128MB memory chip from a company I found in a magazine. The warranty was only for like 30 days, but it was like $20 cheaper than their competition. I called them up, and received the chip about 30 days later. I didn't even try to put in the chip for a couple weeks because I needed a friend to help me out (hardware scared me back then, and still is one of my biggest weaknesses).
Once I did finally get the chip in my machine, it never worked. I called the company one time before the warranty period was up, and they gave me the rigamaroll (waiting for support for several days, etc). I never did get the chip to work, and I never did get my money back. I've chalked this one up to my own stupidity.
That idea does sound reasonable. I think it would be trivial for Google to incorporate an RSS searcher into their bag of tricks. All they would have to do is add another boolean behind the scenes that indicates whether a page is RSS, and then give a front end to that boolean, and they are done. Both of those actions seem simple to me. The end result would be that people could search for other websites to syndicate.
One of my favorite google easter eggs...
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Do a search for "goatsex", with the 'x' at the end, and look at what google recommends;-).
When I was growing up, I read every Carl Sagan book I could, and I always looked forward to reading his latest commentary on science in Parade magazine (he would occasionally write for them). I really wish Carl was still alive, I'm sure he'd have a very interesting and informative weblog.
Just change the text of the article a little bit, and the parent post is even more funny;-):
The suit alleges that the I.R.S. engaged in unfair and deceptive business practices by failing to fully disclose the mechanisms and consequences of income taxes before citizens pay their taxes.
The funniest part is, the above sentence is still completely true;-).
Ironically, if a treehouse owner fell out of their tree, and ended up in a wheelchair, they'd have no way of getting back into their house. How do you make one of these handicapped accessible? Maybe a really long ramp? Or maybe create an elevator up the trunk?;-)
Lisa: Bart, water will only go the other way in the Southern
hemisphere. Bart: What the hell is the "Southern hemisphere"? Lisa: [sighs] Haven't you ever looked at your globe? Lisa: [pointing] See, the Southern hemisphere is made up of everything
below the equa --
[stops, sees Bart looking blankly]
-- this line. Bart: Hmm. [spins globe] So down there in, say, Argentina, or...[reads
logo] Rand McNally, all their water runs backwards? Lisa: Uh huh. In fact, in Rand McNally, they wear hats on their feet
and hamburgers eat people. Bart: Cool!
Reading slashdot in the middle of the night has its advantages, I was able to view the 4 meg movie without any apparent slashdot slowdown;-).
The first 90% of the movie looked like Missile Command from the Atari 2600 days, and the last 10% looked like I was speeding towards a two-dimensional line-drawn battle-tank (also like an Atari 2600 game).
Now geeks everywhere will all be able to carry a 24 inch CRT under each arm from one side of the building to the other;-). Seriously, though, this could be a bad thing. If you just wake up one day, and you are super-strong, you are gonna screw stuff up. Maybe you'll break someone's hand (ala a Star Trek The Next Generation episode when some guy takes over Data's body), or you are just going to generally screw up your super-muscles. You'll probably still never exercise, and end up pulling your super-strong muscles (which will probably hurt more, because there is more mass).
The technology has evolved quite a bit, though: HTML 1.0, HTML 2.0, HTML 3.0, HTML 3.2, HTML 4.0, and now XHTML. At least the core is still the same (if you use it correctly).
I won't be surprised if some company attempts to "unify" all the MMOG's in the near future. Right now, many people are trying to unify AIM, ICQ, Yahoo Messenger, etc., but what about the MMOG's? This is obviously quite different, but I'm sure someone will start pitching this soon.
The difference between PDA and GBA gaming is subtle: When I'm standing in line at the DMV playing a game on my PDA, I look like a geek. When I'm doing the same on a purple GameBoy, I look like a dork.
Internet is not slow TV...
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There's another reason the Internet hasn't done a great job explaining itself: The Big Money would prefer to keep telling us the Net is just slow TV.
Does anyone really consider the internet to be just slow TV? I thought that idea went out 3 years ago. Even my grandparents are googling for information when they have a medical problem or want more info about something they saw on TV. They do not think of the Internet as slow TV.
Sure looks like an advertisement to me. "Stop Breaking the Build, it's what's for dinner.";-)
--Anti: Of your three choices, I choose tomorrow at 1:00PM sharp in your timezone. You will receive e-mail from me shortly before that time with further instructions.
A quote in regards to why Slac is interested in the speed of moving information:
During its research, Slac has accumulated the largest known database in the world, which grows at one terabyte per day.
