Look at my user information for a second.. It's been a little slow this week, but unlike the trolls and FP's you akin me too, I actually care about my comments here on slash. Nearly 1 out of every 2 posts of mine get moderated up.
Now what is my motivation?
I just like the fact that people think along similiar lines that I do. I enjoy the fact that my insight gets rewarded in the form of karma. Some of my posts are 4 line direct and too the point, while others are 2 page tirads based on personal life experience. I carefully craft my comments to appeal to a wide audience, chocked full of insight and sometimes humor.
As far as "google literate" I've had both these sites in my favorites for about 6 months now. It's how I know Dave Suthibut is no longer being maintained (still funny though) and fuck that job has gone from a simple non-interactie page made from MS frontpage, to the PHP please leave your comments glory that it is now.
And I do care when mistakes in moderation are made. You're obviously missing the point about why i'm bringing it up. You yourself are sitting here bitching and moaning about how bad the slashdot moderation system is, how you left it SOOO long ago for kuroshin, yet when I try to remedy my own bad moderation, you crucify me. You're whole post is just stupid.
I did a quick check on you're UID to make sure that you're not a complete idiot. You seem like a nice, smart person. Albiet a bit underemployed at the moment (so am I so don't sweat it) I'm going to read through some of your past comments to get a better idea of who you are before I completely pass judgement on you.
Why was my comment modded as "Redundant?" The only other fuckthatjob post came a full 3 minutes after mine did.
by t0qer (230538) on Friday November 14, @03:51PM (#7477975) by EvilStein (414640) on Friday November 14, @03:54PM (#7478001)
Not to mention I also point out another site in addition to FTJ. Could someone swing some mod points my way please for this obvious bad moderation? Thank you.
I'm being nitpicky about your commment I know. But you're lack of understanding into the space time continium and the 4th dimension requires it.
"Requirements: 5 years experience with Windows 2000..."
Ok if one wanted 5 years of experience with win2k, they would need to go forward in time, to say 2005. Not backwards, because win2k was not created yet.
I remember this SNL skit about this copier that took a crappy show's script, and made it something better. Case in point on the script was the golden girls got turned into designing women.
I think if Dr. Who went through the same machine, we would end up with a show starring Scott Bakula as this time traveler that went around solving peoples problems, K-9 would be replaced by ziggy, and Dean Cain would replace the Dr.s female sidekick.
I'll tell you about ricochet since I used to work there a long time ago.
I have several post related to them, and usually I copy 'n paste them here. A few of them I targetted specific individuals that I felt were useless and probably contributed to their demise, undoubtably these individuals know about my posts because by the third or fouth time I touched based on this subject other "insiders" responded saying my post was nothing more than a troll. Fuck them, and fuck their Los Gatos rich kid clique they rode in on.
Ricochet didn't die because of a bad product, they died from pisspoor management decisions. These bad managers surrounded themselves with even more idiots just to keep themselves looking good. Just because shit has perfume, it's still shit.
I recently saw a fellow ex-metricommer at a bar I frequent. I didn't recognize him because we worked in different departments (He worked for biztell, a company outsourced to sell ricochet)
Basically the story he told me corroborated my original theories of piss poor management leading to the companies demise a few years after I left.
Biztell was making the numbers for metricom, They had outperformed the other two companies partnered to sell the product. I think MCI and ATT were the other two companies licensed to resell the ricochet. (If i'm wrong on these two please correct me)
Somewhere along the line a new CEO came in to take over ricochet. As with all the previous CEO's he used his business network to raise some unneeded capital for the company. When they were still in their Los Gatos location which was a building owned by one of the Chairmen, they were actually starting to creep towards profitability, since the rent was low and Biztell was making their sales quota.
For some reason, this didn't sit well with the new CEO. During a lucid dream he had while smoking crack (joke) he got the idea that ricochet needed a downtown SJ address. Rather than seek pre-existing space, he decided to take all that capital he had just recieved, and invest it in real estate.
