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Worse than that, one time I got the same credit card number as somebody else. I noticed the problem when I tried to activate the card and found that not only did it not accept my social security number to activate it, but it was also already activated it. The card was under the other guy's name as he activated it first. I wonder if they changed his. hmm..., maybe I should go do some Christmas shopping....
That vegetation wouldn't is created by the dams. In running water you don't get the same massive growth you get in stagnant water. Besides, the problem is much worse than that. Dams destroy ecosystems associated with the river that they are on.
Has this been verified? Considering the qualifications the/. eds have for that job I don't know if we should all be panicking and becoming furious quite yet. Anybody could've sent it.
What does it take to get you to speak somewhere? I know you've spoken for the local Compaq User's Group here in Philly (missed it. Argh!!!), so it can't be impossible or anything.
With that kind of storage capacity, why should you accept any kind of quality degredation? Why not give the device the capability to play wav files as well? Or better yet, do that and come out w/ a lower cost one that only does wav files. No mp3 decoding makes for less hardware, fewer liscense fees, and a cheaper product.
Does WINE actually stand for anything, i.e. WINdows Emulator? I've never seen any mention of this on the web site. If not, what does the name come from?
Well, while I wasn't making that point as I'll explain below, you just proved that some very moronic girls do in fact exist.
Note that such a think as sarcasm exists. This should've been obvious by the rest of the tone of my post and even more so once you read the "Seriously though" after it.
-Laktar, a.k.a. Nick Rosen, laktar.dyndns.org
If I Ever Became An Evil Overlord: 30. All bumbling conjurers, clumsy squires, no-talent bards, and cowardly thieves in the land will be preemptively put to death. My foes will surely give up and abandon their quest if they have no source of comic relief. -- Peter's Evil Overlord List, http://www.eviloverlord.com/lists/overlord.html
...the real problem is finding ANY girl! How does a young geek find a girl? They're out there, but they're staying out there and not going out w/ me. Finding geek girls is even harder. There are so few of them (I seriously disagree w/ the find a maid attitude. I want somebody I can respect and relate to. I don't want somebody who is a complete mystery to me even after marriage!).
Actually, that's an interesting little mystery which I think I'll address now. There are very few geek girls. Why? I think the problem (and it's a problem. I'd like a gf who could hold her own in Quake) is several fold. First, girls in America (and I think most places) are discouraged from being intelligent, tinkering around w/ computers, electronics, and mechanical things, etc.. That alone sends many potential geeks into normalcy and often makes them pretend to be ditzes to fit in better. I know I've seen that way too often. Then there's the whole issue that almost any girl could get a guy if she wanted. For every desperate girl there are at least 5 guys twice as desperate (me, John, Tristan, Justin, Randy, see?). That tends to follow the general incorporation of intelligent potential geek girls into normal society. And last, girls just aren't as intelligent as guys and don't have the same aptitude in general. Seriously though, the whole geek girl shortage is a serious problem. THat is all. Oh, & if you're a geek girl, about 17 or thereabouts, & live around Ambler, my e-mail address is laktar@hotmail.com
-Laktar, a.k.a. Nick Rosen, laktar.dyndns.org
If I Ever Became An Evil Overlord: 20. Despite its proven stress-relieving effect, I will not indulge in maniacal laughter. When so occupied, it's too easy to miss unexpected developments that a more attentive individual could adjust to accordingly. -- Peter's Evil Overlord List, http://www.eviloverlord.com/lists/overlord.html
Hmmm, that's interesting. I never realized just how young Hawking really was. For a newborn he's put out a phenominal amount of quite incredible work. The suggestion that the reason you shouldn't practice euthenasia on severely disabled newborns simply because they could end up being the next Steven Hawking is preposterous. By that argument every woman should be constantly pregnant. By not having children when she could be she's not having a child who could be the next Steven Hawking! How absurd! Why by your reasoning I could say that some newborn could be the next Hitler and therefore we should kill them all!
