Hey....seems like my post hit a nerve with a bunch of people.
You guys do realize I was just screwing around making a half ass attempt at a joke.
Oh well, take it to seriously.
I have two methods for dealing with punks like this who feel the world needs to hear the Top 5 rap songs as dictated to them by MTV every waking minute.
Method 1: Generally, these punks simply get some subs and park them in the trunk and call it a system. Overall their system sounds like shit. I have a system. I don't blast it in city driving but when I hit the country I'm all about it. It's set up for rock (good subs, good highs, good mids and several amps) and so the entire system is good and extremely loud. Give them a dose of their own. Roll down your windows, crank up some Metal, and watch them roll their windows up.
Although this method is childish, it's quite funny to watch them cringe when they hear something that isn't about slapping bitches and hos and rollin', holla'in', or whatever the hell these suburbanite white kids are into these days.....
Method 2: I just graduated from Purdue in CS and haven't found a "real" job yet so I'm doing the whole pizza delivery thing until something comes up (Hell, it pays damn good and I wouldn't mind making $150/night in tips alone next semester if I don't find something by then). Anyway, I know the speed traps extremely well. There are just certain places that the police set up shop. There is one coming into Campus right by the football stadium that is the first real shot they have at getting you. It's residential before that and they have nowhere to really set up shop. SOOOOO, when I get some jackass that pisses me off either by tailgating, or bumping their tunes, which seems to occur hand in hand I do this.....
I star slowing down and they try to pass, but I won't let them pass. I'll keep changing lanes to keep them behind me. I will finally let them by me right as we approach the well known speed trap. They will, in a show of ultimate badassness, floor it and blaze by me at about 50-60 or more in a 35 zone. I call it "asshole fishing." Right now I'm two for about 20 tries, as in two people nailed for about 20 or so attempts at this.
Anyway, that's how I deal with it.....Gives me more satisfaction than wasting my time trying to jam their CD player with an FM signal.....
When you have to start suing over stuff like this is goes to show how little faith they have in their product. I mean, come on, windows is far superior to anything ever created. It is the eighth wonder of the world. Remember that study that proves microsoft is better than linux.
Really though, suing over this and that is really starting to make them look pretty bad. My dad has always been a windows kind of guy but recently he's been telling me he'll have me build him a linux box soon cause he's tired of watching the way Microsoft (and mSCO) is handling the reality that they may have to compete. They're not trying to compete. They're trying to litigate.
I could be wrong though, I am biased (very biased). I think this is the final straw for me though. No more windows help for anybody, not even my mom. She can switch or deal with the shit she puts herself in.
I've always wondered where they come up w/ these numbers. It seems most any virus or worm costs businesses billions of dollars.
I think it's similar to the way that the music and software industry calculates losses due to piracy. If someone downloads a program that they wouldn't have bought anyway then the software industry can say they lost the MSRP of that item.
I wonder if with virus if they have figured out a certain cost per cpu cycle of their system and then figure out how many times the virus is found and then mulitply figure out the total cpu cycles used times cost per cycle.
Now there is the scenario where your network gets ravaged by the virus but that doesn't happen too often in my experience. At work we have 6 computers hooked up to the net and the bossman doesnt' recall any infections. I guess it helps that we're all computer types. Maybe there are people dumb enough to open up "make_your_penis_longer.exe"
I don't know. Perhaps they should start issuing licenses to access the net.
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Unfortunately that's not always true..... I've tried to "help" several people who compain about IE crashing, popups, etc, by telling them to use Firebird. It's amazing but I usually hear "I tried it and it worked fine but I don't like it, how can I fix IE."
You can lead a fool to Firebird but you can't make them browse or something.
I'm need this virus...I have an old windows box I was gonna reformat anyhow, so I might as well let this virus set up shop on if for a while.
Now Darl has something else to whine about......
To stop using open source programs. We already know that some North Korean built a supercomputer using a linux cluster. If that wasn't bad enough the "Cluster of Evil" can now serve up files to the world. We're Doooooomed.
I suppose there probably aren't any huge advantages to having variables be case sensitive. It does lead to mistakes.
However, I would assume it does make compilation slightly faster as it wouldn't have to figure out that "var1" and "vAr2 are the same variable.
I really doubt very few would ever do something like have variable aa and AA because that would just be bad programming.
However, there are coding conventions (they vary from place to place) that generally take care of the problem of case sensitivity. Globals in all CAPS, variables of the form wordWordWord like tempMemPointer or whatnot.
Following a convention will help because then you won't have to even think about whether or not a local variable is of the WORDWORD or wordWord.
For those caught violating the law by trying to sell stuff to enlarge my p3n.i/s (My p3n.i/s is big enough, why won't they help me w/ my penis), the punishment should be as follows:
Step 1: Figure out the total increase in length from all the emails they sent. (Will be a big number)
Step 2: Divide that number by the number of individuals arrested.
