Unfortunately, a lot of schools are not allowed to accept direct donations (in materials or money). I know that in Oregon, there are a lot of districts with such a policy. Something to do with it being unfair to the rest of the schools or something. There was a story in the Oregonian about ten years ago about a guy who wanted to donate a ton of money (like $30,000 or something) to his son's public school and they wouldn't allow it. They would allow him to donate it to the school district to do with as they saw fit, but he was not allowed to designate it for any particular school or purpose.
Seems kind of ridiculous, but... Likewise, a lot of schools won't allow people to donate their time to maintain, repair or build hardware or networks or instruct students in such things.
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But then you'd have to go outside. What kind of half-assed geek are you?!:P
Of course, the problem with that is that then there are people on Craigslist who will know where you live. If there are any people on the face of the earth that it would be frightening to have hold that information, it's the creepy people on Craigslist. ESPECIALLY the kind of creepy people that will come and pick up free ANYTHING (seriously, you could post free empty bottles of ranch dressing and some weird ass hippy or hillbilly or crankhead will come pick them up).
My wife has given me until the end of the week to find a home for it or I have to take it to the dump.
While you're at it, why don't you take your testicles, too? You don't seem to be using them. You should be ashamed of yourself for admitting such a thing in public. You don't bring home money? You don't run your own house? I bet she made you give up all your cool rock band tee-shirts after she moved in, too?
I heard that they were intending to be the EA of FPS games. They wanted to release a new version of Unreal every year. But 2004-2007 is three years, so . . . I guess they nixed that idea?
It sounds like it will be exciting, but as much as I'd like to see more enjoyable methods of gameplay, I'd also like to see more interesting weapons and vehicals. Every FPS has the same handful of weapons that every other FPS has. It would be neat to have something crazy and interesting that doesn't also screw up the gameplay.
And I'd love to see, say, a two person mech that you could control (less like a MechWarrior Mech and more like a slightly advanced/modified current military one). Not something big and bulky and enormous like a damn transformer, but something that would let you carry a second person with you, move faster and jump higher.
Sounds like it's welcoming a lot of trouble from those who are ill-prepared to properly contribute (sort of like people who don't know better and set their P2P clients to be full hubs) and people who want to intentionally introduce problems or cracks into the system.
Hopefully people would still have to pay to play. I think that subscriptions to MMORPGs set an entry level to prevent a lot of troublemakers from joining up and disrupting everything.
Why is that Christianity is the only religion it is still ok to hate?
What do you mean? Plenty of Christians hate every other religion. And non-religions for that matter. In fact, they have a lock on that market. People don't hate wiccans (unless you're a christian or something), because they've never seen a wiccan going around trying to prostelitize, hypocritically lecturing them on morality or trying to push around legislation or school agendas to meet their religious points of view.
"Hating" smaller religions would be silly. The two biggest religions in the world happen to be the two most hypocritical, hateful, spiteful and violent. Christianity is one of those two.
Unless it has changed recently, getting PDFs to work properly on some Unixes has been a pain in the ass. I've seen a number of big unix companies that *only* distribute their documentations in PDF. That makes life quite difficult.
I can't believe this question is actually being asked, but . ..
Get a photocopier or laser printer. Get some binding materials - your local office store can help you with that. Then follow the instructions. It's not difficult and it isn't expensive.
In fact, I'm sure if you asked the office admins at work, they would know EXACTLY how to solve your problem. They're good at that sort of thing.
Chronicals of Narnia == Good Christian Literature, PRAISE THE JESUS!
You know, there's a reason you read Chronicals of Narnia in first grade... because it's first grade material. It doesn't hold up when you grow up... or learn to tie your own shoes.
I wasn't talking about the company (or whatever). However they spend their money is not relevant except where tax money comes into play. The city giving them very valuable property and incentives, however, IS important.
This is no different than Nike or Intel getting a really sweet tax break (or other deals) which the type of people that live in SF would typically freak out over and call "evil" use of government.
And yes, it's exactly like publically funding a private stadium. Also evil and stupid.
or B: Haven't seen hard times in your life. Yeah, because hard times don't make you tough, responsible and self-reliant the way that having everything handled to you and granted by entitlement to you, right?
Someday you are going to loose your job, or get sick
I lost my job eight months ago. Guess what, I was re-hired - with a substantial raise by the end of the year. Guess what? I had the foresight to save money for such a situation. Guess what? Just because I might lose my job doesn't give me the right to expect to be given work just because I exist - nor to demand any specific type of pay or compensation that is not directly related to my value and productive capability.
and you're going to loose your house, and possibly your family, and then you'll understand the foolishness of what you have just said.
