The only people at all I saw at episodes 1 and 2 were 20-somethings (including myself and friends). The olds all stayed home to watch it later.
-Jesse
Why are hackers thought of as overweight?
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Gaming Hacks
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I've never thought of hackers as overweight, whenever I think stereotypical "hacker" I think a skinny geek who's slightly stained white t-shirt hangs off his bony frame.
Right. It's too bad that instead of just keeping to "Please don't copy this music to other folks, thanks" they tack on the "also, pay us more if you want this in other formats, mwahahaha" bit.
1) The next upgrade will require a 3,000 horsepower engine just to move its massive bulk around, and it will get 2 mpg, but still move just as fast as any other car on the road.
2) You will only be able to drive on MS-licensed roads, any private ways will be strictly DRMed off limits. A license for a road will cost a prohibitive amount of money, so only the giant corporations and governments with roads will be able to afford it.
3) Drivers will appear to have more security, having locks on the passenger doors, but the hood and trunk will still be accessable to anybody that happens by.
I hope people die for relying on something as unreliable as e-mail for something important for living, especially someone who relies on an unreliable cellphone connection to receive said unreliable e-mail. E-mail from AOL is neither guaranteed to be delivered nor guaranteed to not be filtered 100% correctly, so people suing are going to be sorely disappointed and hopefully pointed at and laughed at.
AOL probably didn't even have anything specifically to do with blocking those e-mails; it's probably just whatever spam-blocking software/hardware they use. Heuristic spam blocking is a bad idea.
That e-mail shouldn't be relied upon for mission-critical anything. These people wouldn't receive the weather emergencies if they weren't at their computer anyway, so it's not something that should be relied upon for immediate communication.
It also goes to show that heuristic and other such spam filters are a really terrible idea. I've had more problems than not with spam filters, so I just keep them shut off on my public accounts nowadays.
It was fun watching it streak up the east coast. I saw it clear as day from Massachusetts, watched one of the stages separate and fall away, and watched the main part of the rocket eject extra unburnt fuel.
In school,
I worked on a functional small-scale phased array antenna for the LOFAR project. It was sized to work around 900 MHz, and we could track a portable landline phone with it. We only used the parallel port to transfer the info from the antenna to the PC, and it was just a commodity PC, but it worked, and it was neat. We used seven individual antennas.
-Jesse
Re:So how does the competition get it so wrong?
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John Dvorak Hypes Skype
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Oh, I've never actually heard Skype said out loud, or said it out loud myself, but I always pronounce it in my head as "sky pee". I don't know what about it doesn't look like other words like tripe (which I definitely say correctly, not tri-pee, the other way, like trip with a long I).
It specifically says in the Acid2 test description that they throw in dubious code that the browser should ignore (it shouldn't render garbage), so the acid test does indeed include nonstandard CSS.
I care because I like to support who I see as "the good guy" (or at least the better guy) by using their software. IMO, open-source is just a better idea, and helping it become popular is a good thing.
Aah I see the problem. I was thinking "fault" in terms of the open-source programmers getting in trouble if NASA used some of their code and the spaceship went *boom*. Of course NASA are the ones that are responsible, I thought the original post was asking about the coders being responsible.
Uh... Driving with headlights on statistically decreases your chance of a head-on collision by 13%, and it doesn't make it difficult for anybody to see who's behind me at all... Why would you think that?
I know that having them at 2 and 10 saved me because I was able to swerve immediately, instead of having to whip my hands about the wheel.
He may be paranoid, but his methodology is sound. Always be prepared is a good motto to follow. People think it's weird that I always drive with both my hands on 2 and 10 (I don't have airbags), but it's saved me once, and once is enough. I also drive with my headlights on.
Basically, preparing for the worst is a good thing to do, because when it comes, you won't have to scramble to deal with it.
But the problem is there's no engineering department per se with open-source. It's just a collection of people, some of which may be engineers, with no contracts.
I'm not a Philosopher or an English writing analyst, but I feel the same way as what you're describing. It's not just a light read, it's a lot more, even though if you read it lightly, it's very good also.
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The only people at all I saw at episodes 1 and 2 were 20-somethings (including myself and friends). The olds all stayed home to watch it later.
-Jesse
I've never thought of hackers as overweight, whenever I think stereotypical "hacker" I think a skinny geek who's slightly stained white t-shirt hangs off his bony frame.
Anybody else feel the same way about that?
-Jesse
Right. It's too bad that instead of just keeping to "Please don't copy this music to other folks, thanks" they tack on the "also, pay us more if you want this in other formats, mwahahaha" bit.
-Jesse
1) The next upgrade will require a 3,000 horsepower engine just to move its massive bulk around, and it will get 2 mpg, but still move just as fast as any other car on the road.
