Thanks for the advice. I'm always willing to take it into consideration. I have never really considered myself to be a prodigy, nor do I tend to glorify the fact that I'm smart. I do continue to learn and grow and spend a good deal of time helping others who want to learn about things I know. I've considered going to university but for my extreme dislike of mathematics and school in general. I prefer to teach myself at such time as I need to learn something in order to solve a problem in real life. I enjoy the world outside school. I might pursue post secondary but I'll just see where life takes me at the moment. It's all going well for now. Thanks for the reply.
Hehe. I'm 19 years old and am the head/only IT guy in the firm. I've been given a great amount of respect, in fact 3 weeks or so after I started work, I got a building keycard and keys to all the doors in our office. My boss respects my opinion and skill, and in fact enjoys the fact that someone around here knows more than he does so he can work on running the business instead of dealing with picky technical details.
I think it comes down to just being confident and proving you know what your doing with every action. From the moment I came in here, I told him plainly what I did and didn't know how to do and told him I was more than willing to learn the stuff I didn't know. I've made myself useful to the point where my company couldn't easily rid themselves of me. I've become a valuable asset.
I know the Novus solution is fiber-based, but as I recall, there was a rumour about Telus releasing a phone-line based cable/pay per view system sometime in the next year or so.
There are a few teachers who stand out in my mind, actually. I have been lucky enough to have more than one favourite.
First of all, there was Mrs. Jamieson, my Grade 2 teacher. I always enjoyed her class and she spoke to me and other students as if we were adults. She never talked down to me. My mother later told me that in an interview she stated that whatever I had chosen to do in this lifetime had nothing to do with anything being taught in school.
Then there was my Junior High computer teacher, Mr. Stobo. Unlike many other teachers of the time, he recognized the computing skill possessed by a few of us students and allowed us the opportunity to use it. Instead of doing the typical desktop publishing classes, we ended up helping him with administrative tasks.
And last, there was Chuck Murray, my Grade 12 Social Studies teacher. With each of his puns, insults, and declarations, he forced students to think carefully and argue with passion. Regardless of the topic for debate, he played a brutal devil's advocate and allowed students to form opinions of their own on the world around us.
All ya do is install whatever package in the distribution (I use Debian) that provides just the headers for mesa. Then you go find the libGLU.so in some mesa package and throw that into/usr/lib with the nvidia libGL.so and various other libraries.
The only problem I had in Debian was a dependency on xlibmesa3 before one could install xlibmesa-dev. I had to build my own packages to get around it. I'm still no deb package Jedi so I won't be releasing them any time soon but if someone wants to take them out of my hands and try to get them up to specifications I'll let them =).
hehehe...I know the answer to this one well. Sleep Deprivation =). I'm not really a programmer, but I remember sitting at my computer til maybe 3 or 4 AM, sleeping for 2 hours (possibly more) and going to school after. I'd play catchup on the weekends. Although, I will note that little school work got done even with this scheme.
Well, I wasn't there in the 70s, but I can vouch for the fact that "popular" music in this time period is not decided on by the masses. Instead, it is decided on FOR the masses. Britney Spears isn't the result of an audience that loved her music; she's the result of an audience that will allow the media to dictate to them what is "cool" and what isn't. Those of us who have been raised to not be "sheep" tend to listen to music that suits our interests, ponderances, et cetera. Whereas the programmed media children listen to that which is put in front of them. Yeah. Prime example of letting the TV and society raise your kids.
Record companies sell artists like Britney Spears because they know it'll catch on like the Barbie complex. Little girls will listen to it because all their friends do and because there's a commercial for it every ten seconds. Little boys will listen to it because of the yet unrealized facination with the opposite sex. It's made to sell. Sure, some people may actually LIKE the music. And that's fine, but this kind of manufactured fanatacism isn't right.
Ah well. I'll stick to my Moxy Fruvous, Barenaked Ladies, Collective Soul, and They Might Be Giants and act oblivious to whatever else is going on.
