wow, this sounds frightening. Especially when you consider it would be possible for a BREAK to be caused by interference of some nature.. *thinking back to dialups interpreting line noise as a break signal sometimes, since i used to use an internet connection that a BREAK signal would drop it back to a command mode*
I think that what's really being said, is that the more you learn, in general, the higher up you go in responsibility chains.. and therefore, when you make a screw up, it can be an order of magnitude worse than if you had been responsible for a smaller area/subset/whatever.
I got suspended for "hacking" the network, because a "repair tech" left himself logged in on the Novell Network as whatever the equivalent of "Superuser" is on that old system, and he was using the workstation that I was assigned to use. I went and poked around, and then installed QBASIC from another computer that was on the LAN, so I could code something, when I was done with whatever boring WordPerfect or dBase III+ project we were working on.
Is a damn file selector box, where if I enter a DIRECTORY NAME into the box, and then press ENTER, it will SWITCH to that DIRECTORY, rather than giving me an error, or showing me an empty selector box that isn't pointed to anything.
That's what irks me the most. I don't care how PRETTY the damn thing is.
I can't even make out what the hell half the controls on those mockups ARE...
you say it's a lot easier to see than those "magic eye" images.. well, i have a magic eye image on my wall,a nd i can see it perfectly at any point in time, just by willing it to happen. I can't hit any of either the main post's images or yours to show up.:P
hmm. I used to have the pascal source to WWIV 4.0. *shrug*
I could've swore it was supposed to be 5.0 that was done in C, but never happened.. oh well. Memories get less accurate when not accessed in years and years.
Perhaps you are right. I thought Barq's was, also. But I hate Barqs, anyway. It tastes a lot more like the yucky cheap-o store-brand root beer than anything else. ICK.
Dude. There was a MASSIVELY enhanced version of the EMPIRE P-file for New Image, I think the original author called it "Empire 6.0".. I had taken it over, back ported it to C-Net 12.0, and then completely re-did almost everything, and added hundreds of new features.... I cannot find the source ANYWHERE, no disks, no printouts.
Do you have ANY version of the C-Net or New Image "Empire" P-Files???
I had also written a message board networking system for C-Net and New Image.. was working on making it compatible with Citadel's C86Net, but never finished.. before whatever it was happened that made me leave the scene.
well, certainly with caffeine and alcohol addictions, it is entirely possible to quit the addiction, without leaving the stuff entirely out of your life.
i can speak from personal experience on the alcohol one, having gotten absolutely smashingly wasted virtually every night from september 4th or 5th or so of 2001, through about december of 2002. i barely survived christmas that year, as i hadn't had a chance to buy any booze for xmas, and all the bars shut down at 9pm on xmas eve, i didn't leave work till around then -- i barely survived because my body was freaking out at the lack of "vitamin a" as we call it in the house.. lol... i ended up being so busy and understaffed at my job the next week or so, that i simply did not have time to drink, i barely had time to sleep between work shifts. now, i have a beer or two a week, mostly when playing video golf at the bar, and if i decide I want to go and get HAMMERED, it's a DECISION, not something that I HAVE to do.
I have also gone weeks without anything more caffeinated than Coca-Cola, though the first two days of any of those trips through Hell are no fun at all.
I have decided that during my vacation, in a couple of weeks, I am going to attempt to only take in water, "raw juice" (the juice of a fruit, freshly squeezed from the fruit, as found in many places in the arabic community i am employed in), and hopefully healthy foods. No cigarettes, no alcohol, no high-sugar things, no caffeine, and an attempt to stop this annoying nail biting habit that i've had all my life as long as i can remember.
Thanks Slashdot, for having something inspirational for once.:D
Barq's, and A&W, the two root beers that I know of that are available in most commercial places such as restaurants, are caffeine free. Maybe you are experiencing the much higher amount of sugar?
Ahh.. yes.. Back when I first got into caffeine overdosing. lol...
I would drink coffee for much the same reasons that people would drink alcohol - when depressed, down, sad, etc go out and drink.
