1. Write SAMBA 2. Distribute it for nothing 3. Watch it become arguably the most important open source app in the world. 4. Ask people to send you pizza vouchers 5. Profit!!!
My brother once dated a girl named "Sky", who had a little sister "Storm". Their brother also had some good-awful hippie name... it may have been "Karma", but I'm not sure.
I also knew a girl called "Rana" after the Indian Goddess (?).. but she got in all sorts of crap when she moved to latinamerica... where her name means "Frog".
Jan is a very common name in those part of europe with 24 hours of daylight during summer (No, I can't spell Scandinavia.) I don't know where you are living but I can't imagine there'd be too many problems in most of the world these days. Maybe that's in part because the Brady Bunch is now gone and (hopefully) forgotten.
And then there's the "story" about a Texan who named his son "Lucy" so he'd grow up to be big and tough.
Give kids names that you like. If we had a world full of "Bruces" you'd have.. well.. Australia.:) But I do agree that you have to think about what a name means in the culture.
My fiancee is Chilean, so we have a lot of Spanish names we are kicking around. The ones I like I'm not going to share with you (its amazing how the neighbour's cat ends up with the name you've chosen for your child), but I've had to veto several names due how they'd be mauled by the Australian habit of dropping all but the last syllable and adding "y" or "o".
If you must, give the kid a more conservative second name, and let it choose when it gets to school age.
The other tip is to pick your own nickname. I've been "Schmuck" since I was ten, and compared to what some kids ended up with, I got off lightly. Note that in Australia this name doesn't carry the insult value that it does in the States.
> The problem with pigeons is that they don't > scale well over large distances. Not only does > packet delivery take much longer for when > distance is increased, but reliability goes way > down, too.
> So while regular wired methods might not work > nearly as quickly over short distances, they're > much better to be used internationally.
All wired methods suffer the same problems with reliabilty as distance increases. That's why you need to install repeaters.
Normally the wire has a male jack, and the repeater a female socket. With pigeons this could introduce excessive delay and introduce long term unexpected artifacts.
When I was a grad-student I was given a task to port some incredibly old Fortran IV code to Fortan 90.
I'm not actually a programmer, so it sucked even worse. In the end I ran away and spent three months backpacking around the US on the grant money. (You see some wierd shit in the Texas Greyhound terminals at 3am).
When I got back I picked up a job putting paper in printers and kicking non-students out of the computer Labs at a different University. Ended up heading their team of 17 staff.. which lasted three months and made me realize that you are better off stuffing paper in printers than dealing with the type of asshole who decides that a University position is a good way to goof off for the last 20 years before retirement.
Of course, being a young good-looking female doesn't hurt, as the members with the most fans are all women whose pictures show them in sexy, alluring poses.
&
The service aims, according to what might be called its bylaws, to foster purely positive and friendly interactions.
Sheesh. Why not just call it "FunHo" and be done with it?
I dont know why my post riled people as much as it did.
If the US economy crashes, it WILL take the rest of the world with it. There is no other single economy today with that power... and arguably with the exception of the EEC... no combination of enconomies.
The US economy is not working under any sustainable economic model. It is held up by fear. Once the fear goes, so will the economy. The person who posted about Nigeria and Mexico.. tho Chile may be a better example as they had a Free Trade Agreement on the table at the moment that the US declared war on Iraq... shows that the cracks are starting to appear.
I am not a yank.. I am an Aussie... so there is no arrogance involved. Just a bit of knowledge on how the world economy works and how important the US dollar is to keeping it all running smoothly.
> U.S. policy prohibiting online gambling violates > its obligations under international trade law.
Sorry, but no matter what the WTO thinks, the US *IS* International Trade Law. The worlds most important economy protected by the worlds biggest guns.
That is not going to change in the short term, as I can't see any politician taking the initiative to truly integrate the US in a Global "Free Trade" economy (and, no, all the Free Trade agreements that the US have signed have been anything but "Free"). There would be an immediate loss of jobs, especially in the Agriculture sector, and an across-the-board downgrading of quality of life.. maybe falling as low as that experienced by Europeans and Australians!
No, IMHO eventually the US economy will collapse and take the rest of the world with it. To all us dotcom bust survivors... well.. you aint seen nothing yet.
Worst thing, chances are is that it will happen in my lifetime.
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> What next? Sexual Enjoyment Tax??
You're not married, are you?
Some of us already pay that.
(You insensitive clod!)
1. Write SAMBA
2. Distribute it for nothing
3. Watch it become arguably the most important open source app in the world.
4. Ask people to send you pizza vouchers
5. Profit!!!
The worst off are the children of hippies.
My brother once dated a girl named "Sky", who had a little sister "Storm". Their brother also had some good-awful hippie name... it may have been "Karma", but I'm not sure.
I also knew a girl called "Rana" after the Indian Goddess (?).. but she got in all sorts of crap when she moved to latinamerica... where her name means "Frog".
Bring on the "insensitive clod" posts.
Jan is a very common name in those part of europe with 24 hours of daylight during summer (No, I can't spell Scandinavia.) I don't know where you are living but I can't imagine there'd be too many problems in most of the world these days. Maybe that's in part because the Brady Bunch is now gone and (hopefully) forgotten.
:) But I do agree that you have to think about what a name means in the culture.
And then there's the "story" about a Texan who named his son "Lucy" so he'd grow up to be big and tough.
Give kids names that you like. If we had a world full of "Bruces" you'd have.. well.. Australia.
