Wow! I haven't heard anyone say "12 Mile High" in forEVER. A friend of mine the other day referred to WCCC as "the 13th grade".:) Thanks for giving me a laugh.
I think the people who are whining about not getting in don't deserve to go to U of M anyhow, they should stick with 12 Mile High.
I need you to put this on a t-shirt. We can seel them in front of the Union. That would be the best.
I ran my Monster query [(unix or linux) AND (perl OR shell OR scripting OR debian OR "red hat" OR solaris OR admin OR administrator OR web OR apache) AND NOT "work at home"] against US jobs:
79 for US, 3,433 for India. Yep, and now I'm even more depressed, and that's saying quite a bit. I have GOT to get out of this industry as soon as possible.
So you don't need to actually fight battles anymore, just be predicted to win and you are declared as having "Already Won" ?
Yep. That's called the "Democratic Primary" rule, or as I like to call it, the "Media declaring a foregone conclusion from the poll results of a tiny subset of the voting population, covering that candidate and ONLY that candidate while constantly referring to him as the 'front-runner', resulting in the uninformed voting public voting for that candidate based on the aforementioned fallacious foregone conclusion."
It's easier to say "Democratic Primary" rule, though, so let's stick to that.
Yes, I know it's offtopic. Bite me. See, now it's Offtopic AND Flamebait.
In my state (Michigan) homosexual couples are afforded all the rights and priviliges of a married couple, from changing your name to sharing health care benefits as a Same Sex Domestic Partner. This begs the question, what is the big deal about being able to get a marriage license? You're not gaining anything under the eyes of the law. I'm not a homosexual, so perhaps that's not something I can understand.
What I can understand is the heterosexual viewpoint, which is if homosexual unions are "recognized" as legal marriages, then what is marriage? Rather than a sacrament and a union of two people in order to rear children, what is it? Why not let polygamists get married, then?
I can see homosexuals wanting to legitimize what is in FACT an alternative lifestyle, but if that's what you're going for, call it that. Don't seek approval from the majority in your choice of lifestyle.
Not "freely". Publishing rights and royalties are always worked out ahead of time, even for the smallest of samples. Failure to do so results in disastrous lawsuits and LARGE royalties being paid out to the original artist/publisher. This happened when Peter Gunz & Lord Tariq sampled Steely Dan's Black Cow for their Deja Vu (Uptown Baby). Steely Dan was awarded six figures plus sole writing credit and rights to all future publishing, which pretty much meant that Lord Tariq & Peter Gunz made about $5 off the platinum single.
Offtopic, but I'd like to know what part of the country you live in where McDonald's pays $8/hour. I know shift managers that make $6.75. Minimum wage is $5.75 last I checked (even though the poverty line is like $8.60 or something like that).
If it meant my Raspberry Long Island was going to be made EXACTLY according to my wishes (STIR the god damn thing! And use a SHOT of Chambord! I'll KILL YOU!) everytime I walked into an airport Cheers, then I wouldn't give a shit. Actually that'd be kind of nifty...add my beverage choice to my Frequent Flyer information, accessible through my RFID-enabled card in my wallet. My flight gets delayed, I can walk into a Cheers, plop down, and get a complimentary.
I can definitely see this taking off, just for the fact that marketing types are going to salivate, and it's an ADDED VALUE for the consumer, not just blatant and obvious predatory marketing. And if you don't like it, you can opt-out. I'm all about opting-out.
Reasonable. Why not a portable hand-held POWERED sniffer, then? You'd have to code the firmware to be able to distinguish multiple signals in one location, but it could be done, and pretty cheap. Wal-Mart is using portable hand-held units for it's RFID shipping dealy. Even with only a small power source, it'd be possible to sniff from a short distance, say from the other side of the pump.
True but it's the same thing. Linking the unique ID to a CC on the server-side means I can't sniff the actual card number, but I can still spoof you if I sniff and rebroadcast the same ID. That's actually not a bad idea, sniffing other people's SpeedPass' to get free gas.
Well, OK...illegal. But outside of that...have you seen gas prices recently?
Problem with that being if your CC on file is attached your VIP card, then anyone warshopping can sniff your ID and rebroadcast, grabbing up items and having them charged to your account.
I'm all for more user personalization, this is really no different from what Amazon does, except in a brick-and-mortar. As long as I can remove the RFID tag when I get home I'm good to go.
