"boxen" is one of those words that people will defend to the death just because they know they can. no one likes it, they just like using it to piss other people off. thus is the primary use of "boxen".
to me, "boxen" do not exist, exactly the same way that unicorns do not.
you must rip lossless or not even lossless to have 400megs of music.
however I, in a (successful) attempt to have the largest e-penis actually INFLATE my music when I rip it. Each of my CDs takes up 80 gigs on my hard drive, and therefore, across all my machines,
I've had some pretty nefarious ideas in my time but even I'd never implement them.. just what kind of total asshole would write software that does this? How do they justify it? How do they sleep at night?
I just don't get it, I'm serious.
Okay, now that I'm done saying that, you all can come in and tell me that I'm stupid for asking such a rediculous question and tell me that I should crawl into a hole and wait for the cleanup crew to eliminate me because i should be destroyed for asking such a question. Come on, its the slashdot tradition: ridicule those that ask questions that someone else already knows the answer to.
i don't think any other cartoon can bring me back to a specific point in my life as much as ren & stimpy. I watched it and nothing else for about a week. Every episode, one after another after another, over and over.
then i stopped, and haven't watched any since.
Remember the crocodile mating call? Remember toast-man? Remember stimpy as rapunzel who let down her hair, so that ren could climb up and rescue her? And when he gets to the top, its a nose hair?:) The crazy monks who chased after Ren in the moat like biting sharks? WTF? "KEE-RIPES, MAN! LETS BEAT IT!!"
Why don't you just give up? The whole world is waiting for you to come up with an idea *on your own* AND *implement it yourselves*.
None of this "i can do that, too" stuff. None of this "I see a company that already does what I want, lets buy them."
Come up with an idea on your own and implement it yourselves.
Oh, and look up the definition for "virtual". You keep using that word, but I do not think it means what you think it means. You're not, for all intents and purposes, providing the Earth.
it is far cheaper to buy a cabinet than it is to make one.
the cabinet pictured on my site cost $300. you can't even buy a used 29" arcade monitor for that.
okay so i'm not the alpha nerd. i do have a better cabinet than anyone who home built theirs though, ESPECIALLY better than those dorks that put a computer monitor in their cabinet.
i bought the cabinet, and built the insides. the monitor board and monitor were included, but it didn't have any joysticks, buttons, or coin acceptor.
i put a pc in, bought a j-pac from http://www.ultimarc.com/ and loaded up my mame dvds. it was done in a day, but i still had an amazing feeling of accomplishment.
oh man. i stopped buying wireless controllers after the third time my kid pulled my ps2 off its shelf by grabbing the wired controller and running.
now: wireless wireless wireless.
he even dropped the thing in the toilet, where it sat for about an hour before it was discovered. it was turned on. after pulling it out, drying, cleaning, and disinfecting, it still works great.
no more wired controllers for me, not until my kids have moved out, anyway. no more open bathroom doors either.
Seems very suseptable to a man in the middle attack. A totally passive man in the middle. A paired set of reader/emitters with a set of long range transciever. One man walks around the crowd another buys (assuming a retail situation)
if what i've worked on is similar to what is going into these contact-less cards, they will be as vulnerable to man-in-the-middle attacks as PGP is. (not at all)
I've worked on wireless smart cards, that act similarly to rfid cards, but have very good encryption, even public/private key encryption. smart cards have their own computers on them, so you can have a challenge/response, or just about any kind of encryption you can think of.
those are just as hard to crack as PGP emails. Not at all easy.
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"boxen" is one of those words that people will defend to the death just because they know they can. no one likes it, they just like using it to piss other people off. thus is the primary use of "boxen".
to me, "boxen" do not exist, exactly the same way that unicorns do not.
it is to prevent those that aren't hard-core pirates from pirating too much. that's it.
sony: keeping honest people honest since 2005.
I did this in school once, and got kicked out of the computer lab for the week.
c:\> prompt "enter password:"
so then, instead of the friendly c:> prompt, this was what everyone saw:
enter password:
I still don't think they'd figure that out if presented with that prompt today.
who said the ice is made in the same room that he/she is trying to cool?
the gas station a block from my house GIVES ice away.
net heat loss is real fellas.
you must rip lossless or not even lossless to have 400megs of music.
however I, in a (successful) attempt to have the largest e-penis actually INFLATE my music when I rip it. Each of my CDs takes up 80 gigs on my hard drive, and therefore, across all my machines,
i have over 65tb of music.
you know the world is coming to an end when the best golfer is black, the best rapper is white, apple goes to x86 and microsoft goes powerpc.
good thing i bought armageddon insurance!!
that little service that checks for updates on windowsupdate.microsoft.com probably has something to do with it.
