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Ding! Fries are done! - This will infect your BRAIN! You will find yourself singing it often, and wonder WHY OH WHY!!?!? [By: EagleEye / 2004-12-30]
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ROFLMAO!!!!! Damn that's catchy. - redevil34
Interesting observation: 99 out of 100 non-food service cashiers say they would never be caught dead wearing paper hats & saying "Want fries with that?" -MadJack
We have a dude that sings dumb songs paritys on the raido here, sounds just like this dud. -THETECHFROMHELL
What I find funny is at BK they don't wear paper hats, and they don't sell apple pies... The apple pie thing is mcdonalds! -EagleEye
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I had a feeling this was a hoax - I had a feeling that this was a hoax. I only hope someday I can have a hoax great enough to fool all of the major news medias into thinking it's real and having them run stories on it. [By: JH / 2004-12-28]
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So some guy is mad because he was charged by google for legitimate clicks on his ads that were placed on this guy's site? I don't get it... who cares if the guy was hoaxing everyone... the guy still got his ad exposure! -EagleEye
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Xmas Badgers - Xmas badger! [By: CommanderData / 2004-12-24]
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Yes, very amusing CD. Merry Christmas (and custard) -Gerund
AAAAHHHHHH -Armakuni
You wait 'til playtime CD - I'll get you for that! -Gromit
Oh merry indeed.. Now I got that bouncing flock of furries on the mind again.. yay :) -shayera
I now have this tune stuck in my head together with all the other Christmas mucic!! Thank you very much! -ch41nbr8kr
Feliz Navidad .. Feliz Navidad ... I want wish you a merry Christmas from the bottom of my heart -Dangermouse
"If we built this large wooden Santa badger..." THWWAPP!! Joyeux Noel, mes amies! -MadJack
i hate you now -neuman1812
Well.....I had to piss someone off today! I was under quota.. -CommanderData
Hmm, Badgers in Shooting Gallery, in Starfish suits. -satanstech
Wow. I llike that. Heh..hehe...hahahahaa! -ThreeBucks
Oh, btw, CD:
Re the iPod below, does the holiday edition come with an Elderberry port? (LOL!) -MadJack
"HALLELUJAH! Christ, it's a Christ... oh, it's a Christ!!!" Thank you CD! -Veinor
dammit! OK, what's next?! SantaPhone! -leonine
Ring, ring, ring, ring, ring, ring, ring, The Santa Phone! <Guess what tune is now stuck in your head?> -lineswine
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New Game for you to try - Enjoy [By: RTFM / 2004-12-22]
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Game play was quite realistic. It was a MOOOOOOOOOOving experience. -Dangermouse
I kept trying but the gap was too wide for me to fillet - I kept making mis-steaks. (TAXI! Pond Life, and quick!!) -Gromit
I kept trying but the gap was too wide for me to fillet - I kept making mis-steaks. (TAXI! Pond Life, and quick!!) -Gromit
Bugger! Hawk's server wasn't playing nice when I posted - sorry. -Gromit
That game was an udder delight! -hkypipe
1355, 5 tractors - 6 seems awfully hard to maintain speed!
-Grue
I keep jumping too far- love the way it explodes into jackets and other beef products -Shaede
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Slingshot Santa - Some Christmas-y fun to entertain you. I don't recall if this has ever been posted before. If it has, I apologize. Sound warning. Yodelling warning. Highly addictive. ;) [By: mousie / 2004-12-21]
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Woo-Hoo!!! I got 194 meters! Cool game. Thanks Mousie!! :) -rokitt
198.8 meters!! This IS an addictive game!:) -rokitt
200.4 meters!! YEE-HAW!! <looks around and sees everyone staring at him..."What??..Ok...I'll get back to work now.> :) -rokitt
222.8...nyah, nyah. -Owie
277.8...Go Rokitt! Go Rokitt! Oh Yeah!<starts doing the Happy Dance> ;p -rokitt
327.4 After about 310, you see Rudolph standing there looking at Santa. ;) -mousie
332.1...Yup...Rudolph looks a little annoyed...heh heh:) -rokitt
343.10...I was hoping Rudolph would react if you reached him, like poop on you or some such. Guess not. -Owie
And at 350.4 meters, you land right in front of Rudolph...and there's another cliff just a little further ahead. -rokitt
350.4 as well. Can't seem to beat it. -h3x0n1c
blocked...bummer... -BlondeGeek
im lost....I cant seem to figure out how to play -neuman1812
never mind -neuman1812
334.3 - Can't seem to improve on that, but can repeat it easily enough. -virtualchoirboy
350.4. Huh. That was fun for awhile. -Owie
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Fingerprinting - I do apologize if this is old news, but has anyone considered the ramifications of this? [By: mousie / 2004-12-20]
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They don't recommend it for corporate situations, which is a relief. What if an employee left & the machine was inaccessable? But think of the fun when a user calls in not able to log in! "I want a new fiiinnnngger!" -Tekkie
"The finger you are using has performed an illegal operation and will be amputated." *chop* I have a fingerprint reader at home (not Microsoft). It's too geeky not to at least have a little fun with. It doesn't seem to like Firefox, but it works pretty well with XP file encrypting, Winzip passwords, etc. It's more fun than anything, but it works pretty well for one-touch logging onto the system. -teivrann
There was an article on /. about a year back where some researcher had found that a fingerprint reader could be fooled by a fake fingerprint that was made with a handy gelatinous substance... a gummy bear. While I agree that they are fun to play with, IMHO they are no more secure than passwords... but harder to forget. -chazz
Anyone else think the hand pictured at the top of the page looks a little white (wonder if it's severed). -Armakuni
I was thinking of the broader ramifications. Like if that should become a popular practice. -mousie
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Popups from Work - Hehehe... Trying to work on a system today at work, I got these gems. These were the best of the bunch. Enjoy! [By: exzyle2k / 2004-12-19]
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Too funny! Is the 2nd one a bunch of a$$holes tied together with twine? -Tekkie
You really gotta stop surfing those sites at work... :) Unique popups, I grant you that. Were they links and if so to where? -=-=- Tekkie, that reminds me of the Carlin Cheer from the end of the "George Carlin On Campus" video: "Ratshit! Batshit! Dirty old tw@t! 69 assholes tied in a knot! Dirty old lizard shit, F*CK!!"
