define "full version" -- I have the game, not a demo...
Lea
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this is life -- the offense is towards those who treat women like property, and who perpetrate other horrific acts, such as "female circumcism" (sp), which has no analogy whatsoever to the male version...
perhaps I got a bad one, but I haven't had that experience -- my dad's computer looks much better, as does my boyfriend's... and this is of concern to me, since I don't have a TV, or a recliner. and no where to put them.
student life don't have so many perks...
Lea
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and even if we managed to MAKE spool-length carbon nanotubules, I can think of several fairly severe problems with having a VERY long, fairly flexable "elevator" reaching into space. even if you marked several square miles off-limits to airplanes, Mother Earth has some interesting things to throw at it...
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unfortunately for girls in many third-world countries, dowries are PAID to the husband's family, not the other way around. yes, in certain societies one negotiates a "bride price" with the patriarch, but mostly daughters are regarded as a drain on precious resources, which is (as far as I can tell) a pretty good explanation why so many of them end up sold into slavery (yes! it still exists!) and/or prostitution.
I have that decoder card. it is not exactly a high-quality decoder card -- the difference between that and even the DxR3 is amazing. I don't even think that the DxR2 is readily available anymore -- it's been technologically surpassed long ago.
now let us mention that Creative, let alone the MPAA, was not precisely helpful in creating drivers, from what I've heard. as soon as I get my motherboard replaced, I'm going to try out those drivers, but last I checked, they were mighty unstable, and they weren't getting any help from Creative on that, even in the form of information. I hope this has changed.
so, yes, there is some sort of solution, but in many, many ways a unsatisfactory one.
well, there's always the sort of support that involves money. personally, I'm not dl'ing the demo, perhaps because of this nice shiny box next to me that says "Heroes of Might and Magic III"... and the other one labeled "Civilation: Call to Power".
it's been out for quite a while now -- I'm going to reinstall everything and then install it. *drool*
and if you look at EB games, you can probably find it for $30 still -- $20 off what the list price is, which is about $15-$20 better than everywhere else!
well, I don't know what version of RH you're running, but the easiest way for 6.1 (which, as far as I'm concerned, is really the first release that I really like) is this: $ su Password: ******* # linuxconf
:)
from here, try Config | Networking | Client Tasks | PPP/SLIP/PLIP it's VERY easy to set up from there -- even on my laptop, where the modem changes frequently, as well as the area code and ISP.
if you run gnome, you'll notice that in [BIGFOOT] | Panel | Add Applet | Network there is something called Modem Lights. click on the little button. it dials for ANY user if the check box is checked in linuxconf.
there is a thing like the birdies -- or indeed several of 'em. I don't know much about them personally, but my boyfriend uses them with his free isp and get-paid-to-click services.
might be worth it with a script like that. now all someone needs to do is figure out how to emulate the software for linux/bsd/mac/solaris/irix/xxxx:)
however good our animation was the year we won, you should have seen it two years ago, when we got disqualified for sending it in on beta... it got the head of animation a job at Kinetix (sp?).
this isn't exactly the only place I'm looking. however, the bay area is chock-full of teams, and while many are well funded (*cough*gunn*cough*), there are simply not enough companies to go around, not to mention many who think we're insane. it's a lot easier for a company to sponsor a proven winner than a team in less-affluent area, with no track record, and the only engineering expertise coming from first and second-year engineering students.
speaking of helping out, a lot of teams need not only money, but real engineering help both in EE, programming, design, and construction. I was a member of the Gunn High School team (GRT -- we won animation a few years ago, seeded 5th two years ago, and made it at least to the semis last year) and now mentor a team from Berkeley High School which is run entirely by high school students and college mentors.
the Berkeley team has exactly 0 engineers helping and exactly $0 besides the entrance fee (which NASA is sponsoring). I know there are other teams in this situation, so if you can't help a team with your time, talk to your company and see if they will sponsor a team with money, tools, or by assigning engineers to work with the team. it's an investment in the future -- I know several very talented engineers who lacked direction until this competiton. many teams lack even the most basic tools, liability insurance (I won't pretend this isn't dangerous: a student from Palo Alto High School got his hand caught in a belt sander last year, and several bay area students almost cut off fingers. another good reason to have trained engineers to teach), and a place to work.
