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News \News\, n [From New; cf. F. nounelles. News ?s plural in form, but is commonly used with a singular verb.]
1. A report of recent occurences; information of something that has lately taken place, or of something before unknown; fresh tindings; recent intelligence.
now basically news is defined as reporting of facts. the thing is that we seriously doubt JonKatz...he is the origional karma whore. its just that if he had any journalistic integrity, he would at least post the email, or tell the truth. but as we have all come to find out, he enjoys pulling stale nuggets out of his ass and posting that shit on/. now some people ignore his posts (i'm sure that's why it was put in) but i keep his in so i can see himself make a larger and larger fool. News != symbolism. there is nothing symbolic about "hey this kid in afganistan emailed me..." we just know he's full of shit and can't understand why he is allowed to post stories, especially when its neither news or shit we care about. so hows about you quit being a pussy?
so let me recap:
1. JonKatz sucks...not even an online mags or reputable news agencies would hire him.
2. he makes shit up to look cool
3. he's not cool...because he makes up news.
4. most people here wouldn't care if didn't ever come back
those encoders (or whatever they are) that put that logo down in the corner are actually quite expensive. but at least you'll never find youself saying "what channel is this"
50 different types of beer...learned to appreciate vodka. 151 is the best cure for anything...its like drinking rubbing alcohol. tequilia will make you do things you didn't know you could...or want to. etc. etc.
they plan to upgrade the TiVo units with the dual tuners first, alla DirecTV ones. then they will upgrade the rest. they said the priority is the DirecTV systems then the normal ones.
...to piss them off so they'd do that. what was the final blow that made the university step in. usually its something they don't like that makes them look bad, or some complaint about how stuff works. honestly that whole expulsion thing is a load of crap. if they just were worried about bandwidth they would have just shut him down...not had the cops come and take his stuff and ERASE IT! thats way outta line. it he was running a pr0n/warez server out of his dorm room i could understand the universities desire to press that sort of action. but he was simply running an open forum for students. isn't there some law that says universities cannot supress a students rights? especially freedom of speech (or our twist on that i guess).
you pay for most channels on cable. certain channels like M2 (MTV2) were free, now pay.
cable companies get their feeds from various sats, they pay per set. so channels like HBO cost around $1, but channels like TBS cost like $.25. the do deals where if you get 4 turner channels you get the 5th free. when i worked for a cable company our average bill per set was around $7.50.
most cable channels are paid for, if they are not thats what the adverts are for. often times local stations will insert their own commercials (those cheap cheesey produced ones like the old dirt devil commercials).
John Devorak is a fossil...he is only dating himself by saying stupid shit like this. TiVo isn't stupid, pretty soon they'll figure out, if they haven't already, how to insert commercials when you turn on your reciever or the TV, etc. and whats to keep the people from doing the same thing with a VCR, this is just cleaner:) i like tivo, my roommate has the sony reciever with it. you can bet i'm getting one as soon as i move out.
I didn't think it was much worse (if at all) than tired flicks like Independence Day or Starship Troopers.
yeah but starship troopers had boobies!
on a serious note, the book by robert heiline was really good. i didn't think the movie was that bad...considering how badly hollywood likes to mangle books:)
i was doing my daily tooling on the netware tolken ring at our high school...go to the business lab and go to file->run->command.com
voila...in like flynn. well one day i got caught, and they wanted to suspend me, expell me if they could. here i was, only being curious not malicious, while other kids are getting beat up and their assailents get no punishment, and they wanted to expell me?
anyway they called in my father the next day, they told him, yada yada, then he asked me to step out. when i came back in they told me that nothing was going to happen and that i was to never do that again. a slap on the wrist basically.
well on the way home my dad told me that when i closed the door it went like this:
dad: so how do you know what he was doing?
admin: we have logs that log any wrong activity.
dad: may i see this?
admin: its been deleted
dad: ok, do you have a set of rules or contract that he signed saying this is an unacceptable activity?
vp: actually no.
dad: so basically you're telling me that you have no evidence and no rule for what he's done and you want to suspend him for 5 days out of school, possibly even look into expulsion?
vp: yes
dad: if you do that i will sue this district for everything. you will not even look unkindly upon my son, or you will hear from my lawyer.
needless to say it was cool, but there was more rules next year. sometimes all it takes is someone with a strong will to stand up, hell they prolly could have suspended me, but my dad made it plain as day that i had rights and without proof they had no case.
he was on KROQ this morning and he said that they were passing out flyers in his absence to tell what happened. I don't know why they suspended him, even after he repeatedly said he didn't want to win.
they even tried to get him to sign his rights away by signing a paper that said any activity deamed disruptive would allow the school to expel him. he didn't sign it, thank god.
because socialism is not a capitalistic way. we are suppoesed to be a capitalistic society, contries like France and Spain are socialist, where the government has a monopoly on mail, banks, phones, etc. and can charge what they want. where as in a capitalistic society such as ours there is free competition (at least supposed to be) and this drives DOWN prices and RAISES quality of goods and life. hell i don't want the government running everything, it can't even run itself very well!
