forget saving up weeks of vacation, i've been saving up weeks of pay, not only is DiabloII coming out soon , so is Icewind Dale and Vampire: The Masquerade: Redemption. I've got funds set aside for the games already, and am in the middle of securing enough cases of Sam's Choice sodas, instant Ramen and deoderant to allow me to go through all of them without leaving my house. If I get that propane camp stove going, and get an end table set up in the master bathroom, I won't even have to get up an dget off of the toilet, except when the FedEx guy comes to give me the next game...the way I see it, I should just give my two weeks', take all that in L-W/O-P, and find another job when my Ramen runs out... -Ma Tin Yuan Who amends his earlier statment to say: Now that V:tM:R HAS come out...and I feel that I have to mention that I am a big fan of th epen-and-paper series, and the beta test has allready proven to me that the computer game is very much like the original (minus abilities...damn, I wanted 4 dots in seduction) and the only thing that has dissappointed me thus far is the overuse of colons in the title.
Yeah, but if he really DID get that shot right after she sent out a spam, he couldn't have installed BO and then gotten the screenshot right then, so what I meant was that it isn't as likely (from my POV, in any case) that he just found BO allready installed and running as it is that he just found PC Anywhere (or Norton Remote Administrator, I neglected to mention that in my last post) allready installed and running. Apologies for any unclearness (is that a word?) in my posts. -Ma Tin Yuan Who really, really, really loves his paycheck, and all the cool toys it buys him. His last one bought him the entire Curse of SPAWN action figure set. Go ahead. Call him childish. He doesn't care.
Why just BO? Many offices use PC Anywhere to allow the sysadmin to keep track of users and systems, as well as to provide better tech support to users in other buildings in their complexes where aplicable. Some lazy sysadmins install it to keep from having to walk all the way down the hall. And PC Anywhere is way to easy to crack. I dunno about you, but personally I think that this seems a little more plausible (less implausable?) than finding/installing BO.
-Ma Tin Yuan Who doesn't make the decisions, and doesn't like them, but carries them out, because, as a slave to capitolism, he loves his paycheck.
Not to mention that users of MS Outlook9x/2K can (and have, at least in the department for which I provide tech support) enable auto-opening of atached documents (hello, viruses) and, even worse, the pre-cashing of executables and VB script, all with one innocent little mousie click. Since everyone has access to their own config menu, and everyone loves to play with settings to see what they can mess up (which is half of why my job exists) many people have turned on this feature without knowing it, or to save a dbl-clk to see an attached Word document (which is of course carrying some stupid macro virus). It doesn't matter how often I tell them otherwise or re-set their configs durring their lunch breaks, it keeps happening. And I know from having watched it happen that ILOVEYOU can infect a system running MSOtlk9x/2K if the user does nothing but read the email and allow MSotlk9x/2K to pre-cashe the.vbs. -Ma Tin-Yuan who has heard too many times: "I TOLD you NOT to open any e-mails with ILOVEYOU in the subject line!" "I know, Tin, but I wanted to read what it said..."
I'd like to take this oppertunity to apologize for choosing a P3 over a celeron, but i do a lot of number crunching wherein the psudeo-parallel-processing provided SSE actually makes a difference, and i'm not REALLY going to OC my modem, I'll just go ahead and buy a whole new Magical-Pixie-Modem... -Ma Tin Yuan "If I overclock my SoundCard, will MP3's play back too fast?"
Sometimes, it's not a matter of being cheap, it's a matter of not having enough money to buy the performance you want/need/crave/persue-with-reckless-abandon. I picked up my P3-450MHz for $325 (it was at the middle of last summer) and it runs happily at ~538MHz without the adition of extra hardware. Now when you consider that a REAL P3-550 would have cost me more than a hundred dollars MORE than my OC'd P3-538, and that (at the time) that $100 didn't exist in my money-to-burn account...
-Ma Tin Yuan Who is glad that, three weeks later, he spent that hundred bucks he saved on buying CAS-2 PC-133 RAM instead of CAS-3 PC-100. He also OC's his TNT2-Ultra, and is considering OC'ing his modem to see if he can get below 300 ping with it...
Dear God, they're running WinCE? Imagine this: you're in the middle of a decisive battle...the enemy is in your sights...they're charging!...Quick! Open fire!...what the?...damn, gotta re-boot...
Just goes to show that we STILL can't trust the American DOD to make an informed, educated decision.
