linux homos. i swear to god, i know this is a site for geeks or whatever, but have you reread your draft here? this may just be the gayest story in slashdot's history
>Don't over-prepare, you'll sound over-prepared. If you can't just sit there and naturally answer questions off the top of your head then you're probably not right for the job.
Not all of us our socialites like you. I have significant trouble responding to strangers' comments about the weather in a timely fashion without rehearsal or explicitly being told in advance "you might be expected to handle small talk today".
For many reasons I have a deep and personal hatred of mobile phones -- and hope that I can live out the remainder of my natural life without owning one at any point.
One thing I find incredibly strange is that cell phones are far more ubiquitous in China than in the US. I hear they are life and death in Japan --so perhaps it is a sort of cultural influence, having this closer contact ? Who knows...
Anyway this brings me to problem number one: Chinese girls with both a cell phone and Chinese parents are a VERY bad mix. Now I realize this so-called "problem" is not universal but there are similar TYPES of problems of this nature which exist in every country with the phones. So, anyway, Chinese parents track their daughter's movements at every moment of the day from age 0 to well into their 30's -- unless they marry. Now it is a mystery to me why someone would spend 2 months salary and then 1/5th of their salary every month thereafter to be in "closer" contact with their totalitarian parents, but apparently it made sense to her. So you can guess that my X-girlfriend had a cell phone and Chinese parents, and being as terrified of them as she was, she would cover my mouth and answer the annoying cursed device at the MOST INCONVENIENT of times... It made my life hell, and so I got her out of my life...
Problem number two is the general rudeness of the device. I cannot tell you the number of times I've been deep into a conversation with a friend when his stupid phone started ringing-- and unlike a normal HUMAN approaching to interrupt that can wait until an optimal moment, or interrupt immediately if it is a SERIOUS matter, the phone can interrupt my speech at any random second. I find this incredibly offensive, and while many of my friends are (unfortuantely) rude enough to allow such things to come to be, I myself would never carry a device capable of such impoliteness and irritation.
Problem 3: How many times have you been in a lecture or a test and some asshole (as embarassed and apologetic as he may have seemed) had his phone ring and disturb everyone's thought process ? Don't tell me the ringer can be turned off-- because NO ONE remembers to do it, so it is irrelevant.
Problem 4: EXCESS connectivity... Everyone talks about the convenience, but I don't WANT to be that contactable. I give priority to the PRESENT reality, meaning the person that is with me at that moment. If someone else wishes to contact me they can call my home phone when I am there and not busy with something else. But if I am out of the house, chances are I am already devoting my attention to something and DON'T need or want any way for a 3rd party to disturb me. I also consider this a privacy issue-- I just don't find it comfortable to be THAT connected...
And now I'm very much obsessed with discussing my hatred of this particular technology, so I'm going to repost this to my own diary entry, thanks for any and all responses provolking rational debate of this topic!
We don't need no stinkin' mentors, the Chinese ain't got none, and they seem to be doing just fine.
waht the chinese LACK FOR IN ABILITY, they make up for in ARROGANCE. Have you ever worked with a chinese+???? they can't get enough of themselves, and apparently have no conception whatsoever of cultural relativity and the fact that SOME OTHER CULTURES don't prize braggarts (and blowhards) the way their little clique does
IN SHORT working in IT is a nightmare. I had a good, good job but I had to quit it because the Chinese English Bandits, with their RETARDO moron English that they are so arrogant and proud of, they bandited the SHIT out of me every f'ing day. If I could go back and do a different degree, preferably something where there would be less of this kind garbage English Banditing Chinese, I absolutely would. In short, this whole bullshit about English has basically destroyed my life.
This really makes me sick. I thought no matter how bad Mozilla is, we have no reason to complain or stop using itâ"after all, its free. But now the bastards are taking a heavily anti-capitalist political stance, meaning using Mozilla in a sense vindicates or offers sanction to their sickening ideas. F you Mozilla! Burn in hell.
