Read Farenheit 451. Great book. Talks alot about people who don't wonder, who sit around in front of the TV all day, sucked into the ultraviolent entertainment or engaged in idle conversations all day. Forgetting how to live.
Has a fair amount of violence, but unlike GTA, violence is considered a bad thing, even if it's sometimes necessary.
In GTA, violence is about the only thing you can do.
Back when you were playing Donkey Kong, adults were playing Leisure Suit Larry.
Yeah, I remember the part when Larry beat the shit out of the cop and stole his gun... use the gun to shoot the brains out of the creep who stole your drugs, and then run over the prostitute after receiving her services.
I turned on the "Collapse Sections (show stories from all sections, unless specifically excluded)" section, and then specifically exclude certain sections.
Very true, but it depends on the purpose of the light.
In the kitchen, use Flourescents. Cheap & effective.
But how about for your car dashbord or some other DC-powered device? Seems like an LED light in your car roof could solve that "Ooops, I left the interior light on all last night, and now the battery is dead" problem.
That said, I still think LED installations have a way to go. Whenever it rains, I see a bunch of cars where 30% of the LED lamps are dark. The LED's probably work fine, but I bet that the connections have corroded due to the rain and smog.
I've see two related trends in the dotcom world recently:
1) Fire your entire development staff, outsource to some consulting company overseas.
2) Whoops, that overseas consulting company is doing a really poor job. Bad code, site crashing. It wasn't as easy as the PHB thought. Hire some temporary staff to administrate and coordinate the actions of the overseas company from the local office.
After seeing Jango Fett in Attack of the Clones, I don't think spammers have anything to worry about.
After about 5 minutes, Jango will have lost his rocket pack, will be ungracefully knocked over by a giant 3-horned lizard, and after a few more minutes of him bumbling around, his head will be cut off by a lightsaber in a very anti-climatic moment 2/3 though the movie...
Yes. Microsoft has acknowledged the authenticity of these documents. Halloween I, II, III and VII are real; IV, V and VI are satire/commentary consequent on various Microsoft statements.
Hey, I'm open to the possibility of some of these documents being real, but I've looked around, and I've asked for proof from other people who reference these documents, and nobody has ever been able to provide the proof that I want. All of these Halloween documents could be satire/comment consequent on various Microsoft statements.
Rumors have a strange way of being accepted as truth, especially after they are passed around enough.
What I find very strange about all this is M$ admits it's "anti-Linux/OSS/GPL" FUD isn't working after surveying people about their views in the Halloween VII memo.
You're making the assumption that the Halloween VII memo is an authentic, unaltered memo from Microsoft. How do you know it's not a forgery? Where's the proof?
I have an email from Bill Gates that says he'll give me $1000 if I forward the email to all my friends, but I don't think it's real.
Firstly, Redhat isn't (technically, and possibly in other ways) Unix.
So I was having a similar discussion the other night. Why is RedHat, or Linux, any less Unixy then Solaris or HP-UX?
Unix was an OS written years ago by AT&T. The copyright is now owned by SCO. So doesn't that mean that Linux, Solaris and HP-UX are all equally NOT Unix?
(wedding guide suggestions for your ring prices is six months salary on an engagement and 18 months on the wedding ring).
Those rules are over a 100 years old, and were written for upper-class men who could afford 24 months salary on rings. The rules are different now... I couldn't find a $150k wedding ring if I tried.
Here's a clue: It's a free world, you don't have to follow the rules. Do your own thing. Set your own traditions. Liberate yourself and your potential spouse a little. My wife and I bought our rings together, because we wanted to buy the rings, and we spent no where near that amount.
I'm getting sick of articles about idiotic men signing over their lives and salaries...
You're being pretty negative, again, I suggest you look outside the box a little bit and do your own thing. The best women out there don't want or need you to sign over your life and salary.
Relationships should be mutually affectionate and supportive. We both work, we both help each other out. It's mutual.
pretty sure that last discussion was about "high tech" wedding rings. Like marking it with binary encoding, incorporating a Java chip, etc.
This is a different vein... simply, what do geeks (and poor geeks) do for wedding rings. Nothing wrong with that. Some of us actually get married, want to have kids, etc.
Personally, this stuff is refreshing. I'm getting sick of articles about new cell phone gadgets, the RIAA, or whatnot.
