Oftentimes I wear headphones that don't even have a player connected to them so I can actually walk more than 20 metres without some bum or charity person or club promoter hassling me.
I lived pretty much in the sticks before I came to uni. Boring it may have been but at least people leave you the hell alone. And to all the afformentioned: Look, I don't give a crap about what you think I should pay attention to at the moment. I am currently trying to get from A to B and you're in my way. You don't have some sort of fucking entitlement to my time, and at times I'm tempted to wear a "I don't give a fuck so piss off" t-shirt to get the point across.
But of course that wouldn't be very polite, would it.
*deletes strong opposition post he just wrote out* Actually it is but not in the sense you probably mean. Vandalism is usually just an attempt to exert some sort of power over you. They can hit you and you can't hit them back, therefore they are stronger than you. The mechanism is spray cans or bricks through the window and not fists but the principle is the same.
Having said that, there are an increasing amount of louts and instead of showing them contempt, it helps to think of them as social aberrations and figure out what is producing them. Irresponsible parenting and the present school system would, I imagine, feature highly on the list. Being a script kiddie is not so much about having no ingenuity of your own, that's just a common factor. A script kiddie is differentiated by a hacker by the fact that a hacker breaks into a system for the challenge, whereas a script kiddie breaks into a system to exact damage and humiliation; basically to "beat you up", because they can't be the big tough school yard bully in real life.
Pump an obscene amount of quarters into it and play loads.
Or play at home, if you can get some decent quality equipment. The problem is that home versions are rather lousy in terms of song selection (50-odd songs gets boring real fast, as opposed to, say, a DDR Extreme arcade machine with nearly 300 songs).
I can attest to spending way too much money on the arcade versions of the game... it's all worth it to draw huge crowds when you play some of the really advanced stuff (ever watched someone play across both pads on Maniac mode? When I watch other people do it it looks incredible...)
Yes I am a showoff;) But the game is fun nonetheless, and the fact that it's more healthy than most is a nice bonus.
Is this suggesting that RSS won't be bogged down in commercialised distraction? I dunno if it's just me or not but every time I think of a spammer I imagine a red faced overweight gent screaming "Who the fuck are you to tell me what I can't fill your screen with!?" whilst spittle is flying out of his mouth.
These people believe that it is their god given right to fill the Internet with their... content, and they get incredibly angry and retaliative when someone dares to challenge this.
My point is, you can find a kinky girl with a head on her shoulders. It just takes awhile.
Yes, I did, I'm daring to presume that had a chance with her and I fucking blew it. As a consequence of which I now have a large note saying "YOU SNOOZE, YOU LOSE" tacked to my notice board.
This was about a week before V day too. WTG me. (And this post is what you might call "Not getting over it.")
The article makes reference to DDR at one point and I think that's a good example. I'm an avid DDR fan, and it is quite hard to get a home setup that is of comparable quality to that of the arcade system (Arcade DDR platforms are incredibly complex beasts -- there's several independent pressure sensors per arrow and the whole thing's very heavily ruggedised to withstand an immense amount of punishment). Besides, at home it just makes a huge amount of noise.
Compare to arcades whereby one can play on decent quality equipment, nobody minds, and you even get to meet new people whilst doing so. Admittedly this isn't really true in the UK where I live, but you can see shades of this in the big London arcades. Of course there may be little we can do about it if it all does go the way of the dodo (indications are Konami are planning to axe the Japanese DDR series as well), but I wouldn't go so far as to say that arcades are doomed. There's something about arcades that you just don't get at home, even if you had the actual machine yourself.
1) User loads proprietary module 2) Kernel goes unstable and crashes like hell 3) User responsibly decides to post OOPS and bug report to LKML 4) Kernel devs groan for the 1000th time and explain that they can't test a problem with an opaque driver
The problem is that a black box piece of code is 'tainting' the kernel. If something goes wrong with that code, you're SOL because you can't look inside the black box. Module licensing forces a closed driver to identify itself as such, and then notes that the kernel is tainted in the OOPS, so if you submit an oops like that then the kernel devs will (quite rightly) say "Don't expect us to fix a problem with a proprietary driver, bug the guy who wrote it".
It's mostly a bug tracking thing for the kernel developers in other words, it doesn't really change how the kernel behaves or what you are or aren't allowed to do with it.
jeff@FUCKSPAM.hotmail.com bNOoSPAMb@blah.SPAM.c om
etc etc.
Has it occured to anyone that if you start using CAPITAL LETTERS to distinguish noise from signal then that's reasonably easy to filter out?