I can't listen to too much Creed, but there are a few songs I like. Higher, included. What's This Life For is another. I like music for the feel and the words usually. And if the words suck, it better damn well feel good. And I'm not in it for the Jesus pushing either.
As long as they keep it updated, I'm not concerned. I bought a GeForce2 GTS yesterday, it works in Linux with nVidia's drivers, and I'm happy. Yes, it is very nice to have open source drivers but in the absence of those I think closed source drivers are a decent gesture. Of course, this still doesn't obsolete Mesa for me. Mesa is amazingly useful for compiling applications that require opengl. I can use the mesa headers and run the app with the nVidia GL libs. Seamless =)
In the more well-connected communities there are some local providers that have gotten into the DSL market. In Calgary, this includes Nucleus Information Services and Cadvision and probably a few others. The phone company (yes, the ONE phone company) here which also provides DSL is Telus Communications. I know that in many communities such competition does not exist, however.
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True, although he'll be opening an almost entirely different DNA Lounge. He's had to do quite the overhaul of the place.
Being in Canada, I'm all for a system that involves support for the less fortunate. I don't believe by any means that people should get rich for doing nothing but I do believe that if it is their choice to take on a life path that doesn't involve striving to climb the capitalist ladder then they should have enough wealth to live comfortably. The USA may be capitalist but not everyone in it is. Welcome to freedom. If it were illegal to be a socialist in the USA then by all means let them be poor or lock them up or something. But, if someone wishes for whatever reason not to participate in capitalism then he/she should be provided with the essentials of survival: food, water, shelter, clothing, et cetera. I'd rather pay taxes than see hundreds of starving homeless people on the streets every day.
I am rather fond of XMMS, myself. It's better coded than WinAmp. FreeAmp is also nice, and has alot of potential but I found its playlist system to be buggy and slightly awkward. I think it's a matter of opinion really.
I don't believe his goal was to insult Calcutta. He was simply commenting on his experiences. People can only form opinions from their experiences. If they have bad ones then they end up with low opinions. You could be right. A trip to Calcutta could change his mind if it's as nice there as you say. =)
Honestly. If only the business community knew that putting stress on people is not the best way to get work done, they'd be worlds more efficient. Burn-out rate would be lower, et cetera. The trouble is that commercial types need to see a product to believe work has been done. No product, no work, no job;- such is the way of business. It sucks.
Any substance, organic or chemical, used to remove remnants of toxic excretions from the under or back side of a human. This includes but is not limited to: paper (flat or with "quilting" [see attached patent documents] or "ruffles" [see attached patent documents]), any steady stream of liquid used for the stated purpose, and the human hand if it is used for the stated purpose.
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Any device used to dispose of toxic human excretions. This includes but is not limited to: any "flushing" or "mulching" mechanism (clockwise and counter-clockwise) and the process of bio-degration (as exemplified in the acts of composting and "doing business in the bushes").
Holy shit man. This was the same idea I had only you got to it before me =). Beautiful. Just beautiful. Still a little small, but it'll grow huge I have no doubt.
A couple of comments:
1) I couldn't find any option to send money orders. You list cheques but I'd think money orders would be less of a hassle? <shrug>
2) Seems a little dot-com-ish from the outside looking in. I think people might be more keen if it mentioned a little more often that you don't take any cut of the money they send to the artists.
3) You indicate that you do support non-musical artists but I think branching out to all forms of art officially could give you way more coverage. I'll bet art and literature magazines and newsletters in communities could cause this system of payment to blossom.
I'd really like to know if I can get involved in any way other than just tipping artists. Drop me a line at ituil@hotmail.com (you could try the address in the header but it's flaky at the moment).
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Thanks for the advice. I'm always willing to take it into consideration. I have never really considered myself to be a prodigy, nor do I tend to glorify the fact that I'm smart. I do continue to learn and grow and spend a good deal of time helping others who want to learn about things I know. I've considered going to university but for my extreme dislike of mathematics and school in general. I prefer to teach myself at such time as I need to learn something in order to solve a problem in real life. I enjoy the world outside school. I might pursue post secondary but I'll just see where life takes me at the moment. It's all going well for now. Thanks for the reply.