The worst bit of it, mates, is that if our 99th trip to cambojiya to bang kids is successful and we don't get caught, but then go and f up on the 100th and do get busted, they're gonna say we went there 99 times prior for more of the same.
Better setup a company or business in Cambodia for plausible deniability.
I'm about fed up with the extreme left "technology pressure group" politics of this retarded website. Slashdot -- suck me. Why do you post such rubbish? Poor old geizer, poor poor geizers, don't like their available options because they're not 'AESTHETICALLY PLEASING' enough therefore the American people should subsidize their BASIC HUMAN RIGHT to internet just the way they want it. I suppose they didn't have any choice in choosing the house either -- it's all society's fault, so society should pay.
"I mean, plain ol' HTML has been incredibly disruptive to the government's media control, and technologies like Tor potentially allow any Chinese citizen to read any Ta1wanese newspaper."
It doesn't do any of our fellows in the West any good to write BS like this when you know darn well it is BS. I work in China, for a foreign company, and in the office we cannot have any risk that the bullshit firewall will interfere with our operations. (This is very normal for foreign companies.) ALL OF OUR TRAFFIC is piped through Japan directly. That means every Chinese guy, while at the office, has *real* internet. . . I've chatted extensively with a large number of the guys, and guess what? Not a one of them has ever mentioned this or shown the least bit of particular interest in the extra "freedom" they have while at work work. They sure as HELL are not accessing "banned sites", when lunch time rolls around they are on the same bullshit Chinese youtube clone and other trash mainland China websites every retard in full-censored Chinese internet cafes is hitting. (I say trash sites because they will rip your browser a new A**HOLE. Try surfing some of them -- after 30 minutes you would no longer feel any pity if you heard all webmasters here were going to be lined up and shot.)
Say what you guys want --- I am *here*, I can tell you first hand. Linux or any other free shit, for all practical purposes, does not EXIST in China. Chinese are absolutely about having the 'latest and greatest' absolute trend followers. Windows costs a lot and is most popular -- so to them it's the only thing that exists. Linux is free? Well that's about 100x worse, maybe if you charged $1,000/CD for it it would have a chance in this country. If something doesn't require stealing to obtain -- no one would be caught dead with it. How about this --- a few months back I went to a tech market with more than 7 floors, 100 stall of vendors per floor. I went up to stall after stall asking for an MP3 player that supported OGG. ALL THE GUYS RUNNING THOSE STALLS ARE TECHIES. There wasn't a single person out of the more than 50 guys I asked that had a CLUE what OGG even is. And don't reply it might have been a language issue, I can give you 100% beyond a shadow of a doubt they understood I was asking for "a mp3 player that can support.ogg format files"
I'm guessing you mention "left handed mouse setup" cause you are a right-hander? I think it's great to use the mouse with your non-dominant hand to increase brain plasticity. I use left hand for work mouse, right hand at home.
I've also got a deadly coworker torture technique I use at work, inspired by left hand mouse use. I put the monitor, keyboard and mouse at a sharp sharp angle with piles of garbage stacked on the right side -- so you must sit with the chair slanted looking at the desk and the only possible way one could use the mouse with their right hand is if they reach across their chest and break their wrist to bend their hand at a 45 degree angle with their arm HAHAHA. --- Secret number two is to crank up mouse sensitivty to absolute max, this increase your own productivity anyway once you are used to it, then when they TRY with their lefthand and see it is hopeless they finally contort their body and realize they can't even control my mouse with their right hand... oh it's GREAT. The look on their faces when they are just trying to show me how to do something for the new project... Don't forget to put every other setting out of whack -- double clicking at highest speed with 1 pixel movement max, I actually had a guy give me a priceless comment the other day after 10 failed attempts "Your computer doesn't support double clicking??"
