And I also think it was fairly obvious I was poking fun at Darl's sexual orientation, it'd take a total idiot to not realize that.. Oh wait, nevermind, I get it now..
If you're not afraid of ramming object-oriented design into the kid..
check this out: http://www.alice.org
I'm 21 and extremely interested in game development, always have been. My uncle brought over a copy of Alice for me when he was visiting for Christmas, I played with it for about 15 minutes, I found it to be a little simplistic, but I can see how a kid might just go crazy over it, especially one with little to no programming skills.
The nice thing about Alice, is that it teaches well structured programming, while eliminating the possibility of syntax errors (sounds crazy? I'm not kidding), plus it lets you see the output of your program in a 3D environment (exciting, flashy).
That or buy the kid a C/C++ book and throw him at a text editor & compiler:)
I can see it now. I'm shopping in wal-mart (Clearly this is a dream sequence)
After browsing around for a few minutes, I walk out the doors without purchasing anything.
BOOM! Two sets of doors slam open, and out comes ItemFinder "Service" Bot! Scooting towards me at nearly 35mph, knocking me down with his huge spiked arms.
[IFBot] I AM SORRY THAT YOU WERE UNABLE TO FIND THE ITEM YOU WERE SEEKING!!!
*** IFBot picks me up and throws me back into the store [IFBot] PERHAPS THESE ITEMS ARE WHAT YOU WERE LOOKING FOR!!!
Stop whining like a little bastard and try to comprehend how lucky you are to even have the opportunity to go to big fun fancy tradeshows.. Heck, you should be lucky you have feet.
Anybody that's anybody knows that tesla coils are the BEST form of wireless electricity! Of course a giant one supposedly destroyed part of Siberia (or something), it should work fine.
"Do Unto Others, As You'd Want Them To Do Unto You"..
That's the Golden Rule(tm), not one of the 10 Commandments. So technically she isn't condemned by the church..
I would compare her to Zacchaeus, if you're unfamiliar with him, here's a children's song about him:
Zacchaeus was a wee little man, A wee little man was he.
He climbed up in the sycamore tree, the Savior for to see.
And when the Savior passed that way, He looked up in the tree,
And he said, "Zacchaeus, you come down from there;
For I'm going to your house today, for I'm going to your house today."
And Zacchaeus came down from that tree, and he said,
"What a better man I'll be. I'll give my money to the poor.
What a better man I'll be. What a better man I'll be."
And then Zacchaeus DIED, but he also turned from his Tax Stealing ways before that. This woman is just doomed.
Give fluxbox a shot, it uses almost no space at all except for a little slit. And the app menu appears by right clicking on the desktop.. Although iBooks only have one mouse button don't they.. WELL Then, NEVERMIND..
Perhaps XFce would suit you better. The panel can auto-hide and everything.
Actually I'm pretty sure these "Zebra Fish" are actually Zebra Danios, at least they appear to be zebra danios..
I have 3 zebra danios, and considering how little I actually clean my aquarium, they are extremely resilient little fish. I'm talking on-par with goldfish as far as hardiness. There is also a long-fin variety of danios that are quite pretty, I'd like to see some glow in the dark long finned ones.
Anyway, my point is, any idiot that can keep half-way decent water in a tank, should be able to keep these little guys happy:)
I'm 20, and I have no children, but the other day (seriously) I was thinking about what kind of internet access I would allow my kids to have..
Proxy port 80: Use something like squid and proxy up port 80 and don't allow any regular traffic on 80 otherwise. Then tell your kid that you can see what websites they're checking out, just to keep them accountable. Doesn't mean you actually have to check the caches constantly. If ever.. No "Speedy Minimization" Rule: I remember the times I was talking to girls when I was younger, it wasn't anything bad, it was just something I didn't wish to share with my parents. I can understand seeing your kid quickly minimizing a photo of albino midget porn, but emails/IMs, I think that's just as intrusive as insisting that your kids let you bug their telephone conversations. How would you like your kids listening on a separate phone to all your conversations?
that is all,
Klowner
Screw Atkins, go Vegan
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I myself am not a vegan, but my mother is. She's nearly 50 and she only requires about 5-6 hours of sleep, and is way more hyperactive than I am (I'm 20, and about 10lbs over where I'd like to be). She didn't go on the diet to lose weight or anything, just for health reasons.
I don't have the will power to do such a thing, but I know I'd be more mentally and physically active if I did.. And although the high meat intake of the Akins diet may cause people to lose weight, I know it would make me feel like crap in the long run, and give me cancer or something. I've also heard of people on the Atkins diet having real problems with energy, although most geeks don't expend much physical energy, the mental energy is still required.
utilizing low-carb methods to modify the metabolism is analogous to hacking and overclocking the body
Yeah, and overclocking often causes equipment to have a slightly shorter life span, doesn't sound good to me.
If anything I need to give up the coffee and start eating more plants.. And if anyone is interested in learning more about the diet
here it is.
Thanks for posting this wonderful article so the large Anti-Christian (or Anti-[Insert Faith Here] for that matter) Slashdot community can let their mindless God bashing begin.
