I went to this movie last week and for a techno geek it's the most boring thing you can imagine,
However, if you are a SINGLE geek then take a look at that girl, maybe you like how she looks as much as i do, then go for it- her face is always on. I drooled the entire movie.
Too many peeple have posted things that are good for a normal person, but not extreme geeks like myself. I wasn't going to write one wishlist but after seeing so many non-geek posting on/. I realize that i have to do something to help our TRUE GEEK to get what he/she really wants.
Lots of junk computers, more than three platforms such as old HP, Sun, SGI workstations. Go to a university junk yard you'd get a truckful for a reasonable price.Or Box'o parts, 486's low end pentiums that he/she can have months of fun with.
Who can resist books? Not those stupid brick books, I'm talking books like Knuth's. so a gift certs would be nice.
by the way i'd mention the coupons too. fatbrain.com $10 off $25 purchase. Code: fatbrainpromo exp.12-31 $15 off $25 purchase. Code: USEFATBRAIN
For a very cheap gift buyer, get bn.com $10 dollars off $10 dollars coupon, and buy him/her two of the little pocket references from Oreilly. Choices are, vi pocket reference, emacs pocket reference, perl pocket reference. Or, consolidate to one Oreilly book: programming with curses. you pay for a mere few dollars shipping. Great gift if he hasn't got one yet
If your geek boy/girl havn't got a big monitor, it's time for a 21".
Be careful choosing input devices. each true geek has a stiff preference for keyboards and pointing devices, he may get offended if you buy the wrong one. I would not take a MS natural keyboard but I'd love to get a Ortek MCK-142 or Northgate Omnikey Ultra or IBM M. And i'd kill anyone who buys me one of the "happy Hacking" keyboards. but some geeks want the reverse. However, a Logitech Marble three buttons is almost a gurantee good gift.
Safe bets: CDR blanks. Hard drives. RAMS. Books Gift certificates.
Millionair buyers: You can't go wrong with a THIN laptop, Sun Workstations/Servers, Alpha, SGIs, SONY W900 monitor, Dedicated T1 connection, or pizza cooking/cleanning maid.
Last but not least, if you want to send a Romantic gift, send a girl who can deal with the geek talk. Pack her nicely in a sexy The Matrix outfit.
This flaimbait is simply too irresistable. Wee is aparently a very young and uneducated person.
Fact: the price of phone service dropped DRAMATICALLY after the Bell broke. FACT: yes, all the lines still route through the big companies, but we buy service from different channels. for example, i called my gf using my phone card for 4 cents per minute. If it wasn't the breakup, why do you think we can do that today? why do you think MCI/Worldcom/Sprint/AT&T are willing to sell service in bulk and allow competition?
You like the stuff MS makes? People vote with thier dollars? how could people vote when MS is the only choice on the ballot? 10 years ago, the country where i'm from, people vote for presidency like a perfectly democratic country - except for one thing- there's only one candidate. You think that's freedom?
The whole paper is full of proof that MS is monopoly. the best proof is 'the bookproof': "Microsoft priced its product not according to the marginal cost($49, as a perfect competitive firm would prefer) but the higher fix point ($89), where a monopolistic firm would maximize its profits. Microeconomics tells us that this is a dead proof that MS is a monopoly.
If you are naive enough to think that the US is the complete free market, again, you have not been educated enough. In the spectrum from Capitialist to Socialist countries, the US is at near the middle. a typical freemarket economy is one like HongKong. If you have been in HongKong before, you would understand why free market has failures: half of the houses are empty and yet people cannot afford to live alone. Why? because of monopolistic behavior. Monopolistic firms would make more money when the price is higher, and they don't care about who has a place to live or who hasn't. This is taxing the entire society.
let's see. Apparently you don't know fuck about economics and don't know fuck about how to write a ASCII text.. but lets see..
First of all, trade defincit has nothing to do with MS but everything to do with the domestic savings rate. if the domestic saving rate is unchanged, deficit stays the same.
