What I haven't seen mentioned is that newspaper ads are generally for things in the local area and often contain coupons or let you know about sales. I've gotten good deals from ads in the paper, and it helps the local economy. I would much rather look at ads that tell me what's going on at various clubs and bars I might want to go to down the street than see some flashing gif about cheap v1agr4 from haiti or somewhere.
yeah, i used scilab in an electrical engineering class and unless I submitted my source or told her, the prof never knew the difference. Great program for those who dont want to spend the money on matlab. AFAIK, they stopped updating though, but I could be wrong.
Why in the hell would anyone want a wireless mouse but a wired mousepad? And I dont really like the idea that I cant use it on a metal desk. I'll stick to my wired ball-less 3 button mouse, thanks.
It seems that they gave the ISP ample time and the ISP did nothing. Fuck 'em! Let the ISP deal with all its irate customers whose international emails dont go through and they'll change their tune about spammers. I feel sorry for the thousands of users who didnt do anything to deserve this, but I also hate spam.
I use fire* for everything except sftp transactions when i use Konqueror. Also, Konqueror defaults to not showing the annoying "hey! pay up" message really big on lowbrow.com
i think they were just commenting on the hit counter, not trying to manipulate it. you come across as a total self-righteous jagoff in that post (not that I don't here)
i have also mirrored it at barbeeb.no-ip.com/chernobyl/chapter1.html by the way
As the other reply to this said, OOo will read (most) doc files well. It won't do the fancy word graphics my profs like to use for circuit diagrams, and its equation support sucks, but for regular text, it's good. And abiword will do text as well, but much faster. As for blackboard, yeah, its a piece of shit. The schools use it to display copyrighted documents (.htaccess won't work why?) or for dipshit profs who cant even find a grad student who can code html.
I fucking hate labview! The programming style is obfuscating as hell and yeah, it is 100% gui twiddling. That and a GPIB card is hella expensive, IIRC. But the student version of labview DOES support GPIB, as I had to use it in my EE 102 class.
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well, yeah, but what's the difference between the signal that makes you want to move your arm and the signal that actually does it? the monkeys learn that they get the desired response by just sending the "intent to move arm" signal instead of the whole "activate arm muscles" signal.
Me too. I was jogging after work one night and a cop drove up on the sidewalk in front of me, lights on. I was wearing khakis and a shirt and jogging down the sidewalk at about midnight. He asked if I was on any drugs, then if I was on any illegal drugs, as though the first question weren't all-inclusive. I asked him if I was under arrest, and he said no, but wanted to know where I lived. I told him, and he said he'd wait for me to finish jogging and if he didn't see me come in the house in 20 minutes he'd go looking for me. WTF?
the porn industry isnt complaining. the movies they sell are of low production value and are sold at an exhorbitant markup. what you can download are usually just little promotional movies from a site, so its just free publicity for them./fap fap
I'm a fellow (former now) tech monkey, and we got all kinds of grief from management for helping customers get rid of spyware. I worked for a subcontractor for bellsouth DSL, and all these (easily blocked by the ISP, as nobody needs these programs) problems were "not out business." Tell that to the click happy masses out there and see how your customer satisfaction surveys look. It's all about companies covering their asses at the expense of decent tech support.
I got a bunch of calls for this today too. I dont pay attention to Windows updates since I only use windows at work behind a Linux firewall, so I had no idea there was a patch. The first call I got on this I spent about an hour getting a woman to download a firewall in the five minutes she got to be online before the worm hit and we had to start over. You have no idea how hard it is to get old people to navigate three web pages and click an install. And they never seem to get that they have a limited amount of time. One jagoff was yelling at me because "I wasnt giving him enough time to do this." Finally had to email him the patch installer and have hime tell his wife when to pull the network plug when the DL was finished. What a bitch call.
Sure, theory is good, but come on. I've just finished my third year of EE at USC. No, the other USC, the one in South Carolina. My lab classes have been totally useless since we have had no experience building things. The guys I know who went to the local tech school know all kinds of useful stuff. I think that students should start with simple, hands on projects and move into the complex underlying theory after they can attach some relevance to what they are memorizing.
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a quote from some drama group I saw in high school at a conference:
"theater is life. film is art. television is furniture."