Later a suitable location was selected, and construction began on the new 2 building 4 story glass encased cubicle farm. (I heard the property was purchased from the CEO's buddy, the construction contract was given to another buddy, and everyone was lining everyone elses pockets on the whole deal)
Now all idiot CEO's know the best way to justify even more funding is to show a high burn rate. To facilitate this even more useless corpses were hired, and a add campaign began. Rather than focus on the merits of the technology the ads featured a sexy long legged model driving around in a silver Jaguar ala James bond. By the time you got done watching the ads, other than the quick flash of the ricochet name across the screen, it didn't really sell anything. I remember watching these ads and thinking how stupid they are.
At the same time prices for both the modem and the service were raised.
Well, as all stupid idea's go, the new corporate HQ, the ad campaign, and the rush of new employees drained the metricom coffers faster than a lapdance at your favorite strip club. Instead of being accountable for their actions, the executive board seeked a scapegoat for the declining sales. Biztell's contract was not renewed, and sales of the ricochet service plummeted along with their stock mcom.
Well we all know the end result. People came to the new corporate HQ one day to find it locked, and a bankrupcy notice glued to the door. It was over.
Now let's fast forward to the present.
Phonix networks (Not sure if thats right) Purchased the ricochet network for pennies on the dollar. I personally have no contacts within the company, but from what my freind whom I saw at the bar last week told me, it's no different than when mcom was owned by a bunch of rich guys from Los Gatos./. featured a story about the buyout 2 years ago, yet the new company has yet to bring service back. Again pisspoor mana
How about/. create a sco.slashdot.org and post all the SCO crap there
YES!!! Excellent idea. I think the color scheme for this new/. partition should be white txt on white background, or brown (like crap) on a brown background.
It's plastic, and all you need to do to get the 0's and 1's in there is break a few ciruits. It shouldn't matter if it's being done slowly through "EPROM" type programming, or if you puctured the circuits with a needle.
If you really wanted to mass produce something (like a dvd) you could simple have a metal plate with needles protruding out of it patterned to make 1's and 0's where you want them.
Since it's layered, you would have to press each layer seperately, but not a big deal.
I nominate Gigalo Joe from the movie AI. I mean heck, this was some geeks creation that got $paid$ not just to have sex, but to fullfill a womans needs both physically and emotionally.
First google link that popped up was for a fan site. http://fans.papervixen.net/joe/main.php
As a guy I think it would be cool to have a Joe around for a coach. He's sort of a multiplatform system programmed with the kuma satra, men are from mars and women are from venus, GQ, and the complete collection of Ophra book club.
Or maybe nobodies mentioned this yet, but the article mentions all the problems with using multiple GPU's on an AGP bus, it just doesn't work right without some sort of kludge.
What about PCI express? 2004 is supposed to be the year of PCI express's birth, and AGP's death. Does PCI express have a radically different setup that allows it to handle multiple chips in a SLI configuration better?
On a whim I thought I would check out MC Chris and try and find any music samples I could listen too. I found one and I have to say that is the worst thing my ears have ever heard. Did I mention I work weekends at a karaoke bar? We have regulars that think they're going to be discovered there, and this guy sounds about 10 times worse.
Sorry to reply to me own post but just wanted to add.
WADS. I believe that should be a standard widget in any 3D application is scene walkthrough using the WADS keys, which are standard walk keys in most FPS games.
Ok so there's 1 standard everyone should be using.
I use truespace, I hear a lot of people say that has a "unneccesarily obtuse and convoluted interface." For some reason it just sat right with me.
Same thing when it came to blender. After understanding the keyboard shortcuts I was able to create objects, animate them, and add in particle effects.
UI design is wholy dependant on the programmers abilities and their knowledge of UI design. I don't think 3D manipulation and rendering of objects in realtime has any real "defined" widget set yet. Because there is no "Law" for designing UI for the 3D we usually end up with all these whacky interfaces. You just have to hope your userbase's minds can hum along with it.
My friend's grandmother has this neighbor who was sort of the neighborhood whacko (schizophenia, medicated) He lived with his dad up until the time his father died and the estate was split up amungst the surviving siblings.
