Hey This professor still uses a typewriter. Why? Cuz he's tool cool for school.
well, to be fair, he has a secretary who reads and prints his e-mail and checks his phone mail. Gosh, I wish I was that important! (or had the disposable income to afford a personal slave^H^H^H^H^H assistant...
But the important AND ON TOPIC thing here is: use the tools that work. If you need additional functionality don't throw out the baby with the bathwater. However, there are times when you will have to give up your old ways (no more pulse dial phones, granpa!)
Had a webcam going in the club during remodelling. Someone stole the web cam while is was broadcasting. And JWZ has a HORRIBLE picture of some figure coming up the the cam... and then no more pictures!
Yeah man, I'm with you. On all fronts. I frequently am upset at the moderation (hey, they're monkeys on a keyboard.)
Its to the point where I know that If I say something pithy I'll get modded up to +5 funny, however if I try to bring real depth I'm redundant, troll, flamebait, etc.
I'm also with you cuz I have a powermac 7200 dual booting into linux.
but the conclusion? You find a web of people who have something to say- you click 'em as yr friend (little green ball/blue ball) and you establish your own meta-slashdot. And you read their journals.
The rest of this slashdot is idiots who don't read the article and post simply to see their posts in a public forum, first posts with goatse links, and player-haters.
It's like that time I kept bitching at the moderators... basically creating a one-sided dialog where the only thing I got in response was (-1 troll) , etc. Neat, in a sort of meta-fictional way.
Infact I got ALMOST every negative moderation, except for redundant...
This was a discussion where I also got a 5 and a 4, so it balanced out my one-man tirade.
The biggest roadblock in the way of ditching AOL? Usually, the kids/family. The employee wanting to switch wasn't willing to make his kids and/or wife suffer through getting a brand new email address, learning everything all over again, etc.
I was just talking to my office mate about the evils of AOL and the how horrible their external gateways are and his response is His kids and wife know this, they like this, they can't suffer the 2 days down time, and he'll get no pat on the back once its all fixed.
Yeah, a friend of mine had one of those "sears macs" from 7 years ago... (a quadra? performa? all the names meld together after a while) and she didn't have a tv but she did have a coax connector in the back, so she'd watch tv on her mac. IT was a nifty trick.
However her system had 1 SIMM slot (WTF?!) so it wasn't as if you could run permier and make some captures and put them in movies.
Without a killer app it isn't going to be more than a parlor trick. But then again, without having these parlor tricks around you don't give anyone the opportunity to create a killer app!
But given the inherit difference in the user interaction model: TV: Sit. Watch. Enjoy! PC: Sit. type. click. read. type some more. enjoy!
Don't get me wrong, there are spectator aspects to a pc- why, look at console gaming (the best example of TV/PC convergence yet)- even in games that aren't head to head I can watch my wife play and still have a good time.
I gotta say I think its great for my career that I support a 7 layer OSI kernel stack. I mean, it was the first ISO network standard! And that really means something in todays "just get it done" business climate. I'm sure there are plenty of opportunities out there for me!
De Juris standards don't mean squat. I'll take De facto every day.
Its a movie about these two kids and they run around screaming "Tetsuo!" and "CANADA!" and stuff gets broke and there are these scary toys that move.
I first saw Akira 3-4 times in japanese only: no subtitles, no overdub, no comprehension of japanese. Wait, you know, I've never seen it with any whiff of english. And I prolly understand the story better than all of you! (read previous paragraph if you don't believe me)
It's a cute idea having a "stackspace" for your GPRs, but you could just move to an architecture with more GPRs and not have to design a brand new chip (I hate verilog).
Now if I could only get my compiler to stop moving items from gpr to gpr with a RLINM that has a rotate of 0 and an AND mask of all 0xFFFFFFFF's!
The inevitable answer is that this will open up the medical degree experience for many- some will do nothing with it and some will flourish and become star doctors.
Bringing up an idea without any research or (even better) empirical results on slashdot is giving the professional naysayers far too much grist for the mill.
I'm sure if you said "What if we started a global network! And have it initially funded by the government..." on the 1950's version of slashdot all those schmucks would have said "What, and call it the internet? hah! It'll never work!"
Given that you can get 100 blank CD's for $4, I back up everything IN SIGHT.
Why? My linuxPPC disk set came with 4 disks (yes- I paid for it instead of DL'ing- its a show of support) and then my wife somehow broke the "additional stuff" CD (I think she put the cat on it... let's not talk about how big the cat is) Too bad I didn't make a back up.
