When I first got here I was told that I would be the RASS guy. I asked what RASS meant, and nobody knew, they just knew that the RASS guy handles all the computer stuff.
A man is walking down a street and the Devil appears. The Devil says I'll bet if you ask me to do 3 things I can do them. If so, your soul belongs to me, if not, i'll leave you alone. So the man says, ok, make a million dollars appear right here, and the devil happily obliged. Then the man said give me the ability to fly, and the man sprouted wings on the spot. Then the man farted and said, put that in a jar. The devil frowned and disappeared.
You know I never thought about it, but we have been using the same toaster for about 20 years now. Never thought about getting a new one. But we don't eat toast either, so that may have something to do with it. On the subject of appliances, microwaves don't last any time either. After 3 months the plate doesn't rotate anymore, leaving me with burning hot pizza on one side and still frozen pizza on the other side.
When I first heard about the story and it was said that the guy was sharing 650,000 songs, I was like wow, that guy has over a terabyte of mp3s he's sharing, he's goin down (estimating that an mp3 is ~3 MB). Obviously it doesn't take long for details to get distorted.
We could safely lift the material up into space and then launch the waste somewhere else.
That is a good idea. But what if something were to go wrong, and somehow radioactive goo starts leaking a mile above the Earth. Then the wind starts spreading it all over the place, and we all end up with mutant powers or three-headed pigeons or ***Insert imagination here***. Or an entire region could smell like a garbage can. But if they can find a safe way to do it that would be great.
And it was just about to retire the next day. 2 billion years of loyal service as a hypernova, and it erupts just like that.
Quoted a co-worker, "It's what we call in the nova business retirony."
Didn't some dumbass try to copyright the name Linux and then sue Linus? This isn't the same case since the porn people didn't invent streaming video, but it's another case of abusing the system.
Here's a little analogy that came to mind.
A pimp makes money off his hoes. Now somebody is trying to make money off the pimps (we'll call this person Supapimp). Supapimp didn't invent the pimpin game, so how does he expect to get pimpin royalties? You can't just decide to tax the rest of the pimps and expect to get away with it. All those pimps gon come with the pimpslap, and Supapimp won't end up with nuthin but a sore ass.
Sure you can trust Microsoft. Why the other day a guy named Microsoft offered me candy and a ride home. He had a lot of money and a pretty car so I said sure. Now i'm locked in a smelly basement, sending this message by trained carrier pigeon (my pigeon has a/. account). I guess i'm safe...
God created humans. Humans created robots. Robots will create _____?
And isn't it something how humans strive to be like God (ie creating life), while making robots to be more human (Short Circuit and AI come to mind too)? What will be like the robots? Probably whatever the robots create.
Seeing the old Windows 3.10 startup screen brought me back to when I got my first computer, and the Windows 3.1 splash screen booted up. It was Christmas morning and I was a young lad. This was a really big thrill, being the first kid on the block with a computer. After the splash screen, there was some setup screen for some program that was preinstalled. After filling in the information, I clicked the Next button and waited for more magic to happen. I waited...and waited....and waited....then my father pushed ctrl+alt+del, and up pops my very first blue screen of death! It rudely told me it was busy and commenced to spit floppy disks out of the disk drive at me. I went to bed crying and terrified of the computer, and never touched another computer again after that.
the end.
just kidding, actually my father reinstalled the system, and eventually we got it working.
Since it's known that Ebay gives out information about customers to law enforcement agencies, it's probably possible to get information about the peddlers selling the descrambler. Hope they covered their tracks.
Supposedly if you leave a hankerchiff under your arm (without deoderant of course) for awhile, and then put the hankerchiff in your shirt pocket, you'll attract more women. Something to do with pheromones I think.
After watching the Flintstones, I think history is long overdue for repeating itself. Remember those witty dinosaur appliances that made comments after being used, like "It's a living." I'd like to see some little computerized vending machines or toilets chiming in every once in awhile (i.e "You should be drinking Coke not Pepsi" or "Damn what have you been eating???") It would brighten everyone's day and help us make the transition from the Flintstones to the Jetsons.
A few things i'd like to see by 2013....
Pets that eat poop instead of make it (Thus creating a circle of life between real and artificial pets.)
A 300 GHz computer with 64 GB of RAM that won't skip or delay even if it wanted to.
Reassurance that 1 term of a Bush in charge and bad economic times can equate to 2 terms of some other guy in charge for 2 terms and good economic times, and an occasional scandal that keeps things interesting.....
Is filesharing illegal because it's so easy? You could always make xerox copies of pages from a book, but not that many people are going to xerox over 100 pages. Also recording music and movies on cassettes and VHS tapes has been around for awhile now, but before you might just trade tapes with a few friends. But I guess the difference between then and now is that it's all digital. Now we can copy a few hundred pages in a few seconds, and we have millions of "friends" (well-wishers, associates, co-conspirers) to trade with now.
"C'mon girl it's not a french kiss, it's a freedom kiss."
I'm a n00b trying to develop my first game. I made a "rough draft" that runs, but it's all scrolling text (like MUDs), just to get a working engine going, but i'm reluctant to release it because the graphics aren't ready yet. But are there a lot of these text-based games around that are fun even though they don't have graphics, or is it pretty much the standard that you need graphics in the game for it to be taken seriously? I never played Nethack but i'm about to check it out. Sounds like a good game.
p.s. I'm still working on the graphics, just wondering if I should wait and finish first or release the text-based version to the open source community.