if you'd like to help the Berkeley team, contact me at chialea@uclink.berkeley.edu. I can also put you in contact with a team in your area.
it's very rewarding and exciting work, and the competition is going on right now, so don't delay -- it's 6 weeks of excitement, plus the regional competion, plus the main competiton in Florida, which is braodcast on ESPN2. so, please, sponsor a team.
disclaimer: I work for Xerox-PARC. not that I'm paid at the moment, but I am a contractor.
well, given that I'm sitting at a desk in Xerox-PARC right now, I'd have to say it isn't disbanded.
there are tons of cool technologies being worked on here, even though many of them will probably not be brought to market in the next decade, and probably not by Xerox. there are quite a few patents awarded to engineers here. in fact, there are a few spinoffs to PARC which are right next door, which certainly have valid patents.
most new technologies that Xerox is coming out with come out of here, and there are more coming out soon. not my particular project, but there are lots of very cool things around which are more developed, as well as things which could be very, very useful in about a decade or so.
if you know anything about nanotech, you'll probably recognize the name Ralph Merkle. he worked at PARC in CSL (I believe -- that's where his office was, anyways) for many years before leaving for Zyvex a few months ago.
well, since I wasn't around in the 50's, I guess I'm going to have to just believe you on that one. in any case, soda isn't just sugar -- it's quite acidic. maybe my dentist doesn't know what he's talking about, but he told me about some interesting clinical research regarding soda and tooth decay... now, it's worse if you use a straw because you get more decay per soda, but if you spend a great deal of time drinking soda, it's probably not wonderful for your teeth.
well, most people who don't use things like palm pilots think of them as useless -- but they're evaluating them as/tools/. now, mine's indispensable, but you wouldn't think so at first glance. a lot of other things seem useless too -- for example my nice IBM Thinkpad 570, since I work at a place with a lot of computers around, as well as go to school and hang out in a building filled with computer labs, as well as have a nice desktop. however, it helps me get work done. a LOT of work.
my (rambling) point being that these things are oohed and ahhed over as toys, even though they're work-related. perhaps that makes them seem useless to others. (of course, "they" always have things like beanie babies and pokemon) where does that put us? well, unless you see something that particularly catches your interest (for me it was programming and taking things apart, NOT games) you're likely to dismiss it.
then you get into what people are likely to see and enjoy. mostly people see games. most games are not exactly aimed at girls (not that I'd avoid a good game of Quake II, but it's not my favorite), so I guess you could say that that makes girls less likely to get interested in that sort of thing.
I'm not sure why there are so few female hackers out there, but it does tend to filter out quite a few clueless ones. perhaps guys need the same thing -- before they become CS majors in college and have to transfer becasue they have no intuitive feel or experience.
I read it this summer, but never got time to reply. it'll be interesting to see if he got certain bugs ironed out, e.g. :
"these are the charts for men. the women's ones are completely different, but I can't see why" etc.
well, for starters, any mensturating woman's weight is going to fluxuate a bit depending on hormones. for some women this can be 10 pounds or so gained/lost over the course of a month -- AND IT'S ALL WATER. makes the whole chart look a bit different, not to mention clothes.
the whole exercise thing is going to be different as well. there are ways of exercising that work very well (developed for the military academies, I believe), but don't require as much strength.
another thing about the book was it's relentlessly self-congratulating tone. maybe some people like that, but it's quite annoying to me.
but if it inspires someone to eat a few more vegggies and do some jumping jacks, I guess it's a good thing. no need to shrink the geek community unneccisarily due to heart attacks caused by caffine and pizza!:)
same thing happened in my family. except for the minor fact that I am a girl. happens that way in 2-boy families I know as well, many times... and many times the first child is the hacker (not just in a computer sense).