Secondly. you hold a lot of MS stocks, you are the dumb ass who didn't sell. people who are holding AOL, Sun, IBM stocks are prolly all cheering tomorrow while you weeping your ass out.
The money that does not go to MS or the stock market will be invested somewhere else. one firm will not change the saving and investing habit of a country.
You are darwin challenged. that super power crap is entertainnig, tho.
I think we can get about 150-200 billion dollars fine out of MS. that will 1. Force MS to release/unlock talents 2. Force MS to sell divisions 3. Stop MS from buying out little companies 4. Raise the price of windows2000 by 100% and hopefully people would realise the pirating isn't worth it. 5. Help public schools and our financial aide/grants.
your claim: nobody want to change to another keybaord. your mistake: you didn't look at other posts.
your claim: standardization is good. you mistake:it should have been "standardization, WHILE NOT COSTING US MORE MONEY(ie, MONOPOLY) , is good." but then again you are probably using IE to type this post.
Lastly, for your info, "Monopolistic Market" is regarded as "Market FAilure" in economy. Therefore, in economic terms, (using your very goofy definition of standardization) Standardization is Market failure. now does that make sense to you? no? it's because there's something wrong with your claim as states earlier.
Are you an economics major? i suppose not. Nor am i. I've an economics minor. i took serveral econ classes and i can tell you that non of them profs likes MS. They just don't put too much emotion into this issue, and they analyze it as a "market failure and a very good example of monopoly" if you call that "like MS" then you are probably not a scientist.
in fact, The Economist magazine is one of the voices again MS monopoly, i believe the last discussion is in jannuary.
why do you think all people should have to same emotions towards this issue? why do you think everyone should pick sides? I am a CS student so i do have very strong emotions towards this issue, but i also understand, to economists, MS is simply a very well tuned economic example.
one of the prof did comment on the Bill Gate, as a great marketer. i do not consider that a praise at all. it's a rather emotionless description.
Same here at Purdue West Lafayette. Physics department use Linux a lot. CS started to teach VJ++. MS donated an entire lab of LCD screened computers... etc. but the main servers are still Solaris. I TA'ed for the first ever OO programming class that permits the use of VC++ and started to wonder how these MS raised students will ever pass OS course. (but i have never seen anyone clicking windows so swiftly in my entire life!)
The cool thing is, windows users have to wait for up to half an hour in line to get on a campus machine during busy hour just to check thier email with thier little netscape client. Unix users can do that anywhere and don't have to wait. if they do, five minutes top. Call that intelligence premium if you will.
Which reminds me. Fellow unix people, we are still in the dark era; god knows when or whether will this evil age be over.
Now, if the MIT grad students are gona be forced to do MS+Java, do you still think we respect this school like we did? i don't know.
Geez I'll post non-AC. Why don't you flamers do so. Purdue Undergrad upperclassman here. So this is really kinda off-topic, my viewpoint for freshmen candidates i guess.
1. Purdue undergrad is the easiest to get in. I'm a transfer student, i know all they ask is 2.0 GPA. Not so easy to get out, tho. class sizes shrink dramatically. My first class shrank from 220+ to ~25 people coming to class. Second one shrank from 60+ to 35. Those are not even THE weed out course. 2. Purdue Campus is terribly boring, that's world famous. A macho campus, too. If you have very little self control, then Purdue is perfect, the most interesting thing to do here is studying. 3. Purdue allows too many freshmen so the professor/student ratio is really bad. But I Never have problem getting personal attention from profs. Our profs are good. Some might be a bit strange, but they are good. 4. As an undergrad it is EXTREMELY easy to find research in here. 5. The campus is rather computer-illiterate. There's good and bad side about it. 6. we do have very good relations with the industry. Our Deparment really look very hard for our scholarship. 7. The TA's are, well, not very good. ok. bad. nothing personal,(after all i've been one) 8. The department has a very small pool of active people. Sure it is big but the people pool shrinks so damn fast that you will know each other soon enough.