Learning a second language is very hard. Learning a third or fourth language is MUCH easier.
This is true. My first language was english, then I learned latin which was pretty hard. But pig latin was much easier. Then spanish was ok. I wonder if it would've been the same if i learned spanish first and english last?
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$3 billion dollars in cash??? IN CASH???
I guess he's gonna build a money vault like Scrooge McDuck next, convert some of the paper bills into gold coins, and go swimming in money next.
When I first got here I was told that I would be the RASS guy. I asked what RASS meant, and nobody knew, they just knew that the RASS guy handles all the computer stuff.
A man is walking down a street and the Devil appears. The Devil says I'll bet if you ask me to do 3 things I can do them. If so, your soul belongs to me, if not, i'll leave you alone. So the man says, ok, make a million dollars appear right here, and the devil happily obliged. Then the man said give me the ability to fly, and the man sprouted wings on the spot. Then the man farted and said, put that in a jar. The devil frowned and disappeared.
You know I never thought about it, but we have been using the same toaster for about 20 years now. Never thought about getting a new one. But we don't eat toast either, so that may have something to do with it. On the subject of appliances, microwaves don't last any time either. After 3 months the plate doesn't rotate anymore, leaving me with burning hot pizza on one side and still frozen pizza on the other side.
It's pronounced "hundred and forty two-th" or "hundred forty secondith".
When I first heard about the story and it was said that the guy was sharing 650,000 songs, I was like wow, that guy has over a terabyte of mp3s he's sharing, he's goin down (estimating that an mp3 is ~3 MB). Obviously it doesn't take long for details to get distorted.
If Paypay was used, the guy might end up trying to raise $192 billion dollars, since PayPay likes to rob people.
We could safely lift the material up into space and then launch the waste somewhere else.
That is a good idea. But what if something were to go wrong, and somehow radioactive goo starts leaking a mile above the Earth. Then the wind starts spreading it all over the place, and we all end up with mutant powers or three-headed pigeons or ***Insert imagination here***. Or an entire region could smell like a garbage can. But if they can find a safe way to do it that would be great.
And it was just about to retire the next day. 2 billion years of loyal service as a hypernova, and it erupts just like that.
Quoted a co-worker, "It's what we call in the nova business retirony."
Acadia facing stiff resistance in the lawsuit.
Didn't some dumbass try to copyright the name Linux and then sue Linus? This isn't the same case since the porn people didn't invent streaming video, but it's another case of abusing the system.
Here's a little analogy that came to mind.
A pimp makes money off his hoes. Now somebody is trying to make money off the pimps (we'll call this person Supapimp). Supapimp didn't invent the pimpin game, so how does he expect to get pimpin royalties? You can't just decide to tax the rest of the pimps and expect to get away with it. All those pimps gon come with the pimpslap, and Supapimp won't end up with nuthin but a sore ass.
Sure you can trust Microsoft. Why the other day a guy named Microsoft offered me candy and a ride home. He had a lot of money and a pretty car so I said sure. Now i'm locked in a smelly basement, sending this message by trained carrier pigeon (my pigeon has a /. account). I guess i'm safe...
God created humans.
Humans created robots.
Robots will create _____?
And isn't it something how humans strive to be like God (ie creating life), while making robots to be more human (Short Circuit and AI come to mind too)? What will be like the robots? Probably whatever the robots create.
the end.
just kidding, actually my father reinstalled the system, and eventually we got it working.
Since it's known that Ebay gives out information about customers to law enforcement agencies, it's probably possible to get information about the peddlers selling the descrambler. Hope they covered their tracks.
The high-cost filter being sold on Ebay and through email Spam...
Why is Ebay spamming people to steal cable?
Isn't that entrapment?
It is similar to a honeypot I guess, but I just don't like the aspect of spam being used.
And that's how stinky men get laid.
Pets that eat poop instead of make it (Thus creating a circle of life between real and artificial pets.)
A 300 GHz computer with 64 GB of RAM that won't skip or delay even if it wanted to.
Reassurance that 1 term of a Bush in charge and bad economic times can equate to 2 terms of some other guy in charge for 2 terms and good economic times, and an occasional scandal that keeps things interesting.....
Oh yeah, world peace and smell-o-vision.
"C'mon girl it's not a french kiss, it's a freedom kiss."
Love?!?
Who's been tampering with the machine!
I'm a n00b trying to develop my first game. I made a "rough draft" that runs, but it's all scrolling text (like MUDs), just to get a working engine going, but i'm reluctant to release it because the graphics aren't ready yet. But are there a lot of these text-based games around that are fun even though they don't have graphics, or is it pretty much the standard that you need graphics in the game for it to be taken seriously? I never played Nethack but i'm about to check it out. Sounds like a good game. p.s. I'm still working on the graphics, just wondering if I should wait and finish first or release the text-based version to the open source community.
This is true. My first language was english, then I learned latin which was pretty hard. But pig latin was much easier. Then spanish was ok. I wonder if it would've been the same if i learned spanish first and english last?
"No I can't backup from this ledge. I'm going to JMP!"