Studies show that with absolute certainty, sleep is lethal. Everybody who has ever slept will at some point die. It is unavoidable. We better stay away from it.
In other news, stupidity (and the blind belief in statistical based research) causes cancer.
Problem is that the barcode is not an encoded message containing price, so you can't "alter" it to change the price. It is simply a database number pointing to the price in the stores db, hence you will have to find merchandise actually in their database and copy the codes from them, moving them around to other merhcandise to achieve your goal. Hence the $300 dvd-video you mentioned might cash out as a dvd-player for $299, while the Ipod checks out as a $4.99 pair of headphones.
And that is the entire risk of forging barcodes - you have to rely on the person behind the register being stupid enough, or tired enough, not to notice the switch. I'd say the ideal would be to replace codes with codes likely to have similiar names in their db, such as "ipod" versus "ipod carry case" or "sony dvd" versus "soyama dvd" or whatever. You might not be able to buy an ipod for $4.99 that way, but you'll make a large saving. Combined with the prankster attack and a day with large amount of customers in the store, you're unlikely to be caught even if confronted about the phony pricetag on your new ipod.
Actually, better yet... put a large sign next to the ipods that say "$4.99"... Everyone will want one for christmas.
Well, everyone has different habits. I usually get a ratio of around 5:0 ratio on my snailmail, meaning approximately 5 real letters (usually bills) and no spam. What with the "no unadressed mail, no free newspapers, no religion" note on my mailbox and all... In my hotmail accounts I get around 1:70 or something...
Good thing I have a gmail, that I use to carry conversations with. It's features makes it much more like an IM service though, so even though I have a ration of around 500:1 there I doubt it would make the statistics valid.
But that's really the problem, isn't it... How many of your emails are long two-six pages creations with hand and mind-tireing effort put into it? and how much of your snail mail spam is from abroad?
There are simply variables that makes traditional mail and email uncomparable. Therefore it is very interesting that the way people adress emails today are much like the ways people adressed papermail in the long long ago... the beforetime.
Of course it does brign a shred of terror to me... do we really spend as much energy and effort in our short notes today as them old geezers did on their multiple paged indecipherably handwritten essays on daily life?
If we do, I guess not many of you have teh attention span to still be reading this.
Oh well... good article, but in sweden I would be surprised if I found a single door that opened inward. His "house" analogy is true, but deeper than he thinks it is: There are several "paths" in programming that one can follow, and a few reference designs that are slightly different.
Just think of programs minimizing to tray with the close button, for instance. Felt weird at first, but now there are a lot of them. Or think of anything programmed first for a mac and then converted...
Just as doors in one country does not necessarily swing the same way as doors in another, one UI does not necesarily work exactly the same way as another.//Havenwar
I really dont like the part about heat rising until the glue melted... Hot enough here as it is. Besides... since I went optical, I've never used a mousepad.//Havenwar
I want it to ASK me first... Seriously, pretty much every piece of software these days goes up on the net every five minutes to "call home" and check for updates. In some cases it's a bitch to turn it off.
So, when I was playing world of warcraft and it started lagging I found out I had forgotten to change the time of the weekly full virusscan to a time besides the default on, at whitch I am always playing.
later I turned of java updates, because it got my latency past the triple digits. Then windows automatic updates decided to download some hugeass file, and the game sputtered and died.
These are all examples of stuff thats still _relatively_ easy to turn off. I just forgot, what with the new installation and all.
and apparently the next time I play on longhorn, the defrag will start running. Hoo fing ray. Seriously... automation is fine, but I need my bandwidth and processor power to be under my control when I play games. Anything else is unacceptable.
It made millions because it had the one thing everyone loves more than good dialog.
Not refering to breasts, although it is a good second place... No, what brings lots of people to movies is big action sequenses.
And I'm not talking "arnold takes on twenty puerto ricans" kinda big, I'm talking "thousands of people dying and bullets flying so close you almost duck in your seat" kinda big.
Dialog... who needs dialog? It's like prefering Metroid to Doom 3 because there was a better story. (such said: this is something a small select crowd does, but that doesnt mean its anything sane people agrees with. They both have their charms, but age does matter.)
although if it is the kind of complex where one is to work with the servers at the location... I'd rather keep the air moderatly cool and stick with cooler servers.
