Sometimes I feel like I'm the only geek in the world that doesn't play computer games. Sure, I played some of the classic arcade games back before most of you were born, but other than that, I don't give a hoot about Zelda or MooshiMan or Carbon Based Warrior or whatever games you kids play these days.
That's not to say I don't goof off, but I'm more likely to do so by fiddling with some unimportant program that I don't need to be writing.
Are there any other./er's out there who are also bored with their fellow geeks' yacking about computer games?
Whenever someone asks me to pick a number from 1 to 10, I always answer "pi". It always produces a moment of confusion, more so if the asker doesn't know what pi is.
That happened to a friend of mine. A group of four kids picked on him every day after school, including of stealing his stuff, ripping off his clothes, and bloodying his nose. So over the summer he took karate. It turned out he was something of a prodigy at it, and got his black belt that same summer.
The first day back at school the same group of kids waited for him on the walk home. He told them that he had taken karate and that if they didn't leave him alone he was ready to fight back. They laughed, attacked, and got the shit kicked out of them.
I'm not a gamer, so educate me. Why does the server need to send 4,032 death messages for 64 players? Does each player die 63 times when the slug goes through him?
Just the other day I was told I couldn't put "minimize entropy" as my job description where I work. Now look what's happening. I'm going to take this article to my boss and say "I told you so!"
I stared at that picture for five minutes and still can't figure out what the deal is. As far as I can tell, she has really large breasts, really short arms (well, arm) and no head. But she's qualified to operate the machinery. Hey, good for her! That's a real accomplishment!
I happen to know a lot of people in the IT departments at Va Tech, where they use Banner. I can tell you that Banner is HATED there. A recurring comment is that the people who made Banner must consider compilation a proof of success. Worse, I've heard it said repeatedly that Banner is the worst spent money many of them have ever seen... and that's saying a lot at a state institution.
SEC generally frowns on insider sales during this time period.
Is it illegal to buy short on a stock that you know is going to be hurt by your own upcoming announcement?
For example, if I own a company that can produce top quality CPU's at a fraction of the price of Intel's, would it be illegal to buy short options on Intel just before announcing my company's capabilities? (Assuming, of course, that I think my announcement will make a hooey of a difference to Intel stock.)
The dude certainly has some neat ideas. His theory sounds plausible to the casual observer (i.e. me).
Unforunately, he's confusing hypothesis with evidence. He's given some good anecdotal evidence that it could have been done that way, but no evidence that it was done that way. Produce some tangible evidence and he may be on to something.
My greatest challenge is simply knowing what to do right now. Incredible as it may seem, I can spend hours going through the cycle of forgetting what I'm doing, working to remember, then forgetting again.
Here's a technique that helps me immensely: I keep a small slip of paper and a pen in front of me. I write down the one thing I am supposed to be working on and keep it in front of me. It can be even a very small task like "open project file" which only takes a few seconds. If I keep writing down the next step, then doing it, after a few minutes I "get into the groove" and proceed on automatic pilot without the help of the paper aid.
bamboo is much more environmentally friendly than metals while being extraordinarily plentiful
This sounds great to me, but man I hope that bamboo doesn't work its way into my garden. Has anybody here ever tried to weed bamboo out of a garden?
My mom planted bamboo once, and then, a few years later in the course of reorganizing her garden, asked me to dig it out. Ugh! That stuff is worse than an Outlook virus! It sends out needle sharpd shooters in all directions. If you see a single stalk poking out of the ground, it might have sent out shooters ten feet all around it. The only way I was able to finally dig it all out was to wait until after a heavy rain and basically just turn the "garden" into a mud soup pulling it out.
I wonder how it would do in a crash test.
-SKPhoton
Ah, there's the rub. Crash tests. This car hasn't been subjected to the kind of testing that major vehicle production lines have been. We can wonder and ponder and argue until we're blue in the face, but until the vehicle (or rather, many of them) has been subjected to independent, scientific crash tests, we just don't know.
To me, that "we just don't know" thing means we should assume it's not safe.
I just sent the technical paper to Congress Rick "One of the Few With a Clue" Boucher. Here's my email:
Dear Rep. Boucher:
I'm sending you the attached paper concerning serious flaws in an electronic voting system that is becoming increasingly popular in our country. I'm very concerned that if this system becomes widely used, we will have even worse voting problems than we had in Florida a few years ago.
