a person with a hyperlink to the ancient board game "go", which takes a lifetime to master, who has an issue with someone making him decide for himself what an acronym stands for in context.:D
Isnt this basically Pepsi paying the RIAA to distribute the songs, passing the buck onto the Pepsi drinkers, and having the RIAA kick back realizing that they're now abusing caffeine addiction to force their music fees?
'We're looking at a future where only the very largest companies will be able to implement software, and it will technically be illegal for other people to do so.'"
Well, that will work out good when in the future we all work at The Company.
I dont know anything about what my EE friend has done here besides what it is, but, he has some photos of his tube amp in his home directory on my server. He likes the old tech, analog instead of digital. I think its rad too but thats just cause its geewhiz and whizbang, and wiz-like. Yeah. oh, and he always says this: Remember, you ALWAYS keep your left hand in your pocket, no matter HOW STUPID IT LOOKS. Now, what did I just say?! Great Scott look at the time! TO THE CLOCK TOWER! 88 Miiiiiles per hooooura! Any of you engineer types still use tubes and whatnot? I was gonna get him a box of tunes for Christmas, but I figured it would quickly turn into the most useless gift ever, cause who knows how varied they are.
we can fill out forms online that say "if female then i love you", and now we can meet them in real life and find out the exact opposite! the only people that make out on this are the people who make cars, sell gasoline, and run inet hookup sites. we can now expedite the pointless!
ah but i use linux because it is simple. hard to learn, simple to use. i quite find windows simple to learn, hard to use, and i fancy the elegance of plain text everything that i get with my linux server.
Let's make this simple for simple people like me. Does this mean in a week I can go to Microsoft's website, download a.exe file, run it, and be able to mount NFS partitions off my linux file server? I could ditch samba? Yes no?
if you can write me a regex that filters that out 80% of the time with 0 false positives, i will pay you 6 figures a year to sit on a chair in my museum as one of life's "mysteries".
i hooked Realize Audio on my XP box into the linux box using macros, and the linux box has X10 connected to all the lights and fans. It took me about 3 hours to get it all working. You can get an omnidirectional microphone from radioshack for 39 bucks with OK-ish pickup, and I've demonstrated that you can indeed turn the window fans both on and off from 12 feet away by asking for it at a slightly louder voice than normal.
I think backups to one single non real time drive are much better than a local raid 5. cause, when you accidently delete your media directory you'll run around quite livid wishing you had done a remote backup.
find a friend who also has linux and help each other by rsyncing your data to each other's apartments. can't beat it!
the only thing I have worth adding that I find helps me get stuff done a lot easier is having the bench in the middle of the room, not against a wall. being able to walk to the back of whatever you're working on can save you many errors and perhaps some time, too. my office is also my bedroom, but being a nerd bachelor means this is just an office with a bed and a bin of clothes next to it. there's an 8x4' formica table at desk height. i find that keeping it completely clear and pulled out into the center of the room is the most likely way for me to end up doing stuff in that location. it dominates the room but it's a small price to pay if it helps motivate me in any noticable way.
LEGO are definitely expensive, but you do have to admit they last forever. Some of my LEGO men have been through the dog on countless adventures, and besides a dynamic ethnicity, have always been there at the end. A good bath and they're always back to their cheery Danish Yellow selves.
If some dude looking like Arnold walked up to me on the street wearing a leather jacket reading RIAA on the back and said "Your boots... give them to me"... I wouldnt question it. I'd give them up right there no questions asked.
sometimes i like to think about how companies and ceos and money are kind of like back in the day, when you had a king, and a few lords, and a bunch of serfs or what have you. kingdoms are like companies. ceos are the kings, and then you have like the c[f,t,i]o who are like princes, or earls, or dukes or whatever, I never played D&D so i'm trying to remember history class. And then you have your serfs, the little dudes at the bottom doing all the work. i guess those are like employees.
so then you have all the serfs all together, and they all have to buy junk like... food and deers and arrows. so, they are the source of all the money dumplings, like gold nuggets, which are like a C-note. And then the CEO-kings go "ha ha ha thanks for the money dumpling, laddy".
K, but, what if those kings sent money dumplings to The Oriental Land of Panda-la. They pay King Chow for his serfs to make wicker baskets and... wheels, and other high tech. And then send it back with Magellan. And, the CEO-King fired all his serfs by telling some dragon to go eat em, and they're not in the picture. Cept, they are, and now they're eating tree bark cause they arent making wheels for his majesty.
So the wheels and baskets are coming back from panda-la and the CEO-King is like "dude.. this is sweeteth" and he has more gold dumplings than ever before, cause he doesnt have to pay his localites, and.. ugh, see, this is where my example falls apart, as it lacks both a cunning mix of logic, and sense. Actually, it might just be that it's veilded under a shroud of retardedness, but that's left to you, dear reader.
