The SMS (Short Message Service) phenomenon has been quite common in Germany for some time. Everywhere you go you see people punching messages into their cell phones, or "handys", or you hear the ubiquitous beep of someone receiving messages. Come to think of it, it's not just a German thing, it's all over Europe. One of my roommates texts her friends and parents at home in England from our apartment in Germany. I think it's a really great idea since messages cost around $.25 per, and it's a quite a bit cheaper than calling someone up when you just want to ask a question.
You know... if we loaded the moon up with a load of magnetic material and made the earth/moon combo into a giant electromagnetic generator, the orbit of the moon could be used as a clean engergy source...
...but we might run into some problems with the huge amount of magnetic material remotely wiping hard drives...but I guess that's the price you gotta pay for clean energy.
I don't mean to pick nits, but I'm sorry, Snoop Dogg should not be listed as one of the front running acts on the TVT label. With his jumps around from Death Row, to Aftermath, to No Limit, to TVT, I think perhaps there are better examples of artists on the TVT label. As it is, TVT began primarily an industrial metal label, with the rap sections coming in more recently. Nine Inch Nails, anyone? Nashville Pussy?
Oh man, is this for real? Crap...I've got to get away from this terminal....but I don't know if this computer's infected or not.....maybe it's just lying dormant...man this is the worst thing I've read since I saw the bit about the virus that makes your hard drive speed up 1000x and makes the platters shoot out of your machine like ninja stars....
I think there are more than three Enigma machines in existance. I think the BBC story has it wrong, as I personally saw two of the Enigma machines in just the last month. One of them at the Danish Resistance Museum in Copenhagen, Denmark (got pictures of it too, send me requests by running my e-mail backwards, of course). I saw a second of them at the Deutsches Museum in Munich And then here according to the NSA page, they've got one at the National Crypto Museum, AND there's the BBC article about Station X having one as well. Perhaps there are more of these things floating around than the BBC thinks. Anyone else seen one elsewhere?
BTW, the Deutsches Museus is a great museum for geeks. If you happen to find yourself in the Munich area of Germany, I definately recommend stopping in. It's very hands-on and instead of using models of planes, train, and cars, they actually have the full sized ones there. Pretty impressive. Over 10km walk if you make it around the whole thing (which I bet you couldn#t do in a day)
One of the things the Coca-Cola company has neglected is there are other entirely different meanings for the word coke. Sure, it's a shortening of Coca-Cola in slang terms, but it's also the slang term for cocaine (like the author wanted to use it) as well as the residue of coal left after destructive distillation and used as fuel. This is a case of one company getting greedy. What's next, Wal-Mart sues the owner of wall.com?
I don't mean to pimp a commercial webpage, but CDNow has been selling vinyl for a while now, and usually has a vinyl version for most new releases, which is also usually cheaper than the CD release. Tired of paying $20 for a CD, pay $10 for vinyl. Now, if I could just get an in-dash turntable for the car....
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And I'm not even going to go in to the phenomenon of toilet books - you know, those books full of easily digestible sections which sit in the bathroom for when you need a quick read
What are you talking about, any book qualifies as a bathroom (toilet) book, it just depends on how much time you want to sit on the crapper.
Incidentally, it's the mention of toilet books in an article about online companies producing catalogs strikes me as funny, since my mother told me that when she was little and they didn't have indoor plumbing (too rural), there was always a catalog in the outhouse for toilet reading and "after".
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I don't necessarily think that the increase in theater receipts and music sales can be directly attributed to advances in 'new' media and the internet. I think that a number of people are trying to create a causal relationship where one doesn't necessarily exist. I think that people are overlooking a booming economy and attempting to say, "Hey, despite traffic of mp3s on the internet, the record companies are still getting richer"
I agree that there is a revolution going on, and people are becoming more and more attracted to digial media (whether it be mp3s, online newspapers, eBooks, etc.) but I don't think the time is yet upon us where these are going to supplant 'old' media.
Do I have that about right? Am I missing somethig vital? Either a reporter should be shot for not understanding basic 4th/5th-grade math, or the RIAA owes a REALLY big apology/butt-kissing to those who did them such a huge favor.
Just becasue the RIAA made a heap of cash in the last year, that doesn't mean that the promotion came from mp3's and internet music sources. You can't create a causal relationship just because two things happened simultaneously. This is akin to saying, "I've been riding public transportation for a while, and gas prices have gone up in the interim, so it must be because of gas stations not getting revenue from me buying gas" or something silly like the same.
