Ok the subdermal phone is a great idea, right up until you decide to change providers. Considering the service I get from SprintPCS, the idea of them pulling bits out of any part of me (my wallet excepted), is frightning.
My first time doing jury service was also in Los Angeles (downtown? Out in the Valley? -- maybe that makes a difference). This was a couple of years ago when you had to serve the full two weeks, none of this one-day and you're out stuff. After 4 days of playing CivII on my laptop in the assembly room, they asked for volunteers to go out to Van Nuys. I volunteered because it was closer to where I was living, I'm not there 20 minutes when I get called for a panel (wasn't called for a panel for 4 days downtown), they ask the std. questions -- I don't get excused, was foreman of my jury. I was clear enough about my role in the industry that I had to explain to the judge exactly what I did, and apparently that wasn't enough.
YMMV, of course -- and perhaps it was just random chance. All I know is that I missed out on 6 more days of CivII. Seriously, I actually enjoyed it -- I wasn't serving with the brightest bulbs in the in the county, and the case wasn't terribly difficult (had one guy that as soon as the door was closed said, "Ok, he's guilty - where's the forms").
Nowadays, with jury duty being 1 day/1 trial, there's really no excuse for folks not to serve. I know it's cliched and everything, but if I was on trial for something, I'd feel better knowing that there were slashdot folks on the jury, as opposed to 12 Angry Postal Workers.
In recognition of the festive holiday season, thank you. It doesn't feel as nice as I would have imagined, but it is probably best to chalk that up to a poor imagination on my part.
Ok, come on. Was that little part necessary? It's not as though I got a +5 Insightful for it. It's also not as though I said, "With my doctorate is synthetic organic chemistry, $3.25 is a bargain." Maybe you can suggest a new mod; -1 Stupid; then you'll be able to move on without being a sarcastic ass.
Having said that, since you were kind enough to mention it his tickets are a bargain at $5.50 as well.
You pay $3.25 for movie tickets? Where is this place? Outer Mongolia (no offense to the less developed economy of, or the peoples of, Outer Mongolia)? I'm playing that at least, it's the matinee price. For $3.50 a piece, I agree with another poster. Buy more of them... that's what student loans are for. Or at least that's what I told myself when I bought my Quadra 840av.
Actually, it's not as true as you think. I've always loved the clicky-clack of keyboards like the one of the original PC, except of course it being a bit loud.
I stumbled across a keyboard at work (scavanging is what everyone does after the 4th round of layoffs, right?) that is actually pretty quiet, but gives the fully clicky feel without so much clack (just ask my co-workers).
I don't think Dell even offers it anymore, but it's the Dell AT101W keyboard. Full-size, good feel -- less noise.
I personally find the QuietKey keyboards "ok". Better than probably some 75% of what's on the market, but still mushy. I just don't touch-type properly with a mushy keyboard.
You're exactly right. I was a 100% Mac guy way back in the olden days (late 80s - early 90s), but it was the games that brought me over to the dark side (literally). While the original Civ was much better on the mac than the DOS version, the windows version was ok -- but what actually sold me was X-Wing, and Tie Fighter. Those are the games that drove me to figuring out boot disks, memory managers, and real-mode drivers. The Mac didn't have X-Wing for years, and by then I was on my 3rd self-built PC.
What is it about astrophysics? A friend of mine was an Economics major, decided to go for Astrophysics, discovered (as someone else mentioned), that if you want to do work in the hard sciences, a bachelors isn't worth anything except to get into graduate school -- If only there was a job that combined astrophysics and economics.
Maybe the buying/spending patterns of g-type stars?
Not to be too cynical, but it's probably not that big (even at 30+lbs), so what'll most likely happen is that it'll get measured, tagged, boxed, and placed in the Northeast Annex Sub-Basement (2nd shelf on the right) until it turns out that meteorites cure impotence and/or baldness.
markwusinich: Try your old school. It never hurts to e-mail a copy to an english teacher you liked from either high school or college. __________________ Perhaps because every high school (or college) English teacher/professor loves to proofread resumes for students they haven't seen/talked to for 20 years. For free.
Ok, I know that's not what you really meant. If you had a good relationship with a teacher (or for that matter, anyone who was more skill with grammar and composition that oneself) it's definately a good idea to take full advantage of that.