Well, uhm... *glances down* Seems to be doing THAT part allright... but beyond that? A lot of people in the comments started discussing how useful this was a and a great step forward and yadda yadda... But this is nothing but a hoax - its a really big robot but without any of the functions the article seems to imply it should have. Okay, so it shoots nerfballs.
I mean, seriously... since technology advances and makes old tech cheap, I really dont understand why the companies dont release a "budget model" that just has a phone and thats it. Yeah, I know, revolutionary idea, but seriously...
Phone = making phonecalls. Any advances should be put into how well you can make them, and how good you can hear the other person, and not how many pictures you can store and still fit a signal of whatever wacky show your currrently watching that you will have to listen to the end of every time before answering.
I'm kinda wondering what kinda use this thing has... it's not really walking - looks like it has wheels under the feet. Just slides one leg forward and slams the breaks on them wheels, and then move the other leg forward.
About as useful as a car with tires that doesnt really roll.
I mean... is there any particular use to knowing two billion decimals of that particular number? Does this make an even rounder circle, or is it just the computerized version of the ancient "my cod piece is bigger than yours" "yeah, but I have more IN mine" argument?
Of course, they got a bargain if you count it per digit, but otherwise I'd say they are pretty messed up. Isnt there some complicated atomic yadda yadda caculations they could spend that power on instead of impressing people with the length of their... Pi...
The point of having a hybrid is distance traveled. Anything above 20-30 miles (IIRC) will make you happy you do not rely entirely on air.
It takes a four hour recharge if you use electricity, and a four minute one if you find a gas-station that sells compressed air at the right pressure. Since the latter still doesnt exist, you'll either have to rest four hours per 20-30 miles, or use a hybrid that automagically recharges the air every time teh gaspart starts working.
i.e. a lot of frikkin miles to the gallon.
And yes, I am also suspect of it, but it is still worthy of a checkup and a sign... Non binding, just gets info when (if) it gets done.
Lets just say that with the major competition them oil companies dish out, startups like this is inherently slow and painful.
And I am sure they HAVE been covered by the media... in whatever country they originate.. I think it was spain. Until they actually roll on our streets no swedish media will more than mention them as a curiosity.
The REAl problem with this will be that every player will suddenly see the inherent happyness of Camping, and nobody but those with this feature hacked to stay off will ever take a step into challenged territory.
The REAL advantage is that maybe people will finally learn that getting shot hurts like crapass.
Okay, I said this is a long story, but of course that depends entirely upon how you tell it. I could just say "because I have a computer built in to my desk" and be done with it... But nah, that's not the way to tell stories.
So imagine this... a warm summers eve, the wind just barely cools the area down, and under a tree there is three drunken bastards laughing at silly cloud formation. Yeah, THAT drunk.
So one of the drunkards tell the other drunkard...
"Hey, you are really good with computers, can't you fix me a computer"...
The other drunkard, being really drunk, doesn't think about the hours of work this would entail, but picks up on the flattery instead.
"Yeah, sure, I can build one into a lightbulb for you if you get me enough cash."
They laugh. The first drunkard continues.
"Nobody said nothing bout cash. And you couldn't even fit a computer in a... car... or... a desk..."
*burp*
The third drunkard goes to pee, and is not found until late next day.
The second drunkard ponders this challenge for a while, his head immediately filled with ideas about how to build a computerized car.
"Hey, can I borrow your car?"
The first drunkard just laughs. So the second drunkard... i.e. Me, goes for the desk.
"I'll build a computer into my desk, and if I make it, you'll buy one of me for a 10% markup and workcosts."
Okay, maybe I wasn't as thought as he drunk I was.
"A desk?"
But he sure was.
"Nah, a puter, boxen, gamemachine, yadda yadda."
"I don't know bout the yadda yaddas, but I'd buy a gamemachine."
And so started the long story about the desk, that is a computer. No big deal though, just a hidden compartment behind the drawers that has a motherboard in it, extensions for all ports to properly accessible places, well muffled hard drives and yadda yadda. Also a complete power grid built into the desk with enough outlets for my other computerware... which has built up with time.
Specs?