Eeh, good on you for making the effort, but you probably do want some viagra anyway, you're just shy. The best obfuscation is to use a suitably noised up image but that presents problems of its own...
Because it's something I'm good at and I like to do. I'm studying for a Maths + CS degree at the moment, and this question has crossed my mind a few times, but at the end of the day you don't give up the thing that drives you just because no-one appreciates it right at the moment.
Outsourcing is a problem yes, but then I'm pretty sure that if nobody wants to do biochem in the US they'll build a research park in India and get a whole bunch of people from there to work on the problem and not have to pay them nearly as much (and in fact would probably do a better job than some crappy overseas code shop in the IT outsourcing case). Nothing's immune to outsourcing, sorry.
Maybe things will get better for us, maybe it won't. I have a hope it will because certainly networks and communications aren't going to factor less into our lives as time goes on, and someone's going to need to manage that infrastructure. A lot of that will be here and some guy in India can't just run down to the NOC and enter stuff into the console if it decides to melt down (I've got a rented RackShack server that's 2000 miles away and my face goes blue watching the ping screen every time I reboot after an upgrade and wait for the server to come back up).
And if not... well, worst case maybe I can use that Maths half of my degree to hunker down for a bit. But considering how greed only ever looks at the short term, I'm thinking the likeliest explanation is that karma will come to bitchslap these people sooner than one might think.
1) Chip/Fliplid your PS2 2) Buy a copy of Dance Dance Revolution Extreme JP for PS2 3) Buy a Cobalt Flux (rather expensive but worth it) 4) Profit.
DDR is great fun, exercise factor or not. Anyone who thinks this game is easy or for girls has prolly never seen someone playing some of the level 9 or 10 rated tracks. And believe me, ten minutes of treadmill at 10mph doesn't make me sweat half as much as 90 seconds of Max300 (On the highest difficulty setting, you've got to hit 555 steps in those 90 seconds. Work it out). The fact that this game is seriously bloody addictive despite all this is quite an achievement on Konami's part.
Unfortunately I'm in halls so a home setup isn't really practical, instead I blow a lot of money on the arcade version. But yes I think it makes a bit more sense than wrestling with some strange joysticks...
"What you do in the bathroom is not a secret, but it is private."
Wise words. Originally used to define semantics for a security model I think, but it's just as good a response to the "only criminals have something to hide" bit.
OK why are we having another retread of this god damn FUD. Let's look at copyright law and GPL as a copyright license.
- The default for copyrighted work is that you may not distribute it. - Copyright licenses can only give you more (conditional) rights. They can't take rights from YOU in exchange - Therefore, if you aggregate GPL code with your software, it means one thing: You distribute that aggregate under the GPL or not at all. FULL STOP, that's it. - If you don't like that, take the GPL code out. The choice IS YOURS. Nothing forces the non-GPL code to be opened. Maybe taking the GPL code out is a bother. Well, sorry. If you inadvertantly take some of my batteries and put them in your CD player, then you'll just have to take them back out again because I'm well within my rights to ask for my batteries back. But that doesn't give me any title to your CD player does it?
Can we please bury Microsoft's 'virus' crap now? If you want 'viral licensing' take a look at the MS OEM agreement sometime.
So... you got hired coming from Sun, but you wouldn't hire someone coming from Sun? Because you're obviously the only one who's better than the rest of them and not as arrogant?
I'd be interested to know what you're smoking because that made NO sense whatsoever. Lay off the copy & paste for a sec and read what you're generating;)
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Backspace key in Internet Explorer goes back a page, and promptly trashes the contents of whatever form you were filling out before you clicked in the wrong place.
Well, actually it would have been, had the early internet authorities not handed out Class A's like candy.
Then again, there's what I like to call Segway Syndrome. The most incredibly revolutionary things always start out as some totally unhyped weird curiosity with apparently no mainstream value whatsoever. (Electricity, computers, internet... didn't Nic Tesla get fired for 'wasting time' building the first electric motor?)
Email was a wonderful thing until some cretins decided it was their god given right to fill the infrastructure so full of shit that it's becoming impossible to maintain and of much more limited use, all because they're so much more important that everyone else and want to hock their crap.
IRC was a wonderful thing until some other pack of cretins decided it was their god given right to deluge the infrastructure with shit, all because they're so much more important than everyone else and want to have their immature little pissing contests
And the web and the search engine concept was a wonderful thing until yet another pack of cretins decided it was their god given right to deluge THIS infrastructure with shit, because they believe that this great big network exists soley to promote their crap
So who gave them all the fucking right!? And why are these pieces of shit always the first to whine about how THEIR rights are being trodden on? I just wonder what sort of process makes these pricks honestly believe that such a beautiful and diverse resource is there for THEIR benefit and it's all fucking ME ME ME.
