specifically vancouver and victoria.. never snows, cheap high bandwidth, pristine untouched wilderness unlike anywhere else in north america within a couple hours. occasionally touched wilderness just down the street. the beer is unparralelled. the people are friendly, and the user groups are rich. i feel like a tourguide, but i'm just passionate about my home. who isn't? geeks generally don't want to go too far from mom's cooking, do they? i mean, i would waste away to nothing without the occasional over-feeding courtesy of momndad.
anyways come to where the air and water and land is clean, the people are civil to you, and the internet is full 10 meg cable for $USD25 per month. heheh
i'll belive it when i see it. this is one of those things that would be at the beginning of a bad movie in the fifties on 'popular science.' this guy's got it all wrong. disposible dishmosible. 20 bucks yeah right.
Why would unlocking someone's door constitute chivalry? It's simple courtesy for the person who is driving to unlock the passenger's side door first. And there's no reason the guy has to drive. I like a man who opens doors for me - and who doesn't give me funny looks when I open doors for him. What's wrong with that?
first off, that door unlocking thing is from the movie 'a bronx tale' and it's pure cheese.
second of all, i agree that men and women should be equal, but i think that there are specific roles that even the most equal of couples must have each other fill. so the equality isn't an issue.
i open doors for my ladies (not that i have even one right now) but the unlock-her-door-first-and-see-if-she'll-unlock-min e thing has never worked. and women can open a door for me all they like, as long as it's a non-issue.
so basically people, door opening is a non issue, so don't make it one!
yeah well i met a woman i had been exchanging email with. we knew each other for 7 months. we didn't cyber or any of that crap, but we were pretty close.
basically, she was out of shape and not physically attractive. but a great gal. just not someone i'm going to spend the rest of my life with.
to all other geeks out there looking for a mate, as much as you might hope that physical appearance is a non-issue, it is. it is THE issue. it is the issue below all issues. it is the 1.0a in the 4.69 of life. it is there, it is the strongest force, and it makes or breaks the possibility of the final product.
you can tell if you're meant for someone just by looking at them, so PLEASE GET PHOTOS of your online grrlfriends.
glow in the dark trees = cheese. at the local 7-11 up here in canada they are selling glow in the dark slurpee cups with glow in the dark lids, and it reminded me that when i was little, 7-11 had glow in the dark straws for a while. the straws were great, we used to charge them up under a lamp, then close out all light from the ~20 foot hallway in the basement, and chuck the glowing staws at each other. a couple teams of ski-goggle-and-jacket-clad kids. what a blast!
it's made by the man for the man. it'll single out the nerdy dudes who play quake and surf the internet because they're a new breed. to this test, geeks are going to be psycho. geeks are untestable. there hasn't ever been an alternative to highschool life, kids are always one of, say, 10 different groups. now they're jocks at quake, nerds at reading, popular at graphic design and website creation, headbanging with their music selection (but they have mozart in with marylin on their mp3 playlist) and they're studs in the irc room. sluts at porn collection, druggies on coffee and simply not accepted at every level in highschool.
STEP AWAY FROM THE COMPUTER! slowly... ok, now go for a walk. see that woman there? use a cheesey pickup line on her. yeah. there you go. now ask her some questions.. easy.. you don't want to spook her.. now agree with her.. yes.. very good.. point out some similarities between you and what she tells you of herself..
easier said than done, i know. i'm 22 as well. i work too much, i sit in front of the computer too much, i hate the club scene. what are we to do? we're a lot alike you and me, but instead of a sick father, i have a fresh breakup weighing me down. 4 years, out the window! see ya harv, not nice knowin ya because i don't want to know ya anymore!
man, if any of us knew the answer to that we wouldn't be here. we'd be off in love land getting a shoulder rub and having a bath drawn for us (or our personal equivalent heaven) all I can say is don't be a pussy (no pun) and just talk to girls, they're not all scarey or flippant. some of them are psycho hose-beasts, but for the most part they are easy to get along with. just talk to them see what you figure out by yourself. and there's always ICQ..
hehehe. i love my keyboard. i could never stop typing. wheee.
but one thing i do want is two clipboards. so like ctrl-x, ctrl-c, and ctrl-v deal with one set of copied text, and like ctrl1,ctrl2, ctrl3 deal with another set. so you can paste a big huge chunk, then another big huge chunk. get it? anyone? code it! call it Harvey. hehehe.
