Add the time to build eating into billable hours, and it would come out as an expensive proposition.
Ah but one hand washes the other!..or some other meaningless idiom- the person with billable hours can purchase a real mac, whereas the person with no billable hours must make the cheap version himself. Quid pro quo, semper fi, one hand washes the other, wheaties, the breakfast of champions.
You can run a nearly infinite number of these stories, and eventually the one that applies to you in some way, you will agree with. Technology is in that little exponential curve right before it shoots off into worlds unknown, our very own event horizon into the tech future. Quit snickering. It's true. Not a one of you in here can honestly predict what tech will have done to us in 50 or 60 years. Digicams are letting everyone emulate a professional photographer. We're stealing the environment she's set up? Guilty. The day someone pays a photographer to set up shop, hang out at the buffet and let the guests do their own shooting is the day we are vindicated. Maybe someone already has. What moral tragedy will it be when McDonalds realizes it is cheaper to replace all of its workers with automated machinery? Can a person of today really be so stale as to admit that day will never come? I've read this site for a few years now, and it's become apparent that companies care about but one thing- money. Before you know it, we'll have stock broker chat bots with financial AI, and convenience stores that are mutated into 35 foot wide vending machines. Every single job, or career, can and will be replaced with technology, with the rare exception. A long time ago, half of Americans were dutied to provide our nation with food- that's right, they were farmers. Now that number is a very low single digit. Did we complain? Yes. Is half of America unemployed? No. So what happened? That doesn't help push the position that our futures are all doomed. Amazingly humans have the ability to adapt. I don't know if I will be hyper enough to exist in a world with 12 billion people who have every utility provided to them by an automated process, but I'm sure the people of that day and age will have a most excellent plan for it. Maybe there will be two planets that shine blue, with all that tech. Maybe three!
25 bucks is a lot of money for an IM client, even if it can resequence my DNA while I'm idle.
I like how the page has a giant "slashdot" buddy group, with a "wired" link below it... now correct me if I'm wrong, but that plus sign next to the slashdot means that the list is already expanded, indicating that he has no slashdot friends at all!:(
actually, i like trillian. i live in the same office as a call center, and since they are all windows, they use trillian, and i use gaim and that irc client with the vulgar name. its great cause the call center can use the irc feature to access our private ircd and swap confidential info, and they need but one client to do it. in fact it looks like they're one up on me and my layout! i'll randomly find the irc-im plugin that is stable, but until that day...
http://digitalsushi.com/st/arnold-sd.wav (oops, i replied to the wrong one already with this. tired enough to post it, tired enough to post it in the wrong spot)
Audh!!!. Dher whinner en dheh enhd was widdoud dyhing- I toldh ehm dat his prahcess was teminated. Chill audt- I hused dhash nayn!!! Lhook troo dheh prahcess tayhble efh you dhun bhelivhe me!
There's Klingons off the starboard bow,
starboard bow,
for those who don't know what he's talking about... *sigh* all of you people good enough to browse at 2 or worse get a treat. here. I am taking it down before work tomorrow morning at 0800EDT though!
as an ISP i can say that we make our money by a gamble that people use X amount of bandwidth. p2p breaks our precious little ratio of what we expect and what we need.
the geek it me though, says "waaa" and that things that dont evolve, die. and the things that dont die. p2p pushes the envelope right now, but all that encourages is more network growth. just think of p2p as those pains you had in your legs when you were 14. sure, it may not be the most efficient thing in the world, but the underlaying infrastructure has to take that into account, or get out of the way for one that can.
I'll be able to use my current 2.5Ghz hardware for a loooooong time before it's "slow"
I have over 800 cans of tomato soup in the lead lined bomb shelter underneath my house. I can eat those for a loooooong time. Think I'd hit can 800 before opening the bulkhead?
out of about 7,000 active customers, about 15 to 20 will regularly forward spam to your abuse department. even if you just sat there being the abuse person, i have a doubt that you could properly address each complaint. God help you if you're just wearing the abuse hat, and are something else officially. You ALWAYS jump on your own customers spamming. But someone spamming your customer is unfortunately a much lower priority- the lunchlady doesnt have time for you telling on your friends when some other kids have a bloody nose.:-/
me too.. i thought his sig was going to print out an ascii art bunny... all it did was crash our web server. our mail server didnt crash though.. i tried it on that one too, but they wont give me root on it for some reason. maybe you have to wait longer. i dunno. oops. heat alarm. brb.
