My K-12 experience was dampened considerably by the teasings of jocks. Y'know, calling me a nerd and a dork, etc? So I hate sports now, and everything it stands for.
The top of the screen says "News for Nerds", but all I see is "News for The Masses"
I remember watching videos on how to build igloos in elementary school. They're pretty easy, actually!
1. Make sure the snow is really hard on top, and at least 4' deep. Make sure you're wearing your snow-shoes or you'll fall through! 2. Use a long, thin, "snow-cutting" saw to cut the snow into curved-rectangular blocks. 3. Starting at the base, line the outside of the igloo with the blocks, being sure to leave room for a doorway. You'd be surprised how many hosers forget this! 4. After each layer, have a beer. This only works if you drink Canadian beer. That's MOLSON Canadian, not that "Canadian budweiser" crap. You can rest your beer on the ice blocks to keep it cold. 5. As you get to the top and can no longer reach high enough to put any more blocks up, just give up. Who needs an entire igloo anyway? That can be your "breathing hole". 6. It'll still be freezing, because this is Canada, after all. Build a fire inside your igloo. 7. If your hole isn't big enough, some of the ice on top will melt. This is normal. If your entire igloo melts, it's too warm for igloos right now. Wait until igloo season. 8. Since there's no power outlet, you won't be able to watch Hockey Night in Canada in your igloo. Go back to your house and watch it there.
This is what I can remember from grade 3, so don't quote me on anything.
"Of course with my luck, it'll be pre-empted by some sporting event."
[Nerd#1] Is that true? [Nerd#2] Let's get 'em! [Nerds] (nerdy growling) [Football player] Let's get out of here! [Nerds] (more nerdy growling, chase football team off field)
Police use lists of potential threats to help their investigations whenever there is a crime in the suspect's city that they think may be perpetrated by him or her. The larger the list they have, the easier it is for them to conduct their investigation.
An example of this is in my hometown, Edmonton, Canada. A woman was recently sexually assaulted at knife-point in her home by a man who broke in through a window. Her child was in the house at the time as well. Both were then forced at knife-point to enter a van and eventually escaped. The police are going over their list of possible sex offenders derived from people previously charged with similar offences, to see if they can find any leads. If this happened to someone you knew, wouldn't you feel safer knowing they had as many possible suspects as possible to track down and prevent such an assault from happening again? I would.
Besides, the police have better things to do than spy on law-abiding citizens. There's a whole world full of evil sons-of-bitches that need stopping, plenty to keep your local police busy. I think privacy advocates sometimes get out of hand in their attempts to protect their(our) rights.
To quote my comput 201 prof, in his infinite "wisdom": If you need to use a debugger you don't understand your code. Real programmers don't need debuggers.
And THAT, boys and girls, is how you talk out of your ass!
I think the most practical use for these screens is as telescreens in obscure and difficult-to-reach places, like the inside of toilet-seats. That way when I'm taking a whiz my girlfriend can still reach me.
"I told you never to call me on this wall! This is an unlisted wall." - President Skroob, Spaceballs(1987)
And now we have the two magical exponents we've been waiting so long to discover. Just THINK of the uses we can put this to! Please, please think of some, because I sure as hell can't.
IIRC, No Magic Inc. [nomagic.com] offers (or at least used to offer) Lithuanian Java/C++ programmers for hire. [And not only do you get the alternate-timezone benefit, but they were cheap, too...something like $25/hour (this was 2 years ago...I dunno what their pricing is like now).
Wow, $25 is really cheap. I'm getting paid $10(CANADIAN)/hour as a comp sci summer student programming for the the canadian federal gov't, and I have to actually SHOWER and PUT ON PANTS before sitting down to program. I wonder how much I'd be paid(canadian) if I was a Lithuanian Java/C++ telecommuting summer student. That would be, like, $2.25/hour.
What if they just created artificial gravity via centripetal force by simply rotating the craft about its axis on the way to Mars? I don't know the physics involved here, maybe it's just not possible to create enough gravity that way unless you have a spacecraft with a really big radius, such as the space station in 2001.