this may have more to do with personality (and the desire of the first child to please the parents and the second not to be like the first)
I don't think it's quite that, though you're close. girls are expected to exibit mastery of certain areas, just as boys must. however, for each gender different areas are specified -- for girls, it tends to be in social skills (or "how to stab someone in the back in 10 easy steps" or "how to snub someone"). it has nothing to do with a deficiancy, however, that makes most female hackers I know opt out of the constant battle which is grade-school female relations, but rather disgust for thinly veiled backstabbing, giving "compliments" designed to hurt, etc. physical appearance has very little to do with this -- it determines part of rank inside their social system, not whether you are a part of it at all. that honor goes to accepting their notions of style and beauty, and trying to become them.
at least dominance in the area of sports is openly acnowledged as a goal.
however, it isn't being an outcast that makes a hacker. it's rather curiosity and intellegence, which many times places one out of the mainstream (voluntarily), but sometimes does not.
and, by definition, you aren't the typical "girl". neither am I. and, by the numbers, any geekgirl certainly ain't.
it's bleeding deMISED. it's passed ON. it has ceased to BE. it's exPIRED and gone to meet it's maKAH. it's a STIFF. berift of life it rests in peace -- if you hadn't nailed it to the perch it'd be pushing up the DASIES!
it's not THINK what your country can do for you. it's ASK. Ted Kazinsky THOUGHT he could blow people up for the good of society. I'm sure that if he ASKED, people would have told him otherwise.
As well, the rights of the few do sometimes in fact outweigh the needs of the many. I have the right to say quite a few things that wou and other people would rather not hear. you could indeed claim, if it were upsetting enough, that you need not to hear it. however, that cannot override my right to say it (pendant of course on a few conditions that have more to do with your nose than my fist), at least in the US of A.
it is a tricky thing to determine the "needs of the many". who do you trust to do it? the president? the dictator? are they more the "many" than you or I? on the other hand, it is also hard to determine what rights an individual should have -- but it is far safer, in my opinion.
Slashdot Mirror
Slashdot is a good place to start looking on what is coming next...
Lea
define "full version" -- I have the game, not a demo...
Lea
this is life -- the offense is towards those who treat women like property, and who perpetrate other horrific acts, such as "female circumcism" (sp), which has no analogy whatsoever to the male version...
Lea
perhaps I got a bad one, but I haven't had that experience -- my dad's computer looks much better, as does my boyfriend's... and this is of concern to me, since I don't have a TV, or a recliner. and no where to put them.
student life don't have so many perks...
Lea
and even if we managed to MAKE spool-length carbon nanotubules, I can think of several fairly severe problems with having a VERY long, fairly flexable "elevator" reaching into space. even if you marked several square miles off-limits to airplanes, Mother Earth has some interesting things to throw at it...
Lea
unfortunately for girls in many third-world countries, dowries are PAID to the husband's family, not the other way around. yes, in certain societies one negotiates a "bride price" with the patriarch, but mostly daughters are regarded as a drain on precious resources, which is (as far as I can tell) a pretty good explanation why so many of them end up sold into slavery (yes! it still exists!) and/or prostitution.
Lea
I have that decoder card. it is not exactly a high-quality decoder card -- the difference between that and even the DxR3 is amazing. I don't even think that the DxR2 is readily available anymore -- it's been technologically surpassed long ago.
now let us mention that Creative, let alone the MPAA, was not precisely helpful in creating drivers, from what I've heard. as soon as I get my motherboard replaced, I'm going to try out those drivers, but last I checked, they were mighty unstable, and they weren't getting any help from Creative on that, even in the form of information. I hope this has changed.
so, yes, there is some sort of solution, but in many, many ways a unsatisfactory one.
Lea
well, there's always the sort of support that involves money. personally, I'm not dl'ing the demo, perhaps because of this nice shiny box next to me that says "Heroes of Might and Magic III"... and the other one labeled "Civilation: Call to Power".
:)
Lea
it's been out for quite a while now -- I'm going to reinstall everything and then install it. *drool*
and if you look at EB games, you can probably find it for $30 still -- $20 off what the list price is, which is about $15-$20 better than everywhere else!
Lea
well, I don't know what version of RH you're running, but the easiest way for 6.1 (which, as far as I'm concerned, is really the first release that I really like) is this:
$ su
Password: *******
# linuxconf
:)
from here, try Config | Networking | Client Tasks | PPP/SLIP/PLIP
it's VERY easy to set up from there -- even on my laptop, where the modem changes frequently, as well as the area code and ISP.
if you run gnome, you'll notice that in [BIGFOOT] | Panel | Add Applet | Network there is something called Modem Lights. click on the little button. it dials for ANY user if the check box is checked in linuxconf.
hope this helps.
