More and more, it seems like a large percentage is sex-starved, I-want-to-be-funny goofballs
This part is +1 insightful, rest looks like a typical flamebait. Note most nerds ARE sex-starved, funny goofballs - and this is their site with their news and their style comments! If you don't like that, move elsewhere, there are many science news sites on the web. The fact that slashdot is not as classy as YOU would like it, doesn't mean it needs to be changed. It means that YOU need to look for a more classy place.
And hell, somebody mod me offtopic or flamebait and I'll get really pissed off!
...what I read in a science-fiction book (can't remember the title now) seemed to be the right future for me.
A computer the size of matchbox, or something similar. Some pretty, neat shape. One button. Upon pressing, a holographic image of the keyboard and display are created. Follow as with normal computer:) Well, not quite, holographic creation overrides all that standard hardware limitations. Just load the right program and you have any keyboard layout you desire, manipulation by reading your hands position etc.
2d displays like that have quite a few years of future yet, but far future belongs to 3d. And real 3d, not as in "seen from sweet spot, flat makes illusion of 3d", but so you could watch your pr0n from all sides by walking around it.
...let them do it. Just charge them for all names registered. Assuming they wildcard the name with 26 letters plus "-", say, 20 chars deep, charge them 27^20 registered domain names. Even with a good discount, say, $0.01/domain name it will still be more than there is money on Earth:)
Nowadays it's been pretty much cleared up. But in times between 286 and early P2, there were two basic methods as how to "protect" the ide tapes from plugging them in the wrong way. One was a bit of plastic sticking out from the side, the other was one of the holes in the plug filled. One was solved by corresponding gap in the plastic around the pins, the other by a missing pin. The problem though, was that apparently the producers couldn't come to agreement which one is right. So sometimes there was no gap, sometimes there were all the pins, so sometimes you checked 4 different IDE cables and you found none of them fits particular drive or motherboard. And finally, when you did and wanted to follow the "Red line to pin 1" ultimate rule, you found out that nobody took care to mark "1" on the motherboard and you had to look at other devices to recall "where the "1" is?"
That's not a computer question. That question is of philosophical nature. Alternatively, a psychoterapist could ask it...
Answer: Space bar: Penile complex (too short penis) Ctrl: Control Freak. Enter: Vaginal mania. Tab: Just a drunkard. Esc: Depression. F1: Leadership maniac. Backspace: Anal tendencies. Del: Will for destruction. Shift: Double personality ctrl-alt-del: They are out to get you! The Windows key: They already got you!
Tell you what? I feel the same way. Just because my LAN is firewalled and I'm its only user, and I don't telnet outside the firewall. Simply there's nobody to snoop on my lines. No data that's not obtainable can be decrypted. You can't exploit service that is switched off or cut off from the rest of the world. As long as my firewall isn't compromised, telnet is just as secure as ssh.
Of course if I connect to some hosts in a galaxy far, far away, that's a completely different story. (i.e. use the exploit to connect to them;)
You can buy "predefined" spells and "ready to use" elixirs, but you are free to make your own too, and the range is VERY wide.
There are "effects" like "Fire damage", "Restore health", "Cure disease", "Poison" and about 30 more. In "Spellmaking" you can combine them in a spell, and set its parameters - duration, range (self, touch, target), target area range (radius) - and combine the effects. Say, weakness to fire plus fire damage. Chance of success and cost of the spell is calculated "on the fly" (in money - for preparing the spell, once, and in MP for casting). Of course there is nothing to prohibit you from casting Frost Damage 100 for 5 seconds on self;)
Alternatively, you can use alchemical equipment and combine some ingredients (over 100 different ingredients, each with 2-4 (usually 4) effects), so that if you combine 2 ingredients that cause the same effect, you get elixir of specific kind, but to make things more difficult, you know only some of the effects (depending on your Alchemy skill) and so, you can get elixirs that besides desired effects have accidentially some very undesired. Say, restore health plus paralyse for 30sec. Not really usable in combat:) Getting the ingredients is another story. Some of them are body parts of monsters, some are common plants (which otherwise create pretty landscape), some can be found in mines (world famous kwama egg mines;), some can only be bought at shops.