Oh, you really don't want them. Oh, okay, you twisted my arm.
Pentium 2 550Mhz, about 367 MB Ram, 40 Gigs of hard drive, Gforce MX 440 graphics card, yadda yadda.
Runs Mandrake Linux, works as a downloader. Stuff is downloaded onto the disc, encrypted with PGP, rest is wiped regularly, when I start my storage machine stuff is transferred onto an encrypted bestcrypt partition and deleted from the downloader. This way I can keep the rather quiet desk on all the time, and my noisy main machines only when I use them.
I highly recommend every system builder to put yadda yadda into their machines. Makes all the difference.
Oh... I apologize for using the word "japs" in the subject. In sweden this is not considered wrong or insulting, but apparently slashdot is a less tolenrant country. I will try to be more politically correct in my comments in the future.
Weird though that this was modded down, and not the replypost last week that I started "dear rabid arsefucker".
I would have thought that should be more insulting. But as someone said... logic is not present in those being offended...
I've read e-books on a palmtop, and that was okay although not especially nice. Feels better with a book, but since it was easier and more convenent, I figured I could get used to e-books on a palm.
But on a cellphone?
Okay... but WHAT cellphone? Are we talking a cellphone/pda size here or are we talking a five lines of twenty letters kinda thing? Because if so, I'd rather stick to analog media, thankyaverymuch...
Seriously... I get headaches some times when I spend too much time around too many turned on computers. I have three at my desk, or four if you count the desk... (Long story, dont ask.)
Seriously... that much screen radiation, buzzing, hot air and electrical interferance just cant be good for... well, anything or anyone.
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Studies show that with absolute certainty, sleep is lethal. Everybody who has ever slept will at some point die. It is unavoidable. We better stay away from it.
In other news, stupidity (and the blind belief in statistical based research) causes cancer.
Problem is that the barcode is not an encoded message containing price, so you can't "alter" it to change the price. It is simply a database number pointing to the price in the stores db, hence you will have to find merchandise actually in their database and copy the codes from them, moving them around to other merhcandise to achieve your goal. Hence the $300 dvd-video you mentioned might cash out as a dvd-player for $299, while the Ipod checks out as a $4.99 pair of headphones.
And that is the entire risk of forging barcodes - you have to rely on the person behind the register being stupid enough, or tired enough, not to notice the switch. I'd say the ideal would be to replace codes with codes likely to have similiar names in their db, such as "ipod" versus "ipod carry case" or "sony dvd" versus "soyama dvd" or whatever. You might not be able to buy an ipod for $4.99 that way, but you'll make a large saving. Combined with the prankster attack and a day with large amount of customers in the store, you're unlikely to be caught even if confronted about the phony pricetag on your new ipod.
Actually, better yet... put a large sign next to the ipods that say "$4.99"... Everyone will want one for christmas.
Well, everyone has different habits. I usually get a ratio of around 5:0 ratio on my snailmail, meaning approximately 5 real letters (usually bills) and no spam. What with the "no unadressed mail, no free newspapers, no religion" note on my mailbox and all... In my hotmail accounts I get around 1:70 or something...
Good thing I have a gmail, that I use to carry conversations with. It's features makes it much more like an IM service though, so even though I have a ration of around 500:1 there I doubt it would make the statistics valid.
But that's really the problem, isn't it... How many of your emails are long two-six pages creations with hand and mind-tireing effort put into it? and how much of your snail mail spam is from abroad?
There are simply variables that makes traditional mail and email uncomparable. Therefore it is very interesting that the way people adress emails today are much like the ways people adressed papermail in the long long ago... the beforetime.
Of course it does brign a shred of terror to me... do we really spend as much energy and effort in our short notes today as them old geezers did on their multiple paged indecipherably handwritten essays on daily life?
If we do, I guess not many of you have teh attention span to still be reading this.
Oh well... good article, but in sweden I would be surprised if I found a single door that opened inward. His "house" analogy is true, but deeper than he thinks it is: There are several "paths" in programming that one can follow, and a few reference designs that are slightly different.
//Havenwar
Just think of programs minimizing to tray with the close button, for instance. Felt weird at first, but now there are a lot of them. Or think of anything programmed first for a mac and then converted...
