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Where are Wii?
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· Score: 4, Interesting
Craig's list!
Set up their RSS feeds and watch it. I got 2 Wiis for UNDER cost. One was from a kid bored with it selling it for a new BMX bike. No box, but everything was there plus 3-4 extra games $250 cash. Cheaper than if taxed in Illinois.
The second one... was an amazing find. Wii 2 Full controllers (Not 4 controllers!!!! 2 nunchucks + 2 controllers as advertised everywhere else) 5 games Rechargeable battery packs AND charger. Component video.
All for $300. Foreign student moving back to his homeland. I e-mailed him with in 10 minutes of it being listed. I haven't added everything up but it looks like $450 worth of stuff no tax for $300. One's going to my brother one I'm keeping.
This in the same are that I can't find one at any walmart anywhere. Where I've seen people selling them on Craig's list for $600 with 4 controllers [sic] (2 controllers 2 nunchucks] 10 games [Wii sports + Wii Play added together] etc.
For kicks I setup an auction exactly like the one I bought, in downtown chicago, same price.
5 e-mails in 6 hours.
The thing driving up prices is everyone seeing the prices being driven up which when they get their, they list it for $10 more...
Tell the difference between encrypted traffic? I'm sure the NSA would love to have a talk with the company that is selling that.
If they discover our 128bit key, we'll use a 256, 512, 1024... If set up right there is absolutely no way to tell the difference between encrypted BT and encrypted anything else. That's the point IT'S ENCRYPTED.
Granted it doesn't work with this DRM crap. But ccxstream + XBMC the best home media setup I've seen out of anyone's house. Toss in TVShows.app (Mac) + rtorrent and I like it better than Tivo. (I never shift my media by 30 minutes to skip commercials, usually I catch it the next night, so this works perfectly.)
Once they get it ported to Linux so that it'll do HD, hands down the best player anywhere.
Granted it won't work with this DRM crap, but that's on their end, not mine.
278 page, 1.1 MB. Looks the same on my Mac as it does on a Linux machine as it does on Windows machine as it does on a reader that supports PDF as it does on the printer.
That's why.
Re:PDF is nice, but Acrobat ain't
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PDF Is Now ISO 32000
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· Score: 4, Informative
Apple relies on Quartz and other built CoreImages to do their PDF rendering. So it works very well under OSX. They'd have to port everything to Windows first. Then you'd end up with a 90 MB "Preview.exe".
That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.
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Ever day that passes I think more and more of these words. Over 200 years old and they're dead on. These guys knew what they were talking about. I'm also waiting on the day that "we" reach critical mass. Right now if I were to attempt this. I'd be a terrorist. Right now if I were to get 100 friends. We'd be terrorists. What happens when I get 1000 friends in every city. 10,000 friends. 100,000 friends?
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Second. Politicians AND citizens seem to have forgotten who is boss. I don't work to serve a politician, a politician lives to serve me. If my boss walks into my office and says "You worthless piece of shit. You're useless. Get out and don't come back." I can't sue him. (Assuming he didn't come on to me, blah blah). I don't have a contract with my company. If at an annual performance review I'm told that I suck. I have to take it. I can't sue him because he doesn't think I'm doing my job right or he's critical of my job. I WORK FOR HIM.
"People should not fear their government, their government should fear the people"
Or more to the point:
"When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty."
I'd love to compare the results. Until a 3rd service is available, you really won't be able to see who's "right". I mean say they both say completely different things. Did they screw up the lab work? Did they just test different markers? Etc.
They have a contract with Apple for the 'iPhone'. Jobs is known for his unpredictable behavior after other companies do this to him. He had ALL ATI graphics cards pulled from MacWorld because of a slip like this.
I agree with you. What if it's not called the 'iPhone'? What if Apple spins off a wholly owned subsidiary (Like Claris) and sells an iPhone through that route? I'm sure Jobs has some tricky little out built into the contract.