And finally there's Enchanting. You need a "soulgem" in which you have trapped soul of appropriate creature (by casting "soultrap" on it and then killing it while the spell is in effect, and "capable enough" soulgem is in your inventory), an item you want to enchant (the better quality the stronger "enchantment" it allows), a spell with effects you want to have on that item, and finally a fortune in gold. If you have a very rare "Grand Soul Gem" with soul of one of two most powerful creatures, you can create "constant effect" items - like permanent levitation, permanent water breathing, permanent restore health or fatigue, or you can dare creating a set of items that way, say "armor of chameleon", adding up effects of "chameleon" spell you get practically invulnerable becoming completely invisible to the enemy... although fortune required to do so is well beyond imagination of average Morrrowind player that doesn't cheat:)
Just to tell about dangers of the spells... "Scroll of Icarian Flight", fortify agility 1000 for 3s. Jump up, fly several kilometers with your jump and make sure you have "slowfall" spell ready...:)
Assume you eat 25% less and gain 16% more lifetime. But you gain that 25% for reuse too!
Assume you eat 25% less but insteadm, not wasting that time - have 25% more sex thanks to saved pleasure time. Plus another 16% more sex thanks to prolonged life.
25% less food, 41% more sex, seems like a bargain to me!!!
forget about UDMA ATA 100... The wave effects, wire length differences etc in "modified cable" would break stuff. (just count how many times could light (or electricity) cross a PC case during one cycle of 2GHZ CPU... and how much is 1 inch to that.)
Sorry, no digital camera. If I get a new film for my standard camera I may make pics. (What kind of nerd am I? A poor one!)
It wasn't all that difficult with the mods. I removed the rubber band on the wheel, cut down plastic "barbs" that kept the rubber band from slipping, measured width of what remained and thickness of the rubber ring (so I knew how much space I have left), then ordered a ring of iron of specific dimensions, pushed it onto the plastic wheel (didn't even need glue, it was a tight fit. You can always file the plastic some or use silicon to adjust size). I removed the spring, fitted the wheel and found out there's no way for my mouse to close;) So there was quite a bit of filing and cutting needed to make the hole bigger and keep the wheel higher so it didn't rub against the mouse bottom. Then I noticed there is no way to press the middle button with that thing. Finding a good trigger was a tricky part - one that is comfortable in use (uses microswitch, needs 1-2mm "deepth" for work), suitable for "wall-mounting" in the mouse, big enough not to push the finger and small enough to fit the "inner part" inside the mouse. After some tries I found one, with a LED inside too. Some more cutting and filing and I had it fitted. I connected it in paralell to existing MMB microswitch, just soldering wires to the original mountings. Last I attached the op-amp piece to the LED in the switch (during earlier experiments with a rather uncomfortable switch I had it attached to a blue LED sticking out of the mouse back.)
(an ASCII art circuit scheme would go here if/. allowed it)
Some experimenting showed that real op amps are pretty far from "ideal" ones and if I power the amplifier with 5v, there's no way I can get 0-5v voltage or anything near that on output depending on difference of signal between the data lines - so I had to pull the voltage up with an extra resistor. Now it's tuned in such a way that the LED barely shines when inactive and blinks brightly when active. Ah, and of course, cutting and sticking the plastic... to obscure the ugly hole I had to make to fit the wheel:) After some 4-5 tries I got it right - stays attached to that small "patch" between buttons where the wheel is located, doesn't touch the wheel and looks okay. And keeps shining even when everything else is off:)
it's dumb. Why on earth would I buy an antivirus program that LIES that I had sent a virus!? I know this virus wasn't from me, I know the "warning" is all wrong, I'll buy any antivirus but that one!