We had a Texas Instruments Home Computer. If I remember right, the thing hooked up to a TV, and was entirely cartridge based (no disk drive whatsoever). I can barely remember it, but it did have a tape drive (of sorts). Something where we hooked up a tape recorder (standard run-of-the-mill) and somehow it read a program off of it, some simple jousting game (but not Joust(TM)). It died of a critical error when three of the keys on the keyboard weren't being recognized as keys anymore.
Later on, my parents bought a couple Apple ][s. They were neet, but I hated the disk drive noise when you didn't have a disk inserted when it tried to read, or when it was having trouble reading the data.
With the risk of making this topic just a grabbag of 80's crap, The one thing I wish I could remember out of the 80's better was The Great Space Coaster. I loved that show, but I can't remember a lot of it. Wish I could find it on tape....
If this book is about Geeks, and is presumably to be read by people including Geeks....why isn't it available in a digitally downloadable form? Personally, I'd like to read this on my Palm Pilot, especially since shipping to get the thing to me in Germany takes 6-8 weeks and costs $8.50. If I could just download the thing, I could have it now.
I watched the game last night on Sat 1, (From 12:30 to 4:00a.m.) Unfortunately, Sat 1 just took the ABC feed of the game, used its own announcers (Superbowl in German!) and used it's own advertising. What this means is they took the same commercial breaks as ABC, but just filled them with the same spots over and over. I saw advertisements for:
1. Kinder MaxiKing (chocolate treat) 2. The Nike "What are you getting ready for" commercial where the guy runs up the hill in full pads and jumps off 3. An ad for Nutella with the Frankfurt Galaxy football team (where they make the Americans on the team look like idiots 4. A couple of other ads that were so nondescript that I can't even be bothered to remember them
I guess the good news is is that if the ads were especially funny or clever, they'll make their way into the mainstream, or be featured on "Die Dickste Dinger" (a weekly show about funny commercials)
Bjorky "Dogs love me cause I'm crazy sniffable/ I bet you never knew I got the ill peripheral" -Beastie Boys 'The Move'
At a computer show, I bought a Packard Bell keyboard just because it was black and was 101-key. I used a razorblade to cut off the "Packard" (which was a decal over the lights) and used White Out to write in Taco. I love my Taco Bell Keyboard.
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The bit with the chair reminds me of something I was discussing with my sister after seeing an advertisement for a Jazzy on television.
For those of you who don't know, a Jazzy is basically a motorized wheelchair that is advertised as giving mobility to diabled people. As we were watching the commercial, I thought of my brother who works as a sysadmin for a phone company. I thought something like the Jazzy would be ideal for the computer geek: no need to get up and walk away from the computer, just move the joystick and drive around the house. You'd save all kinds of money on furniture because you've already got the only chair you need to sit in. If you could incorporate some sort of toilet feature, you've solved yet another problem with needing to get up from your seat. The last step is some sort of docking station for your automobile, and then you're good to go.
"Dogs love me cause I'm crazy sniffable/ I bet you never knew I got the ill peripheral" -Beastie Boys 'The Move'
Same token, I opened up my account today that usually receives 3-5 spams a day, and today, no spam.
The disturbing part is that the account I created to specifically give out as a semi-bogus e-mail address for registrations and whatnot gets less spam than my preferred mailbox.
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The SMS (Short Message Service) phenomenon has been quite common in Germany for some time. Everywhere you go you see people punching messages into their cell phones, or "handys", or you hear the ubiquitous beep of someone receiving messages. Come to think of it, it's not just a German thing, it's all over Europe. One of my roommates texts her friends and parents at home in England from our apartment in Germany. I think it's a really great idea since messages cost around $.25 per, and it's a quite a bit cheaper than calling someone up when you just want to ask a question.
That's my $.25/12.5
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You know... if we loaded the moon up with a load of magnetic material and made the earth/moon combo into a giant electromagnetic generator, the orbit of the moon could be used as a clean engergy source...
...but we might run into some problems with the huge amount of magnetic material remotely wiping hard drives...but I guess that's the price you gotta pay for clean energy.
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I loved the film. First OS from outer space. Too bad Bella Lugosi died during production How soon does the Glen or Glenda OS come out?
