They just don't want those advances from men they don't find attractive (you know who you are).
Exactly and that has always pissed me off. It is a double standard and it is bullshit. A girl sees an attractive guy looking at her ass and she smiles as she sashays away. A girl sees an unattractive guy looking at her ass and she gives him a dirty look and complains to her supervisor.
So in essence, attractive guys have more rights in the workplace than unnattractve guys. If the women in the office decide that they like you then you can get away with all sorts of things but if they decide that you are undesirable then you have to walk on eggshells for fear of getting a sexual harrassment charge thrown at you.
woman largely want to talk about something that interests them, and only them
Yes, because geeky guys *never* do anything like that....
Isn't that the point of his whole post? He wrote about the woman talking about the cat being stuck up a tree which is uninteresting to a man and then he wrote about the man talking about doom3 which is uninteresting to the woman.
Strangely enough I myself, a former rampant user of any cracked software I could find whether I actually needed it or not, am now thinking in the same way.
If feels good to actually pay for legal copies of the prorietary software that I cannot live without (Ultraedit, Space Tripper, etc.) while replacing the other stuff with free open source alternatives.
For most hackers, their greatest fear is not necessarily getting caught, but rather having someone watch and gather information on them without their knowledge
I'd strongly disagree with that. I think that most hackers would place getting caught as being the pinnacle of bad things that can happen as a result of hacking.
WTF? do away with this "Service Pack" nonsense? I don't have any problems with service packs. I would much rather be able to install a single service pack than manually install 1,001 individual bug fixes one by one (probably with a reboot after each one). This versioning is confusing to end users. Isn't the versioning just like; first came SP1 and now comes SP2 and next will come SP3. What is confusing about that? I hate microsoft with a passion and I have plenty of legitimate gripes with them but I honestly don't have any problem with them releasing service packs.
Although I do seem to remember some of the NT service packs that really broke lots of things and frequently screwed up the systems so bad as to require a reinstall. Poorly created service packs suck ass but as long as they do what their supposed to do, fix bugs and maybe ad a few features then I don't have any problem with them. Obviously YMMV a lot.
Yeah that sounds typical of most end users. I am sure that most people who have to work with end users have had the joyous experience of having to try to explain the difference between saving something locally on their computers hard drive and saving something to a drive on the server that they are mapped to. End users just don't get it.
Just this morning I was having to explain to some user that she can get her voice mail from any telephone. It took me like twenty minutes to explain to her that her voicemail messages are not saved in that specific telephone on her desk but were saved in "that big grey box on the wall of my office" and that they were accessable from any telephone. But I bet she still doesn't get it. Whenever she needs to check her voicemail she'll probably go back to that one specific phone because she is just to stupid to understand how the system works.
OK. I scored a 50 with seven errors that brings me down to 43. I'm a sysadmin not a programmer so maybe I don't type as much or something. I don't know. Anyways, obviously I need to improve my typing skills so can anyone recommend a fun typing program? I used to have a game called Typing of the Dead which was kind of a combination of Mavis Beacon and House of the Dead. It was a lot of fun but only ran on Windows 98 and there is no way I am setting up win98 just for a typing tutor. Any suggestions?
Northface University is fully accredited by the ACICS
Just about anyone can get accredited with ACICS as long as pay the money and are a halfway decent school willing to put on a good show when ACICS comes and checks them out. If you look at the list of institutions accredited by ACICS you'll see that it is mostly trade schools and art institutes. You aren't going to find MIT or even your local state college on that list.
In no other situation in life will you ever get a chance to experience such a fascinating breadth of humanity in such a period of time
I don't know about that. It probably depends on the college that you go to. I would think that joining the peace corps, the merchant marine, one of the military branches or many other experiences will give you the same fascinating breadth of humanity in such a period of time.
Of course now that I mention meeting a breadth of humanity while in military service I am reminded of that quote from Full Metal Jacket: "I wanted to meet interesting and stimulating people of an ancient culture, and kill them."
Our College/University system is getting watered down as more and more kids just want to get in/out and get a job...
Although I partially agree with you I think that the main reason is not so much kids just want to get in/out and get a job but the fact that the age of the average college student has been going way up over the past decade.
Most adults going back to college really do want to complete college as fast as possible and they don't want a bunch of extra classwork that does not directly relate to their major. Hell, if you are a thirty year old high school dropout trying to raise two young kids and working as a minimum wage IT help desk support then a Bachelors degree in two years looks pretty good.
There is no simple, standard way to distribute an application for each version of Linux that will install. Windows DOES IT. Linux DOES NOT.
Actually Windows DOES NOT. I have a windows 98 box sitting in the corner because there is plenty of software that I use (mostly games) that installs fine on Win98 but refuses to install on Win2k/XP.
