Lately I've only been going to movies at the Classic Cinemas theatre near my home. It doesn't show all of the movies that have been out, and it doesn't show the movies when they are brand new, but it sure is a great experience to go there. The movie only costs $3, there's only one GIANT theatre to worry about, on Friday and Saturday evenings they have a real-live organist playing before each show, and they have free popcorn refills. Definitely the way movie watching should be.
As one who has a long and weird last name (Lueninghoener; longer but not nearly as weird as the one in question), I can say that I feel much cooler than people with boring names like "Smith" and "Jones".
My poor TV hasn't been turned on since last November. It doesn't seem to really care what is going on out there in the land of cable, satellite, HDTV, and the like.
I have to admit it: there are some ads I enjoy. None of them are pop-ups, flashing gifs, flash movies, or anything similar. I think all of them have been Google Adwords ads, and I think I have liked them only because they actually have something to do with the current page I am reading.
If it wern't for companies like Doubleclick that want to SHOVE ADS DOWN YOUR THROAT, I don't think I would need an ad blocker.
When I had the need to collect lots of news sources together (mostly due to being sick of oodles of ads), I sat down one afternoon and wrote my own. Over the last couple of years I've slowly evolved it into the masterpiece (ha!) that it is today.
RFID is already on its way to becoming the next Internet - a name that is applied to anything technical that people don't understand. Just like web==internet in many people's minds, RFID is slowly becoming whatever people want it to be. For example, we have the "RFID-powered mouse" that appeared here a week or two ago, the "RFID is the Internet" story here, and the guy I overheard in downtown Chicago in March trying to impress his girlfriend saying "Yeah, I saw a thing on the Internet where people hooked the light switches in a building up to RFID tags and could turn the lights on and off, and were able to play Tetris on the side of the building."
The world is becoming a scary place full of people who know just enough words to be dangerous.
After seven years of the same "the server is going to do something vaguely related to the story!" comments, you would think people would stop rating them as 'funny'...
(apologies to the original poster; yours just happened to be the one showing up as such right now)
Wow. That sure looks like they just took an old Model M keyboard and spray painted it. I know the old Ms don't have have windows keys, but _every_ other feature looks the same. Weird.
Actually, no, I don't think it was Tradewars. If it was, then it was a pretty early version of it. I also played more recent versions of Tradewars and it definitely felt different from the one I played on that old Apple II BBS.
But since a couple people have mentioned that that might be it, it did convince me to sit down and try to figure out when it was that I played it. It looks like it was somewhere around 1991. I would have to do some more pondering to pinpoint it more exactly...
Back in the BBS days I used to play a game on an old Apple II BBS that involved running around space trading stuff for credits. Unfortunately, I can't remember its name. Anybody out there know it?
I actually wrote my news aggregator as a direct response to ads - when Slashdot went off on its "ads and subscriptions" idea and Yahoo's front page turned into an ad-fest instead of an information source, I whipped that up to collect news for me. I guess I will just have to change it to remove links that check in with Google's ad server if I need to...
I bought a brand-new VW Golf in March of 2004 (yeah, I know, it isn't a hybrid). When I did I decided to keep track of every fillup I did in the car to find out exactly how it has done. I then whipped out a couple perl scripts to do some analysis. It's generated some interesting (for some definitions of "interesting") graphs and tables for me to stare at. Have a look at its webpage for an example.
Keep in mind that the book wasn't even true to the book. Or something like that.
Really! The radio plays, the book, the BBC TV series, and the towel all had slightly different and often contradictory story lines. Having the movie differ is just another evolution in the story.
I got a Rio 300 somewhere around 1999 or 2000, and I still use it fairly regularly. It's only got 64MB of memory, but that's the perfect size for the hour or so trips I normally use it for. It is light, easy to carry, and works great on my Linux machine. If only it displayed song titles like the 500...
Way back when I was a high school student, the "system admin" at my school used to log in to the school's mail server as root and just leave his terminal window hanging open. One day I had somebody else distract him while I walked into his office, copied/bin/tcsh to my home directory, set the sticky bit on it, and left. Oh, the fun we had after that!
I like how now, on the order of 100,000 years after human-like things started wandering the earth, we suddenly have the technology needed to track chunks of rock out in space. And now, with our several 100,000+ year track record, we suddenly say "Look out! Something's gonna hit us! Oh no, here comes another! Oh, the humanity!"
We didn't worry about it before we knew about it, and thus I don't feel the need to get all worked up about things now.
Way back when I was in high school, our "computer admin" used to stay logged in as root to the AUX machine that ran our mail all the time despite the fact that several people told him not to do that. So one day I got another guy to distract him while I sat down and used that login to make a copy of a shell binary and set its sticky bit. Fun times were had after that!
Of course, he didn't notice until 4 or 5 months later when I showed him. Then he sure was upset...
You must not start the GIMP much. Otherwise you would immediately know that the only reason the splash screen is there is to show you a progression as it starts up. It isn't there as a time waster, it doesn't keep you from working any longer than you would have to wait if it wasn't there. Having something pretty to see while it is telling you its startup progress is perfectly fine.
Whoever wrote that article evidently didn't read the Solaris license. I suppose they havn't tried installing it on a hand-built machine of off-the-shelf parts. Solaris is cool, but it isn't going to kill Linux by being released under a sortof open source license...
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Lately I've only been going to movies at the Classic Cinemas theatre near my home. It doesn't show all of the movies that have been out, and it doesn't show the movies when they are brand new, but it sure is a great experience to go there. The movie only costs $3, there's only one GIANT theatre to worry about, on Friday and Saturday evenings they have a real-live organist playing before each show, and they have free popcorn refills. Definitely the way movie watching should be.
