does anyone have a definitive source on this? i just moved from research triangle park, where cary claims to have more phd's per square mile than anywhere else...
I think there's also the "subscribers" part that makes it questionable. Are "customers" "subscribers"? I know the article says "subscribers" but it also says "bought the retail game box bundled with one free month access"...
heh. you can cross-reference to the original "problem" here
rgrace@metnews.com(28) Dec-27-02 23:48:23 PST 1979992741 S
Complaint : Dec. 16 email from seller said item was shipped Dec. 14. Not mailed til Dec. 26.
Response by crackerpopp - must of had an unhappy xmas this year..
rgrace@metnews.com(28) Dec-27-02 23:39:51 PST 1981085605 S
Complaint : Representation: magazine "complete and in very good condition." Were 4 cut-outs.
Response by crackerpopp - must of had an unhappy xmas this year..
rgrace@metnews.com(28) Dec-27-02 23:33:12 PST 1981103731 S
Complaint : UNRELIABLE!!! Six items should have arrived before Xmas; not sent until Dec. 26.
Response by crackerpopp - must of had an unhappy xmas this year..
i really think everyone should calm down, take a few deeeeep breaths, and start using I-statements to tell each other how we feel about what happened here.
10 BUILD STUFF 20 WANT MORE STUFF 30 BUILD MORE STUFF 40 WANT STUFF YOU CANT HAVE 50 BUILD WEAPONS TO TAKE STUFF FROM WHO DOES HAVE 60 GAIN ENEMIES 70 BUILD BIGGER WEAPONS FOR DEFENSE 80 BUILD SUPER WEAPON 90 DESTROY SELVES 99 GOTO 10
> so after i read your algorithm tricks page, i was all excited about some > of them and recounted the binary variable swap w/o temp variable to the > people at dinner. something very weird happened though: out of the four > other people that i was with, EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THEM knew what i was > talking about and absolutely did not judge me for my geekiness. unlike > the other time in front of the club on monday where i got laughed at for > knowing/etc/aliases. it was surprising. none of them cared that i was a > girl or a computer geek and they all understood. so stunned. no blank > stares anywhere. and these were all friends that i had met through... > uhm... drugs.;)
one of the friends said re: this incident:
"i was reading about how to use XOR to store values without using variables to save mem...oh my god! *hides head in shame* i can't believe i'm talking about this over sushi"
"no... it's okay... you're with your own kind now."
i dunno. i'm female. i'm in IT. i'm a straight up geek girl. (and omg, i have a life)
i started my love for computers and math on my very own when i was less than 10 years old. the largest influences on that were my engineer father who helped me with math when i was young and the purchase of our first computer.
i knew it was what i wanted to do. i never questioned it. my relationship was with the computers and not with other people. especially since i was self-taught. i never felt that i was not 'allowed'. i never felt any different from any guy out there. computers were what i wanted to do and being around other women was not a big deal. oh, and the 'reputation' or whatever of being associated with computer geeks? so what. like i said, my relationship was with the computers.
maybe it's because in grade school, instead of people telling me "no, you can't hack it because you're a girl," i got "no, you can't hack it because you're too young." (i had already skipped a grade and was taking courses a year ahead of my classmates.) all my administration fights in highschool were because i maxed out my math&cs&science courses junior year. not because i am female.
frankly, it wasn't until reflection years later that i realized that i was the only girl in those courses. it wasn't until significantly after the fact that i realized (after being told) that i was the "only hot cs major in our class".
after college, i managed the internal network and had three direct reports. all guys. i worked closely with the network ops team. guess what? all guys. it was never an issue.
i don't notice. i don't care. my sex has never held me back. i knew what i was good at and i was going to do it. if someone is going to be an idiot and assume that i don't know anything because i'm female, well, too bad for them. as an aside, honestly, i've only been a victim of true sex-discrimination less than five times over the course of my life. ("no, listen *miss*, i need to speak to a *TECHNICIAN*") i just feel that when we stop thinking of ourselves as 'different' or deserving of more attention because we're female, we'll get the 'acceptance' that we're looking for. and as i've never felt any different from the guys i was taking these classes with or working with, i've always felt accepted.