OK I can play ME ME ME too! I want to be able to browse the internet without your fucking product being shoved in my face!
I want to be able to communicate with my friends and colleagues over email without having hundreds upon hundreds of pieces of dreck advertising your disgusting crap shoved in my face!
I want to be able to use a realtime chat network without enduring splits and lags and security checks and masses of scans just because some braindead 12 year old moron got a bug up his ass about someone insulting him over this system!
Why is it that these days if you look at an IRC server or an SMTP server, 90% of the source is a ghastly and hugely tangled mess of code that's just there to keep the 0.001% of pricks who want to ruin it for everyone else out, and managing those systems turns from a straightforward and communal activity into an arcane battleground where everyone is an enemy? Just try scaling that up tenfold for Google and their golden egg laying goose that every selfish twat wants to work how THEY want it to work and fuck everyone else.
Argh... I would be honoured to shake the hands of the techs running Google, and good on them for actually fighting back against these fucks. And as for these cretins listed above, WHEN THE REVOLUTION COMES WE WILL MAKE SAUSAGES OUT OF YOUR FUCKING ENTRAILS (to borrow a nice little expression from someone by the alias of TRASG0)
A new interrupt controller dreamed up by Intel to enable multiprocessing. It seems to cause a disproportionate amount of problems under Linux (a dedicated server I run would crash something like every 4 hours before I enabled noapic)
Unless you've got more than one CPU, it's more trouble than it's worth. The old 'legacy' 8259 interrupt controller (or the interface your system chipset supplies that emulates it anyway) works just fine for single-CPU applications.
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Oftentimes I wear headphones that don't even have a player connected to them so I can actually walk more than 20 metres without some bum or charity person or club promoter hassling me.
I lived pretty much in the sticks before I came to uni. Boring it may have been but at least people leave you the hell alone. And to all the afformentioned: Look, I don't give a crap about what you think I should pay attention to at the moment. I am currently trying to get from A to B and you're in my way. You don't have some sort of fucking entitlement to my time, and at times I'm tempted to wear a "I don't give a fuck so piss off" t-shirt to get the point across.
But of course that wouldn't be very polite, would it.
Vandalism is usually a reaction to something.
*deletes strong opposition post he just wrote out* Actually it is but not in the sense you probably mean. Vandalism is usually just an attempt to exert some sort of power over you. They can hit you and you can't hit them back, therefore they are stronger than you. The mechanism is spray cans or bricks through the window and not fists but the principle is the same.
Having said that, there are an increasing amount of louts and instead of showing them contempt, it helps to think of them as social aberrations and figure out what is producing them. Irresponsible parenting and the present school system would, I imagine, feature highly on the list. Being a script kiddie is not so much about having no ingenuity of your own, that's just a common factor. A script kiddie is differentiated by a hacker by the fact that a hacker breaks into a system for the challenge, whereas a script kiddie breaks into a system to exact damage and humiliation; basically to "beat you up", because they can't be the big tough school yard bully in real life.
Have watched MANY shows on it. Watched the news...
Fair and Impartial(TM) news channels, I hope.
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Pump an obscene amount of quarters into it and play loads.
;) But the game is fun nonetheless, and the fact that it's more healthy than most is a nice bonus.
Or play at home, if you can get some decent quality equipment. The problem is that home versions are rather lousy in terms of song selection (50-odd songs gets boring real fast, as opposed to, say, a DDR Extreme arcade machine with nearly 300 songs).
I can attest to spending way too much money on the arcade versions of the game... it's all worth it to draw huge crowds when you play some of the really advanced stuff (ever watched someone play across both pads on Maniac mode? When I watch other people do it it looks incredible...)
Yes I am a showoff
Is this suggesting that RSS won't be bogged down in commercialised distraction? I dunno if it's just me or not but every time I think of a spammer I imagine a red faced overweight gent screaming "Who the fuck are you to tell me what I can't fill your screen with!?" whilst spittle is flying out of his mouth.
These people believe that it is their god given right to fill the Internet with their... content, and they get incredibly angry and retaliative when someone dares to challenge this.
They will find a way.
How about a law requiring simple, lucid titles for laws instead of a bunch of pointless verbage shoehorned into some Really Cool Sounding Acronym!!!
Call it the Policitally Overcharged Law Embellishments Suck My Orifice's Kebab Egestions Reform (POLESMOKER) Act or something.