Just as doors in one country does not necessarily swing the same way as doors in another, one UI does not necesarily work exactly the same way as another.
I really dont like the part about heat rising until the glue melted... Hot enough here as it is. Besides... since I went optical, I've never used a mousepad. //Havenwar
I'd say it is pretty portable. works from a usb thumbdrive. How much more portable do you want it? Try tattooing all your passwords on your left arm.
I want it to ASK me first... Seriously, pretty much every piece of software these days goes up on the net every five minutes to "call home" and check for updates. In some cases it's a bitch to turn it off.
So, when I was playing world of warcraft and it started lagging I found out I had forgotten to change the time of the weekly full virusscan to a time besides the default on, at whitch I am always playing.
later I turned of java updates, because it got my latency past the triple digits. Then windows automatic updates decided to download some hugeass file, and the game sputtered and died.
These are all examples of stuff thats still _relatively_ easy to turn off. I just forgot, what with the new installation and all.
and apparently the next time I play on longhorn, the defrag will start running. Hoo fing ray. Seriously... automation is fine, but I need my bandwidth and processor power to be under my control when I play games. Anything else is unacceptable.
Okay, so it was a tie between action, breasts, and airplanes.
Either way, I'm pretty sure people who go to see transformers - live action - will not go because they think it will contain good dialogue.
Or breasts.
It made millions because it had the one thing everyone loves more than good dialog.
Not refering to breasts, although it is a good second place... No, what brings lots of people to movies is big action sequenses.
And I'm not talking "arnold takes on twenty puerto ricans" kinda big, I'm talking "thousands of people dying and bullets flying so close you almost duck in your seat" kinda big.
Dialog... who needs dialog? It's like prefering Metroid to Doom 3 because there was a better story. (such said: this is something a small select crowd does, but that doesnt mean its anything sane people agrees with. They both have their charms, but age does matter.)
You mean like... stepping over obstacles that cant be handled by todays automated exploring robots?
Agreed.
although if it is the kind of complex where one is to work with the servers at the location... I'd rather keep the air moderatly cool and stick with cooler servers.
Well, uhm... *glances down* Seems to be doing THAT part allright... but beyond that? A lot of people in the comments started discussing how useful this was a and a great step forward and yadda yadda... But this is nothing but a hoax - its a really big robot but without any of the functions the article seems to imply it should have. Okay, so it shoots nerfballs.
Thats... just... great.
to stick with my old cellphone.
I mean, seriously... since technology advances and makes old tech cheap, I really dont understand why the companies dont release a "budget model" that just has a phone and thats it. Yeah, I know, revolutionary idea, but seriously...
Phone = making phonecalls. Any advances should be put into how well you can make them, and how good you can hear the other person, and not how many pictures you can store and still fit a signal of whatever wacky show your currrently watching that you will have to listen to the end of every time before answering.
I'm kinda wondering what kinda use this thing has... it's not really walking - looks like it has wheels under the feet. Just slides one leg forward and slams the breaks on them wheels, and then move the other leg forward.
About as useful as a car with tires that doesnt really roll.
You have ads on the back of your CD's? Crappy planning man. I keep that side for data.
I mean... is there any particular use to knowing two billion decimals of that particular number? Does this make an even rounder circle, or is it just the computerized version of the ancient "my cod piece is bigger than yours" "yeah, but I have more IN mine" argument?
Of course, they got a bargain if you count it per digit, but otherwise I'd say they are pretty messed up. Isnt there some complicated atomic yadda yadda caculations they could spend that power on instead of impressing people with the length of their... Pi...
is this thing yellow?
Really big sacks.
The point of having a hybrid is distance traveled. Anything above 20-30 miles (IIRC) will make you happy you do not rely entirely on air.
It takes a four hour recharge if you use electricity, and a four minute one if you find a gas-station that sells compressed air at the right pressure. Since the latter still doesnt exist, you'll either have to rest four hours per 20-30 miles, or use a hybrid that automagically recharges the air every time teh gaspart starts working.
i.e. a lot of frikkin miles to the gallon.
And yes, I am also suspect of it, but it is still worthy of a checkup and a sign... Non binding, just gets info when (if) it gets done.