"Ok. You wanted 5 years exclusive for the iPhone? Ok, we're never making a product update again." So at the end of 5 years the iPhone is still selling identical to how we see it today and Apple's pushing the aPhone on the Verizon/Google network.
I'm posting as DS. (Which is what my slashdot username is, in binary).
A ton of people are up in arms blaming dreamhost. It seems that 90% of the people there are forwarding all their e-mail to gmail. I don't know why they don't use their own client or Google Apps. And they're complaining to HD that it's entirely their fault and they don't understand why it happened in the first place.
I was doing a catchall->gmail->myuser. This way gmail filtered all my spam but I also got to use dreamhost. But given this current issue I'm going to try out Google Apps.
I thought it was all or none. I guess you can set up JUST e-mail (I'm using calendar too though). You have to change your MX servers at Dreamhost. Coupled with IMAP access, this should work for me.
You don't, you divide it into 'learning' steps. This is the 'shotgun' approach. To learning. Imagine if you have a few billion of your species and everyone had to do the samething, but everyone did it different. You'd have a billion different methods. Studies have shown that bees can teach other bees where honey is by dancing. Why couldn't, on some basic level, a Wasp teach another wasp how to do something.
If those wasps each taught 2 wasps, etc you could have taught the entire population in no time. Toss on a few thousand years of experience by how ever many wasps exist per year and you have monkeys at typewriters writing Shakespeare.
How do we know that this development didn't happen in the last 50 or 100 years? What would be interesting is studying wasps in remote areas like Australia where they couldn't have learned from the rest of the populous.
It's not what *I* want. It's a promotional tool, it's what *they* want.
RIAA Gives you X Budget to make your album go platinum. In the day you blew this budget on a sweet album cover. You're not going to hire a 3rd grade class to do it, you're probably going to hire a photographer/artist.
Now days music videos sell music. If tomorrow someone invented a technology where you could put a microchip on your forehead and 'experience' the CD and they bundled it with your CD, I bet music video budget would drop off.
The "Art" is still around. It's just now a Music Video.
Music Videos are an 'extra' on top of the song just like the album art was back in the day. They're big money now. Directors, full sets, etc.
Sure most suck and depending on your genre it may just be some women scantily clad, but every so often there's one that I watch than I just think "Wow. That's cool".
Freak on a Leash by Korn is one that comes to my mind.
Google needs to sell/service their spam detection service. I've gotten 100 spam e-mail messages since noon and 0 false positives or negatives. The only problem is I like to host my own e-mail (well at Dreamhost). Recently Gmail greylisted Dreamhost because of people using catchalls and forwarding their e-mail (making it look like Dreamhost was spamming).
I would PAY MONEY for something like a spamassasin plugin with subscription. Currently SA still has a worse record than Gmail but it's about the only thing I can use on my own. I may end up going back to forwarding to G-mail just because of how awesome their detection is.
I actually found one in ruby. I had to use archive.org to get it since the page has since been taken down. - require 'uri' require 'net/http'
uri = "http://www.amazon.com/Nintendo-Wii-Family-Bundle/dp/B0009VXBAQ/ref=tag_tdp_pl/002-9439078-6124858" look_for =/\$2[0-5][0-9]/
for n in 1..100000
req = Net::HTTP.get_response(URI.parse(uri))
found = (req.body[0..70000] =~ look_for)
puts "#{n}:\t#{found}"
`./sound` if found
sleep 4 end - I think I have my project for the evening. Incorporating your idea, this one and the ones mentioned above. I'm going to see if I can script together 2/3 script. "2/3s chance it's in stock."
Now if I could get some curl libraries and bang out something to automate buying to...
Would you be up for sharing your script? I was planning on doing something in PHP (The language I know). However I've never seen the page when they were in stock so I don't exactly know what to regex for.
