hey rob heres an idea. since you were first marriage post on/. - why not have the first web-cam-enabled wedding (a webbing?). and wedding nigh... er... nevermind.
just post some decent pics after the event. or why not get married at linux world. ok nevermind that too.
I dont agree - this does not necessarily mean that people would want to be a class or race they didnt like - it means that if norrath were real - people would most likely choose that which is farthest from our earth based reality.
Being a warrior is a good class to be in the game as it allows you to be tough and fight things without dying as much (hopefully) - but given the choice almost anyone would opt to havethe ability to cast spells - and have inherent racial advantages over what we are used to in the human form.
it doesnt mean that they questions or answers are any less valid - it simply means that based on the change of factors of "being there" people have a virtual preference, and a "physical/mental/desire" preference.
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same here... unless you are guru level unix/linux. but the problem is that I made a very bad career move in 98 - managment. worst mistake ever!
I had teams of people that were all guru's in their own right - and still are - that worked in my departments (linuxcare founders among others) - and i was the mis/it mgr... and I was good at it. very good... but I had to spend way too much time managing - and all the good work went to the people on the team. (as it should) but in this market I cannot find a thing... and the longer you are out of a job - the less likely the companies are to hire you, as they see the gap in work a very bad thing (tm).
problem is that most of the people doing the hiring are clueless and scared.
CONSUMERS are what will save the future. Doncha know... look at the US - if you wanna be patriotic and show your support for the bombing of the rich kids in afghanistan from marin - then get out there and BUY BUY BUY.
as long as they are spending their money on products and not useless crap like food then the future is great.... for corps anyway.
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:) actually it would seem that the SEC is the gullible one in this. I bet some young MLM super marketdroid made a mint on selling this idea to the SEC and telling them that they need to pay himto help them setup this system...
scam of the century for whomever came up with this idea and got paid for it!
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Now all i need to do is seed the internet with copies of said sites - however I will not tell the people about their unwise investing... rather I will take their investments and apply them to my world domination fund!!!
I built a machine for my brother in law a while back.. and kinda got him into gaming. I also took him out on x-mas and bought him EQ as I told him how much fun and great the game was...
He played a LOT - and ended up making about 2K per month off the game... it supported him through college, but he was banned for life from EBAY (those bastards)...
So - yes it is time consuming - however you can farm virtual product for a living from that game if you so choose.
yes, ok - she had her own geek qualities - but the thing is that you hafta see how romero drove that thing to impress the ladies:
romero pulls upto local dallas club (post ID BTW) and the ladies see his car... he drops a lot of cash at the clubs (coke, drinks, whatever)
gets girl in car... drives to his pad. On way she gives him a BJ while driving (this is *not* good for your driving style - slow fast - slow fast etc)
he mis-shifts many times while "she is at the controls"...
repeat this over many weekends and A) you would need a new engine as well, and B) you would be broke to the point that you had to sell the thing for said ramen noodles.
I-ching is performed by throwing three coins.
The I-ching is the reading of the meanings of tri-grams. Tri-grams are made up of three lines - either solid or broken.
Each coin represents one line. Heads=solid Tails=broken.
So if you throw three coins it will be something like: heads, heads, tail (usually you predetermine that you are going to read the coins leftmost first - or something.)
so H,H,T would look like:
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---
- -
and you would look up this trigram symbol for its meaning....
sometimes you would throw 3 times and look up all three symbols to get a more in depth reading.
its not that you left your window unlocked - its that the window that you bought from the window company has serious flaws that allow me to enter your home even if you think it is locked...
your point is not valid - his is. the point is that people are using products with a false sense of security - and when the product is compromised it seems that we blame the person who compromised it - even though they were just pointing out the flaws of the product. But we never go after the manufacturer for creating a crappy product that allows for so many break-ins.
cool - now all we need to do with all the files is put them in a 3d model of a book - and hafta turn pages and everything! Folders and files are dead! Long live the Book!!
I was in a usability focus group at Microsoft for Office 97... specifically for word.
They had me type a bunch of stuff - and test out the auto-spell-checker blah blah... boring stuff.
but I felt really stupid when they asked me to tell them what all the icons meant within the program - I got *ONE* correct. (spell check)
They just didnt look like icons that looked like anything logical to me.. and I had used Word a LOT before this - but the icons were all funny looking...
Needless to say - they are not the same in the production version. But you are right - the people who make these icons must be fruit-loops.
um, ok so we no longer view the data-space on the HDD as a unit to be dealt with - and we only focus on the File-space/system so as to make it less confusing....