1: on the first day of x-mas slashdot gave to me...a partition on a kernel tree.
2: on the second day of x-mas slashdot gave to me...two hard drives, and a...GOTO 1
3: on the third day of x-mas slashdot gave to me...a three channel raid card, GOTO 2
4: on the fourth day of x-mas slashdot gave to me...a quad pentium iii server, GOTO 3
5: on the fifth day of x-mas slashdot gave to me 5 gigs of ram, GOTO 4
6: on the sixth day of x-mas slashdot gave to me 6 anime movies, GOTO 5
7: on the seventh day of x-mas slashdot gave to me 7 Hemos' mispelling, GOTO 6
8: on the eighth day of x-mas slashdot gave to me 8 trolls a trolling, GOTO 7
9: on the ninth day of x-mas slashdot gave to me 9 sites a slashdotted, GOTO 8
10: on the tenth day of x-mas slashdot gave to me 10 CmdrTaco's a milking, GOTO 9
11: on the eleventh day of x-mas slashdot gave to me 11 JonKatz posts (argh!), GOTO 10
12: on the twelveth day of x-mas slashdot gave to me, 12 natalie portman's petrified with hot grits, GOTO 11
please that took a while...don't hold spelling against me! i know its non-sense...thats why its fun!
The funny thing is i did my 3 years of college education. after the 3 years of General Ed. all i wanted to do was take my engineering classes. Couldn't afford it anymore, so i learn perl, and here i am today. i can afford my life style. when we interview new junior programmers (i'm the lead now) out of college...they know shit about real world programming. i sat around in school and said "how can i make this practical" whereas most of the mooks interviewed have never created a practical program before.
i'm not going to say this is the case all the time...i just tend to notice this. that and my employer doesn't mind sending me to confrences and training to make me smarter on how to do my job.
if you go into a interview and they say: "show us how to get info from two tables using one select statement (sql)" and you can't do it...your screwed. if you can your in.
one last thing. all the teach now a days is java, asp, and VB. since when did academic and commercially viable solutions like perl and C get the shaft. no wonder employers will hire ppl w/o degrees, you can't get any education in those languages that are still very practical.
don't really understand what this is supposed to mean...i'm not really one for MS, but if they could put out a quality product without trying to take over the world, i'm all for it.
ok, i don't think your gonna beable to telnet/ssh or get a web port on this thing...i think the whole linux thing is just a marketing tool. sure i may run on it...but in effect it's like a palm because thats whats successful...linux is the current marketing tool.
i don't want every toolbox in the country saying "i know how to run linux" because they have it on a handheld...damn i've had it for 3 years and i still have a hard time with it...sometimes
This is kinda like clinton saying "the country did well under democratic leadership"
well its only because greenspan did so well while the reganites were fucking the nation up...clinton didn't do anything but get some koochie juice on a cigar.
boring or not, at least Gore knows how to run a country
when he's not inventing the internet:)
seriously...GWB is a pretty boy that is coasting off his dad's popularity...don't want more reganites fucking up the country...(they managed to do a number on california).
too bad McCain didn't get it...he would have been good...him or Nader, VOTE NADER...heh...he's totally anti-mpaa and anti-riaa
In contrast, George Bush's press conferences are "fun", because GeeDubyah makes jokes, gives the press guys
cute nicknames, talks about golf, and what they all did over the weekend.
...and whether or not they did drugs or slept with so and so...but the public sucks it up...reporters are concerned with one thing, paycheck and they get this by acheiving ratings. you think people who can afford cable and televisions want to hear about the healthcare or welfare problems of those that can't...no! why should they. they have their own problems and issues.
i fully agree with you though...i hate the media. everytime i watch a car chase i hear the reporters saying everything 5-10 times...why...thats all they know how to do.
we will never have another FDR, because someone like that will not be graceful enough for the TV. look at how Kennedy whooped Nixons ass because he banked on looking good on TV.
our world is forever based off of images and imagery...we can't expect someone to get elected for ideals or character anymore...we elect people cuz they are nice, or speak spanish.
*side note...i think this whole spanish thing is a crock. those two shitheads running for pres are gonna shit on all the mexicans once they get elected*
see this is a good thing. while there are already many console systems out there (Dreamcast, PSX, N64) this will hopefully drive the prices down on these, as well as improve the quality of the X-Box and of the RH-Box (;) and drive their prices down too.
is this thing going to only run linux games though? they should try to put a PSX emulator on there and some sort of system to run the X-Box games...then you could get three consoles for 1...heh! now thats practical
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so let me recap:
1. JonKatz sucks...not even an online mags or reputable news agencies would hire him.
2. he makes shit up to look cool
3. he's not cool...because he makes up news.
