Some people are like me, and move between home and school every few months. Would you like to have to waite 2 days for DNS settings to circulate every 3 months or so, so that you can get your email?
Plus, I like being able to check it at work, where all I have access to is a terminal during my lunch hour.
If it were me going over there, I wouldn't walk around with no less than a small 9mm in an ankle holster, 45 in a side holster, and if I'm in a vehicle, an assualt rifle. And learn how to use them, especially under stress. Anyone can shoot a pistol, not many can when someone else is firing back at you. Take some classes.
And as several other people suggested, get a good tan before you go over, if its during the winter, go to a tanning bed for about 2 months beforehand.
I would also try other things to blend in. Let your hair grow out, grow a beard (remember, if you get over there and they don't blend in, you can always cut them then).
Try to walk like your not a texas farm boy, You'll get over there and be nervous as all hell, and it will show.
yeah, I used OO for a while, I used it to type out a couple of papers for my English 112 class. Spell check turned up nothing, so I turned them in. A week later, I got them back, with several marks off for misspelled words. Now, I did proof read, but my proofreading abilities suck.
I opened these same documents up in word, and it found every single one of the errors.
Another thing that pisses me off is the fact that OO can't open up word.docs without fucking up all of the formatting. And it can't write to them decently either. I have to be able to send documents to other people that do use word, and it isn't feasible. Again, I turned in an essay by email once using OO's export to.doc feature, and it screwed it all up.
Don't even start about Abiword, that is not a feasibile replacement at all. Its 10 times worse than OO is.
And yes, I have tried all of these lately, in fact about 2 months ago.
If I really enjoy a subject, I get very deep into it. Take for example Grand Prixs. I love my 96 Grand Prix, I'm a member of the National Grand Prix club, work on everything myself, and can resite stats and shit off the top of my head. But I don't want to do car, I don't want to be a mechanic, so that does me absolutly no good at all.
I also tend to fade in and out of hobbies. About once a year I will really get into FPS games for about a month or two, bone back up on them, and be pretty damn good. Then I just stop, it quits interesting me.
I just finished my first year of college. The only advice I can give is, just get through it, and once you have your degree, you can do anything you want. I originally had a major of Computer Engineering, but after becoming extremely frustrated with Electronics, I switched to game design, basically CS with some art tossed in. I really enjoyed electronics at first, I learned alot, and I did a few projects in my spare time. Then, I just stopped liking it. It left the realm of usefullness and became boring. I don't need to know how to bias transistor networks and stuff to do a few hobby electronics projects, and that was all I was really interested in to begin with.
I'm sure my new degree will do the same thing, I'll go with the programming for a while, then it will become boring, and I no longer will enjoy the projects we are doing, they will become to mundane and useless.
So, all I can say is struggle through it, and when you graduate, you will find what you want to do. I really want to be a sys admin. Its what I find interesting. A nice mix of hardware, software (but not alot of programming), and networking. Hopefully I can tought it through the next 3 years of school, and then find a job doing what I enjoy.
Screw it, I'll just post it on here, so, here ya go
Outsourcing, according to the American Heritage Dictionary is "The procuring of services or products, such as the parts used in manufacturing a motor vehicle, from an outside supplier or manufacturer in order to cut costs (American Heritage Dictionary)." While outsourcing in its most simple form is actually beneficial for our economy, recent outsourcing or "offshoring" to foreign countries is hurting it. Businesses cannot afford to do all of their manufacturing themselves. For example, a restaurant does not have the resources to raise their own cattle, run a paper mill in order to have napkins, or hire a metal smith to make silverware, so they buy them from other businesses. This is a form of outsourcing. It is beneficial for our economy in that it helps specialized businesses have a niche, and prevents larger businesses from having to expand beyond their specialty. Offshoring, the practice of using manpower from other countries than your own, is hurting the United States economy. The offshoring to other countries of white-collar jobs such as engineering is negatively affecting our economy and workers, and needs to be ended by creating more jobs in the United States for these displaced workers.
It is speculated that by 2015, 3.3 million white-collar jobs, such as computer programmers, engineers and technicians, will be replaced by workers in foreign countries (Konrad). This means that Federal, State, and Local taxes will be decreased by a minimum of 34 Billion dollars over the next eleven years (Konrad). Although the government has encouraged free trade through such things as NAFTA (The North American Free Trade Agreement), recently it has begun to have a negative effect upon the governmental income.
