Doesn't just pertain to computers, either. I walked into a ghost town of an Office Depot (or was it an Office Max?) looking for a comfy swivel chair. I found one, but it only existed as a floor model. The sales guy demonstrated his skill at one-sided haggling: while I said nothing, he kept pushing the price down, each offer prefixed with 'I shouldn't be doing this, but'.
Then came his concluding offer, which I suspect was the actual price of the chair minus markup. Unlike the ones before it, this offer had strings attached: instead of the $120 on the tag, pay $80 plus $10 extended warranty, or no deal.
As I said, it's not bulletproof. But simple letter replacement hacks are no match for regular expressions. Indeed, the hardest part of implementing my scheme would be reducing false positives. Otherwise it would really suck to be an Anne Sexton scholar.
This is tragically true. The girl I'm 'seeing' (in a strictly friendly sense...for now?) set up a profile on OKCupid. 15 people petitioned her for sex before I, horror of horrors, wrote a letter asking about her job and lifestyle.
My fix would be this: if a person explicitly indicates he/she does not seek sex, incoming mails would be regex-scanned for keywords like 'sex' and the f-bomb. Admittedly language filters are imperfect by nature, but I sense the pervs ruining it for the sensible male like *ahem* myself would not go to the trouble of inventing clever circumventions.
With my background and friends (not family -- they're sensible enough to support me whatever happens), I am expected to get a graduate degree. Anything less is failure. Yet, I am wholly apathetic about grad school. It's a fraudulent concept for getting ahead, as if the ideas you gain during that time are a guaranteed benefit to your career. Some people gain; I personally see nothing out of it except staying out of the real world so much longer.
College has destroyed my self-confidence, and I expect grad school to do much worse things to me. In high school, I was actively competitive in academics and fought hard for my position. In college, I'm getting Cs in almost every class I take. This is a combination of my own wavering self-confidence and effort and an inability to find something I truly enjoy doing. I jumped from CS to math and back to CS. CS ruined my GPA because I thought it was what I wanted to do and wasn't; math ruined my GPA because I wanted to do it but it was too hard (!); now I'm back at CS not because I 'rediscovered' it, but because I don't have the time or money to find something better.
So, here's how things stand. In a year or two I will have to start investigating grad schools in depth. Because I'm graduating in 2007 in CS, which I take no interest in anymore, I get to continue it in grad school. Am I right in thinking that because this is the major I happened to finish with, this is what I get to work with for the rest of my life?
Furthermore, because of the destruction math and CS did to my GPA (2.8), most undergrad schools that fought to have me four years ago won't even consider my existence anymore. Therefore, because I am indecisive in college, the excellence of my grad school and my place in life will be lower.
I'm sure I'm making quick logical jumps, and that the major you take doesn't necessarily dictate your future, blah blah blah, but it durned well makes an impact on it, no?
Yes, I feel confident about my future. And loved. *sigh* Rant over.
I looked at the results of Game 1 -- game end in 33 moves. 'Awesome,' I said.
But then I plugged the results into ExaChess, and was very confused. The game just...stopped, and just when it was getting interesting. If the computer won through time (and I'm not sure there was a timer at all), Mr Adams must have taken his sweeeeeet time to lose that way in such a short time.
This game makes no sense to me. Neither side had much checkmate pressure (only one check occured), both sides had two rooks, a bishop, and a queen. I've rarely seen such a balanced game. What the heck happened?
This, in my understanding, is nothing new. As in, they existed c. 1991. A This American Life episode featured comic routines on Karaoke machines. The episode in question can be listened to here...go to Act One.
The routines available for play were collecting dust, with jokes so obsolete they were sometimes offensive. This segment is worth a listen just to hear the narrator crash and burn as he kills his routine.
My heart dropped when I experienced my first popup ad in several years with Camino. It was one of the subversive, makes-me-want-to-hate-humanity-more ones: it hides outside the range of the screen, so it tracks your movements while you are blissfully unaware. Luckily I caught its existence with OS X.3's Exposé feature. F2, click on offending window, hit command-W makes short work of it.
There seems to be a vast discrepancy between the price tag as reported by Time Magazine and/. I would recommend the former as a deeper look into the matter anyway.
And as pointed out by other readers, the other half of the highway will be paid for by the supercommercial sector. 'Nuff said.
I quite simply do not trust our governor with our roads (and many, many other things, but that's another/. post...).
The road costs $1.5 billion. How are we to pay for it? It's always the same answer: tolls. Tolls tolls tolls. Hope you didn't plan to use your tax cut, because if you have to use this highway, it will cost you a good amount.
Speaking of tolls, here in Austin we are set up to make three of our most important highways ( == all but one) toll roads. This reason for this is to boost funding for the transportation department and cut traffic. However, this forces traffic onto the only 'free' highway and into residential areas. This is Mr Perry's DoT making this decision, not we. Public petitions are in the works.
