i was playing frisbee one day, and this kid brought a frisbee in that had "Canadian Ultimate National Team" written on it. now, as i understand it, the team is really called the Canadian National Ultimate Team, however, the (unintentional?) switching of the two middle words made for an amusing acronym
if you have a genetic condition which renders you effectively sterile, but you can have children if you go through a doctor to do so, then you are passing on genes that could end up requiring your offspring to rely on a doctor for reproduction as well.
this would allow inferior genes to propagate. they ARE inferior because they rely on a roundabout method for their propagation, as opposed to just having a good ol' fashioned rogering. when many people are having sex, they're not thinking "damn, i could sure go for having children, lets go have some sex." they're thinking "damn, i could sure go for some sex. lets go have some sex." however, people don't go hanging around fertility clinics to get their jollies (well, most people don't.) therefore, the "have sex to reproduce" gene will more likely surpass the "go to doctor to aid reproduction" gene. however, when we muddle around in genetic matters and make it easier and easier to rely on doctors and technology to have children, we are pretty well aiding the propagation of inferior genes and retarding evolutionary progress.
i'm not saying that we're going to wipe out our species or anything, i'm just saying that we definitely are making an impact (even if just a small one) in the evolutionary progress of our species.
i believe the point he was trying to make is that if people with "inferior" (inferior only because they retard the progression of the species) genetics are able to reproduce, they will in turn propagate their inferior genes. in the past, before modern medical breakthroughs, people with inferior genetics were either rendered sterile, or died off before they had a chance to propagate their genes.
not to be a bastard, but a moonless night won't make anything less transparent. think about it - when you turn the lights off, does glass go opaque?
-c
GPS transmitter (an off-topic anecdote)
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back when i was in high school, and civilian gps was still becoming mainstream, i had a rather daft science teacher try to explain it to the class.
"you know, with gps," he started, "it's really scary because they can always know where you are." he went on to explain how gps receivers rely on a transmitter to figure out your location, and as a result, the government can quite easily track anybody who has a gps.
"you realize there's no transmitter in there, right?" i asked, jaded by other in-class lectures such as (the one about how we can go as fast as we want in space, the only thing stopping us is that we don't know how to stop the rocket at high speeds comes to mind)
"come again?" he asked
"a gps device uses no transmitters," i said, and then went into a quick, beginners version of 'how gps works'.
my science teacher scoffed.
and people ask why i am so hard on public education.
i am of the belief that mozilla (what the unwashed masses would refer to as netscape6 and up) has an incredibly hackable UI. if AOL were to buy red hat, and they already own netscape, wouldn't that possibly lead to an "AOL OS" distro which bundles RH, X, and a copy of an AOLified mozilla? (much in the same sense that AOL the AOL software today is just an AOLified MSIE)
they could set up a tweaked version of X and a tweaked version of mozilla (using mozilla as the UI) to do *nothing but* run their aol client. it'd be the world's most overpowered dumb terminal.
personally i'm all for it in the fact that AOL probably has the financial resources to persuade people to write better winmodem drivers.
a use for all this goddamn (previously) useless crap that has been piling up for the last year or so... and to think i was just going to delete it.
I HAVE ENOUGH SPAM COLLECTED TO FUCKING RECREATE THE ENTIRE WORKS OF SHAKESPEARE*
time to get to work
*this, of course, is assuming that hamlet said things like "Add 2-3 inches to your penis INSTANTLY" or "THIS IS NOT MLM!!!" or "According to UNITED STATES LAW, this email cannot be considered spam..."
i couldn't agree more. i did the exact same thing. plenty of enough room for anything.
compared to the little desks that they try to pass off as quality, i was almost ready to just put a full sized dining-room table into my office, but then i walked into office max and found the nicest 8' folding table for 60 bucks. seconds later, it was in the back of the truck.
actually, infamous doesn't mean "not famous", but rather infamous means "well known for a bad reason."
if you've got an english dictionary sitting around, look it up, perhaps it'll have a better definition than i do.
Re:Umm... Do you EVEN know what you're talking abo
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being a long time subscriber to 'if it ain't broke, don't fix it' i just thought i'd point out that i haven't upgraded to 2.4.7, and my machine still works just the same as it did yesterday... beautifully. it's been running beautifully for... 323d 10:09.45 now.
and even if using the newest kernel makes you 1337 TODAY, just think 10 years down the line when i pull out my crusty AMD and show the kids my 2.4.6 kernel. then they'll all be like "whoa, that guy's old school, he must be 1337 as fuck!";
"I hope I don't make a mistake and manage to remain a virgin." - Britney Spears
if you're system is working fine, and nothing is broken, and you cannot really think of any good reason to update your kernel... you probably should just leave it alone. using the newest kernel won't make you any more 1337. don't upgrade until you can see a good reason to.
