You know, sometimes it's good to take a step back from our collective geekdom and look at the bigger picture. I'm thinking of this from my Mom's perspective, a woman who once didn't know what the O and I on opposide ends of a power switch meant: is this a sign of the times or what?
We just comapred spammers to the FBI's Ten Most Wanted. Spammers are, on some level, comparable to druglords and serial killers. Isn't that true, though? Especially druglords. I can so picture a spammer sitting back with his small army of a spammed-up crew protecting him.
Well, reading at -1 can prove so entertaining sometimes. Bush has kind of admitted that he finds black people annoying, though. In late April, 2002 - I don't remember the exact date, though it was initially published in a Brazilian newspaper on the 28th - Bush turned to Brazilian President Fernando Henrique Cardoso and asked:
"Do you have blacks, too?"
Bush's overwhelming and jaw-dropping ignorance is clearly evident here...alongside many of his other statements.
http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_stats.a sp puts Firefox (and Mozilla) on the sharp upswing as well. All surveys being posted put Gecko overall usage at around 17-18%, so I'm certainly inclined to believe them. I trust W3C, and I use their information to plan what I might rquire for my fledgling site, videogamemaps.net. It's worked thus far =)
Man,/. REALLY hammered this page. It's been completely taken offline. Check the Google cache by going to Google and entering "cache:www.ultimatesecurehome.com" in the search box, or go to The Internet Archive and use their Wayback Machine to pull up the page. Interesting stuff, though it takes some effort to pull up thanks to us geeks ^_^
Er, what do you mean? I switched to sata and it cut my load times by pretty much half globally - startup, games, everything. It's one of the most amazing upgrades I've done simply because there wasn't much of a downside to it. At ALL. With CPU there's heat and more fans, with my new gamer case case there was going out and having to buy longer cables, with sata there was just computery geeky goodness. Yum!
To be perfectly honest, most people out there are just as afraid as you are of having "The Bad Roommate" and most people out there are good roommates. Yes, there -are- horror stories, but as long as you're not the horror story (I was at one point. That sucked.) there's always ways to resolve any issues you may have.
Freshman year (I'm a senior now) we had a prankster on our floor that hit overnight and early in the morning, doing everything from moving peoples' towels out of reach in the showers to rolling an open can of salsa down the (carpeted) hallway. I had the room at the end of the hall on our side of the floor, so I went ahead and bought a 20' usb extention cord and mounted my webcam in the corner of the hall outside my door, set it to motion detect and left it on for a week. Boom. Video, a prankster caught and everyone lived in peace once again.
Exactly. Freshman year, I was a happy, content comp sci major. 8 months and one clinical addiction to a certain video game later, I was a history major. I'm going to graduate next May with my BA in History, but I'm still working on getting my MCSA (I mentioned this, in fact, in a comment last night!)
Anywho, I'm going to be looking at an IT job after graduation with a BA degree. So as to other paths? You're exactly right.:)
I'm on track to get my MCSE soon, and I can tell you after having worked with Win Server 2k3 Datacenter edition, a piece of software for which MS uses the words "mission critical," Windows can indeed be stable enough to support these kinds of applications. In fact, at our training center the Server 2003 Datacenter has longer uptimes and more stability than the Linux-based systems. MS isn't ALL bad. In fact, when you pay them enough, it's quite good;)
...is scheduled to be released soon. Does this mean MS is taking notice of the Open Soruce (and far superior) software out there, and they're rushing to beat FF1?
Okay, I'm done wiping the tears of joy from my eyes../ gave me my good laugh for the day and helped further my belief that SCO are just a bunch of money hungry whoremongers.
BioWare needs to get out of the gaming business. Seriously. Their games are utterly laden with bugs. They're like Microsoft, except they sweep the problems under the carpet with eked-out updates and poor support.
The two bugs I reported a month after NWN came out - two years ago now - are still unresolved (haste and the hasted attack and a grammatical error in the inventory code).