Some poster mentioned taht this article was refering to something along the lines of logical volumes... but what about redundancy and fault tolerance.
regardless of what this article is suggesting (however confusing in and of itself) there will *ALWAYS* need to be the people who do look at the disk as a disk - and need to know where the shit is stored. The admins and architects of such systems.
also - what does this mean:
"Move the mouse beyond the boundaries of a directory"??? huh? am I missing something?
and this:
"But in the multiple desktop, you are always on a desktop and can't ever get lost inside the computer. " - um - but wouldnt the newbie user get lost amongst the multiple desktops? If this guy thinks that any newbie or even just a moderate user will be able to feel really comfortable in a CLI having to navigate some nebulous filesystem spread on who knows what HDDs... I think he is mistaken.
"The use of "stacked desktops" as the overriding method of organizing " - ok so what he is saying here is that he doesnt want a bottom level "desktop" - and doesnt want some sort of "start" menu system - of file manager to navigate through and find the files/apps that he needs - he would rather have almost everything open in a window and just have to navigate through the many many things that are open...
So I picture his desk at work just being covered in single 8x11 peices of paper and he is constantly shuffling through them - but thinks it all organized...
this reminds me of CXO types that are always trying to talk about computers and "systems" in super-vaugue references (yet with as many major buzz words as possible - and even some new ones that they are trying to make up), and make statements like "the system should take care of problem X - I/shouldnt/ have to think about X"
This has *always* bugged me - and I think that people who make broad general visions that try to define the way that computers *should* be - just so that they look as though they are deep thinkers on the subject, are just covering for their inability to use whats presented to them...
Like when someone requires a whiteboard or powerpoint in order to tell you about anything - not because they need it - but because they feel that it makes them look like they really know their shit if they can whiteboard it out for you.
Does anyone remember the cheat in Ultima II (I think it was in II - or maybe V) for duplicating boats?
I used to have thousands of boats that created bridges between all the islands - and across all the rivers... and it worked great for combat as you always had a cannon near by. But I cant remember how I did it, I had run across the bug randomly.
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what about those who try to impress their friends with knowledge of movie critics :P
because of zee germans!
zouth africa! SHOW ME YOUR PAPERS!
Get on zee train!
What is zee problem!
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hey rob heres an idea. since you were first marriage post on /. - why not have the first web-cam-enabled wedding (a webbing?). and wedding nigh... er... nevermind.
just post some decent pics after the event. or why not get married at linux world. ok nevermind that too.
grats!
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so since yuou pulled the ultimate in geek proposals - will the ring be a token ring?.
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sorry.
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I dont agree - this does not necessarily mean that people would want to be a class or race they didnt like - it means that if norrath were real - people would most likely choose that which is farthest from our earth based reality.
Being a warrior is a good class to be in the game as it allows you to be tough and fight things without dying as much (hopefully) - but given the choice almost anyone would opt to havethe ability to cast spells - and have inherent racial advantages over what we are used to in the human form.
it doesnt mean that they questions or answers are any less valid - it simply means that based on the change of factors of "being there" people have a virtual preference, and a "physical/mental/desire" preference.
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THANK YOU!
same here... unless you are guru level unix/linux. but the problem is that I made a very bad career move in 98 - managment. worst mistake ever!
I had teams of people that were all guru's in their own right - and still are - that worked in my departments (linuxcare founders among others) - and i was the mis/it mgr... and I was good at it. very good... but I had to spend way too much time managing - and all the good work went to the people on the team. (as it should) but in this market I cannot find a thing... and the longer you are out of a job - the less likely the companies are to hire you, as they see the gap in work a very bad thing (tm).
problem is that most of the people doing the hiring are clueless and scared.
too much more can be said on this issue...
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The thing is that these things - however limited in their use - will cause two things:
people buying more Pr0n online etc.. cuz they can just watch it and throw it away before they get caught with it by their friends, wives, whatever...
also pr0n discs will be the most overused ones... watched and watched until not a single frame can be seen on it any longer.
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whos talking about solutions for anyone...
CONSUMERS are what will save the future. Doncha know... look at the US - if you wanna be patriotic and show your support for the bombing of the rich kids in afghanistan from marin - then get out there and BUY BUY BUY.
as long as they are spending their money on products and not useless crap like food then the future is great.... for corps anyway.
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hmmm... sounds good except I dont see how you could build a community in two days...
but it would be fun to work on the IT side of this project.
and i got the perfect name for said steak: soylent green! oh... wait.
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and brendan frasier, rosie o'donnell and roseanne bar.
GO DREAM TEAM!!
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:) actually it would seem that the SEC is the gullible one in this. I bet some young MLM super marketdroid made a mint on selling this idea to the SEC and telling them that they need to pay himto help them setup this system...
scam of the century for whomever came up with this idea and got paid for it!
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Now all i need to do is seed the internet with copies of said sites - however I will not tell the people about their unwise investing... rather I will take their investments and apply them to my world domination fund!!!
Thanks SEC.
anyway (damn enter on submit for default)
I built a machine for my brother in law a while back.. and kinda got him into gaming. I also took him out on x-mas and bought him EQ as I told him how much fun and great the game was...
