Hmm...well, I'm 23. Never had a cavity (knock wood on that one). Get sick maybe once every couple years (usually I see it coming - it's that flu that took out the whole cube farm). I'm usually less affected too (this year's flu kicked everyone's ass - I got a sore throat for a week and that was that)
I drink a cup or two of coffee each morning at work and a coke at lunch (and maybe a diet pepsi or something around 3ish). No milk, I don't like the stuff and I don't dig on drinking the liquid that came out when someone squeezed a cow.
I'll drink a glass of wine or a beer with dinner. Maybe a few more once in a while (hey I *did* go to UCSB...)
I can work till 7 without much problem and fall asleep pretty easily (if I don't it's over some stressful deadline or something). And I can still make it up at 6:30ish to go hit the weights.
So in short, I doubt it's the beverage. You're probably just lucky...some people just have better immune systems, etc that others.
Well, that works, although high-speed USB has a max cable length of 5m. Not long enough in this case, and you're definitely taking a chance when using a non-compliant cableor a full-speed cable. HS USB 2.0 is pretty unforgiving when it comes to signal quality issues.
Nope. Totally incomprehensible to those of us who haven't taken time to learn it. A few words pop out here and there, but I've no idea if they mean what I think they should mean...
Frankly I think I have an easier time looking at a paragraph of Dutch. I can't really understand it, but enough words are similar that I can maybe get the gist of it. But Old English just looks like gibberish:)
Well, according to our good friends at dictionary.com:
Old English n. The English language from the middle of the 5th to the beginning of the 12th century. Also called Anglo-Saxon.
From OED: According to the nomenclature now generally adopted in this country, the Old English period ends about 1100-1150...
So the Anglo-Saxon language *is* Old English. And since Chaucer is late 14th century, I think he qualifies as Middle English. Thanks for playing though...
HWAET, WE GAR-DEna in geardagum, eodcyninga rym gefrunon, hu da aeelingas ellen fremedon! oft Scyld Scefing sceaena reatum, monegum maegum meodosetla ofteah, egsode eorlas, syddanaerest weard feasceaft funden; he aes frofre gebad, weox under wolcnum weordmyndum ah, od aet him aeghwylc ymbsittendra ofer hronrade hyran scolde, gomban gyldan; aet waes god cyning! Daem eafera waes aefter cenned geong in geardum, one God sende folce to frofre; fyrendearfe ongeat, e hie aer drugon aldorlease lange hwile; him aes Liffrea, wuldres Wealdend woroldare forgeaf, Beowulf waes breme --- blaed wide sprang--- Scyldes eafera Scedelandum in. Swa sceal geong guma gode gewyrcean, fromum feohgiftumon faeder bearme,
(From Beowulf...) is Old English. You might consider going back to school....
Especially in the Mac market - one camp will sell their Macs for laughably low prices on a ghetto page. You buy from these guys. Make a nice page and resell to the *other* camp, the ones who will pay with a buy it now more than retail because, after all, if it's on eBay, it MUST be cheaper! No sense shopping around...my roommate in college made a killing off iBooks that way. I'd have done it myself if I had enough cash to buy the first one:(
...try to have at least TWO things you are good at.
That's why I switched to CmpeE from CS before my freshman year even started. Now I *do* actually do software (well, portable ANSI C firmware really). But half my coursework was doing hardware (chip design at the transistor level and in Verilog) and designing complete embedded systems (hw and sw). So I can deal well enough with the hardware guys and could pretty easily jump to that side if need-be (actually that was my preferred path, but I didn't find work in hw so I fell back onto firmware/drivers)
So all you CS people - look into CE. Programming's all well and good, but I thought it was pretty cool to be able to design the computer and then write the software for it.
Yeah I did a report on the Pinto case for my Engineering Ethics class in college. I'd always heard that those things blew up right and left. I looked online and there were all kinds of articles about it. And then I noticed they were all a mass of circular references and they all refered down to the famous Mother Jones article (which my prof had provided) as the sole "real" source. Not one article I found added more evidence than from the "insider" sources Mother Jones supposedly unearthed.
I think I really pissed off the prof when I concluded that Ford may very well have gotten a bad rap for that one. Yeah I found a couple real cases (and the court docs as well) but I'll be damned if I could find any other record of the hundred or thousands of exploding cars that the "advocates" would have us believe. It seems like someone else would have noticed and written it down eventually...
