The prediction is starting to come true with seizure causing flashing images and
nauseous camera work. It's getting harder and harder to find shows and
commercials I can watch on TV.
So I can't watch Battlestar at all and I don't like it nor can I fairly evaluate
it. Anyone else having this trouble?
Great idea, poor results. That was why the RULES of camera work I was taught
were developed! No rapid movements, etc. except where it does work. Not all the
time like trainees and low budget interns at a certain TV station I know!
What I get and what I need:
I get TONS of rice and pinto beans (I'm NOT mexican for Gods' sake!).
Plenty of Canned Tuna Fish but little else for tuna salad sandwiches.
Tuna is cheap to buy, others are more needed.
I very rarely get any beef or other. Occasional complete chicken (but why the expensive organic? when you can buy 2 regular to donate?).
Tons of pasta that I have little sauce for.
Hamburger and dairy are almost never seen at my end due to no easy way to distribute to individuals and lack of donations. Food banks send the good stuff to the local kitchens (St Vincent DePaul when I can get there) for those badly needed meals.
It stinks to be poor in America! And disabled!
BTW, why no canned hams? I've never seen one through them!
AND STOP DONATING NO SALT, LOW CARB, etc. items! We need real food, don't make assumptions about our dietary needs!
Gah!
Celine Dion? Who's that?
Wayne Newton has been around since I was a kid (I was born 1959 - 46yrs old now) so I know him all to well.
Repellent? How about my favorites: Andre Kostelanetz, Percy Faith, or Mantovani? They did pop music that would send ANYONE today running away, or put them to sleep at least! Love 'em!
Will you please watch the foul language on this old fuddy duddy!
When they hire me! Bwa, ha, ha, ha... (I live 1.5 mi. from them)
Please ignore my SIG line, I'm running Windows and it won't let me edit it... (it's a joke stupid...)
I tried to moderate but slashdot turned of the moderation after I moderated
yours!;-)
Anyway, hmm, I think that like has too many of: [goto line 100], [print
"moderate"] statement in it!
BTW: how do you delimit a BASIC (let alone 'C') statement in English? I'm still
waiting for a English class for us "techies" to take "English as a programming
language" so I can learn it's SOLID rules for me to understand! Wait! There is
no 'solid' rules in English! Oh well, still need the class. Um, not the C++
class(ifier).</p>
Ok, ok, best I can do for jokes, I've been out practice, ok?! In all 3
languages: MS BASIC (pre Qbasic), COBOL, 'C', plus a more recent class in C++
(June 2002).
And SHUT UP about my "dangling participles" whatever the heck fire that is!
Ok, for us NON-Java learned programmers (yes, I'm that old...) what the blazes is JIT? Other than the acronym for "Just In Time" as in a delivery methodology used in some industries I used to work with.
Well, how about
freezing your p***** off,
wishing you can just jump in your car at 5 AM and head to the nearby market in your pajamas to get a iced coffee (they have that there in Canuck Country?),
having to live like a hermit because your nearest neighbor is 5 miles away, the nearest town 50,
going bezerk and killing your girlfriend (an uncle did this in the North),
wondering why there isn't a Starbucks next door,
having so say "eh" at the end of every sentence,
all the good actors head south to the U.S. to star in Star Trek and other sci fi,
missing out on all the political and social nightmares of living in the U.S.,
and so on...
Hmm, I can't make up my mind, can you?
Will they hire someone without a degree? Who kept working for companies that went out of business? Who hasn't worked in the field in 10 years? Who is over 45 in age? Who has mental illness? Who is desperate to work?
You know your desperate for employees when you hire someone like that!
THE guy who put in his resume: "I specialize in working for companies going out of business" (yep, I did!)
Who you callin' "younguns"!!!
I've been coding longer than you!
I was coding punch cards on a time share machine! (ok, I was taught entering data on punch cards on some odd card reader wired to calculators somehow in Junior High and playing games on a time share machine at Sonoma State and Berkeley)
I remember MS DOS being reliable simply because it used code written by them other kids (forgot their company name - I'm going senile, you know!)
