I haven't read it, but there's a book called "Black Sunday" about some nut who nukes the superbowl from a blimp, or something (thus the title, "Black Sunday"). So, when I read all this about the Friday after Thanksgiving being called "Black Friday" I thought about some nut or group of coordinated terrorist nuts bombing the shopping malls. Then it'd REALLY be a black Friday. After all, people are calling 9-11-01 "Black Tuesday". Maybe it's just me, but I think calling it "Black Friday" is a stupid idea. I guess that's why I'm not a high-paid retail or advertising executive, or something.
I sometimes take a generic variant of Xenadrine RFA-1 weight loss pills as a good way to kick start the day, or in the afternoon if work is boring. They have it at Albertson's. Works better than coffee, and it doesn't make me pee as much. It's cheaper than energy drinks, too. $30 for 120 capsules. I've never taken it with the intention of staying up all night, but I'm sure it would work. If you're into illegal stuff like this nude dancer I know is, then you can take the "real" stuff, methamphetamine. I've never done that, though. I read that it's bad for you.
Yep. The hard core gamers are the ones that cheat. That's what it's all about. It's just like in real life. People take viagra and get breast implants, and none of this is fair, either, but if you're out to win, then you should take any and all opportunities to do so. But if it involves actually killing other people or something similar, you might want to check whether it's illegal or not, because you don't want to get thrown in jail or executed, because then you'll be a looooser. Cheating on your spouse is ok, too, because everybody does it, and it's only a problem if somebody finds out.
So, I say go ahead and cheat. If you can't beat them, join them, right? So, all online multiplayer games will eventually evolve to the equivalent of nuclear war. You press "fire" and everybody else in the game dies, except for you. Of course, everybody else has the same power, so you've got to be the first one to hit "fire". The games will be pretty short, and not all that interesting, but hey, that's what it's coming to.
Physically, you'll look like those people playing the slot machines in vegas, just clicking, and clicking, and clicking away at the button as fast as they can. But since this is on your computer in the comfort of your own home, you'll eventually figure out how to download a program to do the clicking, clicking, clicking for you,and you can just leave your computer on and go off and do something else more worthwhile, like sleeping with someone else's girlfriend (or guyfriend).
But seriously now, I would have liked for Intel to continue to put serial numbers in their processors, because then what you could do in a game like CS is blackball individuals instead of IPs, and there could even be a central blackball list on a main server, where if someone got blackballed from, say, 4 servers, then they'd be blackballed from the game entirely. Until they got a new processor.
I mean, who's afraid of having a serial number on their processor? I have serial numbers on just about everything else. Heck, my mouse's serial number is LZB6242191, and I don't feel violated by THAT having been made public. If you've got something to hide, then you must be a bad person, like a terrorist. That's how I see it.
Giving a college student money is like feeding bears in the park. It might feel good to do it, and you may think that you're doing them a favor, but in fact, you're reducing their sense of independence and self-sufficiency, and eventually, they'll no longer be able to live on their own, and maybe they'll end up ransacking your campsite and killing you when they get hungry. College students SHOULD want money. That's why they're going to college, after all. To learn how to make it. If all college is is going to be for them is a fully financed sex and alcohol fest, then go ahead and give them all the money they want.
Instead, let them get a shit job waiting tables or washing dishes, if they want to buy themselves the latest Britney Spears CD or whatever. You can pay for their tuition, housing, books, and basic nutritional sustenance, but that should be it. What else do they need? Don't give them anything else. They'll survive. If you want to make a token gift showing your affection, then you can be like Humbert Humbert in Lolita, and send a box of candy. Part of being in college should be learning to live and make it on your own, without being pampered by your parents, and without any sugar daddy type characters. I don't know. That's my perception of the purpose of college. But I was in the engineering school. Maybe it's different for the business and liberal arts people. I mean, if Bill Gates had his mommy and daddy giving him all sorts of money so that he could party all the time, and buy the company of female companions, do you think he'd have been so concerned about making money of his own? I don't know, maybe he DID get money from his parents. I didn't watch Pirates of Silicon Valley, so I don't know. So, anyway, this friend's girl probably doesn't need any special crutches or assistance from anyone. In fact, one of the best lessons she could ever probably learn is that you can't count on anyone other than yourself to take care of you and get you what you need. But then again, maybe that's just an engineer's perception. Maybe business people think differently, like "you scratch my back, I'll scratch yours." So maybe if you buy her all sorts of useful things, she'll remember you, and when she's rich and famous, she'll put you in a good retirement home. I don't know. I guess if I came from a rich and lavish family, and my kid didn't have to worry about actually making anything of himself, because they were just going to be rich, regardless, then I guess I'd want them to just have a good time in college, and I'd make sure that they had the equivalent of the "high roller suite" in dorm rooms, and that their little dorm refrigerators were fully stocked with caviar and the best wines, and they had the bestest, most impressive cars. So, I guess it all really "just depends."
