I just wanted to post the same suggestion. I don't have one, but I've seen it a while ago on ThinkGeek. Looks very nice and basically what the original poster asked for
While it's pretty close, it's exactly what the original poster does not want. From the spec list:
Frame Setup requires you to run the included software on a Windows 2000/ME/XP compatible PC.
The real question, though, is the right of the government to watch my every move, either publically or privately. If I am not doing anything to warrant being watched, then it is unnecessary to be watched, by watching me you imply I might be guilty.
They are not watching your every move. They are not even watching you. They are watching the public place in which they are patroling, and you happen to be in that particular public place. If you throw trash on the street, or paint the walls with graffiti, they will have seen the public property being littered, and they will have seen who did it.
If you aren't doing anything wrong, they don't care whether you are there or not, heck, they might not even notice you. Trust me, Omestes-the-average-citizen isn't nearly interesting enough to have all the police force spend their time watching your every move and taking note of everything you do and everywhere you go.
As I've read somewhere... Don't be humble, you're not that great.
I loved the NES Advantage, not for the arcade look, but for its turbo ability. I haven't seen a single turbo controller that matches this one. Nowadays, in games involving button mashing (like some Mario Party mini games, or FF-8 boosting), I can manually mash the buttons faster than any so-called turbo controller. Why can't anyone make a decent turbo controller (and I mean one that presses the button more than twice a second) anymore is beyond me.
So are you saying Sony doesn't develop any games in-house? Because that's completely wrong. Sony's had over 10 years to grow their development teams (and buy other ones), and they've certainly done that. A cursory glance over their franchise list proves this point handily.
I looked at the franchise list you pointed to, and I didn't find a single franchise that has remotely the same glamour or popularity as Mario, Zelda, Metroid, Pokemon, Kirby and Donkey Kong. Competing against Sony with those franchise certainly sounds easier than competing against Nintendo with Mario.
Yes, when parents don't feed their children because they need drug money, its a victimless crime, no one other than the parent is hurt!
Child neglect is already a crime.
When people cant think properly because they've taken too many drugs, or can't afford what they a mentally or physically dependant on, and rob/kill others for drug money, its a victimless crime. The people robbed/killed certainly weren't hurt.
Robbery and murder are already crimes.
Why shouldn't we try to actually prevent crime every now and then? How about, if you take the drug out of the equation? Parents don't need drug money, so they can feed the children. Child neglect prevented. Or someone didn't become physically dependant on some drug, and doesn't rob/kill anyone to get the money.
And before you go all "future-crime" paranoid, please be aware that there are such things as victimless crimes which are real crimes, because it will lead to someone being hurt. Drunk driving is such a crime. How would you feel if some jerk drank two whole kegs of beer and hit the road, and the police couldn't arrest him because he hasn't hurt anybody yet? Do you really think we need to wait until the guy kills a whole family with his reckless driving before we stop him? Until he hit someone, there's no victim, yet I do believe it is a crime.
Or how about someone walks into a bar with a pocket full of date rape drugs? Possession is not a crime, there are no victims, so nobody can arrest him. Let's wait until the guy rapes a couple of women before we can start an investigation after which we're not even sure we'll find anybody guilty because the woman can't even testify.
Walking into a bar with date rape drugs in your pocket is a victimless crime and should remain a crime, because it is very likely somebody will get hurt eventually. Driving drunk is a victimless crime and should remain a crime because it is also very likely that somebody will get hurt.
Basically without filing a lawsuit, my only option is to quit.
Then why don't you? Instead of whining that you're not getting what you think you deserve, why don't you quit and find another job who'll give you what you're worth?
I took the position because I was assured of that 'something in writing' being forthcoming, and because it was a great opportunity and I didn't want to lose it because of a delay.
Did you sign anything like an employment contract with your current employer or is that the "something in writing" that never came? If you signed a contract, then you get to be offered what is written in the contract and nothing else is promised. If you didn't sign a contract, you are free to leave right now and get yourself another job, since this one wasn't the great opportunity you thought it was.
