Great... Furbies... So will these shoes start talking aimlessly with other Shoebies they encounter while being used? Do we have to hold them upside down to shut them up?
Actually, I'm waiting to see what happens when the case mod community can afford to get these shoes. The next generation ones will probably be able to transform on their own (into formal shoes or something).
This perpetual motion idea would not last, as the cats (being the nimble cretins... erm, creatures they are) will eventually discover that they like the butter taste and will clean the toast to the point of being ineffective, thus landing on their buttery paws.
One of their features is the user/product photos. The one for Octane Shower Gel was shown on their main page. Of course, right below it was the nice request for "videos taken of/with this product"... Only 10 pounds for a promo tape using a shower gel product. What some people will do to get cheap porn.
Hopefully, they will remember this and not port the Micoso~1 Office Game to XBox. While slaying the Werd beast in Look-Out tower with the Point of Power is difficult enough on the PC, we could use better RPG titles to make it worth the price of the new box.
Unfortunately, the ability to hack a system into a useful device is not prevented by it being something other than a PC. Plenty of network boxes, PDAs, and embedded devices run Linux or any other non-M$ OS.
It will simply be a matter of time before the system would be reversed far enough anyway to do some good for the mod community.
Let me begin by saying that I was a simple, rural, college freshman student
with my first big exposure to the Internet last year. I had never once
thought that my life could be so messed up by the young age of 27. With my
classes starting in Computer Training, I was given a school email account.
Safe enough. Wrong. My best friend, Cleetus, thought it would be funny to
send me a link to one of them nekid lady picture sites, and the first thing
I was asked for to get access was my email address. Well, seeing as I had
only the one account, I used it.
Then my life went to Hell. Within 30 minutes, I had an email confirmation
that my pictures were accessible. Then I received another one saying I
should increase the size of my penis. I figured it was from the same site.
It was actually from an online drug seller. Something about Viagra... So I
figured, what the heck, I could use a girlfriend (since Bobbi Sue left me for
that no good Jethro) here at college. So I ordered some with what was left
from my scholarship fund for this month. I waited a few days for my order,
while being stampeded with more emails about Viagra and penis enlargement.
I finally got my order, and tried it. It worked great! I would roam the
campus strutting like a horny rooster. Girls started noticing me, although
none of them wanted to go out with me. I ordered more and more figuring
that it could not hurt, since I see lots of nekid pictures with black guys
doing white girls. Pretty soon, I was hung like a horse and starting to get
the attention of the ladies, but there was never anything lasting more than
a single night, that is, except my addiction to the cheap Viagra mixed with
narcotics.
I was going broke using up all of my scholarship money and the pay from my
job at McDonalds. I had to respond to one of the home equity loan emails,
so my parent's place is now mortgaged three times (and the outhouse five
times), and I am still running behind. I walk with a limp, and the women
all run from me in horror. Maybe that nice Nigerian man can help me with my
problems...
Unfortunately, two mediocre programmers yield nothing but crap code. For pair programming to work well, the two would have to be very balanced with regards to each other's performace, or else there will be more work done by one or the other.
No "sane" senior developer is going to let a junior programmer coast along on the same coding task without doing his/her fair portion of the work. I find that it to be a waste of time to have someone standing there watching me code unless I am intentionally trying to demonstrate or teach. (Especially the boss!)
Besides, the parrot should sit on its own perch...
Can the Miss November centerfold survive this treatment as well without smelling like hot dogs? She looks a bit odd with the RFID belly button piercing...
This *assumes* there is something automatic about the serial port support over USB in the BIOS that hides this layer. Otherwise, you have to rely upon code to talk to the USB interface. Again, the issue would be "embedded" designs, and not something that you rely on a device driver or API to use.
One thing most people do not consider in removing direct "legacy devices" from the motherboards is that USB->RS232 adds an extra programming layer for embedded applications that would have a much easier time dealing with directly with the normal RS232 logic. Granted, DOS is a thing of ancient history, but it was easy to code communications for. Using USB drivers blows chunks if the driver for the USB->RS232 is written poorly (which I've found to be the case with some of the off-the-shelf adapters).
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Great... Furbies... So will these shoes start talking aimlessly with other Shoebies they encounter while being used? Do we have to hold them upside down to shut them up?
Actually, I'm waiting to see what happens when the case mod community can afford to get these shoes. The next generation ones will probably be able to transform on their own (into formal shoes or something).
"Captain, she can't take the strain!"
Atlantis is currently parked in the shuttle hanger, waiting for a mission sometime in 2005 or 2006... (Future Shuttle Schedule)
This perpetual motion idea would not last, as the cats (being the nimble cretins... erm, creatures they are) will eventually discover that they like the butter taste and will clean the toast to the point of being ineffective, thus landing on their buttery paws.
