Troll? Nerds are a stereotype. Some people fit that stereotype. Some nerds have no interpersonal skills and bitch about weird ass shit as they review things. Right on. With posters like you, who needs enemas?
Re:Hardware *Debugging*?
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Get off it. I can't think of a single reason why someone can't "debug" hardware or anything else for that matter. The origin of the word comes from a troubleshooting situation anyways. Why should someone be able to debug a relational database but not a relationship?
I'm a Chicagoan through and through. IMHO, the drops in crime were most likely from Gentrification rather than increased technology.
As much as I hate the implications however, the crime in this city still centers around the public housing. The CPD has installed cameras on the west side, and this has made a difference in the crime in the area (Before anyone starts freaking out, the cameras are highly visible with blue flashing lights on them. You cannot miss them).
While the technology is scary in the wrong hands, this can potentially be a very good thing. CPD are harsh when necessary, but realistic. They are not the typical chest-beating, ego-fragile, farces that I have run into in other sections of the Chicago-land. If they have a tool that tells them instantly that I am not a suspected drug dealer or convicted child molester, then they can give me my ticket and let me go. At least there could be some sort of "hard criteria" rather than some judgemental cop pulling me over and hassling me based on how I look (And oh boy, has that happend before)
In the wrong hands the technology is obviously a potential risk. I can just imagine a coupla dirty pigs (not the sane kind) scanning liscense plates and running them constantly.
I was unaware that there was a 450 Mhz PII. I stand corrected. (The PII 400 was actually my home desktop until last month. I never noticed it was slow until my work desktop got replaced again).
Someone in the company decided to play lite rock over the intercom. All the cher, bryan adams, celine dion, and cyndi lauper the world has ever produced. Suprisingly OSHA has no laws against this.
Only bright enough to supervise a production line? What the hell is that supposed to mean? Personally I'd rather have a production line supervisor's job. Then I can leave work after the day is done and spend time with my family, rather than working 60~80 hrs a week because of a scheduling "slide." As for the interest it creates as a protagonist, that is left up to the indivdual.
As for cereal box reading you are missing out. Try some shampoo bottles as well.
I'm sorry, I was kind of doing a free association, drawing on things I said and things that I was thinking.
I'm assuming that carrying a radio money exchange device in your wrist would make a culture already preoccupied with money, even more preoccupied. Additionally, a wrist-wallet would be connected to personal information and could probably be used to determine socioeconomic status (eroding of personal privacies assumed). Then I was drawing on peoples recent activity of discarding reason for sense of security and I was imagining private living/commerce groups (private militia, that sort of thing). Then I was imagining that people with lots of money would be less likely to want and hence less likely to commit acts of terrorism or at the very least boorish behaviour by vulgar people (such as peeing in public, nosepicking, correcting people's grammar in posts, etc.). Hence, a radio tag tied to socio-economic identification could be a building block for wealth discrimination.
I would classify my statement less along the line of stupid and more along the lines of pointless, but there is no accounting for taste (or reasoning).
Look, you really shouldn't have converted all of your gas stations and McDonalds to Ogg Vorbis format. What's the point of using a superior format if no one is going to commercially support it. Besides, McChicken Nuggets taste better encoded in AAC.
One of my friends and I were theorizing a money system where your total cost of existance (rent, food, hookers) was summed up and divided by a cost per second. I forget the exact numbers but somewhere around the poverty level is around 3 cents a minute. We were horrified at the implications and applications. (You can only enter The Demiplex Residencies of the New United Anglophyles if you have a time money index of 20 cents a minute or higher).
It's kind of cool (not really) how when we were little we saw visions of distopia and laughed. Now we see the building blocks being built before our eyes.
I sure hope they build tinfoil hats with "speedpasses" so I don't have to take mine off to get a cheeseburger.
>> It was one of those annoying "adventure" games where you have to try 6000 different bizarre things before you stumble across the one that lets you advance the story, because the programmers never bothered to account for the obvious solutions.
I'll take an "adventure" text parser game over any game on the xbox or pc hands down.
