As a native Minnesotan going to school in Chicago I can certainly affirm this. I will leave off chicago since it has already been discussed (but its true...at least where I live, the fact that I dont own a car has not hurt me at all--my friends with cars dont even used them once a week). Minneapolis/St Paul has that huge scandinavian population which is quite nice and its also a place where things are easily accessible. The public transit isnt as good as chicago but they are working on it.
Well, I could show people the same things without being a scoutmaster but if the scouts keep going the direction they are going it might be hard to do that as a scoutmaster. If there is too much of a stigma against joining the scouts or the organization is just too fucked up, there would be no saving it.
Yeah, it is often said (and I thought it has been confirmed in a few places) that black-ops spending still has to clear congress so it gets slipped into inflated prices on normal goods. I think the completely ridiculous amounts are either people getting too cozy in their habits (you could easily write $100 or $150 for something like a tire that probobly only costs $50 but writing that much for a hammer is a little too noticable because even a really nice hammer wont cost that much).
When I was a boy scout (I would have had to stop due to age 2 years ago but I really stopped 4-5 years ago) my troop was a lot of fun. It wasnt the nerdy bunch that boyscouts were stereotyped as at the time (though there certainly were entire troups like that) but was really a bunch of good people. Had a lot of focus on camping and outdoors type stuff rather than pushing certain ideals and morals (well, there was still the good-doing ideals but nothing remotely like the anti-gay stuff). I never really advanced too far as I only went for merit badges I was interested in so I ignored a lot of the "required" merit badges like swimming since while I certainly can swim, it was a lot of time and foolish tests to prove I could swim rather than learning about something new with another merit badge. It was a lot of fun either way and the way the organization seems to be going these days makes me kind of sad.
Something tells me that I wont be willing to be a scoutmaster by the time I have children...
exactly...its not like it costs you anything on the refferal vs going to the plain site.
my/. url is a dreamhost referral and I put it there because I'm a happy customer and would recommend it to other people...if I happen to get a kickback that would be great (but look at the first poster in this thread, he suggested it without the ref ID...). Its kind of like a "thanks for telling me about this place" move to use somebody's refferal. The one caveat with dreamhost is they occasionally have coupon codes like the famous 777 that got you the entire years worth of hosting for the price of one month and you cant use coupon codes with refferals.
Not a pay-phone mind you...he said a pay phone booth which is quite a rarity these days.
About a year ago my roommate was interviewing for a job and one of the questions they gave him was "how many phone booths are in manhattan." I think they may have told him how many blocks tall and wide manhattan is but that was it. Being the very mathematical person he is he simply took the area and guessed at how many phone booths there would be per square block.
When he told me this though, my initial response was zero--they have gotten rid of them all since everyone has cell phones and its cheaper to maintain payphones that are not inside booths (like those in building lobbies). We did some quick research on it and found a site where soemone had documented the last remaining manhatten phone booths...there were 4 of them. 4 in the largest city in the country.
Alright, I suppose I should have mentioned that although WoW RUNS fine in wine, to make certain configuration changes, you have to be in directx mode or else it crashes. Directx mode generally inverts everythign and then runs like a pile of steaming crap. OpenGL FTW!
I dont know what you're talking about...I've seen WoW run quite well under wine. It certainly has its issues and requires a patch on top of wine but it gets the job done once you have it set up.
I must say a modern (k)ubuntu installation should be able to deal with the wireless and the printer right out of the box. The software might be confusing at first becasue its a little different for the printer but if its anything like the HP multi functions out there, the linux software probobly isnt any more confusing and is probobly a lot less prone to crashing and hosing the system.
As to your laptop, the problem is the RAM. kubuntu runs like a champ on my 1.13ghz laptop (granted its an IBM and not a shit-tastic compaq or something) but the key is that you need RAM. I wouldnt expect windows XP to run on that system very well and using win98 is just....
Gnome/KDE do take a bit of RAM. They probobly do better than XP but they are continually updated software suites made to work on moderately new hardware (and people trying linux are proboly understanding enough that RAM is your best friend). My laptop was ok on 256 but it didnt really start to shine until I upped it to 768. If you cant get more ram, you need to try something like xubuntu or something else that gets a bit more lightweight.
unfortunately as far as I know, they dont route I2 to our dorms. I think there are ways to get there if you ask for it but by default its not routed this way. Not that it would make a difference for most people since they give you a 10mbit jack in your room unless you tell them you need something faster...I suppose it would have been nice to join the people at all the other schools on i2hub but its gone so...
Completely off topic but since you seem to be famiar with the UW network in your posts I thought I would ask...
