I found out today that this guy is my dads fiance's nephew.
I've never met him, and apparently he has prior marijuana charges (just look at his pic), but from what I heard from his family, he's absolutely fucked, and is looking at spending the rest of his life in a "federal pound you in the ass prison"
About 20 years ago, when my dad was about...24 or so, he said he went into a Steak and Shake for lunch, that had just opened in the area.
Part of the lunch was baked beans, and anyone who's been to one know off the cool little pots they come in. So he eats all the beans, then uses his napkin and stealthfully cleans it out, and drops it in the cargo pockets of his pants.
When he leaves, and gets to the car, he suddenly realizes that "damn, that meal was kinda expensive", looks at the reciept, and see's "4.99$, bean pot" added onto the bill:-)
I use rewards for my self, as stupid as it sounds.
Like today, I have to write some thankyou cards, and fill out some rebate forms. So, I promised my self that after I do that, I'm gonna go to walmart and spend 20$ on something fun and/or stupid!
My summer job, until I go away to college in the fall, is at a landscaping company. Normal hours are 6am till 6pm, and some crews stay out even later. Wednesday, I worked a 14 hour day. Everyone does that, its whats expected. The company policy requires you to work every other saturday as well. We deal with it. But you know what? You get alot of time off when it rains, and during the winter.
I'm sure its the same way at your job. Some times you work your ass off like that, and I'm sure you have some nice slack times too. I would kill for a 40 hour week, but its nice being on overtime starting around thursday morning.
I used to go to a local Cincinnati Lan party (SOGA), of around 100 people.
I stopped after the 3rd time.
1. The food sucked, they asked you prepay, and since I didn't have a credit card, I couldn't, so instead of ordering pizza with the money (the same amount the prepay guys paid to get it) that the guys who just showed up payed, they just got dicked over and starved.
2. If your going to set up FTP warez servers, have time limits. The staff at the lan was awsome, huge FTP server with tons of games movies and cartoons. BUT, it had a 10 person limit so that you got a high transfer rate, so basically the first 10 guys in the door would start downloading, and take all night downloading hundreds of gigs of stuff. I mean, it got a little redicoulas when the fat greasy guy next to me filled 2 hundred gig drives with shit he'd never use, like gigs of NES and SEGA roms or games I know he had because he was playing them, but was downloading the.iso anyways.
3. Don't be afraid to kick someone out. The was this one guy (NOTE), who was a complete jack ass and ruined it for everyone. He would bitch and moan because he didn't have a game to play in a tournament, so would make everyone waite while he loaded and configured it, and then he'd bitch and say people cheated when he lost. Everyone hated him, but couldn't make him leave.
4. If your gonna have tournaments, have awards everyone can win. Instead of all time winner, how about...to compete you turn on replay mode, and then judge on the most gruesome death or most awsome kill shot, just don't let the geeky guy who does nothing but sit on his ass and play CS all day take home all the trophies.
5. Have a good sleeping area. Rent out a few hotel rooms if you do it there. The one I went to, it was just a big room, and you went in there, tons of people sleeping. I'd get into my sleeping bag (nylon goose down stuffed) and have people bitch at me because of the noise. I know it was loud, but I couldn't help it, and would have really like to be able to go somewhere by my self or with just friends. Plus, have good security, I was really afraid to leave my computer alone while I slept, I actually use a bike chain and lock, and locked it to the desk. Even just an old laptop and a few USB webcams spread around would work.
5. Don't just play high end games, not everyone has that kind of CPU. Get some good strategy game tourneys going, like Alpha Centarui, or Civ 2 & 3, or even have a Quake 2 tournament.
But what about a USB external harddrive? Just buy enough USB extensions to put it 20 feet away, and your done. I'm not sure how much power they use, though.
If you are considering building this yourself, I know several people who have bought from EIO.com (his LCD supplier) and its ran by one guy, and it takes forever for him to ship.
Consider a company called "timeline" instead, a simple google will turn them up.
