You say that like its a joke, but I've seen it happen. For some stupid college club presidential election, each nominee had to make out a certain form. Well, someone went so far as to put her full name, address, and social security number. Thank god we caught it before we put the flyer up. Needless to say, she didn't win.
Yeah, I'm a dumbass. Sorry about that. I meant to be a good poster, but apparently not that many people are interested in this sort of thing so a coral cache link is pointless.
Hey, I submitted the story so it's not an advertisement. I downloaded the program and it's pretty cool. It can do some advanced math (complex numbers and the such) 2D plotting and 3D graphics, and is downright nifty. I like being able to just try out new things with the language without having to fill out the standard program.
Also, about the link, I'm sorry. I tried to be a good/.'er and put up the coral cache link, but I fudged it up.
I always wanted to dig myself a little shelter underground as a kid, but living in southern Louisian makes it difficult, due to the high water table. You can't dig a foot without hitting water!
My plan now is that once I've saved up enough cash, I'll buy a couple of those waterproof shipping containers, the big metal ones seen on trains and ships. Then, I'll just drop those in the ground and add a hatch and adequate ventilation. Presto, home underground!
If not a home, at least a cool computer and work room.
Excellent article. The only problem I can see is what you described as the knee-jerk reaction of company executives to the phrase "Open Source". Even if the only profits the company makes is 5% of the total, executives are probably working on a way right now to increase that to 10%. There's gotta be a return in exchange for Open Sourcing their code. The way I could see that happening would be "tarding", where companies trade their code for other companies' code at no cost to either. Once the company has gotten what they want then they can Open Source their code. The problem with that is that code is now a tool to get what you want, so you wouldn't want to give it up.
Does this remind anyone else of the Mattel PowerGlove for the NES? The protocols for both are well documented, so why not build your own PS2 glove controller out of a PowerGlove?
No, seriously dude. I too have done some PS2 programming, and it's hard as Chinese algebra. Sure, you're PS2 guy may be working in C, but he for damned sure is using an uber advanced library and checking his code to make sure the packets of render data he's sending to the GPU is well formed. The PS2 isn't like a PC, the main object of the CPU in the PS2 is to shuffle data so that calculations, rendering, pretty much everything else gets done in another processor.
I hate to be morbid, but that really sounds kinda cool, if it weren't for the people dying and homes getting ruined. It would be perfect special effects for an armageddon movie!
Since the military likes to waste tax payers' money, strap five grams of C4 to that baby.
A better use would be to carry a load of remotely deployable super glue. Just imagine the look on your coworker's face when they can't get out of their chair! Or when the keys fail to be typable and the mouse is stuck in park. Hehehe, that would kick ass.
How desperate am I? I just looked at third-rate pr0n. Shouldn't my GIGABYTES of illegally-gotten pornogrophy be enough?
I guess this is what/. and DefCon will drive a person to. And by the way, what nerd's sister was that?
Are we considering that the phone reached terminal velocity by the time it hit the ground? Assuming the phone did not reach terminal velocity, I've calulated the force of impact. Assuming a 0.5 kg phone, it would reach about 50 m/s before impact. It probably fell a little further in to the tall grass, say 0.1 m, so the impact force would be about 6125 Newtons.
I have no idea what karma is in reference to Slashdot.
I must admit, the Newton was an amzing machine. Not just for its age, but generally amazing compared to what is currently available. The designers really knew what people needed out of PDA and built the software around those needs. All of the software in the Newton works with one another, where you can have your appointments linked to a date in your calendar, have an alarm trigger a response from another program, etc. Apple didn't try to make the Apple OS smaller, they just made a new OS. Sadly, everything I touch I feel I should put Linux on so I sold mine. Oh, well, Fujitsu Stylistic for me!
P.S. Apple would make a fortune, or some really nice friends by releasing their handwriting recognition code. It is by far the best I've ever used.
Wow, they only beat out Slackware by 1/2 version number. Wonder what kinda version number differences there are between Chinese years and the Gregorian calendar.