I'm sure God loves to be involved in "scientific studies". How many times have you stopped to take a survey by those freaking people that stand there in the shopping mall?
Dr Richard Sloan, from the New York Presbyterian Hospital, described the concept of a prayer "dose" as "absurd".
He said: "It requires us to abandon our understanding of the physical universe."
That's right Doctor, faith does involve a thing called faith.
Unless of course you work at a place that regularly requires us employees to hop around between different workstations.. ONE OF us is a Lefty.. And whoever he is, he always changes the mouse settings to left handed.
I've learned to adapt to left or right handed mouse settings, so I just don't bother changing them back to right handed anymore... So the person after me gets pissed off, and I feel l33t;)
Don't go to college, considering how you're not the type to party, it'll rip away all the creativity from your mind and happyness from your heart, and replace it with uniformity, bitterness, and hatred. You've learned more on your own, that's how you learn, that's how you'll always learn.
And dangit, go to an art school if you simply MUST go to college.
Listen to yourself, you're incredibly mature for your age.
Exactly, but have you considered the possibility of a world that has free sharing of music, causing people to be exposed to more artists and genres, resulting in very few artists who get multi-platinum status because people wouldn't be fed music which is deemed "good" by "The Man". People that get multi-platinum would actually have to be THAT GOOD to earn it, not have the best marketing people.
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Hmmm, nope, I don't think so...
And I also think it was fairly obvious I was poking fun at Darl's sexual orientation, it'd take a total idiot to not realize that.. Oh wait, nevermind, I get it now..
fifty bucks says he's got a wallpaper of naked sailors wearing tophats, pushing huge crates of treasure off their sinking ship.
(note: this is pure speculation)
If you're not afraid of ramming object-oriented design into the kid..
:)
check this out:
http://www.alice.org
I'm 21 and extremely interested in game development, always have been. My uncle brought over a copy of Alice for me when he was visiting for Christmas, I played with it for about 15 minutes, I found it to be a little simplistic, but I can see how a kid might just go crazy over it, especially one with little to no programming skills.
The nice thing about Alice, is that it teaches well structured programming, while eliminating the possibility of syntax errors (sounds crazy? I'm not kidding), plus it lets you see the output of your program in a 3D environment (exciting, flashy).
That or buy the kid a C/C++ book and throw him at a text editor & compiler
( I hope this made sense, I'm half asleep )
I can see it now. I'm shopping in wal-mart (Clearly this is a dream sequence)
...damn you item finder bot
After browsing around for a few minutes, I walk out the doors without purchasing anything.
BOOM! Two sets of doors slam open, and out comes ItemFinder "Service" Bot ! Scooting towards me at nearly 35mph, knocking me down with his huge spiked arms.
[IFBot] I AM SORRY THAT YOU WERE UNABLE TO FIND THE ITEM YOU WERE SEEKING!!!
*** IFBot picks me up and throws me back into the store
[IFBot] PERHAPS THESE ITEMS ARE WHAT YOU WERE LOOKING FOR!!!
Stop whining like a little bastard and try to comprehend how lucky you are to even have the opportunity to go to big fun fancy tradeshows.. Heck, you should be lucky you have feet.
"Wah wha wha my wittle piggies huuurt"
Pansy...
Anybody that's anybody knows that tesla coils are the BEST form of wireless electricity! Of course a giant one supposedly destroyed part of Siberia (or something), it should work fine.
Klowner
"Do Unto Others, As You'd Want Them To Do Unto You"..
That's the Golden Rule(tm), not one of the 10 Commandments. So technically she isn't condemned by the church..
I would compare her to Zacchaeus, if you're unfamiliar with him, here's a children's song about him:
Zacchaeus was a wee little man, A wee little man was he.
He climbed up in the sycamore tree, the Savior for to see.
And when the Savior passed that way, He looked up in the tree,
And he said, "Zacchaeus, you come down from there; For I'm going to your house today, for I'm going to your house today." And Zacchaeus came down from that tree, and he said,
"What a better man I'll be. I'll give my money to the poor. What a better man I'll be. What a better man I'll be."
And then Zacchaeus DIED, but he also turned from his Tax Stealing ways before that. This woman is just doomed.
Give fluxbox a shot, it uses almost no space at all except for a little slit. And the app menu appears by right clicking on the desktop.. Although iBooks only have one mouse button don't they.. WELL Then, NEVERMIND..
Perhaps XFce would suit you better. The panel can auto-hide and everything.
Klowner
Actually I'm pretty sure these "Zebra Fish" are actually Zebra Danios, at least they appear to be zebra danios..
:)
I have 3 zebra danios, and considering how little I actually clean my aquarium, they are extremely resilient little fish. I'm talking on-par with goldfish as far as hardiness. There is also a long-fin variety of danios that are quite pretty, I'd like to see some glow in the dark long finned ones.
Anyway, my point is, any idiot that can keep half-way decent water in a tank, should be able to keep these little guys happy
Klowner
I'm 20, and I have no children, but the other day (seriously) I was thinking about what kind of internet access I would allow my kids to have..