Step 3: Using some sort of medieval torture tool, increase their penis size by the result of step 2.
The problem is that each person is responsible for, say, 30000 miles of penis extension. I'm guessing they'll probably only cover a fraction of their debt to society. To cover the remainder go to work on their friends (do spammers have friends?) and family.
I still need to figure out a just solution for Mortgage, get out of debt, and viagra spammers....ahem...I mean moR-tgua//ge, ge tout of d?3bt, and v|a.gr~a spammers.
I used to look at this sort of thing and be glad MS was changing or doing something right for a change. But lately I can't help but but enjoy when Microsoft screws people. The reason is that there are so many people I know of who claim MS sucks and whatnot. Yet these same people are unwilling to try the alternatives. I hope there are more worms that attack windows. I hope people have to call Microsoft and wait on hold for 2 hours to activate a product they purchased legally. I'm glad MS removed support for win 98. The only way to get through to people is to hit them. So rather than try to stop MS from doing it I'll stand in the corner and laugh.
I guess I'm beginning to believe that legal intervention won't change things. The only way for things to change is to let people get screwed by MS enough times (30-40 roughly) then they may begin to start to see some of the problems so many/.ers have with MS.
Then they'll either try a new OS or they'll keep bitching and just keep on taking it. (In my experience people tend to do the later)
People will get what they deserve.....maybe that's a bad way to look at it but oh well....I'm tired of waiting on hold to explain why I have to reinstall my wintendo again.
My problem is that I'm really wanting to increase my penis size 42 inches in 3 days but I only get offers to incr.eaz mii p3N>?is. My p3N>?is is fine. It's my penis I'm worried about.
Sorry to say it, but I have the patent on turning a pumpkin into tux. Ok, enough of my daily ranting about patents.
That is a mighty fine jack-o-lantern though....
All of these damn lawsuits are really getting old. Seems to me that pretty soon you won't even be able to talk badly about anything. "if you don't have anything nice to say, don't say it at all" will be enforced in the courts. What a joke. Nevermind the fact these morons are considering suing themselves more or less.
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When I read this that was the first thing I thought of.
Hey....seems like my post hit a nerve with a bunch of people. You guys do realize I was just screwing around making a half ass attempt at a joke. Oh well, take it to seriously.
Meanwhile, chances are that you're composing this from windows XP. What's that all about????
"It's a clever system. Except -- duh -- there's no graphical front-end to it, forcing users to use a text-only, command-line interface."
Oh God NO!!!! Anything but the command line. I need pretty pictures and maybe a dancing paper clip thingy. It's too much to remember a few commands.
Makes me wonder if this same guy went insane when using Dos.
Anything that keeps me from spending 1 evening per week removing crap from my "New Dad's" a.k.a step dad's pc is good news to me!!!!!
I have two methods for dealing with punks like this who feel the world needs to hear the Top 5 rap songs as dictated to them by MTV every waking minute.
Method 1: Generally, these punks simply get some subs and park them in the trunk and call it a system. Overall their system sounds like shit. I have a system. I don't blast it in city driving but when I hit the country I'm all about it. It's set up for rock (good subs, good highs, good mids and several amps) and so the entire system is good and extremely loud. Give them a dose of their own. Roll down your windows, crank up some Metal, and watch them roll their windows up.
Although this method is childish, it's quite funny to watch them cringe when they hear something that isn't about slapping bitches and hos and rollin', holla'in', or whatever the hell these suburbanite white kids are into these days.....
Method 2: I just graduated from Purdue in CS and haven't found a "real" job yet so I'm doing the whole pizza delivery thing until something comes up (Hell, it pays damn good and I wouldn't mind making $150/night in tips alone next semester if I don't find something by then). Anyway, I know the speed traps extremely well. There are just certain places that the police set up shop. There is one coming into Campus right by the football stadium that is the first real shot they have at getting you. It's residential before that and they have nowhere to really set up shop. SOOOOO, when I get some jackass that pisses me off either by tailgating, or bumping their tunes, which seems to occur hand in hand I do this.....
I star slowing down and they try to pass, but I won't let them pass. I'll keep changing lanes to keep them behind me. I will finally let them by me right as we approach the well known speed trap. They will, in a show of ultimate badassness, floor it and blaze by me at about 50-60 or more in a 35 zone. I call it "asshole fishing." Right now I'm two for about 20 tries, as in two people nailed for about 20 or so attempts at this.
Anyway, that's how I deal with it.....Gives me more satisfaction than wasting my time trying to jam their CD player with an FM signal.....
Sorry Prof, the dog ate my Disc.....
Does that mean that in the future my pc will shed a tear when I rip it from limb to limb during an upgrade.....?
