You have to admit that in context with the camera angles and pauses and whatnot, the overall effect was not entirely platonic. There is a reason, you know, that Tucker and T'Pol were arguing while scantily clad in a very cold decon room, as opposed to in the corridor or a briefing room.
"The series could have revolved around Wesley Crusher."
Jesus Christ, man, are you daft?! What if a network exec sees that post and thinks "hmm...". I'm all for free speech, but I'd have been happier if you'd indulged you love of pain by yelling "fire" in a crowded theater.
Chalk it up to experience, and don't do that again!
And I have to say, the certification is crap. Utter crap. Allow me to elaborate.
I started studying for the exam way back in early 2000. I bought a book (the "For Dummies" book, for chrissakes!) and skimmed through it. For various reasons, I didn't get around to taking the exam until July of this year. By then, the test had changed, including manmy questions about Win2K, third-party processors, and a much greater emphasis on trivia than I had been lead to expect. I had not studied for any of these things.
Furthermore, the things I had spent the most time cramming (IRQs and DMAs, mainly) were not on the exam. At all.
So I'm sitting there at the test machine, slowly realizing two things. One, I have never seen any of thses questions before in my life. And two, it doesn't matter, anyone with a bit of experience (NOT six months as a computer tech, much less) could answer these questions. I can't remember a specific example, for which I apologize, but even in areas where I had NO experience, I was able to get by by choosing the "least-worst" answer.
I passed the exam, and that is meaningless. I freely admit, as a tech I am very green. At my summer tech job, my boss had to correct me after I put an IDE cable in a hard drive with the red stripe facing AWAY from the power connector! That's a pretty basic mistake, and one you wouldn't expect a "professional, experienced computer technician" to make. But at the time, I had a card in my pocket saying I was exactly that!
My point? I cannot speak for any of the other CompTIA exams - maybe they are incisive and highly effective tools of tester skill that only the best of the best can pass, tests that lay one's ignorance open to the blistering light of knowledge - but the A+ exam does not achieve its goal of accurately evaluating the experience and skill of the test-taker. This makes me worry about Linux+. Do we really want a bunch of Linux+ professionals entering the job market, and making Linux look bad?
On a side note, I have successfully used my certification card to impress attractive women. Anyone else find these things useful?
I forget the name of the episode, but it was the one after "Best of Both Worlds", when Picard gets shore leave after being assimilated and de-assimilated? He just breaks down and cries to his brother about how he was resposible for the destuction of so many ships, so many lives.
I also recall the cardassian special ops episode, where Picard gets captured and tortured 1984-style. (Why does he keep getting tortured anyway? Poor bastard.) He does get pretty broken down.
Politicians argue with each other, lie, and occasionally start wars. Bin Laden butchers thousands of innocent, unarmed people within hours. There is no comparison, and to compare Bush to Bin Laden in any context is just shameful.
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Building stuff like this is fun, man. It's that simple. Also, a portable PSX is a great way to pick up women. "Hey baby, I'm a guy who can squeeze a PSX into a chassis that will turn you one. Want me to...solder anything for you?"
"Oh yes."
Love is in the air...everytime spare parts lie around...
Java was (and still is, to an extant) popular as web applets because it allowed developers to put multimedia content (animations, sounds, games) on their pages very easily. Perl and python, while great languages, really don't have that sort of multimedia ability (or bloat). For this reason, they're less desireable for client-side applets.
/. had stories about the WTC crises when there were things we would do to help, and when there were new developments. But this site is supposed to be "news for nerds", and there's nothing wrong with posting a funny story. If you want to debate the WTC crises, excellent - we do need to talk about this as a society. But/. is not always the place to talk about it.
This story wasn't posted to save the community or some such thing - it was posted because it is a funny nerdy story, the sort of thing/. was made for.
Please don't flame me if I'm way off base - I'm not very familiar with the way Google caches sites - but might it have cached your pr0n images? Could you just run a search for your site on googl, then access the cached version?
Yes, I'm reading the posts I respond to. If you have a problem with a point I make, tell me, please - I post to slashdot so I can debate intelligently with people, not get a "yes-man" club. But speak to the point I make - don't flame me.
I don't care if the terrorists are white, black, male, female, Muslim, Jewish, Christian, or a group of nice old ladies who meet after church every sunday to drink tea and discuss their gardens - I just want them dead. Is that so wrong?
