If your chance of getting an orange is 0, you will get an infinite number of apples and 0 oranges. But if it's anything greater than 0 -- anything at all -- you will end up with an infinite number of apples and an infinite number of oranges. By definition.
See, and people laugh at me when I play the powerball. It just might take a little longer than I was expecting...
One day I'll wake up and pull off my Nanotube based dirt proof - tempeture regulated blankets, step out of bed and go to the bathroom where I turn on my nanotube fillament based lights which last 10,000 years. I'll use the nanotube based super computer inside my razor to give me the perfect shave with no razor burn. Then Ill head into the kitchen and pour myself a big bowl of nanotube-crunch...
You forgot a few things here. You wake up when the nanotech chip placed in your wrist sends the wakeup call directly to your brain and reminds you that you have a doctors appointment in one hour to see how the nanotech anti-cancer pills you've been taking are dealing with the cancer they found last week. As you put on your shoes, the nanotubes in the soles adjust themselves to your foot after making sure that they are fungus free.
After breakfast of nanotube crunch (cleans your teeth as you eat it) and getting dressed in your nanotube stain resistant clothing (that also smells nice).
You unplug your house from your car and sit in the nanotube based seat, surrounded with nanotube coated plastic car frame that's stronger than steel. You speak a command to the computer, which knows it's you as it's already synced itself with your nanotech supercomputer watch that authenticates with the chip in your wrist. It asks if you're heading to the doctor's office and starts to drive you there.
As you pull into the parking lot, the car computers alerts the doctor's computer that you're here on time and checks you in. You still sit in the waiting room for 30 mintutes (somethings never change) and when you're done, you head out to work.
I could go on and on with this new tech stuff, but I think we've both made our points clear...
Sheesh, come to think of it, I think I need to invest in some of this stuff too!
Otherwise, when you go home at night, what's to stop me from booting your computer (off a CD or floppy if it's reasonably secure), or rebooting it if you left it running but locked, and running an app that allocates a couple gigs of memory without initializing it then lets me browse it?
End of day now - lock computer. Go home.
End of day then - lock computer, eject user memory space. Put user memory space in [lockbox|safe|pocket]. Go home.
Of course, all OSes have some way of protecting your data from other users. Evem winders has *some* level of protection in the 2k and XP series. If you don't my know my domain password or the domain admin password - it's a non-trivial exericise to get data off my account.
With Ram 10x faster than we have today, it would be feasable to encrypt the user data on the fly, would it not?
I'll look forward to this tech in the computer industy, but then again, I'm *still* looking for those papercell phones from years past.
Its a huge deal if you are trying to go to Harvard.
What if you want to go to Graduate school? Competition is fierce, you need a 3.5 or above to get into certain schools.
Right, so that would fall under my thoughts of do well enough in school and tests to get into the college you want.
My orignal point was that the comment that started this whole mini war wasn't stupid. If there is a reason you're applying yourself to do your absolute best, then by all means, do it. But if the only reason you "failed" a test at a 96% was your ego, then yes - switch to decaf or something. If your final grade at the end of the class is an A, then that's all that's going to go on your transcript.
Best of luck with your endevors to get into Harvard!
(Don't feed the AC trolls, don't feed the AC trolls, oops too late)
Or maybe you're just too stupid for it to matter to you? That 3% matters a lot to some people who are in real competition with others at the same level (i.e., not you).
Your probably right. I'm far to stupid to think that the difference between a 96% on a test and a 99% isn't a HUGE deal. Pretty low thinking of me that 3% on a test isn't going to get you a better job, prettier wife or anything like that. Yes indeed, how could I be so short sighted in thinking that competition on a test wasn't a "real compitetition". Nothing like those "petty" competitions we had in the Army that didn't mean anything or those silly little evaluations we have at work that only effect raises. Percentage points on a test in school must have a far greater importance than I had placed on it before. Maybe next time I want a bigger raise, I won't bring up job performance or anything like that, I'll just state that I did 3% better on a test in school than some other idiot and watch the extra money flow in.
