Ob Bash Quote: hm. I've lost a machine.. literally _lost_. it responds to ping, it works completely, I just can't figure out where in my apartment it is.
Because 'you' people complain about the iPod not having OGG or a million other features that 'other' companies have. Apple sells to the masses, they make their money from the masses. If they added in every single feature a linux fanboy wanted it wouldn't be an iPod anymore. As bad as widows is, it's at least a baseline 'standard'. So Apple releases iTunes for Windows. Is it Gnome? KDE? X.org? XFree86? Command line? Will it work on SUSE like it works on Debian like it works on Red Hat?
I don't see many Chevy ads in Forbes and I don't see many Porsche ads in Nascar Weekly. You are not Apple's target market. They don't give a damn you can't run iTunes under Linux. Yet you look at Apple's hardware and must want something out of it, because you constantly complain that Apple doesn't work with your hardware. As I see it there are 3 options.
1) Don't buy Apple. For every Apple product you don't buy, there are 2-17 year olds college bound students buying a MacBook, iPod, Apple(tm) Printer and walking out of an Apple Store 2) Buy something that works with Apple. Get a Mac, run Windows. It's what Apple supports and if you want to use their products, become their product loading. 3) Keep complaining.
The reason Firewire is faster is that everything is its own device on the network. USB requires a host. It's also why USB requires more CPU. However, that firewire chip isn't small. When Apple had to choose between firewire chip or video chip, they choose the video.
BP was going to start dumping a ton of stuff into Lake Michigan from their Indiana refinery. I haven't heard anything about it in a while.
"BP could keep pollution discharges at its northwest Indiana oil refinery at current levels even after the plant's $3.8 billion expansion by spending $40 million on new technology, a report suggests."
"n June, the Indiana Department of Environmental Management approved a new water permit that allows BP to increase ammonia discharges by 54 percent, to an average of 1,584 pounds a day, and suspended solid discharges by 35 percent, to 4,925 pounds a day.
The amount of solids -- tiny particles that pass through water treatment filters -- is the maximum allowed under federal guidelines.
When BP secured its new permit, federal and state regulators agreed there was not anything the company could do to reduce its discharges. Based largely on what BP told them, regulators concluded there is not enough room at the 1,400-acre refinery for the necessary equipment, according to public documents."
I grew up on that lake and everytime I see one of their damn commercials it pisses me off. It's good marketing and not much else.
Is pretty low cost to get some randomness. Some friends like jug wine though. Although I'm extremely cheap, so I just go for 100 proof stuff. $12.00 and you can get a whole bottle of randomness.
I forgot about this one. We had a student at my first university that put up a search engine for the network. Twice a day it'd ping all the computers on campus (1600 students, maybe 800 living on campus) and then store the results in a database.
It was just a 'dumb' spider so it went everywhere it could.
jpg would turn up 'private' party pictures. doc's would turn up Resume's and homework solutions... those were the days.
And we did the same thing you did. Anyone sharing everything would get a nice desktop text file "README"./Anyone remember searchtree?
An old Kazaa trick I used to entertain myself back in the day. Mainly to see what NOT to do on a resume, but you could get pretty adequate information from them. Some people included birthday, SSN, other stuff that should never be on a resume.
My Xvid -> iPod movies come in at around 250MB. I have a nice 2TB server at home to store *everything*. Say I need 1 GB for the OS. That leaves enough room for 28 movies. 54 hours of entertainment. I highly doubt that I'm going to be away from home for that long. I can toss in the latest iTunes TV shows and watch them on the Subway and when I get home delete them. Video isn't music. I don't watch a movie over and over again, I watch it and delete it.
I never listen to all of my music at once. I'm not sure how other people listen to music, but I get into music "Moods." It's a bit jarring to come out of Tchaikovsky into Pantera. Web radio absolutely kicks ass for this. If I want to listen to Oldies, 80s, 70s, 70s AND 80s, etc. There is a radio station for each.
Second, my favorite 2 stations are Technobase.fm and Techno4ever. I listen to techno when I code because it sets a good pace. I haven't found a place to listen to music like that other than web radio and clubs. It's just 1 'song' that is constantly playing. Both of those are in Germany so I hope that they aren't affected by this ruling.
I do a dynamic socks server to the DD-WRT at home. I was originally using SwitchProxy but it hasn't been updated in for ever and I would always have to switch proxies when I would work on company internal websites.
