Rejecting the spawn of Satan on the computer, but accepting them in your mug? (And if they both come from Seattle, is this evidence of some greater conspiracy?):)
Just for atmosphere. The 24 hour starbucks is great around here. Much different than any other starbucks I've seen, but you have to go there a few times (or once, and be there for a while) to really see the culture.
I'm usually sitting in the corner there with my laptop coding away.. I suppose that I have gained a bit of mystique based off of that. I've had people refer to me as, "The guy in the corner", or other strange references, on multiple occasions.
...after all, it could have been you, or the laptop, or the coffee, rather than the Gimp:) True, I am one sexy bitch.;-)
It really was just a smart ass remark. I don't actually believe we should be able to sterilize someone, but I don't believe I should be responsible for helping out people too lazy to support themselves. It's not hard to support yourself. In fact, it's very easy. I would rather see wellfare disappear and the money go into college grants and public schools.
We have a 24 hour starbucks, and I was down there working on my laptop and a very attractive (as in, she is a model) girl started talking to me about it, because it looked different than windows (what she was used to seeing) and I showed her Gimp, because she liked to do some basic designs and had photoshop. After showing her Gimp, and a quick little sample of what one can do with it, we had plans to hang out:) Since, we've just become good friends but for certain reasons. I just find it funny that by using my laptop in a coffee shop and showing a girl gimp, she was actually more attracted to me.
And by 'less educated' I assume you mean 'less educated in computers'. If you were truly educated you wouldn't have been taken by Carr auto group in such an obvious scam. but, obviously people who are well educated in the feild of computers are smarter and more important then anyone else. right?
Wrong. I didn't treat them as mystics. Anybody who thinks that someone has some strange mystical skill to do what they do for a living is less educated. Period. People who get scammed are gullible, big difference.
When did the UK join the EU? This is about software. Most times buying something from overseas (even in the US) you have to declare the object (unless they ship it as a gift) and pay tax on it if applicable.
Then I should reserve the right to pay for people who are living off my tax money to have sterilization operations to avoid polluting the gene pool with their laziness.
Uhm, Bruce Lee, while he did speak english, still had a very strong accent. If you ever watch a lot of his interviews, they would dub over them to make it more audible even if it was him when he could practice the lines more.
And Jet Li is a hong kong star. It's the american audiences that want him. And his english is fluent, he just has a lazy accent -- a lot of asians do that, especially when they just speak english for a job.
I actually enjoy doing things along those lines. I'm not a big RPGer, but the whole "Search forest for things to kill" gets old and irritating. However, finding new ways to get people to buy things from you for more than you paid is always fun. Especially finding strange items to sell in the first place. It really helps if you have a few high level character friends who get stuff they don't want need who will let you sell it on consignment. It's the same reason why I love trade wars and why I think the new sequel is going to suck.
Those who steal whatever is handy and easily accessible, for joy riding, etc.
Those who steal civics/camries and chop them
Those who can steal anything, in a frighteningly short period of time.
The 17% left over is probably from category #3, which are like the good crackers of the world - you just can't stop them. LoJack has 30 standard spots, and the people who can steal anything know those 30 spots and can check it before it even gets the first signal the car has been stolen. I knew a group of people in the bay area that did this kind of thing for a living. A very good living at that. Not the type of people to make friends with, but they were surprisingly nice. It was mind blowing to see some of the things they could do. The club and other things, they had time tests to see who could get them off faster - all under 10 seconds. Their average rate for break in to drive off: less than 30s. Now I'm sure some flags have been set off - but to clear my involvement, I haven't talked to these people in over 3 years:-)
Also nice to know that you liked TeleAid. My wife hasn't decided if she wants it or not... nice to hear a viewpoint from someone other than the dealer. =-) Also, we just bought a 2000 model, so the first free year is already gone. We may subscribe, though. Thanks for the info!
It really is worth the $240/month. It's definitely very cool when you are lost to get the help you need at the push of a button. Also, if you ever get stranded/locked out/etc they can help as well. They can remotely unlock your doors, and a bunch of other nifty things.
You are also talking to someone who doesn't understand that latency is the problem with multiplayer gaming. I'm thinking he could be thinking of a number of things that didn't exist, but we can agree on Doom.:-)
Also a great feature of new Mercedes is the axle locking. I had an SLK320 (Read my journal to find out what happened, if you feel so inclined) that had this feature. It basically made it have to get lifted up to be towed or moved, which was just a cool feature for the sheer "Yeah try to tow my car" value.
LoJack is a decent system, but you get no added benefit over the standard GPS locator except it's hidden in one of 27 I think) spots. Tele-Aid is awesome though, and you should have gotten the first year free. If not, go bitch at your dealer.
