On communication issues, being the "Best" isn't all that matters. If you're trying to talk to other people, it's important that they have the same protocols and languages, etc.
The first telephone ever created was totally useless, and the second was only barely better.
The usefullness of any communication device, whether encryption or telephones, is proportional to the square of the use.
The advantage is if you take a sip, find it too sweet, send in a recommendation and it gets rejected you can bottle up your version and sell it yourself.
That's absurd. I don't want to make and sell my own softdrink. I can compile my own code just fine, but it's hard for me to create softdrinks in my garage.
"It's too sweet, I think I'll start a cola company." doesn't work.
But we would never do that, because we haven't bought the album...
And, yes, those are the actual words. I overheard an interview with Eminem, where he thought it was funny that, just because he was constantly insulting "faggots", the world thought he was homophobic.
Publicity stunts aren't limited to OpenCola. Maybe we'd like a little OpenHipHop?
but why would anyone put people they don't trust to sell stuff for them?
That's why TacoBell has signs saying "If you don't get a receipt, we'll pay for your meal." It's not so you wait for that reciept in eager anticipation. It's so the employee has to actually enter it into the register, even if you pay in exact change.
If you run an "EVERYTHINGS A DOLLAR!" store, there's no way to tell the difference between employees pocketing exact change and customers shoplifting.
It allows for more hours of daylight during the summer
WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT? How could it make more hours of daylight? All we did was change the cute lil' numbers on the clock! If the rooter isn't fooled, do you really think we'll slip one by THE SUN?!?
Guys, don't just boycott a company. They might lose a little buisness, but they won't necessarily realize why. If you tell them you're boycotting, you can actually get your message across. Hell, I suppose you could just tell them that you're boycotting, and then keep buying, but that seems sleezy.
Here's a copy. If you send a message (and I suggest that you should) PLEASE don't copy and paste my message. Paraphrase. Form-emails mean SO little. It's hard to get them to listen to email to begin with, without people copy-pasting.
I'm sure you guys have heard about Richard Stallman's call for a ban on Amazon.com. If you haven't, I've taken the liberty of attaching the related web-page. Stallman is often outrageous and extreme, but I believe he's got a very good point here. The idea of even applying for that patent, much less having the nerve to try to enforce it, is absolutely absurd. Last year, my online book purchases totaled a little over $700. (One of the many wonders of ordering online is the ability to scan through my archives of old orders.) I think you guys run a nice page, and provide a good service. However, I think this boycott represents a legitimate cause, and there are too many alternatives for me to buy from a company I disagree with so strongly. I'm sorry to take my business to competitors, but your actions leave very little choice. Sam Greenberg
> Carmagedon gives you an urge to think about > such things, while games such as Quake don't.
Wow. You don't play enough CTF. That grappling hook is an addicting substance, and I find myself CONSTANTLY looking at ceilings and cross-beams for places to grapple.
The best is when you and a friend both play a lot of CaptureTheFlag, and you notice each other eyeing a certain balcony or a chandelier across a crowded room (in real life). I've often said "That landing's looking pretty nice, huh?" and gotten good responses.
As much Quake-Bonding as we do in the real world, we very rarely start attacking each other.
I LOVE the work, but I've been pretty shocked at a few public appearances he's made recently. I suppose I'm shocked whenever a man who is obviously intelligent, and clearly has the same taste in entertainment as myself, has such radically different political views than I do.
Generally, he's seemed pretty conservative and closed-minded, and I found myself getting angry and turning off the TV (it was CNN, as I recall). I felt bad about missing an opportunity to see a man whos words I had read so often, but I just couldn't take it.
Also, if I ever lose an arm I'm locked out of all my accounts...
I usually use the front of my cranium to bash passwords into the keyboard. I figure, if I lose the front of my brain, I can do without being able to login to/.
If you can touch type, make some varyations. I used to use asdfasf. REALLY easy to remember, and friends who think they're cute can try to break you password by watching, but no one counts the *******.
All my passwords are typable with one hand (not pecking mind you) and flow from the hand with as little awkward movements as possible. It works.