The problem Israel is having with the use of military force isn't that military force in and of itself doesn't work. It's that they aren't using it enough. They kill enough people to feel "avenged", but not enough to destroy the threat, and the survivors become very angry at the Israelies. What they should do - and what we should do - is wait. Find the entire movement - everyplace they live, work, play, everyone involved - and kill them all at once, within a week, say. Yes, there'll be innocents killed, but no one will be left to strike back. That, and nothing else, is the proper use of violence - to gring you enemy into dust, and burn the dust.
"Are Washington and NY not considered targets anymore?'
Until tuesday, they weren't. All the other recent terrorist attacks from foreign nationals have been at overseas bases or embassies or other facilities - and I'm sure THEY were on a very high state of alert, ready to whip ass and chew bubblegum. Can you blame the government for forgetting that the continental US is vulnurable? Think before you answer - could you have imagined anything on this scale a month ago?
"Show me the part of the Constitution that guarantees citizens the right to travel"
How about the right to freedom of assembly? Yah, that's in there, and it means I have the right to travel to assemble with like-minded colleages to protest congress for a redress of grievances.
For this reason: Who, exactly, are we at war with? Afganistan? Bin Laden? Terrorists in general? Are we going to want to just pack it in after Bin Laden and the Taliban are dead? No, I didn't think so. Our government, rightly or wrongly, wants to eradicate the terrorist threat - but that's hard to put in a declaration of war.
It's another case of "put up or shut up". You're right, of course - our freedoms are intrinsic rights of human beings, not gifts from Uncle Sam. But can't you see how frustrating it is to hear some guy bitch about a given issue, and how much he hates a law, and then learn he's too lazy to even vote - to even do anything about it? It pisses me off royally.
Man, can't you see the difference between people killing themselves with booze or cars, or several people being killed by a nut with a gun? 5,000 Americans are dead, all killed within hours by some sick bastards who hijacked American airliners. The alchohol, guns, and car accident deaths are regrettable and tragic, but this - this is an act of war.
As for there being no conclusion to this war - sure there is. The war is over when Bin Laden and his cronies are dead - a few years at most. Bush meant it when he said they would not enjoy a moment's peace man - we are going after them with everything we have.
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You have to admit that in context with the camera angles and pauses and whatnot, the overall effect was not entirely platonic. There is a reason, you know, that Tucker and T'Pol were arguing while scantily clad in a very cold decon room, as opposed to in the corridor or a briefing room.
"The series could have revolved around Wesley Crusher."
Jesus Christ, man, are you daft?! What if a network exec sees that post and thinks "hmm...". I'm all for free speech, but I'd have been happier if you'd indulged you love of pain by yelling "fire" in a crowded theater.
Chalk it up to experience, and don't do that again!
I'm sorry, but to me it seemed to s#ck from the word "engage".
And I have to say, the certification is crap. Utter crap. Allow me to elaborate.
I started studying for the exam way back in early 2000. I bought a book (the "For Dummies" book, for chrissakes!) and skimmed through it. For various reasons, I didn't get around to taking the exam until July of this year. By then, the test had changed, including manmy questions about Win2K, third-party processors, and a much greater emphasis on trivia than I had been lead to expect. I had not studied for any of these things.
Furthermore, the things I had spent the most time cramming (IRQs and DMAs, mainly) were not on the exam. At all.
So I'm sitting there at the test machine, slowly realizing two things. One, I have never seen any of thses questions before in my life. And two, it doesn't matter, anyone with a bit of experience (NOT six months as a computer tech, much less) could answer these questions. I can't remember a specific example, for which I apologize, but even in areas where I had NO experience, I was able to get by by choosing the "least-worst" answer.
I passed the exam, and that is meaningless. I freely admit, as a tech I am very green. At my summer tech job, my boss had to correct me after I put an IDE cable in a hard drive with the red stripe facing AWAY from the power connector! That's a pretty basic mistake, and one you wouldn't expect a "professional, experienced computer technician" to make. But at the time, I had a card in my pocket saying I was exactly that!
My point? I cannot speak for any of the other CompTIA exams - maybe they are incisive and highly effective tools of tester skill that only the best of the best can pass, tests that lay one's ignorance open to the blistering light of knowledge - but the A+ exam does not achieve its goal of accurately evaluating the experience and skill of the test-taker. This makes me worry about Linux+. Do we really want a bunch of Linux+ professionals entering the job market, and making Linux look bad?
On a side note, I have successfully used my certification card to impress attractive women. Anyone else find these things useful?
I forget the name of the episode, but it was the one after "Best of Both Worlds", when Picard gets shore leave after being assimilated and de-assimilated? He just breaks down and cries to his brother about how he was resposible for the destuction of so many ships, so many lives.
