I had all my max-secure stuff in a.zip file, renamed and XORed with a command-line character. This was stored on a small partition I'd "remove" from the chain as needed.
Our galaxy is about 100,000 light years in diameter. Every galaxy that revolves around a supermassive black hole within 400 light-years of our own galaxy has been cataloged.
Given the size of our galaxy, just how many other galaxies are within 400 lightyears of us, AGN or not? Or am I just massively confused here?
These days, I drive a Jazzy 1113 power chair, using twin U1-size 12v, 40AH batteries. That's a whopping 960 watt-hours. Each battery weighs about 40 pounds, and takes overnight to recharge. I'd love to put this turbine generator in my chair, perhaps with two smaller batteries like current hybrid cars. MUCH improved range and recharging time means I might be to go places in the real world again. Shopping mall, here I'd come!
In my youth, I naively believed in the BBC. Now I'm older, wiser and sadder, after seeing this blog. It's scary to realize that few people have the time, skills and access to see just how badly they're being duped.
Seriously, back in the day, I worked for a distributor which carried a notebook that used bubble memory as a "disk drive." It pre-dates the widespread acceptance of the PC, had a few lines of lcd text display, and ran CPM. I think it was called the Teleram.
Back then, I'd have given my left nut for one of them.;^) Ahh, the joys of Wordstar 3.3, BDS C and Mbasic::sigh::
About what am I to write? For conveying technical information accurately and succinctly, I would use K&R's C book as a guide. For scorching hot lesbian erotica, I emulate Elizabeth Oliver's "Pagan Dreams." To date, both approaches work, but only on the appropriate topics.
The first computer I ever used was an HP 2000E, via a crt and acoustic coupler at the Rolling Meadows, Illinois, library. My first computer was an Ohio Scientific single-board trainer, with a 6502 using an RC oscillator, 128 *bytes* of RAM, discrete LEDs and slide switches. That taught me to think in hex and binary, program in machine code, and write VERY tight code. Well worth it, IMHO.
Every morning, while my cow-orkers and bosses wasted half an hour getting coffee and talking about TV, I spent 10-15 minutes doing a serious mental workout playing Freecell. It helped me concentrate, and enabled me to better see the consequences of my actions, something very important when fixing bugs or adding features to legacy code. However, my boss's boss only saw that I was playing a game (one that he never could win, to my 25+ game streak), and forced me to stop. So my code quality dropped, but that was irrelevant. What mattered more was that I was seen to be working harder.
The company got bought out. He kept his job; I ended up homeless.
There's a big one in, I think, Butte, just sitting there because the price of copper is too low. It's the source for a copper gemstone called covellite. There's also copper in UP Michigan, around Houghton and Copper Harbor.
Supply and demand. Currently, the supply far exceeds the demand. When the demand grows, those mines will re-open, supplying the demand for copper as well as the small demand for gem covellite and native copper.
I do, and I do. That was fun:) This year I'll try a strawberry/blueberry mel, and I'm interested in trying a chai masala metheglyn, too. Should be wild!
for the trans folk like me. I was born male, and transitioned to living as a woman 12 years ago. I've had some surgery, and lots of hormones, and have finally come to terms with life in-between. I really don't need any more surgery to be happy, and that's the whole point of the treatment for gender dysphoria.
By some judges, I'm legally female. By others, nothing I'll ever do will make me female. I look feminine enough that even nurses do a double-take upon seeing my Social Security card which says I'm male.
My ID currently has my legal name, my pretty femmme picture, and says I'm female. What will my "real" ID say? And what bathroom must I use when out? Would I cause a stir by using the men's room, when I haven't been "read" as male in 6 years?
I used to be a hotshot programmer. Thankfully (?!), as I burned out, I came down with secondary progresssive multiple sclerosis. Now, I'm in a cool power chair, cannot walk, and have about 30% use of only one hand, my left.
I got lucky. I make nearly 2/3rds of poverty-level income every month, just for being too stupid to die. Ain't it grand?