I don't know what you are using VMware for, you may very well be much more demanding of it than I am. Personally I use VMware running on Win2K (1.1Ghz Athlon, 1024MB sdram) to mess around with my own little virtual network consisting of an Exchange server, a couple linux installs and a couple XP pro installs all running at once.
When all these OS's are running at once it is kind of slow but other than that the only two problems that I've had are that everytime I try to install Solaris x86 the install hangs and an older version of Redhat (7.3?) would only install in text mode. But to be honest I only use VMware as a toy and not for business use so these problems are not that big a deal for me. As a toy to mess around with I find VMware to be really enjoyable.
Cracking refers to breaking the copy protection schemes on software. Launching a DDoS attack is not cracking.
It amuses me how ruddy faced blowhards like Eric Raymond and hippies like RMS get all pissed off about people misusing the term hacker and then they themselves turn around and misuse the term cracker.
I am also skeptical. Doom 3 deserves lots of hype, after all, Doom 1 & 2 were classic games. But I think that there is just waaaaaay to much hype going on. Doom 3 has been built up and built up so much that it will have to be truly revolutionary to live up to all the overinflated expectations.
I don't think it will live up to those expectations though. It will look really good and it will probably be a really fun FPS but it won't be much better than UT2004 or Far Cry. In fact, I am predicting that after Doom 3 has come out and people have had a chance to play it that many people will say that they think Far Cry is a better game. I do think that the games coming out in the next few years that are made with ID's new engine will blow people away.
The bottom line is individual freedom. I could really care less whether I lived under a democracy or a monarchy -- the bottom line is how much of my natural rights as a human being I will retain.
That is very true. I am far more concerned about being able to be happy, secure and free than I am concerned about whether we are in a true democracy, a republic, a monarchy or whatever else. An old school republic where I am free to do what I wish with no one bothering me is preferable to any true democracy where I have the ignorant masses telling me that I cannot read Hustler because their religion deams it obscene and they make the laws: mob rule.
Why did this person get modded down? He has a legitimate question. I for one do not want to have to read the entire huge paper online, reding a page, clicking next and waiting for the next page to load, etc. I would much rather have a PDF that I can print out and read.
I'm with you! In fact I just sent the guy an email saying that I am in the process of launching a DDoS attack against his website and I will only call it off if he posts the rest of his stash of those pictures of that red haired girl.
If he is ignorant enough not to know about the slashdot effect then maybe he will believe that I'm really DDoSing him and post the jpegs. It probably won't work but it's worth a try.
I don't get it. There are plenty of games for the wage slave. Hell, I work 45-65 hours a week, plus spend three hours on the bus/subway going to/from work everyday so I certainly don't have time for games like Everquest.
But, RTCW was great. I could play it for 25 minutes every couple of days and make some real progress playing it for a few hours on the weekends. Max Payne, Half Life, GTA3, Deus Ex and dozens of other games were the same way. I could be working on a project during the week and when I had a few extra minutes I could play the game for half an hour and then go back to what I was doing. Sure it might have taken me weeks and weeks to finish a simple FPS but thats a good thing. I'd much rather have a game last for weeks and weeks rather than spending $40 on a game that I can beat in one weekend.
What you have now is a glut of selftaught programmers and that will put pressure on the "crap little app" that used to try for $19.95 in the shareware market
Back in the day, ~5 years ago, I used to spend about $20-$50 a month on various shareware products; games, editors, etc. But now there is so much decent OSS stuff out there that there is no need to buy shareware when I can just go over to sourceforge and find an equivelent product for free.
The last piece of shareware that I bought was Acronis True Image 7.0 and that was only after trying plenty of OSS alternatives and finding them lacking. But for the most part, just about any pay software that you could want has a comparable OSS equivelent for free.
The people who think property damage is a valid/proper/appropriate means of expression for anarchist ideals are not anarchists, they're vandals and criminals.
I think that is absolute bullshit. Where is this anarchist rulebook that says that if you like to riot and smash up BMW SUV's that you are not a real anarchist?
throw a brick through a Starbucks windows. Real anarchists don't do such destructive acts.
WTF?! There are plenty of real anarchists who believe whole heartedly in what used to be called "propaganda by the deed." There are plenty of anarchists out there who if given the chance would love to throw a brick through a starbucks window.
I've made about twenty prurchases on eBay. I got ripped off twice, both times the sellers had relatively good ratings. Once I got ripped off buying a $10.00 DVD and the other time I got ripped off buying a $40.00 DVD. Neither of which incident was serious enough to attempt to get the authoritys involved. But 2 bad deals out of 20 is a 10% rip off rate, that is to high for me so I've stopped using eBay. YMMV.
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They just don't want those advances from men they don't find attractive (you know who you are).
Exactly and that has always pissed me off. It is a double standard and it is bullshit. A girl sees an attractive guy looking at her ass and she smiles as she sashays away. A girl sees an unattractive guy looking at her ass and she gives him a dirty look and complains to her supervisor.