I go to the University of Chicago and when I (very rarely) play CS:s I will hop on a server that I believe is hosted somewhere in the depths of UW Madison's chem department. I get absolutely amazing pings so I am wondering to what extent our campuses are linked (I get better pings from my dorm than people in the madison dorms get sometimes).
I think you hit the second bit on the head of the nail, you can sell the same thing to TONS of teens before they grow up/go to college and develop their own tastes. The way that teens are kept in close contact with only those people of their exact age group tends to allow for enormous growth of fads (and thats essentially what top 40 music is).
As for the first part of your question, they may have less incomes but they are generally said to have greater disposable income. When they start to get their first job, its not hard to blow all of the paycheck on music or the such. Even before they are working, the money their parents give them is more disposable and they have the power to coerce their parents into buying the CD for them.
by not doign USB I think he means that as it is a 133mhz laptop it probobly doesnt have USB ports and a pcmcia card that adds them (assuming it can even do cardbus cards) probobly costs mroe than the machine does.
Alright, so I am deeply sad that I cant share the exact cut and paste with you but today I open up facebook and there is a message from the administrators (like they sent during the news feed deal) and part of it was talking about privacy and how only people who were in your school and suck would be able to see you. An exact quote went something like "no random people will be able to see your profile".
To me, letting anyone join sounds like random people. You see a person you want to look at and it says tehy are in baltimore...you set it to baltimore (the current system lets you switch without any sort of proof or restriction...) and you can see their profile...way to go facebook.
yeah, online account with HSBC earning 5+% interest right now. There is an ATM card I can use which is their advantage over other high interest online accounts but I dont ever carry it so my only real option is bank to bank transfers
Mandrake was my start into linux (other than trying to shove an outdated debian onto an even more outdated 486 laptop and a bit of the early early knoppix) and while I got along with it just fine (and it still did a few thigns better at the 2006 release on my laptop than the current configuration) I eventually switched it to Ubuntu. I wanted KDE so I did the kubuntu-desktop install and used automatix which accomplishes the same goals as using easyurpmi to add the PLF sources but is so much quicker.
Its not really that it is 2 seperate projects, its more along the lines of wanting gnome on mandriva so you install gnome (but kubuntu is much further along than mandriva gnome). I must admit though, I much prefer the feel of kubuntu installed over ubuntu. When my harddrive died a few months ago I went with a straight kubuntu install and it never felt right. Despite the fact that I always installed kubuntu immediately and rarely used gnome apps, it just wasnt working how I wanted so I reformatted and started with ubuntu and everything was fine.
I agree on all of that above except the minimize effect...I like it to just be gone instantly...I know it is gone because I cant see it any more. Same with menus, I simply want them to pop up and be there. I like windows drop-shadows except for I want to turn them off on my desktop icon text. The text looks way better without it (you can catch a glimpse of what it looks like without them whenever you change a display setting and it takes a second for the shadows to kick in) but if I turn it off, the text background is no longer translucent, it becomes a solid color which is then uglier than the shadows were.
I certainly do like the taskbar management although sometimes I wish I could choose what gets squished together (such as leave firefox spread out and squeeze my gaim buddy list/convo/away message together). My (k)Ubuntu install seems to do this pretty much like windows does though so it may already be possible without issue on linux.
Well I have money in accounts its just that without a higher limit credit card there is no quick and easy way to spend that money. The check card has a daily limit on it and even writing a check isnt the best option since I dont frequently keep large sums of money in my checking account.
With the credit card I have a piece of plastic that can take care of what I need instantly and then I can later call up my banks and transfer some money into my checking account to pay the bill with.
I am certainly not in favor of them doing a credit check for employment and I woudl rather they not have my SS until AFTER they hire me so they couldnt anyways or else they would simply have a wrongful termination suit on their hands since they hired me and fired me for having bad credit (I dont but...).
That being said, I do see how a credit score could be usefull to an employer. And the more useful score suprisingly is not the best score possible. Somebody who has some debt and has payments to make within the reaches of the job you are hiring them for is probobly going to be a more reliable employee in that they will be in need of some sort of job stability. Cant make payments when you dont have money coming in. This however creates a problem because if you ahve good credit...it doesnt mean you would be any less stable and someone with bad credit past what you will pay them might have other income sources and also be just as stable.
I am still thinking my limit is too big if not getting close to some percentage of it is a bad thing. I'm a college student and while I have summer employment I am not always employed during the year (I will be this year at least for this quarter but I was not last year) so there isnt a huge cash flow.