Maybe someone should correct my giant metaphor so that I can understand it for me...
oops. i did that thing i shouldnt do. i said "i could care less". i should have said "i couldn't care less". cause, thats the opposite of what i should have said. yeah.
so locality will be the only commodity in the future. i can spend 6 years in school to become an engineer and earn 6 bucks an hour after i graduate, or i can go straight to mcdonalds and earn 8 bucks right off the street. 6 years later if they havent fired me, i'll be a shift manager making a hefty 9.50 and will be the source of fear and power for all the peons beneath me. muhwahahaaa
i dont care. 15 years from now if i'm making less cash than i am now and spending it with friends and family, i could care less. the internet is going to tear down and equalize all these partitions of money and popularity. newer innovations will keep certain wealth in the US, the rest will go elsewhere. face it, we have more stuff and now everyone else is going to catch up.
I can convince myself that I am capable of imagining time going on forever (i probably cannot) but I cannot convince myself that time has already occured for an infinite amount of time.
When I try to think of time having already existed forever, then, I start to think about how some random configuration of particles that looked exactly like me has randomly been in this same spot, doing the same things I am doing...
WORSE, that this thing that looks and sounds like me and has the same name, has already done some of the things I've been meaning to do, and then I don't feel like doing them, cause A, I already did them, and B, I'll just have to do them again.
At which point the only thing I care to think about is the infinite other versions of me that have existed through time, sitting on a Lazy Boy recliner watching Cartoon Network all day, and give him a double thumbs up. Cause, in the end, that's what it's really all about. And that would be the clincher folks, undeniable proof that I am right.
as a netadmin for a mom and pop isp in nh, i always have to reply to these with "some isps dont look at your data at all, ever". what do i track? i track when your username connected, when it hung up, which phone number you called from (which if you block with *67 or whatever it is, will nullify that line in my log). if you use my mail server then i will have a record of email that came in for you from which server, but just the tcp connection. that data disappears after a day. if you use hotmail, i have absolutely no idea whatever what you're doing online. and i love it that way. with no evidence if what you were doing, i'm better off. unless you made an enemy at an isp personally, and it were a small enough isp one person could do it, i doubt anyone is really all that monitored -- most people just reload cnn.com like rabid animals all day long. who's gonna watch that?
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a person with a hyperlink to the ancient board game "go", which takes a lifetime to master, who has an issue with someone making him decide for himself what an acronym stands for in context. :D
Isnt this basically Pepsi paying the RIAA to distribute the songs, passing the buck onto the Pepsi drinkers, and having the RIAA kick back realizing that they're now abusing caffeine addiction to force their music fees?
Ash... That transmission. Mother's deciphered part of it, it doesn't look like an SOS.
'We're looking at a future where only the very largest companies will be able to implement software, and it will technically be illegal for other people to do so.'"
Well, that will work out good when in the future we all work at The Company.
I dont know anything about what my EE friend has done here besides what it is, but, he has some photos of his tube amp in his home directory on my server. He likes the old tech, analog instead of digital. I think its rad too but thats just cause its geewhiz and whizbang, and wiz-like. Yeah. oh, and he always says this: Remember, you ALWAYS keep your left hand in your pocket, no matter HOW STUPID IT LOOKS. Now, what did I just say?! Great Scott look at the time! TO THE CLOCK TOWER! 88 Miiiiiles per hooooura! Any of you engineer types still use tubes and whatnot? I was gonna get him a box of tunes for Christmas, but I figured it would quickly turn into the most useless gift ever, cause who knows how varied they are.
the future is now!
we can fill out forms online that say "if female then i love you", and now we can meet them in real life and find out the exact opposite! the only people that make out on this are the people who make cars, sell gasoline, and run inet hookup sites. we can now expedite the pointless!
It's be like the Queen dropping a wad on sending Columbus over the ocean. Cept, we wouldn't land on Ganymede and call the locals Martians.
ah but i use linux because it is simple. hard to learn, simple to use. i quite find windows simple to learn, hard to use, and i fancy the elegance of plain text everything that i get with my linux server.
Let's make this simple for simple people like me. Does this mean in a week I can go to Microsoft's website, download a .exe file, run it, and be able to mount NFS partitions off my linux file server? I could ditch samba? Yes no?
if you can write me a regex that filters that out 80% of the time with 0 false positives, i will pay you 6 figures a year to sit on a chair in my museum as one of life's "mysteries".
i hooked Realize Audio on my XP box into the linux box using macros, and the linux box has X10 connected to all the lights and fans. It took me about 3 hours to get it all working. You can get an omnidirectional microphone from radioshack for 39 bucks with OK-ish pickup, and I've demonstrated that you can indeed turn the window fans both on and off from 12 feet away by asking for it at a slightly louder voice than normal.
It'll happen again.