Which is why I'm probably attracted to the females on the other end of the spectrum, more towards the creative side. (I have absolutely 0 musical or painting talent.) I'd like to think of myself as a bit of a polymath (You can sew?!) so hopefully between the two of us we can figure something out that the kid likes. (Any extroverted, musically inclined painting females on Slashdot if so I may be your man?)
I also wasn't planning on starting with timing belt changes on my car. Simple things like colors. Then again I'm simply entertained and love kids. And I doubt the kid will have a shorter attention span than my ADHD adult mind:)
Which may have held true 100 years ago. Now days. If you pop out a kid or two before you graduate HS, it's a good chance that kid will make it. You can have on life skills and still be on welfare and pass under the CPS radar enough to get that kid into high school. Cycle repeats.
Quite a bit more than you think. Thats 4 years of your life. It's what most people complete college in. Look at what skills a College grad has that a HS grad doesn't. I'm not saying that nature doesn't have a bit to play in it. If you coddle kids they don't pick up skills. It's simple. Play a kid music every day of his life. When they're two give them a piano. Let them pound the hell out of it every single day. You don't think after 2 years of pounding on something you'd be able to put together something intelligent? Heck even most adults with no musical talent could put something together in 2 years. Not to mention that between 0 and 10 or so you learn faster/better than afterwards.
Sounds like you have. Sometimes the most complex answer is the simplest.
I still haven't quite figured it out yet.
Both of our parents pressed us to be smart and good at our studies when we were younger, read to us and with us early, and did their best to help us do what we wanted to do.
Slashdot Mirror
Craig's list!
Set up their RSS feeds and watch it. I got 2 Wiis for UNDER cost. One was from a kid bored with it selling it for a new BMX bike. No box, but everything was there plus 3-4 extra games $250 cash. Cheaper than if taxed in Illinois.
The second one... was an amazing find.
Wii
2 Full controllers (Not 4 controllers!!!! 2 nunchucks + 2 controllers as advertised everywhere else)
5 games
Rechargeable battery packs AND charger.
Component video.
All for $300. Foreign student moving back to his homeland. I e-mailed him with in 10 minutes of it being listed. I haven't added everything up but it looks like $450 worth of stuff no tax for $300.
One's going to my brother one I'm keeping.
This in the same are that I can't find one at any walmart anywhere. Where I've seen people selling them on Craig's list for
$600 with
4 controllers [sic] (2 controllers 2 nunchucks]
10 games [Wii sports + Wii Play added together]
etc.
For kicks I setup an auction exactly like the one I bought, in downtown chicago, same price.
5 e-mails in 6 hours.
The thing driving up prices is everyone seeing the prices being driven up which when they get their, they list it for $10 more...
Probably a completely different chipset. Unless you have a local retailer for all your PAL games
Tell the difference between encrypted traffic? I'm sure the NSA would love to have a talk with the company that is selling that.
If they discover our 128bit key, we'll use a 256, 512, 1024... If set up right there is absolutely no way to tell the difference between encrypted BT and encrypted anything else. That's the point IT'S ENCRYPTED.
Xbox Media Center.
Granted it doesn't work with this DRM crap. But ccxstream + XBMC the best home media setup I've seen out of anyone's house. Toss in TVShows.app (Mac) + rtorrent and I like it better than Tivo. (I never shift my media by 30 minutes to skip commercials, usually I catch it the next night, so this works perfectly.)
Once they get it ported to Linux so that it'll do HD, hands down the best player anywhere.
Granted it won't work with this DRM crap, but that's on their end, not mine.
15 mmegabytes? Where the hell are you getting your numbers.
I just made a randomly generated pdf using a Lorum Ipsum generator and copy and paste.
278 page, 1.1 MB. Looks the same on my Mac as it does on a Linux machine as it does on Windows machine as it does on a reader that supports PDF as it does on the printer.
That's why.
Apple relies on Quartz and other built CoreImages to do their PDF rendering. So it works very well under OSX. They'd have to port everything to Windows first. Then you'd end up with a 90 MB "Preview.exe".