Lea
there is a thing like the birdies -- or indeed several of 'em. I don't know much about them personally, but my boyfriend uses them with his free isp and get-paid-to-click services.
:)
might be worth it with a script like that. now all someone needs to do is figure out how to emulate the software for linux/bsd/mac/solaris/irix/xxxx
Lea
however good our animation was the year we won, you should have seen it two years ago, when we got disqualified for sending it in on beta... it got the head of animation a job at Kinetix (sp?).
:)
this isn't exactly the only place I'm looking. however, the bay area is chock-full of teams, and while many are well funded (*cough*gunn*cough*), there are simply not enough companies to go around, not to mention many who think we're insane. it's a lot easier for a company to sponsor a proven winner than a team in less-affluent area, with no track record, and the only engineering expertise coming from first and second-year engineering students.
let's just say I'm an opportunist.
Lea
speaking of helping out, a lot of teams need not only money, but real engineering help both in EE, programming, design, and construction. I was a member of the Gunn High School team (GRT -- we won animation a few years ago, seeded 5th two years ago, and made it at least to the semis last year) and now mentor a team from Berkeley High School which is run entirely by high school students and college mentors.
the Berkeley team has exactly 0 engineers helping and exactly $0 besides the entrance fee (which NASA is sponsoring). I know there are other teams in this situation, so if you can't help a team with your time, talk to your company and see if they will sponsor a team with money, tools, or by assigning engineers to work with the team. it's an investment in the future -- I know several very talented engineers who lacked direction until this competiton. many teams lack even the most basic tools, liability insurance (I won't pretend this isn't dangerous: a student from Palo Alto High School got his hand caught in a belt sander last year, and several bay area students almost cut off fingers. another good reason to have trained engineers to teach), and a place to work.
if you'd like to help the Berkeley team, contact me at chialea@uclink.berkeley.edu. I can also put you in contact with a team in your area.
it's very rewarding and exciting work, and the competition is going on right now, so don't delay -- it's 6 weeks of excitement, plus the regional competion, plus the main competiton in Florida, which is braodcast on ESPN2. so, please, sponsor a team.
Lea
disclaimer: I work for Xerox-PARC. not that I'm paid at the moment, but I am a contractor.
:)
well, given that I'm sitting at a desk in Xerox-PARC right now, I'd have to say it isn't disbanded.
there are tons of cool technologies being worked on here, even though many of them will probably not be brought to market in the next decade, and probably not by Xerox. there are quite a few patents awarded to engineers here. in fact, there are a few spinoffs to PARC which are right next door, which certainly have valid patents.
most new technologies that Xerox is coming out with come out of here, and there are more coming out soon. not my particular project, but there are lots of very cool things around which are more developed, as well as things which could be very, very useful in about a decade or so.
if you know anything about nanotech, you'll probably recognize the name Ralph Merkle. he worked at PARC in CSL (I believe -- that's where his office was, anyways) for many years before leaving for Zyvex a few months ago.
don't give up on PARC yet!
Lea
well, since I wasn't around in the 50's, I guess I'm going to have to just believe you on that one. in any case, soda isn't just sugar -- it's quite acidic. maybe my dentist doesn't know what he's talking about, but he told me about some interesting clinical research regarding soda and tooth decay... now, it's worse if you use a straw because you get more decay per soda, but if you spend a great deal of time drinking soda, it's probably not wonderful for your teeth.
just a guess.
Lea
well, most people who don't use things like palm pilots think of them as useless -- but they're evaluating them as /tools/. now, mine's indispensable, but you wouldn't think so at first glance. a lot of other things seem useless too -- for example my nice IBM Thinkpad 570, since I work at a place with a lot of computers around, as well as go to school and hang out in a building filled with computer labs, as well as have a nice desktop. however, it helps me get work done. a LOT of work.
my (rambling) point being that these things are oohed and ahhed over as toys, even though they're work-related. perhaps that makes them seem useless to others. (of course, "they" always have things like beanie babies and pokemon) where does that put us? well, unless you see something that particularly catches your interest (for me it was programming and taking things apart, NOT games) you're likely to dismiss it.
then you get into what people are likely to see and enjoy. mostly people see games. most games are not exactly aimed at girls (not that I'd avoid a good game of Quake II, but it's not my favorite), so I guess you could say that that makes girls less likely to get interested in that sort of thing.