**9. If you are a Pepsi drinker, you are in trouble; we only have coke and Starbucks. 10. you will be asked to code your butt out. Just like in any other respectable CS departments. 11. Purdue CS has the best whinners in the fresh/soph pool. They are all gone by your junior year. 12. the most unbearable thing about the campus, for me, is the conservative/christian atomosphere, racial segregation, and so on. I drive back to Chicago when i want to party. 13. one lovable thing is the CS department's "Pizza Culture." No Pizza, no party. We are pizza machines.
Over all, i think Purdue is great fresh start-over school for people who have stumbled in the past with a low GPA or whatever test score. But if you ain't prepared to be challenged, don't come.
1. Slashdot != linux community 2. Slashdot is now a huge flambait as we all see. 3. move back to the newsgroups and mailing lists. web interface is simply lamer magnet. 4. why sympathize a no name kid who brags. he'd be kicked out in a week. 5. Slashdot discussions gets lame after the slashdor sell out. 6. slashdot is now half windows based. many posters have obviously NEVER touched linux.
I admit i was jealous for the first five minutes. It's simply because the chix on MTV are hella hot.
But then i realized that NOBODY has heard of him as a hacker. uh.... if i were him i'd be looking for a place to hide right now. I don't think Larry Wall or Linus Torvalds ever have to go all the way to MTV to announce, "hey i'm a hacker. Everybody look at me." After all, do MTV producers really know a hacker when they see one? Or, do they really care? Now, if he can show any proof under his belt, we'd acknowledge the fact. Even so, using cracking or hacking to get girls (yes, i have done it before, successfully getting a cute model's attention on the IRC. but i'm now really ashamed of it... ) ain't that hard. All you have to do is to find really dumb girls, and i'm sure there are SOME on MTV.
So here's my question: Abe, have you ever won any programming contests? Anything else that can proof your hacker status? Did you use the lowly flood and other technique such as cracking into the girls' computer and then fix it to get girls attention? (cuz i did.) Do you have the balls to take a challenge? on MTV live broadcast, we will lock you in a room, full of all sorts of computers, and
Challenge 1: use the computer and equipment provided to get a local network done with specified services and topology.(no, not windows workgroup) Challenge2: you will be provided a hardware and asked to write a device driver for it. actually, that's too easy, how about this: you will be provided a machine specification, and asked to write a software simulator for it, and also write a tiny compiler, tiny OS with specified system calls for it. Challenge3: you will be given a broken LAN and fix it. Challenge4: good ole programming contest. something like UIUC mach maniac. if you can win over any of the widely acknoledged hacker you ain't that bad.
If this will be live broadcast on MTV, and if you can make it 3 out of 4, then i'll be the first guy to call you cool. and you will get my high speed box's root password. (whatever punk means i wouldn't know. i grew up in the 80's.)
You havn't read the new bit, have you? he didn't break into it. He didn't break into the database. He social engineered his way to get a clerk to reach the database. AS of the fed case plea bargain, how could it be possible anyone could do 4-15 million in damage, over the network, without erasing anything critical?
If you don't do something about these then who knows what the government will do after they get thier way?
For example, how would you like to have somebody break into your box, say, put some warez on it, and call the Fed, and then you would find yourself in jail for 10 years without a trial? I can't see why this wouldn't happen, in fact it has. If you don't care about Kevin's right, the next might be your own.
Gee, you sound a bit negative. Are your parents very critical of you? What do you mean by "Every one of us?" I sure did write Email and sign petition. If none of us care about this deal, he wouldn't be heard and he would be sentenced already.
If you mean "shame on me" then don't say "shame on you, shame on me" because I don't think everybody else deserve this.
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However, if you are a SINGLE geek then take a look at that girl, maybe you like how she looks as much as i do, then go for it- her face is always on. I drooled the entire movie.
Lots of junk computers, more than three platforms such as old HP, Sun, SGI workstations. Go to a university junk yard you'd get a truckful for a reasonable price.Or Box'o parts, 486's low end pentiums that he/she can have months of fun with.