Uh if the tie is uncomfortable, it's on too tight. If I'm uncomfortable with one at all, it's usually because I'm wearing a cheap shirt and the neck's a little too small.
A decent suit (and one that actually fits) really shouldn't be any less comfortable than a pair of jeans and a shirt.
I should probably turn in my geek badge for this, but I've really never understood the anti-suit stance of the tech crowd. Hell, just walk down the street after an interview or whatever in your suit and you'll be surprised how much more respect you get....again (and I can't emphasize this enough) IF IT FITS RIGHT.
And, for the love of god, people. No white socks with slacks. I don't know why people do that...
yeah, a lot of it's luck though. I was talking to the guys who hired me for my first full-time job (that I currently hold). They said they received about 300 resumes. The start of their hiring process was:
Step one: Seperate big pile into two piles of 150.
Step two: Throw away one pile.
Step three: Start reading resumes per this story's rant.
I could be god's gift to engineering, but if I happened to be in the unlucky half, I'd probably still be searching...
I'd *love* to make the jump to T-Mobile, but you can be driving down the street in San Jose and loose GSM coverage. And there's no excuse for being without signal in a major metropolitan area. Driving I-10 across Western Texas or something, sure, I'd expect spotty digital coverage. But I'm in the friggin Silicon Valley. Ridiculous.
And I can't comment on their data plans. No way in hell I'm paying $80/mo for *any* internet access.
There is no evidencd he "sold" anything to anybody. Fuck CNN, they have no respectability anymore.
Seriously - besides, what retard would actually buy a bootleg off the internet? It's not like it's hard to find them for free. That's almost as stupid as paying for porn.
lol, the same happened to me in my own house. I came back from a summer internship in VA to UCSB, where my roommates had continued to do summer school. We had two fridges (one roommate owned one, and another came with the house). One had a small, unobtrusive yellow post-it with "Do Not Open" written in pencil. I think "whatever" and reach to open it and my hand freezes in mid-motion. It occured to me that there's only one reason anyone would put that sticker on the fridge, *especially* in a college house.
Turns out someone had cleaned it out a while ago and forgot to leave it open to dry. Inside, it was *solid* mildew that had been in there for a couple months. It took probably 4-6 months before we came to an agreement about who's fault it was and who should deal with it. Turned out he had to take out a lot of the plastic in it, because there was mold growing literally *inside* the fridge.
Ya know....your post reminded me of something. I've got an escort (98, no ABS). And I know you're supposed to "pump the breaks". But I'll be damned if anyone ever told me what that really means.
So you're supposed to pulse them...how fast? 1x/sec? 2x/sec? 1x/2secs? Let go all the way? Just a little and then go back down? I try to do it, but I have a really hard time, since I don't really know what I'm supposed to be doing with my foot. Damn crappy driver's ed classes...
That said, I hate SUVs in the wrong setting. Not cuz of the gas or anything, but just cuz they're impossible to see around. Half the bay area has them, and I've thought of getting one for the sole reason of being able to see around the other ones. I like to watch way down the road, and I just can't even see two cars up now...
I'll forever hate those. One of my roommates freshman year of college had one of those. He was bottom bunk, I was above.
Anyway, it'd start quietly and get louder, Louder, LOUDER, LOUDER. I'd wake up pretty quick. And the roommate who was supposed to get up? Nothing. The gradual growing let it sneak in under him and he'd just block it out as it got louder. Eventually I'd have to climb out of the damn bunk, turn off his alarm, kick him, and go back to my bunk and go back to sleep.
There needs to be better roommate alarm clock etiquite. No alarms that won't wake you up, and (as importantly) NO SNOOZE ALARMS IN A GROUP SETTING.
I have an iPaq and would love to use it as my alarm, since it can set them differently per day, no AM/PM problems, etc.
*BUT* (and this really pisses me off) I leave it muted most of the time, so I can use it without apps beeping at me. And unfortunately, the general sound volume applies to alarms too (stupid stupid stupid. there should be a general volume and an alarm volume...) *sigh* I'll just stick to my stupid LED box with the single AM/PM LED and the crappy switch that gets stuck between "alarm on" and "alarm off".
It is not a trademark issue because of the capitalization MikeRoweSoft as opposed to MicroSoft.
IANAL, but...capatilized or not it's still "confsingly similar". Besides, a domain name's not registered with capitalization anyway. Take a look at 15 USC 1125. Specifically the "cyberpiracy prevention" part (d).
