"I am already staff for my wife, why would I want to be staff for a pet [cat] too?"
Because ALL "pussies", wives AND cats, require almost constant attention, praise and worship or their claws come out.
My advice is to feed the cat to the dog...hell, simplify your life and feed your wife to the dog too.
"Personally, I don't feel threatened by anyone that believes something different than myself."
Great post, Pharmboy. Can you even imagine how much better Slashdot could be if more people adopted this attitude. The last thing I want is a forum full of people who believe exactly the same thing I do. A mirror could fill that need. I come here to learn what others believe and to see if those beliefs will change what I believe.
The problem is you have to wade through so much crap, intolerance, and just...poor thinking...to get to the 'pearls' that it becomes a frustrating experience. Moderation abuse has made thresholding a completely unreliable filter. I have found too many great posts moderated to -1 by some jerk with an agenda to trust moderation any longer. This leaves me no option but to browse at -1 to make sure no signal gets thrown out with the noise.
I just want to know what you think, believe and/or find amusing. That's all.
"I've found the experiences of dancing and programming to have a great deal in common...for example in a debugger, it does seem to be dancing around its loops and conditions -- moving in patterns through time."
...and white men wonder why they can't dance.
IANADancer, in fact I'd pretty much distributed all my attribute points for this character before I realized there was a category labeled "Rhythm and Motor Skills", but it seems to me that most really great Dancers are all very right-brained types. They "feel" and instinctively react to the music in a way that is as incomprehensible to me as 370 Assembler might be to them. Coders and Hackers (MY people) in contrast seem to be mostly left-brained as a rule. We instinctively see patterns in code where others might just see spaghetti. Different strokes for different folks, I guess, but in response to Crosby, Stills, & Nash...
"Oh when you were young, did you question all the answers?" Yes.
"Did you envy all the dancers who had all the nerve?" Yes...YES! I admit it! OK?
This is probably OT, but we ARE speaking about mice...so be karmically kind, please.
I bought this mouse as a presentation tool and, based on prior experience with motion-sensing presentation mice, really didn't expect it to work very well at any other application. I was wrong...this thing works GREAT! I use it as my default desktop mouse now. The ability to set up custom events based on directional "swipes" is a feature I didn't think I would use very much but now I use it in every class.
Unfortunately, it's currently only supported under Windows. I have to unplug it when I boot into Sid or none of my pointing devices work properly.
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Yeah, unfortunately this guy's lawnchair is probably sitting directly on top of a "NO STEP" sticker
...makes this overpriced POS look just like the yesterday's news it is.
Why would anyone in their right mind pay over 200 bucks for an external 40GB harddrive that's too big to fit comfortably in your pocket or on a keyring, yet just the right size to make it easy to misplace or be stolen. Factor in all the inherent advantages of solid-state over mechanical storage and this looks like a no-brainer to me. (as in, anyone that buys this would have to have no brain)
Replacement for a laptop? I don't THINK so. The lack of any onboard I/O is going to pose something of a problem for anyone without a direct neural feed.
Although based upon the idiotic randomness of their actions, one might conclude that the executives at SCO haven't wrapped towels around their heads, but towelies
"PHYSICAL REALITY v1.0 has a distinct lack of reliable respawn points. Why, my friend was fragged the other week, and he still hasn't rejoined the map."
This is a common misconception amongst Level-1 PHYSICAL REALITY Gamers.
This is a feature - NOT A BUG
PR v1.0 employs the latest in Karmic-Debt-Respawning limiters. So it's entirely possible, probable even, that your friend respawned instantly...only perhaps as a fern...or lint.
I'm sorry you missed the release, but there's already a simulation that satisfies virtually all of these requirements.
It's called...PHYSICAL REALITY. (version 1.0)
You can perform all sorts of fascinating lifelike actions in the PHYSICAL REALITY environment with IMMEDIATE TACTILE FEEDBACK! Seriously d00dZ, it's the greatest gaming environment ever. The AI-enabled fantasy-world-inhibitors enable choices made in the PR Environment to retain lasting effects across multiple gaming sessions.
Forget clunky VR visors and force-feedback devices. 6DoF controllers? Old Hat. PHYSICAL REALITY takes ergonomic gameplay to a new level with its innovative HAL (Human Abstraction Layer) controller that is intuitive, powerful, and open-source!
"Kiddy porn though, is still taboo to all but the sickest fucks."
Which would explain why everytime "the bad guys" want to take away our, self-granted and self-evident, rights to privacy and anonymity, they always trot out the spectre of "kiddy porn". Because, after all, what kind of sicko wouldn't be willing to sacrifice all their rights and submit to constant surveillance and monitoring if it means we can naively reassure ourselves that this is going to have any kind of meaninful impact at all on the habits of sexually-deranged pedophiles.
Are you trying to meet your client's needs or trying to force your client to meet your needs? I would suspect that his unwillingness to learn how to burn a cd has nothing to do with a lack of intelligence on his part, and much more to do with your unwillingness to find creative ways to help him see the value of devoting the time to learning this new skill.
