Introverts are not sexy, they are horrible to be around due to their intorversion.
You sir, are a dumbass. You can't have a whole world of chattering extroverts - nobody could get a word in edgewise. Not to mention advancing science and inventing things and generally figuring shit out.
Introversion isn't a flaw, nor are introverts "horrible" to be around. Such gross generalizations just reveal your own stupidity (as do your poor writing skills). There's a concept called 'balance' that I'd like you to go check out. Yes I know, reading sucks, but sometimes it's worth it.
I want to share with you a very deep concern I have about Mr. Anonymous Coward. One of the first facts we should face is that Anonymous is thoroughly gung-ho about propagandism because he lacks more pressing soapbox issues. When I say that his doctrines stink to high heaven, I consider this to mean that one of the great mysteries of modern life is, Why can't he simply enjoy the fruits of his own labors and let other people enjoy the fruits of theirs? In other words, what is this brazen fascination he has with alarmism? The only clear answer to emerge from the conflicting, contradictory stances that he and his hatchet men take is that I wish temperamental blockheads had the gumption not to produce nothing but filth. It is not possible fully to understand the present except as a projection of the past. Interestingly, Anoymous doesn't seem to care about that. I would like to go on, but I do have to keep this letter short. So I'll wrap it up by saying that Mr. Anonymous Coward would have you believe that sick gits are inherently good, sensitive, creative, and inoffensive.
true, IIRC, every single member of Congress voted for the Patriot Act except one weirdo, Russ Feingold (D - Wisconsin).
I guarantee you not one single member of Congress read the hundreds of pages of fine print in the PA before voting for it. It was just railroaded through amid the post-911 hysteria. I guess our elected members of Congress, by and large, have no courage.
so a "random" number could be...actually random right, as opposed to the now deterministically computed pseudo random numbers....how could this NOT be useful!? The AI ramifications alone are fascinating to imagine...
one of the best drummers ever, too. Although I can't listen to them too much these days - Rush was a big high school loner geek thing for me. Rush sucks now anyway - last good albumn was Roll The Bones in like '92.
yeah i have the Unplugged model...purportedly a laptop backpack but...the bottom has no protective padding nor does the top....no way would i tote a lappie in it except in a pinch i guess. However it's a great campus bookbag...very spacious and the straps are good. The bottom is just a thin fabric 'ripstop' they called it - i was dubious but it's holding up well. Eastpaks are tougher than Jansports....i went through a Jansport per year in H.S.
I hereby propose a brand NEW fancy sounding acronym - GEHHUH - what does it mean? I don't know but any aspiring IT guy should know it AND get certified. He should also know BLEH/SAYWHAT/BLIZM (regardless what proc)....
Commenting code should also be kept to an absolute minimum.
if the net were such a "liberating", "informing" Force, then milions of people with presumably normal mental capacity wouldn't have been duped into thinking that a dollar for a song off I-Tunes is an acceptable deal. Yee-haw!
"cancelling" a sound is just a matter of interfering destructively with the sound waves that comprise it. When this happens, the amplitude (the loudness) of the resulting waves is reduced - even if the speaker waves aren't *exact opposites of the snore waves. The speaker is emitting soundwaves at *many frequencies/phases, and some of those waves are at such a frequency/phase as to interfere with the snore waves emitted by the roommate. It is not necessary for the speaker waves to be exact copies for some interference/cancellation to occur. Your number analogy only confuses things: is that number a frequency or a loudness?? You use it as a frequency by saying that 3 + -3 = cancellation. But then you also claim that "3" is less noticeable than "400" - which isn't logical if these are frequencies. This music was very low volume, in any case. And if I am wrong, and no cancellation is occurring, then how would you explain the increase in noise level if the speaker wasn't pointed at the snore source (an abrupt, noticeable increase) ?