As speeds increase, won't leakage also increase because the insulators are, in effect, capacitors? At RF speeds, power flows through capicitors.
I'm not a chip designer, just a ham radio bug, so I don't know if this problem has already been found to be a non-issue. Maybe one of you bright guys knows the answer?
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Yup. She's a darned good RN, too, something I at least value more than a computer industry "visionary."
She's making the world better in her way, and I in mine. At least we agree on one thing - we both like cats:)
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1: they don't like to screw people over and 2: they aren't willing to compromise their ideals.
Bingo! You grok it. Every program that I wrote for fun, I released as freeware. No strings at all. It just felt right to me. Why should I expect money for what was, to me, having fun?
I still tend to do that now, with jewelry. Gets expensive, on SSDI, but that's a minor issue.
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Back in my youth, every year every kid took the Iowa test. Eventually, my grade school district used those test results to start a program for gifted kids. They took the top-scoring 3 percent of all kids in the district into this class. Both I, and my younger sister, made the cut.
My IQ tested out about 165-ish, until I got multiple sclerosis. Now it's down to just 148. Frustrating loss.
Did my intelligence change the world? Nope. I never wanted to change the world. I just wanted to be left alone to tinker with computers and gemstones. I rather suspect many other brilliant kids will share those ambitions. BTW, my brilliant sister is now an RN. No world-changer there, either.
If this works, maybe they'll eventually get round to doing the same for disabled adults with progressive forms of multiple sclerosis, like myself. I'd appreciate if they hurry up - typing this with two fingers on my left hand kinda shows that I'm already moderately far gone:-/
Fingers (on my now-useless right hand) crossed for the kids involved. At least my illness won't kill me real soon.
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I quite agree. I like this one, medium roast. Quite good black.
I had all my max-secure stuff in a .zip file, renamed and XORed with a command-line character. This was stored on a small partition I'd "remove" from the chain as needed.
Never got caught.
http://www.unitednuclear.com/
'Nuff said?
Our galaxy is about 100,000 light years in diameter. Every galaxy that revolves around a supermassive black hole within 400 light-years of our own galaxy has been cataloged.
Given the size of our galaxy, just how many other galaxies are within 400 lightyears of us, AGN or not? Or am I just massively confused here?
These days, I drive a Jazzy 1113 power chair, using twin U1-size 12v, 40AH batteries. That's a whopping 960 watt-hours. Each battery weighs about 40 pounds, and takes overnight to recharge. I'd love to put this turbine generator in my chair, perhaps with two smaller batteries like current hybrid cars. MUCH improved range and recharging time means I might be to go places in the real world again. Shopping mall, here I'd come!
Bilateral inguinal orchidectomy. Done without anesthetic.
In my youth, I naively believed in the BBC. Now I'm older, wiser and sadder, after seeing this blog. It's scary to realize that few people have the time, skills and access to see just how badly they're being duped.
FWIW, here's the link about the Teleram notebook. Sweet.
Seriously, back in the day, I worked for a distributor which carried a notebook that used bubble memory as a "disk drive." It pre-dates the widespread acceptance of the PC, had a few lines of lcd text display, and ran CPM. I think it was called the Teleram.
;^) Ahh, the joys of Wordstar 3.3, BDS C and Mbasic ::sigh::
Back then, I'd have given my left nut for one of them.
About what am I to write? For conveying technical information accurately and succinctly, I would use K&R's C book as a guide. For scorching hot lesbian erotica, I emulate Elizabeth Oliver's "Pagan Dreams." To date, both approaches work, but only on the appropriate topics.
I get mine from Baen Books, and usually "carry" four or five books loaded on my Palm VX. They're great, when waiting for appointments or buses.
Baen does not use DRM. They're good folks. They even have a bunch of free books, to get you hooked on their authors.
The first computer I ever used was an HP 2000E, via a crt and acoustic coupler at the Rolling Meadows, Illinois, library. My first computer was an Ohio Scientific single-board trainer, with a 6502 using an RC oscillator, 128 *bytes* of RAM, discrete LEDs and slide switches. That taught me to think in hex and binary, program in machine code, and write VERY tight code. Well worth it, IMHO.
