"How do you want to do it? See who can write a compiler in 6 days? how anbout write a functional OS in 30 days?
How about write a program to completely operate an advanced satalite under 640K?
Want to write a SCSI driver in assembly? "
Let's see here. Already wrote a compiler... already wrote a functional OS... 640k for satellite control? That's a lot of space for a control program. No need to write a SCSI driver since there are plenty out there as it is (same for the OS). BUT, all things considered there's nothing realistic on the table. Certainly nothing that APPLIES to a real world application (other than the satellite. Of course, if you can't even spell satellite I kind of expect that challenge to be a hands-down win for me) that hasn't already been done. How about 'the servers just taken a shit with no indication why and your boss is on your ass because he can't get to his precious database of S/M porn... what do ya do?'
"Lets ee if my amazing kreskin powers are working:"
You must have developed those powers at (dum dee dum-dum) MIT!
"You program in VB....and know enough PERL to open a database."
Nope (I can and have, but.. no). A far as PERL goes... far, far beyond databases. What I've done is actually used by people every day with no complaints. I wonder, with all your fancy-schmancy MIT rote training, if you can say the same.
Any degree does work. Just pick something that is interesting that takes less time to plow through. Music, Navajo rug weaving, it really doesn't matter.
I'll put my skills up against your six years in college swilling cheap booze and playing grab-ass with the frat boys anytime.
Degree's are still unimportant in the industry for those that can do the work. For those that can't, there is always Business Administration (or "How To Embezzle: 101").
I think that so far in the year 2001 Stephen King has died at least four times. It's one of those things that keeps popping up like those damn gophers in the arcade machine where you hit em with a mallet (whatever the hell it's called).
It's come to pass here, and it's already being done in some way. A cop I know demonstrated it to me with a device that looked like a hand held radar speed detector. It read and displayed an approximate total, but as he said it was close enough to where they knew who to stop on the roadway if it registered a 'lot of cash'. How else do you think they know who to stop to get the big busts?
Oh hell. It'll happen here, the tagging will continue wheather or not people like it. The majority of sheep will be convinced that we need to do it 'for the children' so we an track pedophiles, sexual predators, thieves, misc. criminals, mp3 traders, people that fuck apple pies, and free thinkers. All to keep them safe. It'll happen, and the American people will gladly line up to get their implants.
'megabyte' 'mebibyte' Doesn't matter. The whole 'controversy' (granted there is one) surrounding the naming convention is just plain out and out stupid. I'd think those in the computing field have more important things to do. Hell, perhaps there can be a huge three day conference over the issue, but I'll consider it lame unless it's held at Hedonism, and if I consider going it sure as hell won't be to argue over 'mega' vs 'mebi'.
It really doesn't matter if MS is or isn't a standards organization. They HAVE SET the standard for the greater majority of run of the mill computer users.
It's like complaining that the current vehicle width is bad, and that another width is superior. Standards are actually arbitrarily set by use by the majority. That's why the width of standard vehicle wheel sets is what it is. It's based on the Roman chariot. It's what the Romans build roads by, wheel ruts were this width, and people that build carriages used the width because that had become the standard. They's why modern day cars, trucks, and even trains use that width. It had through use by the majority become the standard regardless of any other superior 'standard' that others wanted to use.
The Windows way has become the standard for how a GUI should behave regardless of what Linux advocates wish to believe.
"Is you misfits becoming all macho und Uebermensch about not needing all the macho and Uebermensch stuff. The stink of denial is too much to bear."
The people you refer to are poseurs. Their concept of macho is completely different than the concept of macho for a football player, for instance. Either way it's still just macho poseing(sp, ok beat me).
"I really hope some of you grow up and stop believing all the bullshit you're being fed."
They want the bullshit, not information.
"Remember, you are not a wonderful and unique snowflake."
They will grasp at anything so they feel that they are unique or special. They crave it because it detracts from how lame and ordinary they actually are. It gives em the warm fuzzies.
"As for the rest, you can all die slowly and miserably for all I care. Nobody will notice the difference anyway."
A bit harsh. One question I put to people sums this concept up... 'Will you be remembered by anyone 100 years from now?' Answer? 'Most likely not.'
"To the editors: salut and felicitations./. has become an autoerotic circle jerk for not-too-bright teenage boys with a fascist leaning. And the mod system sucks."