Should another company decide to develop a decent version of NWN that doesn't leave me wishing for more and getting less (My post on the NWN forums has been archived, but I inquired about left-handed characters and animations and BioWare's official response actually was "Yeah, it's too much work for not much return. Sorry.")
Reading the article, I highlighted and copied that exact quote for the./ comment that you beat me to. (Whoa, that was a horrible sentence grammatically.)
Thing is, there are people out there that will fall for it. That's what Sony's banking on, I'd bet. To any self-respecting geek or./er, those two sentences are a giant red warning flag (they sure as hell jumped out at me). It's just the fact that they sound good for everyone else.
Just about 2 years ago on the dot, I was in Calculus I when a massive thunderstorm broke. I remembered I left my window open...and I'd been doing work on my computer and it was sitting in front of said window. Well, I got back and it was kinda dry except for the one thing that stuck out the most from the mobo: the video card (an all in wonder 32mb pre-radeon edition *sniff*), which was totally drenched. Needless to say, it was displaying random snow and lines on my screen. I took it out, dried it off with a towel and tossed it on my bed. After letting it dry for a day or so, I decided to try it and lo and behold, it worked! Sorta. I picked up my ti4200 about a week later:)
I give not a whit if it's a funny satire or a funny parody. Myself and everyone I know that's politically-minded (and most of my friends are) thought this little flash animation absolutely hysterical. In fact, my Mom was -mad- at me for not telling her right away when I saw it.
The only people who seem to be pissed off about this whole situation are those who stand to make money from its destruction. The guys at JibJab stopped charging for the downloads because they stopped caring about the cash. TRO started caring about the cash and now they look like the RIAA song nazis.
I've been developing my own website recently (no shameless plugs yet...we're not quite ready to go live);)
Anywho, I was looking to getting listed on Google and reading about their automation process. Every month, the Googlebot spider crawls over 4 billion URLs. That's a metric f*ckton if you ask me. Google's unbelievable powerful. It's magical. It satisfies all my web needs!
Aside from being the perfect search enginge to the point that I myself never really have to use another, they have tons of stuff that show they can and will continue to develop, as mentioned in earlier comments. Froogle, their shopper service that hasn't even become popular yet, Google labs (where they've even become involved in community service-y projects like folding@home), and more, and more, and more.
Google rules. And I'm saving to buy several shares.
Know what? Arguments about how MS is trying to enforce an "overly broad Windows trademark" are now moot. The settlement shows that Microsoft is aware that they cannot force names like Lindows to stop just because of a similarity, but they ARE willing to pay out to keep a monopoly. And know what? That's damn fair.
I go to Penn State, the first of the schools to strike a deal with Napster and bend over and let the RIAA take them up the...well, you know.
Anywho, you get like, no songs. If you like -anything- other than what's on the radio, and sometimes even that, then your tracks will be marked "buy only" even with a Napster Premium account.
Napster sucks. They claim to have 700k tracks...too bad I've had the service for half a year and only found 24 worth downloading.
Eh. I think that he just missed the point. Computers ARE a tool for learning and all that fun fuzzy stuff. I just prefer my excessively violent video games. Computers have been commercialized, of course, and if anyone thought they wouldn't be, then they fall into that kind of visionary category.
Heh. I was doing an upgrade for one of the computers at my Dad's office (he's a self-employed businessman). It was a cheapie clone thing, and I was carrying it from his office to my car when I tripped down the steps. I landed on it....and I'm not exactly your small guy. The 75% plastic 25% metal case (yes, plastic case - hey, this was like 1996) popped open and parts scattered everywhere. It turned from a hard drive upgrade and new ethernet card to a new computer. It was actually a good turnout, I think. I ensured he didn't buy another of the same kind;)
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You know, sometimes it's good to take a step back from our collective geekdom and look at the bigger picture. I'm thinking of this from my Mom's perspective, a woman who once didn't know what the O and I on opposide ends of a power switch meant: is this a sign of the times or what?
