Damn memepool is why my bookmarks file is 500k, full of URLs for sites I just wanna have a link to in case I want to see it again someday, but will probably never will go to. I bet 100k of that are defunct sites now.
"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months." -jafac's law
hm. I guess that everything you need in your life is produced in your local area.
You've never bought something that is either from, or made from parts that came from other parts of the country or of the world? How do you think your local stores get stuff to sell, or local factories (=local employment, =local economy) gets parts to assemble into finished products?
I think you need roads, and you need to fund them. Otherwise, grab an innertube, and hop into the ocean and don't come back.
"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months." -jafac's law
Years ago, I interviewed for a position in Disney's IT group, and I also shopped around for housing, including in Celebration. They say, about Florida, that you can get a lot of housing for your money, but it ain't so in Celebration. It was roughly the equivalent of the Bay Area. I'd have to say that the shopping district, although rather nice looking, was designed more for asthetics than functionality, just like the book says. Even if you can afford the high prices, you're still driven to leave the area to go to the nearest WalMart to get things you need (hardware anyone?). The problems the school is having are legendary.
Then there's Orlando itself. All the big-city hassles without the big-city culture. It's worth noting that most of the Disney employees I talked with candidly, live NORTH of Orlando, where property values are a bit more in line : South of Orlando, you can get a house cheaply, but not in an area that has the good school district (Dr. Phillips, I think was the name). So if you earned less than say, $100k, you better go shopping for a house in the North side of Orlando, where you have decent schools in areas where the property values are not so astronomical. But then you must contend with one of the worst engineered highway systems known to man. Orlando has one main highway going North-South, I-4, and no public transportation to speak of. So, if you live on the North side, and work on the South side, you have this absolue HELL of a commute.
Plus the humidity, hurricanes, lighting, Very Large Bugs, alligators, oppressive Toll road system, air conditioning cranked down to 33 degrees in most buildings. I decided to stay in the midwest. (later, I moved to California).
But, Disney, the Man, remains one of my idols.
"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months." -jafac's law
"I don't think we should belittle Sagan's mastery of communication and say that it's not a "real" contribution to science."
Has anybody else heard the story (possible urban legend), that Carl Sagan had a very bad stuttering problem as a child and teenager, and "worked it out" through therapy? If true, that makes his "mastery of communication" all the more noteable.
"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months." -jafac's law
The problem with this "cure for the epidemic of sin" is that it needs to be applied to individuals, not governments.
Giving people a reason to voluntarily obey God's laws is the job of the church, not the job of a police-state.
If you read the Bible, somewhere in there, around Judges, Kings, Samuel, etc. is described a culture, God's chosen people, in their heyday of greatness, under the greatest leaders of their time, and even then, there was not 100% compliance to God's laws. Individuals sin, individuals are saved. Not entire nations. I think this is what most people resent, having a code of morality imposed on them that they may or may not agree with (how do you want to interpret scripture today?), and they know damn well that those in power and privilege will place themselves above the law anyway.
If you want to save someone, you need to talk to their heart. Not put a gun to their head.
"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months." -jafac's law
I'll even go so far as to say that all of the people I smoked pot with in HS and College have gone on to lead healthy, normal, productive lives, are not dumbasses, and not impotent.
Man, I would even say that my first kid was due to pot, because we would have been a lot more careful had we not been stoned that night. . .
It's nothing I regret.
"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months." -jafac's law
Damn, Sorry for your problems and all, but I smoked a LOT of pot. A LOT, back when I was in college.
I have four beautiful wonderful children, and I've been gainfully employed as a systems analyst for the past 8 years, I live in the suburbs, have a house, a dog, and an SUV.
Yeah, pot is poison. It ruined my life. I think you need to examine your life closely and see if there my not be some other factor that has caused your problems, because it wasn't pot.
"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months." -jafac's law
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Digital had an awesome Field Service Organization, and you just plain CAN'T play in the enterprise space without that. Digital's technology was an afterthought in this purchase. Compaq's execs said so publicly at the time.
Intel owns (the manufacturing) of the Alpha anyway. They're just restrained by the FTC from totally crushing the platform (that was part of the agreement when Intel settled with Digital on their lawsuit about Intel STEALING Alpha technology from Digital during some partnership dispute).