(although, i'm guessing that 90% of you already know this, there's probably hundreds of people rushing to download the new kernel just for the sake of doing so. give a hoot. don't pollute.)
"I hope I don't make a mistake and manage to remain a virgin." - Britney Spears
as much as i would have been amused by seeing the little guy screw over the dreams of the big guy, such a tactic would only have cost the little guy. the people who owned the name xbox probably made a good bit of scratch off this deal, and something tells me that they made more by selling the rights to the name then they would have made by using the name. microsoft stood to lose nothing other than the equivalent pocket change thrown at marketing people. remember nintendo and their 'ultra 64'? and how until just a few months before it's release it was called 'ultra 64', until somebody realized they had rights to that name and called them on it? nintendo then changed the name to 'nintendo 64' and years later most people don't remember the 'ultra 64' thing at all. xbox (the company) did the right thing, and they're probably all going on vacation right now because of it:)
"I hope I don't make a mistake and manage to remain a virgin." - Britney Spears
however, they do rather efficiently dig their own graves AND make the world a whole lot less convenient for the rest of us. consider iomega jaz vs cd-rw... jaz holds about 50 percent more, it writes/rewrites faster and it's more durable. had iomega opened the jaz spec and allowed other companies to make it, jaz could very well had become a standard. had it become a standard, the media would have been mass produced properly, and the prices of the media would have dropped signifigantly. they would have made more drives, sold more media, and it would have been cheaper for the customer. however, they decided that they wanted to be the only one in the jaz game, nobody bought it, and it became another incompatible standard that wasn't really standard. iomega effectively dug their own grave. open standards aren't about the greedy masses wanting to be able to feed off of the work of the diligent few. open standards attempt to help the end user by setting standards, and allowing other people to use said standards to make the final product cheaper/more familiar/easier to use/etc...
lets say that somebody wanted to send me a rather large file... i'm on a dialup connection, so he sure as hell isn't going to email it to me. i'd tell him to put it on some sort of removable media and overnight it to me. if he says 'well, do you have a jaz drive?' i'm going to say 'fuck you, put it on cd' and he's probably going to say something like 'how about a 2.2GB castlewood orb drive? have one of those?' to which i will reply 'fuck you, put it on cd'
at this point he'll break down and tell me that he doesn't own a CD-r, because he didn't feel that iomega was violating anybody's god given rights.
"I hope I don't make a mistake and manage to remain a virgin." - Britney Spears
well, quite bluntly, intel has fucked us over time and time again... let's go for a walk down 'intel memory lane' for a second...
what's the difference between a 486DX processor and 487 co-processor? the pin arrangement! that's right, intel realized it would make more money by selling a 486DX as a '487 math coprocessor' even though that by installing it, you disable your 486SX. (effectively making your '487 math coprocessor' the main processor)
what's the difference between a 486DX and a 486SX? intel intentionally fucked up the FPU on the 486SX! yeah, on the original 486SX's, there WAS an FPU, but it was disabled. thanks intel!
difference between the older celerons and their pentium 2 brothers? nothing! well, except for the fact that intel broke the l2 cache on them so they could sell value chips. the cache was THERE, you just couldn't use it. if you've ever opened a PII cartridge, you'll notice that it's a socket 370 chip on a slocket. surprise...
the pentium series bugs. F00F!
intel has driven me out of my mind. i'm an amd convert till they start fucking it up.
"I hope I don't make a mistake and manage to remain a virgin." - Britney Spears
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i was playing frisbee one day, and this kid brought a frisbee in that had "Canadian Ultimate National Team" written on it. now, as i understand it, the team is really called the Canadian National Ultimate Team, however, the (unintentional?) switching of the two middle words made for an amusing acronym
-c
...i live here and i've been outside all morning in a t-shirt.
its really not all that cold here.
-c
the inferiority becomes apparent when the crutch is taken away.
