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Star Wars Sickout
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that's just ridiculous.
this entire star wars craze is ridiculous. I don't understand why people can't just wait for the lines to calm down and then go see the movie. This whole obsession with seeing it FIRST so you can tell all your geek friends is absurd.
I doubt half the people willing to skip work even care about the movie, but since star wars is the epitome of geekness the only way to be a "certified geek" and to be cool around your geek colleagues is to pretend you love it.
stop pretending!@# you and I BOTH know it's just another block buster movie!@#
sometimes when I jump on a laptop or one of those split keyboards I have a tough time trying to type it out 'cause the space between keys is obviously different and I have no idea which keys to press.
so random in fact that I don't even know what it is.. seriously.. it's about 10-12 chars long and includes alphanumeric, slash upper and lower case, slash special chars.
the only thing I know about it is how to type it, but I have no idea what I'm typing.
sometimes when I jump on a laptop or one of those split keyboards I have a tough time trying to type it out 'cause the space between keys is obviously different and I have no idea which keys to press.
the way I did it was as randomly as possible wrote out random chars on a post-it, learned how to type it out and tried my best not to memorize the actual password. I then shredded the post-it, burned it, mixed it with other shredded burned material, mixed that with water, bleach, and other chemicals..
This sound that you speak of is known as Johnson noise / Thermal noise / Nyquist noise.
it's the "Unwanted currents or voltages in an electronic component resulting from the agitation of electrons by heat"
I hear it in everything and it drives me absolutely nuts. everyone thinks I'm crazy but I can hear the TV from the other side of the apartment when it's on mute.
another thing that really gets me is when the TV volume is on full blast but the reciever volume is low, the static noise coming from the speakers is unbearable, yet I'm the only one that hears it.
I'm sure you've noticed in your comp. sci. like jobs that most of the business people know absolutely nothing about technology. you spend more money and time teaching them how to use the technology available then how to do their job.
With a BBA you'll be able to bridge that massive gap and definitely have an edge on everybody else applying to any tech. like job from a business perspective.
So now, you can be the guy telling the code monkey his code sucks instead of being the sucky monkey;)
I remember a couple of summers ago my girlfriend telling me about this awesome promotion that amazong was having. For $20 you get a years membership to some club where the only perk is that you get 10% off your first $200 of purchases.....
she couldn't wait to join either.. needless to say.. she's not a math student;)
I actually started off with firefox since I used it in linux but then I needed to dual boot for a while to use some school software at home.
after less then a week I started using IE and scrapped firefox. It's brutally slow on my system (winXP w/ dual 533's) it's unbearable. and I'm not the only one, all my roommates agree that it's much slower then ie.
it even ruined my credibility as the "computer geek"! I told everyone about this super fast super amazing browser that'll smoke ie anyday and it ends up being junkware.:(
I honestly believe that anyone remotely interested in downloading the NetBSD logo's has the computer know-how to do to so.
I don't think the 9 or so various README's on HOW-TO download images off the web! and suggested html tags are absolutely necessary.
it's almost insulting. give us more credit then that!
Does it really matter if there's a camera on the plane? did you really have any privacy to begin with? you're only sitting in a plane with 200+ other people.
And what would you be trying to hide on a plane besides something that isn't suppose to be there?
I mean, the only real reason I can see some objecting to this is so the airline can't sell the tape of you having sex in the washroom.
er.. Since we're the ones buying the shirts.. shouldn't we be the ones voting for it? Have something like all members get one vote and all Anonymous Cowards can eat poop!
I wonder if the burnout he's talking about when the CDROM jumps off the dremel burned his carpet? At those speeds it must get incredibly hot rubbing against the carpet like that.
I know this is off topic but you know that visual studio.NET banner with the elite if else statement? Is it just me, or should the else statement read "doItAlone" and not "goItAlone"?
Jebus, M$ Can't even get their ad-code right, nevermind OS!@#
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that's just ridiculous.
this entire star wars craze is ridiculous. I don't understand why people can't just wait for the lines to calm down and then go see the movie. This whole obsession with seeing it FIRST so you can tell all your geek friends is absurd.
