*grin* Six months, my ass.... I'd say she has an open invite forever... *grinning wider*
(dusts off his 20 year old Russian language textbooks)
In all seriousness, this is one hell of a lady. I would feel very priviliged to be able to wine and dine her for even one night. It's a damned shame Robert (Heinlein) wasn't around to see this...
I would hope, however, that the admins at Angelfire would have waived the bandwidth limitations for this particular user. If they have any human decency that is... what she has to say, and what she's doing, should be viewable by everyone, regardless of b/w limitations or not. I'd mirror it myself (have a complete local copy) but I'm out of webspace...
Another reply to this thread mentioned marriage proposals. *grin*
Well, heh.
I want to get in on the ground floor, there.
Elena; I'm a securely employed American who lives within a few minutes distance of biker heaven - Sturgis, South Dakota. I'll sponsor you to come over if you like. No obligations - seriously - I just think America would be a better place if it had you in it. What do you think? No Chernobyl here... but we do have Wyoming, one can put the dosimeter to good use there:)
(yup, it's a bit tongue in cheek, but seriously, who wouldn't want to get to know her, even as a friend? )
Elena's biggest safety risk may very well be "the unexpected".
On a bike (hell, anywhere in life, really) that is nearly always the demon factor that gets you... damned near got me once, twelve years ago, going into a series of S-turns that I'd been thru many times, and some dickhead had spilled pea gravel all over the low side of the bank - apparently spillover from shoulder maintenance.
Trashed the bike, but I more or less walked away. I was goddamned fucking lucky, tho.
You know, I'm not religious whatsoever; and I take a heckuva lot of risks (vertical face rock climbing without gear being one) but that exactly sums up my feelings.
That is one damned courageous woman. She's smart enough to know the risks she's taking, too.
But, hey, I have to say this; riding on icy roads on a bike... now that's friccin courage, skill, and an insane kind of chutzpah I can *really* admire:) Holy fucking shit! Lady, I salute you... you have more balls than 90% of the male population... and you're a helluva lot better looking *grin*
So... when this backfires on them, they will blame someone else? Uh huh. That would be right in line with their own PR... but seriously, you can't tell me this wasn't written at Microsoft. Even if it was outsourced, my original point still stands, eh?
So who the hell is this mysterious author "Gravity"? Ballmer?
Of course you realize that anyone who owns^H^H^H^H is owned by a^H several^H^H^H^H ok is a servant to our Furry Overlords needs a Kevlar jacket (*ouch stop that or I'll clip your claws* *OW* )
I humbly bow to my Furry Overlords. Long may they ha^H^H be supplied with tuna, and any mention of a tinfoil hat WRT to cats was purely truth on my
OW OW OW
I didn't mean the sarcasm honest no, no no mrrrrraaoooowwww
Thank you, you've given me a new toy to play with this weekend:)
It's really not all that much a problem on my main browsing machine, which can handle the load, but when I'm surfing from the laptop in the bedroom the flash ads and some gif animations can nearly kill the machine (it's an older laptop)
True, but NanoGator was talking about images, not flash etc.
I am kind of interested in what you're talking about with apache. Do you have a link to howto for setting it up? I have lots of spare cpu time around here...and I'm fucking sick of blocking flash adsites in my hosts file.
I have plenty of bandwidth, it's just the eyeball damage I'm trying to mitigate:)
Yup, Microsoft tried to "embrace and extend" Google (much like a Grizzly Bear does). Google said no. Kudos to Google.
Now Microsoft has realized they might have to do it themselves. Poor babies.
Speaking of babies, is it just me, or does Ballmer increasingly come across more and more as a whiny 10 year old in his PR comments?
Pardon my rant, but I am sick and tired of seeing the world's biggest software company acting like a bunch of greedy, spoiled kids who have to have a slice off of every pie in existence.
It's too bad that this probably won't be public knowledge (ie most of the PHB's reading that document won't have MS's hypocrisy pointed out to them).
Well, we can hope *grin*
Actually what I find most intriguing about this, is that it's likely that since this one secretary used a Mac to prepare this document, that Macs are probably pretty commonly used at the 'drone' level within Microsoft. That thought has me in spasms:)
Any comments from anyone who has been inside the Great Redmond Wall?
Goddamn, I thought the parent was kidding, but he isn't.
