God damn I want a pair. I used to blade to get around (and I dont know why I still dont) but recently I got handed a bike. I hate biking, with a passion, so much so that I will gladly walk instead of ride a bike. These things look cool, and I guess my days are numbered before I just give in and buy a freakin' car.
There's about four dozen fan sites for Fight Club and every one of them can give you a meaning to life, only you can decide it's what's right for you however.
I cried when my toaster broke.. I was really hungry and it was like 2am and all I had was stale bread and I didn't want to eat it stale.. That toaster was my salvation man.
werd. I cant help feeling that people with this attitude have never put their heart and soul into a business idea. I almost feel like going down to their offices in Menlo Park and singing some songs or something (I could be just bored), anyone else in the bay area wanna come along?
I still have the BeOS personal edition for Linux download that runs from an image on your ext2fs partition. You just make a BEOS directory off the root of any ext2fs mount and put the files in it then reboot using a boot floppy. It then scanned your partitions found the one with the image and up she popped. The slowest part of the boot getting the loader off the floppy!
Translate this arguement into french where there is not indeterminate gender and there is specifically a "male dominiates over female" rule for talking about groups.
How about just a place where you can go and prepay for a feature to be written/completed/fixed on some open source app and then anyone who submits the patch gets the payment (after some sort of verification I suppose but that's one of them "who pays the verfiers" arguements). It would seriously rock to be able to go to a big list of feature requests, hack something up and get paid an hour later.
No but what I was saying was that in Kirk and TNG ega they are very technical about the prime directive. Not really worried about the intent of it, just that it's a rule and they have to abide by it. The vulcans had a similar policy when they first came in contact with earth (this is stated in First Contact I think, or I heard it in one of the series). One would not think vulcans would be so technical about their rules. You would figure a vulcan would never follow a law that they didn't understand the logic behind. As other posts here have indicated, perhaps showing up as soon as someone figures out warp travel is a good thing, to stop them from trampling on other people's territory, but my opinion was that the prime directive was there to let non space faring races live in blissful ignorance of the rest of the galaxy. Only after it is imminent that the race will discover other species in the galaxy is it important to make contact with them. I dont think waiting the 20 minutes or whatever after the first warp flight was demonstrating the imminency of humans finding the other inhabitants of the galaxy. Cochran could have gone home, looked at his numbers and convinced himself that he had only gone "really fast" not faster than light and thrown his research away.
Anyway, I feel about 20% geekier, how about you?:)
fucking bite me. My moronic posts fit in quite snugly with the rest of slashdot. As for my "outright insulting" statements, at least I have the balls to put my name to em.
Man.. you would figure the California public utilities commission would have enough on it's plate at the moment! "Damn, my ISP just went down.. guess that UPS I bought wasn't the only thing I needed to do to guarentee my 24hr/day mp3 snarfing abilities."
what I thought was funny about First Contact was that the vulcans were totally technical about their prime directive just like the federation. ie. The human race had just gotten warp technology no longer than 20 minutes ago when the vulcans showed up. How exactly is that honouring the spirit of the prime directive. We were not a space faring race when the vulcans showed up, we had just been lucky enough to have a nut job who wanted to try out his experimental rocket around the same time the vulcans were in the neighbourhood.
It didn't really matter that we fired half the people here because they didn't have anything to spend the money on anyways because we supplied all the coke and pizza they could eat and a place to sleep. Most of them have moved back in with their parents and now we get all their code for free which is a good thing cause we're never gunna make any money off writing an open source Mac gui for linux.
Great, so we replace a monolithic super monopoly that doesn't listen to its customers with an adhoc group of super coders who dont listen to their users. Note that I'm dising both equally:) Seriously, open source will have to start writing code that the non-coding users want before it will go mainstream and that will require some new social contracts.. I'm not saying it has to be the traditional money based incentives but it will have to be something similar because your average user of software has nothing an open source coder wants. "Wow man, you're cool" "Uh huh, and you're a clueless former windows user.. your props mean nothing to me".
actually that's sort of a political correctness phenomenon.. there was a time when if I wrote the like: "all a mailman has to do is take his bag of letters and put them in the mailboxes" and you would quickly recieve a deluge of feminists screaming for blood. "Women can be mailpersons too!", "why do you naturally assume that your mail must be delivered by a man." So rather than go to the linquistic complexity of making sure your sentences are without gender bias, a lot of P.C. writers chose to make every sentence female gender biased. Would one not expect a deluge of men screaming how they can be leet hackers too? Apparently not. Now why do you think that is?
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which coast? Every "geek" I have run into here on the west coast is a fitness freak.. hell, I'm even tempted to go running at lunch time.
God damn I want a pair. I used to blade to get around (and I dont know why I still dont) but recently I got handed a bike. I hate biking, with a passion, so much so that I will gladly walk instead of ride a bike. These things look cool, and I guess my days are numbered before I just give in and buy a freakin' car.