Well, he had a trusting nature about him, almost anyone could be his friend. Since he had been a roadie for many bands (Grateful Dead, Fleetwood Mac to name a few) for the price of getting him stoned you could listen to him go on for hours about his days as a roadie, while you fished out of his carp stocked green algae swimming pool. Although he was crazy, he was a fun guy to be around if you had a few hours to kill.
So here he was with all this money from his families estate. The house was sold, so he bought himself a luxery van to live out of. The rest of the money he put into money market accounts and had planned to live out the rest of his days cruising to concerts and playing his guitar out of the back of his van.
Tradgedy struck when the nigerian e-mail scam hit his inbox. He fell for it hook line and sinker. After arranging with the english accennted guy on the other end of the phone line, they agreed to meet in amsterdam to facilitate the transfer of funds (which was through cashiers check)
Even after he got off the phone, even when he was going to the bank, even when he stepped off the plane his sanity nagged, no pleaded with him "This is a scam Kim, please just go home". Sanity had never gotten him anywhere so he just ignored it.
He met the guy at some cannibus club, and after a few nice bowls of fine green, his sanity returned to his subconciousness, where it layed dormant most of the time. He handed the man the cashier check for $200,000 with full confidence he was doing the smart thing with his money.
Once returning to the states he tried dialing the number the man had given him, disconnected. He tried the e-mail address, no reply. 3 months after he had pissed away $200,000 on a cashier check and a handshake, he finally told his friends what had happened.
I posted this somewhere before on the nigerian scam, a lot of people responded "Serves him right for being stupid with his money" I don't agree with them though. We're talking about a guy with the emotional maturity of a 9 year old.
The same mentality that would perform this scam on weak minded and lonely adults is the same mentality that would take advantage of a little kid. Spare me the "Theives code of honor" I hope this guy gets life.
We have yet to build robots that can do everything a human can. Take hand tools for example. Using one isn't an exact science, you have to apply a certain amount of torque to unbolt something, while it can be measured and fedback to the CPU of some robot, the robot doesn't know the context of the task it's doing. What if it's doing something wrong?
Not to mention our arms have an amazing degree of flexability, we can look at where we need to use a tool, and determine the best path to getting our arm into a peice of machinery to wrench something down. At the same time we think about how to position the rest of the body to get the best leverage. It all happens subconciously in the lower primitive parts of the brain that our higher thinking doesn't even have access too.
Just that one subconcious part would take a modern computer days to figure out.
For simple stuff, like determining if an atmosphere has O2, sure send in the probes. Anything involving building, sample collection, or surface exploration, humans cannot just be beaten yet...
Turn the radio spectrum into unlicensed public
on
Who Needs Radio?
·
· Score: 1
Would be nice to have networking equipment not operating at microwave frequencies.
I thought it was 3.579545 to be synched with the NTSC chromo signal. Just about all 6502 based machines were clocked at this rate; c64, Atari 8-bit, Nintentdo 8-bit, TurboGrafx16, and apple 8-bits.
I just randomly grabbed a subject from one of my spams figuring that it would
be a good way to get attention to this comment.
I think this article is interesting not for geek reasons, but because it
represents a thumb your nose to the
slashvertisement we saw yesterday on the
VIA-based Mobile Robot Design For Download. Even my own
comment pointed out how you could basically build your own for for just the
cost of few electronics.
Cool, slashdot is starting to tell their advertisers Kiss my ass! Way to go
guys! Very admirable.
Slashdot Mirror
It's a troll but i'll bite...
Look at my user information for a second.. It's been a little slow this week, but unlike the trolls and FP's you akin me too, I actually care about my comments here on slash. Nearly 1 out of every 2 posts of mine get moderated up.
Now what is my motivation?
I just like the fact that people think along similiar lines that I do. I enjoy the fact that my insight gets rewarded in the form of karma. Some of my posts are 4 line direct and too the point, while others are 2 page tirads based on personal life experience. I carefully craft my comments to appeal to a wide audience, chocked full of insight and sometimes humor.