Looking at the raw:/Producer (Acrobat Distiller 4.05 for Macintosh)/Author (Gravity)/Title (competitive OpenOffice.qxd)/Creator (QuarkXPress\(tm\) 4.11)/ModDate (D:20030911160603-07'00')
That's freakin' hilarious. A Microsoft document poo-pooing their major competitor in the WP field, and it's written on a Macintosh in QuarkExpress? Not only that, but ModDate last September(?), and nobody at Microsoft considered the irony at all?
Case in point: was going to buy a small level, checked out Home Depot. Found a level that I liked for $19.95, which seemed a little steep. Went to Wal*Mart, found exactly the same make and model of level for $4.99.
Great post, but I have to comment here, being in the DIY biz;
Walmart has great prices on a lot of stuff, but just try finding an employee who not only knows how to *use* that level/tool but can teach you some of the finer points WRT to how you're going to use it:) That's one of the reasons many dedicated hardware stores have higher prices (yes, I'm aware of exceptions)
Great post in any case BBM
SB (not card carrying but libertarian nevertheless )
After I left school I was so burned out on computers that mine went in the closet and the only place I dealt with computers at all for about five years was using Gopher terminals at the library to look things up. Then during a move I looked at the old box in it's cardboard crate (it was an IBM PC:) and wondered what was happening in the field....
Now I'm hooked again Aiiiyyyeeeeeee
Really, it's kind of the same in any job; for me, like carpentry; I do so much fixit stuff for work that when I get home I get grief because I still haven't replaced the bathroom fan that's been dead for five months now... even tho the new fan is sitting in it's box in the bathroom closet *grin* nor put up the shelves that are still boxed and laying under the couch, etc...
Great funny troll (it was a troll, I read your sig). But that was truly worthy of marking a friend.
A sense of humor is the best damned thing anyone can have in this fucked up world:) and given how overloaded us trade people are nowadays, your sig was way too appropriate...
SB
"All truly great humor has at least a grain of truth in it"
It's not any different here in the US, rokzy. There are massive shortages here in the trades. Way too many people here are going to college because it's supposed to be some kind of route to riches and job security. Meanwhile everywhere there is a huge need for people in the trades.
Pfft. The trades have more job security (speaking as a very skilled carpenter/handyman/tradesgeek)
The gripping hand is that I deal with people every day who are in the trades, and damned experienced, but have no underlying foundation that can give them an intuition as to how a problem should be solved (example: someone asked me today whether you should sweat copper to a brass valve with the valve open or closed; it's elementary, really, with the valve closed the heat buildup inside the valve will force the air trapped to expand, forcing the solder out rather than letting it flow along the surfaces, - so leave the valve open) - the funny thing about that is, after relating that question to a couple master plumbers I know, they knew that doing it so worked, but not why.
I'm rambling (day off tomorrow and I'm into the beer a bit:) but my point is, I guess, that the trades field and the college technical field could really benefit from having people with some foundations in both (how many engineers can wire a light switch?) but it seems like there's an increasing divide between the two.
Oh, fuckit, I really can't make my point decently. I just hope you can see what I'm (poorly) trying to say...
Why become a plumber and route shit all day for years, when you can work in a nice clean cubicle and deal with shit all day?:)
*grin* Well, the plumber makes just as good money, and he has job security...
Just kidding, sorta... but fifteen years ago, I decided that the potential jobs I was lining up by going for a CS degree sucked; so I pursued other avenues until I found something I liked (carpentry) and found job security...plus I can pursue computers as a hobby at home because I'm not sick and tired of dealing with them all day (as a 30 year tech told me today "Why would I want to play with a computer at home? Hell, I don't even read my email at home...")
Slashdot Mirror
*grin* Six months, my ass.... I'd say she has an open invite forever... *grinning wider*
(dusts off his 20 year old Russian language textbooks)
In all seriousness, this is one hell of a lady. I would feel very priviliged to be able to wine and dine her for even one night. It's a damned shame Robert (Heinlein) wasn't around to see this...
Cheers!
SB
Mod parent up.
I would hope, however, that the admins at Angelfire would have waived the bandwidth limitations for this particular user. If they have any human decency that is... what she has to say, and what she's doing, should be viewable by everyone, regardless of b/w limitations or not. I'd mirror it myself (have a complete local copy) but I'm out of webspace...
Some things are just too damned important...
SB
Seconded.
:)
This lady defines courageous + geek.
Another reply to this thread mentioned marriage proposals. *grin*
Well, heh.