I've had some pretty nefarious ideas in my time but even I'd never implement them.. just what kind of total asshole would write software that does this? How do they justify it? How do they sleep at night?
I just don't get it, I'm serious.
Okay, now that I'm done saying that, you all can come in and tell me that I'm stupid for asking such a rediculous question and tell me that I should crawl into a hole and wait for the cleanup crew to eliminate me because i should be destroyed for asking such a question. Come on, its the slashdot tradition: ridicule those that ask questions that someone else already knows the answer to.
They've had these at Yahoo! since the beginning - they're paid surfers. Their title is "Surfer".
This is just a plain-old good idea, I'm not surprised that Google is doing it, or that Yahoo! did it first.
Disclaimer: I used to work for Yahoo!
Also, the majority of the female Surfers at Y! were gorgeous when I worked there. But that's neither here nor there.
I doubt he's this smart, but it might not be his idea.. either way DeLay is probably the most evil character in government today.
good point.
counterpoint: we're not necessarily on microsoft's side.
my counter-retort to your upcoming retort: LALALALALALALALALALALALALALALALA
Can I use [buzzword] to achieve [unrelated goal]? How can I [verbed noun] my [neologism] to [marketing speak]?
You do realize that "verbed" is a noun used as a verb, or as you say 'verbed', right?
they wouldn't call it a playstation.
well i guess you can play music and movies... uh nevermind.
So what you mean to say is that now you have a life?
Yes. in 1991 when i was 16, i can definitively say that i had no life. what else ya got?
i don't think any other cartoon can bring me back to a specific point in my life as much as ren & stimpy. I watched it and nothing else for about a week. Every episode, one after another after another, over and over.
:) The crazy monks who chased after Ren in the moat like biting sharks? WTF? "KEE-RIPES, MAN! LETS BEAT IT!!"
then i stopped, and haven't watched any since.
Remember the crocodile mating call?
Remember toast-man?
Remember stimpy as rapunzel who let down her hair, so that ren could climb up and rescue her? And when he gets to the top, its a nose hair?
John K. is my hero.
Why don't you just give up? The whole world is waiting for you to come up with an idea *on your own* AND *implement it yourselves*.
None of this "i can do that, too" stuff. None of this "I see a company that already does what I want, lets buy them."
Come up with an idea on your own and implement it yourselves.
Oh, and look up the definition for "virtual". You keep using that word, but I do not think it means what you think it means. You're not, for all intents and purposes, providing the Earth.
I get about two dozen of these a week from places purporting to be eBay and PayPal, as well as several banks.
I can't even begin to wonder how many have fallen for these scams. its a damn shame.
i bought it from a place that has since gone out of business, unfortunately.
I'd start with http://www.arcadeinfinity.com/ if i were you.
but where's the perl version?
python is ugly and unreadable.
it is far cheaper to buy a cabinet than it is to make one.
the cabinet pictured on my site cost $300. you can't even buy a used 29" arcade monitor for that.
okay so i'm not the alpha nerd. i do have a better cabinet than anyone who home built theirs though, ESPECIALLY better than those dorks that put a computer monitor in their cabinet.
i bought the cabinet, and built the insides. the monitor board and monitor were included, but it didn't have any joysticks, buttons, or coin acceptor.
i put a pc in, bought a j-pac from http://www.ultimarc.com/ and loaded up my mame dvds. it was done in a day, but i still had an amazing feeling of accomplishment.
http://psg.com/~jjohnson/arcade.html
oh man. i stopped buying wireless controllers after the third time my kid pulled my ps2 off its shelf by grabbing the wired controller and running.
now: wireless wireless wireless.
he even dropped the thing in the toilet, where it sat for about an hour before it was discovered. it was turned on. after pulling it out, drying, cleaning, and disinfecting, it still works great.
no more wired controllers for me, not until my kids have moved out, anyway. no more open bathroom doors either.
Seems very suseptable to a man in the middle attack. A totally passive man in the middle. A paired set of reader/emitters with a set of long range transciever. One man walks around the crowd another buys (assuming a retail situation)
if what i've worked on is similar to what is going into these contact-less cards, they will be as vulnerable to man-in-the-middle attacks as PGP is. (not at all)
I've worked on wireless smart cards, that act similarly to rfid cards, but have very good encryption, even public/private key encryption. smart cards have their own computers on them, so you can have a challenge/response, or just about any kind of encryption you can think of.
those are just as hard to crack as PGP emails. Not at all easy.
i dunno, but i've never been sicker, more volatile, or more depressed than i have been since i started my current job.