-Mushroom
I take it that I will want to wait to see this until I get to the safety of my humble abode? -gr4p34p3
nah, I'd say it's safe for work - depending on how strict your work is of course! -Shaede
Lol @ Mushroom... -hkypipe
I've never seen anything like that before - thats funny stuff.
-jard
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Festive Fault - Thought you might all like to take a look at this, so your ready when Mr SF starts neeping. Has anyone had this one yet? [By: Armakuni / 2004-12-15]
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Starfish:"Ooh, looky at the pretty, flashing, twinkley thingies....HEY!!WHERE'S MY PORN????" -rokitt
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Foamy!! NSFW - Foamy talks about pr0n and spam :) [By: rockytech / 2004-12-15]
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Dang, you beat me to it. I love the new Foamy mohawk. "She owns vibrating underwear"!!! Nice...however, he doesn't specify if it has a remote control. -redevil34
hate to nitpick, but the squirrel with the mohawk is another character, not Foamy (mabey they gave him the week off, lol). Anyway...very funny stuff as always -leonine
I just listened to that. That voice is TOTALLY foamy. "LINE UP TO VOTE PEOPLE. It doesnt matter who you vote for, just vote or die." (Burrkiss is still irritated 1 1/2 months after the election) -burrkiss
the same guy does most of the voices. That character's name is Begley, he has appeared WITH Foamy in other episodes (ex: "1st meeting of the card cult" in the archives). -leonine
On the last episode, didn't Foamy said he had enough and was packing it in. -RTFM
I wondered about the mohawk. Foamy said he was going away when Germaine was doing the Jiggly Butt thing. :-P And I don't know that Foamy would naively ask, "Please explain" in regard to her problem with porno spam. Anyhow, I saw it a couple days ago and figured someone would have posted it by now. :-P
-Mushroom
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http://www.speegle.co.uk/ - cool tool for blind users (blusers?) [By: billybien / 2004-12-13]
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Seems like a great idea to me, but we really need an expert opinion. Blindtech! Where's that Blindtech? <sigh> He's never around when you need him... <g> -Gromit
I think i heard some LART explosions coming from Pheonix so i guess he will be with us shortly. -Armakuni
hmmmmmm, its laim. jfw does good with google. google is your friend not that crappy engin. hmmm, i guess there's blind bastard Lusers out there that will appreciate it, but not the blind tech. google baby! -blindtech
F.Y.I blindtech, the speegle logo is made out to look the same as the google logo. (same font and colour). Quite why they have done that is beyond me, given the target audience! -modeski
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Vaguely Familiar - Does this remind anyone else of DD's Proffessor Firewire? [By: Armakuni / 2004-12-10]
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Oh, yeah! DD could sub for Simon, no problem! -Tekkie
Actually i was meaning the trail of destruction described in the first half, but your right DD could easily be Simon :) -Armakuni
Yes, our own Digital Dogcow is a living legend. We are lucky to have such interesting and long-standing members like DD, Coyote, RiffRaff, CD, Mushroom, Obie, etc.!! :) -snowcrash
Flattery will get you everywhere m'dear! -CommanderData
<Adds Snowcrash to his "good little girls" Christmas list> <BFEG> -RiffRaff
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Thou shalt not sit on Santa's Knee - This is...sad. And stupid. Mostly, it's just stupid. [By: mousie / 2004-12-09]
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Furthermore: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/2557741.stm
Just.......gaaahhhhh!!!! >:{ -mousie
"I don't know if we are going over the top, but it is national advice. **It is a real problem for us.** ..... Then deal with it, dont fuck up a kids Xmas? Oh, yes, I forgot, humans like to change the world into the way we view it. Asshats. This is why I dont like meeting new people. Most are like the fucktard in this story. -burrkiss
Oh, more bubble-wrapping of the world to make it safe for 'TEH BAYYBEESS!!1!'. Stop the planet please, I wanna get off. -CommanderData
FFS, why don't they just stick santa behind bullet proof glass and let the kids talk to him via telephone, while they're at it the might as well shackle him to the chair too. This is just getting way out of hand. -Armakuni
Noticed the end of the BBC article where it mentions the school banning cameras at the nativity play?... I just wanna know when the government is gonna ban nappy(diaper) advers "in case they fall into the wrong hands" *shudder* -Dj