As far as "google literate" I've had both these sites in my favorites for about 6 months now. It's how I know Dave Suthibut is no longer being maintained (still funny though) and fuck that job has gone from a simple non-interactie page made from MS frontpage, to the PHP please leave your comments glory that it is now.
And I do care when mistakes in moderation are made. You're obviously missing the point about why i'm bringing it up. You yourself are sitting here bitching and moaning about how bad the slashdot moderation system is, how you left it SOOO long ago for kuroshin, yet when I try to remedy my own bad moderation, you crucify me. You're whole post is just stupid.
I did a quick check on you're UID to make sure that you're not a complete idiot. You seem like a nice, smart person. Albiet a bit underemployed at the moment (so am I so don't sweat it) I'm going to read through some of your past comments to get a better idea of who you are before I completely pass judgement on you.
Yes I care.
Why was my comment modded as "Redundant?" The only other fuckthatjob post came a full 3 minutes after mine did.
by t0qer (230538) on Friday November 14, @03:51PM (#7477975)
by EvilStein (414640) on Friday November 14, @03:54PM (#7478001)
Not to mention I also point out another site in addition to FTJ. Could someone swing some mod points my way please for this obvious bad moderation? Thank you.
I'm being nitpicky about your commment I know. But you're lack of understanding into the space time continium and the 4th dimension requires it.
"Requirements: 5 years experience with Windows 2000..."
Ok if one wanted 5 years of experience with win2k, they would need to go forward in time, to say 2005. Not backwards, because win2k was not created yet.
Again my apologies for being a nitpick.
Fuck that job
e suthibut.a sp
http://fuckthatjob.com/index.php
E-mails of the suthibut family (doesn't seem to be updated)
http://blog.postapocalypse.com/dave/dav
I remember this SNL skit about this copier that took a crappy show's script, and made it something better. Case in point on the script was the golden girls got turned into designing women.
I think if Dr. Who went through the same machine, we would end up with a show starring Scott Bakula as this time traveler that went around solving peoples problems, K-9 would be replaced by ziggy, and Dean Cain would replace the Dr.s female sidekick.
I haven't seen one of these in ages, but from memory I remember them using an 8088 processor.
I think it would be a neat project to retrofit this old robot with a modern ITX mobo. Has anyone actually tried it?
I'll tell you about ricochet since I used to work there a long time ago.
/. featured a story about the buyout 2 years ago, yet the new company has yet to bring service back. Again pisspoor mana
I have several post related to them, and usually I copy 'n paste them here. A few of them I targetted specific individuals that I felt were useless and probably contributed to their demise, undoubtably these individuals know about my posts because by the third or fouth time I touched based on this subject other "insiders" responded saying my post was nothing more than a troll. Fuck them, and fuck their Los Gatos rich kid clique they rode in on.
Ricochet didn't die because of a bad product, they died from pisspoor management decisions. These bad managers surrounded themselves with even more idiots just to keep themselves looking good. Just because shit has perfume, it's still shit.
I recently saw a fellow ex-metricommer at a bar I frequent. I didn't recognize him because we worked in different departments (He worked for biztell, a company outsourced to sell ricochet)
Basically the story he told me corroborated my original theories of piss poor management leading to the companies demise a few years after I left.
Biztell was making the numbers for metricom, They had outperformed the other two companies partnered to sell the product. I think MCI and ATT were the other two companies licensed to resell the ricochet. (If i'm wrong on these two please correct me)
Somewhere along the line a new CEO came in to take over ricochet. As with all the previous CEO's he used his business network to raise some unneeded capital for the company. When they were still in their Los Gatos location which was a building owned by one of the Chairmen, they were actually starting to creep towards profitability, since the rent was low and Biztell was making their sales quota.
For some reason, this didn't sit well with the new CEO. During a lucid dream he had while smoking crack (joke) he got the idea that ricochet needed a downtown SJ address. Rather than seek pre-existing space, he decided to take all that capital he had just recieved, and invest it in real estate.