(Just thinking about the number of unemployed Slashdot readers, who have crappy resumes, all emailing every English/Language teacher they've ever had looking for free proofreading -- too cynical? Perhaps).
=========== "Mrs. Lincoln had a very positive reaction to the play, and other than the brief interruption in the box, enjoyed herself immensely."
I completely rememeber PrintShop for the Apple ][. It was (for its time) an incredible bit of programming. It took your Okidata Microline dot-matrix printer (was there ever a quiet version of one of those?) and a ream of continus fold, tractor feed-able paper, and would make huge banners, computer with "fancy" computer graphics. I believe at that point the manual even suggested that you should then "color" in the lettering on the banner (for best appearance, of course).
It also made greeting cards (provided you could handle the proper folding technique).
I think that is what's missing nowadays. Not enough people making banners from their Okidata printers, with huge blocky graphics on them. It really was a neat idea once.
I guess I need more sleep -- I was sure it said that article was by Simon Garfunkle the first time I looked at it. Now/that/ would be an interesting article on 3G wireless... ok. Probably not.
From: Tim Smith (tim@callan.UUCP) Subject: Re: Computer bugs in the year 2000 Newsgroups: net.bugs, net.flame, net.puzzle View this article only Date: 1985-01-25 13:26:42 PST
If you are really worried about timewrap breaking programs in subtle ways, then set your clock ahead now, and find the bugs. That will give you several years to fix them. If you are binary only, you might NEED several years to get you vendor to fix them!:-) ______________ I think I found the first dig at closed source software. I hope he found a home on/.
Oh, and just because PDP11's don't get mentioned enough around here. Imagine a Beowolf cluster of PDP11s.
I just wanted to point out that here's someone that looks like a decent individual, who is not beholden to the RIAA, and since we know that he won't be getting a big check from them, he could probably use some campaign support. I don't live in his district, but you can contribute to Congressman Boucher's re-election campaign at http://www.boucherforcongress.com
...and in fact the author of the article states as much. Apparently the real concern is that the plastics/dust in the case will set off a smoke alarm, thus diverting firefighting resources to something that is apparently not "life threatning"... unless someone is keeping gasoline in their case, I don't think is something we need to lose sleep over.
Someone needs to update their footer -- it's not PWC (PriceWaterhouseCoopers), it's First Monday... err.. no, that's a crappy Supreme Court show. Two Mondays from last week... Monday, Next Monday, Last Monday... nevermind. It was something silly from the minds that brought us "Accenture" -- although now in hindsight, losing the whole "Anderson" name seems pretty brilliant.
Well no flame here either -- but at least where I live (Bay Area -- and granted, perhaps not typical), but all of the newer apartments do have Cat5 running into them.
Of course, there is a catch. The service was (I'll get to the "was" part in a second) fairly costly, and you had to use that crappy PPoE client (first on my block with PPoE, I assure you). However, it was quite servicable -- until the ISP went under, and apparently it's not cost effective at any reasonable price to get another ISP in here to run data to the jacks. At least there's DSL, but the 10BaseT jacks in all my rooms look really lonely.
Maybe because Episode 2 wasn't shown on as many screens, it has to be blamed on "the kids" (what? the same kids that invented the internet?) decided that another commercialized story is somehow more "pure" than another -- and to suggest that Spider-Man, put out by the studio of fake movie critics, and marketing folks disguised as happy movie goers is somehow the antithesis of hype -- jeesh.
And/then/ to suggest all of this means some sort of paradigm, generational shift... and here I thought his film reviews were pompous and self absorbed.
I really don't think that's a big threat to most (public) schools. The district's lawyers get paid no matter what they are doing -- and while not as pricey as MS's lawyers -- seem to be able to hold their own in court.
Oh. Wait. Ok, some of them can. Damn. I was sure I had a good point somewhere in there.
They don't have to do that -- perhaps Taco could just work up a script that every time Cringley's "Current" page gets updated, it could post an article on Slashdot.
Slashdot Mirror
Ok the subdermal phone is a great idea, right up until you decide to change providers. Considering the service I get from SprintPCS, the idea of them pulling bits out of any part of me (my wallet excepted), is frightning.