All my passwords used to be based on either the word reverberated or stewardesses. "reverberated" definitely flows better, so I'd make passwords something like "Reverbberatedd".
'Course, then I switched to Dvorak, so now everything flows better.:)
Of course, it defeats the entire purpose of the system for you to tell us this, because now anyone who finds one of yoru passwords can figure ou the rest, making changing your password pointless.
YES!!! Good point. Let The Cracking Begin!!! This/. neanderthal will pay for his security breach! The foolish mortal was smart enough to hide his email from his/. preferences, but I did a lookup for "Coward,Anonymous" on a few email search engines, and LOOK WHAT I FOUND!!
E-mail Results 1 - 3 of 3
1) coward, anonymous My E-mail Address is PRIVATE
2) coward, anonymous My E-mail Address is PRIVATE
3) Coward, Anonymous guest@Radio.CZ
We have found him!! He will pay for leaving himself so wide open. Let this be a lesson to all that would follow.
In about 5 years you might be able to get one for just under £1000.
In about 5 years, I expect to have a flat-screen (19"). These don't work on LCD, do they?
Also due in about 5 years... **A robot that cooks and cleans and has a cute, cartoon personality.** **Cars that fly** **One supreme Linux Distro** **A final end to the DOJ MS trial**
98 does a pretty good job of the dual-head display. The problem is that it's like all plug&pray crap, in that you have to desperately hope that your dual configuration is 'supported'. Not just your monitor(s), not just your video card(s), but the combination of both video cards together. If you get a bad pairing, Windows will just say
"Your Video Driver is Not Configured for Dual Head Display Support. Please Contack Your Hardware Vendor for a Newer Driver."
Really obnoxious. Nothing you can do. It's Windows.
Doom wasn't 3d. It had ceiling and floor height, but it was all planned from a blue-print, seen-from-above perspective. You could never have a bridge, because that would create a space that went floor (of river), ceiling (bottom of bridge), floor again (of bridge), and ceiling again (sky). This was the same in Heretic. It wasn't 3d. You could look up and down, but no bridges.
Duke Nukem was a kind of hack on the original concept. They had a kludge that allowed you to have multiple levels, and stack those levels. Well done, but a kludge never the less.
Quake actually had a real 3d engine. You just create a 3D box, and float it in a room. MUCH HARDER to level-edit, but truely 3D.
Descent didn't have any huge differences from Quake. Again, you can change your view in a new way, but that doesn't change the dimensions.
In theory (according to 3com) you should enter text on your desktop machine, and let the Palm be just an extension of the main machine.
I totally agree with that theory. I pump my whole address book, or dump a tree of web-pages, or whatever. I do very little text entry on the fly. It's really an extension of my computer. I do a little date-book entry, and sometimes I add an addressbook or 2, but nothing much.
I have a keyboard for data entry. I can Grafitti pretty well when I have to, but only then.
He's really nice. He went to The Citadel, near where I grew-up, and he was really happy to talk about that with me. He was still really nice to all the "Mr. Card, I love all your work, and you made my child-hood." people (of which I was one), but he also made time and effort to actually talk to a fellow human being.
Look closely at the pictures. (Or view the images seperately. The files are bigger than the page's view of them. Doh!) Do you see that little grey bar at the bottom of their screen! If you look real close, you see a little icon on the far left of the bar!
The Sheriff's office is running Windows!
Don't be too proud of this web-cam you've constructed. The power to destroy Florida is insignificant next to the power of Windows.
That is a big list, but his card isn't actually there. He has a Rage Pro, and that is a little different. It doesn't use the Rage128 Chipset, and, as far as I know, the Rage Pro was already supported, but I don't know what he means by ATI Rage Pro Turbo. Maybe I just thought it was supported because it's listed as a Mach64.
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The first telephone ever created was totally useless, and the second was only barely better.
The usefullness of any communication device, whether encryption or telephones, is proportional to the square of the use.
That's absurd. I don't want to make and sell my own softdrink. I can compile my own code just fine, but it's hard for me to create softdrinks in my garage.
"It's too sweet, I think I'll start a cola company." doesn't work.
But we would never do that, because we haven't bought the album...
