This is something I believe in as well. A well used prostate, either sex or wanking, keeps the sperm on the move. When they hang about, they degrade and degenerate potentially causing damage to the prostate and opening yourself up to cancer.
At 52 when lots of folk are complaining about slow stream and poor PSAs, I'm not having any of those problems.
I lived in the DC metro area for 30 or so years. Mt Airy, Odenton, Laurel, Alexandria, Woodbridge, Dale City, Stafford, Falmouth, Fredericksburg, and Spotsylvania as well as Ft Meade and Ft Belvoir. The traffic there is what makes it the worst. If you want to get out and do anything, you have to leave the house before 8am or you're stuck in a slow down. And riding around in Woodbridge/Dale City had you waiting at lights two or three cycles before getting through.
We moved to a state with less traffic and a slightly lower cost of living. I bought a house that's twice the size my house was in Dale City for almost half as much as it sold for _and_ I bicycle to work now (4.6 miles from work).
My IT salary isn't quite where it was in 2004 when I left but I was being over paid a bit anyway.
As do I. I don't mind taking my bikes out on gravel type roads. I've taking my bike on quite a few rough roads and had a nice ride up to Alaska last year.
Oh, and I ride a Hayabusa (yea, I'm not "most riders" either:) )
See my home page for a bunch of pics if you're interested.
It's the same at work. I keep a log of what I do throughout the day and every week I update a database. Management asked for a weekly status report so I whipped up a php script that formats the weekly output into the form they expect to see. So I just copy and paste it into an e-mail and send it off.
It's been a great help, especially at the end of the year when they want justification to give you a 3% raise. Organize it into projects, summarise them, throw in a few highlights and they're very happy.
I've been told several times that I provide twice as much detail as anyone else in his group (he manages three groups of which, I'm a member of one of them).
Part of the reason though is that I was a consultant for many years. I also spent a couple of years telecommuting. So keeping detailed information on what I did kept them aware that I was a valuable member of the team.
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One of the problems with google is that if it's sufficiently generic, you'll get 3,600,000 pages. I can just grab the appropriate book and have a better chance of finding my answer. Another issue is the number of spammers trying to catch your attention by snatching search results just to be able to point you to their site.
O'Reilly and Addison-Wesley have good reputations for putting out quality books. Searching and wading through blogs and difficult to navigate web sites (I'm looking at you Sun) to find the right answer can be lengthy and a crap shoot too. Picking up the subject matter book gives a good chance of having the right answer immediately.
So yea, I have a bunch of books here and at home. I also subscribe to O'Reilly's Safari Bookshelf. I haven't read each and every one, but they've all been helpful at one point or another in my career.
Look, if it was one of _our_ laptops, the crook wouldn't be able to log in to take pictures. I know my Windows (and Mac and Linux and BSD...) systems have login prompts of some sort and guest is disabled. The crook would open it, turn it on, see a login screen, try a couple of things, bang his (or her) fists impotently, and then sell it to someone.
Dr. Frederick Frankenstein: [to Igor] Now that brain that you gave me. Was it Hans Delbruck's? Igor: [pause, then] No. Dr. Frederick Frankenstein: Ah! Very good. Would you mind telling me whose brain I DID put in? Igor: Then you won't be angry? Dr. Frederick Frankenstein: I will NOT be angry. Igor: Abby Someone. Dr. Frederick Frankenstein: [pause, then] Abby Someone. Abby who? Igor: Abby Norway. Dr. Frederick Frankenstein: [pause, then] Abby Norway? Igor: I'm almost sure that was the name. Dr. Frederick Frankenstein: [chuckles, then] Are you saying that I put an abnorway brain into a seven and a half foot long, fifty-four inch wide GORILLA? [grabs Igor and starts throttling him] Dr. Frederick Frankenstein: Is that what you're telling me?
One of the reasons mentioned is the same reason I didn't like Heros and 24. If you missed the first couple of episodes, you may as well go home.
I'm pretty good at gathering threads up just from watching a show for a few minutes (pisses off my wife who can't seem to follow along and she's watched 24 from the first episode).