This is true enough. Slashdot was once seen as the place for the clued in to come, post, and rant. The lemmings that followed are mostly wet behind the ears college boys that just come to beat their chests and howl in the forest.
"Swell job guys."
It's not the editors fault. They just put it out there, and if it's misused by idiots they aren't to blame. All of us are for suffering their wild-eye'd idealism, stupidity, and fanaticism.
IMHO, the most alarming thing about autism in general is that treatment and information is aimed 99% at how to treat and deal with autistic children. Adult information and treatment resources are almost non-existant. When these children grow to be adults they will simply be cast out of the treatment/information arena unless they have severe autism simply for being adult even when there is no cure. Sure, by that time they may learn to emulate and run scripts, but the challenges will be no less than what children face, and those challenges will be very different.
Of course there's no cure, it's a syndrome. But, drugs can be used to minimize symptoms of some (perhaps all) forms of autism so the person can operate on a more 'normal' (higher social?) level.
Don't be so accepting of it. As far as I'm concerned it's a damnable way to live, and I hate every second of it. I can't fathom such acceptance any more than I can fathom how a 'normal' person thinks. You really can't stand there with a happy face and convince me that it doesn't suck.
http://espi-metals.com/msds's/sodiumborohydride. pd f
http://physchem.ox.ac.uk/MSDS/SO/sodium_borohydr id e.html
Here's what the article says about Sodium Borohydride...
"To solve those problems, Chrysler's system stores hydrogen in sodium borohydride powder, which is nonflammable and nontoxic"
Here's what the data sheets say...
"Stable, but reacts readily with water (reaction may be violent). Incompatible with water, oxidising agents, carbon dioxide, hydrogen halids, acids, palladium, ruthenium and other metal salts, glass. Flammable solid. Air-sensitive."
"Toxic by ingestion. Risk of serious internal burns if ingested. Harmful if inhaled and in contact with skin. May cause burns or severe irritation in contact with skin or eyes.
Toxicity data
(The meaning of any abbreviations which appear in this section is given here.)
ORL-RAT LD50 89 mg kg-1
SKN-RBT LD50 4000 mg kg-1
IPR-RAT LD50 18 mg kg-1
Risk phrases
(The meaning of any risk phrases which appear in this section is given here.)
R15 R25 R34."
Looks to me like big business is full of shit yet again.
Three Fans for hard drives under the SCSI,
Seven for expansion cards in their PCI home,
Nine for graphics cards doomed to die,
One for the CPU on its dark throne,
On the motherboard where the shadows lie.
One Fan to cool them all, One Fan to bind them,
One Fan to keep them all and in the darkness fry them,
In the land of motherboards where the shadows lie.
Let's face it. Most people pushing and using Linux aren't brainiacs so they resort to the old addage of "If you can't dazzle them with your brilliance, baffle em with bullshit". Quite a few purposely make it look involved and twisted to either protect their own job security or in hopes that they come off as brainiacs. It's not the user that's the problem, the majority of them can pick up Linux quickly if their allowed to view the 'inner secrets' that the useless keep from them. It's certainly not Linux. It's the persons that run Linux systems, and those that are out to pump their own ego's that say they know Linux that are the problem. Look at the how-to's sometime. You see a lot of 'Insert in the relevant part of file '. OK, what they leave out are crucial things to completing the task... which part of the file is relevant, where is the file to begin with, what possible alternate configurations might be used. Sure the person could walk directories and dig for the file, the person could insert where they 'think' it should go, and the person could just 'try different configurations'. All of which is nothing more than having to poke at the system to get the designated task done which isn't all that bad, BUT it eats up extra time which most people that are trying to do real work beyond trying to impress their loser cookie-cutter fellow nerds don't have.
It's either all made purposely obtuse and shadowy, OR the persons writes them from the standpoint of someone that is intimate with the task and expects the reader to be intimate with the task which obsfucates the instructions (which implies incompetance at writing docs or howto's).
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perhaps it's because you failed to snatch the pebble from his hand.
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Perhaps, but look at it this way... there won't be many males there with guts enough to approach any females in those classes.
If you CLEP out of classes it gives ya less chances at bagging freshman babes.
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You've made a damn good point there.
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That generator has to get oxygen from somewhere. Find the pipe, stopper it up, and kill the engine.
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"I have a degree from MIT"
Ooooooo, YOU RULE DOOD!
"Anytime, anywhere. "
Shows a limited degree of thinking.