The funny thing about it, nobody steals Mercedes. Those that do, LoJack isn't going to do shit or they stole it just to trash it and it doesn't matter.
There are very very very good reasons as to why civics and camry's are so widely stolen. They are easy to chop, high resale on parts because everyone has one of the cars just about. Mercedes/Ferrari/BMW/etc are not high-theft-risk cars. They say you should get LoJack so they get money, go read the reports.. you'll never see Mercedes on the top 10.
Uh, I was really just stating you didn't read the article. Which was seemingly evident. And I wasn't speaking about you in specific. Please go do some research as to Godwin's law. I was talking about the entire board.
You are obviously just trolling, and you are absolutely horrible at it. Your analogy is also horrible, in poor english, and is generally stupid.
I hope you have more redeeming qualities than those demonstrated on here today, otherwise I can see a tremendous waste of resources that makes up you.
Secondly - Learn to read. I said it was -stupid-. I said it was a bad idea. I just ALSO happened to say that people were NOT reading the article properly.
You do realize where you are at right? This is slashdot. The land where everyone knows everything without reading a word and everyone who opposes you is a nazi.
Oh gee, sure. I'll stop posting because you don't like listerine strips or any product from starbucks.
What the fuck?
Are you really that self-insecure you need to establish a megalomaniac attitude? On slashdot of all places... I mean, come on, go beat up small children for candy if you need to reinforce your insecurities. At least they'll just cry instead of posting responses to your idiotic comments.
Call me a whore, but I am rather fond of the Starbucks Tazo teas. Their Chai and Black tea (dubbed 'Awake') are really quite good. Since I switched to drinking only tea, and got off caffeine other than when I am craving the taste of the beverage I feel a lot better.
Drinking tea vs. hyped-up-overcost-insulting-italians-grande-no-foa m-extra-whip-non-fat-soy-coffee will save you a helluva lot of money.
$5 for the coffee, vs. $1.15 for the tea that you can refill for free till your bag goes dead...
As for the altoids, have you tried those Listerine strips? W0000...
I disagree. I think perl has very powerfull OO capabilities. You pretty much disregard these features, and you compare two conflicting aspects.
From someone who does extensive development in Perl, in both a monolithic and OO environment, I can tell you with much certainty and back up with evidence and examples that Perl's OO is inferior to that of Java and C++. With the exception of the TIEHASH capabilities while working with objects, Perl's OO and namespacing is an inferior implementation.
Because of the way that Perl handles namespaces and symbol exporting, it is much easier to work with C++ or Java for large scale enterprise applications. That's just a fact of life.
Having said that, my language of preference is C. Just plain old C. Followed by C++, then Perl. But that is what I am most happy programming in, and has nothing to do with what language I will choose to develop in. I will pick the best tool for the job.
Perl has a niche that it works exceptionally well in, as does Java, C, C++, Python, etc. While some areas overlap, trying to make a language that does everything is setting yourself up for failure. What is needed in the development world is a standardized object communication layer that does not care what language the objects are in. Pipe dreams, but one can hope.
Out of curiosity, do you work in the industry, or still in school?
See, your example would work except it's not Data Structs, it's Intro to CS.
I can see collaborative work on data structures, and hell, anythign beyond "This is what a compiler does" and "Oh look, a pointer. This is the stack, this is the heap" and all that. I suppose I am just jaded of having a bunch of people I know not be able to make it through the Intro to CS course because they didn't want to sit down and take the time to read the book and instead asked me for help. It's just really aggrivating, I mean, it's their major -- it is what they are claiming they want to do the rest of their lives. But this is the intro, and they can't make it through.
I have no sympathy for those people. It's not a question of intelligence in Intro to CS, it's a question of motivation to learn.
Oh, that I didn't realize. That seems rather stupid. I mean, you get a valuable use of problem solving and what not. I'm not sure of what degrees GA offers but I'm sure there are a few that will never require knowledge from this course.
The problem is that the people who are in to CS because they want a high-paying job are too damn stubborn to get frustrated after the intro class and muddle their way to a degree.
Which is exactly why they should not allow collaboration during the Intro to CS class. It's not like they are forbidding the students from reading other books, looking at irrelevant souce code. They want people do to the assignments alone, so that it proves they have the desire to learn the basics.
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Rejecting the spawn of Satan on the computer, but accepting them in your mug? (And if they both come from Seattle, is this evidence of some greater conspiracy?) :)
...after all, it could have been you, or the laptop, or the coffee, rather than the Gimp :) ;-)
Just for atmosphere. The 24 hour starbucks is great around here. Much different than any other starbucks I've seen, but you have to go there a few times (or once, and be there for a while) to really see the culture.
