Over the summer, my friends and I collected over 300 AOL CDs from local stores. We did not do this for some collection, but rather to prevent others from getting them and being sucked into the horrible world of AOL.
Blockbuster's supplies widdled down to nothing. CompUSA had so many CDs on display that it was impossible to even dent their reserves. It was fun to watch the faces of the check-out associates when I grabbed all the CDs in one side of a display which contained at least 40 CDs. I just "[took] one" many, many times.
Still trying to figure out how to make a CD launcher to put all these to some good use.
This whole thread has just become trash on Apple and it sickens me. Yes, I am an Apple fan, make fun if you want. Truth of the matter is that I use a PC, Compaq heaven-forbid, all of the time and rarely use my old Macintosh. I admit that Apple missed the boat on being the most used/sold computer, and in that regard they messed up big. They could have if they played their cards right. Microsoft is just a big copy of the Mac OS Finder, oh, no wait, the menubar is on the bottom and the close button is on the other side of the window, so it must be different. So why do I like Apple so much? They "think different" as they say! Oh, "how corny is that" and "get off the stage" you may be saying, but it is true. iMac, "the fruity computer" as some of you might be saying. A lot of people call it a joke, but Apple's not laughing, it was one of the top selling machines last year (should be number one, but each color was counted as a different model in sales count). And all the companies ripping it off, I mean, making similar, but different, products are not laughing. Where would we be without Apple? Stuck in a boring beige computer world with everything square and blah. Apple knows that curves are colors are cool (especially graphite, mmmm-mmm). I wish my computer wasn't so plain and... well, Compaq (insert insult against Compaq here). I say bravo to Apple for a no button mouse, though it is silly to stroke a mouse, I can sense new computer slang coming from that one, but it is totally radical and thinking outside the little beige box. Apple, I salute you!
(Yeah, I am kind of hypocritical when I say don't make fun of Apple and trash on Compaq. But I have a good reason, Compaq just sucks. Longer reason is that it should not take 1.5 years of tech support to get a stinking modem fixed! Sorry, pent up agression, and off the subject.)
I don't see why the Dialectizer cannot remain in full function only blocking sites at their own request.
What about Ask Jesus? If any site could make websites angry it would be that one, and they dont seem to have any problems (they even suggest slashdot on their main page as a site to be jesusified). Their service not only changes the dialect to that of biblical jargon, but it also changes images (not to mention the annoying background music).
So, if someone like TheSpark (creator of Ask Jesus) can run a site in such a manner, why not rinkworks?
In the April 18, 2000 issue of PC Magazine, they ran an article about wireless satellite isps (p88). They gave the following chart of companies satellites (sorry, i tried to make it like a chart, but it just kept messing up, so i left it simple):
iSky is the first to be able to be called truly broadband, but soon afterwards, it appears like it could become obsolete with AOL offering download speeds supposedly 266 times faster!
The article also mentions (I do not know if this has been said before or on the iSky site) that iSky will probably cost around $200 for setup and $40 per month and be national. So its comparable to costs of other broadbands, plus you can get it anywhere.
If big companies like AOL and MSN are putting their weight in such ventures, I am sure this could get promising... but what do I know?:)
If my calculations are correct, when this thing hits eighty-eight miles per hour, you're going to see some serious sh*t. - Doc Brown, BTTF I
One can only hope these trains don't start sparking and going bezerk at eighty-eight miles per hour. Although it would be totally cool, it would still freak the bejeepers out of the passengers.
[Rails]? Where we're going we don't need [rails]! - Doc Brown, [paraphrased]
Also, did you know that BTTF IV and BTTF V are in planning. Too cool! I just hope they don't reck the awesomeness of the trilogy just to make money off of it. We'll have to wait and see. I hear its due to production after Jurrasic Park 3, so it'll be a few years from now.
I think TheBench.org is a great idea. I always have notions of "I wish I could do that", but normally can't, so I sit there bummed. With TheBench.org, I can accually do that which I want to! Well, at least one of the things I want to.
I was initially drawn into TheBench.org due to its non-complex, yet funny struggle between Gabe and the squirrel, who practically did nothing, but still irrates Gabe. Then to find, with BenchCraft (the origin of The Bench being a community cartoon) I could accually make my own strips. By using images from other strips, and a little by myself (I am a bad drawer, which limits me) I could create a comic of my own.
