1. Hang out in #aftery2k for hours at a time 2. hit on Nitrozac all night 3. Tell all the geek guys about your exploits with women as a cabdriver 3. Tell everyone you're not here to brag about chicks, you're here to help everyone get laid.
Are they nuts? Their site is going to go down so fast it'll make the slashdot effect look like a day in the park! Who wins isn't going to come down to who actually/knows/ the stuff best, it's going to be to who can get to their page the fastest before it goes down.
You're over analizing the individual steps and totally ignoring the whole. Put all those traits together, and what do you see? A confident woman. Put the opposite of those traits together? You get a woman who looks scared (nervous giggling, shoulders stooped over, constantly fiddling with clothing and too scared to give a thoughtful response rather than "oh, gee, I don't know".)
You're like those assholes who pick up on college and high school aged women, sweet talk them till they'll screw you, and then throw them away.. because, you weren't really serious, and they should have "known that then they entered the relationship"
If you're looking for software, there's lists at these two places.
The CGI Resources List lists a whole slew of message board CGI scripts in perl.. some are free.. some aren't. Check it out
TheSripts.com also has a very large index of free scripts.
Another one that you really might want to look at is Web Crossing It's not freeware, but it can handle a very large number of users and posts, and runs really well. See Builder Buzz to see it in use.
The handspring visor has a slot where you can stick in cards for more memory too, sort of.
The TRGPro takes the regular old flash cards, but the Handspring Visor doesn't, it uses it's own type of cards.
But the handpsring visor starts at ~$170, with the Handspring Visor Deluxe at ~$250, where the TRGPro is around ~$350.
I plan on getting a PDA soon, and I know I'll still go with the Visor Deluxe. I may not be able to use regular old flash cards, but the cards it uses won't be that much more expensive, and I'll be saving $100 on the whole unit, which is a pretty good deal
Parents of wealthy kids are expected to do certain things, and behave certain ways that others simply aren't. eg: Sports after school every season (mandatory), 3 hours minimum of homework since 6th grade, moves, no TV, get into a top college, etc etc etc. My parents and most of my friends' parents certainly required us to get jobs during the summer and during vacations.
I was expected to do the exact same thing, except I was expected to work part-time year round. My dad was a pipefitter/electrician. My mom worked at JC Penney's. Don't be complaining.
Think of all the ridiculous things people do nowadays to get the children they want. They'll have sex upside down on a Sunday at exactly 3:01 am on a full moon if they think it'll give them a child of the right sex. They'll listen to mozart when the fetus has enough cells that they could count them on one hand if they think it'll give them a musically talented child. People have been doing things like this for centuries, and they continue even though most of it has been disproven, and what hasn't is incredibly unlikely to be true.
If parents are so willing to work hard doing something that probably won't help their kid, they'll be ten times as willing to do something that is certain to 'improve' their offspring.
However, I don't think this is that much of a problem.. the population will even out fairly well anyway, because it'll probably be too expensive to get/all/ the traits parents want. Some parents want a kid who is good in sports, and they don't want him to be super smart, some want pretty kids, and others want smart kids. These kids won't be supermen, they'll just be what their parents wanted, which is a helluva lot better than parents having the kid they didn't want and the kid having to suffer through that the whole "you don't want me" his/her whole life.
For those who didn't catch it, the hubble telescope is literally looking back in time to when the galaxy was formed. Because light/does/ take time to travel these immense distances it takes an incredible amount of time to reach us from the very edge. Just to make it to the Earth from the Sun light takes somewhere around 8 minutes.
For a while now when they pointed telescopes at the very farthest edges they've been able to see very young galaxies, peppered with quasars ("White Holes", "Superstars" whatever you want to call them). It's really quite amazing that we have a telescope powerful enough to look that far to see the very creation of galaxies. Maybe soon enough we'll have an even bigger telescope up there and we'll be able to see all the way to the Big Bang.
You say one thing sarcastically or in jest and the media is all over you. They will misquote you and argue over your words till the day hell freezes over. Everyone will get up in arms and then you'll have to backtrack on everything you said.
Example: The new biography of Ronald Reagan is out, and in it the biographer called him an "apparent airhead". For the last two weeks all I've seen interviews was "OOh! You called him an airhead!" "You called him an airhead!". Reagan's whole family has denounced the biography over just that one word.
Example: Just in the paper today there was a short article on Eric Idle and Monty Python. He was quoted as saying "I have discovered I really don't mind doing Monty Python, providing none of the others are around", and at the end of the article they had to mention one of Idle's spokespeople saying he was really just trying to be funny.