(a) A person shall be liable in a civil action by the owner of a mark, including a personal name which is protected as a mark under this section, if, without regard to the goods or services of the parties, that person -
(i) has a bad faith intent to profit from that mark, including a personal name which is protected as a mark under this section; and
(ii) registers, traffics in, or uses a domain name that -
(I) in the case of a mark that is distinctive at the time of registration of the domain name, is identical or confusingly similar to that mark;
Phonetics can absolutely play a part in trademark violations, as long as the net effect is something confusingly similar. Frankly I think the kid's screwed and the only thing that'll save him is that he's a minor.
That said, I think he's a moron for getting that domain and using it in a tech-related field. I don't know how he could possibly think that he wouldn't get sued for it.
And I see the article mentions it's a copyright violation, but I don't see how that would fit this at all. Seems like a pretty straightforward trademark issue to me...
Not to flame, but how *do* you guys determine what's popular? Typically people decide they like music they hear on the radio, so the most requested songs are going to be those that are already played the most...?
I know a guy who worked for a station (I think it was an infinity one though) and said that, for example, requests were a complete sham, since the vast majority of the time, the song being requested is already in the playlist within the next hour or so. Which is why when I was driving cross-country in Summer '02, I swear to god probably >60% of the time when one radio station faded and I found another it was playing By the Way by the Red Hot Chili Peppers or Standing Still by Jewel. Now, over a year later, if I hear either of those songs, I instinctively turn off the radio completely. I don't even search around for another station, since it's drilled in my head that I'll probably just find the other song there, mocking me.
That said I wish they'd just cut the crap and lose the DJs altogether. Then we still get crappy music, but at least we don't have the inane chatter between commercials and maybe, *just maybe* I could actually hear more than two songs on my 45 minute morning commute. Instead I get to choose between Howard Stern (yay another stripper interview!), Lamont & Tonelli (yay a three hour sleep train commercial), or Greg Kihn (yay we're all morally bankrupt and listen to bad music, even though you don't play any). *sigh* I need an ipod.
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Hmm...well, I'm 23. Never had a cavity (knock wood on that one). Get sick maybe once every couple years (usually I see it coming - it's that flu that took out the whole cube farm). I'm usually less affected too (this year's flu kicked everyone's ass - I got a sore throat for a week and that was that)
I drink a cup or two of coffee each morning at work and a coke at lunch (and maybe a diet pepsi or something around 3ish). No milk, I don't like the stuff and I don't dig on drinking the liquid that came out when someone squeezed a cow.
I'll drink a glass of wine or a beer with dinner. Maybe a few more once in a while (hey I *did* go to UCSB...)
I can work till 7 without much problem and fall asleep pretty easily (if I don't it's over some stressful deadline or something). And I can still make it up at 6:30ish to go hit the weights.
So in short, I doubt it's the beverage. You're probably just lucky...some people just have better immune systems, etc that others.
The key phrase being "get a warrant". Yeah, I know to gov't is trying to get around that, but that's another discussion.
But if the cops get themselves a real warrant from a real judge, they're welcome to look thru my tivo logs.
Well, that works, although high-speed USB has a max cable length of 5m. Not long enough in this case, and you're definitely taking a chance when using a non-compliant cableor a full-speed cable. HS USB 2.0 is pretty unforgiving when it comes to signal quality issues.
Yeah my friend's running 1600x1200 over 18' so he can have his computer in the closet and his 20" LCD mounted on the wall above his desk.
Picture looks great (and a pretty cool setup too as long as you don't need to change CDs...)
Nope. Totally incomprehensible to those of us who haven't taken time to learn it. A few words pop out here and there, but I've no idea if they mean what I think they should mean...
:)
Frankly I think I have an easier time looking at a paragraph of Dutch. I can't really understand it, but enough words are similar that I can maybe get the gist of it. But Old English just looks like gibberish
Well, according to our good friends at dictionary.com:
Old English
n.
The English language from the middle of the 5th to the beginning of the 12th century. Also called Anglo-Saxon.
From OED: According to the nomenclature now generally adopted in this country, the Old English period ends about 1100-1150...
So the Anglo-Saxon language *is* Old English. And since Chaucer is late 14th century, I think he qualifies as Middle English. Thanks for playing though...
That's not Old English. This:
HWAET, WE GAR-DEna in geardagum,
eodcyninga rym gefrunon,
hu da aeelingas ellen fremedon!
oft Scyld Scefing sceaena reatum,
monegum maegum meodosetla ofteah,
egsode eorlas, syddanaerest weard
feasceaft funden; he aes frofre gebad,
weox under wolcnum weordmyndum ah,
od aet him aeghwylc ymbsittendra
ofer hronrade hyran scolde,
gomban gyldan; aet waes god cyning!