Yes, I agree. Exactly. Open Source is a way different state-of-being than commercial, capitalist, traditional product-type software. but this open source stuff will become commercial (see: redhat) and more commercial (see: redhat for the corporation) but at the same time it will always be open source. once people start using it at work, and kids start learning C in 4th grade, who knows what sort of stuff can happen, but open source will be at the core. open source makes better software than corporations (unless the corporation is exactly the right size, but it will rarely happen because when a company of 8 close friends makes awesome software, they become millionaires and stop coding) and thats what these university professors are interested in. but it's going to be tough because we're a bunch of 5h1t disturbers that won't think twice about skewing some lamer's website pole. but as i said before, the whole idea of trying a website pole is retarded and so is salon for thinking that pointing that out was news.
don't worry everyone, i have finally figured out how to do a 'br' to start a new paragraph. {8']
Yes, the linux era. I am serious. look at the differences that the information age, and within that, open source, and the poster child for open source, linux, is making in our society! look at your own life, now take out computers. now take out open source. what differences would there be if the open source movement died tomorrow, or never existed? where would the open source movement be without the linux hype of the last year-or-so? Linux IS open source. there is a 'richest man ever in the history of the world' (read: william gates III) right now, who is making (most of) his money from selling software. and that software is being threatened by software that is free, customizable, ultra-stable, and growing by leaps and bounds. do you think windows2K will be more stable than linux? do you think that linux will not continue to become better, faster than w2k? IMHO linux will be a feasible alternative to corporate users in the near future, and not at the level that UNIX was and is, but at the level that WINNT is now- on the desktop for the average worker. right now it isn't feasible. but it will be sooner than you think, sir. there is too much $MONEY$ at stake to just let ms continue to hold a monopoly over the desktops of america (read: world). with a tiny computer movement and a bunch of corporate money behind them, bill and steve started the information age. with a giant movement behind them, and tons of corporate money behind them, the Flavoured Penguins are going to take it to the next level. IMHO. hehehe.
this is the linux era, the information age, they can't study our collective (don't think borg) using typical means. it's retardedness. no university team of researchers with on-line poll forms will be able to figure anything about linux out. (except that a lot of linux skript kiddies like to f@C# 5H1T uP. heck a lot of ms bottle fed skript kiddies [my 22yo self included] like to mess with crap too. it's information age grafitti, man!) my suggestion: use a list like the one redhat used to offer stock options. get email addresses from kernel updates and study the movement and it's implications that way, the long way. the correct way. but i agree, it was a non-story. typical.
well come on now, i think that's obvious isn't it? they just wanted to use the word slashdot to get some/. sized pageviews. but careful everyone, don't click on ANY banners. hehehe.
What a classic display of stupid media. Ok, i'm a linux newbie, but i've been using the internet for ~5 years (this xmas) and i knew that story even before i read it. of course it's going to get skewed. what about the time 'man of the year' with 'mankind' from wwf? retardedly obvious. shoulda left that one out/. it WAS what it was talking about. obviously run/done for the sake of running/doing, not for the sake of informing/advancing. just stupid crap. i can say that here right? (crap) heheh.
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VMS! VMS! VMS! heeheh.
specifically vancouver and victoria.. never snows, cheap high bandwidth, pristine untouched wilderness unlike anywhere else in north america within a couple hours. occasionally touched wilderness just down the street. the beer is unparralelled. the people are friendly, and the user groups are rich.
i feel like a tourguide, but i'm just passionate about my home. who isn't?
geeks generally don't want to go too far from mom's cooking, do they? i mean, i would waste away to nothing without the occasional over-feeding courtesy of momndad.
anyways come to where the air and water and land is clean, the people are civil to you, and the internet is full 10 meg cable for $USD25 per month.
heheh
Harv
i'll belive it when i see it. this is one of those things that would be at the beginning of a bad movie in the fifties on 'popular science.' this guy's got it all wrong. disposible dishmosible. 20 bucks yeah right.
first off, that door unlocking thing is from the movie 'a bronx tale' and it's pure cheese.
second of all, i agree that men and women should be equal, but i think that there are specific roles that even the most equal of couples must have each other fill. so the equality isn't an issue.
i open doors for my ladies (not that i have even one right now) but the unlock-her-door-first-and-see-if-she'll-unlock-min e thing has never worked. and women can open a door for me all they like, as long as it's a non-issue.
so basically people, door opening is a non issue, so don't make it one!
harv
basically, she was out of shape and not physically attractive. but a great gal. just not someone i'm going to spend the rest of my life with.
to all other geeks out there looking for a mate, as much as you might hope that physical appearance is a non-issue, it is. it is THE issue. it is the issue below all issues. it is the 1.0a in the 4.69 of life. it is there, it is the strongest force, and it makes or breaks the possibility of the final product.
you can tell if you're meant for someone just by looking at them, so PLEASE GET PHOTOS of your online grrlfriends.
wisely,
harv
i hope you're kidding.
either that or american.
either way you're excused.
glow in the dark trees = cheese.
at the local 7-11 up here in canada they are selling glow in the dark slurpee cups with glow in the dark lids, and it reminded me that when i was little, 7-11 had glow in the dark straws for a while.
the straws were great, we used to charge them up under a lamp, then close out all light from the ~20 foot hallway in the basement, and chuck the glowing staws at each other. a couple teams of ski-goggle-and-jacket-clad kids. what a blast!
but the tree idea thing just sounds lame.
