...i mean, if something is going to have 100% of the daily needed vitamins and stuff, if you pig out and eat 3 a day (breakfast, lunch, and dinner) because they taste good, then you get 300% of your daily needed vitamins. I mean, i know not all of it would get absorbed, but until someone makes a meal that will fill you up for the day while still giving you all the vitamins and nutriants you need, then i'm just going to dismiss it as a fad...
*shrug* i can only speak for myself, but i eat ramen because...
Cheap - $0.80 a block or $2 for a 24 pack (an actual sale i witnessed a few weeks ago
good - debatable... but i like it
quick - most people say you can make pasta the same speed, but what you do is microwave it (put in a tupperware container about the same size as the block, fill to the top of the block, add powder, then cover and microwave for 5 mins)
did i mention cheap?
never goes bad
can eat it anytime - i know many people who eat the blocks dry and raw... *cringe*
oh yea... it's cheap too
so basically, those are just my opinions, you can ignore them if you wish.
anyone else out there notice how HORRIDE the typists for clinton and Blitzer typed? i mean, i know i'm not much better, and these people have to go at the speed of speach, but "teh" twice in a row? come on...
"There's no testing that can be done that's equivalent to the environment of live Internet traffic. That motto still exists - all of microsoft.com was running IIS 5.0 before Windows 2000 was released."
Windows 2000 was released? i thought they said "maybe febuary"?
How the site got where it is now in just six high-velocity years is a story of smart decisions, some very public snafus, and all in all, a story we thought you might like to read as we close out 1999.
i'm telling you, if they publicly snafus me again, i'm gonna give billyg a pop in the nose!
ok, ok, i know, blatant apple plug, but have you thought about the G4? Other then ports and drives that you can add, it somewhat looks like that could do it for ya.Once they get LinuxPPC altivec optimized... *drool*.
Just dont forget about that Apples thinking that you can only run MacOS on it, you dont need x86 for everything you know =)
Its always great to see big commercial companies bend their will to help us. I mean, they could have just said "ah, screw it, none of those nerds ever watch TV anyways" but they didn't. It's showing how large companies are willing to accept linux as a big thing now.
Just imagine Joe Schome TV watcher... "wow, they made their page compatable with linux? they bent to the linux users demands? there might be something in this linux thing i havnt seen. maybe i'll try it"
then he spends a week whining, crying, and complaining about how it doesnt like him, but still... one less windows user;-)
interactive music;-) (i know its not the same kinda radio waves, but still)
Just picture this in your mind... the nurse walks in to help you, and leans over you to grab something and acts as an antenna for the local radio station. This sets off the implants and jerks your arm up suddenly, punching the nurse in the tummy
ok, ok, i know, it could never happen, but the first thing i think of when i see "controlled by radio waves" is something like that ^_^ besides, it would be awesome to get too close to your computer and have it's signals make you type faster, lol
so does that mean that the last half hour of a show will be filled with "sex, lies, conspiricy, money, $$$, free, topless" etc just to up its index like web pages do nowadays?
of microsoft if ms would give it out for free... you all know what i mean, make a shoddy product that wont work, then charge $30.00 a minute for support. now i'm not saying it'l be like that, thats just what pops into my head
all aside, i wish helix and Miguel both luck
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AIM: confdntl98 ICQ: 150685 E-Mail: above... you can figure it out ^_~
It's quite frightening when you stop and think about it. Yeah, it's funny: but imagine somehow if artificial intelligence (on the part of the machines) is slipped in here and this whole thing is played out on a much larger scale -- on a much larger, much different sort of virtual battlefield.
*snicker* "And the top story in the news today is some scary AI process got loose from the pentagon earlier today. Whereas this could have disasterous effects to the world, the nerd community seems to be having a field day with it." *cut to interview of geek playing Doom against Ultra-Big-Hairy-AI-Process (tm)* "yea man, i havnt had this much fun since i was #3 in the Doom turnament over at PCExpo!" *cut back to anchor* "the government is rounding up the top 10 players as decided by those very turnaments. We will keep you posted as events unfold"
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AIM: confdntl98 ICQ: 150685 E-Mail: above... you can figure it out ^_~
ok, we've all seen the "crack this box and win" pages to prove security, but i've never seen a "uptime contest".
just think about it, cracking a box is lame because all the script kiddies try to nuke it and lame stuff like that, but you cant really put something much more to the test then by telling people "beat down on this server, last person to connect wins" or something. It's sorta akin to rob's "test this server" thing, but with uptime as the goal. lets see if MS can summon up more lightning storms to blame for their downtime;-)
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AIM: confdntl98 ICQ: 150685 E-Mail: above... you can figure it out ^_~
Whereas i call myself a geek when talking to non-nerds, i only use it as a classification to help people understand that "i like computers and i dont want to be distracted by fashion or whatever". It usually gets the point across.