Wow! I hope they never allow that information to be downloaded on the Internet. If they do, then Google will quickly become the largest database in the world;-).
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Thanks for the responses! It sounds like the "break" key is what stopped the program. I still wonder what that key looked like on an Atari keyboard. Anyone have pictures of Atari keyboards, for that matter?
I understand that we want to define planets as orbiting stars, but I think there will need to be exceptions. For example, what if a planet is pulled out of a star's orbit (due to a galaxy-wide catastrophe, maybe)? Would the planet be called a "former planet" ? Or "rogue planet" ? In either case, it still has the word planet in its name...
The funny thing is, if AOL stopped sending CD's, CD sales would go to nothing ;-).
Finally, this should give the smaller ISPs some relief.
This'll be useless until they can get Centipede working. Good thing that Mame already has that covered, right now I just use my old IMac as a mini-Mame arcade ;-)
- Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario
- May 15-16
This slashdot story:- Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, Florida, U.S.A.
- June 16-18
It's so cheap, maybe I'll go to both (if I can score some airfareOnce I did finally get the chip in my machine, it never worked. I called the company one time before the warranty period was up, and they gave me the rigamaroll (waiting for support for several days, etc). I never did get the chip to work, and I never did get my money back. I've chalked this one up to my own stupidity.
That idea does sound reasonable. I think it would be trivial for Google to incorporate an RSS searcher into their bag of tricks. All they would have to do is add another boolean behind the scenes that indicates whether a page is RSS, and then give a front end to that boolean, and they are done. Both of those actions seem simple to me. The end result would be that people could search for other websites to syndicate.
Do a search for "goatsex", with the 'x' at the end, and look at what google recommends ;-).
The next GeekCruise goes to Hawaii, and one of the listed attractions is "Pearl Harbor". I'm not kidding ;-).
When I was growing up, I read every Carl Sagan book I could, and I always looked forward to reading his latest commentary on science in Parade magazine (he would occasionally write for them). I really wish Carl was still alive, I'm sure he'd have a very interesting and informative weblog.
The suit alleges that the I.R.S. engaged in unfair and deceptive business practices by failing to fully disclose the mechanisms and consequences of income taxes before citizens pay their taxes.
The funniest part is, the above sentence is still completely true ;-).
Ironically, if a treehouse owner fell out of their tree, and ended up in a wheelchair, they'd have no way of getting back into their house. How do you make one of these handicapped accessible? Maybe a really long ramp? Or maybe create an elevator up the trunk? ;-)
The first 90% of the movie looked like Missile Command from the Atari 2600 days, and the last 10% looked like I was speeding towards a two-dimensional line-drawn battle-tank (also like an Atari 2600 game).
Ironically, the longer people live, the faster they will die?
Bodybuilding for Couch Potatoes...
Now geeks everywhere will all be able to carry a 24 inch CRT under each arm from one side of the building to the other ;-). Seriously, though, this could be a bad thing. If you just wake up one day, and you are super-strong, you are gonna screw stuff up. Maybe you'll break someone's hand (ala a Star Trek The Next Generation episode when some guy takes over Data's body), or you are just going to generally screw up your super-muscles. You'll probably still never exercise, and end up pulling your super-strong muscles (which will probably hurt more, because there is more mass).
The technology has evolved quite a bit, though: HTML 1.0, HTML 2.0, HTML 3.0, HTML 3.2, HTML 4.0, and now XHTML. At least the core is still the same (if you use it correctly).
I won't be surprised if some company attempts to "unify" all the MMOG's in the near future. Right now, many people are trying to unify AIM, ICQ, Yahoo Messenger, etc., but what about the MMOG's? This is obviously quite different, but I'm sure someone will start pitching this soon.
The difference between PDA and GBA gaming is subtle: When I'm standing in line at the DMV playing a game on my PDA, I look like a geek. When I'm doing the same on a purple GameBoy, I look like a dork.
Does anyone really consider the internet to be just slow TV? I thought that idea went out 3 years ago. Even my grandparents are googling for information when they have a medical problem or want more info about something they saw on TV. They do not think of the Internet as slow TV.
Would those types of books be listed in the Book Database?
--Anti: Of your three choices, I choose tomorrow at 1:00PM sharp in your timezone. You will receive e-mail from me shortly before that time with further instructions.
During its research, Slac has accumulated the largest known database in the world, which grows at one terabyte per day.
Wow! I hope they never allow that information to be downloaded on the Internet. If they do, then Google will quickly become the largest database in the world ;-).