I'm usually sitting in the corner there with my laptop coding away.. I suppose that I have gained a bit of mystique based off of that. I've had people refer to me as, "The guy in the corner", or other strange references, on multiple occasions.
True, I am one sexy bitch.
Actually it disappears after the reserve price has been met.
Sorry for the nitpick.
It really was just a smart ass remark. I don't actually believe we should be able to sterilize someone, but I don't believe I should be responsible for helping out people too lazy to support themselves. It's not hard to support yourself. In fact, it's very easy. I would rather see wellfare disappear and the money go into college grants and public schools.
We have a 24 hour starbucks, and I was down there working on my laptop and a very attractive (as in, she is a model) girl started talking to me about it, because it looked different than windows (what she was used to seeing) and I showed her Gimp, because she liked to do some basic designs and had photoshop. After showing her Gimp, and a quick little sample of what one can do with it, we had plans to hang out :) Since, we've just become good friends but for certain reasons. I just find it funny that by using my laptop in a coffee shop and showing a girl gimp, she was actually more attracted to me.
:)
YMMV of course
And by 'less educated' I assume you mean 'less educated in computers'. If you were truly educated you wouldn't have been taken by Carr auto group in such an obvious scam. but, obviously people who are well educated in the feild of computers are smarter and more important then anyone else. right?
Wrong. I didn't treat them as mystics. Anybody who thinks that someone has some strange mystical skill to do what they do for a living is less educated. Period. People who get scammed are gullible, big difference.
But do we really want to encourage that attitude?
Yes, it's kind of fun to be treated as a witch doctor by certain less educated people.
The more someone fears his/her computer's caprice...
The more power I have to think I'm magic and powerful. Gimp gets chicks, I have proof.
When did the UK join the EU? This is about software. Most times buying something from overseas (even in the US) you have to declare the object (unless they ship it as a gift) and pay tax on it if applicable.
Then I should reserve the right to pay for people who are living off my tax money to have sterilization operations to avoid polluting the gene pool with their laziness.
Uhm, Bruce Lee, while he did speak english, still had a very strong accent. If you ever watch a lot of his interviews, they would dub over them to make it more audible even if it was him when he could practice the lines more.
And Jet Li is a hong kong star. It's the american audiences that want him. And his english is fluent, he just has a lazy accent -- a lot of asians do that, especially when they just speak english for a job.
I actually enjoy doing things along those lines. I'm not a big RPGer, but the whole "Search forest for things to kill" gets old and irritating. However, finding new ways to get people to buy things from you for more than you paid is always fun. Especially finding strange items to sell in the first place. It really helps if you have a few high level character friends who get stuff they don't want need who will let you sell it on consignment. It's the same reason why I love trade wars and why I think the new sequel is going to suck.
There are 3 types of car theives:
:-)
Those who steal whatever is handy and easily accessible, for joy riding, etc.
Those who steal civics/camries and chop them
Those who can steal anything, in a frighteningly short period of time.
The 17% left over is probably from category #3, which are like the good crackers of the world - you just can't stop them. LoJack has 30 standard spots, and the people who can steal anything know those 30 spots and can check it before it even gets the first signal the car has been stolen. I knew a group of people in the bay area that did this kind of thing for a living. A very good living at that. Not the type of people to make friends with, but they were surprisingly nice. It was mind blowing to see some of the things they could do. The club and other things, they had time tests to see who could get them off faster - all under 10 seconds. Their average rate for break in to drive off: less than 30s. Now I'm sure some flags have been set off - but to clear my involvement, I haven't talked to these people in over 3 years
Also nice to know that you liked TeleAid. My wife hasn't decided if she wants it or not... nice to hear a viewpoint from someone other than the dealer. =-) Also, we just bought a 2000 model, so the first free year is already gone. We may subscribe, though. Thanks for the info!
It really is worth the $240/month. It's definitely very cool when you are lost to get the help you need at the push of a button. Also, if you ever get stranded/locked out/etc they can help as well. They can remotely unlock your doors, and a bunch of other nifty things.
I bet your mother is proud of you.
You are also talking to someone who doesn't understand that latency is the problem with multiplayer gaming. I'm thinking he could be thinking of a number of things that didn't exist, but we can agree on Doom. :-)
Also a great feature of new Mercedes is the axle locking. I had an SLK320 (Read my journal to find out what happened, if you feel so inclined) that had this feature. It basically made it have to get lifted up to be towed or moved, which was just a cool feature for the sheer "Yeah try to tow my car" value.
