maybe each string has it's own resistance to reach certain notes (i've been playing for some 20 years, i'll be damned if i'm going to think about that long enough to figure out if it's true or not) - but that can be figured out easily enough. or if you're convinced that you need more force to bend the the g string up two tones at the second fret than you do at the fourteenth, then imagine your own audio responsive force attenuation control to figure that out.
and please. any kid playing for a few months, with someone showing him/her how to tap, can easily whip out the tapping section of eruption. you want some impressive tapping? try circles by joe satriani, anything by victor wooten (ok, he plays bass), the peanuts theme song by stu hamm, or any thing from shy boy (either steve vai's original or paul gilberts reinterpretation from mr. bigs live album(s)).
find me a HUMAN to play all of those. screw the robot.
and - trust me on this - if the chick speaks klingon, not only do you NOT want to pick her up, but chances are good that she could pick YOU up, soviet russia be damned.
i'm used to nice clean friendly wal-marts from the chicago burbs, but haven't found a conventient wally-world once i moved to the city. have they put one (or more) up since last i looked?
regardless, i've never bought a CD at wal-mart, target, k-mart, or any other super-department store, because they don't have the selection i'm looking for. i've even had difficulties finding what i want at rock records downtown and even the, oh what's the name of that place that closed last year or a year before that in the river entrance to the ogilvie station and got replaced by a bank? can't remember. but i still want to walk into that bank and ask for a CD and express dismay when they try to sell me a certificate of deposit and not a compact disc;)
i think the period works well enough for purposes of distinguishing one sentence from the next. i'm still a big fan of proper punctuation - i wouldn't dare write without that. misapplication of punctuation definitely detracts from the meaning of the message.
i actually conscienciously object to the shift key, reserving its use for things like professional business correspondence and coding. (and the occasional smiley and other punctuation unavailable without it:)
capital letters don't really add anything to the message.
how could you post to slashdot without knowing how to type?
incidentally, how many of you out there are traditional touch-typists?
i took a typing class waay back, but can't force myself to touch-type. but i still get around 80wpm using whichever finger happens to be around the key that i need to hit:)
ok, i'm pretty new to suse (but an old hat to linux - slackware 1.3 anyone?). and i can't run suse 9.0 every day on my laptop, because it shipped with the 2.4 kernel, and for it to be really useful for me, i had been waiting for the 2.6 kernel. (among a few other things.)
i've been on the lookout, but i've never seen the "suse 2.6.4 kernel" - where does one look to find this? i would've grabbed it in a heartbeat.
btw, i've got it installed on a laptop without a CD drive (there's one in the docking station, but that adds it's own problems). needless to say, i didn't install kernel sources or any dev tools when i did my original install, so upgrading my kernel the old fashioned way has been difficult, to say the least:) of course, my docking station w/ CD drive stays at the office, so i can't tinker with my linux install with media in hand unless i bring my docking station home.
just as confirmation, greater chicago has such disparate area codes including the abovementioned 773, 847, and 630. when i first moved here, it was only 312 and 708 (to my knowledge) and thus conforming to the 'rule'. however, the population apparently ran out of room and the new area codes were phased in.
all calls between the metropolitan chicago area codes (312, 773, 847, 708, and 630) are treated as local calls by our telco(s), where the calls are billed by distance.
sidenote:billing for local calls has never made sense to me; i grew up in a town where the line charge was a little higher per month, but all local calls were free. in chicago, however, monthly line charges are a bit less expensive and they apparently make up for it by billing customers for local calls.
i think you *might* be thinking of comp time. you know, you work a few extra hours one day, you make upfor it by getting time off later in the week in lieu of paying you overtime.
as far as doing personal work in office time, i've never heard of employers specifically allowing that, unless you've stayed past your 'shift' and and thus on your own time. however, i've had jobs where any time you spend in the office should be spent doing office work. (they frowned on my quake marathons. drat!)
further, with comp time, you can only take that time off when the workload allows - so if you have something to do, sure. blow it off today but you better come in over the weekend.
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maybe it's just the after-effects of reading through the story and comments on "study: waking up like being drunk".
but i kept reading that as "whore raisin". i had to blink a few times to see the "s" in "whose" wasn't an "r".
softly moved by wings
autumn leaves gently waft down
with avian flu
i want to know when they'll develop ADMANtm, which could be surgically grafted to your skeleton.
that would be awesome.
maybe each string has it's own resistance to reach certain notes (i've been playing for some 20 years, i'll be damned if i'm going to think about that long enough to figure out if it's true or not) - but that can be figured out easily enough. or if you're convinced that you need more force to bend the the g string up two tones at the second fret than you do at the fourteenth, then imagine your own audio responsive force attenuation control to figure that out.
and please. any kid playing for a few months, with someone showing him/her how to tap, can easily whip out the tapping section of eruption. you want some impressive tapping? try circles by joe satriani, anything by victor wooten (ok, he plays bass), the peanuts theme song by stu hamm, or any thing from shy boy (either steve vai's original or paul gilberts reinterpretation from mr. bigs live album(s)).
find me a HUMAN to play all of those. screw the robot.
as far as its effectiveness as a martial art, just ask eddie gordo. he kicks all types and kinds of ass in the iron fist tournaments.
sorry, you misspelled FreeBSD.
wait - when did george lucas start dictating re-releases of mac hardware?
and - trust me on this - if the chick speaks klingon, not only do you NOT want to pick her up, but chances are good that she could pick YOU up, soviet russia be damned.