I went to my bank to grab a student credit card to start building some credit instead of using my check card all of the time. This was a $500 starting limit or something but I had recently gotten some mail for them saying I was preapproved for a platinum card. I told them just to give me the student one but when it finally came in the mail it was the platinum card. I decided to keep it since it has some nice benefits and good interest/no annual fee and the limit was higher so if I ever needed some crazy emergency expense (you know like...an on the spot flight to europe or something) it would be feasible without maxing it out. Any place where it was enough of an emergency to make me put a big hit on the card would probobly be something my parents would at least help me out with so I wasnt worried about paying it.
the thing is...I dont actually spend that much money and the limit on this card is probobly more than ALL of the money I made working this summer (and I worked full time at a decent rate for my area). I sure hope the fact that I dont spend more than a few hundred a month wont hurt me. I guess I could put textbooks on this card instead of how I usually pay for them but thats only a few more hundred every few months...
I've been purchasing top-bound spiral notebooks lately (I used to be able to get some nice mead ones at office max but they seem to be gone (or at least very on and off like my beloved 1/4 grid notebooks). Last time I bought notebooks I ended up with some from the internet. They are called porta-desk or something like that and I believe are actually made by avery. They have a hard tagboard top instead of the plasticy thing that mead uses but otherwise they have been decent.
Now I can easily write on both sides as a lefty without any trouble. The only problem is that you cant open up a 2-page spread and read it all but thats generally OK with me.
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As a native Minnesotan going to school in Chicago I can certainly affirm this. I will leave off chicago since it has already been discussed (but its true...at least where I live, the fact that I dont own a car has not hurt me at all--my friends with cars dont even used them once a week). Minneapolis/St Paul has that huge scandinavian population which is quite nice and its also a place where things are easily accessible. The public transit isnt as good as chicago but they are working on it.
Well, I could show people the same things without being a scoutmaster but if the scouts keep going the direction they are going it might be hard to do that as a scoutmaster. If there is too much of a stigma against joining the scouts or the organization is just too fucked up, there would be no saving it.
Yeah, it is often said (and I thought it has been confirmed in a few places) that black-ops spending still has to clear congress so it gets slipped into inflated prices on normal goods. I think the completely ridiculous amounts are either people getting too cozy in their habits (you could easily write $100 or $150 for something like a tire that probobly only costs $50 but writing that much for a hammer is a little too noticable because even a really nice hammer wont cost that much).
When I was a boy scout (I would have had to stop due to age 2 years ago but I really stopped 4-5 years ago) my troop was a lot of fun. It wasnt the nerdy bunch that boyscouts were stereotyped as at the time (though there certainly were entire troups like that) but was really a bunch of good people. Had a lot of focus on camping and outdoors type stuff rather than pushing certain ideals and morals (well, there was still the good-doing ideals but nothing remotely like the anti-gay stuff). I never really advanced too far as I only went for merit badges I was interested in so I ignored a lot of the "required" merit badges like swimming since while I certainly can swim, it was a lot of time and foolish tests to prove I could swim rather than learning about something new with another merit badge. It was a lot of fun either way and the way the organization seems to be going these days makes me kind of sad.
Something tells me that I wont be willing to be a scoutmaster by the time I have children...
I was really hoping the article would come with a picture.
my /. url is a dreamhost referral and I put it there because I'm a happy customer and would recommend it to other people...if I happen to get a kickback that would be great (but look at the first poster in this thread, he suggested it without the ref ID...). Its kind of like a "thanks for telling me about this place" move to use somebody's refferal. The one caveat with dreamhost is they occasionally have coupon codes like the famous 777 that got you the entire years worth of hosting for the price of one month and you cant use coupon codes with refferals.
About a year ago my roommate was interviewing for a job and one of the questions they gave him was "how many phone booths are in manhattan." I think they may have told him how many blocks tall and wide manhattan is but that was it. Being the very mathematical person he is he simply took the area and guessed at how many phone booths there would be per square block.
When he told me this though, my initial response was zero--they have gotten rid of them all since everyone has cell phones and its cheaper to maintain payphones that are not inside booths (like those in building lobbies). We did some quick research on it and found a site where soemone had documented the last remaining manhatten phone booths...there were 4 of them. 4 in the largest city in the country.
Even better, rig up a sheet-fed scanner to the mail slot and turn it into a scan-to-email or scan-to-fax terminal.
Alright, I suppose I should have mentioned that although WoW RUNS fine in wine, to make certain configuration changes, you have to be in directx mode or else it crashes. Directx mode generally inverts everythign and then runs like a pile of steaming crap. OpenGL FTW!
I dont know what you're talking about...I've seen WoW run quite well under wine. It certainly has its issues and requires a patch on top of wine but it gets the job done once you have it set up.
As to your laptop, the problem is the RAM. kubuntu runs like a champ on my 1.13ghz laptop (granted its an IBM and not a shit-tastic compaq or something) but the key is that you need RAM. I wouldnt expect windows XP to run on that system very well and using win98 is just....