Now, I'm definatly not saying that i'm autistic or anything, but i have some of the traits (http://access.autistics.org is a great page for information, thanks for the page Frater 219) of being "High Functioning Autistic".
From their page:
High Functioning Autism (HFA) is not a clearly defined diagnosis. Rather, it is a label given when someone meets (or met as a child) the diagnostic criteria for autistic disorder but is able to speak and has an average or above average IQ. The primary distinction between High Functioning Autism and Asperger Syndrome is early development - primarily of language. High Functioning Autistics are often mis-labelled with Asperger Syndrome if speech is adequate at the time of assessment.
But thats what they say ^_~. If you ask me, i'm (and my theory is that alot of us are) a little of everything. I slashdot, but i enjoy running and playing (US) football. I talk to friends, but when i get home i go straight to the computer to talk to them on AIM or ICQ rather then use the phone. Speaking of the phone, i havn't used one in ages since i got telephony software. Politically i'm in the middle (a little to the left). sexually I would say i'm asexual (not attracted to anyone, not as in i reproduce myself =P) but mentally I could have a relationship with anyone... male or female. (*realizes i'm starting to sound like a personals ad*) but you get what i'm saying.
Then again, i'm the anti- of every steriotype known to humans and here i am creating new ones ^_~. oh well
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AIM: confdntl98 ICQ: 150685 E-Mail: above... you can figure it out ^_~
but theres one thing you've forgotten to factor into your equation... human stupidity. Walk down a beach and you'll notice that 9 of 10 males are watching the fashionable, slim, and (what society says is) good looking. Even geeks are the same way, look at any *cough*adultsites*cough* and see how many geek pictures there are. They're all the same plastic mold women.
Another thing that factors in is teenage pregnancy (wow, i'm on a roll, attacking everyone today, arn't i? ^_~). How many geeks do you know who will go out there and have unprotected sex at that age? how many will have sex at all?
It may be true that we're smarter, but that's what is going to kill us out. Maybe its just because i'm a pessamist, but 98% of the population isn't gonna die out because we're a tad bit smarter. That tad bit may be whats keeping us from having the unprotected sex or keeping us from leering at women or men knowing how lame they can be under the skin.
another thing about evolutionary theory is that its "the strongest survive through the changes of its environment" if the world was hit by a huge asteroid, then it would be everyone who can live without sun for... awhile (^_^) would be the ones that evolution would keep. our supposed higher IQ or whatever isn't gonna help us there (or it might... we could make a bio-dome thingy and live in there for awhile, but then again the gov would prolly pay us lots to make a biggie one for everyone, were the whole thing would be useless)
*shrug* my standard disclaimer: Take this post with all the salt in the dead sea, maybe more, i'm just feeling cranky and slamming everyone, sorry if it doesnt make sence;-)
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AIM: confdntl98 ICQ: 150685 E-Mail: above... you can figure it out ^_~
*odd look* I thought the phrase "the smarest people in the world work there, they just can't talk about what they are doing." automatically meant you were referring to transmeta ^_~
but seriously, first thing i think of whenever i hear the words hollywood and accurate together is armageddon (yes, i know i can't spell). I dunno how far up our atmosphere goes, but if an asteroid that big got only 100 miles away from us (when the nuke goes off and splits the asteroid some guy at some screen turns around and says, "it worked, it's gonna miss us by 100 miles" or something like that) wouldn't it heat it up enough to melt the polar ice caps anyways? or mebbe i've just been watching too much evangelion...
*shrug* then again, i might just be completely off base on everything i say. feel free to take this post with all the salt in the dead sea ^_~
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(quickie post ^_^) I just wanted to say how nifty Douglas Adams is from my experiances. Last year at macworld, my girlfriend, my friend Ian, and I were at macworld where he was giving away free copies of the beta of starship titanic.The thing is that we got there the last day, so we were obviously out of luck to get one.