Anything bad they say can be construed as slander, and since your new job is on the line, the damages could be significant if slander proves to have cost you a job.
If you were fired because you were stealing office supplies, then they can say they fired you for stealing office supplies, and you shouldn't have any right to get back on them for that. That is not slander, that is truth. And if America has gone bad enough that you can sue someone for saying the truth, then I really, really pity you.
Since when was 40 million sales lacklustre by anyone's standards?
It's all about relativity young padawan. 40 million sales for a little Mom&Pop shop is awesome. 40 million sales for Microsoft is just meh.
Just look at the stock market. Big Company says they expect to make a 100 million dollars profit this year, and investors are all happy. A year later, Big Company announce that they could only make a 90 million dollars profit, and the stock plummet. I know *I* would love to make a 90 million dollars profit (heck, I'd be happy with 50 million), but Big Company fails badly while still making a ridiculous amount of money.
This is hardly bait and switch, nowhere have I ever seen anything to make me think I would get an operator on the phone quickly
From TFA:
The lawsuit accuses Dell of luring consumers to purchase its products with advertisements that offered attractive "no interest" and/or "no payment" financing promotions. In practice, however, the vast majority of consumers, even those with very good credit scores, were denied these deals. In a classic "bait and switch" scheme, DFS instead offered consumers financing at high interest rates, which often exceed 20%. Dell and DFS frequently failed to clearly inform these consumers that they had not qualified for the promotional terms, leaving many to unwittingly finance their purchase at high interest rates.
I dunno for you, but I sure would call that bait and switch. If you don't mind paying 20% interest rate on a loan that you are promised at "no interest", then I have some money here that I could lend you at 0% interest...
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We need to move back to having computers which are just hard enough to get online that the people stupid enough to fall for spam won't be able to manage it...
Hey... I just got my sister to be able to use her computer without calling me every day... don't make me go back to those times.
At a click rate of 0,16% - about one in 600 - I have to wonder if not a fairly large portion is simple click errors. You intend to click on some other link nearby on the page but by mistake click that one instead.
If it had been higher than 1%, I would have guessed at click errors too. Howerver, 0.16% pretty much looks like the "utter-stupidity-ratio" that we have on the Internet, and is probably about the same ratio of people who buy stuff from spam. The only reason spam still exists is because it works, which means that *some* people give them their money. Saying 0.16% of internet users are utterly stupid doesn't sound like an overstatement to me.
The deal with patents is this: someone invents something and, by publishing the invention, and therefore telling everyone how to make the invention, they're granted a time-limited monopoly (14 years, I think) on it.
Considering how hard it currently is to interoperate with MS stuff (which is what the EU is currently blaming on MS), can we guess that they've never quite told everyone how to make the invention? Heck, they even want to charge people to get access to that info. Can they get a patent on something and keep it secret?
It's the Lanham Act, and I think that in this case it would probably be a really stupid thing for a company like Red Hat to do. Out of 235, they really only need one upheld patent to hang themselves with.
On the contrary. If Red Hat knew the one upheld patent that they're apparently infringing, then they know what to fix, they can work around it and voilà, no more legal trouble, and Microsoft doesn't get a penny.
I suspect it wouldn't take many high-profile cases against programmers before we'd see a marked decline in the number of individuals willing to write said software and potentially expose themselves to lawsuits from Microsoft and their innovation-killing legal team.
The article says that the Linux kernel violates 42 patents (ain't that a nice number for a coincidence...). Let Microsoft sue Linus, and see who shows up to defend the penguin guy...
As a nerd, I memorize a lot of quotes. And, one can use this to one's advantage. Whether it be Star Wars, Futurama, Orson Scott Card, The Bible, or whatever your favorite work is, you can take a quote & turn it into an easily memorable password.
I've been doing the same thing for a while too. My GPG password is 50+ characters long with lowercase, uppercase, numbers and special characters, and I never get it wrong.
