I was expecting this to be something like the "You know your a redneck if.." list.
You might be downloading copyrighted material if...
-You use your CD-R drive on a regular basis.
-You know what P2P.
-You find yourself asking your co-workers when the new Harry Potter SVCD will be released.
-Your computer has better speakers than your stereo.
-J3w C@N R33d +][!5
-You prefer WinRAR over WinZIP
To me, it seems people are quick to diagonose patients with ADHD. I have troubles saying thats its even a real disorder. Back when I was in grade school, kids wern't given drugs to help them pay attention. They were given a swat on the bottom! Someone very close to me would probably get diagonosed with ADHD if she were back in school. Recently, she's had to do some studying, something she hadn't done in 8 years, to take some certification-type tests for her profession. And observing her struggle to study, I told her my opinion on the ADHD matter. People learn in different ways. People think differently. If the material is boring or you don't understand it, ANYONE is going to have a short attention span. If you don't understand it, then get some help. There's other ways to understand the material than trying to memorize definitions. Stuff stuck in my head better if I discussed it with peers. If its boring to you, then try to make it more challenging. Maybe by giving yourself crazy deadlines to learn the material in? I believe that ADHD cases would be less frequent if people were just taught how to learn.
So humans are fooled by machines that everything we think that is, isn't. But if you want to believe that Mohommand Jimmy Bob Kareem of Wheat created people, then thats cool because in the true beginning, there was no machines, no matrix, and your beliefs of creation could very well be valid. Machines are man-made. Machines arn't our Gods, they just kicked our butts in a war. Are you afraid your population is so weak minded that watching a science fiction/kung fu movie will start a new religion based upon nothing being real? Do you ban your schools from teaching phiolosophy for that reason to? I doubt it. So whats the friggin problem, Eygpt?
I think that carrying around currency is outdated. How much of what you buy these days do you actually pay in cash? I use direct withdrawl for my car payment. When I pull up to a gas station, I'll use the pay-at-the-pump feature with my debit card. The only thing I need cash for is for buying a double-quarter pounder with cheese value meal or maybe a can of Mountain Dew from the vending machine.
Electronic forms of payment are becomming more prefered among vendors. And as a consumer, you should prefer them too. In 7 to 10 years, we should focus our attention on making electronic payments more secure and not finding a color scheme that is difficult to print out on an ink-jet.
Coins and bills are for collectors. Its 2003 people... we're supposed to have flying cars by now!
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I wanted to say something intellectual here.. but couldn't think of anything. So then I tried to be funny, but once again I couldn't think of anything. So, i'll just be a tard and hope I get first post.
Saddam is not innocent in anyway. When Bush 1.0 kicked Saddam's nuts out of Kuwait, Saddam had to sign this little thing when he surrendered that said he would play nice.
1) Saddams son kills athletes who don't win in compitions. In particular, I remember a story about a boxer who lost to a US figheter.
2) Saddam has a personal army of about 15,000 soldiers that his son runs. They report directly to him and are loyal to him, not iraq.
3) Saddam says what can be shown and what can't be shown on Iraqi TV. Nice brain washing technique, don't you think?
4) Saddam uses fear to keep his power. If someone questions him, they get put in this huge paper-shredder type thing.
5) Saddam is building weapons of mass destruction. Now if he were so peaceful and innocent, why would he do that?
6) Saddam tests out chemial weapons on the citizens of Iraq. How long do you think GW2.0 would be president if he ordered Lincon Nebraska to be a test site of a new cool missle that turns people into little pieces of dog terds?
Notice, none of these start with Iraq is... The people of Iraq hate Saddam but are too afraid to say it! They do not have the freedom of speech like we do. If we were in Iraq, and you said that this war was stupid and that Saddam is fighting just because he wants oil, you'd have men comming to your door to "punch you in the nose". We are not starting a war, we are going in to finish what GB 1.0 should have finished in the first place. Sometimes there are things worth fighting for. We're not fighting just for our freedom anymore, we're fighting for the freedom of the Iraqi people. Its not it's the US vs Iraq. Britain and Austrailia are also involved in offensive attacks. In addition Spain is helping out with humanitarian efforts. We have the support from many Nations! I hear Morroco offered 200 mine detinating monkeys! Obviously the rest of the world leaders agree that something should be done with Saddam, why don't you?