Someday, you'll grow up and get your head out of that utopian cloud and realize that just because you're on hard times doesn't give you the right to demand anything. Sick, healthy, educated, uneducated, young, old, employed or not - none of it matters. What matters is whether someone has a job they need performed and how valuable I am to that position in establishing compensation.
Just by virtue of being alive, I am not deserving of someone else's money (derived from their own hard work and value). And neither are you.
More importantly, why don't they just outsource the oversight to India? I thought that the American Way was to undermine the employee's power of supply and demand by expanding the workforce pool globally? At least, when it comes to people who actually do the work. So why are oversight people so important and valuable that people in other countries can't not-do what these fat-cats are going to sit around and not-do?
To be fair, there's a lot of footage that goes into bathrooms, reception/lobby, conference rooms, break rooms and hallways.
But with that said, my own office space is around 20 square feet. Even if only 50% of the space they have is office space, that's still about 11'x16' per person for office space.
The cost of living is expensive in SF. The cost of housing and office space is insane. We're talking 150% to 200% of anywhere else in the 48 (other than New York). California is the largest fucking state and the only place they could pick was the most expensive city in the entire fucking coast?!
It's just a matter of nationalism and americans being taught that they are the best in the world.
The hell it is. Slashdot is owned by an American company, operated by American staff, in America and the hardware is based in an American server center. As someone else clearly explained elsewhere here, you wouldn't get your panties in a twist of the Wallstreet Journal said "nationwide" or if the Chicago Tribune said "citywide" without qualifying which city or nation.
You guys really have nothing better to do than to whine about something like that? And you're telling me that, say, UK or German homed news services don't speak in the same obvious way?
True, I can see that. It's unfortunate though, because on the fly gzip compression on the server side is damned simple. It'd be the simplest way to cut a massive amount of web traffic overnight the world over.:)
Actually, the reason I didn't stick with it is that I found it was EXACTLY JUST LIKE everything else out there. And I didn't personally run into any bugs or connect problems. I found that part decent. I just found that, more so than almost any other MMORPG I've played recently, the NPCs and missions were most inane.
The code crafting was interesting, but bordering on unbelievably tedious.
Of course, I wasn't insanely impressed by GuildWars, either. I bought it. I've played it. I don't dislike it... But I wouldn't dispense any quantity of semen over it.
Actually, I was speaking of some radio show they had on Saturdays on Max910 (formerly HotTalk 1080 - and now an oldies music station called KISN) in Portland, OR. It was "Computer Time" or something of that sort. I think one guy's name was Ken and another was "Techenstein". And there was one more.
The guys were fairly knowledgable as far as general small-business home-user stuff goes, but they tended to offer a lot of really stupid advice. Besides the comment about "if a program is free, it's because it has spyware, adware or viruses", one of the guys was constantly saying that pop-up blockers were pointless. He insisted that, if you are getting popups while you're on the internet, it's because your computer is infected and you should take better precautions to avoid that in the first place. He said this almost every single weekend on the show.
It was absurd! So there have to be plenty of people out there who think the reason they get advertising popups when they visit drudgereport.com, is because their computer is infected rather than the website simply loads popups for revenue!
Of course, I suspect every big city has guys like this. And the unfortunate thing is that they know just enough to appear credible and "do good" in most cases, but that bankroll of credit allows them to be incredibly stupid at times, "doing harm" and be taken just as seriously by those who know no better.
But don't take my words for a condemnation of computer radio shows entirely. Some are actually very good. Probably the best that I've heard so far is Leo Laporte's show which I can pick up on KFI's streaming broadcast (I'm now living in Colorado, so it's the only way I can pick it up). He's one of the few guys from TechTV/G4 that actually really knew his stuff - even if it was almost entirely just Windows oriented.
And in other venues, I still like Kevin Rose who is still on G4, with his girlfriend/wife Sarah Lane. He's a big linux and open source proponant. He stands out as the real deal on a station full of so many "I'd rather be a VJ on MTV" personalities.
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Why would I want to donate money or items to a school that my child *doesn't* go to, then?
This just cuts their noses to spite their faces. Instead of the school district the donator is in getting something, nobody gets anything.
After all, people still pay taxes and my taxes still go to whatever the district likes.
What does being married have to do with frequent sex?
Unfortunately, a lot of schools are not allowed to accept direct donations (in materials or money). I know that in Oregon, there are a lot of districts with such a policy. Something to do with it being unfair to the rest of the schools or something. There was a story in the Oregonian about ten years ago about a guy who wanted to donate a ton of money (like $30,000 or something) to his son's public school and they wouldn't allow it. They would allow him to donate it to the school district to do with as they saw fit, but he was not allowed to designate it for any particular school or purpose.