I think that's relevant
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What I haven't seen mentioned is that newspaper ads are generally for things in the local area and often contain coupons or let you know about sales. I've gotten good deals from ads in the paper, and it helps the local economy. I would much rather look at ads that tell me what's going on at various clubs and bars I might want to go to down the street than see some flashing gif about cheap v1agr4 from haiti or somewhere.
i'm surprised i'm the first to jump on the term "me-too!" lawsuits in an AOL related discussion.
yeah, i used scilab in an electrical engineering class and unless I submitted my source or told her, the prof never knew the difference. Great program for those who dont want to spend the money on matlab. AFAIK, they stopped updating though, but I could be wrong.
Why in the hell would anyone want a wireless mouse but a wired mousepad? And I dont really like the idea that I cant use it on a metal desk. I'll stick to my wired ball-less 3 button mouse, thanks.
It seems that they gave the ISP ample time and the ISP did nothing. Fuck 'em! Let the ISP deal with all its irate customers whose international emails dont go through and they'll change their tune about spammers. I feel sorry for the thousands of users who didnt do anything to deserve this, but I also hate spam.
I use fire* for everything except sftp transactions when i use Konqueror. Also, Konqueror defaults to not showing the annoying "hey! pay up" message really big on lowbrow.com
i think they were just commenting on the hit counter, not trying to manipulate it. you come across as a total self-righteous jagoff in that post (not that I don't here) i have also mirrored it at barbeeb.no-ip.com/chernobyl/chapter1.html by the way
As the other reply to this said, OOo will read (most) doc files well. It won't do the fancy word graphics my profs like to use for circuit diagrams, and its equation support sucks, but for regular text, it's good. And abiword will do text as well, but much faster. As for blackboard, yeah, its a piece of shit. The schools use it to display copyrighted documents (.htaccess won't work why?) or for dipshit profs who cant even find a grad student who can code html.
I fucking hate labview! The programming style is obfuscating as hell and yeah, it is 100% gui twiddling. That and a GPIB card is hella expensive, IIRC. But the student version of labview DOES support GPIB, as I had to use it in my EE 102 class.
well, yeah, but what's the difference between the signal that makes you want to move your arm and the signal that actually does it? the monkeys learn that they get the desired response by just sending the "intent to move arm" signal instead of the whole "activate arm muscles" signal.
russel house i think
Me too.
I was jogging after work one night and a cop drove up on the sidewalk in front of me, lights on. I was wearing khakis and a shirt and jogging down the sidewalk at about midnight. He asked if I was on any drugs, then if I was on any illegal drugs, as though the first question weren't all-inclusive. I asked him if I was under arrest, and he said no, but wanted to know where I lived. I told him, and he said he'd wait for me to finish jogging and if he didn't see me come in the house in 20 minutes he'd go looking for me. WTF?
exactly. I searched for "diode wave shaper" one time and got three hits -- all for porn. I had no idea diodes were so fap-worthy.
seems easy to me:
/bin/laden
bash-2.05b$ which laden
the porn industry isnt complaining. the movies they sell are of low production value and are sold at an exhorbitant markup. what you can download are usually just little promotional movies from a site, so its just free publicity for them. /fap fap
I'm a fellow (former now) tech monkey, and we got all kinds of grief from management for helping customers get rid of spyware. I worked for a subcontractor for bellsouth DSL, and all these (easily blocked by the ISP, as nobody needs these programs) problems were "not out business." Tell that to the click happy masses out there and see how your customer satisfaction surveys look. It's all about companies covering their asses at the expense of decent tech support.
I got a bunch of calls for this today too. I dont pay attention to Windows updates since I only use windows at work behind a Linux firewall, so I had no idea there was a patch. The first call I got on this I spent about an hour getting a woman to download a firewall in the five minutes she got to be online before the worm hit and we had to start over. You have no idea how hard it is to get old people to navigate three web pages and click an install. And they never seem to get that they have a limited amount of time. One jagoff was yelling at me because "I wasnt giving him enough time to do this." Finally had to email him the patch installer and have hime tell his wife when to pull the network plug when the DL was finished. What a bitch call.
Sure, theory is good, but come on. I've just finished my third year of EE at USC. No, the other USC, the one in South Carolina. My lab classes have been totally useless since we have had no experience building things. The guys I know who went to the local tech school know all kinds of useful stuff. I think that students should start with simple, hands on projects and move into the complex underlying theory after they can attach some relevance to what they are memorizing.