This won't make me popular either, but I think there's -some- truth to your statement. No, I wasn't a bully, hell, if I lived in a larger centre I'd probably have been bullied (moreso than the crap the "bullies" in my high school came up with). Super geek? This guy.
However: Sometimes tech people do go a little too far and REALLY need to just stop what they're doing, take a break, and try to interact with the real world. Lord of the Rings was a great movie, Sure, I went opening night and stood in line for an hour. That's great. But if someone accidentally called Gandalf "Gandar", I sure as hell wouldn't say to them "heh, that's Gandalf." and then make a comment involving not being able to tell an ent from an orc. No, I know a lot of geeks (again, mostly software "engineers") who just go way too far with the whole thing to the point where they can barely relate to anything non-geeky, and even with the geeky things they're often either straight up wrong or off on a completely irrelevant tangent.
Yeah, these people bother the piss out of me, and I'm still a geek (albeit I did learn a thing or two since then, like how to get out and do other things). But if it comes down to it, these people usually don't deserve being bullied. Sure they're asking for something; if anything, they either should just be ignored, or get some former geek to take them aside and explain a few things. They don't need to stop being geeks/nerds, they just need to know when to rein it in a bit.
But beating on somebody just because they're annoyinglgy geeky? Well, geeks aren't the only ones who need to chill.
I feel good about not having a real girlfriend all the time. All it takes is one run through the meat-grinder that is a whiny, lying, needy, depressive, self-centered, cheating wench. Now I have more time and money than I've had in a long time and none of the trying to please someone who doesn't deserve it. So I bought a new 19" NEC LCD, named it Nicole, and declared that it can now be my new girlfriend. Strangely enough (to answer ACs right up front), the sex got better.
But I guess if some people haven't had to deal with (in)significant-other hell, then maybe this is just what the doctor ordered. Then they can "dump" their virtual girlfriend and save a fat sack of cash. Might I suggest a nice new monitor and a DSL connection?
I have that problem, too. I'm starting to train my Mozilla Mail spam filter to think she's a spammer. Maybe if all goes well I can get her address blacklisted by SpamCop. That'll learn her to be a cheating wench!
Will they switch? Sure they will. People switch because they're lemmings. Look at MSN. I guarantee most of the people I know on MSN only got it because somebody else they knew was on it, who got it because somebody else was on it...
Plus it's Google. I like GMail, think the interface is good for what I do with it, and if they can extend that to messaging then they can start to turn the geek crowd who will then make somebody else do it and the lemming effect kicks in.
Personally, this may be enough for me to install something like it again. Right now I will NOT install MSN and will never install it because of a few personal dislikes. However, Google? That could and may be enough for many to make the move.... That and I find the text ads interesting and sometimes funny, but not invasive...
If somebody murders because they have inbalanced brain chemistry and an absurdly skewed worldview due to childhood abuse, it doesn't make it okay. However, it would be silly to say, "He chose to, it's his fault."
Exactly! It was the video games that made Timmy a killer.
I can assure you, it wasn't the attitude that led to the crazy chicks. It was the one crazy chick who led to the attitude. Although you are right in the one way; judging by the dude she was cheating on me with, she had no self-respect.
I'm sure your girlfriend is a very nice person, but the girl I dated who "liked geeks" ended up "replacing geeks" as often as Mozilla milestones. Unfortunately, she did this without first EOL'ing the previous version, or announcing that there was a new version.
Chicks may dig geeks, but they are also chicks, and thus not to be trusted. The Y chromosome may be smaller, but it does a very important task in nature: preventing Crazy
In the case of my ex-, they'd be less of operating instructions and more on the scale of "Users' Guide - Volumes I-X" with each volume being on the rough size scale of the entire Wheel of Time series.
A.1.13.4.I In event of X, do Y, unless conditions AA through FT are valid. In the case of conditons BA through BZ, do the exact opposite of Y, unless EA through EF, in which case Y still applies with sub-condition Z. If the wind is north-easterly, see sub-section A.4.4.12.IV.
A.1.13.4.I Ignore everything up to this point if you have eaten breakfast today.
Actually, I wouldn't have been surprised. When the comment was made "we built it" my first thought was "Yeah, well that probably explains the optics... Maybe we shouldn't have just ground up our empties to save some money."
Apparently, as good as Keiths is, the bottles just don't make good scientific-grade optics...
Okay, we've proven that we're good at building huge robotic arms. Canada == Huge arms in space. Now what about some legs, eh? Then, once we have the legs, if we put some funding into it we could put the two together and build some giant Canada-space-mechs. It's cool even without the "giant robot" factor.
I agree completely (maybe it's the going to another less-recognized-but-still-top Engineering school in Canada). Maybe I'm being picky, maybe I'm starting a flamewar, but unless you're licensed by a professionally accredited organization, I don't believe you have the right to call yourself an Engineer, just like somebody who took a two-year health-care course shouldn't have the right to claim to be a Doctor. The thing about being an engineer is not just that you have the background and skills to do your job, but that you are legally liable for your work and take that responsibility.
