Got 7 flavors of Unix under my belt, mainfraime experience both from the administration end as well as the programmer end, plenty of certs.
I'm right here. You can hire me today instead of paying for Long Duck Dong to hop on a boat.
I don't care if anyone has a peek.
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I don't particularly care if anyone has a look at my private member. Looks the same as anyone else's, plus i'm towards the high end of average in size.
The first step on your way to shutting the fuck up about The Matrix is to realize that no one cares. Really. Nobody. And i'll tell you why. Whenever a movie is made, that movie is screened by groups of people chosen by the studio to reflect different social demographics. These "test audiences" tell the studios whether or not the movie sucks ass, and why. Usually, this results in a few editing changes, some scenes get cut, and most importantly, the marketing people get warning flags.
The second step is to realize how the marketing strategy decided. Depending on how a movie does in screening, the marketing department will correspondibly throttle the amount of money they spend on promoting it. Literally, it's an inverse function -- The more a movie sucks, the more it's promoted. When was the last time you saw "In The Bedroom" cereal, or "Slingblade" toys at McDonalds? You need to understand that the studios aren't stupid. They know ahead of time that if a movie comes back from screening with a great review, that word of mouth alone will sell the movie. If the test audiences say a big-budget movie sucks ass, however, the marketing department will go into high gear and cram the goddamn movie down the everyone's throat with endless product endorsements and tie-ins designed to help recoup costs. The studios know that for every dollar they spend on promoting a film, X number of people (who otherwise wouldn't) will spend $8 to go see it.
For example, lets say you, the studio, just spent $500M on a film, and the test audiences say it sucks ass. You know ahead of time roughly how many people will go see the damn thing regardless of how terrible it is. If you don't market it at all, you stand to lose potentially hundreds of millions of dollars. If you market it at a normal level, you'll still lose money at the box office, just not as bad. But If you spend ENORMOUS shitloads of money promoting it, knowing that every $1 in advertising generates $1.10 in box office proceeds, you can recoup the costs of your shitty film. Problem solved.
It's generally a a hard and fast rule. The more ass a movie sucks, the more hype it recieves, the more product tie-ins are made, and the more media time the studios buy to promote the damn thing. And predictably, stooges like you fall for it every time. The intelligent among us see it coming. In the case of Matrix Reloaded, the hype machine was up and running a full three months before the release date. And sure enough, the reviews of it (from regular Joe's like you and I, not ass-kiss film critics) have been correspondingly terrible. Have a look at any site that allows regular people like you and I to rate the movies that are currently in theatres. Last I saw, Matrix Reloaded averaged about 2.5 out of 5 stars.
So, for everyone's sake, including yours.....
Please shut the fuck up about the Matrix. Mmkay?
Thanks.
Rumors of even *more* advanced stuff..
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...I've been hearing rumors that Kodak is developing a system that uses individual molecules to store information. Basically, the light contained within an image interacts with this stuff called they're making called "film"...The film is incredibly cheap to mass-produce. More amazingly, the resolution of the image being captured is practically infinite -- The only limiting factor in image resolution is how small the individual silver nitrate crystrals are.
Errr...It's a goddamn delivery truck, guys. At most, it's going to want to recieve instructions as to where to stop, where to pick up, where to drop off, where to refuel, where to avoid bad weather, and other such routing instructions...Do you really need this kind of horsepower for such tasks? More succinctly. What the hell makes this extravagant setup more useful than, say, a radio-dispatched truck with a simple dumb terminal?
My guess is, nothing.
Was at the Dallas/Ft. Worth airport last week when I came across a "next generation ATM". Color LCD touchscreen, stereo sound, headphone hookup, the works. The only problem is, from a functionality standpoint, the fucking thing sucked. The buttons on the touch-screen provided no tactile feedback, like a normal amber-screen ATM. Now only that, but the damn screen was laggy. It would be a good 1-2 seconds after you tapped a button on the screen before the next set of menu options appeared. Even on the screen where you punch in your PIN.. The fucking thing is powerful enough to play a little advertisement MPEG while it works, but it will fail to recognize numbers you poke in on the screen if you tap it in too fast. On a normal ATM, I could complete this entire transaction within just a few seconds. On this million-dollar hunk of shit, it took upwards of a minute and a half to communicate what I wanted from it.
There, I said it. A million dollar hunk of shit. I propose we make an acronym of it. UPS is about to deploy a next-generation MDHOS system.