My shop teacher in highschool told me he was out there one time, and pulled up to Hoover Dam at like 2am. He said he just walked right in, and did his own little tour. no one was on guard or anything. He said he only ran into one maintenance guy, down in the generator room.
I'm gonna have to back this dude up. Look for DC-DC powersupplies. I know Keypower makes one. They are also used in 1U servers. I have seen serveral Mp3car systems using both. You can also build your own "sproggy" supply. Look on the forum on that website for help. It can cost under 50$ to build a supply to meet your needs.
Um...yeah...The whole reason of the driver is so that the computer know what type of printer is installed and its capabilities. If it can query it for make and model, than what exactly is the point? Why not just be able to query for instruction set, etc?
I work in a factory, I roll mats on a machine which uses a scanner connected on a computer which tells me on which route to place the mat. I've been there 2.5 months, for 8 hours a day, and never seen it crash.
I have had a rabbit or two, although I didn't keep them in the house, I have heard they can be house trained, and are rather nice loveable little things. If they get mad, they can nip rather hard though.
Also, what about a parakeet (or budgie, depending on what part of the world you live in). They are generally good natured, and you can teach them to talk if you have enough patience. I used to have one that sat on my monitor and would look upside down at it.
Perhaps a dog, depending on the size of your apartment. Rescue a grey hound from a your local racing gray hound rescue shelter. They are medium sized relaxed dogs, but need to go for a quick run once a day or so. Also, if you get a dog, crate train them, you place them in their crate overnight, and they sleep, and won't crap in it.
If you get a cat, get the fattest laziest one you can find. I have 2 cats. One is up all night creating messes and hardly sleeps, and the other sleeps on my bed 23 out of 24 hours a day, and the other hour she is on my lap purring.
I feel ya man. I work a labor job at a company called cintas. I roll mats all day, from 2:30pm to 11pm. I get a 15 minute break at 4:30 and 8:30 and lunch at 6:30. Before I started there they where aloud a stereo, and for about a week when I started we where. then the boss finally said no. We had to blare it to hear it over the machinery. people 20 feet away where pissed cause it was so loud, and people 100feet away where pissed cause it was to far away and to hard to hear. Then the women on the other side of the factory (and through a wall and set of doors) would get mad because they don't like our music (which I find redicoulas, they get A/C, chairs, and get to wear shorts, we don't). Then arguments would start about the station. Some people wanted WEBN, others wanted Hard rock, and don't get me started about the only black guy and his rap.
I can see why companies are cracking down on this.
My mom has a first Gen P3 Gateway. Its cooled like that. Sadly, every time I take it apart, the duct falls out, and I have to tape it back in. Just make sure to use one heck of a heatsink, and maybe stack 2 fans??
This guys site goes into how red lasers can not be seen in the air. although I have not seen it, I have heard the new green lasers are visible in lower-light conditions in the air? anyone seen one? is this true?
2 years ago I went on the Disney cruise line (it was a freebie, from my moms company) No net access, and a sat connection to a land phone was 13$+ a minute, my dad made one call, and it came to 65.something$
There phones did have data jacks, so I guess if you absolutely wanted just to check your e-mail, you could though.
There was the girl in my Chem class, we were researching experiments to do for a class project. All of a sudden, I hear "Oh my god, Bill Nye is dead, I didn't know that!" I was laughing my ass off, half the class we talking about it, and about how good of shows he had, and how sad it was, even the teacher believed it. When I walked over to see what the commotion was about, I nearly wet myself.
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correction, for the poster below mine.
I heard this 2nd hand, from my dad.
And it was 60 years, not life.
And the prison joke was just that, a joke.
Just wanted to clear this up, before I made anyone mad.
I found out today that this guy is my dads fiance's nephew.
I've never met him, and apparently he has prior marijuana charges (just look at his pic), but from what I heard from his family, he's absolutely fucked, and is looking at spending the rest of his life in a "federal pound you in the ass prison"
Funny Story:
:-)
About 20 years ago, when my dad was about...24 or so, he said he went into a Steak and Shake for lunch, that had just opened in the area.