When my girlfriend at the time dumped me, I headed straight to the coffee shop. Ordered "Walk the Plank". This is 24oz of concentrated espresso, as the sign on the coffee shop wall calls it. And then the added bonus to this, was throwing some ice in it, to cool it down to a palatable temperature. 15 minutes later, and 24 oz of espresso less, in my glass.. order another one. This one made it about half an hour on my table. Then I got up to drive home. Had to stop at a friend's house halfway between the coffee shop and my home, and explain that I was so wasted on caffeine that I couldn't drive. I fell asleep, almost immediatly when my head hit the pillow on the couch. I woke up, about 5 hours later, SO WIRED I COULDN'T FREAKING BELIEVE it, and was then awake for the next 52 hours continuously.
I try to keep my caffeine intake down to a bottle of Mt. Dew or so a day now.
Those of us who are ADD - and that applies to EVERYONE that I've EVER MET - are really bored. You don't have a defective brain, a disease, or a psych issue, or whatever they call it these days. You're just too damn bored with whatever it is you're trying to pay attention to. Drugs to combat ADD are the pharmaceutical company's way of making more money.
I'd just like to say, that after only 2 comments, and it's already almost 3:00am eastern time, so it's a non-prime slashdot time.. the sites have been slashdotted out of existence.
Perhaps the author of this article is actually a Priest!! Or maybe it's just a psuedonym for Michael Jackson. hmm.. The possibilities are mindboggling.:D
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Phear that. Imagine elected officials actually COMMUNICATING with voters. Doesn't happen.
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wow, this sounds frightening. Especially when you consider it would be possible for a BREAK to be caused by interference of some nature.. *thinking back to dialups interpreting line noise as a break signal sometimes, since i used to use an internet connection that a BREAK signal would drop it back to a command mode*
That was NOT a metric/standard error. The martians, using Saddam Hussein's hidden Weapons of Mass Destruction, did it.
I think that what's really being said, is that the more you learn, in general, the higher up you go in responsibility chains.. and therefore, when you make a screw up, it can be an order of magnitude worse than if you had been responsible for a smaller area/subset/whatever.
Umm.. I don't get it. what would sending a break sequence cause? Am I dumb?
Are they gay nigger aliens from outer space? *boggle*
Damn, those martians shot down another one of our probes!
They have much better aim than, say, Saddam Hussein's SCUD missle launchers!
Hey, maybe Saddam hid his better weapons of mass destruction ON MARS!!!!!!!!!!!
I got suspended for "hacking" the network, because a "repair tech" left himself logged in on the Novell Network as whatever the equivalent of "Superuser" is on that old system, and he was using the workstation that I was assigned to use. I went and poked around, and then installed QBASIC from another computer that was on the LAN, so I could code something, when I was done with whatever boring WordPerfect or dBase III+ project we were working on.
Oops.
as if it actually works? That's a different thing entirely. And who'd figure?
Is a damn file selector box, where if I enter a DIRECTORY NAME into the box, and then press ENTER, it will SWITCH to that DIRECTORY, rather than giving me an error, or showing me an empty selector box that isn't pointed to anything.
That's what irks me the most. I don't care how PRETTY the damn thing is.
I can't even make out what the hell half the controls on those mockups ARE...
you say it's a lot easier to see than those "magic eye" images.. well, i have a magic eye image on my wall,a nd i can see it perfectly at any point in time, just by willing it to happen. I can't hit any of either the main post's images or yours to show up. :P
It's the damn martians! They keep shooting down our probes!! This one must have landed near an unsettled area.
hmm. I used to have the pascal source to WWIV 4.0. *shrug*
I could've swore it was supposed to be 5.0 that was done in C, but never happened.. oh well. Memories get less accurate when not accessed in years and years.
Perhaps you are right. I thought Barq's was, also. But I hate Barqs, anyway. It tastes a lot more like the yucky cheap-o store-brand root beer than anything else. ICK.
Er... WWIV was written in Pascal. The "C" version never surfaced as an official release. Are you sure you have WWIV?