2) You will only be able to drive on MS-licensed roads, any private ways will be strictly DRMed off limits. A license for a road will cost a prohibitive amount of money, so only the giant corporations and governments with roads will be able to afford it.
3) Drivers will appear to have more security, having locks on the passenger doors, but the hood and trunk will still be accessable to anybody that happens by.
thank you, I'll be here all night.
-Jesse
I hope people die for relying on something as unreliable as e-mail for something important for living, especially someone who relies on an unreliable cellphone connection to receive said unreliable e-mail. E-mail from AOL is neither guaranteed to be delivered nor guaranteed to not be filtered 100% correctly, so people suing are going to be sorely disappointed and hopefully pointed at and laughed at.
AOL probably didn't even have anything specifically to do with blocking those e-mails; it's probably just whatever spam-blocking software/hardware they use. Heuristic spam blocking is a bad idea.
-Jesse
That e-mail shouldn't be relied upon for mission-critical anything . These people wouldn't receive the weather emergencies if they weren't at their computer anyway, so it's not something that should be relied upon for immediate communication.
It also goes to show that heuristic and other such spam filters are a really terrible idea. I've had more problems than not with spam filters, so I just keep them shut off on my public accounts nowadays.
-Jesse
It was fun watching it streak up the east coast. I saw it clear as day from Massachusetts, watched one of the stages separate and fall away, and watched the main part of the rocket eject extra unburnt fuel.
-Jesse
In school,
I worked on a functional small-scale phased array antenna for the LOFAR project. It was sized to work around 900 MHz, and we could track a portable landline phone with it. We only used the parallel port to transfer the info from the antenna to the PC, and it was just a commodity PC, but it worked, and it was neat. We used seven individual antennas.
-Jesse
Oh, I've never actually heard Skype said out loud, or said it out loud myself, but I always pronounce it in my head as "sky pee". I don't know what about it doesn't look like other words like tripe (which I definitely say correctly, not tri-pee, the other way, like trip with a long I).
-Jesse
Aah, brings back memories of the C-64 days.
-Jesse
It specifically says in the Acid2 test description that they throw in dubious code that the browser should ignore (it shouldn't render garbage), so the acid test does indeed include nonstandard CSS.
-Jesse
Oh god it sucks so much. I have to use it at work, and I want to stab myself in the eye with a tree branch.
-Jesse
I already saw it, too late for you.
-Jesse
I care because I like to support who I see as "the good guy" (or at least the better guy) by using their software. IMO, open-source is just a better idea, and helping it become popular is a good thing.
Also, it's usually free.
-Jesse
Aah I see the problem. I was thinking "fault" in terms of the open-source programmers getting in trouble if NASA used some of their code and the spaceship went *boom*. Of course NASA are the ones that are responsible, I thought the original post was asking about the coders being responsible.
-Jesse
Uh... Driving with headlights on statistically decreases your chance of a head-on collision by 13%, and it doesn't make it difficult for anybody to see who's behind me at all... Why would you think that?
I know that having them at 2 and 10 saved me because I was able to swerve immediately, instead of having to whip my hands about the wheel.
-Jesse
He may be paranoid, but his methodology is sound. Always be prepared is a good motto to follow. People think it's weird that I always drive with both my hands on 2 and 10 (I don't have airbags), but it's saved me once, and once is enough. I also drive with my headlights on.
Basically, preparing for the worst is a good thing to do, because when it comes, you won't have to scramble to deal with it.
-Jesse
Can you describe the commercial(s)? I'm at work and don't want to be watching vids of something that'd get me any heat.
Thanks!
-Jesse
But the problem is there's no engineering department per se with open-source. It's just a collection of people, some of which may be engineers, with no contracts.
-JEsse
Yeah, you offtopic bastard! :) Don't worry, I appreciated the post, that is a funny one I hadn't heard of.
-Jesse
If you really want to be anal about units, technically he's probably downloading at 6.7 KibiBytes per second (KiB).
-Jesse
Why does it obsolete the HD TiVo?
-Jesse
You have both a hilarious post and username. Well done :)
-Jesse
Slow news day? Someone just discover the IRC? Jeez, I think anyone who's ever been onto pretty much any channel on IRC has seen this at least once.
/quit "username" will kick off the name of the person who's username you put in, only to see who is the most hated person by the noobs.
Why not report that someone hilariously booted themselves by pressing alt+f4.
Or that
-Jesse
I'm not a Philosopher or an English writing analyst, but I feel the same way as what you're describing. It's not just a light read, it's a lot more, even though if you read it lightly, it's very good also.
-Jesse