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Corporate Email Grammar - This is one of my own personal pet peeves. As far as I'm concerned, imperfect grammar is OK in a setting like TSC. Professional correspondence, however, should be professional. Remember writing business letters in high school english? These messed up emails are causining me to be havening problems readining them. [By: VIPERsssss / 2004-12-08]
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This article is very accurate. I can see sometimes the one line e-mail with a quick question but if there is more detail it needs to be written well. -Starfury
I've seen speech like this in classes on a uni campus - and the english department was being cut back -srteach
"'Many of these guys [CEOs] write in inflated language that desperately needs a laxative,' Peterson said." Bwahahahaha! -ThirdOfFive
I've got one person in particular at work who likes to put his entire message, including his signature, in the subject line: [subject]I need Access and Adobe reinstalled (s/f)[/subject][body][/body] -TheBrain
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Dumb Users - Sorry to knock off the LOTD. If it was here before I am sorry to. [By: rockytech / 2004-12-06]
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Perfect a starfish article, written by an idiot, researched by asking idiots, Brace for more spyware calls ppl :( -Armakuni
Yeah, they're talking to college students - present membership excepted - we all know the intelligence level of the people they're interviewing. I guess if they don't mind the place knowing their credit card number then they get whatever they deserve as a result. -redevil34
What absolute idiots!!!! Sorry, that's just so much crap. Spyware's bad, regardless of it's 'usefulness', you just... guh. People are stupid. -Mahal
"passwords, credit card numbers and bank account numbers, information that is supposed to be viewable only by the sender and the intended recipient -- is accessible to Marketscore, since the company has developed a method that allows it to view encrypted information."...Duh I dont see any problem with that. Fair is fair. Fucking dipshits. I want to get off this world. -burrkiss
Of course anyone with half a brain would know there are free programs that replace those with spyware. E.G. Roboform replaces Gator. But the person who wrote the article does not have half a brain. -Gerund
I'm absolutely aghast that some people are *accepting* spyware as necessary for free software. Ahem, open source anyone!?!? Extraordinary. This is why governments find it so easy to erode civil rights. I'm off to find some pro-spyware noobs and beat them up with my old shareware directory (hard copy - remember those!?) :D -modeski
I can't wait for interstellar colonization. As Heinlein observed (in "Time Enough for Love") if the most intelligent 1% leave the planet Earth, the reduction in the homeworlds average intelligence is barely reduced while the offworld intelligence level is immensly high. After a couple of migrations like this, the resulting populations will have an average intelligence at least twice as high as on the homeworld. At that time, the Earth will keep going on its merry way populated by starfish, and WE will be leading the human race into a beautiful future. Yeah, I know, I'm a dreamer. -Captain Trips
These will be the same people to be the first to complain when their information gets spread out over the web and their 'identities' get stolen! -ecoli
The part in the story where people would install Gator on their work PCs but not on their home ones implies that the IT departments aren't clamping down on users that do stupid things to make their jobs even harder. If I find anything on a PC here that doesn't belong I remove it. If I find the same user/PC with the same stuff again...I remove it again and then report them to their manager. -Starfury
Y'know Starfury, I do the same thing. Remove the software, point to the part of the company handbook that says it's grounds for termination, then report it to management. Then management does...nothing. Policy's got to be enforced with real concequences or the cow-irkers go back to chewing their cud. -Cybersaurus
Our IT Department complained about users installing contraband software on work PC's. Then a new Exec. Sr. VP (supposedly born again...etc) brought in to fix things demanded that we provide him with a list of the users and the software that they installed. He backed off real quick though when he was the first one on the list when we found screen captures of a webcam for an escort service he was dealing with (while his wife was in Atlanta). (No offense intended to those of you who may be "born again" and are sincere about it.) -normntaz
"Why can't the college let me do what I want to do with my computer? The school computer security guys are being way more annoying than the spyware was."