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I don't mean to pick nits, but I'm sorry, Snoop Dogg should not be listed as one of the front running acts on the TVT label. With his jumps around from Death Row, to Aftermath, to No Limit, to TVT, I think perhaps there are better examples of artists on the TVT label. As it is, TVT began primarily an industrial metal label, with the rap sections coming in more recently. Nine Inch Nails, anyone? Nashville Pussy?
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[Connery] Goosh shtepping moronsh like yourshelves should try reading booksh inshtead of burning them.[/Connery]
"Zuerst die Bücher brennen, dann die Menschen"
"First the books burn, then the people" - Heinrich Heine
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Oh man, is this for real? Crap...I've got to get away from this terminal....but I don't know if this computer's infected or not.....maybe it's just lying dormant...man this is the worst thing I've read since I saw the bit about the virus that makes your hard drive speed up 1000x and makes the platters shoot out of your machine like ninja stars....
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I think there are more than three Enigma machines in existance. I think the BBC story has it wrong, as I personally saw two of the Enigma machines in just the last month. One of them at the Danish Resistance Museum in Copenhagen, Denmark (got pictures of it too, send me requests by running my e-mail backwards, of course). I saw a second of them at the Deutsches Museum in Munich And then here according to the NSA page, they've got one at the National Crypto Museum, AND there's the BBC article about Station X having one as well. Perhaps there are more of these things floating around than the BBC thinks. Anyone else seen one elsewhere?
BTW, the Deutsches Museus is a great museum for geeks. If you happen to find yourself in the Munich area of Germany, I definately recommend stopping in. It's very hands-on and instead of using models of planes, train, and cars, they actually have the full sized ones there. Pretty impressive. Over 10km walk if you make it around the whole thing (which I bet you couldn#t do in a day)
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One of the things the Coca-Cola company has neglected is there are other entirely different meanings for the word coke. Sure, it's a shortening of Coca-Cola in slang terms, but it's also the slang term for cocaine (like the author wanted to use it) as well as the residue of coal left after destructive distillation and used as fuel. This is a case of one company getting greedy. What's next, Wal-Mart sues the owner of wall.com?
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Does this mean that 'School of Hard Knockers' on the Simpsons is going to change its name as well?
(O.k. so I realize it was the name of a film and not actually the name of the school, but you get the idea.)
'This bra bomb better work Nerdlinger!'
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Yes, but unless I've got the runs, I generally don't spend enough time there to read any useful part of, say "CORBA Distributed Objects Using UNIX"
Sounds like you need a more comfortable crapper. :)
As an aside, my brother (who's a SysAdmin, go figure) used to keep a copy of O'Reilly's 'DNS and Bind' on top of the toilet for crapper reading.
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I don't mean to pimp a commercial webpage, but CDNow has been selling vinyl for a while now, and usually has a vinyl version for most new releases, which is also usually cheaper than the CD release. Tired of paying $20 for a CD, pay $10 for vinyl. Now, if I could just get an in-dash turntable for the car....
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And I'm not even going to go in to the phenomenon of toilet books - you know, those books full of easily digestible sections which sit in the bathroom for when you need a quick read
What are you talking about, any book qualifies as a bathroom (toilet) book, it just depends on how much time you want to sit on the crapper.
Incidentally, it's the mention of toilet books in an article about online companies producing catalogs strikes me as funny, since my mother told me that when she was little and they didn't have indoor plumbing (too rural), there was always a catalog in the outhouse for toilet reading and "after".
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I don't necessarily think that the increase in theater receipts and music sales can be directly attributed to advances in 'new' media and the internet. I think that a number of people are trying to create a causal relationship where one doesn't necessarily exist. I think that people are overlooking a booming economy and attempting to say, "Hey, despite traffic of mp3s on the internet, the record companies are still getting richer"
I agree that there is a revolution going on, and people are becoming more and more attracted to digial media (whether it be mp3s, online newspapers, eBooks, etc.) but I don't think the time is yet upon us where these are going to supplant 'old' media.
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Do I have that about right? Am I missing somethig vital? Either a reporter should be shot for not understanding basic 4th/5th-grade math, or the RIAA owes a REALLY big apology/butt-kissing to those who did them such a huge favor.