Every morning, while my cow-orkers and bosses wasted half an hour getting coffee and talking about TV, I spent 10-15 minutes doing a serious mental workout playing Freecell. It helped me concentrate, and enabled me to better see the consequences of my actions, something very important when fixing bugs or adding features to legacy code. However, my boss's boss only saw that I was playing a game (one that he never could win, to my 25+ game streak), and forced me to stop. So my code quality dropped, but that was irrelevant. What mattered more was that I was seen to be working harder.
The company got bought out. He kept his job; I ended up homeless.
There's a big one in, I think, Butte, just sitting there because the price of copper is too low. It's the source for a copper gemstone called covellite. There's also copper in UP Michigan, around Houghton and Copper Harbor.
Supply and demand. Currently, the supply far exceeds the demand. When the demand grows, those mines will re-open, supplying the demand for copper as well as the small demand for gem covellite and native copper.
Don't sweat it, this is yet another phony panic.
Yeah. Sucks, dunnit? Hang loose, you are not alone. I know of several other T-folk here on /. besides you and I.
I do, and I do. That was fun :) This year I'll try a strawberry/blueberry mel, and I'm interested in trying a chai masala metheglyn, too. Should be wild!
:) I'm cool. I'm a 46 year old celibate lipstick lesbian, not likely what you're looking for.
for the trans folk like me. I was born male, and transitioned to living as a woman 12 years ago. I've had some surgery, and lots of hormones, and have finally come to terms with life in-between. I really don't need any more surgery to be happy, and that's the whole point of the treatment for gender dysphoria.
By some judges, I'm legally female. By others, nothing I'll ever do will make me female. I look feminine enough that even nurses do a double-take upon seeing my Social Security card which says I'm male.
My ID currently has my legal name, my pretty femmme picture, and says I'm female. What will my "real" ID say? And what bathroom must I use when out? Would I cause a stir by using the men's room, when I haven't been "read" as male in 6 years?
I may not survive the Real ID.
I used to be a hotshot programmer. Thankfully (?!), as I burned out, I came down with secondary progresssive multiple sclerosis. Now, I'm in a cool power chair, cannot walk, and have about 30% use of only one hand, my left.
I got lucky. I make nearly 2/3rds of poverty-level income every month, just for being too stupid to die. Ain't it grand?
As speeds increase, won't leakage also increase because the insulators are, in effect, capacitors? At RF speeds, power flows through capicitors.
I'm not a chip designer, just a ham radio bug, so I don't know if this problem has already been found to be a non-issue. Maybe one of you bright guys knows the answer?
Yup. She's a darned good RN, too, something I at least value more than a computer industry "visionary."
:)
She's making the world better in her way, and I in mine. At least we agree on one thing - we both like cats
Bingo! You grok it. Every program that I wrote for fun, I released as freeware. No strings at all. It just felt right to me. Why should I expect money for what was, to me, having fun?
I still tend to do that now, with jewelry. Gets expensive, on SSDI, but that's a minor issue.
Back in my youth, every year every kid took the Iowa test. Eventually, my grade school district used those test results to start a program for gifted kids. They took the top-scoring 3 percent of all kids in the district into this class. Both I, and my younger sister, made the cut.
My IQ tested out about 165-ish, until I got multiple sclerosis. Now it's down to just 148. Frustrating loss.
Did my intelligence change the world? Nope. I never wanted to change the world. I just wanted to be left alone to tinker with computers and gemstones. I rather suspect many other brilliant kids will share those ambitions. BTW, my brilliant sister is now an RN. No world-changer there, either.
while {its_not_working()}
fuck_with_it();
the net works. leave it alone.
If this works, maybe they'll eventually get round to doing the same for disabled adults with progressive forms of multiple sclerosis, like myself. I'd appreciate if they hurry up - typing this with two fingers on my left hand kinda shows that I'm already moderately far gone :-/
Fingers (on my now-useless right hand) crossed for the kids involved. At least my illness won't kill me real soon.