We just comapred spammers to the FBI's Ten Most Wanted. Spammers are, on some level, comparable to druglords and serial killers. Isn't that true, though? Especially druglords. I can so picture a spammer sitting back with his small army of a spammed-up crew protecting him.
Well, reading at -1 can prove so entertaining sometimes. Bush has kind of admitted that he finds black people annoying, though. In late April, 2002 - I don't remember the exact date, though it was initially published in a Brazilian newspaper on the 28th - Bush turned to Brazilian President Fernando Henrique Cardoso and asked:
"Do you have blacks, too?"
Bush's overwhelming and jaw-dropping ignorance is clearly evident here...alongside many of his other statements.
http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_stats.a sp puts Firefox (and Mozilla) on the sharp upswing as well. All surveys being posted put Gecko overall usage at around 17-18%, so I'm certainly inclined to believe them. I trust W3C, and I use their information to plan what I might rquire for my fledgling site, videogamemaps.net. It's worked thus far =)
I'm'a make one that says "Hello, Dave. Shall we continue our game?" and then shuts the computer down.
Man, /. REALLY hammered this page. It's been completely taken offline. Check the Google cache by going to Google and entering "cache:www.ultimatesecurehome.com" in the search box, or go to The Internet Archive and use their Wayback Machine to pull up the page. Interesting stuff, though it takes some effort to pull up thanks to us geeks ^_^
Er, what do you mean? I switched to sata and it cut my load times by pretty much half globally - startup, games, everything. It's one of the most amazing upgrades I've done simply because there wasn't much of a downside to it. At ALL. With CPU there's heat and more fans, with my new gamer case case there was going out and having to buy longer cables, with sata there was just computery geeky goodness. Yum!
And it's upgradable to 512, 1 gig or 2 gigs easily in the store. Not really a big deal. Dell and Gateway are both the same way.
To be perfectly honest, most people out there are just as afraid as you are of having "The Bad Roommate" and most people out there are good roommates. Yes, there -are- horror stories, but as long as you're not the horror story (I was at one point. That sucked.) there's always ways to resolve any issues you may have.
Freshman year (I'm a senior now) we had a prankster on our floor that hit overnight and early in the morning, doing everything from moving peoples' towels out of reach in the showers to rolling an open can of salsa down the (carpeted) hallway. I had the room at the end of the hall on our side of the floor, so I went ahead and bought a 20' usb extention cord and mounted my webcam in the corner of the hall outside my door, set it to motion detect and left it on for a week. Boom. Video, a prankster caught and everyone lived in peace once again.
Exactly. Freshman year, I was a happy, content comp sci major. 8 months and one clinical addiction to a certain video game later, I was a history major. I'm going to graduate next May with my BA in History, but I'm still working on getting my MCSA (I mentioned this, in fact, in a comment last night!)
:)
Anywho, I'm going to be looking at an IT job after graduation with a BA degree. So as to other paths? You're exactly right.
I'm on track to get my MCSE soon, and I can tell you after having worked with Win Server 2k3 Datacenter edition, a piece of software for which MS uses the words "mission critical," Windows can indeed be stable enough to support these kinds of applications. In fact, at our training center the Server 2003 Datacenter has longer uptimes and more stability than the Linux-based systems. MS isn't ALL bad. In fact, when you pay them enough, it's quite good ;)
...is scheduled to be released soon. Does this mean MS is taking notice of the Open Soruce (and far superior) software out there, and they're rushing to beat FF1?
Okay, I'm done wiping the tears of joy from my eyes. ./ gave me my good laugh for the day and helped further my belief that SCO are just a bunch of money hungry whoremongers.
BioWare needs to get out of the gaming business. Seriously. Their games are utterly laden with bugs. They're like Microsoft, except they sweep the problems under the carpet with eked-out updates and poor support.
The two bugs I reported a month after NWN came out - two years ago now - are still unresolved (haste and the hasted attack and a grammatical error in the inventory code).