Seems kind of ridiculous, but... Likewise, a lot of schools won't allow people to donate their time to maintain, repair or build hardware or networks or instruct students in such things.
But then you'd have to go outside. What kind of half-assed geek are you?! :P
Of course, the problem with that is that then there are people on Craigslist who will know where you live. If there are any people on the face of the earth that it would be frightening to have hold that information, it's the creepy people on Craigslist. ESPECIALLY the kind of creepy people that will come and pick up free ANYTHING (seriously, you could post free empty bottles of ranch dressing and some weird ass hippy or hillbilly or crankhead will come pick them up).
My wife has given me until the end of the week to find a home for it or I have to take it to the dump.
While you're at it, why don't you take your testicles, too? You don't seem to be using them. You should be ashamed of yourself for admitting such a thing in public. You don't bring home money? You don't run your own house? I bet she made you give up all your cool rock band tee-shirts after she moved in, too?
What a tool.
I heard that they were intending to be the EA of FPS games. They wanted to release a new version of Unreal every year. But 2004-2007 is three years, so . . . I guess they nixed that idea?
It sounds like it will be exciting, but as much as I'd like to see more enjoyable methods of gameplay, I'd also like to see more interesting weapons and vehicals. Every FPS has the same handful of weapons that every other FPS has. It would be neat to have something crazy and interesting that doesn't also screw up the gameplay.
And I'd love to see, say, a two person mech that you could control (less like a MechWarrior Mech and more like a slightly advanced/modified current military one). Not something big and bulky and enormous like a damn transformer, but something that would let you carry a second person with you, move faster and jump higher.
Well, if you listen to the idiots who think everyone has a disease or a dysfunction or a syndrome, almost every geek has autism. *shrug*
Helps quacks make a fortune when they can diagnose everybody with something.
Sounds like it's welcoming a lot of trouble from those who are ill-prepared to properly contribute (sort of like people who don't know better and set their P2P clients to be full hubs) and people who want to intentionally introduce problems or cracks into the system.
Hopefully people would still have to pay to play. I think that subscriptions to MMORPGs set an entry level to prevent a lot of troublemakers from joining up and disrupting everything.
We all know what a BSOD is... do we really need a photo to imagine what an RSOD is like?
Sheesh...
It remains to be seen whether Disney's Narnia preaches acceptance, humility, and personalized spirituality,
How would such a tale properly depict the Christian faith? That'd be like putting lipstick on a pig.
Why is that Christianity is the only religion it is still ok to hate?
What do you mean? Plenty of Christians hate every other religion. And non-religions for that matter. In fact, they have a lock on that market. People don't hate wiccans (unless you're a christian or something), because they've never seen a wiccan going around trying to prostelitize, hypocritically lecturing them on morality or trying to push around legislation or school agendas to meet their religious points of view.
"Hating" smaller religions would be silly. The two biggest religions in the world happen to be the two most hypocritical, hateful, spiteful and violent. Christianity is one of those two.
Unless it has changed recently, getting PDFs to work properly on some Unixes has been a pain in the ass. I've seen a number of big unix companies that *only* distribute their documentations in PDF. That makes life quite difficult.
I can't believe this question is actually being asked, but . . .
Get a photocopier or laser printer. Get some binding materials - your local office store can help you with that. Then follow the instructions. It's not difficult and it isn't expensive.
In fact, I'm sure if you asked the office admins at work, they would know EXACTLY how to solve your problem. They're good at that sort of thing.
Harry Potter == Evil, Satanic, BURNABLE.
Chronicals of Narnia == Good Christian Literature, PRAISE THE JESUS!
You know, there's a reason you read Chronicals of Narnia in first grade... because it's first grade material. It doesn't hold up when you grow up... or learn to tie your own shoes.
I wasn't talking about the company (or whatever). However they spend their money is not relevant except where tax money comes into play. The city giving them very valuable property and incentives, however, IS important.
This is no different than Nike or Intel getting a really sweet tax break (or other deals) which the type of people that live in SF would typically freak out over and call "evil" use of government.
And yes, it's exactly like publically funding a private stadium. Also evil and stupid.
You are A: very young
Almost 30.
or B: Haven't seen hard times in your life.
Yeah, because hard times don't make you tough, responsible and self-reliant the way that having everything handled to you and granted by entitlement to you, right?