You're absolutly right that these "real competition[s]" are not at my level. Thank goodness for small things, eh?
I always have viewed tests, performace in school and the like as a cut system. You do well enough in HS and on the ACT/SAT to get into the college you want. You do well enough in college to get the degree you want. Hopefully, with the degree you wanted in school, you can then do with your life (school, business, beach bum) what you want.
Don't get me wrong, competition is a wonderful thing, with out it business would stagniate and the liberals would rule the world::shudder::
The GI bill ruined any chance we had at getting an honest-to-god "University" on our blessid soil.
Sorry, guess I'm a little lost here, but what does the GI bill have to do with a quality of eduacation and the traditional "University" system. Stupid GI's lowering the bar or did the government make some deal with the colleges to let GI's pass the system?
I'll agree that schools have changed, and perhaps our recient graduates are missing some of the finer things in an education, but I do fail to see where that is linked to the GI Bill. Really not trying to troll here, but rather asking for something to back up your statement.
Oh look, it's light outside, I think that means I can go home from work:)
The same way I did. I think I turned in maybe 50% of the homework and in my entire 4 years of HS, actually studied for maybe 3 tests. I had a 3.4 or there about simply because I was smart and the school system is set up for the Average.
Now, being smart and slacking your way through school doesn't make for a good college experience. I started college out with a 3.6 my freshman year, then I got bored and by the time I "took a break" to join the Army, I was down to a 2.something. Now I'm 31, have 2 years (at least) to finish my degree and it's not easy to take time away from the "adult" things I like to study or write code that does nothing but get graded.
if you buy your knowledge you arent intelligent, just rich.
By this statement, doesn't that infer that you should quit college? There is nothing wrong with hiring a tutor if you have problems with a subject and need to work extra to beat it into your thick skull. I guess what I'm getting at, it doesn't matter if the knowldge costs you half a million bucks or it comes to you in dreams.
This was a stupid comment, perhaps you need to take school more seriously, but if you want to keep a high GPA, you need to go for 100% on every paper, every exam, every peice of work.
His comment was not in the least stupid. If 3% on a test (both in the 'A' range) makes a bit of difference to you, well then maybe you should switch to decaf or something.
I seem to remember, that GPAs are not printed on a diploma, so a degree in X with a 2.0 works out to be about the same a degree in X with a 4.0. However, a person with a degree in X and 4 years of experience (ie - not learned in school) is a lot more valauble to an employer than a degree in X with no experience.
Yes, you can be proud of what you've done in school. Maybe if I had applied myself a little better in college, I wouldn't of taken time off to join the Army and drive tanks, get married and start a family, then get divorced and have the heart break of having my kids live 2 states away.:(
BTW - going back to finish that degree, and thus far (one class) have a 4.0 myself but it just kinda worked out that way, really didn't try all that hard - maybe I'm just lazy.
I used homeseer for 29 days until the free trial was over. Then about the same time I was thinking of shelling out the $$ for HomeSeer, A good friend pointed me to Mr. House.
The VR for homeseer (based on the MSAgent) seemed to work better than the VR for MR. House (based on MS VR V4). I understand you can run the Agent software on a remote machine to interface with the web page, but I've never had the time to try to get that one worked out.
I had the same question. Now, I know that X10 devices can be attached to nearly anything, and assigned a two-part code, ie 'A4'. Can someone point us to a site that explains X-10 from the ground up, including X-10 to Computer interface? Radio Shack just didn't have the answers.
From my experience the new Radio Shack Motto "You've got questions, we've got blank stares."
The first part of the two-part code is the house code, the second part is the Module or device code. You get 16 device codes per house code. In your example of 'A4' - That is house code A and device 4, in my house that's my living room lamp.
There isn't a lot more to know about the basics of X10, until you run into problems - generally caused by an appliance sending "noise" back over the powerlines. This is the cause of *most* X10 problems (aside from the 10% DOA rate of their hardware). Keeping noise off the powerlines is probably the most time consuming and costly part of using X10. I'll give you a quick run down on how this interfaces with your computer.