it's made by the man for the man. it'll single out the nerdy dudes who play quake and surf the internet because they're a new breed. to this test, geeks are going to be psycho. geeks are untestable.
there hasn't ever been an alternative to highschool life, kids are always one of, say, 10 different groups. now they're jocks at quake, nerds at reading, popular at graphic design and website creation, headbanging with their music selection (but they have mozart in with marylin on their mp3 playlist) and they're studs in the irc room. sluts at porn collection, druggies on coffee and simply not accepted at every level in highschool.
come to canada! :)
STEP AWAY FROM THE COMPUTER!
slowly...
ok, now go for a walk. see that woman there? use a cheesey pickup line on her. yeah. there you go.
now ask her some questions..
easy.. you don't want to spook her..
now agree with her.. yes.. very good.. point out some similarities between you and what she tells you of herself..
easier said than done, i know.
i'm 22 as well. i work too much, i sit in front of the computer too much, i hate the club scene. what are we to do?
we're a lot alike you and me, but instead of a sick father, i have a fresh breakup weighing me down. 4 years, out the window! see ya harv, not nice knowin ya because i don't want to know ya anymore!
women! arrrg!
man, if any of us knew the answer to that we wouldn't be here. we'd be off in love land getting a shoulder rub and having a bath drawn for us (or our personal equivalent heaven)
all I can say is don't be a pussy (no pun) and just talk to girls, they're not all scarey or flippant. some of them are psycho hose-beasts, but for the most part they are easy to get along with.
just talk to them see what you figure out by yourself.
and there's always ICQ..
hehehe. i love my keyboard. i could never stop typing. wheee.
but one thing i do want is two clipboards. so like ctrl-x, ctrl-c, and ctrl-v deal with one set of copied text, and like ctrl1,ctrl2, ctrl3 deal with another set. so you can paste a big huge chunk, then another big huge chunk.
get it? anyone?
code it! call it Harvey.
hehehe.
Yes, I agree. Exactly. Open Source is a way different state-of-being than commercial, capitalist, traditional product-type software. but this open source stuff will become commercial (see: redhat) and more commercial (see: redhat for the corporation) but at the same time it will always be open source.
once people start using it at work, and kids start learning C in 4th grade, who knows what sort of stuff can happen, but open source will be at the core. open source makes better software than corporations (unless the corporation is exactly the right size, but it will rarely happen because when a company of 8 close friends makes awesome software, they become millionaires and stop coding) and thats what these university professors are interested in.
but it's going to be tough because we're a bunch of 5h1t disturbers that won't think twice about skewing some lamer's website pole. but as i said before, the whole idea of trying a website pole is retarded and so is salon for thinking that pointing that out was news.
don't worry everyone, i have finally figured out how to do a 'br' to start a new paragraph. {8']
Yes, the linux era. I am serious. look at the differences that the information age, and within that, open source, and the poster child for open source, linux, is making in our society! look at your own life, now take out computers. now take out open source. what differences would there be if the open source movement died tomorrow, or never existed? where would the open source movement be without the linux hype of the last year-or-so? Linux IS open source. there is a 'richest man ever in the history of the world' (read: william gates III) right now, who is making (most of) his money from selling software. and that software is being threatened by software that is free, customizable, ultra-stable, and growing by leaps and bounds. do you think windows2K will be more stable than linux? do you think that linux will not continue to become better, faster than w2k? IMHO linux will be a feasible alternative to corporate users in the near future, and not at the level that UNIX was and is, but at the level that WINNT is now- on the desktop for the average worker. right now it isn't feasible. but it will be sooner than you think, sir. there is too much $MONEY$ at stake to just let ms continue to hold a monopoly over the desktops of america (read: world). with a tiny computer movement and a bunch of corporate money behind them, bill and steve started the information age. with a giant movement behind them, and tons of corporate money behind them, the Flavoured Penguins are going to take it to the next level. IMHO. hehehe.
this is the linux era, the information age, they can't study our collective (don't think borg) using typical means. it's retardedness. no university team of researchers with on-line poll forms will be able to figure anything about linux out. (except that a lot of linux skript kiddies like to f@C# 5H1T uP. heck a lot of ms bottle fed skript kiddies [my 22yo self included] like to mess with crap too. it's information age grafitti, man!) my suggestion: use a list like the one redhat used to offer stock options. get email addresses from kernel updates and study the movement and it's implications that way, the long way. the correct way. but i agree, it was a non-story. typical.
well come on now, i think that's obvious isn't it? they just wanted to use the word slashdot to get some /. sized pageviews. but careful everyone, don't click on ANY banners. hehehe.
What a classic display of stupid media. Ok, i'm a linux newbie, but i've been using the internet for ~5 years (this xmas) and i knew that story even before i read it. of course it's going to get skewed. what about the time 'man of the year' with 'mankind' from wwf? retardedly obvious. shoulda left that one out /. it WAS what it was talking about. obviously run/done for the sake of running/doing, not for the sake of informing/advancing. just stupid crap. i can say that here right? (crap) heheh.