Betting your problem is that your expectations are too high for your assets. I know several super nerdy friends that say...
"I'll only date HOT chicks!" yet they weigh 380 pounds and dont shower... Guess what, my super nerdy friends have never had any dates let along girlfriends.
To up the ante and nab the attention of women in your asset range... Clean more often than you think you need it. Yes a shower daily is required, as is teeth brushing and deoderant... try a nice light and popular scent as well.
Learn to be funny and outgoing. Be someone that talks to others first being a great guy.. buy and read twice "how to win friends and influence people".
Update your wardrobe. For whatever Clique you like get some updates for what you wear. If the new Brass and green glass steampunk glasses are the rage in your steampunk life, then that is what you need. DONT attempt to date outside your style... A goth-grunge pothead is not going to score a abercrombie wearing chick in daddy's convertible.
Learn about the other sex.. do you know the signs that she likes you or is at least not repulsed? Hint: she is not going to tell you. you need to read human reaction.
Finally, re-assess your reality with your goals.... Again, if you are not a perfectly crafted example of the human male, you have ZERO chance of landing a mega hottie unless you can over come it with buckets full of money. And then you only have arm candy with no brain who only wants your cash. Dont get me wrong, it's fun to see how far arm candy will go, but they are not a "keeper" past the first few weeks.
Now: here are some secrets... if you are a uber Nerd, there ARE hot uber nerd girls out there, they just dont dress hot, or even know they are hot. One in the SCA group I know looks like a dog most of the time until I caught her changing her clothes, she wears baggy everything to hide that she is actually smoking hot, and if she actually did something with her hair and got that giant mole cut off her face she would be something to behold... Problem is if you help them out of their "uglify myself" shell and let them realize how hot they are, they realize how hot you are not if you dont transform yourself as well.
Hot nerdy girls are rare as hell, you have a 1 in 10000 chance of seeing a hot nerdy girl. so Lower your sights. start at "not a mouth breather" and work up from there.
Have you ever wiped your ass with newsprint? I'd rather use sandpaper, and sticks. newsprint uses the cheapest ink on the planet and it barely sticks to the page. It will spread all over your ass.
Meh, that's nothing. 11 years ago I was pulling this data from Comcast cable boxes. I could give you the EXACT number of cable boxes that were on what channel at any moment. Cross pull from the advertising traffic and Billing database and I was generating a webpage that you could type in a advertisers name and it would give you a report of the number of people that were watching their commercial EACH TIME IT WAS ON. the sales people in the local DMA that I worked went ape shit over it and used it to sell more spots to customers...
management hated it and killed the project as they did not see any value. Guess what, 11 years later they are using my design right now and it's being rolled out in another DMA away from people that know that they stole the idea from us in this region.
never trust management and give them full info on your ideas. everyone who is a manager is a thieving dusche bag.
and it does not work on cable tv nor sattelite TV and you can not pull the content off of the box for playback on your ipad/ipod or laptop.
no thanks. I looked at one, the guide data is very limited, and the number of people screaming about dead units scared me away from even buying one to hack on.
The cable TV industry went out of their way to kill the DVR. there is no reason for all the QAM channels to be encrypted, hey encrypt them to make sure that no unauthorized, as in not blessed by them, devices are receiving the precious content. They tried to get the evil bit passed and barring that they went to encryption to force the evil bit.
Thus it destroys the DVR market. The Tivo is a sad example compared to the ReplayTV and only recently is getting what that setup had 10 years ago.. I used to record in the theater and play back the recordings from the theater on my bedroom box. Only RECENTLY did this become possible on Tivo and the Cable company DVr's.
the only reason that TiVO is still alive is they forced the FCC to mandate the Cablecard so that the cable companies could not shut them out like they were trying to do. Problem is the cable companies simply own them hard by making it expensive.. You can buy a Tivo and two cablecards for $60.00 a month on top of your regular cable bill, or you can get the Comcast DVR box for FREE! and an additional one for another $8.95 a month! It's far cheaper than that Tivo thingy...