You can get Mr. House running with as few as two X10 devices - a TM751 Transceiver Module (or a RR501 - super model - recommended) and a CM17 - firecracker RS232 to RF converter. Both can generally be had for around $10-15 on ebay.
The TM751 picks up signals from the CM17 (or the remote) and sends those over the powerlines to other modules (when you put them on). It also acts as a Appliance module (device 1 for your house code).
Now that provides a nice one way data stream - from the computer to the devices. But if you use the CM11 (or repackaged variants) you get two way communications. The CM11 is able to read the data that flows over the power lines (the ones the TM751 sends). With this and Mr. House you can program Macros or scripts to run when certian buttons are pressed. For example - A16 ON on the key pad triggers the script on Mr. House that says "Good morning Master", turns on my coffee pot and the bathroom light. A16 OFF triggers the script that says "Goodnight Master" and turns off all the lights.
I hope this gives you a better understanding of how X10 works (in the ideal world) and how you can interface it to your computer with a program like Mr. House. If not, please just respond and I'll be happy to share what I can.
I for one would. In fact I've been a happy Mr. House user for a few years. I use perhaps 5% of what it's capable of. How I missed this posting today is beyond me, since I plug misterhouse on a fairly regualr basis here on/. In fact, I got the url for the/. article from the Mr. House mailing list.
While the documentation is mostly trying to read Bruce's Perl code (still makes my head hurt) the support from the mailing list is excellent (read - after 2 years they still put up with my novice questions).
The biggest draw towards Mr. House is the wide range of supported hardware, you're NOT locked into just X10 (tho it's the cheapest). New hardware just requires a new control module.
If you're looking for something to monitor and control your house, this is the first place I'd check. You can get the basics up and running in about 30 mintues. To use it all, well... it takes longer because there isn't a really good GUI to generate good code.
In addition to the flexibility of the hardware, there is a wide range of ways to control the software. You can use the web server, Send IMs from nearly every protocal, telnet, use the gui on remote machine. There are probably more ways to talk to it, but those are the ones that come to mind.
Count me as one of the VERY happy 600+ Mr. House users.
Why haven't their parents or school installed porn filters? Why haven't they been limited access till they're old enough? My parents wouldn't let me watch certain TV when I was young,
See, your parents (and mine) did this by being the porn filters. They didnt' rely on the TV to censor it self or probably didn't rely on the TV to lock out channels. Was it 100% effective? Hell no. I grew up in the age when Satellite TV (big honk'n dish in the backyard) was still sent clear and free. We had EVERYTHING from HBO to American eXXXtacy. But you had better believe that I never watched anything like that when my parents were around.
I guess the point I'm trying to make is that I have kids. I feel they should be exposed the 'net and all it has to offer, as long as I'm right there with them. The computer they are allowed to use is in the living room and they are not allowed to use it until I get up. Period. They have never broken the rule and have never stumbled across anything offensive. Is there a bigger deteriant than watching porn with your parent(s) in the room?
I have the same problem with 'classic' video games
See, I don't have that problem at all. I can still sit down and really enjoy a game a M.U.L.E. on a C64 or NES emulator. No, it's not the same as when we used to sit up all night playing it, but it's still fun.
Now, I often watch many of the cartoons I used to watch on Saturday mornings on cartoon network when my kids are visiting. I can honestly say, while the shows are not nearly as cool viewed through the eyes of an adult, at least the story lines make sense. I've yet to figure out what the hell Dragon Ballz is all about.
I'm a big linux fan, I really am. I just don't really have the time to set it up properly if I'm working on something "non standard". After spending 2 days working to get Via Voice working on various linux distros I finally gave up and installed XP on the box. Total time till the project was done, less than one hour including install.
What kind of makes me mad is when I request that our IT department install some software on my box at work. They leave it at the BSOD and try to blame me for it. Now that kind of thing stopped right away once my boss was backing me up. Now we have the only TWO home brewed PCs out of several thousand. Our IT department has admin access to them, but doesn't use it since we support them ourselves. Funny, hasn't crashed once since then.