Example: Jesse Ventura. That wacky governor of Minnesota has gotten into way too much trouble trying to be funny. Remember how he said he wanted to be reincarnated as a 36DD Bra? How he thinks religion is for weak minded people? He's had to backtrack for the entire time he's in office over some of the stuff he's said.
Nobody has a sense of humor, and frankly, I'd be afraid to have any of my old messages show up if I became a public figure. Geek humor is very strange, and very difficult to understand, and waay too easy to take seriously. I like to tell dead baby jokes, call people idiots, and be an all around misanthrope/misogynist. I would be dead meat if some of my old messages popped up and the media got it's hands on them.
Although the libertarian in me hates having the government step in to meddle with businesses, it seems like breaking up MS is the only solution. Even if it's only split between Operating system and Apps, would there really be any bad consequences of doing this?
Government regulations will never work in the computer industry, they're way too slow.
Of course, if Microsoft is left as it is the Linux bandwagon will continue to be fueled by the anti-ms sentiment, which might be enough to eventually effectivley solve the trust problem.
I've always been a tomboy, and I can tell you about the crappiest christmas I had as a kid (not to be whiny, just to prove a point). First package I opened up I said "Oh Cool!" I thought it was a huge watercolor set (I liked to paint), then I looked again and saw it was makeup. Second present, perfume, third, clothes. so on and so forth. The boys in my extended family got water guns, fun building toys, my little brother even got a pocket knife, even though I was 4 years older, had been wanting one for years, but I was told *I* wasn't "old enough" for one yet. Whatever. I played with my commodore 64 all the time as a kid, and I could tell you that if I got one of those pretty pink barbie pc's with "the Barbie fashion" programs, it would have gotten stuck in the closet and never touched. Some girls of course will love the Barbie programs, others will be incredibly insulted and will feel that even though you're sticking a huge hunk of technology at them, all they're good for is playing with makeup, perfume, and clothes.. that they can't play racing games (I loved 'pit stop', btw). Kid's toys, kid's programs, and kid's clothes are the biggest load of gender biased crap around. When people in the industry try to protest that things should be gender neutral, they're just struck down and the sexist tradition continues.
Note: I'm no crazy feminist, and I usually care little for all these stupid "equality" debates, I just think I would have had a much better childhood and wouldn't have ended up being such a twisted misanthropic misogynist if I hadn't always been expected to wear dresses and play barbies my whole life.
Although I think it's really sad the extent that advertising has permeated our lives (Everywhere we go, there's ads pouring in from all directions, and it's only going to get worse), I think it's even more sad how NASA never seems to have quite enough funds. It'd be horribly tacky if NASA decided to put ads on the rockets, but it's quickly becoming something that will be necessary for them.
Or who knows, if NASA decided to do ads, maybe suddenly everyone would get a upwelling of patriotic spirit and decide to support space exploration farther, so ads wouldn't be needed.
To me, male respect is worth a helluva lot more to me than women's respect. I know women who will tell me "wow, Heather, you're so smart" all the time (I'm/not/ joking about this), but it means jack shit to me because they say that to everyone, and when the biggest thing to be respected for in most communities of women is popping out another parasitic child, it means it isn't worth much to me.
However, the few times I am truly respected by male hackers it/does/ mean quite a bit to me. The hackers I've known are fairly rare in giving out praise and respect, and when they do, it really means something. It means I am on a level with them, and it means that I've been able to overcome whatever stereotypes they've had of women in order to gain that respect.
The female geeks I've known personally (Okay, just me, I don't know any other female geeks) aren't very "female" in their way of thinking.
Possible explination: I saw on the discovery channel once that some women while in the womb get a large "hit" of testosterone, and those women grew up to be quite the tomboy (like myself), they didn't/look/ masculine, but they acted and thought more like men (there was one diminuative woman with a fair figure who really enjoyed chopping wood, for example)
I think these types of women are the kinds that get into computers, and so you won't get any benefit of a "difference", because they're thinking the same as men. I personally am very good at visualizing 3-space, (heh, I should have been an architect.. anyway), and I didn't even learn how to navigate by left and right except by raw practice (I routinely get them mixed up even now.. Left! No! Right! Damnit..). Landmarks mean nothing to me. I don't think anything I would design would be fundamentally different from anything you or any other guy would design.