Who can resist books? Not those stupid brick books, I'm talking books like Knuth's. so a gift certs would be nice.
by the way i'd mention the coupons too. fatbrain.com
$10 off $25 purchase. Code: fatbrainpromo exp.12-31
$15 off $25 purchase. Code: USEFATBRAIN
For a very cheap gift buyer, get bn.com $10 dollars off $10 dollars coupon, and buy him/her two of the little pocket references from Oreilly. Choices are, vi pocket reference, emacs pocket reference, perl pocket reference. Or, consolidate to one Oreilly book: programming with curses. you pay for a mere few dollars shipping. Great gift if he hasn't got one yet
If your geek boy/girl havn't got a big monitor, it's time for a 21".
Be careful choosing input devices. each true geek has a stiff preference for keyboards and pointing devices, he may get offended if you buy the wrong one. I would not take a MS natural keyboard but I'd love to get a Ortek MCK-142 or Northgate Omnikey Ultra or IBM M. And i'd kill anyone who buys me one of the "happy Hacking" keyboards. but some geeks want the reverse. However, a Logitech Marble three buttons is almost a gurantee good gift.
Safe bets: CDR blanks. Hard drives. RAMS. Books Gift certificates.
Millionair buyers: You can't go wrong with a THIN laptop, Sun Workstations/Servers, Alpha, SGIs, SONY W900 monitor, Dedicated T1 connection, or pizza cooking/cleanning maid.
Last but not least, if you want to send a Romantic gift, send a girl who can deal with the geek talk. Pack her nicely in a sexy The Matrix outfit.
Well said. What exactly does ;card carrying libertarian" mean anyway? those 60's flower cards?
Fact:
the price of phone service dropped DRAMATICALLY after the Bell broke.
FACT:
yes, all the lines still route through the big companies, but we buy service from different channels. for example, i called my gf using my phone card for 4 cents per minute. If it wasn't the breakup, why do you think we can do that today? why do you think MCI/Worldcom/Sprint/AT&T are willing to sell service in bulk and allow competition?
You like the stuff MS makes? People vote with thier dollars? how could people vote when MS is the only choice on the ballot? 10 years ago, the country where i'm from, people vote for presidency like a perfectly democratic country - except for one thing- there's only one candidate. You think that's freedom?
The whole paper is full of proof that MS is monopoly. the best proof is 'the bookproof': "Microsoft priced its product not according to the marginal cost($49, as a perfect competitive firm would prefer) but the higher fix point ($89), where a monopolistic firm would maximize its profits. Microeconomics tells us that this is a dead proof that MS is a monopoly.
If you are naive enough to think that the US is the complete free market, again, you have not been educated enough. In the spectrum from Capitialist to Socialist countries, the US is at near the middle. a typical freemarket economy is one like HongKong. If you have been in HongKong before, you would understand why free market has failures: half of the houses are empty and yet people cannot afford to live alone. Why? because of monopolistic behavior. Monopolistic firms would make more money when the price is higher, and they don't care about who has a place to live or who hasn't. This is taxing the entire society.
P.S. stop your Linux bullshit already.
As a Computer Science and Economics person, i have to say that he's got it BOTH! wow. sun of a gun.
First of all, trade defincit has nothing to do with MS but everything to do with the domestic savings rate. if the domestic saving rate is unchanged, deficit stays the same.
Secondly. you hold a lot of MS stocks, you are the dumb ass who didn't sell. people who are holding AOL, Sun, IBM stocks are prolly all cheering tomorrow while you weeping your ass out.
The money that does not go to MS or the stock market will be invested somewhere else. one firm will not change the saving and investing habit of a country.
You are darwin challenged. that super power crap is entertainnig, tho.
Do you think you would be paying 10 cents, or down to 4 cents per minute long distance if AT&T weren't chopped?
my 286 compaq laptop:
640k RAM. 35M HD. CGA display. a broken floppy that i cannot detach, and full battery. DOS and WP5.1 and iomega guest driver runs like a champ.