While Wall Street and Corporate Americas' profits have gone up in the last several years due to massive layoffs and offshoring, it is beginning to have a bad effect upon the common person (Konrad). While this threatens our economy, our president blindly lets it happen. According to his political advisors "Outsourcing is just a new way of doing international trade (Weiseman)." If this is just a new twist in international trade, which country are our jobs supposed to be outsourced from? India is not sending any work our way.
Is the president even thinking of his country's safety? If we send all of our engineering work overseas, our country is in grave danger. India is a nuclear power, do we want other countries, such as India, or China, to know the designs of our nuclear power plants (Christman). What about our newest fighter jets, our bridges, or even our sewage systems, we shouldn't let possible foreign threats have access to that kind of information (Christman).
While outsourcing is not a new idea, the non-competitive nature of today's outsourcing is. For example, the United States has been buying automobiles from overseas for years (Mechanical Engineering). This form of outsourcing gave our economy a chance to compete. Japanese cars were obviously better built than Domestic cars, and our domestic car manufacturers had to find ways to improve their designs and bring sales back up.
While domestic car companies did have a chance to compete with Japanese companies, the current form of outsourcing is of a noncompetitive sort, and is harming not large businesses but the common worker. It is not large businesses that are threatened; they in fact are saving money by paying for less labor costs (Help the outsourced). Activists suggest that the best way to counter act this would be to take away the tax cuts that encourage large businesses to practice free trade (Help the outsourced).
On the other side of the argument, some believe that activists are going overboard with ways to protect the United States economy. Many feel that the numbers being used are all over exaggerated (Drezner). Outsourcing has been affecting blue-collar workers for years, an example being automobile manufacturing, which was mentioned earl
What exactly CAN they do with it? Yeah, they are gonna get unbelievable bandwidth inside, but not many students do much other than surf the web.
The internet connection is going to be the choke point. They probably have an OC3, just like Miami, UC, and my school, Shawnee State.
The only thing I see this as useful for is internal transmissions to do things like reghost computers at boot. But they won't be doing those in students dorms.
the 802.11g though, is awsome. I would give my left nut to have that all over campus here.
We canceled our dial up that day. I can still dial into it, 4 years later, with no problems. Our webspace is still there too, and I've even checked the email a few times.
I've used it quite a few times, when RR goes down, or if I'm at someone elses house on my laptop.
Not to sound stupid here, but I believe you can change MAC addresses. My school makes me report my mac address to plug in my computer, so I just swapped MAC's between my little linksys router and my desktop after I reported it, and then put all my equipment behind the router.
How exactly would this work? Besides looking for traffic on certain ports, how could a program outside of my computer on a school network tell what I am downloading?
Occasionally I use a program such as "Ares" to download a specific song or songs, because I like to make mix CD's out of music I already own, without having to rip all of my music to mp3 then burning it back to CD so I can listen to it in my car. I was under the impression that this was not illegal, since I already own it.
I also have been using BitTorrent to download some divx rips of DVDs. I already own the movies that I download, I just don't have a very fast computer, and I don't want to take days to rip each movie. I leave my DVDs at home, so I do not have to worry about them being stolen at school, and I can have the rips on my harddrive at college, and not worry about a roommate walking out with hundreds of dollars of movies. This isn't illegal if I already own the movie, its just like downloading a rom image of a game I already own, correct?
Now, lets say I'm downloading a rip of "The Matrix" from bittorrent. I own the DVD, in fact, I own one, and my dad owns a copy. How could the campus's network tell that I am specifically downloading a movie, all they would see is network traffic from a set of IP's to my IP on a certaint TCP or UDP port or ports, correct?
I'm not well versed in network theory or anything, but I'd really like to understand this.
The best 120$ I ever spent. I can now see everything happening in my car in real time, and if I get the right program and know what the hell I'm doing, I can reprogram it aswell.
I have had both time that I have worked not added to my check, and I have been rushed through lunches. The missing time happened at a laundry facility named Cintas. We were allowed to clock in up to 7 minutes early, so 7 * 5 days a week = an extra 45 minutes of time no? Not to them! It never got added to my checks. Yet, if I arrived early to compensate for variable road conditions, they would threaten to fire me if I didn't clock in right then and get to work. They would also have us work three hours later than usual one night, then the next 3 nights run us ragged to get out of there an hour early. Therefore no overtime.
