Slashdot Mirror


User: princewally

princewally's activity in the archive.

Stories
0
Comments
133
First seen
Last seen
Profile
(view on slashdot.org)

Comments · 133

  1. Re:IT Grunt on Are IT Job Titles Getting Out of Control? · · Score: 1

    I like 'Code Monkey'.

  2. Re:Yes/No/Maybe on Was the 2004 Election Stolen? · · Score: 1

    I missed the extremely poor. Our "impoverished" live better than 90% of the rest of the world.

  3. Re:Ain't no such thing as a free lunch on Pay-As-You-Play MMORPGs? · · Score: 1

    Neverwinter Night can do this. There's a d20 modern setting available on the vault. And it's not pay as you go. It's free after the initial purchase. Bioware has been happily supporting the game for 2.5 years after release, and it's not going away anytime soon. Even if it does, the standalone server is packaged with the game. There are thousands of servers out there. It is missing the first M in MMORPG, but just the first.

  4. Re:Coping with Stress on How Do You Deal w/ User Induced Stress? · · Score: 1

    I prefer WorkOrSpoon.

  5. Re:Safety Equipment? on Can Your Car Get 1,700 MPG? · · Score: 1

    No, it's illegal to sell 3-wheelers. Trikes(3 wheeled motorcycles) are legal. Trikes are more stable than 3-wheelers.

  6. Re:Have you ever thrown a CD? on Homemade CD Shooter? · · Score: 1

    If you have ever tried to throw a CD you know that the discs are extremely understable, and will corkscrew and flop to the ground if you put much effort into the throw.

    Not true. Shortly after high school, I was renting a trailer house. I decided to clean out my cd collection by learning to throw the bad cds. By the time I was down to cds that I liked, I was able to throw the cds from one end of the trailer to the kitchen, 3/4 of the length of the trailer away.

    They shatter into little, tiny pieces that really hurt when they stick into your foot.

  7. Re:Just for you? on Building A Homebrew Robotic Lawnmower? · · Score: 1

    I've got a design for a remote-controlled, programmable lawn mower. I've been slowly collecting the parts I need.

    I was originally planning on building a battlebot, but then decided to go more practical.

    The RC receivers will pass the signal to a laptop, which will record the movements in a database, so it will work on a "memorization" scheme.

  8. Re:Where's MUMPS? on The History of Programming Languages · · Score: 1

    M/MUMPS is still in active use in a lot of places. It's the functional backbone of one of most widely used software systems in the collection industry.

  9. Re:Inter-Norden warfare on More on the Swedish Stealth Ship · · Score: 1

    I don't think I've ever heard a joke that starts "Ole and Lena were in the Navy."

    I guess I can't help with the jokes.

  10. Re:Apology on Mathematician Claims Proof of Riemann Hypothesis · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Yeah, there's no chance I'm going to understand a mathematical proof, so I'm relegated to the realms of the ignorant.

  11. Re:BO? on The Urban Geek As A Mugger Magnet? · · Score: 1

    That wouldn't be the worst way to avoid bodily harm.

  12. Re:Feelings on The Urban Geek As A Mugger Magnet? · · Score: 1

    First, Kill the Nose Ring. That would be the first thing I would yank and I doubt it would feel good.

    It's not that easy to grab. I don't have a 3 inch ring sticking out of my nose. It's pretty small for a bullring.

    Second, grow a little, I'm 6'11" and I'm sure that helps little more than a measly 6'2".

    I'm still bigger than average, which makes an impression. I know I'm not the biggest guy in the world. I happen to be the smallest male adult in my extended family. Big(at least bigger than most muggers), angry and not the least bit nervous tend to make a difference as far as who is going to bother you for an easy buck.

    Third, while I do have a black leather jacket that doesn't do a thing. It's the body underneath the jacket that matters. If you have no muscles the jacket won't help.

    This completely misses my point. While I can generally take care of myself in most situations, I don't have to worry about the situations because I create an impression of being too much work to mug or bother.

  13. Re:Feelings on The Urban Geek As A Mugger Magnet? · · Score: 5, Interesting

    That's not too far off from what I do. It's not jock-style, but it works for me.

    I'm 6'2" tall, I have long black hair, a bullring style nose ring, a scuffed black leather jacket, a motorcycle and a visible knife clipped to my pocket.

    I don't dress like I have money, and if I have to walk through a bad neighborhood, I make sure I look angry. My friends and I can walk past a gang, and they tend to part like the Red Sea.

    I'm the scariest looking sysadmin I've seen in corporate america.

  14. Re:"just do it" on Weight Loss through Dance Dance Revolution? · · Score: 1

    The reason gyms work at all for weight loss is that once someone has paid for something, they feel compelled to use it, which forms a simple but effective motivation.

    I wish this was true. My wife got a gym membership a few years ago. After the first few months, she started going monthly, instead of 2-3 times/week.

    We bought a treadmill, and it got used heavily for a month, then mothballed in a closet.

    The best exercise program that I've found was teaching my 4 year old to ride a bike. Now, every day that it's not raining, I have to go for a vigorous walk so he can ride his bike. We go less than a mile, but it's daily exercise.

    When we started I told him to nag me to take him out every day, no matter what.

  15. Re:Goodbye Comcast... on Comcast Warns Infringing Customers Of Abuse · · Score: 1

    If you want, you can have a jury trial for a speeding ticket.

  16. Re:Celexa on What Happens To Your Data When You Die? · · Score: 1

    Lexapro is the only that's had any effect on my wife. She's been through a long list of drugs, with one success.

  17. Re:FARK IS NOT A WORD on HDD Assault Cannon · · Score: 1

    You spelled it wrong. It's (l)user. The L is always there, but silent. It is also, as a courtesy, generally dropped from written communications, when said communications are directed to the (l)users.

  18. Re:Likewise on Reasonable Salary for Entry Level Programmers? · · Score: 1

    Just out of curiosity, which collection agency? I'm a sysadmin at one of the larger ones in the metro area.

  19. Re:just like the old commercials... on Giving Up Passwords For Chocolate · · Score: 1

    No, it's WWJD for a klondike bar.

  20. Re:The 3 Laws of Robotics? on Ask the Robotic Psychiatrist · · Score: 1

    According to one of the books, the 3 rules are not as simple as the text makes them out to be. There is a complex set of formulas for each of the rules.

  21. Re:Hooray for Zoidberg on Futurama: Can it be True!? · · Score: 1

    No, Futurama was gone for a while before Oliver Beane.

  22. Re:download.com? on Freeware for Windows -- Where Did It Go? · · Score: 1

    I always look on WebAttack. They have changed their name to Snapfiles, but they have a ton of programs.

    The freeware section is big.

  23. Re:sucks / rocks on Microsoft Releases 'Caller-ID For Email' Specs · · Score: 1

    You forgot the relevent search.

    Searched the web for "xml works". Results 1 - 10 of about 4,440.

  24. Re:Broadcasting dead... on Space Burial · · Score: 1

    Donating your body to science generally means that medical students get to practice autopsies on you. It rarely means that your body is used for research.

  25. Re:Mod Parent Up!!! on A Wireless Network for a 4-Story Apt. Building? · · Score: 1

    Minnesota's property values are kind of crazy. We bought our house 4 years ago for about 125k. It's now worth more that twice that.