rambling loon who has half an idea of what he is saying, but Kirk plays a mean guitar solo and James Hetfield has this resonating melodic baritone that leaves a lot missing when you hear heavy metal without it.
Even if Hetfield could sing he wouldn't be a baritone. And yes, they do suck. Despite the name they no longer play metal. It is pop.
steve ablini is an overrated suckass producer.
big black sucked big black cock.
so do you.
fuckhead.
Brainchild: He is a recording engineer that makes records some people enjoy the sound of. He also charges a reasonable price for recording pretty much anyone's band who wants his services. Every other "producer" working for the majors is much more overrated than he, since they charge so much more and they all basically sound the same. If you didn't like Big Black, I'm sorry for you, but yours is hardly a post worth the 17 words you typed to say nothing at all.
So? You can be canned for just about any reason even if you DON'T lie on the application. Just be smart and cover your tracks is all.
Yeah, living a lie is always very rewarding.
I like being able to say I have a degree in Computer Systems Engineering. You get taken seriously immediately. I also think college was great because it teaches you how to think. It also teaches you how to solve problems the right way, rather than the quickest or easiest way. Not to say I went to class or anything, but I did the work, and it was worth it in retrospect.
History of Barcodes is at, of all places [Lasco Fittings]. It makes interesting reading - go there!
I do IT work for a medium sized PHVAC distributor, and we are both a Lasco Bathware and Lasco Fittings distributor. You would be utterly amazed at how many products in this industry do not ship with barcodes. In fact, there isn't even standardization among UPC's (like a 1/2" PVC 90 is different for everyone) in many lines. They're all afraid if they share codes you'll order from the cheapest supplier instead of the one you already have printed your own barcodes for! Or something like that anyways...;-)
You'd think that once someone gives an item away, or sells it for that matter, that you are free to do with it as you wish. There's gotta be something that covers this.
If that was true we wouldn't have the DeCSS problem. Fortunately, Fair Use is supposed to be helpful here...although it only applies to media I think. I dunno, reverse engineering that does not circumvent security measures (BS) is legal even under the DMCA.
It's entirely constitutional. Corporations aren't people, and they have no rights whatsoever other than those granted them in their charters. (Or at least they shouldn't; we've had some courts in this country that were either bloody stupid or bought-and-paid-for.) They are creations of the government, they exist at the sufferance of the government, and their charters can be withdrawn if the government chooses.
No, this is not completely correct. I have the right to be self employed and to employ others. Corporations are owned by people and correspondingly cannot be "stolen" by the government. The only way a corporation could be forced to comply with these laws is to force them to remain incorporated under the rule of the government, not under the rule of the owner, hence the theft of personal freedom.
Corporate rules like equal-opportunity employment, tax laws, rules of commerce for corporations, etc. are not intrusive upon the owner's personal freedom. The charter is meant to protect the government's monetary and to protect it from losing its power to any corporation.
Unfortunately, since many individual states' constitutions protect their corporations' rights, the federal government is given no right to override those protections by the constitution. Most state give corporations rights similar to those of people (right to sue and be sued, etc.) Nader would need to usurp many states' rights that they currently enjoy to activate his "programs" to organize corporations in the way he thinks they should be organized.
Nader suggests a socialist idea here, despite the "election" and "democracy" crap, it would result in massive losses of freedom. I think you agree with me about this. Not all corporations are evil and should be forced into the government's way of operating.
Intel's cases are rather nice (Astor, Columbus, etc) compared to the average crap you find at computer parts stores and on the Internet. We use several for our servers at work, they have nice built in fans, and are designed specifically for their motherboards. I know its a pain you can't use another brand motherboard, but the Intel Server motherboards are quite nice as well.
Yeah, and support the mandatory dissemination of banks and corporations that the government feels are a threat. I don't like corporate America any more than you do, but you can't take away their freedom any more than Dubbya can limit it. Nader's platform talks about breaking up banks and companies for no reason other than holding too much market share.
Workplace Democracy:
Establish the right of workers at every enterprise over 10 employees
to elect supervisors and managers and to determine how to organize work.