MS Word cannot get to legal system because of bugs.
Me think the stock goes down if MS is fined 50 bil, you think?
I think we can get about 150-200 billion dollars fine out of MS. that will
1. Force MS to release/unlock talents
2. Force MS to sell divisions
3. Stop MS from buying out little companies
4. Raise the price of windows2000 by 100% and hopefully people would realise the pirating isn't worth it.
5. Help public schools and our financial aide/grants.
you got them confused.
your claim: nobody want to change to another keybaord.
your mistake: you didn't look at other posts.
your claim: standardization is good.
you mistake:it should have been "standardization, WHILE NOT COSTING US MORE MONEY(ie, MONOPOLY) , is good." but then again you are probably using IE to type this post.
Lastly, for your info, "Monopolistic Market" is regarded as "Market FAilure" in economy. Therefore, in economic terms, (using your very goofy definition of standardization) Standardization is Market failure. now does that make sense to you? no? it's because there's something wrong with your claim as states earlier.
Are you an economics major? i suppose not. Nor am i. I've an economics minor. i took serveral econ classes and i can tell you that non of them profs likes MS. They just don't put too much emotion into this issue, and they analyze it as a "market failure and a very good example of monopoly" if you call that "like MS" then you are probably not a scientist.
in fact, The Economist magazine is one of the voices again MS monopoly, i believe the last discussion is in jannuary.
why do you think all people should have to same emotions towards this issue? why do you think everyone should pick sides? I am a CS student so i do have very strong emotions towards this issue, but i also understand, to economists, MS is simply a very well tuned economic example.
one of the prof did comment on the Bill Gate, as a great marketer. i do not consider that a praise at all. it's a rather emotionless description.
Well that's really true. but.
have you noticed lately that windows ppl post more than linux ppl?
Same here at Purdue West Lafayette. Physics department use Linux a lot. CS started to teach VJ++. MS donated an entire lab of LCD screened computers... etc. but the main servers are still Solaris. I TA'ed for the first ever OO programming class that permits the use of VC++ and started to wonder how these MS raised students will ever pass OS course. (but i have never seen anyone clicking windows so swiftly in my entire life!)
The cool thing is, windows users have to wait for up to half an hour in line to get on a campus machine during busy hour just to check thier email with thier little netscape client. Unix users can do that anywhere and don't have to wait. if they do, five minutes top. Call that intelligence premium if you will.
Which reminds me. Fellow unix people, we are still in the dark era; god knows when or whether will this evil age be over.
Now, if the MIT grad students are gona be forced to do MS+Java, do you still think we respect this school like we did? i don't know.
Geez I'll post non-AC. Why don't you flamers do so. Purdue Undergrad upperclassman here. So this is really kinda off-topic, my viewpoint for freshmen candidates i guess.
1. Purdue undergrad is the easiest to get in. I'm a transfer student, i know all they ask is 2.0 GPA. Not so easy to get out, tho. class sizes shrink dramatically. My first class shrank from 220+ to ~25 people coming to class. Second one shrank from 60+ to 35. Those are not even THE weed out course.
2. Purdue Campus is terribly boring, that's world famous. A macho campus, too. If you have very little self control, then Purdue is perfect, the most interesting thing to do here is studying.
3. Purdue allows too many freshmen so the professor/student ratio is really bad. But I Never have problem getting personal attention from profs. Our profs are good. Some might be a bit strange, but they are good.
4. As an undergrad it is EXTREMELY easy to find research in here.
5. The campus is rather computer-illiterate. There's good and bad side about it.
6. we do have very good relations with the industry. Our Deparment really look very hard for our scholarship.
7. The TA's are, well, not very good. ok. bad. nothing personal,(after all i've been one)
8. The department has a very small pool of active people. Sure it is big but the people pool shrinks so damn fast that you will know each other soon enough.
**9. If you are a Pepsi drinker, you are in trouble; we only have coke and Starbucks.
10. you will be asked to code your butt out. Just like in any other respectable CS departments.