I think Linux has a very powerful user base, I think most people who run linux are a touch smarter than those who *can't* run linux or don't know any better than to run what their computer came with. I think *nix in general is far more powerful than winderz, but I think windows also has it's place in the market.
Yes, this particular bug crashes IE in Windows. BFD. Opening Netscrape was iffy at best on a *nix box. The nice/scary thing about working where I do is we have 2 flavors of unix, dos 6.x to Windows 95, at least 3 distros of linux, a few NT boxes, several 2k boxes and even the odd OS/2 machine. Every OS has it's place and is useful in it's own right.
Now, take a time out in the corner and meditate on these teachings of tolerance of other OSes.
Simply selecting the file in the diretory and pulling up the right button menu crashed Windows Explorer
I think you'll find that saving it, and simply highlighting it will crash Windows Explorer, not even the need to right click. When I'm done playing around with it and sending to my friends with a warning I'll delete it from a command line.
BTW - IE for Pocket PC 2002 doesn't crash with this bug.
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If your chance of getting an orange is 0, you will get an infinite number of apples and 0 oranges. But if it's anything greater than 0 -- anything at all -- you will end up with an infinite number of apples and an infinite number of oranges. By definition.
See, and people laugh at me when I play the powerball. It just might take a little longer than I was expecting...
Corrected Link to Article In case you don't catch the space in the orignal one, or are just to lazy to cut and paste :)
Yeah, Kinda makes me feel really small and meaningless, but at the same time - glad to be a part of something so beaufiful.
(translated into redneckeese: Yup, shore is purdy.)
Ummmmm... so is that a lot or something? :)
>over 1 terabit per cm^2
So, in terms of actual storage space in the computer, this means...what?
If I do the math right, come out to 116.415 GB per cm^2. I have no idea how big your thumbnails are, so I'll refrian from putting it those terms.
Imagine how much windows will bloat when these hit the market.
One day I'll wake up and pull off my Nanotube based dirt proof - tempeture regulated blankets, step out of bed and go to the bathroom where I turn on my nanotube fillament based lights which last 10,000 years. I'll use the nanotube based super computer inside my razor to give me the perfect shave with no razor burn. Then Ill head into the kitchen and pour myself a big bowl of nanotube-crunch...
You forgot a few things here. You wake up when the nanotech chip placed in your wrist sends the wakeup call directly to your brain and reminds you that you have a doctors appointment in one hour to see how the nanotech anti-cancer pills you've been taking are dealing with the cancer they found last week. As you put on your shoes, the nanotubes in the soles adjust themselves to your foot after making sure that they are fungus free.
After breakfast of nanotube crunch (cleans your teeth as you eat it) and getting dressed in your nanotube stain resistant clothing (that also smells nice).
You unplug your house from your car and sit in the nanotube based seat, surrounded with nanotube coated plastic car frame that's stronger than steel. You speak a command to the computer, which knows it's you as it's already synced itself with your nanotech supercomputer watch that authenticates with the chip in your wrist. It asks if you're heading to the doctor's office and starts to drive you there.
As you pull into the parking lot, the car computers alerts the doctor's computer that you're here on time and checks you in. You still sit in the waiting room for 30 mintutes (somethings never change) and when you're done, you head out to work.
I could go on and on with this new tech stuff, but I think we've both made our points clear...
Sheesh, come to think of it, I think I need to invest in some of this stuff too!
Otherwise, when you go home at night, what's to stop me from booting your computer (off a CD or floppy if it's reasonably secure), or rebooting it if you left it running but locked, and running an app that allocates a couple gigs of memory without initializing it then lets me browse it?
End of day now - lock computer. Go home.
End of day then - lock computer, eject user memory space. Put user memory space in [lockbox|safe|pocket]. Go home.
Of course, all OSes have some way of protecting your data from other users. Evem winders has *some* level of protection in the 2k and XP series. If you don't my know my domain password or the domain admin password - it's a non-trivial exericise to get data off my account.