And, yes, those are the actual words. I overheard an interview with Eminem, where he thought it was funny that, just because he was constantly insulting "faggots", the world thought he was homophobic.
Publicity stunts aren't limited to OpenCola. Maybe we'd like a little OpenHipHop?
That's why TacoBell has signs saying "If you don't get a receipt, we'll pay for your meal." It's not so you wait for that reciept in eager anticipation. It's so the employee has to actually enter it into the register, even if you pay in exact change.
If you run an "EVERYTHINGS A DOLLAR!" store, there's no way to tell the difference between employees pocketing exact change and customers shoplifting.
WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT? How could it make more hours of daylight? All we did was change the cute lil' numbers on the clock! If the rooter isn't fooled, do you really think we'll slip one by THE SUN?!?
> Thats Genius.
Oh, what ever. It's using tons of different colors. That's cheating.
X4 has better font libraries, and we're here drawing Tux with ascii.
I've seen a few comments about getting X4 to multi-head with a dual-head card, but no one talks that much about 2 cards.
Any luck with 2 cards? Anyone?
When are they teaching "Dumb and Dumber" as a course?
"Today, class, we're going to discuss the Austrian influence on the start of the First World War."
"G'Day, Mate! Let's throw another shrimp on the 'barby!"
Guys, don't just boycott a company. They might lose a little buisness, but they won't necessarily realize why. If you tell them you're boycotting, you can actually get your message across. Hell, I suppose you could just tell them that you're boycotting, and then keep buying, but that seems sleezy.
I sent a message to info@amazon.com, feedback@amazon.com, and suggestions@amazon.com
Here's a copy. If you send a message (and I suggest that you should) PLEASE don't copy and paste my message. Paraphrase. Form-emails mean SO little. It's hard to get them to listen to email to begin with, without people copy-pasting.
I'm sure you guys have heard about Richard Stallman's call for a ban on Amazon.com. If
you haven't, I've taken the liberty of attaching the related web-page. Stallman is often
outrageous and extreme, but I believe he's got a very good point here. The idea of even
applying for that patent, much less having the nerve to try to enforce it, is absolutely absurd.
Last year, my online book purchases totaled a little over $700. (One of the many wonders
of ordering online is the ability to scan through my archives of old orders.) I think you guys run
a nice page, and provide a good service. However, I think this boycott represents a legitimate
cause, and there are too many alternatives for me to buy from a company I disagree with so
strongly.
I'm sorry to take my business to competitors, but your actions leave very little choice.
Sam Greenberg
http://linuxtoday.com/stories/13652.html
> Carmagedon gives you an urge to think about
> such things, while games such as Quake don't.
Wow. You don't play enough CTF.
That grappling hook is an addicting substance, and I find myself CONSTANTLY looking at ceilings and cross-beams for places to grapple.
The best is when you and a friend both play a lot of CaptureTheFlag, and you notice each other eyeing a certain balcony or a chandelier across a crowded room (in real life). I've often said "That landing's looking pretty nice, huh?" and gotten good responses.
As much Quake-Bonding as we do in the real world, we very rarely start attacking each other.
I LOVE the work, but I've been pretty shocked at a few public appearances he's made recently. I suppose I'm shocked whenever a man who is obviously intelligent, and clearly has the same taste in entertainment as myself, has such radically different political views than I do.
Generally, he's seemed pretty conservative and closed-minded, and I found myself getting angry and turning off the TV (it was CNN, as I recall). I felt bad about missing an opportunity to see a man whos words I had read so often, but I just couldn't take it.
Also, if I ever lose an arm I'm locked out of all my accounts...
/.
I usually use the front of my cranium to bash passwords into the keyboard. I figure, if I lose the front of my brain, I can do without being able to login to
If you can touch type, make some varyations. I used to use asdfasf. REALLY easy to remember, and friends who think they're cute can try to break you password by watching, but no one counts the *******.
not unless the cracker coded it that way...I'm sure you could come up with a crack ruleset for keys that are near each other, but it would be a pain.
Mmmmm. Dvorak.
Security through obscurity.
All my passwords are typable with one hand (not pecking mind you) and flow from the hand with as little awkward movements as possible. It works.