Yes tivo is a world better but 99% of the people out ther do not know that. the idiots at Best Buy do NOT have one where you can demo it live. so nobody buys a tivo.
Cable company wins. they killed tivo and those damned open source PVR's and only the rich would build a Windows 7 box and since that is Microsoft that locks the computer owner out of their property by encrypting the video as it records.... this is a good thing.
what do I do now? bit-torrent. Fuck em. I have satellite TV and bit torrent is my DVR. and no, unless they crack the servers at the VPN serice I pay for, they are not going to track me down. I pay less for the VPN service with unlimited traffic than I did for my 2 ReplayTV boxes guide data service.
I'd love to pay for the tv show downloads that I watch once, maybe twice and then delete, but they will not sell them to me unencumbered.
"Yet, if I cut the phone line near my parents place, they'll still have Internet access (satellite). Indeed, I suspect they would still have phone access, because the cable would need to be cut on either side of their house to completely kill it."
you suspect wrong. The phone company does not run redundant lines to your home. They abandon stuff in place, but never EVER run redundant lines unless you paid for that added feature at a severely jacked up price.
The rich kids riding on daddy's and Mommies money are happy as clams, the grad students holding down 2 jobs doing classwork in the miniscule spare time they have along with the classload and wading in $190,000 in debt are the ones that are miserable as hell.
I really prefer my Crestron remote and system. I talk to the XBMC dedicated box via tcp/ip and get two way info so that my Touchscreen remote displays elapsed time, show info, etc....
Glad to see that a XBMC specific remote is coming out with a keyboard on back to make IR remote users life's easier for searching or entering info.
and no, I'm not filthy rich.. I am using outdated Crestron gear that I bought for near nothing on ebay. you can have rapper and sports legend level home integration if you simply put the effort out there to find what is affordable and not have a "it's used, thats ooky" response to used gear.
His majority was a mess of idiots anyways... they had 2 YEARS and could not pass anything except a massively watered down Healthcare bill, to make the special interests happy. Real changes that would have made real improvements like a public option were taken away because of whiny selfish bitches. none of the Dems could pay attention long enough to vote together...
The best thing that can happen is a stalemate where nothing get's passed. both sides are full of idiots and if they cant get anything passed then they cant do any damage.
Tax all IP at a low 8.9% if you OWN specific IP, then pay up. Use the RIAA's claims in court to set a price... It solves the budget problem, and makes the RIAA scream like a hot chick in a slasher movie.
Go and ask 20 people RIGHT NOW if they own the DVD's that they have in their home. 19 of them will tell you, "Yes I OWN those." They do not understand that they did notbuy a DVD but purchased a limited viewing license that is revokable at any time. the RIAA and MPAA are allowedto use Illegal false advertising in hiding this fact to consumers. All their ad's say "OWN your copy today" and this is false advertising.
You do realize that it's not a magical switch... Garlic has been used for centuries and is a effective antibiotic and it has not spurned "mega BUGS" that destroy garlic heavy consumption groups... Italy should be rampant with nasty antibiotic resistant bugs....
That is the problem... I tried to buy what you want.
I ended up with the iPad because everything else utterly SUCKS at PDF rendering. Because PDF has became a nightmare. some are text some are nothing more than pages of IMAGES sized for A4 or Letter Paper.
The Microsoft guy is an IDIOT as Microsoft has been chasing the Tablet PC for decades... They have been "reinventing" the tablet every few years, It's only now when a competitor got it right they get pissy and say "tablets suck!"
I loved my old Fujitsu stylistic tablet, but battery life on ALL of the prior tablets sucked massively. Sorry but even a 4 hour run time is worthless for a tablet. I need to make it a solid 8 hours between needing to be charged. the iPad is the only one that has been able to deliver that, If I could get a Full instal of Windows 7 tablet edition or even a XP tablet edition on one of the new tablets I'd be in heaven.... And please add a wacom tablet sensor to it so I can use a real stylus for CAD markup, natural note taking and document markup.
