My strange and crazy lit teacher in highschool, said just one thing I remember in the 130 federally mandated hours we spent together, "You have to kill, or pay someone to kill for you."
The Air Force (and all of our other military institutions) buys our freedom with their "sweat blood and tears." Yes I know that freedom isn't perfect (patriot act, DMCA, george bush, et all). And I sure as hell know these institutions are far from perfect. BUT if thy didn't do what they do, you wouldn't have the freedom to object.
my god thats the best thing Ive ever heard! mod this guy up!:) (and) Lemme tell a couple stories:)
Back in junior high I had this little TSR program that would make letters (in text mode) drop off the screen, they would fall until they landed on another letter, if not, they would drop right off the screen... this was back in the day where you had a dual floppy system (one disk for the OS, one for your applications). We jurry rigged as many OS disks as we could to load 4 copies of the program when it booted... Long story short, as students started to complain letters were falling off the screem, the teacher flipped and couldnt figure out WTF was going on:D you could see the panic in is weasel face. This was right around the time of the Michaelanglo virus, so eventually my buddy and I suggested it was a virus and that we would take the disks home and disinfect them... we undid our dirty work and laughed about it for the rest of the year:)
My favorite story though, my highschool had *1* computer in the library, it was a dog slow 286, and it ran some mico-fiche searching software, and some cd-rom based article. It had this crap-ass DOS menu program that supposedly locked you out of the OS. One day it segfaulted and gave the location of the program (**EXCEPTION IN C:\MENU\WHATEVER.EXE). Ahhhh a dos prompt! But what could I do ?... nothin really except run deltree, and thats kind of cruel. So I thought for awhile, and well I knew the location of the EXE... so I whipped up a little boot disk that zipped up a copy of the menu directory and then rebooted... I walked up to the computer, put the disc in, toggled the power, and walla a copy of the menu program:) I had hoped I could glean the password from the datafiles, but no such luck. so I started to think, what COULD I do... well long story short, there was this program called goldwave (I think), that would attach a MOD+player to an exe (for suck-ass demo makers), and execute them in paralell. Clearly with a copy of the EXE and goldwave, evil was the only viable option. I picked this GOD AWFULL mod file of some screetching followed by more screetching and drums [those who were around in the day must remember how truely awfull mods could be]:) I attached the mod+player to the exe and modified the batch file that executed the menu program to copy a fresh copy of my singing menu each time the menu program was started, but only after the SECOND time the menu was run (this was real important). I made another bootdisk that renamed the old exe and copied in my new batchfiles/mods.
So I went to the machine, put my disk in, toggled the power again, and it installed my modified menu exe. Well remember I said it started singing the SECOND time the menu was run? That was so I could be nowhere near the machine when it started singing. Sure enough, the next morning when the machine was turned on for the day, it starter caterwalling out its PC speaker. I wasn't there, but I was told it was quite a spectacle and that the librarians flipped out completley:) They never could proved who did it, but it was pretty obvious I was the one.
At school (before I graduated so long ago) we would "fork bomb" the compute servers [ while(1) do { fork(); } ] in an attempt to extend deadlines or simply be assholes:)
This dvd player "degrades" simliar to what you are describing. First it woudln't play really old 1 layer discs, then grrr american beauty wouldn't play, then a few dvds wouldn't play... (of course this started the moment it got out of warranty) finally over the course of a year the ONLY dvd it would play was fight club, which is a damn good movie, but kind of lacking in variety.
Never have I heard someone talk out of their ass so badly.
Universities of all types are money grubbing bastards. Even when I opted out of the student directory, my name was sold to a slew of companies, I got special student credit card offers, and all sorts of adds for graduation stuff, rings, invitations etc...
And as a former university employee, let me tell you WHY they do this. Government money is regulated, it can only legally be spent on what it is earmarked for. Once in my employment, we had 250k for equiptment but our other accounts were nearly depleted, we could hardly pay our employees and bills and we couldn't cheat. I ordered 100k worth of sun servers (which we also needed badly), but when we got them we couldn't afford the 900$ to have the power receptacles installed (3 prong 210V dealies), because that money had to come from out general fund not our equiptment fund.
