...when I was in high school (suburban Washington, DC area) ten years ago, cell phones and pagers were strictly banninated. The assumption was that if you had one, you must be a drug dealer or something. I gather it stayed that way for a while - sure, I'd borrow my folks' phone when I went to prom or something, but I was one of those good kids, so it never went inside the school.
On September 11, 2001 (four years after I graduated), I gather the principal got over the public address system and said in effect "I know you've got 'em, and we're waiving the rules - you should use 'em today." They've been accepted ever since.
i hate taking my mp3 player, cellphone, pda, and ocasionaly camera with me. The first 3 i cant leave the house with. taking public trasport is a hassel every time i enter or leave a subay i have to pay 4 pockets just to make sure i didnt forget anything. its a hassel.
...Samsung's target demographic. Note the subject's text-message inspired spelling and desire for still more electronic toys. Welcome to the 21st Century, brought to you by Far East manufacturing and effective marketing departments.
Dad bought it (with mom rolling her eyes in the background, no doubt) on January 23, 1981. I grew up with an acoustic-coupled 300 baud modem, programs on cassette tapes, and a greenscreen Zenith monitor. I still remember a high school-age cousin dropping by from Washington State back in '84 who monopolized the whole thing for a weekend; he went on to code the calculator (among other things) in Windows 3.x and retired fully burnt at the age of 29.
I piddled around in BASIC when I was little, and learned to touchtype pretty damn quick. Playing brickout with the paddle was the coolest thing ever. I grew out of it by middle school, when the 386sx/16 was hot shit for games like Wolfenstein and the Wing Commander series, and turned into a music geek in high school, culminating in a BM in French horn performance... no comp sci for me. Now I look at my friends with $60k gov't contracting jobs, and me with my $23k bike parts distributor job, and weep profusely.
I'm 24. In the mid/late 90s I went to a 2800-person high school with more electives available than I knew what to do with - so I took an early "zero period" class before school technically started and skipped lunch to take newspaper journalism, leading to a 9-period day rather than the standard 7. Graduated with a 3.6 average in courses ranging from architectural drafting to the elitest (that's with an "e," not an "i") of five concert bands to AP Spanish lit. We used to joke that if you graduated from Roosevelt High's science & tech program, then you could a) bullshit yourself out of any situation and b) handle damn near anything they threw at you given half an hour to learn it.
My current job doesn't near-overtax me like high school did. Any suggestions for one that will? I learn quick, type 75 wpm, and information overload is my friend...
If you're seriously interested, find a copy of one or more of the Bach Cello Suites. Listen, keeping in mind that it's just one guy doing all that. Check out this essay for clarification of the issues involved in a successful performance of said works. If there are words you don't understand in context, look them up. You'll learn a lot about why Bach was a musical genius and why his works are still valid and unsurpassed nearly two hundred years later.
On the one hand, it's great that orchestral music is getting acclaim within the geek crowd, even if it is based on video games. I never caught the FF bug, but so many of my friends did, and in college the music was good background while I did other things in the apartment (generally not at all related to the degree I got in music performance).
On the other hand, RPG music on the whole tends to be overly thematic and soundtrackesque. Very emotional stuff - it doesn't make you think, it makes you sweat. Maybe that's a good release for geeks who think all day, but it compares to 200-years-dead-white-guy classical music in much the same way John Williams does... slightly dumbed down from the original to appeal to the masses.
On the gripping hand, it doesn't matter. People listen to whatever floats their boat, period. Personally I'd much rather attend this then shell out three times as much for kazillionth-row seating at a Britney Spears concert!
Straight from my father, a NASA HQ geek heading up the office of earth science program executive:
"He wasn't picked for a Cabinet level post, so...giving up his $180k/yr job in D.C. for $500k/yr back home in Louisiana!"
Doesn't get much simpler than that. Not the recognition he wants, not the money he wants, so not the position he wants, when he can triple it working elsewhere.
it would be dope as hell (and highly unlikely but remotely possible) if dad got the job. pity it's appointed by the president.