Gnome/KDE do take a bit of RAM. They probobly do better than XP but they are continually updated software suites made to work on moderately new hardware (and people trying linux are proboly understanding enough that RAM is your best friend). My laptop was ok on 256 but it didnt really start to shine until I upped it to 768. If you cant get more ram, you need to try something like xubuntu or something else that gets a bit more lightweight.
unfortunately as far as I know, they dont route I2 to our dorms. I think there are ways to get there if you ask for it but by default its not routed this way. Not that it would make a difference for most people since they give you a 10mbit jack in your room unless you tell them you need something faster...I suppose it would have been nice to join the people at all the other schools on i2hub but its gone so...
I go to the University of Chicago and when I (very rarely) play CS:s I will hop on a server that I believe is hosted somewhere in the depths of UW Madison's chem department. I get absolutely amazing pings so I am wondering to what extent our campuses are linked (I get better pings from my dorm than people in the madison dorms get sometimes).
Maybe then what you need to do is spend the next few hours getting totally trashed and then call your boss at about 1AM and argue for that pay raise.
As for the first part of your question, they may have less incomes but they are generally said to have greater disposable income. When they start to get their first job, its not hard to blow all of the paycheck on music or the such. Even before they are working, the money their parents give them is more disposable and they have the power to coerce their parents into buying the CD for them.
Anyone else notice that this would also make a lot of sites turn pink for national orgasm month? I suppose its a rather fitting color.
by not doign USB I think he means that as it is a 133mhz laptop it probobly doesnt have USB ports and a pcmcia card that adds them (assuming it can even do cardbus cards) probobly costs mroe than the machine does.
To me, letting anyone join sounds like random people. You see a person you want to look at and it says tehy are in baltimore...you set it to baltimore (the current system lets you switch without any sort of proof or restriction...) and you can see their profile...way to go facebook.
yeah, online account with HSBC earning 5+% interest right now. There is an ATM card I can use which is their advantage over other high interest online accounts but I dont ever carry it so my only real option is bank to bank transfers
Mandrake was my start into linux (other than trying to shove an outdated debian onto an even more outdated 486 laptop and a bit of the early early knoppix) and while I got along with it just fine (and it still did a few thigns better at the 2006 release on my laptop than the current configuration) I eventually switched it to Ubuntu. I wanted KDE so I did the kubuntu-desktop install and used automatix which accomplishes the same goals as using easyurpmi to add the PLF sources but is so much quicker.
Its not really that it is 2 seperate projects, its more along the lines of wanting gnome on mandriva so you install gnome (but kubuntu is much further along than mandriva gnome). I must admit though, I much prefer the feel of kubuntu installed over ubuntu. When my harddrive died a few months ago I went with a straight kubuntu install and it never felt right. Despite the fact that I always installed kubuntu immediately and rarely used gnome apps, it just wasnt working how I wanted so I reformatted and started with ubuntu and everything was fine.
I certainly do like the taskbar management although sometimes I wish I could choose what gets squished together (such as leave firefox spread out and squeeze my gaim buddy list/convo/away message together). My (k)Ubuntu install seems to do this pretty much like windows does though so it may already be possible without issue on linux.
With the credit card I have a piece of plastic that can take care of what I need instantly and then I can later call up my banks and transfer some money into my checking account to pay the bill with.
That being said, I do see how a credit score could be usefull to an employer. And the more useful score suprisingly is not the best score possible. Somebody who has some debt and has payments to make within the reaches of the job you are hiring them for is probobly going to be a more reliable employee in that they will be in need of some sort of job stability. Cant make payments when you dont have money coming in. This however creates a problem because if you ahve good credit...it doesnt mean you would be any less stable and someone with bad credit past what you will pay them might have other income sources and also be just as stable.
I went to my bank to grab a student credit card to start building some credit instead of using my check card all of the time. This was a $500 starting limit or something but I had recently gotten some mail for them saying I was preapproved for a platinum card. I told them just to give me the student one but when it finally came in the mail it was the platinum card. I decided to keep it since it has some nice benefits and good interest/no annual fee and the limit was higher so if I ever needed some crazy emergency expense (you know like...an on the spot flight to europe or something) it would be feasible without maxing it out. Any place where it was enough of an emergency to make me put a big hit on the card would probobly be something my parents would at least help me out with so I wasnt worried about paying it.
the thing is...I dont actually spend that much money and the limit on this card is probobly more than ALL of the money I made working this summer (and I worked full time at a decent rate for my area). I sure hope the fact that I dont spend more than a few hundred a month wont hurt me. I guess I could put textbooks on this card instead of how I usually pay for them but thats only a few more hundred every few months...
Now I can easily write on both sides as a lefty without any trouble. The only problem is that you cant open up a 2-page spread and read it all but thats generally OK with me.