She can't give precice suggestions, because she doesn't know your individual situation.
I really enjoy her simple techniques.
Once such example: At the end of every day, put your pocket change in a jar. At the end of a month, you have $100. Now, chances are you didn't miss that $100 at all, you simply spent less money on useless or frivilous things.
I'm always suprised by the people around me who don't have a retirement plan, and who don't take advantage of those Employeer Matching Contribution plans. If you ignore those, you're throwing away free money! 100%, instant, pre-tax return on your investment! Do it, now! You probably won't even miss the money...
Why years from now your spouse will be fondly calling it her "preciousss."
And a few years after that, she'll accuse you of trying to steal her "precious", drown you in a river, eat your remains (uncooked, of course), and disappear into a cave for a few centuries...
My wife and I got engaged a few years ago, and we didn't have much money. We didn't have much money either, but we did get diamonds from different sections of our family. Not high quality diamonds, but I'd take family heirlooms over commercial diamonds any day.
We couldn't afford two rings, so we designed a single ring that had two parts: An engagement band that had a few diamonds on it which she wore for a year, and a wedding band that fit around the engagement band. It cost far less then two different rings.
They want to sell me their diamonds and gold
You may not be able to use your own gold.
Most jewelers are very picky about their gold quality, and don't want to run into the chance of your gold being less pure, and thus harder to work with (Big deal with working with small details).
We ended up selling some of our gold to the jewler that made our ring, for around the jewler-market price (which is less then what you see in Wall Street Journal).
However, I do know that there are jewelers (mostly smaller shops) who would use your gold. Just be persistent.
When it comes down to the design, should I just work with my wife-to-be to create sketches to give a designer, or is something more needed?
I'm a big fan of feminism: Equal rights, and equal responsibility:). It's not very romantic, but you and your wife-to-be should design the ring together. It's going to be on her finger, and she probably cares about the design more then you anyways, so she should have input.
As for how to choose a jeweler, the guy who designed her ring was nice, but slow, so we won't recommend him. However, we really liked these two places:
- There's another place on College Ave. in Berkeley or Oakland called "The Family Jules" or something. They were our second choice for my ring, and they had alot of rings for women also.
- I really liked the family who did my ring. I got a rose-gold keltic-style band at MacManus and Sons on Shattuck in Berkeley. They are very well known (especially in the Geek community), and I've had a number of people comment on their high quality and friendly store. Mr. MacManus is a nice guy, and he cleans and fixes my ring for free.
My wife and I had 4 sketches, we took it to several jeweler, and had them draw out a better sketch. We chose our jewler based on price, design and personality. However, I wouldn't recommend him to anyone, because he was slow.
We talked to 4 different artists. Two of them were recommended by friends, and the other two were selling their pretty goods at the Ren Faire.
MMS support,Bluetooth,Triband, and polyphonic bliss
I'd like IMAP, HTTP, and IM, PDA functionality that can sync via bluetooth to a Mac
Funny, I have no desire for so many functions. I just want a phone & phone service that doesn't drop my calls, has long battery life, comes with cheap monthly service, and that lets me keep my current cell phone number even if I switch to a different company...
Slashdot Mirror
Pen, paper & flashlight.
Hey, don't forget your dice! Last time I let you borrowed mine, you stole my silver-speckled 20-sided die!
Read Farenheit 451. Great book. Talks alot about people who don't wonder, who sit around in front of the TV all day, sucked into the ultraviolent entertainment or engaged in idle conversations all day. Forgetting how to live.
Has a fair amount of violence, but unlike GTA, violence is considered a bad thing, even if it's sometimes necessary.
In GTA, violence is about the only thing you can do.
Back when you were playing Donkey Kong, adults were playing Leisure Suit Larry.
Yeah, I remember the part when Larry beat the shit out of the cop and stole his gun... use the gun to shoot the brains out of the creep who stole your drugs, and then run over the prostitute after receiving her services.
Oh wait, that wasn't in Leisure Suit Larry...
Not sure what other people do, but under http://games.slashdot.org/users.pl?op=edithome
I turned on the "Collapse Sections (show stories from all sections, unless specifically excluded)" section, and then specifically exclude certain sections.
Well, he's also an avid collector of multi-tools and survival kits.
Very true, but it depends on the purpose of the light.