As one who has a long and weird last name (Lueninghoener; longer but not nearly as weird as the one in question), I can say that I feel much cooler than people with boring names like "Smith" and "Jones".
Oh, man, good point. I've just had so many bad experiences with these guys that I can't keep straight which is which. So many rules!
But how will I find an update for my gremlin? Will I have to be careful not to feed him after 11 for a few weeks? It's all so confusing!
My poor TV hasn't been turned on since last November. It doesn't seem to really care what is going on out there in the land of cable, satellite, HDTV, and the like.
I have to admit it: there are some ads I enjoy. None of them are pop-ups, flashing gifs, flash movies, or anything similar. I think all of them have been Google Adwords ads, and I think I have liked them only because they actually have something to do with the current page I am reading.
If it wern't for companies like Doubleclick that want to SHOVE ADS DOWN YOUR THROAT, I don't think I would need an ad blocker.
When I had the need to collect lots of news sources together (mostly due to being sick of oodles of ads), I sat down one afternoon and wrote my own. Over the last couple of years I've slowly evolved it into the masterpiece (ha!) that it is today.
RFID is already on its way to becoming the next Internet - a name that is applied to anything technical that people don't understand. Just like web==internet in many people's minds, RFID is slowly becoming whatever people want it to be. For example, we have the "RFID-powered mouse" that appeared here a week or two ago, the "RFID is the Internet" story here, and the guy I overheard in downtown Chicago in March trying to impress his girlfriend saying "Yeah, I saw a thing on the Internet where people hooked the light switches in a building up to RFID tags and could turn the lights on and off, and were able to play Tetris on the side of the building."
The world is becoming a scary place full of people who know just enough words to be dangerous.
After seven years of the same "the server is going to do something vaguely related to the story!" comments, you would think people would stop rating them as 'funny'...
(apologies to the original poster; yours just happened to be the one showing up as such right now)
Wow. That sure looks like they just took an old Model M keyboard and spray painted it. I know the old Ms don't have have windows keys, but _every_ other feature looks the same. Weird.
Actually, no, I don't think it was Tradewars. If it was, then it was a pretty early version of it. I also played more recent versions of Tradewars and it definitely felt different from the one I played on that old Apple II BBS.
But since a couple people have mentioned that that might be it, it did convince me to sit down and try to figure out when it was that I played it. It looks like it was somewhere around 1991. I would have to do some more pondering to pinpoint it more exactly...
Back in the BBS days I used to play a game on an old Apple II BBS that involved running around space trading stuff for credits. Unfortunately, I can't remember its name. Anybody out there know it?
> Remember (or have you heard of) the pet rock
The guy made a million dollars!
I actually wrote my news aggregator as a direct response to ads - when Slashdot went off on its "ads and subscriptions" idea and Yahoo's front page turned into an ad-fest instead of an information source, I whipped that up to collect news for me. I guess I will just have to change it to remove links that check in with Google's ad server if I need to...
> This post is lisenced under the GPL.
Excellent! Spelling 'licensed' wrong in your sig makes it very realistic!
I bought a brand-new VW Golf in March of 2004 (yeah, I know, it isn't a hybrid). When I did I decided to keep track of every fillup I did in the car to find out exactly how it has done. I then whipped out a couple perl scripts to do some analysis. It's generated some interesting (for some definitions of "interesting") graphs and tables for me to stare at. Have a look at its webpage for an example.
Keep in mind that the book wasn't even true to the book. Or something like that.
Really! The radio plays, the book, the BBC TV series, and the towel all had slightly different and often contradictory story lines. Having the movie differ is just another evolution in the story.
I got a Rio 300 somewhere around 1999 or 2000, and I still use it fairly regularly. It's only got 64MB of memory, but that's the perfect size for the hour or so trips I normally use it for. It is light, easy to carry, and works great on my Linux machine. If only it displayed song titles like the 500...
Way back when I was a high school student, the "system admin" at my school used to log in to the school's mail server as root and just leave his terminal window hanging open. One day I had somebody else distract him while I walked into his office, copied /bin/tcsh to my home directory, set the sticky bit on it, and left. Oh, the fun we had after that!
Of course, he didn't learn...
I like how now, on the order of 100,000 years after human-like things started wandering the earth, we suddenly have the technology needed to track chunks of rock out in space. And now, with our several 100,000+ year track record, we suddenly say "Look out! Something's gonna hit us! Oh no, here comes another! Oh, the humanity!"
We didn't worry about it before we knew about it, and thus I don't feel the need to get all worked up about things now.
But I already have my own news aggregator!
a dlines.pl
http://www.wirelesscouch.net/cgi-bin/headlines/he
Way back when I was in high school, our "computer admin" used to stay logged in as root to the AUX machine that ran our mail all the time despite the fact that several people told him not to do that. So one day I got another guy to distract him while I sat down and used that login to make a copy of a shell binary and set its sticky bit. Fun times were had after that!
Of course, he didn't notice until 4 or 5 months later when I showed him. Then he sure was upset...
I thought the only excuse people gave for using AOL in a tech-related area was "I only use it 'cuz it is what my parents use."
You must not start the GIMP much. Otherwise you would immediately know that the only reason the splash screen is there is to show you a progression as it starts up. It isn't there as a time waster, it doesn't keep you from working any longer than you would have to wait if it wasn't there. Having something pretty to see while it is telling you its startup progress is perfectly fine.
Whoever wrote that article evidently didn't read the Solaris license. I suppose they havn't tried installing it on a hand-built machine of off-the-shelf parts. Solaris is cool, but it isn't going to kill Linux by being released under a sortof open source license...