With Ram 10x faster than we have today, it would be feasable to encrypt the user data on the fly, would it not?
I'll look forward to this tech in the computer industy, but then again, I'm *still* looking for those papercell phones from years past.
Its a huge deal if you are trying to go to Harvard.
What if you want to go to Graduate school? Competition is fierce, you need a 3.5 or above to get into certain schools.
Right, so that would fall under my thoughts of do well enough in school and tests to get into the college you want.
My orignal point was that the comment that started this whole mini war wasn't stupid. If there is a reason you're applying yourself to do your absolute best, then by all means, do it. But if the only reason you "failed" a test at a 96% was your ego, then yes - switch to decaf or something. If your final grade at the end of the class is an A, then that's all that's going to go on your transcript.
Best of luck with your endevors to get into Harvard!
Is it possible your soundsystem isn't capable of the frequencies required to alter your mood?
:)
Oh, it's very possible since I didn't have the volume turned up very far at all. I guess some people just take me way too seriously
(Don't feed the AC trolls, don't feed the AC trolls, oops too late)
::shudder::
Or maybe you're just too stupid for it to matter to you? That 3% matters a lot to some people who are in real competition with others at the same level (i.e., not you).
Your probably right. I'm far to stupid to think that the difference between a 96% on a test and a 99% isn't a HUGE deal. Pretty low thinking of me that 3% on a test isn't going to get you a better job, prettier wife or anything like that. Yes indeed, how could I be so short sighted in thinking that competition on a test wasn't a "real compitetition". Nothing like those "petty" competitions we had in the Army that didn't mean anything or those silly little evaluations we have at work that only effect raises. Percentage points on a test in school must have a far greater importance than I had placed on it before. Maybe next time I want a bigger raise, I won't bring up job performance or anything like that, I'll just state that I did 3% better on a test in school than some other idiot and watch the extra money flow in.
You're absolutly right that these "real competition[s]" are not at my level. Thank goodness for small things, eh?
I always have viewed tests, performace in school and the like as a cut system. You do well enough in HS and on the ACT/SAT to get into the college you want. You do well enough in college to get the degree you want. Hopefully, with the degree you wanted in school, you can then do with your life (school, business, beach bum) what you want.
Don't get me wrong, competition is a wonderful thing, with out it business would stagniate and the liberals would rule the world
The GI bill ruined any chance we had at getting an honest-to-god "University" on our blessid soil.
:)
Sorry, guess I'm a little lost here, but what does the GI bill have to do with a quality of eduacation and the traditional "University" system. Stupid GI's lowering the bar or did the government make some deal with the colleges to let GI's pass the system?
I'll agree that schools have changed, and perhaps our recient graduates are missing some of the finer things in an education, but I do fail to see where that is linked to the GI Bill. Really not trying to troll here, but rather asking for something to back up your statement.
Oh look, it's light outside, I think that means I can go home from work
if you do the minimum how are you getting all As?
The same way I did. I think I turned in maybe 50% of the homework and in my entire 4 years of HS, actually studied for maybe 3 tests. I had a 3.4 or there about simply because I was smart and the school system is set up for the Average.
Now, being smart and slacking your way through school doesn't make for a good college experience. I started college out with a 3.6 my freshman year, then I got bored and by the time I "took a break" to join the Army, I was down to a 2.something. Now I'm 31, have 2 years (at least) to finish my degree and it's not easy to take time away from the "adult" things I like to study or write code that does nothing but get graded.
Ok, not to step all over your minirant here, but
:(
if you buy your knowledge you arent intelligent, just rich.
By this statement, doesn't that infer that you should quit college? There is nothing wrong with hiring a tutor if you have problems with a subject and need to work extra to beat it into your thick skull. I guess what I'm getting at, it doesn't matter if the knowldge costs you half a million bucks or it comes to you in dreams.
This was a stupid comment, perhaps you need to take school more seriously, but if you want to keep a high GPA, you need to go for 100% on every paper, every exam, every peice of work.