Hehe. I'm 19 years old and am the head/only IT guy in the firm. I've been given a great amount of respect, in fact 3 weeks or so after I started work, I got a building keycard and keys to all the doors in our office. My boss respects my opinion and skill, and in fact enjoys the fact that someone around here knows more than he does so he can work on running the business instead of dealing with picky technical details.
I think it comes down to just being confident and proving you know what your doing with every action. From the moment I came in here, I told him plainly what I did and didn't know how to do and told him I was more than willing to learn the stuff I didn't know. I've made myself useful to the point where my company couldn't easily rid themselves of me. I've become a valuable asset.
I know the Novus solution is fiber-based, but as I recall, there was a rumour about Telus releasing a phone-line based cable/pay per view system sometime in the next year or so.
There are a few teachers who stand out in my mind, actually. I have been lucky enough to have more than one favourite.
First of all, there was Mrs. Jamieson, my Grade 2 teacher. I always enjoyed her class and she spoke to me and other students as if we were adults. She never talked down to me. My mother later told me that in an interview she stated that whatever I had chosen to do in this lifetime had nothing to do with anything being taught in school.
Then there was my Junior High computer teacher, Mr. Stobo. Unlike many other teachers of the time, he recognized the computing skill possessed by a few of us students and allowed us the opportunity to use it. Instead of doing the typical desktop publishing classes, we ended up helping him with administrative tasks.
And last, there was Chuck Murray, my Grade 12 Social Studies teacher. With each of his puns, insults, and declarations, he forced students to think carefully and argue with passion. Regardless of the topic for debate, he played a brutal devil's advocate and allowed students to form opinions of their own on the world around us.
Wherever you are, I salute you!
All ya do is install whatever package in the distribution (I use Debian) that provides just the headers for mesa. Then you go find the libGLU.so in some mesa package and throw that into /usr/lib with the nvidia libGL.so and various other libraries.
The only problem I had in Debian was a dependency on xlibmesa3 before one could install xlibmesa-dev. I had to build my own packages to get around it. I'm still no deb package Jedi so I won't be releasing them any time soon but if someone wants to take them out of my hands and try to get them up to specifications I'll let them =).
hehehe...I know the answer to this one well. Sleep Deprivation =). I'm not really a programmer, but I remember sitting at my computer til maybe 3 or 4 AM, sleeping for 2 hours (possibly more) and going to school after. I'd play catchup on the weekends. Although, I will note that little school work got done even with this scheme.
Well, I wasn't there in the 70s, but I can vouch for the fact that "popular" music in this time period is not decided on by the masses. Instead, it is decided on FOR the masses. Britney Spears isn't the result of an audience that loved her music; she's the result of an audience that will allow the media to dictate to them what is "cool" and what isn't. Those of us who have been raised to not be "sheep" tend to listen to music that suits our interests, ponderances, et cetera. Whereas the programmed media children listen to that which is put in front of them. Yeah. Prime example of letting the TV and society raise your kids.
Record companies sell artists like Britney Spears because they know it'll catch on like the Barbie complex. Little girls will listen to it because all their friends do and because there's a commercial for it every ten seconds. Little boys will listen to it because of the yet unrealized facination with the opposite sex. It's made to sell. Sure, some people may actually LIKE the music. And that's fine, but this kind of manufactured fanatacism isn't right.
Ah well. I'll stick to my Moxy Fruvous, Barenaked Ladies, Collective Soul, and They Might Be Giants and act oblivious to whatever else is going on.
I can't listen to too much Creed, but there are a few songs I like. Higher, included. What's This Life For is another. I like music for the feel and the words usually. And if the words suck, it better damn well feel good. And I'm not in it for the Jesus pushing either.