Cd's get scratched, eaten, and used for coasters and frisbees. It makes total sense to make backups. As part of said LinuxPPC distro I got a super functional FWB harddisk toolkit cd- such a handy thing (works with all types of harddrive partitions as opposed to apple's stuff, and has some other features) I'd hate to lose that- So I made 2 backup copies. I don't plan on giving 'em away. Its just something I don't want to see destroyed.
If I'm paying money for something and I can get protection for less than $.25, then I'll back up JUST BECAUSE.
Yes, however most laptop users (esp. those in carrels) have access to a plug. Some libraries even have RJ45 Twisted pair jacks to the carrels!
Do people actually use laptops when they aren't plugged in? Most people I know use laptops as portable harddrive/note taking stations- everywhere they need to be used they have acces to a wall plug.
True- however if you don't live in a house for 24 calendar months you pay the capital gains tax. If you can make money on them, then rock on.
If you buy beaters which you then soup up, re-vamp, and sell for a nice increase then by all means.
I have a friend who's dad does this, and he's interested in getting into this as well. However he has also done some framing and general house-building work.
I don't have the experience nor the friend network to make enough money on turning around old houses. When removing medicine cabinets and putting dry wall over 'em my wife had to do the spackling cuz I just sucked ass at it (though I'm dope with the electricity).
Maybe this isn't what you do... I'd be interested to find out what your general strategy is esp. if you don't fix up beaters. But I could not imagine moving 5 times in 11 years! ugh!
Thats the thing- The mortgage is low enough (and I have savings enough) that I'm not worried.
Even if I work at McD's all I have to clear is $250 a week just for mortgage. If I clear $20k after taxes I can afford this house NO SWEAT. (that's a little less than $400 take home a week)
Plus my wife enters the work force next year- increasing the probability of income.
It isn't risk free, but its a low enough risk that I'm willing to roll them bones, baby!
Maint upkeep- A lot of that is predictable. IF the water heater is 15 years old, its gonna go on you. Plan for it. When it went we had the cash.
Since we saved so much, we wanted all new appliances- new fridge, new stove, new washer, new dryer. Call us saps.
However when I go to sell in 5-6 years, you will hear the prospective buyers saying "Oh, honey! The fridge is nice! The wash and dryer are new! (at least newer than the guy down the street)"
And yes, you cannot beat that tax deductability with a stick!
I was right up with you until you said your were 16...
Hot pants! When I was 16 I was listening to the Smiths (and they were before my time in the way that the 70's were before Riley's time) and being stupid (being a male, that's kind of a given)
In college I pulled the fabulous equation "reap the benefits NOW of my future success... I'll charge it!"
(since then I've made good on my promise and now live a responsible financial life)
Wow... when did you have your first existential crisis... at the ripe old age of 3?
Yes the bubble will burst in the housing market. However in the mean time, my monthly payment GOES somewhere (part to interest (which is TAX free!) and part to equity) AND my rent doesn't raise every year.
And if you aren't going to be in a house for 5 years, DO NOT BUY! I REPEAT, DO NOT BUY!
I have a fixed cost per month. Also, I have a town house well situated close to schools in a pretty good neighborhood. When I go to sell in a few years I will have no problems.
So lets see, instead of paying 1200 for a 1 bdroom apt, I pay 1000 for a 3 level town house. Hmmmm, do the math. Never mind equity and investment... I get more space for less money. Plus my income keeps rising while my mortgage stays fixed. Sounds like a great deal to me!
Oh, and the reason why I am not paying extra money to bring down the principal: This is the starter home. In 4-5 years when the market drops I will be in a prime position to buy a fat lot of land. All the money that I could have put towards principal will instead be in a REAL investment vehicle (short term, we're talking about 5 years here) which I will then use towards downpayment of the house- getting me a teensy-weensy mortgage.
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Hey This professor still uses a typewriter. Why? Cuz he's tool cool for school.
well, to be fair, he has a secretary who reads and prints his e-mail and checks his phone mail. Gosh, I wish I was that important! (or had the disposable income to afford a personal slave^H^H^H^H^H assistant...
But the important AND ON TOPIC thing here is: use the tools that work. If you need additional functionality don't throw out the baby with the bathwater. However, there are times when you will have to give up your old ways (no more pulse dial phones, granpa!)
Jamie Zawinksi (of netscape and Dna Lounge fame
Had a webcam going in the club during remodelling.