His comment was not in the least stupid. If 3% on a test (both in the 'A' range) makes a bit of difference to you, well then maybe you should switch to decaf or something.
I seem to remember, that GPAs are not printed on a diploma, so a degree in X with a 2.0 works out to be about the same a degree in X with a 4.0. However, a person with a degree in X and 4 years of experience (ie - not learned in school) is a lot more valauble to an employer than a degree in X with no experience.
Yes, you can be proud of what you've done in school. Maybe if I had applied myself a little better in college, I wouldn't of taken time off to join the Army and drive tanks, get married and start a family, then get divorced and have the heart break of having my kids live 2 states away.
BTW - going back to finish that degree, and thus far (one class) have a 4.0 myself but it just kinda worked out that way, really didn't try all that hard - maybe I'm just lazy.
That invention predates him by thousands of years.
And was invented by a woman no doubt....
But seriously, I dunno what the big deal about mood altering audio is. I listened to several of the files in a random order, and I feel no different.
Now if you'll excuse me, I need to finish gnawing off my left foot then I'm going to go sing love songs to my car.
Most CS/Engineering types I knew in college were practically -scared- of women, not beer-guzzling chauvenist pigs.
Heck, I'm still -scared- of women, but I have good cause, I was married.
I used homeseer for 29 days until the free trial was over. Then about the same time I was thinking of shelling out the $$ for HomeSeer, A good friend pointed me to Mr. House.
The VR for homeseer (based on the MSAgent) seemed to work better than the VR for MR. House (based on MS VR V4). I understand you can run the Agent software on a remote machine to interface with the web page, but I've never had the time to try to get that one worked out.
I had the same question. Now, I know that X10 devices can be attached to nearly anything, and assigned a two-part code, ie 'A4'. Can someone point us to a site that explains X-10 from the ground up, including X-10 to Computer interface?
Radio Shack just didn't have the answers.
From my experience the new Radio Shack Motto "You've got questions, we've got blank stares."
The first part of the two-part code is the house code, the second part is the Module or device code. You get 16 device codes per house code. In your example of 'A4' - That is house code A and device 4, in my house that's my living room lamp.
There isn't a lot more to know about the basics of X10, until you run into problems - generally caused by an appliance sending "noise" back over the powerlines. This is the cause of *most* X10 problems (aside from the 10% DOA rate of their hardware). Keeping noise off the powerlines is probably the most time consuming and costly part of using X10. I'll give you a quick run down on how this interfaces with your computer.
You can get Mr. House running with as few as two X10 devices - a TM751 Transceiver Module (or a RR501 - super model - recommended) and a CM17 - firecracker RS232 to RF converter. Both can generally be had for around $10-15 on ebay.
The TM751 picks up signals from the CM17 (or the remote) and sends those over the powerlines to other modules (when you put them on). It also acts as a Appliance module (device 1 for your house code).
Now that provides a nice one way data stream - from the computer to the devices. But if you use the CM11 (or repackaged variants) you get two way communications. The CM11 is able to read the data that flows over the power lines (the ones the TM751 sends). With this and Mr. House you can program Macros or scripts to run when certian buttons are pressed. For example - A16 ON on the key pad triggers the script on Mr. House that says "Good morning Master", turns on my coffee pot and the bathroom light. A16 OFF triggers the script that says "Goodnight Master" and turns off all the lights.
I hope this gives you a better understanding of how X10 works (in the ideal world) and how you can interface it to your computer with a program like Mr. House. If not, please just respond and I'll be happy to share what I can.
Who would be insane enough to run that code?
/. In fact, I got the url for the /. article from the Mr. House mailing list.
I for one would. In fact I've been a happy Mr. House user for a few years. I use perhaps 5% of what it's capable of. How I missed this posting today is beyond me, since I plug misterhouse on a fairly regualr basis here on
While the documentation is mostly trying to read Bruce's Perl code (still makes my head hurt) the support from the mailing list is excellent (read - after 2 years they still put up with my novice questions).
