I recall overclocking my system bus. It's rated for 133 mhz, but it would post at 145 without issue. Everything ran fine, except one little thing: hash checking in Azureus. Every other thing I could throw at it completed without issue. So beware -- sometimes the nasties are hiding.
The whole booth babe thing never did much for me anyway. Sure, I admire a pleasingly beautiful or cute face, but I am not attracted to the typical "babe" of recent times. Our society seems very focused on average ideals -- in other words, what most want. Outside the porn industry, there is very little attention given to preferences that fall outside of this average. Obviously, it's not ecomocially viable for the big players to stray from the norm and lose sales, but a smaller company could create a name for itself not so much by picking ugly women, but by picking women (or men) attractive to a different prefence. I, for one, would love to see heavier women. Yes, I would definitely hang around that booth more. Just my thing though.
I guess what I'm saying is that booths are about as bland as games are today. Where is the innovation? The genuinely different stuff? Like SimCity or The Sims? The gaming industry today is about as exciting as the collective works of the RIAA.
I know this is completely off-topic, but I'm interested in helping out KDE/Konqueror/KHTML with CSS compliance. I haven't worked on the KDE project before. How difficult would it be to jump in? You seem to be someone who works on that specific area.
Unless you plan on administering really large networks, you really don't need school to wire an RJ-45 jack or configure a router. These are things, if you have a technical mind, that you can learn fairly easily from a book.
On the other hand, large networks are where the real fun is. I'd say which schooling to get depends on your long-term goals. There is a lot of theory involved in network design (including a lot of math). A technical program will skip over most of this, which you will regret if you want to do the really important stuff. If you're just looking for a 9-5 and actual implementation, or just smaller networks, you'll probably find the technical program more to your liking.
It's funny how we spend so much time on alleviating traffic concerns, when it would be simpler to just abandon the car. It's to the point where it's often twice as fast and cheap to use public transport. When I'm in a large city, I park my car at a terminal, hop the train, and go. Not only do I not have to worry about traffic and the associated stress, I also buy back all the time I'd waste behind the wheel to catch up on reading and paperwork. And while using public transport can sometimes mean walking a block or two, it's no worse than finding a parking spot. Really, why, in North America, are we so fixated on the automobile for personal transport?
I used to be a big fan of string to hold things together, but then I found a much better for of string that blew me away. Not do you have to tie knots to keep the ends together, but it even instantly shrinks to exactly the right size. I know this form of string is a bit more expensive, but I'm sure you'll agree the additional cost is well worth it when you try . . . the elastic band.
If I had the ability to, I would mod your post insightful. You are right that the slashdot subculture is full of memes. You are right that we are mostly followers. You are right that we sometimes do illogical things ourselves. In the end, we are all only human.
My argument is not that we are better, but that we are different. We have just as many flaws. The point is we tend to see things differently. Your post is an excellent example of this: while the typical person would likely flame away, you constructed a logical, well-thought, and supported reply. While your style of post is not necessarily better to the average person, your style of imparting and persuading is better to the average slashdotter. You respond in the way we perceive the world, while the US government does not.
It's fashionable on Slashdot these days to criticize the US. I'd say more but I fear mod retaliation.
Considering that a large portion, and probably the majority of Slashdotters are American, I wouldn't say it's a case of being fashionable. Instead, I'd argue it's a fight against fallacy and illogic. Much of the action of the US government is driven by fear, greed, and emotion, which runs counter to the typical geek way of analysing and responding to a situation. To us, the actions and methodologies of the US government are at best unreasonable and at worst insane. There is no fashion to flame the US here -- it's just the collective psyche of Slashdotters rejecting the counter-intuitive mannerisms of the powers that be.
I fail to see how this has anything to do with Slashdot.
Obviously, it has everything to do with Slashdot! As you pointed out, the articles posted here aren't interesting, relevant, or timely, ergo geeks pay attention to Slashdot for the design and wise colour choice!
You say that you're 5 hours away from a city with over 50,000 people in it. OK, how many towns of 5000 people are within 2.5 hours of you?
None. There are a few with 3000 to 4000, none closer than 1.5 hours, and they all have broadband at similar service levels, too.
Also, the cost per capita is not lower. Wiring a city costs approximately the same, but running high-speed backbones to service relatively fewer people in remote areas raises the cost per customer.
the majority of Canadia's population is settled within 100 miles or so of the US border
Every time the topic of poor broadband availability in the US comes up, this fallacy is repeated. Yes, the majority of the Canadian population is near the US border, but broadband penetration goes much further. I live roughly 500 miles north of the US border, and a 5 hour drive from the nearest city of over 50,000 people -- yet I have my choice of broadband internet providers -- and at competitive prices. For $20/month Canadian (about $15 US), I get 170 KB down and 60 KB up (bytes not bits). The whole argument is bullocks.
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What so exciting about this? If I push my girlfriend's wrong button, I land on an aircraft carrier, too!
I recall overclocking my system bus. It's rated for 133 mhz, but it would post at 145 without issue. Everything ran fine, except one little thing: hash checking in Azureus. Every other thing I could throw at it completed without issue. So beware -- sometimes the nasties are hiding.
I think that's because the edge of the internet is a giant NAT. You see, with no open ports, the packets just float around, going nowhere.