I also use KeePass and it works like a charm. Fits all my needs whether on Windows or Linux. Oh, and it's open source.:)
I didn't know about KeePass before now, and it's getting interesting. However, the Linux port is v0.2, which sounds very, very beta (pre-beta maybe?) to me... Is it really safe to trust all your passwords to a beta software?
you mean when they look up to see who's set the alarm off while walking IN the store? and then they go back about their business...only to do the same when the same person sets the alarm off on their way out the door.
I went to Future Shop once and the alarm went off as I was walking in (some CD from another store which, funnily enough, didn't set off the alarm at the CD store). They took everything I had and passed it in the demagnetizer thing to make sure I wouldn't set the thing off on my way out. I bet they also wanted me to sit on it to make sure my butt wouldn't set it off, but didn't dare to ask. Some places really take the alarm seriously.
Not a single XPI in existence is signed. I don't think Mozilla has even documented how to sign XPI files.
That's a gross exaggeration. I've done (proprietary) signed XPI extensions. While it is indeed quite complicated to do, it is possible. I remember having looked for documentation have finding it very sparsely a little over two years ago. I would have thought the Mozilla team would have made it better since then, but I think I'll try documenting it now.
It's the first instantiation that matters.. Applets are so uncommon that the average user will only come across them once per reboot.
Nah, it will become common enough that all major websites will use it. Then, website designers will make everything they can to be ranked #2 in a Google search. Whatever you search, you click the first link, wait 2 seconds, decide it's not worth the wait, go back and click the second link, and it then loads instantly.
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That sure sounds like the Complicator's Gloves story.
While it's pretty close, it's exactly what the original poster does not want. From the spec list :
They are not watching your every move. They are not even watching you. They are watching the public place in which they are patroling, and you happen to be in that particular public place. If you throw trash on the street, or paint the walls with graffiti, they will have seen the public property being littered, and they will have seen who did it.
If you aren't doing anything wrong, they don't care whether you are there or not, heck, they might not even notice you. Trust me, Omestes-the-average-citizen isn't nearly interesting enough to have all the police force spend their time watching your every move and taking note of everything you do and everywhere you go.
As I've read somewhere... Don't be humble, you're not that great.
I loved the NES Advantage, not for the arcade look, but for its turbo ability. I haven't seen a single turbo controller that matches this one. Nowadays, in games involving button mashing (like some Mario Party mini games, or FF-8 boosting), I can manually mash the buttons faster than any so-called turbo controller. Why can't anyone make a decent turbo controller (and I mean one that presses the button more than twice a second) anymore is beyond me.
I looked at the franchise list you pointed to, and I didn't find a single franchise that has remotely the same glamour or popularity as Mario, Zelda, Metroid, Pokemon, Kirby and Donkey Kong. Competing against Sony with those franchise certainly sounds easier than competing against Nintendo with Mario.
Why shouldn't we try to actually prevent crime every now and then? How about, if you take the drug out of the equation? Parents don't need drug money, so they can feed the children. Child neglect prevented. Or someone didn't become physically dependant on some drug, and doesn't rob/kill anyone to get the money.
And before you go all "future-crime" paranoid, please be aware that there are such things as victimless crimes which are real crimes, because it will lead to someone being hurt. Drunk driving is such a crime. How would you feel if some jerk drank two whole kegs of beer and hit the road, and the police couldn't arrest him because he hasn't hurt anybody yet? Do you really think we need to wait until the guy kills a whole family with his reckless driving before we stop him? Until he hit someone, there's no victim, yet I do believe it is a crime.
Or how about someone walks into a bar with a pocket full of date rape drugs? Possession is not a crime, there are no victims, so nobody can arrest him. Let's wait until the guy rapes a couple of women before we can start an investigation after which we're not even sure we'll find anybody guilty because the woman can't even testify.
Walking into a bar with date rape drugs in your pocket is a victimless crime and should remain a crime, because it is very likely somebody will get hurt eventually. Driving drunk is a victimless crime and should remain a crime because it is also very likely that somebody will get hurt.