FoxyProxy lets me define proxies by use:
for *.company.com 127.0.0.1:1080 for *
ssh -D 1080 works much better than a proxy server. I'm typing this right now through my DD-WRT router. I actually use Putty and set up a dynamic address, but this way I can shovel everything that uses SOCKS through it.
Enlighten me to which features SP1 and SP2 added that come close to:
Quartz Extreme, FileVault, Spotlight, Dashboard, Smart Folders, Core Image, Core Video, Automator, Time Machine, Spaces, Boot Camp, Resolution Independance... And Last but not least:
1 Install DVD For PPC 32 bit, PPC 64 bit, Intel 32 bit & Intel 64 bit with complete binary compatibility between all versions.
I have it set up on a few machines. Extremely easy to use. 100% GUI less. Have your boss set up an account on his daughter's computer (you can even have it hide from the login screen) and enable SSH.
grep sex (if you have it save to plain text)
etc, you can even set it up (as I have) to automate e-mailing of log files.
What about offering a Cash Discount. Numerous gas stations do this for truckers. I'm sure it's all in the legalize. It's illegal to charge more, but you can't prevent them from creating a discount.
Or it's a diesel and produces all it's torque down low.
I have a 'tiny' 1.9L diesel and shifting at 3000 RPM I can be at 80 or 90 by time I merge and that's carrying around a fat (by european standards) Jetta. But hell, in the states my car counts as compact and I can park in those compact spots.
Dr. Bronner's Stuff *rocks*. I grew up on their Peppermint Oil soap. It's expensive, but considering I use it for about everything, it's worth it.
It's the only soap that will completely take off the smell of gasoline or diesel fuel. It'll remove any and all grease from my body. I've used it as laundry soap once. My best use for it: Shaving Cream. I put the soap on my face completely dry, then rub in 1:1 of water and it creates a nice lather. It's like after shave is built in.
The bottle says it works as an insecticide (100:1 mix) among numerous other things.
I'm a BSME. With minors in CS and EE. I work as a Mechatronics/Controls Engineer for a large corporation. I didn't learn C/C++, Matlab or any of the other skills at college, but picked them up in courses teaching other things. I wasn't even taught assembly but we used it in our micro controllers class I took, but I don't use it daily so I didn't list it.
I suppose I could have listed that I know fluid dyamics, but I can't plumb. I know can show you all the numbers for calculating force shear and moment in a structure, but I can't build an addition to my house.
I didn't mean to sound as if it's college or hourly, however given everyone I know that seems to be the way to go. If you don't have a college degree and you actually want to do "real" work (not flipping burgers) then you enter into a trade skill of some sort.
If I did get my trade skill in Auto Repair, I wouldn't know how to redo my kitchen or vice versa. Why should I have to go to a Vocational College to learn something I should have learned in college. Offer everyone 1 semester in shop or auto repair, at least make the options available to them. Forcing students do decide a major and thus eliminate any 'wasted' classes is stupid in college and even dumber in high school.
What about even basic monetary skills? I graduated HS without knowing how to balance a checkbook or *anything* about interest, mortgages, etc. I don't have a doubt in my mind why most of my friends are in Debt. We graduate and start earning $50,000 out of the gate and don't have any courses on how to manage money. Sure that $200,000 house looks affordable, it's only 4 years of my yearly pay. $1500 a month? Oh that's only 1/2 of what I pull home I have plenty of other money for other stuff.
How about something even more basic than that? Cooking. I didn't have time in HS to take home ec. I graduated college without knowing how to cook food. (No, Ramen and hotdogs is not cooking). We wonder our society as a whole is fat. "I can't cook, I make $50,000 a year. I'm going out 4 nights a week!". Thank goodness my parents let me play with their sewing machine when I was young. It's one of my most useful things I've ever got. I know I got plenty of weird looks from friends "What does a 21 year old male engineer want with a Sewing machine." Halloween costumes, I've repaired torn pants, made my own curtains, etc.
It takes a village to raise a child. Back when there were actual villages, this was true. Men and boys learned to hunt from a young age, women learned to sew, weave, cook. By time they were adults they knew everything they needed to know to *live*. Now that everything is a bit bigger scale, school should take some of the role of the village (parents do still have some responsibility). Instead we're spending money to make sure that every single student knows that 4+4=8 and equating the kid that's 1/2 brain dead with the prodigy. I'm not saying history, math, biology, etc are "useless" classes, but there seems to be so much wasted overhead in High School that there is time for these courses AND "Here is how to manage your money."