-c
if you have a genetic condition which renders you effectively sterile, but you can have children if you go through a doctor to do so, then you are passing on genes that could end up requiring your offspring to rely on a doctor for reproduction as well.
this would allow inferior genes to propagate. they ARE inferior because they rely on a roundabout method for their propagation, as opposed to just having a good ol' fashioned rogering. when many people are having sex, they're not thinking "damn, i could sure go for having children, lets go have some sex." they're thinking "damn, i could sure go for some sex. lets go have some sex." however, people don't go hanging around fertility clinics to get their jollies (well, most people don't.) therefore, the "have sex to reproduce" gene will more likely surpass the "go to doctor to aid reproduction" gene. however, when we muddle around in genetic matters and make it easier and easier to rely on doctors and technology to have children, we are pretty well aiding the propagation of inferior genes and retarding evolutionary progress.
i'm not saying that we're going to wipe out our species or anything, i'm just saying that we definitely are making an impact (even if just a small one) in the evolutionary progress of our species.
-c
i believe the point he was trying to make is that if people with "inferior" (inferior only because they retard the progression of the species) genetics are able to reproduce, they will in turn propagate their inferior genes. in the past, before modern medical breakthroughs, people with inferior genetics were either rendered sterile, or died off before they had a chance to propagate their genes.
-c
not to be a bastard, but a moonless night won't make anything less transparent. think about it - when you turn the lights off, does glass go opaque?
-c
back when i was in high school, and civilian gps was still becoming mainstream, i had a rather daft science teacher try to explain it to the class.
"you know, with gps," he started, "it's really scary because they can always know where you are." he went on to explain how gps receivers rely on a transmitter to figure out your location, and as a result, the government can quite easily track anybody who has a gps.
"you realize there's no transmitter in there, right?" i asked, jaded by other in-class lectures such as (the one about how we can go as fast as we want in space, the only thing stopping us is that we don't know how to stop the rocket at high speeds comes to mind)
"come again?" he asked
"a gps device uses no transmitters," i said, and then went into a quick, beginners version of 'how gps works'.
my science teacher scoffed.
and people ask why i am so hard on public education.
i am of the belief that mozilla (what the unwashed masses would refer to as netscape6 and up) has an incredibly hackable UI. if AOL were to buy red hat, and they already own netscape, wouldn't that possibly lead to an "AOL OS" distro which bundles RH, X, and a copy of an AOLified mozilla? (much in the same sense that AOL the AOL software today is just an AOLified MSIE)
they could set up a tweaked version of X and a tweaked version of mozilla (using mozilla as the UI) to do *nothing but* run their aol client. it'd be the world's most overpowered dumb terminal.
personally i'm all for it in the fact that AOL probably has the financial resources to persuade people to write better winmodem drivers.
-c
that game was like a religious experience for me.
way to go oz for fucking over one of the best games ever written.
-c
any chance we can get a link to the microsoft document in question?
a use for all this goddamn (previously) useless crap that has been piling up for the last year or so... and to think i was just going to delete it.
I HAVE ENOUGH SPAM COLLECTED TO FUCKING RECREATE THE ENTIRE WORKS OF SHAKESPEARE*
time to get to work
*this, of course, is assuming that hamlet said things like "Add 2-3 inches to your penis INSTANTLY" or "THIS IS NOT MLM!!!" or "According to UNITED STATES LAW, this email cannot be considered spam..."
I want an X-Box so bad, or as I would call it, a DOA3-Box.
who are you and what the hell have you done with rob malda?
Wow, when can I get my hands on a cheap embedded Transmeta system to play around with?
try here:
Crusoe-based PC/104-expandable single board computer
i couldn't agree more. i did the exact same thing. plenty of enough room for anything.
compared to the little desks that they try to pass off as quality, i was almost ready to just put a full sized dining-room table into my office, but then i walked into office max and found the nicest 8' folding table for 60 bucks. seconds later, it was in the back of the truck.
-c
actually, infamous doesn't mean "not famous", but rather infamous means "well known for a bad reason."
if you've got an english dictionary sitting around, look it up, perhaps it'll have a better definition than i do.
being a long time subscriber to 'if it ain't broke, don't fix it' i just thought i'd point out that i haven't upgraded to 2.4.7, and my machine still works just the same as it did yesterday... beautifully. it's been running beautifully for... 323d 10:09.45 now.
;
and even if using the newest kernel makes you 1337 TODAY, just think 10 years down the line when i pull out my crusty AMD and show the kids my 2.4.6 kernel. then they'll all be like "whoa, that guy's old school, he must be 1337 as fuck!"
"I hope I don't make a mistake and manage to remain a virgin." - Britney Spears
if you're system is working fine, and nothing is broken, and you cannot really think of any good reason to update your kernel... you probably should just leave it alone. using the newest kernel won't make you any more 1337. don't upgrade until you can see a good reason to.
