I mean, if they can't bundle all sorts of crap, and can't force people to use the OS, i'm guessing microsoft might actually have to *GASP* make the OS BETTER!
OH MY GOD! FAIR COMPETITION! THAT WILL CRIPPLE US!
This guy obviously had no life. With apologies to Denis Leary:
Let me make sure I'm crystal clear on this issue, ok? Everquest fans are buying Everquest software, taking it home, locking themselves in their rooms and playing 24/7 then killing themselves? Where's the problem!? That's an unemployment solution right there, folks! It's called natural selection. It's the bottom of the food chain, ok? I say we put more addictive games out there...
I mean, REALLY. A *WARNING LABEL*? Do we really need a warning label to tell us, "Don't play a game for 24/7, don't become obsessive about something so dumb?"
If we as a society need warning labels to tell us this, then a lot more of us diserve to die.
In my high school programming class, our assignments were always way too easy. We had a week or so to work on them, and me and my partner would usually finish in a day or two. We would sit and play poker or blackjack the rest of the week. My teacher got annoyed, and assigned us to write a blackjack program.
We did, and every time we would finish it, he'd throw us another curve. "Make it so you can buy insurance if the dealer has an Ace showing. Instead of randomly picking card types, make it use a real deck. or 2 real decks, so you can count cards."
The project is only the first step. Keep throwing more challenges and curves. If the first project seems too easy, throw a handicap at them.
People that overclock their CPU's to this degree remind me of the kids that take their Honda Civics, and do ungodly things to the engines. Things that would make a sane mechanic piss himself. If these people could put short, fat, knobby tires on their CPU's, they would. There is just something inherent in american culture to take something, and install some gadgets to try and make it better/faster/etc. Some people won't spend 40K on a 'vette, they'll pay 15K for a civic, then spend god knows how much in engine mods to try and boost its performance. Some people get a sense of pride by getting hardware to do things it wasnt designed to do, but I wonder how often that pride evaporates in a cloud of smoke. Literally...
I like the idea, but let's take it to the extreme for a second. If we do naming conventions like that, we'll have usenet style domain names within a few years. imagine the horror: slashdot.geeks.linux.avengers.cmdr-taco-rules.org Fear?
My favorite gnu utility has to be screen. For those of you that don't know what screen does, its basically a window manager for your shell sessions. screen 3.09.05 lets you connect more than one session to a screen. I can run my text windows at home, and then connect to them from work seamlessly. It's a cool toy, and probably the most useful gnu thing i've installed lately.
I would love to see windows source code, AND see MS broken up into seperate companies. I would REALLY like tosee the undocumented API's that Windows has inside.
I'm no lawyer, but I don't know how true this is. As a network admin, I am responsible for everything that is on my network. If someone has access to something they shouldn't, it's my fault. If someone is misusing my network, it's my job to track it down, and put a stop to it. Look at it like this: If you hacked slashdot, and put mp3's up, yes, you would be liable. BUT, if Rob and Hemos found your MP3's and kept them up, they would be responsible as well. Aiding and abeding...
Slashdot Mirror
I mean, if they can't bundle all sorts of crap, and can't force people to use the OS, i'm guessing microsoft might actually have to *GASP* make the OS BETTER!
OH MY GOD! FAIR COMPETITION! THAT WILL CRIPPLE US!
This guy obviously had no life.
With apologies to Denis Leary:
Let me make sure I'm crystal clear on this issue, ok? Everquest fans are buying Everquest software, taking it home, locking themselves in their rooms and playing 24/7 then killing themselves? Where's the problem!? That's an unemployment solution right there, folks! It's called natural selection. It's the bottom of the food chain, ok? I say we put more addictive games out there...
I mean, REALLY. A *WARNING LABEL*? Do we really need a warning label to tell us, "Don't play a game for 24/7, don't become obsessive about something so dumb?"
If we as a society need warning labels to tell us this, then a lot more of us diserve to die.
We did, and every time we would finish it, he'd throw us another curve. "Make it so you can buy insurance if the dealer has an Ace showing. Instead of randomly picking card types, make it use a real deck. or 2 real decks, so you can count cards."
The project is only the first step. Keep throwing more challenges and curves. If the first project seems too easy, throw a handicap at them.
pasteur:~ > nslookup wiretap.spies.com
Server: *************
Address: 192.26.80.2
*** can't find wiretap.spies.com: Non-existent host/domain
People that overclock their CPU's to this degree remind me of the kids that take their Honda Civics, and do ungodly things to the engines. Things that would make a sane mechanic piss himself. If these people could put short, fat, knobby tires on their CPU's, they would. There is just something inherent in american culture to take something, and install some gadgets to try and make it better/faster/etc. Some people won't spend 40K on a 'vette, they'll pay 15K for a civic, then spend god knows how much in engine mods to try and boost its performance. Some people get a sense of pride by getting hardware to do things it wasnt designed to do, but I wonder how often that pride evaporates in a cloud of smoke. Literally...
I like the idea, but let's take it to the extreme for a second. If we do naming conventions like that, we'll have usenet style domain names within a few years.
imagine the horror:
slashdot.geeks.linux.avengers.cmdr-taco-rules.org
Fear?
My favorite gnu utility has to be screen.
For those of you that don't know what screen does, its basically a window manager for your shell sessions. screen 3.09.05 lets you connect more than one session to a screen. I can run my text windows at home, and then connect to them from work seamlessly. It's a cool toy, and probably the most useful gnu thing i've installed lately.
Thank you for that wonderful excuse to look at beautiful, shapely women in nice, revealing clothing for work reasons.
I would love to see windows source code, AND see MS broken up into seperate companies. I would REALLY like tosee the undocumented API's that Windows has inside.
I'm no lawyer, but I don't know how true this is. As a network admin, I am responsible for everything that is on my network. If someone has access to something they shouldn't, it's my fault. If someone is misusing my network, it's my job to track it down, and put a stop to it. Look at it like this: If you hacked slashdot, and put mp3's up, yes, you would be liable. BUT, if Rob and Hemos found your MP3's and kept them up, they would be responsible as well. Aiding and abeding...
I think it's more of a crime that the kid got a "100" on such a horribly written essay.