"Computer Professions" ? My GOD dude, don't ever say that word again, it makes me hate you so fucking bad I could wring your fucking neck. That is the most FUCKING FAGGOT word EVER. FUCK YOU
Would any honest person dispute that Supermemo is the single most important application for ANY platform for all of time ? How did people learn before supermemo ? What is the point of learning if you just forget what you learned with time ? How absurdly inefficient, thanks god for supermemo.
And the implications are... ? Thank you Slashdot, you socialist IT-pressure group fucking thugs.
Well the point is: it is nice to know they've been busy hunting terrorists and gangbangers and the like these years instead of passing around the latest 'pass this on to your dear friends to show they what they mean to you' cuddly-feely chain e-mails. The bad news is that is all set to change soon.
And what's with your reference to 'mobile phones' do you think you are fucking Europeans ? Last I heard, it is a goddamn CELL PHONE, and nobody who isn't a big business tycoon should be carrying one.
Can someone PLEASE tell me why in God's UNHOLY BLASTED NAME they are planning to put it together with an EMAIL APPLICATION ? I mean, what's next -- how about an instant messaging client that burns DVD's, those fit together just as well as Email and Calendar. Or maybe a 3D cad program with integrated file encryption suite... WTF is rong with these fucktards.
I'm looking for an entry-level position in China, starting in a few months when I graduate. I'll have a BS and BA. My only requirement is earning at least as much per hour as an English teacher.
dunno why this guy's rated insightful. my 5MP pictures SCALED DOWN on the computer to 1024x768 look 100x better than the shitty old 3 mp ones scaled similarly
My pa's been use'in the "Windows" for nary a year or two less than myself, I started off about age 11 or so, mid-early-90's. Well it frightened me last night that he still hasn't even gotten his brain around the analogies to icons and physical objects and desktops and all that stuff. He doesn't know you can draw a 'box' around files in explorer, nor hold CTRL to select multiple files, nor hold shift to select multiple which are sequentially listed. He has no idea how to drag from one windows to another... The question is -- why didn't I require ANYONE to teach me, and yet in the rest of his life he isn't likely to catch on ? I distinctively remember my first time installing Win95 upgrade and discovering all the goodies -- being able to right click here and there and 100x more functionality in manipulation analogies... I'm goddam sure no one 'demonstrated' any of it to me, and I mastered a good 95% of it in less than 2 hours of play.
Hrmp. Well at least they get to live in India. I want to live in India, at least it wouldn't be like the USA - same old, same old, day in and day out. Don't know how to make friends with the Americans, and I could never have one of their 'elite' women. So boring to live here wanna kill myself everyday out of boredom, at least that might be exciting.
WTF " Isn't 99 cents too much to pay for music that appeals to just a few people?"
This makes little sense -- it is the HUGE music which is worth nothing, and the little music which is worth much. Hey if I like britney's new song so much, I can record to a tape deck from my radio...
Whereas a masterpiece like Iced Earth's The Glorious Burden, -- hell the $18 or so I paid for it was a joke. For a masterpiece that will provide countless hours of pure enjoyment through the REST OF MY LIFETIME, it is worth at least $80-100 at a minimum.
This is just the same with fancy brands -- duh, look if you want Walmart Levi styles you can pay $20. If you want something NO ONE else has or just fancy pants rich folk have, pay $200-300 even
I wasn't talking so much about Chinese words in HTTP url path -- as I was talking about doing something as simple as this: locally I have a file I want to attach to an email in Thunderbird. There is 1 directory in that long path that has single Chinese word- - guess what ? I have to move and rename the file just to attach it... that is retarded. Same goes for saving say a random.jpg from a webpage into any path on my harddrive that happens to have a chinese word somehwere in there.
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linux homos. i swear to god, i know this is a site for geeks or whatever, but have you reread your draft here? this may just be the gayest story in slashdot's history
Or you could bring along some McDonalds gift certificates, everyone loves McDonalds sweet tea and parfaits
WTF?