When the accreditation boards recognize Software "Engineers", I will too (I think UVic has the first accredited program?).
if the machine you want to install it on doesn't have access to the internet then why do you need the security changes of SP2?
Have you seen Hackers? If there's one thing I got from that movie it's:
Computers are all inherently hackable. Any system, no matter if it's unplugged in a closet with no connection to light, let alone another computer via any method whatsoever, can be broken into by a kid with an old Mac laptop and handset modem.
I was just thinking of the Simpsons episode(s?) with Leonard Nimoy as himself. He doesn't necessarily need to act like Spock to be famous for just being Leonard Nimoy.
I'm looking forward to this. Why? Well, Enterprise isn't that bad. In fact, I quite enjoy watching it. Just take everything for face value and sit back. It can be pretty good when you give it a chance.
Next, we have William Shatner; one of the people who is now simply famous for being/playing himself (Christopher Walken, Adam West, Leonard Nimoy, Ron Jeremy, etc.)
I can see nothing bad coming from this. It could be really good and well written. Or, it could be cheesy, and I think I'd like it more in that case. Either way, between that and Corner Gas, I'm going to be quite entertained this season....
I guess when your entire finance department is busy counting fat sacks of money some things get left by the wayside.
"Say, Harold, did you see those latest securities documents on our IPO?" "Yeah, Bill. I think they're under the pile of money by Karen's cubicle." "Is that the pile of $1000's from after 1995 or the pile of older $1000's?" "I think it was the older $1000's, but I might be wrong. Check the pile of $20's with dirty drawings on them, too." "That's the one on the north or west side of 'Fiver Mountain'?" "You know, Bill, I just don't remember..." "Ah, hell."
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This won't make me popular either, but I think there's -some- truth to your statement. No, I wasn't a bully, hell, if I lived in a larger centre I'd probably have been bullied (moreso than the crap the "bullies" in my high school came up with). Super geek? This guy.
However: Sometimes tech people do go a little too far and REALLY need to just stop what they're doing, take a break, and try to interact with the real world. Lord of the Rings was a great movie, Sure, I went opening night and stood in line for an hour. That's great. But if someone accidentally called Gandalf "Gandar", I sure as hell wouldn't say to them "heh, that's Gandalf." and then make a comment involving not being able to tell an ent from an orc. No, I know a lot of geeks (again, mostly software "engineers") who just go way too far with the whole thing to the point where they can barely relate to anything non-geeky, and even with the geeky things they're often either straight up wrong or off on a completely irrelevant tangent.
Yeah, these people bother the piss out of me, and I'm still a geek (albeit I did learn a thing or two since then, like how to get out and do other things). But if it comes down to it, these people usually don't deserve being bullied. Sure they're asking for something; if anything, they either should just be ignored, or get some former geek to take them aside and explain a few things. They don't need to stop being geeks/nerds, they just need to know when to rein it in a bit.
But beating on somebody just because they're annoyinglgy geeky? Well, geeks aren't the only ones who need to chill.
I believe the exact term will be "license on a per-user, per-session basis".
So, in fact, you'll get the joy of "buying" the white album over and over and over and over again.
For a second there I saw Running and Defcon in the same sentence and thought "Here's an idea that's doomed to success".
Then I read the description and realized the paramedics might not be so busy after all....
I feel good about not having a real girlfriend all the time. All it takes is one run through the meat-grinder that is a whiny, lying, needy, depressive, self-centered, cheating wench. Now I have more time and money than I've had in a long time and none of the trying to please someone who doesn't deserve it. So I bought a new 19" NEC LCD, named it Nicole, and declared that it can now be my new girlfriend. Strangely enough (to answer ACs right up front), the sex got better.
But I guess if some people haven't had to deal with (in)significant-other hell, then maybe this is just what the doctor ordered. Then they can "dump" their virtual girlfriend and save a fat sack of cash. Might I suggest a nice new monitor and a DSL connection?
...anyone in their right mind...
They're not part of the demographic.
I have that problem, too. I'm starting to train my Mozilla Mail spam filter to think she's a spammer. Maybe if all goes well I can get her address blacklisted by SpamCop. That'll learn her to be a cheating wench!
Will they switch? Sure they will. People switch because they're lemmings. Look at MSN. I guarantee most of the people I know on MSN only got it because somebody else they knew was on it, who got it because somebody else was on it...
... That and I find the text ads interesting and sometimes funny, but not invasive...
Plus it's Google. I like GMail, think the interface is good for what I do with it, and if they can extend that to messaging then they can start to turn the geek crowd who will then make somebody else do it and the lemming effect kicks in.
Personally, this may be enough for me to install something like it again. Right now I will NOT install MSN and will never install it because of a few personal dislikes. However, Google? That could and may be enough for many to make the move.
If somebody murders because they have inbalanced brain chemistry and an absurdly skewed worldview due to childhood abuse, it doesn't make it okay.
