Isn't that the wrong approach, though, adapting to women's demands, giving up your own desires? Eventually you might wake up and find you wasted all your life not playing video games.
I'm fine with the emulators, but what I really need for the perfect revival feeling is Joysticks of the old kind. I have a competition pro for gameport, but I could never combine it with a second gameport joystick. And now I don't have gameports anymore, and the usb adapters don't seem to work well either.
I'm not sure, but I think the patent office hasn't got the task to decide wether something actually makes sense. If somebody wants to patent something that doesn't really make sense or that simply doesn't work as described, they might still grant a patent, as long as it's new? The patent would probably be worthless, but the state made some money on it...
Who cares about email worms? I don't think anybody capable of reading slashdot would be affected by such a worm. SQL-SLammer was interesting, but email-worms are just lame.
Is there really a multiplayer Tetris for mobile phones yet? Where is it available? Are there other multiplayer games for mobile phones? Links would be appreciated, thanks!
OK, so I am pretty tired right now, but please - surely it would have been possible to get to the point a little bit faster? We are living in the third millenium, isn't information supposed to be dense?
I thought Trillian also encrypts messaging with other Trillian users. I don't think I have grasped the whole point of waste yet? Perhaps that it adds Filesharing as well?
Also, how does it find the other hosts without a centralized server?
Cool, how could I forget Lem, given that I borrowed my nick from the hero of 'The Star Diaries';-)
That's also were I read my first Matrix-like story, roughly 20 years ago. Tichy meets a guy who emulates people's lifes with boxes full of tapes that are the different paths they can chose. He descibes the people's lives. Of course one of them is a guy who emulates peoples lifes etc.
Although sometimes with Lem I think you have to be willing to skip entire paragraphs. He seems to fall into a frency of genious at time and get lost in word games.
Cyberiad and it's sequel are very nice, as well, and extremely well suited for geeks, I suppose.
I second the Orwell recommendation. But I'd also like to throw in Haruki Murakami. I don't know the english titles, but all his books are good. Especially for summer reads, because they somehow create this feeling of a lightness of being, while at the same time being deeply touching.
I think my favourite so far is called 'Norwegian Wood' in english. Perhaps for the seriously geek inclined, "A Wild Sheep Chase" would be more appealing, as it has fantasy elements of sorts (I called them surreal at the time, though).
Other have said it before, but I still have to vent. I find it rather frustrating that people are taking the gibberish in the Matrix so serious. Nothing against the movie, but the depth of the philosophy was certainly beyond average for todays movies.
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How does Gator actually work? I thought for packet sniffing one usually needs the WinCAP driver? Is it entangled with IE or a standalone program?
I'm asking because I am interested in writing a similiar thing myself. Only not for advertising purposes. The idea is to spy on myself - what I want to know is what the web pages I visit theoretically know about me (ie how they are linked via advertising servers etc.). So I thought collecting the data that web pages can theroretically collect about me might be an interesting eye opener.
Somehow I don't believe in this, even though it's the usual theory that people have about improving things. In theory it might be fine, but as it's usually impossible to grasp all emerging problems beforehand, wouldn't it be better to strive for a system that can adapt and evolve?
Once you get used to the long-winded syntax, it's actually kind of fun to use. And it suits the creation of html very well... I guess I also sometimes like to use languages that require a bit of hacking, ie clever workarounds to get things done. Same reason why I like SQL, although I wouldn't want to use XSLT and SQL all the time - just now and then for a change.
Uhm, can this really be true? I mean wouldn't the inventors of the JavaScript Instructions for creating popup windows be the inventors of popup windows? I don't suppose Porn Guy was working at Netscape at the time?
That's what annoys me about people, that they refuse to use the help function. But in the case of my friend, he actually didn't know the screen resolution could be better.
Windows tries to pick a better screen resolution on setup, dunno if it tries refresh rates. Does Linux?
Last I tried (1 year ago), the major distributions configured everything just fine. Don't know why this post displays so strangely.
However, in Unix or Linux it takes some serious dedication to even find some of the fucking tools, much less understand how they're applied
Doesn't it all boil down to what you are used to? Watch a not so Computer literate person use windows, and think again if it is really as easy to use as you are taking for granted? We tend to forget that we accumulated our knowledge over years. Only recently I switched a friends screen refresh rate from flickering 60Hz to 85Hz - for me it was dead simple, just right click the screen, but how the heck is a normal user ever supposed to get that idea?
I think it's possible to use Linux with quite few commands on a similiar level as Windows - all you need is cp, mv, ls, cd?
It also seems to me that the documentation problem has become much less of an issue with the internet around. If it isn't in the man pages, try Google. I still prefer man pages over the windows help system for dummies, which doesn't even give you an idea of what is going on.
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Isn't that the wrong approach, though, adapting to women's demands, giving up your own desires? Eventually you might wake up and find you wasted all your life not playing video games.
So that's how trademarks will be enforced in the future??? I'm not sure what's the greater evil here...
Maybe that it obviously can't work for real?
Wouldn't that be the better/cleaner solution? I suspect ip addresses can be faked, so it's easy for spammers to make the whitelists useless.
Also, what's next, are we supposed to put our mail servers ip address on our business cards?
Guess that would make him a terrorist, too. Ouch...