Final example: I know my school had a class for "slower" people that they wanted to work in society. They had a whole section on how to count back money. (These are the students that might need assistance in life). Counting money, that's stupid easy, why would anyone need to learn that. How many times has anyone here been with a teenaged (or older) cashier that couldn't count money back if you gave them an extra 3 pennies and they already rang up $20.00? I'll admit it... it happened to me when I worked in fast food. I tried acting all intelligent and tried the subtraction in my head when all I needed to know how to do was count up. After a few more months there I always count change back when working at a volunteer both or something. The younger generation always looks at me like I'm crazy.
$4.30 for the hot dog. $.20 is $4.50, $.50 is $5, $5 is $10, have a nice day.
You are correct. I don't *need* anything to start learning to weld. Just like I didn't *need* anyone to teach me to program. I learn much more quickly in a classroom environment. Reading and trial and error can only teach you so much. I like to have someone standing over my shoulder telling me I'm doing it wrong. I'll agree and say that engineering courses are geared to teach you to learn. I've rarely broken out my books and done anything close to my homework problems. Vocational Studies, on the other hand, seem to be a bit different to me. There are only so many welds there are only so many ways to run plumbing in your house or refloor a kitchen.
It took me 6 years to get confident enough to change the head on my car. It would have been nice if in 1 week I rebuilt an engine (like the Vocational Classes did).
You *can* learn anything just by reading and trial and error. I wasted (by my math) 2 years in HS doing absolutely nothing of value. I could have been taking courses on welding or plumbing. Trial and error is an expensive way to learn some things. I don't have the money right now to go out and buy a welder or all the equipment, just to get it and find out I'm horrible at it.
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Nerd based? As in Dilbert on TV. Or shows that appeal to Nerds?
If you mean the latter, I'm a fan of (In the SciFi Genre):
Eureka
Kyle XY
Ob Bash Quote: hm. I've lost a machine.. literally _lost_. it responds to ping, it works completely, I just can't figure out where in my apartment it is.
YOU ARE NOT APPLES DEMOGRAPHIC.
Because 'you' people complain about the iPod not having OGG or a million other features that 'other' companies have. Apple sells to the masses, they make their money from the masses. If they added in every single feature a linux fanboy wanted it wouldn't be an iPod anymore. As bad as widows is, it's at least a baseline 'standard'. So Apple releases iTunes for Windows. Is it Gnome? KDE? X.org? XFree86? Command line? Will it work on SUSE like it works on Debian like it works on Red Hat?
I don't see many Chevy ads in Forbes and I don't see many Porsche ads in Nascar Weekly. You are not Apple's target market. They don't give a damn you can't run iTunes under Linux. Yet you look at Apple's hardware and must want something out of it, because you constantly complain that Apple doesn't work with your hardware. As I see it there are 3 options.
1) Don't buy Apple. For every Apple product you don't buy, there are 2-17 year olds college bound students buying a MacBook, iPod, Apple(tm) Printer and walking out of an Apple Store
2) Buy something that works with Apple. Get a Mac, run Windows. It's what Apple supports and if you want to use their products, become their product loading.
3) Keep complaining.
Sadly 3 is what everyone is going to keep doing.
It was a hash not encryption. Get over it. It's more than likely for data integrity than "ZOMG WE R GONIN TO BREAK LINUX".
The reason Firewire is faster is that everything is its own device on the network. USB requires a host. It's also why USB requires more CPU. However, that firewire chip isn't small. When Apple had to choose between firewire chip or video chip, they choose the video.
1. Turn on my computer
2. nbc.com
3. ????
4. Watch on iPod on train to work.
BP was going to start dumping a ton of stuff into Lake Michigan from their Indiana refinery. I haven't heard anything about it in a while.
"BP could keep pollution discharges at its northwest Indiana oil refinery at current levels even after the plant's $3.8 billion expansion by spending $40 million on new technology, a report suggests."
"n June, the Indiana Department of Environmental Management approved a new water permit that allows BP to increase ammonia discharges by 54 percent, to an average of 1,584 pounds a day, and suspended solid discharges by 35 percent, to 4,925 pounds a day.
The amount of solids -- tiny particles that pass through water treatment filters -- is the maximum allowed under federal guidelines.
When BP secured its new permit, federal and state regulators agreed there was not anything the company could do to reduce its discharges. Based largely on what BP told them, regulators concluded there is not enough room at the 1,400-acre refinery for the necessary equipment, according to public documents."