Aah, where I come from, dirty middle aged white men masturbate over porn as opposed to silly titles for pieces of paper...
My point is, you can find a kinky girl with a head on her shoulders. It just takes awhile.
Yes, I did, I'm daring to presume that had a chance with her and I fucking blew it. As a consequence of which I now have a large note saying "YOU SNOOZE, YOU LOSE" tacked to my notice board.
This was about a week before V day too. WTG me. (And this post is what you might call "Not getting over it.")
The article makes reference to DDR at one point and I think that's a good example. I'm an avid DDR fan, and it is quite hard to get a home setup that is of comparable quality to that of the arcade system (Arcade DDR platforms are incredibly complex beasts -- there's several independent pressure sensors per arrow and the whole thing's very heavily ruggedised to withstand an immense amount of punishment). Besides, at home it just makes a huge amount of noise.
Compare to arcades whereby one can play on decent quality equipment, nobody minds, and you even get to meet new people whilst doing so. Admittedly this isn't really true in the UK where I live, but you can see shades of this in the big London arcades. Of course there may be little we can do about it if it all does go the way of the dodo (indications are Konami are planning to axe the Japanese DDR series as well), but I wouldn't go so far as to say that arcades are doomed. There's something about arcades that you just don't get at home, even if you had the actual machine yourself.
Common situation before 2.4:
1) User loads proprietary module
2) Kernel goes unstable and crashes like hell
3) User responsibly decides to post OOPS and bug report to LKML
4) Kernel devs groan for the 1000th time and explain that they can't test a problem with an opaque driver
The problem is that a black box piece of code is 'tainting' the kernel. If something goes wrong with that code, you're SOL because you can't look inside the black box. Module licensing forces a closed driver to identify itself as such, and then notes that the kernel is tainted in the OOPS, so if you submit an oops like that then the kernel devs will (quite rightly) say "Don't expect us to fix a problem with a proprietary driver, bug the guy who wrote it".
It's mostly a bug tracking thing for the kernel developers in other words, it doesn't really change how the kernel behaves or what you are or aren't allowed to do with it.
Yeah tell me about it. Like, the US mass slaughters its own college students with tanks ALL THE TIME...
ah yes
c om
jeff@FUCKSPAM.hotmail.com
bNOoSPAMb@blah.SPAM.
etc etc.
Has it occured to anyone that if you start using CAPITAL LETTERS to distinguish noise from signal then that's reasonably easy to filter out?
Eeh, good on you for making the effort, but you probably do want some viagra anyway, you're just shy. The best obfuscation is to use a suitably noised up image but that presents problems of its own...
Because it's something I'm good at and I like to do. I'm studying for a Maths + CS degree at the moment, and this question has crossed my mind a few times, but at the end of the day you don't give up the thing that drives you just because no-one appreciates it right at the moment.
Outsourcing is a problem yes, but then I'm pretty sure that if nobody wants to do biochem in the US they'll build a research park in India and get a whole bunch of people from there to work on the problem and not have to pay them nearly as much (and in fact would probably do a better job than some crappy overseas code shop in the IT outsourcing case). Nothing's immune to outsourcing, sorry.
Maybe things will get better for us, maybe it won't. I have a hope it will because certainly networks and communications aren't going to factor less into our lives as time goes on, and someone's going to need to manage that infrastructure. A lot of that will be here and some guy in India can't just run down to the NOC and enter stuff into the console if it decides to melt down (I've got a rented RackShack server that's 2000 miles away and my face goes blue watching the ping screen every time I reboot after an upgrade and wait for the server to come back up).
And if not... well, worst case maybe I can use that Maths half of my degree to hunker down for a bit. But considering how greed only ever looks at the short term, I'm thinking the likeliest explanation is that karma will come to bitchslap these people sooner than one might think.
1) Chip/Fliplid your PS2
2) Buy a copy of Dance Dance Revolution Extreme JP for PS2
3) Buy a Cobalt Flux (rather expensive but worth it)
4) Profit.
DDR is great fun, exercise factor or not. Anyone who thinks this game is easy or for girls has prolly never seen someone playing some of the level 9 or 10 rated tracks. And believe me, ten minutes of treadmill at 10mph doesn't make me sweat half as much as 90 seconds of Max300 (On the highest difficulty setting, you've got to hit 555 steps in those 90 seconds. Work it out). The fact that this game is seriously bloody addictive despite all this is quite an achievement on Konami's part.
Unfortunately I'm in halls so a home setup isn't really practical, instead I blow a lot of money on the arcade version. But yes I think it makes a bit more sense than wrestling with some strange joysticks...