That's the beauty of econo cars - you can tweak the hell out of the suspension to make it corner flat and grip like a nympho gymnast. Anything that makes the car that much fun is good when you realize that you'll never make more than 130whp without spending thousands.
Something has gone horribly wrong with the joint NSA/Aussie venture working with aliens from outer space in their secret Pine Gap research base. The interplanetary war has begun, started by agents of the United States Government. I, for one, am going to lay in a supply of iodine tablets and pure drinking water in anticipation of the fallout that is sure to come after we attempt to nuke their orbiting stealth battle platforms.
Unfortunately, I'd wager far too many do in fact have children, who will take on their parents' overly squelch-everyone-because-you-happen-to-take-offens e values. Entirely too many people breed who don't share my views on politics, religion, and, uhm, breeding. It's a pity. At least I won't bring any kids into the world who will have to put up with them like I did.
Alright, I'm going to write a letter to the FCC demanding that they keep doing things just the way they have been, smut-filled and all. Who's with me?!
According to the latest study by USA Today and Avantgarde, it takes less than 4 minutes for an unpatched Windows XP SP1 system to become part of a botnet.
...and about the same time for Avantgarde's server to be reduced to a smouldering pile of rubble. Go Slashdot!
I'm five years removed from that point in my life and I'd STILL do exactly what you describe. Beats the hell out of driving, when you can, erm, focus your attention better on other things.
John Barnes' Mother of Storms, anyone? Anybody? Bueller?
ahh, let the religious types have their comfort. Doesn't hurt anything until it starts to infringe on our rights.
personally, I'm sacrificing a goat later to appease Satan in hopes that he will not prematurely claim the lives of anyone working on this project to toil mercilessly in his underground sulphur mines for all eternity.
I'm running an ASUS AGP-V6800. 4.5 years old. My first thought: tech has come so far that it's looped back on itself!!
I work for a bike parts/accessories wholesaler...
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...and I browse/. when the sales calls aren't heavily inbound. Naturally, I forwarded the link to the other six folks in the department, and everyone's buzzing about it. We will definitely bring it up with the Kryptonite rep the next time he's in the area.
Generally, folks buying locks know that it's just a deterrent... except for the people buying exactly the retails-at-$80 lock (with heavy-duty chain) shown in the movie, who tend to be messengers and/or people with $1k+ bicycles. Personally, my bikes stay locked up in my living room when I'm not on them, and I don't take my lock with me when I seriously ride because that would tempt me to separate myself from the bike. I've got a cheap old schwinn cruiser for that. (=
don't talk into the mouse. transparent aluminum will get you anything. And when you're drunk, ask the bartender for "N C C One Seven Oh One. No Bloody A, B, C, or D."
...the Post has some stuff that's worth reading about, and hang the registration?
I moved from ten miles northeast of DC to Columbia, SC. I still have my browser's home set to washingtonpost.com, simply because the local paper down here sucks even worse, and I miss living in a real urban area; the Post gives me a taste of life back home.
...he's the NASA dude quoted in this article about how the fiber cable for Svalbard was funded, and what good it can possibly do. Apparently he had to ride out to the tracking station they have there on a snowmobile, escorted by folks with rifles in case of polar bears. I wish my job were that much fun.
...I'll state flat-out that I'm no good with maths, but I've ridden a few different wheelsets in my day, and it's pretty easy to tell the difference. It really depends on the event; aerodynamics definitely figure more than weight in a time trial, at least one where you're going fast enough for slipstream to come into play (unlike Alpe d'Huez). Those carbon disc & 5-spoke wheels are tank, relatively speaking.
Wood also tends to insulate much better than aluminum or even steel... which is not what you want with a stable system.
On the other hand, it strikes me that a nice wooden case would dampen sound better, so if you had half a dozen fans in it forcing air through, it might work nicely. If you wanted an expensive custom-designed job, anyway.
which they did by substituting the titanium bolts on some of his equipment with stainless steel instead. How's that for gram-counting? It's amazing the difference people think one or two extra grams saved will make on their riding.
