Re:I'm raising my daughter to be a girl geek
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Personally I think it's hilarious when people try to be sexist when dealing with computers. One of our sysadmins was female and we would purporsely send the sexist idiots her way so they could feel the pleasure of having their problem fixed by a woman, depsite said morons' insistance that they needed to speak with a man to get their problem solved.
For the most part though our customers did not care if the person on the other end of the phone was purple and from outer space as long as their porno and warez were coming down the pipe as expected.
OTOH it would be interesting for Linux to be able to incorporate different personalities in the UI to accomodate for the differences in the way males and females use computers. I'm sure Microsoft is working on it already.
Can you keep time without being able to hear the drummer? I'm a geek, and I cant. My internal time will land me somewhere behind the beat within about 10 seconds if I have no other rhythmic references. I could never be a drummer.
Nobody said you would not be able to keep time at all or that you have to ram your head in your food to exhibit mild Autism, then again maybe you're just a guy who's good a computers. It's all interesting nonetheless.
This is immensely interesting. Just Saturday I was playing poker (losing of course, I cant read people becasue I'm a geek) and I had a twitch of the likes I get about once every three days. I was with a bunch of friends so I just let it rip. I could have prevented it, but I really have to concentrate to do it. Anyhow, it seemed odd to me that my friends thought it was strange, since I've been doing this forever. I just thought everyone did.
I suppose I do rock alot as I'm always flipping my chair back on two legs, but what I'm wondering is if other repetitive behavior is linked to autism. I have to have something in my hands. I cannot be without something to fidget with. I play guitar (for 10 years now) but have no desire to be in a band at all, I can play for hours while watching TV or reading stuff off the web. (Maybe it's why I dont read. Have to shut down the brain if I'm not fidgeting with something). When I'm listening to music I cant stop tapping my feet or hands. Right now as I was thinking up the next sentence I had to drum on the keyboard. My favorite thing to do as a child? Legos. Not only did I get to sort through thousands of little plastic pieces but I got to build something with my hands.
When I first read this article, I was like "That does not describe me" But the more I look at it, the more it does.
At least she was doing the wrong thing for the right reasons. I cant hold too much against a lady who was at least paying attention to what her kids were doing and listening to. She didn't need to go national with it though. She could have just taken the tape away from her daughter and have been done with it.
You could always have first lady Clinton and her getting terrorists freed to try and win over votes in a senatorial race, or her numerous shady business deals...
Nut they wont be breaking a law. Just not submitting to "voluntary" ratings. If this is all really voluntary than there will be nothing the government can do. That's where this plan falls apart.
The Self rating part would still have to be forcibly applied to alot of people with contreversial views. Hate groups for exmaple, are not going to rate their content as racist or hate-filled, they would more likely rate it as nationalistic or somesuch. Since they want to be heard they have a vested interest in not rating themselves logically. If you require everyone by law to rate themselves non-fraudulantly then it's not really a self rating system, and we're sort of back to square one aren't we? I dont think we can force labels in this country (USA) so how would this work? What about elsewhere in the world? Clearly XXX sites will love to self rate themselves as the worst and raunchiest, but what about all the other people on the perimeter of the mainstream who are trying to get a voice?
I'm all for people rating their content, but once you start filtering based on that I dont know if I agree. In a self rating system there's nothing stopping a KKK site from using a rating of "Happy-Happy Joy-Joy", which would then cause all of the filters to drop "Happy-Happy Joy-Joy" to the floor since it's been connected to a hate group.
I guess I think self rating is good, but I think the government and the infrastructure people need to stay out of it.
When the ranching concerns bring back a cloned species just to mass produce it for your local meat counter? When Tyson brings back the dodo and KFC has fried or rotisserie dodo? They're certainly not going to bring them back only for science..
As RedHat has clearly demonstrated, it's totally possible to make money on Free Software. RMS and the GPL might be commmunist in philosophy, but their implementation in the real world is based only on capitalism. Free Software is a success because it's making (or saving) money for people. Free software cant superceed capitalism in a capitalist society, the best it can hope to do is prevent the capitalists from being facists by allowing the people their own choice. You'd better bet the capitalists will figure out how to make money on that.
What you said is true, but the fact remains that movies are marketed towards teenagers (they spend the most on them) so an NC-17 movie has almost no chance of wide distribution, since it would be irresponsible to show it to the target market. Becasue it wont be in most theaters, it wont make any money, so no one will promote it, so it wont show up in the papers.. It's a slippery slope.