It won't "catch" a scroll event if you scroll really slow. Not surprisingly too, an "event" of obscuring or showing a LED that lasts a second is not really an event, at least nothing that could be reasonably polled and interpreted by a mouse device. Make that "one click" move with one strong push. But true, Logitechs often get the "triggering point" somewhere pretty far from the physical "click point" so you can scroll forward/back without actually "clicking" or scroll one(!) click without triggering the scroll event. (but usually in that case scrolling just a little bit forward within the same click will trigger it)
Anyway, I removed the "clicking spring" and prefer it:)
Classic logitech mouse with wheel... But with mods.
Inertia wheel. I removed the clickety-click mechanism of the wheel, and ordered a metal replacement for the rubber band - a pretty heavy iron ring. Now with a single strong push I may scroll 20-30 pages (while seeing them all as they scroll by!) and stop by putting my finger against the spinning wheel when I see the section I've been looking for. Causes some problems in games (like unwanted weapons switching) but is absolutely superb when it comes to websurfing and all no-game work. BTW, assign "fire" to "mouse up" and you get instant autofire;)
Thumb RMB. Since the inertia wheel is slightly bigger than the original one, I can't use it as middle mouse button. All the better, I've placed one in the side of the mouse, under my thumb. It's VERY comfortable. Far more than the wheel was. No moving fingers from button to button, just press with thumb and get things pasted:)
And prettifiers... Some plastic that is used in "emergency route" labels and shines in the darkness, around the wheel, to mask the hole edges and an op amp tapped into data lines and powered from the power lines with output to a LED placed under the thumb button, blinking on any mouse activity.
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You will be able to print webpages with the tag properly!
deadtree books are a bit better for grokking. Plus, battery, RAM, all that things weight a bit and make that not quite as a single sheet of paper.
:)
But one-page hard cover book, that wouldn't be so bad
More and more, it seems like a large percentage is sex-starved, I-want-to-be-funny goofballs
This part is +1 insightful, rest looks like a typical flamebait. Note most nerds ARE sex-starved, funny goofballs - and this is their site with their news and their style comments! If you don't like that, move elsewhere, there are many science news sites on the web. The fact that slashdot is not as classy as YOU would like it, doesn't mean it needs to be changed. It means that YOU need to look for a more classy place.
And hell, somebody mod me offtopic or flamebait and I'll get really pissed off!
- Your specialisation?
- Lumberjack.
- Recent work experience?
- Sahara forest.
- Hey, Sahara is a desert!
- Now it is...
...what I read in a science-fiction book (can't remember the title now) seemed to be the right future for me.
:) Well, not quite, holographic creation overrides all that standard hardware limitations. Just load the right program and you have any keyboard layout you desire, manipulation by reading your hands position etc.
A computer the size of matchbox, or something similar. Some pretty, neat shape. One button. Upon pressing, a holographic image of the keyboard and display are created. Follow as with normal computer
2d displays like that have quite a few years of future yet, but far future belongs to 3d. And real 3d, not as in "seen from sweet spot, flat makes illusion of 3d", but so you could watch your pr0n from all sides by walking around it.
3 mililiters of human semen and they won't allow that for trade :)
...let them do it. Just charge them for all names registered. Assuming they wildcard the name with 26 letters plus "-", say, 20 chars deep, charge them 27^20 registered domain names. Even with a good discount, say, $0.01/domain name it will still be more than there is money on Earth :)
What about motherboards and IDE tapes without distinct features (the plastic piece, "blind" hole, no red wire)?
Nowadays it's been pretty much cleared up. But in times between 286 and early P2, there were two basic methods as how to "protect" the ide tapes from plugging them in the wrong way. One was a bit of plastic sticking out from the side, the other was one of the holes in the plug filled. One was solved by corresponding gap in the plastic around the pins, the other by a missing pin. The problem though, was that apparently the producers couldn't come to agreement which one is right. So sometimes there was no gap, sometimes there were all the pins, so sometimes you checked 4 different IDE cables and you found none of them fits particular drive or motherboard. And finally, when you did and wanted to follow the "Red line to pin 1" ultimate rule, you found out that nobody took care to mark "1" on the motherboard and you had to look at other devices to recall "where the "1" is?"
Somebody know the first version? Would be interesting to see what was "wrong" with it?!
That's not a computer question. That question is of philosophical nature. Alternatively, a psychoterapist could ask it...