Do you really think we're spending 75-80 billion dollars just to get some oil? Just because we wanna be bullies? Ol' Osama Bin Laden really rattled the cage of this big dog and this dog bites. And right now, if you so much as look at us funny, we'll light up your world like the forth of July.
Ok, lets say they "cap yo ass" after you punch 'em in the nose. Don't you think this would be a huge deterrent for the next guy who wants to come along and punch 'em in the nose?
The point is, if you let people get away with punching you in the nose, people are going to keep doing it.
"How do you handle someone protesting the US retaliating against the ones who terrorized us all on September 11, 2001, and those who support terror? These activists may be alone or in a gathering.....most of us don't know how to react to them. When you come
upon one of these people, or one of their rallies, here are the proper rules of etiquette:
1. Listen politely while this person explains their views. Strike up a conversation if necessary and look very interested in their ideas.
They will tell you how revenge is immoral, and that by attacking the people who did this to us, we will only bring on more violence. They
will probably use many arguments, ranging from political to religious to humanitarian.
2. In the middle of their remarks, without any warning, punch them in the nose.
3. When the person gets up off of the ground, they will be very angry and they may try to hit you, so be careful.
4. Very quickly and calmly remind the person that violence only brings about more violence and remind them of their stand on this matter.
Tell them if they are really committed to a nonviolent approach to undeserved attacks, they will turn the other cheek and negotiate a
solution. Tell them they must lead by example if they really believe what they are saying.
5. Most of them will think for a moment and then agree that you are correct.
6. As soon as they do that, hit them again. Only this time hit them much harder. Square in the nose.
7. Repeat steps 2-5 until the desired results are obtained and the idiot realizes how stupid of an argument he/she is making.
8. There is no difference in an individual attacking an unsuspecting victim or a group of terrorists attacking a nation of people.
It is unacceptable and must be dealt with. Perhaps at a high cost. We owe our military a huge debt for what they are about to do for us
and our children. We must support them and our leaders at times like these. We have no choice. We either strike back, VERY HARD, or we will keep
The server could be programmed to only send the client information of what they're supposed to be able to see. This way, wire-frame walls wouldn't matter, because the other player hiding behind the wall is completely invisible to your machine.
Just a thought.
Let's face it, no American really wants a light-weight, low horse-powered electric car. We all want to have the baddest car possible.
Of course, when we pay $1.70 at a gas pump we start to see the value in an electric car. But what we need is more effecient gasoline powered engines. I've heard rumors that they could develop engines that get 100 miles per gallon, but oil companies just won't let them do it. Can anyone confirm?
Dear Slashdot, SETI has been sending me encrypted alien messages hoping that my experience in cryptology would help unravel the mystery of our alien friends. I have always had a suspicion that a more advanced race would not encrypt their message, but rather compress them and what I have found is freakishly disturbing. When you take the static noise, and break the frequency into two groups, a high pitched group and low pitched group, and then assign a bit to each group, you can create a binary file from the recorded transmission. If you take several of these transmission binaries and name them in a trans.rar, trans.r01, trans.r02, fashion and then run them through WinRar, you get a big blob of uncompressed binary data. To my surprise, I named the newly created file to test.mp3 and gave WinAMP a try... The message is distorted a bit, the voices are scratchy and hard to make out, but if you listen closely, you can hear the following phrase repeated over and over:
ALL YOUR BASE ARE BELONG TO US
ALL YOUR BASE ARE BELONG TO US
ALL YOUR BASE ARE BELONG TO US
ALL YOUR BASE ARE BELONG TO US
Step off your pedistal and think for a minute. IT keeps a business up and running. If the staff is unable to function effectively then the business is sure to fail. Different people have different strengths and different training. A project manager may not be an expert in database administion. A DBA may not be an expert in writing Java code. Just because the people you speak with have no clue what your talking about, doesn't mean they are incompitent. Your attitude reflects that of a kiddie hacker trying to prove to his friends he's 'l33t' rather than that of a professional.
Must be somewhat successful..
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Because my wife plays the darn thing non-stop!
Re:Who Is the Greatest Programmer?
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Why did you turn computer programming into bible study?
2Pet.2
[16] But was rebuked for his iniquity: the dumb ass speaking with man's voice forbad the madness of the prophet.
That's terrible that your plugins only work on the microsoft's VM. I don't expect to see a new cross-compatible VM, but I don't expect to see the MSVM to disappear anytime soon because there are probably many people in your situation. So, it's not like your plugin's are going to stop working overnight. I don't know how a company could consider themselves a Java shop and not use the sun's official VM. It's got a good price (free) and its easy to install. I don't see a problem in requiring vendors to install it. Just my two cents.