The one good thing is there is a thriving adult distribution network. Playboy doesn't have ANY problems selling it's videos and I'm sure the proprietor of your local Adult-Book/Video store is not risking chapter 11. In America it's not illegal to sell tapes of a KKK rally or even to participate in one, so no matter how things are labeled, the info will still be out there. Maybe kids wont be able to find it with AOL, but it will be out there. I dont worry to much for us in the states. There will always be a way to be heard here. The 1st ammendment will do a good job of protecting the backbone from knee-jerk fundamentalists who are afraid of the net.
What goes on in other countries though pretty much sucks. And adding labels which make it easy for other governments to weed out what they dont want is a serious threat to free speech. Not everyone has a 1st ammendment, not everyone is free. Those governemnts will fight to the end to make sure the net is labeled and censored to their advantage.
The tree may increase in size, but the nodes at the root will have more paths to the leaves. As databases like yahoo become larger and larger it stands to reason that as the size of the web increases they will have more links to leaf sites. What would be interesting research is if the 19 remains constant through web growth, or if it decreases (or increases) as more "portals" condense the web down to only a few entry points for the masses.
I liked Star Wars. I liked Empire Strikes Back the most. I didn't like Return of the Jedi all that much. Star Wars: The Phantom Menace was the worst of the four, by a very large margin.
That being said, look back on Star Wars with adult eyes. The acting is bad, the dialog is terrible, the story is sort of weak. All of that being said It's still a classic of science fiction if for nothing else than special effects and the way it got kids into the audience with it's fairy-tale story. You'd never be able to get a 5 year old kid to understand the adult themes in Star Trek the Motion Picture or 2001: A Space Odyssey but Star Wars opened the door so that kids would be interested in sci-fi (sort of sci-fantasy?), and for that reason we continue to look back on it fondly, like a childhood memory. Who cares that the plot was weak and the characters were one dimensional? It was and still is great fun for kids.
Sun is good hardware. It's very good hardware. It's also very different than a PC. PC's are designed specifically to do the average tasks well, they are personal computers after all. Sun hardware (Workstations in general) are designed to high end things well. My experience has shown that Suns are not necessarily huge number crunchers as much as high end servers, they do well at things like gargantuan databases or web servers or applications that require large amounts of I/O and memory. Of course you'll get better bang for the buck out of a PC, You probably get better bang for the buck out of Toyota Camry than a Ferrari too depending on how you want to make the argument, but given the choice anyone will choose the Ferrari.
I've used Linux/x86 for a long long time. I've used Sun for a long long time. Linux/x86, as cool as it is, has a long way to go to match up to Sun when it comes to beating the disks, handling the network i/o and maintaining some shred of respectable interactive performance. I dont know what's wrong with your 28 processor machine, but it's in your company's best interest to figure out what, becasue you should be getting way more performance out of that million dollar iron.
The reasons no one is ethical is that they can get away with it. Microsoft contiues to put out a crap product, year after year, but people dont care. Bargain basement PC's get cheaper and less reliable year after year, but people dont care. Our privacy is infringed on every day by databases and marketers, but people dont care.
Code gets more and more complicated and less and less reliable, but people get it anyway becasue they dont care.
People download MP3's and warez by the millions every day becasue there's no punishment. IT peole are going to get away with whatever they can, it's human nature.
What's amusing is that when I started CS in 92, just a few years ago, very few people were in it because they thought they'd get rich. No one had email, most people didn't know or care wtf Bill Gates was. For the most part, people I talked to consider CS something like 'Rocket Science', something very technical, and very hard, that only really smart people can do. Of course that perception has changed alot as any monkey can get a job in IT, and that gets equated to CS in the mainstream.
The boom will vanish someday. Hopefully we'll still remember enough math and physics to be useful computer scientists.
another point about hard science is the amount of time it takes to study up to the leading edge of fields like physics, chemistry and (most importantly, IMHO, astronomy). the study of science is a parabolic venture, the farther you get along the harder it is to discover new things.
Hm. I think CS has the potential to be equally as time consuming as well, but for different reasons. CS is both theoretical and applied and the applied portion changes VERY rapidly. Not to mention that the field is very young and many discoveries await us. For these reason to be up on CS you have to continue to learn way after you get your degree.