That reminds of of yet another thing I hate about the roads... how come when I'm speeding to work some days at 85 mph, tailing the car in front of me by a car length, just as he is doing to the car in front of him, and so on, as far up as I can see, that no one gets pulled over, but when I'm driving home at 2am going 75 with NO ONE around me, then I'm fair game? Here's a good question for one of those "What If" books you see.. What if there was a law that said, if you unconditionally give up your ability to speed, make stupid mistakes, et cetera- (your body wont let you break a law, in other words. You gotta do things the proper way) that, in compensation, every single other driver would obey every single law as well? I do a full stop. Everyone does a full stop. I stop at long yellows. I stay in the right lane. I use my blinker. I merge in a zipper pattern. I use my blinker. So does everyone else. Hrmm. I wonder which would be more frustrating. I'd feel a lot safer in that 3 to 4% longer I would be in traffic.
Hrm. I dunno. The merge thing is definitely high on my list, but the one thing I hate the most is people camping in the left lane. Up where I am from, our Interstates have two lanes, not ten. In the random spots with more then 2 lanes, I dont really care what people do. But when one lane is for passing and one is for driving, I really get angry seeing the loser driving along at 60 mph in the left lane. It always becomes some big effort, too, to figure out the best way of making him get into the right lane. Typically, my best solution is to match their speed, until a wall of people builds up behind him (not me, I'm in the driving lane) and he'll finally get out of the way. It's a risky game, though, cause he might just get back into the left after the traffic passes. Anyways... I dont think I could shoot another driver unless they did something really horrible, like forget to use their blinker. YEAH, BLINKERS COME STANDARD ON CARS IN NEW HAMPSHIRE w00h
I think the mentality of disliking SUVs is something like this... If I have a small car, and you have a small car, and we collide, then we both get a bloody nose. If I have a small car, and you have an SUV, when we collide, you kill me and you get thrown around a little bit. The message that us with little cars get is, 'get an SUV or stay off the road'. Every few days, I'll be in the travel lane, and a vehicle will slowly shift into my lane, parallel to me. Guess how big these vehicles always are.
The flip side is that when we head into town on Friday night, often enough we see SUVs keep going past a great parking spot cause there's already two other SUVs to either side! I really must wonder, if everyone had an SUV, would they not have to redo the parking space lines?
I'm ok with people protecting their families and stuff. The issue is that the protection you give your 16 year old daughter becomes a weapon of mass destruction to everyone else. I heard once that there would never be any accidents if everyone had a giant impaler rod mounted squarely on the steering wheel! Think about it, cause I betcha it'd be true.
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i got your grep GUI report right here :D (sh or bash)
/var/log/httpd/access_log|awk '{print $1}'`;do echo -n \#;done
for IamElite in `grep winnt
But how many of these machines are run by admins? (definition of admin being a professional)
for a billion dollars, i could finally pay for half of the stuff I stole off Kazaa!
and why is it that Doc Brown came up with the design for the flux capacitor after hitting his head on the toilet seat?! Too many questions!!
Ah but one hand washes the other!
You can run a nearly infinite number of these stories, and eventually the one that applies to you in some way, you will agree with. Technology is in that little exponential curve right before it shoots off into worlds unknown, our very own event horizon into the tech future. Quit snickering. It's true. Not a one of you in here can honestly predict what tech will have done to us in 50 or 60 years. Digicams are letting everyone emulate a professional photographer. We're stealing the environment she's set up? Guilty. The day someone pays a photographer to set up shop, hang out at the buffet and let the guests do their own shooting is the day we are vindicated. Maybe someone already has. What moral tragedy will it be when McDonalds realizes it is cheaper to replace all of its workers with automated machinery? Can a person of today really be so stale as to admit that day will never come? I've read this site for a few years now, and it's become apparent that companies care about but one thing- money. Before you know it, we'll have stock broker chat bots with financial AI, and convenience stores that are mutated into 35 foot wide vending machines. Every single job, or career, can and will be replaced with technology, with the rare exception. A long time ago, half of Americans were dutied to provide our nation with food- that's right, they were farmers. Now that number is a very low single digit. Did we complain? Yes. Is half of America unemployed? No. So what happened? That doesn't help push the position that our futures are all doomed. Amazingly humans have the ability to adapt. I don't know if I will be hyper enough to exist in a world with 12 billion people who have every utility provided to them by an automated process, but I'm sure the people of that day and age will have a most excellent plan for it. Maybe there will be two planets that shine blue, with all that tech. Maybe three!