LoJack is a decent system, but you get no added benefit over the standard GPS locator except it's hidden in one of 27 I think) spots. Tele-Aid is awesome though, and you should have gotten the first year free. If not, go bitch at your dealer.
The funny thing about it, nobody steals Mercedes. Those that do, LoJack isn't going to do shit or they stole it just to trash it and it doesn't matter.
There are very very very good reasons as to why civics and camry's are so widely stolen. They are easy to chop, high resale on parts because everyone has one of the cars just about. Mercedes/Ferrari/BMW/etc are not high-theft-risk cars. They say you should get LoJack so they get money, go read the reports.. you'll never see Mercedes on the top 10.
Uh, I was really just stating you didn't read the article. Which was seemingly evident. And I wasn't speaking about you in specific. Please go do some research as to Godwin's law. I was talking about the entire board.
You are obviously just trolling, and you are absolutely horrible at it. Your analogy is also horrible, in poor english, and is generally stupid.
I hope you have more redeeming qualities than those demonstrated on here today, otherwise I can see a tremendous waste of resources that makes up you.
Secondly - Learn to read. I said it was -stupid-. I said it was a bad idea. I just ALSO happened to say that people were NOT reading the article properly.
You do realize where you are at right? This is slashdot. The land where everyone knows everything without reading a word and everyone who opposes you is a nazi.
Having said that, I agree with you.
Oh gee, sure. I'll stop posting because you don't like listerine strips or any product from starbucks.
What the fuck?
Are you really that self-insecure you need to establish a megalomaniac attitude? On slashdot of all places... I mean, come on, go beat up small children for candy if you need to reinforce your insecurities. At least they'll just cry instead of posting responses to your idiotic comments.
Did I say Starbucks own's Tazo? No, but they are a distributor for them. Starbucks has a variety of tea, and I was specifying the Tazo brand.
Sweet ignorance? I'm thinking you just don't parse english well.
Call me a whore, but I am rather fond of the Starbucks Tazo teas. Their Chai and Black tea (dubbed 'Awake') are really quite good. Since I switched to drinking only tea, and got off caffeine other than when I am craving the taste of the beverage I feel a lot better.
a m-extra-whip-non-fat-soy-coffee will save you a helluva lot of money.
Drinking tea vs. hyped-up-overcost-insulting-italians-grande-no-fo
$5 for the coffee, vs. $1.15 for the tea that you can refill for free till your bag goes dead...
As for the altoids, have you tried those Listerine strips? W0000...
From someone who does extensive development in Perl, in both a monolithic and OO environment, I can tell you with much certainty and back up with evidence and examples that Perl's OO is inferior to that of Java and C++. With the exception of the TIEHASH capabilities while working with objects, Perl's OO and namespacing is an inferior implementation.
Because of the way that Perl handles namespaces and symbol exporting, it is much easier to work with C++ or Java for large scale enterprise applications. That's just a fact of life.
Having said that, my language of preference is C. Just plain old C. Followed by C++, then Perl. But that is what I am most happy programming in, and has nothing to do with what language I will choose to develop in. I will pick the best tool for the job.
Perl has a niche that it works exceptionally well in, as does Java, C, C++, Python, etc. While some areas overlap, trying to make a language that does everything is setting yourself up for failure. What is needed in the development world is a standardized object communication layer that does not care what language the objects are in. Pipe dreams, but one can hope.
Out of curiosity, do you work in the industry, or still in school?
See, your example would work except it's not Data Structs, it's Intro to CS.
I can see collaborative work on data structures, and hell, anythign beyond "This is what a compiler does" and "Oh look, a pointer. This is the stack, this is the heap" and all that. I suppose I am just jaded of having a bunch of people I know not be able to make it through the Intro to CS course because they didn't want to sit down and take the time to read the book and instead asked me for help. It's just really aggrivating, I mean, it's their major -- it is what they are claiming they want to do the rest of their lives. But this is the intro, and they can't make it through.
I have no sympathy for those people. It's not a question of intelligence in Intro to CS, it's a question of motivation to learn.
Oh, that I didn't realize. That seems rather stupid. I mean, you get a valuable use of problem solving and what not. I'm not sure of what degrees GA offers but I'm sure there are a few that will never require knowledge from this course.
The problem is that the people who are in to CS because they want a high-paying job are too damn stubborn to get frustrated after the intro class and muddle their way to a degree.
Which is exactly why they should not allow collaboration during the Intro to CS class. It's not like they are forbidding the students from reading other books, looking at irrelevant souce code. They want people do to the assignments alone, so that it proves they have the desire to learn the basics.
If your friends could not get through Intro to CS without your help, why are they a CS major?