My favorite part of this claptrap. To wit: No, our software doesn't PERSONALLY sell your information and the information of everyone on your buddy list. We're merely a conduit for third-parties to do so, and to give us bags of cash for facilitating it. Do you like my hat? It's made of MONEY.
Yeah, we've already gotten rid of those nasty laws, buddy. This merger is just another company trying to take advantage, and learn from AOLTW's mistakes.
I'm sure we as consumers will get used to the constant assrape eventually, and even begin to welcome it. I for one, welcome our new ass raping profiteering overlords.
If I have to take a class to enjoy a movie, then am I really being entertained, or am I wallowing in beret-wearing David Lynch-style pretentiousness?
Different strokes for different folks, but I don't go to the movies to obsess over the director's choice of framing and blocking in a particular scene.
...we're all about the Internet2. As far as major, I odn't know that any of our undergrad curricula cover that type of thing, but we have the School of Information, which is a graduate school with tons of IT-type programs and the like.
Hope you're in-state though, 'cuz Michigan is the most expensive public university in the nation. And for some reason we're proud of this. Sheesh.
"I'd like to be able to have my own macros of my own entry patterns. Heck, it might be cool if they laughed at a joke I cracked. I want a game where I can get in a shouting match with a character in the game - real Gene Hackman or Al Pacino business is what I'm talking about here."
Or you could just make some friends. If network-enabled games have given us dorks nothing, they've given us the ability to connect with other anti-social dorks.
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Wow! I haven't heard anyone say "12 Mile High" in forEVER. A friend of mine the other day referred to WCCC as "the 13th grade". :) Thanks for giving me a laugh.
I think the people who are whining about not getting in don't deserve to go to U of M anyhow, they should stick with 12 Mile High.
I need you to put this on a t-shirt. We can seel them in front of the Union. That would be the best.
Please shut the hell up.
Please.
Thank you.
How much more can be possibly do to make ourselves puppets for other nations?
Well, we could outsource all of our coding work overseas, putting actual coding and QA in the hands of a foreign government. That'd be a good start.
What? What's everyone looking at?
Oh.
I ran my Monster query [(unix or linux) AND (perl OR shell OR scripting OR debian OR "red hat" OR solaris OR admin OR administrator OR web OR apache) AND NOT "work at home"] against US jobs:
Query Results
Then the SAME query against Indian jobs:
Query Results
79 for US, 3,433 for India. Yep, and now I'm even more depressed, and that's saying quite a bit. I have GOT to get out of this industry as soon as possible.
"LIAR! LIAAAAAAAAAAAAAR!" -- Carol Kane, The Princess Bride
While I understand that this isn't illegal as such, isn't it an SEC violation?
So you don't need to actually fight battles anymore, just be predicted to win and you are declared as having "Already Won" ?
Yep. That's called the "Democratic Primary" rule, or as I like to call it, the "Media declaring a foregone conclusion from the poll results of a tiny subset of the voting population, covering that candidate and ONLY that candidate while constantly referring to him as the 'front-runner', resulting in the uninformed voting public voting for that candidate based on the aforementioned fallacious foregone conclusion."
It's easier to say "Democratic Primary" rule, though, so let's stick to that.
Yes, I know it's offtopic. Bite me. See, now it's Offtopic AND Flamebait.
What's sad is, I clicked the topic specifically to write
"J-J-J-J-J-J-J J UNIT!"
Wonderfully, I wasn't the only one with that thought.
In my state (Michigan) homosexual couples are afforded all the rights and priviliges of a married couple, from changing your name to sharing health care benefits as a Same Sex Domestic Partner. This begs the question, what is the big deal about being able to get a marriage license? You're not gaining anything under the eyes of the law. I'm not a homosexual, so perhaps that's not something I can understand.
What I can understand is the heterosexual viewpoint, which is if homosexual unions are "recognized" as legal marriages, then what is marriage? Rather than a sacrament and a union of two people in order to rear children, what is it? Why not let polygamists get married, then?
I can see homosexuals wanting to legitimize what is in FACT an alternative lifestyle, but if that's what you're going for, call it that. Don't seek approval from the majority in your choice of lifestyle.
This is all just my opinion, and wildly offtopic.