I grew up on that lake and everytime I see one of their damn commercials it pisses me off. It's good marketing and not much else.
Constitution was drafted on hemp paper.
My newspapers don't even last a month...
Is pretty low cost to get some randomness. Some friends like jug wine though. Although I'm extremely cheap, so I just go for 100 proof stuff. $12.00 and you can get a whole bottle of randomness.
I forgot about this one. We had a student at my first university that put up a search engine for the network. Twice a day it'd ping all the computers on campus (1600 students, maybe 800 living on campus) and then store the results in a database.
/Anyone remember searchtree?
It was just a 'dumb' spider so it went everywhere it could.
jpg would turn up 'private' party pictures. doc's would turn up Resume's and homework solutions... those were the days.
And we did the same thing you did. Anyone sharing everything would get a nice desktop text file "README".
An old Kazaa trick I used to entertain myself back in the day. Mainly to see what NOT to do on a resume, but you could get pretty adequate information from them. Some people included birthday, SSN, other stuff that should never be on a resume.
Fun times.
My Xvid -> iPod movies come in at around 250MB. I have a nice 2TB server at home to store *everything*. Say I need 1 GB for the OS. That leaves enough room for 28 movies. 54 hours of entertainment. I highly doubt that I'm going to be away from home for that long. I can toss in the latest iTunes TV shows and watch them on the Subway and when I get home delete them. Video isn't music. I don't watch a movie over and over again, I watch it and delete it.
I never listen to all of my music at once. I'm not sure how other people listen to music, but I get into music "Moods." It's a bit jarring to come out of Tchaikovsky into Pantera. Web radio absolutely kicks ass for this. If I want to listen to Oldies, 80s, 70s, 70s AND 80s, etc. There is a radio station for each.
Second, my favorite 2 stations are Technobase.fm and Techno4ever. I listen to techno when I code because it sets a good pace. I haven't found a place to listen to music like that other than web radio and clubs. It's just 1 'song' that is constantly playing. Both of those are in Germany so I hope that they aren't affected by this ruling.
FoxyProxy + Putty + DD-WRT.
I do a dynamic socks server to the DD-WRT at home. I was originally using SwitchProxy but it hasn't been updated in for ever and I would always have to switch proxies when I would work on company internal websites.
FoxyProxy lets me define proxies by use:
for *.company.com
127.0.0.1:1080 for *
I see it as Karma for all the kids that picked on me for messing up the Bell curve after a Test.
The ones that didn't want to bust their ass with all nighters finishing their BSME but opted for BA**.
The only ones that really tick me off are the ones that never had to work hard, ever.
ssh -D 1080 works much better than a proxy server. I'm typing this right now through my DD-WRT router. I actually use Putty and set up a dynamic address, but this way I can shovel everything that uses SOCKS through it.
Enlighten me to which features SP1 and SP2 added that come close to:
Quartz Extreme, FileVault, Spotlight, Dashboard, Smart Folders, Core Image, Core Video, Automator, Time Machine, Spaces, Boot Camp, Resolution Independance... And Last but not least:
1 Install DVD For PPC 32 bit, PPC 64 bit, Intel 32 bit & Intel 64 bit with complete binary compatibility between all versions.
logKext is a Keylogger for OS X.
I have it set up on a few machines. Extremely easy to use. 100% GUI less. Have your boss set up an account on his daughter's computer (you can even have it hide from the login screen) and enable SSH.
grep sex (if you have it save to plain text)
etc, you can even set it up (as I have) to automate e-mailing of log files.
Soviet Russinovich analyzes You.
What about offering a Cash Discount. Numerous gas stations do this for truckers. I'm sure it's all in the legalize. It's illegal to charge more, but you can't prevent them from creating a discount.
Or it's a diesel and produces all it's torque down low.
I have a 'tiny' 1.9L diesel and shifting at 3000 RPM I can be at 80 or 90 by time I merge and that's carrying around a fat (by european standards) Jetta. But hell, in the states my car counts as compact and I can park in those compact spots.
I much prefer linoleum.
Dr. Bronner's Stuff *rocks*. I grew up on their Peppermint Oil soap. It's expensive, but considering I use it for about everything, it's worth it.
It's the only soap that will completely take off the smell of gasoline or diesel fuel. It'll remove any and all grease from my body. I've used it as laundry soap once. My best use for it: Shaving Cream. I put the soap on my face completely dry, then rub in 1:1 of water and it creates a nice lather. It's like after shave is built in.