-Laktar, a.k.a. Nick Rosen, laktar.dyndns.org
If I Ever Became An Evil Overlord: 16. I will never utter the sentence "But before I kill you, there's just one thing I want to know." -- Peter's Evil Overlord List, http://www.eviloverlord.com/lists/overlord.html
I don't know about you, but if I had to make a decision based only on those 2 traits, I'd pick the person w/ 5 years of experience as a Novell sysadmin over the CNE. Somebody who's a CNE may not know jack about being a sysadmin. The other person can actually keep a system running. That practical proof is much more important to me than some stupid test (this especially applies to MCSEs). Maybe if things were changed around so that they actually measured valuable skills and abilities, then I'd put more stock in the test, but that's not the way it is. The RH certification test takes 6 hrs and involved much in the way of practicality. There's something that actually means something.
-Laktar, a.k.a. Nick Rosen, laktar.dyndns.org
If I Ever Became An Evil Overlord: 70. When my guards split up to search for intruders, they will always travel in groups of at least two. They will be trained so that if one of them disappears mysteriously while on patrol, the other will immediately initiate an alert and call for backup instead of quizzically peering around a corner. -- Peter's Evil Overlord List, http://www.eviloverlord.com/lists/overlord.html
First, as you yourself betrayed by that little Fraudian slip, Freudian psych is complete BS. Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar. In fact most of the time a cigar is just a cigar.
Second, it's not the choice of literature (though I thought that Oedipus was absolute garbage and had very little of value), but rather the interpretation. Oedipus killing his father yet saving the city isn't irony in the least. Irony is something like, hmm, I don't know, maybe my reference to your little Freudian slip and its connection w/ the invalidity of Freudian psychology.
-Laktar, a.k.a. Nick Rosen, laktar.dyndns.org
If I Ever Became An Evil Overlord: 80. If my weakest troops fail to eliminate a hero, I will send out my best troops instead of wasting time with progressively stronger ones as he gets closer and closer to my fortress. -- Peter's Evil Overlord List, http://www.eviloverlord.com/lists/overlord.html
Think about it. Is NS really becoming more stable? Nah, it's just becoming more feature bloated. & not in a useful way. I think if more concentration is put into Mozilla (this'll free up resources & make Mozilla more attractive to work on for Linux users), then that could lead to a better, more stable browser, but NS hasn't exactly been going anywhere recently.
-Laktar, a.k.a. Nick Rosen, laktar.dyndns.org
If I Ever Became An Evil Overlord: 75. I will instruct my Legions of Terror to attack the hero en masse, instead of standing around waiting while members break off and attack one or two at a time. -- Peter's Evil Overlord List, http://www.eviloverlord.com/lists/overlord.html
This especially applies in English classes where BS abounds and opinions are turned into fact. For Advanced Placement (this is where you get college credit if you do well on a test at the end of the year) English they have trouble testing how well a person understands and can think critically on some piece of literature and there are no standard books to read, so what do they do? They test based on standard interpretations, some of which are patently absurd. Why just today I had to hear all about the irony of Oedipus saving Thebes and yet killing his father (if anybody can explain to me why this is ironic, I'd be quite impressed), why the Old Man In The Sea was about the struggle being important and not Hemmingway's struggle not to become impotant as he aged, and all sorts of other absurdities. This kind of thing makes students not care (I used to argue these kinds of things w/ teachers, but now I've given up trying to get it through their thick skulls and instead discuss how wrong it is w/ the more intelligent and thoughtfull students) and takes education which is supposed to teach you how to think and turns it into training, which teaches you some accepted knowledge and how to apply it in narrow cases.