There's about four dozen fan sites for Fight Club and every one of them can give you a meaning to life, only you can decide it's what's right for you however.
wow, add time to market and you've got software design issues here :)
napsterize that!
you were obviously looking in the wrong places.
dude, there will be answer, let it be.
I cried when my toaster broke.. I was really hungry and it was like 2am and all I had was stale bread and I didn't want to eat it stale.. That toaster was my salvation man.
There's supposed to be a mourning period.
well, it was just leet that they bothered.
werd. I cant help feeling that people with this attitude have never put their heart and soul into a business idea. I almost feel like going down to their offices in Menlo Park and singing some songs or something (I could be just bored), anyone else in the bay area wanna come along?
I still have the BeOS personal edition for Linux download that runs from an image on your ext2fs partition. You just make a BEOS directory off the root of any ext2fs mount and put the files in it then reboot using a boot floppy. It then scanned your partitions found the one with the image and up she popped. The slowest part of the boot getting the loader off the floppy!
Translate this arguement into french where there is not indeterminate gender and there is specifically a "male dominiates over female" rule for talking about groups.
How about just a place where you can go and prepay for a feature to be written/completed/fixed on some open source app and then anyone who submits the patch gets the payment (after some sort of verification I suppose but that's one of them "who pays the verfiers" arguements). It would seriously rock to be able to go to a big list of feature requests, hack something up and get paid an hour later.
No but what I was saying was that in Kirk and TNG ega they are very technical about the prime directive. Not really worried about the intent of it, just that it's a rule and they have to abide by it. The vulcans had a similar policy when they first came in contact with earth (this is stated in First Contact I think, or I heard it in one of the series). One would not think vulcans would be so technical about their rules. You would figure a vulcan would never follow a law that they didn't understand the logic behind. As other posts here have indicated, perhaps showing up as soon as someone figures out warp travel is a good thing, to stop them from trampling on other people's territory, but my opinion was that the prime directive was there to let non space faring races live in blissful ignorance of the rest of the galaxy. Only after it is imminent that the race will discover other species in the galaxy is it important to make contact with them. I dont think waiting the 20 minutes or whatever after the first warp flight was demonstrating the imminency of humans finding the other inhabitants of the galaxy. Cochran could have gone home, looked at his numbers and convinced himself that he had only gone "really fast" not faster than light and thrown his research away.
:)
Anyway, I feel about 20% geekier, how about you?
fucking bite me. My moronic posts fit in quite snugly with the rest of slashdot. As for my "outright insulting" statements, at least I have the balls to put my name to em.
Man.. you would figure the California public utilities commission would have enough on it's plate at the moment! "Damn, my ISP just went down.. guess that UPS I bought wasn't the only thing I needed to do to guarentee my 24hr/day mp3 snarfing abilities."
I beg to differ.
well back in my day it was 1. Guess I'm not that observant.
He often gave the secret of warp technology to blue chicks on dates.
what I thought was funny about First Contact was that the vulcans were totally technical about their prime directive just like the federation. ie. The human race had just gotten warp technology no longer than 20 minutes ago when the vulcans showed up. How exactly is that honouring the spirit of the prime directive. We were not a space faring race when the vulcans showed up, we had just been lucky enough to have a nut job who wanted to try out his experimental rocket around the same time the vulcans were in the neighbourhood.
It didn't really matter that we fired half the people here because they didn't have anything to spend the money on anyways because we supplied all the coke and pizza they could eat and a place to sleep. Most of them have moved back in with their parents and now we get all their code for free which is a good thing cause we're never gunna make any money off writing an open source Mac gui for linux.
Great, so we replace a monolithic super monopoly that doesn't listen to its customers with an adhoc group of super coders who dont listen to their users. Note that I'm dising both equally :) Seriously, open source will have to start writing code that the non-coding users want before it will go mainstream and that will require some new social contracts.. I'm not saying it has to be the traditional money based incentives but it will have to be something similar because your average user of software has nothing an open source coder wants. "Wow man, you're cool" "Uh huh, and you're a clueless former windows user.. your props mean nothing to me".
actually that's sort of a political correctness phenomenon.. there was a time when if I wrote the like: "all a mailman has to do is take his bag of letters and put them in the mailboxes" and you would quickly recieve a deluge of feminists screaming for blood. "Women can be mailpersons too!", "why do you naturally assume that your mail must be delivered by a man." So rather than go to the linquistic complexity of making sure your sentences are without gender bias, a lot of P.C. writers chose to make every sentence female gender biased. Would one not expect a deluge of men screaming how they can be leet hackers too? Apparently not. Now why do you think that is?
errr.. 2b is not a valid variable, so bb is better, besides that, bb||!bb == 1, which is 6 characters smaller, as well and a very inspiring u2 song.