Oh, and before all the AC trolls come out screaming about the doctor's personal responsibility to learn how to do this on his own...keep in mind that, from HIS viewpoint, that's simply not his job OR his area of expertise. In his world, that's why you're there. Is that viewpoint wrong? Maybe / Maybe not. Is that viewpoint retarded? Hardly. In fact, he's only doing what you've trained him to do.
Retrain him.
I mean, seriously, given the time and inconvenience it takes this guy to lug all his gear to your office, then come back and get it all the next day, how hard would it be to "sell" him on a short little fun and non-threatening impromptu training session on EZ-CD Creator?
Even assuming a worst-case-scenario where, after being clearly shown the personal advantages of knowing how to perform this task himself (without, btw, the standard Slashdot anti-training technique of first being made to feel like an idiot), he still chooses not to adopt the new skill...why not go the extra mile, script the backup operation and give him a desktop icon that performs the task for him? Either way, you come out looking like Engineer Scottie.
Yeah...or here's a wild thought that will most likely get me trolled by all the hacker fan-boys and l337-wannabes:
Perhaps the users of this system, having agreed to an acceptable usage policy (as defined by the provider), could have displayed enough intelligence and honor to concede that the system wasn't designed to be their unrestricted personal playground. If they didn't like the terms of that agreement, they shouldn't have agreed to it. It's called having a Code of Ethical Conduct and a key feature of any Code of Ethics is that it governs (i.e. "restricts") your immediate actions based upon a commonly agreed-upon ideal of what constitutes "right" action for the group, not just the individual. It's amazing to me that so many scream about incursions into their "personal freedom" while steadfastly resisting any and all attempts to hold them responsible for their personal actions.
I know this is probably an unpopular viewpoint here on Slashdot, where having your words/actions fettered by trivial absurdities like morals, ethics and conscience are considered the signs of a "mark".
Sweet Jeebus, I wish it had been me the salesguy had pushed.
The best course of action would have been to, visibly and violently, fall to the floor (like a "fouled" NBA player) the nanosecond the salesperson touched you.
Extra style and legal attack points would've been awarded for crashing through an end-cap display case and going into a frothing grande mal seizure in the middle of the main aisle.
Then your pre-coached companions should've immediately started screaming stuff like, "Oh my GOD! What have you DONE! You've KILLED him!!!" and fumbling with medicine bottles.
I predict you would have had your pick of ambulance-chasers before you were stretchered out the front door.
If we start beating spammers to death, aren't we really just Darwin-istically helping to create a stronger, faster spammer? Kind of like we've done with all the other parasites and infectious diseases that feed off the ass of humanity?
We have to interrupt their breeding cycle in some way to have any real hope of totally wiping spammers off the face of the earth. I suggest implanting military-grade STD's in sheep, so that everytime a spammer has sex...he gets reinfected.
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My advice is to feed the cat to the dog...hell, simplify your life and feed your wife to the dog too.
"Don't worry, dear, just bringing down my core temperature."
It's gonna go BAD for you!
The problem is you have to wade through so much crap, intolerance, and just...poor thinking...to get to the 'pearls' that it becomes a frustrating experience. Moderation abuse has made thresholding a completely unreliable filter. I have found too many great posts moderated to -1 by some jerk with an agenda to trust moderation any longer. This leaves me no option but to browse at -1 to make sure no signal gets thrown out with the noise.
I just want to know what you think, believe and/or find amusing. That's all.
IANADancer, in fact I'd pretty much distributed all my attribute points for this character before I realized there was a category labeled "Rhythm and Motor Skills", but it seems to me that most really great Dancers are all very right-brained types. They "feel" and instinctively react to the music in a way that is as incomprehensible to me as 370 Assembler might be to them. Coders and Hackers (MY people) in contrast seem to be mostly left-brained as a rule. We instinctively see patterns in code where others might just see spaghetti. Different strokes for different folks, I guess, but in response to Crosby, Stills, & Nash...
This is probably OT, but we ARE speaking about mice...so be karmically kind, please.
I bought this mouse as a presentation tool and, based on prior experience with motion-sensing presentation mice, really didn't expect it to work very well at any other application. I was wrong...this thing works GREAT! I use it as my default desktop mouse now. The ability to set up custom events based on directional "swipes" is a feature I didn't think I would use very much but now I use it in every class.
Unfortunately, it's currently only supported under Windows. I have to unplug it when I boot into Sid or none of my pointing devices work properly.
Yeah, unfortunately this guy's lawnchair is probably sitting directly on top of a "NO STEP" sticker
...makes this overpriced POS look just like the yesterday's news it is.