what a stupid idiot, RIAA would crush PSU like a bug. -Stealthfan
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Oh my God - Now this is a large heatsink. You would need to use a barn as a case. LOL Might just get one :) [By: Armakuni / 2004-12-03]
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Holy crap, it looks like an airplane engine! I wonder if you left the side off the case, would it achieve flight? -Tekkie
"Look ma, a flying motherboard!" -ShiftedBeef
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IBM may exit PC business - Big blue is leaving the pc buisness. One of the few original pc companies still outting out quality prouducts is getting out of the market. This leaves us with hell brand and the borgafied hp-compaq. [By: Servo / 2004-12-03]
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Of course, you could always build your own! -Bobsentme
I just had a funny thought. What if Microsoft bought IBM? The irony would be that IBM's former supplier of MS-DOS for it's first computer would be buying out its former customer... -LinuXtreme
Does that make sense? Doesn't to me. I can't see IBM selling the business and allowing an unrelated thrid party to use the IBM name (a joint venture might be another matter). And, the main reason people buy IBM is because of the name and IBM's (deserved) reputation for support. Without Big Blue behind them, why should anyone buy the boxes ?. Especially if they try to retain IBM's higher pricing. Pay IBM prices for some Made in China unknown company product. I don't think so. -jedidiahstott
That's a shame. It's too bad I probably won't get a chance to buy another Thinkpad actually made by IBM. My two laptops were both Thinkpads, and the last one survived a six foot fall with only a loosened PC card slot assembly and slight breakage of the plastic fan exhaust grille. I was able to open the unit up and reseat the PC card assembly to get it working again, too. And they didn't come with all the useless crap you see from most other manufacturers. And then you have corporate contracts. Who's going to buy IBM boxes in bulk if they get sold to a Chinese company? -NightSteel
IBM exiting the PC business? I guess they think that they're not really going to catch on. -Fuji
This http://www.nytimes.com/2004/12/04/business/worldbusiness/04asia.html shows the direction of (soon to be ex) IBM's quality. It appears that big blue will soon be big black-and-blue -srteach
"I just had a funny thought. What if Microsoft bought IBM? The irony would be that IBM's former supplier of MS-DOS for it's first computer would be buying out its former customer... -LinuXtreme" You mean like IBM making the processors for their former competitor Apple? '84 you're a clone, '04, Big Blue ownz u!1!!!1 :: I've never had an issue w/my IBM PCs (exclude HDD); if IBM does drop PCs I'm gonna have no one's to reccomend but my own... oh yeah & other TSC members -objekt404
IMHO, IBM is selling it's PC divisions that are M$ liscense dependent. They _may_ continue to make computers, but sell them with a linux based OS. This is a current hot topic on groklaw... -maciarc
Last time I checked, there was no way that MS could purchase IBM because IBM was several orders of magnitude larger. Sure MS is big in software, but IBM has single divisions that are approximately the same size as MS. Admittedly, this was 3 years ago. -Shazzai
I doubt MS would be interested in a PC Hardware devision, the profit margins aren't all it's cracked up to be from what I hear. Now if ever (doubt they would) spin off Notes/Domino I can see MS being very interested as in the enterprise it is far superior to Outlook/Exchange. -fearmyroot
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The first electronic watch! - I always wanted a vintage watch, and I just received a 1971-vintage Accutron as a combination birthday/Christmas gift. Uses a tuning fork to keep time. It doesn't tick, it hummmmmmmmmmmmms.....:-) [By: vacuumtubes / 2004-12-02]
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Thanks for the link! I was walking with my father one night in 1968, and kicked what looked like a bottlecap into a puddle. When I chased it down, it turned out to be a Bulova Accutron (214H), which turned out to be nearly new (date coded "M7" - 1967). I have my late father's watch in front of me right now, and now know far more about it than I used to! -Grue
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Didn't AOL try this already? - AOL is selling their own Optimized PC. Check out the ad at TigerDirect--the writeup is a series of clickable images, like those Suntrust & eBay scam emails. Click anywhere in the ad & it spawns a new AOL signup page. [By: Tekkie / 2004-12-01]
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LOL processor is a celery, a vegetable for a vegetable :) -Armakuni
If "Smart people are switching to AOL", I must be the dumbest shmuck in the world. Honey, get my hip boots... it's gettin' deep -srteach
Eeeeewwe! I suddenly feel dirty just looking at that link. Nothing good will ever come of this so called "bargain pc". -rokitt
AOL Office .... Good Lord ... someone stop the Earth, I want off -Dangermouse
So I guess there is a market for polished turds after all..... -vacuumtubes
Surf up to 5 times faster than you could in 1977! -billybien
Yeah, they did something like this before. Shortly afterward, a lot of the PCs went up for sale at really low prices (machines were bare entry models). Look for another sale in 6 months! -ecoli
If you notice the Priority Code at the bottom. In red and white lettering mentions "AOLHAK". Makes you wonder... -BayAreaTech
On a side note, I've seen AOL CDs just about everywhere I go, Target, Sears, Post Office...everywhere. Even in my mail sometimes. -Starfury
Now all AOHell custgomers are getting "free" virus scanning as well... -rockytech
CompUSA has some of these by the entrance, too. -TechnoVampire
I'm surprised they haven't tried coming up with there own OS yet. Ugh. -steveO77
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RotK Extended Edition! - Includes a 6 minute trailer showing a bunch of new scenes! (hops impatiently waiting for the release to complete his collection of the Extended Editions of the movies) [By: SwedishChef / 2004-11-30]
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w00t!!!!!!! Posted a linky on the message board before I saw this. I squeeled out loud when I watched that yesterday!!!!!!! -mousie
Giddy and drooling- I know what I want for christmas! -Alathea
finaly!!! woot! -Harm
Ho hum. Bored of the Rings -Gerund
