Two friends of mine and I built our own arcade style dancemat in my friends garage over a weekend. Just google it and you can find sites dedicated to it.
Basically all it was was a wooden frame, 5 aluminium panels (thin wood squares with alum-sheet bent over them), 8 peices of shatterproof perspex (two peices with the decal sandwiched), 4 microswitches and a hacked old second hand ps contoller. We made it for about $160AUD though it may cost a bit more as we got the perspex at cost-price. It was really easy and once we got it all fine tuned it was increadibly satisfying.
Just get a big vinyl sticker that says "Protected With GPS Tracking by GPSecure" even though this company doesnt exist, anyone scoping your laptop would think twice about it. They would only steal it if they wanted your data for some special purpose.
I mean seriously, when did linux users become such an exclusive group, I remember when my mates who used linux talked me around into trying it out rather than keeping it to themselves like little kids with candy.
And lets be honest here, who really wants 'Smart Bombs' having blue screens of death and acidentily targeting kindergartens, I'm scared enough about 'Smart Phones' using windows let alone things which such potential for little-kid-disintergration...
underworld would probably be a good game, unfortunately it didn't make a good movie. maybe they should have thought of that before putting us all through that *thing*
Is it so unbelievable that the RIAA would take action against these services which they can't legally do anything about (at least not easily?), if they are capable of fining little kids thousands of dollars for downloading the latest britney song do you not think that perhaps they are capable of procuring the know-how needed to run dos attacks on things like kazaa... its scary but the RIAA could be running a virtual guerilla war.
also, jfk isnt dead, he is living with osama on mars, thats why the landers keep getting broken so they don't find his little martian sanctuary.
might go a little something like this....
TO: [Group] Stupid Money Buckets (Microsoft Customers)
FROM : B1LL_GatXoR@Microsoft.com
SUBJECT: Buzzword Buzzword Windows Buzzword
Hello scum,
Buzzword security windows buzzword longhorn catchword buzzword xbox xbox xbox buzzword release date buzzword the buzzword... etc
Compliments,
B1LL_GatXor.
P.S B1LL = l337 + H4XXX0r + 0wNz j00!!! mwahahaha
[this message has been simplified: to read in it's original form please insert words like 'security', 'reliability', 'internet commerce', 'economic' and other words you wouldn't normally associate with Windows XP where 'buzzword' or 'catchword' are written, order does not matter.]
I don't know about you but I know that I can type three or four times as fast as I can write, especially legibly. I think Bill is looking in the wrong direction for something to captivate the imagination- ooh ooh, I know, all pc's can come with a new i/o device, a rubber model of bill gates' head and whenever windows crashes you can smack Bill in his ugly gob... i think there would be a huge market for it, like Tickle-Me Elmo except, Beat-the-snot-out-of-me Bill...
It would make sense for the company to be able to patent the process by which something is done, not the output - ie, the circuitry that displayed the number but not the displaying of the number itself, otherwise no-one would try to make new more efficient ways of doing things because they would be in violation of patent : eg. you can patent an engine design but not the concept of 'powering a vehicle'.
It makes me think of a saying I heard somewhere...
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The Paradox of Choice
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· Score: 2, Interesting
"Too many choices, not enough voices"
which I interpreted as too many people willing to settle for the norm and not enough people who will demand more, go out on a limb and challenge the status quo, which I think is the main reason that microsoft has its hold.
Doing their part for the net community...
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Google Updates Its Face
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· Score: 2, Insightful
Think about it, every time some woolbrained gimboid loads the yahoo front page (and I'm sorry to say that there are many on them every second) think of the bandwidth that was wasted loading the flash animation advertising pet shampoo and the giant Yahoo banner, it's like page spam, google has only one image, an 8.75kb gif, if everyone followed this minimalist approach think how much less congested the net would be and how much faster, I wouldn't have to pay through the nose to get internet fast enough to get the latest distro before its out of date....