Not "freely". Publishing rights and royalties are always worked out ahead of time, even for the smallest of samples. Failure to do so results in disastrous lawsuits and LARGE royalties being paid out to the original artist/publisher. This happened when Peter Gunz & Lord Tariq sampled Steely Dan's Black Cow for their Deja Vu (Uptown Baby). Steely Dan was awarded six figures plus sole writing credit and rights to all future publishing, which pretty much meant that Lord Tariq & Peter Gunz made about $5 off the platinum single.
Offtopic, but I'd like to know what part of the country you live in where McDonald's pays $8/hour. I know shift managers that make $6.75. Minimum wage is $5.75 last I checked (even though the poverty line is like $8.60 or something like that).
Just curious.
So um, yeah. Someone make sure to get this code over to the Samba team, STAT.
OK, that's it. Bye now.
OK that's fly. Especially the bookmarklet.
Thanks, dude!
If it meant my Raspberry Long Island was going to be made EXACTLY according to my wishes (STIR the god damn thing! And use a SHOT of Chambord! I'll KILL YOU!) everytime I walked into an airport Cheers, then I wouldn't give a shit. Actually that'd be kind of nifty...add my beverage choice to my Frequent Flyer information, accessible through my RFID-enabled card in my wallet. My flight gets delayed, I can walk into a Cheers, plop down, and get a complimentary .
I can definitely see this taking off, just for the fact that marketing types are going to salivate, and it's an ADDED VALUE for the consumer, not just blatant and obvious predatory marketing. And if you don't like it, you can opt-out. I'm all about opting-out.
Reasonable. Why not a portable hand-held POWERED sniffer, then? You'd have to code the firmware to be able to distinguish multiple signals in one location, but it could be done, and pretty cheap. Wal-Mart is using portable hand-held units for it's RFID shipping dealy. Even with only a small power source, it'd be possible to sniff from a short distance, say from the other side of the pump.
I'm thinking too hard about this, aren't I?
True but it's the same thing. Linking the unique ID to a CC on the server-side means I can't sniff the actual card number, but I can still spoof you if I sniff and rebroadcast the same ID. That's actually not a bad idea, sniffing other people's SpeedPass' to get free gas.
Well, OK...illegal. But outside of that...have you seen gas prices recently?
Problem with that being if your CC on file is attached your VIP card, then anyone warshopping can sniff your ID and rebroadcast, grabbing up items and having them charged to your account.
I'm all for more user personalization, this is really no different from what Amazon does, except in a brick-and-mortar. As long as I can remove the RFID tag when I get home I'm good to go.
My god man! Drilling holes in his head isn't the answer!
My favorite part of this claptrap. To wit: No, our software doesn't PERSONALLY sell your information and the information of everyone on your buddy list. We're merely a conduit for third-parties to do so, and to give us bags of cash for facilitating it. Do you like my hat? It's made of MONEY.
Yeah, we've already gotten rid of those nasty laws, buddy. This merger is just another company trying to take advantage, and learn from AOLTW's mistakes.
I'm sure we as consumers will get used to the constant assrape eventually, and even begin to welcome it. I for one, welcome our new ass raping profiteering overlords.
If I have to take a class to enjoy a movie, then am I really being entertained, or am I wallowing in beret-wearing David Lynch-style pretentiousness?
Different strokes for different folks, but I don't go to the movies to obsess over the director's choice of framing and blocking in a particular scene.
...we're all about the Internet2. As far as major, I odn't know that any of our undergrad curricula cover that type of thing, but we have the School of Information, which is a graduate school with tons of IT-type programs and the like.
Hope you're in-state though, 'cuz Michigan is the most expensive public university in the nation. And for some reason we're proud of this. Sheesh.
TeamSpeak
RogerWilco
Both work swimmingly with most MMORPGs (I play Shadowbane). Go with God.
"I'd like to be able to have my own macros of my own entry patterns. Heck, it might be cool if they laughed at a joke I cracked. I want a game where I can get in a shouting match with a character in the game - real Gene Hackman or Al Pacino business is what I'm talking about here."
Or you could just make some friends. If network-enabled games have given us dorks nothing, they've given us the ability to connect with other anti-social dorks.
Yeah, you head me. Detroit Lions.
--The Last Lions Fan
Thank you for FINALLY FINALLY explaining where that fucking meta-troll came from. It's been driving me mad.
And now I can rest.