Someone stole the web cam while is was broadcasting. And JWZ has a HORRIBLE picture of some figure coming up the the cam... and then no more pictures!
I couldn't find the pics on the site...
(a little old skool Violent Femmes for ya)
Yeah man, I'm with you. On all fronts. I frequently am upset at the moderation (hey, they're monkeys on a keyboard.)
Its to the point where I know that If I say something pithy I'll get modded up to +5 funny, however if I try to bring real depth I'm redundant, troll, flamebait, etc.
I'm also with you cuz I have a powermac 7200 dual booting into linux.
but the conclusion? You find a web of people who have something to say- you click 'em as yr friend (little green ball/blue ball) and you establish your own meta-slashdot. And you read their journals.
The rest of this slashdot is idiots who don't read the article and post simply to see their posts in a public forum, first posts with goatse links, and player-haters.
Slashdot sucks. make your own slashdot.
subj. sez all.
Good call!
It's like that time I kept bitching at the moderators... basically creating a one-sided dialog where the only thing I got in response was (-1 troll) , etc. Neat, in a sort of meta-fictional way.
Infact I got ALMOST every negative moderation, except for redundant...
This was a discussion where I also got a 5 and a 4, so it balanced out my one-man tirade.
AW SHIT!
Thanx for the laugh.
The biggest roadblock in the way of ditching AOL? Usually, the kids/family. The employee wanting to switch wasn't willing to make his kids and/or wife suffer through getting a brand new email address, learning everything all over again, etc.
I was just talking to my office mate about the evils of AOL and the how horrible their external gateways are and his response is His kids and wife know this, they like this, they can't suffer the 2 days down time, and he'll get no pat on the back once its all fixed.
I heard succulent meats and I got a chubbie.
Can you beleive it?! Goatse's got a warning!!!
that tears it- I'm boycotting.
Its odd and eerie, like they are twins who are 180 degrees different, almost a mirror image...
Hey, Mekka, ever heard of the rotate tool?
Oh, uhm, never mind.
Yeah, a friend of mine had one of those "sears macs" from 7 years ago... (a quadra? performa? all the names meld together after a while) and she didn't have a tv but she did have a coax connector in the back, so she'd watch tv on her mac. IT was a nifty trick.
However her system had 1 SIMM slot (WTF?!) so it wasn't as if you could run permier and make some captures and put them in movies.
Without a killer app it isn't going to be more than a parlor trick. But then again, without having these parlor tricks around you don't give anyone the opportunity to create a killer app!
But given the inherit difference in the user interaction model:
TV: Sit. Watch. Enjoy!
PC: Sit. type. click. read. type some more. enjoy!
Don't get me wrong, there are spectator aspects to a pc- why, look at console gaming (the best example of TV/PC convergence yet)- even in games that aren't head to head I can watch my wife play and still have a good time.
Our Session layer and Presentation layer are state-machine pass-thru's!
Quick, I gotta run for the border just to pass compliance testing...
I gotta say I think its great for my career that I support a 7 layer OSI kernel stack. I mean, it was the first ISO network standard! And that really means something in todays "just get it done" business climate. I'm sure there are plenty of opportunities out there for me!
De Juris standards don't mean squat. I'll take De facto every day.
Its a movie about these two kids and they run around screaming "Tetsuo!" and "CANADA!" and stuff gets broke and there are these scary toys that move.
I first saw Akira 3-4 times in japanese only: no subtitles, no overdub, no comprehension of japanese. Wait, you know, I've never seen it with any whiff of english. And I prolly understand the story better than all of you! (read previous paragraph if you don't believe me)
Holy shit! Damn damn dammity damn!
I guess it doesn't take much to be good a platformer... no wonder she kicks ass in Crash Bandicoot!
And if she beats me one more time at GT3 I'm gonna have to kill myself (Apparently the dead are just better at video games!)
It's a cute idea having a "stackspace" for your GPRs, but you could just move to an architecture with more GPRs and not have to design a brand new chip (I hate verilog).
Now if I could only get my compiler to stop moving items from gpr to gpr with a RLINM that has a rotate of 0 and an AND mask of all 0xFFFFFFFF's!
When you know the answer is "NO"!
The inevitable answer is that this will open up the medical degree experience for many- some will do nothing with it and some will flourish and become star doctors.
Bringing up an idea without any research or (even better) empirical results on slashdot is giving the professional naysayers far too much grist for the mill.
I'm sure if you said "What if we started a global network! And have it initially funded by the government..." on the 1950's version of slashdot all those schmucks would have said "What, and call it the internet? hah! It'll never work!"