If Intel can keep their mind control lasers trained on the right people at Compaq, they can trick Compaq into killing the Alpha for them.
"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months." -jafac's law
Yeah, what the hell, does Sun expect Intel to port Solaris to x86 for them? Screw it. The OS porting job belongs to the OS vendor. Now that Linux is on the scene, and there are actual alternatives, some of the absolute crazyness of this situation should go away.
"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months." -jafac's law
At least one major software vendor that I'm, er, familiar with, (shall remain nameless), considers porting an NT x86 program to Solaris to be a higher priority than porting to NT Alpha.
I dunno. You do the math.
"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months." -jafac's law
Well, this theoretical new PCI bus would be (gasp!) backwards compatible - kindof like plugging SCSI-1 devices into a FastUltraMegaSuperDuperSCSI-3 adapter. (with the exception of the wide-narrow SCSI differences, which CAN be done if you're a wiz with termination - um and determination.)
"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months." -jafac's law
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Damn memepool is why my bookmarks file is 500k, full of URLs for sites I just wanna have a link to in case I want to see it again someday, but will probably never will go to. I bet 100k of that are defunct sites now.
"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months."
-jafac's law
hm. I guess that everything you need in your life is produced in your local area.
You've never bought something that is either from, or made from parts that came from other parts of the country or of the world? How do you think your local stores get stuff to sell, or local factories (=local employment, =local economy) gets parts to assemble into finished products?
I think you need roads, and you need to fund them. Otherwise, grab an innertube, and hop into the ocean and don't come back.
"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months."
-jafac's law
Then there's the whole "Butthead Astronomer" story (Codename for the Apple PowerMac 7100).
"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months."
-jafac's law
THat's funny, I don't know a single pothead that works as a house painter or carpet layer etc.
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hm. one musician (okay, that's a gimme), three programmers, one director of technical theater in a large midwestern city, one architect. .
"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months."
-jafac's law
People out of HS, w/o College degrees are HUNGRIER for success than College grads.
The worst thing that happens to most college grads is they end up in some smarmy sales job.
Non college grads live in constant fear of working at McDonalds for the rest of their lives.
"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months."
-jafac's law
Geneva is a suburb of Naperville
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This is why, when I was moving to California, I went up to the pilot's cabin and told him: "faster man! faster! I MUST escape!"
"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months."
-jafac's law
Years ago, I interviewed for a position in Disney's IT group, and I also shopped around for housing, including in Celebration. They say, about Florida, that you can get a lot of housing for your money, but it ain't so in Celebration. It was roughly the equivalent of the Bay Area. I'd have to say that the shopping district, although rather nice looking, was designed more for asthetics than functionality, just like the book says. Even if you can afford the high prices, you're still driven to leave the area to go to the nearest WalMart to get things you need (hardware anyone?).
The problems the school is having are legendary.
Then there's Orlando itself. All the big-city hassles without the big-city culture. It's worth noting that most of the Disney employees I talked with candidly, live NORTH of Orlando, where property values are a bit more in line : South of Orlando, you can get a house cheaply, but not in an area that has the good school district (Dr. Phillips, I think was the name). So if you earned less than say, $100k, you better go shopping for a house in the North side of Orlando, where you have decent schools in areas where the property values are not so astronomical. But then you must contend with one of the worst engineered highway systems known to man. Orlando has one main highway going North-South, I-4, and no public transportation to speak of. So, if you live on the North side, and work on the South side, you have this absolue HELL of a commute.
Plus the humidity, hurricanes, lighting, Very Large Bugs, alligators, oppressive Toll road system, air conditioning cranked down to 33 degrees in most buildings. I decided to stay in the midwest. (later, I moved to California).
But, Disney, the Man, remains one of my idols.
"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months."
-jafac's law
Maybe Jethro was suffering from some pot-induced paranoia.
"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months."
-jafac's law
"I don't think we should belittle Sagan's mastery of communication and say that it's not a "real"
contribution to science."
Has anybody else heard the story (possible urban legend), that Carl Sagan had a very bad stuttering problem as a child and teenager, and "worked it out" through therapy? If true, that makes his "mastery of communication" all the more noteable.
"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months."
-jafac's law
sounds like pot makes you a little paranoid. . .