So in essence, attractive guys have more rights in the workplace than unnattractve guys. If the women in the office decide that they like you then you can get away with all sorts of things but if they decide that you are undesirable then you have to walk on eggshells for fear of getting a sexual harrassment charge thrown at you.
woman largely want to talk about something that interests them, and only them Yes, because geeky guys *never* do anything like that....
Isn't that the point of his whole post? He wrote about the woman talking about the cat being stuck up a tree which is uninteresting to a man and then he wrote about the man talking about doom3 which is uninteresting to the woman.
Strangely enough I myself, a former rampant user of any cracked software I could find whether I actually needed it or not, am now thinking in the same way.
If feels good to actually pay for legal copies of the prorietary software that I cannot live without (Ultraedit, Space Tripper, etc.) while replacing the other stuff with free open source alternatives.
For most hackers, their greatest fear is not necessarily getting caught, but rather having someone watch and gather information on them without their knowledge
I'd strongly disagree with that. I think that most hackers would place getting caught as being the pinnacle of bad things that can happen as a result of hacking.
WTF? do away with this "Service Pack" nonsense? I don't have any problems with service packs. I would much rather be able to install a single service pack than manually install 1,001 individual bug fixes one by one (probably with a reboot after each one). This versioning is confusing to end users. Isn't the versioning just like; first came SP1 and now comes SP2 and next will come SP3. What is confusing about that? I hate microsoft with a passion and I have plenty of legitimate gripes with them but I honestly don't have any problem with them releasing service packs.
Although I do seem to remember some of the NT service packs that really broke lots of things and frequently screwed up the systems so bad as to require a reinstall. Poorly created service packs suck ass but as long as they do what their supposed to do, fix bugs and maybe ad a few features then I don't have any problem with them. Obviously YMMV a lot.
Yeah that sounds typical of most end users. I am sure that most people who have to work with end users have had the joyous experience of having to try to explain the difference between saving something locally on their computers hard drive and saving something to a drive on the server that they are mapped to. End users just don't get it.
Just this morning I was having to explain to some user that she can get her voice mail from any telephone. It took me like twenty minutes to explain to her that her voicemail messages are not saved in that specific telephone on her desk but were saved in "that big grey box on the wall of my office" and that they were accessable from any telephone. But I bet she still doesn't get it. Whenever she needs to check her voicemail she'll probably go back to that one specific phone because she is just to stupid to understand how the system works.
OK. I scored a 50 with seven errors that brings me down to 43. I'm a sysadmin not a programmer so maybe I don't type as much or something. I don't know. Anyways, obviously I need to improve my typing skills so can anyone recommend a fun typing program? I used to have a game called Typing of the Dead which was kind of a combination of Mavis Beacon and House of the Dead. It was a lot of fun but only ran on Windows 98 and there is no way I am setting up win98 just for a typing tutor. Any suggestions?
Northface University is fully accredited by the ACICS
Just about anyone can get accredited with ACICS as long as pay the money and are a halfway decent school willing to put on a good show when ACICS comes and checks them out. If you look at the list of institutions accredited by ACICS you'll see that it is mostly trade schools and art institutes. You aren't going to find MIT or even your local state college on that list.
In no other situation in life will you ever get a chance to experience such a fascinating breadth of humanity in such a period of time
I don't know about that. It probably depends on the college that you go to. I would think that joining the peace corps, the merchant marine, one of the military branches or many other experiences will give you the same fascinating breadth of humanity in such a period of time.
Of course now that I mention meeting a breadth of humanity while in military service I am reminded of that quote from Full Metal Jacket: "I wanted to meet interesting and stimulating people of an ancient culture, and kill them."
Our College/University system is getting watered down as more and more kids just want to get in/out and get a job...
Although I partially agree with you I think that the main reason is not so much kids just want to get in/out and get a job but the fact that the age of the average college student has been going way up over the past decade.
Most adults going back to college really do want to complete college as fast as possible and they don't want a bunch of extra classwork that does not directly relate to their major. Hell, if you are a thirty year old high school dropout trying to raise two young kids and working as a minimum wage IT help desk support then a Bachelors degree in two years looks pretty good.
There is no simple, standard way to distribute an application for each version of Linux that will install. Windows DOES IT. Linux DOES NOT.
Actually Windows DOES NOT. I have a windows 98 box sitting in the corner because there is plenty of software that I use (mostly games) that installs fine on Win98 but refuses to install on Win2k/XP.
So ... security by obscurity, then? I thought that was a bad thing?
Security by obscurity can be a good thing as long as it is not your only line of defense.
I don't know what you are using VMware for, you may very well be much more demanding of it than I am. Personally I use VMware running on Win2K (1.1Ghz Athlon, 1024MB sdram) to mess around with my own little virtual network consisting of an Exchange server, a couple linux installs and a couple XP pro installs all running at once.
