"Lately Matt Michie, a writer and Linux hacker, has been keeping a growing gallery of public BSODs at his site (http://www.daimyo.org/bsod/), which ranks high among the many thousands of pages that show up in searches for ``BSOD'' or ``Blue Screen of Death''. From what we can tell, these include a giant Las Vegas billboard, an airport flight schedule display, an ATM machine, a casino game, a building marquee and public signage of various unknown, but not unembarrassing, sorts. "
Now, the couple of pictures on LinuxJournal are still there, but the site http://www.daimyo.org/bsod/ is gone.
When thinking about this little episode, do you ever stop for a moment, think about TODAY'S school environment, and think, "Dear God, I'm lucky people still had common sense?"
U.S. Title 18, Chapter 17, Section 331: Prohibits among other things, fraudulent alteration and mutilation of coins. This statue does not, however, prohibit the mutilation of coins if done without fraudulent intent if the mutilated coins are not used fraudulently.
Christ, do I have a story about that. Luckily nothing bad came of it.
I used to have this idiot friend Mike when I was a kid (14 or so). I was a freshman in high school, and he was a grade below me (in middle school).
One day I was showing him just that; taking styrofoam and disolving it in gasoline makes a pretty nice fire display. We had our fun in the backyard, and left the rest in a bucket outside.
A month goes by. Mike calls me up asking if he can have what's left in the bucket. I say sure, why not.
Now the styrofoam we used was the green stuff that veggies and meat are served in, so when we started it was a nice green slime. Now it had the consistency of Play-Doh.
I thought nothing of this, until the next day, @ lunch, when there was a schoolwide announcement: "WOULD ARTHUR PEALE PLEASE COME TO THE PRINCIPAL'S OFFICE IMMEDIATELY!" yes, those capital letters are there to display the fact that they were SHOUTING into the microphone, as well as having turned the volume almost all the way up on the PA system.
I head to the main office, and the secretary looks at me and says, "Oh, you're in trouble now, Arthur! Go see Mr. Perry, the Vice Principal."
I enter his office, and that's when I notice the two uniformed police officers standing there. They invite me to have a seat.
At this point I have no clue what's going on, until one officer says "Arthur, I'd like to see your license to make explosives, please."
I, of course, being 14, did not have one. I was clueless about what was going on, until they mentioned a green substance that a "Mike Parsons" had brought to school, and had been lighting out in the parking lot with some friends of his.
Aparently word got around to what he was doing, someone approached a teacher, the police and fire department were called, along with a bomb unit. The stuff looked so strange and alien they had no clue what kind of explosive it was. It was being treated very gingerly.
After I told the officers what it was, they told me that they weren't going to press charges. Mike got a week suspension, and I went back to class.
Actually, a better place is FunSpot in Weirs Beach, NH. Something like 180 classic arcade games, in one room. I'm really looking forward to my next trip there.
You can get discount coupons on their tokens, so games cost something like.08 a play, instead of a quarter
FunSpot in Weirs Beach, NH, is the second largest arcade in the US. Their classic arcade, though it runs on tokens, is a quarter a game. Much less if you get your tokens in quantity. Far, FAR less if you use the coupon on their site.
It may turn out that the only viable planet to really colonize is Venus, then, it becomes a question of, what do we do with 10^20 tons of carbon dioxide!
Why the hell not? Just remember, those fourth graders will one day be adults. Adults that are going to have influence, one way or another. Perhaps the child in question, inspired by this, will go on to be an astronaut?
While the great scientists of old (and young) have their place, we have to think of the future, too.
I've got a friend that works in the LED industry. One prototype they worked on was a replacement for incandescents. IIRC, the power was converted from AC to DC.
It was quite a brilliant thing, really. Using a combination of colors (yellow, red and blue) they made a light that I would have never known was LED until they pointed it out.
I had an idea to have a houses lighting nearly completely outfitted with similar LED lights, wired to UPS circutry to a central battery source. Power goes off? Lights stay on. Everything else goes off, but at least you can still see. Living in Vermont that happens more than I'd like.
Idea was shot down though. Aparently LEDs are not anywhere near as energy efficient as Florescent lights. Pity.