I want to get in on the ground floor, there.
Elena; I'm a securely employed American who lives within a few minutes distance of biker heaven - Sturgis, South Dakota. I'll sponsor you to come over if you like. No obligations - seriously - I just think America would be a better place if it had you in it. What do you think? No Chernobyl here... but we do have Wyoming, one can put the dosimeter to good use there
(yup, it's a bit tongue in cheek, but seriously, who wouldn't want to get to know her, even as a friend? )
SB
Elena's biggest safety risk may very well be "the unexpected".
On a bike (hell, anywhere in life, really) that is nearly always the demon factor that gets you... damned near got me once, twelve years ago, going into a series of S-turns that I'd been thru many times, and some dickhead had spilled pea gravel all over the low side of the bank - apparently spillover from shoulder maintenance.
Trashed the bike, but I more or less walked away. I was goddamned fucking lucky, tho.
SB
Go with God, girl.
You know, I'm not religious whatsoever; and I take a heckuva lot of risks (vertical face rock climbing without gear being one) but that exactly sums up my feelings.
That is one damned courageous woman. She's smart enough to know the risks she's taking, too.
May Murphy smile on you, kiddo...
SB
Ditto here.
:) Holy fucking shit! Lady, I salute you... you have more balls than 90% of the male population... and you're a helluva lot better looking *grin*
Man, riding thru the Chernobyl fallout areas...
But, hey, I have to say this; riding on icy roads on a bike... now that's friccin courage, skill, and an insane kind of chutzpah I can *really* admire
SB
^_^
^^ ^^
^_^
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This isn't new, either. There have been operations going on to recover a lot of timber from Lake Superior, among others.
:)
There is a lot of well-preserved old-growth timber in these places that is economically worth logging.
Somewhere around here I have a couple photocopies of those old Aladdin advertisements
SB
So... when this backfires on them, they will blame someone else? Uh huh. That would be right in line with their own PR... but seriously, you can't tell me this wasn't written at Microsoft. Even if it was outsourced, my original point still stands, eh?
So who the hell is this mysterious author "Gravity"? Ballmer?
SB
ROFL
Thanks, I needed that laugh...
Of course you realize that anyone who owns^H^H^H^H is owned by a^H several^H^H^H^H ok is a servant to our Furry Overlords needs a Kevlar jacket (*ouch stop that or I'll clip your claws* *OW* )
I humbly bow to my Furry Overlords. Long may they ha^H^H be supplied with tuna, and any mention of a tinfoil hat WRT to cats was purely truth on my
OW OW OW
I didn't mean the sarcasm honest no, no no mrrrrraaoooowwww
[no carrier]
So the EU Commission demonstrates that it gives no regard to licensing or intellectual property rights...
:) At least, I hope so...
There's a difference between use and abuse; I suspect the Commission knows that
SB
"secratary"
?
I doubt that MS hires outside firms for PR. Why would they?
SB
Funny, I think my cats feel the same way about slashdot :)
Don't need to remove my tinfoil hat, they've chewed up the coax twice!
SB
Thank you, you've given me a new toy to play with this weekend :)
It's really not all that much a problem on my main browsing machine, which can handle the load, but when I'm surfing from the laptop in the bedroom the flash ads and some gif animations can nearly kill the machine (it's an older laptop)
Danke
SB
True, but NanoGator was talking about images, not flash etc.
I am kind of interested in what you're talking about with apache. Do you have a link to howto for setting it up? I have lots of spare cpu time around here...and I'm fucking sick of blocking flash adsites in my hosts file.
I have plenty of bandwidth, it's just the eyeball damage I'm trying to mitigate
SB
Yup, Microsoft tried to "embrace and extend" Google (much like a Grizzly Bear does). Google said no. Kudos to Google.
Now Microsoft has realized they might have to do it themselves. Poor babies.
Speaking of babies, is it just me, or does Ballmer increasingly come across more and more as a whiny 10 year old in his PR comments?
Pardon my rant, but I am sick and tired of seeing the world's biggest software company acting like a bunch of greedy, spoiled kids who have to have a slice off of every pie in existence.
SB
It's called right-click, block images from this server.
After a bit of training, it works quite well, thank you - and not just for MS advertising, either.
Now if someone would invent a similar technology for sunglasses so I could block out all the fucking billboards I'd be ecstatic
SB
You're right.