Or a really fast turning radius. But we must consider the dizziness factor. What with the spinning and the stars and the flying colors! The colors, children. The colors! Ayee, blaven!
"That's funny. The damage doesn't look as bad from out here. R2, are you sure this thing is safe?"
-- C-3PO, spinning uncontrollably in the escape pod
Despite the recent bubble burst, I think the golden days are still to come. Where we are now is at the dawn of a new age, akin to the very earliest decade of the Industrial Revolution. What happens next will change the world, beyond anything we could imagine.
I keep trying to draw a line between where we are now and where the Star Trek universe is in terms of a global(galactic?) economic utopian existence -- and I can't do it. Too much still has to happen.
Stupid economy, mature already! The Internet has certainly made me more impatient.
February 23, 2002:
Due to the large percentage of people involved in the trading of illegal software, or "warez", Excite@Home's recent termination of customer's accounts has led to it's revenue dropping a staggering 25% over a period of less than 6 months.
"We saved ourselves a lot of lawsuits and headache with this new policy, and will continue to enforce it as long as these laws exist." a spokesperson for Excite@Home said on Monday.
The spokesperson then went on to sell his stock in the company. When asked for comment, he said "I just want to check out other companies. This has nothing to do with the 25% drop."
What they should do is sue the record companies. The record companies sold the cds to the people, who then ripped the cds, and put the resulting mp3s on napster. After they sue the record companies, they should sue that Fraunhofer guy. Ooh! And they should sue God for allowing all this insanity to occur.
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My K-12 experience was dampened considerably by the teasings of jocks. Y'know, calling me a nerd and a dork, etc? So I hate sports now, and everything it stands for.
The top of the screen says "News for Nerds", but all I see is "News for The Masses"
The people of Laos don't need internet access, they need more food and a better standard of living.
"Why don't you help them out with that, then?"
I'm only one person. What can I do? Besides, I'd rather just sit here and surf the web.
Trying to control decss.exe linkage when there's so many ripper packages out there is like pushing for long gun control when there's people with UZIs.
I remember watching videos on how to build igloos in elementary school. They're pretty easy, actually!
1. Make sure the snow is really hard on top, and at least 4' deep. Make sure you're wearing your snow-shoes or you'll fall through!
2. Use a long, thin, "snow-cutting" saw to cut the snow into curved-rectangular blocks.
3. Starting at the base, line the outside of the igloo with the blocks, being sure to leave room for a doorway. You'd be surprised how many hosers forget this!
4. After each layer, have a beer. This only works if you drink Canadian beer. That's MOLSON Canadian, not that "Canadian budweiser" crap. You can rest your beer on the ice blocks to keep it cold.
5. As you get to the top and can no longer reach high enough to put any more blocks up, just give up. Who needs an entire igloo anyway? That can be your "breathing hole".
6. It'll still be freezing, because this is Canada, after all. Build a fire inside your igloo.
7. If your hole isn't big enough, some of the ice on top will melt. This is normal. If your entire igloo melts, it's too warm for igloos right now. Wait until igloo season.
8. Since there's no power outlet, you won't be able to watch Hockey Night in Canada in your igloo. Go back to your house and watch it there.
This is what I can remember from grade 3, so don't quote me on anything.
"Of course with my luck, it'll be pre-empted by some sporting event."
[Nerd#1] Is that true?
[Nerd#2] Let's get 'em!
[Nerds] (nerdy growling)
[Football player] Let's get out of here!
[Nerds] (more nerdy growling, chase football team off field)
Police use lists of potential threats to help their investigations whenever there is a crime in the suspect's city that they think may be perpetrated by him or her. The larger the list they have, the easier it is for them to conduct their investigation.