Answer:
Space bar: Penile complex (too short penis)
Ctrl: Control Freak.
Enter: Vaginal mania.
Tab: Just a drunkard.
Esc: Depression.
F1: Leadership maniac.
Backspace: Anal tendencies.
Del: Will for destruction.
Shift: Double personality
ctrl-alt-del: They are out to get you!
The Windows key: They already got you!
Usually the first key people try after they see this and don't know whick key to press, is the one with a triangle picture. Reset.
D0h. Just match it to "Hyper" or some other Meta...
Tell you what? I feel the same way. Just because my LAN is firewalled and I'm its only user, and I don't telnet outside the firewall. Simply there's nobody to snoop on my lines. No data that's not obtainable can be decrypted. You can't exploit service that is switched off or cut off from the rest of the world. As long as my firewall isn't compromised, telnet is just as secure as ssh.
;)
Of course if I connect to some hosts in a galaxy far, far away, that's a completely different story. (i.e. use the exploit to connect to them
Err, I'm at a wrong place then. Been hacking xpdf sources already, to print a print-forbidden pdf :)
...has pretty amazing "magic system"
;)
:) Getting the ingredients is another story. Some of them are body parts of monsters, some are common plants (which otherwise create pretty landscape), some can be found in mines (world famous kwama egg mines ;), some can only be bought at shops.
:)
:)
You can buy "predefined" spells and "ready to use" elixirs, but you are free to make your own too, and the range is VERY wide.
There are "effects" like "Fire damage", "Restore health", "Cure disease", "Poison" and about 30 more.
In "Spellmaking" you can combine them in a spell, and set its parameters - duration, range (self, touch, target), target area range (radius) - and combine the effects. Say, weakness to fire plus fire damage. Chance of success and cost of the spell is calculated "on the fly" (in money - for preparing the spell, once, and in MP for casting). Of course there is nothing to prohibit you from casting Frost Damage 100 for 5 seconds on self
Alternatively, you can use alchemical equipment and combine some ingredients (over 100 different ingredients, each with 2-4 (usually 4) effects), so that if you combine 2 ingredients that cause the same effect, you get elixir of specific kind, but to make things more difficult, you know only some of the effects (depending on your Alchemy skill) and so, you can get elixirs that besides desired effects have accidentially some very undesired. Say, restore health plus paralyse for 30sec. Not really usable in combat
And finally there's Enchanting. You need a "soulgem" in which you have trapped soul of appropriate creature (by casting "soultrap" on it and then killing it while the spell is in effect, and "capable enough" soulgem is in your inventory), an item you want to enchant (the better quality the stronger "enchantment" it allows), a spell with effects you want to have on that item, and finally a fortune in gold. If you have a very rare "Grand Soul Gem" with soul of one of two most powerful creatures, you can create "constant effect" items - like permanent levitation, permanent water breathing, permanent restore health or fatigue, or you can dare creating a set of items that way, say "armor of chameleon", adding up effects of "chameleon" spell you get practically invulnerable becoming completely invisible to the enemy... although fortune required to do so is well beyond imagination of average Morrrowind player that doesn't cheat
Just to tell about dangers of the spells... "Scroll of Icarian Flight", fortify agility 1000 for 3s. Jump up, fly several kilometers with your jump and make sure you have "slowfall" spell ready...
...and create OUR OWN, FREE standard country extensions!
Assume you eat 25% less and gain 16% more lifetime. But you gain that 25% for reuse too!
Assume you eat 25% less but insteadm, not wasting that time - have 25% more sex thanks to saved pleasure time. Plus another 16% more sex thanks to prolonged life.
25% less food, 41% more sex, seems like a bargain to me!!!
within the next 15 years (...) it will become possible to slowly roll back the age of the body
"I'd say you were full of shit."
"Then I'd ask what your terms were."
-- William Gibson, Neuromancer
forget about UDMA ATA 100... The wave effects, wire length differences etc in "modified cable" would break stuff. (just count how many times could light (or electricity) cross a PC case during one cycle of 2GHZ CPU... and how much is 1 inch to that.)