Worker Control of
Worker Assets-Pension Funds and ESOP Shares: Pension funds representing
over $5 trillion in deferred wages account for nearly one-third of financial
assets in the US. 11 million workers participate in employee stock-option
plans (ESOPs). Reform ERISA, labor laws, and ESOP tax provisions to enable
workers to democratically control their assets.
Democratic Conversion
of Big Business: Mandatory break-up and conversion to democratic worker,
consumer, and/or public ownership on a human scale of the largest 500 US
industrial and commercial corporations that account for about 10% of employees,
50% of profits, 70% of sales, and 90% of manufacturing assets.
Democratic Conversion
of Small and Medium Business: Financial and technical incentives and
assistance for voluntary conversion of the 22.5 million small and medium
non-farm businesses in the US to worker or consumer cooperatives or democratic
public enterprises. Mandate that workers and the community have the first
option to buy on preferential terms in cases of plant closures, the sale
or merger of significant assets, or the revocation of corporate charters.
Democratic Banking:
Mandatory conversion of the 200 largest banks with 80% of all bank assets
into democratic publicly-owned community banks. Financial and technical
incentives and assistance for voluntary conversion of other privately-owned
banks into publicly-owned community banks or consumer-owned credit unions.
They are going to try to force companies to have elections for management!! Banks being forced into the public domain!!?? If that's not purely unconstitutional, I don't know what is.
Why is everyone waiting for IE to come out for Linux. I always have found Netscape lot more stable on Windows NT 4.0 (I've hardly used 95 or 98)(Which I have to use at work 8) ) than IE. At home I run Linux Mandrake with Netscape (which is the least stable application on Linux) I am just wondering why people think IE for Linux is going to be any better. What about KDE's Konqueror and GNOME's Nautilus I am sure they'll be much better than IE or Netscape will every be for Linux.
Netscape is considerably less stable than IE 5.0+. This is a fact, as far as my experience shows. I use both every day while I am doing my current project (PHP development) and cannot stand the strange bugs in Netscape (text disappearing randomly, deciding to eat 50 MB memory for no reason, etc) and the incessant visits from the "Full Circle" bug reporting system. That means it crashed. Yes of course there are javascripts that can bomb IE and security holes, etc., but IE is far more useable, and much faster for my browsing needs.
Since I don't like Microsoft I'd sure like to see someone else release a good browser, but so far all I see are even more inferior browsers coming out. Opera? Fast as heck, but the CSS and Javascripts (DHTML) that work on IE and Netscape rarely work under Opera. Why don't they just emulate one or the other's JS implementation? We'll see, but so far IE is way in the lead in my book.
Hey, the value of the Canadian dollar (66 cents on the the American dollar) is great. I'm speaking as a Northern Minnesota America, though, 40 miles south of the border...
Yeah, I grew up outside Detroit which is mere minutes from Canada. when I was like 19 crossing the border with $10 I could get into a bar, and my American $10 was worth like $2,543,104.44, approximately. Gotta love Canada as a place to visit with your American bucks. Otherwise, it sure is a weird place. (Not to piss off any Canadians, the US is damn strange as well)
Because it's not how human beings operate. If people would stop being selfish a**holes we wouldn't need capitalism. At least capitalism rewards innovation[sic] and hard work. Socialism breeds laziness, it is a proven fact. Until we grow up, capitalism is the best way for us ALL to make something good out of our lives. I would rather die than be cornered into a way of life by the government.
And about Canada's healthcare system: Have you checked out the value of the Canadian dollar yet? Sheesh, it sucks. 15% or more in sales tax?? And they have very poor healthcare because people who want to be doctors want to make money, so the good doctors leave CDA for the US, leaving the hacks to take care of the homeland.
My disagreement with the article is as follows. Most people interested in the indie scene are interested in the indie scene including sich things as high-fidelity, lo-fidelity, vinyl, and other such esoteric aspects of recorded music. MP3's and the internet will never stop a fan of an indie band from picking up every CD, 7" and bootleg tape they can find. This will of course mean they will want to use Napster to find live and rare recordings, but never as an excuse for legitimate releases.