>Don't over-prepare, you'll sound over-prepared. If you can't just sit there and naturally answer questions off the top of your head then you're probably not right for the job.
Not all of us our socialites like you. I have significant trouble responding to strangers' comments about the weather in a timely fashion without rehearsal or explicitly being told in advance "you might be expected to handle small talk today".
For many reasons I have a deep and personal hatred of mobile phones -- and hope that I can live out the remainder of my natural life without owning one at any point.
One thing I find incredibly strange is that cell phones are far more ubiquitous in China than in the US. I hear they are life and death in Japan --so perhaps it is a sort of cultural influence, having this closer contact ? Who knows...
Anyway this brings me to problem number one:
Chinese girls with both a cell phone and Chinese parents are a VERY bad mix. Now I realize this so-called "problem" is not universal but there are similar TYPES of problems of this nature which exist in every country with the phones. So, anyway, Chinese parents track their daughter's movements at every moment of the day from age 0 to well into their 30's -- unless they marry. Now it is a mystery to me why someone would spend 2 months salary and then 1/5th of their salary every month thereafter to be in "closer" contact with their totalitarian parents, but apparently it made sense to her. So you can guess that my X-girlfriend had a cell phone and Chinese parents, and being as terrified of them as she was, she would cover my mouth and answer the annoying cursed device at the MOST INCONVENIENT of times... It made my life hell, and so I got her out of my life...
Problem number two is the general rudeness of the device. I cannot tell you the number of times I've been deep into a conversation with a friend when his stupid phone started ringing-- and unlike a normal HUMAN approaching to interrupt that can wait until an optimal moment, or interrupt immediately if it is a SERIOUS matter, the phone can interrupt my speech at any random second. I find this incredibly offensive, and while many of my friends are (unfortuantely) rude enough to allow such things to come to be, I myself would never carry a device capable of such impoliteness and irritation.
Problem 3: How many times have you been in a lecture or a test and some asshole (as embarassed and apologetic as he may have seemed) had his phone ring and disturb everyone's thought process ? Don't tell me the ringer can be turned off-- because NO ONE remembers to do it, so it is irrelevant.
Problem 4: EXCESS connectivity... Everyone talks about the convenience, but I don't WANT to be that contactable. I give priority to the PRESENT reality, meaning the person that is with me at that moment. If someone else wishes to contact me they can call my home phone when I am there and not busy with something else. But if I am out of the house, chances are I am already devoting my attention to something and DON'T need or want any way for a 3rd party to disturb me. I also consider this a privacy issue-- I just don't find it comfortable to be THAT connected...
And now I'm very much obsessed with discussing my hatred of this particular technology, so I'm going to repost this to my own diary entry, thanks for any and all responses provolking rational debate of this topic!
We don't need no stinkin' mentors, the Chinese ain't got none, and they seem to be doing just fine.
waht the chinese LACK FOR IN ABILITY, they make up for in ARROGANCE. Have you ever worked with a chinese+???? they can't get enough of themselves, and apparently have no conception whatsoever of cultural relativity and the fact that SOME OTHER CULTURES don't prize braggarts (and blowhards) the way their little clique does
IN SHORT working in IT is a nightmare. I had a good, good job but I had to quit it because the Chinese English Bandits, with their RETARDO moron English that they are so arrogant and proud of, they bandited the SHIT out of me every f'ing day. If I could go back and do a different degree, preferably something where there would be less of this kind garbage English Banditing Chinese, I absolutely would. In short, this whole bullshit about English has basically destroyed my life.
This really makes me sick. I thought no matter how bad Mozilla is, we have no reason to complain or stop using itâ"after all, its free. But now the bastards are taking a heavily anti-capitalist political stance, meaning using Mozilla in a sense vindicates or offers sanction to their sickening ideas. F you Mozilla! Burn in hell.
The worst bit of it, mates, is that if our 99th trip to cambojiya to bang kids is successful and we don't get caught, but then go and f up on the 100th and do get busted, they're gonna say we went there 99 times prior for more of the same.