The site is lacking in a way to respond to the comics. There should be some way to rate them and respond to them, sorta like how a precursor attempted to do with a collection of TheBench scripts, http://thebench.laer.nu/, which filled the lack of TheBench.org until it finally appeared. That site had no responce, but did organize comics by author, date, and views. Author and views are very helpful, because generally you will like what most people like (not always, but better than random sifting) and when you find someone's strip you like, generally they will have a few others in a similar manner which will also be enjoyable, if they have anymore. I have only one so far, I like to think them over first to ensure highest quality to my own standards of course. It might benefit some comic posters to do the same. Just because you can make a strip, does not mean you should.
Its nice to see TheBench.org and Penny-Arcade.com get recognition with a slashdot article. Hope it did not obliterate them. We always hurt the ones we love, eh, slash? I submitted this as a story a few days ago, I guess it was passed over until more were sent of it, or this one came first.
Also, you can check out my strip (dont scream at me for linking to it! I am only human!) at http://www.thebench.org/index.php3?stri p=78. It shows my view on the inner struggle of Gabe with the squirrel. At least I think it is funny.
That brings up another thing. Humor is in the eye of the beholder, kinda like beauty, expect, sometimes it does not apply for beauty. Whoever made a comic, which you don't think is funny, probably thought it was funny to them. Its like how I might find a terrorist blowing things up in movies hilarious, just becuase of how dumb it is, while others find it serious. As with time and space, it is all relative.
There's my two cents, Hope it makes sense! Stop Rhyming, I mean it! Anybody wanna peanut?!
(Sorry, that was random, but I just felt like it.)
Finally, MS is truly recognized as a monopoly that hurt the public. Still does not mean that a harsh or even purposeful punishment will come out of it, but it is progress in removing the strong hold MS holds.
Interviewer: Which do you prefer while monopolizing? The thimble or the race car? Bill: I made my own guy, he can do what ever he wants, and can knock other players off the board at will. Kapow!::Knocks over Apple and 3M pieces::... Oh, my turn! US Gov: Uh oh, Bill! Looks like you go to jail! Don't pass Go, don't collect $200! Everyone: YEA!
Interviewer: Which do you prefer while monopolizing? The thimble or the race car? Bill: I made my own guy, he can do what ever he wants, and can knock other players off the board at will. Oh, my turn! US Gov: Uh oh, Bill! Looks like you go to jail! Don't pass Go, don't collect $200! Everyone: YEA!
Interviewer: Which do you prefer while monopolizing? The thimble or the race car? Bill: I made my own guy, he can do what ever he wants, and can knock other players off the board at will. Oh, my turn! US Gov: Uh oh, Bill! Looks like you go to jail! Don't pass Go, don't collect $200! Everyone: YEA!
Though Moore's law might come to an end of being completely accurate, there will not be, at least for a long while, any barrier that cannot be taken down. Think back to when computers took up huge rooms and acted like a calculator. Do you think those people ever imagined such things as our graphing calculators, which are tons smaller and do tons more with less energy? No. They had no clue about what was to come. That is exactly how we are now. We are stuck in a "what we know is what is doable" mind-set. There are so many different things that can be done to get even more transititors in smaller space, we just can't think of what it is now, but inventors and innovators will bring us things we could never imagine. Just think, today's G4s will seem like yesterday's Apple II in about ten years.
From the article: This is the main reason why Intel developed its Pentium III, and Motorola/IBM/Apple the G4. Using digital graphics requires the processing power of a supercomputer.
What angers me about this statement, is that this is a technology based article, and yet they call the Pentium III a supercomputer. The current definition of a supercomputer is a Gigaflop (1 billion floating-point operations per second [accual supercomputers do Teraflops now, but the government currently has Gigaflop as the standard to determine exportability, and it will most likely be altered to reflect real supercomputers]). The G4 is the only consumer processor that meets the supercomputer standard (sorry I do not know how many "flops" the Pentium III does, but it is not a Gigaflop). I know this is offtopic, but I just had to complain about that article. The relevancy that it might have though, is that if they overlook such a basic (to most) known fact, how can we accredit the rest of the article as being full to truth. This technology seems remarkable how they make it out to be, and I bet it is better than anything we currently use, but they might have other exaggerations or overlooking of things such as the "supercomputer." Just something to think about when reading that article. Or maybe my pro-apple feelings are clouding my head... nah.
-Blair Heuer; "What does it mean?" - Larry Cucumber
Slashdot Mirror
We keep getting calls from the Chicago Tribune trying to get us to subscribe.
So, one time, when my roommate was talking to the caller, I told him to tell her that we don't need the paper, because we have the Internet.
The caller responded by asking, "What if you don't have power?"
Quality.
Over the summer, my friends and I collected over 300 AOL CDs from local stores. We did not do this for some collection, but rather to prevent others from getting them and being sucked into the horrible world of AOL.