1. LINUX is like Methadone 2. SUN (which OS of theirs?) is like after Methadone? Sober. 3. OSX is like what, Cocaine? 4. Windows is like, what? Acid? (ok, never mind the corrosive jokes)
So when I finally get the BA every business said I needed I'll be too old to be employed in IT so what line of work should I pursue? Landscape Architecture?
What employees? I'm an old Fogie and I remember the old days when we lamented the end of the employye and the beginning of the robot era.
Now I wonder if there will be an underpaid employee from the manufaturer to the customer anymore at all? Perhaps all done by automated web interfaces instead of brick and mortar stores where the customer is charged $45 just for clicking a button and got no product (happened to me -> "invalid transaction").
Just be lucky you have a job!
on
Lucas's New HQ
·
· Score: 1
As I don't one. I've been an unemployed Geek for years and am still suffering and hoping someday employers won't hate us / fire us for being different.
Now that Star Wars has left Marin County I can now say that Star Trek is superior as there "is no Star Wars" in Marin County anymore!!!! Yea!
Why hasn't anyone learned, like me, to stop buying Palm products? Two useless backup SD cards, one SD (64M?) card, and the M125 are wasted money and maulfunctioning. The backups where a problem and did NOT keep the data I lost due to pecular errors that happened during backup / restore which never worked anyway, lost a months notes & work! Stop buying these junk toys. Buy REAL WORKING PDA's if they exist at all. Maybe not the Sony's? Cell phones, BTW, are useless to me (and too expensive with attachments for my hearing loss)
Slashdot Mirror
Does anyone else get nauseous watching shows that are too cheap to use the Steady Cam©?
This new phenomenon is making it hard for me to watch TV. Remember the "blipverts" from Max Headroom? Rapid commercials that cause the viewers heads to explode!
The prediction is starting to come true with seizure causing flashing images and nauseous camera work. It's getting harder and harder to find shows and commercials I can watch on TV.
So I can't watch Battlestar at all and I don't like it nor can I fairly evaluate it. Anyone else having this trouble?
Great idea, poor results. That was why the RULES of camera work I was taught were developed! No rapid movements, etc. except where it does work. Not all the time like trainees and low budget interns at a certain TV station I know!
What I get and what I need: I get TONS of rice and pinto beans (I'm NOT mexican for Gods' sake!). Plenty of Canned Tuna Fish but little else for tuna salad sandwiches. Tuna is cheap to buy, others are more needed. I very rarely get any beef or other. Occasional complete chicken (but why the expensive organic? when you can buy 2 regular to donate?). Tons of pasta that I have little sauce for. Hamburger and dairy are almost never seen at my end due to no easy way to distribute to individuals and lack of donations. Food banks send the good stuff to the local kitchens (St Vincent DePaul when I can get there) for those badly needed meals. It stinks to be poor in America! And disabled! BTW, why no canned hams? I've never seen one through them! AND STOP DONATING NO SALT, LOW CARB, etc. items! We need real food, don't make assumptions about our dietary needs! Gah!
NO TUNA! I have a TON of canned tuna I don't like or know what to do with (no$$)!
I'm PRE-Manilow kid! HE is too new to me! So was Julio Iglesias! And I never liked either (at least after a short while).
Celine Dion? Who's that? Wayne Newton has been around since I was a kid (I was born 1959 - 46yrs old now) so I know him all to well. Repellent? How about my favorites: Andre Kostelanetz, Percy Faith, or Mantovani? They did pop music that would send ANYONE today running away, or put them to sleep at least! Love 'em! Will you please watch the foul language on this old fuddy duddy!
You mean jacked up the VOLUMN! That sound IS high frequency!
When they hire me! Bwa, ha, ha, ha... (I live 1.5 mi. from them) Please ignore my SIG line, I'm running Windows and it won't let me edit it... (it's a joke stupid...)
