Iä! Shub Niggurath!
Heh..I didn't know we had HP Lovecraft as a Slashdot reader.
That dark and forbidden tome....known to some as the Necronomicon, written by the Mad Arab. I have read it I tell you!
I love Lovecraft...his stories are the absolute best, and they get you so involved with the rest of the material that he talks about. I've wasted many hours hunting down weird authors and books just to figure out what he's talking about somedays.
Actually, audio books rock. I drive a lot for work and personal life, and more often than not, I'm doing the road trip alone. I personally can't stand driving, and I get sick of flipping through hundreds of cd's while I'm driving. I love reading though, but other drivers seem to get annoyed with me when I read and drive at the same time. So, I rent audio books from my library before really long trips, toss them in, and it makes the trip a lot shorter.
I especially agree with the slide rule. I'm currently a CS & German major, and it involves a heck of a lot of math sometimes. I've always had a hard time at math, partially because I've always been taught how to follow formulas for putting characters into my calculator, not how to do the actual math. Now, when I get up into more difficult calculus and other things at college, I find myself struggling because I've never learned how to really do the math, I've just learned how to use a calculator. I remember my physics prof brought in some old logarithim books that he had in college...and it absolutely amazed me. I almost wish I could have learned that way.
Wired is distributing those Cue Cats. I got one w/ my subscription, and have sinced turned it into a flaslight, after throwing it away first (remove circuit boards, add battery essentially). I'm thinking of going to Radio Shack to pick up another one to turn it into something else. Anyway, Wired probably has a vested interest in making sure that the people that pay them advertising $$$ is happy. I honestly wonder if Wired isn't hyping these up and making them sound good to keep their paying advertisers happy. Yeah, I know I sound like a conspiracy theorist./. must be getting to me.
What a welcome back! They go down and disappear because of a DOS attack, and the first day they get back up, Slashdotted out of existence! Isn't it ironic....don't you think? Damn....I need to get off the coffee.
This would definitely be a cool toy to add into my entertainment system. I wonder if all of the games Loki has already ported over to Linux would work on this thing. I read that they are developing their own distribution of linux especially for this and other entertainment devices. Would the Linux distro they are creating be too fundamentally different from your average Linux install for it to work? It would definitely save them a lot of time in getting out some cool games for the thing. At the very least maybe Loki could partner with Nintendo or something like that, but then that would make this L6000 thing nothing more than a boring clone...at any rate, this is neat.
FBI Director: "Somebody get me the head of monetary appropriations on the phone, NOW!!
Phone rings...someone on the other end of the line picks up.
Voice: "Hello?"
FBI Director: "Uh, yes, hello, this is the director of the FBI speaking. Ummm...I'm doing some..uhh..research here and I need to know the top ten most government funded universities in the US."
Voice: "Well, University X received this much, University Y received this much, and University A tops the list with a wopping X amount of money given to it by the government."
FBI Director: "Right!! Thanks!"
Director slams down phone. Leans out of office window, yelling:
"Johnson!! That university that we were looking to test Carnivore? I've got one lined up!"
This was meant to be humorous, not to be taken serious by any stretch of the imagination. Please moderate and reply accordingly
The link I put here is for the color palm but there are others available. Actually, they started making them for other palms first. Anyway, it provides a nice resitance to the default stylus and other pens and such. Plus, it is pretty protective. I love 'em.
Okay, like the post said, SAMBA is an acronym. It stands for Standard Anmeldung Meldewesen Banken, which essentially says something like "Standard log-on procedures/protocols for banks". It's a standard method for banks to communicate w/ each other....apparently proprietary and German. Anyway, I just thought a few people might be interested in knowing what it was from someone that actually is fluent in english and german instead of a translation from a web site. Have fun...
I'm not really complaining all that much. I'm actually an AMD fan anyway. There is a performance boost when you go from one processor to the next (obviously) but I think we could benefit just as much (if not more) if we worked on the less "sexy" technologies such as bus speed. Start improving some of the backend stuff that is important to the speed of every component in the computer instead of just one component. And I never said that I'm not the one freak that has a 950 in his machine right now - I happen to enjoy collecting processors and having the latest greatest. I'm kinda sado-masochistic like that:P.