:)
All my passwords used to be based on either the word reverberated or stewardesses. "reverberated" definitely flows better, so I'd make passwords something like "Reverbberatedd".
'Course, then I switched to Dvorak, so now everything flows better.
Of course, it defeats the entire purpose of the system for you to tell us this, because now anyone who finds one of yoru passwords can figure ou the rest, making changing your password pointless.
/. neanderthal will pay for his security breach! The foolish mortal was smart enough to hide his email from his /. preferences, but I did a lookup for "Coward,Anonymous" on a few email search engines, and LOOK WHAT I FOUND!!
YES!!! Good point. Let The Cracking Begin!!! This
E-mail Results 1 - 3 of 3
1) coward, anonymous
My E-mail Address is PRIVATE
2) coward, anonymous
My E-mail Address is PRIVATE
3) Coward, Anonymous
guest@Radio.CZ
We have found him!! He will pay for leaving himself so wide open. Let this be a lesson to all that would follow.
In about 5 years you might be able to get one for just under £1000.
In about 5 years, I expect to have a flat-screen (19"). These don't work on LCD, do they?
Also due in about 5 years...
**A robot that cooks and cleans and has a cute, cartoon personality.**
**Cars that fly**
**One supreme Linux Distro**
**A final end to the DOJ MS trial**
98 does a pretty good job of the dual-head display. The problem is that it's like all plug&pray crap, in that you have to desperately hope that your dual configuration is 'supported'. Not just your monitor(s), not just your video card(s), but the combination of both video cards together. If you get a bad pairing, Windows will just say
"Your Video Driver is Not Configured for Dual Head Display Support. Please Contack Your Hardware Vendor for a Newer Driver."
Really obnoxious. Nothing you can do. It's Windows.
so that appropriate treatment can be used, rather then the shotgun approach.
Um, that isn't the same shotgun approach that horse doctors use, is it?
Doom wasn't 3d. It had ceiling and floor height, but it was all planned from a blue-print, seen-from-above perspective. You could never have a bridge, because that would create a space that went floor (of river), ceiling (bottom of bridge), floor again (of bridge), and ceiling again (sky). This was the same in Heretic. It wasn't 3d. You could look up and down, but no bridges.
Duke Nukem was a kind of hack on the original concept. They had a kludge that allowed you to have multiple levels, and stack those levels. Well done, but a kludge never the less.
Quake actually had a real 3d engine. You just create a 3D box, and float it in a room. MUCH HARDER to level-edit, but truely 3D.
Descent didn't have any huge differences from Quake. Again, you can change your view in a new way, but that doesn't change the dimensions.
(inventor of the bouncing bomb)
OK. I'll bite. What's a bouncing bomb?
In theory (according to 3com) you should enter text on your desktop machine, and let the Palm be just an extension of the main machine.
I totally agree with that theory. I pump my whole address book, or dump a tree of web-pages, or whatever. I do very little text entry on the fly. It's really an extension of my computer. I do a little date-book entry, and sometimes I add an addressbook or 2, but nothing much.
I have a keyboard for data entry. I can Grafitti pretty well when I have to, but only then.
so I may actually get to meet him, too.
He's really nice. He went to The Citadel, near where I grew-up, and he was really happy to talk about that with me. He was still really nice to all the "Mr. Card, I love all your work, and you made my child-hood." people (of which I was one), but he also made time and effort to actually talk to a fellow human being.
He came off as a very decent guy.
Go look at the sheriff's office.
Look closely at the pictures. (Or view the images seperately. The files are bigger than the page's view of them. Doh!) Do you see that little grey bar at the bottom of their screen! If you look real close, you see a little icon on the far left of the bar!
The Sheriff's office is running Windows!
Don't be too proud of this web-cam you've constructed. The power to destroy Florida is insignificant next to the power of Windows.
That is a big list, but his card isn't actually there. He has a Rage Pro, and that is a little different. It doesn't use the Rage128 Chipset, and, as far as I know, the Rage Pro was already supported, but I don't know what he means by ATI Rage Pro Turbo. Maybe I just thought it was supported because it's listed as a Mach64.