"How do you want to do it? See who can write a compiler in 6 days? how anbout write a functional OS in 30 days?
How about write a program to completely operate an advanced satalite under 640K?
Want to write a SCSI driver in assembly? "
Let's see here. Already wrote a compiler... already wrote a functional OS... 640k for satellite control? That's a lot of space for a control program. No need to write a SCSI driver since there are plenty out there as it is (same for the OS). BUT, all things considered there's nothing realistic on the table. Certainly nothing that APPLIES to a real world application (other than the satellite. Of course, if you can't even spell satellite I kind of expect that challenge to be a hands-down win for me) that hasn't already been done. How about 'the servers just taken a shit with no indication why and your boss is on your ass because he can't get to his precious database of S/M porn... what do ya do?'
"Lets ee if my amazing kreskin powers are working:"
You must have developed those powers at (dum dee dum-dum) MIT!
"You program in VB....and know enough PERL to open a database."
Nope (I can and have, but.. no). A far as PERL goes... far, far beyond databases. What I've done is actually used by people every day with no complaints. I wonder, with all your fancy-schmancy MIT rote training, if you can say the same.
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Any degree does work. Just pick something that is interesting that takes less time to plow through. Music, Navajo rug weaving, it really doesn't matter.
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I'll put my skills up against your six years in college swilling cheap booze and playing grab-ass with the frat boys anytime.
Degree's are still unimportant in the industry for those that can do the work. For those that can't, there is always Business Administration (or "How To Embezzle: 101").
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I think that so far in the year 2001 Stephen King has died at least four times. It's one of those things that keeps popping up like those damn gophers in the arcade machine where you hit em with a mallet (whatever the hell it's called).
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It's come to pass here, and it's already being done in some way. A cop I know demonstrated it to me with a device that looked like a hand held radar speed detector. It read and displayed an approximate total, but as he said it was close enough to where they knew who to stop on the roadway if it registered a 'lot of cash'. How else do you think they know who to stop to get the big busts?
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666 eh? How about 6002020206?
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Oh hell. It'll happen here, the tagging will continue wheather or not people like it. The majority of sheep will be convinced that we need to do it 'for the children' so we an track pedophiles, sexual predators, thieves, misc. criminals, mp3 traders, people that fuck apple pies, and free thinkers. All to keep them safe. It'll happen, and the American people will gladly line up to get their implants.
'megabyte' 'mebibyte' Doesn't matter. The whole 'controversy' (granted there is one) surrounding the naming convention is just plain out and out stupid. I'd think those in the computing field have more important things to do. Hell, perhaps there can be a huge three day conference over the issue, but I'll consider it lame unless it's held at Hedonism, and if I consider going it sure as hell won't be to argue over 'mega' vs 'mebi'.
It really doesn't matter if MS is or isn't a standards organization. They HAVE SET the standard for the greater majority of run of the mill computer users.
It's like complaining that the current vehicle width is bad, and that another width is superior. Standards are actually arbitrarily set by use by the majority. That's why the width of standard vehicle wheel sets is what it is. It's based on the Roman chariot. It's what the Romans build roads by, wheel ruts were this width, and people that build carriages used the width because that had become the standard. They's why modern day cars, trucks, and even trains use that width. It had through use by the majority become the standard regardless of any other superior 'standard' that others wanted to use.
The Windows way has become the standard for how a GUI should behave regardless of what Linux advocates wish to believe.
"Is you misfits becoming all macho und Uebermensch about not needing all the macho and Uebermensch stuff. The stink of denial is too much to bear."
/. has become an autoerotic circle jerk for not-too-bright teenage boys with a fascist leaning. And the mod system sucks."
The people you refer to are poseurs. Their concept of macho is completely different than the concept of macho for a football player, for instance. Either way it's still just macho poseing(sp, ok beat me).
"I really hope some of you grow up and stop believing all the bullshit you're being fed."
They want the bullshit, not information.
"Remember, you are not a wonderful and unique snowflake."
They will grasp at anything so they feel that they are unique or special. They crave it because it detracts from how lame and ordinary they actually are. It gives em the warm fuzzies.
"As for the rest, you can all die slowly and miserably for all I care. Nobody will notice the difference anyway."
A bit harsh. One question I put to people sums this concept up... 'Will you be remembered by anyone 100 years from now?' Answer? 'Most likely not.'
"To the editors: salut and felicitations.