Very unlikely that the email-addresses are correct, so some innocent bystanders probably have to suffer now.
I'm fine with the emulators, but what I really need for the perfect revival feeling is Joysticks of the old kind. I have a competition pro for gameport, but I could never combine it with a second gameport joystick. And now I don't have gameports anymore, and the usb adapters don't seem to work well either.
I'm not sure, but I think the patent office hasn't got the task to decide wether something actually makes sense. If somebody wants to patent something that doesn't really make sense or that simply doesn't work as described, they might still grant a patent, as long as it's new? The patent would probably be worthless, but the state made some money on it...
Who cares about email worms? I don't think anybody capable of reading slashdot would be affected by such a worm. SQL-SLammer was interesting, but email-worms are just lame.
Is there really a multiplayer Tetris for mobile phones yet? Where is it available? Are there other multiplayer games for mobile phones? Links would be appreciated, thanks!
One of the most famous "predictions" is that of Orwell's 1984, which (of course) has not exactly come to pass.
Maybe not by 1984, but aren't things becoming more Orwellian every day? The TIA seems to be a perfect example.
OK, so I am pretty tired right now, but please - surely it would have been possible to get to the point a little bit faster? We are living in the third millenium, isn't information supposed to be dense?
I thought Trillian also encrypts messaging with other Trillian users. I don't think I have grasped the whole point of waste yet? Perhaps that it adds Filesharing as well? Also, how does it find the other hosts without a centralized server?
Cool, how could I forget Lem, given that I borrowed my nick from the hero of 'The Star Diaries' ;-)
That's also were I read my first Matrix-like story, roughly 20 years ago. Tichy meets a guy who emulates people's lifes with boxes full of tapes that are the different paths they can chose. He descibes the people's lives. Of course one of them is a guy who emulates peoples lifes etc.
Although sometimes with Lem I think you have to be willing to skip entire paragraphs. He seems to fall into a frency of genious at time and get lost in word games.
Cyberiad and it's sequel are very nice, as well, and extremely well suited for geeks, I suppose.
I second the Orwell recommendation. But I'd also like to throw in Haruki Murakami. I don't know the english titles, but all his books are good. Especially for summer reads, because they somehow create this feeling of a lightness of being, while at the same time being deeply touching.
I think my favourite so far is called 'Norwegian Wood' in english. Perhaps for the seriously geek inclined, "A Wild Sheep Chase" would be more appealing, as it has fantasy elements of sorts (I called them surreal at the time, though).
Other have said it before, but I still have to vent. I find it rather frustrating that people are taking the gibberish in the Matrix so serious. Nothing against the movie, but the depth of the philosophy was certainly beyond average for todays movies.
How does Gator actually work? I thought for packet sniffing one usually needs the WinCAP driver? Is it entangled with IE or a standalone program?
I'm asking because I am interested in writing a similiar thing myself. Only not for advertising purposes. The idea is to spy on myself - what I want to know is what the web pages I visit theoretically know about me (ie how they are linked via advertising servers etc.). So I thought collecting the data that web pages can theroretically collect about me might be an interesting eye opener.
Somehow I don't believe in this, even though it's the usual theory that people have about improving things. In theory it might be fine, but as it's usually impossible to grasp all emerging problems beforehand, wouldn't it be better to strive for a system that can adapt and evolve?
Since I have a mobile phone that also shows the time, why bother carrying a wrist watch?
It doesn't matter to me that it doesn't matter to you. So why did you have to post it on slashdot?
Of course you also provided your IT staff with lots of people who do the testing of the webpage? Or do you suppose they should do so themselves?
Once you get used to the long-winded syntax, it's actually kind of fun to use. And it suits the creation of html very well... I guess I also sometimes like to use languages that require a bit of hacking, ie clever workarounds to get things done. Same reason why I like SQL, although I wouldn't want to use XSLT and SQL all the time - just now and then for a change.
Uhm, can this really be true? I mean wouldn't the inventors of the JavaScript Instructions for creating popup windows be the inventors of popup windows? I don't suppose Porn Guy was working at Netscape at the time?
Um, Start | Help,
type "screen flickering",
First article: how to change refresh rate.
That's what annoys me about people, that they refuse to use the help function. But in the case of my friend, he actually didn't know the screen resolution could be better.
Windows tries to pick a better screen resolution on setup, dunno if it tries refresh rates. Does Linux?
Last I tried (1 year ago), the major distributions configured everything just fine. Don't know why this post displays so strangely.
However, in Unix or Linux it takes some serious dedication to even find some of the fucking tools, much less understand how they're applied
Doesn't it all boil down to what you are used to? Watch a not so Computer literate person use windows, and think again if it is really as easy to use as you are taking for granted? We tend to forget that we accumulated our knowledge over years. Only recently I switched a friends screen refresh rate from flickering 60Hz to 85Hz - for me it was dead simple, just right click the screen, but how the heck is a normal user ever supposed to get that idea?
I think it's possible to use Linux with quite few commands on a similiar level as Windows - all you need is cp, mv, ls, cd?
It also seems to me that the documentation problem has become much less of an issue with the internet around. If it isn't in the man pages, try Google. I still prefer man pages over the windows help system for dummies, which doesn't even give you an idea of what is going on.