I was reading through the first boycott site listed in the article, and the guy doing the site said that Napster (along w/ all other companies like them - ie. not labels) are banned from joining the RIAA because they are not actual labels. Even though they help distribute music. What Napster should do, is take some of it's VC money and invest it in getting a recording studio/label going. They should release a few cd's from some of the better artist's they've signed up and then join the RIAA. Would the RIAA then be sueing themselves? Heh...it would be kind of funny to see at least. Then again, I'm tired and hungover at work so most anything has some humor value to me right now.
I always think it's kind of funny when I see an article like this. Just a couple of weeks ago, CmdrTaco was whining that "don't bother submitting Quicktime - I can't watch it so I won't post it!". Two weeks later, he posts another quicktime link. I'm not trying to troll or start a huge debate here. I just think it's funny.
I kept procrastinating on the pre-order, and me and three other guys drove to a city an hour away to get our copies. There was Diablo 2 promo stuff everywhere, and that's all anyone was talking about. I've been playing for about two hours...in utter bliss. =) Just wanted to say I love the game.
No big deal, but the movie is about 50GB as mentioned in the article, not a terabyte. Not too fast of a line either. Granted, it is pretty fast, but I have more bandwidth running into my office....you think they could come up with something a little faster w/ Cisco helping them out.
Java is pretty simple. A good book that I used was Java By Dissection, by Ira something or other. It was way too oversimplified in my opinion for a college level course (but hey, what did I expect from college anyway) but it gave great introductions on the basics of programming using Java as the tool to implement these basics. It explained iteration, flow control, arrays, objects, all that good stuff in pretty easy to understand terms. Heck, I've still got the book. If you want, send me an email and we can work something out where I could send it to you. I've probably got a couple of CD-R's w/ the Java SDK from sun too. Don't let them start coding with a development tool - it cheats them of knowledge. Java is a great way to learn event handlers and placing items in a GUI - building menus, selection boxes, all kinds of good stuff. Once they learn that and understand what's going on behind the scenes, then let them switch over to an IDE.
I agree with everything you said in your post, but I'm not sure about something with Yahoo so I figured I'd ask. I know with a site like AltaVista or Google, the sites are automatically added to the search database by a web spider or indexing agent. But doesn't Yahoo add and categorize their links on a much more manual basis? I knew they used to (and I don't mean in the days when they were two college guys with their list of links on the net). I just thought Yahoo exerted a lot more control over their links.
It's scary to see some things like this pop up every once in awhile. I personally like the fact that they are asking you to let "Anonymous Coward" know that he/she has posted comments violating the DMCA. I thought it was kind of funny anyway. Then again, I am tired and just got done with my last final for the year. I wish you luck in this, and whatever support I could give. This has got to be one of the worst communities they could have ever thought to pick on on this topic - I don't think they have any the can of worms they just opened:-)
Couldn't they take the time to set up an IRC network style banning system? You goof up once, we ban your nick. Goof up again, we ban this far up your IP. Goof up again, we ban your whole subnet. Seems to me this would be a lot more effective, and probably a lot more in their legal interests. People could complain that "it will block out other users that aren't doing bad things" but that is the whole point of K-Lines and such. Get everyone else mad at the one idiot, and either the ISP kicks him or the person is never seen again. Granted, he could just switch ISP's, but thats a lot more inconvenient than switching nicks. IRC networks have been doing this for years, and it doesn't seem to have harmed their user base at all. Just my $.02.
There are already tilt sensors for the Palm Pilot - heres a link to the instructions on either how to build or buy them. This is the site with the sensors:
I don't want to flame you w/ this comment, I just want to say thanks for pointing that out. I agree with you wholeheartedly, and it's just my oversight that I didn't make that clear in my comment.
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Great, 100Mhz. Let's see...my Duron machine is at what again? And then how about my Athlon? Come on, Intel, make at least a significant leap.