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You say that like its a joke, but I've seen it happen. For some stupid college club presidential election, each nominee had to make out a certain form. Well, someone went so far as to put her full name, address, and social security number. Thank god we caught it before we put the flyer up. Needless to say, she didn't win.
Yeah, I'm a dumbass. Sorry about that. I meant to be a good poster, but apparently not that many people are interested in this sort of thing so a coral cache link is pointless.
Hey, I submitted the story so it's not an advertisement. I downloaded the program and it's pretty cool. It can do some advanced math (complex numbers and the such) 2D plotting and 3D graphics, and is downright nifty. I like being able to just try out new things with the language without having to fill out the standard program.
/.'er and put up the coral cache link, but I fudged it up.
Also, about the link, I'm sorry. I tried to be a good
I always wanted to dig myself a little shelter underground as a kid, but living in southern Louisian makes it difficult, due to the high water table. You can't dig a foot without hitting water!
My plan now is that once I've saved up enough cash, I'll buy a couple of those waterproof shipping containers, the big metal ones seen on trains and ships. Then, I'll just drop those in the ground and add a hatch and adequate ventilation. Presto, home underground!
If not a home, at least a cool computer and work room.
I hate you.
Excellent article. The only problem I can see is what you described as the knee-jerk reaction of company executives to the phrase "Open Source". Even if the only profits the company makes is 5% of the total, executives are probably working on a way right now to increase that to 10%. There's gotta be a return in exchange for Open Sourcing their code. The way I could see that happening would be "tarding", where companies trade their code for other companies' code at no cost to either. Once the company has gotten what they want then they can Open Source their code. The problem with that is that code is now a tool to get what you want, so you wouldn't want to give it up.
Does this remind anyone else of the Mattel PowerGlove for the NES? The protocols for both are well documented, so why not build your own PS2 glove controller out of a PowerGlove?
No, seriously dude. I too have done some PS2 programming, and it's hard as Chinese algebra. Sure, you're PS2 guy may be working in C, but he for damned sure is using an uber advanced library and checking his code to make sure the packets of render data he's sending to the GPU is well formed. The PS2 isn't like a PC, the main object of the CPU in the PS2 is to shuffle data so that calculations, rendering, pretty much everything else gets done in another processor.
I hate to be morbid, but that really sounds kinda cool, if it weren't for the people dying and homes getting ruined. It would be perfect special effects for an armageddon movie!
Since the military likes to waste tax payers' money, strap five grams of C4 to that baby. A better use would be to carry a load of remotely deployable super glue. Just imagine the look on your coworker's face when they can't get out of their chair! Or when the keys fail to be typable and the mouse is stuck in park. Hehehe, that would kick ass.
How desperate am I? I just looked at third-rate pr0n. Shouldn't my GIGABYTES of illegally-gotten pornogrophy be enough? I guess this is what /. and DefCon will drive a person to. And by the way, what nerd's sister was that?
Are we considering that the phone reached terminal velocity by the time it hit the ground? Assuming the phone did not reach terminal velocity, I've calulated the force of impact. Assuming a 0.5 kg phone, it would reach about 50 m/s before impact. It probably fell a little further in to the tall grass, say 0.1 m, so the impact force would be about 6125 Newtons. I have no idea what karma is in reference to Slashdot.
Dude, you like Brainf**k!? I love Brainf**k!
I must admit, the Newton was an amzing machine. Not just for its age, but generally amazing compared to what is currently available. The designers really knew what people needed out of PDA and built the software around those needs. All of the software in the Newton works with one another, where you can have your appointments linked to a date in your calendar, have an alarm trigger a response from another program, etc. Apple didn't try to make the Apple OS smaller, they just made a new OS. Sadly, everything I touch I feel I should put Linux on so I sold mine. Oh, well, Fujitsu Stylistic for me! P.S. Apple would make a fortune, or some really nice friends by releasing their handwriting recognition code. It is by far the best I've ever used.
Wow, they only beat out Slackware by 1/2 version number. Wonder what kinda version number differences there are between Chinese years and the Gregorian calendar.