Except that a spammer sent out a URL to a site that claimed to have been "built by" one of my domains, as if it were a web development company.
I, being a good citizen, actually had my real name and contact info in my WHOIS record. A lot of people tracked that down, and let loose. I certainly got a lot of hate mail... Heck, even Rob Limo sent me a nastygram over this.
I have no idea how or why the spammer picked my domain. I tried contacting them without success (not surprisingly). Worse, it took me nearly a day to track down why everyone thought I was a spammer, and when I tried to ask people why they were sending me hate mail, they just turned up the vitriol. Evidently, it's bad to be a spammer, but it's even worse to be a stupid spammer who can't cover his tracks.
Emergency hatches? Why you lucky bastards! Where I grew up, the busses were sealed. If we wanted a ride, we'd have to chase after them, and grab on to a bit of barbed wire tied to the rear bumper, and hold on for dear life as we got dragged to our destination.
Emergency hatches? Feh! No wonder the youth of today are so soft. Why, you probably had all your own limbs all the way up to adulthood! Emergency hatches...
8 inch floppies *were* the standard media. Fortunately, I migrated my data from the 8s to the 5.25s. Foolishly, I never migrated from the 5.25s when people still knew what hard-sector floppies were.
I guess the real problem is that the standard evolves over time.
Maybe ol' Jack can help me transfer the data from my collection of old TRS-80 disks. They're five and a quarter inch, double sided, double density. Most are forty-track, although a few are thirty-five track. They were written using a non-standard doubler -- track zero is double-density too, unlike most where track zero was still single density.
Hell, they don't even have anyone else's Intellectual Property on them, except for a quotation collection I'd transcribed from old Chinese legends and stuff.
Three cards for police choppers in the sky Seven for politicians in their halls of stone Nine for Justices doomed to lie One for the President on his dark throne In the Land of DC where the lobbyists vie. One card to rule them all, one card to find them, one card to track IP, and in a lawsuit bind them...
Good tea? Well, it depends on which kinds of tea you mean. It's damn hard to find a good Irish-style or English-style black tea. It can be done, but involves much searching. It's virtually impossible to find an authentic Indian-style Chai (as opposed to the McBuck's imitation stuff that's sweeping the land).
But if you're looking for green teas, there are a lot of good options. For Japanese green teas, there are places all over LA that'll serve a good sencha, and I know of a handful of places with decent hojicha, genmaicha, and bancha. I'm not as up on the Chinese green teas (that'll be the next field of reserach), but with the size of the community here in the LA area, I don't doubt there'll be some good stuff available.
OK. Sorry, but I must call bullshit on at least some of this analysis.
Good coffee was not, perhaps, in the mainstream before Starbucks. But you could get good coffee in LA if you knew where to look...
Remember the Espresso Bar in Pasadena? Congo Square in Santa Monica? Wednesday's in Venice? Depending what year you went there, there was great (or really dreadful) coffee at Gorky's Cafe on San Julian near downtown. And Petterson's was good -- I had my first date with my girlfriend there, back in '98.
And there's still Highland Grounds, Cow's End, Bourgeois Pig (at least in Hollywood, the Venice one is long gone), Sacred Grounds in San Pedro, and Un-Urban on Urban in Santa Monica.
Lulu's Blue Plate (formerly Lulu's Alibi) is not bad, and Anastasia's Asylum is pretty good. You can get a mean cup o' drip at Joni's Coffee Roasters, and Little Frida's was pretty good last time I was there. Plenty of trustworthy people are into Cacao, Insomnia, Ground Zero, and the Novel Cafe (just try to find parking...)
So it's not quite as bleak as you say. Except that McBuck's has closed down so many of them, as you can see from the list above.
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Don't make too many assumptions here.
Firstly, the dominance of brain hemisphere by gender is an assumption.
Secondly, the left/right brain function differentiation is not only based upon native language, but evidently culture as well.