In the kitchen, use Flourescents. Cheap & effective.
But how about for your car dashbord or some other DC-powered device? Seems like an LED light in your car roof could solve that "Ooops, I left the interior light on all last night, and now the battery is dead" problem.
That said, I still think LED installations have a way to go. Whenever it rains, I see a bunch of cars where 30% of the LED lamps are dark. The LED's probably work fine, but I bet that the connections have corroded due to the rain and smog.
Windows Hater Book, Entry 1.
.
A "32-bit multi-threaded Operating System" which freezes for 30 seconds while Adobe Reader 5.0 starts up and downloads a 3.5 MB pdf
I guess it is multi-threaded. I mean, I could wiggle the hourglass.
Hey, if it's virtual, maybe it IS in India.
I've see two related trends in the dotcom world recently:
1) Fire your entire development staff, outsource to some consulting company overseas.
2) Whoops, that overseas consulting company is doing a really poor job. Bad code, site crashing. It wasn't as easy as the PHB thought. Hire some temporary staff to administrate and coordinate the actions of the overseas company from the local office.
Hey hey now, "You're either with the Webbies, or your with the Terrorists"...
or wait, maybe it's "You're either with the Webbies, or you're with SARS"...
Or... let's try this: "You're either with the Webbies or your employeer still has a budget left"...
Oh, I get it, it's: "You're NOT with the Webbies, but at least you're not with the urine stained streets and overpriced hotels in San Francisco..."
(speaking as a San Franciscan. Actually, with all of the recent rain, it's not too bad right now.)
After seeing Jango Fett in Attack of the Clones, I don't think spammers have anything to worry about.
...
After about 5 minutes, Jango will have lost his rocket pack, will be ungracefully knocked over by a giant 3-horned lizard, and after a few more minutes of him bumbling around, his head will be cut off by a lightsaber in a very anti-climatic moment 2/3 though the movie
ONE good quality copy of Meet the Feebles.
That would require the original to be of good quality in the first place!
*ducks*
Are these for real?
Yes. Microsoft has acknowledged the authenticity of these documents. Halloween I, II, III and VII are real; IV, V and VI are satire/commentary consequent on
various Microsoft statements.
That link leads to a "Path Index Error.".
Hey, I'm open to the possibility of some of these documents being real, but I've looked around, and I've asked for proof from other people who reference these documents, and nobody has ever been able to provide the proof that I want. All of these Halloween documents could be satire/comment consequent on various Microsoft statements.
Rumors have a strange way of being accepted as truth, especially after they are passed around enough.
What I find very strange about all this is M$ admits it's "anti-Linux/OSS/GPL" FUD isn't working after surveying people about their views in the Halloween VII memo.
You're making the assumption that the Halloween VII memo is an authentic, unaltered memo from Microsoft. How do you know it's not a forgery? Where's the proof?
I have an email from Bill Gates that says he'll give me $1000 if I forward the email to all my friends, but I don't think it's real.
Bah, it's time to find the tooth fairy and find out what's she's been doing with your teeth all these years.
Man, she's been running this racket for hundreds of years!
Tooth Fairy = Never seems to age
Stem Cells = Stops the aging process
Baby Teeth = Stem Cells
It's an interesting idea and there are some ideas on how to conduct the transition
./confugure
Dude, it's easy. You just download the source and:
make
make install
Works every time, er... unless you're missing some dependancies... but apparently Gentoo and the BSD portage system fixes the dependancy problem.
And just think, if no leap seconds were added since 1972, you'd be having your Noon Lunch at 11:59:38!
:)
Oh the horror...
Accuracy isn't everything...
13 Moon Calendar created by the Mayan.
Is that much different then the 13 Moon Calendars created by every other ancient civilization?
Firstly, Redhat isn't (technically, and possibly in other ways) Unix.
So I was having a similar discussion the other night. Why is RedHat, or Linux, any less Unixy then Solaris or HP-UX?
Unix was an OS written years ago by AT&T. The copyright is now owned by SCO. So doesn't that mean that Linux, Solaris and HP-UX are all equally NOT Unix?
(wedding guide suggestions for your ring prices is six months salary on an engagement and 18 months on the wedding ring).
Those rules are over a 100 years old, and were written for upper-class men who could afford 24 months salary on rings. The rules are different now... I couldn't find a $150k wedding ring if I tried.