Slashdot Mirror
I already have to remove GAIN from my parents computer every second day, now their phones too?
Think of the real cost, hundreds of geek-hours wasted fixing family member's mobile devices...
Those bastards.
Two friends of mine and I built our own arcade style dancemat in my friends garage over a weekend. Just google it and you can find sites dedicated to it.
Basically all it was was a wooden frame, 5 aluminium panels (thin wood squares with alum-sheet bent over them), 8 peices of shatterproof perspex (two peices with the decal sandwiched), 4 microswitches and a hacked old second hand ps contoller. We made it for about $160AUD though it may cost a bit more as we got the perspex at cost-price. It was really easy and once we got it all fine tuned it was increadibly satisfying.
Just get a big vinyl sticker that says "Protected With GPS Tracking by GPSecure" even though this company doesnt exist, anyone scoping your laptop would think twice about it. They would only steal it if they wanted your data for some special purpose.
I mean seriously, when did linux users become such an exclusive group, I remember when my mates who used linux talked me around into trying it out rather than keeping it to themselves like little kids with candy. And lets be honest here, who really wants 'Smart Bombs' having blue screens of death and acidentily targeting kindergartens, I'm scared enough about 'Smart Phones' using windows let alone things which such potential for little-kid-disintergration...
underworld would probably be a good game, unfortunately it didn't make a good movie. maybe they should have thought of that before putting us all through that *thing*
Is it so unbelievable that the RIAA would take action against these services which they can't legally do anything about (at least not easily?), if they are capable of fining little kids thousands of dollars for downloading the latest britney song do you not think that perhaps they are capable of procuring the know-how needed to run dos attacks on things like kazaa... its scary but the RIAA could be running a virtual guerilla war. also, jfk isnt dead, he is living with osama on mars, thats why the landers keep getting broken so they don't find his little martian sanctuary.
might go a little something like this.... TO: [Group] Stupid Money Buckets (Microsoft Customers) FROM : B1LL_GatXoR@Microsoft.com SUBJECT: Buzzword Buzzword Windows Buzzword Hello scum, Buzzword security windows buzzword longhorn catchword buzzword xbox xbox xbox buzzword release date buzzword the buzzword ... etc
Compliments,
B1LL_GatXor.
P.S B1LL = l337 + H4XXX0r + 0wNz j00!!! mwahahaha
[this message has been simplified: to read in it's original form please insert words like 'security', 'reliability', 'internet commerce', 'economic' and other words you wouldn't normally associate with Windows XP where 'buzzword' or 'catchword' are written, order does not matter.]
I don't know about you but I know that I can type three or four times as fast as I can write, especially legibly. I think Bill is looking in the wrong direction for something to captivate the imagination- ooh ooh, I know, all pc's can come with a new i/o device, a rubber model of bill gates' head and whenever windows crashes you can smack Bill in his ugly gob... i think there would be a huge market for it, like Tickle-Me Elmo except, Beat-the-snot-out-of-me Bill...
was that a radioactive space stone? you could probably get a whole species of birds with one of them...
It would make sense for the company to be able to patent the process by which something is done, not the output - ie, the circuitry that displayed the number but not the displaying of the number itself, otherwise no-one would try to make new more efficient ways of doing things because they would be in violation of patent : eg. you can patent an engine design but not the concept of 'powering a vehicle'.
"Too many choices, not enough voices" which I interpreted as too many people willing to settle for the norm and not enough people who will demand more, go out on a limb and challenge the status quo, which I think is the main reason that microsoft has its hold.
Think about it, every time some woolbrained gimboid loads the yahoo front page (and I'm sorry to say that there are many on them every second) think of the bandwidth that was wasted loading the flash animation advertising pet shampoo and the giant Yahoo banner, it's like page spam, google has only one image, an 8.75kb gif, if everyone followed this minimalist approach think how much less congested the net would be and how much faster, I wouldn't have to pay through the nose to get internet fast enough to get the latest distro before its out of date....