So here's why universities are money grubbing bastards (atleast in the US). Money they get from ripping off students is *FREE MONEY*. They can put it in "discretionary funds" and do whatever the fuck they want with it. At my university "the money runs uphill and the shit runs downhill" (to quote the Sopranos). The chancelor stole money from wherever he could to the tune of like 2 mill a year in his discretionary fund. With a student body of about 15,000 you can see thats about 134$/year in fees per student, easily accomplished.
not knowing much about routers, what is the max number of IP's that can be banned ? Seems like a way to defeat this would be to have SO many banned IP's that it overloaded whatever (undoubtedly limited) memory there was for routes.
Yea w2k is MS's golden child, but MS Office is still the red-headed step-child. Office is unstable on any OS and thats where the opertunity for linux is.
You've obviously never written a large proposal (200+ pages) or a videogame:)
Word is a nightmare for any complex document. As your document gets larger it degrades -- strange lockups, images jumping around, strange inconsistencies (the document looks different on win98 then it does on win2k, oh shit, what is our publisher using?), and things that just don't work right because you cant edit the codes by hand.
Similarly, the DirectX API is a mess, which to MS's credit they are working on fixing (lots of positive changes in DX8), but it's still a mess. You also have to remember anytime you use DirectX or Word, MS has you exactly where they want you - using their products on their OS... so they didn't really do the world a favor. Overall DirectX did some good though as modern games just wouldn't be possible without it (imagine the development costs/times for writing drivers for every 3d accelerator).
Thats pretty much what I thought... at first I was imagining whales with WAP's strapped to their backs, providing wireless internet access to scurvy sea sailors and pirates... "Arrrrrr me webcamnow.com went out!! I guess its back to man-love for me...DAMN YOU WHALES!!! *gives promethian gesture*"
Then I had the more sober thought that this was probably some kind of research project so they could know the temperature of a whales rectum 24/7...
Then I realized we were talking about Wales and not whales and I could care less about this story:)
Actually there are 36 major plots, as detailed by the book, Thirty Six Dramatic Situations. This is a great (and very hard to find) book. 36 isnt an exact number, but its definatley most of them. The book gives each of the plots and common variations, twists... once you read this book it will ruin storytelling for you forever:) Read with caution...
As an example of one of the dramatic situations: stranger comes from the heavens, has the power to heal people (and does so), is misunderstood and hunted by authorities. Dies, is resurcted, and ascends to the heavens... jesus or ET?:)
Am I the only one here who is getting a bit annoyed by LucasFilm's pentration into the museum market?
and at my (former) university you can take a course on STAR TREK.
Hopefully AOTC will get a few street urchins into a museum and even beter then that, some of the profits hopefully could FUND the museum. Think of it as a tax on the stupid, those dumb enuf to see the movie support a museum for elitest bastards like myself:)
Speaking as a music geek, BEOS never attracted a single high end music application (Cubase, Cakewalk, Logic etc).
They had a real opportunity at the time to, audio under windows NT wasnt possible (crappy driver model/support), 95/98 was unstable (and dont get me started on macs). *EVERYONE* was looking for a new platform and the consensus was "if it works we'll buy it". If they had gotten any one of the 3 major sequencers on BEOS at this exact moment, they would ahve ruled the roost. But when Win2k came out and was stable, the window of opportunity closed, and thats how BEOS lost the music industry.
thats my favorite, but there are plenty of others. If you dont like any of them, write one of your own. Numerical Methods is a good topic for programmers to understand. Would prolly take you a week or so to write and would be a good excercise.
Go apply today:) They really demand *alot* of agents. IF you do their application it tells you to expect to be worked 10 hours a day. I applied when I got out of college but wasn't even considered because I said I wouldn't consent to be posted *ANYWHERE IN THE US* at their discression. There were also some strange questions like, "Have you used marijuana more then 15 times?" So 14 times is ok?