who knows? maybe it really is just a lack-of-interest thing that keeps women out of IT/CS, but i see that more starting from a very young age and not necessarily majorly influenced by highschool/college teachers. though, this is only my personal experience. i don't see a lot of the discrimination that i hear other women complain about...
though you know, with all this sex talk about people taking off their clothes and all, i'm kinda concerned about computers being referred to as boxes... in a hot room....
i've got this great site that i use often. it has links to lots of other sites out there. sometimes, i type the name of a band in their little search field and go from there. it's kinda neat. it'll bring up all these pages that have something to say about the band or bands that i put in the query... and from there, i just click and click and click and voila! i learn about groovy new music. sometimes, i'll take the new group i found and put their name back into the search to find a sample of their music. it's pretty cool actually. maybe one of these days it'll catch on.
a few years back, lexaunculpt performed at a show in costa mesa, california: he was on stage with his laptop fiddling about as musicians are wont to do. he then queued up the song, walked off stage and into the audience, and stood there with his girlfriend watching 'himself'.
I was a big late-comer Buffy fan, but was completely ignorant of the Angel spin-off. I wasn't too fond of the Angel character on Buffy so I never got around to watching it. I've just started watching Angel and am now half-way through season 2. Goddamn, this is some good stuff.
because we drive *every*fuckingwhere in our *own* cars. especially in cities like los angeles. no one walks even a block or two. you get in your car, and you drive. that's the standard mentality.
*i* want *my* car, so *i* can go where *i* want, when *i* want, and not have to report to anyone. public transport is out ("ugh, not on my schedule" or "ugh, strangers"). carpooling is a hassle. and even though some major cities make it such that it's very inconvenient to drive in/out/around them, people still insist on driving their own car. by themselves.
then with suv's being the fashionable thing to do (avg 10-15mpg city), we consume, consume, *consume* gas in america.
about 5 years ago, it was ~US$1.00 for regular gas in cheaper parts of the country. in 2001, i saw regular gas going for about ~US$2.00 in san francisco. it "settled" in at US$1.40-$1.50 for parts of 2002 in the cheaper parts of the bay area.
when you, yourself, are driving 70-100 miles round trip on your commute to work, those dollars add up. especially if your fuel efficiency is so crappy. (100 mi @ 12 mpg @ $1.00/g = $8.33 vs @ $1.50/g = $12.50. and that would be *per day*. x20 days? that's a price increase of $83.40/month)
luckily, my 1995 nissan sentra averaged high 30s to 40 mpg. (max i've seen on that car was 45.7 mpg) if i were commuting 100 mi a day, my price increase would have been $2.50 vs $3.75 at a total of $25.00 increase per month. but not everyone drives a car that's as fuel efficient and not everyone drives 100 mi each day....
[note: i've lived in tiny, major, and "middle-sized" cities all across the country (and several places overseas) over the past 10 years. nowhere is as bad as los angeles in regard to 'driving MY car', but that attitude is still there all over the place in america. it's the chic thing to do. singapore made it so easy to take public transportation and made owning your own car so damn expensive that no one did it. i never once knew how much gas cost there. the american personal-car-centricism is definitely an odd thing.]
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when i was working for my dotcom, we had an instant messenger for which one of the programmers made an alice bot.
one day, when i was hit by some random "a/s/l?" freak, i piped alice through to him for amusement's sake. ohhh, the conversations alice had that day regarding whether or not she liked "chocklit" or if she would like to have it licked off her body were grand. the conversation went on for a good 15-20 minutes before the guy left. i don't think he had even the slightest clue who (or what) he was talking to!
happiness is: getting full digital coverage throughout the entirety of the desert east of los angeles through phoenix and el paso.
sadness is: getting 1 bar of cellular coverage in my house and neighborhood and 5 (max) bars of digital coverage less than 1 mile away on the main college street. (and that's it. how they made a digital coverage area about 1 sq mi completely baffles me).
cellular service in chapel hill/durham, nc SUCKS. there are lampposts here that will make my service drop. i betcha didn't know that they had that feature, didja?
being spoiled on digital-everywhere in california to move here to this "research triangle park" area and have such shitty service is pretty painful.
i miss having caller id. i miss my phone actually RINGING when i have an incoming call. i miss being notified that i have voicemail. i miss not having to dial a number six times before it will actually connect. i miss having the phone actually connect and *ring* when calling other people (instead of click.... click.... click... (5-10 seconds pass) click... You have reached the voice mailbox for...)