...and what about tech support in the field? Can some of us tech support guys finally leave our desks and persue an exciting carreer as "combat technology representatives"?
-Ma Tin-Yuan Who will applaud the first jarhead who uses his U.S. Mil. Issue WinCE palmtop to set his coffee mug on.
This sounds disturbingly familliar to a certain www.coke.com debate that took place here a while back, and since I'm too lazy to retype them all, I'll just say that any comments I made there apply here, as well.
-Ma Tin-Yuan Who blames his newfound laziness on being around Americans too often recently.
Ma Tin-Yuan Who apologizes to all stupid american buisnessmen he may have insulted with his last.sig comment, but he was mad after having just been called "Mr. Young" by some guy in retail who never considered that most oriental FOB people still say their surnames first.
Of course, there's somethng to be said for not using credit cards...
Cheques work nicely for me, and I'm never stuck with interest rates and never tempted to spend more than I can afford, whenever absolutely neccasary (i.e. e-bay) i can allways aquire a serialized money order and use that instead, in which case i only risk losing the value of the money order and not whatever some hacker can manage to spend with it.
And for the really paranoid, you can allwyas sigh your cheques with a DNA pen, the ink's got your genetic code in it, so it's painfully easy to prove that you did or didn't sign it.
-Ma Tin-Yuan Who's sick of being called "Martin Young" by stupid american buisnessmen who don't listen carefully...
I've been waiting for a long time to post this, but haven't found a relevant thread till now...
My cousin is attending the University of Beijing (pardon my bad translations, english is my second language and i'm not that great with translating things into and from it yet, but i digress(sp?))
My point is, when i first found/. about a year ago, i sent him an email with the url, and two weeks later he wrote to ask me what i was trying to send to him, becasue aparantly the university's censors felt that/. was innappropriate content, and my message had been blocked, and my cousin warned. so CmdrTaco, be proud, it seems that (at least a year ago)/. is dangerous and/or dissedent(sp?) material!
Ma Tin-Yuan Who thinks america isn't that bad, as long as i avoid eating at McDonalds...
I think that the reason "Blame Canada" was chosen for the Oscar is that it is the only song in the entire movie that can stand completely alone and still have a message. If you had never seen the South Park movie, "Brian Boitano" would seem senseless, "uncle Fucker" pointless and vulgar, and "Little Boy . . . Hell" entertaining but meaningless. But "Blame Canada" does a very effective job of pointing out and ridiculing one of the USA's biggest problems, namely our need to find someone else to blame for everything. It's success both as part of the movie and as a stand-alone song are what make "Blame Canada" the best and most-worthy-of-and-Oscar song from the entire 1999 movie year. (By success I don't mean financial or popluar success, but rather success as a song used to convey the authors' feelings regarding a very real problem in the USA).
-Ma Tin Yuan (Who thinks he shoulda stayed in Hong Kong and saved himself teh embarrassment of being an American citizen)
We can't expect Cmdr.Taco and the other/. admins to personally read every post to every article, nor can we expect them to personally interview every potential moderator. The current moderation system is probably about the best we can expect, when you consider the alternitives: 1) No moderation. Need I say more? 2) Automated moderation. Do you really want software to decide what is and isn't worth reading based on length and keywords? 3) A permanent panel of moderators. We would still be subject to having someone else decide what we do and don't want to read, but at least would know what to expect. On the other hand, unless one of you wants to volunteer to spend 10 or 12 hours a day monitoring/. posts and moderating comments...
My point is, yeah, we have to sit through some crap now and then, deal with trollpr0nposts (not hard to spot, they usually have the word "nipple" in the first paragraph), and maybe end up missing the occasional nice/aggreeable/funny post, but in the end, it more or less works. And it also seems true that all of the truly deep, insightful, and meaningful posts have managed to be elevated to the point that it is safe enoughto browse at 1, confident that the best posts won't be lost to you.
-Ma Tin Yuan. (who feels that this post should never rise above 0, as nowhere in it does he discuss UCITA)
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and use them as another Invite, Inc. then some poor russian idiot can hack it for you, thereby revealing the weakness in their database security.
...In that case, it looks as though George Bush did in fact forget the past and repeated it...
forget saving up weeks of vacation, i've been saving up weeks of pay, not only is DiabloII coming out soon , so is Icewind Dale and Vampire: The Masquerade: Redemption. I've got funds set aside for the games already, and am in the middle of securing enough cases of Sam's Choice sodas, instant Ramen and deoderant to allow me to go through all of them without leaving my house. If I get that propane camp stove going, and get an end table set up in the master bathroom, I won't even have to get up an dget off of the toilet, except when the FedEx guy comes to give me the next game...the way I see it, I should just give my two weeks', take all that in L-W/O-P, and find another job when my Ramen runs out...