Check out their policies
http://www.fbi.gov/employment/policies.htm
I worked at an outfit at UC Riverside that did DARPA and NSF research, and I watched my boss play fast and loose with the cash for years. Most of it was shady but some of it was down right criminal and as long as we coughed up some "research" by the end of the terms no one cared where the money went and nobody ever got audited.
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The Air Force (and all of our other military institutions) buys our freedom with their "sweat blood and tears." Yes I know that freedom isn't perfect (patriot act, DMCA, george bush, et all). And I sure as hell know these institutions are far from perfect. BUT if thy didn't do what they do, you wouldn't have the freedom to object.
Back in junior high I had this little TSR program that would make letters (in text mode) drop off the screen, they would fall until they landed on another letter, if not, they would drop right off the screen ... this was back in the day where you had a dual floppy system (one disk for the OS, one for your applications). We jurry rigged as many OS disks as we could to load 4 copies of the program when it booted ... Long story short, as students started to complain letters were falling off the screem, the teacher flipped and couldnt figure out WTF was going on :D you could see the panic in is weasel face. This was right around the time of the Michaelanglo virus, so eventually my buddy and I suggested it was a virus and that we would take the disks home and disinfect them ... we undid our dirty work and laughed about it for the rest of the year :)
My favorite story though, my highschool had *1* computer in the library, it was a dog slow 286, and it ran some mico-fiche searching software, and some cd-rom based article. It had this crap-ass DOS menu program that supposedly locked you out of the OS. One day it segfaulted and gave the location of the program (**EXCEPTION IN C:\MENU\WHATEVER.EXE). Ahhhh a dos prompt! But what could I do ? ... nothin really except run deltree, and thats kind of cruel. So I thought for awhile, and well I knew the location of the EXE ... so I whipped up a little boot disk that zipped up a copy of the menu directory and then rebooted ... I walked up to the computer, put the disc in, toggled the power, and walla a copy of the menu program :) I had hoped I could glean the password from the datafiles, but no such luck. so I started to think, what COULD I do ... well long story short, there was this program called goldwave (I think), that would attach a MOD+player to an exe (for suck-ass demo makers), and execute them in paralell. Clearly with a copy of the EXE and goldwave, evil was the only viable option. I picked this GOD AWFULL mod file of some screetching followed by more screetching and drums [those who were around in the day must remember how truely awfull mods could be] :) I attached the mod+player to the exe and modified the batch file that executed the menu program to copy a fresh copy of my singing menu each time the menu program was started, but only after the SECOND time the menu was run (this was real important). I made another bootdisk that renamed the old exe and copied in my new batchfiles/mods.
So I went to the machine, put my disk in, toggled the power again, and it installed my modified menu exe. Well remember I said it started singing the SECOND time the menu was run? That was so I could be nowhere near the machine when it started singing. Sure enough, the next morning when the machine was turned on for the day, it starter caterwalling out its PC speaker. I wasn't there, but I was told it was quite a spectacle and that the librarians flipped out completley :) They never could proved who did it, but it was pretty obvious I was the one.
Ok, story time is over, continue your trolling :)
At school (before I graduated so long ago) we would "fork bomb" the compute servers [ while(1) do { fork(); } ] in an attempt to extend deadlines or simply be assholes :)
This dvd player "degrades" simliar to what you are describing. First it woudln't play really old 1 layer discs, then grrr american beauty wouldn't play, then a few dvds wouldn't play ... (of course this started the moment it got out of warranty) finally over the course of a year the ONLY dvd it would play was fight club, which is a damn good movie, but kind of lacking in variety.
Universities of all types are money grubbing bastards. Even when I opted out of the student directory, my name was sold to a slew of companies, I got special student credit card offers, and all sorts of adds for graduation stuff, rings, invitations etc...
And as a former university employee, let me tell you WHY they do this. Government money is regulated, it can only legally be spent on what it is earmarked for. Once in my employment, we had 250k for equiptment but our other accounts were nearly depleted, we could hardly pay our employees and bills and we couldn't cheat. I ordered 100k worth of sun servers (which we also needed badly), but when we got them we couldn't afford the 900$ to have the power receptacles installed (3 prong 210V dealies), because that money had to come from out general fund not our equiptment fund.