Daem eafera waes aefter cenned
geong in geardum, one God sende
folce to frofre; fyrendearfe ongeat,
e hie aer drugon aldorlease
lange hwile; him aes Liffrea,
wuldres Wealdend woroldare forgeaf,
Beowulf waes breme --- blaed wide sprang---
Scyldes eafera Scedelandum in.
Swa sceal geong guma gode gewyrcean,
fromum feohgiftumon faeder bearme,
(From Beowulf...) is Old English. You might consider going back to school....
Especially in the Mac market - one camp will sell their Macs for laughably low prices on a ghetto page. You buy from these guys. Make a nice page and resell to the *other* camp, the ones who will pay with a buy it now more than retail because, after all, if it's on eBay, it MUST be cheaper! No sense shopping around...my roommate in college made a killing off iBooks that way. I'd have done it myself if I had enough cash to buy the first one :(
Hmmm I make $60 as a firmware engineer in Silicon Valley. Never feels like enough after my rent checks, but not bad for a first job out of college....
...try to have at least TWO things you are good at.
That's why I switched to CmpeE from CS before my freshman year even started. Now I *do* actually do software (well, portable ANSI C firmware really). But half my coursework was doing hardware (chip design at the transistor level and in Verilog) and designing complete embedded systems (hw and sw). So I can deal well enough with the hardware guys and could pretty easily jump to that side if need-be (actually that was my preferred path, but I didn't find work in hw so I fell back onto firmware/drivers)
So all you CS people - look into CE. Programming's all well and good, but I thought it was pretty cool to be able to design the computer and then write the software for it.
Yeah I did a report on the Pinto case for my Engineering Ethics class in college. I'd always heard that those things blew up right and left. I looked online and there were all kinds of articles about it. And then I noticed they were all a mass of circular references and they all refered down to the famous Mother Jones article (which my prof had provided) as the sole "real" source. Not one article I found added more evidence than from the "insider" sources Mother Jones supposedly unearthed.
I think I really pissed off the prof when I concluded that Ford may very well have gotten a bad rap for that one. Yeah I found a couple real cases (and the court docs as well) but I'll be damned if I could find any other record of the hundred or thousands of exploding cars that the "advocates" would have us believe. It seems like someone else would have noticed and written it down eventually...
Uh if the tie is uncomfortable, it's on too tight.
If I'm uncomfortable with one at all, it's usually because I'm wearing a cheap shirt and the neck's a little too small.
A decent suit (and one that actually fits) really shouldn't be any less comfortable than a pair of jeans and a shirt.
I should probably turn in my geek badge for this, but I've really never understood the anti-suit stance of the tech crowd. Hell, just walk down the street after an interview or whatever in your suit and you'll be surprised how much more respect you get....again (and I can't emphasize this enough) IF IT FITS RIGHT.
And, for the love of god, people. No white socks with slacks. I don't know why people do that...
I could be god's gift to engineering, but if I happened to be in the unlucky half, I'd probably still be searching...
Yeah Verizon CDMA features = sucks.
Unfortunately everyone else's coverage (except AT&T TDMA) = sucks.
I'd *love* to make the jump to T-Mobile, but you can be driving down the street in San Jose and loose GSM coverage. And there's no excuse for being without signal in a major metropolitan area. Driving I-10 across Western Texas or something, sure, I'd expect spotty digital coverage. But I'm in the friggin Silicon Valley. Ridiculous.
And I can't comment on their data plans. No way in hell I'm paying $80/mo for *any* internet access.
There is no evidencd he "sold" anything to anybody. Fuck CNN, they have no respectability anymore.
Seriously - besides, what retard would actually buy a bootleg off the internet? It's not like it's hard to find them for free. That's almost as stupid as paying for porn.
lol, the same happened to me in my own house. I came back from a summer internship in VA to UCSB, where my roommates had continued to do summer school. We had two fridges (one roommate owned one, and another came with the house). One had a small, unobtrusive yellow post-it with "Do Not Open" written in pencil. I think "whatever" and reach to open it and my hand freezes in mid-motion. It occured to me that there's only one reason anyone would put that sticker on the fridge, *especially* in a college house.