It's too bad that this probably won't be public knowledge (ie most of the PHB's reading that document won't have MS's hypocrisy pointed out to them).
Well, we can hope *grin*
Actually what I find most intriguing about this, is that it's likely that since this one secretary used a Mac to prepare this document, that Macs are probably pretty commonly used at the 'drone' level within Microsoft. That thought has me in spasms
Any comments from anyone who has been inside the Great Redmond Wall?
SB
Goddamn, I thought the parent was kidding, but he isn't.
/Producer (Acrobat Distiller 4.05 for Macintosh) /Author (Gravity) /Title (competitive OpenOffice.qxd) /Creator (QuarkXPress\(tm\) 4.11) /ModDate (D:20030911160603-07'00')
Looking at the raw:
That's freakin' hilarious. A Microsoft document poo-pooing their major competitor in the WP field, and it's written on a Macintosh in QuarkExpress? Not only that, but ModDate last September(?), and nobody at Microsoft considered the irony at all?
LOL
SB
Case in point: was going to buy a small level, checked out Home Depot. Found a level that I liked for $19.95, which seemed a little steep. Went to Wal*Mart, found exactly the same make and model of level for $4.99.
:) That's one of the reasons many dedicated hardware stores have higher prices (yes, I'm aware of exceptions)
Great post, but I have to comment here, being in the DIY biz;
Walmart has great prices on a lot of stuff, but just try finding an employee who not only knows how to *use* that level/tool but can teach you some of the finer points WRT to how you're going to use it
Great post in any case BBM
SB (not card carrying but libertarian nevertheless )
Does seem that way, doesn't it?
:) and wondered what was happening in the field....
After I left school I was so burned out on computers that mine went in the closet and the only place I dealt with computers at all for about five years was using Gopher terminals at the library to look things up. Then during a move I looked at the old box in it's cardboard crate (it was an IBM PC
Now I'm hooked again Aiiiyyyeeeeeee
Really, it's kind of the same in any job; for me, like carpentry; I do so much fixit stuff for work that when I get home I get grief because I still haven't replaced the bathroom fan that's been dead for five months now... even tho the new fan is sitting in it's box in the bathroom closet *grin*
nor put up the shelves that are still boxed and laying under the couch, etc...
SB
Plumber. Nothing wrong with it, either.
:)
(can't decide whether I'm going for the funny mod, the insightful mod, or just don't give a shit because I'm so fucking pissed off
SB
Holy shit, that was hilarious.
Great funny troll (it was a troll, I read your sig). But that was truly worthy of marking a friend.
A sense of humor is the best damned thing anyone can have in this fucked up world
SB
"All truly great humor has at least a grain of truth in it"
It's not any different here in the US, rokzy. There are massive shortages here in the trades. Way too many people here are going to college because it's supposed to be some kind of route to riches and job security. Meanwhile everywhere there is a huge need for people in the trades.
:) but my point is, I guess, that the trades field and the college technical field could really benefit from having people with some foundations in both (how many engineers can wire a light switch?) but it seems like there's an increasing divide between the two.
Pfft. The trades have more job security (speaking as a very skilled carpenter/handyman/tradesgeek)
The gripping hand is that I deal with people every day who are in the trades, and damned experienced, but have no underlying foundation that can give them an intuition as to how a problem should be solved (example: someone asked me today whether you should sweat copper to a brass valve with the valve open or closed; it's elementary, really, with the valve closed the heat buildup inside the valve will force the air trapped to expand, forcing the solder out rather than letting it flow along the surfaces, - so leave the valve open) - the funny thing about that is, after relating that question to a couple master plumbers I know, they knew that doing it so worked, but not why.
I'm rambling (day off tomorrow and I'm into the beer a bit
Oh, fuckit, I really can't make my point decently. I just hope you can see what I'm (poorly) trying to say...
SB
Why become a plumber and route shit all day for years, when you can work in a nice clean cubicle and deal with shit all day? :)
*grin* Well, the plumber makes just as good money, and he has job security...
Just kidding, sorta... but fifteen years ago, I decided that the potential jobs I was lining up by going for a CS degree sucked; so I pursued other avenues until I found something I liked (carpentry) and found job security...plus I can pursue computers as a hobby at home because I'm not sick and tired of dealing with them all day (as a 30 year tech told me today "Why would I want to play with a computer at home? Hell, I don't even read my email at home...")
Yay for Hawaiian shirt day!
SB