From time to time you and I have discussed the value of open source software vs. closed source software. The issue of electronic voting could not underscore the difference more. It appears that Diebold has allowed itself to fall prey to the worst problems of closed-source software, and we may all pay the price for it.
Please look over the attached document and bring it the attention of your colleagues. I know that we were all ashamed by the situation in Florida in 2000 and we do not want to see it made even worse.
... is being sued by Johannes Gutenberg for copyright violations. It seems that, through intense lobbying, the Gutenberg Bible is still under copyright.
In a related story, God is suing Johannes Gutenberg...
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That's not to say I don't goof off, but I'm more likely to do so by fiddling with some unimportant program that I don't need to be writing.
Are there any other ./er's out there who are also bored with their fellow geeks' yacking about computer games?
Whenever someone asks me to pick a number from 1 to 10, I always answer "pi". It always produces a moment of confusion, more so if the asker doesn't know what pi is.
That's what it's all about.
The first day back at school the same group of kids waited for him on the walk home. He told them that he had taken karate and that if they didn't leave him alone he was ready to fight back. They laughed, attacked, and got the shit kicked out of them.
Naturally, their parents had my friend arrested.
I didn't realize I'd get 7 replies on it. Hmm, just 56 replies to go and we've got 63 replies. :-)
I'm not a gamer, so educate me. Why does the server need to send 4,032 death messages for 64 players? Does each player die 63 times when the slug goes through him?
Hey, that sounds like my business plan from my dot.com days!
I want to be the first hacker to have a server powered by one of these things. Then I can have a great web button: "Powered by Poop".
Just the other day I was told I couldn't put "minimize entropy" as my job description where I work. Now look what's happening. I'm going to take this article to my boss and say "I told you so!"
I stared at that picture for five minutes and still can't figure out what the deal is. As far as I can tell, she has really large breasts, really short arms (well, arm) and no head. But she's qualified to operate the machinery. Hey, good for her! That's a real accomplishment!
Is that like soap on a rope?
I suspect that "blowing shit up" is another one of those big issues.
... shouldn't it be called "Open Source Real Soon Now"?
I happen to know a lot of people in the IT departments at Va Tech, where they use Banner. I can tell you that Banner is HATED there. A recurring comment is that the people who made Banner must consider compilation a proof of success. Worse, I've heard it said repeatedly that Banner is the worst spent money many of them have ever seen... and that's saying a lot at a state institution.
Is it illegal to buy short on a stock that you know is going to be hurt by your own upcoming announcement?
For example, if I own a company that can produce top quality CPU's at a fraction of the price of Intel's, would it be illegal to buy short options on Intel just before announcing my company's capabilities? (Assuming, of course, that I think my announcement will make a hooey of a difference to Intel stock.)
The government is finally authorized to buy a free product.
Unforunately, he's confusing hypothesis with evidence. He's given some good anecdotal evidence that it could have been done that way, but no evidence that it was done that way. Produce some tangible evidence and he may be on to something.
Here's a technique that helps me immensely: I keep a small slip of paper and a pen in front of me. I write down the one thing I am supposed to be working on and keep it in front of me. It can be even a very small task like "open project file" which only takes a few seconds. If I keep writing down the next step, then doing it, after a few minutes I "get into the groove" and proceed on automatic pilot without the help of the paper aid.
The only one I've seen had the entire vehicle flying up in the air. Bumper height just didn't seem like an issue.
This sounds great to me, but man I hope that bamboo doesn't work its way into my garden. Has anybody here ever tried to weed bamboo out of a garden?
My mom planted bamboo once, and then, a few years later in the course of reorganizing her garden, asked me to dig it out. Ugh! That stuff is worse than an Outlook virus! It sends out needle sharpd shooters in all directions. If you see a single stalk poking out of the ground, it might have sent out shooters ten feet all around it. The only way I was able to finally dig it all out was to wait until after a heavy rain and basically just turn the "garden" into a mud soup pulling it out.
-SKPhoton
Ah, there's the rub. Crash tests. This car hasn't been subjected to the kind of testing that major vehicle production lines have been. We can wonder and ponder and argue until we're blue in the face, but until the vehicle (or rather, many of them) has been subjected to independent, scientific crash tests, we just don't know.
To me, that "we just don't know" thing means we should assume it's not safe.
Uh, a long random string?
In a related story, God is suing Johannes Gutenberg ...
The mother of all motherboards?
Well sheesh, somebody had to say it.