In case you are looking for an article to read from an insider in the industry, Steve Albini of such fantastic indie bands as Shellac and Big Black has written an article that sums up what a newly signed bands has done to their collective anus by a major label. And he should know, having produced (his real job is a professional recording engineer) bands like Nirvana, Page/Plant, the Breeders, the Pixies, and (ugh)Bush. Take a look.
He also said that it was about QUALITY of music, The quality of mp3's is a great deal better than tape. I can understand their aurgument...
No it is not. A good quality tape reproduction of a CD is far superior to warbly dynamically compressed MP3's. Napster is a way to hear a particular song when you want to hear it without paying $16 for 10 crappy songs and the song you like. (not that metallica has one song anyone should like) It is the equivalent of making mix tapes from all your friends much more easily than with real tapes.
So what, who's gonna stop the millions made from tireless promoting of standard video and audio mediums. Certainly not MP3. I have and never will pay for a poor quality MP3 version of any song by any band.
The Tick stands out from that crowd as an example of a comic book that truly rocked! What's more, the animated series was fantastic too:-)
The comic book still rocks, in fact the guitarist in my band draws it (Gabe Crate). He's quite good, although no one can match Ben Edlund's original and creative issues from back in the day.
Try this one: NT Terminal Server Stop 0x00000050 (BSOD) when 11 reminders appear simultaneously in Outlook 97/98/2k on one client box. Try to figure that into proper OS design. WTF???? 11 reminders??? Pop-up Windows crashing the OS??!!! MS Tech support admitted the bug and has distributed a fix that supposedly does not work, but we haven't crashed since. That's why NT sucks a big fat _.
...it looked like Americans allow themselves to be or look blatantly insincere with their friends and co-workers at the extent that I would consider to be a deep personal insult
This is true. I am blatantly insincere all the time because I am a sarcastic son-of-a-bitch, even when I don't know I am doing it. This is one of the reasons I think American slang and culture is pretty cool. It is totally obnoxious and makes people uncomfortable. Being perfectly sincere and polite gets boring after about 4.3 nanoseconds.
I hate the multiple document interface Opera uses. And it weirds out on CSS a lot, as well as croaking on some jscript. IE, annoying as it may be, sure is stable, looks good, and costs nothing.
Chris
PS - It is the only Microsoft product I have any appreciation for, and it took until version 5.
I personally learned the hard way after scamming my way into a Unix administration job based on my knowledge of Linux. While I wasn't exactly lost, it was definitely "different" (AIX, in case you're wondering).
Yeah, I did the same thing, that is getting an AIX admin position from my Linux and college UNIX experience. They are obsessed with symlinks (/var ->/usr ->/etc) and with the concept of "ls" to display things. Like "lsvg" or "lsdev". SMIT is cool though. Wish someone would clone that for Linux. And clone the file system. AIX's filesystem rules. Just add another drive and expand the existing partitions. WHOO HOO! (Ever run out of space on your/usr/src partition. Yikes.)
When you get right down to it, that is the reason I have been "between girlfriends" (and not in the "sandwich" sense;-) for quite some time.
I don't have a problem with the chicks once I learn their names, but I almost never meet them..(Also, I never meet guys either. All my friends are "old" friends from school days.) Nor am I willing to do what it takes to change that. Fuck "being normal" because I already have my own way of being. I'm not gonna start going to bars, or asking out waitresses (or anyone else where there's a vendor/customer relationship), and I learned a long time ago to keep outta co-workers' pants, especially the married ones.;-)
When a chick falls into my lap due to strange circumstance, we'll make the best of things. That's slow going, but it's still better than selling out. I just don't understand guys who whine about not having a girlfriend. If you really want one, and you're willing to do what it takes, it's not that hard. It's just a question of values and priorities -- what you want out of life. Cater to a biologically pre-programmed agenda, or your own? In my case, if after I've taken over the planet, if I haven't snagged a chick yet, then maybe I'll go girl-hunting.:-)
Whoa...this pretty much sums up how I feel as well. I do go out often enough (alcohol==good), but never with the express purpose of "snagging" a woman. I have had plenty of relationships here and there, but only with those women who have "fallen into my lap." Or more accurately, those who I have hit it off with immediately. Incidently, I consider each of them quite intelligent and physically attractive, and each for different reasons. That is the beauty of waiting for the chance matchup. I nearly never meet new girls (or guys), despite going out often, for the same reasons, I keep to myself unless I am in a situation where meeting someone is natural and we can act like we do in real life. I agree, you are selling out if you run out of the house every Friday with CK all over yourself to go rub up against women at a club until one will sleep with you. I could never act that way, and I find that if you make yourself visible (go visit old friends, go places alone, hang out with your siblings, etc.) but act normally, something will come along. Like recently, I met a famale who I hit off with instantly. Too bad she had a boyfriend and lives far away. It'll happen again, preferably with no boyfriend. Oh yeah, and make female friend-friends. They will instruct you and make you look like an acceptable man by hanging out with you. Its really not that hard, but you really do have to leave the house. Just go somewhere you want to go with people you like, that way you are never let down. Being single rules.