I'm not sure why there are so few female hackers out there, but it does tend to filter out quite a few clueless ones. perhaps guys need the same thing -- before they become CS majors in college and have to transfer becasue they have no intuitive feel or experience.
Lea
I don't know about the teeth! soda and candies tend to have interesting effects on the teeth, long-term.
:)
let's just say I don't think any dentists will be recommending it
Lea
I read it this summer, but never got time to reply. it'll be interesting to see if he got certain bugs ironed out, e.g. :
:)
"these are the charts for men. the women's ones are completely different, but I can't see why" etc.
well, for starters, any mensturating woman's weight is going to fluxuate a bit depending on hormones. for some women this can be 10 pounds or so gained/lost over the course of a month -- AND IT'S ALL WATER. makes the whole chart look a bit different, not to mention clothes.
the whole exercise thing is going to be different as well. there are ways of exercising that work very well (developed for the military academies, I believe), but don't require as much strength.
another thing about the book was it's relentlessly self-congratulating tone. maybe some people like that, but it's quite annoying to me.
but if it inspires someone to eat a few more vegggies and do some jumping jacks, I guess it's a good thing. no need to shrink the geek community unneccisarily due to heart attacks caused by caffine and pizza!
Lea
hi. my name is lea. nice to meet you.
now you have.
in fact, there are a lot of em where I work.
Lea
same thing happened in my family. except for the minor fact that I am a girl. happens that way in 2-boy families I know as well, many times... and many times the first child is the hacker (not just in a computer sense).
this may have more to do with personality (and the desire of the first child to please the parents and the second not to be like the first)
just a thought
Lea
I don't think it's quite that, though you're close. girls are expected to exibit mastery of certain areas, just as boys must. however, for each gender different areas are specified -- for girls, it tends to be in social skills (or "how to stab someone in the back in 10 easy steps" or "how to snub someone"). it has nothing to do with a deficiancy, however, that makes most female hackers I know opt out of the constant battle which is grade-school female relations, but rather disgust for thinly veiled backstabbing, giving "compliments" designed to hurt, etc. physical appearance has very little to do with this -- it determines part of rank inside their social system, not whether you are a part of it at all. that honor goes to accepting their notions of style and beauty, and trying to become them.
at least dominance in the area of sports is openly acnowledged as a goal.
however, it isn't being an outcast that makes a hacker. it's rather curiosity and intellegence, which many times places one out of the mainstream (voluntarily), but sometimes does not.
and, by definition, you aren't the typical "girl". neither am I. and, by the numbers, any geekgirl certainly ain't.
Lea
yes, corona is a real word. see corona of the sun... it's the thing that you only see at eclipses that smears out really far...
Lea
it's bleeding deMISED. it's passed ON. it has ceased to BE. it's exPIRED and gone to meet it's maKAH. it's a STIFF. berift of life it rests in peace -- if you hadn't nailed it to the perch it'd be pushing up the DASIES!
read the next part -- are you on windows or mac? they bounce everyone who isn't netscape/ie >= 4.0 && windows/mac
arrgh
it's not THINK what your country can do for you. it's ASK. Ted Kazinsky THOUGHT he could blow people up for the good of society. I'm sure that if he ASKED, people would have told him otherwise.
As well, the rights of the few do sometimes in fact outweigh the needs of the many. I have the right to say quite a few things that wou and other people would rather not hear. you could indeed claim, if it were upsetting enough, that you need not to hear it. however, that cannot override my right to say it (pendant of course on a few conditions that have more to do with your nose than my fist), at least in the US of A.
it is a tricky thing to determine the "needs of the many". who do you trust to do it? the president? the dictator? are they more the "many" than you or I? on the other hand, it is also hard to determine what rights an individual should have -- but it is far safer, in my opinion.
Lea