4. most people here wouldn't care if didn't ever come back
www.gerberblades.com
better than a swiss army knife and a leatherman. you can even build your own.
those encoders (or whatever they are) that put that logo down in the corner are actually quite expensive. but at least you'll never find youself saying "what channel is this"
50 different types of beer...learned to appreciate vodka. 151 is the best cure for anything...its like drinking rubbing alcohol. tequilia will make you do things you didn't know you could...or want to. etc. etc.
they plan to upgrade the TiVo units with the dual tuners first, alla DirecTV ones. then they will upgrade the rest. they said the priority is the DirecTV systems then the normal ones.
...to piss them off so they'd do that. what was the final blow that made the university step in. usually its something they don't like that makes them look bad, or some complaint about how stuff works. honestly that whole expulsion thing is a load of crap. if they just were worried about bandwidth they would have just shut him down...not had the cops come and take his stuff and ERASE IT! thats way outta line. it he was running a pr0n/warez server out of his dorm room i could understand the universities desire to press that sort of action. but he was simply running an open forum for students. isn't there some law that says universities cannot supress a students rights? especially freedom of speech (or our twist on that i guess).
JediLuke
you pay for most channels on cable. certain channels like M2 (MTV2) were free, now pay.
:) i like tivo, my roommate has the sony reciever with it. you can bet i'm getting one as soon as i move out.
cable companies get their feeds from various sats, they pay per set. so channels like HBO cost around $1, but channels like TBS cost like $.25. the do deals where if you get 4 turner channels you get the 5th free. when i worked for a cable company our average bill per set was around $7.50.
most cable channels are paid for, if they are not thats what the adverts are for. often times local stations will insert their own commercials (those cheap cheesey produced ones like the old dirt devil commercials).
John Devorak is a fossil...he is only dating himself by saying stupid shit like this. TiVo isn't stupid, pretty soon they'll figure out, if they haven't already, how to insert commercials when you turn on your reciever or the TV, etc. and whats to keep the people from doing the same thing with a VCR, this is just cleaner
JediLuke
yeah but starship troopers had boobies!
on a serious note, the book by robert heiline was really good. i didn't think the movie was that bad...considering how badly hollywood likes to mangle books :)
JediLuke
i was doing my daily tooling on the netware tolken ring at our high school...go to the business lab and go to file->run->command.com
voila...in like flynn. well one day i got caught, and they wanted to suspend me, expell me if they could. here i was, only being curious not malicious, while other kids are getting beat up and their assailents get no punishment, and they wanted to expell me?
anyway they called in my father the next day, they told him, yada yada, then he asked me to step out. when i came back in they told me that nothing was going to happen and that i was to never do that again. a slap on the wrist basically.
well on the way home my dad told me that when i closed the door it went like this:
dad: so how do you know what he was doing?
admin: we have logs that log any wrong activity.
dad: may i see this?
admin: its been deleted
dad: ok, do you have a set of rules or contract that he signed saying this is an unacceptable activity?
vp: actually no.
dad: so basically you're telling me that you have no evidence and no rule for what he's done and you want to suspend him for 5 days out of school, possibly even look into expulsion?
vp: yes
dad: if you do that i will sue this district for everything. you will not even look unkindly upon my son, or you will hear from my lawyer.
needless to say it was cool, but there was more rules next year. sometimes all it takes is someone with a strong will to stand up, hell they prolly could have suspended me, but my dad made it plain as day that i had rights and without proof they had no case.
JediLuke
he was on KROQ this morning and he said that they were passing out flyers in his absence to tell what happened. I don't know why they suspended him, even after he repeatedly said he didn't want to win.
they even tried to get him to sign his rights away by signing a paper that said any activity deamed disruptive would allow the school to expel him. he didn't sign it, thank god.
JediLuke
You could use another DB...just a thought.
didn't borland open up their db?
JediLuke
because socialism is not a capitalistic way. we are suppoesed to be a capitalistic society, contries like France and Spain are socialist, where the government has a monopoly on mail, banks, phones, etc. and can charge what they want. where as in a capitalistic society such as ours there is free competition (at least supposed to be) and this drives DOWN prices and RAISES quality of goods and life. hell i don't want the government running everything, it can't even run itself very well!
JediLuke
it was a joke. man, some people...
JediLuke
1: on the first day of x-mas slashdot gave to me...a partition on a kernel tree.