I doubt half the people willing to skip work even care about the movie, but since star wars is the epitome of geekness the only way to be a "certified geek" and to be cool around your geek colleagues is to pretend you love it.
stop pretending!@# you and I BOTH know it's just another block buster movie!@#
sometimes when I jump on a laptop or one of those split keyboards I have a tough time trying to type it out 'cause the space between keys is obviously different and I have no idea which keys to press.
that's what happens!
my password is pretty random.
so random in fact that I don't even know what it is.. seriously.. it's about 10-12 chars long and includes alphanumeric, slash upper and lower case, slash special chars.
the only thing I know about it is how to type it, but I have no idea what I'm typing.
sometimes when I jump on a laptop or one of those split keyboards I have a tough time trying to type it out 'cause the space between keys is obviously different and I have no idea which keys to press.
the way I did it was as randomly as possible wrote out random chars on a post-it, learned how to type it out and tried my best not to memorize the actual password. I then shredded the post-it, burned it, mixed it with other shredded burned material, mixed that with water, bleach, and other chemicals..
This sound that you speak of is known as Johnson noise / Thermal noise / Nyquist noise.
it's the "Unwanted currents or voltages in an electronic component resulting from the agitation of electrons by heat"
I hear it in everything and it drives me absolutely nuts. everyone thinks I'm crazy but I can hear the TV from the other side of the apartment when it's on mute.
another thing that really gets me is when the TV volume is on full blast but the reciever volume is low, the static noise coming from the speakers is unbearable, yet I'm the only one that hears it.
Get a BBa (bach. of bus. admin.)
;)
I'm sure you've noticed in your comp. sci. like jobs that most of the business people know absolutely nothing about technology. you spend more money and time teaching them how to use the technology available then how to do their job.
With a BBA you'll be able to bridge that massive gap and definitely have an edge on everybody else applying to any tech. like job from a business perspective.
So now, you can be the guy telling the code monkey his code sucks instead of being the sucky monkey
I remember a couple of summers ago my girlfriend telling me about this awesome promotion that amazong was having. For $20 you get a years membership to some club where the only perk is that you get 10% off your first $200 of purchases.....
;)
she couldn't wait to join either.. needless to say.. she's not a math student
is this really happening? Am I actually seeing this post on slashdot?
This is something I'd expect to see on stileproject or some other random crap site like banged up.
what has the world come to!
I was going to put "reads slashdot" under the HOBBIES / INTERESTS portion of my resume but now I'm having second thoughts...
yeah.. I was thinking exactly the same thing... maybe public figures is only web search while popular queries encompasses all types of queries.
I actually started off with firefox since I used it in linux but then I needed to dual boot for a while to use some school software at home.
:(
:(
after less then a week I started using IE and scrapped firefox. It's brutally slow on my system (winXP w/ dual 533's) it's unbearable. and I'm not the only one, all my roommates agree that it's much slower then ie.
it even ruined my credibility as the "computer geek"! I told everyone about this super fast super amazing browser that'll smoke ie anyday and it ends up being junkware.
now no one listens to me
This is simply his Half-Life 1 mod with a 2 added. I've seen this case literally a year ago. Minus the 2 of course.
for all you lazy cats that keep flooding the front page with nonesense "WHERE DO I FIND X PIECE OF SOFTWARE?!?" it's called
google.com, www.freshmeat.net, and sourceforge.net. quit being lazy and find it yourself damnit~!
I honestly believe that anyone remotely interested in downloading the NetBSD logo's has the computer know-how to do to so. I don't think the 9 or so various README's on HOW-TO download images off the web! and suggested html tags are absolutely necessary. it's almost insulting. give us more credit then that!
honestly... I have no idea what you guys are talking about.. those images look nothing alike! the hysteria!
he's right you know... it reduces drag...
Does it really matter if there's a camera on the plane? did you really have any privacy to begin with? you're only sitting in a plane with 200+ other people. And what would you be trying to hide on a plane besides something that isn't suppose to be there? I mean, the only real reason I can see some objecting to this is so the airline can't sell the tape of you having sex in the washroom.
er.. Since we're the ones buying the shirts.. shouldn't we be the ones voting for it? Have something like all members get one vote and all Anonymous Cowards can eat poop!
I wonder if the burnout he's talking about when the CDROM jumps off the dremel burned his carpet? At those speeds it must get incredibly hot rubbing against the carpet like that.
I know this is off topic but you know that visual studio .NET banner with the elite if else statement? Is it just me, or should the else statement read "doItAlone" and not "goItAlone"?
Jebus, M$ Can't even get their ad-code right, nevermind OS!@#