Anyway, how is this an improvement? Simply put, it isn't. Sure, its more flashy, but it's a downgrade from a functionality standpoint. Something tells me UPS is going to install the same MDHOS systems that Bank of America put into their ATMs..
Want to know why people are building MDHOS systems? It's real simple. Sit a room full of college kids down and play them a videotape of someone playing "Air Sea Battle" for the Atari 2600.* Then, ask them to spec out a system they would need to replicate the game. You will be absolutely fucking horrified.
See, thats how it is nowadays. The industry is filled with "Generation D" (D="duh") twinks who think they would need a goddamn Athlon XP and half a gig of RAM to replicate Air Sea Battle. It's a goddamn 4-bit machine with a 2KB cartridge, guys. You dont need an MDHOS to play Air Sea Battle.
* = Coolest 2600 cartridge EVER. Turn your subwoofer up and go nuts on the game select switch.:)
McDaniel, Scott mcdev@mcdev.com, pipebomb@pipebomb.net
McDaniel Development 2139 Old Highway 5 South, and.. 637 Riverside Dr. Ellijay, Georgia 30540, United States Tel: (706) 698-5112
Scott McDaniel is my stalker. He has attempted to harass/make himself known to me for several years now. He lives with his mother, and that's her voice in the answering machine message. Every time Mr. McDaniel decides to harass me, another copy of his personal information will be posted immediately afterward. In the past, releaisng his personal information has proven to be an effective deterrant to his behavior. Once he changes his behavior, the posting of his personal information will be stopped.
McDaniel, Scott mcdev@mcdev.com, pipebomb@pipebomb.net
McDaniel Development 2139 Old Highway 5 South, and.. 637 Riverside Dr. Ellijay, Georgia 30540, United States Tel: (706) 698-5112
Scott McDaniel is my stalker. He has attempted to harass/make himself known to me for several years now. He lives with his mother, and that's her voice in the answering machine message. Every time Mr. McDaniel decides to harass me, another copy of his personal information will be posted immediately afterward. In the past, releaisng his personal information has proven to be an effective deterrant to his behavior. Once he changes his behavior, the posting of his personal information will be stopped.
Anyone who's been watching Ellison over the years knows how much of a massive tool he is. His predictions are not only usually wrong, they're practically always wrong.
Put it to you this way. If this were 25 years ago, Ellison would be saying The Brady Bunch Variety Hour would change the way televisions are made.
Hearing Ellison make predictions about the future of Linux practically guarantees that it won't come true.
McDaniel, Scott mcdev@mcdev.com, pipebomb@pipebomb.net
McDaniel Development 2139 Old Highway 5 South, and.. 637 Riverside Dr. Ellijay, Georgia 30540, United States Tel: (706) 698-5112
Scott McDaniel is my stalker. He has attempted to harass/make himself known to me for several years now. He lives with his mother, and that's her voice in the answering machine message. Every time Mr. McDaniel decides to harass me, another copy of his personal information will be posted immediately afterward. In the past, releaisng his personal information has proven to be an effective deterrant to his behavior.
1) "Can you hear me now?" 2) "Wow! I have a cell phone! I'm popular!" 3) "Big Ben, This here's Rubber-Duck, and i'm about to lay the hammer down." 4) "Hold on, I can't drive and do this at the same time."
Like any compression algorithm, gzip seeks to summarize reigons of similar, predictable data while preserving aspects of dissimilar, unpredictable detail.. That applies for everything, from text to white noise. Saying that gzip is especially good at detecting fossils is like saying fishing poles are really good at telling the difference between a biscuit and a tractor.
You can safely determine a number of different things based on the compression yeild of file. I'll give you a practical, wonderfully self-serving example. Propaganda's random-transitive tile generator. Given a pile of several thousand source images, the engine will combine several of them according to random gamma values. When the final image data is made, the generator cranks out a GIF equivalent of the tile, and a bytecount performed. If the bytecount of the GIF file is unusually low, that means the tile came out of flat and monotone in appearance.. and is subsequently scrapped.
Net result: I can weed out featureless & shitty images without physically inspecting them by hand. Since I know ahead of time that only the good tiles come out of the process as 318KB-or-larger GIF equivalents, I can safely assume that anything that comes out to be lower than 318KB isn't worth keeping.