2: on the second day of x-mas slashdot gave to me...two hard drives, and a...GOTO 1
3: on the third day of x-mas slashdot gave to me...a three channel raid card, GOTO 2
4: on the fourth day of x-mas slashdot gave to me...a quad pentium iii server, GOTO 3
5: on the fifth day of x-mas slashdot gave to me 5 gigs of ram, GOTO 4
6: on the sixth day of x-mas slashdot gave to me 6 anime movies, GOTO 5
7: on the seventh day of x-mas slashdot gave to me 7 Hemos' mispelling, GOTO 6
8: on the eighth day of x-mas slashdot gave to me 8 trolls a trolling, GOTO 7
9: on the ninth day of x-mas slashdot gave to me 9 sites a slashdotted, GOTO 8
10: on the tenth day of x-mas slashdot gave to me 10 CmdrTaco's a milking, GOTO 9
11: on the eleventh day of x-mas slashdot gave to me 11 JonKatz posts (argh!), GOTO 10
12: on the twelveth day of x-mas slashdot gave to me, 12 natalie portman's petrified with hot grits, GOTO 11
please that took a while...don't hold spelling against me! i know its non-sense...thats why its fun!
JediLuke
yeah and all the people raking in the $$$ don't even have degrees! this is my example...though it would be difficult to get where they are.
JediLuke
The funny thing is i did my 3 years of college education. after the 3 years of General Ed. all i wanted to do was take my engineering classes. Couldn't afford it anymore, so i learn perl, and here i am today. i can afford my life style. when we interview new junior programmers (i'm the lead now) out of college...they know shit about real world programming. i sat around in school and said "how can i make this practical" whereas most of the mooks interviewed have never created a practical program before.
i'm not going to say this is the case all the time...i just tend to notice this. that and my employer doesn't mind sending me to confrences and training to make me smarter on how to do my job.
if you go into a interview and they say: "show us how to get info from two tables using one select statement (sql)" and you can't do it...your screwed. if you can your in.
one last thing. all the teach now a days is java, asp, and VB. since when did academic and commercially viable solutions like perl and C get the shaft. no wonder employers will hire ppl w/o degrees, you can't get any education in those languages that are still very practical.
JediLuke
don't really understand what this is supposed to mean...i'm not really one for MS, but if they could put out a quality product without trying to take over the world, i'm all for it.
JediLuke
ok, i don't think your gonna beable to telnet/ssh or get a web port on this thing...i think the whole linux thing is just a marketing tool. sure i may run on it...but in effect it's like a palm because thats whats successful...linux is the current marketing tool.
i don't want every toolbox in the country saying "i know how to run linux" because they have it on a handheld...damn i've had it for 3 years and i still have a hard time with it...sometimes
JediLuke
This is kinda like clinton saying "the country did well under democratic leadership"
well its only because greenspan did so well while the reganites were fucking the nation up...clinton didn't do anything but get some koochie juice on a cigar.
JediLuke
Don't know if you want a guy in the White House who may have a painful, life-threatening ailment
Does Bush's retardation count as this?
i'm sure we all want gore or bush in...bunch of hypocraites...
JediLuke
boring or not, at least Gore knows how to run a country
:)
when he's not inventing the internet
seriously...GWB is a pretty boy that is coasting off his dad's popularity...don't want more reganites fucking up the country...(they managed to do a number on california).
too bad McCain didn't get it...he would have been good...him or Nader, VOTE NADER...heh...he's totally anti-mpaa and anti-riaa
JediLuke
cute nicknames, talks about golf, and what they all did over the weekend.
...and whether or not they did drugs or slept with so and so...but the public sucks it up...reporters are concerned with one thing, paycheck and they get this by acheiving ratings. you think people who can afford cable and televisions want to hear about the healthcare or welfare problems of those that can't...no! why should they. they have their own problems and issues.
i fully agree with you though...i hate the media. everytime i watch a car chase i hear the reporters saying everything 5-10 times...why...thats all they know how to do.
we will never have another FDR, because someone like that will not be graceful enough for the TV. look at how Kennedy whooped Nixons ass because he banked on looking good on TV.
our world is forever based off of images and imagery...we can't expect someone to get elected for ideals or character anymore...we elect people cuz they are nice, or speak spanish.
*side note...i think this whole spanish thing is a crock. those two shitheads running for pres are gonna shit on all the mexicans once they get elected*
JediLuke
see this is a good thing. while there are already many console systems out there (Dreamcast, PSX, N64) this will hopefully drive the prices down on these, as well as improve the quality of the X-Box and of the RH-Box (;) and drive their prices down too.
is this thing going to only run linux games though? they should try to put a PSX emulator on there and some sort of system to run the X-Box games...then you could get three consoles for 1...heh! now thats practical
JediLuke
we all know its first come first serve.
while i'm sueing scott.com for my name i should also sue intel for coming out with the microprocessor before i could.
JediLuke
yeah but french people smell funny... ;)
JediLuke