Better setup a company or business in Cambodia for plausible deniability.
Don't be a dumbass, we've had it on DVD from Shanghai street vendors for $1.20 since about 2 weeks ago.
I'm about fed up with the extreme left "technology pressure group" politics of this retarded website. Slashdot -- suck me. Why do you post such rubbish? Poor old geizer, poor poor geizers, don't like their available options because they're not 'AESTHETICALLY PLEASING' enough therefore the American people should subsidize their BASIC HUMAN RIGHT to internet just the way they want it. I suppose they didn't have any choice in choosing the house either -- it's all society's fault, so society should pay.
glad to hear it, something finally going to be done about you fuckin' freeloading wanna-be hippies
get with the program, the 70's are gone and they aren't coming back
"I mean, plain ol' HTML has been incredibly disruptive to the government's media control, and technologies like Tor potentially allow any Chinese citizen to read any Ta1wanese newspaper."
It doesn't do any of our fellows in the West any good to write BS like this when you know darn well it is BS. I work in China, for a foreign company, and in the office we cannot have any risk that the bullshit firewall will interfere with our operations. (This is very normal for foreign companies.) ALL OF OUR TRAFFIC is piped through Japan directly. That means every Chinese guy, while at the office, has *real* internet. . . I've chatted extensively with a large number of the guys, and guess what? Not a one of them has ever mentioned this or shown the least bit of particular interest in the extra "freedom" they have while at work work. They sure as HELL are not accessing "banned sites", when lunch time rolls around they are on the same bullshit Chinese youtube clone and other trash mainland China websites every retard in full-censored Chinese internet cafes is hitting. (I say trash sites because they will rip your browser a new A**HOLE. Try surfing some of them -- after 30 minutes you would no longer feel any pity if you heard all webmasters here were going to be lined up and shot.)
Say what you guys want --- I am *here*, I can tell you first hand. Linux or any other free shit, for all practical purposes, does not EXIST in China. Chinese are absolutely about having the 'latest and greatest' absolute trend followers. Windows costs a lot and is most popular -- so to them it's the only thing that exists. Linux is free? Well that's about 100x worse, maybe if you charged $1,000/CD for it it would have a chance in this country. If something doesn't require stealing to obtain -- no one would be caught dead with it. .ogg format files"
How about this --- a few months back I went to a tech market with more than 7 floors, 100 stall of vendors per floor. I went up to stall after stall asking for an MP3 player that supported OGG. ALL THE GUYS RUNNING THOSE STALLS ARE TECHIES. There wasn't a single person out of the more than 50 guys I asked that had a CLUE what OGG even is. And don't reply it might have been a language issue, I can give you 100% beyond a shadow of a doubt they understood I was asking for "a mp3 player that can support
I'm guessing you mention "left handed mouse setup" cause you are a right-hander? I think it's great to use the mouse with your non-dominant hand to increase brain plasticity. I use left hand for work mouse, right hand at home.
I've also got a deadly coworker torture technique I use at work, inspired by left hand mouse use. I put the monitor, keyboard and mouse at a sharp sharp angle with piles of garbage stacked on the right side -- so you must sit with the chair slanted looking at the desk and the only possible way one could use the mouse with their right hand is if they reach across their chest and break their wrist to bend their hand at a 45 degree angle with their arm HAHAHA. --- Secret number two is to crank up mouse sensitivty to absolute max, this increase your own productivity anyway once you are used to it, then when they TRY with their lefthand and see it is hopeless they finally contort their body and realize they can't even control my mouse with their right hand... oh it's GREAT. The look on their faces when they are just trying to show me how to do something for the new project... Don't forget to put every other setting out of whack -- double clicking at highest speed with 1 pixel movement max, I actually had a guy give me a priceless comment the other day after 10 failed attempts "Your computer doesn't support double clicking??"