Proxy port 80: Use something like squid and proxy up port 80 and don't allow any regular traffic on 80 otherwise. Then tell your kid that you can see what websites they're checking out, just to keep them accountable. Doesn't mean you actually have to check the caches constantly. If ever..
No "Speedy Minimization" Rule: I remember the times I was talking to girls when I was younger, it wasn't anything bad, it was just something I didn't wish to share with my parents. I can understand seeing your kid quickly minimizing a photo of albino midget porn, but emails/IMs, I think that's just as intrusive as insisting that your kids let you bug their telephone conversations. How would you like your kids listening on a separate phone to all your conversations?
that is all,
Klowner
I myself am not a vegan, but my mother is. She's nearly 50 and she only requires about 5-6 hours of sleep, and is way more hyperactive than I am (I'm 20, and about 10lbs over where I'd like to be). She didn't go on the diet to lose weight or anything, just for health reasons.
I don't have the will power to do such a thing, but I know I'd be more mentally and physically active if I did.. And although the high meat intake of the Akins diet may cause people to lose weight, I know it would make me feel like crap in the long run, and give me cancer or something. I've also heard of people on the Atkins diet having real problems with energy, although most geeks don't expend much physical energy, the mental energy is still required.
utilizing low-carb methods to modify the metabolism is analogous to hacking and overclocking the body
Yeah, and overclocking often causes equipment to have a slightly shorter life span, doesn't sound good to me.
If anything I need to give up the coffee and start eating more plants.. And if anyone is interested in learning more about the diet here it is.
- Klowner
[Klown's Wallpapers]
Thanks for posting this wonderful article so the large Anti-Christian (or Anti-[Insert Faith Here] for that matter) Slashdot community can let their mindless God bashing begin.
I'm sure God loves to be involved in "scientific studies". How many times have you stopped to take a survey by those freaking people that stand there in the shopping mall?
Dr Richard Sloan, from the New York Presbyterian Hospital, described the concept of a prayer "dose" as "absurd".
He said: "It requires us to abandon our understanding of the physical universe."
That's right Doctor, faith does involve a thing called faith.
Klowner
Unless of course you work at a place that regularly requires us employees to hop around between different workstations.. ONE OF us is a Lefty.. And whoever he is, he always changes the mouse settings to left handed.
;)
I've learned to adapt to left or right handed mouse settings, so I just don't bother changing them back to right handed anymore... So the person after me gets pissed off, and I feel l33t
now it is!
try this handy script in case they actually answer the phone ;)
SCO Slave: "Hello, Thank you for calling SCO, owner of %110 of Linux sources, how may I own^H^H^Hhelp you today?"
You: "Yes, I was considering going for a walk, and I was curious if you own my legs."
SCO Slave: "Why yes we do, we own your right leg. You're required to sign up for our $50,000 right-leg usage license."
You: "Alright, so, after I pay for my leg, I'll be able to do what?"
SCO Slave: "oh, you'll be able to go for a walk, and continue using your legs like you used to."
You: "Legs? I thought you said my right leg."
SCO Slave: "Of course not, we own both your legs, and as I said before, the license fee is $70,000."
You: "But I grew these legs myself!"
SCO Slave: "Our research has determined that your legs contain parts stolen from our leg product"
You: "What?"
SCO Slave: "Your legs contain our patented 10-Toe module, as well as the version 3 rotating ankle."
You: "Alright, so if I pay $70,000 for the use of my legs, you'll leave me alone."
SCO Slave: "That's right, $100,000 for the use of your legs and torso."
To find out how the story ends, call them yourself, and share you results!
Klowner
$16 to $20
She's got my vote for My Girlfriend Election 2003.
nevermind, that sounded really sad..
I may stand corrected, but I think the XBox's controller ports are USB, except with silly plugs.
Those Devo hats really add a nice touch.
I don't know how many days I wake up, and promise myself to NEVER say that, but today it actually made sense.
Klowner
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If new things are "green", is the meatloaf in the fridge new?
Don't you mean..
:)
Distributed Denial of SARS
Ok, fine, so it's an acronym within an acronym. *nix people love it, so you should too
Don't go to college, considering how you're not the type to party, it'll rip away all the creativity from your mind and happyness from your heart, and replace it with uniformity, bitterness, and hatred. You've learned more on your own, that's how you learn, that's how you'll always learn.
And dangit, go to an art school if you simply MUST go to college.
Listen to yourself, you're incredibly mature for your age.
And avoid vivianne, she's evil.
Exactly, but have you considered the possibility of a world that has free sharing of music, causing people to be exposed to more artists and genres, resulting in very few artists who get multi-platinum status because people wouldn't be fed music which is deemed "good" by "The Man". People that get multi-platinum would actually have to be THAT GOOD to earn it, not have the best marketing people.
Sales were up, then napster got shut down and they started dropping, so of course they blamed the drop on all the other P2P networks.
..tell the guy it's already been done.
Install a reasonable linux distro, get wine running, and then drop XPde on top of it, Set his wallpaper to a picture of green grass and blue skys.
There, problem solved,
Klowner
First thing I said to myself when I saw this article..
"Holy crap, now my I-opener I have glued to my dashboard can have internet access!"
Not kidding..