On the other end, it also means we end up with lusers as fellow programmers. A Visual Basic developper once asked me what a DLL was. Eek!
I was in a class my last year of college with seniors in CS who didn't know what a hash table was. YOW! Fortunately for those of us with a real understanding of CS, these fools will always be stuck answering pagers and writing HTML while the rest of us move on.
I think there's a big distinction that needs to be made here. Right now there's alot of jobs in the computer industry but how many of them are really CS? Coding HTML is not CS. Getting your MCSE is not CS. Being a Unix sysadmin is not CS. Running an NT mailserver is not CS.
True CS involves alot more of a high level understanding of what's going on. True CS involves people who are solving problems at a very high level, who are re-thinking the norm and who are applying their background in math and science to solve a problem, not people who are rebooting servers when the pager goes off.
I know alot of people who work answering the pager and maintain unix/nt/cisco systems as their job. They're all really smart people, but what they're doing probably isnt CS. In fact most of them dont have a degree in CS if they have a degree at all. I'm not even sure if what I do really has all that much to do with pure computer science, but I'm pretty sure I have a solid background to fall back on if it were to come up, which is why I dont worry. What worries me is people coming out of assembly line CS programs who dont have any idea what real Computer Science is about, and just want to get paid.
I've transfered hundreds of sites from BSD to Solaris and I can tell you it's an enormous pain in the ass. Even if the entire site is 100% perl, you need to have that perl be 100% OS independent, and even if that is the case there's always something that's overlooked. I'm sure Rob and company could technically move/. to any platform they want, but the bigger and more complicated a site becomes the harder and harder it is to do that. I for one would rather they make the existing archetecture faster rather than experiencing the pain of going to a new platform.
It's about TIME someone with some actual windows coding experience wrt Crypto API clears this up.
What I'm wondering is if one CSP can have any runtime access to another CSP or if the modules are protected from each other?
If the CSP's are proected from each other than this really isn't a backdoor at all, Unless of course there's undocumented features to get around module protection.
Good damn question. I'm trying to figure out what the hell the point of this was myself. So this means that now people like microsoft can continue to steal code and now they have BSD's permission to not even acknowledge who they were stealing code from?
First of all, no one is stealing any code from anyone. BSD is giving their code away.
Second of all this is NOT retroactive, and Microsoft has written it's TCP/IP stack/Utilities long ago, so the old license still stands. Microsoft cant say that 4.3bsd (or 4.4) code is now theirs, it's not, it never was, it never will be. The old license says clearly they must acknowledge UCB and if they want to be legal they will continue to do so.
Oh the "culture of the Internet" oh here's a big laugh. Here's news for you. I've been on the net since '92 (Okay not nearly as long as some of you but a lot longer than most) and I'll tell you right now, unfortunately, the culture of the Internet is about money. UNISYS is right inline with the culture of the Internet, Get Paid. Domain squatters, eBay, Amazon, and yes, RedHat, this is what the net is about now. Long gone are the days of research and freedom. Even Linux is about money now. (if it weren't for the GPL we'd really be up the creek wouldn't we?)
UNISYS doesn't have to give away free licenses, they dont have to be nice to us in the face of hostile ridicule. They COULD limit their license only to $500 graphics packages, but they dont. This guy probably just got out of a meeting with his poor secretary who was harassed by all you fools and you dont expect him to derride the free software community? Thanks to more childish antics on the part of the Free Software zealots we have alienated yet more people. I'd like to say that I've turned a few people into Linux advocates since I started running it in 93. If I could only teach them tact.
The maximum state of intoxication is still up for much debate, but having a great deal of empirical evidence from my days working at an ISP I can say this:
- Ouzo does an excellent job of cleaning gunk of keyboards.
- It's still possible to provide top notch technical support while lying on the ground.
- It's easy to stash beer under the raised floor. It's not so easy to find it.
- When the delivery guy arrives with your new server you'd better at least offer him a drink lest your next server show up in pieces.
- Modem rack lights are very very cool looking when intoxicated.
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Personally I think it's hilarious when people try to be sexist when dealing with computers. One of our sysadmins was female and we would purporsely send the sexist idiots her way so they could feel the pleasure of having their problem fixed by a woman, depsite said morons' insistance that they needed to speak with a man to get their problem solved.
For the most part though our customers did not care if the person on the other end of the phone was purple and from outer space as long as their porno and warez were coming down the pipe as expected.