Later a suitable location was selected, and construction began on the new 2 building 4 story glass encased cubicle farm. (I heard the property was purchased from the CEO's buddy, the construction contract was given to another buddy, and everyone was lining everyone elses pockets on the whole deal)
Now all idiot CEO's know the best way to justify even more funding is to show a high burn rate. To facilitate this even more useless corpses were hired, and a add campaign began. Rather than focus on the merits of the technology the ads featured a sexy long legged model driving around in a silver Jaguar ala James bond. By the time you got done watching the ads, other than the quick flash of the ricochet name across the screen, it didn't really sell anything. I remember watching these ads and thinking how stupid they are.
At the same time prices for both the modem and the service were raised.
Well, as all stupid idea's go, the new corporate HQ, the ad campaign, and the rush of new employees drained the metricom coffers faster than a lapdance at your favorite strip club. Instead of being accountable for their actions, the executive board seeked a scapegoat for the declining sales. Biztell's contract was not renewed, and sales of the ricochet service plummeted along with their stock mcom.
Well we all know the end result. People came to the new corporate HQ one day to find it locked, and a bankrupcy notice glued to the door. It was over.
Now let's fast forward to the present.
Phonix networks (Not sure if thats right) Purchased the ricochet network for pennies on the dollar. I personally have no contacts within the company, but from what my freind whom I saw at the bar last week told me, it's no different than when mcom was owned by a bunch of rich guys from Los Gatos.
How about /. create a sco.slashdot.org and post all the SCO crap there
/. partition should be white txt on white background, or brown (like crap) on a brown background.
YES!!! Excellent idea. I think the color scheme for this new
I don't agree with your comment.
It's plastic, and all you need to do to get the 0's and 1's in there is break a few ciruits. It shouldn't matter if it's being done slowly through "EPROM" type programming, or if you puctured the circuits with a needle.
If you really wanted to mass produce something (like a dvd) you could simple have a metal plate with needles protruding out of it patterned to make 1's and 0's where you want them.
Since it's layered, you would have to press each layer seperately, but not a big deal.
I nominate Gigalo Joe from the movie AI. I mean heck, this was some geeks creation that got $paid$ not just to have sex, but to fullfill a womans needs both physically and emotionally.
First google link that popped up was for a fan site. http://fans.papervixen.net/joe/main.php
As a guy I think it would be cool to have a Joe around for a coach. He's sort of a multiplatform system programmed with the kuma satra, men are from mars and women are from venus, GQ, and the complete collection of Ophra book club.
Or maybe nobodies mentioned this yet, but the article mentions all the problems with using multiple GPU's on an AGP bus, it just doesn't work right without some sort of kludge.
What about PCI express? 2004 is supposed to be the year of PCI express's birth, and AGP's death. Does PCI express have a radically different setup that allows it to handle multiple chips in a SLI configuration better?
I'm sure I'd use mine on
MC Chris.
On a whim I thought I would check out MC Chris and try and find any music
samples I could listen too. I found
one and I have to say that
is the worst thing my ears have ever heard. Did I mention I work weekends
at a karaoke bar? We have regulars that think they're going to be
discovered there, and this guy sounds about 10 times worse.
w00t that was awesome!
Did you ever take debate?
No appropriate would be to lock him in shackles and let my
friend beat
him over the head with his guitar.
Sorry to reply to me own post but just wanted to add.
WADS. I believe that should be a standard widget in any 3D application is scene walkthrough using the WADS keys, which are standard walk keys in most FPS games.
Ok so there's 1 standard everyone should be using.
I use truespace, I hear a lot of people say that has a "unneccesarily obtuse and convoluted interface." For some reason it just sat right with me.
Same thing when it came to blender. After understanding the keyboard shortcuts I was able to create objects, animate them, and add in particle effects.
UI design is wholy dependant on the programmers abilities and their knowledge of UI design. I don't think 3D manipulation and rendering of objects in realtime has any real "defined" widget set yet. Because there is no "Law" for designing UI for the 3D we usually end up with all these whacky interfaces. You just have to hope your userbase's minds can hum along with it.
Gaylord Foker. No wonder the guy grew up wanting to blow up parliment.