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Mousie? - Hey Mousie is this you? No no no wait get away from me with that ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh..... [By: rockytech / 2004-11-30]
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"Queen Mousie", "Your Incisorship" - Crown of Slaves by David Webber -satanstech
Mousie nesting? Surely you ain't expecting....<OK, does anyone know if the LART shelter is 'gnaw-proof'?> -lineswine
<furiously flicking through Lart shelter owners manual> Doesn't say so, but it is CD and TW proof. -Armakuni
Probably gnaw proof, but if memory serves me there's a mousie entrance so watch your back <grin> -PID1
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People sell weird stuff - Okay, who on earth sells this stuff on ebay? [By: CommanderData / 2004-11-29]
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Shut up CD. I'm making 1,000 so far. *grin* -burrkiss
66.135.193.70/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2288274647 to those who are behind a proxy. Worked for me anyways. It's a Nutra Grain piece that looks like E.T. that is going for $768.17 US currently. 24 bids so far as well. -ShiftedBeef
Isn't the better question who one earth is buying this stuff?? - Imagine the person who wins going "Hey, look, I paid a grand for a piece of cereal!!!" -redevil34
/rollseyes sheesh!! of course, that's not so unusual... Check out "Wierd Stuff", under "Everything Else" in the Ebay listings. It's good for a laugh!! :D -mousie
lol YES!!! This is the second lamest thing I've seen ;) The first is when someone tried to sell a date to a wedding. -FunkMunky
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Speach Generator - This program is amazing. It spoke out the sentences I entered quite well. Try your own. Try this one 'I we Todd did' [By: burrkiss / 2004-11-27]
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Of all the words I tried, it only had trouble with one, and not an obvious one. It spelled it out for me instead...which was almost funnier. Much better than any voice sim I've ever heard. -chefque
I put in "blindtech would love this"... it never stumbled on his name. Punctuation has no effect on the voice. -srteach
Not bad - 'The polisher polished the Polish person' -Wonko The Sane
Even worked on gollum and smeagal -CommanderData
They're very human sounding. Like all the almost human voices, though, they eat and drink memory. I think the BOFH said it best, though he wasn't talking about these voices. "Not so much resource hungry as resource addicted". Don't try buying them unless you have a gig of RAM. If you do, though, they work nicely, particularly if you don't want to increase the speed to 300 WPM or more (they get choppy) or use them for long reading jobs. -BTcall
It doesn't do HAL very well. Rather like those kids in my old lit. classes who didn't know how to use inflection and intonation in thier reading. -Zentar
Interestingly enough, Crystal & Mike are my daughter & her husband's names. It can't say my name correctly, even phonetically spelled & it defaults to Mike after the first go. Fun, though! -Tekkie
How much memory are we talking? My system's a POS... -snowcrash
Snowcrash, I'd say don't touch them if you have less than 512, and they were slow on my laptop, which had 512. A gig is good for reasonable speed. They're available for purchase at
http://www.nextuptech.com
Of course, your processor has to be quite modern. I believe minimum is set at 400 (required, not recommended). I'd say at least 1.2 for reasonable responsiveness. Note that I'm using them with a screen reader, which means I value speed over almost everything else. -BTcall
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Job Opening - Anyone want an Administrators Job, i think one will be available very soon. [By: Armakuni / 2004-11-26]
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Are you kidding? It's a government job held by a union worker. There's no chance. Hell even if a couple of people had died there'd only be an inquiry and blame spread around to 500 different with the final result of "Our processes are under review". -scooby111
whoops! its like when you meant net send to the tech next to you but you actually used ntdomain\* -boxcar
Oh Dear ! :> -RTFM
Heh...no more government jobs. The first one was evil. -TechieSidhe
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The magic 8 ball REVEALED! - Finally! We can now see how the Magic 8 Ball really works. Is it really magic? Does it know all the answers? Did these 2 guys have nothing better to do?:) [By: rokitt / 2004-11-24]
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LOL! Anyone got a dremel? I feel a disassembly moment coming on... -CommanderData
one of my life's dreams has just come true. *sob* such elegant simplicity, yet with the power to utterly mystify the fragile human mind -modeski
Dremel? Who needs one'a them? I can just get really angry and SMASH it with my superhuman hissy fit! :) -snowcrash
/me hands cd a dremel, a bottle of good scotch, and stands back with bfeg:) -timelady
*sighs* If only I could do that to a Lusers skull... -lineswine
I could've told you that it was an icosahedron, but not the other stuff. -Veinor
I had the cylinder for a while because I kept a busted one. Still worked, but it seems over time the ink decreases. I imagine the dice would make a good projectile... ;) -Zentar
From the dissection page, I'd guess the ink is some alcohol or other, possibly methyl, ethyl, or isopropyl. In any event, those do have a tendency to evaporate... -chazz
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The Llama Song - Here's a llama, there's a llama, and another little llama. Fuzzy llama, funny llama, llama, llama, duck!! (Warning, do not watch with food or drink in mouth. Better than "Badger Badger". Highly addictive.) [By: mousie / 2004-11-23]
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Eeeaaaaarrrrrrggghhhh! (sorry blindtech). That is REALLY freaking annoying. And addictive too. I know at least half a dozen people that I think I will set their home page to this.... <BFEG> -virtualchoirboy
Still like Badger's better, but it's nice and annoying too... -BlondeGeek
eeeesh....it's too early in the morning for that kind of activity..... -vacuumtubes
Try this one for really annoying - http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/flash/kittycat.php -CommanderData
My fav was the race car driver llama -THETECHFROMHELL
Damn you CD :), now I have that stuck in my head. -Taterlain
My alltime favorite is still http://www.planettribes.com/allyourbase/index.shtml -Belgarath
By the time 'Dead Skunk' was over, you could smell it.