-Laktar, a.k.a. Nick Rosen, laktar.dyndns.org
If I Ever Became An Evil Overlord: 83. If I'm eating dinner with the hero, put poison in his goblet, then have to leave the table for any reason, I will order new drinks for both of us instead of trying to decide whether or not to switch with him. -- Peter's Evil Overlord List, http://www.eviloverlord.com/lists/overlord.html
This article tries to make it seem as if bad software is innevitable as it gets more complex. While most software is unstable crap that has lots of bad code (even Linux is full of bad code as much as I hate to admit it), software exists that has good, tight, stable code. Just think OpenBSD. Because the codebase is so tightly controled you have extremely good stable software that's really well coded. This is just making excuses. I don't upgrade a lot, because often things get worse rather than better. The problem is that most software gets to a stage where it does what I want and has plenty of features, but from there instead of just making the code tight and stable, most companies/developers start just haphazardly adding code and making the product worse. How about instead of this just trying to make the existing stuff better? I know it's not glamorous, but we need to do it.
-Laktar, a.k.a. Nick Rosen, laktar.dyndns.org
If I Ever Became An Evil Overlord: 27. I will never build only one of anything important. All important systems will have redundant control panels and power supplies. For the same reason I will always carry at least two fully loaded weapons at all times. -- Peter's Evil Overlord List, http://www.eviloverlord.com/lists/overlord.html
If I Ever Became An Evil Overlord: 25. No matter how well it would perform, I will never construct any sort of machinery which is completely indestructible except for one small and virtually inaccessible vulnerable spot. -- Peter's Evil Overlord List, http://www.eviloverlord.com/lists/overlord.html
I've read a lot of your accounts of travels and the like and you seem to be very flirtatious in nature. What does your wife think of this?
-Laktar, a.k.a. Nick Rosen, laktar.dyndns.org
If I Ever Became An Evil Overlord: 27. I will never build only one of anything important. All important systems will have redundant control panels and power supplies. For the same reason I will always carry at least two fully loaded weapons at all times. -- Peter's Evil Overlord List, http://www.eviloverlord.com/lists/overlord.html
What do you think of the changes to the BSD license?
-Laktar, a.k.a. Nick Rosen, laktar.dyndns.org
If I Ever Became An Evil Overlord: 1. My Legions of Terror will have helmets with clear plexiglass visors, not face-concealing ones. -- Peter's Evil Overlord List, http://www.eviloverlord.com/lists/overlord.html
www.tuxedo.org/~esr Large portions are devoted to guns and ESR's views on guns.
-Laktar, a.k.a. Nick Rosen, laktar.dyndns.org
If I Ever Became An Evil Overlord: 64. I will see a competent psychiatrist and get cured of all extremely unusual phobias and bizarre compulsive habits which could prove to be a disadvantage. -- Peter's Evil Overlord List, http://www.eviloverlord.com/lists/overlord.html
What do you think will happen to the traditional OS development model you described in the Cathedral and the Bizarre as more companies hop on the OS bandwagon? Do you think it will be able to sustain itself as the primary software development model? How will it need to change?
-Laktar, a.k.a. Nick Rosen, laktar.dyndns.org
If I Ever Became An Evil Overlord: 30. All bumbling conjurers, clumsy squires, no-talent bards, and cowardly thieves in the land will be preemptively put to death. My foes will surely give up and abandon their quest if they have no source of comic relief. -- Peter's Evil Overlord List, http://www.eviloverlord.com/lists/overlord.html
16 & 18 is VERY different from 13 & 34. VERY different. I agree that statuatory rape laws and the like should be changed to include some kind of at least 4 year difference thing as well, but posessing kiddy porn and going to meet and have sex w/ a 13 year old girl are things that should get this guy a long jail sentence.
-Laktar, a.k.a. Nick Rosen, laktar.dyndns.org
If I Ever Became An Evil Overlord: 8. After I kidnap the beautiful princess, we will be married immediately in a quiet civil ceremony, not a lavish spectacle in three weeks' time during which the final phase of my plan will be carried out. -- Peter's Evil Overlord List, http://www.eviloverlord.com/lists/overlord.html
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Worse than that, one time I got the same credit card number as somebody else. I noticed the problem when I tried to activate the card and found that not only did it not accept my social security number to activate it, but it was also already activated it. The card was under the other guy's name as he activated it first. I wonder if they changed his. hmm..., maybe I should go do some Christmas shopping....