Obviously no one had told Ian about it being even there, so when he saw it, he rushed towards the sign giving out a squeal of delight and holding his arms out like he was going to hug the sign. He starts to look around for where to bum a copy of it and Douglas Adams leaves the conversation he's in the middle of to walk up to Ian and tap him on the shoulder. The conversation went something like this...
"sorry, we're all out."
"awww man, oh well..." "well, I don't want you to go home empty handed, you can keep the sign." "whoa, thanks."
me and my girlfriend both give Ian an odd look after we walk away and he looks back, "What are you looking at me like that for?" "that was Douglas Adams man!" "holy spit! you serious?!?"
well, by that time, Mr. Adams had faded back into the crowd and we lost him, so Ian never got it signed, but he still gloats about speaking to Douglas Adams... even though he just thought he was some guy;-)
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AIM: confdntl98 ICQ: 150685 E-Mail: above... you can figure it out ^_~
I say moderators should automatically have their viewing prefrences (only while they're moderating) as newest first, cut off at 0 (maybe -1), and threaded. This way they can still fallow threads and as the conversation goes on, the newer posts are moderated (i.e. begenning wave of posts come in and the first set of moderators moderate, then the second set, etc etc).
Also, I think another problem is everyone looks at the 2-5 range more and therefore moderators look at it and say "someone else moderated it up, it must be smart". I know this is a pain in the ass and would mean just more code, but i say put in a ceiling for moderators so they only look at the -1 through 1 range, with maybe a few random +2 or +3's thrown in.
another problem with that though is then moderating turns into a job and you cant really follow the thread.
Just wanted to thank rob for a great job at this and not just saying "screw it" and letting it go the way of newsgroups. Somehow i doubt hes reading this, but some asskissing cant hurt, ne? ^_^
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AIM: confdntl98 ICQ: 150685 E-Mail: above... you can figure it out ^_~
old out keyboard sounds neat, but, with all of these peripherals, especially the fold out keyboard, isn't this thing going to get bigger/bulkier.. perhaps easier to damage? I can imagine me cracking the keyboard, or something like that.
nope, the keybord is built into the visor much like a WinCE device, and its pretty sturdy, dont worry;-)
k, so my friend's dad does some work for these guys (hehe, it wouldnt be smart of me to say what he does, now would it?;-) and he got a fully functional prototype to play around with for awhile. anyways, i got to see it and mess around with it, and it is sweet. first off, it has a fold out keybord, so no more grafitti (yay) and the switchbord peripheral thing has already had such things made for it as a pager, cell phone, mp3 player (as said by other people), etc. dont ask me how the pager or cell phone work (i was more interested in fiddling w/ the mp3 player), but the mp3 player has little penny-size disks that hold about 2 megs of data (bah) so if you ask me, at'l suck. anyways, i should shutup now before the mangets mad ^_^
hmm, thinking about it, the BSD Daemon would make a great quake skin, for the axe he could use his pitchfork and such... *evil grin* maybe if i get bored enough one of these days...
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...i mean, if something is going to have 100% of the daily needed vitamins and stuff, if you pig out and eat 3 a day (breakfast, lunch, and dinner) because they taste good, then you get 300% of your daily needed vitamins. I mean, i know not all of it would get absorbed, but until someone makes a meal that will fill you up for the day while still giving you all the vitamins and nutriants you need, then i'm just going to dismiss it as a fad...
;-)
ok... your turn... flame away
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so basically, those are just my opinions, you can ignore them if you wish.
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anyone else out there notice how HORRIDE the typists for clinton and Blitzer typed? i mean, i know i'm not much better, and these people have to go at the speed of speach, but "teh" twice in a row? come on...
ok... done with my rambling
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everyone wants a FUFME! ^_^
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well, they won't miss their deadline on that one =)
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Windows 2000 was released? i thought they said "maybe febuary"?
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i'm telling you, if they publicly snafus me again, i'm gonna give billyg a pop in the nose!
*remove tounge from cheek*
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ok, ok, i know, blatant apple plug, but have you thought about the G4? Other then ports and drives that you can add, it somewhat looks like that could do it for ya.Once they get LinuxPPC altivec optimized... *drool*.