http://www.songfacts.com/detail.lasso?id=1826 -maciarc
holy crap that's annoying! *Forwarding URL to co-worker that used the badger link as a wallpaper* -leonine
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waste of jobs - Intel to invest $40 million in India
CEO helps lay foundation of new Bangalore building that will accommodate 1,200 workers [By: Servo / 2004-11-19]
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Reminds me of a /. post: http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/11/18/2127225&from=rss -snowcrash
More like a waste of money. But hey, they do it all the time. Every time I visited a Dull customer to replace a part, I asked them " So, how long were you on the phone with India - avg 2.5 - 3.5 hours. Number 1 complaint? Could'nt understand a WORD they said. I told them to let Dull know, that is the only way it will be changed. I also explained the economics behind it. -beatmewithstick
Hey, beatme, I had that gig for a while too. Same complaints. One customer met me at the door wanting to know if I could just take the computer away. Of course, I couldn't... -hkypipe
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Tech Toy - I just brought one of these. There is something very very cool about a USB christmas tree... [By: CommanderData / 2004-11-18]
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What will they think of next?? LOL -THETECHFROMHELL
Right up my alley -- I'm really digging LED ornaments and light strings, this would go well as case decor (presuming the cord is two feet long, tall case). -Mushroom
Must get mind out of gutter. Read "toy", "just bought one of these" and by CD, so clicked on the link straight away without reading further. Wouldn't mind a USB tree though...... I'll just be hiding in the deepest darkest part of a LART shelter before CD reads this. -PID1
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Yet another "What are you" link - What Fark personality are you? [By: CTYankee / 2004-11-17]
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Whoopee! It's official - I'm an (uber) squirrel! -Gromit
Domo Kun : Everything is fantastic! You enjoy life and life it to its fullest. thereis nothing on earth that you appreciate more than your friends. -jard
YES!!!!! I am the Mustard Man. Do you know the Mustard Man. Yes I know the Mustard Man -Dangermouse
I'm Admiral Ackbar. Damn skippy, you know your business and I'll lead you to it with Valor. -MaskedMarauder
squirrel -Motient
I am NOT a F*cking kitty! -scooby111
Domo Kun -DedSysOp
Admiral Ackbar - Except for that 1/4 squid part, not to far off. -redevil34
I am Admiral Ackbar. Its a Trap!! -rockytech
Admiral Ackbar. I have to look at the site now, I've seen it a few times before, but never actually been there. -Vermiis
Yet another ballsy squirrell... -MadJack
Star Wars Villain: Darth Rockem Sockem.
Dirtbag Catholic Priest name: Father Mel Ishsus. Megalomaniac World Conqueror name: Jack the Ballpeen Hammer. Did I miss any? <EG> -MadJack
I'm a squirrel packing some MAJOR balls. -burrkiss
I'm the guy from Memento, I give careful attention to every detail before acting. Once I've made my mind up there's no use arguing with me -K1W1
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ICANN New Transfer Policy - This is quoted from godaddy.com. WTF is up with this? "We are sending customers an email regarding a new ICANN-enforced domain name transfer policy, effective 11-12-04. It dictates that IF WE RECEIVE A TRANSFER REQUEST (and your domain names are not locked) we must honor the transfer, even if you do not confirm it." [By: Vermiis / 2004-11-17]
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http://www.icann.org/transfers/ -Vermiis
WTF, just WTF, Hmm wonder if microsoft.com domain is locked?? <eg> -Armakuni
Innnnnnnnnteresting. Sending that to our group - wonder who this notice was sent to internally; we deal with this all the time. -namor
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Which Halo 2 character are you? - Find your Inner Haloness [By: TechnoVampire / 2004-11-16]
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Master Chief -TechnoVampire
Cortana. But I think the thing's biased; I had to answer "I'm the chick" a few times. Lemme retry for the hell of it... -snowcrash
Yeah, when I answered "normally" but without female references I was Master Chief. Hmm. -snowcrash
I keep getting Master Chief, lol -Vermiis
Hmmmm... It tells me that I am Elite. Never played Halo, so I don't know anything about it. -Belgarath
Master chief? OK i played the game but i'm pretty sure thats not the bomb riding, dual wielding, alien blasting Bad a$$. or am i wrong ? -Harm
Guilty Spark. who the hell is Guilty Spark? -blazingriver
Master Chief w00t! -GefahrMaus
Master Chief - heh. -hkypipe
Cortana -CommanderData
Elite...Born killer -MightyMouse
Guilty Spark. I've been guilty before, lots actually, just never convicted. I've started fires, hence the Spark thing. I've never been convicted of arson, hence the laughing im doing right now. -burrkiss
343 Guilty Spark for me -Darth
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Another rant (OT/NSFW) - For some reason, this made me think of some of CD's past remarks about dieters and dieting... especially on the Atkins diet... heheheheh [By: teivrann / 2004-11-14]
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Couldn't agree more with this, if i do go to maccy d's then i know it's not gonna be healthy. Love the two thumbs, one finger quote BBBWWWWAAAAAHHHHHAAAAA -Armakuni
LOL! I fucking hate dieters who can't shut up. -CommanderData
"so can the pesticides in your salad", says it all really :> -RTFM
My wife has learned to change the channel quick when a commerical comes on with "LOW CARBS" anywhere. Oooooooo I'm sooooo stupid that I think that the "LOW CARB" Fruit O2 is a good idea and I should buy and drink it, since it has "LOW CARBS" in the title. AUGHHHH FUCK Its FUCKing water with a splash of fruit. IT EVEN SAYS THATS WHAT IT IS IN THE BLOODY COMMERICAL!!!. Fucking jackasses If a beverage has NO CALORIES then there cant be any CARBS can there?!?!? Fuck this world. Love Tim "I have sand up my shorts" Burrkiss. -burrkiss