"I dont know that Accelerated X is any better in terms of overall design. I imagine that they are still running as root and directly talking to the hardware. The only way to get a really stable server in my opinion would be to have the kernel in charge of the video system, just like any other resource. The folks over at GGI are doing this and have an X server that runs on thier video drivers."
Yeah...like some kind of Hardware Abstraction Layer would be a good idea. Sure, then the GUI could never crash the OS...yeah right, what good is HAL for NT if it still is ghettoed by all kinds of apps, and even by itself at times for hardware reasons. Netscape viewed the ferretsfirst pages properly on my little home IPMASQing linux box. (RH6.0 base)
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rambling loon who has half an idea of what he is saying, but Kirk plays a mean guitar solo and James Hetfield has this resonating melodic baritone that leaves a lot missing when you hear heavy metal without it.
Even if Hetfield could sing he wouldn't be a baritone. And yes, they do suck. Despite the name they no longer play metal. It is pop.
Chris
steve ablini is an overrated suckass producer.
big black sucked big black cock.
so do you.
fuckhead.
Brainchild: He is a recording engineer that makes records some people enjoy the sound of. He also charges a reasonable price for recording pretty much anyone's band who wants his services. Every other "producer" working for the majors is much more overrated than he, since they charge so much more and they all basically sound the same. If you didn't like Big Black, I'm sorry for you, but yours is hardly a post worth the 17 words you typed to say nothing at all.
Chris
So? You can be canned for just about any reason even if you DON'T lie on the application. Just be smart and cover your tracks is all.
Yeah, living a lie is always very rewarding.
I like being able to say I have a degree in Computer Systems Engineering. You get taken seriously immediately. I also think college was great because it teaches you how to think. It also teaches you how to solve problems the right way, rather than the quickest or easiest way. Not to say I went to class or anything, but I did the work, and it was worth it in retrospect.
Chris
History of Barcodes is at, of all places [Lasco Fittings]. It makes interesting reading - go there!
;-)
I do IT work for a medium sized PHVAC distributor, and we are both a Lasco Bathware and Lasco Fittings distributor. You would be utterly amazed at how many products in this industry do not ship with barcodes. In fact, there isn't even standardization among UPC's (like a 1/2" PVC 90 is different for everyone) in many lines. They're all afraid if they share codes you'll order from the cheapest supplier instead of the one you already have printed your own barcodes for! Or something like that anyways...
Chris
You'd think that once someone gives an item away, or sells it for that matter, that you are free to do with it as you wish. There's gotta be something that covers this.
If that was true we wouldn't have the DeCSS problem. Fortunately, Fair Use is supposed to be helpful here...although it only applies to media I think. I dunno, reverse engineering that does not circumvent security measures (BS) is legal even under the DMCA.
Chris
It's entirely constitutional. Corporations aren't people, and they have no rights whatsoever other than those granted them in their charters. (Or at least they shouldn't; we've had some courts in this country that were either bloody stupid or bought-and-paid-for.) They are creations of the government, they exist at the sufferance of the government, and their charters can be withdrawn if the government chooses.