On the flipside, every bit of rotating weight you shave off the wheels counts far more than relatively stationary weight on the frame or componentry. Those wheels Armstrong rode up Alpe d'Huez with were around 1000g for the set; compare with the Ksyrium Equipes on my road bike at 1670g. Truly use-once-and-throw-away event-specific stuff... anyone over 200lbs gets on those, they fold up like pringles.
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pity there's no "+5, Groovy" available in this instance...
...when I was in high school (suburban Washington, DC area) ten years ago, cell phones and pagers were strictly banninated. The assumption was that if you had one, you must be a drug dealer or something. I gather it stayed that way for a while - sure, I'd borrow my folks' phone when I went to prom or something, but I was one of those good kids, so it never went inside the school.
On September 11, 2001 (four years after I graduated), I gather the principal got over the public address system and said in effect "I know you've got 'em, and we're waiving the rules - you should use 'em today." They've been accepted ever since.
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Dad bought it (with mom rolling her eyes in the background, no doubt) on January 23, 1981. I grew up with an acoustic-coupled 300 baud modem, programs on cassette tapes, and a greenscreen Zenith monitor. I still remember a high school-age cousin dropping by from Washington State back in '84 who monopolized the whole thing for a weekend; he went on to code the calculator (among other things) in Windows 3.x and retired fully burnt at the age of 29.
I piddled around in BASIC when I was little, and learned to touchtype pretty damn quick. Playing brickout with the paddle was the coolest thing ever. I grew out of it by middle school, when the 386sx/16 was hot shit for games like Wolfenstein and the Wing Commander series, and turned into a music geek in high school, culminating in a BM in French horn performance... no comp sci for me. Now I look at my friends with $60k gov't contracting jobs, and me with my $23k bike parts distributor job, and weep profusely.
I'm 24. In the mid/late 90s I went to a 2800-person high school with more electives available than I knew what to do with - so I took an early "zero period" class before school technically started and skipped lunch to take newspaper journalism, leading to a 9-period day rather than the standard 7. Graduated with a 3.6 average in courses ranging from architectural drafting to the elitest (that's with an "e," not an "i") of five concert bands to AP Spanish lit. We used to joke that if you graduated from Roosevelt High's science & tech program, then you could a) bullshit yourself out of any situation and b) handle damn near anything they threw at you given half an hour to learn it.
My current job doesn't near-overtax me like high school did. Any suggestions for one that will? I learn quick, type 75 wpm, and information overload is my friend...
If you're seriously interested, find a copy of one or more of the Bach Cello Suites. Listen, keeping in mind that it's just one guy doing all that. Check out this essay for clarification of the issues involved in a successful performance of said works. If there are words you don't understand in context, look them up. You'll learn a lot about why Bach was a musical genius and why his works are still valid and unsurpassed nearly two hundred years later.
On the one hand, it's great that orchestral music is getting acclaim within the geek crowd, even if it is based on video games. I never caught the FF bug, but so many of my friends did, and in college the music was good background while I did other things in the apartment (generally not at all related to the degree I got in music performance).
On the other hand, RPG music on the whole tends to be overly thematic and soundtrackesque. Very emotional stuff - it doesn't make you think, it makes you sweat. Maybe that's a good release for geeks who think all day, but it compares to 200-years-dead-white-guy classical music in much the same way John Williams does... slightly dumbed down from the original to appeal to the masses.
On the gripping hand, it doesn't matter. People listen to whatever floats their boat, period. Personally I'd much rather attend this then shell out three times as much for kazillionth-row seating at a Britney Spears concert!
"you're the best AC in all of Slashdot!"
hmm, you're right. meaningless.
Straight from my father, a NASA HQ geek heading up the office of earth science program executive:
"He wasn't picked for a Cabinet level post, so...giving up his $180k/yr job in D.C. for $500k/yr back home in Louisiana!"
Doesn't get much simpler than that. Not the recognition he wants, not the money he wants, so not the position he wants, when he can triple it working elsewhere.
it would be dope as hell (and highly unlikely but remotely possible) if dad got the job. pity it's appointed by the president.
That's the beauty of econo cars - you can tweak the hell out of the suspension to make it corner flat and grip like a nympho gymnast. Anything that makes the car that much fun is good when you realize that you'll never make more than 130whp without spending thousands.