Part of the lunch was baked beans, and anyone who's been to one know off the cool little pots they come in. So he eats all the beans, then uses his napkin and stealthfully cleans it out, and drops it in the cargo pockets of his pants.
When he leaves, and gets to the car, he suddenly realizes that "damn, that meal was kinda expensive", looks at the reciept, and see's "4.99$, bean pot" added onto the bill
I use rewards for my self, as stupid as it sounds.
Like today, I have to write some thankyou cards, and fill out some rebate forms. So, I promised my self that after I do that, I'm gonna go to walmart and spend 20$ on something fun and/or stupid!
I'm sure he has plenty of slack time that he is payed for. That was my point.
Man, you tech guys bitch way too much.
My summer job, until I go away to college in the fall, is at a landscaping company.
Normal hours are 6am till 6pm, and some crews stay out even later. Wednesday, I worked a 14 hour day. Everyone does that, its whats expected. The company policy requires you to work every other saturday as well. We deal with it. But you know what? You get alot of time off when it rains, and during the winter.
I'm sure its the same way at your job. Some times you work your ass off like that, and I'm sure you have some nice slack times too. I would kill for a 40 hour week, but its nice being on overtime starting around thursday morning.
Its nylon, it makes noise when you move it at all,
no, I wasn't wanking.
I used to go to a local Cincinnati Lan party (SOGA), of around 100 people.
.iso anyways.
I stopped after the 3rd time.
1. The food sucked, they asked you prepay, and since I didn't have a credit card, I couldn't, so instead of ordering pizza with the money (the same amount the prepay guys paid to get it) that the guys who just showed up payed, they just got dicked over and starved.
2. If your going to set up FTP warez servers, have time limits. The staff at the lan was awsome, huge FTP server with tons of games movies and cartoons. BUT, it had a 10 person limit so that you got a high transfer rate, so basically the first 10 guys in the door would start downloading, and take all night downloading hundreds of gigs of stuff. I mean, it got a little redicoulas when the fat greasy guy next to me filled 2 hundred gig drives with shit he'd never use, like gigs of NES and SEGA roms or games I know he had because he was playing them, but was downloading the
3. Don't be afraid to kick someone out. The was this one guy (NOTE), who was a complete jack ass and ruined it for everyone. He would bitch and moan because he didn't have a game to play in a tournament, so would make everyone waite while he loaded and configured it, and then he'd bitch and say people cheated when he lost. Everyone hated him, but couldn't make him leave.
4. If your gonna have tournaments, have awards everyone can win. Instead of all time winner, how about...to compete you turn on replay mode, and then judge on the most gruesome death or most awsome kill shot, just don't let the geeky guy who does nothing but sit on his ass and play CS all day take home all the trophies.
5. Have a good sleeping area. Rent out a few hotel rooms if you do it there. The one I went to, it was just a big room, and you went in there, tons of people sleeping. I'd get into my sleeping bag (nylon goose down stuffed) and have people bitch at me because of the noise. I know it was loud, but I couldn't help it, and would have really like to be able to go somewhere by my self or with just friends.
Plus, have good security, I was really afraid to leave my computer alone while I slept, I actually use a bike chain and lock, and locked it to the desk. Even just an old laptop and a few USB webcams spread around would work.
5. Don't just play high end games, not everyone has that kind of CPU. Get some good strategy game tourneys going, like Alpha Centarui, or Civ 2 & 3, or even have a Quake 2 tournament.
I think everyone else hit the important stuff.
VietCong
But what about a USB external harddrive?
Just buy enough USB extensions to put it 20 feet away, and your done. I'm not sure how much power they use, though.
Same thing at my school.
I like to sign on, and bug who ever is on. It just makes my day.
If you are considering building this yourself,
I know several people who have bought from EIO.com (his LCD supplier) and its ran by one guy, and it takes forever for him to ship.