Then why don't you? Instead of whining that you're not getting what you think you deserve, why don't you quit and find another job who'll give you what you're worth?
Did you sign anything like an employment contract with your current employer or is that the "something in writing" that never came? If you signed a contract, then you get to be offered what is written in the contract and nothing else is promised. If you didn't sign a contract, you are free to leave right now and get yourself another job, since this one wasn't the great opportunity you thought it was.
That it hasn't been published doesn't mean it hasn't been broken. Not all hacks are made public.
If you were fired because you were stealing office supplies, then they can say they fired you for stealing office supplies, and you shouldn't have any right to get back on them for that. That is not slander, that is truth. And if America has gone bad enough that you can sue someone for saying the truth, then I really, really pity you.
It's all about relativity young padawan. 40 million sales for a little Mom&Pop shop is awesome. 40 million sales for Microsoft is just meh.
Just look at the stock market. Big Company says they expect to make a 100 million dollars profit this year, and investors are all happy. A year later, Big Company announce that they could only make a 90 million dollars profit, and the stock plummet. I know *I* would love to make a 90 million dollars profit (heck, I'd be happy with 50 million), but Big Company fails badly while still making a ridiculous amount of money.
I dunno for you, but I sure would call that bait and switch. If you don't mind paying 20% interest rate on a loan that you are promised at "no interest", then I have some money here that I could lend you at 0% interest...
Hey... I just got my sister to be able to use her computer without calling me every day... don't make me go back to those times.
If it had been higher than 1%, I would have guessed at click errors too. Howerver, 0.16% pretty much looks like the "utter-stupidity-ratio" that we have on the Internet, and is probably about the same ratio of people who buy stuff from spam. The only reason spam still exists is because it works, which means that *some* people give them their money. Saying 0.16% of internet users are utterly stupid doesn't sound like an overstatement to me.
Diplomacy is for wusses. Right now lets play Global Thermonuclear War.
Considering how hard it currently is to interoperate with MS stuff (which is what the EU is currently blaming on MS), can we guess that they've never quite told everyone how to make the invention? Heck, they even want to charge people to get access to that info. Can they get a patent on something and keep it secret?
On the contrary. If Red Hat knew the one upheld patent that they're apparently infringing, then they know what to fix, they can work around it and voilà, no more legal trouble, and Microsoft doesn't get a penny.
So in a second-person shooter, you're the one being shot at? Wow. All that time I thought I sucked at FPS, but I was in fact playing SPS...
The article says that the Linux kernel violates 42 patents (ain't that a nice number for a coincidence...). Let Microsoft sue Linus, and see who shows up to defend the penguin guy...
I've been doing the same thing for a while too. My GPG password is 50+ characters long with lowercase, uppercase, numbers and special characters, and I never get it wrong.
Brute force THAT!
I didn't know about KeePass before now, and it's getting interesting. However, the Linux port is v0.2, which sounds very, very beta (pre-beta maybe?) to me... Is it really safe to trust all your passwords to a beta software?
I went to Future Shop once and the alarm went off as I was walking in (some CD from another store which, funnily enough, didn't set off the alarm at the CD store). They took everything I had and passed it in the demagnetizer thing to make sure I wouldn't set the thing off on my way out. I bet they also wanted me to sit on it to make sure my butt wouldn't set it off, but didn't dare to ask. Some places really take the alarm seriously.
That's a gross exaggeration. I've done (proprietary) signed XPI extensions. While it is indeed quite complicated to do, it is possible. I remember having looked for documentation have finding it very sparsely a little over two years ago. I would have thought the Mozilla team would have made it better since then, but I think I'll try documenting it now.
Nah, it will become common enough that all major websites will use it. Then, website designers will make everything they can to be ranked #2 in a Google search. Whatever you search, you click the first link, wait 2 seconds, decide it's not worth the wait, go back and click the second link, and it then loads instantly.
Number 2 is the way to go baby!