So I suspect, and the article seems to confirm it, that the show was written with an eye towards releasing it to DVD.
My wife and I watched Heroes first season and I really like it. Enough that I wanted to watch it when it came on for the second season. But with the commercials every 10 minutes and 5 minutes of commercials at the end, I finally bailed. I'm sure I'll get the DVD for the second series and will probably like it a lot.
24 is similar. It's written from start to finish. Like a long movie. You wouldn't come in in the middle of a movie and expect to understand what's going on.
So we'll get Heroes as they're released, my wife'll get 24 (she already has the first couple of seasons), and we'll get SCC when it's out on DVD (if it isn't already).
[John]
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Because someone decided to review and submit the review? There may be hundreds of great books but if no one reviews them (well past Amazon maybe), then they won't get posted.
And Science Fiction is something I like to read so a review is interesting.
I'll have to check the submission requirements and throw one out for a good one I recently read:)
Since I use unique e-mails for most everything I do on the 'net, I know when this happens. I've used realage a couple of times and have not received any ads or e-mails to the realage e-mail address.
The method works as I started getting lots of porn advertising to one of my unique addresses. I sent them an e-mail asking them where they got the address and asking them to stop. They didn't so I filter the address.
Same with the occasional forum spam. If I forget to hide my e-mail address (done it once), I start getting spam to that address. I filter the address, changed the e-mail and flipped on "hide e-mail". No further spams from that address.
It's not hard to do. I had a PC at home because I would bring it home from work (Leading Edge) and I had several a few years later, partly because a company I was working for went out of business taking my last two pay checks. I got two PCs and a Toshiba 1100+ laptop instead.
Based on the comments in the article, he'd already done it at least once and it worked. The only reason it didn't work this time is that the owner of the company called the manufacturer (probably Dell) to ask if the guy could recover the data based on the error message. They said "no way" and the owner called the cops. They checked the camera and found dumb-asses car with his company info on it. Yea, he was an idiot but it did work.
Well the problem is that the people probably turned on the "appliance" and it didn't work. So they called their repair guy who said he could recover the data for them. He was able to scam them because they didn't know how the computer worked.
I think the comments are good too. "yeah, he did the same thing at another company, we just didnt report him. he will be reported now." and the link to his meetup page, "am looking for a new way to improve my business"
What I really want is an iron spike in the center of the steering wheel. Then the people who should be driving instead of [pick the distraction] would actually pay attention to the task at hand.
IBM (at least here in Boulder) has a crap-load of Sun hardware sitting idle in a warehouse. When I was working there, we all had Sun boxes under our desks along with IBM and our IBM laptops. Our team each had an Enterprise 250 under our desks.
Still getting blue screens on my home system once in a while. Infinite loop, 0x000000ea. XP Pro with ATI card (the ATI driver is the culprit but it's still a blue screen:) ).
I just opened the case. The box has been sitting on the floor for about a month and there was a pretty heavy layer of dust and fur on the cpu fins. I used a vac to blow out the dust and the system came right up without a problem.
Can't wait to move so I can get the box back up on the rack where it belongs.
Oh and the System temp is currently at 37C and the CPU is at 18C.
Amusing. This guy says the same thing as I did but with Nvidia and he's insightful but I'm marked as a Troll when it's clear he was trolling and I wasn't.
Actually I wasn't admitting I was a troll or that I was trolling. The poster I replied to was modded as a troll. I was saying that the OP probably shouldn't be modded as a troll. I just said it incorrectly.
I'm not trolling when I recount an actual problem I'm having with ATI drivers. Off-topic perhaps but not trolling.
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This is something I believe in as well. A well used prostate, either sex or wanking, keeps the sperm on the move. When they hang about, they degrade and degenerate potentially causing damage to the prostate and opening yourself up to cancer.
At 52 when lots of folk are complaining about slow stream and poor PSAs, I'm not having any of those problems.
[John]
Jeeze, all scammers are scum of the earth. Why would you expect them to be any different with 12 yo kids?