I also recall the cardassian special ops episode, where Picard gets captured and tortured 1984-style. (Why does he keep getting tortured anyway? Poor bastard.) He does get pretty broken down.
Politicians argue with each other, lie, and occasionally start wars. Bin Laden butchers thousands of innocent, unarmed people within hours. There is no comparison, and to compare Bush to Bin Laden in any context is just shameful.
Building stuff like this is fun, man. It's that simple. Also, a portable PSX is a great way to pick up women. "Hey baby, I'm a guy who can squeeze a PSX into a chassis that will turn you one. Want me to...solder anything for you?"
"Oh yes."
Love is in the air...everytime spare parts lie around...
Or maybe they just don't want to shell out for flash.
Java was (and still is, to an extant) popular as web applets because it allowed developers to put multimedia content (animations, sounds, games) on their pages very easily. Perl and python, while great languages, really don't have that sort of multimedia ability (or bloat). For this reason, they're less desireable for client-side applets.
/. had stories about the WTC crises when there were things we would do to help, and when there were new developments. But this site is supposed to be "news for nerds", and there's nothing wrong with posting a funny story. If you want to debate the WTC crises, excellent - we do need to talk about this as a society. But /. is not always the place to talk about it.
/. was made for.
This story wasn't posted to save the community or some such thing - it was posted because it is a funny nerdy story, the sort of thing
Please don't flame me if I'm way off base - I'm not very familiar with the way Google caches sites - but might it have cached your pr0n images? Could you just run a search for your site on googl, then access the cached version?
How the heck did a post with the word "sheep-fuckers" in it get modded up?
That said, there's no need to be insulting. You corrected my error, for which I thank you.
Yes, I'm reading the posts I respond to. If you have a problem with a point I make, tell me, please - I post to slashdot so I can debate intelligently with people, not get a "yes-man" club. But speak to the point I make - don't flame me.
I don't care if the terrorists are white, black, male, female, Muslim, Jewish, Christian, or a group of nice old ladies who meet after church every sunday to drink tea and discuss their gardens - I just want them dead. Is that so wrong?
"Maybe this ep prompted this?"
I kinda doubt Bin Laden watches the Cartoon Network.
The problem Israel is having with the use of military force isn't that military force in and of itself doesn't work. It's that they aren't using it enough. They kill enough people to feel "avenged", but not enough to destroy the threat, and the survivors become very angry at the Israelies. What they should do - and what we should do - is wait. Find the entire movement - everyplace they live, work, play, everyone involved - and kill them all at once, within a week, say. Yes, there'll be innocents killed, but no one will be left to strike back. That, and nothing else, is the proper use of violence - to gring you enemy into dust, and burn the dust.
"Read the Constitution. It's the damn source code for our government."
Unfortuneatly, the forget to comment the damn thing.
"Are Washington and NY not considered targets anymore?'
Until tuesday, they weren't. All the other recent terrorist attacks from foreign nationals have been at overseas bases or embassies or other facilities - and I'm sure THEY were on a very high state of alert, ready to whip ass and chew bubblegum. Can you blame the government for forgetting that the continental US is vulnurable? Think before you answer - could you have imagined anything on this scale a month ago?
"Show me the part of the Constitution that guarantees citizens the right to travel"
How about the right to freedom of assembly? Yah, that's in there, and it means I have the right to travel to assemble with like-minded colleages to protest congress for a redress of grievances.
For this reason: Who, exactly, are we at war with? Afganistan? Bin Laden? Terrorists in general? Are we going to want to just pack it in after Bin Laden and the Taliban are dead? No, I didn't think so. Our government, rightly or wrongly, wants to eradicate the terrorist threat - but that's hard to put in a declaration of war.
It's another case of "put up or shut up". You're right, of course - our freedoms are intrinsic rights of human beings, not gifts from Uncle Sam. But can't you see how frustrating it is to hear some guy bitch about a given issue, and how much he hates a law, and then learn he's too lazy to even vote - to even do anything about it? It pisses me off royally.
Let me get this straight - you want to arm a bunch of druggies with automatic weapons and high explosives. Might that be unwise?
Man, can't you see the difference between people killing themselves with booze or cars, or several people being killed by a nut with a gun? 5,000 Americans are dead, all killed within hours by some sick bastards who hijacked American airliners. The alchohol, guns, and car accident deaths are regrettable and tragic, but this - this is an act of war.
As for there being no conclusion to this war - sure there is. The war is over when Bin Laden and his cronies are dead - a few years at most. Bush meant it when he said they would not enjoy a moment's peace man - we are going after them with everything we have.
I was trying to condemn the bigotry, not condone it. I'm sorry if I was unclear.