Consider a company called "timeline" instead, a simple google will turn them up.
My shop teacher in highschool told me he was out there one time, and pulled up to Hoover Dam at like 2am. He said he just walked right in, and did his own little tour. no one was on guard or anything. He said he only ran into one maintenance guy, down in the generator room.
I'm gonna have to back this dude up.
Look for DC-DC powersupplies. I know Keypower makes one. They are also used in 1U servers.
I have seen serveral Mp3car systems using both.
You can also build your own "sproggy" supply. Look on the forum on that website for help.
It can cost under 50$ to build a supply to meet your needs.
Um...yeah...The whole reason of the driver is so that the computer know what type of printer is installed and its capabilities. If it can query it for make and model, than what exactly is the point? Why not just be able to query for instruction set, etc?
I work in a factory, I roll mats on a machine which uses a scanner connected on a computer which tells me on which route to place the mat. I've been there 2.5 months, for 8 hours a day, and never seen it crash.
defenately teach them to use "Drug wars" or whatever spin-off is out nowdays ;-)
I have had a rabbit or two, although I didn't keep them in the house, I have heard they can be house trained, and are rather nice loveable little things. If they get mad, they can nip rather hard though.
Also, what about a parakeet (or budgie, depending on what part of the world you live in). They are generally good natured, and you can teach them to talk if you have enough patience. I used to have one that sat on my monitor and would look upside down at it.
Perhaps a dog, depending on the size of your apartment. Rescue a grey hound from a your local racing gray hound rescue shelter. They are medium sized relaxed dogs, but need to go for a quick run once a day or so. Also, if you get a dog, crate train them, you place them in their crate overnight, and they sleep, and won't crap in it.
If you get a cat, get the fattest laziest one you can find. I have 2 cats. One is up all night creating messes and hardly sleeps, and the other sleeps on my bed 23 out of 24 hours a day, and the other hour she is on my lap purring.
adamantium?
LISTEN UP ASSHOLE!!!!
I have a 3.7 gpa and an ACT score of 27, I am far from retarded, I tend to make spelling mistakes when typing.
SECOND!!! look out your goddamned window you pasty assed IT worker, its summer, I'm out of fucking school for 3 months.
I feel ya man.
I work a labor job at a company called cintas.
I roll mats all day, from 2:30pm to 11pm.
I get a 15 minute break at 4:30 and 8:30 and lunch at 6:30. Before I started there they where aloud a stereo, and for about a week when I started we where. then the boss finally said no.
We had to blare it to hear it over the machinery.
people 20 feet away where pissed cause it was so loud, and people 100feet away where pissed cause it was to far away and to hard to hear.
Then the women on the other side of the factory (and through a wall and set of doors) would get mad because they don't like our music (which I find redicoulas, they get A/C, chairs, and get to wear shorts, we don't). Then arguments would start about the station. Some people wanted WEBN, others wanted Hard rock, and don't get me started about the only black guy and his rap.
I can see why companies are cracking down on this.
My mom has a first Gen P3 Gateway. Its cooled like that. Sadly, every time I take it apart, the duct falls out, and I have to tape it back in. Just make sure to use one heck of a heatsink, and maybe stack 2 fans??
This guys site goes into how red lasers can not be seen in the air.
although I have not seen it, I have heard the new green lasers are visible in lower-light conditions in the air?
anyone seen one?
is this true?
2 years ago I went on the Disney cruise line (it was a freebie, from my moms company)
No net access, and a sat connection to a land phone was 13$+ a minute, my dad made one call, and it came to 65.something$
There phones did have data jacks, so I guess if you absolutely wanted just to check your e-mail, you could though.
There was the girl in my Chem class,
we were researching experiments to do for a class project. All of a sudden, I hear "Oh my god, Bill Nye is dead, I didn't know that!" I was laughing my ass off, half the class we talking about it, and about how good of shows he had, and how sad it was, even the teacher believed it. When I walked over to see what the commotion was about, I nearly wet myself.