He played a LOT - and ended up making about 2K per month off the game... it supported him through college, but he was banned for life from EBAY (those bastards)...
So - yes it is time consuming - however you can farm virtual product for a living from that game if you so choose.
.
Hello - didnt you see his girlfriends site?
yes, ok - she had her own geek qualities - but the thing is that you hafta see how romero drove that thing to impress the ladies:
romero pulls upto local dallas club (post ID BTW) and the ladies see his car... he drops a lot of cash at the clubs (coke, drinks, whatever)
gets girl in car... drives to his pad. On way she gives him a BJ while driving (this is *not* good for your driving style - slow fast - slow fast etc)
he mis-shifts many times while "she is at the controls"...
repeat this over many weekends and A) you would need a new engine as well, and B) you would be broke to the point that you had to sell the thing for said ramen noodles.
I-ching is performed by throwing three coins.
The I-ching is the reading of the meanings of tri-grams. Tri-grams are made up of three lines - either solid or broken.
Each coin represents one line. Heads=solid Tails=broken.
So if you throw three coins it will be something like: heads, heads, tail (usually you predetermine that you are going to read the coins leftmost first - or something.)
so H,H,T would look like:
---
---
- -
and you would look up this trigram symbol for its meaning....
sometimes you would throw 3 times and look up all three symbols to get a more in depth reading.
anyone who confuses the terms "Microsoft Windows" with "Lindows OS" should be fed to the Balrogs.
The only people who really thinks that this is a threat to the brand works in Marketing - and we all know what Marketroids are like.
Maybe they can use this: LindOSe - if they lose.
its not that you left your window unlocked - its that the window that you bought from the window company has serious flaws that allow me to enter your home even if you think it is locked...
your point is not valid - his is. the point is that people are using products with a false sense of security - and when the product is compromised it seems that we blame the person who compromised it - even though they were just pointing out the flaws of the product. But we never go after the manufacturer for creating a crappy product that allows for so many break-ins.
an immersive 3d environ as a filesystem?
cool - now all we need to do with all the files is put them in a 3d model of a book - and hafta turn pages and everything! Folders and files are dead! Long live the Book!!
I was in a usability focus group at Microsoft for Office 97... specifically for word.
They had me type a bunch of stuff - and test out the auto-spell-checker blah blah... boring stuff.
but I felt really stupid when they asked me to tell them what all the icons meant within the program - I got *ONE* correct. (spell check)
They just didnt look like icons that looked like anything logical to me.. and I had used Word a LOT before this - but the icons were all funny looking...
Needless to say - they are not the same in the production version. But you are right - the people who make these icons must be fruit-loops.
.
um, ok so we no longer view the data-space on the HDD as a unit to be dealt with - and we only focus on the File-space/system so as to make it less confusing....
Some poster mentioned taht this article was refering to something along the lines of logical volumes... but what about redundancy and fault tolerance.
regardless of what this article is suggesting (however confusing in and of itself) there will *ALWAYS* need to be the people who do look at the disk as a disk - and need to know where the shit is stored. The admins and architects of such systems.
also - what does this mean:
"Move the mouse beyond the boundaries of a directory"??? huh? am I missing something?
and this:
"But in the multiple desktop, you are always on a desktop and can't ever get lost inside the computer. " - um - but wouldnt the newbie user get lost amongst the multiple desktops? If this guy thinks that any newbie or even just a moderate user will be able to feel really comfortable in a CLI having to navigate some nebulous filesystem spread on who knows what HDDs... I think he is mistaken.
"The use of "stacked desktops" as the overriding method of organizing " - ok so what he is saying here is that he doesnt want a bottom level "desktop" - and doesnt want some sort of "start" menu system - of file manager to navigate through and find the files/apps that he needs - he would rather have almost everything open in a window and just have to navigate through the many many things that are open...
So I picture his desk at work just being covered in single 8x11 peices of paper and he is constantly shuffling through them - but thinks it all organized...
.
a computer visionary?
/shouldnt/ have to think about X"
this reminds me of CXO types that are always trying to talk about computers and "systems" in super-vaugue references (yet with as many major buzz words as possible - and even some new ones that they are trying to make up), and make statements like "the system should take care of problem X - I
This has *always* bugged me - and I think that people who make broad general visions that try to define the way that computers *should* be - just so that they look as though they are deep thinkers on the subject, are just covering for their inability to use whats presented to them...
Like when someone requires a whiteboard or powerpoint in order to tell you about anything - not because they need it - but because they feel that it makes them look like they really know their shit if they can whiteboard it out for you.
.
Does anyone remember the cheat in Ultima II (I think it was in II - or maybe V) for duplicating boats?
I used to have thousands of boats that created bridges between all the islands - and across all the rivers... and it worked great for combat as you always had a cannon near by. But I cant remember how I did it, I had run across the bug randomly.