I had been asking for a motorcycle desperately. I'd gone through, done all the economics: how much the motorcycle would cost, licensing, insurance, effect it would have taking me off the normal insurance policy, everything, and it turned out to be just about the same for me to borrow one of my parents cars as for them to buy me a motorcycle.
Christmas morning: "I think you'll love your present!" Pick it up, small box, might be the keys *hopinghopinghoping*
Opened it: it was a toy motorcycle, that would run 3 feet then do a flip...
That's allright, though. I'll get them back, someday, when it comes time to choose a retirement home for them...
I was moderating, but this just burns me too much to remain silent.
I am not an artist. I'm bad at music, too. But I'm not much of a programmer, either. However, I know two people who are good examples.
First is my father. He has a doctorate in E.E., focusing on bottlenecks in computer systems, programmed assembly for TI in the 70s, and has been a professor in E.E. since long before I was born. He only uses Macs. We have one machine in the house that is not a Mac, this one, running Slack 7. He used Macs back in the "old days" for research because, for the money, they were the fastest things he could get his hands on. Now he uses them for work and at home because a) he's used to them and b) they are the best compromise between usability (he can still go into the terminal and screw around, but he can also use the very nice GUI when he doens't feel like typing everything or he's in a meeting with the Dean or the President of the university) and security/stability (it doesn't crash everyday and it has yet to get a virus). I use them for the same reason. And because I can't afford a computer of my own so I use what we have.
The other person is my music teacher. He's a professional musician as well. He's backed up Lionel Ritchie in concert before and plays bass in his own band. He also does some composing. On a Mac, only. He uses Macs because, back when he started, the best if not only composing software was for Macs. Since then, he's been sorta stuck with them. Not that he'd change, though, as my school has given him a PC and he hasn't found a program that works as well on it as his program for Mac (I wish I could remember the name, but alas, I can't. It's one of the major 2, though, I remember). Yes, he has been a "struggling musician" before. And yes, he stuck with his Mac through it because his Mac worked. Well.
Those are a couple of reasons why us "fruits" become blind zealots. It's sort of like being a Darwinian Evolution zealot. We get attacked by ignorant nay-sayers all the time, but we never lose sight of what we know works. Tell me, why are you such an ignorant bigot? Maybe you should get out of the house more...
At my brother's newspaper, they did the same sort of thing to a teddy ruckspin(sp). They hooked it up to the headphones jack of a stereo and the builtin hardware does the lipsinking automatically. Fun times.
Why not get TI to go into this sort of thing? I think a TI-89 would have plenty enough power to run an atm with a few peripherals plugged in. It's got graphics, keys, I've seen them networked (IR, mostly, but I bet you could get a lan card attatched relatively easily). Hell, you'd have to strip the *TI-89* thing down, else it'd leave users with way too much power over the system.
I started out liking this response, then I realized you were a moron. Sorry, I shouldn't say that. But here are my points.
Yes, the government does detain prisoners without charges. Yes, they are *supposed* to be connected with terrorism. But as no one has to be told of their arrest as an "enemy combatant", and that they are automatically declared an enemy and are placed under military hold, put in a military tribunal, and not allowed legal representation, we won't ever know.
George "Dubya" Bush is not a smart man. He applied to attend my high school when he was a youngster (Yes, I go to an elite private school. No, I'm neither rich nor a stuck up snob, though I have to deal with several dozen of those type everyday). He failed miserably to get in. He applied to our rival school. Again he failed to get in. So his daddy built that school a new building (an offer made to and declined by my school) and Lo and Behold! he got in. Many other people have, however, managed to buy their way into my school. I know (but try very hard to avoid) several of them. And they are stupid. They are dumber than bricks. They are going to live off their trust-funds and inheritances, and they have no problem telling me about this. And how they're going to get a Yale/Harvard/Ivy League degree to make sure they do it in style. Yet Dubya was dumb, he couldn't make it in. That doesn't give me much confidence in him. And I'm not saying that people who don't go to my elite school are stupid. There are people at the public school next door ten times smarter than I am. But if he was so dumb they wouldn't even let him buy his way in with more money than you've ever made in your life, then that says something about the man...
Not true! Also speaking at a teenage boy, there are occasions where we are only looking at scantily clad women. And/. And the occasional game cheats site.
She says Computer Scientists are telling people not to trust the voting officials or the (new, computerized) voting system. Why would Computer Scientists being trying to turn people off of computers? Doesn't that seem a little backwards? Sort of like Ford announcing that we should no longer drive SUVs cause they're dangerous to everyone else and pollute like crazy...
If it is also necessary to spend hundreds - no, thousands - of hours at the keyboard, how are our scientists, the ones that aren't only interested in computers, supposed to get the time to study their own respective fields? I mean, thousands of hours takes up a bit of time, but I don't think we want nuclear physicists or molecular biologists putting their own fields second. I mean, imagine if your surgeon were a little tired from trying to figure out the slashcode he just installed on his home computer? I know my friends can't keep their hands steady holding their Mountain Dew, much less keep a scalpel steady while they're messing with my heart...
Either that, or it would go the direction with the guy with the biggest transmitter. You know the guy, the one in the jacked up F-350 SuperDuty with enough radio gear in the back make NASA blush... Yeah, he'd make it through EVERY light, lickety split.
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This almost happened to me last christmas.
I had been asking for a motorcycle desperately. I'd gone through, done all the economics: how much the motorcycle would cost, licensing, insurance, effect it would have taking me off the normal insurance policy, everything, and it turned out to be just about the same for me to borrow one of my parents cars as for them to buy me a motorcycle.