One is sort of chunky and ugly, and she won't let you see her naked, and you pretty much know already that you wouldn't really enjoy it if she did. The other has a slim, beautiful body, and when she takes off her clothes and parades it around, all the men ooh and ahh over it. That's the analogy I like to use. Maybe it isn't 100% correct, but that's the impression I get when you've got MS saying "No, no, you don't want to see our source code!" and meanwhile, you've got these open source softwares that are taking it all off, and saying "hey, baby, look at THESE!" Microsoft is NOT sexy. Linux, apache, and all of those wonderful open source projects ARE. But this is just how I see it. I mean, if I was to go on a date with a woman, and she proudly told me that she has an MCSA certification, I'd probably politely nod, but secretly be planning on my escape (maybe run away after telling her I had to use the restroom). On the other hand, if she told me that she had her own php based website, and that her text editor of choice was vim, then I'd be all weak-kneed and googly-eyed, and I'd want her to have my children. But again, that's just me. I don't know how it is for other people. I mean, I may not really UNDERSTAND beautiful women, but I sure like to look at them. So, I don't think there's any action required, as in "let's get rid of Microsoft." I think that it's really just a matter of educating the masses that there's an alternative, and it looks good naked. Or as you might say, it's a lot safer because the code can be (and is) made public without compromising national security.
> The wake-on-lan must just detect ANY activity on the ethernet, not a valid packet.
IBM has a White Paper, Wake up to Wake-on-Lan which describes the specific format of a Wake-Up packet (6 bytes of F (XX'FF') followed by a 48-bit target address repeated at least 8 times). Even if the target address was a broadcast address, I don't see how this could be reliably generated by the starting of a fluorescent lamp. Plus, your average LAN has a whole bunch of traffic going on all the time anyway.
I have an iMac DV (graphite), and I DON'T have it plugged into a network, and it's NOT configured for Wake-on-Lan, nor is it configured to wake on phone rings, and I don't have any infrared devices that I know about, and I have an optical mouse, so it won't wake if the mouse gets moved, and it still wakes up when I vaccum my living room or turn on my slide projector.
I've been watching the Discovery Channel, and they had this bit about the La Palma island in the Canaries. They said that the western half of this island will eventually slide off into the ocean during a volcanic eruption and cause a huge wave that'll wipe about 20km of the USA's East Coast all squeaky clean.
Saturday, I checked out The Garden of Eden strip club for the first time. There was this sexy blonde girl with a great smile, like Cameron Diaz's. So I got a nude "friction lap dance" from her for $80. I immediately fell in love, and could hardly wait until midnight, when I would be able to withdraw $300 from the ATM and spend more time with her. I gave her my business card, and she said she thought we could have a lot of fun together (she's a "triple pisces" and I'm a scorpio, whatever that's supposed to mean). I hope she calls soon. I have a milk carton full of "adult" dvds, and I like to watch them on my 17" monitor in my room. I've been watching it in my room with headphones on ever since this other 18 year old stripper moved into my spare bedroom (she doesn't like those movies). I was hoping that she'd fugg me, but she doesn't like me, for some reason. She's never home, anyway. She stays with her drug addict friends. She must be some guys's crack ho, and she's probably too burnt out on drugs and oral sex to be interested at all in me by the time she comes home to wash her clothes. Anyway, I thought that depression was associated more with an intense desire for social (sexual) relationships, with a raging sex drive. I mean, how does the stupid psychologist know that this kid wasn't jakkeenk off every time he was alone, fantasizing about sexy teenage blonde strippers? I imagine he probably came to his diagnose by asking the kid, "How would you rate your sex drive, on a scale of 1 to 10?" I don't know for sure, but I've seen lots of psychologists and psychiatrists, and my experiences don't lead me to think very highly of their intellectual capabilities. I mean, the smartest people you know major in... psychology??? Anyway, I guess I could be called a nerd, and I for one love the "pr0n". Gang bangs, and orally digestively themed dvds, and 18 and 19 year old beautiful girls. Mmmm. I mean, sometimes I get depressed, and think of killing myself, but then I figure, "I have all this money in my checking account, and it wouldn't make sense to kill myself while there's still some money in there, so I'll use it to have a good time." Hence, strip clubs, friction lap dances, adult dvds, Private magazines, and ID Millenium personal lubricant. I've also been writing lots and lots of letters to some ladies on match dot com. Lately, I've been trying to get a response from ladies in the Ukraine, because i figure they'd appreciate a devoted man, and that they're not corrupt like American women, and know how to be faithful, and will appreciate attention, and not think that just because you're nice, that you're going to be like the psycho bitch in Fatal Attraction. I don't know. Why is it so hard to get laid? Rodney Moore is my idol. Me must have screwed 1000 different girls by now. It boggles my mind to think of how many first-timers he got.