McDaniel, Scott mcdev@mcdev.com, pipebomb@pipebomb.net
McDaniel Development 2139 Old Highway 5 South, and.. 637 Riverside Dr. Ellijay, Georgia 30540, United States Tel: (706) 698-5112
Scott McDaniel is my stalker. He has attempted to harass/make himself known to me for several years now. He lives with his mother, and that's her voice in the answering machine message. Every time Mr. McDaniel decides to harass me, another copy of his personal information will be posted immediately afterward. In the past, releaisng his personal information has proven to be an effective deterrant to his behavior.
Rob -- If you spent less time trying to convince your readers that your sexual fetish is a "legitimate artform" , you might have noticed your own page ran this story several days ago.
McDaniel, Scott mcdev@mcdev.com, pipebomb@pipebomb.net
McDaniel Development 2139 Old Highway 5 South, and.. 637 Riverside Dr. Ellijay, Georgia 30540, United States Tel: (706) 698-5112
Scott McDaniel is my stalker. He has attempted to harass/make himself known to me for several years now. He lives with his mother, and that's her voice in the answering machine message. Every time Mr. McDaniel decides to harass me, another copy of his personal information will be posted immediately afterward. In the past, releaisng his personal information has proven to be an effective deterrant to his behavior.
McDaniel, Scott mcdev@mcdev.com, pipebomb@pipebomb.net
McDaniel Development 2139 Old Highway 5 South, and.. 637 Riverside Dr. Ellijay, Georgia 30540, United States Tel: (706) 698-5112
Scott McDaniel is my stalker. He has attempted to harass me for several years now. He lives with his mother, and that's her voice in the answering machine message. Every time Mr. McDaniel decides to harass me, another copy of his personal information will be posted immediately afterward. Releaisng his personal information has been an effective deterrant to his behavior.
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Yeah, standards are pointless. Sheesh.
Wait a minute... you LIKE fags? AND having your job taken away by unskilled third-world labor?
Please accept my invitation to shut the fuck up. Thanks.
I've been telling these fly-by-night "Generation D" ass hammers to get the hell out of our industry for years now. Finally, they're listening! Haa!
Got 7 flavors of Unix under my belt, mainfraime experience both from the administration end as well as the programmer end, plenty of certs.
I'm right here. You can hire me today instead of paying for Long Duck Dong to hop on a boat.
I don't particularly care if anyone has a look at my private member. Looks the same as anyone else's, plus i'm towards the high end of average in size.
The first step on your way to shutting the fuck up about The Matrix is to realize that no one cares. Really. Nobody. And i'll tell you why. Whenever a movie is made, that movie is screened by groups of people chosen by the studio to reflect different social demographics. These "test audiences" tell the studios whether or not the movie sucks ass, and why. Usually, this results in a few editing changes, some scenes get cut, and most importantly, the marketing people get warning flags.
The second step is to realize how the marketing strategy decided. Depending on how a movie does in screening, the marketing department will correspondibly throttle the amount of money they spend on promoting it. Literally, it's an inverse function -- The more a movie sucks, the more it's promoted. When was the last time you saw "In The Bedroom" cereal, or "Slingblade" toys at McDonalds? You need to understand that the studios aren't stupid. They know ahead of time that if a movie comes back from screening with a great review, that word of mouth alone will sell the movie. If the test audiences say a big-budget movie sucks ass, however, the marketing department will go into high gear and cram the goddamn movie down the everyone's throat with endless product endorsements and tie-ins designed to help recoup costs. The studios know that for every dollar they spend on promoting a film, X number of people (who otherwise wouldn't) will spend $8 to go see it.
For example, lets say you, the studio, just spent $500M on a film, and the test audiences say it sucks ass. You know ahead of time roughly how many people will go see the damn thing regardless of how terrible it is. If you don't market it at all, you stand to lose potentially hundreds of millions of dollars. If you market it at a normal level, you'll still lose money at the box office, just not as bad. But If you spend ENORMOUS shitloads of money promoting it, knowing that every $1 in advertising generates $1.10 in box office proceeds, you can recoup the costs of your shitty film. Problem solved.
It's generally a a hard and fast rule. The more ass a movie sucks, the more hype it recieves, the more product tie-ins are made, and the more media time the studios buy to promote the damn thing. And predictably, stooges like you fall for it every time. The intelligent among us see it coming. In the case of Matrix Reloaded, the hype machine was up and running a full three months before the release date. And sure enough, the reviews of it (from regular Joe's like you and I, not ass-kiss film critics) have been correspondingly terrible. Have a look at any site that allows regular people like you and I to rate the movies that are currently in theatres. Last I saw, Matrix Reloaded averaged about 2.5 out of 5 stars.
