I've always been able to put my computer away for stretches of time, but I've never been able to get rid of the fish. ...
I found myself bored in EE, bored in CompSci, and basically floundered
I was standing on the tarmac waiting to board a flight in Pakistan, next to a 747 that was being re-fuelled (which was freaking me out anyway - the av-gas fumes were really strong), and the people behind me decided this would be a good time to light up a cigarette...
1) 747s do not use Av-Gas; jet fuel is similar to diesel. You can toss a burning match into a bucket of such fuel and the match will simply go out. (The temperature required to ignite the fuel is higher than the flash point of gasoline.)
2) No matter how strong the fumes smelled, do you really think the cigarette was going to a) set the fumes ablaze and b) the resulting fireball would travel all the way to the fueling area (blowing it up, no doubt)? That seems a bit farfetched.
PS That ridiculous story about a spark from a mobile phone blowing up a gas station is a urban legend.
Have you ever worked a day job to fund other coders? Pure hell, let me tell you, especially if you are also so essential that time off becomes unacceptable.
Have you ever worked in a place where your work was carrying/funding dead weight on a project team? Will all due respect to Mr. Reiser, this is no different, and will probably always be an issue until everyone contributes equally to everything. Even then, what are the odds that eveyone will be credited equally?
Similarly, the project manager isn't doing his job if one person is "so essential that time off becomes unacceptable". Yes, it happens all the time; for crunch periods it may be a necessary evil, but only if the crunch is the result of uncontrollable external factors. Bad project mgmt != uncontrollable external factor.
Find the most tech-savvy teacher you know and approach him/her about being the faculty advisor to the club. Unfortunately you probably won't get far without faculty involvement, i.e. adult supervision [in the eyes of the school administration], so you may want to start with that. The teacher will also be instrumental in helping you find a place to meet, like a spare classroom or even the teacher's own room if appropriate. (A biology lab probably wouldn't be suitable, but you get the idea.)
I got the 185A5 a few months back and immediately wiped the hard drive in favor of a real operating system.
So in your haste to be Ub3r-1337, you nuked what was probably the best method of finding out what hardware is in there. Brilliant. Booting into Windows Whatever for five minutes would have saved you eight hours of banging your head against the wall, but at least you preserved your geek/anorak/H@x0r status, didn't you? You even got to complain about it on/.
You know, when you drink the $OS_OF_CHOICE Kool-aid to the point where you do something dumb like this, you really should take up a different hobby.
To your average Iraqi, who CARES if they have no concept of fair use.. after all they have no running water, much less a CD burner
Yeah, but watch: Iraq will get one water pipeline that has a high flow rate, and RIAA/MPAA will claim that it is the equivalent of 162 normal pipelines, and that the humanitarian efforts are complete.
Poker is a game that relies heavily on understanding complex probability, strategy, and psychology [...] as one of the rare forums where one can excel based on brains over brawn.
Brains will only get a player so far: he still has no control over the cards that he is dealt. The player will not succeed purely on intellectual prowess if he is dealt crap hands.
All of the geekiest people I know play poker regularly.
You and your friends are not a statistically significant sample, especially when you are trying to paint smart/geeky people with a broad brush. None of the geeky people I know play poker; there, I just refuted your assertion.:-)
This stuff is called 're-bar', which is short for 'reinforcing-bar'. It is a metal rod about a half-inch in diameter (there are larger/smaller versions) that is used to add strength to concrete structures. Re-bar is made with a coarse pattern on the outside so the concrete can get a grip.
For those of you who are still lost, this is the stuff that Cordelia fell on in 'Lover's Walk', an episode from the second or third season of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Does that help?:-)
This one-man vocal spectacular features over 50 voices from TV's favourite dysfunctional family in a hilarious performance of Shakespeare's bloodiest tragedy! Starring 'Homer Simpson' as Macbeth and 'Marge' as Lady Macbeth (in a script which remains
85% Shakespeare), MacHomer is hysterically funny and amazing to watch.
A friend of mine saw MacHomer in the DC area and though it was great; apparently the voices are quite accurate.
What if some newbie found an integral bug, gets a "RTFM" and is too intimidated to report the bug?
In all seriousness, what are the odds of that? What are the chances that someone brand new to $PRODUCT will find an "integral bug" that somehow eluded the developers and and all the other individuals that use $PRODUCT on a daily basis? I think the odds are minimal; while such an occurrence is not impossible, it is at least very unlikely.