Of course there are plenty of farmers/ranchers in a huff. They have as much voice as one Arthur Dent in this matter.
Isn't this what Interstate 35 was designed for? Add lanes if Texas is looking to pump more money/trucks/people from Mexico. Making a highway so big even God couldn't drive it doesn't make Perry look any cooler. The highway may have so many gadgets tied to it that it belongs on ThinkGeek, but they don't need a highway to exist. The fact that the DoT is arranging this pointless marriage scares me.
I guess my point is that the TxDoT is a mess, but it's Rick Perry's mess foremost.
Even though I hear constantly about the UNIX Epoch and I know what it is, I keep forgetting when the thing is. Should I be on the lookout for when I start up and am told that, in fact, I am not welcome to Macintosh?
In the dark of night, they took our Kerry yard sign, and peeled off the Kerry bumper sticker from the Mazda. At least they didn't scratch the finish.
Handy tip to pass on from the campaign headquarters: Cover your sign in Vaseline. Imagine the pleasure in grabbing something sticky and cold in pitch darkness!
'You're not there, you're getting drunk!'
'Okay, but if there are any girls there, I want to do them!'
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I wouldn't vote for him, even if he were the only candidate available on the left. Many of Nader's policies I sincerely oppose (immediate abandonment of Iraq? drug legalisation? not good). The transition to the far left would lose more votes than it would gain by consolidating Kerry/Nader supporters.
Furthermore, what would Nader expect to do once in office? Assuming the Dems didn't pack up and move to Saharan Africa, there will still be the Senate, there will still be the House, there will still be the bureaucracy. Nader by himself would get nothing done. He is just one man, one standard deviation too much away from the mean.
Nader was an outstanding consumer advocate. Making the Corvair look bad, unfortunately, does not prep you for the presidency.
If you are not going to Case Western Reserve: get a girlfriend. They are easy targets when they're alienated from their past lives. If you can't, it's OK -- sophomore year is the best dating year for males.
If you are going to Case Western Reserve: get a box of Kleenex and some porn. That's the only action you'll be seeing, buddy.
Oh, and don't loft your beds. Ouch!
Listen, getting girls into Case Western U is hard enough. Imagine the computer science crowd within it! If you were a guy, you thought ASCII porn was cool. If you were a girl (and there was a girl), you would never hear the end of it from the rest of the class.
Thank god I switched to math. Girls are better at integrating than hashing.
Some months ago I was listening to NPR's Car Talk. The last guy to call in was a scientist at NASA's JPL Labs. His question: how do I winterproof a Mars rover?
You know the Bush administration is taking its toll when NASA's experts are a radio call-in show...
I know Intel means well, but 'Most Unwired Campuses' has a negative ring to it. I'm pleased to see my school Case Western Reserve U on the top 4. The first to notify me of the placement was the school newspaper. After reading the headline that included the word 'Unwired,' I was shocked. How could Intel call my uni low-tech after installing round after round of wireless extensions, with 802.11g being planned for installation this summer. After reading further, I realised my mistake. Still, c'mon Intel, hire a copy editor before mailing out your results.
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Doesn't just pertain to computers, either. I walked into a ghost town of an Office Depot (or was it an Office Max?) looking for a comfy swivel chair. I found one, but it only existed as a floor model. The sales guy demonstrated his skill at one-sided haggling: while I said nothing, he kept pushing the price down, each offer prefixed with 'I shouldn't be doing this, but'.
Then came his concluding offer, which I suspect was the actual price of the chair minus markup. Unlike the ones before it, this offer had strings attached: instead of the $120 on the tag, pay $80 plus $10 extended warranty, or no deal.
Whatever. It's a comfy chair.
As I said, it's not bulletproof. But simple letter replacement hacks are no match for regular expressions. Indeed, the hardest part of implementing my scheme would be reducing false positives. Otherwise it would really suck to be an Anne Sexton scholar.
This is tragically true. The girl I'm 'seeing' (in a strictly friendly sense...for now?) set up a profile on OKCupid. 15 people petitioned her for sex before I, horror of horrors, wrote a letter asking about her job and lifestyle.
My fix would be this: if a person explicitly indicates he/she does not seek sex, incoming mails would be regex-scanned for keywords like 'sex' and the f-bomb. Admittedly language filters are imperfect by nature, but I sense the pervs ruining it for the sensible male like *ahem* myself would not go to the trouble of inventing clever circumventions.
'Hey, baby, wanna stick Tab A into Slot B?'
