The picture that comes with the article sure makes this whole process look really appealing. It reminds me of the picture that the local news station shows when there is any asteroid in the news (a huge moon-sized rock hitting the earth). Aren't stock pictures great?
So THATS why I suddenly had the urge the other day to buy tampons while walking through the grocery store. Strange considering I am a man, and I doubt my SO would have appreciated them as a gift:-)
These numbers indicate that the best way for Microsoft to solve this issue is to simply raise an army and invade Norway. Don't be suprised if Norway is renamed to Billgatsia sometime in the next few years.
It seems to me like a better solution would be some kind of proximity sensor (maybe a few, for redundancy) hidden in a wall/floor/ceiling. If they get out of range, *poof*.
Sullivan's prosthesis has a computer in the forearm that is wired to a mechanical hand and to a "plunger" device on his chest. The hand sends signals up the wires to the plunger, which pushes the skin. That stimulates the nerves in his chest to transmit sensations to the brain as if the nerves were still connected to his real hand. On Wednesday, when Kuiken touched a spot on Sullivan's chest, Sullivan said: "Oh, that's right between the finger and thumb on the back side of the hand." If Kuiken touches one of Sullivan's prosthetic fingers, Sullivan can feel it and say which finger it is.
Wow. I just know he is glad he can still play the "pull my finger" game with his grandkids.
I wonder what counts as a record company in Canada? Can I release one CD a year with random noises on it and collect some of the blank-media royalties?
I keep waiting for a record company to record some guy saying "DMCA" once and release it on an album so they can sue news stations when they "sing" the lyrics to their new song without permission on the air.
Unlike here in the States the title of the legislation must reflect what it really is. I think they named it something like, "Gimme your money, but you get nothing, eh?" act.
Electronic wallpaper you could change, that would be sweet. At least until someone hacks into your home and you get wallsized goatse images on every wall.
I always wanted to take my old laptop and set it on a desk and have it display family photos and stuff like that. I figured I could just tell people that it is a really cool picture frame I bought that looks like a laptop.
I figure they have a few options here: - Make the servers slower and slower until everyone quits playing. - Have a virtual asteroid wipe everything out (like the one that killed the dinosaurs, only not real). - Make a horde of virtual lawyers that sue everyone until they own everything. - Withdraw all the company's cash and flee to some country without extradition treaties with the U.S.
I wonder if any of these were included in their business plan as an exit strategy?
I figured they started offering this kind of service so all the normal people could finally hear the end of the UFO ranting from people who claimed to have been abducted and had a tracking device implanted by aliens.
I then print this, laminate it, and put it in my wallet (a backup copy somewhere isn't a bad idea either). Then, for every password I just remember a word (maybe "bank" for my bank for example) which gives me a password of: ?pE94$vw Hard to guess, easy for me to "remember". If someone gets my paper (say I lose my wallet), it is still not simple to figure out what my passwords are, or even what the heck that little paper is. Shoulder surfing doesn't work too well either, unless you can memorize the whole card and then figure out which word I am using (it would be easier to try to watch me type the password on the keyboard then get it off the paper. Luckily I type fast and get annoyed when people stand over me while I type a password:-) ).
The visual imagery from that term is horrible, something akin to a bunch of people standing in line to dip their hands into a really large jar of Vasoline which everyone shares.
- Lots of gigantor pictures: Check - Already slow even before hitting the front page: Check - Millions of bored geeks have just dragged themselves into work: Check
Yep, there is no chance this will get slashdotted, but in case it does, I think there is a mirror working here.
Online games have the potential to transform entertainment into a global-community exercise, breaking down borders, cultural and language barriers, and even political prejudices...
Thats the best thing about online games: I no longer need to join the army to meet new and interesting people, and then kill them. Now I can do it from the comfort of my own living room.
After noticing the missing 'o' in what I wrote, I worry that the braincell that knows the difference between too and to may have been destroyed by a stray bit of radiation, so maybe nuclear batteries aren't such a good idea after all.
We need to be advocating LCD monitors, so that we can pick up really nice used CRTs when every yahoo ditches them to buy an LCD.
Seriously though, I love my 19" LCD at work, especially when I have to move it somewhere. Plus I must admit I like the extra square foot or so of desk space.
This is a good point. Now that I think about it, it looks like there is no easy way to say "for X dollars I got Y amount of computing power", since Y is always some meaningless number the vendor essentially makes up (unless the OSs run on the same hardware, such as linux and Microsoft Windows). However, I would be amazed if the same dollar amount didn't buy more linux servers than microsoft servers, simply because the OS is free (or at least cheaper, if buyers are purchasing from suppliers who bundle their own version of linux with their custom servers).
Ahh. I have avoided buying blade servers because the PHB is more impressed spending money on a big blinkey box to go next to the other big blinkey boxes rather than a little blinkey box with more horsepower than all of the other big blinkey boxes put together. Besides I have a better chance at getting disablity later when I go deaf from the several dozen fans that produce a noise much like that of a jet getting ready to take off.
Slashdot Mirror
The picture that comes with the article sure makes this whole process look really appealing. It reminds me of the picture that the local news station shows when there is any asteroid in the news (a huge moon-sized rock hitting the earth). Aren't stock pictures great?