I think backups to one single non real time drive are much better than a local raid 5. cause, when you accidently delete your media directory you'll run around quite livid wishing you had done a remote backup.
find a friend who also has linux and help each other by rsyncing your data to each other's apartments. can't beat it!
the only thing I have worth adding that I find helps me get stuff done a lot easier is having the bench in the middle of the room, not against a wall. being able to walk to the back of whatever you're working on can save you many errors and perhaps some time, too. my office is also my bedroom, but being a nerd bachelor means this is just an office with a bed and a bin of clothes next to it. there's an 8x4' formica table at desk height. i find that keeping it completely clear and pulled out into the center of the room is the most likely way for me to end up doing stuff in that location. it dominates the room but it's a small price to pay if it helps motivate me in any noticable way.
LEGO are definitely expensive, but you do have to admit they last forever. Some of my LEGO men have been through the dog on countless adventures, and besides a dynamic ethnicity, have always been there at the end. A good bath and they're always back to their cheery Danish Yellow selves.
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mod me down boys
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it'll be up until it's abused my cable connection long enough.
If some dude looking like Arnold walked up to me on the street wearing a leather jacket reading RIAA on the back and said "Your boots... give them to me"... I wouldnt question it. I'd give them up right there no questions asked.
sometimes i like to think about how companies and ceos and money are kind of like back in the day, when you had a king, and a few lords, and a bunch of serfs or what have you. kingdoms are like companies. ceos are the kings, and then you have like the c[f,t,i]o who are like princes, or earls, or dukes or whatever, I never played D&D so i'm trying to remember history class. And then you have your serfs, the little dudes at the bottom doing all the work. i guess those are like employees.
so then you have all the serfs all together, and they all have to buy junk like... food and deers and arrows. so, they are the source of all the money dumplings, like gold nuggets, which are like a C-note. And then the CEO-kings go "ha ha ha thanks for the money dumpling, laddy".
K, but, what if those kings sent money dumplings to The Oriental Land of Panda-la. They pay King Chow for his serfs to make wicker baskets and... wheels, and other high tech. And then send it back with Magellan. And, the CEO-King fired all his serfs by telling some dragon to go eat em, and they're not in the picture. Cept, they are, and now they're eating tree bark cause they arent making wheels for his majesty.
So the wheels and baskets are coming back from panda-la and the CEO-King is like "dude.. this is sweeteth" and he has more gold dumplings than ever before, cause he doesnt have to pay his localites, and.. ugh, see, this is where my example falls apart, as it lacks both a cunning mix of logic, and sense. Actually, it might just be that it's veilded under a shroud of retardedness, but that's left to you, dear reader.
Maybe someone should correct my giant metaphor so that I can understand it for me...
oops. i did that thing i shouldnt do. i said "i could care less". i should have said "i couldn't care less". cause, thats the opposite of what i should have said. yeah.
so locality will be the only commodity in the future. i can spend 6 years in school to become an engineer and earn 6 bucks an hour after i graduate, or i can go straight to mcdonalds and earn 8 bucks right off the street. 6 years later if they havent fired me, i'll be a shift manager making a hefty 9.50 and will be the source of fear and power for all the peons beneath me. muhwahahaaa
i dont care. 15 years from now if i'm making less cash than i am now and spending it with friends and family, i could care less. the internet is going to tear down and equalize all these partitions of money and popularity. newer innovations will keep certain wealth in the US, the rest will go elsewhere. face it, we have more stuff and now everyone else is going to catch up.
all the indian IT techs are gonna be at home watching cartoon network all the time? where are their jobs going to?! wait i know A GRAVASTAR
Bzzt...Gimp doesn't count so don't bother.
cheah ok.. if you're into print maybe it doesnt count. i say those CMYK ninnies just need some RGC colored ink, is all. whiners.
I can convince myself that I am capable of imagining time going on forever (i probably cannot) but I cannot convince myself that time has already occured for an infinite amount of time.
When I try to think of time having already existed forever, then, I start to think about how some random configuration of particles that looked exactly like me has randomly been in this same spot, doing the same things I am doing...
WORSE, that this thing that looks and sounds like me and has the same name, has already done some of the things I've been meaning to do, and then I don't feel like doing them, cause A, I already did them, and B, I'll just have to do them again.
At which point the only thing I care to think about is the infinite other versions of me that have existed through time, sitting on a Lazy Boy recliner watching Cartoon Network all day, and give him a double thumbs up. Cause, in the end, that's what it's really all about. And that would be the clincher folks, undeniable proof that I am right.
as a netadmin for a mom and pop isp in nh, i always have to reply to these with "some isps dont look at your data at all, ever". what do i track? i track when your username connected, when it hung up, which phone number you called from (which if you block with *67 or whatever it is, will nullify that line in my log). if you use my mail server then i will have a record of email that came in for you from which server, but just the tcp connection. that data disappears after a day. if you use hotmail, i have absolutely no idea whatever what you're doing online. and i love it that way. with no evidence if what you were doing, i'm better off. unless you made an enemy at an isp personally, and it were a small enough isp one person could do it, i doubt anyone is really all that monitored -- most people just reload cnn.com like rabid animals all day long. who's gonna watch that?
whoever it was was an idiot.