See also iTunes and Quicktime in Windows.
Yes, yes it is. That's what everyone is suggesting. 0 delays.
There still seems to be a bit of a delay, but it's lessening.
In the mean time the people that don't know how the internet works are calling for DH's head.
Please tell me that you aren't American or haven't passed Middle school social studies yet.
The Bill of Rights is the first 10 amendments. No more no less.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Bill_of_Rights
It's more or less a Constitution Hot Fix. They released the thing then went "Oh shit. We forgot something."
That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.
--
Ever day that passes I think more and more of these words. Over 200 years old and they're dead on. These guys knew what they were talking about. I'm also waiting on the day that "we" reach critical mass. Right now if I were to attempt this. I'd be a terrorist. Right now if I were to get 100 friends. We'd be terrorists. What happens when I get 1000 friends in every city. 10,000 friends. 100,000 friends?
--
Second. Politicians AND citizens seem to have forgotten who is boss. I don't work to serve a politician, a politician lives to serve me. If my boss walks into my office and says "You worthless piece of shit. You're useless. Get out and don't come back." I can't sue him. (Assuming he didn't come on to me, blah blah). I don't have a contract with my company. If at an annual performance review I'm told that I suck. I have to take it. I can't sue him because he doesn't think I'm doing my job right or he's critical of my job. I WORK FOR HIM.
"People should not fear their government, their government should fear the people"
Or more to the point:
"When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty."
I'd love to compare the results. Until a 3rd service is available, you really won't be able to see who's "right". I mean say they both say completely different things. Did they screw up the lab work? Did they just test different markers? Etc.
I'll wait until it's reliable first.
They have a contract with Apple for the 'iPhone'. Jobs is known for his unpredictable behavior after other companies do this to him. He had ALL ATI graphics cards pulled from MacWorld because of a slip like this.
I agree with you. What if it's not called the 'iPhone'? What if Apple spins off a wholly owned subsidiary (Like Claris) and sells an iPhone through that route? I'm sure Jobs has some tricky little out built into the contract.
"Ok. You wanted 5 years exclusive for the iPhone? Ok, we're never making a product update again." So at the end of 5 years the iPhone is still selling identical to how we see it today and Apple's pushing the aPhone on the Verizon/Google network.
http://www.dreamhoststatus.com/2007/11/17/gmail-forwarding-slowness/#comments
I'm posting as DS. (Which is what my slashdot username is, in binary).
A ton of people are up in arms blaming dreamhost. It seems that 90% of the people there are forwarding all their e-mail to gmail. I don't know why they don't use their own client or Google Apps. And they're complaining to HD that it's entirely their fault and they don't understand why it happened in the first place.
I was doing a catchall->gmail->myuser. This way gmail filtered all my spam but I also got to use dreamhost. But given this current issue I'm going to try out Google Apps.
I thought it was all or none. I guess you can set up JUST e-mail (I'm using calendar too though). You have to change your MX servers at Dreamhost. Coupled with IMAP access, this should work for me.
You don't, you divide it into 'learning' steps. This is the 'shotgun' approach. To learning. Imagine if you have a few billion of your species and everyone had to do the samething, but everyone did it different. You'd have a billion different methods. Studies have shown that bees can teach other bees where honey is by dancing. Why couldn't, on some basic level, a Wasp teach another wasp how to do something.
If those wasps each taught 2 wasps, etc you could have taught the entire population in no time. Toss on a few thousand years of experience by how ever many wasps exist per year and you have monkeys at typewriters writing Shakespeare.
How do we know that this development didn't happen in the last 50 or 100 years? What would be interesting is studying wasps in remote areas like Australia where they couldn't have learned from the rest of the populous.
It's not what *I* want. It's a promotional tool, it's what *they* want.
RIAA Gives you X Budget to make your album go platinum. In the day you blew this budget on a sweet album cover. You're not going to hire a 3rd grade class to do it, you're probably going to hire a photographer/artist.
