I wish their were more like you. Out of 5000 people at the university of technology I go to, all of maybe 500 are omen & most are married before ever coming here. That seems to mean about 2000 available geek guys & no or few women who for the most part go out with the other 2000 guys (the part that came here because they heard their was good money to be made in computers but are otherwise brainwashed derelicts that act as if they are in HS still). I guess I'll just have to move elsewhere to finally ever get a date...
It could be much worse, I'm at a university of technology in Ohio, not quite the bastion of non-technology northwestern PA was, but I'm constantly tempted to move west just because the complete lack of smart people period... it doesn't help when most of the few women here are married right out of HS....
where do you go to college? I work at my college & do what you say every single day, but I don't see any friends or even any recognition from them that I have some value...
I don't know maybe I should start letting them almost loose something so I look like more of a savior or big projects or something...
it's all in the 3dnow support, of which the TNT & TNT2 have none (well they have some with the TNT2, but weren't factored into his tests). The V3 has less 3dnow support than the V2 did even. I'm not sure if anyone has thought about enhancing performance in linux by using 3dnow or not, so their probably wouldn't be much difference in linux without that.
If either had a good 3dnow implementation a k6-2/k6-3 would be the equal to any intel chip gaming wise (well their would some AGP differences because the AGP difference from intel standard, but those aren't that large).
ever think of moving to say... Ohio? we have a definitive shortage of women into technology. For an example go to the peer to peer personals off of userfriendly & search on Ohio. You will get several guys, but no women (at least as of a couple weeks ago).
I won't comment on everything you said, but just the last bit. I was one of those picked on & put down everyday & didn't kill any (no matter how tempted I was). I've been out of high school for 3 years now & I'm in colelge.
Now for my short comment on the last paragraph. I actually have seen a couple of the 'jocks' from my HS & one is a college football star. Lets just say the others I saw weren't having any obvious problems either (especially that one with the 98' firebird & the blonde godess on his arm, but I degress). Now for the flip side, I still can't get a date because those college girls you mention wouldn't go to someone who wasn't up to their standards anymore than highschool, in some cases worse because they have a much wider choice. I still make crappy money working with people who don't knwo their ass from a computer, but 'look good' so they were hired to speak (& whatever I tell them cause they couldn't answer themselves in a million years).
On the good side I might have a chance to setup a network for law firm & head it up after it's finished using almost unlimited funds, but like everything else has been in my life it's a constant uphill struggle that has made me more than once wished I'd had a few breaks like those preppy gq types I work with.
this sounds awfully familiar to me. Even though I escaped high school (by graduating) 3 years ago I still have problems because of high school even now.
I was tempted more than once to hurt some of them, but I have self control & never did. Even in my worst days when I was suicidal.
I never had a date/relationship in high school because no one wanted to go out with 'a freak' by their standards & even now beause of that I have trouble getting dates because I have little experience with that. Thats not the only mark left from high school, but it's one that still bothers me to this day.
hmm I don't know about that... lets see back home who would have stopped them?...
Well the closest police were 15 minutes if you did 90 mph on roads designd for 30 mph (better hope they don't die getting there after someone calls). No teacher is going to lay down his life on the line for anyone. (I saw them beat the crap out of a teacher & putting him in the hospital for making some of them repeat a grade, they would not stand up t them) No old principle like we have would even put up with a verbal arguement. Looks that If theyed wanted they could have come in beat people to a bloody pulp & left. 20-25 people easy. They just never did that & I doubt it would have appeared on the news anyways...
I don't have the worst social skills, but I was in fact using that phrase almost word for word from someone who used to bother me all the time. His arguement was that if you could do well in school you were some sort of freak of nature & the sick thing is most of the other people from my high school would have argeed with him. If you had been their you would not have been popular any more than I was.
In some strange twist reminicent of one of the few epsisodes of the MTV show daria I have seen, people used to come to me with problems they didn't think about. Like 'why their relationship wasn't working' (which was a truly hard one to come up with good replies for as I was never actually in a relationship in high school, for the reasons above) & when someone died (as if I had some strange insight into that because people treated me as if I should be dead). SO in some strange way I guess I was popular, but not in most peoples conventional sense.
those wepaons listed aren't strange I wasn't raised in a large town here in the US so they never used guns either. I did see more than one 'beat down' by people with knives, baseball bats (spiked ones are nasty), & various other 'low tech' solutions to try to hurt/kill someone. It's just those types of crimes don't get the attention ones involving guns do.