Just becasue the RIAA made a heap of cash in the last year, that doesn't mean that the promotion came from mp3's and internet music sources. You can't create a causal relationship just because two things happened simultaneously. This is akin to saying, "I've been riding public transportation for a while, and gas prices have gone up in the interim, so it must be because of gas stations not getting revenue from me buying gas" or something silly like the same.
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"I read the paper every day. except the editorial page. I don't need anyone telling me what to think; at least no one living."
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We had a Texas Instruments Home Computer. If I remember right, the thing hooked up to a TV, and was entirely cartridge based (no disk drive whatsoever). I can barely remember it, but it did have a tape drive (of sorts). Something where we hooked up a tape recorder (standard run-of-the-mill) and somehow it read a program off of it, some simple jousting game (but not Joust(TM)). It died of a critical error when three of the keys on the keyboard weren't being recognized as keys anymore.
Later on, my parents bought a couple Apple ][s. They were neet, but I hated the disk drive noise when you didn't have a disk inserted when it tried to read, or when it was having trouble reading the data.
With the risk of making this topic just a grabbag of 80's crap, The one thing I wish I could remember out of the 80's better was The Great Space Coaster. I loved that show, but I can't remember a lot of it. Wish I could find it on tape....
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If this book is about Geeks, and is presumably to be read by people including Geeks....why isn't it available in a digitally downloadable form? Personally, I'd like to read this on my Palm Pilot, especially since shipping to get the thing to me in Germany takes 6-8 weeks and costs $8.50. If I could just download the thing, I could have it now.
Bjorky
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350,000 Ford employees, 1% (minimum)are probably computer savvy
3,500 computer savvy Ford workers 5% might read Slashdot
175 computer savvy Ford workers that read Slashdot, 10% think they're funny
17 new computer Savvy Ford Working Slashdot Hot-Grits-Down-My-Pants Workers Great.... Thank you.
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I watched the game last night on Sat 1, (From 12:30 to 4:00a.m.) Unfortunately, Sat 1 just took the ABC feed of the game, used its own announcers (Superbowl in German!) and used it's own advertising. What this means is they took the same commercial breaks as ABC, but just filled them with the same spots over and over. I saw advertisements for:
1. Kinder MaxiKing (chocolate treat)
2. The Nike "What are you getting ready for" commercial where the guy runs up the hill in full pads and jumps off
3. An ad for Nutella with the Frankfurt Galaxy football team (where they make the Americans on the team look like idiots
4. A couple of other ads that were so nondescript that I can't even be bothered to remember them
I guess the good news is is that if the ads were especially funny or clever, they'll make their way into the mainstream, or be featured on "Die Dickste Dinger" (a weekly show about funny commercials)
Bjorky
"Dogs love me cause I'm crazy sniffable/
I bet you never knew I got the ill peripheral"
-Beastie Boys 'The Move'
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Where in Germany?
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"Dogs love me cause I'm crazy sniffable/
I bet you never knew I got the ill peripheral"
-Beastie Boys 'The Move'
At a computer show, I bought a Packard Bell keyboard just because it was black and was 101-key. I used a razorblade to cut off the "Packard" (which was a decal over the lights) and used White Out to write in Taco. I love my Taco Bell Keyboard.
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"Dogs love me cause I'm crazy sniffable/
I bet you never knew I got the ill peripheral"
-Beastie Boys 'The Move'
For those of you who don't know, a Jazzy is basically a motorized wheelchair that is advertised as giving mobility to diabled people. As we were watching the commercial, I thought of my brother who works as a sysadmin for a phone company. I thought something like the Jazzy would be ideal for the computer geek: no need to get up and walk away from the computer, just move the joystick and drive around the house. You'd save all kinds of money on furniture because you've already got the only chair you need to sit in. If you could incorporate some sort of toilet feature, you've solved yet another problem with needing to get up from your seat. The last step is some sort of docking station for your automobile, and then you're good to go.
"Dogs love me cause I'm crazy sniffable/ I bet you never knew I got the ill peripheral" -Beastie Boys 'The Move'
Same token, I opened up my account today that usually receives 3-5 spams a day, and today, no spam.
The disturbing part is that the account I created to specifically give out as a semi-bogus e-mail address for registrations and whatnot gets less spam than my preferred mailbox.
The people who make the tale-light device make an IR blaster which is supposed to increase the range up to 30 feet. It plugs in to the serial port.