Here's a clue: It's a free world, you don't have to follow the rules. Do your own thing. Set your own traditions. Liberate yourself and your potential spouse a little. My wife and I bought our rings together, because we wanted to buy the rings, and we spent no where near that amount.
I'm getting sick of articles about idiotic men signing over their lives and salaries...
You're being pretty negative, again, I suggest you look outside the box a little bit and do your own thing. The best women out there don't want or need you to sign over your life and salary.
Relationships should be mutually affectionate and supportive. We both work, we both help each other out. It's mutual.
pretty sure that last discussion was about "high tech" wedding rings. Like marking it with binary encoding, incorporating a Java chip, etc.
This is a different vein... simply, what do geeks (and poor geeks) do for wedding rings. Nothing wrong with that. Some of us actually get married, want to have kids, etc.
Personally, this stuff is refreshing. I'm getting sick of articles about new cell phone gadgets, the RIAA, or whatnot.
Guess I don't agree.
She can't give precice suggestions, because she doesn't know your individual situation.
I really enjoy her simple techniques.
Once such example: At the end of every day, put your pocket change in a jar. At the end of a month, you have $100. Now, chances are you didn't miss that $100 at all, you simply spent less money on useless or frivilous things.
I'm always suprised by the people around me who don't have a retirement plan, and who don't take advantage of those Employeer Matching Contribution plans. If you ignore those, you're throwing away free money! 100%, instant, pre-tax return on your investment! Do it, now! You probably won't even miss the money...
Why years from now your spouse will be fondly calling it her "preciousss."
And a few years after that, she'll accuse you of trying to steal her "precious", drown you in a river, eat your remains (uncooked, of course), and disappear into a cave for a few centuries...
My wife and I got engaged a few years ago, and we didn't have much money. We didn't have much money either, but we did get diamonds from different sections of our family. Not high quality diamonds, but I'd take family heirlooms over commercial diamonds any day.
:). It's not very romantic, but you and your wife-to-be should design the ring together. It's going to be on her finger, and she probably cares about the design more then you anyways, so she should have input.
We couldn't afford two rings, so we designed a single ring that had two parts: An engagement band that had a few diamonds on it which she wore for a year, and a wedding band that fit around the engagement band. It cost far less then two different rings.
They want to sell me their diamonds and gold
You may not be able to use your own gold.
Most jewelers are very picky about their gold quality, and don't want to run into the chance of your gold being less pure, and thus harder to work with (Big deal with working with small details).
We ended up selling some of our gold to the jewler that made our ring, for around the jewler-market price (which is less then what you see in Wall Street Journal).
However, I do know that there are jewelers (mostly smaller shops) who would use your gold. Just be persistent.
When it comes down to the design, should I just work with my wife-to-be to create sketches to give a designer, or is something more needed?
I'm a big fan of feminism: Equal rights, and equal responsibility
As for how to choose a jeweler, the guy who designed her ring was nice, but slow, so we won't recommend him. However, we really liked these two places:
- There's another place on College Ave. in Berkeley or Oakland called "The Family Jules" or something. They were our second choice for my ring, and they had alot of rings for women also.
- I really liked the family who did my ring. I got a rose-gold keltic-style band at MacManus and Sons on Shattuck in Berkeley. They are very well known (especially in the Geek community), and I've had a number of people comment on their high quality and friendly store. Mr. MacManus is a nice guy, and he cleans and fixes my ring for free.
My wife and I had 4 sketches, we took it to several jeweler, and had them draw out a better sketch. We chose our jewler based on price, design and personality. However, I wouldn't recommend him to anyone, because he was slow.
We talked to 4 different artists. Two of them were recommended by friends, and the other two were selling their pretty goods at the Ren Faire.
Why do you wacky American's call it a "cell" phone?
Because each of the cellular phone towers only cover a smallish region, otherwise known as a "cell"?
We call them mobile phones also, but "cell" is still used by some people...
MMS support,Bluetooth,Triband, and polyphonic bliss
I'd like IMAP, HTTP, and IM, PDA functionality that can sync via bluetooth to a Mac
Funny, I have no desire for so many functions. I just want a phone & phone service that doesn't drop my calls, has long battery life, comes with cheap monthly service, and that lets me keep my current cell phone number even if I switch to a different company...