What I mean by zero tolerence was that if I ever ever fought back when someone attacked me in HS I would have been kicked out of school for 3+ months & have to go in front of the school board at the end of that time to even be let back in. I didn't need to get kicked out of school & have to repeat a grade because some stupid kid wanted to try to mess me up. As is one time a crazy kid attacked me in a hall & hit me well over a hundred times before he ran off. Luckily for me I guess I'm hard to hurt as in all that he couldn't leave even a bruise except for a lucky hit that broke my nose. & in that case I was kicked out of school until it was proved I hadn't fought back. At the time I was preparing to go to college & needed to have some grades for that so even 2 weeks of being out of school hurt my chances somewhat.
As for the other parts of what you said. I was bigger than most of the people who picked on me (I'm not a small guy) & in fact I studied martial arts under my uncle (who for references was a marine special forces hand to hand instructor) so if I had really had to I could have taken 6 crazy kids at once if I'd had to & it woudn't have hurt my future.
first let me say that with good parenting a 6 year old can tell the difference between fantasy & reality. That or I was just a bit ahead of everyone else & I've pretty much always been able to tell the difference. I don't see any reason to hold other people to the same level I was at at 6 years of age (& I'm serious about the six year old thing, I never had strange ideas about being able to survive the boulder falling on me like on that coyote in the cartoon). Then again I never thought I was immortal during my teenage years either... maybe I've always just been a realist or something...
secondly, Getting picked on & not being able to defend myself (school zero tolerence policy), has had alot more to do with my violent tendancies & in fact being able to safely take out my agressive tendancies in a game have probably helped me not hurt someone.
I agree this is mostly media crap, but the 'achievement culture' part is a little off... it's only if you play sports... I've never seen a smart kid in high school who was not continually being picked on for being smart. I may be biased as I used to be picked on for being smart myself, but this is what I've seen.
I guess that my favorite radio station should ahve been bought out long ago then, since they refuse to play the top whatever % of music. So I guess they've just lucked out, huh?
I want to know where these women are... I seem to scare of most women I meet for getting 'over their heads', but maybe I just live in the wrong area or something.
while I haven't a DVD drive very long I've yet to see an artifact... I see what appear to be skips because I have no hardware decoding, but everything has been crystal clear (nice to see those itty bitty cars at the bottom of some of those early on scenes). just my $.02...
you'd think with M$ programmers being in the US they alone would have accounted for a huge chunk of that with several million lines of code in each version of windows alone...
not to mention my college, which requires ~10,000 lines of code a year from students (mostly because of the year of COBOL). I guess we are just above then... I wonder if they will try to commercialize that somehow...
I'm sick of hearing complaints like yours to. Maybe I'm special or something. but I work in a place that we only use windows95 & besides a few driver conflicts (& issues caused by our novell netware server) there has never been an issue that has even slowed us down. & at home I've used windows95 & 98 without one problem even with all my hardware changes. 98 even runs 24/7 without crashing for weeks (except I hardly ever let it run that long as theirs always something I download that needs a restart after install, but I've had it up straight for 2 months once when I was back home without any problems).
I do use linux to, but I don't think one install is harder than the other. Or even one harder to use than the other (though I do like M$ explorer better than any linux tool for the same purpose). I'm not a microsoft fan, I just feel their is a place in the world for any OS. I've defended linux to the point of arguing with my bosses that having a linux server run as a backup file server would be a good idea, but they are strong netware supporters & doubt the ability of any other OS.
ok rant over... everything can go back to it's normal chaos.
it is inuslting if they already have, it's like saying something to someone over again even though they understood it the first time. In this case he never actually said if he read their instructions or not, so don't just assume.
My roomate would be running linux almost exclusively except he has yet to be able to get either networking or an internet connection to work & he has read everything on both topics he could find they just don't seem to work no matter what he does. He isn't stupid & he read the instructions given, but their is something going on that just invalidates what the instructions say & we can't weed it out.
maybe it's just me, but people still use things like 19" TV's. Ive never particularly cared for TV (unless I'm bored), so anything bigger than 19" is kinda unnecassary. But DVD looks pretty nice on my 17" monitor, so when I get tempted to watch something I'd do it on my computer.
AMD had a price advantage till intel got smart & put actual cache in their celery (celeron). The celery though can just keep loosing money though & intel will hardly ever care as long as they crush AMD.
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wow I remember those days... strangely enough those days were not that long ago... My high school had apple IIe's till 5 years ago... hmm ok maybe some people think 5 years is a long time...
I guess I'm just at the wrong type of college (a tech college), their aren't any keg parties/binge drinking/protesting (except for protesting intel & microsoft products)/pizza for breakfast. I guess I'm missing a core part of the whole college experience myself...
my parents wouldn't take no for an answer as far as college was concerned & I needed someway to get out of tech no-mansland where I lived.
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I wish their were more like you. Out of 5000 people at the university of technology I go to, all of maybe 500 are omen & most are married before ever coming here. That seems to mean about 2000 available geek guys & no or few women who for the most part go out with the other 2000 guys (the part that came here because they heard their was good money to be made in computers but are otherwise brainwashed derelicts that act as if they are in HS still). I guess I'll just have to move elsewhere to finally ever get a date...