Someday you are going to loose your job, or get sick
I lost my job eight months ago. Guess what, I was re-hired - with a substantial raise by the end of the year. Guess what? I had the foresight to save money for such a situation. Guess what? Just because I might lose my job doesn't give me the right to expect to be given work just because I exist - nor to demand any specific type of pay or compensation that is not directly related to my value and productive capability.
and you're going to loose your house, and possibly your family, and then you'll understand the foolishness of what you have just said.
Someday, you'll grow up and get your head out of that utopian cloud and realize that just because you're on hard times doesn't give you the right to demand anything. Sick, healthy, educated, uneducated, young, old, employed or not - none of it matters. What matters is whether someone has a job they need performed and how valuable I am to that position in establishing compensation.
Just by virtue of being alive, I am not deserving of someone else's money (derived from their own hard work and value). And neither are you.
More importantly, why don't they just outsource the oversight to India? I thought that the American Way was to undermine the employee's power of supply and demand by expanding the workforce pool globally? At least, when it comes to people who actually do the work. So why are oversight people so important and valuable that people in other countries can't not-do what these fat-cats are going to sit around and not-do?
To be fair, there's a lot of footage that goes into bathrooms, reception/lobby, conference rooms, break rooms and hallways.
But with that said, my own office space is around 20 square feet. Even if only 50% of the space they have is office space, that's still about 11'x16' per person for office space.
The cost of living is expensive in SF. The cost of housing and office space is insane. We're talking 150% to 200% of anywhere else in the 48 (other than New York). California is the largest fucking state and the only place they could pick was the most expensive city in the entire fucking coast?!
It's just a matter of nationalism and americans being taught that they are the best in the world.
The hell it is. Slashdot is owned by an American company, operated by American staff, in America and the hardware is based in an American server center. As someone else clearly explained elsewhere here, you wouldn't get your panties in a twist of the Wallstreet Journal said "nationwide" or if the Chicago Tribune said "citywide" without qualifying which city or nation.
You guys really have nothing better to do than to whine about something like that? And you're telling me that, say, UK or German homed news services don't speak in the same obvious way?
Notepad (windows) or pico/nano/ae (nano, since I'm mostly on Debian). :P
What, you expected emacs?
True, I can see that. It's unfortunate though, because on the fly gzip compression on the server side is damned simple. It'd be the simplest way to cut a massive amount of web traffic overnight the world over. :)
Actually, the reason I didn't stick with it is that I found it was EXACTLY JUST LIKE everything else out there. And I didn't personally run into any bugs or connect problems. I found that part decent. I just found that, more so than almost any other MMORPG I've played recently, the NPCs and missions were most inane.
The code crafting was interesting, but bordering on unbelievably tedious.
Of course, I wasn't insanely impressed by GuildWars, either. I bought it. I've played it. I don't dislike it... But I wouldn't dispense any quantity of semen over it.
Actually, I was speaking of some radio show they had on Saturdays on Max910 (formerly HotTalk 1080 - and now an oldies music station called KISN) in Portland, OR. It was "Computer Time" or something of that sort. I think one guy's name was Ken and another was "Techenstein". And there was one more.
The guys were fairly knowledgable as far as general small-business home-user stuff goes, but they tended to offer a lot of really stupid advice. Besides the comment about "if a program is free, it's because it has spyware, adware or viruses", one of the guys was constantly saying that pop-up blockers were pointless. He insisted that, if you are getting popups while you're on the internet, it's because your computer is infected and you should take better precautions to avoid that in the first place. He said this almost every single weekend on the show.
It was absurd! So there have to be plenty of people out there who think the reason they get advertising popups when they visit drudgereport.com, is because their computer is infected rather than the website simply loads popups for revenue!
Of course, I suspect every big city has guys like this. And the unfortunate thing is that they know just enough to appear credible and "do good" in most cases, but that bankroll of credit allows them to be incredibly stupid at times, "doing harm" and be taken just as seriously by those who know no better.
But don't take my words for a condemnation of computer radio shows entirely. Some are actually very good. Probably the best that I've heard so far is Leo Laporte's show which I can pick up on KFI's streaming broadcast (I'm now living in Colorado, so it's the only way I can pick it up). He's one of the few guys from TechTV/G4 that actually really knew his stuff - even if it was almost entirely just Windows oriented.
And in other venues, I still like Kevin Rose who is still on G4, with his girlfriend/wife Sarah Lane. He's a big linux and open source proponant. He stands out as the real deal on a station full of so many "I'd rather be a VJ on MTV" personalities.
By the way - fuck you Entercom. Bring back Rick Emerson and Clyde Lewis!
I thought women were "independant" these days?