I like how the page has a giant "slashdot" buddy group, with a "wired" link below it... now correct me if I'm wrong, but that plus sign next to the slashdot means that the list is already expanded, indicating that he has no slashdot friends at all!
actually, i like trillian. i live in the same office as a call center, and since they are all windows, they use trillian, and i use gaim and that irc client with the vulgar name. its great cause the call center can use the irc feature to access our private ircd and swap confidential info, and they need but one client to do it. in fact it looks like they're one up on me and my layout! i'll randomly find the irc-im plugin that is stable, but until that day...
http://digitalsushi.com/st/arnold-sd.wav (oops, i replied to the wrong one already with this. tired enough to post it, tired enough to post it in the wrong spot)
http://digitalsushi.com/st/arnold-sd.wav
Audh!!!. Dher whinner en dheh enhd was widdoud dyhing- I toldh ehm dat his prahcess was teminated. Chill audt- I hused dhash nayn!!! Lhook troo dheh prahcess tayhble efh you dhun bhelivhe me!
Haha fat people haha!
But... but... all of us here are fat and it still got modded funny...
When did they make a De Niro AliceBot?
Ah yes, I get all my most important work done in the half hour before lunch, as well.
starboard bow,
for those who don't know what he's talking about... *sigh* all of you people good enough to browse at 2 or worse get a treat. here. I am taking it down before work tomorrow morning at 0800EDT though!
the geek it me though, says "waaa" and that things that dont evolve, die. and the things that dont die. p2p pushes the envelope right now, but all that encourages is more network growth. just think of p2p as those pains you had in your legs when you were 14. sure, it may not be the most efficient thing in the world, but the underlaying infrastructure has to take that into account, or get out of the way for one that can.
I dun get it.
I have over 800 cans of tomato soup in the lead lined bomb shelter underneath my house. I can eat those for a loooooong time. Think I'd hit can 800 before opening the bulkhead?
out of about 7,000 active customers, about 15 to 20 will regularly forward spam to your abuse department. even if you just sat there being the abuse person, i have a doubt that you could properly address each complaint. God help you if you're just wearing the abuse hat, and are something else officially. You ALWAYS jump on your own customers spamming. But someone spamming your customer is unfortunately a much lower priority- the lunchlady doesnt have time for you telling on your friends when some other kids have a bloody nose. :-/
me too.. i thought his sig was going to print out an ascii art bunny... all it did was crash our web server. our mail server didnt crash though.. i tried it on that one too, but they wont give me root on it for some reason. maybe you have to wait longer. i dunno. oops. heat alarm. brb.
That reminds of of yet another thing I hate about the roads... how come when I'm speeding to work some days at 85 mph, tailing the car in front of me by a car length, just as he is doing to the car in front of him, and so on, as far up as I can see, that no one gets pulled over, but when I'm driving home at 2am going 75 with NO ONE around me, then I'm fair game? Here's a good question for one of those "What If" books you see.. What if there was a law that said, if you unconditionally give up your ability to speed, make stupid mistakes, et cetera- (your body wont let you break a law, in other words. You gotta do things the proper way) that, in compensation, every single other driver would obey every single law as well? I do a full stop. Everyone does a full stop. I stop at long yellows. I stay in the right lane. I use my blinker. I merge in a zipper pattern. I use my blinker. So does everyone else. Hrmm. I wonder which would be more frustrating. I'd feel a lot safer in that 3 to 4% longer I would be in traffic.
Hrm. I dunno. The merge thing is definitely high on my list, but the one thing I hate the most is people camping in the left lane. Up where I am from, our Interstates have two lanes, not ten. In the random spots with more then 2 lanes, I dont really care what people do. But when one lane is for passing and one is for driving, I really get angry seeing the loser driving along at 60 mph in the left lane. It always becomes some big effort, too, to figure out the best way of making him get into the right lane. Typically, my best solution is to match their speed, until a wall of people builds up behind him (not me, I'm in the driving lane) and he'll finally get out of the way. It's a risky game, though, cause he might just get back into the left after the traffic passes. Anyways... I dont think I could shoot another driver unless they did something really horrible, like forget to use their blinker. YEAH, BLINKERS COME STANDARD ON CARS IN NEW HAMPSHIRE w00h
The flip side is that when we head into town on Friday night, often enough we see SUVs keep going past a great parking spot cause there's already two other SUVs to either side! I really must wonder, if everyone had an SUV, would they not have to redo the parking space lines?
I'm ok with people protecting their families and stuff. The issue is that the protection you give your 16 year old daughter becomes a weapon of mass destruction to everyone else. I heard once that there would never be any accidents if everyone had a giant impaler rod mounted squarely on the steering wheel! Think about it, cause I betcha it'd be true.
what about that white van that's always outside? can they still see it, too? (hi guys! there's a pizza special down the street today!)