Should another company decide to develop a decent version of NWN that doesn't leave me wishing for more and getting less (My post on the NWN forums has been archived, but I inquired about left-handed characters and animations and BioWare's official response actually was "Yeah, it's too much work for not much return. Sorry.")
Reading the article, I highlighted and copied that exact quote for the ./ comment that you beat me to. (Whoa, that was a horrible sentence grammatically.) ./er, those two sentences are a giant red warning flag (they sure as hell jumped out at me). It's just the fact that they sound good for everyone else.
Thing is, there are people out there that will fall for it. That's what Sony's banking on, I'd bet. To any self-respecting geek or
Just about 2 years ago on the dot, I was in Calculus I when a massive thunderstorm broke. I remembered I left my window open...and I'd been doing work on my computer and it was sitting in front of said window. Well, I got back and it was kinda dry except for the one thing that stuck out the most from the mobo: the video card (an all in wonder 32mb pre-radeon edition *sniff*), which was totally drenched. Needless to say, it was displaying random snow and lines on my screen. I took it out, dried it off with a towel and tossed it on my bed. After letting it dry for a day or so, I decided to try it and lo and behold, it worked! Sorta. I picked up my ti4200 about a week later :)
I give not a whit if it's a funny satire or a funny parody. Myself and everyone I know that's politically-minded (and most of my friends are) thought this little flash animation absolutely hysterical. In fact, my Mom was -mad- at me for not telling her right away when I saw it.
The only people who seem to be pissed off about this whole situation are those who stand to make money from its destruction. The guys at JibJab stopped charging for the downloads because they stopped caring about the cash. TRO started caring about the cash and now they look like the RIAA song nazis.
I've been developing my own website recently (no shameless plugs yet...we're not quite ready to go live) ;)
Anywho, I was looking to getting listed on Google and reading about their automation process. Every month, the Googlebot spider crawls over 4 billion URLs. That's a metric f*ckton if you ask me. Google's unbelievable powerful. It's magical. It satisfies all my web needs!
Aside from being the perfect search enginge to the point that I myself never really have to use another, they have tons of stuff that show they can and will continue to develop, as mentioned in earlier comments. Froogle, their shopper service that hasn't even become popular yet, Google labs (where they've even become involved in community service-y projects like folding@home), and more, and more, and more.
Google rules. And I'm saving to buy several shares.
Seems reasonable. Too reasonable. Just like a deal with the devil.
I'm an MCP and a developer and I listen to 80s music, so neener!
Know what? Arguments about how MS is trying to enforce an "overly broad Windows trademark" are now moot. The settlement shows that Microsoft is aware that they cannot force names like Lindows to stop just because of a similarity, but they ARE willing to pay out to keep a monopoly. And know what? That's damn fair.
I go to Penn State, the first of the schools to strike a deal with Napster and bend over and let the RIAA take them up the...well, you know. Anywho, you get like, no songs. If you like -anything- other than what's on the radio, and sometimes even that, then your tracks will be marked "buy only" even with a Napster Premium account. Napster sucks. They claim to have 700k tracks...too bad I've had the service for half a year and only found 24 worth downloading.
Eh. I think that he just missed the point. Computers ARE a tool for learning and all that fun fuzzy stuff. I just prefer my excessively violent video games. Computers have been commercialized, of course, and if anyone thought they wouldn't be, then they fall into that kind of visionary category.
Heh. I was doing an upgrade for one of the computers at my Dad's office (he's a self-employed businessman). It was a cheapie clone thing, and I was carrying it from his office to my car when I tripped down the steps. I landed on it....and I'm not exactly your small guy. The 75% plastic 25% metal case (yes, plastic case - hey, this was like 1996) popped open and parts scattered everywhere. It turned from a hard drive upgrade and new ethernet card to a new computer. It was actually a good turnout, I think. I ensured he didn't buy another of the same kind ;)