The whole booth babe thing never did much for me anyway. Sure, I admire a pleasingly beautiful or cute face, but I am not attracted to the typical "babe" of recent times. Our society seems very focused on average ideals -- in other words, what most want. Outside the porn industry, there is very little attention given to preferences that fall outside of this average. Obviously, it's not ecomocially viable for the big players to stray from the norm and lose sales, but a smaller company could create a name for itself not so much by picking ugly women, but by picking women (or men) attractive to a different prefence. I, for one, would love to see heavier women. Yes, I would definitely hang around that booth more. Just my thing though.
I guess what I'm saying is that booths are about as bland as games are today. Where is the innovation? The genuinely different stuff? Like SimCity or The Sims? The gaming industry today is about as exciting as the collective works of the RIAA.
Looks very cool. I just ordered one. Will see what they are like and perhaps order more :)
I know this is completely off-topic, but I'm interested in helping out KDE/Konqueror/KHTML with CSS compliance. I haven't worked on the KDE project before. How difficult would it be to jump in? You seem to be someone who works on that specific area.
But only of the crippled equine variety?
The hair! It scares me!
And as an aside, if it required more resolution to see it that would imply that it's very small, so your cretinous joke doesn't even make sense.
Exactly, it's smaller than a planet. I was just making an offhand remark. I like my women fat.
With much more resolution, they'll soon be able to capture Kirstie Alley's ass! Mmmmm... I look forward to that.
Unless you plan on administering really large networks, you really don't need school to wire an RJ-45 jack or configure a router. These are things, if you have a technical mind, that you can learn fairly easily from a book.
On the other hand, large networks are where the real fun is. I'd say which schooling to get depends on your long-term goals. There is a lot of theory involved in network design (including a lot of math). A technical program will skip over most of this, which you will regret if you want to do the really important stuff. If you're just looking for a 9-5 and actual implementation, or just smaller networks, you'll probably find the technical program more to your liking.
But most of the geeks on Slashdot are too thick to be aware of that fact.
That was just brutal! I salute you!
It was there for the plucking!
*ducks*
I have a bird brain, but I'm too chicken to admit it.
It's funny how we spend so much time on alleviating traffic concerns, when it would be simpler to just abandon the car. It's to the point where it's often twice as fast and cheap to use public transport. When I'm in a large city, I park my car at a terminal, hop the train, and go. Not only do I not have to worry about traffic and the associated stress, I also buy back all the time I'd waste behind the wheel to catch up on reading and paperwork. And while using public transport can sometimes mean walking a block or two, it's no worse than finding a parking spot. Really, why, in North America, are we so fixated on the automobile for personal transport?
I used to be a big fan of string to hold things together, but then I found a much better for of string that blew me away. Not do you have to tie knots to keep the ends together, but it even instantly shrinks to exactly the right size. I know this form of string is a bit more expensive, but I'm sure you'll agree the additional cost is well worth it when you try . . . the elastic band.
If I had the ability to, I would mod your post insightful. You are right that the slashdot subculture is full of memes. You are right that we are mostly followers. You are right that we sometimes do illogical things ourselves. In the end, we are all only human.
My argument is not that we are better, but that we are different. We have just as many flaws. The point is we tend to see things differently. Your post is an excellent example of this: while the typical person would likely flame away, you constructed a logical, well-thought, and supported reply. While your style of post is not necessarily better to the average person, your style of imparting and persuading is better to the average slashdotter. You respond in the way we perceive the world, while the US government does not.
I wasn't arguing that the "geek way" is somehow superior -- it is merely different. It is this difference that creates the conflict.
It's fashionable on Slashdot these days to criticize the US. I'd say more but I fear mod retaliation.
Considering that a large portion, and probably the majority of Slashdotters are American, I wouldn't say it's a case of being fashionable. Instead, I'd argue it's a fight against fallacy and illogic. Much of the action of the US government is driven by fear, greed, and emotion, which runs counter to the typical geek way of analysing and responding to a situation. To us, the actions and methodologies of the US government are at best unreasonable and at worst insane. There is no fashion to flame the US here -- it's just the collective psyche of Slashdotters rejecting the counter-intuitive mannerisms of the powers that be.
I fail to see how this has anything to do with Slashdot.
Obviously, it has everything to do with Slashdot! As you pointed out, the articles posted here aren't interesting, relevant, or timely, ergo geeks pay attention to Slashdot for the design and wise colour choice!
That, or I'm smoking crack!
You say that you're 5 hours away from a city with over 50,000 people in it. OK, how many towns of 5000 people are within 2.5 hours of you?
None. There are a few with 3000 to 4000, none closer than 1.5 hours, and they all have broadband at similar service levels, too.
Also, the cost per capita is not lower. Wiring a city costs approximately the same, but running high-speed backbones to service relatively fewer people in remote areas raises the cost per customer.
the majority of Canadia's population is settled within 100 miles or so of the US border
Every time the topic of poor broadband availability in the US comes up, this fallacy is repeated. Yes, the majority of the Canadian population is near the US border, but broadband penetration goes much further. I live roughly 500 miles north of the US border, and a 5 hour drive from the nearest city of over 50,000 people -- yet I have my choice of broadband internet providers -- and at competitive prices. For $20/month Canadian (about $15 US), I get 170 KB down and 60 KB up (bytes not bits). The whole argument is bullocks.
You forgot to turn off local echo on your terminal there, buddy.
It shouldn't be difficult to restore your needed documents from backup. You do make backups of everything you care about, don't you?