[John]
I lived in the DC metro area for 30 or so years. Mt Airy, Odenton, Laurel, Alexandria, Woodbridge, Dale City, Stafford, Falmouth, Fredericksburg, and Spotsylvania as well as Ft Meade and Ft Belvoir. The traffic there is what makes it the worst. If you want to get out and do anything, you have to leave the house before 8am or you're stuck in a slow down. And riding around in Woodbridge/Dale City had you waiting at lights two or three cycles before getting through.
We moved to a state with less traffic and a slightly lower cost of living. I bought a house that's twice the size my house was in Dale City for almost half as much as it sold for _and_ I bicycle to work now (4.6 miles from work).
My IT salary isn't quite where it was in 2004 when I left but I was being over paid a bit anyway.
[John]
Shoot, I get stuff for my daughter. And she moved out 12 years ago _and_ we moved from Virginia to Colorado since then.
[John]
As do I. I don't mind taking my bikes out on gravel type roads. I've taking my bike on quite a few rough roads and had a nice ride up to Alaska last year.
Oh, and I ride a Hayabusa (yea, I'm not "most riders" either :) )
See my home page for a bunch of pics if you're interested.
[John]
It's the same at work. I keep a log of what I do throughout the day and every week I update a database. Management asked for a weekly status report so I whipped up a php script that formats the weekly output into the form they expect to see. So I just copy and paste it into an e-mail and send it off.
It's been a great help, especially at the end of the year when they want justification to give you a 3% raise. Organize it into projects, summarise them, throw in a few highlights and they're very happy.
I've been told several times that I provide twice as much detail as anyone else in his group (he manages three groups of which, I'm a member of one of them).
Part of the reason though is that I was a consultant for many years. I also spent a couple of years telecommuting. So keeping detailed information on what I did kept them aware that I was a valuable member of the team.
[John]
Heck, even guys living in boxes under bridges have Internet access and accounts on Facebook.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124363359881267523.html
[John]
One of the problems with google is that if it's sufficiently generic, you'll get 3,600,000 pages. I can just grab the appropriate book and have a better chance of finding my answer. Another issue is the number of spammers trying to catch your attention by snatching search results just to be able to point you to their site.
O'Reilly and Addison-Wesley have good reputations for putting out quality books. Searching and wading through blogs and difficult to navigate web sites (I'm looking at you Sun) to find the right answer can be lengthy and a crap shoot too. Picking up the subject matter book gives a good chance of having the right answer immediately.
So yea, I have a bunch of books here and at home. I also subscribe to O'Reilly's Safari Bookshelf. I haven't read each and every one, but they've all been helpful at one point or another in my career.
[John]
Look, if it was one of _our_ laptops, the crook wouldn't be able to log in to take pictures. I know my Windows (and Mac and Linux and BSD...) systems have login prompts of some sort and guest is disabled. The crook would open it, turn it on, see a login screen, try a couple of things, bang his (or her) fists impotently, and then sell it to someone.
[John]
Dr. Frederick Frankenstein: [to Igor] Now that brain that you gave me. Was it Hans Delbruck's?
Igor: [pause, then] No.
Dr. Frederick Frankenstein: Ah! Very good. Would you mind telling me whose brain I DID put in?
Igor: Then you won't be angry?
Dr. Frederick Frankenstein: I will NOT be angry.
Igor: Abby Someone.
Dr. Frederick Frankenstein: [pause, then] Abby Someone. Abby who?
Igor: Abby Norway.
Dr. Frederick Frankenstein: [pause, then] Abby Norway?
Igor: I'm almost sure that was the name.
Dr. Frederick Frankenstein: [chuckles, then] Are you saying that I put an abnorway brain into a seven and a half foot long, fifty-four inch wide GORILLA?
[grabs Igor and starts throttling him]
Dr. Frederick Frankenstein: Is that what you're telling me?
It has 200 dice. Clearly it's made for Shadowrun. :)
[John]
One of the reasons mentioned is the same reason I didn't like Heros and 24. If you missed the first couple of episodes, you may as well go home.