Dude. There was a MASSIVELY enhanced version of the EMPIRE P-file for New Image, I think the original author called it "Empire 6.0" .. I had taken it over, back ported it to C-Net 12.0, and then completely re-did almost everything, and added hundreds of new features. ... I cannot find the source ANYWHERE, no disks, no printouts.
Do you have ANY version of the C-Net or New Image "Empire" P-Files???
I had also written a message board networking system for C-Net and New Image.. was working on making it compatible with Citadel's C86Net, but never finished.. before whatever it was happened that made me leave the scene.
well, certainly with caffeine and alcohol addictions, it is entirely possible to quit the addiction, without leaving the stuff entirely out of your life.
:D
i can speak from personal experience on the alcohol one, having gotten absolutely smashingly wasted virtually every night from september 4th or 5th or so of 2001, through about december of 2002. i barely survived christmas that year, as i hadn't had a chance to buy any booze for xmas, and all the bars shut down at 9pm on xmas eve, i didn't leave work till around then -- i barely survived because my body was freaking out at the lack of "vitamin a" as we call it in the house.. lol... i ended up being so busy and understaffed at my job the next week or so, that i simply did not have time to drink, i barely had time to sleep between work shifts. now, i have a beer or two a week, mostly when playing video golf at the bar, and if i decide I want to go and get HAMMERED, it's a DECISION, not something that I HAVE to do.
I have also gone weeks without anything more caffeinated than Coca-Cola, though the first two days of any of those trips through Hell are no fun at all.
I have decided that during my vacation, in a couple of weeks, I am going to attempt to only take in water, "raw juice" (the juice of a fruit, freshly squeezed from the fruit, as found in many places in the arabic community i am employed in), and hopefully healthy foods. No cigarettes, no alcohol, no high-sugar things, no caffeine, and an attempt to stop this annoying nail biting habit that i've had all my life as long as i can remember.
Thanks Slashdot, for having something inspirational for once.
Barq's, and A&W, the two root beers that I know of that are available in most commercial places such as restaurants, are caffeine free. Maybe you are experiencing the much higher amount of sugar?
Ahh.. yes.. Back when I first got into caffeine overdosing. lol...
I would drink coffee for much the same reasons that people would drink alcohol - when depressed, down, sad, etc go out and drink.
When my girlfriend at the time dumped me, I headed straight to the coffee shop. Ordered "Walk the Plank". This is 24oz of concentrated espresso, as the sign on the coffee shop wall calls it. And then the added bonus to this, was throwing some ice in it, to cool it down to a palatable temperature. 15 minutes later, and 24 oz of espresso less, in my glass.. order another one. This one made it about half an hour on my table. Then I got up to drive home. Had to stop at a friend's house halfway between the coffee shop and my home, and explain that I was so wasted on caffeine that I couldn't drive. I fell asleep, almost immediatly when my head hit the pillow on the couch. I woke up, about 5 hours later, SO WIRED I COULDN'T FREAKING BELIEVE it, and was then awake for the next 52 hours continuously.
I try to keep my caffeine intake down to a bottle of Mt. Dew or so a day now.
Those of us who are ADD - and that applies to EVERYONE that I've EVER MET - are really bored. You don't have a defective brain, a disease, or a psych issue, or whatever they call it these days. You're just too damn bored with whatever it is you're trying to pay attention to. Drugs to combat ADD are the pharmaceutical company's way of making more money.
ok, now HOW can this be REDUNDANT? It was the third comment posted!!!!!!! Moderators, get your heads out of your arses!
I'd just like to say, that after only 2 comments, and it's already almost 3:00am eastern time, so it's a non-prime slashdot time.. the sites have been slashdotted out of existence.
Yeah, I wanna publish "Women of SCO.".. hmm.
Wonder how I'd get into that sort of thing..
Perhaps the author of this article is actually a Priest!! Or maybe it's just a psuedonym for Michael Jackson. hmm.. The possibilities are mindboggling. :D
Phear that. Imagine elected officials actually COMMUNICATING with voters. Doesn't happen.
I can't say that I've ever seen anyone bring any merchandise that they've purchased in the local mall into the movie theater with them.. *boggle*