Given that you can get 100 blank CD's for $4, I back up everything IN SIGHT.
Why? My linuxPPC disk set came with 4 disks (yes- I paid for it instead of DL'ing- its a show of support) and then my wife somehow broke the "additional stuff" CD (I think she put the cat on it... let's not talk about how big the cat is) Too bad I didn't make a back up.
Cd's get scratched, eaten, and used for coasters and frisbees. It makes total sense to make backups. As part of said LinuxPPC distro I got a super functional FWB harddisk toolkit cd- such a handy thing (works with all types of harddrive partitions as opposed to apple's stuff, and has some other features) I'd hate to lose that- So I made 2 backup copies. I don't plan on giving 'em away. Its just something I don't want to see destroyed.
If I'm paying money for something and I can get protection for less than $.25, then I'll back up JUST BECAUSE.
Use awk.
Why? So you can con management into buying you that nifty O-reilly CD-ROM series for UNIX!
Worked for me...
Yes, however most laptop users (esp. those in carrels) have access to a plug. Some libraries even have RJ45 Twisted pair jacks to the carrels!
Do people actually use laptops when they aren't plugged in? Most people I know use laptops as portable harddrive/note taking stations- everywhere they need to be used they have acces to a wall plug.
True- however if you don't live in a house for 24 calendar months you pay the capital gains tax.
If you can make money on them, then rock on.
If you buy beaters which you then soup up, re-vamp, and sell for a nice increase then by all means.
I have a friend who's dad does this, and he's interested in getting into this as well. However he has also done some framing and general house-building work.
I don't have the experience nor the friend network to make enough money on turning around old houses. When removing medicine cabinets and putting dry wall over 'em my wife had to do the spackling cuz I just sucked ass at it (though I'm dope with the electricity).
Maybe this isn't what you do... I'd be interested to find out what your general strategy is esp. if you don't fix up beaters. But I could not imagine moving 5 times in 11 years! ugh!
Thats the thing-
The mortgage is low enough (and I have savings enough) that I'm not worried.
Even if I work at McD's all I have to clear is $250 a week just for mortgage.
If I clear $20k after taxes I can afford this house NO SWEAT. (that's a little less than $400 take home a week)
Plus my wife enters the work force next year- increasing the probability of income.
It isn't risk free, but its a low enough risk that I'm willing to roll them bones, baby!
1000 includes insurance and taxes. Booyakka.
Maint upkeep- A lot of that is predictable. IF the water heater is 15 years old, its gonna go on you. Plan for it. When it went we had the cash.
Since we saved so much, we wanted all new appliances- new fridge, new stove, new washer, new dryer. Call us saps.
However when I go to sell in 5-6 years, you will hear the prospective buyers saying "Oh, honey! The fridge is nice! The wash and dryer are new! (at least newer than the guy down the street)"
And yes, you cannot beat that tax deductability with a stick!
I was right up with you until you said your were 16...
Hot pants! When I was 16 I was listening to the Smiths (and they were before my time in the way that the 70's were before Riley's time) and being stupid (being a male, that's kind of a given)
In college I pulled the fabulous equation "reap the benefits NOW of my future success... I'll charge it!"
(since then I've made good on my promise and now live a responsible financial life)
Wow... when did you have your first existential crisis... at the ripe old age of 3?
Yes the bubble will burst in the housing market.
However in the mean time, my monthly payment GOES somewhere (part to interest (which is TAX free!) and part to equity) AND my rent doesn't raise every year.
And if you aren't going to be in a house for 5 years, DO NOT BUY! I REPEAT, DO NOT BUY!
I have a fixed cost per month. Also, I have a town house well situated close to schools in a pretty good neighborhood. When I go to sell in a few years I will have no problems.
So lets see, instead of paying 1200 for a 1 bdroom apt, I pay 1000 for a 3 level town house.
Hmmmm, do the math. Never mind equity and investment... I get more space for less money. Plus my income keeps rising while my mortgage stays fixed. Sounds like a great deal to me!
Oh, and the reason why I am not paying extra money to bring down the principal: This is the starter home. In 4-5 years when the market drops I will be in a prime position to buy a fat lot of land. All the money that I could have put towards principal will instead be in a REAL investment vehicle (short term, we're talking about 5 years here) which I will then use towards downpayment of the house- getting me a teensy-weensy mortgage.
I missed all this crap!
WHoo hoo! I'm living the high life like it was 1989!