Scans show that, for example, English speakers and Japanese speakers have opposite sides of the brain light up when the sound of running water is perceived. But this also turns out to be more or less true of people raised in English-speaking and Japanese-speaking places, even if they are raised speaking another language. And then, by and large, 2nd generation (Nisei) Japanese Americans will register the sound on the opposite site of the brain than their Japanese-born parents, even if they (the Nisei) are raised speaking Japanese.
All this is to point out that the whole left brain / right brain dichotomy is nice in theory, but is not absolute. Furthermore, even in nice clean cases where we're talking entirely about a group of people with a common language and culture, the degree of dominance of one hemisphere over the other is a spectrum, not a boolean.
In short, tech people shouldn't make technical excuses for not caring about communication. . . .
So there needs to be some real consolidation in the OS world. One 'OS' for the masses. Let the geeks and power users choose their own, but we need one base distrib for the Dells, eMachines, Gateways, IBMs to stick on for the home users.
Three dists for the Dell Machines for selling on the 'net,
Seven for Gateway if they can stay afloat,
None for eMachines, they'll go broke I bet,
One for Joe Sixpack which we will promote,
In the land of WalMart to gather large banknotes.
One dist to rule them all, One dist to guide them,
One dist to just install and apps which none deny them
In the land of WalMart to gather large banknotes.
You may be too young to remember it, but at one time, C was considered to be the super-eeeeelite cross platform language, 'cause there was a standard waiting for ANSI to approve it.
The problem with jamming GPS is that, to do that, you need to transmit a signal.
When you transmit a signal, you make yourself vulverable to things that can sense that signal; e.g., missiles that home in on radio transmissions.
So yes, you could jam a wave of GPS-guided weapons. But if the wave of attacks includes a handful of gravity bombs or other weapons that seek those frequencies, you couldn't do it twice...
Still, a smart jamming strategy might help protect a hardened target.
Im buying the exact same game, just compiled differently.
Spoken like someone who has never done cross-platform development. Do you think you can simply take a Windows app source and change a command-line switch to compile a Palm Pilot app?
Yes, but at least a virtual bike doesn't make you as vulnerable to being run over by an automobile.
I live in LA. I've been hit by cars twice: once on a bicycle, the other time on a Honda scooter. Both times, it was someone who didn't see me, and was coming too fast for me to take evasive action. Both times I was following traffic laws, had right-of-way, was wearing red and reflectors, and was driving defensively (i.e., not trusting the cars to see me).
After the second time, when I was sitting in Emergency, waiting for them to clean up the road rash and put in some stitches, the medics were all busy with a guy on the next cot. He'd been hit on his motorcycle. The whole time I was waiting (probably only an hour, but seemed like several), I heard them give up on saving the guy's leg, and then his other leg, and then an arm...
You don't know how chilling it is to be bruised and bloody, and listen to EMTs walk in to the neighboring area, and say things like "Good God, what happened to him?" and "Think there's anything salvageable here?"
I'll never ride a 2-wheel vehicle on an LA street again.
Who cares? Well, dammit, I care. I mean, what's the point of having hundreds of horsepower snarling and growling through a fat tailpipe, crazy tight suspension that judders over painted lines in the road, and tires as wide as Texas if you can't watch teevee while driving?
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Depends greatly on the ex in question, though, doesn't it?
Except that a spammer sent out a URL to a site that claimed to have been "built by" one of my domains, as if it were a web development company.
I, being a good citizen, actually had my real name and contact info in my WHOIS record. A lot of people tracked that down, and let loose. I certainly got a lot of hate mail...
Heck, even Rob Limo sent me a nastygram over this.
I have no idea how or why the spammer picked my domain. I tried contacting them without success (not surprisingly). Worse, it took me nearly a day to track down why everyone thought I was a spammer, and when I tried to ask people why they were sending me hate mail, they just turned up the vitriol. Evidently, it's bad to be a spammer, but it's even worse to be a stupid spammer who can't cover his tracks.