The bottle says it works as an insecticide (100:1 mix) among numerous other things.
I'm a BSME. With minors in CS and EE. I work as a Mechatronics/Controls Engineer for a large corporation. I didn't learn C/C++, Matlab or any of the other skills at college, but picked them up in courses teaching other things. I wasn't even taught assembly but we used it in our micro controllers class I took, but I don't use it daily so I didn't list it.
I suppose I could have listed that I know fluid dyamics, but I can't plumb. I know can show you all the numbers for calculating force shear and moment in a structure, but I can't build an addition to my house.
I didn't mean to sound as if it's college or hourly, however given everyone I know that seems to be the way to go. If you don't have a college degree and you actually want to do "real" work (not flipping burgers) then you enter into a trade skill of some sort.
If I did get my trade skill in Auto Repair, I wouldn't know how to redo my kitchen or vice versa. Why should I have to go to a Vocational College to learn something I should have learned in college. Offer everyone 1 semester in shop or auto repair, at least make the options available to them. Forcing students do decide a major and thus eliminate any 'wasted' classes is stupid in college and even dumber in high school.
What about even basic monetary skills? I graduated HS without knowing how to balance a checkbook or *anything* about interest, mortgages, etc. I don't have a doubt in my mind why most of my friends are in Debt. We graduate and start earning $50,000 out of the gate and don't have any courses on how to manage money. Sure that $200,000 house looks affordable, it's only 4 years of my yearly pay. $1500 a month? Oh that's only 1/2 of what I pull home I have plenty of other money for other stuff.
How about something even more basic than that? Cooking. I didn't have time in HS to take home ec. I graduated college without knowing how to cook food. (No, Ramen and hotdogs is not cooking). We wonder our society as a whole is fat. "I can't cook, I make $50,000 a year. I'm going out 4 nights a week!". Thank goodness my parents let me play with their sewing machine when I was young. It's one of my most useful things I've ever got. I know I got plenty of weird looks from friends "What does a 21 year old male engineer want with a Sewing machine." Halloween costumes, I've repaired torn pants, made my own curtains, etc.
It takes a village to raise a child. Back when there were actual villages, this was true. Men and boys learned to hunt from a young age, women learned to sew, weave, cook. By time they were adults they knew everything they needed to know to *live*. Now that everything is a bit bigger scale, school should take some of the role of the village (parents do still have some responsibility). Instead we're spending money to make sure that every single student knows that 4+4=8 and equating the kid that's 1/2 brain dead with the prodigy. I'm not saying history, math, biology, etc are "useless" classes, but there seems to be so much wasted overhead in High School that there is time for these courses AND "Here is how to manage your money."
Final example: I know my school had a class for "slower" people that they wanted to work in society. They had a whole section on how to count back money. (These are the students that might need assistance in life). Counting money, that's stupid easy, why would anyone need to learn that. How many times has anyone here been with a teenaged (or older) cashier that couldn't count money back if you gave them an extra 3 pennies and they already rang up $20.00? I'll admit it... it happened to me when I worked in fast food. I tried acting all intelligent and tried the subtraction in my head when all I needed to know how to do was count up. After a few more months there I always count change back when working at a volunteer both or something. The younger generation always looks at me like I'm crazy.
$4.30 for the hot dog. $.20 is $4.50, $.50 is $5, $5 is $10, have a nice day.
You are correct. I don't *need* anything to start learning to weld. Just like I didn't *need* anyone to teach me to program. I learn much more quickly in a classroom environment. Reading and trial and error can only teach you so much. I like to have someone standing over my shoulder telling me I'm doing it wrong. I'll agree and say that engineering courses are geared to teach you to learn. I've rarely broken out my books and done anything close to my homework problems. Vocational Studies, on the other hand, seem to be a bit different to me. There are only so many welds there are only so many ways to run plumbing in your house or refloor a kitchen.
It took me 6 years to get confident enough to change the head on my car. It would have been nice if in 1 week I rebuilt an engine (like the Vocational Classes did).
You *can* learn anything just by reading and trial and error. I wasted (by my math) 2 years in HS doing absolutely nothing of value. I could have been taking courses on welding or plumbing. Trial and error is an expensive way to learn some things. I don't have the money right now to go out and buy a welder or all the equipment, just to get it and find out I'm horrible at it.