As long as they keep it updated, I'm not concerned. I bought a GeForce2 GTS yesterday, it works in Linux with nVidia's drivers, and I'm happy. Yes, it is very nice to have open source drivers but in the absence of those I think closed source drivers are a decent gesture. Of course, this still doesn't obsolete Mesa for me. Mesa is amazingly useful for compiling applications that require opengl. I can use the mesa headers and run the app with the nVidia GL libs. Seamless =)
Apparantly not =)
Don't forget Jughead =)
That's "Very Easy Rodent-Oriented Net-wide Index of Computerized Archives" for the not-so-elite =).
In the more well-connected communities there are some local providers that have gotten into the DSL market. In Calgary, this includes Nucleus Information Services and Cadvision and probably a few others. The phone company (yes, the ONE phone company) here which also provides DSL is Telus Communications. I know that in many communities such competition does not exist, however.
True, although he'll be opening an almost entirely different DNA Lounge. He's had to do quite the overhaul of the place.
Most of the people you'd find on Yahoo Voice Chat.
Not a discussion of motherboards. It's a discussion of processors. Actual upgradeable microcode on the CPU itself.
Being in Canada, I'm all for a system that involves support for the less fortunate. I don't believe by any means that people should get rich for doing nothing but I do believe that if it is their choice to take on a life path that doesn't involve striving to climb the capitalist ladder then they should have enough wealth to live comfortably. The USA may be capitalist but not everyone in it is. Welcome to freedom. If it were illegal to be a socialist in the USA then by all means let them be poor or lock them up or something. But, if someone wishes for whatever reason not to participate in capitalism then he/she should be provided with the essentials of survival: food, water, shelter, clothing, et cetera. I'd rather pay taxes than see hundreds of starving homeless people on the streets every day.
I am rather fond of XMMS, myself. It's better coded than WinAmp. FreeAmp is also nice, and has alot of potential but I found its playlist system to be buggy and slightly awkward. I think it's a matter of opinion really.
I don't believe his goal was to insult Calcutta. He was simply commenting on his experiences. People can only form opinions from their experiences. If they have bad ones then they end up with low opinions. You could be right. A trip to Calcutta could change his mind if it's as nice there as you say. =)
Honestly. If only the business community knew that putting stress on people is not the best way to get work done, they'd be worlds more efficient. Burn-out rate would be lower, et cetera. The trouble is that commercial types need to see a product to believe work has been done. No product, no work, no job;- such is the way of business. It sucks.
Meh. Omega Supreme could kick Voltron's ass. =)
Any substance, organic or chemical, used to remove remnants of toxic excretions from the under or back side of a human. This includes but is not limited to: paper (flat or with "quilting" [see attached patent documents] or "ruffles" [see attached patent documents]), any steady stream of liquid used for the stated purpose, and the human hand if it is used for the stated purpose.
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Any device used to dispose of toxic human excretions. This includes but is not limited to: any "flushing" or "mulching" mechanism (clockwise and counter-clockwise) and the process of bio-degration (as exemplified in the acts of composting and "doing business in the bushes").
Point well made. I'm rather fond of the idea of following the teaching and not the teacher. Worship seems to get everyone into trouble =)
Holy shit man. This was the same idea I had only you got to it before me =). Beautiful. Just beautiful. Still a little small, but it'll grow huge I have no doubt.
A couple of comments:
1) I couldn't find any option to send money orders. You list cheques but I'd think money orders would be less of a hassle? <shrug>
2) Seems a little dot-com-ish from the outside looking in. I think people might be more keen if it mentioned a little more often that you don't take any cut of the money they send to the artists.
3) You indicate that you do support non-musical artists but I think branching out to all forms of art officially could give you way more coverage. I'll bet art and literature magazines and newsletters in communities could cause this system of payment to blossom.
I'd really like to know if I can get involved in any way other than just tipping artists. Drop me a line at ituil@hotmail.com (you could try the address in the header but it's flaky at the moment).
Simple, I DID have to repeat my senior year ;)