*sob* technology giveth and technology taketh away:'(
that the existence of the bombardier beetle has completely disproved evolution.
screw this "evolution" crap.
you all lie. there is no release. see, the page won't load and i can't get to it. obviousy it's all a farce. therefore, there is no release. evolution never began. so there. nyah.
Woo boy. I can't wait till management hears about this one. And here I thought all that last minute y2k preparation was bad... How many people are gonna be moving to the hills in anticipation of the all-out hell that will come when the swallows and wildebeests go nutty and try to take over the world.
Hmm... I wonder if the programmers from the 70s had enough foresight to incorporate some protection against poleshift and excessive radiation.... I can't wait till someone starts marketing tinfoil shell casemods and making bank. "No really! You really really need it! Save your data! Can withstand up to one boiled atmosphere!"
and here i was thinking that "compost bin" had to do with some kind of circuit board melting or some kludged together computer that someone had named their "compost bin"... filled with like... kruft or something.
Slashdot Mirror
does anyone have a definitive source on this? i just moved from research triangle park, where cary claims to have more phd's per square mile than anywhere else...
(alternatively, phd's per capita)
Bad evil people are on there, ready to molest and kidnap your kids!
It's 11pm. Do you know what channel your kids are in?
Love,
1995
It's coffee, isn't it!?
FINALLY! Proof that all movement comes from coffee!!!
I think there's also the "subscribers" part that makes it questionable. Are "customers" "subscribers"? I know the article says "subscribers" but it also says "bought the retail game box bundled with one free month access"...
woo!
i may just be dumb, but how does a U2 spyplane "trap" these nanodiamonds that are 3 nanometers across...?
heh. you can cross-reference to the original "problem" here
rgrace@metnews.com(28) Dec-27-02 23:48:23 PST 1979992741 S
Complaint : Dec. 16 email from seller said item was shipped Dec. 14. Not mailed til Dec. 26.
Response by crackerpopp - must of had an unhappy xmas this year..
rgrace@metnews.com(28) Dec-27-02 23:39:51 PST 1981085605 S
Complaint : Representation: magazine "complete and in very good condition." Were 4 cut-outs.
Response by crackerpopp - must of had an unhappy xmas this year..
rgrace@metnews.com(28) Dec-27-02 23:33:12 PST 1981103731 S
Complaint : UNRELIABLE!!! Six items should have arrived before Xmas; not sent until Dec. 26.
Response by crackerpopp - must of had an unhappy xmas this year..
i really think everyone should calm down, take a few deeeeep breaths, and start using I-statements to tell each other how we feel about what happened here.
REM WARCRAFT V2.3
10 BUILD STUFF
20 WANT MORE STUFF
30 BUILD MORE STUFF
40 WANT STUFF YOU CANT HAVE
50 BUILD WEAPONS TO TAKE STUFF FROM WHO DOES HAVE
60 GAIN ENEMIES
70 BUILD BIGGER WEAPONS FOR DEFENSE
80 BUILD SUPER WEAPON
90 DESTROY SELVES
99 GOTO 10
> so after i read your algorithm tricks page, i was all excited about some
> of them and recounted the binary variable swap w/o temp variable to the
> people at dinner. something very weird happened though: out of the four
> other people that i was with, EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THEM knew what i was
> talking about and absolutely did not judge me for my geekiness. unlike
> the other time in front of the club on monday where i got laughed at for
> knowing
> girl or a computer geek and they all understood. so stunned. no blank
> stares anywhere. and these were all friends that i had met through...