Iä! Shub Niggurath! Heh..I didn't know we had HP Lovecraft as a Slashdot reader. That dark and forbidden tome....known to some as the Necronomicon, written by the Mad Arab. I have read it I tell you! I love Lovecraft...his stories are the absolute best, and they get you so involved with the rest of the material that he talks about. I've wasted many hours hunting down weird authors and books just to figure out what he's talking about somedays.
Actually, audio books rock. I drive a lot for work and personal life, and more often than not, I'm doing the road trip alone. I personally can't stand driving, and I get sick of flipping through hundreds of cd's while I'm driving. I love reading though, but other drivers seem to get annoyed with me when I read and drive at the same time. So, I rent audio books from my library before really long trips, toss them in, and it makes the trip a lot shorter.
I especially agree with the slide rule. I'm currently a CS & German major, and it involves a heck of a lot of math sometimes. I've always had a hard time at math, partially because I've always been taught how to follow formulas for putting characters into my calculator, not how to do the actual math. Now, when I get up into more difficult calculus and other things at college, I find myself struggling because I've never learned how to really do the math, I've just learned how to use a calculator. I remember my physics prof brought in some old logarithim books that he had in college...and it absolutely amazed me. I almost wish I could have learned that way.
Wired is distributing those Cue Cats. I got one w/ my subscription, and have sinced turned it into a flaslight, after throwing it away first (remove circuit boards, add battery essentially). I'm thinking of going to Radio Shack to pick up another one to turn it into something else. Anyway, Wired probably has a vested interest in making sure that the people that pay them advertising $$$ is happy. I honestly wonder if Wired isn't hyping these up and making them sound good to keep their paying advertisers happy. Yeah, I know I sound like a conspiracy theorist. /. must be getting to me.
What a welcome back! They go down and disappear because of a DOS attack, and the first day they get back up, Slashdotted out of existence! Isn't it ironic....don't you think? Damn....I need to get off the coffee.
This would definitely be a cool toy to add into my entertainment system. I wonder if all of the games Loki has already ported over to Linux would work on this thing. I read that they are developing their own distribution of linux especially for this and other entertainment devices. Would the Linux distro they are creating be too fundamentally different from your average Linux install for it to work? It would definitely save them a lot of time in getting out some cool games for the thing. At the very least maybe Loki could partner with Nintendo or something like that, but then that would make this L6000 thing nothing more than a boring clone...at any rate, this is neat.
Phone rings...someone on the other end of the line picks up.
Voice: "Hello?"
FBI Director: "Uh, yes, hello, this is the director of the FBI speaking. Ummm...I'm doing some..uhh..research here and I need to know the top ten most government funded universities in the US."
Voice: "Well, University X received this much, University Y received this much, and University A tops the list with a wopping X amount of money given to it by the government."
FBI Director: "Right!! Thanks!"
Director slams down phone. Leans out of office window, yelling:
"Johnson!! That university that we were looking to test Carnivore? I've got one lined up!"
This was meant to be humorous, not to be taken serious by any stretch of the imagination. Please moderate and reply accordingly
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The link I put here is for the color palm but there are others available. Actually, they started making them for other palms first. Anyway, it provides a nice resitance to the default stylus and other pens and such. Plus, it is pretty protective. I love 'em.
Okay, like the post said, SAMBA is an acronym. It stands for Standard Anmeldung Meldewesen Banken, which essentially says something like "Standard log-on procedures/protocols for banks". It's a standard method for banks to communicate w/ each other....apparently proprietary and German. Anyway, I just thought a few people might be interested in knowing what it was from someone that actually is fluent in english and german instead of a translation from a web site. Have fun...
I'm not really complaining all that much. I'm actually an AMD fan anyway. There is a performance boost when you go from one processor to the next (obviously) but I think we could benefit just as much (if not more) if we worked on the less "sexy" technologies such as bus speed. Start improving some of the backend stuff that is important to the speed of every component in the computer instead of just one component. And I never said that I'm not the one freak that has a 950 in his machine right now - I happen to enjoy collecting processors and having the latest greatest. I'm kinda sado-masochistic like that :P.
I agree with you completely. I would be much willing to pay for a new mobo that had a 300-400 mhz bus than a new 1 ghz chip.