Actually I want a real tablet PC that has 10 hours of run time... Hey Fujitsu? want to make one that does not cost $3800.00?
Really... Mine was not, I sat naked in front of my computer with a bowl of jello, clicked a couple of things and my tablet was delivered the next day to my home. IT was a fantastic retail experience...
Your product will FAIL if it's priced higher than the "premium" product that is out there. Yes the new Motorola tablet is better than an Ipad, but it is not PERCIEVED as being a luxury item like the iPad has become.
Have an iPad? you must be rich. no really, it has that "feel" that has been perpetuated by apple.
The only way the Android competition can touch the iPad is to be cheaper and get units out there that are BETTER than the ipad. not cheap knockoffs that are half baked... Like the ones that dont have a legitimate Market app on them.
IF your tablet does not ship with Market ready to be used, your tablet is a fail. If your tablet does not ship with honeycomb or at least a 2.2 android and can be upgraded to the latest easily.... then your tablet is a FAIL.
You are quoting the conservative republican Jesus... Easily identified by being the White Caucasian Jesus. The Other dirty Jesus, the one from the middle east talks of heresy like turning the other cheek, loving thy neighbor, and it is more difficult for a rich man to enter heaven than a camel to pass through the eye of a needle...
WE dont talk about the Dirty Jesus... He's un-american.
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Betting your problem is that your expectations are too high for your assets. I know several super nerdy friends that say...
"I'll only date HOT chicks!" yet they weigh 380 pounds and dont shower... Guess what, my super nerdy friends have never had any dates let along girlfriends.
To up the ante and nab the attention of women in your asset range... Clean more often than you think you need it. Yes a shower daily is required, as is teeth brushing and deoderant... try a nice light and popular scent as well.
Learn to be funny and outgoing. Be someone that talks to others first being a great guy.. buy and read twice "how to win friends and influence people".
Update your wardrobe. For whatever Clique you like get some updates for what you wear. If the new Brass and green glass steampunk glasses are the rage in your steampunk life, then that is what you need. DONT attempt to date outside your style... A goth-grunge pothead is not going to score a abercrombie wearing chick in daddy's convertible.
Learn about the other sex.. do you know the signs that she likes you or is at least not repulsed? Hint: she is not going to tell you. you need to read human reaction.
Finally, re-assess your reality with your goals.... Again, if you are not a perfectly crafted example of the human male, you have ZERO chance of landing a mega hottie unless you can over come it with buckets full of money. And then you only have arm candy with no brain who only wants your cash. Dont get me wrong, it's fun to see how far arm candy will go, but they are not a "keeper" past the first few weeks.
Now: here are some secrets... if you are a uber Nerd, there ARE hot uber nerd girls out there, they just dont dress hot, or even know they are hot. One in the SCA group I know looks like a dog most of the time until I caught her changing her clothes, she wears baggy everything to hide that she is actually smoking hot, and if she actually did something with her hair and got that giant mole cut off her face she would be something to behold... Problem is if you help them out of their "uglify myself" shell and let them realize how hot they are, they realize how hot you are not if you dont transform yourself as well.
Hot nerdy girls are rare as hell, you have a 1 in 10000 chance of seeing a hot nerdy girl. so Lower your sights. start at "not a mouth breather" and work up from there.
Maybe the server busted a move and is making it with the internet?
"My girlfriend moved house, and her Airport Express no longer made it with her wireless access point." I still dont understand this...
Have you ever wiped your ass with newsprint? I'd rather use sandpaper, and sticks. newsprint uses the cheapest ink on the planet and it barely sticks to the page. It will spread all over your ass.