I was one of the instructors in the war games lab. To make things interesting for the students, I distributed nmap with a modified nmap-os-fingerprints file. Windows 2000 machines were reported as Solaris 2.6 (X86) and so forth. Some of the student responses were interesting.:-)
Black's Legal Dictionary defines amicus curiae: "A person with a strong interest in or views on the subject matter of an action may petition the court for permission to file a brief ostensibly on behalf of a party, but actually to suggest a rationale consistent with its own views. Such amicus curiae briefs are commonly filed in appeals concerning matters of broad public interest; e.g. civil rights cases".
The contents of the linked page (well, the larger frame) are as follows:
Dungeon Master Java is a remake of the classic FTL game Dungeon Master. It is written entirely in Java, and is designed to run as a stand-alone application rather than an applet in a web browser. It has high-resolution graphics that simulate a 3D environment. Most of the graphics are rendered in the free ray-tracer Pov-Ray. Item graphics and character portraits are done by hand with a paint program, though many are simply taken from the original and its sequels and touched-up.
Gameplay is very similar to the original, with real-time action, 90-degree turns, and step-by-step movement. One major change from the original is that monsters are not "stuck" in groups: they are completely free to wander, sometimes occupying a square with other monsters and sometimes not.
Dungeon Master Java Has Been Released!
Last Update: January 14, 2003
There. That should satisfy those who can't read the article (through/.ing or out of habit) and complain that the original game was not written in Java...
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I've always been able to put my computer away for stretches of time, but I've never been able to get rid of the fish.
...
I found myself bored in EE, bored in CompSci, and basically floundered
Must... make... joke...
:-)
I was standing on the tarmac waiting to board a flight in Pakistan, next to a 747 that was being re-fuelled (which was freaking me out anyway - the av-gas fumes were really strong), and the people behind me decided this would be a good time to light up a cigarette...
1) 747s do not use Av-Gas; jet fuel is similar to diesel. You can toss a burning match into a bucket of such fuel and the match will simply go out. (The temperature required to ignite the fuel is higher than the flash point of gasoline.)
2) No matter how strong the fumes smelled, do you really think the cigarette was going to a) set the fumes ablaze and b) the resulting fireball would travel all the way to the fueling area (blowing it up, no doubt)? That seems a bit farfetched.
PS That ridiculous story about a spark from a mobile phone blowing up a gas station is a urban legend.
From the article:
Have you ever worked a day job to fund other coders? Pure hell, let me tell you, especially if you are also so essential that time off becomes unacceptable.
Have you ever worked in a place where your work was carrying/funding dead weight on a project team? Will all due respect to Mr. Reiser, this is no different, and will probably always be an issue until everyone contributes equally to everything. Even then, what are the odds that eveyone will be credited equally?
Similarly, the project manager isn't doing his job if one person is "so essential that time off becomes unacceptable". Yes, it happens all the time; for crunch periods it may be a necessary evil, but only if the crunch is the result of uncontrollable external factors. Bad project mgmt != uncontrollable external factor.
Find the most tech-savvy teacher you know and approach him/her about being the faculty advisor to the club. Unfortunately you probably won't get far without faculty involvement, i.e. adult supervision [in the eyes of the school administration], so you may want to start with that. The teacher will also be instrumental in helping you find a place to meet, like a spare classroom or even the teacher's own room if appropriate. (A biology lab probably wouldn't be suitable, but you get the idea.)
Good luck!
I got the 185A5 a few months back and immediately wiped the hard drive in favor of a real operating system.
So in your haste to be Ub3r-1337, you nuked what was probably the best method of finding out what hardware is in there. Brilliant. Booting into Windows Whatever for five minutes would have saved you eight hours of banging your head against the wall, but at least you preserved your geek/anorak/H@x0r status, didn't you? You even got to complain about it on
You know, when you drink the $OS_OF_CHOICE Kool-aid to the point where you do something dumb like this, you really should take up a different hobby.
To your average Iraqi, who CARES if they have no concept of fair use.. after all they have no running water, much less a CD burner
Yeah, but watch: Iraq will get one water pipeline that has a high flow rate, and RIAA/MPAA will claim that it is the equivalent of 162 normal pipelines, and that the humanitarian efforts are complete.
Poker is a game that relies heavily on understanding complex probability, strategy, and psychology [...] as one of the rare forums where one can excel based on brains over brawn.
Brains will only get a player so far: he still has no control over the cards that he is dealt. The player will not succeed purely on intellectual prowess if he is dealt crap hands.
All of the geekiest people I know play poker regularly.