-Rich
I dont think Linux needs a new distribution.
OTOH it would be interesting for Linux to be able to incorporate different personalities in the UI to accomodate for the differences in the way males and females use computers. I'm sure Microsoft is working on it already.
-Rich
Can you keep time without being able to hear the drummer? I'm a geek, and I cant. My internal time will land me somewhere behind the beat within about 10 seconds if I have no other rhythmic references. I could never be a drummer.
Nobody said you would not be able to keep time at all or that you have to ram your head in your food to exhibit mild Autism, then again maybe you're just a guy who's good a computers. It's all interesting nonetheless.
-Rich
This is immensely interesting. Just Saturday I was playing poker (losing of course, I cant read people becasue I'm a geek) and I had a twitch of the likes I get about once every three days. I was with a bunch of friends so I just let it rip. I could have prevented it, but I really have to concentrate to do it. Anyhow, it seemed odd to me that my friends thought it was strange, since I've been doing this forever. I just thought everyone did.
-Rich
I suppose I do rock alot as I'm always flipping my chair back on two legs, but what I'm wondering is if other repetitive behavior is linked to autism. I have to have something in my hands. I cannot be without something to fidget with. I play guitar (for 10 years now) but have no desire to be in a band at all, I can play for hours while watching TV or reading stuff off the web. (Maybe it's why I dont read. Have to shut down the brain if I'm not fidgeting with something). When I'm listening to music I cant stop tapping my feet or hands. Right now as I was thinking up the next sentence I had to drum on the keyboard. My favorite thing to do as a child? Legos. Not only did I get to sort through thousands of little plastic pieces but I got to build something with my hands.
When I first read this article, I was like "That does not describe me" But the more I look at it, the more it does.
-Rich
I dont know if she's all that evil.
At least she was doing the wrong thing for the right reasons. I cant hold too much against a lady who was at least paying attention to what her kids were doing and listening to. She didn't need to go national with it though. She could have just taken the tape away from her daughter and have been done with it.
You could always have first lady Clinton and her getting terrorists freed to try and win over votes in a senatorial race, or her numerous shady business deals...
-Rich
Nut they wont be breaking a law. Just not submitting to "voluntary" ratings. If this is all really voluntary than there will be nothing the government can do. That's where this plan falls apart.
-Rich
The Self rating part would still have to be forcibly applied to alot of people with contreversial views. Hate groups for exmaple, are not going to rate their content as racist or hate-filled, they would more likely rate it as nationalistic or somesuch. Since they want to be heard they have a vested interest in not rating themselves logically. If you require everyone by law to rate themselves non-fraudulantly then it's not really a self rating system, and we're sort of back to square one aren't we? I dont think we can force labels in this country (USA) so how would this work? What about elsewhere in the world? Clearly XXX sites will love to self rate themselves as the worst and raunchiest, but what about all the other people on the perimeter of the mainstream who are trying to get a voice?
I'm all for people rating their content, but once you start filtering based on that I dont know if I agree. In a self rating system there's nothing stopping a KKK site from using a rating of "Happy-Happy Joy-Joy", which would then cause all of the filters to drop "Happy-Happy Joy-Joy" to the floor since it's been connected to a hate group.
I guess I think self rating is good, but I think the government and the infrastructure people need to stay out of it.
-Rich
When the ranching concerns bring back a cloned species just to mass produce it for your local meat counter? When Tyson brings back the dodo and KFC has fried or rotisserie dodo? They're certainly not going to bring them back only for science..
-Rich
As RedHat has clearly demonstrated, it's totally possible to make money on Free Software. RMS and the GPL might be commmunist in philosophy, but their implementation in the real world is based only on capitalism. Free Software is a success because it's making (or saving) money for people. Free software cant superceed capitalism in a capitalist society, the best it can hope to do is prevent the capitalists from being facists by allowing the people their own choice. You'd better bet the capitalists will figure out how to make money on that.
-Rich
What you said is true, but the fact remains that movies are marketed towards teenagers (they spend the most on them) so an NC-17 movie has almost no chance of wide distribution, since it would be irresponsible to show it to the target market. Becasue it wont be in most theaters, it wont make any money, so no one will promote it, so it wont show up in the papers.. It's a slippery slope.