That vegetation wouldn't is created by the dams. In running water you don't get the same massive growth you get in stagnant water. Besides, the problem is much worse than that. Dams destroy ecosystems associated with the river that they are on.
The story is The Feeling Of Power & it's in many different books though I can't recall where I originally saw it. Ah well.
Uh, can somebody please explain to me how this guy FORSAW the www in 1989?!?! More quality journalism brought to you by Rob & Hemos I guess.
uh, power=work/time, not energy/time. Your point still holds, but it's a lot more complicated then you make it seem.
Has this been verified? Considering the qualifications the /. eds have for that job I don't know if we should all be panicking and becoming furious quite yet. Anybody could've sent it.
What's your favorite OS (actually, how about a favorite past and favorite present) and why?
What does it take to get you to speak somewhere? I know you've spoken for the local Compaq User's Group here in Philly (missed it. Argh!!!), so it can't be impossible or anything.
With that kind of storage capacity, why should you accept any kind of quality degredation? Why not give the device the capability to play wav files as well? Or better yet, do that and come out w/ a lower cost one that only does wav files. No mp3 decoding makes for less hardware, fewer liscense fees, and a cheaper product.
Does WINE actually stand for anything, i.e. WINdows Emulator? I've never seen any mention of this on the web site. If not, what does the name come from?
rmartin@gdbinc.com is listed as the contact address for Mosaic by the company who made it
Well, while I wasn't making that point as I'll explain below, you just proved that some very moronic girls do in fact exist.
Note that such a think as sarcasm exists. This should've been obvious by the rest of the tone of my post and even more so once you read the "Seriously though" after it.
-Laktar, a.k.a. Nick Rosen, laktar.dyndns.org
If I Ever Became An Evil Overlord:
30. All bumbling conjurers, clumsy squires, no-talent bards, and cowardly
thieves in the land will be preemptively put to death. My foes will surely
give up and abandon their quest if they have no source of comic relief.
-- Peter's Evil Overlord List, http://www.eviloverlord.com/lists/overlord.html
...the real problem is finding ANY girl! How does a young geek find a girl? They're out there, but they're staying out there and not going out w/ me. Finding geek girls is even harder. There are so few of them (I seriously disagree w/ the find a maid attitude. I want somebody I can respect and relate to. I don't want somebody who is a complete mystery to me even after marriage!).
Actually, that's an interesting little mystery which I think I'll address now. There are very few geek girls. Why? I think the problem (and it's a problem. I'd like a gf who could hold her own in Quake) is several fold. First, girls in America (and I think most places) are discouraged from being intelligent, tinkering around w/ computers, electronics, and mechanical things, etc.. That alone sends many potential geeks into normalcy and often makes them pretend to be ditzes to fit in better. I know I've seen that way too often. Then there's the whole issue that almost any girl could get a guy if she wanted. For every desperate girl there are at least 5 guys twice as desperate (me, John, Tristan, Justin, Randy, see?). That tends to follow the general incorporation of intelligent potential geek girls into normal society. And last, girls just aren't as intelligent as guys and don't have the same aptitude in general. Seriously though, the whole geek girl shortage is a serious problem. THat is all. Oh, & if you're a geek girl, about 17 or thereabouts, & live around Ambler, my e-mail address is laktar@hotmail.com
-Laktar, a.k.a. Nick Rosen, laktar.dyndns.org
If I Ever Became An Evil Overlord:
20. Despite its proven stress-relieving effect, I will not indulge in maniacal
laughter. When so occupied, it's too easy to miss unexpected developments that
a more attentive individual could adjust to accordingly.
-- Peter's Evil Overlord List, http://www.eviloverlord.com/lists/overlord.html
Hmmm, that's interesting. I never realized just how young Hawking really was. For a newborn he's put out a phenominal amount of quite incredible work. The suggestion that the reason you shouldn't practice euthenasia on severely disabled newborns simply because they could end up being the next Steven Hawking is preposterous. By that argument every woman should be constantly pregnant. By not having children when she could be she's not having a child who could be the next Steven Hawking! How absurd! Why by your reasoning I could say that some newborn could be the next Hitler and therefore we should kill them all!