It could be much worse, I'm at a university of technology in Ohio, not quite the bastion of non-technology northwestern PA was, but I'm constantly tempted to move west just because the complete lack of smart people period... it doesn't help when most of the few women here are married right out of HS....
I'm just forced to comment on that last line...
where do you go to college? I work at my college & do what you say every single day, but I don't see any friends or even any recognition from them that I have some value...
I don't know maybe I should start letting them almost loose something so I look like more of a savior or big projects or something...
it's all in the 3dnow support, of which the TNT & TNT2 have none (well they have some with the TNT2, but weren't factored into his tests). The V3 has less 3dnow support than the V2 did even. I'm not sure if anyone has thought about enhancing performance in linux by using 3dnow or not, so their probably wouldn't be much difference in linux without that.
If either had a good 3dnow implementation a k6-2/k6-3 would be the equal to any intel chip gaming wise (well their would some AGP differences because the AGP difference from intel standard, but those aren't that large).
ever think of moving to say... Ohio? we have a definitive shortage of women into technology. For an example go to the peer to peer personals off of userfriendly & search on Ohio. You will get several guys, but no women (at least as of a couple weeks ago).
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Any women want to move to this state? please?
I won't comment on everything you said, but just the last bit. I was one of those picked on & put down everyday & didn't kill any (no matter how tempted I was). I've been out of high school for 3 years now & I'm in colelge.
Now for my short comment on the last paragraph. I actually have seen a couple of the 'jocks' from my HS & one is a college football star. Lets just say the others I saw weren't having any obvious problems either (especially that one with the 98' firebird & the blonde godess on his arm, but I degress). Now for the flip side, I still can't get a date because those college girls you mention wouldn't go to someone who wasn't up to their standards anymore than highschool, in some cases worse because they have a much wider choice. I still make crappy money working with people who don't knwo their ass from a computer, but 'look good' so they were hired to speak (& whatever I tell them cause they couldn't answer themselves in a million years).
On the good side I might have a chance to setup a network for law firm & head it up after it's finished using almost unlimited funds, but like everything else has been in my life it's a constant uphill struggle that has made me more than once wished I'd had a few breaks like those preppy gq types I work with.
but enough ranting, I'll shut up now...
this sounds awfully familiar to me. Even though I escaped high school (by graduating) 3 years ago I still have problems because of high school even now.
I was tempted more than once to hurt some of them, but I have self control & never did. Even in my worst days when I was suicidal.
I never had a date/relationship in high school because no one wanted to go out with 'a freak' by their standards & even now beause of that I have trouble getting dates because I have little experience with that. Thats not the only mark left from high school, but it's one that still bothers me to this day.
it is a shame such things happen, but they do...
hmm I don't know about that... lets see back home who would have stopped them?...
Well the closest police were 15 minutes if you did 90 mph on roads designd for 30 mph (better hope they don't die getting there after someone calls).
No teacher is going to lay down his life on the line for anyone. (I saw them beat the crap out of a teacher & putting him in the hospital for making some of them repeat a grade, they would not stand up t them)
No old principle like we have would even put up with a verbal arguement.
Looks that If theyed wanted they could have come in beat people to a bloody pulp & left. 20-25 people easy. They just never did that & I doubt it would have appeared on the news anyways...
I don't know for sure, but I'm 21 & feel the same way...
I don't have the worst social skills, but I was in fact using that phrase almost word for word from someone who used to bother me all the time. His arguement was that if you could do well in school you were some sort of freak of nature & the sick thing is most of the other people from my high school would have argeed with him. If you had been their you would not have been popular any more than I was.
In some strange twist reminicent of one of the few epsisodes of the MTV show daria I have seen, people used to come to me with problems they didn't think about. Like 'why their relationship wasn't working' (which was a truly hard one to come up with good replies for as I was never actually in a relationship in high school, for the reasons above) & when someone died (as if I had some strange insight into that because people treated me as if I should be dead). SO in some strange way I guess I was popular, but not in most peoples conventional sense.
those wepaons listed aren't strange I wasn't raised in a large town here in the US so they never used guns either. I did see more than one 'beat down' by people with knives, baseball bats (spiked ones are nasty), & various other 'low tech' solutions to try to hurt/kill someone. It's just those types of crimes don't get the attention ones involving guns do.