The missing lunches happened at a landscaping company which would remain unnamed since I still might go back there this summer. I worked a 12-13 hour day driving a delivery truck and working in the yard, working 6 in the morning till usually after six at night. Awsome over-time, I made 10$ an hour and would make over a grand on some paychecks. But, I was worked very hard. I kept up with it, but they didn't like me taking lunches, and I never got my full half hour for lunch. I would have just enough time to sit down, eat a sandwich and gatorade, and get my ass back to work. A few times my boss didn't let me even do that. We were so busy, and he was so lazy he didn't want to work my job for a half hour while I ate, that he ordered pizza for everyone in the office, brought me out a few pieces, set them on a pallet of bags of mulch, and told me to eat in between helping customers. HOW THE FUCK CAN I EAT IN BETWEEN CUSTOMERS WHEN THE LINE OF CUSTOMERS IS A FUCKING MILE LONG. Lets just say I dissapeared for about fifteen minutes, ate the damn pizza, took a piss and sat in the staw trailer. I figured if that bastard ever bitched about it, I'd threaten legal action.
I got them back for all the missed lunches this last winter though. I ended up working with the laziest foreman ever. It was so cold, we'd work about an hour, and sit in the truck for a half hour to warm back up. We would also sleep on our lunch break. Once we took lunch at eleven, both of us passed out and didn't wake up till after 2 in the afternoon.
Pffff... in my 10x10 dorm room, I have the following 1 20" monitor 2 17" monitors 3 computer towers 3 laptops 1 12 port Bay Networks Switch 1 48 port 10mb hub 1 10 port 10mb hub 1 4 port wireless 802.11B switch 2 phones 2.1 Klipsch Speakers 2 Jensen Speakers 1 32" TV 1 old ass half working VCR 1 giant rubbermaid thing full of spair parts
And the campus network people looked at me funny when I asked for a second mac address identity when I brought down my second computer. They got scared when I brought the third, and after that I just stuck everything behind a router so they wouldn't bitch.
It gets 90* or so in here if I don't open the window or run the AC full blast.
Damn right emachines is cheap Last week my uncle bought a 2 ghz AMD, cd-r, dvd-rom, and 40gig harddrive and 17" monitor emachine for 350$ after rebates. It was too damn good to pass up.
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Some people are like me, and move between home and school every few months. Would you like to have to waite 2 days for DNS settings to circulate every 3 months or so, so that you can get your email?
Plus, I like being able to check it at work, where all I have access to is a terminal during my lunch hour.
yeah, but if something is shooting at me, I sure as hell want to be able to shoot back.
exactly, get a gun, and know how to use it.
If it were me going over there, I wouldn't walk around with no less than a small 9mm in an ankle holster, 45 in a side holster, and if I'm in a vehicle, an assualt rifle. And learn how to use them, especially under stress. Anyone can shoot a pistol, not many can when someone else is firing back at you. Take some classes.
And as several other people suggested, get a good tan before you go over, if its during the winter, go to a tanning bed for about 2 months beforehand.
I would also try other things to blend in. Let your hair grow out, grow a beard (remember, if you get over there and they don't blend in, you can always cut them then).
Try to walk like your not a texas farm boy, You'll get over there and be nervous as all hell, and it will show.
yeah, I used OO for a while, I used it to type out a couple of papers for my English 112 class. Spell check turned up nothing, so I turned them in. A week later, I got them back, with several marks off for misspelled words. Now, I did proof read, but my proofreading abilities suck.
.docs without fucking up all of the formatting. And it can't write to them decently either. I have to be able to send documents to other people that do use word, and it isn't feasible. Again, I turned in an essay by email once using OO's export to .doc feature, and it screwed it all up.
I opened these same documents up in word, and it found every single one of the errors.
Another thing that pisses me off is the fact that OO can't open up word
Don't even start about Abiword, that is not a feasibile replacement at all. Its 10 times worse than OO is.
And yes, I have tried all of these lately, in fact about 2 months ago.
so...do you follow the rules of the road?
;-)
(ala Jay and Silent Bob)
goddamnit, I don't know why I even post to slashdot anymore.
I try to help some people out, try to be a nice guy, and I get bashed for my advice and my taste in cars.
Fuck you all
I'm in the same situation,
If I really enjoy a subject, I get very deep into it. Take for example Grand Prixs. I love my 96 Grand Prix, I'm a member of the National Grand Prix club, work on everything myself, and can resite stats and shit off the top of my head. But I don't want to do car, I don't want to be a mechanic, so that does me absolutly no good at all.
I also tend to fade in and out of hobbies. About once a year I will really get into FPS games for about a month or two, bone back up on them, and be pretty damn good. Then I just stop, it quits interesting me.
I just finished my first year of college. The only advice I can give is, just get through it, and once you have your degree, you can do anything you want. I originally had a major of Computer Engineering, but after becoming extremely frustrated with Electronics, I switched to game design, basically CS with some art tossed in. I really enjoyed electronics at first, I learned alot, and I did a few projects in my spare time. Then, I just stopped liking it. It left the realm of usefullness and became boring. I don't need to know how to bias transistor networks and stuff to do a few hobby electronics projects, and that was all I was really interested in to begin with.