Something has gone horribly wrong with the joint NSA/Aussie venture working with aliens from outer space in their secret Pine Gap research base. The interplanetary war has begun, started by agents of the United States Government. I, for one, am going to lay in a supply of iodine tablets and pure drinking water in anticipation of the fallout that is sure to come after we attempt to nuke their orbiting stealth battle platforms.
Unfortunately, I'd wager far too many do in fact have children, who will take on their parents' overly squelch-everyone-because-you-happen-to-take-offens e values. Entirely too many people breed who don't share my views on politics, religion, and, uhm, breeding. It's a pity. At least I won't bring any kids into the world who will have to put up with them like I did.
Alright, I'm going to write a letter to the FCC demanding that they keep doing things just the way they have been, smut-filled and all. Who's with me?!
I'm five years removed from that point in my life and I'd STILL do exactly what you describe. Beats the hell out of driving, when you can, erm, focus your attention better on other things.
John Barnes' Mother of Storms, anyone? Anybody? Bueller?
ahh, let the religious types have their comfort. Doesn't hurt anything until it starts to infringe on our rights.
personally, I'm sacrificing a goat later to appease Satan in hopes that he will not prematurely claim the lives of anyone working on this project to toil mercilessly in his underground sulphur mines for all eternity.
I'm running an ASUS AGP-V6800. 4.5 years old. My first thought: tech has come so far that it's looped back on itself!!
...and I browse /. when the sales calls aren't heavily inbound. Naturally, I forwarded the link to the other six folks in the department, and everyone's buzzing about it. We will definitely bring it up with the Kryptonite rep the next time he's in the area.
Generally, folks buying locks know that it's just a deterrent... except for the people buying exactly the retails-at-$80 lock (with heavy-duty chain) shown in the movie, who tend to be messengers and/or people with $1k+ bicycles. Personally, my bikes stay locked up in my living room when I'm not on them, and I don't take my lock with me when I seriously ride because that would tempt me to separate myself from the bike. I've got a cheap old schwinn cruiser for that. (=
don't talk into the mouse. transparent aluminum will get you anything. And when you're drunk, ask the bartender for "N C C One Seven Oh One. No Bloody A, B, C, or D."
...the Post has some stuff that's worth reading about, and hang the registration?
I moved from ten miles northeast of DC to Columbia, SC. I still have my browser's home set to washingtonpost.com, simply because the local paper down here sucks even worse, and I miss living in a real urban area; the Post gives me a taste of life back home.
...he's the NASA dude quoted in this article about how the fiber cable for Svalbard was funded, and what good it can possibly do. Apparently he had to ride out to the tracking station they have there on a snowmobile, escorted by folks with rifles in case of polar bears. I wish my job were that much fun.
...I'll state flat-out that I'm no good with maths, but I've ridden a few different wheelsets in my day, and it's pretty easy to tell the difference. It really depends on the event; aerodynamics definitely figure more than weight in a time trial, at least one where you're going fast enough for slipstream to come into play (unlike Alpe d'Huez). Those carbon disc & 5-spoke wheels are tank, relatively speaking.
Wood also tends to insulate much better than aluminum or even steel... which is not what you want with a stable system.
On the other hand, it strikes me that a nice wooden case would dampen sound better, so if you had half a dozen fans in it forcing air through, it might work nicely. If you wanted an expensive custom-designed job, anyway.
On the flipside, every bit of rotating weight you shave off the wheels counts far more than relatively stationary weight on the frame or componentry. Those wheels Armstrong rode up Alpe d'Huez with were around 1000g for the set; compare with the Ksyrium Equipes on my road bike at 1670g. Truly use-once-and-throw-away event-specific stuff... anyone over 200lbs gets on those, they fold up like pringles.
In much the same way the majority of sysadmins/etc make their money, surprisingly enough. Ever hear of the ? You think we should be more benevolent, check out those archives. I feel bad replying to a troll, but you can take your moral high ground elsewhere; we got paid $7/hr, half of your typical tech phone monkey, so we had to get our jollies somehow.