I don't get the "low carb" crap. You are still going to have a heart attack eating bacon every day. Fucking stupid people. -rockytech
I was at the store and saw "low carb bread"... It's BREAD.... it will have carbs... makes as much sense as light twinkies.... -KalAshlar
those diets are simply for people who are too lazy to exercise. I take Apple Cider Vinegar pills KNOWING I will not loose weight if I don't exercise. Only to help my body break down fat more efficiently. -Bunglehawk069
That was freakin hilarious. Of course, Foamy is usually one damned funny.. whatever he is. LoL -firebird2k2
Oh man, go to the archives and check out his other rants! I am killing myself laughing! -CommanderData
sand up your shorts, Burkiss? that there is some rough shit. -srteach
Bullshit advertising and lazy people is all it is. Viva la foamy!! -srteach
I'm always making snide remarks about diet foods. You can't swing a dead hamster by the tail in the supermarket without hitting something with the word-fragment "carb" in the name. Bread is not your enemy, it's the mound of shit you put on it and the number of sammiches you make out of it that you should be minding. I avoid low fat, low calorie, low carbohydrate foods -- unless that's how they normally appear in nature, no 'special formula' moneygrubbing involved. I *highly* suspect that in 20 years, millions of people will have colon cancer because they weren't getting enough fiber in their diets. How come? Cuz they avoided grains out of paranoia about carbs! How's that for poetic?? -Mushroom
HAHAHAHA...I have to tell my partner about this one...he is a personal trainer, he takes the piss out of his profession more than I do. He is going love this, he learned a long time ago not to tell me what to eat..... but he also knows how much dietitions can bullshit... :) -melsie
OMFG That is too funny. -THETECHFROMHELL
I heard something on the radio a few moments ago about low-carb potatos. WTF are people thinking? -TechieSidhe
"sammiches" - BWAAHAAHAAHAAAHAAHAAHAAA!!! -hkypipe
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Floundering - OK so reading between the lines Firefox has got them worried and this is the best layer of crap they could come up with. [By: Armakuni / 2004-11-12]
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You know what? Microsoft could make IE identical to Firefox, and I'd still use Firefox just for the simple reason that it's not made by M$. In reality, I have not had half... No, I take that back... I have not had *any* of the problems I had in IE, with FF. They can BS all they want and say there's no difference. "Vamos, who admitted he has never used Firefox, said there is a lot of hype surrounding the open-source movement and that if Microsoft's customers wanted new features, they would have told the company about it." Yeah, obviously he never has used Firefox, or he'd know whar he was talking about. -Vermiis
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BOFH Time Again - Hmm Bumping my own link. Anyway I had to post this, this is the BOFH at his finest. Anyone else see where it's going before your reach the end? [By: Armakuni / 2004-11-12]
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As soon as I saw the words ""No, I'm just here for the IT Systems audit." I just KNEW it was going to end badly...but not for the BOFH! -lineswine
Hahaha! I love it... this is way too funny :) -teivrann
Bloody, F'ing BRILLIANT -MaskedMarauder
Best BOFH EVER -CommanderData
BWAHAAHAAA!!! I'm speechless... -hkypipe
Thats perfect. -jard
lovin it. -rhiannon
cliff's notes version? -EggShen
Everyone just ignore anything he posts, he might go away if nobody reads or comments on his scribblings. -Armakuni
who's scribblings? you shouldnt mock the BOFH you know. -rhiannon
Perhaps not, but the expenses story a few years back was a cracker. -Armakuni
BOFH and PFY... What do they mean? I know it's been explained, and I've forgotten, but then again I can't remember if I took a shite in my briefcase this morning. -exzyle2k
exyle2k -- BOFH is the Bastard Operator From Hell, and PFY stands for Pimply-Faced Youth -- or Pepsi-Fetching Youth, as it has been named on this site -- otherwise known as Apprentice. -chazz
ahh... I thought PFY was always Pathetic Fucking Yank, which would lead it to being used in Britian... Thanks for the update. -exzyle2k
Eggshen, the condensed version would take as long to explain as the full version - best just to read it -teivrann
Egg: thanks for the pointless whiteboard comment, if you made sense i wouldn't have a problem with your odd coments, but they don't. -Armakuni
<previous comment withdrawn, for now> -Armakuni
There are some things, like Shakespear or BOFH, that just can NOT be put into a "cliff notes" version and retain any of the original meaning. Eggshen -- try to take the time. I know it is more than two lines, and it uses words of more than two syllables, but make the effort. If you want to fit in around here, you have to make the effort and not let other's do your work for you. -Captain Trips
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OT--for the "nuts and bolts" techs - I'm gonna bet not many of you have seen one of these. In fact, this is the first time I've seen one in action. Here's a record changer that'll play ANY record, BOTH sides....as Scotty said in 'Space Seed', "I'd love to tear this baby apart..." :-) [By: vacuumtubes / 2004-11-11]
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I've seen one of those once, but it was broken. It's quite ingenious isn't it </geek mode> -Armakuni
Um...where's the CD rom drive on that thing that those black CD's go into? </Youngster mode> -Bobsentme
Seriously bizarre. You notice that it has to change the direction of the disk when it flips it over? A seriously scary bit of gear, that. -chazz
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tech alert:adobe entering linuxworld! - Adobe Systems, maker of major desktop software products such as
Photoshop and Acrobat Reader, has begun a quiet effort to become more
involved with desktop Linux. Adobe is now a member of Open Source
Development Labs, and it's actively looking to promote Linux on the
desktop, as well as create its own open source development projects.