-Ma Tin Yuan
Who amends his earlier statment to say: Now that V:tM:R HAS come out...and I feel that I have to mention that I am a big fan of th epen-and-paper series, and the beta test has allready proven to me that the computer game is very much like the original (minus abilities...damn, I wanted 4 dots in seduction) and the only thing that has dissappointed me thus far is the overuse of colons in the title.
Yeah, but if he really DID get that shot right after she sent out a spam, he couldn't have installed BO and then gotten the screenshot right then, so what I meant was that it isn't as likely (from my POV, in any case) that he just found BO allready installed and running as it is that he just found PC Anywhere (or Norton Remote Administrator, I neglected to mention that in my last post) allready installed and running. Apologies for any unclearness (is that a word?) in my posts.
-Ma Tin Yuan
Who really, really, really loves his paycheck, and all the cool toys it buys him. His last one bought him the entire Curse of SPAWN action figure set. Go ahead. Call him childish. He doesn't care.
Why just BO? Many offices use PC Anywhere to allow the sysadmin to keep track of users and systems, as well as to provide better tech support to users in other buildings in their complexes where aplicable. Some lazy sysadmins install it to keep from having to walk all the way down the hall. And PC Anywhere is way to easy to crack. I dunno about you, but personally I think that this seems a little more plausible (less implausable?) than finding/installing BO.
-Ma Tin Yuan
Who doesn't make the decisions, and doesn't like them, but carries them out, because, as a slave to capitolism, he loves his paycheck.
Not to mention that users of MS Outlook9x/2K can (and have, at least in the department for which I provide tech support) enable auto-opening of atached documents (hello, viruses) and, even worse, the pre-cashing of executables and VB script, all with one innocent little mousie click. Since everyone has access to their own config menu, and everyone loves to play with settings to see what they can mess up (which is half of why my job exists) many people have turned on this feature without knowing it, or to save a dbl-clk to see an attached Word document (which is of course carrying some stupid macro virus). It doesn't matter how often I tell them otherwise or re-set their configs durring their lunch breaks, it keeps happening. And I know from having watched it happen that ILOVEYOU can infect a system running MSOtlk9x/2K if the user does nothing but read the email and allow MSotlk9x/2K to pre-cashe the .vbs.
-Ma Tin-Yuan
who has heard too many times:
"I TOLD you NOT to open any e-mails with ILOVEYOU in the subject line!"
"I know, Tin, but I wanted to read what it said..."
I'd like to take this oppertunity to apologize for choosing a P3 over a celeron, but i do a lot of number crunching wherein the psudeo-parallel-processing provided SSE actually makes a difference, and i'm not REALLY going to OC my modem, I'll just go ahead and buy a whole new Magical-Pixie-Modem...
-Ma Tin Yuan
"If I overclock my SoundCard, will MP3's play back too fast?"
Sometimes, it's not a matter of being cheap, it's a matter of not having enough money to buy the performance you want/need/crave/persue-with-reckless-abandon. I picked up my P3-450MHz for $325 (it was at the middle of last summer) and it runs happily at ~538MHz without the adition of extra hardware. Now when you consider that a REAL P3-550 would have cost me more than a hundred dollars MORE than my OC'd P3-538, and that (at the time) that $100 didn't exist in my money-to-burn account...
-Ma Tin Yuan
Who is glad that, three weeks later, he spent that hundred bucks he saved on buying CAS-2 PC-133 RAM instead of CAS-3 PC-100. He also OC's his TNT2-Ultra, and is considering OC'ing his modem to see if he can get below 300 ping with it...
Dear God, they're running WinCE? Imagine this: you're in the middle of a decisive battle...the enemy is in your sights...they're charging!...Quick! Open fire!...what the?...damn, gotta re-boot...
Just goes to show that we STILL can't trust the American DOD to make an informed, educated decision.
...and what about tech support in the field? Can some of us tech support guys finally leave our desks and persue an exciting carreer as "combat technology representatives"?