> uhm... drugs.
one of the friends said re: this incident:
"i was reading about how to use XOR to store values without using variables to save mem...oh my god! *hides head in shame* i can't believe i'm talking about this over sushi"
"no... it's okay... you're with your own kind now."
i dunno. i'm female. i'm in IT. i'm a straight up geek girl. (and omg, i have a life)
i started my love for computers and math on my very own when i was less than 10 years old. the largest influences on that were my engineer father who helped me with math when i was young and the purchase of our first computer.
i knew it was what i wanted to do. i never questioned it. my relationship was with the computers and not with other people. especially since i was self-taught. i never felt that i was not 'allowed'. i never felt any different from any guy out there. computers were what i wanted to do and being around other women was not a big deal. oh, and the 'reputation' or whatever of being associated with computer geeks? so what. like i said, my relationship was with the computers.
maybe it's because in grade school, instead of people telling me "no, you can't hack it because you're a girl," i got "no, you can't hack it because you're too young." (i had already skipped a grade and was taking courses a year ahead of my classmates.) all my administration fights in highschool were because i maxed out my math&cs&science courses junior year. not because i am female.
frankly, it wasn't until reflection years later that i realized that i was the only girl in those courses. it wasn't until significantly after the fact that i realized (after being told) that i was the "only hot cs major in our class".
after college, i managed the internal network and had three direct reports. all guys. i worked closely with the network ops team. guess what? all guys. it was never an issue.
i don't notice. i don't care. my sex has never held me back. i knew what i was good at and i was going to do it. if someone is going to be an idiot and assume that i don't know anything because i'm female, well, too bad for them. as an aside, honestly, i've only been a victim of true sex-discrimination less than five times over the course of my life. ("no, listen *miss*, i need to speak to a *TECHNICIAN*") i just feel that when we stop thinking of ourselves as 'different' or deserving of more attention because we're female, we'll get the 'acceptance' that we're looking for. and as i've never felt any different from the guys i was taking these classes with or working with, i've always felt accepted.
who knows? maybe it really is just a lack-of-interest thing that keeps women out of IT/CS, but i see that more starting from a very young age and not necessarily majorly influenced by highschool/college teachers. though, this is only my personal experience. i don't see a lot of the discrimination that i hear other women complain about...
oh come on. you know it's those *crackers* that are the malicious bunch. don't give the hackers a bad name, k?
=P
let's see.... ahh, yes: unzip;strip;touch;finger;mount;fsck;more;yes;fsck; fsck;fsck;umount;sleep;
i've got this great site that i use often. it has links to lots of other sites out there. sometimes, i type the name of a band in their little search field and go from there. it's kinda neat. it'll bring up all these pages that have something to say about the band or bands that i put in the query... and from there, i just click and click and click and voila! i learn about groovy new music. sometimes, i'll take the new group i found and put their name back into the search to find a sample of their music. it's pretty cool actually. maybe one of these days it'll catch on.
a few years back, lexaunculpt performed at a show in costa mesa, california: he was on stage with his laptop fiddling about as musicians are wont to do. he then queued up the song, walked off stage and into the audience, and stood there with his girlfriend watching 'himself'.
classic.
I was a big late-comer Buffy fan, but was completely ignorant of the Angel spin-off. I wasn't too fond of the Angel character on Buffy so I never got around to watching it. I've just started watching Angel and am now half-way through season 2. Goddamn, this is some good stuff.
Screw Buffy, Angel is da bomb.
Angel > Buffy > Firefly.
because we drive *every*fuckingwhere in our *own* cars. especially in cities like los angeles. no one walks even a block or two. you get in your car, and you drive. that's the standard mentality.