No, this is not completely correct. I have the right to be self employed and to employ others. Corporations are owned by people and correspondingly cannot be "stolen" by the government. The only way a corporation could be forced to comply with these laws is to force them to remain incorporated under the rule of the government, not under the rule of the owner, hence the theft of personal freedom.
Corporate rules like equal-opportunity employment, tax laws, rules of commerce for corporations, etc. are not intrusive upon the owner's personal freedom. The charter is meant to protect the government's monetary and to protect it from losing its power to any corporation.
Unfortunately, since many individual states' constitutions protect their corporations' rights, the federal government is given no right to override those protections by the constitution. Most state give corporations rights similar to those of people (right to sue and be sued, etc.) Nader would need to usurp many states' rights that they currently enjoy to activate his "programs" to organize corporations in the way he thinks they should be organized.
Nader suggests a socialist idea here, despite the "election" and "democracy" crap, it would result in massive losses of freedom. I think you agree with me about this. Not all corporations are evil and should be forced into the government's way of operating.
Chris
Intel's cases are rather nice (Astor, Columbus, etc) compared to the average crap you find at computer parts stores and on the Internet. We use several for our servers at work, they have nice built in fans, and are designed specifically for their motherboards. I know its a pain you can't use another brand motherboard, but the Intel Server motherboards are quite nice as well.
Chris
Re:Sue Lucas under Americans with Disabilities Act (Score:0)
by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 29, @12:50PM EST (#148)
different midget
How un-PC. The preferred term is "doorstop".
Boy I wish I had some mod points to mod this up +3 Funny. Hoo boy.
Chris
Yeah, and support the mandatory dissemination of banks and corporations that the government feels are a threat. I don't like corporate America any more than you do, but you can't take away their freedom any more than Dubbya can limit it. Nader's platform talks about breaking up banks and companies for no reason other than holding too much market share.
Green Party Platform
A quote from the above platform:
Establish the right of workers at every enterprise over 10 employees
to elect supervisors and managers and to determine how to organize work.
Worker Assets-Pension Funds and ESOP Shares: Pension funds representing
over $5 trillion in deferred wages account for nearly one-third of financial
assets in the US. 11 million workers participate in employee stock-option
plans (ESOPs). Reform ERISA, labor laws, and ESOP tax provisions to enable
workers to democratically control their assets.
of Big Business: Mandatory break-up and conversion to democratic worker,
consumer, and/or public ownership on a human scale of the largest 500 US
industrial and commercial corporations that account for about 10% of employees,
50% of profits, 70% of sales, and 90% of manufacturing assets.
of Small and Medium Business: Financial and technical incentives and
assistance for voluntary conversion of the 22.5 million small and medium
non-farm businesses in the US to worker or consumer cooperatives or democratic
public enterprises. Mandate that workers and the community have the first
option to buy on preferential terms in cases of plant closures, the sale
or merger of significant assets, or the revocation of corporate charters.
Mandatory conversion of the 200 largest banks with 80% of all bank assets
into democratic publicly-owned community banks. Financial and technical
incentives and assistance for voluntary conversion of other privately-owned
banks into publicly-owned community banks or consumer-owned credit unions.
They are going to try to force companies to have elections for management!! Banks being forced into the public domain!!?? If that's not purely unconstitutional, I don't know what is.
Chris
Why is everyone waiting for IE to come out for Linux. I always have found Netscape lot more stable on Windows NT 4.0 (I've hardly used 95 or 98)(Which I have to use at work 8) ) than IE. At home I run Linux Mandrake with Netscape (which is the least stable application on Linux) I am just wondering why people think IE for Linux is going to be any better. What about KDE's Konqueror and GNOME's Nautilus I am sure they'll be much better than IE or Netscape will every be for Linux.
Netscape is considerably less stable than IE 5.0+. This is a fact, as far as my experience shows. I use both every day while I am doing my current project (PHP development) and cannot stand the strange bugs in Netscape (text disappearing randomly, deciding to eat 50 MB memory for no reason, etc) and the incessant visits from the "Full Circle" bug reporting system. That means it crashed. Yes of course there are javascripts that can bomb IE and security holes, etc., but IE is far more useable, and much faster for my browsing needs.