Emergency hatches? Why you lucky bastards! Where I grew up, the busses were sealed. If we wanted a ride, we'd have to chase after them, and grab on to a bit of barbed wire tied to the rear bumper, and hold on for dear life as we got dragged to our destination.
Emergency hatches? Feh! No wonder the youth of today are so soft. Why, you probably had all your own limbs all the way up to adulthood! Emergency hatches...
Nonstandard?
.25s. Foolishly, I never migrated from the 5.25s when people still knew what hard-sector floppies were.
8 inch floppies *were* the standard media. Fortunately, I migrated my data from the 8s to the 5
I guess the real problem is that the standard evolves over time.
Maybe ol' Jack can help me transfer the data from my collection of old TRS-80 disks. They're five and a quarter inch, double sided, double density. Most are forty-track, although a few are thirty-five track. They were written using a non-standard doubler -- track zero is double-density too, unlike most where track zero was still single density.
Hell, they don't even have anyone else's Intellectual Property on them, except for a quotation collection I'd transcribed from old Chinese legends and stuff.
Three cards for police choppers in the sky
Seven for politicians in their halls of stone
Nine for Justices doomed to lie
One for the President on his dark throne
In the Land of DC where the lobbyists vie.
One card to rule them all, one card to find them,
one card to track IP, and in a lawsuit bind them...
Oh...
So izzat why they call 'em IP lawyers?
First to discover and prove that plants have life???
I'm not sure what you mean by this, but this "discovery" predates Bose by, oh, say, thirty or forty thousand years?
(Not to detract from Bose, nor from any of the other great Boses, like physicist Satyendra Nath Bose, after whom the Boson is named.)
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Well, once again, I'll play the contrarian.
Good tea? Well, it depends on which kinds of tea you mean. It's damn hard to find a good Irish-style or English-style black tea. It can be done, but involves much searching. It's virtually impossible to find an authentic Indian-style Chai (as opposed to the McBuck's imitation stuff that's sweeping the land).
But if you're looking for green teas, there are a lot of good options. For Japanese green teas, there are places all over LA that'll serve a good sencha, and I know of a handful of places with decent hojicha, genmaicha, and bancha. I'm not as up on the Chinese green teas (that'll be the next field of reserach), but with the size of the community here in the LA area, I don't doubt there'll be some good stuff available.
OK. Sorry, but I must call bullshit on at least some of this analysis.
Good coffee was not, perhaps, in the mainstream before Starbucks. But you could get good coffee in LA if you knew where to look...
Remember the Espresso Bar in Pasadena? Congo Square in Santa Monica? Wednesday's in Venice? Depending what year you went there, there was great (or really dreadful) coffee at Gorky's Cafe on San Julian near downtown. And Petterson's was good -- I had my first date with my girlfriend there, back in '98.
And there's still Highland Grounds, Cow's End, Bourgeois Pig (at least in Hollywood, the Venice one is long gone), Sacred Grounds in San Pedro, and Un-Urban on Urban in Santa Monica.
Lulu's Blue Plate (formerly Lulu's Alibi) is not bad, and Anastasia's Asylum is pretty good. You can get a mean cup o' drip at Joni's Coffee Roasters, and Little Frida's was pretty good last time I was there. Plenty of trustworthy people are into Cacao, Insomnia, Ground Zero, and the Novel Cafe (just try to find parking...)
So it's not quite as bleak as you say. Except that McBuck's has closed down so many of them, as you can see from the list above.
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Don't make too many assumptions here.
Firstly, the dominance of brain hemisphere by gender is an assumption.
Secondly, the left/right brain function differentiation is not only based upon native language, but evidently culture as well.
Scans show that, for example, English speakers and Japanese speakers have opposite sides of the brain light up when the sound of running water is perceived. But this also turns out to be more or less true of people raised in English-speaking and Japanese-speaking places, even if they are raised speaking another language. And then, by and large, 2nd generation (Nisei) Japanese Americans will register the sound on the opposite site of the brain than their Japanese-born parents, even if they (the Nisei) are raised speaking Japanese.