I tried to moderate but slashdot turned of the moderation after I moderated yours! ;-)
Anyway, hmm, I think that like has too many of: [goto line 100], [print "moderate"] statement in it!
BTW: how do you delimit a BASIC (let alone 'C') statement in English? I'm still waiting for a English class for us "techies" to take "English as a programming language" so I can learn it's SOLID rules for me to understand! Wait! There is no 'solid' rules in English! Oh well, still need the class. Um, not the C++ class(ifier).</p>
Ok, ok, best I can do for jokes, I've been out practice, ok?! In all 3 languages: MS BASIC (pre Qbasic), COBOL, 'C', plus a more recent class in C++ (June 2002).
And SHUT UP about my "dangling participles" whatever the heck fire that is!
if(sentence_structure(POINTER) == "dangling" && sentence_structure(POINTER+1) == "participle")
{
fprint("error");
exit(-1);
}
else
fprint("shut up!");
save file and then:
c what.c
"compiler error: English is not a supported module"
*sigh*
** this writing is not compiled by an English compiler for semantic or phrasing errors! They don't exist! Ok, never mind Editors...
Ok, for us NON-Java learned programmers (yes, I'm that old...) what the blazes is JIT? Other than the acronym for "Just In Time" as in a delivery methodology used in some industries I used to work with.
Well, how about freezing your p***** off, wishing you can just jump in your car at 5 AM and head to the nearby market in your pajamas to get a iced coffee (they have that there in Canuck Country?), having to live like a hermit because your nearest neighbor is 5 miles away, the nearest town 50, going bezerk and killing your girlfriend (an uncle did this in the North), wondering why there isn't a Starbucks next door, having so say "eh" at the end of every sentence, all the good actors head south to the U.S. to star in Star Trek and other sci fi, missing out on all the political and social nightmares of living in the U.S., and so on... Hmm, I can't make up my mind, can you?
Will they hire someone without a degree? Who kept working for companies that went out of business? Who hasn't worked in the field in 10 years? Who is over 45 in age? Who has mental illness? Who is desperate to work? You know your desperate for employees when you hire someone like that! THE guy who put in his resume: "I specialize in working for companies going out of business" (yep, I did!)
Who you callin' "younguns"!!! I've been coding longer than you! I was coding punch cards on a time share machine! (ok, I was taught entering data on punch cards on some odd card reader wired to calculators somehow in Junior High and playing games on a time share machine at Sonoma State and Berkeley) I remember MS DOS being reliable simply because it used code written by them other kids (forgot their company name - I'm going senile, you know!)
So:
1. LINUX is like Methadone
2. SUN (which OS of theirs?) is like after Methadone? Sober.
3. OSX is like what, Cocaine?
4. Windows is like, what? Acid? (ok, never mind the corrosive jokes)
Just trying to get it all straight.
So when I finally get the BA every business said I needed I'll be too old to be employed in IT so what line of work should I pursue? Landscape Architecture?
What employees? I'm an old Fogie and I remember the old days when we lamented the end of the employye and the beginning of the robot era. Now I wonder if there will be an underpaid employee from the manufaturer to the customer anymore at all? Perhaps all done by automated web interfaces instead of brick and mortar stores where the customer is charged $45 just for clicking a button and got no product (happened to me -> "invalid transaction").
As I don't one. I've been an unemployed Geek for years and am still suffering and hoping someday employers won't hate us / fire us for being different. Now that Star Wars has left Marin County I can now say that Star Trek is superior as there "is no Star Wars" in Marin County anymore!!!! Yea!
Why hasn't anyone learned, like me, to stop buying Palm products? Two useless backup SD cards, one SD (64M?) card, and the M125 are wasted money and maulfunctioning. The backups where a problem and did NOT keep the data I lost due to pecular errors that happened during backup / restore which never worked anyway, lost a months notes & work! Stop buying these junk toys. Buy REAL WORKING PDA's if they exist at all. Maybe not the Sony's? Cell phones, BTW, are useless to me (and too expensive with attachments for my hearing loss)