My favorite part is that he said that they are of a Hispanic nature. They could be African, European, Asian, Antarctican, but damn it. There's something terribly hispanic about these damn pirates.
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They're called sharpies and you can get them for less than a dollar.
The Gaytrix! Thats so funny, because homosexuality is so lame and so is the Matrix!
Personally I would call it the Dorktrix... or maybe "Slashdork."
Troll? Nerds are a stereotype. Some people fit that stereotype. Some nerds have no interpersonal skills and bitch about weird ass shit as they review things. Right on. With posters like you, who needs enemas?
"One at first, but he'll train more"
Get off it. I can't think of a single reason why someone can't "debug" hardware or anything else for that matter. The origin of the word comes from a troubleshooting situation anyways. Why should someone be able to debug a relational database but not a relationship?
As much as I hate the implications however, the crime in this city still centers around the public housing. The CPD has installed cameras on the west side, and this has made a difference in the crime in the area (Before anyone starts freaking out, the cameras are highly visible with blue flashing lights on them. You cannot miss them).
While the technology is scary in the wrong hands, this can potentially be a very good thing. CPD are harsh when necessary, but realistic. They are not the typical chest-beating, ego-fragile, farces that I have run into in other sections of the Chicago-land. If they have a tool that tells them instantly that I am not a suspected drug dealer or convicted child molester, then they can give me my ticket and let me go. At least there could be some sort of "hard criteria" rather than some judgemental cop pulling me over and hassling me based on how I look (And oh boy, has that happend before)
In the wrong hands the technology is obviously a potential risk. I can just imagine a coupla dirty pigs (not the sane kind) scanning liscense plates and running them constantly.
No Simpsons? No way. Nuff Said.
I was unaware that there was a 450 Mhz PII. I stand corrected. (The PII 400 was actually my home desktop until last month. I never noticed it was slow until my work desktop got replaced again).
Someone in the company decided to play lite rock over the intercom. All the cher, bryan adams, celine dion, and cyndi lauper the world has ever produced. Suprisingly OSHA has no laws against this.
You have the fastest PII they made.
I'm sure you can identify with that one.
They'll get RSI in their backs and their wrists.
As for cereal box reading you are missing out. Try some shampoo bottles as well.
I have no idea what I just said.
So we'll have an army of quadriplegics and the blind? Awesome.
One at first, but he'll train more.
I'm assuming that carrying a radio money exchange device in your wrist would make a culture already preoccupied with money, even more preoccupied. Additionally, a wrist-wallet would be connected to personal information and could probably be used to determine socioeconomic status (eroding of personal privacies assumed). Then I was drawing on peoples recent activity of discarding reason for sense of security and I was imagining private living/commerce groups (private militia, that sort of thing). Then I was imagining that people with lots of money would be less likely to want and hence less likely to commit acts of terrorism or at the very least boorish behaviour by vulgar people (such as peeing in public, nosepicking, correcting people's grammar in posts, etc.). Hence, a radio tag tied to socio-economic identification could be a building block for wealth discrimination.
I would classify my statement less along the line of stupid and more along the lines of pointless, but there is no accounting for taste (or reasoning).
"Don't get too close to my Fantasy" - Ween
Look, you really shouldn't have converted all of your gas stations and McDonalds to Ogg Vorbis format. What's the point of using a superior format if no one is going to commercially support it. Besides, McChicken Nuggets taste better encoded in AAC.
It's kind of cool (not really) how when we were little we saw visions of distopia and laughed. Now we see the building blocks being built before our eyes.
I sure hope they build tinfoil hats with "speedpasses" so I don't have to take mine off to get a cheeseburger.
I'll take an "adventure" text parser game over any game on the xbox or pc hands down.
My favorite part is that he said that they are of a Hispanic nature . They could be African, European, Asian, Antarctican, but damn it. There's something terribly hispanic about these damn pirates.
PS I protect my above rant from spelling or grammatical attacks because that damn "submit" button keeps looking more and more like "preview"