All this is to point out that the whole left brain / right brain dichotomy is nice in theory, but is not absolute. Furthermore, even in nice clean cases where we're talking entirely about a group of people with a common language and culture, the degree of dominance of one hemisphere over the other is a spectrum, not a boolean.
In short, tech people shouldn't make technical excuses for not caring about communication.
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Boromir, son of Faramir, King of Gondor and Minas Tirith
Uh... Boromir is the son of Denethor, and brother of Faramir.
In the future, you may wish to take the following advice: identity theft is only effective when you just manage to get the fucking facts straight!
Three dists for the Dell Machines for selling on the 'net,
Seven for Gateway if they can stay afloat,
None for eMachines, they'll go broke I bet,
One for Joe Sixpack which we will promote,
In the land of WalMart to gather large banknotes.
One dist to rule them all, One dist to guide them,
One dist to just install and apps which none deny them
In the land of WalMart to gather large banknotes.
uh... it was a joke, guys.
You may be too young to remember it, but at one time, C was considered to be the super-eeeeelite cross platform language, 'cause there was a standard waiting for ANSI to approve it.
Ah, nevermind. Kids these days. ncurses? Sheesh.
I'm confused.
What the hell's wrong with printf and fgets?
Walk places.
Take the fucking bus.
Ride around on your banned Segway.
"When pogo-sticks get outlawed, only outlaws will bounce around and not be tracked by the Feds."
Outside?
You mean the big blue room?
... text editors will also become operating systems.
Oh.
Wait.
Emacs already *is* an operating system.
The problem with jamming GPS is that, to do that, you need to transmit a signal.
When you transmit a signal, you make yourself vulverable to things that can sense that signal; e.g., missiles that home in on radio transmissions.
So yes, you could jam a wave of GPS-guided weapons. But if the wave of attacks includes a handful of gravity bombs or other weapons that seek those frequencies, you couldn't do it twice...
Still, a smart jamming strategy might help protect a hardened target.
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Spoken like someone who has never done cross-platform development. Do you think you can simply take a Windows app source and change a command-line switch to compile a Palm Pilot app?
It's (unfortunately) not that easy.
Yeah, I know what you mean. I want new tires, but if I want 'em for both my bicycle and my car, I get to pay twice. Totally sucks.
Beta tester? That's the *last* thing you want to be.
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Bug Report 1821: Evidently problem with voltage regulator. Went into high gear, and received 3rd degree burns.
Bug Report 1822: Need to improve quality control at molding department. Metal support wire occasionally pokes through soft rubber parts.
Bug Report 1823: When movie-controller BSODs, evidently the pressure system gets locked on "Maximum".
Yes, but at least a virtual bike doesn't make you as vulnerable to being run over by an automobile.
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I live in LA. I've been hit by cars twice: once on a bicycle, the other time on a Honda scooter. Both times, it was someone who didn't see me, and was coming too fast for me to take evasive action. Both times I was following traffic laws, had right-of-way, was wearing red and reflectors, and was driving defensively (i.e., not trusting the cars to see me).
After the second time, when I was sitting in Emergency, waiting for them to clean up the road rash and put in some stitches, the medics were all busy with a guy on the next cot. He'd been hit on his motorcycle. The whole time I was waiting (probably only an hour, but seemed like several), I heard them give up on saving the guy's leg, and then his other leg, and then an arm
You don't know how chilling it is to be bruised and bloody, and listen to EMTs walk in to the neighboring area, and say things like "Good God, what happened to him?" and "Think there's anything salvageable here?"
I'll never ride a 2-wheel vehicle on an LA street again.
In my case, it's the latter.
Who cares? Well, dammit, I care. I mean, what's the point of having hundreds of horsepower snarling and growling through a fat tailpipe, crazy tight suspension that judders over painted lines in the road, and tires as wide as Texas if you can't watch teevee while driving?
...those of us who don't have a back seat.
Bloody discrimination!