When you have to start suing over stuff like this is goes to show how little faith they have in their product. I mean, come on, windows is far superior to anything ever created. It is the eighth wonder of the world. Remember that study that proves microsoft is better than linux. Really though, suing over this and that is really starting to make them look pretty bad. My dad has always been a windows kind of guy but recently he's been telling me he'll have me build him a linux box soon cause he's tired of watching the way Microsoft (and mSCO) is handling the reality that they may have to compete. They're not trying to compete. They're trying to litigate. I could be wrong though, I am biased (very biased). I think this is the final straw for me though. No more windows help for anybody, not even my mom. She can switch or deal with the shit she puts herself in.
I've always wondered where they come up w/ these numbers. It seems most any virus or worm costs businesses billions of dollars. I think it's similar to the way that the music and software industry calculates losses due to piracy. If someone downloads a program that they wouldn't have bought anyway then the software industry can say they lost the MSRP of that item. I wonder if with virus if they have figured out a certain cost per cpu cycle of their system and then figure out how many times the virus is found and then mulitply figure out the total cpu cycles used times cost per cycle. Now there is the scenario where your network gets ravaged by the virus but that doesn't happen too often in my experience. At work we have 6 computers hooked up to the net and the bossman doesnt' recall any infections. I guess it helps that we're all computer types. Maybe there are people dumb enough to open up "make_your_penis_longer.exe" I don't know. Perhaps they should start issuing licenses to access the net.
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Brings a tear to my eye.....
Unfortunately that's not always true.....
I've tried to "help" several people who compain about IE crashing, popups, etc, by telling them to use Firebird. It's amazing but I usually hear "I tried it and it worked fine but I don't like it, how can I fix IE."
You can lead a fool to Firebird but you can't make them browse or something.
I'm need this virus...I have an old windows box I was gonna reformat anyhow, so I might as well let this virus set up shop on if for a while. Now Darl has something else to whine about......
To stop using open source programs. We already know that some North Korean built a supercomputer using a linux cluster. If that wasn't bad enough the "Cluster of Evil" can now serve up files to the world. We're Doooooomed.
I suppose there probably aren't any huge advantages to having variables be case sensitive. It does lead to mistakes. However, I would assume it does make compilation slightly faster as it wouldn't have to figure out that "var1" and "vAr2 are the same variable. I really doubt very few would ever do something like have variable aa and AA because that would just be bad programming. However, there are coding conventions (they vary from place to place) that generally take care of the problem of case sensitivity. Globals in all CAPS, variables of the form wordWordWord like tempMemPointer or whatnot. Following a convention will help because then you won't have to even think about whether or not a local variable is of the WORDWORD or wordWord.
For those caught violating the law by trying to sell stuff to enlarge my p3n.i/s (My p3n.i/s is big enough, why won't they help me w/ my penis), the punishment should be as follows: Step 1: Figure out the total increase in length from all the emails they sent. (Will be a big number) Step 2: Divide that number by the number of individuals arrested. Step 3: Using some sort of medieval torture tool, increase their penis size by the result of step 2. The problem is that each person is responsible for, say, 30000 miles of penis extension. I'm guessing they'll probably only cover a fraction of their debt to society. To cover the remainder go to work on their friends (do spammers have friends?) and family. I still need to figure out a just solution for Mortgage, get out of debt, and viagra spammers....ahem...I mean moR-tgua//ge, ge tout of d?3bt, and v|a.gr~a spammers.
I used to look at this sort of thing and be glad MS was changing or doing something right for a change. But lately I can't help but but enjoy when Microsoft screws people. The reason is that there are so many people I know of who claim MS sucks and whatnot. Yet these same people are unwilling to try the alternatives. I hope there are more worms that attack windows. I hope people have to call Microsoft and wait on hold for 2 hours to activate a product they purchased legally. I'm glad MS removed support for win 98. The only way to get through to people is to hit them. So rather than try to stop MS from doing it I'll stand in the corner and laugh. I guess I'm beginning to believe that legal intervention won't change things. The only way for things to change is to let people get screwed by MS enough times (30-40 roughly) then they may begin to start to see some of the problems so many /.ers have with MS.
Then they'll either try a new OS or they'll keep bitching and just keep on taking it. (In my experience people tend to do the later)
People will get what they deserve.....maybe that's a bad way to look at it but oh well....I'm tired of waiting on hold to explain why I have to reinstall my wintendo again.
My problem is that I'm really wanting to increase my penis size 42 inches in 3 days but I only get offers to incr.eaz mii p3N>?is. My p3N>?is is fine. It's my penis I'm worried about.
Sorry to say it, but I have the patent on turning a pumpkin into tux. Ok, enough of my daily ranting about patents. That is a mighty fine jack-o-lantern though....
All of these damn lawsuits are really getting old. Seems to me that pretty soon you won't even be able to talk badly about anything. "if you don't have anything nice to say, don't say it at all" will be enforced in the courts. What a joke. Nevermind the fact these morons are considering suing themselves more or less.
Is it too late to patent the idea of stealing GPL'd code?