“Hornets Nest. Why should actors, writers, performers etc. get paid every time their work is used, heard or copied? When I build a distribution board, I don't expect the company to pay me every time they turn it on.”
“Louis Gray, I'm sorry, but you have acheived a Scoble-esque volume of posts in my main feed, and as such I must relegate your feed to my "read regularly" folder”
No offense intended, of course, I'll still check your feed, just not in my "friends" tab. All done in the spirit of "sort the noise, don't filter it" - Slippy Lane
Discovered this site while looking for ways to automate switches via the PC's parallel port. Literally hundreds of links for the electronics hobbyist. - Slippy Lane via Bookmarklet
It's okay, I think I've got it. Just needs some extra filtering, obviously :-) - Slippy Lane
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“Hmmm. Woke up this morning, house still intact. Temperature normal for the season. Sky appears to be the correct colour, and there's a notable absence of fire and brimstone. Has the LHC firing been postponed again?”
Ever wondered why "cloth" and "clout" can mean the same thing while "clout" and "clout" mean two completely different things? Wonder no more. - Slippy Lane via Bookmarklet
Best Independence Day strip EVAR! Also, do click through and check out the rest of the PvP archive.Total geek humour with great artistry - Slippy Lane via Bookmarklet
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“Note to self: Always check polarity. Some countries use dashes/lines on the insulation to denote the POSITIVE wire”
Good News: I got my USB experiment interface card working long enough to test it. Bad News: When attempting to control a fan from one of the digital outputs, I forgot to check the polarity of the power supply. Also should have used a regulated power supply. My 12V supply just delivered 19VDC through the ground straight into one of the LN2803's, which went 'pop'. I don't think anything else died, so that's a good thing, no? - Slippy Lane
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“I bought (and built) a Velleman K8055 USB Interface board. Anyone wanna tell me how to make it work with linux? Got sources, dunno how to build :-(”
"Disqus is great at the blog end, but let's face it, it fragments all over friendfeed. This conversation alone has about 14 separate Disqus entries in my friends' feed.
Nah, I guess using friendfeed as my blog's comment engine is just not really that feasible. Never mind, I'm happy enough to let your rather excellent script continue bringing friendfeed to my blog." - Slippy Lane
"Fair points all. Added to that, the rust doesn't seem to be coming off of my coding skills.
Another great idea down the tube then. Meh." - Slippy Lane
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“Buying stuff online. Why is it that companies won't tell you they're out of stock and have a four-week lead time until AFTER they've taken your money?”
"Reading back over this page again is quite interesting. Two things stand out:
First - Pat, your level of attention and response to our problems with your scripts are something that many developers could do with learning from. Don't get me wrong, there are some great people out there, turning out an awful lot of fantastic code, but this kind of dedication to the debugging process is still a rare thing.
Second - Disqus totally rules anyway, but in a situation like the one we had here, it really comes into it's own!
And hey, I think we've all learned something about just how much work goes into these scripts, eh?" - Slippy Lane
Interesting to note that the first ever (proven and documented) example of a video game was a tennis game. Even more interesting to note that it was WAY more realistic than the first commercial games (pong etc), with gravity AND windspeed taken into account. - Slippy Lane via Bookmarklet
Why did I click on that link!?! I knew what was going to happen! At least I wasn't Rick Rolled, I guess... - Pat Hawks
Probably because I give the impression that I'm the type of person that would use a title like that and then put some kind of easter egg in the actual post, just so that everyone would miss it. - Slippy Lane
Is it possible to hijack the thread on one's own post? Anyway, it wasn't so much an experiment as an expression of my very strange sense of humour. I envisaged people seeing it and having one of three reactions. 1 - ignore it. 2 - click through or 3 - think "why the hell". Shazam. - Slippy Lane
It did give me a little smile that the post wasn't actually blank. Quite short, but not blank. - Pat Hawks
“I just heard that GamePark Holdings have just stopped production of the GP2X in favour of the Pandora. Does anyone know if they're still supporting the GP2X and/or still releasing updates for it? ”
It would be just my luck to have bought one of these a few months before it became completely obsolete. There isn't anywhere near as much 3rd party development for the GP2X as I'd hoped, either. - Slippy Lane