This is true enough. Slashdot was once seen as the place for the clued in to come, post, and rant. The lemmings that followed are mostly wet behind the ears college boys that just come to beat their chests and howl in the forest.
"Swell job guys."
It's not the editors fault. They just put it out there, and if it's misused by idiots they aren't to blame. All of us are for suffering their wild-eye'd idealism, stupidity, and fanaticism.
IMHO, the most alarming thing about autism in general is that treatment and information is aimed 99% at how to treat and deal with autistic children. Adult information and treatment resources are almost non-existant. When these children grow to be adults they will simply be cast out of the treatment/information arena unless they have severe autism simply for being adult even when there is no cure. Sure, by that time they may learn to emulate and run scripts, but the challenges will be no less than what children face, and those challenges will be very different.
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Of course there's no cure, it's a syndrome. But, drugs can be used to minimize symptoms of some (perhaps all) forms of autism so the person can operate on a more 'normal' (higher social?) level.
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"Remember, the ability to interact with your fellow monkeyman/woman is still far more important than your hacking skillz."
Exactly. I would give up all my skills regarding technology for 'passable' skills in human interaction if that were possible.
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Ya just really don't know. Perhaps, even with all his money, he couldn't get laid in a womans prison with a fist full of pardons.
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Don't be so accepting of it. As far as I'm concerned it's a damnable way to live, and I hate every second of it. I can't fathom such acceptance any more than I can fathom how a 'normal' person thinks. You really can't stand there with a happy face and convince me that it doesn't suck.
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Here's a couple of links.
. pd f
r id e.html
http://espi-metals.com/msds's/sodiumborohydride
http://physchem.ox.ac.uk/MSDS/SO/sodium_borohyd
Here's what the article says about Sodium Borohydride...
"To solve those problems, Chrysler's system stores hydrogen in sodium borohydride powder, which is nonflammable and nontoxic"
Here's what the data sheets say...
"Stable, but reacts readily with water (reaction may be violent). Incompatible with water, oxidising agents, carbon dioxide, hydrogen halids, acids, palladium, ruthenium and other metal salts, glass. Flammable solid. Air-sensitive."
"Toxic by ingestion. Risk of serious internal burns if ingested. Harmful if inhaled and in contact with skin. May cause burns or severe irritation in contact with skin or eyes.
Toxicity data
(The meaning of any abbreviations which appear in this section is given here.)
ORL-RAT LD50 89 mg kg-1
SKN-RBT LD50 4000 mg kg-1
IPR-RAT LD50 18 mg kg-1
Risk phrases
(The meaning of any risk phrases which appear in this section is given here.)
R15 R25 R34."
Looks to me like big business is full of shit yet again.
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Three Fans for hard drives under the SCSI,
Seven for expansion cards in their PCI home,
Nine for graphics cards doomed to die,
One for the CPU on its dark throne,
On the motherboard where the shadows lie.
One Fan to cool them all, One Fan to bind them,
One Fan to keep them all and in the darkness fry them,
In the land of motherboards where the shadows lie.
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Those are all ok since there's not a solid concept behind them.
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Let's face it. Most people pushing and using Linux aren't brainiacs so they resort to the old addage of "If you can't dazzle them with your brilliance, baffle em with bullshit". Quite a few purposely make it look involved and twisted to either protect their own job security or in hopes that they come off as brainiacs. It's not the user that's the problem, the majority of them can pick up Linux quickly if their allowed to view the 'inner secrets' that the useless keep from them. It's certainly not Linux. It's the persons that run Linux systems, and those that are out to pump their own ego's that say they know Linux that are the problem. Look at the how-to's sometime. You see a lot of 'Insert in the relevant part of file '. OK, what they leave out are crucial things to completing the task... which part of the file is relevant, where is the file to begin with, what possible alternate configurations might be used. Sure the person could walk directories and dig for the file, the person could insert where they 'think' it should go, and the person could just 'try different configurations'. All of which is nothing more than having to poke at the system to get the designated task done which isn't all that bad, BUT it eats up extra time which most people that are trying to do real work beyond trying to impress their loser cookie-cutter fellow nerds don't have.
It's either all made purposely obtuse and shadowy, OR the persons writes them from the standpoint of someone that is intimate with the task and expects the reader to be intimate with the task which obsfucates the instructions (which implies incompetance at writing docs or howto's).
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Ok, why don't you just stand there and say "Screw macros, screw people that use them, and screw getting people to move from Windows to Linux."
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