Why would anyone in their right mind pay over 200 bucks for an external 40GB harddrive that's too big to fit comfortably in your pocket or on a keyring, yet just the right size to make it easy to misplace or be stolen. Factor in all the inherent advantages of solid-state over mechanical storage and this looks like a no-brainer to me. (as in, anyone that buys this would have to have no brain)
Replacement for a laptop? I don't THINK so. The lack of any onboard I/O is going to pose something of a problem for anyone without a direct neural feed.
Although based upon the idiotic randomness of their actions, one might conclude that the executives at SCO haven't wrapped towels around their heads, but towelies
Well, of course, it's the The Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal defensive manuever.
This is a feature - NOT A BUG
PR v1.0 employs the latest in Karmic-Debt-Respawning limiters. So it's entirely possible, probable even, that your friend respawned instantly...only perhaps as a fern...or lint.
I'm sorry you missed the release, but there's already a simulation that satisfies virtually all of these requirements.
It's called...PHYSICAL REALITY. (version 1.0)
You can perform all sorts of fascinating lifelike actions in the PHYSICAL REALITY environment with IMMEDIATE TACTILE FEEDBACK! Seriously d00dZ, it's the greatest gaming environment ever. The AI-enabled fantasy-world-inhibitors enable choices made in the PR Environment to retain lasting effects across multiple gaming sessions.
Forget clunky VR visors and force-feedback devices. 6DoF controllers? Old Hat. PHYSICAL REALITY takes ergonomic gameplay to a new level with its innovative HAL (Human Abstraction Layer) controller that is intuitive, powerful, and open-source!
Because, after all, what kind of sicko wouldn't be willing to sacrifice all their rights and submit to constant surveillance and monitoring if it means we can naively reassure ourselves that this is going to have any kind of meaninful impact at all on the habits of sexually-deranged pedophiles.
Ummmm...because "reasonably uncuttable" cables are cheap to produce and "reasonably unforceable" locks are not?
Are you trying to meet your client's needs or trying to force your client to meet your needs?
I would suspect that his unwillingness to learn how to burn a cd has nothing to do with a lack of intelligence on his part, and much more to do with your unwillingness to find creative ways to help him see the value of devoting the time to learning this new skill.
Oh, and before all the AC trolls come out screaming about the doctor's personal responsibility to learn how to do this on his own...keep in mind that, from HIS viewpoint, that's simply not his job OR his area of expertise. In his world, that's why you're there. Is that viewpoint wrong? Maybe / Maybe not. Is that viewpoint retarded? Hardly. In fact, he's only doing what you've trained him to do.
Retrain him.
I mean, seriously, given the time and inconvenience it takes this guy to lug all his gear to your office, then come back and get it all the next day, how hard would it be to "sell" him on a short little fun and non-threatening impromptu training session on EZ-CD Creator?
Even assuming a worst-case-scenario where, after being clearly shown the personal advantages of knowing how to perform this task himself (without, btw, the standard Slashdot anti-training technique of first being made to feel like an idiot), he still chooses not to adopt the new skill...why not go the extra mile, script the backup operation and give him a desktop icon that performs the task for him? Either way, you come out looking like Engineer Scottie.
Yeah...or here's a wild thought that will most likely get me trolled by all the hacker fan-boys and l337-wannabes:
Perhaps the users of this system, having agreed to an acceptable usage policy (as defined by the provider), could have displayed enough intelligence and honor to concede that the system wasn't designed to be their unrestricted personal playground. If they didn't like the terms of that agreement, they shouldn't have agreed to it. It's called having a Code of Ethical Conduct and a key feature of any Code of Ethics is that it governs (i.e. "restricts") your immediate actions based upon a commonly agreed-upon ideal of what constitutes "right" action for the group, not just the individual. It's amazing to me that so many scream about incursions into their "personal freedom" while steadfastly resisting any and all attempts to hold them responsible for their personal actions.
I know this is probably an unpopular viewpoint here on Slashdot, where having your words/actions fettered by trivial absurdities like morals, ethics and conscience are considered the signs of a "mark".
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Sweet Jeebus, I wish it had been me the salesguy had pushed. The best course of action would have been to, visibly and violently, fall to the floor (like a "fouled" NBA player) the nanosecond the salesperson touched you.
Extra style and legal attack points would've been awarded for crashing through an end-cap display case and going into a frothing grande mal seizure in the middle of the main aisle.
Then your pre-coached companions should've immediately started screaming stuff like, "Oh my GOD! What have you DONE! You've KILLED him!!!" and fumbling with medicine bottles.
I predict you would have had your pick of ambulance-chasers before you were stretchered out the front door.
...OR, if you're using windows: ..
c:\>doskey cd=cd
If we start beating spammers to death, aren't we really just Darwin-istically helping to create a stronger, faster spammer? Kind of like we've done with all the other parasites and infectious diseases that feed off the ass of humanity?
We have to interrupt their breeding cycle in some way to have any real hope of totally wiping spammers off the face of the earth. I suggest implanting military-grade STD's in sheep, so that everytime a spammer has sex...he gets reinfected.