So, for everyone's sake, including yours.....
Please shut the fuck up about the Matrix. Mmkay?
Thanks.
...I've been hearing rumors that Kodak is developing a system that uses individual molecules to store information. Basically, the light contained within an image interacts with this stuff called they're making called "film"...The film is incredibly cheap to mass-produce. More amazingly, the resolution of the image being captured is practically infinite -- The only limiting factor in image resolution is how small the individual silver nitrate crystrals are.
The 1900's are gonna fuckin RULE.
Color screens?
128MB of RAM?
Errr...It's a goddamn delivery truck, guys. At most, it's going to want to recieve instructions as to where to stop, where to pick up, where to drop off, where to refuel, where to avoid bad weather, and other such routing instructions...Do you really need this kind of horsepower for such tasks? More succinctly. What the hell makes this extravagant setup more useful than, say, a radio-dispatched truck with a simple dumb terminal?
My guess is, nothing.
Was at the Dallas/Ft. Worth airport last week when I came across a "next generation ATM". Color LCD touchscreen, stereo sound, headphone hookup, the works. The only problem is, from a functionality standpoint, the fucking thing sucked. The buttons on the touch-screen provided no tactile feedback, like a normal amber-screen ATM. Now only that, but the damn screen was laggy. It would be a good 1-2 seconds after you tapped a button on the screen before the next set of menu options appeared. Even on the screen where you punch in your PIN.. The fucking thing is powerful enough to play a little advertisement MPEG while it works, but it will fail to recognize numbers you poke in on the screen if you tap it in too fast. On a normal ATM, I could complete this entire transaction within just a few seconds. On this million-dollar hunk of shit, it took upwards of a minute and a half to communicate what I wanted from it.
There, I said it. A million dollar hunk of shit. I propose we make an acronym of it. UPS is about to deploy a next-generation MDHOS system.
Anyway, how is this an improvement? Simply put, it isn't. Sure, its more flashy, but it's a downgrade from a functionality standpoint. Something tells me UPS is going to install the same MDHOS systems that Bank of America put into their ATMs..
Want to know why people are building MDHOS systems? It's real simple. Sit a room full of college kids down and play them a videotape of someone playing "Air Sea Battle" for the Atari 2600.* Then, ask them to spec out a system they would need to replicate the game. You will be absolutely fucking horrified.
See, thats how it is nowadays. The industry is filled with "Generation D" (D="duh") twinks who think they would need a goddamn Athlon XP and half a gig of RAM to replicate Air Sea Battle. It's a goddamn 4-bit machine with a 2KB cartridge, guys. You dont need an MDHOS to play Air Sea Battle.
* = Coolest 2600 cartridge EVER. Turn your subwoofer up and go nuts on the game select switch.
Cheers,
The previous comment/troll was posted by:
McDaniel, Scott mcdev@mcdev.com, pipebomb@pipebomb.net
McDaniel Development
2139 Old Highway 5 South, and..
637 Riverside Dr.
Ellijay, Georgia 30540, United States
Tel: (706) 698-5112
Scott McDaniel is my stalker. He has attempted to harass/make himself known to me for several years now. He lives with his mother, and that's her voice in the answering machine message. Every time Mr. McDaniel decides to harass me, another copy of his personal information will be posted immediately afterward. In the past, releaisng his personal information has proven to be an effective deterrant to his behavior. Once he changes his behavior, the posting of his personal information will be stopped.
The previous comment/troll was posted by:
McDaniel, Scott mcdev@mcdev.com, pipebomb@pipebomb.net
McDaniel Development
2139 Old Highway 5 South, and..
637 Riverside Dr.
Ellijay, Georgia 30540, United States
Tel: (706) 698-5112
Scott McDaniel is my stalker. He has attempted to harass/make himself known to me for several years now. He lives with his mother, and that's her voice in the answering machine message. Every time Mr. McDaniel decides to harass me, another copy of his personal information will be posted immediately afterward. In the past, releaisng his personal information has proven to be an effective deterrant to his behavior. Once he changes his behavior, the posting of his personal information will be stopped.
Anyone who's been watching Ellison over the years knows how much of a massive tool he is. His predictions are not only usually wrong, they're practically always wrong.
Put it to you this way. If this were 25 years ago, Ellison would be saying The Brady Bunch Variety Hour would change the way televisions are made.
Hearing Ellison make predictions about the future of Linux practically guarantees that it won't come true.