-Ma Tin-Yuan
Who will applaud the first jarhead who uses his U.S. Mil. Issue WinCE palmtop to set his coffee mug on.
um, linkwise, try this site:
http://www.eetimes.com/story/OEG20000328S0061
Ma Tin-Yuan
Who can't for the life of me think of a witty thing to say rite now
This sounds disturbingly familliar to a certain www.coke.com debate that took place here a while back, and since I'm too lazy to retype them all, I'll just say that any comments I made there apply here, as well.
-Ma Tin-Yuan
Who blames his newfound laziness on being around Americans too often recently.
To quote endless programmers the world over:
.sig comment, but he was mad after having just been called "Mr. Young" by some guy in retail who never considered that most oriental FOB people still say their surnames first.
"I'll deal with that when it happens."
Ma Tin-Yuan
Who apologizes to all stupid american buisnessmen he may have insulted with his last
Of course, there's somethng to be said for not using credit cards...
Cheques work nicely for me, and I'm never stuck with interest rates and never tempted to spend more than I can afford, whenever absolutely neccasary (i.e. e-bay) i can allways aquire a serialized money order and use that instead, in which case i only risk losing the value of the money order and not whatever some hacker can manage to spend with it.
And for the really paranoid, you can allwyas sigh your cheques with a DNA pen, the ink's got your genetic code in it, so it's painfully easy to prove that you did or didn't sign it.
-Ma Tin-Yuan
Who's sick of being called "Martin Young" by stupid american buisnessmen who don't listen carefully...
try snail mail, i can get you names and addys of people who want pen pals...
:P
and i snail mail my aunt re: canges since the takeover, and we haven't been censored yet, probably too much volume to bother trying.
Ma Tin-Yuan
Who opposes violence on television, wasting time where we could be enjoying perfectly good sex and nudity...
I've been waiting for a long time to post this, but haven't found a relevant thread till now...
/. about a year ago, i sent him an email with the url, and two weeks later he wrote to ask me what i was trying to send to him, becasue aparantly the university's censors felt that /. was innappropriate content, and my message had been blocked, and my cousin warned. so CmdrTaco, be proud, it seems that (at least a year ago) /. is dangerous and/or dissedent(sp?) material!
My cousin is attending the University of Beijing (pardon my bad translations, english is my second language and i'm not that great with translating things into and from it yet, but i digress(sp?))
My point is, when i first found
Ma Tin-Yuan
Who thinks america isn't that bad, as long as i avoid eating at McDonalds...
Today's my Dad's Birthday, I'm 21 and he's turning 14 today, looks like I'll be dead before I can take my old man out for a beer.
I think that the reason "Blame Canada" was chosen for the Oscar is that it is the only song in the entire movie that can stand completely alone and still have a message. If you had never seen the South Park movie, "Brian Boitano" would seem senseless, "uncle Fucker" pointless and vulgar, and "Little Boy . . . Hell" entertaining but meaningless. But "Blame Canada" does a very effective job of pointing out and ridiculing one of the USA's biggest problems, namely our need to find someone else to blame for everything. It's success both as part of the movie and as a stand-alone song are what make "Blame Canada" the best and most-worthy-of-and-Oscar song from the entire 1999 movie year. (By success I don't mean financial or popluar success, but rather success as a song used to convey the authors' feelings regarding a very real problem in the USA).
-Ma Tin Yuan
(Who thinks he shoulda stayed in Hong Kong and saved himself teh embarrassment of being an American citizen)
We can't expect Cmdr.Taco and the other /. admins to personally read every post to every article, nor can we expect them to personally interview every potential moderator. The current moderation system is probably about the best we can expect, when you consider the alternitives: /. posts and moderating comments...
1) No moderation. Need I say more?
2) Automated moderation. Do you really want software to decide what is and isn't worth reading based on length and keywords?
3) A permanent panel of moderators. We would still be subject to having someone else decide what we do and don't want to read, but at least would know what to expect. On the other hand, unless one of you wants to volunteer to spend 10 or 12 hours a day monitoring
My point is, yeah, we have to sit through some crap now and then, deal with trollpr0nposts (not hard to spot, they usually have the word "nipple" in the first paragraph), and maybe end up missing the occasional nice/aggreeable/funny post, but in the end, it more or less works. And it also seems true that all of the truly deep, insightful, and meaningful posts have managed to be elevated to the point that it is safe enoughto browse at 1, confident that the best posts won't be lost to you.
-Ma Tin Yuan.
(who feels that this post should never rise above 0, as nowhere in it does he discuss UCITA)