You failed to answer the question on why the Japanese used inches.
*patriotic music begins* Oh beautiful, my spacious disks. May pr0n fill up the RAID. For purple plastic magically gives j00 a really pimpin' case. America, America, ALL YOUR BASE ARE BELONG TO US! And crown they l33t with phat pipes, yeah sweet!
So we can fill up japanese disks with DivX and MP3's! Cue the humming
I have a dream... That the world will realize that US Measurements are better than metric. This way, I will never have to pull out my T-85 and have it convert numbers for me ever again. It just wouldn't be the same if I recieved spam saying I could increase my penis size by centimeters. Even though, saying its 8 centimeters does sound much more impressive than 3 inches^H^H^H^H^H^H^H...NM! The Japenise have come to this realization and are leading by example to all the other countries who foolishly go with the standard measurements in a US measurement revolution!
I don't need a spell checker, I have an error correcting modem!
I've recently purchased a house... and this reminds me of a conversation I had with my realtor. I used realtor.com pretty heavily, because it had pretty much all of the houses the realtor's system (i forget what they call it, but that system that is the official realtor network of houses that only realtors can get in). I'd have picked out which houses i wanted to goto and had mapquest maps printed out so i could find them. My realtor basically just scheduled the showings and unlocked the door so i could get in. She'd follow me to get to the next house on the list of showings, because i had the maps and knew where I was going. We were talking about how the internet really changes the realtors job in that aspect and how while its probably a good thing for realtor's. (less work.. just go with it!) But, doctor's really don't care much for google's second opinion. My wife is really guilty of having a pain and then searching for all of the dreadful diseases she could have. I can just imagine all the patients saying, "I have tinycockitus. I know, because the internet told me so.
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The source of dynamically generated HTML is always going to look like ass.
I was expecting this to be something like the "You know your a redneck if.." list. You might be downloading copyrighted material if... -You use your CD-R drive on a regular basis. -You know what P2P. -You find yourself asking your co-workers when the new Harry Potter SVCD will be released. -Your computer has better speakers than your stereo. -J3w C@N R33d +][!5 -You prefer WinRAR over WinZIP
To me, it seems people are quick to diagonose patients with ADHD. I have troubles saying thats its even a real disorder. Back when I was in grade school, kids wern't given drugs to help them pay attention. They were given a swat on the bottom! Someone very close to me would probably get diagonosed with ADHD if she were back in school. Recently, she's had to do some studying, something she hadn't done in 8 years, to take some certification-type tests for her profession. And observing her struggle to study, I told her my opinion on the ADHD matter. People learn in different ways. People think differently. If the material is boring or you don't understand it, ANYONE is going to have a short attention span. If you don't understand it, then get some help. There's other ways to understand the material than trying to memorize definitions. Stuff stuck in my head better if I discussed it with peers. If its boring to you, then try to make it more challenging. Maybe by giving yourself crazy deadlines to learn the material in? I believe that ADHD cases would be less frequent if people were just taught how to learn.
So humans are fooled by machines that everything we think that is, isn't. But if you want to believe that Mohommand Jimmy Bob Kareem of Wheat created people, then thats cool because in the true beginning, there was no machines, no matrix, and your beliefs of creation could very well be valid. Machines are man-made. Machines arn't our Gods, they just kicked our butts in a war. Are you afraid your population is so weak minded that watching a science fiction/kung fu movie will start a new religion based upon nothing being real? Do you ban your schools from teaching phiolosophy for that reason to? I doubt it. So whats the friggin problem, Eygpt?
I think that carrying around currency is outdated. How much of what you buy these days do you actually pay in cash? I use direct withdrawl for my car payment. When I pull up to a gas station, I'll use the pay-at-the-pump feature with my debit card. The only thing I need cash for is for buying a double-quarter pounder with cheese value meal or maybe a can of Mountain Dew from the vending machine.
Electronic forms of payment are becomming more prefered among vendors. And as a consumer, you should prefer them too. In 7 to 10 years, we should focus our attention on making electronic payments more secure and not finding a color scheme that is difficult to print out on an ink-jet.
Coins and bills are for collectors. Its 2003 people... we're supposed to have flying cars by now!