*i* want *my* car, so *i* can go where *i* want, when *i* want, and not have to report to anyone. public transport is out ("ugh, not on my schedule" or "ugh, strangers"). carpooling is a hassle. and even though some major cities make it such that it's very inconvenient to drive in/out/around them, people still insist on driving their own car. by themselves.
then with suv's being the fashionable thing to do (avg 10-15mpg city), we consume, consume, *consume* gas in america.
about 5 years ago, it was ~US$1.00 for regular gas in cheaper parts of the country. in 2001, i saw regular gas going for about ~US$2.00 in san francisco. it "settled" in at US$1.40-$1.50 for parts of 2002 in the cheaper parts of the bay area.
when you, yourself, are driving 70-100 miles round trip on your commute to work, those dollars add up. especially if your fuel efficiency is so crappy. (100 mi @ 12 mpg @ $1.00/g = $8.33 vs @ $1.50/g = $12.50. and that would be *per day*. x20 days? that's a price increase of $83.40/month)
luckily, my 1995 nissan sentra averaged high 30s to 40 mpg. (max i've seen on that car was 45.7 mpg) if i were commuting 100 mi a day, my price increase would have been $2.50 vs $3.75 at a total of $25.00 increase per month. but not everyone drives a car that's as fuel efficient and not everyone drives 100 mi each day....
[note: i've lived in tiny, major, and "middle-sized" cities all across the country (and several places overseas) over the past 10 years. nowhere is as bad as los angeles in regard to 'driving MY car', but that attitude is still there all over the place in america. it's the chic thing to do. singapore made it so easy to take public transportation and made owning your own car so damn expensive that no one did it. i never once knew how much gas cost there. the american personal-car-centricism is definitely an odd thing.]
I guess it's time for those production-line barcode tattoos to become commonplace, eh?
that was beautiful :)
thx
when i was working for my dotcom, we had an instant messenger for which one of the programmers made an alice bot.
:)
one day, when i was hit by some random "a/s/l?" freak, i piped alice through to him for amusement's sake. ohhh, the conversations alice had that day regarding whether or not she liked "chocklit" or if she would like to have it licked off her body were grand. the conversation went on for a good 15-20 minutes before the guy left. i don't think he had even the slightest clue who (or what) he was talking to!
good times good times
happiness is: getting full digital coverage throughout the entirety of the desert east of los angeles through phoenix and el paso.
:'(
sadness is: getting 1 bar of cellular coverage in my house and neighborhood and 5 (max) bars of digital coverage less than 1 mile away on the main college street. (and that's it. how they made a digital coverage area about 1 sq mi completely baffles me).
cellular service in chapel hill/durham, nc SUCKS. there are lampposts here that will make my service drop. i betcha didn't know that they had that feature, didja?
being spoiled on digital-everywhere in california to move here to this "research triangle park" area and have such shitty service is pretty painful.
i miss having caller id.
i miss my phone actually RINGING when i have an incoming call.
i miss being notified that i have voicemail.
i miss not having to dial a number six times before it will actually connect.
i miss having the phone actually connect and *ring* when calling other people (instead of click.... click.... click... (5-10 seconds pass) click... You have reached the voice mailbox for...)
*sob* technology giveth and technology taketh away
What do you want to bet that giving it a quick spray of clearcoat will render the disk substrate isolated from oxygen yet still useable?
;)
violation of the dmca, baby
that the existence of the bombardier beetle has completely disproved evolution.
screw this "evolution" crap.
you all lie. there is no release. see, the page won't load and i can't get to it. obviousy it's all a farce. therefore, there is no release. evolution never began. so there. nyah.
Woo boy. I can't wait till management hears about this one. And here I thought all that last minute y2k preparation was bad... How many people are gonna be moving to the hills in anticipation of the all-out hell that will come when the swallows and wildebeests go nutty and try to take over the world.
Hmm... I wonder if the programmers from the 70s had enough foresight to incorporate some protection against poleshift and excessive radiation.... I can't wait till someone starts marketing tinfoil shell casemods and making bank. "No really! You really really need it! Save your data! Can withstand up to one boiled atmosphere!"
and here i was thinking that "compost bin" had to do with some kind of circuit board melting or some kludged together computer that someone had named their "compost bin"... filled with like... kruft or something.
wtf.
wrong kind of nerd, thank you.
does my o'reilly wallpaper/covering count?