Lets just say that with the major competition them oil companies dish out, startups like this is inherently slow and painful.
And I am sure they HAVE been covered by the media... in whatever country they originate.. I think it was spain. Until they actually roll on our streets no swedish media will more than mention them as a curiosity.
The REAl problem with this will be that every player will suddenly see the inherent happyness of Camping, and nobody but those with this feature hacked to stay off will ever take a step into challenged territory.
The REAL advantage is that maybe people will finally learn that getting shot hurts like crapass.
*lol*
Yeah, right.. like gamers could learn.
Well, I've been keeping my eyes on thse guys for quite a while.
http://www.theaircar.com/index.html
in fact, I even think I got the link... here?
seems to be a better choice, given higher speeds on pure air, and the possibility for a hybrid engine, a low pricetag and yadda yadda.
Check it out, I've signed myself on the wishlist.
Really strong children.
Okay, I said this is a long story, but of course that depends entirely upon how you tell it. I could just say "because I have a computer built in to my desk" and be done with it... But nah, that's not the way to tell stories.
So imagine this... a warm summers eve, the wind just barely cools the area down, and under a tree there is three drunken bastards laughing at silly cloud formation. Yeah, THAT drunk.
So one of the drunkards tell the other drunkard...
"Hey, you are really good with computers, can't you fix me a computer"...
The other drunkard, being really drunk, doesn't think about the hours of work this would entail, but picks up on the flattery instead.
"Yeah, sure, I can build one into a lightbulb for you if you get me enough cash."
They laugh. The first drunkard continues.
"Nobody said nothing bout cash. And you couldn't even fit a computer in a... car... or... a desk..."
*burp*
The third drunkard goes to pee, and is not found until late next day.
The second drunkard ponders this challenge for a while, his head immediately filled with ideas about how to build a computerized car.
"Hey, can I borrow your car?"
The first drunkard just laughs. So the second drunkard... i.e. Me, goes for the desk.
"I'll build a computer into my desk, and if I make it, you'll buy one of me for a 10% markup and workcosts."
Okay, maybe I wasn't as thought as he drunk I was.
"A desk?"
But he sure was.
"Nah, a puter, boxen, gamemachine, yadda yadda."
"I don't know bout the yadda yaddas, but I'd buy a gamemachine."
And so started the long story about the desk, that is a computer. No big deal though, just a hidden compartment behind the drawers that has a motherboard in it, extensions for all ports to properly accessible places, well muffled hard drives and yadda yadda. Also a complete power grid built into the desk with enough outlets for my other computerware... which has built up with time.
Specs?
Oh, you really don't want them. Oh, okay, you twisted my arm.
Pentium 2 550Mhz, about 367 MB Ram, 40 Gigs of hard drive, Gforce MX 440 graphics card, yadda yadda.
Runs Mandrake Linux, works as a downloader. Stuff is downloaded onto the disc, encrypted with PGP, rest is wiped regularly, when I start my storage machine stuff is transferred onto an encrypted bestcrypt partition and deleted from the downloader. This way I can keep the rather quiet desk on all the time, and my noisy main machines only when I use them.
I highly recommend every system builder to put yadda yadda into their machines. Makes all the difference.
Oh... I apologize for using the word "japs" in the subject. In sweden this is not considered wrong or insulting, but apparently slashdot is a less tolenrant country. I will try to be more politically correct in my comments in the future.
Weird though that this was modded down, and not the replypost last week that I started "dear rabid arsefucker".
I would have thought that should be more insulting. But as someone said... logic is not present in those being offended...
But this is seriously ridiculous.
I've read e-books on a palmtop, and that was okay although not especially nice. Feels better with a book, but since it was easier and more convenent, I figured I could get used to e-books on a palm.
But on a cellphone?
Okay... but WHAT cellphone? Are we talking a cellphone/pda size here or are we talking a five lines of twenty letters kinda thing? Because if so, I'd rather stick to analog media, thankyaverymuch...
Seriously... I get headaches some times when I spend too much time around too many turned on computers. I have three at my desk, or four if you count the desk... (Long story, dont ask.)
Seriously... that much screen radiation, buzzing, hot air and electrical interferance just cant be good for... well, anything or anyone.