Christmas morning: "I think you'll love your present!" Pick it up, small box, might be the keys *hopinghopinghoping*
Opened it: it was a toy motorcycle, that would run 3 feet then do a flip...
That's allright, though. I'll get them back, someday, when it comes time to choose a retirement home for them...
Is it wrong to put something Naughty on Christmas List, which is so dependent on being nice?
Ah, to hell with it. I'm putting that at numbers 1-7 and 13.
I was moderating, but this just burns me too much to remain silent.
I am not an artist. I'm bad at music, too. But I'm not much of a programmer, either. However, I know two people who are good examples.
First is my father. He has a doctorate in E.E., focusing on bottlenecks in computer systems, programmed assembly for TI in the 70s, and has been a professor in E.E. since long before I was born. He only uses Macs. We have one machine in the house that is not a Mac, this one, running Slack 7. He used Macs back in the "old days" for research because, for the money, they were the fastest things he could get his hands on. Now he uses them for work and at home because a) he's used to them and b) they are the best compromise between usability (he can still go into the terminal and screw around, but he can also use the very nice GUI when he doens't feel like typing everything or he's in a meeting with the Dean or the President of the university) and security/stability (it doesn't crash everyday and it has yet to get a virus). I use them for the same reason. And because I can't afford a computer of my own so I use what we have.
The other person is my music teacher. He's a professional musician as well. He's backed up Lionel Ritchie in concert before and plays bass in his own band. He also does some composing. On a Mac, only. He uses Macs because, back when he started, the best if not only composing software was for Macs. Since then, he's been sorta stuck with them. Not that he'd change, though, as my school has given him a PC and he hasn't found a program that works as well on it as his program for Mac (I wish I could remember the name, but alas, I can't. It's one of the major 2, though, I remember). Yes, he has been a "struggling musician" before. And yes, he stuck with his Mac through it because his Mac worked. Well.
Those are a couple of reasons why us "fruits" become blind zealots. It's sort of like being a Darwinian Evolution zealot. We get attacked by ignorant nay-sayers all the time, but we never lose sight of what we know works. Tell me, why are you such an ignorant bigot? Maybe you should get out of the house more...
At my brother's newspaper, they did the same sort of thing to a teddy ruckspin(sp). They hooked it up to the headphones jack of a stereo and the builtin hardware does the lipsinking automatically. Fun times.
You mean the tobacco industry.
Though, come to think of it, people might start smoking more if they no longer had cancer to deal with...
Why not get TI to go into this sort of thing? I think a TI-89 would have plenty enough power to run an atm with a few peripherals plugged in. It's got graphics, keys, I've seen them networked (IR, mostly, but I bet you could get a lan card attatched relatively easily). Hell, you'd have to strip the *TI-89* thing down, else it'd leave users with way too much power over the system.
I started out liking this response, then I realized you were a moron. Sorry, I shouldn't say that. But here are my points.
Yes, the government does detain prisoners without charges. Yes, they are *supposed* to be connected with terrorism. But as no one has to be told of their arrest as an "enemy combatant", and that they are automatically declared an enemy and are placed under military hold, put in a military tribunal, and not allowed legal representation, we won't ever know.
George "Dubya" Bush is not a smart man. He applied to attend my high school when he was a youngster (Yes, I go to an elite private school. No, I'm neither rich nor a stuck up snob, though I have to deal with several dozen of those type everyday). He failed miserably to get in. He applied to our rival school. Again he failed to get in. So his daddy built that school a new building (an offer made to and declined by my school) and Lo and Behold! he got in. Many other people have, however, managed to buy their way into my school. I know (but try very hard to avoid) several of them. And they are stupid. They are dumber than bricks. They are going to live off their trust-funds and inheritances, and they have no problem telling me about this. And how they're going to get a Yale/Harvard/Ivy League degree to make sure they do it in style. Yet Dubya was dumb, he couldn't make it in. That doesn't give me much confidence in him. And I'm not saying that people who don't go to my elite school are stupid. There are people at the public school next door ten times smarter than I am. But if he was so dumb they wouldn't even let him buy his way in with more money than you've ever made in your life, then that says something about the man...
Not true! Also speaking at a teenage boy, there are occasions where we are only looking at scantily clad women. And /. And the occasional game cheats site.
Missed this one the first time. Anyone else notice that the "state's deputy chief information officer" is named Doupnick? I mean, c'mon...
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Maybe when he retires he can get a job checking submissions for
She says Computer Scientists are telling people not to trust the voting officials or the (new, computerized) voting system. Why would Computer Scientists being trying to turn people off of computers? Doesn't that seem a little backwards? Sort of like Ford announcing that we should no longer drive SUVs cause they're dangerous to everyone else and pollute like crazy...
I'm glad I don't have something this nice. I'd feel so bad every time I kicked it across the room.
At least it'd probably get better distance than normal, what with wings and all.
If it is also necessary to spend hundreds - no, thousands - of hours at the keyboard, how are our scientists, the ones that aren't only interested in computers, supposed to get the time to study their own respective fields? I mean, thousands of hours takes up a bit of time, but I don't think we want nuclear physicists or molecular biologists putting their own fields second. I mean, imagine if your surgeon were a little tired from trying to figure out the slashcode he just installed on his home computer? I know my friends can't keep their hands steady holding their Mountain Dew, much less keep a scalpel steady while they're messing with my heart...
Either that, or it would go the direction with the guy with the biggest transmitter. You know the guy, the one in the jacked up F-350 SuperDuty with enough radio gear in the back make NASA blush... Yeah, he'd make it through EVERY light, lickety split.
Man, I coulda *sworn* that thing said iPinto. And it has all the features I've been waiting for them to add before I upgrade from my old one...