"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months."
-jafac's law
The problem with this "cure for the epidemic of sin" is that it needs to be applied to individuals, not governments.
Giving people a reason to voluntarily obey God's laws is the job of the church, not the job of a police-state.
If you read the Bible, somewhere in there, around Judges, Kings, Samuel, etc. is described a culture, God's chosen people, in their heyday of greatness, under the greatest leaders of their time, and even then, there was not 100% compliance to God's laws.
Individuals sin, individuals are saved. Not entire nations.
I think this is what most people resent, having a code of morality imposed on them that they may or may not agree with (how do you want to interpret scripture today?), and they know damn well that those in power and privilege will place themselves above the law anyway.
If you want to save someone, you need to talk to their heart. Not put a gun to their head.
"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months."
-jafac's law
Would Canada even admit a barbarian like me who doesn't speak French?
"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months."
-jafac's law
So now, the goal of this is to have a computer so small, that you can't even SEE the BSOD.
Out of sight, out of mind.
"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months."
-jafac's law
I'll even go so far as to say that all of the people I smoked pot with in HS and College have gone on to lead healthy, normal, productive lives, are not dumbasses, and not impotent.
Man, I would even say that my first kid was due to pot, because we would have been a lot more careful had we not been stoned that night. . .
It's nothing I regret.
"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months."
-jafac's law
Damn,
Sorry for your problems and all, but I smoked a LOT of pot. A LOT, back when I was in college.
I have four beautiful wonderful children, and I've been gainfully employed as a systems analyst for the past 8 years, I live in the suburbs, have a house, a dog, and an SUV.
Yeah, pot is poison. It ruined my life.
I think you need to examine your life closely and see if there my not be some other factor that has caused your problems, because it wasn't pot.
"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months."
-jafac's law
Digital had an awesome Field Service Organization, and you just plain CAN'T play in the enterprise space without that. Digital's technology was an afterthought in this purchase. Compaq's execs said so publicly at the time.
Intel owns (the manufacturing) of the Alpha anyway. They're just restrained by the FTC from totally crushing the platform (that was part of the agreement when Intel settled with Digital on their lawsuit about Intel STEALING Alpha technology from Digital during some partnership dispute).
If Intel can keep their mind control lasers trained on the right people at Compaq, they can trick Compaq into killing the Alpha for them.
"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months."
-jafac's law
Damn, this "plural of Virus" thing needs to be in the slashdot faq.
"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months."
-jafac's law
Yeah, what the hell, does Sun expect Intel to port Solaris to x86 for them? Screw it. The OS porting job belongs to the OS vendor. Now that Linux is on the scene, and there are actual alternatives, some of the absolute crazyness of this situation should go away.
"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months."
-jafac's law
At least one major software vendor that I'm, er, familiar with, (shall remain nameless), considers porting an NT x86 program to Solaris to be a higher priority than porting to NT Alpha.
I dunno. You do the math.
"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months."
-jafac's law
I bet his productivity drops like a rock.
"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months."
-jafac's law
Okay, not fair, but going back to my anti-Motorola rant from the Metrowerks buyout thread:
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Here's what an alleged Motorola engineer had to say about the Metrowerks deal:
http://www.macobserver.com/news/99/august/99082
See? Billy Edwards. He's the guy who's being targeted by the Intel mind-control lasers. Now all we have to do is find out who the chump is at CompEC.
Obviously, senator McCain is also targeted:
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/zd/19990820/tc/199
"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months."
-jafac's law
Completely
Obscure
Messy
Proprietary
And
Quirky
Now that Compaq is on the ropes, all I need is a good Acronym for DELL.
"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months."
-jafac's law
Intel has finally succeeded in developing some kind of remote mind-control device.
They've obviously been testing it for years at Motorola, but this excercise proves they've perfected it.
"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months."
-jafac's law
I don't want my children's children living in space. All the more excuse for them to blow me off for the holidays.
"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months."
-jafac's law
Well, this theoretical new PCI bus would be (gasp!) backwards compatible - kindof like plugging SCSI-1 devices into a FastUltraMegaSuperDuperSCSI-3 adapter. (with the exception of the wide-narrow SCSI differences, which CAN be done if you're a wiz with termination - um and determination.)
"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months."
-jafac's law