So THATS why I suddenly had the urge the other day to buy tampons while walking through the grocery store. Strange considering I am a man, and I doubt my SO would have appreciated them as a gift :-)
2004 figures:
Norway's GDP: $183 billion
Norway's Military spending: $4 billion
Microsoft's revenues: $36.8 billion
These numbers indicate that the best way for Microsoft to solve this issue is to simply raise an army and invade Norway. Don't be suprised if Norway is renamed to Billgatsia sometime in the next few years.
It seems to me like a better solution would be some kind of proximity sensor (maybe a few, for redundancy) hidden in a wall/floor/ceiling. If they get out of range, *poof*.
On Wednesday, when Kuiken touched a spot on Sullivan's chest, Sullivan said: "Oh, that's right between the finger and thumb on the back side of the hand."
If Kuiken touches one of Sullivan's prosthetic fingers, Sullivan can feel it and say which finger it is.
Wow. I just know he is glad he can still play the "pull my finger" game with his grandkids.
I wonder what counts as a record company in Canada? Can I release one CD a year with random noises on it and collect some of the blank-media royalties?
I keep waiting for a record company to record some guy saying "DMCA" once and release it on an album so they can sue news stations when they "sing" the lyrics to their new song without permission on the air.
Unlike here in the States the title of the legislation must reflect what it really is. I think they named it something like, "Gimme your money, but you get nothing, eh?" act.
Electronic wallpaper you could change, that would be sweet. At least until someone hacks into your home and you get wallsized goatse images on every wall.
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Not too suprising the site didn't last long.
I always wanted to take my old laptop and set it on a desk and have it display family photos and stuff like that. I figured I could just tell people that it is a really cool picture frame I bought that looks like a laptop.
- Make the servers slower and slower until everyone quits playing.
- Have a virtual asteroid wipe everything out (like the one that killed the dinosaurs, only not real).
- Make a horde of virtual lawyers that sue everyone until they own everything.
- Withdraw all the company's cash and flee to some country without extradition treaties with the U.S.
I wonder if any of these were included in their business plan as an exit strategy?
Actually I have several dozen, in any shade that you choose.
I figured they started offering this kind of service so all the normal people could finally hear the end of the UFO ranting from people who claimed to have been abducted and had a tracking device implanted by aliens.
Password list
bank: cleanmeout
slashdot: iamanoob
paypal: cleanmeouttoo
a-E9 b-?p c-&m
d-6K e-aY f-eP
g-!S h-gn i-D=
j-Hd k-vw l-Cb
m-W5 n-4$ o-R3
p-x% q-7M r-NF
s-+2 t-s* u-Ay
v-fL w-zG x-Zu
y-cX z-Qr
I then print this, laminate it, and put it in my wallet (a backup copy somewhere isn't a bad idea either). Then, for every password I just remember a word (maybe "bank" for my bank for example) which gives me a password of: ?pE94$vw
Hard to guess, easy for me to "remember". If someone gets my paper (say I lose my wallet), it is still not simple to figure out what my passwords are, or even what the heck that little paper is. Shoulder surfing doesn't work too well either, unless you can memorize the whole card and then figure out which word I am using (it would be easier to try to watch me type the password on the keyboard then get it off the paper. Luckily I type fast and get annoyed when people stand over me while I type a password
Ahh, so the imagery can get worse after all. Many thanks while I go look for an icepick to start poking into my head until the imagery goes away.
The visual imagery from that term is horrible, something akin to a bunch of people standing in line to dip their hands into a really large jar of Vasoline which everyone shares.
- Already slow even before hitting the front page: Check
- Millions of bored geeks have just dragged themselves into work: Check
Yep, there is no chance this will get slashdotted, but in case it does, I think there is a mirror working here.
Thats the best thing about online games: I no longer need to join the army to meet new and interesting people, and then kill them. Now I can do it from the comfort of my own living room.
After noticing the missing 'o' in what I wrote, I worry that the braincell that knows the difference between too and to may have been destroyed by a stray bit of radiation, so maybe nuclear batteries aren't such a good idea after all.
Bring on nuclear batteries. Or is the Duracell lobby to strong for them to ever be legal?
Seriously though, I love my 19" LCD at work, especially when I have to move it somewhere. Plus I must admit I like the extra square foot or so of desk space.
This is a good point. Now that I think about it, it looks like there is no easy way to say "for X dollars I got Y amount of computing power", since Y is always some meaningless number the vendor essentially makes up (unless the OSs run on the same hardware, such as linux and Microsoft Windows). However, I would be amazed if the same dollar amount didn't buy more linux servers than microsoft servers, simply because the OS is free (or at least cheaper, if buyers are purchasing from suppliers who bundle their own version of linux with their custom servers).
Ahh. I have avoided buying blade servers because the PHB is more impressed spending money on a big blinkey box to go next to the other big blinkey boxes rather than a little blinkey box with more horsepower than all of the other big blinkey boxes put together. Besides I have a better chance at getting disablity later when I go deaf from the several dozen fans that produce a noise much like that of a jet getting ready to take off.