I wanted to say something intellectual here.. but couldn't think of anything. So then I tried to be funny, but once again I couldn't think of anything. So, i'll just be a tard and hope I get first post.
I'd say most web pages are created by programmers, not artists. Their purpose is to have a quick, functional website.. not a work of art.
What if the grape nuts really tasted like chicken?
Saddam is not innocent in anyway. When Bush 1.0 kicked Saddam's nuts out of Kuwait, Saddam had to sign this little thing when he surrendered that said he would play nice.
1) Saddams son kills athletes who don't win in compitions. In particular, I remember a story about a boxer who lost to a US figheter.
2) Saddam has a personal army of about 15,000 soldiers that his son runs. They report directly to him and are loyal to him, not iraq.
3) Saddam says what can be shown and what can't be shown on Iraqi TV. Nice brain washing technique, don't you think?
4) Saddam uses fear to keep his power. If someone questions him, they get put in this huge paper-shredder type thing.
5) Saddam is building weapons of mass destruction. Now if he were so peaceful and innocent, why would he do that?
6) Saddam tests out chemial weapons on the citizens of Iraq. How long do you think GW2.0 would be president if he ordered Lincon Nebraska to be a test site of a new cool missle that turns people into little pieces of dog terds?
Notice, none of these start with Iraq is... The people of Iraq hate Saddam but are too afraid to say it! They do not have the freedom of speech like we do. If we were in Iraq, and you said that this war was stupid and that Saddam is fighting just because he wants oil, you'd have men comming to your door to "punch you in the nose". We are not starting a war, we are going in to finish what GB 1.0 should have finished in the first place. Sometimes there are things worth fighting for. We're not fighting just for our freedom anymore, we're fighting for the freedom of the Iraqi people. Its not it's the US vs Iraq. Britain and Austrailia are also involved in offensive attacks. In addition Spain is helping out with humanitarian efforts. We have the support from many Nations! I hear Morroco offered 200 mine detinating monkeys! Obviously the rest of the world leaders agree that something should be done with Saddam, why don't you?
Do you really think we're spending 75-80 billion dollars just to get some oil? Just because we wanna be bullies? Ol' Osama Bin Laden really rattled the cage of this big dog and this dog bites. And right now, if you so much as look at us funny, we'll light up your world like the forth of July.
Ok, lets say they "cap yo ass" after you punch 'em in the nose. Don't you think this would be a huge deterrent for the next guy who wants to come along and punch 'em in the nose? The point is, if you let people get away with punching you in the nose, people are going to keep doing it.
This reminds me of a FWD'd e-mail I got...
"How do you handle someone protesting the US retaliating against the ones who terrorized us all on September 11, 2001, and those who support terror?
These activists may be alone or in a gathering.....most of us don't know how to react to them. When you come
upon one of these people, or one of their rallies, here are the proper rules of etiquette:
1. Listen politely while this person explains their views. Strike up a conversation if necessary and look very interested in their ideas.
They will tell you how revenge is immoral, and that by attacking the people who did this to us, we will only bring on more violence. They
will probably use many arguments, ranging from political to religious to humanitarian.
2. In the middle of their remarks, without any warning, punch them in the nose.
3. When the person gets up off of the ground, they will be very angry and they may try to hit you, so be careful.
4. Very quickly and calmly remind the person that violence only brings about more violence and remind them of their stand on this matter.
Tell them if they are really committed to a nonviolent approach to undeserved attacks, they will turn the other cheek and negotiate a
solution. Tell them they must lead by example if they really believe what they are saying.
5. Most of them will think for a moment and then agree that you are correct.
6. As soon as they do that, hit them again. Only this time hit them much harder. Square in the nose.
7. Repeat steps 2-5 until the desired results are obtained and the idiot realizes how stupid of an argument he/she is making.
8. There is no difference in an individual attacking an unsuspecting victim or a group of terrorists attacking a nation of people.
It is unacceptable and must be dealt with. Perhaps at a high cost. We owe our military a huge debt for what they are about to do for us
and our children. We must support them and our leaders at times like these. We have no choice. We either strike back, VERY HARD, or we will keep
getting hit in the nose.
Lesson over, class dismissed"
Next on the list is to get fragged soldiers to respawn. Noone likes watching the battle as a ghost.
The server could be programmed to only send the client information of what they're supposed to be able to see. This way, wire-frame walls wouldn't matter, because the other player hiding behind the wall is completely invisible to your machine. Just a thought.