Meh, that's nothing. 11 years ago I was pulling this data from Comcast cable boxes. I could give you the EXACT number of cable boxes that were on what channel at any moment. Cross pull from the advertising traffic and Billing database and I was generating a webpage that you could type in a advertisers name and it would give you a report of the number of people that were watching their commercial EACH TIME IT WAS ON. the sales people in the local DMA that I worked went ape shit over it and used it to sell more spots to customers...
management hated it and killed the project as they did not see any value. Guess what, 11 years later they are using my design right now and it's being rolled out in another DMA away from people that know that they stole the idea from us in this region.
never trust management and give them full info on your ideas. everyone who is a manager is a thieving dusche bag.
and it does not work on cable tv nor sattelite TV and you can not pull the content off of the box for playback on your ipad/ipod or laptop.
no thanks. I looked at one, the guide data is very limited, and the number of people screaming about dead units scared me away from even buying one to hack on.
Lack of live sports is a plus in my book.
The cable TV industry went out of their way to kill the DVR. there is no reason for all the QAM channels to be encrypted, hey encrypt them to make sure that no unauthorized, as in not blessed by them, devices are receiving the precious content. They tried to get the evil bit passed and barring that they went to encryption to force the evil bit.
Thus it destroys the DVR market. The Tivo is a sad example compared to the ReplayTV and only recently is getting what that setup had 10 years ago.. I used to record in the theater and play back the recordings from the theater on my bedroom box. Only RECENTLY did this become possible on Tivo and the Cable company DVr's.
the only reason that TiVO is still alive is they forced the FCC to mandate the Cablecard so that the cable companies could not shut them out like they were trying to do. Problem is the cable companies simply own them hard by making it expensive.. You can buy a Tivo and two cablecards for $60.00 a month on top of your regular cable bill, or you can get the Comcast DVR box for FREE! and an additional one for another $8.95 a month! It's far cheaper than that Tivo thingy...
Yes tivo is a world better but 99% of the people out ther do not know that. the idiots at Best Buy do NOT have one where you can demo it live. so nobody buys a tivo.
Cable company wins. they killed tivo and those damned open source PVR's and only the rich would build a Windows 7 box and since that is Microsoft that locks the computer owner out of their property by encrypting the video as it records.... this is a good thing.
what do I do now? bit-torrent. Fuck em. I have satellite TV and bit torrent is my DVR. and no, unless they crack the servers at the VPN serice I pay for, they are not going to track me down. I pay less for the VPN service with unlimited traffic than I did for my 2 ReplayTV boxes guide data service.
I'd love to pay for the tv show downloads that I watch once, maybe twice and then delete, but they will not sell them to me unencumbered.
"Yet, if I cut the phone line near my parents place, they'll still have Internet access (satellite). Indeed, I suspect they would still have phone access, because the cable would need to be cut on either side of their house to completely kill it."
you suspect wrong. The phone company does not run redundant lines to your home. They abandon stuff in place, but never EVER run redundant lines unless you paid for that added feature at a severely jacked up price.
Ok, could we sensationalize this one up more? Catastrophic? really? So how many people died? how many places exploded or burned to the ground?
Oh and Sabotage... really
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabotage for a definition... so "Unwitting sabotage" makes Merriam Webster cry.
I'm not a grammar Nazi, but good god, I've seen better and more level headed reporting on Fox News.
Maybe next time the submitter could make more crap up so that he can put in more inflammatory words to get us all worked up into a proper outrage?
tattoos are for wimpy girls....
Branding or cutting it into your flesh with automated knives is more permanent.
I want a pony...
Is interpol going to PAY for this?
The poor ones.
The rich kids riding on daddy's and Mommies money are happy as clams, the grad students holding down 2 jobs doing classwork in the miniscule spare time they have along with the classload and wading in $190,000 in debt are the ones that are miserable as hell.
search google for crestron. or go to crestron.com
also search google for XBMC tcp-IP control. both are incredibly documented.
finally search for crestron XBMC module and you will find a great module that someone wrote and open sourced to make it super easy.
I really prefer my Crestron remote and system. I talk to the XBMC dedicated box via tcp/ip and get two way info so that my Touchscreen remote displays elapsed time, show info, etc....
Glad to see that a XBMC specific remote is coming out with a keyboard on back to make IR remote users life's easier for searching or entering info.
and no, I'm not filthy rich.. I am using outdated Crestron gear that I bought for near nothing on ebay. you can have rapper and sports legend level home integration if you simply put the effort out there to find what is affordable and not have a "it's used, thats ooky" response to used gear.