Construction/Utility repair guys don't have an easy life. They're the ones out there in the middle of the night when your power line has gone down, or the ones fixing that broken sewer pipe, or the ones who make sure you have water. Near here they're doing major construction over on Grand Avenue, and to avoid traffic they have to do it in the middle of the night. They accidentally cut off a hunk of phone lines and about 1000 people had no phone service, but that happens pretty rarely.. I'd like to see YOU guys doing hard physical labor all night or all day trying to avoid speeding cars and a maze of pipes and cables and never screw up occasionally.
As roblimo mentioned, it is an old theme.. and most of the stories share something in common.. the author hasn't even tried installing Windows before, much less linux. They've never installed an operating system before yet they feel qualified to say "Linux is hard to install". Hard to install compared to what?
This same guy would probably have a hard time doing a windows 98 upgrade. NT would probably take all day, just like linux. Linux is (depending on the distro) often easier to install than NT, so it's not fair to say that linux is harder to install.
At thrift stores. Yep, I'm a thrift store shopper (Faster than ebay, cheaper than online stores, and cleaner than the dump), and I have in fact seen several amigas at thrift stores. The prices tend to vary widely from place to place because the people marking the prices usally know nothing about a computer.. the logic is either "Wow! It's a computer! It must be worth a lot of money!" or "Gee, this is so old, it can't be worth anything to anyone, let's mark it down a lot to get rid of the thing"
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Actually, almost all cellphone models I've seen have some sort of "hands free" car kit. I've even been hearing commercials for GTE's new "wildfire" system that adds voice recognition/receptionist to that. Too bad nobody seems to use them.
I'm glad I live in an area where three lanes in one direction is something pretty darn unusual.
Although I'm sure it would be easier to tell what the heck the other person is saying over a crackly cellphone connection when you can see their lips move, everybody around would be in on the conversation.. and could you imagine people/driving/ while trying to use one of these things? Soccer moms in their SUV's are bad enough even when they're not watching little Jordan over their cell/video phone.
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mm.. MODEMS.. whee!
heh, I was just giving our favorite resident #aftery2k internet celebrity/dirty old man a hard time.
and not like that!
1. Hang out in #aftery2k for hours at a time 2. hit on Nitrozac all night 3. Tell all the geek guys about your exploits with women as a cabdriver 3. Tell everyone you're not here to brag about chicks, you're here to help everyone get laid.
Are they nuts? Their site is going to go down so fast it'll make the slashdot effect look like a day in the park! Who wins isn't going to come down to who actually /knows/ the stuff best, it's going to be to who can get to their page the fastest before it goes down.
You're over analizing the individual steps and totally ignoring the whole. Put all those traits together, and what do you see? A confident woman. Put the opposite of those traits together? You get a woman who looks scared (nervous giggling, shoulders stooped over, constantly fiddling with clothing and too scared to give a thoughtful response rather than "oh, gee, I don't know".)
You're like those assholes who pick up on college and high school aged women, sweet talk them till they'll screw you, and then throw them away.. because, you weren't really serious, and they should have "known that then they entered the relationship"
If you're looking for software, there's lists at these two places.
.com also has a very large index of free scripts.
The CGI Resources List lists a whole slew of message board CGI scripts in perl.. some are free.. some aren't. Check it out
TheSripts
Another one that you really might want to look at is Web Crossing It's not freeware, but it can handle a very large number of users and posts, and runs really well. See Builder Buzz to see it in use.
The handspring visor has a slot where you can stick in cards for more memory too, sort of.
The TRGPro takes the regular old flash cards, but the Handspring Visor doesn't, it uses it's own type of cards.
But the handpsring visor starts at ~$170, with the Handspring Visor Deluxe at ~$250, where the TRGPro is around ~$350.
I plan on getting a PDA soon, and I know I'll still go with the Visor Deluxe. I may not be able to use regular old flash cards, but the cards it uses won't be that much more expensive, and I'll be saving $100 on the whole unit, which is a pretty good deal
QUEEN ELIZABETH NAKED AND PETRIFIED
I can see the new messages now.. I'm scared.
I was expected to do the exact same thing, except I was expected to work part-time year round. My dad was a pipefitter/electrician. My mom worked at JC Penney's. Don't be complaining.
Think of all the ridiculous things people do nowadays to get the children they want. They'll have sex upside down on a Sunday at exactly 3:01 am on a full moon if they think it'll give them a child of the right sex. They'll listen to mozart when the fetus has enough cells that they could count them on one hand if they think it'll give them a musically talented child. People have been doing things like this for centuries, and they continue even though most of it has been disproven, and what hasn't is incredibly unlikely to be true.