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hmm what does Adobe make again? -EggShen
They make bricks. Like the one in your head. -Owie
...and the pallet load hanging above your head. Anyone got a knife?? -Armakuni
eggshen... "Better to say nothing and have the world think you may be a fool, then open your mouth and remove all doubt" (paraphrased quote, author unknown) good advice for you -srteach
Photoshop and the like. -Taterlain
Damn, that's what I get from not looking at the name first :( -Taterlain
how do you work photoshop if you are in a crappy linux box that has only a command line interface? -EggShen
A better question for you would be how to work in Photoshop when you have no limbs and are trapped inside a shell. Or has someone scrambled you yet? I think a few people here would definately like to beat an egg... -Timmay
eggy, please notice the words Linux DESKTOP. -garwain
obviously, this EggTroll has never heard of XWindows, Gnome, or KDE. -chazz
Chazz - I bet scrambled-EggShen has trouble finding the Start button in M$ Windows nevermind knowing what any of those are. -redevil34
Is adobe begining to fear the Gimp? -DedSysOp
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Star Wars Episode III trailer released - Star Wars released the trailer for Episode III today. Hopefully, it'll show up on the internet soon! :) [By: rokitt / 2004-11-05]
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Monday, in Quicktime format -technaround
Who needs to wait for monday?
http://www.movie-list.com/trailers.php?id=starwars3
-Darth
<grovels to Darth> You da man, that looks extremely fekin cool -Armakuni
Aha, maybe this is why my connection is running at 0.0000041kbps tonight. -Jay911
yeah that looked really cool. Lucas might have redeemed himself -areatech
Hmm I guess I get to play the bad guy here. Overall, I wasnt too impressed with the teaser itself. Too much old footage from the first trilogy. However, I do think that the movie is going to be much better than the I & II and will redeem the franchise. -firebird2k2
Lucas may have redeemed himself... it does look farkin cool!!! -RandalGraves
Waiting till May is going to suck!!!! http://tinyurl.com/53r2l -redevil34
Saw it Friday night in the theatre. It's showing in front of "The Incredibles" in my area. :D -mousie
holy crap!!! The franchise will rise. (but I do agree, too much old footage) -srteach
Star Wars: Return of the Paycheck :p -MaskedMarauder
Greedo shooting first. Episode I. Episode II. DVD release of original trilogy with even more fiddling. Telling disheartened old fans to suck it. And suddenly, Episode III is going break the pattern, and be uber-great? -Owie
Owie: Greedo shots at the same time in the tweaked, tweaked version. Better, but still not as cool as Solo shooting first. -Armakuni
Just a thought, but if the DVD's are the films he originally wanted to make, where are the scenes from Toshe power station where we first meet Biggs Darklighter? Or other such scenes that got removed by Fox to make it shorter? Or the scene in the Death Star where Han tells Chewie if "the kids" aren't at the ship when they get there they'll just go? (not that I'm a geek or anything..) But, ep 3 looks good. And the DVD's aren't too bad.. -NightRain
I've actually seen the Tosche Station (Anchorhead) scenes -- it was at the 20th anniversary program at San Diego Comic Con, they brought the scenes of Luke seeing the battle, racing to the power station, and his scenes interacting with Biggs Darklighter. It was a one-time, special for ComicCon, never to be seen again sort of thing. Of course, this was also from the same people that said "the Star Wars movies will NEVER be shown on commercial television, don't even expect it to happen." (A New Hope torn apart for commercials is a tragic sight, one I've seen too many times to believe all the LucasFilm Ltd. hype.) But, I look at it like an author coming out with the second, third, et.al., editions of a novel, in which he changes things he decides he didn't like in the original. Hey, it's his toys, he can modify them as he likes. But I still say "Han shot first!" -Captain Trips
Yeah, I'm bitter. I was 7 years old for the original release, and it warped my brain patterns, condemning me to a life of dorkness. The new, "improved" versions induce serious cognitive dissonance. And just wait--as soon as somebody scrounges up decent copies of the originals, converts them, and puts them up online, Lucas will scream like hell, even though he's proud of abandoning them. Feh. -Owie
They should put some of those Jar Jar binks creatures in all the new versions of starwars! -EggShen
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AdAware & SpySweeper Rated Best - Surprisingly (to me anyway), SpyBot S&D didn't rate so well. CNN also has another article running along with this one that essentially calls spyware the biggest threat to the Internet today. Funny; I've always thought the biggest threat are the morons who buy a $2000 computer and put it online fresh out of the box with absolutely no clue about what they're doing. Maybe that's just me. [By: RiffRaff / 2004-11-02]
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You buy a $2,000 computer and fark it up? *bfeg* -burrkiss
Here here, Riff. Spyware is only a threat to starfish who have no clue as to what they are doing, bit like driving a ferrari with your foot on the floor not knowing how to steer. If you have the right software running (i.e nothing with an MS logo on it), and watch where you click and stick your floppy (bad joke) then spyware isn't a problem. Problem is starfish do exist and there are millions of 'em. LOCK AND LOAD!!! -Armakuni
I don't trust the guy. I use PestPatrol4, and it always manages to kill all the pests it finds, provided you first uninstall anything suspicious from Add/Remove programs, then reboot and re-scan and reboot until all the pests are gone. I once had to reboot and rescan 6 times before it was able to completely eradicate some nasty crapulence on a freind's machine, but it got it all out. -MaxarRe
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