Cited elsewhere from some Comp Sci textbook:
"What you do in the bathroom is not a secret, but it is private."
Wise words. Originally used to define semantics for a security model I think, but it's just as good a response to the "only criminals have something to hide" bit.
Yeah. Was the first sensible thing I could think of. Thanks =)
OK why are we having another retread of this god damn FUD. Let's look at copyright law and GPL as a copyright license.
- The default for copyrighted work is that you may not distribute it.
- Copyright licenses can only give you more (conditional) rights. They can't take rights from YOU in exchange
- Therefore, if you aggregate GPL code with your software, it means one thing: You distribute that aggregate under the GPL or not at all. FULL STOP, that's it.
- If you don't like that, take the GPL code out. The choice IS YOURS. Nothing forces the non-GPL code to be opened. Maybe taking the GPL code out is a bother. Well, sorry. If you inadvertantly take some of my batteries and put them in your CD player, then you'll just have to take them back out again because I'm well within my rights to ask for my batteries back. But that doesn't give me any title to your CD player does it?
Can we please bury Microsoft's 'virus' crap now? If you want 'viral licensing' take a look at the MS OEM agreement sometime.
So... you got hired coming from Sun, but you wouldn't hire someone coming from Sun? Because you're obviously the only one who's better than the rest of them and not as arrogant?
I fail to see the consistency in this...
Wehn will people sentences with verbs in them?
;)
I'd be interested to know what you're smoking because that made NO sense whatsoever. Lay off the copy & paste for a sec and read what you're generating
Depends... are there any switches around clever enough to stop this sort of thing?
Hey whoever said I use IE ;)
Backspace key in Internet Explorer goes back a page, and promptly trashes the contents of whatever form you were filling out before you clicked in the wrong place.
Now WHOSE bright idea was that?
Well, actually it would have been, had the early internet authorities not handed out Class A's like candy.
Then again, there's what I like to call Segway Syndrome. The most incredibly revolutionary things always start out as some totally unhyped weird curiosity with apparently no mainstream value whatsoever. (Electricity, computers, internet... didn't Nic Tesla get fired for 'wasting time' building the first electric motor?)
Email was a wonderful thing until some cretins decided it was their god given right to fill the infrastructure so full of shit that it's becoming impossible to maintain and of much more limited use, all because they're so much more important that everyone else and want to hock their crap.
IRC was a wonderful thing until some other pack of cretins decided it was their god given right to deluge the infrastructure with shit, all because they're so much more important than everyone else and want to have their immature little pissing contests
And the web and the search engine concept was a wonderful thing until yet another pack of cretins decided it was their god given right to deluge THIS infrastructure with shit, because they believe that this great big network exists soley to promote their crap
So who gave them all the fucking right!? And why are these pieces of shit always the first to whine about how THEIR rights are being trodden on? I just wonder what sort of process makes these pricks honestly believe that such a beautiful and diverse resource is there for THEIR benefit and it's all fucking ME ME ME.
OK I can play ME ME ME too! I want to be able to browse the internet without your fucking product being shoved in my face!
I want to be able to communicate with my friends and colleagues over email without having hundreds upon hundreds of pieces of dreck advertising your disgusting crap shoved in my face!
I want to be able to use a realtime chat network without enduring splits and lags and security checks and masses of scans just because some braindead 12 year old moron got a bug up his ass about someone insulting him over this system!
Why is it that these days if you look at an IRC server or an SMTP server, 90% of the source is a ghastly and hugely tangled mess of code that's just there to keep the 0.001% of pricks who want to ruin it for everyone else out, and managing those systems turns from a straightforward and communal activity into an arcane battleground where everyone is an enemy? Just try scaling that up tenfold for Google and their golden egg laying goose that every selfish twat wants to work how THEY want it to work and fuck everyone else.
Argh... I would be honoured to shake the hands of the techs running Google, and good on them for actually fighting back against these fucks. And as for these cretins listed above, WHEN THE REVOLUTION COMES WE WILL MAKE SAUSAGES OUT OF YOUR FUCKING ENTRAILS (to borrow a nice little expression from someone by the alias of TRASG0)
A new interrupt controller dreamed up by Intel to enable multiprocessing. It seems to cause a disproportionate amount of problems under Linux (a dedicated server I run would crash something like every 4 hours before I enabled noapic)
Unless you've got more than one CPU, it's more trouble than it's worth. The old 'legacy' 8259 interrupt controller (or the interface your system chipset supplies that emulates it anyway) works just fine for single-CPU applications.