Blockbuster's supplies widdled down to nothing. CompUSA had so many CDs on display that it was impossible to even dent their reserves. It was fun to watch the faces of the check-out associates when I grabbed all the CDs in one side of a display which contained at least 40 CDs. I just "[took] one" many, many times.
Still trying to figure out how to make a CD launcher to put all these to some good use.
Reminds me of a nice ambiguous question on an Economics Exam:
... presidents going to war on drugs ...
Now, are the presidents fighting a war against the drugs, or are they fighting a war while on drugs?
Great Scott!
Gotta love Back to the Future.
This whole thread has just become trash on Apple and it sickens me. Yes, I am an Apple fan, make fun if you want. Truth of the matter is that I use a PC, Compaq heaven-forbid, all of the time and rarely use my old Macintosh. I admit that Apple missed the boat on being the most used/sold computer, and in that regard they messed up big. They could have if they played their cards right. Microsoft is just a big copy of the Mac OS Finder, oh, no wait, the menubar is on the bottom and the close button is on the other side of the window, so it must be different.
So why do I like Apple so much? They "think different" as they say! Oh, "how corny is that" and "get off the stage" you may be saying, but it is true. iMac, "the fruity computer" as some of you might be saying. A lot of people call it a joke, but Apple's not laughing, it was one of the top selling machines last year (should be number one, but each color was counted as a different model in sales count). And all the companies ripping it off, I mean, making similar, but different, products are not laughing.
Where would we be without Apple? Stuck in a boring beige computer world with everything square and blah. Apple knows that curves are colors are cool (especially graphite, mmmm-mmm). I wish my computer wasn't so plain and... well, Compaq (insert insult against Compaq here).
I say bravo to Apple for a no button mouse, though it is silly to stroke a mouse, I can sense new computer slang coming from that one, but it is totally radical and thinking outside the little beige box.
Apple, I salute you!
(Yeah, I am kind of hypocritical when I say don't make fun of Apple and trash on Compaq. But I have a good reason, Compaq just sucks. Longer reason is that it should not take 1.5 years of tech support to get a stinking modem fixed! Sorry, pent up agression, and off the subject.)
I don't see why the Dialectizer cannot remain in full function only blocking sites at their own request.
What about Ask Jesus? If any site could make websites angry it would be that one, and they dont seem to have any problems (they even suggest slashdot on their main page as a site to be jesusified). Their service not only changes the dialect to that of biblical jargon, but it also changes images (not to mention the annoying background music).
So, if someone like TheSpark (creator of Ask Jesus) can run a site in such a manner, why not rinkworks?
Company, Date Expected, Download, Upload
AOL/Hughes DirecPC, 2000, 400 Kbps, 56 Kbps
MSN/Gilat, 2000, 400 Kbps, 56 Kbps
iSky, 2001, 1.5 Mbps, 0.5-1 Mbps
AOL/Hughes Spaceway, 2003, 400 Mbps, 16 Mbps
AstroLink, 2003, 226 Mbps, 20 Mbps
Teledesic, 2004, 64 Mbps, 2 Mbps
iSky is the first to be able to be called truly broadband, but soon afterwards, it appears like it could become obsolete with AOL offering download speeds supposedly 266 times faster!
The article also mentions (I do not know if this has been said before or on the iSky site) that iSky will probably cost around $200 for setup and $40 per month and be national. So its comparable to costs of other broadbands, plus you can get it anywhere.
If big companies like AOL and MSN are putting their weight in such ventures, I am sure this could get promising... but what do I know? :)
Mr. T says read slashdot!
Our lil Mozilla is growing up fast. It seems like just yesterday it was born (well, as open-source).
;)
Just make sure he doesn't hang out with Microsoft's lil kid, that trouble maker IE.
And maybe explain to him what is meant by 'open-source', cause we don't want him being the talk of the town.
Rock on, Mozilla!
One can only hope these trains don't start sparking and going bezerk at eighty-eight miles per hour. Although it would be totally cool, it would still freak the bejeepers out of the passengers.
[Rails]? Where we're going we don't need [rails]! - Doc Brown, [paraphrased]
Also, did you know that BTTF IV and BTTF V are in planning. Too cool! I just hope they don't reck the awesomeness of the trilogy just to make money off of it. We'll have to wait and see. I hear its due to production after Jurrasic Park 3, so it'll be a few years from now.
I was initially drawn into TheBench.org due to its non-complex, yet funny struggle between Gabe and the squirrel, who practically did nothing, but still irrates Gabe. Then to find, with BenchCraft (the origin of The Bench being a community cartoon) I could accually make my own strips. By using images from other strips, and a little by myself (I am a bad drawer, which limits me) I could create a comic of my own.