My first time doing jury service was also in Los Angeles (downtown? Out in the Valley? -- maybe that makes a difference). This was a couple of years ago when you had to serve the full two weeks, none of this one-day and you're out stuff. After 4 days of playing CivII on my laptop in the assembly room, they asked for volunteers to go out to Van Nuys. I volunteered because it was closer to where I was living, I'm not there 20 minutes when I get called for a panel (wasn't called for a panel for 4 days downtown), they ask the std. questions -- I don't get excused, was foreman of my jury. I was clear enough about my role in the industry that I had to explain to the judge exactly what I did, and apparently that wasn't enough.
YMMV, of course -- and perhaps it was just random chance. All I know is that I missed out on 6 more days of CivII. Seriously, I actually enjoyed it -- I wasn't serving with the brightest bulbs in the in the county, and the case wasn't terribly difficult (had one guy that as soon as the door was closed said, "Ok, he's guilty - where's the forms").
Nowadays, with jury duty being 1 day/1 trial, there's really no excuse for folks not to serve. I know it's cliched and everything, but if I was on trial for something, I'd feel better knowing that there were slashdot folks on the jury, as opposed to 12 Angry Postal Workers.
Ok, maybe not.
In recognition of the festive holiday season, thank you. It doesn't feel as nice as I would have imagined, but it is probably best to chalk that up to a poor imagination on my part.
Ok, come on. Was that little part necessary? It's not as though I got a +5 Insightful for it. It's also not as though I said, "With my doctorate is synthetic organic chemistry, $3.25 is a bargain." Maybe you can suggest a new mod; -1 Stupid; then you'll be able to move on without being a sarcastic ass.
Having said that, since you were kind enough to mention it his tickets are a bargain at $5.50 as well.
You pay $3.25 for movie tickets? Where is this place? Outer Mongolia (no offense to the less developed economy of, or the peoples of, Outer Mongolia)? I'm playing that at least, it's the matinee price. For $3.50 a piece, I agree with another poster. Buy more of them ... that's what student loans are for. Or at least that's what I told myself when I bought my Quadra 840av.
Actually, it's not as true as you think. I've always loved the clicky-clack of keyboards like the one of the original PC, except of course it being a bit loud.
I stumbled across a keyboard at work (scavanging is what everyone does after the 4th round of layoffs, right?) that is actually pretty quiet, but gives the fully clicky feel without so much clack (just ask my co-workers).
I don't think Dell even offers it anymore, but it's the Dell AT101W keyboard. Full-size, good feel -- less noise.
I personally find the QuietKey keyboards "ok". Better than probably some 75% of what's on the market, but still mushy. I just don't touch-type properly with a mushy keyboard.
You're exactly right. I was a 100% Mac guy way back in the olden days (late 80s - early 90s), but it was the games that brought me over to the dark side (literally). While the original Civ was much better on the mac than the DOS version, the windows version was ok -- but what actually sold me was X-Wing, and Tie Fighter. Those are the games that drove me to figuring out boot disks, memory managers, and real-mode drivers. The Mac didn't have X-Wing for years, and by then I was on my 3rd self-built PC.
Wasn't this story posted on Tuesday?
What is it about astrophysics? A friend of mine was an Economics major, decided to go for Astrophysics, discovered (as someone else mentioned), that if you want to do work in the hard sciences, a bachelors isn't worth anything except to get into graduate school -- If only there was a job that combined astrophysics and economics.
Maybe the buying/spending patterns of g-type stars?
Not to be too cynical, but it's probably not that big (even at 30+lbs), so what'll most likely happen is that it'll get measured, tagged, boxed, and placed in the Northeast Annex Sub-Basement (2nd shelf on the right) until it turns out that meteorites cure impotence and/or baldness.
markwusinich:
Try your old school. It never hurts to e-mail a copy to an english teacher you liked from either high school or college.
__________________
Perhaps because every high school (or college) English teacher/professor loves to proofread resumes for students they haven't seen/talked to for 20 years. For free.
Ok, I know that's not what you really meant. If you had a good relationship with a teacher (or for that matter, anyone who was more skill with grammar and composition that oneself) it's definately a good idea to take full advantage of that.
(Just thinking about the number of unemployed Slashdot readers, who have crappy resumes, all emailing every English/Language teacher they've ever had looking for free proofreading -- too cynical? Perhaps).
===========
"Mrs. Lincoln had a very positive reaction to the play, and other than the brief interruption in the box, enjoyed herself immensely."