His majority was a mess of idiots anyways... they had 2 YEARS and could not pass anything except a massively watered down Healthcare bill, to make the special interests happy. Real changes that would have made real improvements like a public option were taken away because of whiny selfish bitches. none of the Dems could pay attention long enough to vote together...
The best thing that can happen is a stalemate where nothing get's passed. both sides are full of idiots and if they cant get anything passed then they cant do any damage.
Nope, but my mix tape of songs from Last.fm I made with my copy of "the last ripper" sounds great...
I just don't like how you put in 6 copies of "Never Gonna Give you up" in your mix tape... Come on the song is not that good....
You sir are a genius.,...
Tax all IP at a low 8.9% if you OWN specific IP, then pay up. Use the RIAA's claims in court to set a price... It solves the budget problem, and makes the RIAA scream like a hot chick in a slasher movie.
Apathetic and lack of education.
Go and ask 20 people RIGHT NOW if they own the DVD's that they have in their home. 19 of them will tell you, "Yes I OWN those." They do not understand that they did notbuy a DVD but purchased a limited viewing license that is revokable at any time. the RIAA and MPAA are allowedto use Illegal false advertising in hiding this fact to consumers. All their ad's say "OWN your copy today" and this is false advertising.
it starts with education, then they will care.
You do realize that it's not a magical switch... Garlic has been used for centuries and is a effective antibiotic and it has not spurned "mega BUGS" that destroy garlic heavy consumption groups... Italy should be rampant with nasty antibiotic resistant bugs....
That is the problem... I tried to buy what you want.
I ended up with the iPad because everything else utterly SUCKS at PDF rendering. Because PDF has became a nightmare. some are text some are nothing more than pages of IMAGES sized for A4 or Letter Paper.
The Microsoft guy is an IDIOT as Microsoft has been chasing the Tablet PC for decades... They have been "reinventing" the tablet every few years, It's only now when a competitor got it right they get pissy and say "tablets suck!"
I loved my old Fujitsu stylistic tablet, but battery life on ALL of the prior tablets sucked massively. Sorry but even a 4 hour run time is worthless for a tablet. I need to make it a solid 8 hours between needing to be charged. the iPad is the only one that has been able to deliver that, If I could get a Full instal of Windows 7 tablet edition or even a XP tablet edition on one of the new tablets I'd be in heaven.... And please add a wacom tablet sensor to it so I can use a real stylus for CAD markup, natural note taking and document markup.
Actually I want a real tablet PC that has 10 hours of run time... Hey Fujitsu? want to make one that does not cost $3800.00?
Really... Mine was not, I sat naked in front of my computer with a bowl of jello, clicked a couple of things and my tablet was delivered the next day to my home. IT was a fantastic retail experience...
What, I was hot and hungry...
Your product will FAIL if it's priced higher than the "premium" product that is out there.
Yes the new Motorola tablet is better than an Ipad, but it is not PERCIEVED as being a luxury item like the iPad has become.
Have an iPad? you must be rich. no really, it has that "feel" that has been perpetuated by apple.
The only way the Android competition can touch the iPad is to be cheaper and get units out there that are BETTER than the ipad. not cheap knockoffs that are half baked... Like the ones that dont have a legitimate Market app on them.
IF your tablet does not ship with Market ready to be used, your tablet is a fail. If your tablet does not ship with honeycomb or at least a 2.2 android and can be upgraded to the latest easily.... then your tablet is a FAIL.
You are quoting the conservative republican Jesus... Easily identified by being the White Caucasian Jesus.
The Other dirty Jesus, the one from the middle east talks of heresy like turning the other cheek, loving thy neighbor, and it is more difficult for a rich man to enter heaven than a camel to pass through the eye of a needle...
WE dont talk about the Dirty Jesus... He's un-american.
no your insurance premiums went up because your insurance company is ran by greedy assholes.