However, it would be silly to say, "He chose to, it's his fault."
Exactly! It was the video games that made Timmy a killer.
I can assure you, it wasn't the attitude that led to the crazy chicks. It was the one crazy chick who led to the attitude. Although you are right in the one way; judging by the dude she was cheating on me with, she had no self-respect.
And you probably have a boatload of money and time you wouldn't have otherwise, eh?
Damn nature making us think we should procreate.
I'm sure your girlfriend is a very nice person, but the girl I dated who "liked geeks" ended up "replacing geeks" as often as Mozilla milestones. Unfortunately, she did this without first EOL'ing the previous version, or announcing that there was a new version.
Chicks may dig geeks, but they are also chicks, and thus not to be trusted. The Y chromosome may be smaller, but it does a very important task in nature: preventing Crazy
People should come with operating instructions :)
In the case of my ex-, they'd be less of operating instructions and more on the scale of "Users' Guide - Volumes I-X" with each volume being on the rough size scale of the entire Wheel of Time series.
A.1.13.4.I
In event of X, do Y, unless conditions AA through FT are valid. In the case of conditons BA through BZ, do the exact opposite of Y, unless EA through EF, in which case Y still applies with sub-condition Z. If the wind is north-easterly, see sub-section A.4.4.12.IV.
A.1.13.4.I
Ignore everything up to this point if you have eaten breakfast today.
> Their jukebox software has never worked on the Mac.
I don't consider this "second class". I consider this "kind of them".
I'm down with convergence if they could get my game system to make juice.
Helpful or interesting. I've been in more than one gmail thread which degenerates into "what ads can we get gmail to give us this time?".
Apparently there is a nearby cosmetic gynecology clinic.
One other SNL classic (as far as I'm concerned)
Zoolander
It's dumb, it's pointless, but it's also really, really funny in a way.
Of course, I also really liked Cabin Fever for those same reasons.
You're right. They probably used the Molson bottles. Now that I think of it, Keiths bottles probably WOULD make good scientific optics.
Actually, I wouldn't have been surprised. When the comment was made "we built it" my first thought was "Yeah, well that probably explains the optics... Maybe we shouldn't have just ground up our empties to save some money."
Apparently, as good as Keiths is, the bottles just don't make good scientific-grade optics...
Okay, we've proven that we're good at building huge robotic arms. Canada == Huge arms in space. Now what about some legs, eh? Then, once we have the legs, if we put some funding into it we could put the two together and build some giant Canada-space-mechs. It's cool even without the "giant robot" factor.
1. Build huge space-mechs
2. ???
3. Profit!
It practically sells itself!
Damn, I wish I had mod points right now!
I agree completely (maybe it's the going to another less-recognized-but-still-top Engineering school in Canada). Maybe I'm being picky, maybe I'm starting a flamewar, but unless you're licensed by a professionally accredited organization, I don't believe you have the right to call yourself an Engineer, just like somebody who took a two-year health-care course shouldn't have the right to claim to be a Doctor. The thing about being an engineer is not just that you have the background and skills to do your job, but that you are legally liable for your work and take that responsibility.
When the accreditation boards recognize Software "Engineers", I will too (I think UVic has the first accredited program?).
if the machine you want to install it on doesn't have access to the internet then why do you need the security changes of SP2?
Have you seen Hackers? If there's one thing I got from that movie it's:
Computers are all inherently hackable. Any system, no matter if it's unplugged in a closet with no connection to light, let alone another computer via any method whatsoever, can be broken into by a kid with an old Mac laptop and handset modem.
I was just thinking of the Simpsons episode(s?) with Leonard Nimoy as himself. He doesn't necessarily need to act like Spock to be famous for just being Leonard Nimoy.
I'm looking forward to this. Why? Well, Enterprise isn't that bad. In fact, I quite enjoy watching it. Just take everything for face value and sit back. It can be pretty good when you give it a chance.
Next, we have William Shatner; one of the people who is now simply famous for being/playing himself (Christopher Walken, Adam West, Leonard Nimoy, Ron Jeremy, etc.)
I can see nothing bad coming from this. It could be really good and well written. Or, it could be cheesy, and I think I'd like it more in that case. Either way, between that and Corner Gas, I'm going to be quite entertained this season....
Interesting Note:
Faraday cages, while blocking EM waves, also do a damn find job of blocking Satan. Apparently the Prince of Darkness propogates just like radio.
The guy in the movie must have bought the New King James Maxwell Bible.
I guess when your entire finance department is busy counting fat sacks of money some things get left by the wayside.
"Say, Harold, did you see those latest securities documents on our IPO?"
"Yeah, Bill. I think they're under the pile of money by Karen's cubicle."
"Is that the pile of $1000's from after 1995 or the pile of older $1000's?"
"I think it was the older $1000's, but I might be wrong. Check the pile of $20's with dirty drawings on them, too."
"That's the one on the north or west side of 'Fiver Mountain'?"
"You know, Bill, I just don't remember..."
"Ah, hell."