Since I don't like Microsoft I'd sure like to see someone else release a good browser, but so far all I see are even more inferior browsers coming out. Opera? Fast as heck, but the CSS and Javascripts (DHTML) that work on IE and Netscape rarely work under Opera. Why don't they just emulate one or the other's JS implementation? We'll see, but so far IE is way in the lead in my book.
Chris
I wish I save more mod points to stick that one with a +1 Informative.
Chris
Hey, the value of the Canadian dollar (66 cents on the the American dollar) is great. I'm speaking as a Northern Minnesota America, though, 40 miles south of the border...
Yeah, I grew up outside Detroit which is mere minutes from Canada. when I was like 19 crossing the border with $10 I could get into a bar, and my American $10 was worth like $2,543,104.44, approximately. Gotta love Canada as a place to visit with your American bucks. Otherwise, it sure is a weird place. (Not to piss off any Canadians, the US is damn strange as well)
Chris
And how is being a socialist a bad thing?
Because it's not how human beings operate. If people would stop being selfish a**holes we wouldn't need capitalism. At least capitalism rewards innovation[sic] and hard work. Socialism breeds laziness, it is a proven fact. Until we grow up, capitalism is the best way for us ALL to make something good out of our lives. I would rather die than be cornered into a way of life by the government.
And about Canada's healthcare system: Have you checked out the value of the Canadian dollar yet? Sheesh, it sucks. 15% or more in sales tax?? And they have very poor healthcare because people who want to be doctors want to make money, so the good doctors leave CDA for the US, leaving the hacks to take care of the homeland.
Chris
I like fugazi. A lot. Go to Southern Records website for a directory of all the best and least RIAA affiliated bands and lables in the world.
Chris
My disagreement with the article is as follows. Most people interested in the indie scene are interested in the indie scene including sich things as high-fidelity, lo-fidelity, vinyl, and other such esoteric aspects of recorded music. MP3's and the internet will never stop a fan of an indie band from picking up every CD, 7" and bootleg tape they can find. This will of course mean they will want to use Napster to find live and rare recordings, but never as an excuse for legitimate releases.
In case you are looking for an article to read from an insider in the industry, Steve Albini of such fantastic indie bands as Shellac and Big Black has written an article that sums up what a newly signed bands has done to their collective anus by a major label. And he should know, having produced (his real job is a professional recording engineer) bands like Nirvana, Page/Plant, the Breeders, the Pixies, and (ugh)Bush. Take a look.
Chris
blast those lasers through a cesium tube and BANG packets from the future....
Chris
He also said that it was about QUALITY of music, The quality of mp3's is a great deal better than tape. I can understand their aurgument ...
No it is not. A good quality tape reproduction of a CD is far superior to warbly dynamically compressed MP3's. Napster is a way to hear a particular song when you want to hear it without paying $16 for 10 crappy songs and the song you like. (not that metallica has one song anyone should like) It is the equivalent of making mix tapes from all your friends much more easily than with real tapes.
So what, who's gonna stop the millions made from tireless promoting of standard video and audio mediums. Certainly not MP3. I have and never will pay for a poor quality MP3 version of any song by any band.
Chris
The Tick stands out from that crowd as an example of a comic book that truly rocked! What's more, the animated series was fantastic too :-)
The comic book still rocks, in fact the guitarist in my band draws it (Gabe Crate). He's quite good, although no one can match Ben Edlund's original and creative issues from back in the day.
Chris
Try this one: NT Terminal Server Stop 0x00000050 (BSOD) when 11 reminders appear simultaneously in Outlook 97/98/2k on one client box. Try to figure that into proper OS design. WTF???? 11 reminders??? Pop-up Windows crashing the OS??!!! MS Tech support admitted the bug and has distributed a fix that supposedly does not work, but we haven't crashed since. That's why NT sucks a big fat _.
Chris
...it looked like Americans allow themselves to be or look blatantly insincere with their friends and co-workers at the extent that I would consider to be a deep personal insult
This is true. I am blatantly insincere all the time because I am a sarcastic son-of-a-bitch, even when I don't know I am doing it. This is one of the reasons I think American slang and culture is pretty cool. It is totally obnoxious and makes people uncomfortable. Being perfectly sincere and polite gets boring after about 4.3 nanoseconds.