-Laktar, a.k.a. Nick Rosen, laktar.dyndns.org
If I Ever Became An Evil Overlord:
16. I will never utter the sentence "But before I kill you, there's just one
thing I want to know."
-- Peter's Evil Overlord List, http://www.eviloverlord.com/lists/overlord.html
I don't know about you, but if I had to make a decision based only on those 2 traits, I'd pick the person w/ 5 years of experience as a Novell sysadmin over the CNE. Somebody who's a CNE may not know jack about being a sysadmin. The other person can actually keep a system running. That practical proof is much more important to me than some stupid test (this especially applies to MCSEs). Maybe if things were changed around so that they actually measured valuable skills and abilities, then I'd put more stock in the test, but that's not the way it is. The RH certification test takes 6 hrs and involved much in the way of practicality. There's something that actually means something.
-Laktar, a.k.a. Nick Rosen, laktar.dyndns.org
If I Ever Became An Evil Overlord:
70. When my guards split up to search for intruders, they will always travel
in groups of at least two. They will be trained so that if one of them
disappears mysteriously while on patrol, the other will immediately initiate
an alert and call for backup instead of quizzically peering around a corner.
-- Peter's Evil Overlord List, http://www.eviloverlord.com/lists/overlord.html
First, as you yourself betrayed by that little Fraudian slip, Freudian psych is complete BS. Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar. In fact most of the time a cigar is just a cigar.
Second, it's not the choice of literature (though I thought that Oedipus was absolute garbage and had very little of value), but rather the interpretation. Oedipus killing his father yet saving the city isn't irony in the least. Irony is something like, hmm, I don't know, maybe my reference to your little Freudian slip and its connection w/ the invalidity of Freudian psychology.
-Laktar, a.k.a. Nick Rosen, laktar.dyndns.org
If I Ever Became An Evil Overlord:
80. If my weakest troops fail to eliminate a hero, I will send out my best
troops instead of wasting time with progressively stronger ones as he gets
closer and closer to my fortress.
-- Peter's Evil Overlord List, http://www.eviloverlord.com/lists/overlord.html
Think about it. Is NS really becoming more stable? Nah, it's just becoming more feature bloated. & not in a useful way. I think if more concentration is put into Mozilla (this'll free up resources & make Mozilla more attractive to work on for Linux users), then that could lead to a better, more stable browser, but NS hasn't exactly been going anywhere recently.
-Laktar, a.k.a. Nick Rosen, laktar.dyndns.org
If I Ever Became An Evil Overlord:
75. I will instruct my Legions of Terror to attack the hero en masse, instead
of standing around waiting while members break off and attack one or two at a
time.
-- Peter's Evil Overlord List, http://www.eviloverlord.com/lists/overlord.html
This especially applies in English classes where BS abounds and opinions are turned into fact. For Advanced Placement (this is where you get college credit if you do well on a test at the end of the year) English they have trouble testing how well a person understands and can think critically on some piece of literature and there are no standard books to read, so what do they do? They test based on standard interpretations, some of which are patently absurd. Why just today I had to hear all about the irony of Oedipus saving Thebes and yet killing his father (if anybody can explain to me why this is ironic, I'd be quite impressed), why the Old Man In The Sea was about the struggle being important and not Hemmingway's struggle not to become impotant as he aged, and all sorts of other absurdities. This kind of thing makes students not care (I used to argue these kinds of things w/ teachers, but now I've given up trying to get it through their thick skulls and instead discuss how wrong it is w/ the more intelligent and thoughtfull students) and takes education which is supposed to teach you how to think and turns it into training, which teaches you some accepted knowledge and how to apply it in narrow cases.
-Laktar, a.k.a. Nick Rosen, laktar.dyndns.org
If I Ever Became An Evil Overlord:
83. If I'm eating dinner with the hero, put poison in his goblet, then have to
leave the table for any reason, I will order new drinks for both of us instead
of trying to decide whether or not to switch with him.