The previous comment/troll was posted by:
McDaniel, Scott mcdev@mcdev.com, pipebomb@pipebomb.net
McDaniel Development
2139 Old Highway 5 South, and..
637 Riverside Dr.
Ellijay, Georgia 30540, United States
Tel: (706) 698-5112
Scott McDaniel is my stalker. He has attempted to harass/make himself known to me for several years now. He lives with his mother, and that's her voice in the answering machine message. Every time Mr. McDaniel decides to harass me, another copy of his personal information will be posted immediately afterward. In the past, releaisng his personal information has proven to be an effective deterrant to his behavior.
1) "Can you hear me now?"
2) "Wow! I have a cell phone! I'm popular!"
3) "Big Ben, This here's Rubber-Duck, and i'm about to lay the hammer down."
4) "Hold on, I can't drive and do this at the same time."
Like any compression algorithm, gzip seeks to summarize reigons of similar, predictable data while preserving aspects of dissimilar, unpredictable detail.. That applies for everything, from text to white noise. Saying that gzip is especially good at detecting fossils is like saying fishing poles are really good at telling the difference between a biscuit and a tractor.
You can safely determine a number of different things based on the compression yeild of file. I'll give you a practical, wonderfully self-serving example. Propaganda's random-transitive tile generator. Given a pile of several thousand source images, the engine will combine several of them according to random gamma values. When the final image data is made, the generator cranks out a GIF equivalent of the tile, and a bytecount performed. If the bytecount of the GIF file is unusually low, that means the tile came out of flat and monotone in appearance.. and is subsequently scrapped.
Net result: I can weed out featureless & shitty images without physically inspecting them by hand. Since I know ahead of time that only the good tiles come out of the process as 318KB-or-larger GIF equivalents, I can safely assume that anything that comes out to be lower than 318KB isn't worth keeping.
Net result: A constantly purified source of additional seamless images for subsequent passes of the engine.
Microsoft is slow to implement the fix for the fix?
Looks like they installed SP1 company-wide.
Forgot to post anonymously, Corky.
Better luck next time.
I can see it now..
Command And Conquer: Lets Hug!
I didn't know they gave Oscars for sexual fetish films. Hmm.
+1 Interesting
The previous comment/troll was posted by:
McDaniel, Scott mcdev@mcdev.com, pipebomb@pipebomb.net
McDaniel Development
2139 Old Highway 5 South, and..
637 Riverside Dr.
Ellijay, Georgia 30540, United States
Tel: (706) 698-5112
Scott McDaniel is my stalker. He has attempted to harass/make himself known to me for several years now. He lives with his mother, and that's her voice in the answering machine message. Every time Mr. McDaniel decides to harass me, another copy of his personal information will be posted immediately afterward. In the past, releaisng his personal information has proven to be an effective deterrant to his behavior.
Rob -- If you spent less time trying to convince your readers that your sexual fetish is a "legitimate artform" , you might have noticed your own page ran this story several days ago.
Just a suggestion.
The previous comment/troll was posted by:
McDaniel, Scott mcdev@mcdev.com, pipebomb@pipebomb.net
McDaniel Development
2139 Old Highway 5 South, and..
637 Riverside Dr.
Ellijay, Georgia 30540, United States
Tel: (706) 698-5112
Scott McDaniel is my stalker. He has attempted to harass/make himself known to me for several years now. He lives with his mother, and that's her voice in the answering machine message. Every time Mr. McDaniel decides to harass me, another copy of his personal information will be posted immediately afterward. In the past, releaisng his personal information has proven to be an effective deterrant to his behavior.
The previous comment/troll was posted by:
McDaniel, Scott mcdev@mcdev.com, pipebomb@pipebomb.net
McDaniel Development
2139 Old Highway 5 South, and..
637 Riverside Dr.
Ellijay, Georgia 30540, United States
Tel: (706) 698-5112
Scott McDaniel is my stalker. He has attempted to harass me for several years now. He lives with his mother, and that's her voice in the answering machine message. Every time Mr. McDaniel decides to harass me, another copy of his personal information will be posted immediately afterward. Releaisng his personal information has been an effective deterrant to his behavior.
Hire some fucking employees.
Jesus christ. Nobody wants to hear about your fucking pumpkin-headed screamers. Enough already.
Like if I said "yanks" instead of "hindus", you'd be crying like you are right now. Uh-huh. Goddamn hippy.
PLEASE shut the hell up? Please?
And stop wearing that fucking "petrouli" oil. It makes you smell like like (asscrack and roadkill)^E+99.