What I mean by zero tolerence was that if I ever ever fought back when someone attacked me in HS I would have been kicked out of school for 3+ months & have to go in front of the school board at the end of that time to even be let back in. I didn't need to get kicked out of school & have to repeat a grade because some stupid kid wanted to try to mess me up. As is one time a crazy kid attacked me in a hall & hit me well over a hundred times before he ran off. Luckily for me I guess I'm hard to hurt as in all that he couldn't leave even a bruise except for a lucky hit that broke my nose. & in that case I was kicked out of school until it was proved I hadn't fought back. At the time I was preparing to go to college & needed to have some grades for that so even 2 weeks of being out of school hurt my chances somewhat.
As for the other parts of what you said. I was bigger than most of the people who picked on me (I'm not a small guy) & in fact I studied martial arts under my uncle (who for references was a marine special forces hand to hand instructor) so if I had really had to I could have taken 6 crazy kids at once if I'd had to & it woudn't have hurt my future.
first let me say that with good parenting a 6 year old can tell the difference between fantasy & reality. That or I was just a bit ahead of everyone else & I've pretty much always been able to tell the difference. I don't see any reason to hold other people to the same level I was at at 6 years of age (& I'm serious about the six year old thing, I never had strange ideas about being able to survive the boulder falling on me like on that coyote in the cartoon). Then again I never thought I was immortal during my teenage years either... maybe I've always just been a realist or something...
secondly, Getting picked on & not being able to defend myself (school zero tolerence policy), has had alot more to do with my violent tendancies & in fact being able to safely take out my agressive tendancies in a game have probably helped me not hurt someone.
I agree this is mostly media crap, but the 'achievement culture' part is a little off... it's only if you play sports... I've never seen a smart kid in high school who was not continually being picked on for being smart. I may be biased as I used to be picked on for being smart myself, but this is what I've seen.
ok lets just start listing what sort of performance we all got with what hardware when playing the movie...
here I'll start:
work PC with a P2 350 & a rage pro card & not a bit of slow down with qt4...
anyone else?
I guess that my favorite radio station should ahve been bought out long ago then, since they refuse to play the top whatever % of music. So I guess they've just lucked out, huh?
I want to know where these women are... I seem to scare of most women I meet for getting 'over their heads', but maybe I just live in the wrong area or something.
while I haven't a DVD drive very long I've yet to see an artifact... I see what appear to be skips because I have no hardware decoding, but everything has been crystal clear (nice to see those itty bitty cars at the bottom of some of those early on scenes). just my $.02...
you'd think with M$ programmers being in the US they alone would have accounted for a huge chunk of that with several million lines of code in each version of windows alone...
not to mention my college, which requires ~10,000 lines of code a year from students (mostly because of the year of COBOL). I guess we are just above then... I wonder if they will try to commercialize that somehow...
I'm sick of hearing complaints like yours to. Maybe I'm special or something. but I work in a place that we only use windows95 & besides a few driver conflicts (& issues caused by our novell netware server) there has never been an issue that has even slowed us down. & at home I've used windows95 & 98 without one problem even with all my hardware changes. 98 even runs 24/7 without crashing for weeks (except I hardly ever let it run that long as theirs always something I download that needs a restart after install, but I've had it up straight for 2 months once when I was back home without any problems).
I do use linux to, but I don't think one install is harder than the other. Or even one harder to use than the other (though I do like M$ explorer better than any linux tool for the same purpose). I'm not a microsoft fan, I just feel their is a place in the world for any OS. I've defended linux to the point of arguing with my bosses that having a linux server run as a backup file server would be a good idea, but they are strong netware supporters & doubt the ability of any other OS.
ok rant over... everything can go back to it's normal chaos.
it is inuslting if they already have, it's like saying something to someone over again even though they understood it the first time. In this case he never actually said if he read their instructions or not, so don't just assume.
My roomate would be running linux almost exclusively except he has yet to be able to get either networking or an internet connection to work & he has read everything on both topics he could find they just don't seem to work no matter what he does. He isn't stupid & he read the instructions given, but their is something going on that just invalidates what the instructions say & we can't weed it out.
maybe it's just me, but people still use things like 19" TV's. Ive never particularly cared for TV (unless I'm bored), so anything bigger than 19" is kinda unnecassary. But DVD looks pretty nice on my 17" monitor, so when I get tempted to watch something I'd do it on my computer.
AMD had a price advantage till intel got smart & put actual cache in their celery (celeron). The celery though can just keep loosing money though & intel will hardly ever care as long as they crush AMD.
wow I remember those days... strangely enough those days were not that long ago... My high school had apple IIe's till 5 years ago... hmm ok maybe some people think 5 years is a long time...
I guess I'm just at the wrong type of college (a tech college), their aren't any keg parties/binge drinking/protesting (except for protesting intel & microsoft products)/pizza for breakfast. I guess I'm missing a core part of the whole college experience myself...
my parents wouldn't take no for an answer as far as college was concerned & I needed someway to get out of tech no-mansland where I lived.