I was watching the Discovery Channel, and "they" were taking about how baby monkeys that were separated from their mothers early, or raised without them grew up to be antisocial monkeys with low serotonin. They also said that a study of the really violent, troublemaking Marines also were found to have low serotonin. Being on paxil myself, I can tell you firsthand that increased levels of serotonin reduce any urges I might have to bring my rifle (Weatherby 'Walmart special' Vanguard 7mm Remmington magnum) somewhere to kill as many people as possible before I am brought down myself. I'd much rather be happy. I'm trying to get an attractive, loving girlfriend, which would increase my serotonin levels, but I haven't had much luck. So, instead I immerse myself in hobbies, like photography, MOHAA, UT, Serious Sam, Red Faction, RTCW, NOLF, and going to the shooting range. Oh yeah, and going to strip clubs, and occasionally getting a dirty magazine like Private. Paxil makes the world a better place for me. I don't seem to feel so depressed, lonely and hopeless while on it, even though nothing has changed. If people were happy, they wouldn't commit mass murder-suicides. I think if anything causes violence, it's low serotonin, which could becaused by lack of attenion or touch as a baby, abusive or neglectful parenting, a bad bunch of genes, or maybe being mistreated on the playground for years and years. Everything has a reason. It's nature's way of keeping it's own, sometimes objectionable balance. In this magazine I was reading, even baby hyenas will kill their siblings if food is scarce. It's all nature and chemicals. Don't feed your dog or cat or rat for a couple of days, and see if it affects their mood any.
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I haven't read it, but there's a book called "Black Sunday" about some nut who nukes the superbowl from a blimp, or something (thus the title, "Black Sunday"). So, when I read all this about the Friday after Thanksgiving being called "Black Friday" I thought about some nut or group of coordinated terrorist nuts bombing the shopping malls. Then it'd REALLY be a black Friday. After all, people are calling 9-11-01 "Black Tuesday". Maybe it's just me, but I think calling it "Black Friday" is a stupid idea. I guess that's why I'm not a high-paid retail or advertising executive, or something.
I sometimes take a generic variant of Xenadrine RFA-1 weight loss pills as a good way to kick start the day, or in the afternoon if work is boring. They have it at Albertson's. Works better than coffee, and it doesn't make me pee as much. It's cheaper than energy drinks, too. $30 for 120 capsules. I've never taken it with the intention of staying up all night, but I'm sure it would work. If you're into illegal stuff like this nude dancer I know is, then you can take the "real" stuff, methamphetamine. I've never done that, though. I read that it's bad for you.
Show that the definite integral of f(x) = sin(x) / x from - to + is .
Yep. The hard core gamers are the ones that cheat. That's what it's all about. It's just like in real life. People take viagra and get breast implants, and none of this is fair, either, but if you're out to win, then you should take any and all opportunities to do so. But if it involves actually killing other people or something similar, you might want to check whether it's illegal or not, because you don't want to get thrown in jail or executed, because then you'll be a looooser. Cheating on your spouse is ok, too, because everybody does it, and it's only a problem if somebody finds out.
So, I say go ahead and cheat. If you can't beat them, join them, right? So, all online multiplayer games will eventually evolve to the equivalent of nuclear war. You press "fire" and everybody else in the game dies, except for you. Of course, everybody else has the same power, so you've got to be the first one to hit "fire". The games will be pretty short, and not all that interesting, but hey, that's what it's coming to.
Physically, you'll look like those people playing the slot machines in vegas, just clicking, and clicking, and clicking away at the button as fast as they can. But since this is on your computer in the comfort of your own home, you'll eventually figure out how to download a program to do the clicking, clicking, clicking for you,and you can just leave your computer on and go off and do something else more worthwhile, like sleeping with someone else's girlfriend (or guyfriend).