Just dont forget about that Apples thinking that you can only run MacOS on it, you dont need x86 for everything you know =)
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that "UO Scientists" meant Ultima Online scientists? *shushes before i make myself out as more of a fool then i have already*
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I follow the link and the first thing netscape tells me... "Document Contains No Data"
;-)
I coulda told you that awhile ago
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Its always great to see big commercial companies bend their will to help us. I mean, they could have just said "ah, screw it, none of those nerds ever watch TV anyways" but they didn't. It's showing how large companies are willing to accept linux as a big thing now.
;-)
Just imagine Joe Schome TV watcher... "wow, they made their page compatable with linux? they bent to the linux users demands? there might be something in this linux thing i havnt seen. maybe i'll try it"
then he spends a week whining, crying, and complaining about how it doesnt like him, but still... one less windows user
interactive music ;-) (i know its not the same kinda radio waves, but still)
Just picture this in your mind... the nurse walks in to help you, and leans over you to grab something and acts as an antenna for the local radio station. This sets off the implants and jerks your arm up suddenly, punching the nurse in the tummy
ok, ok, i know, it could never happen, but the first thing i think of when i see "controlled by radio waves" is something like that ^_^ besides, it would be awesome to get too close to your computer and have it's signals make you type faster, lol
so does that mean that the last half hour of a show will be filled with "sex, lies, conspiricy, money, $$$, free, topless" etc just to up its index like web pages do nowadays?
of microsoft if ms would give it out for free... you all know what i mean, make a shoddy product that wont work, then charge $30.00 a minute for support.
now i'm not saying it'l be like that, thats just what pops into my head
all aside, i wish helix and Miguel both luck
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AIM: confdntl98 ICQ: 150685 E-Mail: above... you can figure it out ^_~
*snicker*
"And the top story in the news today is some scary AI process got loose from the pentagon earlier today. Whereas this could have disasterous effects to the world, the nerd community seems to be having a field day with it."
*cut to interview of geek playing Doom against Ultra-Big-Hairy-AI-Process (tm)*
"yea man, i havnt had this much fun since i was #3 in the Doom turnament over at PCExpo!"
*cut back to anchor*
"the government is rounding up the top 10 players as decided by those very turnaments. We will keep you posted as events unfold"
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AIM: confdntl98 ICQ: 150685 E-Mail: above... you can figure it out ^_~
ok, we've all seen the "crack this box and win" pages to prove security, but i've never seen a "uptime contest".
;-)
just think about it, cracking a box is lame because all the script kiddies try to nuke it and lame stuff like that, but you cant really put something much more to the test then by telling people "beat down on this server, last person to connect wins" or something. It's sorta akin to rob's "test this server" thing, but with uptime as the goal. lets see if MS can summon up more lightning storms to blame for their downtime
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AIM: confdntl98 ICQ: 150685 E-Mail: above... you can figure it out ^_~
Now, I'm definatly not saying that i'm autistic or anything, but i have some of the traits (http://access.autistics.org is a great page for information, thanks for the page Frater 219) of being "High Functioning Autistic".
From their page:
But thats what they say ^_~. If you ask me, i'm (and my theory is that alot of us are) a little of everything. I slashdot, but i enjoy running and playing (US) football. I talk to friends, but when i get home i go straight to the computer to talk to them on AIM or ICQ rather then use the phone. Speaking of the phone, i havn't used one in ages since i got telephony software. Politically i'm in the middle (a little to the left). sexually I would say i'm asexual (not attracted to anyone, not as in i reproduce myself =P) but mentally I could have a relationship with anyone... male or female. (*realizes i'm starting to sound like a personals ad*) but you get what i'm saying.
Then again, i'm the anti- of every steriotype known to humans and here i am creating new ones ^_~. oh well
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AIM: confdntl98 ICQ: 150685 E-Mail: above... you can figure it out ^_~
but theres one thing you've forgotten to factor into your equation... human stupidity. Walk down a beach and you'll notice that 9 of 10 males are watching the fashionable, slim, and (what society says is) good looking. Even geeks are the same way, look at any *cough*adultsites*cough* and see how many geek pictures there are. They're all the same plastic mold women.
;-)
Another thing that factors in is teenage pregnancy (wow, i'm on a roll, attacking everyone today, arn't i? ^_~). How many geeks do you know who will go out there and have unprotected sex at that age? how many will have sex at all?