"Computer Professions" ? My GOD dude, don't ever say that word again, it makes me hate you so fucking bad I could wring your fucking neck. That is the most FUCKING FAGGOT word EVER. FUCK YOU
Would any honest person dispute that Supermemo is the single most important application for ANY platform for all of time ? How did people learn before supermemo ? What is the point of learning if you just forget what you learned with time ? How absurdly inefficient, thanks god for supermemo.
And the implications are... ? Thank you Slashdot, you socialist IT-pressure group fucking thugs.
Well the point is: it is nice to know they've been busy hunting terrorists and gangbangers and the like these years instead of passing around the latest 'pass this on to your dear friends to show they what they mean to you' cuddly-feely chain e-mails. The bad news is that is all set to change soon.
And what's with your reference to 'mobile phones' do you think you are fucking Europeans ? Last I heard, it is a goddamn CELL PHONE, and nobody who isn't a big business tycoon should be carrying one.
Can someone PLEASE tell me why in God's UNHOLY BLASTED NAME they are planning to put it together with an EMAIL APPLICATION ? I mean, what's next -- how about an instant messaging client that burns DVD's, those fit together just as well as Email and Calendar. Or maybe a 3D cad program with integrated file encryption suite... WTF is rong with these fucktards.
I'm looking for an entry-level position in China, starting in a few months when I graduate. I'll have a BS and BA. My only requirement is earning at least as much per hour as an English teacher.
I speak English natively.
Please call.
dunno why this guy's rated insightful. my 5MP pictures SCALED DOWN on the computer to 1024x768 look 100x better than the shitty old 3 mp ones scaled similarly
Read entry #1 for the dangers, and the antidote:
http://www.supermemo.com/english/news.htm
http://www.supermemo.com/articles/polyphasic.htm
Don't screw around with your sleep people!
My pa's been use'in the "Windows" for nary a year or two less than myself, I started off about age 11 or so, mid-early-90's. Well it frightened me last night that he still hasn't even gotten his brain around the analogies to icons and physical objects and desktops and all that stuff. He doesn't know you can draw a 'box' around files in explorer, nor hold CTRL to select multiple files, nor hold shift to select multiple which are sequentially listed. He has no idea how to drag from one windows to another... The question is -- why didn't I require ANYONE to teach me, and yet in the rest of his life he isn't likely to catch on ? I distinctively remember my first time installing Win95 upgrade and discovering all the goodies -- being able to right click here and there and 100x more functionality in manipulation analogies... I'm goddam sure no one 'demonstrated' any of it to me, and I mastered a good 95% of it in less than 2 hours of play.
Hrmp. Well at least they get to live in India. I want to live in India, at least it wouldn't be like the USA - same old, same old, day in and day out. Don't know how to make friends with the Americans, and I could never have one of their 'elite' women. So boring to live here wanna kill myself everyday out of boredom, at least that might be exciting.
Gotta go to india folks.
WTF " Isn't 99 cents too much to pay for music that appeals to just a few people?"
This makes little sense -- it is the HUGE music which is worth nothing, and the little music which is worth much. Hey if I like britney's new song so much, I can record to a tape deck from my radio...
Whereas a masterpiece like Iced Earth's The Glorious Burden, -- hell the $18 or so I paid for it was a joke. For a masterpiece that will provide countless hours of pure enjoyment through the REST OF MY LIFETIME, it is worth at least $80-100 at a minimum.
This is just the same with fancy brands -- duh, look if you want Walmart Levi styles you can pay $20. If you want something NO ONE else has or just fancy pants rich folk have, pay $200-300 even
I wasn't talking so much about Chinese words in HTTP url path -- as I was talking about doing something as simple as this: locally I have a file I want to attach to an email in Thunderbird. There is 1 directory in that long path that has single Chinese word- - guess what ? I have to move and rename the file just to attach it ... that is retarded. Same goes for saving say a random .jpg from a webpage into any path on my harddrive that happens to have a chinese word somehwere in there.