I'm pretty good at gathering threads up just from watching a show for a few minutes (pisses off my wife who can't seem to follow along and she's watched 24 from the first episode).
So I suspect, and the article seems to confirm it, that the show was written with an eye towards releasing it to DVD.
My wife and I watched Heroes first season and I really like it. Enough that I wanted to watch it when it came on for the second season. But with the commercials every 10 minutes and 5 minutes of commercials at the end, I finally bailed. I'm sure I'll get the DVD for the second series and will probably like it a lot.
24 is similar. It's written from start to finish. Like a long movie. You wouldn't come in in the middle of a movie and expect to understand what's going on.
So we'll get Heroes as they're released, my wife'll get 24 (she already has the first couple of seasons), and we'll get SCC when it's out on DVD (if it isn't already).
[John]
Because someone decided to review and submit the review? There may be hundreds of great books but if no one reviews them (well past Amazon maybe), then they won't get posted.
And Science Fiction is something I like to read so a review is interesting.
I'll have to check the submission requirements and throw one out for a good one I recently read :)
[John]
Since I use unique e-mails for most everything I do on the 'net, I know when this happens. I've used realage a couple of times and have not received any ads or e-mails to the realage e-mail address.
The method works as I started getting lots of porn advertising to one of my unique addresses. I sent them an e-mail asking them where they got the address and asking them to stop. They didn't so I filter the address.
Same with the occasional forum spam. If I forget to hide my e-mail address (done it once), I start getting spam to that address. I filter the address, changed the e-mail and flipped on "hide e-mail". No further spams from that address.
[John]
Mostly
It's not hard to do. I had a PC at home because I would bring it home from work (Leading Edge) and I had several a few years later, partly because a company I was working for went out of business taking my last two pay checks. I got two PCs and a Toshiba 1100+ laptop instead.
[John]
Based on the comments in the article, he'd already done it at least once and it worked. The only reason it didn't work this time is that the owner of the company called the manufacturer (probably Dell) to ask if the guy could recover the data based on the error message. They said "no way" and the owner called the cops. They checked the camera and found dumb-asses car with his company info on it. Yea, he was an idiot but it did work.
[John]
Well the problem is that the people probably turned on the "appliance" and it didn't work. So they called their repair guy who said he could recover the data for them. He was able to scam them because they didn't know how the computer worked.
[John]
I think the comments are good too. "yeah, he did the same thing at another company, we just didnt report him. he will be reported now." and the link to his meetup page, "am looking for a new way to improve my business"
You couldn't make stuff up this good.
[John]
What I really want is an iron spike in the center of the steering wheel. Then the people who should be driving instead of [pick the distraction] would actually pay attention to the task at hand.
[John]
IBM (at least here in Boulder) has a crap-load of Sun hardware sitting idle in a warehouse. When I was working there, we all had Sun boxes under our desks along with IBM and our IBM laptops. Our team each had an Enterprise 250 under our desks.
[John]
Still getting blue screens on my home system once in a while. Infinite loop, 0x000000ea. XP Pro with ATI card (the ATI driver is the culprit but it's still a blue screen :) ).
[John]
I just opened the case. The box has been sitting on the floor for about a month and there was a pretty heavy layer of dust and fur on the cpu fins. I used a vac to blow out the dust and the system came right up without a problem.
Can't wait to move so I can get the box back up on the rack where it belongs.
Oh and the System temp is currently at 37C and the CPU is at 18C.
[John]
Amusing. This guy says the same thing as I did but with Nvidia and he's insightful but I'm marked as a Troll when it's clear he was trolling and I wasn't.
Meh, the Nvidia fanboys must be out tonight.
[John]
Probably shouldn't be a troll here.
Actually I wasn't admitting I was a troll or that I was trolling. The poster I replied to was modded as a troll. I was saying that the OP probably shouldn't be modded as a troll. I just said it incorrectly.
I'm not trolling when I recount an actual problem I'm having with ATI drivers. Off-topic perhaps but not trolling.
Just saying.
[John]