/all/ the traits parents want. Some parents want a kid who is good in sports, and they don't want him to be super smart, some want pretty kids, and others want smart kids. These kids won't be supermen, they'll just be what their parents wanted, which is a helluva lot better than parents having the kid they didn't want and the kid having to suffer through that the whole "you don't want me" his/her whole life.
If parents are so willing to work hard doing something that probably won't help their kid, they'll be ten times as willing to do something that is certain to 'improve' their offspring.
However, I don't think this is that much of a problem.. the population will even out fairly well anyway, because it'll probably be too expensive to get
For those who didn't catch it, the hubble telescope is literally looking back in time to when the galaxy was formed. Because light /does/ take time to travel these immense distances it takes an incredible amount of time to reach us from the very edge. Just to make it to the Earth from the Sun light takes somewhere around 8 minutes.
For a while now when they pointed telescopes at the very farthest edges they've been able to see very young galaxies, peppered with quasars ("White Holes", "Superstars" whatever you want to call them). It's really quite amazing that we have a telescope powerful enough to look that far to see the very creation of galaxies. Maybe soon enough we'll have an even bigger telescope up there and we'll be able to see all the way to the Big Bang.
You say one thing sarcastically or in jest and the media is all over you. They will misquote you and argue over your words till the day hell freezes over. Everyone will get up in arms and then you'll have to backtrack on everything you said.
Example: The new biography of Ronald Reagan is out, and in it the biographer called him an "apparent airhead". For the last two weeks all I've seen interviews was "OOh! You called him an airhead!" "You called him an airhead!". Reagan's whole family has denounced the biography over just that one word.
Example: Just in the paper today there was a short article on Eric Idle and Monty Python. He was quoted as saying "I have discovered I really don't mind doing Monty Python, providing none of the others are around", and at the end of the article they had to mention one of Idle's spokespeople saying he was really just trying to be funny.
Example: Jesse Ventura. That wacky governor of Minnesota has gotten into way too much trouble trying to be funny. Remember how he said he wanted to be reincarnated as a 36DD Bra? How he thinks religion is for weak minded people? He's had to backtrack for the entire time he's in office over some of the stuff he's said.
Nobody has a sense of humor, and frankly, I'd be afraid to have any of my old messages show up if I became a public figure. Geek humor is very strange, and very difficult to understand, and waay too easy to take seriously. I like to tell dead baby jokes, call people idiots, and be an all around misanthrope/misogynist. I would be dead meat if some of my old messages popped up and the media got it's hands on them.
beyond.com has a keyboard that can switch between Dvorak and QWERTY, and comes with typing software to learn Dvorak.. for only $36
Another one for $49 at PC Connection
a pretty wild looking one.. "Comfort Keyboard System", which is available in dvorak, qwerty, sun and mac (Sun Qwerty? Wild!)
Although the libertarian in me hates having the government step in to meddle with businesses, it seems like breaking up MS is the only solution. Even if it's only split between Operating system and Apps, would there really be any bad consequences of doing this?
Government regulations will never work in the computer industry, they're way too slow.
Of course, if Microsoft is left as it is the Linux bandwagon will continue to be fueled by the anti-ms sentiment, which might be enough to eventually effectivley solve the trust problem.
I've always been a tomboy, and I can tell you about the crappiest christmas I had as a kid (not to be whiny, just to prove a point). First package I opened up I said "Oh Cool!" I thought it was a huge watercolor set (I liked to paint), then I looked again and saw it was makeup. Second present, perfume, third, clothes. so on and so forth. The boys in my extended family got water guns, fun building toys, my little brother even got a pocket knife, even though I was 4 years older, had been wanting one for years, but I was told *I* wasn't "old enough" for one yet. Whatever. I played with my commodore 64 all the time as a kid, and I could tell you that if I got one of those pretty pink barbie pc's with "the Barbie fashion" programs, it would have gotten stuck in the closet and never touched. Some girls of course will love the Barbie programs, others will be incredibly insulted and will feel that even though you're sticking a huge hunk of technology at them, all they're good for is playing with makeup, perfume, and clothes.. that they can't play racing games (I loved 'pit stop', btw). Kid's toys, kid's programs, and kid's clothes are the biggest load of gender biased crap around. When people in the industry try to protest that things should be gender neutral, they're just struck down and the sexist tradition continues.