Turns out someone had cleaned it out a while ago and forgot to leave it open to dry. Inside, it was *solid* mildew that had been in there for a couple months. It took probably 4-6 months before we came to an agreement about who's fault it was and who should deal with it. Turned out he had to take out a lot of the plastic in it, because there was mold growing literally *inside* the fridge.
Hmm that's more or less what I've always done, so I guess I'm in better shape than I thought.
But re: practicing on on an icy parking lot, I live in California, so that's difficult to do without terrifying a lot of people in an ice rink...
Ya know....your post reminded me of something. I've got an escort (98, no ABS). And I know you're supposed to "pump the breaks". But I'll be damned if anyone ever told me what that really means.
So you're supposed to pulse them...how fast? 1x/sec? 2x/sec? 1x/2secs? Let go all the way? Just a little and then go back down? I try to do it, but I have a really hard time, since I don't really know what I'm supposed to be doing with my foot. Damn crappy driver's ed classes...
That said, I hate SUVs in the wrong setting. Not cuz of the gas or anything, but just cuz they're impossible to see around. Half the bay area has them, and I've thought of getting one for the sole reason of being able to see around the other ones. I like to watch way down the road, and I just can't even see two cars up now...
I'll forever hate those. One of my roommates freshman year of college had one of those. He was bottom bunk, I was above.
Anyway, it'd start quietly and get louder, Louder, LOUDER, LOUDER. I'd wake up pretty quick. And the roommate who was supposed to get up? Nothing. The gradual growing let it sneak in under him and he'd just block it out as it got louder. Eventually I'd have to climb out of the damn bunk, turn off his alarm, kick him, and go back to my bunk and go back to sleep.
There needs to be better roommate alarm clock etiquite. No alarms that won't wake you up, and (as importantly) NO SNOOZE ALARMS IN A GROUP SETTING.
I have an iPaq and would love to use it as my alarm, since it can set them differently per day, no AM/PM problems, etc.
*BUT* (and this really pisses me off) I leave it muted most of the time, so I can use it without apps beeping at me. And unfortunately, the general sound volume applies to alarms too (stupid stupid stupid. there should be a general volume and an alarm volume...) *sigh* I'll just stick to my stupid LED box with the single AM/PM LED and the crappy switch that gets stuck between "alarm on" and "alarm off".
bah I'm an idiot. I forgot it said Canada. In that case I know nothing...
:)
That said I assumed the author was an idiot, but yeah there could well be some differences in how those crazy Canadians do things
IANAL, but...capatilized or not it's still "confsingly similar". Besides, a domain name's not registered with capitalization anyway. Take a look at 15 USC 1125. Specifically the "cyberpiracy prevention" part (d).
Phonetics can absolutely play a part in trademark violations, as long as the net effect is something confusingly similar. Frankly I think the kid's screwed and the only thing that'll save him is that he's a minor.
That said, I think he's a moron for getting that domain and using it in a tech-related field. I don't know how he could possibly think that he wouldn't get sued for it.
And I see the article mentions it's a copyright violation, but I don't see how that would fit this at all. Seems like a pretty straightforward trademark issue to me...
A man will spend $2 on a $1 item because he needs it.
A woman will spend $1 on a $2 item she doesn't need because it's on sale.
Not only that, but now she has an unexpected extra $1 that she can use that for something else!
Not to flame, but how *do* you guys determine what's popular? Typically people decide they like music they hear on the radio, so the most requested songs are going to be those that are already played the most...?
I know a guy who worked for a station (I think it was an infinity one though) and said that, for example, requests were a complete sham, since the vast majority of the time, the song being requested is already in the playlist within the next hour or so. Which is why when I was driving cross-country in Summer '02, I swear to god probably >60% of the time when one radio station faded and I found another it was playing By the Way by the Red Hot Chili Peppers or Standing Still by Jewel. Now, over a year later, if I hear either of those songs, I instinctively turn off the radio completely. I don't even search around for another station, since it's drilled in my head that I'll probably just find the other song there, mocking me.
That said I wish they'd just cut the crap and lose the DJs altogether. Then we still get crappy music, but at least we don't have the inane chatter between commercials and maybe, *just maybe* I could actually hear more than two songs on my 45 minute morning commute. Instead I get to choose between Howard Stern (yay another stripper interview!), Lamont & Tonelli (yay a three hour sleep train commercial), or Greg Kihn (yay we're all morally bankrupt and listen to bad music, even though you don't play any). *sigh* I need an ipod.
Heh I can just see two guys in spacesuits trying to fight each other over land in slow-motion...