The site is lacking in a way to respond to the comics. There should be some way to rate them and respond to them, sorta like how a precursor attempted to do with a collection of TheBench scripts, http://thebench.laer.nu/, which filled the lack of TheBench.org until it finally appeared. That site had no responce, but did organize comics by author, date, and views. Author and views are very helpful, because generally you will like what most people like (not always, but better than random sifting) and when you find someone's strip you like, generally they will have a few others in a similar manner which will also be enjoyable, if they have anymore. I have only one so far, I like to think them over first to ensure highest quality to my own standards of course. It might benefit some comic posters to do the same. Just because you can make a strip, does not mean you should.
Its nice to see TheBench.org and Penny-Arcade.com get recognition with a slashdot article. Hope it did not obliterate them. We always hurt the ones we love, eh, slash? I submitted this as a story a few days ago, I guess it was passed over until more were sent of it, or this one came first.
Also, you can check out my strip (dont scream at me for linking to it! I am only human!) at http://www.thebench.org/index.php3?stri p=78. It shows my view on the inner struggle of Gabe with the squirrel. At least I think it is funny.
That brings up another thing. Humor is in the eye of the beholder, kinda like beauty, expect, sometimes it does not apply for beauty. Whoever made a comic, which you don't think is funny, probably thought it was funny to them. Its like how I might find a terrorist blowing things up in movies hilarious, just becuase of how dumb it is, while others find it serious. As with time and space, it is all relative.
There's my two cents,
Hope it makes sense!
Stop Rhyming, I mean it!
Anybody wanna peanut?!
(Sorry, that was random, but I just felt like it.)
Man! I seriously thought they might quote my "Booyah" statement... I guess they just don't understand what has real meaning.
At the risk of being scored as 'flamebiat':
BOOYAH, MS! BOOYAH!
How 'cool' would that be?
Anyone else suspicious about the picture of Bill Gates on the cover of Time on the pages of the article?
I am... watch yourself, Bill.
I clicked submit once... i have no clue why it showed up three times. Sorry about that.
Bill: I made my own guy, he can do what ever he wants, and can knock other players off the board at will. Kapow!
US Gov: Uh oh, Bill! Looks like you go to jail! Don't pass Go, don't collect $200!
Everyone: YEA!
One day... one day...
Bill: I made my own guy, he can do what ever he wants, and can knock other players off the board at will. Oh, my turn!
US Gov: Uh oh, Bill! Looks like you go to jail! Don't pass Go, don't collect $200!
Everyone: YEA!
One day... one day...
Bill: I made my own guy, he can do what ever he wants, and can knock other players off the board at will. Oh, my turn!
US Gov: Uh oh, Bill! Looks like you go to jail! Don't pass Go, don't collect $200!
Everyone: YEA!
One day... one day...
Though Moore's law might come to an end of being completely accurate, there will not be, at least for a long while, any barrier that cannot be taken down. Think back to when computers took up huge rooms and acted like a calculator. Do you think those people ever imagined such things as our graphing calculators, which are tons smaller and do tons more with less energy? No. They had no clue about what was to come.
That is exactly how we are now. We are stuck in a "what we know is what is doable" mind-set. There are so many different things that can be done to get even more transititors in smaller space, we just can't think of what it is now, but inventors and innovators will bring us things we could never imagine. Just think, today's G4s will seem like yesterday's Apple II in about ten years.
This is the main reason why Intel developed its Pentium III, and Motorola/IBM/Apple the G4. Using digital graphics requires the processing power of a supercomputer.
What angers me about this statement, is that this is a technology based article, and yet they call the Pentium III a supercomputer. The current definition of a supercomputer is a Gigaflop (1 billion floating-point operations per second [accual supercomputers do Teraflops now, but the government currently has Gigaflop as the standard to determine exportability, and it will most likely be altered to reflect real supercomputers]). The G4 is the only consumer processor that meets the supercomputer standard (sorry I do not know how many "flops" the Pentium III does, but it is not a Gigaflop).
I know this is offtopic, but I just had to complain about that article. The relevancy that it might have though, is that if they overlook such a basic (to most) known fact, how can we accredit the rest of the article as being full to truth. This technology seems remarkable how they make it out to be, and I bet it is better than anything we currently use, but they might have other exaggerations or overlooking of things such as the "supercomputer." Just something to think about when reading that article. Or maybe my pro-apple feelings are clouding my head... nah.
-Blair Heuer; "What does it mean?" - Larry Cucumber