Note: I'm no crazy feminist, and I usually care little for all these stupid "equality" debates, I just think I would have had a much better childhood and wouldn't have ended up being such a twisted misanthropic misogynist if I hadn't always been expected to wear dresses and play barbies my whole life.
(/RANT)
If any of you guys are interested, this is a pretty cool picture I scanned in from the Santa Maria Times of the minuteman rocket that was the target.
http://www.stuffguys.com/~pyr/rocket.jpg
Although I think it's really sad the extent that advertising has permeated our lives (Everywhere we go, there's ads pouring in from all directions, and it's only going to get worse), I think it's even more sad how NASA never seems to have quite enough funds. It'd be horribly tacky if NASA decided to put ads on the rockets, but it's quickly becoming something that will be necessary for them.
Or who knows, if NASA decided to do ads, maybe suddenly everyone would get a upwelling of patriotic spirit and decide to support space exploration farther, so ads wouldn't be needed.
Yeah right.
I can see the segfault poll choices already.
ooh.. I feel the misogynist in me coming out..
/not/ joking about this), but it means jack shit to me because they say that to everyone, and when the biggest thing to be respected for in most communities of women is popping out another parasitic child, it means it isn't worth much to me.
/does/ mean quite a bit to me. The hackers I've known are fairly rare in giving out praise and respect, and when they do, it really means something. It means I am on a level with them, and it means that I've been able to overcome whatever stereotypes they've had of women in order to gain that respect.
To me, male respect is worth a helluva lot more to me than women's respect. I know women who will tell me "wow, Heather, you're so smart" all the time (I'm
However, the few times I am truly respected by male hackers it
The female geeks I've known personally (Okay, just me, I don't know any other female geeks) aren't very "female" in their way of thinking.
/look/ masculine, but they acted and thought more like men (there was one diminuative woman with a fair figure who really enjoyed chopping wood, for example)
Possible explination: I saw on the discovery channel once that some women while in the womb get a large "hit" of testosterone, and those women grew up to be quite the tomboy (like myself), they didn't
I think these types of women are the kinds that get into computers, and so you won't get any benefit of a "difference", because they're thinking the same as men. I personally am very good at visualizing 3-space, (heh, I should have been an architect.. anyway), and I didn't even learn how to navigate by left and right except by raw practice (I routinely get them mixed up even now.. Left! No! Right! Damnit..). Landmarks mean nothing to me. I don't think anything I would design would be fundamentally different from anything you or any other guy would design.
Construction/Utility repair guys don't have an easy life. They're the ones out there in the middle of the night when your power line has gone down, or the ones fixing that broken sewer pipe, or the ones who make sure you have water. Near here they're doing major construction over on Grand Avenue, and to avoid traffic they have to do it in the middle of the night. They accidentally cut off a hunk of phone lines and about 1000 people had no phone service, but that happens pretty rarely.. I'd like to see YOU guys doing hard physical labor all night or all day trying to avoid speeding cars and a maze of pipes and cables and never screw up occasionally.
As roblimo mentioned, it is an old theme.. and most of the stories share something in common.. the author hasn't even tried installing Windows before, much less linux. They've never installed an operating system before yet they feel qualified to say "Linux is hard to install". Hard to install compared to what?
This same guy would probably have a hard time doing a windows 98 upgrade. NT would probably take all day, just like linux. Linux is (depending on the distro) often easier to install than NT, so it's not fair to say that linux is harder to install.
At thrift stores. Yep, I'm a thrift store shopper (Faster than ebay, cheaper than online stores, and cleaner than the dump), and I have in fact seen several amigas at thrift stores. The prices tend to vary widely from place to place because the people marking the prices usally know nothing about a computer.. the logic is either "Wow! It's a computer! It must be worth a lot of money!" or "Gee, this is so old, it can't be worth anything to anyone, let's mark it down a lot to get rid of the thing"
Actually, almost all cellphone models I've seen have some sort of "hands free" car kit. I've even been hearing commercials for GTE's new "wildfire" system that adds voice recognition/receptionist to that. Too bad nobody seems to use them.
I'm glad I live in an area where three lanes in one direction is something pretty darn unusual.
Although I'm sure it would be easier to tell what the heck the other person is saying over a crackly cellphone connection when you can see their lips move, everybody around would be in on the conversation.. and could you imagine people /driving/ while trying to use one of these things? Soccer moms in their SUV's are bad enough even when they're not watching little Jordan over their cell/video phone.