Now days music videos sell music. If tomorrow someone invented a technology where you could put a microchip on your forehead and 'experience' the CD and they bundled it with your CD, I bet music video budget would drop off.
The "Art" is still around. It's just now a Music Video.
Music Videos are an 'extra' on top of the song just like the album art was back in the day. They're big money now. Directors, full sets, etc.
Sure most suck and depending on your genre it may just be some women scantily clad, but every so often there's one that I watch than I just think "Wow. That's cool".
Freak on a Leash by Korn is one that comes to my mind.
Google needs to sell/service their spam detection service. I've gotten 100 spam e-mail messages since noon and 0 false positives or negatives. The only problem is I like to host my own e-mail (well at Dreamhost). Recently Gmail greylisted Dreamhost because of people using catchalls and forwarding their e-mail (making it look like Dreamhost was spamming).
I would PAY MONEY for something like a spamassasin plugin with subscription. Currently SA still has a worse record than Gmail but it's about the only thing I can use on my own. I may end up going back to forwarding to G-mail just because of how awesome their detection is.
I think I already have that virus. Now where the hell did I put that m file.
I actually found one in ruby. I had to use archive.org to get it since the page has since been taken down.
/\$2[0-5][0-9]/
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require 'uri'
require 'net/http'
uri = "http://www.amazon.com/Nintendo-Wii-Family-Bundle/dp/B0009VXBAQ/ref=tag_tdp_pl/002-9439078-6124858"
look_for =
for n in 1..100000
req = Net::HTTP.get_response(URI.parse(uri))
found = (req.body[0..70000] =~ look_for)
puts "#{n}:\t#{found}"
`./sound` if found
sleep 4
end
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I think I have my project for the evening. Incorporating your idea, this one and the ones mentioned above. I'm going to see if I can script together 2/3 script. "2/3s chance it's in stock."
Now if I could get some curl libraries and bang out something to automate buying to...
Why the heck didn't I think of this in July.
Would you be up for sharing your script? I was planning on doing something in PHP (The language I know). However I've never seen the page when they were in stock so I don't exactly know what to regex for.
Google for "Wii Amazon Script" doesn't help much.
Thanks.
Which is why I'll have 5-6 kids.
Amish use them to build barns. Sports fans like having their own basket ball team.
I'll have my own development team.
Which is why I'm probably attracted to the females on the other end of the spectrum, more towards the creative side. (I have absolutely 0 musical or painting talent.) I'd like to think of myself as a bit of a polymath (You can sew?!) so hopefully between the two of us we can figure something out that the kid likes. (Any extroverted, musically inclined painting females on Slashdot if so I may be your man?)
:)
I also wasn't planning on starting with timing belt changes on my car. Simple things like colors. Then again I'm simply entertained and love kids. And I doubt the kid will have a shorter attention span than my ADHD adult mind
Which may have held true 100 years ago. Now days. If you pop out a kid or two before you graduate HS, it's a good chance that kid will make it. You can have on life skills and still be on welfare and pass under the CPS radar enough to get that kid into high school. Cycle repeats.
ADHD! Drug him up. We don't want to have to answer all all these questions. He needs to sit still more also.
Quite a bit more than you think. Thats 4 years of your life. It's what most people complete college in. Look at what skills a College grad has that a HS grad doesn't. I'm not saying that nature doesn't have a bit to play in it. If you coddle kids they don't pick up skills. It's simple. Play a kid music every day of his life. When they're two give them a piano. Let them pound the hell out of it every single day. You don't think after 2 years of pounding on something you'd be able to put together something intelligent? Heck even most adults with no musical talent could put something together in 2 years. Not to mention that between 0 and 10 or so you learn faster/better than afterwards.
I still haven't quite figured it out yet. Both of our parents pressed us to be smart and good at our studies when we were younger, read to us and with us early, and did their best to help us do what we wanted to do.