Let's face it, no American really wants a light-weight, low horse-powered electric car. We all want to have the baddest car possible.
Of course, when we pay $1.70 at a gas pump we start to see the value in an electric car. But what we need is more effecient gasoline powered engines. I've heard rumors that they could develop engines that get 100 miles per gallon, but oil companies just won't let them do it. Can anyone confirm?
Dear Slashdot, SETI has been sending me encrypted alien messages hoping that my experience in cryptology would help unravel the mystery of our alien friends. I have always had a suspicion that a more advanced race would not encrypt their message, but rather compress them and what I have found is freakishly disturbing. When you take the static noise, and break the frequency into two groups, a high pitched group and low pitched group, and then assign a bit to each group, you can create a binary file from the recorded transmission. If you take several of these transmission binaries and name them in a trans.rar, trans.r01, trans.r02, fashion and then run them through WinRar, you get a big blob of uncompressed binary data. To my surprise, I named the newly created file to test.mp3 and gave WinAMP a try... The message is distorted a bit, the voices are scratchy and hard to make out, but if you listen closely, you can hear the following phrase repeated over and over:
ALL YOUR BASE ARE BELONG TO US
ALL YOUR BASE ARE BELONG TO US
ALL YOUR BASE ARE BELONG TO US
ALL YOUR BASE ARE BELONG TO US
I got him once! It's much easier to do now from an emulator because you can repeatedly save the game. Those one punch knock-outs sucked!
...is all you needed to know to play a Kanomi game. Contra and Life Force were awsome!
Step off your pedistal and think for a minute. IT keeps a business up and running. If the staff is unable to function effectively then the business is sure to fail. Different people have different strengths and different training. A project manager may not be an expert in database administion. A DBA may not be an expert in writing Java code. Just because the people you speak with have no clue what your talking about, doesn't mean they are incompitent. Your attitude reflects that of a kiddie hacker trying to prove to his friends he's 'l33t' rather than that of a professional.
Because my wife plays the darn thing non-stop!
Why did you turn computer programming into bible study?
2Pet.2
[16] But was rebuked for his iniquity: the dumb ass speaking with man's voice forbad the madness of the prophet.
That's terrible that your plugins only work on the microsoft's VM. I don't expect to see a new cross-compatible VM, but I don't expect to see the MSVM to disappear anytime soon because there are probably many people in your situation. So, it's not like your plugin's are going to stop working overnight. I don't know how a company could consider themselves a Java shop and not use the sun's official VM. It's got a good price (free) and its easy to install. I don't see a problem in requiring vendors to install it. Just my two cents.
You failed to answer the question on why the Japanese used inches.
*patriotic music begins*
Oh beautiful, my spacious disks.
May pr0n fill up the RAID.
For purple plastic magically
gives j00 a really pimpin' case.
America,
America,
ALL YOUR BASE ARE BELONG TO US!
And crown they l33t
with phat pipes, yeah sweet!
So we can fill up japanese disks with DivX and MP3's!
Cue the humming
I have a dream... That the world will realize that US Measurements are better than metric. This way, I will never have to pull out my T-85 and have it convert numbers for me ever again. It just wouldn't be the same if I recieved spam saying I could increase my penis size by centimeters. Even though, saying its 8 centimeters does sound much more impressive than 3 inches^H^H^H^H^H^H^H...NM! The Japenise have come to this realization and are leading by example to all the other countries who foolishly go with the standard measurements in a US measurement revolution!
I don't need a spell checker, I have an error correcting modem!
I'd never buy anything like that. I'd rather use my PC Speakers.
I've recently purchased a house... and this reminds me of a conversation I had with my realtor. I used realtor.com pretty heavily, because it had pretty much all of the houses the realtor's system (i forget what they call it, but that system that is the official realtor network of houses that only realtors can get in). I'd have picked out which houses i wanted to goto and had mapquest maps printed out so i could find them. My realtor basically just scheduled the showings and unlocked the door so i could get in. She'd follow me to get to the next house on the list of showings, because i had the maps and knew where I was going. We were talking about how the internet really changes the realtors job in that aspect and how while its probably a good thing for realtor's. (less work.. just go with it!) But, doctor's really don't care much for google's second opinion. My wife is really guilty of having a pain and then searching for all of the dreadful diseases she could have. I can just imagine all the patients saying, "I have tinycockitus. I know, because the internet told me so.
Here's some info about it: http://www.computerhope.com/unix/xenix.htm