Back around 1995, two friends and I went to the movies. One of my friends had a laser pointer. Back then, these things were fairly expensive, and I was pretty impressed. They passed it back and forth a few time, shining it on the screen during the previews and the initial slideshow before the show started.
I asked if I could see it, and they passed it over. I looked it over, shined it on the screen for about three seconds, was satisfied, and passed it back.
About a minute later, one of the theater guys came up to ME and said that he would kick ME out of the theater if I proceeded to do it again.
I replied that I had no laser pointer, and he proceeded to tell me that several people had seen AND complained about ME!
So now I'll never touch another one. Who knows what will happen next time.
I saw this the other day when I was shopping at Costco (or was it Sams? heh, I don't remember, either). It was, IIRC, a Minolta. The printer was kind of cheesy--it had only one or two buttons and the LCD screen was really, really lame. But for $500, come on!
Isn't it sad that we judge how saavy a product is by the number of buttons it has?
"Say, Bob, that widget looks awesome! It must have over twenty buttons!"
"Yeah, Joe, I could have gotten another model for less money and more options, but with ten fewer buttons!"
Well, as someone who does have kids, I can definitely say, "yes, I'm tired."
I know it won't last. It's so cool to watch these little people evolve into who they will eventually become. It certainly can be trying at time. But kids grow up.
And...you can teach them cool tricks! I like my three years old's newest trick (taught him myself)
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Hey, shitstain? Yes I did.
From the site LinuxJournal:
"Lately Matt Michie, a writer and Linux hacker, has been keeping a growing gallery of public BSODs at his site (http://www.daimyo.org/bsod/), which ranks high among the many thousands of pages that show up in searches for ``BSOD'' or ``Blue Screen of Death''. From what we can tell, these include a giant Las Vegas billboard, an airport flight schedule display, an ATM machine, a casino game, a building marquee and public signage of various unknown, but not unembarrassing, sorts. "
Now, the couple of pictures on LinuxJournal are still there, but the site http://www.daimyo.org/bsod/ is gone.
Gone now. The domain was bought by a reseller.
When thinking about this little episode, do you ever stop for a moment, think about TODAY'S school environment, and think, "Dear God, I'm lucky people still had common sense?"
All the time. Man I'm glad I grew up in the 80's.
U.S. Title 18, Chapter 17, Section 331: Prohibits among other things, fraudulent alteration and mutilation of coins. This statue does not, however, prohibit the mutilation of coins if done without fraudulent intent if the mutilated coins are not used fraudulently.
See http://www.pennysmasher.com/
Christ, do I have a story about that. Luckily nothing bad came of it.
I used to have this idiot friend Mike when I was a kid (14 or so). I was a freshman in high school, and he was a grade below me (in middle school).
One day I was showing him just that; taking styrofoam and disolving it in gasoline makes a pretty nice fire display. We had our fun in the backyard, and left the rest in a bucket outside.
A month goes by. Mike calls me up asking if he can have what's left in the bucket. I say sure, why not.
Now the styrofoam we used was the green stuff that veggies and meat are served in, so when we started it was a nice green slime. Now it had the consistency of Play-Doh.
I thought nothing of this, until the next day, @ lunch, when there was a schoolwide announcement: "WOULD ARTHUR PEALE PLEASE COME TO THE PRINCIPAL'S OFFICE IMMEDIATELY!" yes, those capital letters are there to display the fact that they were SHOUTING into the microphone, as well as having turned the volume almost all the way up on the PA system.
I head to the main office, and the secretary looks at me and says, "Oh, you're in trouble now, Arthur! Go see Mr. Perry, the Vice Principal."
I enter his office, and that's when I notice the two uniformed police officers standing there. They invite me to have a seat.
At this point I have no clue what's going on, until one officer says "Arthur, I'd like to see your license to make explosives, please."
I, of course, being 14, did not have one. I was clueless about what was going on, until they mentioned a green substance that a "Mike Parsons" had brought to school, and had been lighting out in the parking lot with some friends of his.