The one good thing is there is a thriving adult distribution network. Playboy doesn't have ANY problems selling it's videos and I'm sure the proprietor of your local Adult-Book/Video store is not risking chapter 11. In America it's not illegal to sell tapes of a KKK rally or even to participate in one, so no matter how things are labeled, the info will still be out there. Maybe kids wont be able to find it with AOL, but it will be out there. I dont worry to much for us in the states. There will always be a way to be heard here. The 1st ammendment will do a good job of protecting the backbone from knee-jerk fundamentalists who are afraid of the net.
What goes on in other countries though pretty much sucks. And adding labels which make it easy for other governments to weed out what they dont want is a serious threat to free speech. Not everyone has a 1st ammendment, not everyone is free. Those governemnts will fight to the end to make sure the net is labeled and censored to their advantage.
-Rich
The tree may increase in size, but the nodes at the root will have more paths to the leaves. As databases like yahoo become larger and larger it stands to reason that as the size of the web increases they will have more links to leaf sites. What would be interesting research is if the 19 remains constant through web growth, or if it decreases (or increases) as more "portals" condense the web down to only a few entry points for the masses.
-Rich
Let me get a few things out in the open first...
I liked Star Wars.
I liked Empire Strikes Back the most.
I didn't like Return of the Jedi all that much.
Star Wars: The Phantom Menace was the worst of the four, by a very large margin.
That being said, look back on Star Wars with adult eyes. The acting is bad, the dialog is terrible, the story is sort of weak. All of that being said It's still a classic of science fiction if for nothing else than special effects and the way it got kids into the audience with it's fairy-tale story. You'd never be able to get a 5 year old kid to understand the adult themes in Star Trek the Motion Picture or 2001: A Space Odyssey but Star Wars opened the door so that kids would be interested in sci-fi (sort of sci-fantasy?), and for that reason we continue to look back on it fondly, like a childhood memory. Who cares that the plot was weak and the characters were one dimensional? It was and still is great fun for kids.
My $.02
-Rich
Sun is good hardware. It's very good hardware. It's also very different than a PC. PC's are designed specifically to do the average tasks well, they are personal computers after all. Sun hardware (Workstations in general) are designed to high end things well. My experience has shown that Suns are not necessarily huge number crunchers as much as high end servers, they do well at things like gargantuan databases or web servers or applications that require large amounts of I/O and memory. Of course you'll get better bang for the buck out of a PC, You probably get better bang for the buck out of Toyota Camry than a Ferrari too depending on how you want to make the argument, but given the choice anyone will choose the Ferrari.
I've used Linux/x86 for a long long time. I've used Sun for a long long time. Linux/x86, as cool as it is, has a long way to go to match up to Sun when it comes to beating the disks, handling the network i/o and maintaining some shred of respectable interactive performance. I dont know what's wrong with your 28 processor machine, but it's in your company's best interest to figure out what, becasue you should be getting way more performance out of that million dollar iron.
-Rich
The reasons no one is ethical is that they can get away with it. Microsoft contiues to put out a crap product, year after year, but people dont care.
Bargain basement PC's get cheaper and less reliable year after year, but people dont care.
Our privacy is infringed on every day by databases and marketers, but people dont care.
Code gets more and more complicated and less and less reliable, but people get it anyway becasue they dont care.
People download MP3's and warez by the millions every day becasue there's no punishment. IT peole are going to get away with whatever they can, it's human nature.
-Rich
What's amusing is that when I started CS in 92, just a few years ago, very few people were in it because they thought they'd get rich. No one had email, most people didn't know or care wtf Bill Gates was. For the most part, people I talked to consider CS something like 'Rocket Science', something very technical, and very hard, that only really smart people can do. Of course that perception has changed alot as any monkey can get a job in IT, and that gets equated to CS in the mainstream.
The boom will vanish someday. Hopefully we'll still remember enough math and physics to be useful computer scientists.
-Rich
another point about hard science is the amount of time it takes to study up to the leading edge of fields like physics, chemistry and (most importantly, IMHO, astronomy). the study of science is a parabolic venture, the farther you get along the harder it is to discover new things.
Hm. I think CS has the potential to be equally as time consuming as well, but for different reasons. CS is both theoretical and applied and the applied portion changes VERY rapidly. Not to mention that the field is very young and many discoveries await us. For these reason to be up on CS you have to continue to learn way after you get your degree.
-Rich
On the other end, it also means we end up with lusers as fellow programmers. A Visual Basic developper once asked me what a DLL was. Eek!