~~~~Wavy Flashback to a 16th century schoolyard~~~~
Kids Pointing:: Haha Guy Fawkes Fawkes Guys! HAhA.
And yes, I know they currently lose money on each Xbox sold
Just wanted to point out that a PIII733 (can't even buy em anymore), nforce chipset mobo, 64 megs of ram actually costs less than an Xbox now.
I think MS started making money on the hardware about a year ago.
You learn way more reading slash than watching your teevee
In fact I learned..
Teevee is dying according to the latest netcraft report.
My friend's grandmother has this neighbor who was sort of the neighborhood whacko (schizophenia, medicated) He lived with his dad up until the time his father died and the estate was split up amungst the surviving siblings.
Well, he had a trusting nature about him, almost anyone could be his friend. Since he had been a roadie for many bands (Grateful Dead, Fleetwood Mac to name a few) for the price of getting him stoned you could listen to him go on for hours about his days as a roadie, while you fished out of his carp stocked green algae swimming pool. Although he was crazy, he was a fun guy to be around if you had a few hours to kill.
So here he was with all this money from his families estate. The house was sold, so he bought himself a luxery van to live out of. The rest of the money he put into money market accounts and had planned to live out the rest of his days cruising to concerts and playing his guitar out of the back of his van.
Tradgedy struck when the nigerian e-mail scam hit his inbox. He fell for it hook line and sinker. After arranging with the english accennted guy on the other end of the phone line, they agreed to meet in amsterdam to facilitate the transfer of funds (which was through cashiers check)
Even after he got off the phone, even when he was going to the bank, even when he stepped off the plane his sanity nagged, no pleaded with him "This is a scam Kim, please just go home". Sanity had never gotten him anywhere so he just ignored it.
He met the guy at some cannibus club, and after a few nice bowls of fine green, his sanity returned to his subconciousness, where it layed dormant most of the time. He handed the man the cashier check for $200,000 with full confidence he was doing the smart thing with his money.
Once returning to the states he tried dialing the number the man had given him, disconnected. He tried the e-mail address, no reply. 3 months after he had pissed away $200,000 on a cashier check and a handshake, he finally told his friends what had happened.
I posted this somewhere before on the nigerian scam, a lot of people responded "Serves him right for being stupid with his money" I don't agree with them though. We're talking about a guy with the emotional maturity of a 9 year old.
The same mentality that would perform this scam on weak minded and lonely adults is the same mentality that would take advantage of a little kid. Spare me the "Theives code of honor" I hope this guy gets life.
I think we need humans up there.
We have yet to build robots that can do everything a human can. Take hand tools for example. Using one isn't an exact science, you have to apply a certain amount of torque to unbolt something, while it can be measured and fedback to the CPU of some robot, the robot doesn't know the context of the task it's doing. What if it's doing something wrong?
Not to mention our arms have an amazing degree of flexability, we can look at where we need to use a tool, and determine the best path to getting our arm into a peice of machinery to wrench something down. At the same time we think about how to position the rest of the body to get the best leverage. It all happens subconciously in the lower primitive parts of the brain that our higher thinking doesn't even have access too.
Just that one subconcious part would take a modern computer days to figure out.
For simple stuff, like determining if an atmosphere has O2, sure send in the probes. Anything involving building, sample collection, or surface exploration, humans cannot just be beaten yet...
Would be nice to have networking equipment not operating at microwave frequencies.
I thought it was 3.579545 to be synched with the NTSC chromo signal. Just about all 6502 based machines were clocked at this rate; c64, Atari 8-bit, Nintentdo 8-bit, TurboGrafx16, and apple 8-bits.
Aria
Me licks my lips in anticipation of being arrested.
I just randomly grabbed a subject from one of my spams figuring that it would be a good way to get attention to this comment.
I think this article is interesting not for geek reasons, but because it represents a thumb your nose to the slashvertisement we saw yesterday on the VIA-based Mobile Robot Design For Download. Even my own comment pointed out how you could basically build your own for for just the cost of few electronics.
Cool, slashdot is starting to tell their advertisers Kiss my ass! Way to go guys! Very admirable.