But seriously now, I would have liked for Intel to continue to put serial numbers in their processors, because then what you could do in a game like CS is blackball individuals instead of IPs, and there could even be a central blackball list on a main server, where if someone got blackballed from, say, 4 servers, then they'd be blackballed from the game entirely. Until they got a new processor.
I mean, who's afraid of having a serial number on their processor? I have serial numbers on just about everything else. Heck, my mouse's serial number is LZB6242191, and I don't feel violated by THAT having been made public. If you've got something to hide, then you must be a bad person, like a terrorist. That's how I see it.
Giving a college student money is like feeding bears in the park. It might feel good to do it, and you may think that you're doing them a favor, but in fact, you're reducing their sense of independence and self-sufficiency, and eventually, they'll no longer be able to live on their own, and maybe they'll end up ransacking your campsite and killing you when they get hungry. College students SHOULD want money. That's why they're going to college, after all. To learn how to make it. If all college is is going to be for them is a fully financed sex and alcohol fest, then go ahead and give them all the money they want.
Instead, let them get a shit job waiting tables or washing dishes, if they want to buy themselves the latest Britney Spears CD or whatever. You can pay for their tuition, housing, books, and basic nutritional sustenance, but that should be it. What else do they need? Don't give them anything else. They'll survive. If you want to make a token gift showing your affection, then you can be like Humbert Humbert in Lolita, and send a box of candy. Part of being in college should be learning to live and make it on your own, without being pampered by your parents, and without any sugar daddy type characters. I don't know. That's my perception of the purpose of college. But I was in the engineering school. Maybe it's different for the business and liberal arts people. I mean, if Bill Gates had his mommy and daddy giving him all sorts of money so that he could party all the time, and buy the company of female companions, do you think he'd have been so concerned about making money of his own? I don't know, maybe he DID get money from his parents. I didn't watch Pirates of Silicon Valley, so I don't know. So, anyway, this friend's girl probably doesn't need any special crutches or assistance from anyone. In fact, one of the best lessons she could ever probably learn is that you can't count on anyone other than yourself to take care of you and get you what you need. But then again, maybe that's just an engineer's perception. Maybe business people think differently, like "you scratch my back, I'll scratch yours." So maybe if you buy her all sorts of useful things, she'll remember you, and when she's rich and famous, she'll put you in a good retirement home. I don't know. I guess if I came from a rich and lavish family, and my kid didn't have to worry about actually making anything of himself, because they were just going to be rich, regardless, then I guess I'd want them to just have a good time in college, and I'd make sure that they had the equivalent of the "high roller suite" in dorm rooms, and that their little dorm refrigerators were fully stocked with caviar and the best wines, and they had the bestest, most impressive cars. So, I guess it all really "just depends."
One is sort of chunky and ugly, and she won't let you see her naked, and you pretty much know already that you wouldn't really enjoy it if she did. The other has a slim, beautiful body, and when she takes off her clothes and parades it around, all the men ooh and ahh over it. That's the analogy I like to use. Maybe it isn't 100% correct, but that's the impression I get when you've got MS saying "No, no, you don't want to see our source code!" and meanwhile, you've got these open source softwares that are taking it all off, and saying "hey, baby, look at THESE!" Microsoft is NOT sexy. Linux, apache, and all of those wonderful open source projects ARE. But this is just how I see it. I mean, if I was to go on a date with a woman, and she proudly told me that she has an MCSA certification, I'd probably politely nod, but secretly be planning on my escape (maybe run away after telling her I had to use the restroom). On the other hand, if she told me that she had her own php based website, and that her text editor of choice was vim, then I'd be all weak-kneed and googly-eyed, and I'd want her to have my children. But again, that's just me. I don't know how it is for other people. I mean, I may not really UNDERSTAND beautiful women, but I sure like to look at them. So, I don't think there's any action required, as in "let's get rid of Microsoft." I think that it's really just a matter of educating the masses that there's an alternative, and it looks good naked. Or as you might say, it's a lot safer because the code can be (and is) made public without compromising national security.
> The wake-on-lan must just detect ANY activity on the ethernet, not a valid packet.
IBM has a White Paper, Wake up to Wake-on-Lan which describes the specific format of a Wake-Up packet (6 bytes of F (XX'FF') followed by a 48-bit target address repeated at least 8 times). Even if the target address was a broadcast address, I don't see how this could be reliably generated by the starting of a fluorescent lamp. Plus, your average LAN has a whole bunch of traffic going on all the time anyway.