11. Purdue CS has the best whinners in the fresh/soph pool. They are all gone by your junior year.
12. the most unbearable thing about the campus, for me, is the conservative/christian atomosphere, racial segregation, and so on. I drive back to Chicago when i want to party.
13. one lovable thing is the CS department's "Pizza Culture." No Pizza, no party. We are pizza machines.
Over all, i think Purdue is great fresh start-over school for people who have stumbled in the past with a low GPA or whatever test score. But if you ain't prepared to be challenged, don't come.
1. Slashdot != linux community
2. Slashdot is now a huge flambait as we all see.
3. move back to the newsgroups and mailing lists. web interface is simply lamer magnet.
4. why sympathize a no name kid who brags. he'd be kicked out in a week.
5. Slashdot discussions gets lame after the slashdor sell out.
6. slashdot is now half windows based. many posters have obviously NEVER touched linux.
I admit i was jealous for the first five minutes. It's simply because the chix on MTV are hella hot.
But then i realized that NOBODY has heard of him as a hacker. uh.... if i were him i'd be looking for a place to hide right now. I don't think Larry Wall or Linus Torvalds ever have to go all the way to MTV to announce, "hey i'm a hacker. Everybody look at me." After all, do MTV producers really know a hacker when they see one? Or, do they really care? Now, if he can show any proof under his belt, we'd acknowledge the fact. Even so, using cracking or hacking to get girls (yes, i have done it before, successfully getting a cute model's attention on the IRC. but i'm now really ashamed of it... ) ain't that hard. All you have to do is to find really dumb girls, and i'm sure there are SOME on MTV.
So here's my question: Abe, have you ever won any programming contests? Anything else that can proof your hacker status? Did you use the lowly flood and other technique such as cracking into the girls' computer and then fix it to get girls attention? (cuz i did.) Do you have the balls to take a challenge? on MTV live broadcast, we will lock you in a room, full of all sorts of computers, and
Challenge 1:
use the computer and equipment provided to get a local network done with specified services and topology.(no, not windows workgroup)
Challenge2:
you will be provided a hardware and asked to write a device driver for it. actually, that's too easy, how about this:
you will be provided a machine specification, and asked to write a software simulator for it, and also write a tiny compiler, tiny OS with specified system calls for it.
Challenge3:
you will be given a broken LAN and fix it.
Challenge4:
good ole programming contest. something like UIUC mach maniac. if you can win over any of the widely acknoledged hacker you ain't that bad.
If this will be live broadcast on MTV, and if you can make it 3 out of 4, then i'll be the first guy to call you cool. and you will get my high speed box's root password. (whatever punk means i wouldn't know. i grew up in the 80's.)
Yeah? come and let's write programs. I'll beat your brains out.
The very first programmer, ever, is Ada. A female. So shut up.
No wonder we Purdue(west lafayette) CS gets less females this year. Send them back damn it!
I think any classical music w/ more than two instruments does it
sorry about my ignorance but, i thought that key is ctrl-ESC.
how do i assign that key to meta? i mean, i don't even know its hex number.
You havn't read the new bit, have you? he didn't break into it. He didn't break into the database. He social engineered his way to get a clerk to reach the database. AS of the fed case plea bargain, how could it be possible anyone could do 4-15 million in damage, over the network, without erasing anything critical?
For example, how would you like to have somebody break into your box, say, put some warez on it, and call the Fed, and then you would find yourself in jail for 10 years without a trial? I can't see why this wouldn't happen, in fact it has. If you don't care about Kevin's right, the next might be your own.
I sure did write Email and sign petition. If none of us care about this deal, he wouldn't be heard and he would be sentenced already.
If you mean "shame on me" then don't say "shame on you, shame on me" because I don't think everybody else deserve this.
Where did you see that?
BOSE doesn't always make good equipment, but Grundig makes really high quality stuffs.
i'm thinking of buying a minidisc player and a optical out soundcard. but i can't find any sound card with optical out (TOSLINK) and linux support.
Anyone?