Aparently word got around to what he was doing, someone approached a teacher, the police and fire department were called, along with a bomb unit. The stuff looked so strange and alien they had no clue what kind of explosive it was. It was being treated very gingerly.
After I told the officers what it was, they told me that they weren't going to press charges. Mike got a week suspension, and I went back to class.
Actually, a better place is FunSpot in Weirs Beach, NH. Something like 180 classic arcade games, in one room. I'm really looking forward to my next trip there.
.08 a play, instead of a quarter
You can get discount coupons on their tokens, so games cost something like
FunSpot in Weirs Beach, NH, is the second largest arcade in the US. Their classic arcade, though it runs on tokens, is a quarter a game. Much less if you get your tokens in quantity. Far, FAR less if you use the coupon on their site.
I think you meant http://www.arcadecontrols.com, right?
Make sure to check the forums.
It may turn out that the only viable planet to really colonize is Venus, then, it becomes a question of, what do we do with 10^20 tons of carbon dioxide!
Make a lot of soda pop.
Why the hell not? Just remember, those fourth graders will one day be adults. Adults that are going to have influence, one way or another. Perhaps the child in question, inspired by this, will go on to be an astronaut?
While the great scientists of old (and young) have their place, we have to think of the future, too.
Damn! You beat me to it!
Hey, it's good news to me. I sell pitchforks.
I've got a friend that works in the LED industry. One prototype they worked on was a replacement for incandescents. IIRC, the power was converted from AC to DC.
It was quite a brilliant thing, really. Using a combination of colors (yellow, red and blue) they made a light that I would have never known was LED until they pointed it out.
I had an idea to have a houses lighting nearly completely outfitted with similar LED lights, wired to UPS circutry to a central battery source. Power goes off? Lights stay on. Everything else goes off, but at least you can still see. Living in Vermont that happens more than I'd like.
Idea was shot down though. Aparently LEDs are not anywhere near as energy efficient as Florescent lights. Pity.
Man! I never knew I was 'old school!'
I'm unable to download the short. Who wants to make a torrent?
Modded Troll? It's not a troll, it's a legitimate question. Why vote, when it's all up to the electoral college vote anyway?
I'm quite serious. Why vote at all, when the popular vote matters nothing to the outcome?
Back around 1995, two friends and I went to the movies. One of my friends had a laser pointer. Back then, these things were fairly expensive, and I was pretty impressed. They passed it back and forth a few time, shining it on the screen during the previews and the initial slideshow before the show started.
I asked if I could see it, and they passed it over. I looked it over, shined it on the screen for about three seconds, was satisfied, and passed it back.
About a minute later, one of the theater guys came up to ME and said that he would kick ME out of the theater if I proceeded to do it again.
I replied that I had no laser pointer, and he proceeded to tell me that several people had seen AND complained about ME!
So now I'll never touch another one. Who knows what will happen next time.
Movie sucked too, IIRC.
Howdy, 1UP!
/. fashion. No one reads the articles. They skim.
It's typical
Er...I meant 'BlipVerts.'
"Each Clone Wars adventure will run two-to-three minutes..."
Nothing like blipvids to make your brain explode, eh?
Yep, we were both modded down as 'offtopic.' Bologna!
GOOD. I hated "Home Movies"
I saw this the other day when I was shopping at Costco (or was it Sams? heh, I don't remember, either). It was, IIRC, a Minolta. The printer was kind of cheesy--it had only one or two buttons and the LCD screen was really, really lame. But for $500, come on!
Isn't it sad that we judge how saavy a product is by the number of buttons it has?
"Say, Bob, that widget looks awesome! It must have over twenty buttons!"
"Yeah, Joe, I could have gotten another model for less money and more options, but with ten fewer buttons!"
Well, as someone who does have kids, I can definitely say, "yes, I'm tired."
I know it won't last. It's so cool to watch these little people evolve into who they will eventually become. It certainly can be trying at time. But kids grow up.
And...you can teach them cool tricks! I like my three years old's newest trick (taught him myself)
Me: Slayton, come here!
Slayton: yes, daddy?
Me: Slayton: EVIL LAUGHTER!
Slayton: Bwah, hah hah hah hah!
Triumph!