It may be true that we're smarter, but that's what is going to kill us out. Maybe its just because i'm a pessamist, but 98% of the population isn't gonna die out because we're a tad bit smarter. That tad bit may be whats keeping us from having the unprotected sex or keeping us from leering at women or men knowing how lame they can be under the skin.
another thing about evolutionary theory is that its "the strongest survive through the changes of its environment" if the world was hit by a huge asteroid, then it would be everyone who can live without sun for... awhile (^_^) would be the ones that evolution would keep. our supposed higher IQ or whatever isn't gonna help us there (or it might... we could make a bio-dome thingy and live in there for awhile, but then again the gov would prolly pay us lots to make a biggie one for everyone, were the whole thing would be useless)
*shrug* my standard disclaimer: Take this post with all the salt in the dead sea, maybe more, i'm just feeling cranky and slamming everyone, sorry if it doesnt make sence
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AIM: confdntl98 ICQ: 150685 E-Mail: above... you can figure it out ^_~
*odd look* I thought the phrase "the smarest people in the world work there, they just can't talk about what they are doing." automatically meant you were referring to transmeta ^_~
but seriously, first thing i think of whenever i hear the words hollywood and accurate together is armageddon (yes, i know i can't spell). I dunno how far up our atmosphere goes, but if an asteroid that big got only 100 miles away from us (when the nuke goes off and splits the asteroid some guy at some screen turns around and says, "it worked, it's gonna miss us by 100 miles" or something like that) wouldn't it heat it up enough to melt the polar ice caps anyways? or mebbe i've just been watching too much evangelion...
*shrug* then again, i might just be completely off base on everything i say. feel free to take this post with all the salt in the dead sea ^_~
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Obviously no one had told Ian about it being even there, so when he saw it, he rushed towards the sign giving out a squeal of delight and holding his arms out like he was going to hug the sign. He starts to look around for where to bum a copy of it and Douglas Adams leaves the conversation he's in the middle of to walk up to Ian and tap him on the shoulder. The conversation went something like this...
me and my girlfriend both give Ian an odd look after we walk away and he looks back, "What are you looking at me like that for?" "that was Douglas Adams man!" "holy spit! you serious?!?"
well, by that time, Mr. Adams had faded back into the crowd and we lost him, so Ian never got it signed, but he still gloats about speaking to Douglas Adams... even though he just thought he was some guy
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AIM: confdntl98 ICQ: 150685 E-Mail: above... you can figure it out ^_~
I say moderators should automatically have their viewing prefrences (only while they're moderating) as newest first, cut off at 0 (maybe -1), and threaded. This way they can still fallow threads and as the conversation goes on, the newer posts are moderated (i.e. begenning wave of posts come in and the first set of moderators moderate, then the second set, etc etc).
Also, I think another problem is everyone looks at the 2-5 range more and therefore moderators look at it and say "someone else moderated it up, it must be smart". I know this is a pain in the ass and would mean just more code, but i say put in a ceiling for moderators so they only look at the -1 through 1 range, with maybe a few random +2 or +3's thrown in.
another problem with that though is then moderating turns into a job and you cant really follow the thread.
Just wanted to thank rob for a great job at this and not just saying "screw it" and letting it go the way of newsgroups. Somehow i doubt hes reading this, but some asskissing cant hurt, ne? ^_^
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damn, just when the new linuxPPC comes out. blorf. oh well, just means i dont get it out of the box *shrug*
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AIM: confdntl98 ICQ: 150685 E-Mail: above... you can figure it out ^_~
nope, the keybord is built into the visor much like a WinCE device, and its pretty sturdy, dont worry
k, so my friend's dad does some work for these guys (hehe, it wouldnt be smart of me to say what he does, now would it? ;-) and he got a fully functional prototype to play around with for awhile. anyways, i got to see it and mess around with it, and it is sweet.
first off, it has a fold out keybord, so no more grafitti (yay) and the switchbord peripheral thing has already had such things made for it as a pager, cell phone, mp3 player (as said by other people), etc.
dont ask me how the pager or cell phone work (i was more interested in fiddling w/ the mp3 player), but the mp3 player has little penny-size disks that hold about 2 megs of data (bah) so if you ask me, at'l suck.
anyways, i should shutup now before the mangets mad ^_^
hmm, thinking about it, the BSD Daemon would make a great quake skin, for the axe he could use his pitchfork and such... *evil grin* maybe if i get bored enough one of these days...