When all these OS's are running at once it is kind of slow but other than that the only two problems that I've had are that everytime I try to install Solaris x86 the install hangs and an older version of Redhat (7.3?) would only install in text mode. But to be honest I only use VMware as a toy and not for business use so these problems are not that big a deal for me. As a toy to mess around with I find VMware to be really enjoyable.
Sorry, all CRACKING is terrible.
Cracking refers to breaking the copy protection schemes on software. Launching a DDoS attack is not cracking.
It amuses me how ruddy faced blowhards like Eric Raymond and hippies like RMS get all pissed off about people misusing the term hacker and then they themselves turn around and misuse the term cracker.
I am also skeptical. Doom 3 deserves lots of hype, after all, Doom 1 & 2 were classic games. But I think that there is just waaaaaay to much hype going on. Doom 3 has been built up and built up so much that it will have to be truly revolutionary to live up to all the overinflated expectations.
I don't think it will live up to those expectations though. It will look really good and it will probably be a really fun FPS but it won't be much better than UT2004 or Far Cry. In fact, I am predicting that after Doom 3 has come out and people have had a chance to play it that many people will say that they think Far Cry is a better game. I do think that the games coming out in the next few years that are made with ID's new engine will blow people away.
The bottom line is individual freedom. I could really care less whether I lived under a democracy or a monarchy -- the bottom line is how much of my natural rights as a human being I will retain.
That is very true. I am far more concerned about being able to be happy, secure and free than I am concerned about whether we are in a true democracy, a republic, a monarchy or whatever else. An old school republic where I am free to do what I wish with no one bothering me is preferable to any true democracy where I have the ignorant masses telling me that I cannot read Hustler because their religion deams it obscene and they make the laws: mob rule.
Why did this person get modded down? He has a legitimate question. I for one do not want to have to read the entire huge paper online, reding a page, clicking next and waiting for the next page to load, etc. I would much rather have a PDF that I can print out and read.
I want more pictures of the girl! Who's with me?
I'm with you! In fact I just sent the guy an email saying that I am in the process of launching a DDoS attack against his website and I will only call it off if he posts the rest of his stash of those pictures of that red haired girl.
If he is ignorant enough not to know about the slashdot effect then maybe he will believe that I'm really DDoSing him and post the jpegs. It probably won't work but it's worth a try.
I don't get it. There are plenty of games for the wage slave. Hell, I work 45-65 hours a week, plus spend three hours on the bus/subway going to/from work everyday so I certainly don't have time for games like Everquest.
But, RTCW was great. I could play it for 25 minutes every couple of days and make some real progress playing it for a few hours on the weekends. Max Payne, Half Life, GTA3, Deus Ex and dozens of other games were the same way. I could be working on a project during the week and when I had a few extra minutes I could play the game for half an hour and then go back to what I was doing. Sure it might have taken me weeks and weeks to finish a simple FPS but thats a good thing. I'd much rather have a game last for weeks and weeks rather than spending $40 on a game that I can beat in one weekend.
What you have now is a glut of selftaught programmers and that will put pressure on the "crap little app" that used to try for $19.95 in the shareware market
Back in the day, ~5 years ago, I used to spend about $20-$50 a month on various shareware products; games, editors, etc. But now there is so much decent OSS stuff out there that there is no need to buy shareware when I can just go over to sourceforge and find an equivelent product for free.
The last piece of shareware that I bought was Acronis True Image 7.0 and that was only after trying plenty of OSS alternatives and finding them lacking. But for the most part, just about any pay software that you could want has a comparable OSS equivelent for free.
I've still never been able to install W2K's SP4 and have a bootable machine afterward
That is really bizzare. You must have a really strange setup or something. I have never ever seen that happen.
The people who think property damage is a valid/proper/appropriate means of expression for anarchist ideals are not anarchists, they're vandals and criminals.
I think that is absolute bullshit. Where is this anarchist rulebook that says that if you like to riot and smash up BMW SUV's that you are not a real anarchist?
throw a brick through a Starbucks windows. Real anarchists don't do such destructive acts.
WTF?! There are plenty of real anarchists who believe whole heartedly in what used to be called "propaganda by the deed." There are plenty of anarchists out there who if given the chance would love to throw a brick through a starbucks window.
I am pretty sure that the original AC was trying to be sarcastic.
I've made about twenty prurchases on eBay. I got ripped off twice, both times the sellers had relatively good ratings. Once I got ripped off buying a $10.00 DVD and the other time I got ripped off buying a $40.00 DVD. Neither of which incident was serious enough to attempt to get the authoritys involved. But 2 bad deals out of 20 is a 10% rip off rate, that is to high for me so I've stopped using eBay. YMMV.