An example of this is in my hometown, Edmonton, Canada. A woman was recently sexually assaulted at knife-point in her home by a man who broke in through a window. Her child was in the house at the time as well. Both were then forced at knife-point to enter a van and eventually escaped. The police are going over their list of possible sex offenders derived from people previously charged with similar offences, to see if they can find any leads. If this happened to someone you knew, wouldn't you feel safer knowing they had as many possible suspects as possible to track down and prevent such an assault from happening again? I would.
Besides, the police have better things to do than spy on law-abiding citizens. There's a whole world full of evil sons-of-bitches that need stopping, plenty to keep your local police busy. I think privacy advocates sometimes get out of hand in their attempts to protect their(our) rights.
It's either this or searching people because of their skin color or type of clothes. They can't search everybody(efficiently)!
Just like in Revenge of the Nerds, only less funny..
To quote my comput 201 prof, in his infinite "wisdom": If you need to use a debugger you don't understand your code. Real programmers don't need debuggers.
And THAT, boys and girls, is how you talk out of your ass!
I think the most practical use for these screens is as telescreens in obscure and difficult-to-reach places, like the inside of toilet-seats. That way when I'm taking a whiz my girlfriend can still reach me.
"I told you never to call me on this wall! This is an unlisted wall." - President Skroob, Spaceballs(1987)
That, and it's probably the grosses thing that I've ever heard of. And I've read some pretty messed up ideas on slashdot!
And now we have the two magical exponents we've been waiting so long to discover. Just THINK of the uses we can put this to! Please, please think of some, because I sure as hell can't.
Ryan
IIRC, No Magic Inc. [nomagic.com] offers (or at least used to offer) Lithuanian Java/C++ programmers for hire. [And not only do you get the alternate-timezone benefit, but they were cheap, too...something like $25/hour (this was 2 years ago...I dunno what their pricing is like now).
Wow, $25 is really cheap. I'm getting paid $10(CANADIAN)/hour as a comp sci summer student programming for the the canadian federal gov't, and I have to actually SHOWER and PUT ON PANTS before sitting down to program. I wonder how much I'd be paid(canadian) if I was a Lithuanian Java/C++ telecommuting summer student. That would be, like, $2.25/hour.
... Pantless programming is happy programming.
What if they just created artificial gravity via centripetal force by simply rotating the craft about its axis on the way to Mars? I don't know the physics involved here, maybe it's just not possible to create enough gravity that way unless you have a spacecraft with a really big radius, such as the space station in 2001.
Or a really fast turning radius. But we must consider the dizziness factor. What with the spinning and the stars and the flying colors! The colors, children. The colors! Ayee, blaven!
"That's funny. The damage doesn't look as bad from out here. R2, are you sure this thing is safe?"
-- C-3PO, spinning uncontrollably in the escape pod
Despite the recent bubble burst, I think the golden days are still to come. Where we are now is at the dawn of a new age, akin to the very earliest decade of the Industrial Revolution. What happens next will change the world, beyond anything we could imagine.
I keep trying to draw a line between where we are now and where the Star Trek universe is in terms of a global(galactic?) economic utopian existence -- and I can't do it. Too much still has to happen.
Stupid economy, mature already! The Internet has certainly made me more impatient.
Schools have always been behind the times. They can't afford to stay very current!
Hardware costs money, learning software takes time, and since time costs money(when you're being paid),
$ + $ = 2$ (2-much)
February 23, 2002:
Due to the large percentage of people involved in the trading of illegal software, or "warez", Excite@Home's recent termination of customer's accounts has led to it's revenue dropping a staggering 25% over a period of less than 6 months.
"We saved ourselves a lot of lawsuits and headache with this new policy, and will continue to enforce it as long as these laws exist." a spokesperson for Excite@Home said on Monday.
The spokesperson then went on to sell his stock in the company. When asked for comment, he said "I just want to check out other companies. This has nothing to do with the 25% drop."
Ok, who let Hilary Rosen in here?
What they should do is sue the record companies. The record companies sold the cds to the people, who then ripped the cds, and put the resulting mp3s on napster. After they sue the record companies, they should sue that Fraunhofer guy. Ooh! And they should sue God for allowing all this insanity to occur.