I have an iMac DV (graphite), and I DON'T have it plugged into a network, and it's NOT configured for Wake-on-Lan, nor is it configured to wake on phone rings, and I don't have any infrared devices that I know about, and I have an optical mouse, so it won't wake if the mouse gets moved, and it still wakes up when I vaccum my living room or turn on my slide projector.
I've been watching the Discovery Channel, and they had this bit about the La Palma island in the Canaries. They said that the western half of this island will eventually slide off into the ocean during a volcanic eruption and cause a huge wave that'll wipe about 20km of the USA's East Coast all squeaky clean.
Saturday, I checked out The Garden of Eden strip club for the first time. There was this sexy blonde girl with a great smile, like Cameron Diaz's. So I got a nude "friction lap dance" from her for $80. I immediately fell in love, and could hardly wait until midnight, when I would be able to withdraw $300 from the ATM and spend more time with her. I gave her my business card, and she said she thought we could have a lot of fun together (she's a "triple pisces" and I'm a scorpio, whatever that's supposed to mean). I hope she calls soon. I have a milk carton full of "adult" dvds, and I like to watch them on my 17" monitor in my room. I've been watching it in my room with headphones on ever since this other 18 year old stripper moved into my spare bedroom (she doesn't like those movies). I was hoping that she'd fugg me, but she doesn't like me, for some reason. She's never home, anyway. She stays with her drug addict friends. She must be some guys's crack ho, and she's probably too burnt out on drugs and oral sex to be interested at all in me by the time she comes home to wash her clothes. Anyway, I thought that depression was associated more with an intense desire for social (sexual) relationships, with a raging sex drive. I mean, how does the stupid psychologist know that this kid wasn't jakkeenk off every time he was alone, fantasizing about sexy teenage blonde strippers? I imagine he probably came to his diagnose by asking the kid, "How would you rate your sex drive, on a scale of 1 to 10?" I don't know for sure, but I've seen lots of psychologists and psychiatrists, and my experiences don't lead me to think very highly of their intellectual capabilities. I mean, the smartest people you know major in... psychology??? Anyway, I guess I could be called a nerd, and I for one love the "pr0n". Gang bangs, and orally digestively themed dvds, and 18 and 19 year old beautiful girls. Mmmm. I mean, sometimes I get depressed, and think of killing myself, but then I figure, "I have all this money in my checking account, and it wouldn't make sense to kill myself while there's still some money in there, so I'll use it to have a good time." Hence, strip clubs, friction lap dances, adult dvds, Private magazines, and ID Millenium personal lubricant. I've also been writing lots and lots of letters to some ladies on match dot com. Lately, I've been trying to get a response from ladies in the Ukraine, because i figure they'd appreciate a devoted man, and that they're not corrupt like American women, and know how to be faithful, and will appreciate attention, and not think that just because you're nice, that you're going to be like the psycho bitch in Fatal Attraction. I don't know. Why is it so hard to get laid? Rodney Moore is my idol. Me must have screwed 1000 different girls by now. It boggles my mind to think of how many first-timers he got.
I was watching the Discovery Channel, and "they" were taking about how baby monkeys that were separated from their mothers early, or raised without them grew up to be antisocial monkeys with low serotonin. They also said that a study of the really violent, troublemaking Marines also were found to have low serotonin. Being on paxil myself, I can tell you firsthand that increased levels of serotonin reduce any urges I might have to bring my rifle (Weatherby 'Walmart special' Vanguard 7mm Remmington magnum) somewhere to kill as many people as possible before I am brought down myself. I'd much rather be happy. I'm trying to get an attractive, loving girlfriend, which would increase my serotonin levels, but I haven't had much luck. So, instead I immerse myself in hobbies, like photography, MOHAA, UT, Serious Sam, Red Faction, RTCW, NOLF, and going to the shooting range. Oh yeah, and going to strip clubs, and occasionally getting a dirty magazine like Private. Paxil makes the world a better place for me. I don't seem to feel so depressed, lonely and hopeless while on it, even though nothing has changed. If people were happy, they wouldn't commit mass murder-suicides. I think if anything causes violence, it's low serotonin, which could becaused by lack of attenion or touch as a baby, abusive or neglectful parenting, a bad bunch of genes, or maybe being mistreated on the playground for years and years. Everything has a reason. It's nature's way of keeping it's own, sometimes objectionable balance. In this magazine I was reading, even baby hyenas will kill their siblings if food is scarce. It's all nature and chemicals. Don't feed your dog or cat or rat for a couple of days, and see if it affects their mood any.