So here's why universities are money grubbing bastards (atleast in the US). Money they get from ripping off students is *FREE MONEY*. They can put it in "discretionary funds" and do whatever the fuck they want with it. At my university "the money runs uphill and the shit runs downhill" (to quote the Sopranos). The chancelor stole money from wherever he could to the tune of like 2 mill a year in his discretionary fund. With a student body of about 15,000 you can see thats about 134$/year in fees per student, easily accomplished.
You seem to be having trouble typing, both hands are on the keyboard, right? :)
not knowing much about routers, what is the max number of IP's that can be banned ? Seems like a way to defeat this would be to have SO many banned IP's that it overloaded whatever (undoubtedly limited) memory there was for routes.
Yea w2k is MS's golden child, but MS Office is still the red-headed step-child. Office is unstable on any OS and thats where the opertunity for linux is.
Not excel, so take your csv file and fuck off. The last person I need advice from is a VB programmer.
Unfourtnatley lots of publishers use/request/only accept word documents. 5 years ago it was all wordperfect and LaTex ...
that is about the dumbest thing Ive ever heard. I should get my "fans" to finance my albums? Thats exactly the art for sale you are bitching about.
I think who you should be mad at is the media companies who get rich off OTHER peoples work, not the people who do the work.
Nickelodean used to sell it as a toy under the name "Squand". I think they even had flourescent squand :)
Word is a nightmare for any complex document. As your document gets larger it degrades -- strange lockups, images jumping around, strange inconsistencies (the document looks different on win98 then it does on win2k, oh shit, what is our publisher using?), and things that just don't work right because you cant edit the codes by hand.
Similarly, the DirectX API is a mess, which to MS's credit they are working on fixing (lots of positive changes in DX8), but it's still a mess. You also have to remember anytime you use DirectX or Word, MS has you exactly where they want you - using their products on their OS ... so they didn't really do the world a favor. Overall DirectX did some good though as modern games just wouldn't be possible without it (imagine the development costs/times for writing drivers for every 3d accelerator).
Then I had the more sober thought that this was probably some kind of research project so they could know the temperature of a whales rectum 24/7 ...
Then I realized we were talking about Wales and not whales and I could care less about this story :)
thanks!! I'll pick that one up
As an example of one of the dramatic situations: stranger comes from the heavens, has the power to heal people (and does so), is misunderstood and hunted by authorities. Dies, is resurcted, and ascends to the heavens ... jesus or ET? :)
Slashdot offering other peoples content and then selling access to it? Thats a lawsuit if I ever heard one.
and at my (former) university you can take a course on STAR TREK.
Hopefully AOTC will get a few street urchins into a museum and even beter then that, some of the profits hopefully could FUND the museum. Think of it as a tax on the stupid, those dumb enuf to see the movie support a museum for elitest bastards like myself :)
They had a real opportunity at the time to, audio under windows NT wasnt possible (crappy driver model/support), 95/98 was unstable (and dont get me started on macs). *EVERYONE* was looking for a new platform and the consensus was "if it works we'll buy it". If they had gotten any one of the 3 major sequencers on BEOS at this exact moment, they would ahve ruled the roost. But when Win2k came out and was stable, the window of opportunity closed, and thats how BEOS lost the music industry.
and thus completley unviewable to me :)
http://palmgear.com/software/showsoftware.cfm? sid=69996520020904223550&prodID=41610
thats my favorite, but there are plenty of others. If you dont like any of them, write one of your own. Numerical Methods is a good topic for programmers to understand. Would prolly take you a week or so to write and would be a good excercise.
Hey, fuck you troll
Check out their policies http://www.fbi.gov/employment/policies.htm
I worked at an outfit at UC Riverside that did DARPA and NSF research, and I watched my boss play fast and loose with the cash for years. Most of it was shady but some of it was down right criminal and as long as we coughed up some "research" by the end of the terms no one cared where the money went and nobody ever got audited.