The biggest draw towards Mr. House is the wide range of supported hardware, you're NOT locked into just X10 (tho it's the cheapest). New hardware just requires a new control module.
If you're looking for something to monitor and control your house, this is the first place I'd check. You can get the basics up and running in about 30 mintues. To use it all, well... it takes longer because there isn't a really good GUI to generate good code.
In addition to the flexibility of the hardware, there is a wide range of ways to control the software. You can use the web server, Send IMs from nearly every protocal, telnet, use the gui on remote machine. There are probably more ways to talk to it, but those are the ones that come to mind.
Count me as one of the VERY happy 600+ Mr. House users.
Why haven't their parents or school installed porn filters? Why haven't they been limited access till they're old enough? My parents wouldn't let me watch certain TV when I was young,
See, your parents (and mine) did this by being the porn filters. They didnt' rely on the TV to censor it self or probably didn't rely on the TV to lock out channels. Was it 100% effective? Hell no. I grew up in the age when Satellite TV (big honk'n dish in the backyard) was still sent clear and free. We had EVERYTHING from HBO to American eXXXtacy. But you had better believe that I never watched anything like that when my parents were around.
I guess the point I'm trying to make is that I have kids. I feel they should be exposed the 'net and all it has to offer, as long as I'm right there with them. The computer they are allowed to use is in the living room and they are not allowed to use it until I get up. Period. They have never broken the rule and have never stumbled across anything offensive. Is there a bigger deteriant than watching porn with your parent(s) in the room?
What would people say if the librarian or the
gallery curator started cutting out the parts of their collections of which they didn't approve
I'd say you must be living in Boulder, CO - but that's just me and I avoid the place like the plague anymore.
I have the same problem with 'classic' video games
See, I don't have that problem at all. I can still sit down and really enjoy a game a M.U.L.E. on a C64 or NES emulator. No, it's not the same as when we used to sit up all night playing it, but it's still fun.
Now, I often watch many of the cartoons I used to watch on Saturday mornings on cartoon network when my kids are visiting. I can honestly say, while the shows are not nearly as cool viewed through the eyes of an adult, at least the story lines make sense. I've yet to figure out what the hell Dragon Ballz is all about.
Drunk Guy1: "Ok dude, now put the cat on the scanner and see what files it brings up..."
Drunk Guy2 "Whoa dude, that's freaky and kinda sick at the same time. Let's raid the fridge next and see what the carrots bring up man"
I'm a big linux fan, I really am. I just don't really have the time to set it up properly if I'm working on something "non standard". After spending 2 days working to get Via Voice working on various linux distros I finally gave up and installed XP on the box. Total time till the project was done, less than one hour including install.
What kind of makes me mad is when I request that our IT department install some software on my box at work. They leave it at the BSOD and try to blame me for it. Now that kind of thing stopped right away once my boss was backing me up. Now we have the only TWO home brewed PCs out of several thousand. Our IT department has admin access to them, but doesn't use it since we support them ourselves. Funny, hasn't crashed once since then.
I think Linux has a very powerful user base, I think most people who run linux are a touch smarter than those who *can't* run linux or don't know any better than to run what their computer came with. I think *nix in general is far more powerful than winderz, but I think windows also has it's place in the market.
Yes, this particular bug crashes IE in Windows. BFD. Opening Netscrape was iffy at best on a *nix box. The nice/scary thing about working where I do is we have 2 flavors of unix, dos 6.x to Windows 95, at least 3 distros of linux, a few NT boxes, several 2k boxes and even the odd OS/2 machine. Every OS has it's place and is useful in it's own right.
Now, take a time out in the corner and meditate on these teachings of tolerance of other OSes.
this is one of those times when I wish I had mod points. AH... maybe someday.
Simply selecting the file in the diretory and pulling up the right button menu crashed Windows Explorer
I think you'll find that saving it, and simply highlighting it will crash Windows Explorer, not even the need to right click. When I'm done playing around with it and sending to my friends with a warning I'll delete it from a command line.
BTW - IE for Pocket PC 2002 doesn't crash with this bug.