As if any uppity suburbanite kids actually /paid/ for a Rage Against the Machine CD to /get/ the liner notes.
I completely rememeber PrintShop for the Apple ][. It was (for its time) an incredible bit of programming. It took your Okidata Microline dot-matrix printer (was there ever a quiet version of one of those?) and a ream of continus fold, tractor feed-able paper, and would make huge banners, computer with "fancy" computer graphics. I believe at that point the manual even suggested that you should then "color" in the lettering on the banner (for best appearance, of course).
It also made greeting cards (provided you could handle the proper folding technique).
I think that is what's missing nowadays. Not enough people making banners from their Okidata printers, with huge blocky graphics on them. It really was a neat idea once.
I guess I need more sleep -- I was sure it said that article was by Simon Garfunkle the first time I looked at it. Now /that/ would be an interesting article on 3G wireless ... ok. Probably not.
From: Tim Smith (tim@callan.UUCP)
:-) /.
Subject: Re: Computer bugs in the year 2000
Newsgroups: net.bugs, net.flame, net.puzzle
View this article only
Date: 1985-01-25 13:26:42 PST
If you are really worried about timewrap breaking programs in subtle ways,
then set your clock ahead now, and find the bugs. That will give you several
years to fix them. If you are binary only, you might NEED several years
to get you vendor to fix them!
______________
I think I found the first dig at closed source software. I hope he found a home on
Oh, and just because PDP11's don't get mentioned enough around here.
Imagine a Beowolf cluster of PDP11s.
I just wanted to point out that here's someone that looks like a decent individual, who is not beholden to the RIAA, and since we know that he won't be getting a big check from them, he could probably use some campaign support. I don't live in his district, but you can contribute to Congressman Boucher's re-election campaign at http://www.boucherforcongress.com
...and in fact the author of the article states as much. Apparently the real concern is that the plastics/dust in the case will set off a smoke alarm, thus diverting firefighting resources to something that is apparently not "life threatning" ... unless someone is keeping gasoline in their case, I don't think is something we need to lose sleep over.
Very nice. I stand /quite/ corrected.
Someone needs to update their footer -- it's not PWC (PriceWaterhouseCoopers), it's First Monday ... err .. no, that's a crappy Supreme Court show. Two Mondays from last week ... Monday, Next Monday, Last Monday ... nevermind. It was something silly from the minds that brought us "Accenture" -- although now in hindsight, losing the whole "Anderson" name seems pretty brilliant.
Well no flame here either -- but at least where I live (Bay Area -- and granted, perhaps not typical), but all of the newer apartments do have Cat5 running into them.
Of course, there is a catch. The service was (I'll get to the "was" part in a second) fairly costly, and you had to use that crappy PPoE client (first on my block with PPoE, I assure you). However, it was quite servicable -- until the ISP went under, and apparently it's not cost effective at any reasonable price to get another ISP in here to run data to the jacks. At least there's DSL, but the 10BaseT jacks in all my rooms look really lonely.
Are you out of step or what?
/then/ to suggest all of this means some sort of paradigm, generational shift ... and here I thought his film reviews were pompous and self absorbed.
Maybe because Episode 2 wasn't shown on as many screens, it has to be blamed on "the kids" (what? the same kids that invented the internet?) decided that another commercialized story is somehow more "pure" than another -- and to suggest that Spider-Man, put out by the studio of fake movie critics, and marketing folks disguised as happy movie goers is somehow the antithesis of hype -- jeesh.
And
I really don't think that's a big threat to most (public) schools. The district's lawyers get paid no matter what they are doing -- and while not as pricey as MS's lawyers -- seem to be able to hold their own in court.
Oh. Wait. Ok, some of them can. Damn. I was sure I had a good point somewhere in there.
Well, out on the west coast you know its "sweeps month" (that is November, February, or May), by the local news promos. It's always:
(with the threatning music of course)
"SOMETHING in your house, right now will kill your children. We'll tell you tomorrow at 11pm. "
(After our wacky weekend weather[apologies to Steve Martin]), and 20 minutes of witless banter by the anchors.)
They don't have to do that -- perhaps Taco could just work up a script that every time Cringley's "Current" page gets updated, it could post an article on Slashdot.
Ok -- I'll just risk the off-topic mod-smack-down -- but Damn!
How can the parent post be modded down as redundant when it is the 2nd post made? That just makes no sense.