But actually, that's what this article is about: sound waves cancelling other sound waves. Is the concept of a music speaker doing this hard for you to fathom? By pointing my speaker in the right direction (at his head, roughly), the low frequency waves it emitted were able to cancel (not mask, not drown out) his snoring to such an extent they were hardly audible at all. When said speaker was not pointed in the right direction, the snores immediately became fully audible again despite the low music.
I used to do this with my infinity RS-325 speakers (well just one of 'em actually) to cancel out my roommates annoying fscking snores. They were on the floor next to my bed and I just pointed them at his bed, heh. Course you had to be able to put up with very low music playing while trying to sleep, but...low bassy stuff worked bestIIRC.
a) reading code that wasn't meant to be cute, but was meant to work where nothing else was as practical,
b) reading code that was written by someone that didn't know perl, or are
c) reading code written by someone that knows perl a LOT better than you. br>Um, dude, you do realize that in the real world this is the situation 90% of the time? Code is generally used for a practical purpose, as far as I know.
Juvenile Court to Try Shooting Defendant So like is there a certain lines per minute threshold at which one can enjoy Perl?
Gore got a 1355, Bush got a 1206. Actually i'm surprised Bush did that well. And btw, Tyro, grades don't indicate how much one has learned. One thing i've come to realize in school is that the desire to actually learn hurts you more than helps you. Teachers like you to stick with their crappy pdf note files, and just know the uninsightful factoids they tell you. Actually grasping concepts seems of little importance to shitty college progs, which most are. http://www.insidepolitics.org/heard/heard32300.htm l
I guess I must concede that Bush may be more of an asshole than he is a dumbass, but it is still close.
"If those scientists wanna fight, they found it. Bring 'em on! My crack team of scientists from Exxon and Haliburton continue to stand by our "Kinder, Gentler Fossil Fuels" programs, as well as our faith-based intitiative to persuade evil-doers to give up their WMD. We refuse to accept any other scientific theory that reeks of politics or isn't one hundred percent proven - now if you'll excuse me I've got some phone taps to listen in on - people are freaky!" - George W Bush
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I had a Savitch book (Problem Sovling with C++)for my intro C++ class and it totally SUCKS. The book could have been 1/3 of the length that it is: it routinely repeats everything twice just to fill out the pages. The writing style is boring, humorless, and lacks insight. This book could be appropriate, I suppose, for a very young and completely inexperienced CS person, but then, that person wouldn't have the attention span to read it anyway. If you have to buy this book for class, save your money. Buy something better or just use the 'net - jsut get the chapter titles and head for Google is what i'd do. I sold it back as quickly as I possibly could after the semester, and I keep any CS book that has even a *little value.
Never underestimate the education industry, a lot of the people at most schools are clueless, and it takes a young person to 'mold'to the inbred political culture
Perhaps you should spend a little more time working on your writing skills, and less time making empty boasts on Slashdot.
my God but you are an arrogant, self-righteous, hypocritical little prick. The guy's original comment was perfectly valid and you presume to take it and figure out his life view? Logical inconsistency?? That's the funniest shit I've heard in a while. I have a feeling rational argument with you isn't even possible, and I'd end up just kicking your dumb ass. Oh and your.sig is lame too. cheers,
virtually, i'd agree with you, but my answer may or may not theoretically exist in a discete fashion. In addition it may not even be defined by the formal defintion of the real world. My virtual agreeance would be constrained by physics, at least in a virtual sense. To sum up virtually, it is virtually clear to me that virtual simulations such as this are not actually useful, but they are virtually so.
pray tell, how does one SPEND money with tax cuts!? I thought that money was ours to begin with? A Republican might say that shows your liberal arrogance: assuming tax money was yours to begin with. Fortunately my IQ is over 100 and i'm not a Republican. But dude, think before you run your mouth next time.