(although, i'm guessing that 90% of you already know this, there's probably hundreds of people rushing to download the new kernel just for the sake of doing so. give a hoot. don't pollute.)
"I hope I don't make a mistake and manage to remain a virgin." - Britney Spears
as much as i would have been amused by seeing the little guy screw over the dreams of the big guy, such a tactic would only have cost the little guy. the people who owned the name xbox probably made a good bit of scratch off this deal, and something tells me that they made more by selling the rights to the name then they would have made by using the name. microsoft stood to lose nothing other than the equivalent pocket change thrown at marketing people. remember nintendo and their 'ultra 64'? and how until just a few months before it's release it was called 'ultra 64', until somebody realized they had rights to that name and called them on it? nintendo then changed the name to 'nintendo 64' and years later most people don't remember the 'ultra 64' thing at all. xbox (the company) did the right thing, and they're probably all going on vacation right now because of it :)
"I hope I don't make a mistake and manage to remain a virgin." - Britney Spears
if you'd like more examples of disney badness, check out The Society of Disney Haters's website.
after spending some time on the SODH website, nothing disney does surprises me anymore.
"I hope I don't make a mistake and manage to remain a virgin." - Britney Spears
i'd like to point out that i break 100MB a day on my dialup connection...
in fact, i probably do this pretty much every day, so i probably pull down at least 2 gigs a month, every month, over DIALUP. sick, isn't it?
"I hope I don't make a mistake and manage to remain a virgin." - Britney Spears
hey, i recognized your url...
you wrote that essay on copyright extension that's posted over at SODH. i would know because i put it there...
"I hope I don't make a mistake and manage to remain a virgin." - Britney Spears
however, i'm curently working on a CoCo port.
"I hope I don't make a mistake and manage to remain a virgin." - Britney Spears
sure, they're not violating any god-given rights
however, they do rather efficiently dig their own graves AND make the world a whole lot less convenient for the rest of us. consider iomega jaz vs cd-rw... jaz holds about 50 percent more, it writes/rewrites faster and it's more durable. had iomega opened the jaz spec and allowed other companies to make it, jaz could very well had become a standard. had it become a standard, the media would have been mass produced properly, and the prices of the media would have dropped signifigantly. they would have made more drives, sold more media, and it would have been cheaper for the customer. however, they decided that they wanted to be the only one in the jaz game, nobody bought it, and it became another incompatible standard that wasn't really standard. iomega effectively dug their own grave. open standards aren't about the greedy masses wanting to be able to feed off of the work of the diligent few. open standards attempt to help the end user by setting standards, and allowing other people to use said standards to make the final product cheaper/more familiar/easier to use/etc...
lets say that somebody wanted to send me a rather large file... i'm on a dialup connection, so he sure as hell isn't going to email it to me. i'd tell him to put it on some sort of removable media and overnight it to me. if he says 'well, do you have a jaz drive?' i'm going to say 'fuck you, put it on cd' and he's probably going to say something like 'how about a 2.2GB castlewood orb drive? have one of those?' to which i will reply 'fuck you, put it on cd'
at this point he'll break down and tell me that he doesn't own a CD-r, because he didn't feel that iomega was violating anybody's god given rights.
"I hope I don't make a mistake and manage to remain a virgin." - Britney Spears
you don't find it the least bit convenient that there were enough 486's with defective FPUs?
"I hope I don't make a mistake and manage to remain a virgin." - Britney Spears
well, quite bluntly, intel has fucked us over time and time again... let's go for a walk down 'intel memory lane' for a second...
what's the difference between a 486DX processor and 487 co-processor? the pin arrangement! that's right, intel realized it would make more money by selling a 486DX as a '487 math coprocessor' even though that by installing it, you disable your 486SX. (effectively making your '487 math coprocessor' the main processor)
what's the difference between a 486DX and a 486SX? intel intentionally fucked up the FPU on the 486SX! yeah, on the original 486SX's, there WAS an FPU, but it was disabled. thanks intel!
difference between the older celerons and their pentium 2 brothers? nothing! well, except for the fact that intel broke the l2 cache on them so they could sell value chips. the cache was THERE, you just couldn't use it. if you've ever opened a PII cartridge, you'll notice that it's a socket 370 chip on a slocket. surprise...
the pentium series bugs. F00F!
intel has driven me out of my mind. i'm an amd convert till they start fucking it up.
"I hope I don't make a mistake and manage to remain a virgin." - Britney Spears