-- Peter's Evil Overlord List, http://www.eviloverlord.com/lists/overlord.html
This article tries to make it seem as if bad software is innevitable as it gets more complex. While most software is unstable crap that has lots of bad code (even Linux is full of bad code as much as I hate to admit it), software exists that has good, tight, stable code. Just think OpenBSD. Because the codebase is so tightly controled you have extremely good stable software that's really well coded. This is just making excuses. I don't upgrade a lot, because often things get worse rather than better. The problem is that most software gets to a stage where it does what I want and has plenty of features, but from there instead of just making the code tight and stable, most companies/developers start just haphazardly adding code and making the product worse. How about instead of this just trying to make the existing stuff better? I know it's not glamorous, but we need to do it.
-Laktar, a.k.a. Nick Rosen, laktar.dyndns.org
If I Ever Became An Evil Overlord:
27. I will never build only one of anything important. All important systems
will have redundant control panels and power supplies. For the same reason I
will always carry at least two fully loaded weapons at all times.
-- Peter's Evil Overlord List, http://www.eviloverlord.com/lists/overlord.html
-Laktar, a.k.a. Nick Rosen, laktar.dyndns.org
If I Ever Became An Evil Overlord:
25. No matter how well it would perform, I will never construct any sort of
machinery which is completely indestructible except for one small and
virtually inaccessible vulnerable spot.
-- Peter's Evil Overlord List, http://www.eviloverlord.com/lists/overlord.html
I've read a lot of your accounts of travels and the like and you seem to be very flirtatious in nature. What does your wife think of this?
-Laktar, a.k.a. Nick Rosen, laktar.dyndns.org
If I Ever Became An Evil Overlord:
27. I will never build only one of anything important. All important systems
will have redundant control panels and power supplies. For the same reason I
will always carry at least two fully loaded weapons at all times.
-- Peter's Evil Overlord List, http://www.eviloverlord.com/lists/overlord.html
What do you think of the changes to the BSD license?
-Laktar, a.k.a. Nick Rosen, laktar.dyndns.org
If I Ever Became An Evil Overlord:
1. My Legions of Terror will have helmets with clear plexiglass visors, not
face-concealing ones.
-- Peter's Evil Overlord List, http://www.eviloverlord.com/lists/overlord.html
www.tuxedo.org/~esr
Large portions are devoted to guns and ESR's views on guns.
-Laktar, a.k.a. Nick Rosen, laktar.dyndns.org
If I Ever Became An Evil Overlord:
64. I will see a competent psychiatrist and get cured of all extremely unusual
phobias and bizarre compulsive habits which could prove to be a disadvantage.
-- Peter's Evil Overlord List, http://www.eviloverlord.com/lists/overlord.html
What do you think will happen to the traditional OS development model you described in the Cathedral and the Bizarre as more companies hop on the OS bandwagon? Do you think it will be able to sustain itself as the primary software development model? How will it need to change?
-Laktar, a.k.a. Nick Rosen, laktar.dyndns.org
If I Ever Became An Evil Overlord:
30. All bumbling conjurers, clumsy squires, no-talent bards, and cowardly
thieves in the land will be preemptively put to death. My foes will surely
give up and abandon their quest if they have no source of comic relief.
-- Peter's Evil Overlord List, http://www.eviloverlord.com/lists/overlord.html
16 & 18 is VERY different from 13 & 34. VERY different. I agree that statuatory rape laws and the like should be changed to include some kind of at least 4 year difference thing as well, but posessing kiddy porn and going to meet and have sex w/ a 13 year old girl are things that should get this guy a long jail sentence.
-Laktar, a.k.a. Nick Rosen, laktar.dyndns.org
If I Ever Became An Evil Overlord:
8. After I kidnap the beautiful princess, we will be married immediately in a
quiet civil ceremony, not a lavish spectacle in three weeks' time during
which the final phase of my plan will be carried out.
-- Peter's Evil Overlord List, http://www.eviloverlord.com/lists/overlord.html