I was reading through the first boycott site listed in the article, and the guy doing the site said that Napster (along w/ all other companies like them - ie. not labels) are banned from joining the RIAA because they are not actual labels. Even though they help distribute music. What Napster should do, is take some of it's VC money and invest it in getting a recording studio/label going. They should release a few cd's from some of the better artist's they've signed up and then join the RIAA. Would the RIAA then be sueing themselves? Heh...it would be kind of funny to see at least. Then again, I'm tired and hungover at work so most anything has some humor value to me right now.
I always think it's kind of funny when I see an article like this. Just a couple of weeks ago, CmdrTaco was whining that "don't bother submitting Quicktime - I can't watch it so I won't post it!". Two weeks later, he posts another quicktime link. I'm not trying to troll or start a huge debate here. I just think it's funny.
I kept procrastinating on the pre-order, and me and three other guys drove to a city an hour away to get our copies. There was Diablo 2 promo stuff everywhere, and that's all anyone was talking about. I've been playing for about two hours...in utter bliss. =) Just wanted to say I love the game.
No big deal, but the movie is about 50GB as mentioned in the article, not a terabyte. Not too fast of a line either. Granted, it is pretty fast, but I have more bandwidth running into my office....you think they could come up with something a little faster w/ Cisco helping them out.
Java is pretty simple. A good book that I used was Java By Dissection, by Ira something or other. It was way too oversimplified in my opinion for a college level course (but hey, what did I expect from college anyway) but it gave great introductions on the basics of programming using Java as the tool to implement these basics. It explained iteration, flow control, arrays, objects, all that good stuff in pretty easy to understand terms. Heck, I've still got the book. If you want, send me an email and we can work something out where I could send it to you. I've probably got a couple of CD-R's w/ the Java SDK from sun too. Don't let them start coding with a development tool - it cheats them of knowledge. Java is a great way to learn event handlers and placing items in a GUI - building menus, selection boxes, all kinds of good stuff. Once they learn that and understand what's going on behind the scenes, then let them switch over to an IDE.
Gotcha. Thanks for the clarification.
I agree with everything you said in your post, but I'm not sure about something with Yahoo so I figured I'd ask. I know with a site like AltaVista or Google, the sites are automatically added to the search database by a web spider or indexing agent. But doesn't Yahoo add and categorize their links on a much more manual basis? I knew they used to (and I don't mean in the days when they were two college guys with their list of links on the net). I just thought Yahoo exerted a lot more control over their links.
I guess we have a new person for the trolls to mention. I just might have to go out and buy that issue. Wow.
It's scary to see some things like this pop up every once in awhile. I personally like the fact that they are asking you to let "Anonymous Coward" know that he/she has posted comments violating the DMCA. I thought it was kind of funny anyway. Then again, I am tired and just got done with my last final for the year. I wish you luck in this, and whatever support I could give. This has got to be one of the worst communities they could have ever thought to pick on on this topic - I don't think they have any the can of worms they just opened :-)
Couldn't they take the time to set up an IRC network style banning system? You goof up once, we ban your nick. Goof up again, we ban this far up your IP. Goof up again, we ban your whole subnet. Seems to me this would be a lot more effective, and probably a lot more in their legal interests. People could complain that "it will block out other users that aren't doing bad things" but that is the whole point of K-Lines and such. Get everyone else mad at the one idiot, and either the ISP kicks him or the person is never seen again. Granted, he could just switch ISP's, but thats a lot more inconvenient than switching nicks. IRC networks have been doing this for years, and it doesn't seem to have harmed their user base at all. Just my $.02.
There are already tilt sensors for the Palm Pilot - heres a link to the instructions on either how to build or buy them. This is the site with the sensors:
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http://www.ibr.cs.tu-bs.de/~harbaum/pilot/adxl2
I don't want to flame you w/ this comment, I just want to say thanks for pointing that out. I agree with you wholeheartedly, and it's just my oversight that I didn't make that clear in my comment.
Your on the net (obviously). CDNow, Amazon, etc, etc. The fact is, you don't need to pirate the music to hear it.