99 cents a song is good? Seems to me that you multiply one dollar x 15 songs, you get 15 bucks a CD. Except for one thing, you don't get a CD. If I had an Apple I wouldn't waste one dime (errr, 10 dimes), on iTunes. Course the people who have 'em obviously have disposable income:p
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You sir, are a dumbass. You can't have a whole world of chattering extroverts - nobody could get a word in edgewise. Not to mention advancing science and inventing things and generally figuring shit out.
Introversion isn't a flaw, nor are introverts "horrible" to be around. Such gross generalizations just reveal your own stupidity (as do your poor writing skills). There's a concept called 'balance' that I'd like you to go check out. Yes I know, reading sucks, but sometimes it's worth it.
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true, IIRC, every single member of Congress voted for the Patriot Act except one weirdo, Russ Feingold (D - Wisconsin).
I guarantee you not one single member of Congress read the hundreds of pages of fine print in the PA before voting for it. It was just railroaded through amid the post-911 hysteria. I guess our elected members of Congress, by and large, have no courage.
Spinning, whirling,
Still descending
Like a spiral sea,
Unending
Sound and fury
Drowns my heart
Every nerve
Is torn apart....
so a "random" number could be ...actually random right, as opposed to the now deterministically computed pseudo random numbers....how could this NOT be useful!? The AI ramifications alone are fascinating to imagine...
one of the best drummers ever, too. Although I can't listen to them too much these days - Rush was a big high school loner geek thing for me. Rush sucks now anyway - last good albumn was Roll The Bones in like '92.
~mantis
yeah i have the Unplugged model...purportedly a laptop backpack but...the bottom has no protective padding nor does the top....no way would i tote a lappie in it except in a pinch i guess. However it's a great campus bookbag...very spacious and the straps are good. The bottom is just a thin fabric 'ripstop' they called it - i was dubious but it's holding up well. Eastpaks are tougher than Jansports....i went through a Jansport per year in H.S.
any self-respecting geekoid should read:
:)
1)DUNE series by Robert Herbert.
2)Neuromancer trilogy by William Gibson
best two sci-fi series EVER
stephen king's dark tower series is a good read too.
I hereby propose a brand NEW fancy sounding acronym - GEHHUH - what does it mean? I don't know but any aspiring IT guy should know it AND get certified.
He should also know BLEH/SAYWHAT/BLIZM (regardless what proc)....
Commenting code should also be kept to an absolute minimum.
~mantis
i'd like one.
if the net were such a "liberating", "informing" Force, then milions of people with presumably normal mental capacity wouldn't have been duped into thinking that a dollar for a song off I-Tunes is an acceptable deal. Yee-haw!
"cancelling" a sound is just a matter of interfering destructively with the sound waves that comprise it. When this happens, the amplitude (the loudness) of the resulting waves is reduced - even if the speaker waves aren't *exact opposites of the snore waves. The speaker is emitting soundwaves at *many frequencies/phases, and some of those waves are at such a frequency/phase as to interfere with the snore waves emitted by the roommate. It is not necessary for the speaker waves to be exact copies for some interference/cancellation to occur. Your number analogy only confuses things: is that number a frequency or a loudness?? You use it as a frequency by saying that 3 + -3 = cancellation. But then you also claim that "3" is less noticeable than "400" - which isn't logical if these are frequencies. This music was very low volume, in any case. And if I am wrong, and no cancellation is occurring, then how would you explain the increase in noise level if the speaker wasn't pointed at the snore source (an abrupt, noticeable increase) ?
Music can't cancel snoring......in other words:
Sound can't cancel sound?
But actually, that's what this article is about: sound waves cancelling other sound waves. Is the concept of a music speaker doing this hard for you to fathom? By pointing my speaker in the right direction (at his head, roughly), the low frequency waves it emitted were able to cancel (not mask, not drown out) his snoring to such an extent they were hardly audible at all. When said speaker was not pointed in the right direction, the snores immediately became fully audible again despite the low music.
that's what it was doing...hence my use of the word "cancel", not "drown out".