I was in a class my last year of college with seniors in CS who didn't know what a hash table was. YOW! Fortunately for those of us with a real understanding of CS, these fools will always be stuck answering pagers and writing HTML while the rest of us move on.
-Rich
I think there's a big distinction that needs to be made here. Right now there's alot of jobs in the computer industry but how many of them are really CS? Coding HTML is not CS. Getting your MCSE is not CS. Being a Unix sysadmin is not CS. Running an NT mailserver is not CS.
True CS involves alot more of a high level understanding of what's going on. True CS involves people who are solving problems at a very high level, who are re-thinking the norm and who are applying their background in math and science to solve a problem, not people who are rebooting servers when the pager goes off.
I know alot of people who work answering the pager and maintain unix/nt/cisco systems as their job. They're all really smart people, but what they're doing probably isnt CS. In fact most of them dont have a degree in CS if they have a degree at all. I'm not even sure if what I do really has all that much to do with pure computer science, but I'm pretty sure I have a solid background to fall back on if it were to come up, which is why I dont worry. What worries me is people coming out of assembly line CS programs who dont have any idea what real Computer Science is about, and just want to get paid.
-Rich
I've transfered hundreds of sites from BSD to Solaris and I can tell you it's an enormous pain in the ass. Even if the entire site is 100% perl, you need to have that perl be 100% OS independent, and even if that is the case there's always something that's overlooked. I'm sure Rob and company could technically move /. to any platform they want, but the bigger and more complicated a site becomes the harder and harder it is to do that. I for one would rather they make the existing archetecture faster rather than experiencing the pain of going to a new platform.
-Rich
It's about TIME someone with some actual windows coding experience wrt Crypto API clears this up.
What I'm wondering is if one CSP can have any runtime access to another CSP or if the modules are protected from each other?
If the CSP's are proected from each other than this really isn't a backdoor at all, Unless of course there's undocumented features to get around module protection.
-Rich
Spoken like a true college student. Possibly even a grad student(?)
Just because something does not fit the current model does not mean it's wrong (Well it does when you're in college).
I bet you get A's dont you? Fudge your lab data alot?
This might turn out to be on par with cold fusion or it might be significant. Lets wait for the additional research and find out.
-Rich
Good damn question. I'm trying to figure out what the hell the point of this was myself. So this means that now people like
microsoft can continue to steal code and now they have BSD's permission to not even acknowledge who they were stealing code
from?
First of all, no one is stealing any code from anyone. BSD is giving their code away.
Second of all this is NOT retroactive, and Microsoft has written it's TCP/IP stack/Utilities long ago, so the old license still stands. Microsoft cant say that 4.3bsd (or 4.4) code is now theirs, it's not, it never was, it never will be. The old license says clearly they must acknowledge UCB and if they want to be legal they will continue to do so.
-Rich
Oh the "culture of the Internet" oh here's a big laugh. Here's news for you. I've been on the net since '92 (Okay not nearly as long as some of you but a lot longer than most) and I'll tell you right now, unfortunately, the culture of the Internet is about money. UNISYS is right inline with the culture of the Internet, Get Paid. Domain squatters, eBay, Amazon, and yes, RedHat, this is what the net is about now. Long gone are the days of research and freedom. Even Linux is about money now. (if it weren't for the GPL we'd really be up the creek wouldn't we?)
UNISYS doesn't have to give away free licenses, they dont have to be nice to us in the face of hostile ridicule. They COULD limit their license only to $500 graphics packages, but they dont. This guy probably just got out of a meeting with his poor secretary who was harassed by all you fools and you dont expect him to derride the free software community? Thanks to more childish antics on the part of the Free Software zealots we have alienated yet more people. I'd like to say that I've turned a few people into Linux advocates since I started running it in 93. If I could only teach them tact.
-Rich
The maximum state of intoxication is still up for much debate, but having a great deal of empirical evidence from my days working at an ISP I can say this:
- Ouzo does an excellent job of cleaning gunk of keyboards.
- It's still possible to provide top notch technical support while lying on the ground.
- It's easy to stash beer under the raised floor. It's not so easy to find it.
- When the delivery guy arrives with your new server you'd better at least offer him a drink lest your next server show up in pieces.
- Modem rack lights are very very cool looking when intoxicated.
:-)
-Rich
P.S. (It's humor man!)