Chris
Chris
Besides isn't the problem that many geeks are arrogant assholes and no girls put up with them for long? Not a flame just a question
Ahh..this is where you are wrong. Girls love arrogant assholes, haven't you noticed? Its because they are nice that they lose more often...
Chris
I hate the multiple document interface Opera uses. And it weirds out on CSS a lot, as well as croaking on some jscript. IE, annoying as it may be, sure is stable, looks good, and costs nothing.
Chris
PS - It is the only Microsoft product I have any appreciation for, and it took until version 5.
I personally learned the hard way after scamming my way into a Unix administration job based on my knowledge of Linux. While I wasn't exactly lost, it was definitely "different" (AIX, in case you're wondering).
/usr -> /etc) and with the concept of "ls" to display things. Like "lsvg" or "lsdev". SMIT is cool though. Wish someone would clone that for Linux. And clone the file system. AIX's filesystem rules. Just add another drive and expand the existing partitions. WHOO HOO! (Ever run out of space on your /usr/src partition. Yikes.)
Yeah, I did the same thing, that is getting an AIX admin position from my Linux and college UNIX experience. They are obsessed with symlinks (/var ->
Chris
Chris
When you get right down to it, that is the reason I have been "between girlfriends" (and not in the "sandwich" sense ;-) for quite some time.
.(Also, I never meet guys either. All my friends are "old" friends from school days.) Nor am I willing to do what it takes to change that. Fuck "being normal" because I already have my own way of being. I'm not gonna start going to bars, or asking out waitresses (or anyone else where there's a vendor/customer relationship), and I learned a long time ago to keep outta co-workers' pants, especially the married ones. ;-)
:-)
I don't have a problem with the chicks once I learn their names, but I almost never meet them.
When a chick falls into my lap due to strange circumstance, we'll make the best of things. That's slow going, but it's still better than selling out. I just don't understand guys who whine about not having a girlfriend. If you really want one, and you're willing to do what it takes, it's not that hard. It's just a question of values and priorities -- what you want out of life. Cater to a biologically pre-programmed agenda, or your own? In my case, if after I've taken over the planet, if I haven't snagged a chick yet, then maybe I'll go girl-hunting.
Whoa...this pretty much sums up how I feel as well. I do go out often enough (alcohol==good), but never with the express purpose of "snagging" a woman. I have had plenty of relationships here and there, but only with those women who have "fallen into my lap." Or more accurately, those who I have hit it off with immediately. Incidently, I consider each of them quite intelligent and physically attractive, and each for different reasons. That is the beauty of waiting for the chance matchup. I nearly never meet new girls (or guys), despite going out often, for the same reasons, I keep to myself unless I am in a situation where meeting someone is natural and we can act like we do in real life. I agree, you are selling out if you run out of the house every Friday with CK all over yourself to go rub up against women at a club until one will sleep with you. I could never act that way, and I find that if you make yourself visible (go visit old friends, go places alone, hang out with your siblings, etc.) but act normally, something will come along. Like recently, I met a famale who I hit off with instantly. Too bad she had a boyfriend and lives far away. It'll happen again, preferably with no boyfriend. Oh yeah, and make female friend-friends. They will instruct you and make you look like an acceptable man by hanging out with you. Its really not that hard, but you really do have to leave the house. Just go somewhere you want to go with people you like, that way you are never let down. Being single rules.
Chris
"I dont know that Accelerated X is any better in terms of overall design. I imagine that they are still running as root and directly talking to the hardware. The only way to get a really stable server in my opinion would be to have the kernel in charge of the video system, just like any other resource. The folks over at GGI are doing this and have an X server that runs on thier video drivers."
Yeah...like some kind of Hardware Abstraction Layer would be a good idea. Sure, then the GUI could never crash the OS...yeah right, what good is HAL for NT if it still is ghettoed by all kinds of apps, and even by itself at times for hardware reasons. Netscape viewed the ferretsfirst pages properly on my little home IPMASQing linux box. (RH6.0 base)
Chris