I'm sure my new degree will do the same thing, I'll go with the programming for a while, then it will become boring, and I no longer will enjoy the projects we are doing, they will become to mundane and useless.
So, all I can say is struggle through it, and when you graduate, you will find what you want to do. I really want to be a sys admin. Its what I find interesting. A nice mix of hardware, software (but not alot of programming), and networking. Hopefully I can tought it through the next 3 years of school, and then find a job doing what I enjoy.
It got me a b+ in English 112 last quarter,
but yeah, I know I suck at english.
Screw it, I'll just post it on here,
so, here ya go
Outsourcing, according to the American Heritage Dictionary is "The procuring of services or products, such as the parts used in manufacturing a motor vehicle, from an outside supplier or manufacturer in order to cut costs (American Heritage Dictionary)." While outsourcing in its most simple form is actually beneficial for our economy, recent outsourcing or "offshoring" to foreign countries is hurting it. Businesses cannot afford to do all of their manufacturing themselves. For example, a restaurant does not have the resources to raise their own cattle, run a paper mill in order to have napkins, or hire a metal smith to make silverware, so they buy them from other businesses. This is a form of outsourcing. It is beneficial for our economy in that it helps specialized businesses have a niche, and prevents larger businesses from having to expand beyond their specialty.
Offshoring, the practice of using manpower from other countries than your own, is hurting the United States economy. The offshoring to other countries of white-collar jobs such as engineering is negatively affecting our economy and workers, and needs to be ended by creating more jobs in the United States for these displaced workers.
It is speculated that by 2015, 3.3 million white-collar jobs, such as computer programmers, engineers and technicians, will be replaced by workers in foreign countries (Konrad). This means that Federal, State, and Local taxes will be decreased by a minimum of 34 Billion dollars over the next eleven years (Konrad).
Although the government has encouraged free trade through such things as NAFTA (The North American Free Trade Agreement), recently it has begun to have a negative effect upon the governmental income.
While Wall Street and Corporate Americas' profits have gone up in the last several years due to massive layoffs and offshoring, it is beginning to have a bad effect upon the common person (Konrad). While this threatens our economy, our president blindly lets it happen. According to his political advisors "Outsourcing is just a new way of doing international trade (Weiseman)." If this is just a new twist in international trade, which country are our jobs supposed to be outsourced from? India is not sending any work our way.
Is the president even thinking of his country's safety? If we send all of our engineering work overseas, our country is in grave danger. India is a nuclear power, do we want other countries, such as India, or China, to know the designs of our nuclear power plants (Christman). What about our newest fighter jets, our bridges, or even our sewage systems, we shouldn't let possible foreign threats have access to that kind of information (Christman).
While outsourcing is not a new idea, the non-competitive nature of today's outsourcing is. For example, the United States has been buying automobiles from overseas for years (Mechanical Engineering). This form of outsourcing gave our economy a chance to compete. Japanese cars were obviously better built than Domestic cars, and our domestic car manufacturers had to find ways to improve their designs and bring sales back up.
While domestic car companies did have a chance to compete with Japanese companies, the current form of outsourcing is of a noncompetitive sort, and is harming not large businesses but the common worker. It is not large businesses that are threatened; they in fact are saving money by paying for less labor costs (Help the outsourced). Activists suggest that the best way to counter act this would be to take away the tax cuts that encourage large businesses to practice free trade (Help the outsourced).
On the other side of the argument, some believe that activists are going overboard with ways to protect the United States economy. Many feel that the numbers being used are all over exaggerated (Drezner). Outsourcing has been affecting blue-collar workers for years, an example being automobile manufacturing, which was mentioned earl
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On a related note, I actually just got done writing a paper about this topic for an english class. If anyone is interested, I'd be happy to post it.
What exactly CAN they do with it? Yeah, they are gonna get unbelievable bandwidth inside, but not many students do much other than surf the web.
The internet connection is going to be the choke point. They probably have an OC3, just like Miami, UC, and my school, Shawnee State.
The only thing I see this as useful for is internal transmissions to do things like reghost computers at boot. But they won't be doing those in students dorms.
the 802.11g though, is awsome. I would give my left nut to have that all over campus here.
4 Years ago, I got RoadRunner at my house *yay*
We canceled our dial up that day.
I can still dial into it, 4 years later, with no problems. Our webspace is still there too, and I've even checked the email a few times.
I've used it quite a few times, when RR goes down, or if I'm at someone elses house on my laptop.