One of their features is the user/product photos. The one for Octane Shower Gel was shown on their main page. Of course, right below it was the nice request for "videos taken of/with this product"... Only 10 pounds for a promo tape using a shower gel product. What some people will do to get cheap porn.
Once we adopt a new system of confusion, you, like every other ancient deity, will simply fade away... Enjoy your reign while you can.
I think (and can annoy you), therefore I am.
...without any natural light ever...
We are nerds, remember? We don't need natural light!
So basically, you are saying it can't see the forest for the trees...
Hopefully, they will remember this and not port the Micoso~1 Office Game to XBox. While slaying the Werd beast in Look-Out tower with the Point of Power is difficult enough on the PC, we could use better RPG titles to make it worth the price of the new box.
Unfortunately, the ability to hack a system into a useful device is not prevented by it being something other than a PC. Plenty of network boxes, PDAs, and embedded devices run Linux or any other non-M$ OS.
It will simply be a matter of time before the system would be reversed far enough anyway to do some good for the mod community.
Letter from a SPAM victim:
Let me begin by saying that I was a simple, rural, college freshman student with my first big exposure to the Internet last year. I had never once thought that my life could be so messed up by the young age of 27. With my classes starting in Computer Training, I was given a school email account. Safe enough. Wrong. My best friend, Cleetus, thought it would be funny to send me a link to one of them nekid lady picture sites, and the first thing I was asked for to get access was my email address. Well, seeing as I had only the one account, I used it.
Then my life went to Hell. Within 30 minutes, I had an email confirmation that my pictures were accessible. Then I received another one saying I should increase the size of my penis. I figured it was from the same site. It was actually from an online drug seller. Something about Viagra... So I figured, what the heck, I could use a girlfriend (since Bobbi Sue left me for that no good Jethro) here at college. So I ordered some with what was left from my scholarship fund for this month. I waited a few days for my order, while being stampeded with more emails about Viagra and penis enlargement.
I finally got my order, and tried it. It worked great! I would roam the campus strutting like a horny rooster. Girls started noticing me, although none of them wanted to go out with me. I ordered more and more figuring that it could not hurt, since I see lots of nekid pictures with black guys doing white girls. Pretty soon, I was hung like a horse and starting to get the attention of the ladies, but there was never anything lasting more than a single night, that is, except my addiction to the cheap Viagra mixed with narcotics.
I was going broke using up all of my scholarship money and the pay from my job at McDonalds. I had to respond to one of the home equity loan emails, so my parent's place is now mortgaged three times (and the outhouse five times), and I am still running behind. I walk with a limp, and the women all run from me in horror. Maybe that nice Nigerian man can help me with my problems...
Jimbo
...or was it Fry's incompetence... no wait, that is what got us into that mess in the first place.
...but they only stand there with blank stares showing the BSOD. Gotta 3-finger salute them to get their attention...
Unfortunately, they are not well suited for ground combat as they have little defense against worms.
(OTOH, the Linux ones stand a better chance of surviving until the machines finally take over.)
Unfortunately, two mediocre programmers yield nothing but crap code. For pair programming to work well, the two would have to be very balanced with regards to each other's performace, or else there will be more work done by one or the other.
No "sane" senior developer is going to let a junior programmer coast along on the same coding task without doing his/her fair portion of the work. I find that it to be a waste of time to have someone standing there watching me code unless I am intentionally trying to demonstrate or teach. (Especially the boss!)
Besides, the parrot should sit on its own perch...
Can the Miss November centerfold survive this treatment as well without smelling like hot dogs? She looks a bit odd with the RFID belly button piercing...
Great... now they are "educated troglodytes", which means we have to pay them more...
But they have to pay since it will not be included with the freebie games... :-)
... that launched the first Borg!
e.g. "On its long trek through space the cube-shaped probe..."
This *assumes* there is something automatic about the serial port support over USB in the BIOS that hides this layer. Otherwise, you have to rely upon code to talk to the USB interface. Again, the issue would be "embedded" designs, and not something that you rely on a device driver or API to use.
My guess is the little blue header/connector in the corner next to the via chip.
One thing most people do not consider in removing direct "legacy devices" from the motherboards is that USB->RS232 adds an extra programming layer for embedded applications that would have a much easier time dealing with directly with the normal RS232 logic. Granted, DOS is a thing of ancient history, but it was easy to code communications for. Using USB drivers blows chunks if the driver for the USB->RS232 is written poorly (which I've found to be the case with some of the off-the-shelf adapters).
Copying and pasting this whole article to Clippy caused him to shoot himself between the eyes... YAEH!!!
diphthongs and triphthongs are the vowel-only subsets of digraphs and trigraphs.
Having to stare at a crying baby face for a Sun while they drink their Java before starting their day all because Joy has left their lives...
Only if SCO buys up WotC before October 15th...