My fiancee is Chilean, so we have a lot of Spanish names we are kicking around. The ones I like I'm not going to share with you (its amazing how the neighbour's cat ends up with the name you've chosen for your child), but I've had to veto several names due how they'd be mauled by the Australian habit of dropping all but the last syllable and adding "y" or "o".
If you must, give the kid a more conservative second name, and let it choose when it gets to school age.
The other tip is to pick your own nickname. I've been "Schmuck" since I was ten, and compared to what some kids ended up with, I got off lightly. Note that in Australia this name doesn't carry the insult value that it does in the States.
But serisously f0lks:
There was a US couple who decided to version number their children. I'm suprised that his wife actually agreed to it.
> The problem with pigeons is that they don't
> scale well over large distances. Not only does
> packet delivery take much longer for when
> distance is increased, but reliability goes way
> down, too.
> So while regular wired methods might not work
> nearly as quickly over short distances, they're
> much better to be used internationally.
All wired methods suffer the same problems with reliabilty as distance increases. That's why you need to install repeaters.
Normally the wire has a male jack, and the repeater a female socket. With pigeons this could introduce excessive delay and introduce long term unexpected artifacts.
> Do you mean a TCP pigeon or a UDP pigeon?
I'm inclined to say that its UDP as there was no three-way handshake to establish the connection and no acknowledgement packets sent by the receiver.
Having said that, Pigeons are OSI layer 1, so you can't lay the blame on them.
> It's been April Fools' Day in Adelaide for
> almost 10 1/2 hours.
The biggest April fools joe if you live in Adelaide, is that you live in Adelaide.
Just don't boil me in acid and hide me in your drywall.
(Non-Australians probably won't get this).
> There is plenty of open space outside of Boston True... but most of its water... or once was.
When I was a grad-student I was given a task to port some incredibly old Fortran IV code to Fortan 90.
I'm not actually a programmer, so it sucked even worse. In the end I ran away and spent three months backpacking around the US on the grant money. (You see some wierd shit in the Texas Greyhound terminals at 3am).
When I got back I picked up a job putting paper in printers and kicking non-students out of the computer Labs at a different University. Ended up heading their team of 17 staff.. which lasted three months and made me realize that you are better off stuffing paper in printers than dealing with the type of asshole who decides that a University position is a good way to goof off for the last 20 years before retirement.
> I don't know anyone who would like working on a
> production line
Quality Assurance in a Twinky factory?
> If you come up to me and say "My, what a nice
> pair of shoes you're wearing!"
> I'll think:
> You want something
Spot on.
Give me your shoes.
And throw in your iPod while your at it.
ohh ohhh a quotation contest!
- WormholeFiend, 31/3/2004, Slashdot.
> marrie toi a une americaine
I thought you were trying to make this guy feel better?
What's he going to do, chance his place of birth to "Freedom"?
Of course, being a young good-looking female doesn't hurt, as the members with the most fans are all women whose pictures show them in sexy, alluring poses.
&
The service aims, according to what might be called its bylaws, to foster purely positive and friendly interactions.
Sheesh. Why not just call it "FunHo" and be done with it?
Why don't people give the money to the starving in Africa or use it to find a cure for cancer?
> Take a look at this picture and the cat.
I was most disappointed to follow the link and discover that this guy hadn't actually managed to cram a working PC into a cat.
Trust me, you really really _DO_ want to see the Brazillian version of Temptation Island.
Rocks my world.
Obviously you'd be more likely to trust an operating system written by this man than an OS from this one.
Wow.
.. tho Chile may be a better example as they had a Free Trade Agreement on the table at the moment that the US declared war on Iraq... shows that the cracks are starting to appear.
I dont know why my post riled people as much as it did.
If the US economy crashes, it WILL take the rest of the world with it. There is no other single economy today with that power... and arguably with the exception of the EEC... no combination of enconomies.
The US economy is not working under any sustainable economic model. It is held up by fear. Once the fear goes, so will the economy. The person who posted about Nigeria and Mexico
I am not a yank.. I am an Aussie... so there is no arrogance involved. Just a bit of knowledge on how the world economy works and how important the US dollar is to keeping it all running smoothly.
> U.S. policy prohibiting online gambling violates
> its obligations under international trade law.
Sorry, but no matter what the WTO thinks, the US *IS* International Trade Law. The worlds most important economy protected by the worlds biggest guns.
That is not going to change in the short term, as I can't see any politician taking the initiative to truly integrate the US in a Global "Free Trade" economy (and, no, all the Free Trade agreements that the US have signed have been anything but "Free"). There would be an immediate loss of jobs, especially in the Agriculture sector, and an across-the-board downgrading of quality of life.. maybe falling as low as that experienced by Europeans and Australians!
No, IMHO eventually the US economy will collapse and take the rest of the world with it. To all us dotcom bust survivors... well.. you aint seen nothing yet.
Worst thing, chances are is that it will happen in my lifetime.
> That's like downloading Britney's "Toxic" from iTunes
> then coming to your senses and trying to get your money back.
Obviously, that's why you should only download Britney's "Toxic" from Kaaza.
Just kidding.
You don't load this page for the article.
> Well, it would be newsworthy if it were a
> pre-alpha release of Duke Nukem Forever
Acutally, it is a pre-alpha release of Duke Nukem Forever, but Taco hasn't finished downloading yet.
> There's only so many buttons you can put on a
> controller
You just aint trying hard enough.