You and your friends are not a statistically significant sample, especially when you are trying to paint smart/geeky people with a broad brush. None of the geeky people I know play poker; there, I just refuted your assertion.
Simms- I'm looking forward to the future titles!
In the future, they are called DIMMs.
:-)
It's the one in the 'Shock testing' section.
I sure hope the safety is on... Either way, I don't think I would stand directly under that thing.
(Apologies to those of you who get there after the site has died and can't see the pictures. I'm just an insensitive clod.)
More like this:
Neo: zZzZzZzZzZzZ?
Trinity: zZzZzZzZzZ!
Neo: zZzZ... whoa.
Researchers are mindful that creating too rapid a flicker could trigger seizures in some people.
Awfully nice of them to watch out for us that way...
Is it just my imagination, or does this article try to paint the Hollywood "agents" and "enforcers" as some sort of quasi-law-enforcement personnel?
he just changed clothes and put his glasses back on and instantly became unrecognizable.
Oh, wait...
a peice of rebarb(sp?) through the motherboard
This stuff is called 're-bar', which is short for 'reinforcing-bar'. It is a metal rod about a half-inch in diameter (there are larger/smaller versions) that is used to add strength to concrete structures. Re-bar is made with a coarse pattern on the outside so the concrete can get a grip.
For those of you who are still lost, this is the stuff that Cordelia fell on in 'Lover's Walk', an episode from the second or third season of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Does that help?
You know you are a geek when you understand a headline of all these acronyms...
SIC.
MacHomer. An excerpt from the 'About' page:
This one-man vocal spectacular features over 50 voices from TV's favourite dysfunctional family in a hilarious performance of Shakespeare's bloodiest tragedy! Starring 'Homer Simpson' as Macbeth and 'Marge' as Lady Macbeth (in a script which remains 85% Shakespeare), MacHomer is hysterically funny and amazing to watch.
A friend of mine saw MacHomer in the DC area and though it was great; apparently the voices are quite accurate.
Oops - sorry: Linux! Linux! Linux!
(Don't want to be off-topic. D'oh.)
We drop each one 54 times from one meter
This seems rather time consuming. Why don't they just drop them once from a height of 54 meters? That would be the same, right?
What if some newbie found an integral bug, gets a "RTFM" and is too intimidated to report the bug?
In all seriousness, what are the odds of that? What are the chances that someone brand new to $PRODUCT will find an "integral bug" that somehow eluded the developers and and all the other individuals that use $PRODUCT on a daily basis? I think the odds are minimal; while such an occurrence is not impossible, it is at least very unlikely.
I said quite clearly that I could not get to the linked article:
(Unfortunately I can't get to the linked story at the moment to confirm this.)
Was that too cryptic?
I was one of the instructors in the war games lab. To make things interesting for the students, I distributed nmap with a modified nmap-os-fingerprints file. Windows 2000 machines were reported as Solaris 2.6 (X86) and so forth. Some of the student responses were interesting.
I believe IP Personality was there first.
(Unfortunately I can't get to the linked story at the moment to confirm this.)
I like the pictures of lil' Rambo rolling along there in the panzer. Reminds me of my youth.
Where the heck did you grow up???
Black's Legal Dictionary defines amicus curiae: "A person with a strong interest in or views on the subject matter of an action may petition the court for permission to file a brief ostensibly on behalf of a party, but actually to suggest a rationale consistent with its own views. Such amicus curiae briefs are commonly filed in appeals concerning matters of broad public interest; e.g. civil rights cases".
I found this item here.
Unlike a lot of people on Slashdot, I'm a hobbyist/amateur sysadmin (or is that term even appropriate?), and this book is probably just what I need.
No, I'm sorry - this book is only for professionals. "Professional Apache Security" - see? Move along...
Almost a whole day passed before this dupe was posted. Huzzah!
The contents of the linked page (well, the larger frame) are as follows:
Dungeon Master Java is a remake of the classic FTL game Dungeon Master. It is written entirely in Java, and is designed to run as a stand-alone application rather than an applet in a web browser. It has high-resolution graphics that simulate a 3D environment. Most of the graphics are rendered in the free ray-tracer Pov-Ray. Item graphics and character portraits are done by hand with a paint program, though many are simply taken from the original and its sequels and touched-up.
Gameplay is very similar to the original, with real-time action, 90-degree turns, and step-by-step movement. One major change from the original is that monsters are not "stuck" in groups: they are completely free to wander, sometimes occupying a square with other monsters and sometimes not.
Dungeon Master Java Has Been Released!
Last Update: January 14, 2003
There. That should satisfy those who can't read the article (through