College has destroyed my self-confidence, and I expect grad school to do much worse things to me. In high school, I was actively competitive in academics and fought hard for my position. In college, I'm getting Cs in almost every class I take. This is a combination of my own wavering self-confidence and effort and an inability to find something I truly enjoy doing. I jumped from CS to math and back to CS. CS ruined my GPA because I thought it was what I wanted to do and wasn't; math ruined my GPA because I wanted to do it but it was too hard (!); now I'm back at CS not because I 'rediscovered' it, but because I don't have the time or money to find something better.
So, here's how things stand. In a year or two I will have to start investigating grad schools in depth. Because I'm graduating in 2007 in CS, which I take no interest in anymore, I get to continue it in grad school. Am I right in thinking that because this is the major I happened to finish with, this is what I get to work with for the rest of my life?
Furthermore, because of the destruction math and CS did to my GPA (2.8), most undergrad schools that fought to have me four years ago won't even consider my existence anymore. Therefore, because I am indecisive in college, the excellence of my grad school and my place in life will be lower.
I'm sure I'm making quick logical jumps, and that the major you take doesn't necessarily dictate your future, blah blah blah, but it durned well makes an impact on it, no?
Yes, I feel confident about my future. And loved. *sigh* Rant over.
Oy, this will be an interesting girl search...
This game makes no sense to me. Neither side had much checkmate pressure (only one check occured), both sides had two rooks, a bishop, and a queen. I've rarely seen such a balanced game. What the heck happened?
Yeah, yeah, now I just realised two people (at least) already brought up TAL. Guess once a story's a couple hours old, it's been analysed to a pulp. :)
The routines available for play were collecting dust, with jokes so obsolete they were sometimes offensive. This segment is worth a listen just to hear the narrator crash and burn as he kills his routine.
Hit 'up arrow' then 'Return' once per repeat command. On the screen, I did this 9 times.
My Total: 9 + 9(2) = 27 keystrokes.
Your Total: 80 keystrokes.
Perl may do your taxes and find a cure for AIDS, but sometimes just the up arrow will do.
...here's a play-by-play recap.
Urge to download...NCSA Mosaic...rising...
...the birthday of the Macintosh! Perhaps I should leave my computer off that day?
There seems to be a vast discrepancy between the price tag as reported by Time Magazine and /. I would recommend the former as a deeper look into the matter anyway.
And as pointed out by other readers, the other half of the highway will be paid for by the supercommercial sector. 'Nuff said.
- The road costs $1.5 billion. How are we to pay for it? It's always the same answer: tolls. Tolls tolls tolls. Hope you didn't plan to use your tax cut, because if you have to use this highway, it will cost you a good amount.
- Speaking of tolls, here in Austin we are set up to make three of our most important highways ( == all but one) toll roads. This reason for this is to boost funding for the transportation department and cut traffic. However, this forces traffic onto the only 'free' highway and into residential areas. This is Mr Perry's DoT making this decision, not we. Public petitions are in the works.
- Of course there are plenty of farmers/ranchers in a huff. They have as much voice as one Arthur Dent in this matter.
- Isn't this what Interstate 35 was designed for? Add lanes if Texas is looking to pump more money/trucks/people from Mexico. Making a highway so big even God couldn't drive it doesn't make Perry look any cooler. The highway may have so many gadgets tied to it that it belongs on ThinkGeek, but they don't need a highway to exist. The fact that the DoT is arranging this pointless marriage scares me.
I guess my point is that the TxDoT is a mess, but it's Rick Perry's mess foremost.(Seriously, though...when is it?)
Handy tip to pass on from the campaign headquarters: Cover your sign in Vaseline. Imagine the pleasure in grabbing something sticky and cold in pitch darkness!
'You're not there, you're getting drunk!'
'Okay, but if there are any girls there, I want to do them!'
Furthermore, what would Nader expect to do once in office? Assuming the Dems didn't pack up and move to Saharan Africa, there will still be the Senate, there will still be the House, there will still be the bureaucracy. Nader by himself would get nothing done. He is just one man, one standard deviation too much away from the mean.
Nader was an outstanding consumer advocate. Making the Corvair look bad, unfortunately, does not prep you for the presidency.
But you knew that.
If you are going to Case Western Reserve: get a box of Kleenex and some porn. That's the only action you'll be seeing, buddy. Oh, and don't loft your beds. Ouch!
Thank god I switched to math. Girls are better at integrating than hashing.
You know the Bush administration is taking its toll when NASA's experts are a radio call-in show...
Are you implying you don't care about Slashdot?
I know Intel means well, but 'Most Unwired Campuses' has a negative ring to it. I'm pleased to see my school Case Western Reserve U on the top 4. The first to notify me of the placement was the school newspaper. After reading the headline that included the word 'Unwired,' I was shocked. How could Intel call my uni low-tech after installing round after round of wireless extensions, with 802.11g being planned for installation this summer. After reading further, I realised my mistake. Still, c'mon Intel, hire a copy editor before mailing out your results.
Did Slashdot make an under-the-table acquisition recently?