7. Profit!!!
Profit!!?!
sorry, afraid i'm not terribly familiar with the acronym.
but since you mention it, does in fact EDS stand for Emperors' Dark Side?
wow, so i'll have to check out this CSI show, because i REALLY liked blind date and joe millionaire.
could also be as good as "the swan", "america's next top model", and "the biggest looser"? because those shows are all tops in my book.
this one time, at band camp...
you know, i got a better laugh from this post than TFA.
:)
the best part of TFA was copied nearly verbatim for the summary posted here. the rest of TFA was no BFD.
got any more of those, mfh?
i'm used to nice clean friendly wal-marts from the chicago burbs, but haven't found a conventient wally-world once i moved to the city. have they put one (or more) up since last i looked?
;)
regardless, i've never bought a CD at wal-mart, target, k-mart, or any other super-department store, because they don't have the selection i'm looking for. i've even had difficulties finding what i want at rock records downtown and even the, oh what's the name of that place that closed last year or a year before that in the river entrance to the ogilvie station and got replaced by a bank? can't remember. but i still want to walk into that bank and ask for a CD and express dismay when they try to sell me a certificate of deposit and not a compact disc
i've recently made the plunge to mac os x fulltime (home AND work) as opposed to just occasionally at home running music or graphics apps.
:)
no way is os x going to be as tight and stable and reliable on x86 as it is on apple hardware.
besides, apple hardware looks so sweet
looks like you're having a little trouble with the "I" key.
i think the period works well enough for purposes of distinguishing one sentence from the next. i'm still a big fan of proper punctuation - i wouldn't dare write without that. misapplication of punctuation definitely detracts from the meaning of the message.
*shrug*
i'm not too worried about what random slashdotters think of my intelligence.
i actually conscienciously object to the shift key, reserving its use for things like professional business correspondence and coding. (and the occasional smiley and other punctuation unavailable without it :)
capital letters don't really add anything to the message.
absolutely necessary.
:)
how could you post to slashdot without knowing how to type?
incidentally, how many of you out there are traditional touch-typists?
i took a typing class waay back, but can't force myself to touch-type. but i still get around 80wpm using whichever finger happens to be around the key that i need to hit
ok, i'm pretty new to suse (but an old hat to linux - slackware 1.3 anyone?). and i can't run suse 9.0 every day on my laptop, because it shipped with the 2.4 kernel, and for it to be really useful for me, i had been waiting for the 2.6 kernel. (among a few other things.)
:) of course, my docking station w/ CD drive stays at the office, so i can't tinker with my linux install with media in hand unless i bring my docking station home.
:)
i've been on the lookout, but i've never seen the "suse 2.6.4 kernel" - where does one look to find this? i would've grabbed it in a heartbeat.
btw, i've got it installed on a laptop without a CD drive (there's one in the docking station, but that adds it's own problems). needless to say, i didn't install kernel sources or any dev tools when i did my original install, so upgrading my kernel the old fashioned way has been difficult, to say the least
argh
i was thinking the same thing.
but if you view the HTML source you actually can see the 'table'.
just as confirmation, greater chicago has such disparate area codes including the abovementioned 773, 847, and 630. when i first moved here, it was only 312 and 708 (to my knowledge) and thus conforming to the 'rule'. however, the population apparently ran out of room and the new area codes were phased in.
all calls between the metropolitan chicago area codes (312, 773, 847, 708, and 630) are treated as local calls by our telco(s), where the calls are billed by distance.
sidenote:billing for local calls has never made sense to me; i grew up in a town where the line charge was a little higher per month, but all local calls were free. in chicago, however, monthly line charges are a bit less expensive and they apparently make up for it by billing customers for local calls.
*shrug*
i think you *might* be thinking of comp time. you know, you work a few extra hours one day, you make upfor it by getting time off later in the week in lieu of paying you overtime.
as far as doing personal work in office time, i've never heard of employers specifically allowing that, unless you've stayed past your 'shift' and and thus on your own time. however, i've had jobs where any time you spend in the office should be spent doing office work. (they frowned on my quake marathons. drat!)
further, with comp time, you can only take that time off when the workload allows - so if you have something to do, sure. blow it off today but you better come in over the weekend.