Sorry, no digital camera. If I get a new film for my standard camera I may make pics. (What kind of nerd am I? A poor one!)
;) So there was quite a bit of filing and cutting needed to make the hole bigger and keep the wheel higher so it didn't rub against the mouse bottom. Then I noticed there is no way to press the middle button with that thing. Finding a good trigger was a tricky part - one that is comfortable in use (uses microswitch, needs 1-2mm "deepth" for work), suitable for "wall-mounting" in the mouse, big enough not to push the finger and small enough to fit the "inner part" inside the mouse. After some tries I found one, with a LED inside too. Some more cutting and filing and I had it fitted. I connected it in paralell to existing MMB microswitch, just soldering wires to the original mountings. Last I attached the op-amp piece to the LED in the switch (during earlier experiments with a rather uncomfortable switch I had it attached to a blue LED sticking out of the mouse back.)
/. allowed it)
:) After some 4-5 tries I got it right - stays attached to that small "patch" between buttons where the wheel is located, doesn't touch the wheel and looks okay. And keeps shining even when everything else is off :)
It wasn't all that difficult with the mods. I removed the rubber band on the wheel, cut down plastic "barbs" that kept the rubber band from slipping, measured width of what remained and thickness of the rubber ring (so I knew how much space I have left), then ordered a ring of iron of specific dimensions, pushed it onto the plastic wheel (didn't even need glue, it was a tight fit. You can always file the plastic some or use silicon to adjust size). I removed the spring, fitted the wheel and found out there's no way for my mouse to close
(an ASCII art circuit scheme would go here if
Some experimenting showed that real op amps are pretty far from "ideal" ones and if I power the amplifier with 5v, there's no way I can get 0-5v voltage or anything near that on output depending on difference of signal between the data lines - so I had to pull the voltage up with an extra resistor. Now it's tuned in such a way that the LED barely shines when inactive and blinks brightly when active. Ah, and of course, cutting and sticking the plastic... to obscure the ugly hole I had to make to fit the wheel
it's dumb. Why on earth would I buy an antivirus program that LIES that I had sent a virus!? I know this virus wasn't from me, I know the "warning" is all wrong, I'll buy any antivirus but that one!
It won't "catch" a scroll event if you scroll really slow. Not surprisingly too, an "event" of obscuring or showing a LED that lasts a second is not really an event, at least nothing that could be reasonably polled and interpreted by a mouse device. Make that "one click" move with one strong push. But true, Logitechs often get the "triggering point" somewhere pretty far from the physical "click point" so you can scroll forward/back without actually "clicking" or scroll one(!) click without triggering the scroll event. (but usually in that case scrolling just a little bit forward within the same click will trigger it)
:)
Anyway, I removed the "clicking spring" and prefer it
Classic logitech mouse with wheel... But with mods.
;)
:)
Inertia wheel. I removed the clickety-click mechanism of the wheel, and ordered a metal replacement for the rubber band - a pretty heavy iron ring. Now with a single strong push I may scroll 20-30 pages (while seeing them all as they scroll by!) and stop by putting my finger against the spinning wheel when I see the section I've been looking for. Causes some problems in games (like unwanted weapons switching) but is absolutely superb when it comes to websurfing and all no-game work. BTW, assign "fire" to "mouse up" and you get instant autofire
Thumb RMB. Since the inertia wheel is slightly bigger than the original one, I can't use it as middle mouse button. All the better, I've placed one in the side of the mouse, under my thumb. It's VERY comfortable. Far more than the wheel was. No moving fingers from button to button, just press with thumb and get things pasted
And prettifiers... Some plastic that is used in "emergency route" labels and shines in the darkness, around the wheel, to mask the hole edges and an op amp tapped into data lines and powered from the power lines with output to a LED placed under the thumb button, blinking on any mouse activity.
bunch of furrys or similar sexual deviant fan-types
Why the hell nobody gets this bastard down to -1 troll/flamebait?
It's about the same comparison as "a bunch of egyptians similar similar terrorist sand niggers".