Yeah, well I have an anti-anti-missile.
-Obscure reference.
Not to sound stupid here, but I believe you can change MAC addresses. My school makes me report my mac address to plug in my computer, so I just swapped MAC's between my little linksys router and my desktop after I reported it, and then put all my equipment behind the router.
How exactly would this work?
Besides looking for traffic on certain ports, how could a program outside of my computer on a school network tell what I am downloading?
Occasionally I use a program such as "Ares" to download a specific song or songs, because I like to make mix CD's out of music I already own, without having to rip all of my music to mp3 then burning it back to CD so I can listen to it in my car. I was under the impression that this was not illegal, since I already own it.
I also have been using BitTorrent to download some divx rips of DVDs. I already own the movies that I download, I just don't have a very fast computer, and I don't want to take days to rip each movie. I leave my DVDs at home, so I do not have to worry about them being stolen at school, and I can have the rips on my harddrive at college, and not worry about a roommate walking out with hundreds of dollars of movies. This isn't illegal if I already own the movie, its just like downloading a rom image of a game I already own, correct?
Now, lets say I'm downloading a rip of "The Matrix" from bittorrent. I own the DVD, in fact, I own one, and my dad owns a copy. How could the campus's network tell that I am specifically downloading a movie, all they would see is network traffic from a set of IP's to my IP on a certaint TCP or UDP port or ports, correct?
I'm not well versed in network theory or anything, but I'd really like to understand this.
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Underling : and I just saved tons of money on my car insurance!
www.obd-2.com
The best 120$ I ever spent.
I can now see everything happening in my car in real time, and if I get the right program and know what the hell I'm doing, I can reprogram it aswell.
girl? ;-)
Theres no room, sorry
I have had both time that I have worked not added to my check, and I have been rushed through lunches.
The missing time happened at a laundry facility named Cintas. We were allowed to clock in up to 7 minutes early, so 7 * 5 days a week = an extra 45 minutes of time no? Not to them! It never got added to my checks. Yet, if I arrived early to compensate for variable road conditions, they would threaten to fire me if I didn't clock in right then and get to work. They would also have us work three hours later than usual one night, then the next 3 nights run us ragged to get out of there an hour early. Therefore no overtime.
The missing lunches happened at a landscaping company which would remain unnamed since I still might go back there this summer. I worked a 12-13 hour day driving a delivery truck and working in the yard, working 6 in the morning till usually after six at night. Awsome over-time, I made 10$ an hour and would make over a grand on some paychecks. But, I was worked very hard. I kept up with it, but they didn't like me taking lunches, and I never got my full half hour for lunch. I would have just enough time to sit down, eat a sandwich and gatorade, and get my ass back to work. A few times my boss didn't let me even do that. We were so busy, and he was so lazy he didn't want to work my job for a half hour while I ate, that he ordered pizza for everyone in the office, brought me out a few pieces, set them on a pallet of bags of mulch, and told me to eat in between helping customers. HOW THE FUCK CAN I EAT IN BETWEEN CUSTOMERS WHEN THE LINE OF CUSTOMERS IS A FUCKING MILE LONG. Lets just say I dissapeared for about fifteen minutes, ate the damn pizza, took a piss and sat in the staw trailer. I figured if that bastard ever bitched about it, I'd threaten legal action.
I got them back for all the missed lunches this last winter though. I ended up working with the laziest foreman ever. It was so cold, we'd work about an hour, and sit in the truck for a half hour to warm back up. We would also sleep on our lunch break. Once we took lunch at eleven, both of us passed out and didn't wake up till after 2 in the afternoon.
Pffff...
in my 10x10 dorm room, I have the following
1 20" monitor
2 17" monitors
3 computer towers
3 laptops
1 12 port Bay Networks Switch
1 48 port 10mb hub
1 10 port 10mb hub
1 4 port wireless 802.11B switch
2 phones
2.1 Klipsch Speakers
2 Jensen Speakers
1 32" TV
1 old ass half working VCR
1 giant rubbermaid thing full of spair parts
And the campus network people looked at me funny when I asked for a second mac address identity when I brought down my second computer. They got scared when I brought the third, and after that I just stuck everything behind a router so they wouldn't bitch.
It gets 90* or so in here if I don't open the window or run the AC full blast.
Damn right emachines is cheap
Last week my uncle bought a 2 ghz AMD, cd-r, dvd-rom, and 40gig harddrive and 17" monitor emachine for 350$ after rebates.
It was too damn good to pass up.
No..the alero is the Grand Am.
The Grand Prix is a W body, the GA is a N body.