~mantis
I used to do this with my infinity RS-325 speakers (well just one of 'em actually) to cancel out my roommates annoying fscking snores. They were on the floor next to my bed and I just pointed them at his bed, heh. Course you had to be able to put up with very low music playing while trying to sleep, but...low bassy stuff worked bestIIRC.
~mantis
a) reading code that wasn't meant to be cute, but was meant to work where nothing else was as practical, b) reading code that was written by someone that didn't know perl, or are c) reading code written by someone that knows perl a LOT better than you.
br>Um, dude, you do realize that in the real world this is the situation 90% of the time? Code is generally used for a practical purpose, as far as I know.
Juvenile Court to Try Shooting Defendant
So like is there a certain lines per minute threshold at which one can enjoy Perl?
Gore got a 1355, Bush got a 1206. Actually i'm surprised Bush did that well. And btw, Tyro, grades don't indicate how much one has learned. One thing i've come to realize in school is that the desire to actually learn hurts you more than helps you. Teachers like you to stick with their crappy pdf note files, and just know the uninsightful factoids they tell you. Actually grasping concepts seems of little importance to shitty college progs, which most are. http://www.insidepolitics.org/heard/heard32300.htm l
I guess I must concede that Bush may be more of an asshole than he is a dumbass, but it is still close.
~mantis
"If those scientists wanna fight, they found it. Bring 'em on! My crack team of scientists from Exxon and Haliburton continue to stand by our "Kinder, Gentler Fossil Fuels" programs, as well as our faith-based intitiative to persuade evil-doers to give up their WMD. We refuse to accept any other scientific theory that reeks of politics or isn't one hundred percent proven - now if you'll excuse me I've got some phone taps to listen in on - people are freaky!" - George W Bush
I had a Savitch book (Problem Sovling with C++)for my intro C++ class and it totally SUCKS. The book could have been 1/3 of the length that it is: it routinely repeats everything twice just to fill out the pages. The writing style is boring, humorless, and lacks insight. This book could be appropriate, I suppose, for a very young and completely inexperienced CS person, but then, that person wouldn't have the attention span to read it anyway. If you have to buy this book for class, save your money. Buy something better or just use the 'net - jsut get the chapter titles and head for Google is what i'd do. I sold it back as quickly as I possibly could after the semester, and I keep any CS book that has even a *little value.
~mantis
well aren't you just God's gift to the world!
Never underestimate the education industry, a lot of the people at most schools are clueless, and it takes a young person to 'mold'to the inbred political culture
Perhaps you should spend a little more time working on your writing skills, and less time making empty boasts on Slashdot.
my God but you are an arrogant, self-righteous, hypocritical little prick. The guy's original comment was perfectly valid and you presume to take it and figure out his life view? Logical inconsistency?? That's the funniest shit I've heard in a while. I have a feeling rational argument with you isn't even possible, and I'd end up just kicking your dumb ass. Oh and your .sig is lame too. cheers,
~mantis
virtually, i'd agree with you, but my answer may or may not theoretically exist in a discete fashion. In addition it may not even be defined by the formal defintion of the real world. My virtual agreeance would be constrained by physics, at least in a virtual sense. To sum up virtually, it is virtually clear to me that virtual simulations such as this are not actually useful, but they are virtually so.
pray tell, how does one SPEND money with tax cuts!? I thought that money was ours to begin with? A Republican might say that shows your liberal arrogance: assuming tax money was yours to begin with. Fortunately my IQ is over 100 and i'm not a Republican. But dude, think before you run your mouth next time.
always funny when "incompetence" is misspelled. :p
99 cents a song is good? Seems to me that you multiply one dollar x 15 songs, you get 15 bucks a CD. Except for one thing, you don't get a CD. If I had an Apple I wouldn't waste one dime (errr, 10 dimes), on iTunes. Course the people who have 'em obviously have disposable income
-mantis